Duck Call Room - Jase Robertson Should Never EVER Own a Dog

Episode Date: May 16, 2023

You've never seen all the boys so gleefully excited about their special guest in today's show — but will Uncle Si actually let him speak? Burly — a true Renaissance Man as John-David says — has been rolling with Phil since the 1970s, he's featured in a lot of the early "Duckmen" videos, and has been a key part of all that Phil does all year-round. The boys ALL have stories that include Burly and their memories are fired up today! Burly talks about Phil's dog, Blue, and how he was a great retriever but had terrible manners ... and how Jase should never own dogs of his own. Burly and Jay laugh at how Phil has a habit of running people either out of the state, into ministry, or both. Jay is excited to take Burly to jiu-jitsu and Martin explains his diet when he was at his heaviest and what he did to change his lifestyle when a fan emails in how she lost 223 lbs. -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, we're back. Welcome back to the duck call room, ladies and gentlemen. Hey. It's a good day. It is a good day. What a life, man. Today to be alive. What a life.

But, hey, before we get too far into this, I am going to have to step out because Brittany is bringing the boys. I'll keep them. Bye. I'm going to have to step out. You've already raised three. There ain't no reason to raise two more, man. You're good. So I'll have to step out here.

But we do have a guest coming to fill my spot. We kind of resemble each other a little bit. Willie told me one time I looked like a young. Whoever's coming. Whoever's coming. Whoever's on the way. A young version of him. Which I take is a great compliment.

Well, I'm looking forward to it because he is quite. Well, we'll go ahead and say it. It's Burley. It's really. Oh, Dane. He's quite a character. I love Burley because he's one of the few that runs around with Phil that's actually useful.

Oh, yeah. He's a renaissance. Yeah. But what I'm saying is he's not a parasite. Like a lot of them people hang around field, they just, they, they, they, they, they, they just take him what's theirs. Burroughs are our duck blind building man. Well, and if you need him to do anything, he will. He'll do it. He's got a useful set of skills.

I would like to go down to the truck stop and spit on somebody. Just see if he still got it. He does. Well, funny you said that because Burrell is going to come, uh, train. jujitsu with me this evening. Oh, no. Yeah. There's two people that's going to hurt.

There's a reason there's weight classes. There's two people that's going to hurt. The first person Burley goes against and Burley. That's right. Well, Burley, I think he is 60 years old, but he still moves pretty doggone good. And he's strong as a odd. Man, is he strong? Like, every time I see Burley, I pray he doesn't want to shake hands because,

A, he makes you feel inferior and B, it almost snaps in two. I mean, the man's hands are like this. He's a big man. I mean, just meat hooks. You know, he lives up in Colorado now, and he called me up. He said, he says, Stone, is that a jih Tzu help you with your anger? I said, well, I said, it will humble you. If you need some humbling, that's one good thing that it's good for.

He said, you know what? I'll fix the start. Yeah. So he started training jiu-jitsu about two months ago. I don't want to see Burley angry. And he said that he absolutely loves it. Oh. Well, no, no, because in his profession,

when they run up on somebody that's high on drugs or something and they're trying to take care of them, jujitsu would help him handle them. Well, he could handle them already. Well, yeah, but hey, but this will help him better. This will make his skill level a little more terrifying. Yeah.

All he's really got to do is look at most people and they're going to do what he says. Oh, yeah, he's got to look about him, that's for sure. I remember the first time I saw him down there. I pulled up down fields, we all go and duck up, and I pulled up, and this ominous figure got out of this truck in the dark. Yeah. And I'm like, hold on now.

Yeah, this is a big man. This is a big man saying. You had always heard them talk about Burley, and I knew Burley was coming to town, but then when I looked, I said, that fits. Burley fits. I ain't even got to see the rest of them. I just saw a shadow. I was like, I'm going to be friends with him.

Yeah, he's just one of them you identify quickly. Like, you know, back in the day you walk into a bar, you're like, I'm going to be friends with that guy. I ain't making him, man. That's the way Burley was on that duck hunt. I said, I'm sitting right aside. I got a picture of him on my dear camera. I thought it was Bigfoot for a second.

He had his face paint on and his waiters and one arm way back behind him like that. That rascal is a man. Well, you see his silhouette like you're talking about? Yeah, that's what it looks like is Bigfoot. And the reason we're going through this describing is for y'all that, listen, you can't really appreciate the size of the man until you, I mean, now he ain't like Andre to John or nothing, but I mean, he is just a big man's man. He's a man. Like Paul Bunyan. I mean, that's kind of what I think of when I see Burley coming.

He don't know of a chainsaw, just an axe. Or just his hand. I mean, he'll choke the tree to death. Like, I mean, his hands are unbelievably big. It's one of the wildest things. And his dad was the same way. Oh, big boy. Big boy was huge.

And his daughter about 6-2. Yep. She works at the local pharmacy up there and take care of me whenever we get in medicine. I mean, she's... Burly? No, she ain't burly because she's a lady. But, I mean, you look at her and you're like, yeah, that's burly kid. I mean, you get it.

You're like, yeah, okay, all right. Tall people. Yeah, big family, big family. But not like, not sloppy big, just big. Oh, yeah. Like, man, you know, but that's a good thing. Oh, it would be an interesting conversation for sure. We got a lot of good stories.

