Duck Call Room - Phil Robertson Predicted Disaster That Landed Billy the Exterminator in the ER

Episode Date: July 15, 2025

Uncle Si revisits his time in basic training as John-David helps him track down the identity of his 1968 Fort Benning drill sergeant using an old yearbook. Martin recalls the day he and Phil watched Billy the Exterminator ignore their warnings, attempt to clear a duck blind of pests, get more than he bargained for, and end up in the hospital. A conversation on nature versus nurture leads Si and Rucker into deeper waters as they explore the differences between choice and chance. Si tells a ghost story that involves strange noises coming from a suspicious sleeping bag, but he and Phil solved the problem easily with gasoline. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I hope whoever's in charge of this watches this episode and sends me four million bottles of this stuff. Really? It is so good. Is it? Oh, yeah. What is it? It's coconut water or something? I don't know that it.

You can't pronounce the name. It's coconut flavored antioxidant babies with vitamin E. How do you pronounce that? I don't know. It's a very bougie drink. Hey, that was really good. Hey, yeah. And there we are.

Madeline AI. Hey, throw to be away. Hey, we got AI in a bottle. Speaking of AI, though, I'm speaking Rutgers Sunday at church, and it's about the Battle of AI and Joshua 8. Oh, about the Battle of AI back way back in ancient day. That took an interesting.

That's a hook there. That's a subject for you, right? Reach out there, you pull them in, and then you confuse them with, nope, this is a different AI. Yeah, it's a whole different one. I actually do a little play on words there, but we'll save it for Sunday. Well, it sounds like it'd be cool.

Martin looks lost. Oh, hey, when they blew their horn. It's way too early in the morning to ask me to think that much. When they blew them horns, they didn't know what AI was that for? That was Jericho. Yeah, that was down. Yeah, that was. Crushing walls around Jericho.

Which was a different battle plan from Jericho, actually. It's a whole thing. We'll get into it Sunday. Welcome back to the duck call. What was AI about that? AI is the town. This is the battle of AI. It was the name of that.

Hey, when they blew the horns. I know, but I'm saying. Well, they blew the horns. AI took over and crushed the walls. There you go. Okay. Right. That might be true.

That's one of them, hey. You don't ever know. Mm-hmm. You never know. I was right. You never know. Or you could say, you know. I'm reading it right now.

Catch up, get a little refresh. Oh, no, this was a full-on fight, huh, Rucker? What's that? AI. Oh, yeah, yeah. This was 30,000 men in hand-to-hand combat against each other. Oh, that's back when men was men. Yeah, not no more.

You want to know why? You want to know why people aren't men anymore? Because they drink those drinks like that. Probably. And we just jump rope and do stuff like. No, listen to me. I'd have blamed it on them shoes first, but we'll go with it. Hey, whoa, whoa.

I mean, come on. Somebody. I just noticed them. I'm not a huge fan of the red color ways, but I am a huge supporter of the Jordan shoes. If we could, just get a tight on Johnny's. I'd fix. Hey, hey, are them of the slip-on type?

You don't have to tie. You don't fool them. I haven't tied my shoes and going on like 15 years. So they'll have to be expensive ones. Oh, they're expensive. You just sticky feet. You have to say, you obviously, you obviously don't. He watching Fox News.

You obviously don't know nothing about Johnny D's footwear when you say they're made too expensive ones. Those are Jordan 1's lows. Oh, that's one, hey, that's one you jump from the outer circle and dunk the basketball. Oh, yeah. That does make you run faster, jump higher, all those things. You also look cool. I like, because, hey, I try it.

No, I still can't jump. I don't know what happened. We do have a live studio audience today, so I know this episode's going to be great. I met some friends, and they were like, hey, we really want to meet Si, but we have to leave early in the morning. And I was like, I know one way to meet Sai, and it's kind of early in the morning. And then they're like, we're just going to stick around. Yeah, heck yeah. They're from Missouri.

They're fun people. They like having a live studio audio. They were the B-2. Pop your mic down a little bit there. Oh, the B-502. Hey, your microphone's not on. correctly. Hey, there you go.

There it is. All right. Hey, don't do no good to talk if nobody. Well, hey, me and technology don't get along anyway. You know, it's all AI anyway. That's it. A bunch of way back.

We're back on AI. Okay. All right. Go ahead. What you got? Because I discovered something yesterday that left me deeply disturbed for our nation's youths. You sound like me now. Yeah.

Except this is probably worse. So, Martin, you remember when you were in high school and you were broke? How much did you get paid an hour? 675 I think Yeah and you were Wow you were rich That was a good job I didn't get paid by 50 cents an hour

That was way back with Great long time ago I was also What was you doing? I was also using a shovel Working outside Like I was yeah

I mean I was making 525 That was back in the day The technology that was really You know What much shovels A shovels A shovel you had

Was a shovel in a strong back But One hour I didn't even have a shovel. I just had a strong back. I was hauling hate. That's why your back looked like. Well, hey, that's right.

