Duck Call Room - Godwin Finds Out He Has Diabetes

Episode Date: July 28, 2022

Uncle Si identifies the culprit behind Godwin's diabetes, and Godwin talks about the diagnosis taking him by surprise. John-David's jaw drops at Si's unexpected reaction to Martin's latest trail cam pics of a "black panther." Godwin shares a Robertson family tale about what a young Si Robertson did with 100 golf balls. Si tries to explain phone chargers with questionable results. Godwin discovers a great reason to believe in ghosts. And the boys have tips on making a long-distance relationship work and how to stay positive when times are tough. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, welcome back to the duck call room. Hello. It's been a minute. Johnny Galwin's back with him. Now we officially have the whole band back together. Summer's over, people. Back to work. Put a sweatshirt on.

Brick time, boy. Back to the sweat house. So you're going to wear your oxygen all day to day? You're welcome to. I just want to make sure that the people know what they're hearing in the background. He did the other day. No, I think I'm good. He's good, boy.

He's solid. He's taking me years off. He looks fine. I'd just like to give the people a heads up if they hear the clicking. Anything come up while I was gone? That's the finest oxygen available. No, ain't nothing come up while you's gone, but where are you being? Over.

Over there. Over there down yonder? Over where? By that. What did you do? By that big Georgia pine? I went to eye cast. Hey, under the big Georgia pine?

No, it was a little bit south of that. A little south of that. He was under a big Florida palm. How was I cast? It was busy. Do you see anything? What is the one thing you saw that is going to change the world of fishing forever, Gobind? What did you see?

I didn't. There was a lot of stuff, a lot of new stuff, but it was, I was stayed pretty much in that crappy magnet booth. It was pretty, pretty hit. He's a good looking fellow on the wall behind you. I know. John Godwin. Right in the middle. Mm-hmm.

That's nice, you ought to say that about Jeff. Oh, no, Jeff's on the end. Yeah, he's on the end. Me and Godman in the middle. Oh, Lord. So nothing, nothing revolutionary. Well, you know, there's a lot of new stuff. Oh, you were just out of an export show?

He was at the fishing. Of showing the fishing industry. The shot show of the fishing industry. I've always wanted to go. The place that about killed me. I was about to say, every, now I can't. They weren't many people. Well, they were small people.

this year. Well, what, Jeff was out? It was a pretty full. Yeah. I cast now Mark's the time. Has he come up with you? I'm going to give that man a little room. He said there was more people.

I still got PTSD from that place. Hey, look, I'm, what, five days out, so. You're good now. Good, now. We are one year. Nothing happened. From when the podcast took a weird turn, me and Martin took a couple weeks off there.

Yeah, a few weeks, a few weeks of forced vacation. Well, how did the big, fishing shots show go. Oh, it went good. It went great. Okay. We done, uh, where you been the first two minutes?

Well, hey, look, I just want to get on. He's going fishing. Saja's over and la-la lad. We're doing a traditional top golf. Yeah. Did you win? Wacking ball.

No. I can't hit that time. I just go up there and whack it. It's not moving. Oh, I can hit it. And you're not very far from it. It's just don't go very far. Sometimes it goes right.

Sometimes. times it goes left. He's not a golfer. So golf ain't for you. No. No. I golf once a year, top golf right before I cast. And Gitchie, any chicken fingers or cheese dip I use that?

No, we had brisket. Brisket, okay. Top off brisket. And I forget the name of the chicken, but it was good. It was good. It was good, brisket? At the driving range? It was.

Arcade? Well, they had it catered in. Oh. Well, then there's a chance. It wasn't regulation. There you go. good for Jeff. Spend a little that money you making, son. Good for you. That's good. Well, Sy,

Sye, look, I got something I got to show you. It's been a while. I've got to trail cameras back out. And at 1 a.m., I got an interesting photo, and I'd love to know your take on that critter. We're back, baby. This trail cam confessions are starting again. that's a tail sir yeah you're exactly right ladies and gentlemen Martin finally has to confess

a bad angle a what that's a bad angle well next time I'll ask him to stop and pose I mean because I'm looking he's looking

my first opinion I'd have to look at it for a dog that's a bear a small bear a small bear it's a honey bear you gotta be kidding me

sigh just ruined everybody's thoughts on the internet of what they had said. That's a black panther. No. That's a baby black pan. No.

There's something wrong with his ears. Were they back? Huh? Well, no, no. There's something wrong with his ears. For that big an animal to have that little tiny ears? No. He got them pulled back?

No. Uh-uh. He couldn't take off. He's not a very big animal, by the way. Well, I know, but for the size of his body to the ears, no. It ain't right. I'm going home. There you go.

Sy just killed everybody's dreams. The man who believes. Oh, no, because look if I... Don't you believe in baby pan? I'm trying to figure out his... That ain't no baby panther. That is a panther. No, it ain't.

No, it ain't. That's some kind of a... It ain't a panther, he said. Oh, you were right on what it is. I think it's a little bear. No, it is. It's 100% a small male bear. His ears ain't right for the weight of the animal.

I've just, everybody on the internet. I said it was a panther? It is. They are all backing you up and saying, Si is going to be wild. You finally got proof. And I'm like,

I look at it and I'm like, how do you see anything but a bear? I see a panther. I mean, I woke up with it this morning. You are just, look, y'all are in La La Land. I quit. So it's not a, wow. It's a,

That ain't nothing like what I actually saw in the pickup with him and Jake. Uh-oh. Okay. What I saw in the pickup was a real black panther. It was a big, long tail. With Bobcat characteristics. Well, Randy sent this photo in. Oh, they had ears that was good.

