Duck Call Room - Justin Martin’s Twins Catch the Flu & He Doesn’t Handle It Well

Episode Date: January 2, 2025

Uncle Si completed a goal he’s been chasing for two years, and even Stone got misty-eyed at the journey’ end. Martin admits the surprise he got the first time he bunked with Si overnight and the real reason why no one ever wants to room with Si. John-David is floored by the boys’ superhero power selections, Si sets a new goal for the new year, and Martin confesses that he didn’t take it well when his wife and sons ended up with the flu over their Christmas break.   - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So you ready? I was ready. He's ready. He's ready. You got to get that microphone up by his face. Enjoy your hot chocolate. Look at all that foam up in that mustache. I got to have a long morning.

Christine going to be glad when you get it. I'm going to have a hard day, boys. Hard day. Tough day. And a long night. A what? A long night. A long night.

It is 120 in the afternoon and he's had a long day. How did you have a long night? Do tell. I'm serious, I didn't sleep much. If I wanted to sleep, it wasn't but just short periods. Oh, yeah? I laid there in that bed. Yeah.

And then I said, what does all this light show that I'm seeing? Now, look, and I said, the immediate's left the stupid TV on. Okay, time out. You see, I got in bed about eight. And I, you know, I'm trying to go to sleep. Well, I rolled in. So we were all staying.

Let's set the seam for the people listening. We all went down to Honeybreak last night. You've never heard of it. Look it up. It's a duck hunting place down in Jonesville, Louisiana. Really nice. I mean, one of the nicest places you'll ever visit. Got their own chef that cooks great food?

All the thing. All the amenities. I think there's the name of it? Yeah. But I let the boys go to bed. Then I took Brittany out to dinner. Then I come down. So I got down about 11 o'clock.

How sweet are you? to do that. Well, yeah. Hey, you treat your woman like the queen she is. I guarantee you, son. You better. They better do it. Go work.

But I rolled in about 11 p.m. And y'all had Rocky. Rocky. Blackie four. Blaring. So I assume when I'm walking upstairs that everybody's awake. Rocky four is the good one, isn't it?

Oh, yeah, the Russian. Yeah. It's just one big bunk room we're all in. and so I'm thinking they're going to be awake well I walk in everybody in the room snoring I was like oh no oh no I have messed up here so the fact that you're saying you weren't asleep not too there's a well if I went to sleep I'm telling you it wasn't for short periods oh yeah because you were like I laid there and just said yeah I look at my watch and say good grief it's only two 30 years only two-thirds it's been a long day for him that accounts for three and a half hour

because when I go out there's something about hey did you sleep on a ride back because there was a two-hour ride no I tried that nope can't do it everything's got to be just right for me to really sleep oh what

at me I'll tell you what you do ask Christine hey what happens when I come back off of a trip you're about to sleep for a couple of days i will get in that bed and i won't get out till like 11 o'clock the next day that's like hibernation that's it i'm talking about like nine o'clock i'm in bed and i don't get out till like one okay she said you must be tired you stayed in in bed all day that's a oh i slept 24 hours straight one time god bless you i'm serious only thing that does that's

Bears. No, I didn't. Wren. Ripped them winkle. My wife said she spent like 24 hours coming in there and putting her hand on my chest to make sure I was breathing. Because I, hey, I did not move for 24 hours. There you go. Man hibernates. Well, I don't know why he's so tired because it sounded like he was relaxed. Stone, too.

No, no, that's the crazy. Stone was ripped. Oh, no, that's the crazy part of it. I woke up as morning and said, man, my throat's a little scratchy. I was like, yeah, I know why. I heard that all night long. I'm telling you. And look, we had watched, before we went to bed, we'd watch bears,

somebody shooting bears, up north somewhere. And some of them was fighting them, and they was, yab, yab, yob, yob, yob, yob, yob, yob, yob, yob. Well, that's what he's done all night long. Yob, yob, yob, y'u, y'u, y'ah. Y'ah! Oh, ha! Oha! Oh, ha!

He was ripping. And apparently they had some peas or something because everybody in there were farting too. This is wild. Oh, hey, I get into it. I ain't slept in a group setting in a minute. Yeah, I was like, oh. A hundred acres of timber. Yeah.

Sawin logs? Yeah. Sowing logs. Oh, yeah, it's clear. Oh, I'd say. On the ride back, that window would go down on his side about every 15 minutes. That window would go down and that gust would hit me. He just cutting wind over there?

Yeah. He just smelled like just rotting eggs. Like he'd been eating deviled eggs. Well, I know this, when PR would go out, would go somewhere hunting? I got banned from the rooms. That's true statement. When we, first time I... Hey, you get your buddy and I sleep on the couch.

You ain't sleeping in the room. The first time I showed up to Arkansas to hunt with you boys. The first time they put me in the bunk room with sigh. and I had no idea why I was like, heck yeah, I love Sy, he's hilarious. Then Cy fell asleep. And this is before he had a CPAP machine. Tim Martin lay there somewhere.

You know when you fall asleep when you bunk with Cy when he gets up to go pee? Yeah. You got like a three-minute window. It does take you three minutes to go to sleep quick. And it goes from when he gets up to go pee is, oh, ha, ha, ha, ha. That's your cue.

