Duck Call Room - Phil Robertson’s Reaction to Jep’s Surgery Was So on Brand

Episode Date: May 22, 2025

Uncle Si can’t stop laughing when he finds out Jep’s been kicked out of his own bed. With the house overflowing with people, pets, and parked cars, Jep’s stuck sleeping on the couch. Phillip prepares for an emotional wedding day meltdown when his daughter gets married, just like the one Si had at his own daughter’s. Martin is horrified by what Joe Exotic posted on Instagram, and John-David celebrates his birthday with a feast cooked entirely by 12-year-old girls.  Check out All God's Children here: https://www.allgodschildren.org/sponsorship - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You see poor Joe Exotic husband got deported. God the mighty boy can't win in the game of love. You know? I'd much rather talk about that. I mean, in the game of love, Joe Exxon. But it was so weird. It was so weird. He's having a tough.

What were those friends? Did you see it? I just read the article. No, no, no, no. Joe Exotic. Oh, boy. Yeah, it was weird. I'm pretty sure, yeah.

He didn't, like, fingerprints, it was like, it was his, I'm pretty sure it was his butt hole. No. Whose? But I don't know. Joe's or his husband? His dearly departed husband.

Ah. No, we can't, we legitimately can't talk about this. The print. Don't put it on that TV. Well, maybe. I will. I don't know. I'm a little close to it.

Maybe. That is what that is. I forgot to show you what Jorge left me to remember him. Yeah. There you go. So he just went and sat on a copier. Wow, what a lot. And I'm, I'm speechless.

He got deported. For that? No, he should have. That's crime against nature. Make America exotic again. I've never been on Joe Exotic's Instagram. How does the man have Instagram? Another great question, but he shouldn't.

We can't talk about this. Oh, can't we? We can't talk about Joe Exotic. The boy has had a rough time in the game of love. But we cannot direct our fans to his Instagram. No, don't go there. It is a bad place. I want to know.

Only HBO Max subscriptions should be allowed to show these things. How does Joe Exotic have Instagram, but if we post a hunting clip, we get kicked off Facebook. Yeah. That's what I don't understand. What's worse about hunting than whatever that was? That was a lot. I do know that.

That was too much. Yeah. I didn't like it. And I don't want to remember it. Anyway, Jeb's here. Yeah. Hey, Jeff. Hey.

We have a special guest. It is quasi like the duck caught. Well, no, we're still doing it. I was going to say. You ain't seen me here, have you? No. I've seen you in that very spot. Yeah.

I've been watching some Doug Dynasty with Gus, because he really wants to watch it. And I just can't stand it because I was just watching this scenario, except we wasn't doing a podcast. We were just building duck calls. I was like, oh, my God. what happened to me? I look so much older. I've gained about 45 pounds, I would say.

I don't know. I'm glad you brought it up. It's called life. It's called life. I look so healthy 10 years ago. I do not look healthy now. How old are you now? 46.

Just ripped the back. So you were my age back then. Yeah. 36. I had the black beard just like that. People used to confuse me and you all the time. except I weighed 40 pounds more back then. And I was always like, I'm twice the size of Jeff.

He's gaining on you. Maybe I'm doing this to show you, if you wouldn't have made some changes, you would be like this is what would have happened. Yeah, this is looking at a 10-year marriage. For you, dude. Yeah. This is a 10-year mirror.

I used to take so many pictures back in the day of people. They'd be like, hey, Jeff, will you take a picture of my, uh, yeah, let's just get it over with. Your friends are going to make fun of you when you post this. Oh, 100%. That's why when they used to. asked me like, well, now which brother are you? I would just make him up.

It was way easier than explanation of we're not all family. You choose. Yeah. Who do you want me to be? Yeah. Who do you want me to be? Anybody but Al, please. Singer right there.

Well, not that I don't love Al. I just didn't want to have to go put on a vest. Like, I mean, it was fine. That's it. I was out of the vest. Now Al is skinny again. I was looking good. The vest will leave again.

Yeah. For a minute. Oh, it'll come back. Yeah. It'll come back. I don't like the stock market, man. But eventually he's going to get back up. Right now he's in a recession.

But he actually goes with the stock market. Look, hey, he's that close to retirement. He's eating better when the stock market's up. Hey, Al should be put on a suit and go replace Perry Mason. Well, not anymore. He doesn't look like that. Cannon. There's a new Matlock.