Now, that's a good one there. That one never gets old. Look at the side. He up on top of it. He's riding goblin, and goblin's riding a panther. Yeah. That ought to be our next duck call room t-shirt right there. I hadn't seen that yet.

That's good. Randy sent that in. I like it. I like it. Four days ago. That's quality entertainment right there. Here's what that tells me. Guy one learned from crawling across that road, dirt road in them berry vines.

Hey. Get off the ground. Get off the ground. Then you ain't got to pull them buyers out of your knees. Not having this pot of the time and I. This is going to hurt a bit. Ow, out, ow, ow. Oh, man.

I really thought that was a Black Panther, though, and I thought we were going to have a... Me and you were going to be on the same team like you normally are. No. No. Wrong. He's wrong in every direction. Oh, man. Well, I'm sad.

Number one, okay, a panther is... How did I say this? Not real? No. What? Oh, here we go. You're right. Imaginary?

No, no. When he's moving. I've seen one. Uh-oh. Well, that's not a moving picture. Yeah, but he was moving when the picture was took. That is a true statement. He was walking.

Yeah. And he didn't have what a panther is like fluid. He's got grace. He looks pretty fluid right there. There's no effort to his moving, okay? If he could do the moonwalk, he wouldn't even be able to see him. He would just be. What would he be doing?

The moon won't. Well, Jesse from Martinez, California, maybe Martinez. There's a new study out that there are Jaguars in Arizona. They're moving north. Well, yeah, that's close to me. It's a long way from here. It could have happened.

Hey, I've been telling y'all that all long. All the animals from the south are moving north. See? Look. Too hot. That's National Geographic. Too hot. They've never told a lot.

Oh, National Geographic. Yeah, they just. Just trying to steal the thunder from Shark Week. They're saying there are Jaguars in Houston. In H-town. Wow. I thought there was just Texans in Houston. Well, don't fix there.

There's mountain lines in Louisiana. Which means one of them could have said, you know what? And they ain't even no mountains here. There ain't no mountains in here, okay? I did see one one time. A black panther? No, he wasn't black. He was a deer color.

A rabbit come out in a shooting lane. and run down it and run in there like that. I just noticed it, run in the woods. And about a minute after that, I said, good, Cree. I just seen a python. And here's what I tell you about all that. It wasn't black. I had never seen one until our first year in Wyoming.

I had thought I had seen Panthers before. But when we ran to that corner and he was in that road, I said, okay, I ain't ever seen that before. That's him. Like, you know. And Kenny said, your stand's right over there. Yeah, he saw he go another way. Here's what I've seen on Fields property.

I've seen a Black Panther for real. And I've also seen a Puma, the mountain line. The Puma. The Cougar. And then I've seen another thing three different times until this day, from then to now, presently. It was never identified. I'd never figured out. Was it Dan the Butler's one?

This is one of the high. This was an unidentified animal. I have no idea what it really was. I've seen him three different times. One time I thought, well, it could be a turkey doing his fan, and I said, no, he was too fast for a turkey. So he ain't very big. Yeah.

And then I'm actually leaning toward it was a river otter, a big one. A big otter, yeah. Yeah. I'm going with the moment. Because I've seen him on the levee, okay? And when I seen him, it would just, boom, with the forward. I got to him as fast as I could. Well, on one of the places where Red and Doug to put some dirt on the road,

it's full of water now, and it was ripples on the water. Oh, yeah. So he, whatever it was. It could have been among them. Whatever it was, went in the water. Now, wherever he stayed under it or whatever, went out of it, because water was rippers. But I figured it was a,

Big giant otter. Did you know there's a whole monkey like sanctuary in Treyport? A whole monkey sanctuary. Look it up. Yeah. So it could have, one of them could escape. No,

I didn't. No, this one of monkeys. There's millions of monkeys in Treyport. Yeah. No, this was a monkey. They got a sanctuary.

It's not millions. It's like a sanctuary. It's like a bear. Okay. A monkey has got a distinct look to him. Yeah. And he's got distinctive ears too. Monkeys do.

I'm sad because I'd really thought. Really thought we were going to have a... But hey, look, so I confirmed it. It's Yogi. It's Yogi. There you go. Hey, Yogi. It's Yogi. I'm going to need more photos. You got to get back in a bag of a basket.

All right. Well, let's take a break. I figured, look, I'm going to remind you now, though. Why this? Let's do you everybody. It's take a break. It's trail cam season. Send them in.

If you got unidentified ones, we want them back. It's that time of year. You're putting them back out. They're welcome. They're welcome. All right. We'll be back right after this. All right.

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Why would they have a sanctuary? For monkeys in Treyport. It's a chimpanzee sanctuary. Because it's a jungle in Treyport, Gobwin. Haven't you heard? It's the land that spawned Cy Robertson. That's right. Oh, good grief.

See? That is rough. They do have nine mile by that's actually 24 miles. Not really, Shreeport, North's a three port. 12 mile by, what is it? About 30 miles. Well, it's 12 mile by. That's actually 24 miles long.

I don't know. I do. Do you? I went off. You measured it? I went all the way to the dam. Have you measured it? Yeah.

Why did they call it 12 mile by the? I don't know. I didn't name it. That's a halfway point. Maybe they go back and forth. It says, it says don't fish no further than 12 miles in here. It's a trap. It's a trap.