No, to sleep. Oh, boy. Hey, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Man, it was, yeah, it was, there's a long night last. He makes noise. We landed in Denver. And there was the whole crew. Oh, I was there for this.

I went in the bathroom and everybody out at Willie Fielding this. They all come in. Whoa, whoa, whoa, man. Oh, good. It was one stranger in a stall. Willie, hey, I've never been to this airport in my life, okay? That's because it wasn't an airport. Wee's in the FBO.

Hey, and Willie, burned the lights out. Every time. Every time. Hey. Oh, oh. If you walk in. I started doing the mine thing against the wall, which is dangerous since you're at the urinal.

I don't know where I'm at. I'm running into junk, bumping my knee on metal. Oh, didn't. it was, oh, yeah. Willie ought to kill you and I get a hold of you, boy. You know, back then I thought that was mean, but after last night, I think it's kind of funny.

Yeah, it is if you're not on the receiving end of it. I guarantee you. It ain't funny if you're on the receiving end. It's still pretty. It is funny. Oh, what a life, man. You do make a lot of noise. Well, now, I admit that.

I'm a noise maker. He is a noise maker. My wife's always. She said, she just walks out of her room, and she was, you quit that? I said, what? She said, you're in here just making all kind of racket. And I said, well, I don't even know it.

What are you looking at? This shirt from the original Duck Command, that's old school. That's 2000. I got distracted by that. Probably 2006, I bet. Yeah. Yeah, this thing is warm because I am burning up. Yeah, I'm freezing.

Yeah, that was made by Drake Waterfowell. It was right when the Real Tree deal started. That's Real Tree Max 4. I got distracted by how much I want, Cy's jacket. Sorry. No, no, sigh, don't give it to. Sell it to Jacob Mayo. He ain't get it.

Jake Mayo called that baby. For $500. Vintage duck commander jacket. That thing is sweet. So y'all had a good night sleep, huh? Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm so resting. Well, I guess I wouldn't shouldn't call it that.

We had an interesting adventurous night of sleep. Yeah, we did. That's fine, or whatever. I don't remember the last time I was in a group sleep situation. Yeah, last night. I tried to avoid. Last night reaffirmed why you will never get me at one of those men's retreat. Oh, yeah.

Hey, no, look, I'm telling you. Yeah, that's reason number 98. not to go to one The one I went on I looked over and there was this old dude About size age and blue jeans and boots sleeping And I was like how's he asleep like this And I've never heard someone snore

Like that in my entire life So then I just left went on like a little excursion Went through the woods Yeah Found some stuff Went to the kitchen where I wasn't supposed to be Made myself a snack They were like

What were you doing last night? I said you can't sleep next to all these people. Ready to Pentry. Yeah. Group sleep. I don't thrive in group sleep setting. No,

the only personal out of my room is Allison. Yeah. Not even. And mine is Brittany, but she's even optional sometimes. I'm like, she gets them restless legs. Get the thrashing, buddy.

Yeah. Like, I just get up. Huh? She kick you? Oh, yeah. Sometimes I kick back too. Sometimes I don't have enough.

Debbie is fun sleeping. the room with. Terrible. He only have but one nostrils, so that don't work. Well, they called him tiny nostrils when he was teenagers. He got little bitty nostrils, pinhole nostrils. The only man that sounds like he's drunk that don't drink. Jay sunk him with that one another day on the fall.

He said, you always sound drunk, but you don't drink. He said, hey, I am drunk on life, buddy. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means? means more outside cooking. And y'all know we love to eat beef around here. And that's what, because of our friends over at Tritale's beef, make such a good product,

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 come to them. But with Tritels Beef, we skipped the grocery store. and do it a different way.

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which is just a, she doesn't eat meat. She ain't a big meat easier, folks. Yeah. Just go to tribeef.com slash. That's trybeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. Happy holidays, ma'am. Yeah, we finally back.

Yeah, we're made it. 2025's here. So that's kind of cool. Hunter, did the people like whatever we do? did during the holidays since we took two weeks off? I think so. Well, good. Good.

I don't even know what it was. Yeah, me neither. Well, you know, me and I accomplished something we've set out to accomplish two years ago. And actually, okay, we actually accomplished it. We did it. And that, it's a deer and his name was Toothpick. Is Toothpick dead? What?

Teethick has, uh, went to heaven. Toothick left the chap, boy. He left this old wicked earth, and hey, he went to the good place. You got it? You got him? He got him. I wish I'd have had the camera work on him. Prepared me to shoot this deer.

It was hilarious. Oh, well. He was trying to talk to me calmly, okay, not to get me. excited and it was allergic. So I guess, though, what we call in the business the buck fever. He gets excited. He'll get to shaking like a dog trying to pass a sweet seat. I've been chasing this

rascal for, you know, two years. Is this him? I don't know if it's him or not. Is that a picture aside with a dead deer? Yeah, it is. How many deer you got a deal to say, I ain't sure. Yeah, that's him.

Oh, he's giant. Talking about. groups. It's so lovely to be with a group of people and you do something. Look at that. Because like when I shot him, the deer runs off. Okay. So he sends pictures to about three people saying, well, what do you think?