I just know him, you know, being a nurse, man. That's not who I won't working on me. That's why I quit. Not really. The classes were hard. I was like, I don't have the look. Just say everything's gone south and you need a catheter. And there's burly.

Yeah. What that tube? Take me six foot further, Sal. Like, cut it off. Just kill me. Get rid of it. Get rid of me? I don't want to experience that.

There's got to be a better way. Like, uh-uh, uh-uh. Man, I do love him, though. He's, he good as gold. Oh, yeah. And I'm not just saying that because he's bigger than me and I'm scared of him because I am, I'm legitimately terrified of him. Well, I'm never going to tell him that.

That's just short. in good sense. Yeah. That's right. If you're not scared of him, you're stupid. I said that's called wisdom. Yeah, he make a shotgun

look small. Yeah. Got a 20 gauge? Nope, 12. No, it's 10, actually. Oh, okay.

Oh, man. But I'm glad he's back in town. That does mean work starting down at the duck hole, which is the thing that most people don't appreciate about Phil and really most of us is it in a 60 days. It's 365. It's a huge. It's a year-round deal.

What you do in May has a direct outcome on what you get in November. And he's quite the craftsman. And if it'll hold him, it'll hold up. Oh, yeah. He's a good carpenter. Oh, excellent carpenter. Yeah, he's Jack of All Trade, Renaissance man, whatever you want to call him. Chef, Borderline Chef, Dog trainer.

Yep. I mean, he does a little bit of it all. So I'm just glad he got blew up there with him. Oh, me too. I can't hear that sucker from Colorado. We'll see how those puppies turn out. He's breeding blue to some little yellow female. So we'll see what happens.

Very interesting. Well, that blues drive and retrieving skills. Yeah. There'll be worth. They'll be worth their weight and gold. Or his nose. I can hear Phil now. Hey, Burrell.

Hey, Burrell. They got a lot of the same manner. because they've been running around together. Oh, yeah. 33 years. He's on the cover of one of them. Yeah. Yeah, he is.

Yeah. He's got the look. He's one of the original duckmen. Yeah, he won the OGs for Phil, ran him smooth to Colorado. Phil does that to a lot of partners. Run them smooth. Yeah.

Well, actually, that's a good point, Martin. He does one of two things. He runs them smooth out of state or drives them into ministry, so I don't know what that says about the man. In John David's uncle's case, he did both. That's right. He finally had enough of it. You know, I've noticed that about a lot of our former employees,

though they end up in ministry. I don't know what they find so bad here that they got to go be ministered. I got to go tell the people about Jesus. Wild times. What that boy say, Phil, I don't want to be a duck man no more. I don't want to be a duck man no more. Yeah.

Duck hunting with the robbersers is a tough. I'm glad you put with the robbers. Oh, no, no. No, no. No. No. Yeah. It's still very much enjoyable.

Yeah. Duck hunting with other people is a lot easier and there's actually fun involved in it. Yeah. Okay. Well, what's wild. With the Robertson sometime is not fun. What's wild to me is when we didn't have no money or nothing as a company. We travel all over the world trying to figure out how we're going to spend, you know, pay for all these trips we're going on.

Now that they got like private airplane money, they don't go nowhere. Stay at home. They stay at that gone hole. Like, I don't get it. I don't, but I think now it's more about the misery than it is the hunting. Oh, yeah. Phil told me what they. How long does it take for me to break him?

Stone, I like this hard duck cutting. Don't you? I'm like, hmm. It ain't hard. I don't always told him. That duck cutting ain't hard, though. It's just terrible. Oh, no, yeah.

Yeah, but it's always been hard with the Robertson. Well, hard duck hunting is waking up at 2 o'clock. Look at there. Hey, when the man's motto is, who's the man? Well, Burley is. Look at W.E. Yeah. W.E. was on a three-foot step stool in this photo, clearly.

Chase is sitting down for some reason. Oh, the problem is they're all on a log except for Burley. standing on the ground yeah that's right every one of them standing on the law except burly barley barley reminds me of a grizzly bear

him and his dad both he don't go poke him yeah yeah the last thing you want to do is poke a grizzly bear yeah no I don't mess with him that's a general rule of mine I'll stir the pot with anybody but I uh uh no he he's fine

he get a free pass for me but laudy b Yeah, I don't, it ain't hard duck hunting down there. It's just bad duck hunting. Let's rephrase what it is. It ain't hard because you get in a boat or a four-way. You drive up to the blind and you step out, you get in it.

It ain't hard. Hard is the 2 a.m. public land boy. That crap hard. Yeah, that's right. That crap hard. Hard pass. Trust me. I do it like three or four days a year just to remind myself why I don't do it anymore.

Well, I don't know, because we don't, we don't, we don't, we don't like to travel. I guess we did enough of it. One way you show. Oh, you used to drive all the time. Oh, we used to drive all night, step out, getting a duck blind, kill them, do our thing, and come on back home about three days, but not no more. Which I am mad at it. I am a home body, too, but it's kind of fun seeing different parts of the country,

duck hunting. That was always, that was always kind of neat just seeing how different places. Well, plus, they're not as, the ducts everywhere else are not as wild as is ones in Louisiana. Because if they get here, they've been shot at. all the way down. Yeah. And then when they get here, Berley tries to choke hold them or something.

