Duck Call Room - John Luke’s Transformation Into Uncle Si Has Officially Begun

Episode Date: January 6, 2026

John Luke unintentionally shows up dressed in the EXACT same clothes as Uncle Si, sparking jokes that he’s becoming Si’s mini-me. Si gives Jacob a master class in bluffing your opponent, and Martin discovers that kids' toys are way cooler and more useful than they used to be. John Luke looks back on growing up under Phil Robertson’s zero-supervision philosophy, where kids had full access to dangerous tools and it’s honestly a miracle anyone survived. The boys can’t believe John Luke once got dumped for being so good at hunting his then-girlfriend couldn’t handle it. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I want to know this. What is your strategy to poker? Like when you're going into the poker night, like what do you think? Well, I know. That's the recording. Half fun.

That's the problem. I want to know the mind behind the mastermind. It's just have fun. I know how to win. Okay. Okay. But I don't ever do it. That's what I say, too. I don't play.

What game are we talking about? That's my strategy. Well, yeah. Okay. So you know how to win. I know how to win. And all, hey, look,

all you got to do. wants to do that. I'm recording this for your poker. No, no, no. You play by the rules of the game. Right. None of y'all do that. I'm serious.

You play by the rules of the game, and then if you do that and you hold it, hold yourself to it and dismal enough to play it. Yeah. Like that, you'll win every time. Okay. Because all it is, okay, look, if there's a pair on the board,

you're going to hit a flush, you're an idiot. Oh. Because it's a pair on the board. It's a boat coming. Yeah. Yeah. Same thing.

If you're on a straight draw and there's a flush on the board, don't get in the hand. Get fold. Yeah. Then why don't you? Then why don't you do? Don't know. I was like,

okay. I'm talking about it. I'll tell you, y'all. Because it's not fun. Everybody that plays with us, we're sick. And I mean, I ain't time. We're gone. Oh, I know.

Oh, I know. Every one of us. I've watched. Oh, y'all are. Y'all are demented. Oh, no. I'm saying we are. You all make way too much money.

now. Well, no, no, that's the thing one thing that gets me. And I don't know where all that cash comes out. These guys, I mean, they work for a living. Right. And then you say, I'm back in, boys. Give me 200 more. Yeah, tell me, hey, I just bought back in for this, boys.

Give me 200 more. On that note, it's only one more hand away to get it back. It's just one more hand. Yeah. If you fell on the river every time. I did. I did learn this. Jim Philip did. Okay. We did finally just say no to

you know three card Pete and all this just junk yeah no the five card Omaha with you know Vegas the

the pros play at pot limit the first time we had a pro come down here to play with us we played some of that and he looked he said you people are insane he said why do you think the the camera

joints play that pot's limit. Though that nobody dies. Yeah. You know, because it's a, it's a, the game is broke. Yeah. We finally realized that,

man, Philip just got out of that. We don't play that anymore. Hold them only. No more dealer's choice. Yeah. No, no one to hold them.

No. No. Screw that too. There's too. There's no dealer's choice. It's, hey, hold them only. Two cars.

Ain't, no spit pots, none of this junk. So since you're sick, what would you say to someone trying to get into poker. What would be your advice? Don't go that route.

Don't even start. Okay. What if they're like a little sick? You know what I mean? They're not contagious yet. Well, no, no, because here's the thing. Get Vandal and better on. Number one, number one, you've got to be very mature.

And by that, I mean, okay, you've got to be disciplined enough to play by the rules of the game. Right. Okay. That's what's wrong with most of the guys that play at my house. Okay. This is my dad included. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

No, he's the world of work. Okay. He's sick just like the rest of us. Oh, he's sick. You know, because it's just, you know, we do it. Okay. And look, you'd never find a better bunch of guys. Because if anybody needs help, they'll be there.

Right. Okay. The great bunch of guys, that's one reason we all play. It's fellowship. Okay. Because I'd always told them when I said, boys you got to realize it ain't about the money with me. I said, I don't show up.

I said, I love the guys that I'm playing with. Okay, that's like your dad. Your dad would rather want $5, okay, bluffing than $500 with a good hand. Oh, yeah. Okay, I'm serious. Yeah. You know, because, well, and, you know,

I'm kind of the same way. Okay. It's good to bluff a guy. And then one of the guys said, he said, I knew I should have called. Works every time but once. Yeah, and I said, well, what did you have? And he said, a set? I said, wait a minute, you had a set of what?

He said, nines. And I said, and you let me bluff you out just by talking about five, make it 500. I'm out. Are y'all wearing the same shirt? Huh? Yeah. Are you and John Luke wearing the same shirt? It looked like.

Yeah, we are. Dang, Jacob, we didn't get the memo. A style. And I didn't know this is magic. That tells you it's a good shirt. Is your shirt winking too? What's the deal on that? Oh, that's where he got his teeth.

This is the teeth, the dentistry. Yeah. Okay, what's that called? I can't even, I can't even say it. F-R-E-E. What is innovative, innovative, innovative, yeah, innovative dentistry. Nice. Hey, this was free, too, because this is Buck Commander.

Oh, was that where that come from? Yeah, these are the Buck-O-C-Mander line. Legendary White-Tales. Legendary White-Tales. Y'all stood that to the house? How wife's been lying to me? She said she bought this for me. Ah, yes.

Hey, maybe she bought it, but they gave me mine for free. Oh, okay. Well, I was, you did buy it to? Uh-huh. All right? I spoke so. No. Yes.