You know, and all of them said, well, he's gut shot. He was. No, he wasn't. He was a little far back, but it wasn't gut shot. He got the lungs and. It did. And it got the liver. Well,

Sa, let's talk about what happened a couple weeks ago. Before we had another shot. So we're clear. That little ruffle of her right there is an exit wound. I think this is one of the looks.

No, pick up, go up, go up right there. Toothpick may be one of Santa's rain dears because the deer gods have been protecting this deer. Mm-hmm. So Johnny Dade two weeks ago. Yeah.

Toothick was standing in the jump. pile. Now, it was getting dark. Yeah. It was about 10 minutes before illegal. And he was 90 yards in the chump pile, head down, broadside. I said, sigh, he's in the chum pile. I said, yeah, is that him in the chum? I said, yep. He's standing broadside to me and he's got his head. He's eating the chum in the chum pile. I said, you got him. He said, yeah, I got him in the crosshairs. I said, well, hold up. He mumbled something about camera, I think. Oh, boy. I said, hold up. Let me get to. camera and I reached down to get the camera and you hear tae yow wop hey howop yeah and I said well we both high-fives on I got a bullet in that sucker I finally have done it I've got him

you know so we high-five and we sit there and talk about well it's been a you know he's been a worthy adversary we hunted him for two years now and we finally are going to get to put our hand on them big antlers of that rascal well he goes down there about 25 minutes later.

He said, I'm going to go check for blood. So I watch him, y'all. He's got his phone light on, and he's walking around, you know, makes a circling the woods, and then I hear that big 308, pang! And then, pow!

You know, and I look, and it looked like he's picked up a rabbit and took the back to the four-wheeler, you know, and I'm saying, wait a minute, and he comes up, I thought he was pulling my leg. He comes up there, and he said, hey, You big dummy, you shout a little old yearlet. And I said, don't, don't.

I said, come on, dude, don't do that. I said, hey. And he said, I'm serious. Well, look, it was dark, y'all by that time. So we can't see nothing. So we get to wait and go back the next day. And we go down there, look for blood, can't find any blood, make a big circle they do. They walk around looking at him and chat, looking for blood.

that they, you know, probably went 300 yards, circled around everywhere, and come back, and when we're walking back to the fullwheeler, it's uphill. And Chad said, hey, there's a bunch of deer hair right here, a big pile of it. Yeah, and I said, well, now we know where the yearling was standing. That stupid deer was standing in front of him because he was uphill. I had the crosshairs on him and kill that stupid yearling. He didn't see the yearland.

I didn't see the yearling. I didn't see the year. I was reaching down to get the camera. I was reaching down to get the camera. Uh-huh. Which Willie gave explicit orders. Don't shoot that deer if it's not on camera. And he shot it before he got.

He shot it before I could get the camera. So it worked out pretty good. And plus I got some tender backstraps out of the deer. And I got some deer meat. You know, which Christine said, hey, you go all, deer hunting all the time, and I never get any deer meat. I said, well, darling, all you had to say was, hey, bring home some deer meat. I said, don't have killed me if we want to deer. Just use a dog and give me the backstrap, though, you know.

Just tell me he wants to. But anyway, so he, instead of shooting toothpick, he shot a 35-pound yearling. And I picked it up by the hind legs like a rabbit, walked it up there. And he said, I finally got that. I said, yeah, you got him. and I shot that light on that yearling and he gets to hollering. He said, no, that ain't what I shot.

It wasn't what I was shooting that. I said, well, he got a big hole through him. Somebody shot him. Yeah. And I, well, toothpick had him trained to take bullets for him. Well, no, no, that's what I'm talking about. When the dear gods are putting yearlings in front of this big rascal, I mean, he's got divine protection, boys.

That's great. But hey, he messed up. But like I said, I would love that camera on him. Because he said, hey, settle down. Settle down. His pick is coming out over from the other stand. I was trying to stay calm myself. Yeah.

I get shook up a little bit. So look, I throw my binoculars up, looking through the trees, and all I see is a head of a deer coming. And I looked at them big antlers, and I said, oh, yeah, that's him. And he said, calm down, calm down. He said, let me get the rifle ready for you. So he puts the rifle in the holder, grooves it down, okay, looks through the scope, get you y'all he said okay i got to set up for you so look i put my eye to the scope and i said is it is it is it the buck in

the back and he said no no no no he ain't come into the the picture yet he's gonna walk into the where the scope is so i sit there and wait and here he comes and he stops y'all and i said you ready he said yeah pow yeah i said take your time boom yeah take it out bam well look take him out That's what he heard. You said, take your time. He heard take him out. Well, no, no, look, y'all, because I ask him, the deer, the deer runs off, you know. We didn't even see him fall, okay?

Good reason. No, I'm serious, because the scope, as soon as I pulled the trigger, the scope went out up. Gone. Okay, so I asked Stone. But that's why you get it on video so we can watch. No, no, because I asked him, I said, hey, did you hear it hit, hit him? I said, I didn't hear the walk. I said, did I miss him again?

What are you talking about? That sounded like Cardi B all over that thing. Well, no, no, but anyway, so, hey, you know, we sit there and talk. He texted about 14 people and say, well, we got a bullet in me, y'all. What do you think? And all of them were saying, well, you got shot in me, blah, blah, blah, blah, this, that. And he asked me, he said, where was you aim it? I said, high shoulder.