Hey, and I had an unidentified fish in that place. Oh, no, here we go. No, no, no, because it only happened at night. Okay. And you didn't like a picture. It's like everything else. Hold on. And I'm talking about, hey,

gigantic fish, okay. Big. Some of them, oh, eight, ten foot long. Oh, gosh. That's an alligator guard. No, nope. It ain't that big. Nope.

It's a whale. Because he was silver. Silver. I thought it was a tarpid. It was a bull shark. No, no. I thought it was a tarpent. That's what I identified this as a tarpid.

As a tarpon. You saw a tarpid in Shrepo? Yeah, and 12-mile. When I was a teenager. Next door to the chimpant. The chimpant. these aren't tree. Si,

you sure you didn't try recreational narcotics growing up? You ever planted golf balls to see if they turn out to be baseballs? No, no. No, I didn't put it that stuck. Wait, what? Time out. No, we ain't glancing over that. Do what?

Run that by me? You plant golf balls. Yeah? And hope it turns into a softball. They grow up in the baseball. Yeah, to softball. They grow up on the plant and there's baseball. Yeah.

You plant a golf ball, and then when you go dig it up or when it comes up. Tommy told me one time in the blind. They got side of plant golf balls. He told him they'd grow up to be baseball. And you fell for that? No. Huh? No, that's his story.

He planted a hundred of them, they said. Hey, I think, it holds all in the yard. That's his story. That's Tommy Robertson's story about you. He said, your brother said they talked you into it. I can't believe they told you that story. I was in the blind one day. I wish I'd have heard it.

You was there? I'd have gave one of them golf balls right outside the head when I was there. What else are brothers for? So as a child, you see, that's what I grew up with. But you planted a bunch of? No, I didn't. This is the first time. It's just like when me and Miss Christine was here.

Her stories were always true. Well, hey, no. This is the first time I heard about, hey, they gave me 100 golf balls and told me to plant them and water them. Okay, so I was, so I could have. So you did it, because Godwin didn't say nothing about watering them. No, catch! No. In the hat.

Hey, that was his story. Mine, I added a little bit to it. Oh, now the creative license comes out. That's right. Did you put some fishheads by them for fertilizer? The new storyteller has always added a little bit more better to it. Because it sounds better if somebody, not only did he plan them. He watered.

But I watched it. I watched it. Every day was a sprinkling, and he wanted them individually, every one of them. That's a true story. Yeah. You see, that sounds better. I love it. My goodness.

Big brothers, the things big brothers make you do. Your big brothers make you do anything? Oh, all the time. This takes me back into Hickernard Wars. Okay, you ever had... What was that? Hickorynut. There it is.

I didn't know what a Hickrack Wards. I didn't know what a Hickrack was. Okay, and you can have them either way. In the shell, okay, when they're green, and harder the brick bat or you can wait until they get right fall off and when they hit the ground they pop open okay

and then you got just a hard hickeringut and they're harder than a bat. Yeah they're harder than a bat. What did y'all do? Just throwing at each other? Oh yeah, that's why my... Slang shot. Yeah. Slang shot or off the one.

It scared me to death. That's why Harold lost his two front teeth from a hickonore. Was that the end of it? He didn't hit him but he hit the tree. He was standing behind and then it ricocheted. Shrapnel. First, yeah.

Yeah. And it knocked his teeth out? Knock the front teeth out. Both of them? Oh, yeah. That's a million to one shot, Doc. Oh, yeah. They called him snagleteat.

No, hey, they called him. He didn't have no teeth. Yeah. That's a good false teeth. Wasn't no snaggle, was it? Then you had cow patty wars. Oh, yeah. That sounds gross.

I've done that. Oh, it is, because look, the best one you could get is the cow dropped it, okay, in a big pile, and it was liquid. Okay. And it's like right now, it's hot. And it dries. And it dries. Around the edges.

Oh, no. Like brick mortar. Oh, no, no. On top. You wait to get a little it dry good on top. Still soft in the middle. Then you take like a sharp shooter, sharp shooter shovel and gently pick it up and then flip it over. And it's very soft on the bottom.

And let it cook on that side too? No, no, no. You keep that soft for when you hide behind the tree and somebody walks by, you just. No, not in their face. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. In their face? Oh, and I say, me and you would have went round around.

Oh, hey, there would a lot of that happened. That's why he wins the 100-yard dashes. Yeah, hey. Once I got that crap out my nose and off my teeth. Yeah, yeah, it's bad enough to hit you with a pie, but to hit you with a cow patty pie. Right up in the face. Yeah, right in the face.

It's just rude. Why not just throw it at them? That's a lot. Oh, no, no, no, no. It's just like the Indians, when they ride up to you with their spear, and they don't keep. That is pop you. Touched it.

It's called calling, what is? Count and Coop. Then you ride the way, you're all right, look how brave I am. That way you hide behind the street, and as soon as you walk, you put it in his face in and take off the room. Because if you happen to have a BB gun on them,

you think it's shot. And we was known to carry weapons when we were, you know, playing. Just in case somebody did they unthinkable. That is the unthinkable. I've been in mind. Hood. Spoooo on people's face and shooting them with BB guns. Hey, there's a lot of people, okay.

Jimmy Frank Robertson was responsible, okay, for getting a lot of young men scholarships. What, teaching them how to run? Teach them how to play ball. And they didn't have a choice of it. This was a, you know, self-defense. He had a draft. You, you, you, and you are playing.

Come. me they try to run nope run them down bring them drag them back and come a lot nope you're gonna be a lineman you're gonna be a running back you're gonna be in you know and sigh was gonna be the monster man oh hey that's what I played in high school I was the monster man but in the pickup

games he was just a cheerleader no no what he said no he was hiding behind a tree with poop all in his hand yeah looking for an escapee that's it was that's awful pooping people's faces. That's terrible.