I brought the, I was already wearing this, and I saw you walk in, and I thought I might change, but then I thought. No, no, I was wondering. I was wondering. I seen him, he come walking out of the building, and he goes to his truck, and then he comes walking back out. He's got like 18 shirt. you know a bunch of them on hangers.

Really? And I said, cleaning out from Doug Donovan. Well, I was thinking. I said, either he's got a lot of feminine to do. And they told him bring extra clothes.

I said, or something's going on. Some of it is for filming. I just have my rack out there for stuff. Yeah. But then the most of it is stuff that I'm fixing. Like my pants, I've got holes in it or stuff.

Are you a seam? Mending. Yeah. You can? Oh, I got something I need to give to you. I'm not very good. I don't have to worry about that. Well, you, as it sits, it's useless.

No, no, yeah. I'll let you take it. I'll let you take a free swing. He just said something that it won't happen around my house. What? I can't, I won't have any holes in my pants. Oh, yeah. Because if I walk by that red head, she expects to rip them off of me.

Oh, what do you mean? He's got holes in the bridge. I don't think of holes. All right. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know where a guy. Holes in shirt, look, holes in underwear.

They're coming off. I think if you get holes in your underwear. Yeah, well, I do. But hey, when that happens, well, they fix to go to the garbage because she's picking rip my own foot. No, Mary Kay is a better seamtress than I am. But she's just too busy with the kids. So I've taken it on myself to fix all my own clothes.

Yeah, and she's pregnant with twins. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I don't want, yeah, no. I wasn't there. I'm not asking her. I'm not putting more on her. I got to pull my pants. I'm like, now I'll figure it out.

No, my old squirrel vest has developed a couple of holes. That's all you were asking for a new one. I got a new one, too. Yeah, yeah. Fans are awesome, man. They hooked it up. I got two of them. There you go.

The back-out's back. It's still the old one. The OG is. Have you got a good place to go squirrel? Yeah. Well, pitiful, you need to take me a squirt. Hey, I got a black squirrel on camera. Ooh.

Oh. You want them black one. Yeah. I've, I've sit there and we couldn't figure out what was going on. late in eating and it's getting dark I was looking and I had 22 rival to scroll point y'all I'd see something move I'd throw it up

couldn't see it yeah it'd move again I said wait I said I don't that's a squirrel yeah and finally come out on a limb good it's the stomach oh that's why I couldn't see your sucker it's a black one did you get them yeah do you mount them nope

you eat them all I did do skin that suck out fried him up Jerk the britches off of him and eat him. He was a young one. He was a bunch of time. Jacob, last time we had John Luke on here, he's our holiday specialist,

by the way. I know what holiday is this for? I don't, what is this this, Hunter? Is this just, this is this a second? When does this air?

Tuesday. Tuesday, okay. So there, yeah, no holidays. It's no holiday. We just missed you. Yeah,

we missed you. But no, this is, John Luke challenged us to a word for the year. You got one, Jack? Oh, like, cool.

What's your word for the year? Yeah, what's your word for the year? Yeah, we do this. His mom and Willie always do this. Word for the year. I don't know. Let me think on that.

Oh, boy. Podcast don't need silence. I don't know. I guess evolve. Evolution. Evolution. Okay. Yeah, not evolution as in that came from an age.

I just mean like evolve as in like continue to evolve instead of stay stagnant and learn new things. And also continue to grow. there you go. That's a great word. You could have said, like, learn or, which was my word from last year, but evolve is such a better version of that, because it's bigger. Yeah. Yeah.

Like the next version of yourself. I just kept thinking of like what I want to do in 2026 and I just was thinking like, I want to like do the things that I'm doing like already. But I only get them like make them like. Like, yeah, make them keep going and doing their things and then learn new things and evolve into other things while having those go their own way to as well. What's something new you're interested in?

I was thinking like, yeah, like Pokemon. You're going to like have an evolution. Yeah, like right now I'm like level one, maybe I'll get to like level three. You're hitting level of dragons. Yeah. Are we getting some D&D or? I'll have like an enchanted pickax by the end of the year or something. Talk about Minecraft.

Oh, this is hitting you right where it hurt, ain't it, Hunter. This is my job. I like this. You know, just, I don't know Just getting deeper into the things I already love And just learning new things All right, look, springtime is here It's warming up

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Yeah. Into what? That's get better at all of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, we managed to weave a pretty fair course from what did we do last time? I don't even remember.

Somehow we ended up at Frito Pyes. Well, we always ended up with food. Food? Yeah. What was your, oh, I got one. What was your favorite food at Christmas? Like, dessert. or like food that you had, like at your family, you know, holiday.

Well, I don't even know what the dessert was, but it was, uh, strawberries and whipped cream and a bunch of stuff mixed together. My favorite thing at Christmas is Mary Lou Kirby, which is Jo Neal and Randy Kirby's, uh, I mean, Randy Kirby's mom, so Joanie's mother-in-law makes a banana caramel pie. Is the thing I look forward to every year. I eat like three slices of it. Yeah.

She's still making that. I think she told Bella she made them for me this year because I was saying I wanted one. 94. Yeah, 94. Cranking them out. Slanging pies. Dude, their pies are so good. Oh, that, that and I also cherry pies.

Oh, yeah. Well, what did Jersey bring? Everybody was liking whatever that food he brought. He brought some kind of the meatballs. He always meatballs with the tomato sauce. He's got his own like sauce, right? Oh, grape. Gravy.

Oh, call it sauce. That boy called gravy. My bad. My bad. Yeah. I made that mistake. I was like, man, Jersey, that's some good red sauce. He said, that's gravy.