He said, oh, no, you shouldn't have done that. I had it set for just, you know, center math. Well, I said high shoulder, but the bullet, if you cut the deer in half, the bullet would hit right at half. Half mark. You hit him in a 50 yard. It was. It was. I told him, I said, oh, it's about six inches back too far.

Well, add another four inches of that. It was about 10 inches back too far. But it still did, because when we watched it on the camera, I said, stone. I said, that ain't a bad hit. I said, because it wrinkled his skin. Well, that was my way of expression where I thought it hit. Well, the more I thought about it, I said, oh, no. Now I know why I used the term it wrinkled his skin.

When that bullet hit that deer, it collapsed his lungs, and it was, I'm looking at a 3D picture. his lungs are this wide and then it went pow! And it's this wide. Okay. What? And look, when we got back to the lair and put it on the big screen on the computer, you know, when it hit him, hey, he immediately hit the ground. Oh, he was hurt.

And then it jumped up and run off. And I said, oh, that deer hit good. If you shot me in the stuff like, I hit the ground too. All the wannabees are still saying, no, you got you out of them. you blah, blah, blah. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, before we go anywhere else, who are the wannabes? The people he text?

You, I'll take that. Oh, it's a gut shot. That deer was gutshot. Look, hey, let me tell you something. He was shot too far back. Look, I'm not. Which would equal the guts. Gut shots happen.

Like, how old are you? 706. How far was this deer? Who thaw 85, 235 yards? Let me tell you something. High five for hitting him. Like, I'm just saying, like, that ain't an easy shot. Like, nothing about that is easy, so you hit him.

But then the most important thing you did, forget the shot is you did the right thing. You got the heck out of it. When you didn't know, you left him alone. Well, no, no, because that's what he came in. That's the lesson from the whole deal. That's the reason he texts. Yeah. And he said, hey, you know, we're thinking we should just.

just not mess with him, don't go up there. That's exactly what I said. Get out. We'll go tomorrow morning. As a man who was on scene for the recovery. And drag, he, you know, muscle man. Is that why you said, because I got the picture in the group message.

Oh, yeah. And so, yeah, where's a video to good-looking gentleman dragging him out? It was you. Okay. Well, me and Zonbreaker. Yeah. Zonbreaker did a lot more than I did. I just kind of steered.

He was more of the horsepower. If you see this boy, you know why. I always like having bone break her around. I mean, look at the very apt-name. Look at the size of that joke. But here's what I was going to say. If you want to know how much it means, when the man got from the four-wheeler to the deer,

he couldn't say a word. It's the first time I've ever heard him speechless, not because he was out of breath. Well, I was out of breath, too. Well, he's out of breath, but that wasn't it, because I was over begging him for a plug off that oxygen machine after I drug him up at hill right there. I was like, hey, man, give me a little head of that.

Like, I mean, but he, that's how much this quest meant to the guy who gets paid to sit here and run his mouth. He couldn't say nothing. Here's the thing about him, okay. We figured we, okay, me and him and sometimes his daughter, okay, and sometimes other people would sit with it. We sit in the stand 40, at least 40 times. Yeah. hunting that deer. And he,

yes, being that deer have had some moments. I'd say so. He had little deer jumping out in front of bullets. Yo, we're having a deer.

He had secret service. You'll bid Hank Carey, the famous wrestler. So, hey, the deer lived, look, the deer lived,

he's probably seven and a half is what we think. We'll know once the, we get the mount back. because the guy that mountain will tell us how old he was. But me and the deer's got, we bonded over that 40 cents. Oh, he was the monarch.

Oh, because I said, blame it. Because Stone would be sitting a stand. We don't got a picture in the camera of him at this stand. So the weather's right, the wind's right, we're in that stand, we're after him. And guess what? Stone throws his binoculars up, and he's looking over at the other stand.

He said, yep, it's just what I thought. Well, when he said that, I said, oh, don't tell me that. And he said, yeah, it's him. He's 50 yards in front of the other stand. 500 from where we were. Yeah, from where we were. That happened. He's standing 50 yards in front of the stand.

That happened three days in a row. We'd hunt one stand and he'd come out to the other. It's like he's a mind reader. And then Stone said, well hey look let's just face it this big is smarter than both of you and me combined okay he also that's the bottom line he also values living well hey you don't get that big by being done oh yeah you're talking about a big old pretty animal yeah that sucker probably way about what 230 and that's post route yeah a lot yeah post rud he probably was walking around about 260

When I petted him, when I was on my knees sitting behind him, it was like petting this wood. It wasn't on gill. Okay. He wasn't a heavyset, deer. Yeah, he was. He so felt like it. Oh, he did. Yeah, he was.

I watched them drag him out. But the most impressive thing I saw that day was when Martin and Bonebreaker lifted that deer up and power cleaned him in the back of that side by side. Martin still got it? That much room to spare. Oh, no. Here's what I knew. I knew I had one, maybe two opportunities at that. And that was it.

I said, so I'm going to give it everything I got on this first one. On the first year. And hopefully it lands. Yeah. On the first. If it wouldn't have, I'd probably be on. It was impressive. It was impressive.

But Bonebreaker had the hard part. He had to head. Okay. Who is Bonebreaker? What's his name? Cody. Cody Zonbricker. Yeah.