That's right. Okay. It wasn't bad buster. It was working when I was 12 years old. That's what I did that. Back in the 40s. Hey, I'm serious. Hey, the man walked me up out of bed.

I will say, I took a pay cut to go work inside. I was like, I've had enough of this land. Well, I think so, yeah. I took a pay cut to go sell jackets from the produce section. Them watermelon's, and pumpkins was heavy. Hey, I just took a paycheck. Yeah.

And then mama just won the whole thing because, hey, the first one she took. Well, you owed back taxes. Well, no, well, she said, hey, you're a working man now. Hey, you got the working man blues. Hey, give me the check. You got to buy, I got to buy your clothes. There you go. That's funny.

Well, there you go. It seems like I get paid and I just give it to somebody else still to this day. That is true. I don't even want to go down that aisle. We can't go down that out. So what's the problem? So here's, when you're in high school, you had a meal that you was your go-to probably in town you went through a drive-thru and you knew how much it cost right

yeah yeah it's like four dollars how well where at wendy's it was a double stack oh wendy it was a double stack square the scrab burger i had a double stack a five-piece nugget and a fry and it was like four bucks okay three ninety six or something goofy so well you was expensive we talked well yeah i was a woman i wouldn't date you i weighed i weighed 280 pounds well that's what i was a too hot spicy, add cheese kind of guy myself. I went to Wendy's every day almost and got two double stacks, a biggie fry and a biggie Coke.

We went to Dairy Queen. $4.77. Yeah. We went to Dairy Queen and had a fresh cut strawberries put in a ball. And I mean, they needed bigger straw because you was always,

you know, turning around and biting a big hungry off of the straw. They ain't got real strawberries anymore. As a, as a ice cream connoisseur, of the drive-thru ice cream. You should rank them. Well, I'm not even worried about that. You can buy three gallons of ice cream

for what you can go to Dairy Queen or Andes or Eskimos or any of that for it. So inflation has it, Dairy Queen. Unbelievable. Okay, the meal I used to pay $477 for, take a guess if I went and bought it on my lot. It's a 10 spot now. 1461.

Why did? Did you run it back yesterday? No, I did online. That's a day. That sounds like poker. Pay it twice. Oh, well, you got to pay more if you order online. I was going to pick it up in store until I saw it was 1461,

so then I went home and met a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Yeah. Yeah. Good call. That's solid. A double stack used to be 99 cents and now it's $359. Yeah. You know what I'm realizing?

What happened? We sound like old people now. Yeah. And I feel like that for the kid that works for me. I was like, ah, you'd go grab you two double stacks. He was like, man, them are expensive. I was like, what? Yeah.

That's a premium now. Yeah. I'm sad about it. Hey, that was back when the kids were bringing up the rest of their they could give you a change. Well, the 99 cent menu don't exist no more. No, that don't. No, it's now a $2

menu. Yeah. Like, that's just cheap. A double stacks street. I used to get four double stacks when I was hungry. That's all I'd eat. That's all I'd eat for the day. Well, and they got all these new marketing schemes that says it in a real church-st up way to make you think that you're still getting a deal and you're not. Kind of like the Battle of AI being your sermon name? Well,

you know. Well, that's what when we was in high school, I would pull up to the gas station and put 32 cents of gas and I have like a gallon of half. 32 cents of gas? But back in size day, you could go to the movie, get a cheeseburger and popcorn for a hot 50 cents.

And Kay paid for it. So it worked. Yeah, it actually rode around her car. Yeah. She was a field date, but hey, she was a wheel woman. Yeah. He had to ride, son.

It's crazy to think. And the money woman. And the money woman. And I on the store and always brought the goodies with her which came. Oh, yeah, I can only imagine how many times you went up to the store. Oh, no, no. Look, she brought us the first time a case of Coke. We drank them in like 30 minutes.

Just me and Phil. How much is in a case back then? 24. 24 cans. We told, hey, next time I bring two or three cases. Yeah. We want this to last for at least hour or a half anyway. Oh, yeah.

You all drank 24 Coke. We drank 24 Coke. 30 minutes. Hey, when you don't ever have. But that was back whenever it was real Coke. Oh, yeah. Like, I mean, this wasn't. Oh, no, yeah, because that was one of the things we're doing.

It wasn't a serpy, piss water we have to do. Yeah, no, no. And like, what a best part was, okay. You had two bottles, okay. You had the six-ounce bottle, a little short one, and then you had the 12-ounce, okay? Yeah. And you used to have them in them and then flat things

where you had to reach in there and pull it out of between the iron. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But the trick to it was you had to turn it up and drink it all at once. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

It would mind their kid you to do it. Yeah, they used to do Miller Lodge's saying. Yeah. Yeah, I was going to say that's how you used to do. It's just in belts for like an hour. Yep, same. I'm talking about you'd do it. It would be.

Yeah, we just had two different beverages. You drank 12 Cokes in 30 minutes? Yeah. But was it the 6 ounce or the 12 hours? No, count. This was cans. The cans were like 10. back then.