I said, okay, Jersey. Because he made them wood duck meatballs that time that were fantastic. Jersey's gravy. They were so good. Meatballs are hard to make. Yeah. Yeah. Easy to eat.

Yeah, I know, but one bite. I love him. Thanks. My mama made, you know, made the best, of course. And I got her recipe, but. You ain't done it? All right. You need more sage.

Something's wrong. Jay saved me on that one. I wasn't going to get the meatballs because I was like, that's a weird Christmas meal. Yeah. You know, with like the duck and everything. And Jay's like, hey, you don't want to miss that meatball. Yeah. Get on that meat.

He knows. He knows. Oh, that meatballs are good. He's reaping that. He cooked them up here one day and just walked in a podcast room with him. And I was like, yeah, okay, Jersey. You're eating. Like, whatever this thing is.

I don't care what kind of duck you say is in there. That thing was so good. Plus, they're very time-consuming. Yeah, to do them right. If you make them, well, they're at them. Yeah. Yeah, to not just go buy a bag of them and throw them a crock pot. Grind up.

Does he grind up the duck breast? Uh-huh. And then, uh, did it to soak them in anything or what does he do? Oh, no, that, that, that, that, uh, wood duck. But he grinds them, it's like fennel and I don't know what all. I asked him one time. He went through a way more extensive list than I thought. It's a lot of work.

Oh, yeah. He's calculated. Jersey's calculated. Oh, yeah. He can't got nothing else. Very calculated. Oh, old Jersey, Joe. For New Year's, did you end up eating blackout peas and cabbage?

You bet you I did. I ate mine. I tried to. I got there late. I only got the cheese. No, I did eat cabbage. I had no blackout peas. I am.

Justine makes a real good soup. Black-eyed peas, cabbage, and Mexican cornbread. What is the peas and the cabbage stand for? Don't they stand for certain things? Cabbage is wealth. Yeah. I ain't get no wealth this year. Cabbage for cabbage.

What's the peas? like wisdom. Hey, I'm getting wisdom. Yeah, general luck. Yeah, general luck. I lost out on the wealth. They already ate all that cabbage. That cabbage is gone.

I put it hurting on that cabbage. Yeah, you got two more coming. Now that I know that as well. Yeah. Now that I know his wealth, I saw that big cast iron was empty by the time I got there.

Everybody got their servants. I just like the super traditional stuff. Like, that's a fun one right there. Even though I remember as a kid, my parents forced me to eat that stuff. I was like, this suck. I hated New Year's Day.

Really? As a kid, because I was like, this is terrible. This is no, but now I'm like, please, please, can we make double, make a double batch, please? I'm always like Black I pees growing up. And my kids are the same way. I tried to put them on their plate and force them to do it. It's too yucky. Too yucky.

Too yucky. That's yucky. Cheetos? I'm like, okay. All right. Cheetos. Yeah, Cheetos. Yeah.

So, yeah, our New Year's Day consisted of not doing a whole lot because Brittany loaded up and went over to the. passion so I guess I think I saw that yeah yeah she'll be getting back tonight she's only doing two days of it but I was like I gotta go duck hunting now we we got we got stuff to kill yeah Bella went to the beach this weekend she's like are you gonna go yeah with my sister and she was like you want to go and I don't know and then I was like yeah I'm not going I got to go hunting and the last two days we killed those banded wood ducks and I was like see that's why I have fomo if I would have went I wouldn't have been able to be a part of that yeah there you go

Did you kill either one of them? Yeah, I killed the second one. There you go. Reeves killed the first one, but my dog got to pick up both of them, so I was still tickled when I picked it up because I didn't know. Yeah. Well, that's when the band goes to the dog, right? Yes, what I said.

Joey. Jerry. The band goes to the dog. Sorry, boys. Put it on her collar. Yep. Get her a grill made out of it. She'd just come walking back smiling.

Oh, man. Sabella's at the beat. At the beach. In January? In January. She ought to have it to herself. Probably so. I would think.

Well, Jake, I thought you were going. I thought Bella said you said yes. Yeah, they called me today and they were like, I think the whole time you were never going to come. And I said, maybe that might be the truth. I don't know. Keep your hopes up, you know.

Cliffanger. Well, I knew you didn't when we got the text about being on the podcast. You said, Hunter said, you all would be on the podcast? Jacob immediately, yes. I guess he didn't go to the beach. Now I can't go. Sorry, I told him I do the podcast.

Yeah, that's the thing. Bell's like, are you enjoying it? I'm like, yeah, I'm hunting. But like, other than hunting, I'm like, I don't know what I'm doing. I just, you're not here. I need somebody to cook my food or something. Well, she cooks like every night. So, like, we hang out all the time.

So it's like when I'm not hunting, it's not like I'm doing a lot other than that. Like I go to work, I'm just saying when I go home, I'm sitting at the house. It's like, it's kind of boring. Yeah. Well, if you get two boards light over at my house. I bet it's exciting. It's allowed them. Oh, man.

We're putting some toys. Yeah. They got a drill for Christmas. The toys you get are pretty cool for your kids. Yeah. We got drills. We're working on putting screws and stuff. Didn't you have like electric tractors?

Like a lot of it's cool. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. They still do not possess the skill set to drive them yet. They do not. What all can you function on the, like, kid tractor? The buckets. You can use both buckets.