We had a great immune system. Well, I'd say so. Well, hey. Well, the cows were probably warmed anyway, so you probably got a little Ivermectin up in you. I'm just telling you, we got a great immune system. Barefooted in summertime. So there was rocks everywhere. Oh, yeah.

No, no. Their feet, listen to me. I'm serious. Our feet were so tough, okay, and they were about the color of this file, a little darker. Probably as color of the teeth, the bottom of our very. feet were. And you could throw a mason jar down and bust it and we could walk on it. We can get cut. I understand

that. I was just going to say all the stuff that was around to play with and you picked up a pile of crap. Well, no, no. There was plenty of stuff to play with. Well, hey, we was raised on the farm. Raised on a farm, man. We killed our own beef. We killed our own pigs. And then we raised everything

in the garden, canned everything we raised. So I'd have just simple for organic. And we had a smokehouse. We were when when mom would just say, hey, we got ready for breakfast, go out and they can get a slab of bacon, bringing in here. She'd cut big, thick slices of bacon and fried up, you know. Out of simple curiosity, though, who laid the best piles of poop?

Was it the cows or the bulls? Which one? Did you look for one? That's a question. We didn't really carry, you know. See, I'd have paid attention. I'm just nerdy enough to pay attention to that. We were not into DNA of the bull or the cow.

You just needed the both eat the same product. We just needed it to be baked on the top, where it was crusty and soft on the bottom. Just like a cookie. Just like a, I can't eat cookies. Just like a freshly baked pie. I can't eat many cookies no one. I can't eat sweets much no more. Why?

God, look. What is that? I'm a bona fide diabetic now. Are you really? Yeah, that's what they told me. Well, let's talk about that when we get back. Hold on now. I ain't even know that.

We'll be back right after this. Here's a alert. Oh, this is brand new. Yeah. It's a pulified diabetic. To Godwin, you are officially a diabetic. Yeah, I took some blood work for, you know, annual blood work. Before my, I went to ICAST, and I was at ICAST, and my doctor called me at ICAW.

So how old are you now? I'm going to be 60. 60? 60? September. Are you kidding me? No. Everybody around here's getting long.

I know. He always said, getting old, it ain't graceful. So you was good to determine my name's six years old for you. I was good until I went to I-cast. And then I got you.

I think he might have had it before then. That's wild. You just found out. She called, she said, your sugar would like something. I forget the number. She said, I'm going to do a three-month deal. She called it something.

She said, I'll get back with you. Too many honey buns. Too many honey buns in the duck blind, boys. That's terrible. I can't eat no more honey buns. That's it. So are you on insulin or are they just checking you? What's your arm right now?

It's a sound. It's a patch. You use your phone. You scan. Hey, look, there's a piece of metal in there sticking in my arm. So this. That doesn't sound fun. Who's a man?

No, I'm kidding. I ain't going to pull that off of it. Did it hurt when they put it on you? I didn't even feel it. Hey, let's see, let me give my pocket, how it's just a show. I can pop that off. I can pop it right off. It's a needle about this long, about bigger round as a hot water pipe.

No, it's not. It's just big around as a hot water pipe. That's what I was thinking when she's stuck it on there. No, you don't even feel it. I'm going to hold it. It's like it ain't even there. I gotta take some shot every week. Once a week?

Oh, so you just like a beginning. You ain't like our buddy Stephen at Realtree, that he got to check it like every hour. And he's pumping and all kinds of stuff. Yeah. But they didn't tell you what cause did or not, or what could be the cause. Wait, too many honey buns.

Well, my mom was. I diagnosed him on that. She was in the insulin dependent. But I guess I got it from. Oh, a little bit of genetic. Why did it wait this long? To come around? Yeah.

I don't know that answer. That's like I've got insulin resistance. here on my belly. What does that mean? It means fat, but that's how he's secure. Oh, he's been watching them late-night infomercial. But anyway, go-low, we'll get rid of it. That's what they tell him.

She said, if you. See, I told you. He's been on that infomercial bag, son. Box news at night. Hey, I'll tell you, hey. Yeah. If you won't know what comes on after the Westerns go off. There you go.

Oh, you got to change channels, okay. I and SP don't show get Golo. Yeah. You got to get that on another channel. What is that? Yeah, that was quite interesting. Huh. Yeah, they give me a bunch of books to read,

and she said you need to, well, that charts it when I do that. I don't know how many times I'm supposed to do it. But it's been in the green all day, so. Green good? Yeah, green means go. Green's always good, isn't it? Go low, I tell you. I was making sure, I don't know.

Go low. What? Is it in the green? She said if an air points down, you need to eat something. So it tells you one to eat. Yeah, it says you better eat. Huh. Interesting.

But I ain't never, I don't know. I don't feel funny. I mean, I hadn't. You sure look funny. Yeah, I think, I know. I don't know. You know, when you get a cut, you hurt and bleed. Well, hey, there you go.

I didn't know I had nothing. Well, hey, I got that I was on. So you don't feel no different. You got to watch these. Sure. Kind of depressed. I can't eat no more caramel cakes or honey buns. See?

Well, but, I mean, maybe you just dial it back, huh? Oh, no, we're going to have to have a honey bun watch in the blind now. Honeybun watch. Honeybun watch. He said a onion one. All right, look. Don't break out of honeybonds. Don't break out of honeybonds today.