Anyway, well, let's take our first break. I'm going to go watch the kids. We're going to let Berley jump in here. See where it goes. Yeah, y'all have some fun. I'll catch up on the back end of it when I get back. 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 because of our friends over at Tri-Tales, beef makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good.

Our friend, Sal Robertson would say, buy on the grill! Look, before we got Tritels, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery store, do all the things, grab whatever was left in case you were late in the day. And you never really know where that beef comes from. But with Tritels beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way. Tritels comes from a family ranch out in Texas.

They're a fifth generation American ranch, so they've been at it for a while. Look, the beef comes straight from their ranch and other ranchers they work with who raise cattle the same way. Their steaks are properly aged and shipped straight from the ranch to your door. We threw a couple of ribbys on the grill. Look, salt, pepper, garlic, hot fire, that's all you need. Look, because I'll tell you what, when the beef comes from people who raise cattle for a living, you can taste the difference.

The tenderness and the flavor are fantastic. So if you're stocking the freezer for grilling season, go check out Tritale's beef. I know in size case, Christine loves it, which, you're a good. 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.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. Roll that clock, boys. You ain't been to my house lately here. Not in a while. What did you do? You know, it's been raining a lot this year.

Mm-hmm. Well, hey, with my C-O-P-D, you know, I park as close to the state. as I can. To do that, I've got to go off in my yard in my grass. Yep. So look, in front of my house was a mud puddle. I'd done just, just kept going and parking right by the steps. I actually opened my door and I had to watch it because I'd hit the step things. Well, that cost me $15,000. Oh, the concrete? Yeah, because now I've got like a a 50-foot

oxbow of concrete and I told them I said hey guys do not leave any room between the concrete and the steps in other words hey pour it right against the step can't hide money

hook it ain't hide that money well hey I had to have it now my wife said I don't tell you about that you look what you've done you've made me it looks like somebody's had a you know been four-wheel driving and her darn yard. I said, well,

there have been two-wheeled. I didn't need to put it in four. You fixed that, didn't you? But I fixed it. Pay for it. You know what you might need? What? Your C-O-P-D, a nurse.

Which is why we have, no. We have a special guest. Are you going to introduce it? If I have any kind of attack right here, Burt, hey, right here can take care of. Are you going to introduce our guests? Yeah.

Hey, everyone, this is Burley. Okay, this man has run with field. How many years? About 33 years. About 33 years. A long time. You were on all the early duck commander videos, right? Yep, some of the early ones.

Some of the early ones. He came along first. Phil has, look, when Phil builds a duck blind, he's got this thought in his head. You don't make nothing square. You don't check it to make anything square. So everything he ever builds, it's always catawwop us. Cause nothing in the woods

Cala Whoppos means, hey, you can't find the square nowhere on it. No square. Okay, this man is a carpenter, okay? He used to live right next door to Phil and him and his dad built their, I call it a three-story tree house. That's where Willie's at now.

Willie's got it now. He hangs out there about five days out of the year. Willie does? This man is a carpenter. He can build anything, okay. He's built a lot of our duck blind. Okay, then Mack Owens come along. Okay, and he's also a carpenter.

He can't build anything. His uncle. That's his uncle. Yep. Okay. That was like the original duckman. This was the original duck hunt. There used to be a famous scene in one of the old videos where everybody's chewing tobacco and spitting.

And then there is like a 15 to 25 minutes to. nothing but who can spit tobacco juice to fuzzles. But movie might make up so. There you go. But I mean, hey, you know, it was, I said, y'all overdone that a little bit.

Do you remember what Burrell did? He was the last, last one. He had a cigar. He smoked a lot. I shouldn't say smoke if he chews them. Chew them, there you go. Okay. So he's sitting there and he's got,

he's like old Clint Eastwood. He's done got it down to where it's about that much left. Well, hey, he just takes it. Now it's chewing tobacco. They're not for smoking. They're just holding in your mouth. This one ain't for smoking. This is the shooting scene.

And they both, all of them in there. You know, just, you know, for a lot. It's about 30 minutes. Yes, you know. Yeah. I mean, hey, the best one was, well, I don't even know who it was. May have been Mack. Pick it done this way and just, you know.

Yeah, Mac, he won the spitting contest. You know, hey, it's like, hey, here's the wall over. Just a stream. They're like. No. Special set of skills. He was like that. I don't remember what it was.

Some kind of frog was sitting on the bank and a dragon flyer come flying by about four foot. He just, with his tongue. That's my uncle. And we're proud of it. I'm very proud of it. I'm talking about it was that quick. You know, dragon flies flying around in a little time of it.

Good grief. And then he's, you know, going down the frog's throat. Oh, yeah. Well, Burley, you've ran with them for a long time back in the, what was the 80s, 90s? 70s. 70s? Yeah, were you on 70s? Well, yeah.