It's the trailer. That's pretty cool. Oh, yeah. Once a kid figures of how you use that. Took me a day to put the thing together. She would riff one of those. She would love that.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. You need to show me what that is. Oh, yeah, tough trucks. It's like a real tractor for a little kid. Oh, it was like the remote control, like small ones? You can. You can use a remote control, which is what I have to do with them because they

look at you the whole time they're on it. Yeah. So whatever's in their path is destroyed if they're driving it. Didn't Chef, he used to have that trailer? And we got my fork left, too. Yeah. He had a little kid trailer. He does have a little tractor, but it's like you can't, it's just like you can't work the stuff.

But he had a trailer on it. That's what I'm saying. He used to pick up stuff. And he'd pick up sticks. He'd load stuff on there, drive it around. Oh, yeah, that trailer stay full of pine cones. Yeah. Love picking up pine cone.

Uh-huh. Yeah, we got a fork lift too. It would pick up like 20 pounds. That's awesome. I put a bag of corn on it. It's like, I was trying to get them feed the house deer. Yeah. I gave John Shepherd.

I found this at the hardware store. I was looking for this and I found it. And it's like a sawzaw blade with like a, but you put the saws, like a plastic handle. And it's perfect for him. Because I found one like that has like a rounded top. And like a,

it's for plastic. So it's got really small teeth. Oh yeah. And so he can't really hurt himself. But with enough time, he can cut. He can whittles. Just about anything.

He's been building out there. She'll have four arms. It's big. Oh, he's out of toe. He's a worker. He's just about cut down the tree just with an hour just chiseling away. If he ever ends up in a castaway situation, he'll be all right. He's got the time and the patience for.

He'll figure it out. He'll figure it out. He's one of those kids. He'll figure it out. He was cutting, he was cutting pine boughs, like little, the little pine straw, but when they're stuck to the stick. Yeah.

So he was cutting those, and he tied a little twine on them and hanging them around his, like, little hideout. A little fort. Christmas decorations. That's funny. He had, like, a full decorating.

He cut a little stick that he had as a Christmas tree. He decorated his whole, old secret hideout in the woods. I had a little fort when I was a kid. I called all my friends. I think everybody did, yeah. Yeah.

We'd put out of bird seed and then shoot the songbirds out of it, too. Yeah. We had our, we had our work. Always killing something. Yeah, red riders, man. We were rough. We were rough on that.

We just had rules on what we, we had rules of engagement from the parents. That was some of those best times in my life. We'd go along with a flashlight on the people's house. It's got to goons over. Birds would come out there at night and sleep. We'd go from, baby, go daisy, red, oh, yeah.

Take them out. You know, it's that time when you get them, young wrens right now that like live up under your porch and stuff. Oh yeah. They get up. I had one hit me in the chest last night in the dark taking the dog outside. And I know I pooped a little. Like I just, he wasn't supposed to be there.

And that's like it hit me in the chest and it art. And it actually startled you. Oh, but I, yeah, I was walking around. I said, boy, that's going to itch when it drives. That's how much, that's what come out of me. It scared me so bad like it was. Get on that bidet. Ooh, man, it did.

It got me. I ain't been that scared. as an adult in a long time. But that thing hit me in the chest, though. And then I was like, oh, hey, buddy. You know, because then he grabbed my shirt and started trying to climb up me. I'm like, what is going on?

It's black, no light, no nothing. Just letting a dog t-tie. You had to do the number two. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I had changed my britches. That got me. Thank God for a wash machine. We had a fort down at Philadelphia Mallcase.

And so we're like, Reed's like seven. six, Coles like four, and Phil gave us just full run of the tools. Hammers, nails, knives, saws. Here's this chainsaw. Like a hand drill. Like we didn't have the power tools, but everything else was free game. So we had this whole built this whole platform thing. There's nails sticking out of it.

Like I went back and saw it later. I was like, how were you playing on this at five years old? How did we not die? Yeah, how did we not? At least a serious injury. We didn't. Definitely would have to get a technist shot if you probably got an injury. We definitely got stabbed with some nails at times.

Oh, man, that's funny. That's funny. I've officially reached the age where you start bleeding for no reason. So I looked up to the morning hunting, my hand covering blood, and I thought, I don't know what I did to that time. I have no idea. How is that when you get older? You just look down and you bleed. Oh, no.

As you happens all the time. I don't even know what happened. I mean, you deal with it, huh? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm getting to the age where I'm starting to, things that never bothered me, starting to bother me. Like, I was never allergic to poison oak. And then, like, three weeks ago, I got poison oak.

Oh, yeah, that happens. Yeah, that definitely. You know what I'm saying? Just like, things that don't bother. New allergies and stuff. And so I was like, I've never got this in my life. Like, now I have it. But you would think if it made you bleed.

That you'd have felt it. Yeah, you'd have felt it. Yeah. I mean, that's a ploy of the meat taken out of there, too, and I don't have to help anything. I don't know. I do it all the time. I look around and be bleeding, you know, my wife would say,

I'll go in and do something. She said, hey, what's wrong with you? And I said, what are you mean? She said, there's blood on that stupid tail you just used. And I said, what? Walk up around. I mean, there ain't a little bit. It's just, I'm talking, it's blood.

Yeah. You know, and I go, I get to look it around and talk about, like you tell me, it's a chunk out. Yeah, hunk of meat. And I said, how in the world did I do it? That's a hunk of meat. Yeah. Y'all and I said, I didn't feel that?

And this happened when I took Brittany duck hunting other morning. I don't even know. I got through putting everything out and looked up and I was like, well, why does the piece of meat was just hanging there? I was like, I got this going to hurt a little bit now. I'm doing something about my bennel. Uh-oh. Because when I shoot it right here, a bluster.

