Duck Call Room - Everything Changed for Phil Robertson After One Delivery from Japan

Episode Date: April 19, 2022

Uncle Si and Jay Stone marvel at the incredible timing of a check Phil and Miss Kay received when their situation was dire. Si names the biggest Easter buzzkill there is. Bullfrog can't wait to get her hands on that "Martin money." Fans flood Martin with advice on raising twins. And the boys name their picks for best duck caller and best shot. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roll this thing, honey. Roll it, sir. It's rolling. Well, hey, roll this thing. First thing. First thing. Got a card from Loretta and Junior Kelly from Afton, Tennessee. Thank you, Vince, for the card.

The card says he is rhythm. That's right. That's always a good thing. That's a thing, because he's yelling. That's the favor, boys, that we're talking about here. But anyway, thank you very much, there, Loretta and Jr. for all the goodies in the care package, the crystallized lemon.

Did they send all this? A lot of Eminem's. Also, a, what? Eggs. Rees's eggs. Where did I put them back in there? No, you put them back in there. Oh, okay.

Throw that to him. I want to knock you out. Yes, sir. What else is in there, J.D. Lemon juice. Tea bags. Tea bags for me. Eminems.

For whoever they wants them. Oh, yeah, another bottle of lemon juice. Oh, I ain't ever seen these Reese yet. I got plenty. Appreciate it, guys. It's like Easter. I don't say they from Afton, Tennessee, right? It's almost like tomorrow's Good Friday.

Hey, I'm telling you. After Tennessee. I don't know where that's at. Let's see, I'll tell you. It's about three miles outside of Greenville, Tennessee. Oh, that's up there where we would. Greenville's where we went for that Redneck Comic-Con. Hey, I'm like the Oggy Bear, buddy.

I'm smarter than an average bear around this. joint. Is that what Yogi said? That's what Yogi says. Hey, hey, boo-boo. Yeah, Yogi and Boo-boo. I don't know what just happened. Hey, boo-boo.

Hey, hey, boo-boo. What kind of tea you got there, side? I got spike with lemon juice. This one. Organic tea bags serve hot or ice. And it's got a harvest farms organic. Hey, we got a harvest store here. I didn't know that they had farms.

He's talking about harvest food I think they might just be both using the word harvest Yeah Yeah It's very common in today's marketing scheme Organic And it's got a picture of a barn and a silo He's not wrong

You can't spell silo without SS That's very true Hey boo-boo Got back to the bear Side just woke up again everybody We called them to make sure he'd be here This is a good Friday coming up and we're going to be talking about the man that beat death in the grave.

So, yeah, I'm on fire. Kind of like this weekend we celebrate your shirt, right? I'm telling you. That's it. That's the only reason I got involved with this T-shirt deal. We had a somewhat of a... We had a somewhat of a celebration at Fields last night. What happened?

He cooked a big tenderloin on that trash can. Big beef tenderloin. On the trash can? It was so big. big yeah it was so big the end of it was kind of pretty crispy on it had it had what'd you call it it stalled good bark the bark yeah had it had a nice char and that's the end of it and that was the end he gave me it was fine side likes his steaks well it was medium plus medium well not well not well not well don't bring in well because well is like tough boot leather it's got to be

medium plus which a chef tried to correct me Which he's, he's in error. Okay. The chef's in error or you're in there? Hey, no, the chef's in there. He today ain't no such thing is medium plus. And I said, I beg you a pardon. Maybe we should just call it medium sigh then.

There you go. That would work better. You have your own steak. Oh, yeah. Like, how do you want? Give me size weight. Somewhere between medium and medium well, there's medium sigh. We had us little feed at Field and Kay's last night.

And I thought it's going to get blew up the weather with a bad. Kay's sister, A. Dan, come in town. And every time she comes in town, she requests the beef tenderloin, the smoke beef tenderloin. That is a good one. That's a good one. It's hard to beat. But we were sitting there shooting a bull.

It was pretty nasty little thunderstorm coming through last night. Oh, yeah. And a lightning strike, it couldn't have been, it had to be within 100 yards. It wasn't very far because there was a loud, click! And then we started smelling burnt wire. A what? Well, it was a gigantic click. It was like, you know that fake wreath they have above the metal on the fireplace.

With all the jump on it. They had the Christmas lights, well, the Christmas lights been plugged in on that thing for about three years. At least. With the fake fine straw and all that, you know. Well, when that lightning strike hit that, uh, One of those bulbs popped. One of those Christmas bulbs popped. And the smoke started smolding out of that.

And the rest of them got real, real hot. Yeah. The lightning strike was so close. Light bulbs inside the house were popping? Yeah. Oh, Phil come out of his chair. I ain't ever seen that before. That's what the dogs do.