I built a field and bought that property of 70, too. So what do you remember about those? Because all we get size version, which sometimes is, we don't know how much of it's true. The words you're looking for is catawampus. Catamompus, yeah. So could you angle, could you give us some angles on those days? maybe. Well, when Phil came to Jesus, he showed up at the church building where we was sitting down and my dad, he was an alcoholic, so he just kind of took him under his wings. And he mentored Phil,

and about a decade later, then Phil mentored me, which was kind of ironic, you know. But it was 89 whenever Phil baptized me and I started building that big treehouse up there behind the hill there. His dad is like him. you didn't want big boy to grab you because you ain't going nowhere if he grabbed you if you ever got a hold of you no you can figure that you ain't going nowhere it's done

so I won't tell him the story of when big boy squared up against W.E. Red Dog Phillips I don't even remember what well red dog he was always mully grubbing you know we was meeting up there in front of Phil's house

he was whining about where we were going to go duck hunting and Big Boy got behind him and got down in a three-point stance, you know, O.U., Oklahoma. Remember that one? You remember that one? No, go ahead and tell it. It'll come back to me.

I know if Big Boy got the three-point stance, somebody said, get knocked on their plan. My dad got three-point stance and just ran into W.E. and just picked him up and just said, what are you doing, boy? You know, he knocked it out of him. And W.E. weighs about $3.50 on the hoof.

Yeah. Well, that's why I had to say, I said, hey, him and his dad, okay, you can tell their son and father. They don't call him Burley for zero reason. Well, they both played football at the University of Oklahoma. Oklahoma. What position did your dad play Burrell? He played noseguard. And you were a linebacker?

Linebacker, yeah. Back then he went both ways. He played offensive guard and nose guard. They called the iron men. Yeah, that's when men were men. yeah yeah oh yeah no no huddle offense Phil had some back issues one time probably from pulling in the hook nets

and big boy told him said hey hey look I pop that thing you'll be all right after he grabbed him and popped him Phil said hey one thing you don't ever want to do he said he like to kill me he said because when he grabbed me he said you heard you'll pow you know I said well did you feel better

He said, afterwards I felt better. He said, but that's dangerous. He said, because that man don't know his own strength. That's what he did in Mexico. When went to Mexico? He was the chiropractor. I went to Mexico. My memories of Burley, or Mr. Dane, as I like to call him,

he led a team down to Mexico, and he takes some of the high school kids with him on a mission trip. And we were well behaved because we don't call him Burley for no reason. He was a big guy. But we had a lot of fun. I'll never forget that trip. But, yeah, Burley's in the house. Oh, yeah. Burley's occupation is a,

R-N, correct? R-N, that's not. You look like most of the ones that I know. It doesn't stand for redneck. It could. So, could you imagine waking up? No, no, that's what Phil, Phil tells us. Burley, I don't know.

So he said, you know, I don't want to have any kind of surgery where I put to sleep. And then when I wake up, you're waiting on me? He said, that sounds like I mean, I've been going to woke up in hell. I don't know. I think I look more like the Archangel Michael than Lucifer himself. Yeah, yeah. Okay, he said, I wanted to, I just, good grief, I think I went to the wrong one.

Y'all got me in the wrong place. So, Berle, you're in Colorado now? Yeah, I'm up in Colorado and Whitewater. What is it was Colorado? Your uncle went to Colorado. They all left this room. Yeah, Max up there. Yeah, for higher mountains.

It's beautiful. I like it, though, because Mack said he's out on his porch drinking his morning coffee, and he looks up, and there's a cougar on a limb on a big tree in this property. Not a black panther. Not a black mountain lion. Cougar. That's not cool. Oh, no, I thought it was cool as all get out.

I'm going there this summer, so I'm nervous. Hey, that's the coolest all get out. So Puma on a log on a big oak limb. You got lines, you got bears. things that'll hunt you. Yeah. But let's take a break and then I want to get back into the dogs

that y'all were talking about before we started. Oh, yeah. We got to talk about Burley's dogs. Navador Retrievers, boys. Well, Sigh, you remember when we first started our deer management program, we had two main obstacles. Yep.

Their names, Phil, and Burley. It's pretty bad. You've got a guy on the property and he's, you know, taking care of everything on it, okay? And we're trying to, you know, he's managing the deer herd. Okay, but he's got two serious problems. One is the landowner himself. Yep.

Okay, because Phil don't give a flip about deer except for one thing. Kill a little one and bring it to his house and he'll eat it. Preferably a button head. That's right. probably a butt in hell which is a little buck okay but i have to agree with them they do taste better than the little dope not not true but anyway then the other one is one of his best friends that comes down and hunts with us yeah okay they lead each other us straight let's just put it okay when these two get together they're going to kill something okay and it's always we got two

deer on their property big bucks he named one of them was okay since I had a band I went out and sang and the song I sang was George Jones he stopped loving her today okay so look we named we named the biggest one okay

George Jones that's because he looked like he had a rocking chair on his head and it looked like a rocket chair and he had a song I don't need Joe Rockin's right he got that name everybody knew do not shoot George Jones well I had a picture of him on my phone and I showed I've been showing

I said whatever y'all do don't shoot this one and uh y'all let you finish so hey you know where this story's going i got a feeling the landowner with his partner in crime okay they go deer hunt okay and look it's raining cats dogs cows and horses and goats okay so what of these two do they get a four by eight sheet of plywood just laying around because we've always got four by

sheets of plywood laying around for building duck buyer who doesn't and they tie it on top of phil's pickup okay where they can leave the windows roll down and sit there and watch the road true story on his property so everything's true so far so far okay so look they're sitting there and it's water just just just it's raining y'all and feel says oh good grief There's a big old buck in the middle of the road. Bill said, well, should I shoot him? Phil said, if you want to, boom. And that's the story.

