Duck Call Room - Godwin Is Anxious About His Upcoming Procedure

Episode Date: June 6, 2024

Godwin brings his wife, Paula, to chat with Uncle Si and the boys about her newfound hunting skills, what kind of teacher Godwin is, and how they came to be so close with the Robertson family. Martin is certain his behavior has landed him in Paula’s prayer journal more than once and Paula takes a dig at John-David over his seemingly miserable exercise routine. Godwin is nervous about an upcoming dental procedure and Paula and the boys dispense dating advice to listeners in need of guidance. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yeah, let's start with a John Davis there because that one, that one's interesting. Why is that interesting? Because it just is. He's not used to seeing you outside in motion. Physical labor. Oh, welcome. I'm leaving.

Welcome back. I've caught so many strays just walking in here today. Beth said, hey, close to a pull-up, and I said, I actually did one. Really? Well, hey, you were going for two weeks, man. This is what happened. Disney got the best of you now. We've had all this good material.

And we've got a special guest in here with us today. We have the woman who makes the man. Miss Paula Gobwin is back in here with us. So welcome, Paula. Thank you, thank you. And so Paula was telling us before we got started about an interesting observation she made yesterday. Paula, go ahead.

I was driving out of the neighborhood. where John David lives. And I saw this man with some kind of weighted vest on sweating like profusely. I said, John, that's John David. He said, no, it ain't. I said, yeah, it is. You look like you were barely making it. I was barely making it.

What are you doing with a weighted best on it like two in the afternoon? I was in June. In Louisiana. I believe they call it jogging. It's a new thing I'm into That's what had me compete The jogging park Yeah

And that's a fair assessment This was more of a Two together It was more of a trot Yeah I was not I was not I was

I mean It was a very long workout That ended with a jog I'm hoping you were there at the end Because I was going slow Yeah well she said it was more of a fast walk Yeah It was just trying to look like you were running

But you were walking You were moving slower than people walk Well card I guess you heard the car coming so you picked it up a little bit oh for sure you got to let the people know like i'm kind of in shape you can't be slow when people are watching so wait it wait at vest johnny d huh so look i've discovered if you lose you ain't got enough on you i've lost i mean i'm just saying like me i don't think i need to add any like but see look if you lose i've lost 34 pounds

as of this morning and we're all very proud of from january 29th to now in mission do a pull-up Because, by the way, I can do one now. Can you do two? No. Okay. Now, I barely can do one. So, look, so then if you put a 20-pound vest on and start running, you'll never want to gain that weight back.

Oh, so this is incentive not to do that again. If you put a 20-pound vest on, it is a lot of weight. Plus, I like for my calves to look nice. I should have let you towed Jackson at church yesterday then. Yeah. Because that's 31 pounds. You don't want to put. at all.

So yeah, I've been, I've been, so we have a friend, me and my buddy who I work out with, and he's related to this guy. He goes overseas sometimes. He's not allowed to tell us where he's going. He's in very good shape. We'll just leave it at that. And he wears a hat that's green. But he told us, well, if you only work out and do the things you like, then you're not

really working out that hard. And I was like, so? He's like, so you should run. And I was like, ugh. So then I started running and I was like he's right This works way better than doing just the like Stationary bicycle That's how you ended up doing squat

I don't squat Oh okay I did that for like a week I was like I actually do hate this and my knees hurt I'm too old Yeah because if I was gonna add something to a workout for me That included stuff I didn't like squats So now

You can do them like you know how them babies got that bouncy thing They put in a door Yeah You can do them look at it I'm gonna need a stronger door frame I had to stay here the office and do that. Yeah.

So now my workout, which you saw me doing is I jump rope a lot and I jog like a third of a mile at a time. No, we're not going over that because that's- You jog a third and walk or you jog a third and- I jog a third, then I jump rope a lot. Then I jog a third and then jump rope and then I go throw up. You get coach you jump rope way or? No, the jump rope's at my house.

Okay. So you got the third of a mile loop. I got a loop right there in front of my house. Okay. I don't even make it to Al's house. That's way too far away. Yeah. Where do you go?

Just turn around once you get about halfway. He goes, you know, that little right there. Once you get to the base of that hill where it starts going up, he'd turn around and go back home. Don't go too far downhill because you've got to go back up. That's a valuable lesson. No, no. That was the way I wasn't. It used to make them so mad when PT test time would come up because I would run and then I'd walk.

I'd run, then I'd walk. And I kept screaming to that. You know, you got, I said, no, I ain't got nothing. I said, I've got a certain time I've got to do to pass the test. And I said, I've already figured it out. I can run this far and then I can walk this far. And I'll be the time I need, you know, I'm not running for you. That's not an overachiever.

Yeah. So I said, don't worry about setting my personal bed. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, this is a PT test. As long as I pass it, get out of my face. So I said, if the time's 10 minutes, my goal. is 9.59.

As long as I, hey, as long as they check the box is past, that's all this too. Hey, my motto, my senior year of college was D means diploma. Did not care about A's? Well, after six of them, I get it. Hey, watch it. I'm going to put that weight of vest on you and make you jog with me. Please don't. I won't.