We barely nicknamed him. He said Zonbreaker. More like Bonebreaker. My guy is. Where did he? coming from him. Oh, he could run through that wall, son. I'd say East Carol Parris probably just looking at him. Yeah, I would bet. I would bet on him instead of the, uh, what is it? Oh, he went, he's from baster blocks. He's from

bass. Yeah, I would bet on bone breaking instead of the same. He trains at our jihitsu school. Okay. It's a very apt nickname. If you see him, he'd be like, yeah, it makes sense. I ain't getting in a fight with nobody. He makes burly look like a little child. He makes burly look like a child. Mm-hmm. Wow He's a big old boy now I like to know he's on my side That's right

You want him on your team Yeah Yeah he's Bigger than burly Well muscle wise Not not stature probably Yeah no not stature muscles yes

His arms probably That about size He'd have a tough time choking you Because his arms are so big No he don't have a tough time choking you No he'd get that forearm on you I'm talking about just like You know like a kid friendly choke

not more than the like. He likes this kind of chock. There you go. He'll pin your arm up next to your head and just. Yeah. He can pop your head like a pimple if he wanted to. Very good Nicknard. We'll have him in here.

He's big old boy now. Oh, yeah. Hey, you quick to arm wrestle Rucker that day. Let's get you up against a old bone. I thought I would beat Rucker. I know I'll lose a man named Bonebreaker. He's a burly size. Yeah.

He big old boy. Yeah. He's a good duck hunter, too. He's a good hay. Yeah, he's, but that was fun. It was fun to be a part of. It was fun to be there for the recovery. Oh, yeah, we had all kinds of people there.

Well, I was excited. That was another thing. Now, most people don't get to have a crowd for the deer recovery. It was a crowd. We're selling tickets out there. Oh, Chad and his two girls. You know, we've got to listen to sister telling Jay, Jace, you need to quit killing these little bitty deer.

That's true story. Stop, stop shooting the yearlings. Chas daughter undressed Jace Robertson via telephone. It was fun. Oh, yeah. About shooting yearlings. About shooting baby deer. And then Phil caught a couple of strays because he said, well, I learned that from my dad.

She said, well, your dad is not a nice man. Who's this person? Chad's your old daughter. How old is she? Five. Okay. The honesty of a child. She was letting her rip.

Next, she looked at me. She said, your daddy shouldn't have taught you that. I said, hey, I'm not one of them. I'm not one of them. I said, I said, excuse me, I'm not one of them. I just kind of look like it. I run with them, but I'm not one of them. Oh, boy, I know, no, but it was, man, it was special. I ain't going to lie, I got choked up a little bit when I saw him because I was, I was 70-30 on actually retrieving the deer.

But when I saw him laying there, it was pretty cool. It's good stuff. Well, the night before was terrible. Let me guess. You didn't get no sleep in either. No, okay. Worried about him. Boy, you're running on empty, ain't you?

Two nights this week with no sleep. Yeah. Now we're trying to figure out what we're going to do for the rest of the years of here. Dang. Now, right, y'all. You've peaked. Here at 76 years old. Yeah, but I told him, I said, if we hadn't recovered him, I would have probably,

okay, forget me, deer hunting. I'm through it. I'll do it again. That'd have been sad. Yeah, it would have been. Yeah. Then I wouldn't have had nothing to do. So now what we're going to do is, hey, Willie's, uh, needs some deer in the freezer.

So now we fix to go shoot timeout. Some does. Willie needs deer in the freezer? Yeah. Did one of the four come unplugged or something? No, he's out of deer. He still has plenty of e-land and milk guys. Yeah, okay, just making sure.

He likes variety. Yeah. He needs white tech. Okay. Lots of variety. He entertains a lot of people, okay? Yeah. So, but what?

Plus, he is the boss. Well, that was always the rule. You just pay your taxes to Willie, and you pretty much do it every one. Yeah, give to seizure what seizures? I get a text every week. You got any backstrap? Yes. Yes.

I mean, you need. If it's no, tell me, I will have some tomorrow. Yeah, that's right. So we fix... Because me and your uncle will go shoot. Size fix to get real good at shooting the rifle. We're fixing to get to that range and practice. See, my next goal, see, this is nobody knows about this.

Breaking news? Yeah. I go to Southwest Texas a lot to hunt deer. Well, this year, okay, me, him and his daughter, Sage, she killed a big beautiful 22 point, or 22 inch. 22 point was about to be. It was 11 point, but he was a horse. It was a hawk.

Well, look, guess what? Is that this one? That's it. Oh, that's it. I was going through the emails, and this picture came up, and I said, wow, that kid looks like Stone's daughter. Anyway, guess what? I shot twice, okay, at deer, not whitetail.

I shot twice at two axis deer, bucks. Back in South Texas. And I missed both times. So that was at 385. Yeah. So now we got to get on the range and we're going to have 300, 400, 400, and 500 on the range. And I'm going to be where I can little battle plate. where I say,

D-D-D-D. That's a long shot there. Well, what he's not telling you is, I tried to get him to go to the range before Deer season. He don't need no practice. And his reply was, I don't need practice. Just dial it up and give me the gun. What's not? Give me a little rifle.