Got an old honey bun in the wine. I just got a no-gabom. What did Miss Paula say? Oh, I ain't told her yet. Uh-oh. Oh, my words. I told her that, I told her they think I might have diabetes, and she said, you're falling apart. We got a lot of things to do.

You got to go get fixed. I said, well, I'm going to the doctor, but I ain't showed her all this. I'm scared to. She's not a freak out. She's liable to. Oh, man, your house. Oh, your diet fix is a goat. She'll have me running.

She got, you know, she's out there walking in the cemetery, that arm slinging group, you know. Oh, yeah. Arms slinging group. Hold on. Can't glance that. Arm slinging group? That's what their markers do. They slanging their arms, you know.

I always wondered when I went by there and I seen them going through the cemetery. I was wondering, what is this bunch doing? They slanging their arms. That's it. Hey. Why do people all walk in cemeteries? It's a popular... Because it's quiet.

That's that? I mean, I don't know. Well, we live next to one. Yeah. They're next door neighbors. You believe in ghost? Well, you know, in Luke, when Jesus went up, I mean, all them disciples run up there in that upper room. And when Jesus appeared, he said, don't be scared.

A ghost don't have flesh and bone like you see. I'm talking, hey, by the way, I'm hungry. So God was saying, Jesus said they was ghost. What? I don't know. What you say. Wow, I've never thought about that. This is a big segment to unpack here in my head.

I got a lot of thoughts. Yeah, but I was right, he said, y'all got any fish? I'm hungry. Hey, they said. What? Jason gets fired up. There's fish fries in heaven, but. Yeah, that's when Jay's gets fired up.

Jesus ate fish. Hey, I know one thing. I'm going to like heaven. He said, because, hey, first thing that's Jesus rose from the dead, he wanted to have a fish fry. He sure it is. Fish fry. You may. And that ain't the first time.

That was the second time. That's right. But now you may have to go on like bakefish. That's fine. I like that too. That's good. I make me some fish dip. Uh-oh.

What's in that dish type of? What's in that dip? I don't know. I need a little horseradish and mayo. And there it is. There's a little. God, when your condiment world may be about to get turned upside down. I know you're a man that loves condiments.

We're going to have to have a talk. Somebody gets stone on the fire. Yeah, we're going to have to talk like that. Stone, going to get you over on that speed bag. You're going to be like Johnny D last year. Welcome to the House of Pain, Guy. I'll get you a Fitbit and everything. Size does it.

Hey, I'm 20 days. No, 19 days from getting 10,000 steps every day for 365 days. And on day 366, I ain't moving. That's because somebody asks for a specific crop-y-g colored, and you've got to walk to the other end of the store. That's about 20 steps. You got to do that a lot. You can do that.

You can do that. You got arm slinging group, man. Why is 10,000 steps important? Because I heard that. Yeah, I hear it all time. Why not 10,000 and 1? For the average person, what, it's like 5 miles a day? Or 990.

What's wrong with 919? Is that what it is? Five miles is 10,000 steps? Yeah, for the average person. 10,000 steps. It can come up with that. For the average person. A person that said, I'm going to start at 1 and walked,

and I'm five miles away now. 10,000. How far are you from your house? Are you about five miles from here? Are you to go like far as good? Further five. Go to the mailbox and just keep off. About nine?

That's going to be about 18. Here's what I tell you. You walk halfway home and you count as you go and I'll stop and pick you up. You go get 10,000. Let me know when you get to 10,000. I'm struggling today. Oh, I ain't going to do it just to see. I think that belongs out there in the Calpatti Files.

How about that? Okay. I said, just sit down and watch gun smoke. You'll be all right. Oh, Dylan was... You know what else you could get, though, Calvin? He gets 10,000 rock. For the duck call, when you're building duck calls,

we give you size cuby. There you go. You pedal while you make them. Hey. But that would be in my way of my tub, then. Just move your tub. Don't be making excuses yet. I'm sorry.

Just move your tub. What are you got in the tub? Duck calls. Duck calls. A dog. Oh. A duck call. Oh, a duck call.

Oh. called tub. What kind of tub did you think he was? I thought he had his feet in some kind of water or something. It was a turkey. He's getting a pedicure wide way. That's right. I got a tub.

I either got grapes that I'm on mass for wine or something. Well, Gawain, I was waiting. Here's where Godwin had me go when he said I can't have no more sweet. I was waiting for one of his patented joke. Yeah. I wouldn't. Well, I have been wondering about something. What's that?

You know, them. Batteries that you get and you go out on your dear standing and your phone goes down, you plug your phone in. Uh-huh. Won't you just plug that thing into itself? It won't never go down. I feel like I should have an answer, but I don't. Wait a minute. Plug one into itself.

The charging pack. The charging pack. Yeah, but hey, it ain't the charging pack that's going down. And it just leaped. Your phone went down. So you've got to charge. you got to put the charger in the phone. I know.

So I explained. But when you don't, when you're not got it in your phone, well, there's two ports. So you can still charge your phone, but you can never because it loose. It never needs it. Hey, just always recharge it. Just plug it into it. Plug itself. It's always on the charge.

You can't charge. I understand. I understand. So it's like an alternator. Yeah. It should be. It's running. It's running.

What do you think? Just plug it in. Plug in this, and let it always run. It'll always be up, up, up. It'd always be charged. I'm against it. Deep thoughts for John God. That's right.

I like it. Well, let's take another break. We'll be back right after this. I got a lot to figure that out. Well, I don't know how to follow that. I really was. I was expecting a joke, not a life-changing, not life-changing news. We laughed about it, but, I mean, that is something serious.