Oh, yeah. But guess who it was? Jones, common joy. And then, hey, to rub salt in the wound, yeah. Phil was, I'm telling you, Phil was responsible for this. Okay, he told Burley, he said, hey, you need to text Jay on his phone.

And here's what you tell him. He stopped loving her today. And that's exactly what he did. That's what he gets on his phone and they took a picture of him. And under him was talking about he stopped loving her today, boys. So Phil was just saying, my friend's bigger than all your friends. He don't give a flip about. And this is my Robert.

Oh, there's something in a Robertson. They just love to scald. their fellow man. Well, no. Back in the day, it was. We do actually like to strap people. Oh, that's it. Hey, it was a strapping.

Okay. This doesn't put out, okay? This is one of them do not do. Yeah. Okay. Hey, so as soon as you said that with these two, oh, it's fixed to happen. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Two years later, okay, we got another beautiful nine point. Yeah. Young, young here. George Jr. Yeah. Yeah. Be able to two years old. Okay.

So we, hey, Jay does it. Here he is, guys. This is the future of this deer herd. To not shoot this deer. These two get together again. And they lead each other astray. Because, hey, they're going down the road and fished, hold, hold, hold,

back up, back up. He said, is that deer hair I see in the, in the thicket there. Yeah. Now we're on a private road. Yeah. In the full weather. We're not riding down a highway.

Well, this is no private property. But anyway, he looked, he said, in that deer here? And I, Bernie said, yeah. Boom. Yeah. Phil said, give me your rifle. Yeah. Give me your rifle.

Boom. Then they go up there and ground check it and says, oh, good grief. That looks like the future of our deer herd. I thought that was a year then. I thought it was a year. So, hey. but you can't tell the owner he can't go on his own property that's right especially with

reinforcement's okay hey just a linebacker with them everywhere he goes so we might near stone mine here have got the mission impossible yeah to pull off here i don't know he's done a pretty good job we're we're we're fine hey we're getting there because we're gonna take a quick break and then we're going to talk about the dogs that we were going to talk about and then You know, you never know what's going to happen. Something happened. That's a nothing about the deer. Let's talk about dogs.

Let's talk about dogs. Because, oh, I was already just going. Oh, I thought we were going to take a break. Keep it rolling. Hey, break. All right, we're back. What we're going to do? Well, you know, because Bradley is a renaissance man.

Yep. Okay. Well, carpenter, nurse. But you also are responsible for all the crazy dog stories we hear, aren't you? I'm kind of the dog man now. Well, he's making sure that old blues lineage lives on. lives on. Because everybody that's hunting with him around here except for Phil

wanted to put a bullet in his head. Yes, right. Well, okay, well, I'm just telling it is. Maybe just, you know,

Jason Roberts would have shot him if Phil would have, would have let him. Well, nowadays, Dave Stone would have shot him. I all want to shot him. But I just wanted him to retire. Well,

I wouldn't have shot him because I'm a dog. I did kind of facilitate the retirement of blue. You did. You did. Now, if y'all hadn't heard, this dog, Phil loved this dog more than he loved his kids, I think. Oh, he did. The greatest retriever we've ever had, hands down, but the worst manners of any dog that ever lived, he'd take a dump in the boat, he'd pee on you, grit.

If you try to go to sleep like I did, he'd pee on you. He'd pee on you. Burley, you trained him? No. No. No. Oh, long story. Anyway.

Yeah, we don't want to get it. Just stay there. Anyway, the dog has terrible manners. Oh, yeah. He whined in the duck blind the whole time you're hunting. Oh, no, no, no. Wine is too. That tail was wagging.

Yeah. Wine is too soft of a term. Yeah. How? This is like, if you ever go up north and you hear wolves, they'll, they'll. I had a basset hound in the duck blind? That's it. No, no.

Look, hey, as soon as Jason or Phil or Stone hit the duck call, all you was going to hear was, and then if you had to hit it again, then it was that and the tail. So look, this dog, just to say, hey, he cost us a lot of ducks. So now, Burley's in charge of making another one? Well, not according to Phil. According to Phil, that dog has saved us, which is true.

A lot of cripples. He's the best cripple getter I ever saw. Any dog that can go head first into the buckbrush after a crippled Woody, that dove. And come out with him every single time is incredible. I'll give you this. Best retrieve I ever saw, bar none. We're on dog by you, okay. A big mother of Drake, greenhead.

comes in, lights about 85 yards wide. So we do this. Phil says, hey, y'all get your guns ready. We're going to do the one, two, three, and everybody put it on him and pull the trigger. So we all say, all, all right, Phil's countdown. I'm talking about, all right.

One, two, three. Seven people under the blind. Who, boom, whoa, whoa. Yeah, Phil wanted to kill that duck bad. We want to kill that mother back. Oh, look. It's a rough year. Hey, as soon as the shots are fired,

Here, blue's gone. Okay. Fifteen minutes later, we look, and someone said, Good grief. That goes to mother Drake over in front of the blind on the complete other side of the lake.

A quarter mile away. Quarter mile away. And talking about, up, and there's blue right behind him. He's flying by this half the water. Yep. He can almost fly.