I feel like BK. Okay, BK sitting there watching some of it. Hey, all she ought to go. But this train you and her, she actually practices. She puts hundreds of rounds down range. That's why she's so good. You can shoot. Better than me and him.

That's true. Now you're catching strays. No, hey, I don't mind. God. Hey, coach is a truth, boys. Put me in, coach. What have you ever practiced a lot of in your life? Sleeping.

You just said you don't practice shooting. Well, I did, though, at one time. I wore my badge, shooting badge, was expert. In Cub Scouts? No, in the Army. Not in his Cubs Couts. I wasn't in the Cubs Couts. I'm just messing with it.

Well, I guess you could call him Cubs Couts. Well, when he started a deer hunt with me, he actually was using rifles with the optics that were actually zeroed. Hey, let me tell you what that old man did this morning. Uh-oh. On the duck up. What do you do? My man reached out there with that 20-gauge, clipped him a crow at about 70.

Yeah, probably. I saw it. I saw him measuring it out. I had to blind watching. He messed up. I saw him measuring it out with his shotgun. I said, ain't no way. Boy, ain't no way.

He shot that crow. That thing folded like a wet dish rat, buddy. You want to know what's funny? The one time I've been duck hunting with sigh, we didn't see nothing. It was me, Stone, and Cy, and a crow came flying overhead. He smashing?

Cy all of a sudden just stands up, pia-out, folds it. Yeah. It's just... Well, when the ducks ain't flying, You don't want to fly in front of me. Okay? Because if you do, I'm going to do my best to kill you. It was one of my favorite moment duck hunting ever.

Hey, you've just put your finger on my wound and poured salt in it. That crow go. And I ain't going to take it. Oh, he'd dope off that day. Oh, he smashed it. Hey. Oh, it made you today. This place we were hunting, you know, it was pretty swanky, you know, high-end, you know,

high-falutin customers and whatnot. and I guarantee you that's the first time anybody's ever raised up. Because they asked the crowd. They asked the man that only, okay? How many crows y'all killed? He got to laugh and he said, I think this is the first one. Yeah. Yeah, so I had to reach out there and got him once.

So, hey, guess what we did after before we left the plant? You ate the crow? No, I had to get out and hold a stupid crow up and take pictures of him. Uh-huh. And then I laid it on his chest while he laid down riding the boat. and mounted. And that was the first thing since you asked me,

you want this fully mounted or just a head or wings out or what? Skull mounted crow. You don't want to do that? I don't think his skull in good shape from what I saw. It was a head shot all the way.

The time he shot a crow, like that was probably 15 years ago. It was one of the most impressive shots I've ever seen. Oh, you don't want to fly. Hey. Time spent out. I don't want to fly by the duck blind when there's no ducks flying. Yeah, time spent outside.

I just said it jokingly. I said, sigh, here comes you a crow. That was all he needed. Because he had to, he come right by me and I was looking at him. Then I saw that gun barrel come out that blind. I said, oh, he ain't going to try this, is he? What he's going to do is he stonged thing, stank thing, because I do it all the time. He'll measure him and he'll be like, I don't know.

He'll say, but. Hey, yeah. You suck. I smoked you. But this time, I didn't. didn't say nothing. I just, you smoke.

He just, I looked over. Then Drew was real nice. You know, the dog's name, I don't know what, back. Oh, boom.

Boone. Boone was the dog. Made the dog go get him? Yeah, he didn't want to do. No, he didn't. No, he didn't. He picked it up,

looked at it first. He picked it up, come walking back, had a funny expression on her face. And I really don't, I don't understand. He looked like he just grabbed like a sourpac kid or something.

That dog's going to be confused for the rest of his life after today. See, that's what hunting's about. Killing crows. Well, no, no. It's having a good fellowship, okay, and having some fun, and you hear the most important part of all of it. Laughter. Yeah.

Oh, I laugh. Go away. Okay? We laugh. That's why it's actually impressive that you killed deer because I figure you make a lot of, that's why I, That's another reason that took us 40 plus times to kill a toothpick. The noise, the noise factor.

I had to put insulation in all of his deer stands. Here's a deal. Black them out. That one right there, the big one behind you. I had tears in my eyes when I walked up on that deer right there. And I told the owner, I told him he was out of his mind when he told me you could shoot him. And I said, have you lost your mind? I said, that deer is.

worth a lot of money you sell him to somebody to shoot him don't give him to me you know and i said he's mightnere too pretty to shoot you but i'm going to tell you right now the memory that eddie is going carried to the grave with him is worth way more than what he sold that deer for oh and if you don't think i ain't to to to mine you're wrong yeah yeah you know but there's a legitimate chance we can get that crow Oh, yeah. Yeah, we can do it. Oh, we're going to? I wouldn't doubt.

I got a nice chest. Because when we left, Drew had the crow in his hand. He made it back to the camp. He made it back to the camp. So I'm pretty sure I'm going to see that crow again. Oh, praise a Lord. And it's going to have some plaque on the bottom of it with some writing. So I had a kind of guy killed a crow be the only one bandit ever, you know, something goofy like that.

but it not this, I mean, I laughed. I giggled, because I just said it in jest. I was like, Say, you got a crow coming right here. That's all he needed to hear. It's all he needed. I didn't hear that. All I did is, I seen him. And I said, hey, bad move, dude.