Yeah. Why did can Coke? But hey, it had a lot more, you know, it had a lot more pop to it. Oh, yeah. There's no microplastics. Yeah. Well, whatever, but hey. Sorry, I was on Instagram this morning while I pooped.

But hey, your wife's algorithms bleeding over into your bathroom. Back in our day, had some pop pill when you're drinking. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. Look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means.

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Somebody dare me to drink 24 Dr. Peppers right now? I could. No. I dare you. There's no way I could pull him. I dare it. No, I'm not breaking my streak. I'm just saying.

We get the, you know, the only. I'm with him. It scare you. We keep the mini cans of the zeros at the house just like. A mini can. Yeah, because I can't drink that much soda. You're a toddler? No, I'm just, I'm trying to pay attention to my, you know, unhealthy habits.

You know, I figure if you do a little bit of something unhealthy, it's better than doing a lot of stuff. There's no reason to be a glutton, no? That's like Willie in his running shoes. No, no. That's like, Sean said, hey, if you're going to be a bear or be a grizzly. Contrary to what my physique might illustrate, I am trying to pay attention to my health.

You know, I've actually asked around about Rucker to people because... What kind of reputation is you got? Well, here's the deal. It's solid. It's a solid, right? Everybody loves Brian Rucker. But Rucker often tells stories like he's Michael Phelps, the amount that he works out. But then you get to see him and he doesn't look like Michael Phelps.

Well, it's a poor eating habit. Diet's 80% of it, you know. But then you talk to the people he works out with and they're like, oh, no, it's impressive how the big boy moves. There you are. Yeah, you know, it's one of those things where, like, I'm just athletic enough to surprise people. And so, you know, because you look and you look at me and you're like, well, well, there's no way he's going to be. And I got a little move to me, you know.

Yeah. But that's about where it stops, and it only lasts for about 30 seconds. No, no. Backing that up. I can confirm. This takes me back to basic training. Yeah. No, no, I'm serious, for one reason.

How did we end up in 1962? No, no, my drill sergeant was 6-8. Oh, here we go. Hey, 6-8, 450 pounds. Big old. And you can take a bath in this. Hey, look, and I could take a bath in his Smokey the Bear hat. Yeah.

And look, you know, you had to respect the guy, okay, because we went to the basic training on Fort, at the Ford in Georgia. Mm-hmm. I can't remember name it now. But anyway. Benning? Yeah, Fort Benning, okay, that's an airborne post.

Well, when you're on an airborne post, you don't walk nowhere. I just got that right. You huff it. Oh, you got to run everywhere. You run. Yeah. And look, I wait like. Like a hundred thirty pound of skeleton.

Okay. I did you use a good runner, though. No, no. No, he wasn't. No, I wasn't. That's what I was always, when I got on me back. But anyway, hey, big old, my drill start, he was a good runner because he's carried 450 and he ran everywhere we did.

Oh, yeah. I couldn't imagine. Hey, you had to respect the guy, okay. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, I mean, look, I carry around extra weight. That's no surprise to anybody. But I move it very well. Yeah.

You do move it well. Yeah, you carry it. it will. Do we know Big Oaf's real name? No. No, you don't ever know those guys' real names. I would just like to see if we could find him. What?

Big Oaf. Oh, I'd love to have him come in here. If he was size instructor, then he's going to be. No, no, no, look. I'm just guessed. Every time. But like, we might. 6, 8, 4, 50, and you were in.

We might find like a son. No, no. Yeah, you make up there. Look, every time he talked to me, he would put his nose on my nose and just that's why I couldn't have done the military. Look, that's when I would bust out laughing and then, hey, next thing I didn't do it, I'm doing push-ups. Yeah. Hey, I've done my last day when we graduated.

I did like 350 push-ups. Okay, and I'm in dress greens. When he first done it, I said, I'm not doing a push-up. He said, you're not what? Yes, sir. Oh, yes, you are? He said, oh, yeah, you are. He said, you either get out right now, or he said, I'll stomp you to the ground and stand on top of you while you do them.

Yeah, get down or lay down. Yeah, yeah, you're going to get down or I'm fixed up. You know, I'm going to put you down. Yeah. So, hey, then I was. So I knock out 25, jump up. He'd put his nose back on me, and I'd bust out laughing again. Get out!

You know, it took 350 before I said, okay. Yeah. I'm not going to win this battle. No. It took you. I couldn't do 300. Oh, that's the best shape I've been in my life. 350 at a 25 piece at a time.

Yeah. 14 times before size said, you know what? Yeah, I said, hey, you know, kind of stupid. I said, you know, took you too long, son. You're going to be done. You're not going to beat this man. He's, you know, he's going to subdue you. Yeah.

So we got no idea what his name is? Because I will find it. Oh, because I. say we named him his name was Oliver I don't know his last name but we we shortened it with big old then we'll never say it where

you could hear it because it's key if you did Oliver giant drill and straight over Oliver was kind of a common name back then sergeant but hey you had to respect it dude yeah but hey four 50 guys

running yeah yeah uh oh oh boy That may be him. We'll throw it up. Pop it up there, Johnny. I found a man who served our great country and was awarded a gold star named Oliver Anderson, who was a drill sergeant. That may have been him.