Yeah. You just ain't shooting. And I said, wait a minute, I pulled the trigger with the index finger. Why is this finger? bleeding and got a big blister on it. So every time I use that stupid thing, I got to wrap like athletics, I'm like your brother now.

Phil used to do that too, to walk out there looking like Tiger Wood. No, no. Oh, I have to because I... Go and duck hunting got their fingers. I'm talking about one or two times, boom, boom. I got a big blister out there inside. Really?

Y'all, and then when you boom boom, oh, it hurts like I'll get out then because that's sensitive when that skin goes away. Oh, yeah. I don't know what you boys. do and I shoot a lot more than you. I ain't got nothing. That ain't what that was from.

That was post-de-de-coy placement, so I don't. Well, I don't know what- was by the way. You want to talk about hurt. I went to throw a decoy the other morning and the weight grabbed a hold of my duck call. Yeah, like to choke you to death?

No. Or slap you upside their head? That weight hit me right between the teeth. Oh. I said, I'm going to have to go see size doctor. I just went like yes. I was like, are they all still? Oh, yeah.

You're lucky you didn't knock them out. I don't know. It hurt bad enough to. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was like, how am I not bleeding? That little four-ounce lead weight hit me right between the teeth.

I mean... Yeah, if you were swinging it too. Yeah. I was doing like this. I was picking it up and it hit my duck call and it just went just right in my teeth. And I was like, yep, that's my own have all them. Ain't no way. I somehow did.

Yeah, I thought it was going to be chickling. Yeah, I thought I was going to make a smile out there. Yeah. That slings. don'ts will knock them out. Oh, yeah. You taking bella duck hunting yet? I haven't found a mess of birds to take her to.

Oh, they ain't got to be a mess. I want to. I took Brittany the other morning on a toughie. That was fun. She earned her stripes on that one. It's like, this ain't going to be easy, but they are there. Oh. I'm waiting until a later season where find something is kind of easy.

Hard to kill. Boy, they hard to kill. Pared up, suckers. Ornery, man. Ornery. But they've been living in there, and I was tired of watching them. So I took the fight to it. You got to break them up?

I did get 15 gadwals down in there with her. She was shaking on that bunch. I was like, uh-huh, yes, sir. That's the craziest dude. I looked up. I like some galaw. I said, do you want to kill one? They're such a crazy duck.

Why are they so crazy? Well, they just, they won't act right. Really? They won't act right. I'll see the one moment. You're thinking they just give them another two seconds. We'll kill them. Bab, bab, bab.

They're out of here. I gather wild, though. You never know. One day they're the easiest thing in the world. Yeah, they just come in and, you know, just mass murder. We killed some this year earlier in the year, and people sleep on them. I think they're pretty. Oh, they're pretty good.

They're a crazy one. They are. I like when they got that little brown plumed out on their wing. I think it's super pretty. Yeah, they're good. What she said? She was supposed to take a picture of me. Said y'all went hunting.

What did y'all do? Go deer hunting? Yeah, we went deer hunting. Yeah, we were trying to kill this deer down at the land. We saw like 30 deer both evenings. She went to the beach after, but we just didn't see that deer. Was she going to shoot it? Yeah, yeah.

I'm not shooting. No, I'm not shooting. If I take her hunting, she's not watching me kill something. That would be terrible. I'd go hunting all the time. Oh, well, I didn't know. I didn't know if she just wanted to be there. I figured if she was going to see you.

She may want to go hunting. No, she said. No, she did say that. It was funny. she said if you can't beat them you might as well join them yeah that's true as I said I'm going hunting hey you play your cards right you get them enough where they get lippy and start telling you to move the decoys and do stuff that's what I got yeah well now now I think she just wants to go deer hunting with me now I think she got excited

seeing all the deer she'd one would come out and she'd see a little fond she said that one's cute and then she'd see a she'd see one of them I had told her I said yeah that's that's how it's chutey me that's what we want to eat oh that's what's funny she'd be saying one's cute or one's this and that but she's still she's a killer she'd shoot them and because she knows we're going to eat them it's not a big deal like that yeah the end result yeah like we went hunting and then i fried backstrap after her and she was like yeah this is great yeah i'm happy i'm helping stone shoot those now oh it's fun i took bella that was a fun thing with me and bell and bell went deer hunting and so i was getting her uh as jay would say

get her trained up on the range so i took her out there and was like well let's just see what this is like we've shot guns and killed a deer before, but it's probably been a year or two since she's been out there. And I was like, let's get you comfortable. Obviously,

we had a silencer and got her earphone, so it's not loud, just all the, all the good stuff. Well, she shoots, she's kind of nervous. She shoots the first target of a hundred and hits it

and just turns to me and she's grinning. She's like, did I hit it? And I'm like, yeah, you did. I like, do it again. So she re-racks it, shoots the next one.

She's like, all right, I want to shoot 200. And I'm like, okay. Get on 200 to dial the gun. and there's that buck steel target out there you know what I'm talking about and she says she shoots that one hits it she's grinning she's like to hit it I'm like yeah

all right all right this is gonna be a hard one shoot the little gopher to the right because it's like real skinny yeah so she shoots that one and hits it she's looking she's grinning like this is awesome it's so funny and she's like all right I want to shoot 350 that's yeah like to get her dialed in and she shoots that one and she like rips it hits it and she looks at me she goes I'm a gunslinger I said, okay. I was like, all right, you are. Oh, no, because Corey, she gets that from court. Yeah.

Oh, I'm a gunslinger. She said, she said, I'm a gunslinger. That reminds me of the Western. Yeah. I was, I was proud of her. It's a double, double crawl. I said, double, cross. She was tickled.