Bad move. Wrong place, wrong time. Wrong place, wrong time. And it was a good shot because it was about 70. Oh, look. Jace even told him that was a good shot. Jay's even that. That would ever compliment me.

I looked over here he was smiling. Oh, yeah. He said, hey, that was a good shot. Having a good day. And I just kind of thought to myself, I said, well, hey, I've been doing it all my life, son. You just never have a... Verified it. Acknowledged it.

That's how you had to prove it. You had to shoot at something nobody else was going to shoot at, so you could easily claim that one. Man on a house. No, I just did it because I wanted to. And it fit the moment. I was glad you did. Yeah, me too. I laughed.

Living the place. It was the highlight of the hunt. But it's been a good week. It's been a good week. Yeah, we're back. It's 2025 now. Mm-hmm. Side, do you have any New Year's resolutions?

I don't make New Year's resolution. Why not? Because you don't ever keep him. Yeah. Why should you fool yourself? If you're not going to keep it, don't even bother making it. What he's really saying is why would you mess with perfection? Yeah.

He ain't changing now. Is that what you're getting at? Well, I'm too old to change. Well, you just said you're going to practice shooting. Well, look, that could be your New Year's resolution. Well, no, that ain't a resolution. That's, hey, let's get to work. Okay.

The work will pay off. I think that's my definition of the New Year's resolution. No, just think of the fund that being. him and fix the house, going to the range. Because look, trust me, when I say, okay, there's going to be three, four, five, okay, when we're, what's the range doing it, it's made out of metal, so when you say, pow, you have no doubt, you either missed it or you hit it because, hey, it's going to ring the bell to use the Navy Seals deal.

If you want to quit, you've got to ring the bell. And it's true, okay? But if you want to keep going, you got to be able to hit the bail. Like if you had like a New Year's resolution, you wouldn't want to. Oh, I ain't got a resolution. You ain't going to catch him on a technicality.

You ain't going to get him. I ain't going to have a resolution. What did you get for Christmas? Anything worthy a note? Hey, what do I need for Christmas? Nothing. I just asking if anybody surprised you with something worthy a note, that's all. nothing yeah my wife told me she loved me that's a surprise that's a surprise that's right there you go

that's better than money my sister-in-law thought it'd be a good idea to give my whole family to flu hey i'm glad you're around for me to take care of yeah you was down oh it's bad deal around my house i actually felt bad for you yeah well i mean it's fine the the real kick in the cods about it was like brittany and them were supposed to be gone all week so i had to like my deer set up, like, I had everything planned out for the week. And they come running back with the flu. Oh, good. And then the whole time, you know, thanks to spy point and cell cameras,

like I'm just sitting there while I'm taking care of my sick wife and my two sick boys. And he's standing in front of camera. All day. Standing in front of the camera. I'm like, I'm like, I just took it as some kind of learning lesson from the good Lord. I don't know, focus on the things that matter. Maybe deer don't matter.

or something. I don't know. I was trying to find a positive in it, so I just wouldn't be pissed off. Silver lining, you know? Silver lining's arm. Find the silver lining.

I was trying to find the lesson in it. I just kept coming back to the, just mad, just pure anger. But a little pride that my plan worked. Yeah. So I was like, you know,

my plan did work at least. At least I still understand how to kill a deer. It's been, all I've been doing the last three years is dragging people's deer. That's true. Fetch size,

fetch God ones. I mean, that's just, that's all I've been doing, dragging a duck deer for people. At least I wasn't at the bottom of a lake. No? No, I agree. But I don't mind. Hey, you kill one this evening. I'll go drag it out for you.

All you got to do call me. I don't mind doing that stuff. Not for my older. I told both of you. I told both of you. I appreciate it. I appreciate everybody that was there. Hey, I went with the full intention of hopefully dragging out of deer.

I did. I lost my shoe in the process. We accomplished. You know. Ain't many people. I dragged through briars for, but you want to. And it was awesome. Yeah.

So it was all good. Is there any email worthy a note here before we wrap this baby up? Oh, we got a bunch of, Hunter. You got some weird voicemail or anything over there? Hunter's eyes got humongous when you, he was not ready for that at all. Hunter, are you okay? Also, leave us a rating five stars wherever you can find a Spotify, Apple Podcast. I will say.

Who else? Amazon. I don't know. We're everywhere. We're everywhere. If you're listening to a podcast, go on there, click five stars. If you like us, if you don't, don't click nothing, just say, hey, good job. But you're listening to us this far, and you probably like us.

A lot of people did email in that want the Hunter Cam. Hunter camp. 318-215-6559 is going to be who you call to leave a voicemail. Play it, Hunter. What's up? My name is Ryan, and I am from Kentucky. Ryan's a tough one. Yeah, that's somewhere.

Carolina. Tennessee, Kentucky. That could be anywhere but not near a big town. Arkansas. Like that could be Oak Grove, Middle of nowhere, Mississippi. Cacuacan. North Cacacacan. Boona.

U.S. Stong got them right. Didn't you say that? Well, I named off three states. He said Cackettuckett. What city did he say? You ain't ever heard of it. Yeah, exactly.

I got that part right. You just said North Caculacchi. Not near Charlotte. Caculac. I finally got one right. Hey, I was wondering If y'all could have a superpower What would it be?