The junk is flying. Okay. Yep. True story so far. That was 15 minutes. Another 15 minutes. Go by and out here. he's got that bottle of drinking his mouth okay he ain't got C LPD but he's breathing like he did

but hey after about a three-quarter mile run and hey he'd come back with him they sure did that is the greatest one I've ever seen because that duck could fly not only that he'd run him down that same day we would we would cripple ducks down that would go I would say six 700 yards to the other property on Franklin Go down in the woods. Yeah, on Franklin's property. Two hours, three hours later, when the hunt's over, Phil would drive blue around there, let him out of the rig.

And he'd point him in the direction where that duck fell and come back with him near about every single time. And it'd be dark sometimes. That's right. It's black dogs. He had a great nose. So you're training up new blues with manners? We bred them down a little bit to this dog.

Her name is Minnie Pearl. and we call her Pearl. Oh, Blue won't do so we took him to many. Yeah. There we go. He's trying to create the perfect retriever. Because if we get good manners with Blue's retrieving skills, you would have a gym then.

I guarantee. I mean, like a diamond. Well, he was so good at retrieving. We don't even use dogs anymore. We're waiting on one of Burroughs. Well, no. We got three of them in school right now. Three.

The same train. that train blue's got them down there in St. Joseph. Well, he's trained him now. His name is Will. Yeah, he's a trainer. I dropped mine off the day. He don't teach him manners. No.

Well, hey, look, you know, Bill don't care about manners. And I'm with him there in a way in one way, but it's the other way. No. Well, nobody in the blinds got good manners. Why should the dog have good manners? Yeah, that is true. Yeah. What you said?

You stop, sigh. You have a lot of truth in it, my brother. Especially Phil. Oh, man. Boy, we've had a lot of memories with that dog. But Phil loves the fact that that dog will get on me and Jason's nerves. Oh, he kind of likes that. Oh, he loves it.

He'll pee on y'all's grip. Well, hey, no, no. He'll pee on ours. Jay should never own a dog, okay, because he's not a dog person. There's just some people that. No, you ain't a dog person. Yeah. Well, Jay's got two little five-pound yippy dogs

that chase you through the neighborhood. And that dog goes the street. He's not, you know. Kid. Oh, boy. Now we're talking, now we're getting personal about dogs. Well, no, no, no, because I will say in his fit, he's a good duck hunter and a good duck caller.

Who, Jace? Yeah. Oh, he hopes. He's the best. But he's the best. But as a dog owner and dog. man? No.

Not his style. He don't have the command voice. Jason would not do well in the military. You've got to have a command voice and Chase has not got one. Yeah. Do you? Blue. Blue, come here.

Wilson, I chased. You got to tell him. You know, come here. Yeah. Can't do it. You know. I'm not anti-dog, but I am anti-dog handler. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. The man blowing. the whistle, I don't like him. I don't care who he is. I don't like blowing whistles, waving our... That has white glover. You know.

Hey, duck on the white glove on. Oh, boy. Buck! It's like a three ring circle in a duck blind with a... Oh, I'll never forget that day. Oh, uh, Phil had his hand out there working the new dog.

This was about 10 years ago. And it was opening day. We had duck swore. He's in front of the blind. Phil doesn't send his man out there to work the dog. Brand new, first year, first duck guns, everything on. He's waving his arms. And me and Jace are standing there watching ducks trying to come in the deep going.

Waving them up. And he's waving them off. Flare, flare, flare, flare. And finally, Jason couldn't stand it no more. He looked down there at Phil. He said, hey, Phil, he's like, what? He's like, train your dog in the off season. And Phil, he said, you don't know nothing about no dog.

Oh, yeah, I'm sure saying. Phil, Phil asked what he said. So I said, hey, he said train that dog in the off season. Let's get to killing ducks. And Phil said, he don't know nothing by no dog. I mean, he got upset about it. It hurt his feelings. Oh, no, yeah, heard his feelings.

So ever since that day, and that was Blue, by the way. Oh, yeah. That was Blue's first hunt. Was the trainer with y'all? Huh? Was the trainer with y'all in the blind? I guess I guess I said it was oh no he was standing out in the water oh yeah he was in front of the blind yeah he's in front of the blind doing this and this

and blowing a whistle and I'm looking at him like have you lost your mind it is oh yeah we got ducks coming in they're scared everything we got matters trying to get in the decoys and we got a ban in the stupid decoys going back yeah in the decoards but ever since that day he'll just been a rip he said you know what them boys gonna talk about my dog like that I've fixed a show with them. So it's been scald me and Jace from that day forward

with that dog. No, that's like, because he, you know, especially Jake, Jay, he set his bag down,

Blue Grove bed and pissed on it. I know it. That's the one thing we've learned from Burley showing up is Phil wants to scald all of y'all. Oh, that's right. You would think that Phil and Blue

got together and they had discussed he'll tell me, hey, every chance you can get pee on Jason's bag and Jay Stone, too. Leave mine and birdies alone. The side goes to sleep, just pee on him. Yeah, he's down there, you know. No, he had the manners. He's ill-mannered.

Oh, man. He'll matter. Hey, I'll give me to you. He's the greatest retriever we've ever had. Oh, he is. Well, Burley, we have pretty, I think Martin's about to step back in. Martin was on child duty, also known his fatherhood. and he's a good dad.

But Burley, you're the man. We always love when you stop by and they're here in town. Thank you for joining us. I'm sure the fans enjoyed that. Good to be here. Well, how was my stand in? He'd do all right?