Well, you were, I mean, it was hot, too. Yeah. I mean. If you sweat a lot, you lose weight too. That's one of the things that people that work, really work. workout. That's not me. They wear heavier shoes.

They add weight, you know. Heavy shoes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That must be why Christian wears them things on this. Oh, no, I'm sure. They must weigh a lot.

No, no, it's probably it. You got some weird shoes. Okay. I literally went and bought light shoes just for this purpose. Well, I say you're thinking wrong. Yeah, everything I wear is all about being lighter. As light as possible.

Stretchy bridges. No, no legs on your bridges. Guy one's got the option. He can zip on, zip on. I told him away. If you don't want him today, told me. At the time, he don't even wear shoes.

Yeah, no shoes, barefooted. Godwin's lost way more weight than me, though. Yeah, what's you down now, big fella? Two sacks of corn. Two 50 pounds sacks of corn. He's down a hondo? Yeah, he's been down a hondo. Yeah.

I'm kind of steady. I ain't been trying. Goblin together, we've lost stone. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. He's going to have to start working out now, though. I believe to go over.

It's over. I mean, to continue. Well, yeah, because it's croppy season too. Yeah. So you're probably eating a lot of fish right now. Fish is healthy. Not the way we could. Not once you bathe it in that peanut oil.

No. Still healthy. Flower. I maintain it's healthy. Sour cream. It's healthier. I tried wheat flour one time, but too. That's not.

That's against. Have you done the almond flour yet? Yeah, that don't work. Uh-uh. There's certain things that I don't care how good they are for me. I'm against it. Well, there's certain things that shouldn't masquerade as other things. Exactly.

Almond shouldn't be milk. That's, I agree with them. You know? Almonds need to stay in their dead gum lane. Yeah. They need to stay a tree nut and call it good. Be yourself. I don't know.

They squeeze all that out of them anyway. Let's take a bunch of them. That's what he said. He said, this is like almond, like, suicide or something. They're killing all these almonds to make this meat. How do they make almond milk? My wife will have like some almond milk.

I'm like I'd rather. I'm pretty sure. I don't know how much this is going to add on to the end of my life. Isn't it just like an almond and water slurry? I mean, no, no. All almond milk is. Because that reminded me. I watched the show and they made

spam. No, oat milk. No, the fruit of an oak tree. Acreons? Yeah, acres. They made acorn bread. Ugh. No, no.

It looked good, but I'm talking about, you know. As a guy who's ate a many of acres, just trying to figure out how those things caught on with the deer. Yeah. Boy, them rascals is better. You've ate a many of them? Oh, I had to try every, I had to try every species to see if there was one that was better than the other one.

Not only that. Hey, it puts fat on them deer. Yeah. Like you're unreal. Yeah, them red oaks are way tangier than the white oaks, too. A white oak. A dog in a heartbeat. But they massed them things up, okay?

You know, like they did corn. Yeah. They mashed them up. Then they put them in a water solution and let the water dry out of it. I'll get the tannins out. Yeah. Yeah. And then they mix it, you know.

No. But it's just, you know, it's a real big deal to do it. I'm out. Well, I'm out. Yeah. Yeah. It's too much work for me for just, because they made. I mean, they had a basket of acres, okay,

and they had a little, little bitty thing of bread, you know, just a little old bitty thing. 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 Triedale's beef

makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sao 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, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way. Tritails comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth generation American ranch. So they've been at it for a while. Now, look, the beef comes straight from their ranch and other ranchers they work with who raise cattle the same way. Their steaks are properly aged and shipped straight from the ranch to, your door.

We threw a couple of ribbys on the grill. Look, salt, pepper, garlic, hot fire, that's all you need. Look, because I tell you what, when the beef comes from people who raise cattle for a living, you can taste the difference. The tenderness and the flavor are fantastic. So if you're stocking the freezer for grilling season, go check out Tritale's beef. I know in size case Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat. She ain't a big meat easier, folks.

Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's trybeef. slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak but y'all acting like i'm weird eating with what the stuff we chase eats it mean you've had a persimmin right yeah love them do you yeah when they're right yeah if you don't get them yeah when they're right I'm about better yeah I make them lips fucking up like ain't nobody's business yeah but like you know ducks you ain't really got worried about that they eat corn and rice we eat that all time anyways you already know what

that tastes like but yeah deer's they're they're different I must have skidines like they eat all that good stuff. Yeah, but we eat all that too. I know, but I had to try them acres, and they're terrible. Yeah, they ain't much flavor. I tried one one time, but it didn't take but one. I didn't try the rest of them.

You didn't go try a different oak tree? I had to know if there was a difference between white oaks, red oaks, water and willa and all the things. Just because them little orange ones are bad, man. Well, no, no, here's what's so funny about that. I don't like that. The pin oak acre and water sinks. Yeah.