Oh, those dogs, they ran for cover. That tails tucked between their legs. Phil said, good night. Good night. He says, don't go out there and say, if it hit hit that big oak tree i was like i said i ain't going out there i'll wait i'll wait till the storm goes by and i'll go check it out it'll be easy to spot once this thing passes it's a pretty gnarly one well we've had them like the last three nights oh i know it's unbelievable

supposed to have no one this week yeah and the sky got pretty didn't it yeah it was an orange like i ain't ever seen last night lighten up because i and it looked at it's a good piece look that darky d'is out there. Yeah. I told you, that's that storm. When that sky turned orange last night, I got to think it. I bet that's what they saw on that Sunday morning, like that color of that orange. It was a, it was a, I mean, I've seen a lot of sunsets and a lot of things, but whatever

color that sky turned last night after that was, that was a new one. It actually gives you an eerie feeling when you look at it. Mm-hmm. Yellow, that yellow, yeah. I was fishing one day. and the same scenario, the sky was yellow. There wasn't a storm cloud in sight. I raised up my fishing pole.

I was jigging a plastic worm, and it started buzzing. Uh-oh. It went z-z. I put it back down. I was in a real good, nice. Static electricity, boys. But I was in a real good spot, so I eased it back up. You know, me zz.

I said, no, don't get out of here. It's time to roll, boys. Anytime you hear a low buzz that's getting higher. I just got you guys time to go. Yeah. Bill done that one in the duck fly and we stepped in it and it was just, whoo-o-o-oh. We stepped back, oh, oh.

Well, I was there. He took enough stuff in. Whoa. I think we're talking about the different buzz here. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We said, we got to go back. We had to get out of here.

What was that buzz? It was bumble bees. Bambobo-biz. Bambobo-bees. Bambobo bees, boys. bad to the bone. I'm talking about electricity, say I'm talking about beads.

I'm not sure which one hurt the worst. I got a healthy respect for both of them. Oh, yeah. Oh, ain't that the truth? Godly. That stormed the other night,

I ended up sleeping in the closet for a little while. My wife said, we got to get the kids and get in the closet. I was like, I'm fine. And then I heard a wind that I was like, all right, we can go in the closet,

but I took a few pillows with me. I said, I'm sleeping. I'm not waking up. That dude on the news, he's always saying grab a helmet. Oh, Jared. Yeah. Jared Floyd, been busy.

Yeah. Shout out, Jared Floyd. You're working hard right now. Yeah, I wanted to think, who in the world got a helmet laying around when he said that? I guess a bicycle helmet? Yeah, but. I ain't, my kids got one.

We didn't put on helmet. Well, I used to have a LSU football helmet, but I gave that to Phil. You had that on you in case of storm? No, no. I just had it. I would have liked to have gone to size house the other night at midnight and he's sitting in a closet with a LSU.

He didn't wake up. Are you kidding? Did you wake up in any of this? No, absolutely not. I go to bed in my bed. I don't tell you, hey, you know, death is nothing but a change of a address for me.

I was sitting there about that time. It's about midnight, 11, 20, something like that. And my phone went nuts, and I was like, I had just fallen asleep. Oh, it was the worst. And it scared me to death. Oh, yeah. It's a own thing.

It don't matter if it's silent or what. It's going to try. I slept through it and my wife's freaking out. I did not sleep through it. It scared me. Because I just got to like that sleep stage. Like I just, and then here I'm awake.

I was up until 2 o'clock after that because it scared me so bad. I took that long. I mean, I just. And then Brittany's just sleeping all the way through it. And I'm like, I'm just sitting there looking at the storm, looking in there. I'm like, I ain't waking her up until we got to move. And it picked up by the time it got to,

Westman Road, so that's good for us. Well, now, like, you watch the news, they tell you which neighborhood's about, like, hey, if you're in this neighborhood, watch yourself. Go, go here. Go get in your closet, your bathtub, or whatever. Kay says, you know, one time, tell me, hey, wherever you're at, seek shelter. Now. Yeah. It just missed Gobbling in them.

It just slid past them. I don't like high winds. I don't want to end up in Oz. Gobbing said, I ain't ever heard nothing like that. It sounded like a train. Oh, no, no, there's one to come up behind Phil's house like four or five years ago and that's what he said he said we're sitting there and tell me well where's it at and Phil says the house started shaking and he said it was just like I heard of the train and it come up come up just hit the hill and I guess and you know

right or left yeah severe weather's kind of cool just not at night yeah I like to be it needs to only happen during daylight hours that ain't fair once you happened at night but anybody's been affected by this. I know they've been touching down everywhere. Look, our thoughts are with you guys. For sure. We about out of this rough time, though. We're about to get to the car.

May flowers are almost here. Yeah, we in the middle of them, April showers, May flowers, and the pilgrims are coming. So we'll take a break. We'll be back right after this. The Pilgrims. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up.

You know what that means? That means more outside cooking. And y'all know. We love to eat beef around here. And that's what because of our friends over at Trial's beef make 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 Tritales beef,

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That's tribeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. Where to? What is that in your hand? That's a cork. It's a cork. It's a cork.

Or your bokegee. It's a styrofoam float. As my wife calls it, a bobber. It is a bobbler. It's a bobber. float for your keys. Hard pass. I think they're all core. From flowers general.com.

Huh? Huh? Flowers general. Yep. I don't know. What? This is not an ad, ladies and gentlemen. This flower general.

Yeah, I'll tell you what it is. Okay. You can't slip anything past this man. Hey, well, hey. How did that man remember that? He remembers everything. He does. He's like an elephant, boys.

Still trap. It is unbelievable. That is a good microphone decoration. It is. I want one, that's why I asked about it. You're going to start selling, I match. Next one's going to have honey hole outdoors on it. Maybe.