It's been so many years, you know. He looked twice that big, according to when he was, you know, when he was. Well, when you were half that size, yeah, he went twice that big. Oh, he doesn't have his. Oh, no. Oh, wait, time out. Time out. Go back.

Here's how bad it was. We had a drill card. He passed away in 68, so that wouldn't have been here. Oh, no. Yeah. He died in the Vietnam War. Yeah. Yeah.

Date doesn't line up. When were you in Fort Benny? I don't know. It was in 68 because that's what I got drafted. Yeah. Oh, okay. But if he was in the, if he was in in Vietnam, he wouldn't have been a drill sergeant during that time.

He would have probably been in-country. It would have sent him from where he was at to do war. Yeah. I'm finding out. All I know is, we got one guy that could have been him. We had a drill sergeant for a couple of weeks. Well,

he had an emergency problem at home, so he left. So we're all waiting for the new one to come. Okay. And we're waiting on, we're on the barrack step and looking. And here comes a taxi cab. Okay.

And the taxi cab is literally, it's like this. And it is sparks coming off of from the, the metal. that he has been eaten off of the bottom of that car. Well, guess what? It pulls up to our barracks and then this monster steps out of it. That's why it was like this.

It's a big old dude, man. That's a big old. You know, 450 pounds, he doesn't make this thing eat metal. You know, and we looked and says, we are in trouble. Yeah. We have messed up. I watched the movie full metal jacket on this one. He realized that the military just wasn't going to be for me.

So you chose jail instead? Yeah. Well, no, no. Hey, that was the good thing about being... Nobody was going to make him do push-ups. Well, that's what I was saying. Well, it's better for you if you do, do some push-ups. I want to maintain your fitness there.

However, nobody chooses jail. It kind of chooses you. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? No, I think at some point you make a choice. Oh, yeah. Say, you know what? The circumstances may put you there.

Because I know a lot of guys, okay, that was in trouble with the law. And like they come before a judge and he'd say, well, young man, you've got two choices. You can do two years in the penitentiary. Yep. Or you can choose one of our services and serve two years in. So I had a friend. Army, Air Force, our Navy. I had a friend.

A lot of them didn't. it and look, it changed that guy's life. Yeah. So I had a friend, his name was Levi. He's passed away now, but that happened to him, even during my time. We were both incarcerated together as juveniles in this place called Gulf Coast. And they would send, like, after you made your level and stuff, you would be able to go home on furloughs for, you know, different circumstances or reasons.

Well, Levi goes home on a furlough while we're incarcerated at Gulf Coast. and he gets arrested while he's on his furlough. And while he's arrested, you know, he goes to court and they say, all right, either we're sending you to prison or you can enlist in the army. And so Levi enlist in the army. And so that was still happening, I mean, in the early 2000s. I mean, that they were still giving people. Well, that was a good thing, though, because I had a lot of them that was in my platoon that turned out to be super guys. I mean, really.

Just needed the structure. Well, it actually has done something because that's why it was good for me. Like you said, it was the structure of it. Yeah. Okay. And somebody else, you didn't have to make those citizens. They were made for you.

You know, some people need that. Well, my buddy, he made it through basic training. I actually, I had gotten out at that point. And if you've heard my story, that's whenever I started getting connected with a lot of people that had a lot of, you know, narcotics. and I rode with his mom, his brother, and a couple other family members up to South Carolina.

I forget the name of the fort there, but we rode up to South Carolina to see him graduate basic training. And that's where I met a network of people to distribute drugs to is on that trip. Networking. Networking. It's just, look, key marketing, okay? you just got to be able to know how to market. Here's a question. Your lifestyle,

from, you know, we've heard your story. Yo. Was it the circumstances or where you was born and raised? Or how did that, how did you get? Oh,

since I was going for nature versus nurture. Well, no, no, yeah. How did you get where you got? All right. I think that every person has a decision

or a choice in the matter. However, I think that, you know, environmental things and different circumstances. It has the impact, though. It definitely, you know, help, you know, help lean you towards one choice or another. Okay.

For sure. But that doesn't necessarily mean that you have to be a product of your environment. Because there's many people that don't ever fall into that way of living that come from those types of things. So you're taking responsibility for that you, you had the choice. Yeah, for sure. I think that whenever you don't realize how many choices there are, you are going to lean in one direction or another. But, you know, and that was for me, I didn't realize the level of choices that I actually had. Okay.

Because so much was centered around just survival. I mean, when you're the, you know, only person your color of skin and your neighborhood, you start to like just figure out ways to fit in and, you know, really kind of survival. to survive and be a part of. And whenever you're a part of a place in which everybody's doing things. Whatever they're doing, it's what you get into. Right, right. But that's not to say that, you know, had you, you know, that the choice isn't there for you to go in the opposite direction.