The bigger oak. acre and floats. Overcup. Overcup. The cup floats it because it's got air in it. Because you'll be in the woods and if you, you'll watch what is, you hear a little splution. Well, hey, then the next thing you hear,

there's another splution that's a wood duck going down and get that acre that sunk. We have nut education today. It all started just because I decided to go for a jog. You never know where we'll get to. Nut education and jog. Jogging. That takes a nut too jogging.

Well, it's got to be something good in it. Well, I am impressed with the jogging. I hate it. I mean, like, you know. Deer should get a weighted vests and then just take off running. No, they survive. They get their makers and have weight. That's slick as a me.

If it would slow it down, I'd be for it. Yeah. It'll slow it down. Well, then I'm for it. So Paula, Paula, for the listeners of our show, you, you developed into hunting a little later in life than a lot. So how's your hunting journey? Hold on. Are you aware that you have legendary status on this show?

No. You're not aware of that just from Godwin's stories about you and the fact that he got you a gilly suit and things of that nature? I have had several people come up to me and ask me, am I excited about my gilly suit? And I'm like, yeah. I am. I want.

I mean, I really am excited about it. And I mean, for Christmas he got you a bag of corn and a camera? Yeah. I mean, that's wild. I love it. I started hunting when I was,

I mean, bow hunting when I was 50. I didn't ever hunt before that. And I started bow hunting. Now, I think it's, I mean, I love it.

I love it. I only wished I would have done it younger. I'd see like I miss all those years. Would you have a gilly suit when you were younger? Yes, I would. Here's my question to you.

Why do you, why do you love it? I love it because you're the challenge, especially bow hunting. Yep. I like being, I love being outside, standing on the side of a tree, having to, having to trick the, like, you're not just trying to kill a deer. You're trying not to be seen by everything else that'll tip off the deer. Oh, yeah. So I love all that challenge, and I love working outside.

doing all the work to get ready to hunt, just as much as I love hunting. I like putting out the corn, building the deer stands, putting them up, walking through the woods, putting in the miles, looking for signs. I love everything about it. And he's a great teacher.

He's a great teacher. Like, he has taught me so much. He put me, we went hunting one night, one evening, late in the evening, not night. And it got dark, and he said, I'm going to leave. We're in the middle of the woods.

Way, I had no idea of we hadn't been there before. He got down. He said, I'm going to go to the truck. Give me about 20 minutes, 30 minutes, and then you make it out by yourself. He gave me. Now, stranding people in the woods? So, but listen. So I learned, I mean, it took me a while to get out.

But you know what I learned? Looking at the treetops? Because in the dark, you can't, there's no markers on the ground. but you can see. I learned looking for the moon, looking at tree tops, looking for signs, and getting out there.

Because what if something happened to him? And I had to go out and get help. Yeah. Or something happened. You know, I learned a lot. And when the water came up, down at fields,

and how the flood looks different, everything looks different. He, we got down out of a stand, and he took off, he said, just wait, you make your way out of here.

Because it looked completely different than it ever had before. and I took off walking and he watched me. You know, I got down, we've been there many a times, and I got down and went the complete opposite direction. I thought I was going the right way, and he stopped me about a half a mile out. He said, turn around and go back to where he started.

I was going the wrong way, and I was convinced I was going the right way. And that taught me, too, because the landmarking was gone. So I had to go back to the tree, and he didn't tell me what to do. He said, go back. And you know how when you put a tree stand up or a climber up, you put markings, you mark your way.

So I had to go back with the flashlight and look and go from one tree to the next, one at a time until I got myself out of there. It taught me a lot. But that's what I love about it, the challenge of it. That's wow. He didn't even give you a flashlight. Oh, I had one. I had a backpack.

He should have given you Google Mac. I asked this for a specific reason. You didn't say nothing about when I stick or killed the deer. No. Most people don't realize, folks, it ain't about to shooting. It is. I would sell every gun I've got if that's all it was to hunting. It's a little bit about to eating.

When you do this with a shotgun or rifle or do this with a bow, once you let that go and you hit your. target. Then the darn work starts. Yeah. You got to drag that every rascal. Out. Then you got to cut him.

Then you got to skin him. Then you got to cut the meat up. This coming from a man that ain't cleaned one in 10 years. Well, no, though. But I clean my sheriff. It really starts way, way, way before that. What you said, it starts with, hey, when we go out in the woods, you put a new stand up, when we go out to feed them.

When you go out and walk miles and miles and miles and miles and look signs in a 110 degree week in the summer. But that's where a way to bed. That's where the work. That's where you weigh the, yeah, you have a weighted bed. But that's the part I love more than anything. And then once you get and you see deer and you see and then you actually shoot and not be seen, especially bow hunting, you've got one that comes up 20 yard.

doesn't even, you don't tip them, you don't, they don't see you, you shoot it, and you, well, when you actually, rate the reward of that, it's awesome. I hunted with a bow for a lot of years. My hat's off to you, because, hey, I never killed one with a bow. I finally gave up. You should bring it back. To kill one with a sticking string, you've done something. You should try again.