It was funny to see. And so I felt confident then. I was like, well, she'll kill whatever comes out then. Well, no, see, that's why. Like when you go shoot notes. Yeah. Make it interesting what's okay. Yeah.

We're gonna shoot them, you know. Far. You'll see how far you kill one. For sure. I'm up to 310 now. Yeah. Three 10. Well, we were in the stand too.

And I was telling her, all right, well, get on that one right there and kill them in your head. And we'll tell him we killed about 10 by the time we get done in here. So she was just on every deer. I was like, all right, you're on every deer? I was like, right there on behind the shoulder. You on that shoulder? She's like, yeah.

I was like, all right. Kill them in your head. I shock sometimes what they'll put the round or do to them. Yeah. You just want to see what it'll do? Yeah, I've shot a yearling. Phil told me to go check the pump, you know. That's a pump going.

So I go down there when I pull up around the four wheel, I just leave it running. You know, check the pump, you know. I look over there and I said, hmm, that looks like a deer. You know, and I've got 30-30 because deer sees up. I'm ready it up, put it out of the tummy. Oh, I said, that's a little. little young one. Most people would put the safety back on.

Yeah, I didn't even have it cocked. I looked at it and I said, that's a young one, you know, and look, I put it right here. Well, it hits him on the nose. Oh, my. Look, and it's just like the jolly green giant took a big machete and piquot.

I don't think I like that. All it was, hey, I went over and picked that thing up by the ears. because it wasn't a head. Head shots on. He weighed about 30 pounds. I said, yeah,

now we're talking, we're talking steak tonight, baby. Head shots only, boys. Yeah, hey. But that was just like

150 gram, you know, soft nose of 30-30 round. That's, hey, that 30-30, y'all got souped up. But you're talking about

is deadly. Oh, no. You know, that's, say you just, say you just took out your stone, she,

you won, She killed Big Red with it. You know, I expect to go again. And, you know, said, well, we probably, you know, that's on the size 30, 30. She lied. She said, no, that's mine. He won't mind. At him.

Yeah, that's funny. That gun's sick with that silencer on there. No, no, that's, you know, I think sweet. Do you shoot 150 grain out of there still? It's 160. 160. I used to shoot the, to, one I got Phil from Phil.

Yeah. 150. Yeah. I don't shoot that's 160. Yeah. That's deadly. For sure. Because it dropped big red right where he was standing.

A little high shoulder show. And he didn't even move. He just said, see ya. And that was what? That was two Honda, 180, I think. Yeah. I didn't dialed up. He just, pooh.

That's where we were hunting at the corridor. That's where we were hunting. That's where every day on that property. Yeah. It goes through there. It's just that thicket on both sides and that lane through the middle. That's where Corey shot her. Mm-hmm.

He was way down there. Mm-hmm. She killed you. So Bella gets to long range from Corey. She'll be good. Well, she said, my mom was telling me, and she said, yeah, it was like, pretty far, like 67. This is a different, this is a dough. She killed a doe.

She's about 67 yards. Pretty far. Yeah. Dad was like, it was 2.10. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, she said that yesterday. Yeah.

She was hunting. Your gauge is off. Yeah. She said she was hunting. I was like, how far did you shoot that day? She said, 60 yards? I was like, 60 yards. And I was like, because I was just, I hunted the stand.

60 yards is close in that box. Yeah. And then Willie was like, you shot the thing 200 yards. And she was like, oh. Yeah. It looked like 60. It looked like 60. Because she, she dropped.

it too she said right in the lane so i was like oh man you need to go to the danching rabbit off course in mississippi what we're at like city pearl pearl pearl uh gambling joint pearl river casino or something casino history they're right there together i've seen signs for pearl river casino they've got one of the the ball face fuck squirrel he's got a white patch on his Really? There's literally, there's literally thousands of them on that stupid golf course. That's cool.

Because I asked the guy that run it, I said, hey, would you let me come up here with a 22 rifle? What do you say? He said, what are you telling me? I said,

all in ball-faced Foxwood you got out there on the golf course, I said, close it down for about two days, let me hunt for about two days. You think it'd take two days? Well, I want to kill a bunch of them. He wants to kill all of them. I want to get them all.

All of them. Fresh is the young ones. Let me have a couple of dim trees. Hey, kill about 24. Mm-hmm. Then go home and that night fry them up and I need all 24. Hmm. Sounds like you got a mighty fine plan.

You need to follow up. What do you say? Do you say that? Do you say that? Right. But that's the best game in the world. Yeah. Is a young squirrel.

Is it a game? Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. That's my favorite. That's my favorite wild game. What kind of thing we were playing with, young squirrel. Yeah, I didn't know a game. Oh, the other part of the game is hunting was 23 rifle.

Right. Scope or no scope? Yeah. No, no, scope. Headshot only. Headshots only. It's sitting still, running, or whatever. Head shots only.

Head shots on. That would be fun. Oh, it is? You're an interesting, man. I don't know. I actually went in and bought me a redfield. Sixth power. Mm-hmm.

It can't run it, no, it's six-power period. Right, right. And I had it on a rifle, and, hey, I got, I mean, excellent with that thing. I could kill him running, jumping across from one tree to another one in the mid-air. Head shots only. Head-shot. Head-shot. Just like playing.

Hey, ever once in a while a little bit late. Here he got. Hit him in the neck. Get him in a neck. Why, I didn't wait until I got on his head. You know that's growing. Wee. Yeah.