That's why I'm big on like just knowing that like your past doesn't have to define you. Yeah. Right. Like the way you behave in an identity is just what you've, the choices you've been making. And that's why, you know, finding Christ. and having redemption and that is so important because look you can make all the wrong choices well no no that's that's why i was at was college yeah and still find yourself living in in freedom

and have things that you never thought that you could have hence is like the story of my life right getting here being introduced to christ by all of you guys and then having people just show me a different way that like hey my choices aren't limited to my circle My choices are provided to me by something greater than this world and being able to walk that out. You know what I'm saying? So choosing to invest in your relationship with the creator is a surefire plan to get to freedom. Yeah. Right?

Like it has a hundred percent. Well, that's the only place you're actually going to actually get it. Exactly. Exactly. And the thing is, is that in that, like, that doesn't mean everything's going to be roses, going to be easy. It's going to be easy or that there won't be failures and stuff's just going to be great all the time. But what it does mean is that no matter what happens circumstantially here on earth, it has no effect on what happens in eternity. Just like you.

Okay. That's why your story is so powerful. I don't think I could have handled your life. Okay. Because all the trials and tribulations that you went through. Okay. Yeah. That's so foreign to me.

Okay. I'll tell you what's really inspiring to me these days is people realizing that joy is internal and happiness is external. Right. And like having joy no matter their circumstances. Like man, I got real choked up this morning. And I know y'all went and did the God Behind Bars thing, you know, in Angola. And even you went to San Quiddin, right? Yeah.

Do you want some good news? That's the problem. Yeah. Because I feel like we got real deep. Well, before we get... While y'all were getting real deep, I found something. Yeah, but I got one question for Rucker. How, we're getting close to calf date, huh?

Yeah. Yeah, how's your woman doing? She nesting full bore or what... Man, she's doing good. She's like pregnant, pregnant right now. You know what I mean? Like, there's more than the levels of... Oh, there's different levels to pregnant.

Believe that. You know what I'm saying? She got where her legs and ankles have become one, huh? Everything down there swollen and this... Allison just started pregnant, pregnant, like, as soon as it was like, hey, I'm pregnant. I was like, okay. Yeah.

Well, we're at the, look, I'm just rubbing, I'm just rubbing feet, you know, just trying to take care of her. We were at the Faith Family Freedom thing all together. Yeah. And people were like, where's your wife? I'm like, oh, she's here. She's just, like, nestled under her trust. Yeah.

J.D. She has found the one lover. She has found the one fan. Yeah. That man had a big impact on my life. Okay. What are he did? And you did it.

I found the 19. 1968 yearbook of Fort Benning, Georgia and found the picture of every drill sergeant they had. And he found Big Oliver. And there's two right here in the middle that really matched the description of maybe 6'5, Smokey the Bear Hat. Yep. His name's William Quick, and his name is Lester Lamar, though. So there's no Oliver's. No Oliver.

Well, we come up with that. But I was so scared of him. But I'm going to go. I'm going with him. My man fits the description. He makes that hat look small. And it's the same size as everybody else's hat who looks big. It wasn't small.

But that's what I'm saying. It looks weird on him on down. The sheer mass of that man looks like, I mean, Quazza looks like he's wearing like a yarmica, you know. But like, but you know it's the same hat. else got because they were all standard issue. He does make that hat look small. That's what I'm saying. Well, and I think you could, I think you could, you know, where you're

a picture of Silas in there? There wasn't. I looked all over for Sy. This is company A, it's a legitimate yearbook somebody had. Oh, that's cool, man. From 1968. And then I was like, there is a page of all drill sergeants. And when I saw that dude, I said, what is, what is SSG?

Staff Sergeant? Yeah. Is that what SSG is? Yeah. But it says All these guys have drill sergeant under their name. Yeah, I'm going with William. Yeah, you say what you want to.

But if big Willie come after me, I'm out of... Willie Quick. Hey, you don't want to mess with him. And he's fast. And his name fit. Yeah. Hey, you don't want to mess with him.

Yeah. I'll tell you. If you're related to a William Quick that once served our country in 1968 and yelled at his eye, we're guessing. Hey, John David. Hit Control F and then type out Oliver.

Oh, it's not on there. Hunter, hold on. Hey, Hunter, how are you? Are you awake now? I just found a 1968 yearbook from Fort Benning, Georgia, and you think you got to tell me about what Control F does? You seem kind of old. Well, that's my first time on a computer.

He was weird ads. I'm trying not to show children on this thing. He just called you old. Did you miss that? He said, you seem kind of old. Look, I'm the only one that's going to be 40 in here this year. I don't know what control left does, by the way. It would be control find.

Oh, my. And he acts like I didn't already type in size name, Oliver's. I like totally spaced out on a mission to pass. Have you ever seen Johnny D. that quiet for 20 plus minutes? Because I'm sitting over there wondering like, you know, what happened. I don't even know what you talked about. I believe it was Jesus in jail. Yeah.