What are you doing for Easter, Si? Celebrating. Celebrating? Do you know how? Stone cooking yourself? No. Maybe. If he cooks, I'll be older.

All he's got to do is ring ding ding, hey, I'm cooking. I was just wondering if y'all had Easter plans. But now I'm celebrating. You going to hunt eggs since you're still a kid? No. No, he's all fat. No, hey, it's weather. The weatherers, them creepers, them critters that slither on their belly,

they out now, so no, I ain't hunting nothing, but it's. I don't play with those snakes. A snake would be a good buzz kill on an Easter egg hunt. What are you talking about? every time I think about that I think about the little girl that used to tease all the guys that was scared of snakes who's that?

And a guy snuck up behind her and she had him wrapped in her fingers. All it was a grass snake. You know? And he just rinsed it down there as a tail was hanging out of her hand. He just pinched that tail off. That thing's done like a cobra.

And she went nuts. And I said, serves you right. Somebody called. the white coat guys get her out of here her and the snake she serves you right somebody called the white coat anybody that plays with snakes hey they get what they deserve i play with them i don't and yes i have been bitten by them several times oh hey i play with them too i blow their head off with a shotgun i'll cut it all with a machete file that under when people ask you say well that thing bite you oh

He got a mouth, though. Oh, yeah. Hey, no, we run over a rattlesnake in Alabama. The guy, you know, was cleaning out around his barn. He said, hey, sliding on that rattlesnake, you know, across the road. So I slid on him. Yeah, we killed him. He said, you want the rattlers?

I said, no. So look, he had, like, hunting boots on, you know. So he stepped on him, cut his head off, stepped on him again and cut his rattlers off. Well, my son got out of the vehicle about that. that time. He said, I want to see him. And he went over and put his boot

and just pushed down on the center of that snake. And when he did, now this snake ain't got a head or a tail. Pretty much just the torso. When he pushed on that metal, it was right beside, you know, right there where his ankle is on that boot.

Just a bloody spot. I said, that right there, I already tell you, don't mess with that sucker. He ain't even got a head, and he's still trying to bite you. You just went at him with his neck Oh yeah Popper your world's a head

Used to be Lordy baby I don't trust him You know that's like that song He's done in the 60s This woman goes out And finds a snake About Harry Frozen

Brings him in And thaws him out And he bites her And she said What do you do that for? He said Hey, hey, just what I do I'm a snake

That was a song? Yeah, it was a song Johnny somebody's a song I don't remember who sung you But, hey, cash. Not one cash. There's somebody else. Johnny's somebody.

Here's what I tell you. He's right. I believe it. I believe it. He's fixing to Google. Google it. It's a true story. Al Wilson, the snake.

Al Wilson the snake. Hi. Yeah. I thought his name was Johnny. A tender heart of woman saw a poor half-rozen snake. Take me in, oh, tender woman. Now she wrapped him up all. cozy and a coverature of silk and laid them down by the fireside with some honey and some milk.

And some milk. It's a very long story. But instead, oh, we're going to skip down, but instead of saying thanks, that snake gave her a vicious bite. Ooh. I saved you, cried that woman. And you've bitten me, even why. That's funny. That's just what I do.

It's just what I out why. darn well I was a snake before you brought me in. Man, that one really stuck with you. That song. Well, no, no. Well, hey, it's the deal about hey. I'm going to listen to it. He probably heard it yesterday.

Hey, no, I didn't. But, hey, you fool with it. You fool with a snake? Hey, you get what you deserve. That's what a bull. Get the horns. That's on Al Wilson's great album, Searching for the Dolphins, released in 1960.

There you go. So he had an animal thing about him. The one I remember singing it, his first name was Johnny. So, hey. Al Wilson What genre is that? Gotta be folk. Probably folk or pop.

Johnny Rivers was the... That's who did it. Was the producer? Oh, what he? I knew Johnny something was involved somewhere. It hit the U.S. Billboard top 100 at a peak position of number 27. Hey, that ain't bad for a song about a snake.

Number 27, boys. Hey. I can't wait. Eric Church apparently re-did it. Did he, really? Unless he's got a different zone called the snake. I'm learning a lot today about

music of 1968. I'm enjoying it. That's one music was music. Well, you know, Johnny D. Kay's dog, Bobo, he is a snake wrangler. That's a good thing. I've never seen anything like it.

He will get behind a cotton-mouth snake and yip at it. Well, he jumps at him. The snake strikes and strikes and strikes, and he waits until the right moment. He hops around, grabs that snake right behind his head, and he shakes him as hard as he can shake him, throws him up in there.

He'll eventually kill him. And he'll do that until that snake's dead. Yeah. He'll eventually kill him. We're talking about Cotton Mouse. There's something to walk. There's something to walk. And Bobo's never been bit, though, hasn't it? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

You got to think about it. He got so much anti-venom rolling. through him. Oh, no, no. It don't even swell up anymore. He's been vaccinated. You got to think about you. He waits to the snake strikes.