When does you get this letter from AJ? Who's AJ? Well, who is AJ to begin with? It's AJ. He wanted to know, he, he, look, he got your tea, tea glass. Oh, he drew a tea glass on a... He wanted to know what my biggest crappie was I caught. I would say...

And was it a white or a black crappie. I would say it would be white and it'd be a two and three-quarter pound. Guy one's in the three-pound club. I'm not in the three-pound club. Two and three-quarters. Two-and-three-quarters is really close. The biggest crapey I've caught was a black craffy. Oh, I missed a...

of species. But they were close. One was 190 and one the black cropie was 290 and the white cropy was 286. I'm trying to figure out why my man AJ sent such a big envelope.

I didn't miss my much. And wrote so small? Wrote this. Yeah. Very small handwriting, AJ. So you're not in the three pound club. Not in the three pound club. He's close.

I had a guy the other day telling me I should sell three pound club t-shirts and I'm like, nobody's going to get one. Yeah, that's not a good. I mean, I am in the three-pound club, but it was out of a private lake. Yeah. That counts.

They caught some out of Darbonne, a few three-pounders. But if you want a three-pounder, you need to go to Grenada. Grenada. Grenada. That's the man of the Giants over. So you don't know anything about your new condition, really. No. Yeah, he doesn't feel no.

He knows this. When he sees the airs point down, you eat. Yeah. What if the arrow points up? It's okay. That means, I guess that means the sugar's going up on, really. Then you got to stop it. I don't know what you do about it.

You stop eating. Trink water. That must be what you one shot a week is for. Yeah. Might be. But it's been steady so far. Well, that's good. Maybe it's working.

I guess everything's working. You seem in good spirits. Well, I feel the same. It ain't affected. him. Ain't nobody going to rain on his parade. You've got diabetes, or the kind I got, I guess. There ain't no.

You don't know you got it. There's a bunch of different types of it. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know difference in none of it. She said it was low, so maybe with a little exercise and diet, I can get off my medicine. Hey, Paul looked going to figure it out for you.

She sure is, boys. And Stone's going to figure it out. I just hope she don't quit cooking. Oh, no, she'll cook me. She ain't going to quit cooking. It's just going to taste a lot. It's going to taste it. It's going to be a little different.

Yeah, it's going to taste it. Speaking about news, while ago, somebody said news. Is there anything worth listening to in the news these days? I don't watch it. Nope, never. Not none of it. I don't. I think that is just pitiful.

Why? As big as this earth is, okay, and that we do not have anything good to report on the people. Well, they don't never... On the planet. They don't never report on something good that happens. It's always the bad stuff, so why watch it? Yeah, that's...

There's good stuff out there. Now, the weather, I watch the weather, but it's just a liar. It's kind of depressing, too. Yeah. It's hot. Yeah. I mean, we... What's your thought on that?

Why is it hot? Is it hotter than it normally is? It's summertime. It's time. Go back 20 years. Is it hotter or is it what? have to get it up. Dallas set a record

then, so it's hotter there. It gets hot, it gets cold, it gets hot, it's hotter than it was in the ice age. That's what PBS said.

One day, Saig going to host something on PBS. It's going to be awesome. And I'm going to have to go find Channel 13 again. There's been like seven times in the last 640 million years, just seven times.

Four of them was hot and then three of them were cold. What? And at one time, this ball that we call Earth was completely iced and snowed over. It was just a big round ball of snow. That's why aliens don't visit us. What? Too cold.

We're just a one-star planet. That's right, boy. How that. God is back, baby. That's way better than your charger debacle. That one. We're just a one-star planet. That's right.

Well, it's not going to play, baby, one at a time. I like it. All right, I got good news. All right. Oh, he's got the good news. I found some. This elephant passed out because they shot it with the tranquilizer dart and hit him in the head. But then they revived it with CPR, but CPR of an elephant requires three people to jump up and down on it.

Why is that good news? Because they saved the elephant. Yeah, but somebody shot him in the head. No, they shot him and it fell and hit his head or her head, which is sad. Okay. But now, if any of our listeners. Listeners are ever in a passed out elephant situation, they know to jump up and down on the elephant's chest. Do you think when she stood up, she said roll tide?

No, not at all. She said, why y'all jump up and down on me, but thank you. What's the hole for? That's what I want to know. In case they didn't wake her up. Oh, I didn't read the whole thing. Unless they didn't revive her. I don't know.

I'm going to think, how do you, how do you, what is the name of it? Rescitate? Resuscitate. Hold on. They tranquilize your resuscitate an elephant. Blow through the trunk.

No, you jump up and down on his chest. Why not blow through his trunk? I don't think you... He can drink water and spray water out of it. I don't think your lung capacity is doing anything to an elephant,

especially yours. Well, he'll get up to a generator. Get a leaf blower and just stick it up in the nose. Slap one of size backpacks on it and go. That's all you got to do. What are you want on him, baby? They turn it on three.