No. Why not? No, because it's two hearts. You know what I heard no at all that, they got a strong marriage. I'm going to get down, walk back to the truck I'm going to leave you right here and then you come find your way out of here. Well, no, no, but that's for her benefit.

Like she said, what if he has a heart attack or something and she needs to get help? Why, Gobbin got to be the one having a heart attack? What does I do? That's what I'm just saying. But we hunt, you know, we don't always hunt together and you don't know what's going to happen. You may shoot a deer and it run out in the middle of the lake.

Oh, no. Yeah. Gobbin. Then you got to call Martin to him. Then somebody got to wait out there waist deep and get it. Because the water's freezing cold. That water was cold, Martin. Thank God for friends.

With high waste. Yeah. Got a higher waistband. That's right. High pockets. That's an algorithm. No, no. I like what you brought up, though, okay?

Because look, they're both, he loves it. Okay. And from years, I know if you'll ask her when they first got married, you know, I can't believe he just keeps going out in the wood, stupid woods. You're right. I didn't understand it. And it was a different phase. You know, I mean, I was working. We had young kids.

I mean, it was harder. It would have been way harder to do. But I wish I would have done it. Now, I'll say this to say, you're never too old to start. There you go. Anything that you want to do. I mean, way to best job. That's right.

I mean, I started bow hunting when I was 50, and now I'm gun hunting. And I'll do it. Boy, we've spearfished. I'll do anything. I was there for that. I'm interested in spear fishing. Gawin was the raft. And we've done free diving, fishing.

I mean, I like it. I thought Gowin floated. How does he? He has to wear a belt. Oh, yeah. To sink, yeah. See? He does.

He's not a best. He doesn't have a weighted belt. No, he just got a belt on. It's a weighted belt. That's fantastic. But the Gowan team players, see, he'll just lay out there and be the island for everybody else. That's right. He'll float on.

to him. He'll float on top, and then when they get done, they swim up to him and just hold on, get their fish off and give it to me because I'm the ice chest, man. Somebody got to defend the boat. I ain't getting in there. What? I'm way too big and too slow to get in the ocean. I would love to go spear fishing out. It is wonderful.

I don't want to be left in the middle of the woods by myself. Like, if that's a right of passage, no thank you. In the dark. In the dark without a cell phone with the GPS on, I'm out. I was keeping an eye on her. Yeah, I mean, he was. He could have found it. Wait, were you like up?

He went out. I always love being the worst outdoorsman in the group. It's a really good feeling. Even when we bring guests in like Ms. Paula, and I still remain the worst outdoorsman. But, I mean, to say all that, to say, if he wasn't willing to teach me and patient to teach me, because I have friends that hunt, but they don't know anything.

You know, like, they haven't been taught. Because nobody took the time. Right. He takes the time to teach. So who taught who when y'all's putting that new grill together? Oh, good. agree. Uh-oh.

We were, we had a pit boss. We were putting together last night. So I'm going to ask you a question. Of the two of us, which one do you think reads all the directions? Don't say a word. Reads all the directions. Or just puts it together and just, you know, wings it. Who is, which one's who?

Which one of us you think is? I have an opinion. I think Godwin reads the directions and you just wing it. whatever. Well, I've seen Gobwin here. Whenever we get something new in, he does get the pamphlet out. And I'm like, no, man, just look at the picture. We'll figure it out.

He is meticulous. He reads every direction and everything. And so I'm looking at the pictures. I'm like, okay, I see that picture. Me and Paula cut from the same call. So I get something and I go over there and start and he gets absolutely just outdone. So it usually ends with me getting mad because he's mad and telling me to stop. And then I go in the house and just forget it.

Let him do it. Yeah. After I'm like whatever. Or in the words of your husband, y'all get frustrated. Flustrated. Flustrated. Yeah. Say then you got it.

But then you have to make up. Oh. Okay. Moving on. No, let's go down there. Oh, no. Oh, no. I didn't bring a romance then.

I knew that. Gaggge, they got to work this right. Nothing says it like a gilly suit. He starts the fight. He said, you know what I'm picking a fight. But I have to say, within no time, probably not even an hour. The thing was together.

It's awesome. We had it out there. He did the burn off. He turned it off from his phone. In the house, in the recliner, he turned it off. I'm like, are you sure it's off? He said, it's off. I go look because I'm scared

She got trust issues Yeah I do too But every time we put anything together It becomes a frustrating Oh amen sister If I'm putting something together And Brittany show up I leave Because there ain't

I don't want to end up in counseling At the end of it If I'm putting something together Allison just never shows up I don't know where she's at Hey good news is now you can order that stuff If you got a trailer you can order it already put together and go pick it up

That's fantastic Do you, are you the, you just wing it like me? Yeah, I'm a picture guy. Does she read the director? I mean, I'm a picture guy to look to see what makes the most sense. But I do go back to the pamphlet to make sure I get to write nuts, bolts, like make sure if, because they got them all labeled like A, B, C. Huh? They only give you a certain amount each one.

Yeah. But they always give you extra washers. Yeah. Yeah, you do have extra wash. I usually have extra everything when I get through. Oh, it would work. That would work. They not be the safest thing in the world.