Yeah. If you've ever seen a snake strike, they're very fast. Okay. The snake jumps at him, and when he does, he grabs him back by the tail and pulls him. He'll do that four or five times, and then he'll finally catch him behind the head. And that's just, he, oh, that's what he straightened him out. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

He straightens him out. And then that's when he grabs him by the head. My favorite part is when he goes airborne. Ah, we need the video then. They're finally when he gets him dead. Oh, he'll play with him for 30 minutes throwing him up in an hour from beating him against trees. I got video of post-kill footage on my phone. Oh, that's something to see.

Them dogs has got some rat terrier in them now. They're vicious on credit. Oh, yeah. On good. He's Jack Russell and rat. Yeah. I guess I think it was just, I think it was just. Okay.

One, two, or three. Well, hey, it's just Jesse. And anyway, Phil looks out there and there's cotton, not a cotton mount or copperhead. Copperhead. So the only thing he can look and he finds is a hole. So he just, just right behind the head, cut out about that far.

Now look, the snake ain't but that long in his head. Jesse comes running over and sniffs. Heat up. Right on the cheek. Just that quick, okay, and hey, just that quick, Jesse's over, just... That poison, I mean, son, hey, it just knew. One wouldn't have to bite me. If he just hit my britchie legs...

Your britchie legs? Yeah, it's a heart attack. It's a heart attack, fatal heart attack. That's it, I'm gone. If he hit that britchie leg... He does. I'm saying. See you boys in heaven.

He gone. He gone. He got a heart attack. You wouldn't do well checking wood duck boxes. Oh, no, no. Oh, no, no, no. Problem with them wood duck boxes, they all eye level. Oh, yeah.

So when you peel that door off here. Right here. He's staring at you. You're like, mm-hmm. Okay. That first one, I never forget the first one, he bit me seven times for I knew what I. Oh, no. Because I hesitated.

Oh. You know, I went with the old alligator arm. Oh, yeah. I didn't get him. After that, I said. I'd die that's a fatal heart attack. After that, I said, okay, when you go in, you can't second guess yourself. Just grab something and get him out of there.

You got to get him and get him. Yeah, if you play with snakes. Change it. Once you make your move or you better not say up, no. Yeah. He got you. Yeah, he'll get you. You don't go in there half a cock.

No. Yeah. I didn't know what to do. That big long rascal eye level with me. I said, I said, let me just, pop, pop, pop, pop, I said, I'm looking down. They're just bleeding everywhere. I'm like, To the house.

The first time we was chasing each other on the sandbar, Tommy Phil and me. I know how this going to go. Oh, no, no. And we're running through little head, high, shoulder high, wills. Yeah. And Tommy stopped. Phil runs into him by running into field.

And it's, whoa, whoa, whoa. And we thought it was a king cobra. There was one of them hog-nosed snake, and he was like this, just all flared out. Uh-huh. He looked bad. He looked like a cobra does. What'd you do?

I left there, boy. He gone. Yeah. He said, I acted like Jesus and walked on water, son. I got to get out of there. Hey, I left there. Lord, have mercy. Well, let's take another break.

We'll be back right after this. I got to listen to this song in the break. Side, what were we talking about it feels last night? What did Phil had to say? Well, we talked about the ship when I went to work with him, first worked with him. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. Yeah, right, look, here's how this went down.

I'm in Alabama. I had rented a buddy's house until I found the place, and then I bought my own place. So we moved in my own place, you know, and Phil called me one day and said, you know, hey, you need to go over here and do the reeds for me, you know. So the next weekend, Friday, when I married my wife, okay, We lived at Fields House for quite a while.

And that scarred her. You know, and the trailer, you know. And then we left and went all over everywhere. It ended up in Alabama. So there, she had told me, you know, she said, hey, I'll divorce you before I go back to Louisiana. So I, she comes home one Friday afternoon the next week, next weekend. You know, she was in a deadbeat job, so was I, you know. And she said, you know what you are to do, talk to me?

And I said, now what should I do? And she said, you are to call Phil and tell him you're going to move down there and work for him. That's right after Phil called you. Yeah, right after Phil called. Yeah. So I called, first person I called was my daughter saying, hey, mom's dying on me. And trying to sit, wait a minute, dad, you know, whoa, slow down. Tell me why.

And I said, well, she just told me that me and her need to move back to Louisiana and I work for my brother, Phil. And she said, you need to get her to the hospital right now to the doctor and have her checked out. Because she was, yo. So you got to think about how this went down. It's Friday afternoon. I hear that from my woman, okay. We go to church Sunday morning. Okay.

And we're telling the brothers and sisters there at church, talking about, okay, and girly. tell me, well, if I can sell my house, we're going to move back to Louisiana. So look, we leave the church building. Church is over. We leave the building. Eating dinner, somebody knocks on the door. You know, I opened the door, yeah.

You know, there's a woman from church. I said, what's matter? You know, she said, hey, you ain't sold the house yet, Eddie. I said, no, darling, I ain't even got with the realtor's to even put it on the market yet. She said, don't do that. I'll buy it. Yeah, so within what, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, three days, okay? I've done sold my house because I said, well, you may not buy it after I tell you what I had to have for it.

I quoted the price. She said, so. Oh, should have went higher. No, no, yeah. Yeah, that's what I thought he was meeting. Yeah, you left something on the table. Oh, yeah, yeah. There's gold in them mountains.