And what would your superhero name be? Superhero I'd like hearing y'all's wrestling name, so this ought to be fun All right, y'all boys have a good name, and I appreciate it, And I wish y'all would upload it every single day, but I know you can't But I appreciate the entertainment. Y'all have a good day. All right now.

All right, now you're here. Here's a deal. Superpower. Superpower, what would you name be? I want to fly. Hmm. That's my superbook. All right.

What's your name going to be? You're too big to fly. Well, yeah. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What do you mean too big? Like airborne elephant? I mean, I don't know.

He ain't too big to fly. You know? Like an ostrich. Just here'll be a jumbo jet. Oh, no. I'll make some racket now when I'm coming down. Hey. But, yeah.

I want to have. Mallard man. There you go. I don't know. I just want to fly. Like, at all the ones, I just won't be able to fly. I think it'd be cool. Like if I just pick up and go.

You're not going to believe that's when I take. Okay. Well, first, what are you? I want to have night vision. Night vision. And my superhero name would be Q-Beam. Q-Beam. There you know.

I like it. Night vision? That's good. That's good. All right. What about, J-D? I've never really thought about this. And I want to say laser vision,

but that kind of makes me sound like a psycho who's out to hurt people. but I would only hurt the bad you could use it for good use it for good well that's what jays says when he goes play his poker with sign him he says he takes money from evil people and does good with it there you go I wanted to fly oh yeah and my name would be wood duck wood duck yeah mallard man and wood duck that's what was hey an unlikely duo here to save the world from no you got to think about something You could fly. Just imagine.

Size's nickname be Woody. Woody. Woody. Buzz and Woody. Right again, buddy. Oh, Woody Woodpecker. I went with a much more modern Woody. Yeah.

What just happened? I don't know. I mean, really. Where would you fly to, though? Wherever I wanted to. Isn't that the beauty of this? I guess flying's the obvious one. I already told you.

But I don't like helicopter. You know where I'd fly? What if you fell? Where would you fly? Well, dang dear, I'm a superhero, so I'm not going to fall. Think about it. Where would I fly if I could fly? You?

Yeah, we've talked about it. You'd fly to Venice. Nope. That's your favorite place. Well, hey. In the world. Well, hey, we talked about it, and it has to do with PBS. Oh, boy.

That river in the desert? Uh, nope. Oh. I would have liked to see that. Oh, we're all this. Fish swimming on sand. There you go. Land?

That's why. Hey, it was on television. For real. We saw it. Are you talking about you'd fly over to that lake where all the... No, there's something we don't know. It's got rings around it. Saturn?

Yep. I would fly to Saturn and go through the clouds and say, okay, now, what under these clouds? Because I fix a light on this baby and find out. He's about to light on Saturn. That's right. I wouldn't go there. You wouldn't go there? Why not?

That's really far away. Yeah, seems like it takes a while. What if it's a solid gold planet? It doesn't matter. It's going to take you too long to get back. And how much gold can you really hold? That's another thing. If I could fly, I'll be eternal.

That goes with flying. Oh, he's just going straight Superman is what he's saying. No, I ain't, no, no, no Superman. Would you have like a special, like Thor has a, his hammer, what would you have? That teacup. Yeah, he's already got that. He's already got his prop.

And it never goes empty. That's right. It holds ice forever. It's always full with ice, limer crystals, and eight teeth. And that Yeti cup double as a hammer. He could beat the hell out of you with it too. Right. There's a lot.

There he go. Hey, you come try to knock him out the air. Like, no, that ain't happening. I was thinking about Saturn is a solid gold No it's not One of, hey, I mean I'm talking about 100% pure gold

But you could finally tell us if the moon was made of cheese No, for a fact Saturn is not pure gold What do you mean it ain't pure gold It's just not You don't know that I think I do That's the reason I want to go and light on it Okay, because it may be fair gold

Hey will you swing by the moon and tell me if it's made a cheese Nobody's been there. No, because I'm a scared of the rats. It's on the moon. Oh, okay. I don't want to burst your bubble, but Saturn is a gas planet and it's made out of gases. That's not true either, Hunter. Nope, that ain't true either, Hunter.

Read a book. Saturn is a gas giant planet and therefore does not have a solid surface. Speaking of a gas planet, we need to wrap this. Wait, where are you getting that, Hunter? Is that from Google? NASA. NASA? Can't be trusting.

Yeah, but that's the last. They don't know. They don't know. They've been lying. to us all these years. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. All right. Here we, you know what? I'm going to send us out here, but just real quick to everybody in New Orleans. Yeah. That is a terrible freaking ordeal. I've been right where those people were, and most of them were probably just there for a new year or a football game. I've been there, I've done that,

and just some psychopath comes out and does evil. Um, but, But this is the verse I got because of that. Ecclesiastes 813. I also know it will not go well for evil people because they do not honor God. Like a shadow, they will not last. If you go in and out there to just do evil, your time's coming.

It's called Judgment Day. And that's all I got for you. Hey, and who was saying this is the Almighty. Amen, buddy. Okay, the one that cannot lie. You may think you get away with it here. you won't you're going to stand before him and hey you know he's got something for you yeah we'll see y'all next time right here in the duck call room we're out