That pretty much goes. But when I found that page, I said, we're here. We've made it. This is the best I can do. Yeah. Big quick. Oh, that was a big man. I mean, he made that hat look.

Well, no, no, that's what I didn't even realize to look at it. That's a wait a minute. That's a big. That hat looks like it's like this. Yeah. Yeah. That's a big dude. And hey, back then, like when he put his nose on me,

that hat was there like a Mexican summer. Brow roll. Yeah. Okay, the big one. Well, part of that's fear, too,

you know. Well, yeah. Well, he had to lean down to put his nose on. Oh, no,

yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, no, it was like this. No, Rucker. It was like this.

Yeah. He's pushing my head down. You know what he had for dinner, didn't you? Oh, yeah. Yeah,

he smelled it on. Yeah. He's mad breath. Yeah. You can't say that. What if we find his family? Well, I'm just saying,

hey, yo, hey. We're talking about the 60s, man. Hygiene was just a recommendation. Yeah. And hey, look, this is a drill start. It's been running everywhere.

Yeah. Okay. We all stink probably. That's true. Y'all could have used mando. Yeah, we could all use mando. We could all use mando, boys. Mm-hmm.

And that's back when deodorant was real. Oh, yeah. We didn't have other than chemicals in. Oh, Lord. Here we go. Here we go. There we go. Make America healthy again.

That's right. Well, this has been good. Good, God. I'm taking me back. I ain't ever seen you this fired up this time of morning outside of hunting season. Because, hey, this guy, y'all, that had influence on my life. Yeah. Yeah.

I might have found his son's phone number. That might be taking it too far. He's just pull on, like, detective mode right now. Yeah. If you, yeah. Don't cross me. Don't get that guy looking for you. Like, he'll pull up your tax records.

He'll have everything about you. Everything is public knowledge. on the internet. All you got to do is Google somebody. Oh, it's true. Yeah, it is. A little harder to find the 60s, but yeah. Yeah.

Way back there in the 1900s. That's before the internet. Back in ancient days, boy. It was just an idea back then. Ancient days. Oh, man, what a life. Well, Rucker, what else you got coming up? Me and Rucker had a time there at Faith Famic.

Oh, man, that was a good time. We were like the hype crew for the baptisms. Oh, yeah. Well, I heard. What you all baptized? 48? I don't remember what that was. It was close to, yeah.

It was in the 40s for sure. Yeah, we had a hype crew. We was classified people by their footwear. We developed a system. And what we have found is that you can 100% be saved wearing hey dudes. Yeah. Just because you have a poor choice in footwear, doesn't mean that Jesus doesn't love you, buddy.

That's right. That's right. Them folks walked up. We had like 10 people wearing hey dudes in a row. So then we just started saying. Just letting y'all know. And they all wanted to get baptized in the haydew. Yeah, they didn't want to take them off.

What is a haydew? I can't say. Last time we brought up haydudes on this program, I took shots at them. Yeah. In the email inbox filled up. Oh, people love them. I don't understand it. My feet sweat so bad.

I have a pair of hay dudes and I'm just like, I can't. I had them one time. Because you're not supposed to wear them with socks, I believe. You're supposed to wear them with blue jean shorts and a tank top. Yeah, and my feet just wet so bad, like three times, and they were unwearable. Like the stench coming out of them. I was like, no, this is not, this ain't it. I have desired to have a pair, but every time I get some and I put them on.

You don't have the ankles for it, man. Well, that's what I was saying. I get some, I put them on, and then I'm like, I just, I decide against it. Yeah. But they look, but they, like, they seem like. You're way more of a crock, fellow. Oh, they are. I'll rare pair of crocs now.

Is that what they're like? They're like cloth rocks. Well, they all own by the same people now. Think of a house shoe you can wear anywhere. Oh, okay. But you shouldn't. It's like slippery. It's like slippers.

There goes our hey dude sponsorship. Yeah, we're not getting one. I don't want one. Yeah. It's a version of the moxican. Moxican. What, kind of? Yeah.

I mean, they're kind of shaped that way. Go ahead. Where are you going? Go ahead. I'm interested. They're like slip-on shoes. if you've ever spent a weekend at Talladega. Well, they're, I mean, they're essentially the same thing

Sidewheres except his are neoprene and camouflage. They now make that in cloth and camouflage, essentially. Cloth's a bad call. I think that's my problem. I need to check. That's why they're getting baptized in the hay dudes, they... See, that's...

You throw them away. But look, they... Once those are wet, those are toast. They are wearing them as though they're like rubber, water shoes. You know what I mean? like, I mean. Yeah, you'd have thought that they were like somebody's pool shoes or something. Well, no, no, you never want their type of shoe and cloth.

Yeah. So, like, you watch your stomach. Get the stint. Yeah. A big time. Look, Gobbon one time, I think Gobbon was the first person I ever saw with a hey dude style shoe. He bragged on them. These things are the, and I don't know if they were.

Not how he said it. I don't know if they were hey dudes or yo bros or what they were. Yeah. But look, we got to an event. we were doing the event together and we shared a hotel room at night to save money. Damn shoes.