The bulls. dozer was to drag the elephant out because it was stuck in the monsoon and they were trying to save the elephant then they made it worse so then they gave the elephant boot CPR by jumping up and down on it revived it and now the elephant's fine fine they was trying that's that's important to know so the question is if the humans wasn't there would the elephant have ever been in peril anyway probably not that's right now martin you bring up a great point we've been known to just really foul up some situations and it sounds like these boys while they were covered in the end yeah yeah could have just probably left this alone and it would have been a non-issue yeah well ain't it yet wait until it dried up yeah just wait for it to quit raining that elephant knows how to survive water that i can assure you but they got to go stick in their nose and don't matter if if he wouldn't water over his head he still got it you know that drunk yeah he scuba

it scares me every time if you can get with an elephant if you got a lot of of peanuts. They weren't for peanuts. I thought you knew that, J.D. They're scared of mice. They're scared of mice. They're not scared to death of mice. They are too. That is not true. That's a cartoon. He walks on his tiptoes when mice come around. How come cats are scared of cucumber? Can you ever seen them videos? They make me laugh where somebody sneak up behind drop a cucumber on the floor by the cat and they jump through the roof. I've spent way too many hours doing that. Oh no no no I tried to do that. My cat must be weird because hey the cucumber It didn't bother Pete's

Your cat's so big It can't jump if it wanted Well, I'm just saying Hey, I've seen that on television If you don't quit feeding Yo cat, it's going to have one of these things in it Oh no, he's already got all that See?

No, no, no Pete has got more issues, okay? He's like Caleb on the commercial That's because a house cat ain't supposed to weigh 80 pounds Well, no, no He's got his own therapist Got his own doctor, got nurses

Your cat has a therapy. Your cat has a therapy therapist now? Oh, yeah. Wouldn't you if you lived with him? I'll tell you, sweet peep, he's got more problems than I've got. And I've got my own, okay, so hey.

Take a breath. Yeah, we got to get in that inbox. I need some sense of normal. Let's go to the mailbox and see what the fans have been up to. We'll be back. What do you got, J.D.? All right, we're back. All right, we're back.

I said, moving right along. I said, moving right along. If you're wondering how long our breaks takes, sometimes 15 minutes, sometimes that one was long enough to ring the bell ring the bell I had a really good one I got to find it real fast

okay you have a good one all right well I just wanted to give a shout out real quick Christina emails in about her daughter Averley they're from Hagerman New Mexico

anybody ever been there Hagerman New Mexico I think that's a place I think that's one of the areas that's known for like trophy elk and stuff I could see that in the background

well I could like to go Well, anyway, her daughter Averly has some issues with her leg and her foot. She just had her third surgery. But she's a big fan of the podcast and Duck Dynasty and all the good stuff. And she just wanted a shout out. So, hey, Averly, praying for you and your leg and your foot. But she did say we're all amazing, but Uncle Sides, of course, her favorite. Shine, too.

Hey, whatever you got, I hope you get rid of it, daughter. And, hey, you can jump and play. and dance and whatever. There you go. There you go. And to our friend who sent her grandma's secret recipes cookies in for reading her email. Were those good? Oh, they were solid.

Oh, I guess y'all ate them all. Don't talk about that. I would just fix it. I guess they ate them all. Oh, I wouldn't. That's on me. See, I wouldn't. There's sugar for it.

It's going to take me a minute to get used to this change. They're keto cookies. No, they were not cute. They were not cute. They were not. No, these had all sorts of processed sugar. Oh, who knows. All right.

Oh, Michael. That was the weirdest thing. Somebody asked me to sign. What? What? A woman come up to me and ask me. No. She asked me to sign her foot.

So she took it off and gave it to me. I had a vet do that to me. I didn't know what to say. No, no. I had a vet doing me. He said, hey, you mind signing my leg? And I said, yeah. He said, here.

I said, oh, okay. All right. And we're back. And we're back. All right. Speaking of vets, Michael emails in. I guess he has all his limbs. He met a girl at church while doing his undergrad,

and then that girl had to move maybe. Hold on, I'm reading. There's six hours apart. Okay. There's the situation. Uh-oh. He's in Knoxville, Tennessee, and she's in Jackson, Tennessee. That's where the goals had.

I did not know that Tennessee was six hours long, but apparently it is. It's longer than that. That's longer than that if you live on. Look, you can get across that sucker in an hour and a half. going north-south not that way east-west it takes two days it feels like all right well that's where they're living but they're dating martin they're asking for advice she still has two and a half years left school and i have four years left a vet school martin oh he's at knoxville how did y'all do it oh it ain't what helps you telephone it ain't that

bad face-time telephone interstate gas gas money ain't nothing to it it's how bad do you want it it ain't no big deal. But my man, if you like hunting, you need to get out of Knoxville. You need to go to Jackson. You need to go to her. So get your vet degree and move over there. Because once you get around Jackson, it gets good. They got a lot of ducks.

They got a lot of deer. A lot of turkey. I have a relationship advice Martin's like, no animals there, move. Yeah, I'm just telling. But go see her. Yeah, go see her, especially during the fall. Now, she comes see you during the spring of summer because the fishing's a little bit better over where you're at. but there you go there you go that's the best of both worlds what's what you tell me but

but knoxville i got a lot of friends around there there's a bunch of good people around knoxville so just stay plugged in stay committed it ain't nothing but time it's just that's the same commitment it just hey i tell you this the it's it's really fun because you don't you don't get like bored with each other like you that's been known to do whenever you live together and all that kind of stuff every time you see each other it's really exciting and you get to have a lot of fun and you don't have to deal with the same doldrums a lot of times people deal with sometimes during relationships where they're like oh you don't love me anymore all that no it's always it's always new whenever you're six hours apart so I'm excited every time I see miss brawl yeah I am too but

like it took a it took me almost eight years of marriage to realize that like because there was some of it when you were freshly married is like okay this person lives here now every day every day they're still there yeah and so it just took some adjusting to get used to and figure all that stuff. That's my spot. That's my spot. Yeah, you're in my spot. You're in my spot. But no, it's fun, man. It's totally worth it if you're committed to each other. It gets better as the years go by. Amen to that. It does, in fact, get better. It does. It gets better. All right. Last one. Dalton from Grayson, Louisiana. That's pretty close to here. Oh, yeah, it's right over yonder. That's right down there. That's right down there in Caldwell,

Paris. It's Sponged Gobbling. Right past Columbia. Right past Columbia. All right, avid listener, hadn't missed a show. Appreciate that. He has something that's weighing him down. He's been having a rough time staying positive. I know that God wouldn't throw me anything my way that I couldn't handle, but it seems to be between work, pushing me around, car problems, financial issues, and blah, blah, blah, so on, he says.