Yeah, I said, you know, and then she tells them, oh, this has been my favorite house for a long time. And I just didn't have, yeah. So money, guess what? The Mitsubishi is loaded up, and I'm headed to Louisiana. And my wife, the instruction I gave her was, hey, when you get the paperwork ready to sign, you know, I'll be back, I'll pick you up, we'll go come on back home to Louisiana. And that...

So that's how we got to work, you know, for about three years, you know, we wouldn't make any money. We eating fish every meal, mightn't eat. You know, and I as field, I said, about this ship you was telling me about, you know, when you talked men to come work for you. I said, can you see it yet? He said, I can just see the top of the mass.

So he told you that y'all are going to get on a boat? Oh, he just said he's got a ship is coming in. He said, and when it comes to the dock and unload, we're going to be in good shape. Well, hey, voila, A&E shows up. Hey, the ship has hit the dock and unloaded, buddy. It only took 30 years. 30 years into making. But, hey.

That ship was a long. Oh, it's a long, slow one. Okay, the sea must have been, you know, the tide was out. The tide was out. It hadn't come in yet. Yeah. A flat calm, if you could see the top of it. Yeah.

But it finally docked. Are you the skipper of this ship or first mate? No, he Gilligan. Yeah, Gilligan. No, I'm the owner of the ship. It's a good point. No, he's either Gilligan or Ginger. I'm not sure which one.

Gilligan or Ginger. I ain't Ginger. I'm Gillesinger. Oh, well, we were talking about that last night. If you stop and think about it, it really is incredible. Yeah, there's about five key things that even kept this place a place. And I'm not talking about this building. I'm just talking about Dr. Commander in general.

That was one of them. Yep. Now, the coolest story, as far as keeping it going, that I've heard, is the one to check from Japan. The Japanese one, yep. That's crazy. First time it ever happened? Last time. Oh, no, no, no, no.

No, no, that's one better than that. So let's tell that, let's tell that one first. Tell that one, because that's insane. It's a really good one. For about two weeks, Kay's telling Phil, well, I better go to the bank and borrow some money

to hold us over during this slow spell. And Phil said, nope. And she said, what are you talking about? He said, we got some money coming. That's all he was saying. And she said, you know, so, hey, it is the day, okay? They fixed the money's gone, the house notes,

doing all this other stuff. You know, and she said, hey, I fixed getting in the truck, go to the bank and borrow some money to pay the house note and all this other stuff and get a few, you know, groceries. And they needed $400, well, was it, $405 or something like that? Oh, no, no, no. It was 800 plus. Was it?

You made what a house? Oh, no, no, yeah, it was $800 plus. So, you know, so anyway, you know, Phil says Kay, just wait. It ain't by about 30 minutes to the mail runs. Just wait to the mail runs. And then we were right. So she sits there and fix the, she's totally ready to fix it to go to the bank and borrow the money. Yeah, so the guy drove up, put some stuff in the mailboxes, backed up and drives away.

You know, Kay won't even go down there because she said it ain't no use. Phil. I said, well, I'll go get the mail. So he comes back. He comes walking back up and he's got one envelope. He's done going through him. And he's got one envelope putting it against the skylight looking and said, it looks like a check inside to me.

Yoni walks up and he said, here, open this one. The other rest of it ain't, but just junk mail. Open this. So Kay opens it up and looks, unfolds it. But she looked at the envelope first and it's Japan is the stamp on the stupid envelope. His envelope, that would be stupid. Yeah. And so she opened it up and looks, and it's, they ordered $1,200 worth the duck calls.

From Japan? From Japan. Hey, the only time it ever happened. First time it ever happened. First time and never happened again. That is the last time. Did he know that was coming, or he just was like, we're going to be fine? All of a said is, man to go to the bank.

had some of the parts of the story that at sidel told or exaggerated but the story itself is 100% true it did happen they needed we don't know the exact amount of money oh it's $1,200 I'll tell they needed it to pay to keep the bank from foreclosing on them on the business and they were going to the bank to talk to them to try to keep them for closing on them Phil said check the mailbox one more time and like Si said he held he held the envelope up and it was a check from Japan and

the only one that he's ever gotten and he hadn't got one since oh the best one to me somebody just needed some duck calls over there are there mallards in Japan they prepaid they prepaid this was up front yeah they said send us our stuff yeah send us their stuff

here's the money send us our stuff yeah that's never happened nobody does business like that That was some angel over. Oh, yeah, that's divine intervention. Let me just tell you something. They do the business like that now. If you're a new dealer, you're going to pay for that first one before we send. We don't have been burnt by that.

Well, no, no, the best one to me was, okay, him and, yeah, I had the guy's name and them, I forgot it, his running buddy. Anyway, George. Him and George. No, George. Yeah, Phil gets on the phone, something. All right, he's got a house note coming up, eight hundred bucks. Okay. calls Jordan said, hey, we got to go

Alabama landing and, you know, the river's up, river's flooding. You know, out in the woods. He said, we're going to take the net, the trot lines. Everything we got, we're going up there at Alabama landing. I got to catch a fish. Oh, this is a good one here. Yeah. But I ain't, they ain't nothing.

You know, they ain't running in the nets down here. They're a trot line. They ain't nothing. Ain't baiting. So they go up there, unload the boat. It's got everything he's owned, fishing wise, in it. And feels running. running up the river, well, it's starting to get dark. And George says, hey, we got to put out the shot lines.