Yeah. No, I do go match up the parts that go with the corresponding thing with the booklet. I don't just grab, because they put all the parts on one thing now. Like, it's not in it. They used to have me like individual bags, so you knew that those went with that. Well, now it's on one sheet of stuff, and it's like A to Z, and then some of them got double A's, and you're like, man, what in the world? There's way too many parts to this.

Yeah, I'm always with somebody when they do something like that, and I look, and there's like seven parts left. And I said, wait a minute, you got, you got stuff left over, son. Something ain't right here. It'll work. He said, oh, it'll work. Yeah, that always give you extras. Yeah, that's the same guy that pops that ratchet strap, so it ain't going to where. Oh, that's not going anywhere.

Yeah. That ain't going to where. Do you read the directions? No. No. Kind of. Yeah. I only read them for the parts analysis.

The rest of it, yeah, I just have the. final picture. Oh, this goes there. Yeah. They'll tell you, if it has an Allen wrench on it, I'm getting out another, like a drill and like cutting the Allen ranch and putting that out of him and just, and it's all going to be too tight and I'm going to have to back up and redo it. Don't tie it to the end.

You get that very, no. Honestly. Yeah. From who? From his name's Owens. Oh. Yeah. We put stuff together.

When you put stuff together, hey, it's meant to stay together. Your uncle. For sure. We put things together. 50 foot backwaters didn't tear them duck blinds apart. I don't know how that happens. Are they still there? Most of them.

They're not, not as he left them. They're now different, they were so big. They're all now different duck blinds, but they were, they were one at one point, but now they're in about five different locations and,

you know. And y'all sitting on buckets. They are, not me. That's a good point. Yeah, no, your boy don't sit on a five-gallon bucket. Gobbin loves a bucket.

He said on a bucket while y'all hunt? Mm-hmm. Yep. What's that about? Because he's got the biggest, most comfortable recliner in the world at home. I don't know. I think it's because it's just the right height for him to get up and down easy. There you go.

He's an interesting way. Marriage. Ain't it wild. I love it. So what were y'all doing in the neighborhood besides spying on me yogging? We were down there. Oh, I don't leave. You're just hanging out with your best friends.

How long have y'all been best friends with Al and Lisa? 25 years. And do y'all encourage the vest? Do I encourage you to wear the vest? Not me. We're talking about another vest. You could also describe it as weighted. Yeah.

Yeah. But I think he can wear anything he wants to. Okay, I was just checking. We make a lot of jokes about how's vest here. I don't live beside each other how long? Probably 10 years. Or more.

I can't really. I don't really know. More than that. A bit. I remember a bunch of Bible studies out there. Yeah. Yeah. A bunch of house churches going on.

Yep. Good old days. I wasn't expecting that. A bunch of fried dishes. All of good food. That's when Stone lived with us. That's when he had the God ones, the home of the thunds.

and heard across the street was stoned and the gatekeeper was Al and Lisa. They were some good groceries running around that. Oh, what are you talking about? All the time. All the time. That's why that road always had potholes in it. You left there heavier than you went. Yeah.

Absolutely. And Anna was the neighborhood watch. She still is. We had somebody one time staying in our house while we were gone, and they were house sitting. And they called me and said, hey, somebody just drove the car through the front. around the house and out through the backyard. And I said, oh, yeah, that'd be Anna. She's trying to see who's at the house to make sure.

She drove the car in the front yard and around out through the backyard, looking in the windows to see who was at the house. That's Anna. That's the neighborhood watch. Yeah, there you go. She is good to have around. I texted or called her at that time and said, Nan, you're driving the car through the yard?

You scared the death out of the house sitter. Oh, I do have a question. Why all the neighborhood dogs end up at your house? Because I take care of them. Is that how Stone got there too? Yeah. He stayed, well, before he went off to. Yeah, before he went off Afghanistan and when he come back.

How long? So he lived with y'all for? I'd say, I would say almost a year before he left, and then when he come back, not a couple months until he got his house, as a house and everything. Was he more chipper then than he is now? I'm just curious. I think he's always been this way.

I mean, just steady, stock him. And stall him. A little cantankerous, if you will. But he, I mean, he was, he just needed, he wanted to stay where he could, he needed somewhere to stay where people would hold him accountable. And so, because he had just become a Christian, you know, young,

single man and he wanted to be where he would be held accountable. Then he married the neighborhood watch. It's way easier if you surround your people with people like, hey, easier to go to do. It took a lot. I mean, you know, that took a lot for him to know that and want that and to do something about it. Oh, I ain't no doubt. And that's what you got ones are good at that. That's why I run around with you all you so much. I ain't kidding now. Whenever we were dating and doing all the thing, we spent a lot of time with you. So that was always a good.

And y'all were the first person that came to our house after the boys were born that were not blood-keen to us. Paula show up, start cleaning our house. Like, says, sit down, whatever y'all do and let them sleep. I'm about to clean. And she cleaned all that mess up. Through my spit cups away. That's normal. Thank you for that, by the way.