He popped them things off. And you got to get a new room. I said, gobbin. And they need a gas map. I said, Gawand. They got to go somewhere. Yeah, you got to take them so much sides. Yeah.

And this coming from a guy who's got his own strong foot odor, me. Like, because I sweat so bad. Yeah, that's why we're like, you know, cotton wicking socks and all those things like to make it where it's tolerable. Crox and socks is telling you.

You do things you need to. Yeah, to try to, like, especially if I'm going to be somewhere where I have to take my shoes off or something. Like, you know, then I'm like, oh, boy. But God. Do you go a lot of places where you have to take your shoes off? No, once I, once I've determined that that's the requirement, I don't go there anymore. And if it ever, if it ever gets to the point where somebody's like, hey, I don't rule anymore. What do you wear fishing?

What shoes you wear when you're fishing? either tennis shoes or flip flops that's only two those people that bad fish for pros most of them don't wear their shoes yeah they barefoot a lot yeah they barefoot a lot not this guy that's like guy was jays i was a guy who sat over here while y'all were in that deep conversation trying to get a fish fin out of his finger i don't want one in my toe because this one in my middle finger hurts pretty bad right now and it still

it still ain't come to the top i was wondering what you were doing yeah i got I got a fin from a fish's belly in my finger. We should just will not come out. The greatest redneck footwear. And I would put hey dudes at the box. But like I'll wear flip flops if I got somebody fishing with me. But if I'm by myself, I wear tennis shoes for a little extra grip on that boat ramp.

So I don't bust my butt when I'm getting in it because I have to walk the trailer and all that kind of stuff. You know what's become kind of my favorite ones is they're not crocs, but they're the ones that Huck makes. I bought them at the Honeyhole. The, it's like a crows. crock-esque shoe.

Extra tough makes them. Well, no, they make a version of it, but these ain't... Hey, man. Crocs made... You're like six years ago. Let's move forward into what we're doing now. I still got them and I like them. Crocs made one mistake on their...

Crocs ain't made no mistake. Oh, yeah, they did. Whoever made Crocs worth, like Taylor Swift money. They put holes in them things, and when you wear them and you go do something, and a bee gets in with that little hole and pops you on a toe. Yeah. But the holes are necessary. Time out.

Is this from experience? Yes. You had a bee flying to your crock hole? Yeah. And then dopeop my big toe. And hey, it might tripled inside and you told my painful. My kids love crocs, though. I like them too because it's like for the boys.

Oh, that's perfect. We had a full croc meltdown this week. Did you? Or back hole. And I dug one of them. big wall you got a yellow jacket oh yeah

them yellow bees yeah oh yeah and hey they found that hole in that crock and hey next thing is that I'm I've been stung yeah

I mean my big toe probably it probably was the size of this stupid belt you're talking about painful I think I've been stung by all them things

I look like Jimmy Gerandi my toe look like Jimmy's still catching stress yeah Jimmy. I'm serious.

Jimmy, I know you're part of that great guy of witnesses. And we got to just hit a shot at you. Well, hey, no. Jimmy. Jimmy's still. Hey, boy, the boy had a stute. Okay.

I'm glad my name ain't Jimmy. Hey, he made a lot of money off of it, too. Well, when you got one like that, you just kind of, you kind of got to embrace it, right? Hey, you got to embrace it. Hey, if you got it, you just got to live with it. But, Timie Yellowjack is. They're the worst. Oh, no.

They hurt worse than you. Oh, yeah. Especially if they get in your cross. Oh. I don't care where they get you. No, toes are sensitive. Toes. A red wasp isn't that big of a deal.

He hurts for a minute and then, you know, but like a yellow jacket is sore for like three days. I'll fix it. That lasted about a week. Yeah. At least those days. Yeah. I remember one time I got so many times. It hurt to walk.

In the same day that I developed an allergic reaction to. Uh-oh. Yeah, I got a blood infection from one of my. People that are allergic to things. We had, I don't even remember the name of them, but we had a crew that come to our duct blinds and was going to clean them up. Billy the exterminator.

Yeah, they're exterminated. Look, well, one of them, they was allergic to washing things. Which is dumb, by the way. Oh, no, no, no. Exterminator, if you were allergic to worms. Hey, he come out looking like the elephant man. I mean, his face was. Just like Jimmy Durandis.

No, no, I'm sure it was. Jimmy Garandis. They had to rush him to the merchant room. on his face. They had to rush him to the emergency room. So it was a bad deal. Yeah, my man did. My man did swell up like a beach ball.

Yeah. That's weird. And what was funny, Martin Phil was talking about it. And Phil said, I sure hope they don't hit one of them boards in there. It's got a big washness on it. And the next thing you heard was,

and then they come running out. And I mean, I mean, that's legit. He's horrible. And what did Phil? I wasn't there, but I can only imagine,

Phil and his kind and caring and compassionate ways. Went exactly like this. No, I can tell you. No, no. Because me and him were sitting on the rig right beside each other. They was giving a play-by-play what was happening. Phil looked at me. He said, you know what's going to happen, don't you?