I can't keep my head above water. Any advice would be appreciated. Keep paddling. Yep. Keep. That's all you can do. Keep paddling. It gets better.

You just got to. You got to work your tail off while you're going. Yeah. You get where you're going to be. I've noticed a lot of times, too, whenever you think everything's going super bad. When you look back on it, it really wasn't that bad. Yeah. It feels bad when you're in it.

It does. And it feels like you can't get out. Like he's saying, you're treading water. You can't keep your head above water. And then you do, and then you look back on it, and you're like, man, that really wasn't that bad. Yeah. It just just. I wasn't about that pole, Willer.

Yeah. if I wouldn't order that boat and remodeled that house while I'm having twins and you know there's just a lot of stuff but you stop and look back on it and you're like I made it oh this ain't that bad at the end of the day

this may help or it may not maybe you're focusing on the wrong things yeah it's easy to focus on the problems focus on what's good you get too wrapped up in what's got you down instead of looking because I always

the Bible says this way, Jesus says, hey, keep your eyes on me. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And that way, okay, if you're always looking, you know, Jesus will keep you positive. Amen. You and Grayson, go jump in that Washaw River,

spend a little time on that river. It'd be good to you. Go set a hook and then big white perch. Yeah. White perch. Well, I'm going to steal one from our little cousin Sadie because she's just a way better at answering things than any of us probably.

Oh, preach it. She did a thing about Paul, right? Paul's in the Bible. He was a bad guy, turned good guy, spread the word to more. He's the reason we probably have church today. He spread it all across that area. But his life was not easy by any means. There's a whole list of stuff.

He got robbed. He got shipwrecked. He got bit by a snake. People were after him. They wanted to kill him. How many times was he in jail? And that's where Sadie always goes. And then he's in jail.

and what's he doing? And that's going to be our verse today. Spoiler alert. He's singing and praying, right? He's singing and praying because he knows he still has, I actually ordered, this is weird, I ordered a book yesterday about the cost of being a disciple. It's like really old.

I probably won't be able to read it. How much was it? $11. That's all it costs to be one? Oh, sorry. Oh. I tried to be goblin. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I tried to be goblin. It is true. I think here in America, we have some misinterpretation of it ain't supposed to be easy and we sing songs about blessings on blessings on blessings sometimes

but sometimes it don't feel like blessings it feels painful well here's the deal what gives you how character built not through the good time uh-uh tell us God has never promised you okay that you won't have trials

and tribulations okay he has promised you a few things. One of them is I'll, I'll never leave you. Amen. Okay. So he's always there. Okay. You know, just think about it. You're not going to go through this world without getting burned or mistreated by somebody.

Go ahead. Yeah. It's, it's, that's a given. And the only thing you can control, you can't control what happens around you. The only thing you can control is. is how you respond to what happens either to you or around you. That's the only thing you can control.

Like if you do something bad to me, I can only troll what I do about it. I can either get angry, hit you back, which does not solve anything, or I can turn the other cheek and let you get away with it. In other words, like the Bible says, it's just why kill them with kindness.

By doing that, you're heaping coals upon their head. Burning coal. Yeah, hot. A cold is hot, red hot. Okay, so look, who's stronger? The guy that gets angry and hits back or the guy that says, hey, you did me wrong, but hey, I'm going to turn around and I'm going to walk away from you. There's always a guy that walks away.

He's stronger. He's better than you are. Yeah. Because he didn't stoop to what you just did. It's hard, though. Oh, yeah. No, it ain't easy. Yep.

You think the worst, boy. I remember getting in debt and all that when I was young and thinking, I ain't never getting out of this. But hard work is you got to put wise counsel. Well, you got to get away from the pity party. I got a hold of some wise counsel that told me what to do with my credit cards and this. Which was hard to do. Which was hard to do.

Need to save your truck and get this truck you can pay cash for. I did it. It took about 10 years, but we finally come out of it. There you go. There you go. And now you got you a new truck. Mm-hmm. I'll get you.

That's good. You won't send us out of here? I'll send us out. So, spoiler alert, I already told you what I was going to talk about. But backstory, Paul's had a really rough time. Everything goes wrong. He's shipwrecked. He's always in trouble.

and then he's trying to do what's right. He's trying to tell people about Jesus, so they throw them in jail, right? He has every right to say, this sucks. I quit. I'm tired. But instead, he's in jail in Acts 16, verse 25, says about midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the other prisoners were listening to them.

They had so much joy in the hardship that other people hurt them. them and we're just like, what is, what, you know, everything, like, what is love with these cooks? They're sitting here in jail in the worst place they could be, singing praises and having joy. So my man, Dalton, you got to just choose joy. That's the trick. You know, you know you've won in the end. You might not be winning right now, you are winning right now, but it might not feel like it. But in the end, you've won because he won it for you.

Focus what's on the positive side of life. There's always a silver lining in every dark cloud. Amen. We'll see y'all next time. We're out of here, boys.