They complained about you doing that. Thank you. Brand new one. For getting rid of spit cups. The problem is I'd call her next day and ask her where half my stuff was. Yeah, everybody does. Paula just go putting stuff in cabins Even if I come to your house to eat

I think it's like an obsessive compulsive thing But I'm just going to clean up And good luck, that's all I can tell you She's going to put it where it makes sense to her Look till you find it That's right I'm gonna put it where I think it should go It's out of the outside of mine

Alan and Lisa Probably doing the same thing today Because we were over there yesterday And I was cleaning up doing this Cleaning out the fridge I said y'all don't get nervous I walked in there and everything in the refrigerator was on the island bar. Everything.

I said, what are you doing? I was separating out. They were like, I said, just go sit down. It'll be all right. It'll all make sense in a minute. Just give me some time. We'll get through this. I ain't was it that way.

You really? Yeah. I don't know nobody that's that way. And Anna brought over a big plate of chocolate chip cookies. That's mean. I know. How many of them? All made.

He didn't eat one, not even one. Anything that's good, I can't eat. Don't you remember that? I did. I just wondered. I didn't. Hey, everyone's why you got to have a cookie, though. Yeah, she did some, she makes some good food.

It makes you feel funny. You act funny. What's that the cookie? The sugar. The sugar in the cookie. How is that? You good? You steady?

You stable? Yeah. As long as he eats, right? As long as he. Paul, I do have a question. Godwin's meant. this few times and now that you're here i want you oh boy no this is good no this is all good he's it's something that he says that you do and i'm interested to know when it started that you write down

your prayers and when they're answered you put them in one box and not you leave the other ones up or whatnot until they get answered like what what what what i'm just interested i'm not when did that like why did that start how did it start because i think it's something that we at all benefit from, right? Because I mean, you ask the Lord for this, you ask him for that. And a lot of times he answers them, you don't even realize that's the answer. And you just disregard it to him and praying for it. And then you move on. But like when you have that record of things that he's done in your life that aren't just the big aha moments. We all remember those. But the little ones, the bill got paid or the, you know, this, that and the other.

Like, where did that start or what gave you the inspiration for that? that? I think years and years ago we did a prayer journal at House Church one time, you know, probably 20 years ago, 25 years ago. And I kept it, and then I just grabbed it, you know, just every day. Sometimes you do it every day, but you do it. And I grabbed it, and I went back and just started reading. All the people we had prayed for, all the things.

and then I knew a year later how God had answered those prayers. And it was... It was totally amazing. It was profound. Yeah, no, no. So totally amazing. Yeah. Yes.

I mean, just people that we prayed for and just, and actually, I mean, I get it out. I have them in my closet and I'll go grab one. And then I go back and I look. Just, I mean, even all through, you know, the years of Duck Dinah, and all the people and everything and the different people we prayed for and this and that and different connections and you see what happened,

you know, and I mean, it is very, very, very powerful because you don't know in the middle of stuff what God's going to do with it, but when you can go back and respect it on it.

And not only that, the answer to the prayer was nothing, something that you would have never even come up with. Oh, my God. They think of things, you know, we pray for it. We want it instantly. But it may take a month or something.

Six months. A year, a couple of years. I mean, you just never know, right? I mean, and plus his view and his answer is way bigger than anything we can even dream and imagine because our view is so limited. That's biblical. I mean, he can, he knows what happened already and what's going to happen. And so his answer is outside our box. that we can even think about.

And so it's, I don't, it's not something I feel like I have to do every day, but when I'm really heavy laden with things that, the issues, people that you love or situations, I start writing. And then I keep them. It's, it is crazy. And it's not just, I mean, it's just situation, people, you know, that you even forget you prayed about, honestly, like, Years go by and I picked one up, I think, from 2018 or 2017.

I picked one up from then and I was reading it. And I forgot we'd even, those people had passed through our life and I'd forgot we even prayed about them. But I knew what happened after that. And it was like, it's just really cool. If you ever do it and you keep it and you go back, just get a journal or a piece of a notebook and do it and then keep them and go back a year later and read read your prayers and you'll see what god did no because we we do that with fields all the years we've hunted fields kept records

yeah of what what kind of day it was what was the weather doing what was the wind doing how did we do did we kill them do we didn't see them didn't uh you know and then when you look and you're totally like you said, it's profound. John does the same thing. He keeps journals of all that. This is just a journal of prayers and people that you've prayed for and then you see

the pattern of what God does. Well, I always love it. There was a time in my life. I bet my name showed up a lot in that book. Absolutely. Well, you mean it was a time, is it time. Well, I think I'm in a better spot. I'm sure I still show up occasionally.

But I bet if you're running that back to about 2020, way over so. She probably used a lot of ink. You're on the, you're in the right side, the right bucket now. You're not answering prayers with Whitney bucket.

Now, I'm just praying for your kid. You know, now, now that's when the, that's when they're, they start and act like their mama. That's a good thing.