I said, I got a pretty good idea. He said, they're going to get so entranced on them snakes. He said, they're going to walk right into a was nest and not even look at it. He said, and they are going to get eight. And he ain't said it. And it wouldn't, I mean, legitimately was not two minutes later, you hear, ah, we're under attack. You know, they're just, they're really playing that up. And Phil just looked over there and he said, told you.

He said, they got them. Purple tails, got them. Purple tails. And then here come my man. I mean, there wasn't no like, as reality TV people, which is what that was, kind of the infancy of reality TV, where it's do that again. there was no do that again. There was get him out of here. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, you did get his back to the... He had to go get an epipin. He didn't have an epipen with him. So he had to go get an epipen. Which is one of those things that you think as an exterminator you would just have home. I just think I would choose something different. Like if I were, if I were allergic to the walls. Olympic track marathon runner.

Yeah. I would probably... I'd just go sell insurance or something. This was in a duck line. and look we could sleep in it. There's like three sides. That's one. The lake blind was still out of getting.

Yeah, big one. There was three of them put together. Well, look, we slept in it and we had a sleeping bag. But we'd roll them up at the end of the year. You don't put it. So Phil was sleeping out there? Oh, yeah. Yeah, heaven for bed, we bring them in.

No, yeah. So look, hey, Phil comes in there and he's checking everything out in the blind. And when he goes over towards the bed, okay, there's a sleeping bag rolled up there. And when he's walking toward it, you hear a, ooh-woo. It's haunted? Hello. No, no, that's what. You just hear a, it's like somebody's, oh.

The sound he's mean in the middle. Yeah, it's just, hey, the bees. So he takes a step back and it goes down. It's a ghost out there. Yeah, you know, it goes down. He steps back by three steps and then it. They just get, they get them. He said, whoa.

He said rutro raggy. Yeah, yeah. So look, he goes back to the house, and he's got a, uh, uh, uh, a stuff he sprays weeds to kill him. Yeah, yeah. So he gets that, you know, empties that out. Builds it full of gasoline.

I was, full of gasoline. Full of gasoline, yo, this is one of them you pump up where it has just, just a wall of spray. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So then he goes back in there and when that, who starts, he just, you know, and hey, here they,

Here they come, and he's literally, he's literally like sword fighting bees with his prayer. Little moment. Look, we finally, after it all settles down, he unrolled that sleepback. And that thing was slam full of bees, dead ones. But you're talking about dangerous. Good grief. Yeah, heaven forbid, we just pick them up and take it. Yeah, grab it, put it under your arm.

Oh, the one that you could guarantee. The percolator coffee pots in there. Guaranteed every year, they would have a walt nest in them. You wouldn't mess with it. If the wrens didn't get there first to build a bird nest in it, it had a wals nest. And you would bump it every time you got in a duck blight and you would be ate up before you even knew what happened.

I'm like, why don't we just take this stuff back? But every blind had a coffee pot. Yeah, left them. Yeah, just left everything out. I'm like, look, well, the dog run was, okay, you know, Phil crawled in and out of there all the time for one reason or other. That's where the cotton mouse lives. And look, y'all, he's been crawling out all morning, you know,

and then we got, he got back in the blind and stood up and shot some duct. The old one, when fixable was go out and help, because we killed a bunch of them, he would go out and help the dog. Yeah. Well, hey, when he looked down, he's been going, this thing's got wire on it, brush ticking everywhere. Well, guess what on? on top of the wire with a cotmouth big as my arm just pulled up he's been going in and out

under him all day never even thought about it they didn't think about it then the next thing you hear boom boom oh yeah most definitely no don't do the snake oh that's fun what are you doing he said I'm killing this cotamount that's I've been crawling under all morning now that I can see yeah now that I can see it uh that's fun Johnny D you got something you want to send us out of here um we we Wait a time. Way to that point, man. I was having such a good time with that one. That was a good.

Yeah, that was good. I'm going to call it back to that verse that side did call out. Jeremy 29. He said Isaiah, just as an editor's note for all you people in the comments. It was Jeremy. But we all know. Yeah, we knew it was Jeremiah. And we've probably ended with this one.

It wasn't hurt, Jam. A handful of times. I missed that joke. sad about it. He called Jeremiah Jeremy, and I said, yeah, it wasn't Pearl James. I'm talking about Jeremiah Johnson. Robert.

Anyway, Jeremiah 29-11 is just probably appropriate verse for a lot of people all the time. And we've ended it a handful of times with this one, and Cy loves it. And so I'm just going to read it out. For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Whatever you're going through, it could be awful, it could be bad, it could be good.

We don't know what you're going through. But let me turn it around and make it wonderful. Yeah, and the hope. I was telling you. The hope is found in Christ. He already gave us the hope. It's there. You just have to latch on to it.

Yep, that's right. We'll see y'all next time right here in the duck call room. We'll do this again sometime. We're out. That was fun.