They've been put out to net. He said, we need to start putting the shot lines out. Phil said, yeah, but the color of the water ain't right. George's looking at him and talking, what do you mean the color of the water? It ain't right. Y'all and Phil said, hey, just trust me. So they keep running. Well, it's dark.

Well, they pull up and Phil has found a logging road he's on. And he told George, he said, you know, all right, here we go. You're ready. We start. So he shut the motor off, goes over the first little bush, tied the trout line on the on. He's one about 50 yards. And while Fields, he's up there, you know, and he's zigzagging across this logging road, tying it to different bushes.

Well, he's done tied about two bushes. And then he's tying this other one. The lion does this. He's, I felt like a darn fish hit it. Yeah. So he keeps doing it. And then the whole time he's doing this, good, gree, nothing hit it, you know.

So he gets up there. Now, there ain't no bait on these stupid trot line. He turns around and he starts going back, putting perch on it. Okay. Good grief, that's five pound up, you know. Put him in a boat, you know, coming around a little bit of a hole. There's three in a row.

On bare hooks. Look, there was so many catfish running down that road that the hook's dang. They're getting hooked. Hook on the back, hook under the lip, you know. He's got about a hundred pounds to bat him up. Look, turns around, and, hey, for about two hours, he ain't doing nothing but just taking fish off throwing the boat. and George just tapped him on the shoulder and said, hey, we got to go. And Phil said, what do you mean?

Are you lost your mind? You know, I got a house and a bunch of us stuff, and I want some hamburgers to wait this week. You know, I'm tired of fish. George finally has to grab me and say, hey, look at the boat. You know, well, look at the boat. We got about this much freeboard. The boat is sinking.

The boat is slam full of ops and blues. Which it's got to be because you don't get about 20 cents a pound for. That's it. Oh no, yeah. 15, 20 cents a pound. Yeah. So, hey, they go back to the bank, barely make it. And Phil says, hey, no, put them in the cooler.

He bought one of them big cooler. Put them in the cooler because we think go run that chart down one more time. Hey, he's done it twice, okay? Cost chock, you know, ain't no telling how much, okay, on bare hooks. Oh, Phil. me that story multiple times but it's always

there was a little residue left on those hooks from previous use yeah still had a little sniff just a little bit of smell but still he said

every hook on that trout line when he got to the end of it just putting it out every hook had a fish on it yeah but I residue

no that's divine intervention like the apostles. You know, hey, Peter, throw it on the other side of the boat. You know, Bullfrog asked me the other day, she said, what do you think Uncle Si's favorite word is? That is a great question. She said, is it hey or not? Hey or no.

So everybody wants to know, is it hey or not? No, here's the thing. That's so crazy. before you go any further that's the first time i've heard you say a singular no so i was going to vote for no no no because it's always no no hey it's always two to one we actually somebody at the house actually brought it up tell me where did the word hey come from talking to your boy this was out of get together the whole family all of us was there and to this day we sit there for hours trying to figure out when did it all start

And everybody said, I have no idea. It started when you got on that reed machine and had to have somebody talked to. I can tell you when it's done. Because I've done about three stints on that reading machine, and I said, I get it. Speaking of the reed machine, you know, when I first started, you know, me and Jason been friends 20-something years, he called me up. He said, hey, I need some help. You know, we run it out of reeds. When you come by, you know, summertime and build me some reeds, I'm like, yeah, I'll build me some reeds.

and now that I took over Jason's job and I see what a man is actually capable of doing as far as building reeds, I've always wondered, why did I have to come in during the summertime to help him build reeds? Well, I figured it out after about a week of doing it. I looked over there, so I showed up about 10.30. Mm-hmm. He bays for about an hour and a half. Then Miss Kay made a big lunch. He ate a lot of it.

I've seen a man eat six hamburgers at one sitting. I was there for that. And then, what happens after you eat a big lunch? You lay down. You get about two hours now. He lays down, sit for about two, three hours. At least. And then he'd get up.

Work about 30 minutes. Go home. Yeah. I'd always make one more sashet. Whether he worked or not, he'd come out there and either sit in a chair or sit on the port. Don't do it become a pretty good story telling himself because that's a ball-face life. Them boys didn't ever run out of reach. No.

Now, ball-face, oh. They didn't ever run out of reach. Even if I had to stay late. Now, I'll give you credit. Every time I was down there, you always beat me there, which you should. You're 10 minutes away, and I'm 35 minutes. Oh, I'm always hurt. He's first one here every day.

Yeah. I'm always early. So, I mean, I'll give you credit for not showing. showing up at 1030. But I knew it was over for you when you, towards the end of us being down there, you started taking a pre-lunch nap and a post-lunch nap. He'd worked till 11, take a nap till 12, because dinner was served to 12. They never wanted for reads.

No, not until you threw that last bag in my lap and said, I'm done. Tell fat boy to hire somebody else. I'll never forget that. I sitting right there. Right there. I actually love doing that. Then they said, well, how you guys are doing it? do it for real now i said now you don't understand that i've already done it for real he's already done it

yeah i said now i'll do it again for the camera but i've already done it for real it was way funnier when he did it real life oh yeah i was sitting right there yeah i come in and i said hey boys how how's it going and they said oh that's pretty pretty good you know we've been a little behind and i said well guess what boys i said you see this sack of reeds i threw it over old martin i said that's the last one you're getting from me boys yeah he said tell fat boys boy I quit. To help you. Quit.