I'm kidding. She ain't here. I'm kidding. I'm kidding, but you come get them anytime you want. Because I always like it when Phil's preaching

and he tells people said, look, hey, you don't have to do something spectacular. you may all you may need to do is show up and say hey i missed you wasn't here a sunday man i missed you yeah and that's important words words of encouragement yeah even being noticed that you're not around no big deal to a lot of people because i always love when people ask you when i say a prayer for you and i said man please yeah you know because you got to understand okay someone wants to take

your name and mention it personally to the Almighty. You know, for whatever reason. That's important. That's important. That's important, you know. Amen, buddy. Amen. Oh, I need some words.

I'm encouraging. I got to get a brie can out of mine. Oh, no. But it in the prayer journal. Everybody I've told that to. They say, oh, they make a big face, so I ain't really fired up about going. It's 2024. Your whole face will be numb.

It'll hurt for a day. I hope so. I've never had one. What are they putting the canal to? I got a crack too. Paying them on. So then they think a better option is just drilling a hole? Mm-hmm.

Yeah, it don't make no sense. There's already a hole. You fix a crack. I'll make a bigger hole. He fix a crack by drilling a hole. Well, not only that, and then they're pulling the nerves. Yeah. It's not that bad.

He doesn't know. He's been to the dentist like twice and 35 years. What you tell them is... That actually begs the question. What's you telling me? Well, it hurts. Well, it hurts. Okay.

If it was my back tooth, I just told him to yank it out. Which is the problem? No, it's bad. It's the next. He needs it to. I need that to gnaw stuff on me. Case he gets that steak with a handle. I got to have that one.

When you blow a duck to all, it vibrates too, boy. He said, I have a toothache. I said, okay, we'll go to the dentist. Well, I mean, what are they going to do? I said, that's what they're there for. It's their job. They will tell you what they're going to do.

Just show up over there and tell them you got a toothache. He said, just show up and say my tooth hurts. I said, that's what you do. Hold on. So because you haven't been in 30 years, did you just drive until you saw the first dentist? Or did you go to one you knew? He went to the one I go to. Okay.

And he walked in. and said, I have a toothache, and they said, well, we have all these emergencies. We can't see you until Tuesday. And he's like, well, then what? I mean, what's the point? I'll be dead by Tuesday. Two-thirds.

I said, this thing hurts now. I said, this is an emergency. That's a good point. But it ain't to them. I've never had one. So they came right. Somebody else came up there and took you back. How often are you supposed to go to the dentist?

Because I only go in like a two- who falls out. Every six months. Oh, yeah, definitely. Every six months. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I only know that because I just took the boys for the first one.

Say, I ain't been to the dentist since they cut my wisdom teeth out. I said, you bunch of witch doctors, I ain't coming back. Were you in the, like, high school? No, I was in college. I was one of them later ones. I was working here, actually. When you ever, yeah, so 14 years ago, yeah, I was probably like 25, 26. My front four teeth are fake.

I went duck hunting the next day like an idiot. Like. Well, I didn't think, I didn't think about putting my cheek on the shotgun. I was like, it's just my tooth. Like, what's that going to have to do with duck hunting? That ain't no big deal until I squeezed that trigger the first time. And I said, no, I think I'm done, boys. I said, that, that, that hurt.

Yeah, it's surgery. Yeah. They cut bones out of your face. Yeah. And you said, I'm going to go duck hunting. Well, the first, well, I ain't going to tell you. Well, he ain't got to talk about that. No, it wasn't bad.

No, yours and yours isn't invasive. No, you'll be bad. Like Becky and them, they've come back to work after her. root canals. Like, that's fine. Look, don't hear me saying

as a general manager, I expect to see you building duck calls tomorrow. Like, take your time, do whatever you got to do. Because I know us as men are pretty well sissies when it comes to this kind of stuff.

The women are definitely the tough ones. And I ain't just saying that because Paul is sitting there. I'd say that on anything. Oh, say, yeah. He's not.

For sure that they're going to put me to sleep or something. They give you a shot. Yeah. He'll be all right. They're going to give you a whole bunch of you're going to have a wet shirt tomorrow. Yeah.

You're going to think you good, try to drink something. It's going to fall out your mind. And then that stinking ladies going to ask you a bunch of questions while you're, yeah, they try to get to know your whole family. What's your daughter been up to? It's like that stupid game. I hate that game. Yeah, that game sucks.

With the teeth. Yeah, with the spreader. Ah. The girl that cleans my teeth, you know, every five years. Because something's gone terribly wrong. She chose to talk to me, and I'm like, I don't like it. He didn't have, he don't go do anything. Like he's. And then they take that little suction thing and suck the last two drops of slobber you had in your mouth out of it.