It was pretty good. He'd do all right. Pretty good. Burley's very cool, calm, and collective. But I guess when you're that big, there's no need to worry or be as jittery as me. He doesn't move. Yeah, you hear loud noises and you flinch every time.

Burley just kind of. Look at them. Look over. his shoulder he's fine no very methodical he doesn't have a whole lot of wasted movements everything he does pretty well thought out so um no i i hate i hate i missed it i guess i'll have to listen to see what happened hey tune in martin duck call but the boys survived so we're all good hey you did a good job yeah well and they're they're alive fatherhood they're headed home they're headed back to the house but uh i guess we'll we'll just jump into the to the uh to the mailbag then why not yeah remember email

anytime hello at duck callroom.com. I enjoy reading them. I got a really cool one today. Okay. From Aaron in McKinney, Texas. Whoa, that is a good one. The duck call room helped me lose. 223 pounds. Whoa. Whoa, dude.

That's amazing. How did we get him to lose a few? How do you do that? Um, well. Because, see, I would have figured we were kind of the anti that with a snack bracket. Well, we got, hey, but we got Stone over here who's lost a lot of weight. Remember, I got put in the hospital and told to lose weight, so I worked hard for a little bit there. And, you know, struggles.

Yeah, same here. Then we had kids and I said. But we talk about it. We talk about losing weight and trying to be healthy. Yeah. Well, she said today marks her one-year goal of 10,000 steps each day. She did take a shot at me. She said, I knew if John David could do it.

I could too. Proud of you. She mentioned Stone talking about being shape and being active. She said she feels Godwin's pain. But over the last 27 months, she's lost 223 pounds. That's what's up. Congratulations. Did she send a picture?

No picture. Oh, dang. I'd just like to see what a person looks like that lost 220-something pound. I mean, that's a lot of weight. What was her name? Aaron from McKinney, Texas. Well, Aaron, congratulations. Way to go.

But don't give us any of the credit. You did it. So, I mean, my hat is off to you, young lady. That's awesome. Way to take back your life. That's cool. That is awesome. That is cool, man.

Yeah, just because, you know. I mean, she dropped a U. Like, she lost a U. She was toting around a U. Think about that. Johnny D. I'm gone now. Yeah.

She was toting around a me plus, well, not plus minus 40. So, I mean, that's still, I mean, that's wild. That's impressive. That's incredible. I don't care what you say. That's impressive. That's incredible. Congratulations, darling.

Yeah, that's just really cool. And, yeah, we talk about it. Stone's the resident kind of fitness expert in here. And he kind of stays on us a little bit. I saw something. I saw something with Stowe another day, a video clip from like probably 2012 or so. Oh, yeah. You had a look about you, son.

Of course, I did too. I looked like I run face first into a beehive. But, you know, it was like, I mean, my face all, I must have carried 30 pounds at my face. I mean, it was wild. You couldn't even see, you couldn't even see, you couldn't even see my eyes. Oh, yeah, we let ourselves go for a little bit. Oh, yeah. That's what that waffle, that's what that Waffle House to do for you when you hit that every day for a year. Oh, and then I. Waffle house every day for a year? For one year.

Boy, that's, that might even be a heavier commitment. Well, definitely is a heavier commitment, a harder commitment to keep. Yeah, I had three eggs over easy and hash browns every morning with a take old Coke, son. Oh, boy. For a year. You know what the end result of that was? Yeah. 318 pounds. Episode one, season one, duck dynasty.

And my back went out like three times in a matter of a month building duck calls, and I said, I'm just sitting here. If you throw you back out building duck calls. That's what I'm talking about every time I would bend over and pick up a thousand inserts and put them on that top box right there to get them close to me because I was lazy. every time she gone and so i said i got to do something yep and went and saw a doctor he said you can lose weight or we can cut on you the choice is yours i said hey uh yeah let's try that diet why don't we try why we give that a whirl you were a big like fruit guy you switched from waffle

house to like a small cup of fruit for breakfast i ate fruit a lot that was my that was my only my only carbs were natural sugars yep so the only carbs i did for like a year were all natural sugars There's no processed carbohydrates. It was all melons, berries, grapes. And now I'm like, the only thing I still enjoy is watermelon. I got burned out on all the other fruits. Watermelon's good. I mean, I still eat the other fruit, but the only one that I still find enjoyable is watermelon.

Do yourself a favor because you have fresh pineapple, put it in a zip-lock bag full of strawberries. Yeah. Let it sit in the freezer. A piece of pineapple soaked in strawberry juice is one of the finest things you'll ever eat. That's good because regulation pineapple, I don't care much. I don't like him. I like pineapple. I love pineapple.

I love pineapple. Oh, man. What are you talking? No, but that meat and fruit dite, that's a real deal. Yeah. Robes shows on that. He put me on that. No inflammation whatsoever.

It works. Oh, does it work? I spent a lot of time cleaning out my, you know, I was working out a lot with stone and got real into it. And then job switch, life, busy, which is just all straight up excuses. but yesterday cleaned out the old boxing arena in the garage. Yeah, I know. I sent you a picture of your trash you threw in our dumpster.

Take it easy. I opened the lid on it and there was a rod tube in there. And I said to have a picture. I said, trespasser. I ain't but one person a fishing rod tube would come from. That was me. It was in the way. But now I'm about to get back into the boxing and the rowing and the bike.