I called Willie. I said, I think your uncle just quit. He said, do what? You can't do that. I'm pretty sure he was being serious. I don't think this was a joke this time. We've joked. I said, but he threw me a gallon bag of teal reeds and said, I'm done.

I'll never forget it. And show enough. I think his exact words were, hey, you find somebody else to make these reads that's I quit. When Willie got to come to me and said, hey, come on. Hey, come in here and talk to me. I said, what do you mean to talk to you? He said, you can't quit? I said, hey, read my lips.

I said, besides this, I said, you fordunforgot something here. And he said, what's up? What did I forget? I said, hey, I'm a big TV celebrity now. That's it. I love it. Oh, it was fantastic. Oh, it was.

It was fantastic. I laughed. Man, I laugh. Because he's headed to church at night. It was on a Wednesday night. So I didn't show up to like 5, 515. We all getting ready to shut her down. He was coming on his way to church.

He said, oh, I quit. He had time to think about it that day. He said, enough. It had all he could take. I was sad, too, even though he didn't work here. It was hilarious. That was size stipulation. You leave that reed machine down at filling case.

I ain't coming up there. And we're like, okay, whatever. We're moving everything. I said, nope. Nope. So I said, if you want me to do it, you're going to leave it down there. I'm still on that free lunch bag. It ain't that doing it.

It's all that comfortable couch. Yeah. All right. Well, let's take our last break. We'll be back right now. Taking naps. All right, we're back. Inbox time.

Hello at duckcallroom.com is the email address. Hello at duckcallroom.com. Johnny Dee. What's in our bag? I got a couple of little life advice situations. But Martin, I got to say this. do you know how many twins slash parents of twins listen to this podcast? I have found out personally a bunch,

just because they have all sent me messages on like Instagram and Facebook. I got a whole like parenting book to give you just from our emails. Yeah, I didn't realize just how maybe the right word is common. Twins are. They're not as big of an anomaly as I thought they were, apparently, because everybody got them. And they range in age from six months to like, mine just turned 40. And I'm like, boy, this been happening in a while here.

This twin thing goes back. Yeah, it goes back a long way. Well, you can tell you twins. I know one little girl who's excited. Who's that? About the offer you made her. Oh, Bullfrow? Yeah.

Bullfrog. Yeah. I told Bullfrog, I said, hey, here, about two years, you're going to need some spending money. I got you a job. I got you a job. You know what she said? When she got home, she said, I think give me some of that. money.

Well, bullfrog, you can show earn it. Because I told her, I said, I told her, I said, I don't trust you little, I said, I don't trust you little sister to keep him. No. Dude, don't do that. He said, no. That's fantastic. But if you sent Martin some advice in, we may cover it next episode, I have, I am

forwarding Martin all of your advice and twin tips and other things. There's a bunch of them, Martin. It's a bunch. People fired up. That's cool. Me too. The shock is kind of worn off of it. Although one lady specifically said, I'm going to read this one, Mary said every day she was praying for Martin and Brittany to get pregnant and it to be twins.

You're all heart, Mary. So now you know who to blame. You're all hard. Mary prayed this one on you, dude. You're all heart, Mary. Mary did you know. Mary was sitting around saying, you know what? Martin needs a kid.

In fact, I think it should be two. woman, hey, the prayer of a righteous woman is powerful and effective. I guarantee you. No, Mary, look, I just, I appreciate the prayers. No matter what they're for. And that's what I posted the other night on an episode. Like, I know everybody says this

that has some sort of a fan base, but ours are awesome. Legit. Aside from like five of them, ours are really awesome. You know who you are. And you're about to comment. Oh, he mentioned me. You know, it's fine. It's cool. Everything's fine with that.

But they are. They're awesome. I've had so many people say they're praying for us for a healthy pregnancy and for Brittany and I, which is my same prayer is just a healthy pregnancy for her and those babies. And, you know, whatever happens from then is what was supposed to happen. So, but I do appreciate all the thoughts, prayers, advice. Y'all are the dead gum best.

And y'all continue to prove it every day. And we'll take all prayers you're offering. I can assure you that. So I love it. I'm still excited. Everybody was super fired up about how fired up Si was too. Oh yeah.

I told Brittany, I said that I said you got to watch this one when it aired when it aired the other night and she watched it. She started tearing up because of how excited Si I was. Then she got big mad at Gobwin. What was that?

About the your turn part. She said, don't you try that. Your turn. Yeah, your turn. That was Godwin's parenting advice. Just wait for them to just almost wake up and say your turn. and they'll just think it's their turn every time.

Guy said you won't ever have to do nothing at night. Guy one sneaky, man. All right, so that being said, we got a bunch of emails here about twins. I do want to read this one, A, because his name's John David. And B, he works at that arc place. Have you seen the giant arc in Kentucky?