So your tongue feels like a piece of sand. I ain't too keen on them sticking metal in my mouth. Metal? Oh, you won't know it. I got drills. No, it's plastic now. It's definitely metal. They're just going to, when they hit you. They've come a long way. The first one's going to hurt because it's going to be a shot to make your whole face.

numb but then your whole face is going to be numb and then they'll give you that fun gas that what it's fun gas I fix out yeah get the gas when they're like I'll laugh about everything and then you'll be like hey yeah he's in now yeah yeah why not I forgot to mention the gas yeah thank you and you'll look up and the lights will be like Mickey Mouse and you'll be like this is the happiest I've ever been this is the funny thing he said I don't even I mean do they said something about dinner insurance. Do I have dental insurance? You got it through here. He does.

He don't even know. I didn't know that. I said, call. Unum. You in U.N. U.M. I said call. Well, I told him I had it through Doug Commander. That ain't going to help. But they're supposed to guess what insurance company you have. You got any couple emails or anything? I do have a couple.

I'm going to try and go with you know, we have a woman in our presence. So we're going to go down the love path. Even more. Uh-oh. She can give some loving advice. All right, Isaiah. Look at them. He's 17.

Oh, boy. Get a room. Isaiah has 17. Oh, gosh. Yeah, my man's having surgery tomorrow. 17 from Oklahoma City. Oh, boy. Isaiah, this is what you're hoping for one day.

Anyway, he plays basketball in Mose yards, and he's interested in this girl. He plays basketball with her brother. Used to be best friends with a brother. Not anymore. kind of in an awkward spot. They're not really family friends anymore, but he still likes this girl a whole bunch, and he thinks his parents like,

her parents like him, but the other 11 siblings don't really like him. There's way too many people in this equation. And she's three years older than them. Should I talk to her dad and possibly get denied? Does she like you? If I could marry her,

that would be the greatest thing ever. Have they been on a day yet? No. He said email me back if you want a list of how great she is. Please read this on air. I really need advice. Also stop eating fruit pills. Agreed.

That's the only thing I've agreed with so far, Isaiah. I would say talk to her and find out if she even likes you. I don't think she does. Why do you say that? I'd say run if there's 12 of them. It's too many people. That's too much fertility going on around. I was fixed say, you're already talking about marriage.

Yeah. I think you got the things in the wrong order. Yeah. Yeah. Like you trying to run a fast break. Oh, basketball. Yeah, you need to settle down into zone, big dog. Otherwise, you're going to end up like Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant when they played for the thunder.

Yeah. Everybody left. I mean, who even plays for the thunder anymore? Like, I don't even know. Not me. Are they better than the Pelicans? I don't even hear. I actually think they are.

Oh, okay. It was proven in the plows. Back to the point. Back to the point. Quit being over, going too hard in the paint, my friend. The good news is if you don't want it to work, go ask her father.

Yeah, because then. Yeah, he's going to say. Yeah, and she's going to be mad. And she's 20. And he's only 17. Oh. Brother, you. And there's a chance they're going to file a police report.

I'm going to go with a baseball analogy, even though you mow yards and play basketball. There's this thing called leagues and there's minor leagues and there's major leagues and there's AAA and there's

AA. If you're 17 and she's 20, you probably... She probably ain't interested. Cougars. I don't know what that means. That's a whole different league. And that's a whole different league. Don't give up, but like wait a year.

Wait some time. Go down. And talk to her. Slow down. Talk to her. It's a new her. Paula Hanele on the head. Anything that involves a conversation

not with her is the wrong answer. Yeah. Yeah. I don't get the dad part. He's moving face. Oklahoma City's a weird place. Slow down. I was trying down for it jumps the tracks.

What else you got? I got a couple good news here. Oh, good. So Ben from Iowa emails in. He literally copied something Brian Rucker said about needing a Paul, Barnabas, Anna Timothy in your life. He said it at a Bible study.

Cool. Girl heard that and was like, that's very interesting. Where did you come up with this? And he said, oh, this weird podcast called the Duck Call Room. And now they're going on a date and she listens to the Duck Call Room. How about that? I hope so for his sake. No, but we're making, we're making progress.

Look at Rucker, man. Good job. He copied Brian Rucker. He needs to give us the rest of the story. Yeah, we want the rest of the story, ma'am. Man. After pizza. And speaking of the rest of the story, a very long time ago, we read about a little girl named

Kaya. Her dad, she was eight years old in Cincinnati Children's Hospital receiving cancer treatments. I remember this. You remember this? Yeah. So we've been through 10 rounds of chemo at this point. We set a prayer for her on the show. Yeah.

So they just did some new scans, gotten a third smaller the cancer has. Praise God. They now want to do some other checks. and they want to send her to radiation to put her in remission. So that's what we're rooting for, obviously. Oh, and they sent me a message too on it, like on Instagram or something too. So this was a couple days ago that they sent this. I was a little behind on emails.

But that's just awesome news. And like we talked about earlier, you write down prayers. We didn't write this one down, but it is on a podcast. And now we can say that everything's looking up, and we're going to keep praying for Kaya and hope it continues to go that way. And we can't wait for the next good news report. Amen.

Which leads me to my Bible verse that one Ms. Paula kind of hinted at earlier. Ephesians 320. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we can ask or imagine according to his power that has worked within us to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations

forever and ever. Amen. Amen. Thank you.