The other thing I did was cut out all soft drinks. Oh, yeah. All soft drinks. I didn't even, and look, I'm the kind of guy that can drink Dr. Pepper's like people drink Bush Life. I've told my wife. I mean, like, I can sit there and just drink one right after the other. And now, if I have anything other than the stuff I take with caffeine in it, it's merely to solve a headache, like to quickly try to get rid of a sinus headache.

My dad lost 30 pounds basically on sweet tea alone. Yeah. He was sitting there, he went in order, because you know, they got the calories listed at the restaurant. and he ordered a sweet tea and he started doing the math in his head he goes oh my word cut those out and now he like you know big days only like one ninety five these days oh yeah he looking good hell yeah his glasses even fall off his nose now yep he lost weight in his nose they used to sit there all day now he just clicks him up there uh but that's what an awesome story that is that's awesome thank you for sharing that that's cool that i mean like martin said that was all you but

if we were any inspiration or advice, that's just cool to hear. So thank you for that. You won't regret it. And then I got one more here for today. That's interesting. Hey, Martin, did you meet a little girl that was going to Alabama versus LSU softball game outside the office? I did, yeah, right out front in the parking lot. I met them too, but they emailed us.

Super nice family from Texas, Courtney, Blaklin, and Jonathan. Yeah, because I asked them. I said, what sport does Alabama play this time of year? Because they were all decked out in their roll-tied gear. Yeah. Oh, they were headed. I said, what, what are they playing? But super nice people, but she sent me a story about rhino poachers and how they try and, you know, stop that from happening over in Africa, which is interesting.

But she wants to know our opinion on something. What should the penalty be for poaching? Hmm. And be careful, because you might all deserve that penalty. Well, I'm not sure. Can we define poaching? Guilty. Guilty.

Guilty. And guilty. Oh, him too. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Pine poacher. Pine poacher. Yeah.

That's why I said, can we define, you know, if it's an animal that's in good standing population-wise, then maybe you's just hunger. That's right. Maybe you wouldn't poaching. Maybe he was hungry. And is poaching trespassing? Like, where are we at? Like, I need to, because there's a fine line. Yeah.

Like, it was in season, but I was on the other side of the fence. That's technically trespassing. That ain't poaching, is it? Poaching to me is like out of season, closed season. Now, out of season, I ain't ever mess with that. I've been an accessory to that. But I ain't ever, I didn't hold the light or pull the trigger. I was just there because you know what?

That's where the beer was. That's the only reason I was there. We're talking about a younger me before Christ, I'm saying. B.C. This potion here is if they're killing an animal, and that's protected for money protected for like a horn

yeah you ought to you ought to spend the rest of your day shoveling I'll put you in jail you all spend a rest of a day shoveling that animal's feces yeah I would put you in jail or like what I said

you ought to then become a servant of that of that animal yeah I would make you a dung mover in that case a dung mover yeah you would become a dung beetle so see that's why I'm saying a poaching.

We need to really define what that is. The people carry endangered animals to sell their horns, like, just throw them under the bottom of the gym. Oh, yeah. The people that go under the cornerstone. Make them a cornerstone of the. And the people that go around, like, whacking stuff that ain't got no business. Like, I mean, that's just.

People driving around the back of trucks, spotlights, pay out, patow. Absolutely. Yeah. I'm totally, have never been for that. Like, that's just not my thing. Like, we got Louisiana, we got a long deer season. If you can't get your six done in that time, shame on you. Like, I mean, it goes from October 1st to January 31st, ample time.

Yeah. And if you need more than six of them. Walmart sells ground beef. Now you just, well, you're just being gluttonous. Like, I'm saying six per person in your house. Like, man, come on now. Like, I just, I can't get behind that. Father of the laws of the land is the true.

Yeah, but I mean, like I said, now, I watched it happen. But again, BC, like, but I wouldn't dare. I was always scared, man, scared to death, even for this was my job. I don't like, I don't like breaking the rules, man. I'm a rule follower for the most part. Like, there's some that I think are stupid. But you got to follow them. You got to somewhat follow them.

You got to operate within the areas of gray they provide. That's funny. Well, Martin, I got a Bible verse to send us out of here. Go ahead, big dog. Well, Burley got me thinking about just a good friend. Like, that was really cool what he talked about, like, his dad mentored Phil, and then Phil mentored him. And so it's a pretty simple verse, and you probably all heard it, Proverbs 2717, as iron sharpens iron,

so one person sharpens another, you need somebody in your life sharpening you. That's a good one. You're not going to do it by yourself. Find somebody, whatever you're doing, if it's losing weight, stone had to, kick me in gear. If it's living the right life, Burley needed Phil to kick him in gear. So have somebody sharpening you. You know

what's cool? That verse is on the wall at our school. Oh, is it? So while I'm wrestling Burley tonight, I'll be looking at that verse. You're going to get sharp tonight. No, no. That is right. He, I remember that. You remember that verse? You remember that verse? I think

in Burley's case, you could swap iron for steel, though. That man a little harder an iron. Iron iron rust. That man more like stainless. I think so. Y'all think say stainless don't run. Yeah.

Well, we'll see y'all next time here in a duck corner. We're out. We're out.