Like, he's part of the construction team that made the arc. and all I got to say is you did it way quicker than Noah but he did it by himself but his name's John David he's up in Kentucky and I just wanted to kind of give a shout out to the arc thing because I want to go one day real bad because it seems really cool but his question is who is the best duck caller

and the best shot in the Robertson slash duck call room bunch I'll go ahead and take last place on all that and I'll let y'all argue it out because I figure y'all three are in the running Well, I'll say Phil Robertson is one of the best shotgunners I've ever, in his prime. It's prime, baby. Yeah, when I first started here, I used to not even shoot much. No. I'd just sit there and look down Phil's gun barrel because it was fun to watch.

I'd be like, man, that's a tough boom dead. I was like, yeah. He still shows flashes of that. There'll be a Woody flying at a 45 degree angle away from a survivor. 60 wide open he'll raise up with a snapshot. He'll sit back down real quick. He don't say nothing. It's hilarious.

Well, he's the best shot and plus since he's one that started it, he is also the best duck collar. That's right. He sounds more like a mallard hen than anybody. That's right. Now, we all kind of have our little specialties, so to speak, but out of our crew, Phil sounds he most like a mallard hen. Well, I just, me personally and my, you know,

this, y'all may have sit different, you know, because this is about my perspective and y'all, I've seen him turn bunches more and get them back into decoys. Yeah. And anybody. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. He's got the mallard hen down. He's got an inflection in his.

Cat, cat, and the cadence. It's that second note every time that they turn on. Yeah. And the cadence. It's fun to watch and listen to. Yeah, and can still do it. Yeah, his duck calling has not, while some of his other skills have waned with 76 years of age, his duck call has not. No.

It's incredible. Well, he shows flashes in his old age there sometimes. Oh, no, 100%. Between him and Jace, they've killed ducks further than, you know, Stone gets in on there once in a while. Oh, no, I'm serious. He does. Them two, Phil and Jay. They kill Duck.

I mean, everybody stands up and even starts to put their gun up, and they just, no, too far. And then it's, boom. Well, that's because they say that. Who shot that? You know why. That'd be me. You know why.

Stay on the ends with a good spot. That's all the two that can move. The rest of us get up there. If it ain't down on the water in front of you, you can't shoot. And even then, sometimes you can't shoot. You got to let them get up our level. And when you do kill them, you don't even get credit for it. That's it.

Hey, well, according to Phil and Jason Rod Ryan, they're going to ducking my life. And according to you, none of the rest of us have either. And according to me, if I hadn't a wint, then boys never would eat up. So careful there, pot kettle. That is, I thought that question could get. But, yeah, Phil.

Oh, that's, yeah. Phil. So Phil's the O-G, man. He's the freaking O-G. I go for the fellowship. He is the OG. You're good at fellowship. The rest of us make noise on duck call,

but if it come down to it every day and there was just one duck call and that blind, Phil be enough. Phil would be plenty. You don't even need it. Well, he is enough, but there's something in a man that makes him want to blow that duck call. You got to at least touch it.

You may not blow it, but you're going to put it in your hand. You're like, but no, that's, but we all. That's what I do. Most of the time just sit there and hold. We all have our specialties, though. I would say I'm really good on a blue wing call and a woody i'm pretty salty on those two i mean i'm good enough to kill my well hey those are

the two that i kind of shine i'll i'll pull on mohammed ali here what i'm the greatest on green wing till and blue wing till you're pretty salty you pretty salty on that gadwall too on killing them so i got that you let you let a bunch of green wing till or blue wing till come in there in a bunch. Yeah. And trust me, what I tell you, I'm going to get mine and about four other people's limit. He's just kidding six and stopped. No, right.

Look, that's just a storyteller in him. When he gets his six, he's done. Don't look at Uncle Si's a game hog. I love it. Godly, what's our Bible verse? Something about repentance or something. No, no, I got it. Hey, we just had East.

Oh, I got a good one. Okay. Go yours first, and I'll do mine to that. All right, I'll do mine quick. So it's just after Easter, aka Jesus has risen from the dead, and this is a story that happened right after he rose from the dead. John 21, verse 4. Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore,

but the disciples were about 100 yards out, so they did not realize that it was Jesus. He called out to them, friends, haven't you any fish? He knew. No, they answered. He said, throw your nets on the right side of the boat, and you will find some. When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.

Then the disciple who Jesus loves said to Peter, it is the Lord. As soon as Peter heard him say it is the Lord, he threw his clothes on, jumped in the water and started swimming. And he ran to Jesus, and then they sat down and had a fish dinner, fish breakfast together, which is a great story. And if you hear anything in that, Jesus is alive, run towards him. Amen. Hey God. And hey, we are. We're going to have fish in heaven.

Amen. That's what God would always say. Fish fries in heaven. Fish fries in heaven. Mine was Jeremiah 29, verse 11. Jeremiah 29.11. You have no idea the plans I have for you, says the Lord. Not to harm you, but to prosper you and give you hope and a future.

Amen. Amen to that. You didn't even look that up. No. That's one of my favorite version. I want to give you a little side. I've tried throwing on the other side of the boat without Jesus telling me to

and it don't work. I just go back and forth. I've just telling you, I've been like... Let me try this. What I would tell Peter. You've got to follow instruction, Peter. Amen. You got to wait for the call.

All right, we'll see y'all next time right here in the duck call room. We're out.