He died, but it's just, you know. He had a little vertebra. Look, I don't think, you know, I ain't like Kay. You know, Kay's always the brains as a squirrel. She's. No. When I claim, head goes off, and then all I save is the front legs, the back, the behind leg. Yeah.

And me, I did. My, uh, Christine's brother-in-law or her, no, Christine's brother, not a brother-in-law. I say her brother-in-law. be Phil. Yeah. But anyway, he was coming in and a visitor and, she asked you,

she was, what you want to eat? He said, have Uncle's I, kill, you know, have your husband kill a bunch of squirrel. I said,

okay. So I had about 24. Christine had like, you know, one leg and I think, you know, one front leg, one back leg.

And me and him ate the rest of them. 24. for it. When I was about 60. I mean, I'm talking about every one of it. Licked your fingers, huh? Yeah, it wasn't about a pile of bones

on the table. But Tim suckers were good. When I was about 16, my girlfriend was over at our house, and my dad had this crossbow, and I was sighting it in the backyard. So I'm like, I'm shooting it. Yeah.

Squirrel. Squirrel runs by. It's probably like 40 yards. I just track, just instinct, track it, shoot, stick it with that crossbow. I was like, oh yes.

Cleaned it, skinned it, girlfriend crying the whole time. She broke over with me the next week. And they never squirrel hunting again. I've never squirrel hunted again. That's the last one ever hit a squirrel. I like my daughter. They earned her and her boyfriend at the time.

She didn't appreciate your marksman. She did not like that. They had a park, you know, sitting in the park to text somewhere over in Dallas. and squirrels running by just left and right. Traces said, boy, I wish I had to ask 22. Kyle looked at him and said, why? She said, because the next thing that happened was me and you would clean about eight of these suckers,

and then I'd fry them up, and we'd have them for dinner. Is that when he proposed? He said, hey, he said, will you have my kids? Mm-hmm. That was just lying to her. Will you have my kids? Yeah, I want you to have my kids. I ain't no sense of beating around the bush.

And there they are. Presently, four kids later. Yeah. Okay, you're all getting grown now. It worked. It worked. I never know. What was your line for Christine?

Yeah, what did you say? No. Y'all ain't heard this story? Hey, y'all don't remember the story? No, they ain't heard it. Yeah. Hey, I'll be back in five minutes. We went to a Italian restaurant for the night, okay.

And we got there about nine, okay? It's about 2 a.m., okay? It's a late restaurant. Yeah, late. 2 a.m. in the morning. Yeah. You were at the restaurant. Me and her are still having the discussion.

Y'all and I said, I said, what's wrong with you? And she said, I'm not going to marry you. And I said, well, you've got to give me a reason. She said, because I've seen you with kids, and I can't give you a kid of your own. I said, well, hey, if we're supposed to have kids, we'll have kids, or maybe we'll even adopt. And I said, so look, the owner's coming by every five minutes, tell me, would y'all please leave? I need to close up and go home.

And I said, hey, look, don't bother me. We're in a very important discussion right now. In your establishment. Yeah. And I mean, in your establishment, I'm just, you know, you got to. I got a hold off here. I think she said yes, just so that then people could actually close their store. And you took it and run with it.

Yeah. What kind of ring do you give her? No, no, see, and we had her up here, okay, on the fact check. Yeah. When I married that woman, when the justice of the peace said, hey, where's the ring? And I said, ring. I said, wait a minute. somebody gave me a cigar for getting married

I said you usually get these when you get a kid but anyway I reached in my pocket took a band off a cigar wrung it on there hey stuck and when I said I do you know I thee wed I slipped a cigar band on that finger have you got her a new one since

oh yeah yeah pay and I told us that don't wear it public I said they'll cut your hand off of that ring there's a rock huh yeah it's a rock yeah about two characters I was told it was going to cost me like, what, $200? And Phillips said, no, that ain't what we told you. And I said, hey, you and my wife conspired.

And, hey, y'all told me it was $200. Well, hey, add $3 to that. $2,200? No, no. At $3.0, it was $20,000. $20,000. $20,000. Okay.

Okay, that rock, she's got on the finger. I said, I says, well, hey, you don't worry. public i said they'll cut your arm off how long did it take you to get her a rock well it took about 20 you did finally get her a ring that's good but see she told it today we told it on the podcast she said that ain't true folks he bought me like a 16 dollar cheap ring and i said hey that is the first time i have ever heard about a cheap 16 dollar ring to put it on the finger i said when i married this woman, I slipped a cigar ban on her finger. And I said, and really, I think that's why we're still married today is because, you know,

wasn't no money involved in this. You doubled down on the cigar. Just a cigar. Did you smoke that cigar? Did you smoke that cigar after you got married? I threw it away finally. I didn't know. I was back when I wasn't smoking.

I was going to say, I was before you got started. So somebody just randomly gave you. it before you went in to the courthouse? Like as a gift. Yeah. Well, I think it was... It's a boy. I think it was her girlfriend's husband

that gave it to me. Okay. Because I was always teasing Sylvia. It was like, we come in there to pick her, I come in there and pick her up one day. I said, all right, I said, Sylvia, guess what happened this weekend?

She was always telling me, Sylvie was. Hey, you need to marry this woman. I said, you know, I will one day, Sylvia, maybe. So I was always teasing her. So look, April Fool's days coming up, April the 1st. So I come in and pick Christine up, and I said, Sylia, guess what happened this weekend? You know, and she's all here. And she said, what?

I said, being that woman, that red-headed woman mine, we took a little trip. Yeah, and she's all get-gittery, gittery now. Y'all? Gittery. She said, and where did you go? And I said, well, we went, you know, to a real pretty place, y'all. And I said, and we also seen a justice of the peace. Well, she's just beside herself now.

She's on Cloud 9. And I said, Sylia, we snuck away and, you know, it loped. He got married. He loped. Well, she's on Cloud 9, Dancer Round. I gave her about five minutes. Then I started laughing. and she knew the gig was up.

I said, Sylvia, what day is? She was looking at me and, hey, if looks could kill, I'd have had about 20 daggers in my chest. Okay, because she was mad and all she said, she just pointed at me, she said, oh, God's going to get you for this. God's going to cut you down. Well, hey, about three days later, God got me for it.

What do you do? Those who got married for real. been together for 50 years 54 years if you spoke it into existence huh you spoke your moment into existence oh yeah

so be careful what you've clown around with yeah in the backpowering that is true that is true but it was a good thing

there you go yeah worked out yep side what you think about them old Miss rebels hey look I messed up

Uh-oh. No, you did. Watching it. Okay. They was ahead, like, you know, at first, I think 12 to nothing for like a quarter and a half. Yeah. Well, I turned around. I'm flipping channels, you know, it's not keeping my interest.

Because wide receivers and the tight end of Mississippi keep dropping the stupid ball. Yeah. And like three times, it would have been a touchdown. Right. You know, so I don't got this industry to stop watching. What were you watching instead? Yeah. I was going over to a stupid Western channel.

But he's saying nice. I'm back and forth, checking on it. That was why. And the last time I checked, you all, uh-oh, Georgia's got them 21 to 12. Yeah. And I said, that's it. I ain't watched that crap. I want.

Well, look. You wake up and the old Miss rebels. Yeah. Yeah, I wake up and I'm trying to find out who beat, yo, Georgia, the Old Miss. Yeah, well, for two days. Yeah. So I'm sitting there watching the 10. I watched the ball game, and Christine said,

that's what I'm talking about. You know, and I said, what? She said, Ole Miss Pete Georgia. And I said, what? She said, yeah, just rested on the screen. And it fasted it again, you know, Oklahoma, Miami's done one, so they're in the bracket. Well, the other bracket was on the field.

Yeah. Well, guess who filled it? Old Miss. They play Oregon? No, they play Miami. They play Miami. And then Oregon and Indiana. I hope they beat Miami.

Yeah. That would be, congratulations to the ducks, the rebels, the Hoosiers, and the Cains. Oh yeah. You know what I didn't know

is it Indiana's quarterback Fernando? Yeah. His brother's the second string quarterback. Oh. And then he wears 16 and his little brother wears 15. QB1 and QB2. They did it win the highson.

That's pretty cool. That's cool. There you go. His brother, when they were up so much against Alabama, he was playing. That's going to be, which is cool. Like, his brother got to play, too. That's going to be one fast but fantastic game. Yeah.

Oregon Ducks against the Hoosers, Indiana. Yeah. And he's done said he's for the ducks. They cut off. I don't know him to Alabama. I want, I want Indiana to win it all. I don't care. It doesn't matter to me, but it was cool to watch them curb stomp Alabama

because everybody was like, Indiana hasn't played anybody. But the guys at poker. table we all talked about it. They had all 100 bets on. Well, no, no. They was, well, they were saying, you know, talking about, well, when Bamma was, you know, Bamma and Indiana

were going to play. I said, well, if Indiana plays football, I said, they'll whoop, whoop Alabama. Yeah. And they did, they. They play, uh, they put a strapping on them.

The best thing for the whole time is Lane Kiffin made 250 grand for sitting at his house last night. He ain't doing nothing. Well, they don't. And my pump in the pen, they're done in blunt. Yeah. You make $250 grand sitting at your house.

They didn't do you wrong. You did just fine. Well, I mean, we did all right. You did. Okay. So I was saying he got $250,000 because they won the game. Is that like a thing? That was in his contract, but he made LSU match it because of what was coming if he

were to sign Earth. Oh, Lee. The LSU wrote him a check last knock for 250 Gs. So if they win the Natty, what does he go? $500 for the next round. they win and then another smooth milly oh yeah then we'll get to the little little happy new year bonus yeah and i kind of because of the way everybody in baton rouge handled that go tigers by the way i kind of want them to have to pay the man two million dollars yeah it'll be sweet i'm rooting for him yeah

i think they're fine i'm rooting for a trail of bad decisions to lead to two million dollars for lane kiff i think they're good for it after brian kelly how much they'll pay him yeah that's it's all good It'll buff on that. No, that's fun, man. Anybody got a verse on their mind? We always close with one. Generally leave that up to Johnny D. But anybody's got one on their mind.

I've got one. Go ahead. What you got? Jeremiah 29-11. Yeah. God's talking. Hey, you don't know the plans I have for you, not to harm you,

but to give you hope and a future. And when I went to Fort Polk, a chaplain asked me to speak to the mountain division because they're having too many suicides. That's the verse I gave to him. You know, I talked for like 30 minutes, maybe 35 or 40. And I said, hey, all I want you to remember one thing. Jeremiah 29-11. God talking. I have plans for you.

I said, don't hurt yourself. God has a plan for your life, not to harm you, but to give you hope and a future. Don't mess with the Almighty's plan for you. Keep yourself safe. That's good. It's better than ours.

For sure. Well, we thank you. I appreciate you, boys, joining us this fine Friday afternoon, and we'll see you next time right here in the Duck Call. I hope you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Go Ducks. 2026, baby.