Yeah. No, he's not a lot of way. But Al, hold on. Look at, are you talking about Canon? No. Oh, Perry Mason. I'm talking about what's the guy's name? I can't remember his name.

Matt Locke. No, no, no. Guy that plays Perry Mason. You're right, Perry Mason. I can't take it with his name now. He's just Raymond Burr? Raymond Burr. There you go.

That's just a nice-looking man in a suit. Hey, well, I all looks just like him. But, yeah, so how's life that you're a new granddad? I have questions. Yes. Yep. Winston is three months old now. Okay.

You're granddad. Dad, you expected to look the same as you did in 2014? No, but you're trying to do like a hip. I really went downhill. Hey, it wasn't like a gradual. You're a little too hard on yourself. Yeah, you're being hard on yourself. Maybe I am.

You look fine. You're a little bit hard. You look great. You look exactly like I used to. Wow. From what I gained, though, embrace black t-shirts. They really helped you feel better. Honestly, it was the only thing I had clean.

I was a big flannel. Perfectly honest. I was going through my laundry before I got up here. Hey, I said, Hey, Dave wrote a song about it. I had put on my penis shirt.

I was a big unbuttoned flannel guy over a t-shirt. Really helped save the day. Yeah. So my question is, I've had a couple of people. One, I think last week, say Johnny D rags on you on the podcast.

What? Get him. I do not. Jeff, get him. I just, that's what I hurt. I have a cup.

No, I rag on Al. I have a couple of questions for you. Okay. Because we're neighbors. Like when Jet pees off his back porch, it cannot be at the same time as me peeing off my back porch because we'll make eye contact. Yeah. So question number one is, how many animals do you own?

It feels like a lot. And the fact that you can't answer that as swiftly tells me a lot about you. Not including farm animals. Six. Six. There's a new cat. Yes. Every five seconds.

How many animals, different species is we got here? Just two. It's just dogs and cats. Dogs and dogs. He's got two big old golden doodles that just stare at you in the driveway. Great dogs. But then there's cat. I think you've miscounted your cats.

Just four. Some of those are debos that come slinky around mine. Telling you, there is a cat. It's a cat epidemic. Yeah. He's got a bunch. That's the problem with cats. So what about the chickens?

You don't have them anymore? I do. We got like 11. No. It's a whole homestead down there because the other thing that I have a big question about is when are you building the parking garage? I know. We need something. A parking garage?

Too many cars. So my parents live on the other side of Jep. So I always go around the neighborhood and whenever I'm pulling in my parents' house, I look at the front of Jep and Jessica's house. And I mean, there's been 12 cars at your house. before. For sure. It's a problem. How many people live there?

So, um, not an immediate answer. Is this like, I'm really not sure about that. Is this like the cat? He can't, he can't keep up with that.

He's not sure how many of them are Dibos. I would say some people just walk in. But you are to the age where every, you have kids and they're all driving age except for one. Well, no, and then they have husbands. Yeah.

And they got, it's okay. dad and mom called him to be hospitable. Oh, yeah. Okay. And him and Jesse is carrying on the legend. Yeah, but Phil and Kay had overflow parking. Yeah, right.

And they're never in the way. I mean, I pre-hus live in a ditch, so it's like really hard to park. And yeah, it's a problem. Yeah, I actually burn rubber getting out of your driveway. You can. You burn rubber anyway. Backing up. Well, no.

Yeah, back out of that driveway and easy. So you have six people living with y'all. I think so. But 12 cars. A lot of cars. It's not wrong with that. It's family. It's family.

It's just family in and out. But sometimes you're like, man, they must be having a party. And then I get back to my house and I get my binoculars. And I'm like, there's no parties. Spy cam. So, okay, so we got a new grandbaby. So part of their problem is a problem is. The car problem.

My daughter wants to stay. She's like, oh, I just want to stay here tonight. And she'll sleep in my bed in my, spot with the baby in the middle between and Jess loves it. Just like, oh yeah, I want to sleep with her baby. See your mama all over again. So there's a lot of nights. I'm just on the couch by my daughter and grandbabies in my bed.

Grandpa, grandpa's got kicked out. And I'm like, how did we get this? I'm sleeping with Jessica and the baby's going to be in between us and we're both you have happiest. Pigs and slop. So sometimes they just come back and stay away. Yes.

You got to check them out. It's a problem at times for me. Not so much for everybody else. They're fine with it. Me. You don't like it. Big Dave's got pointers on that. I just show up to my parents' house all the time for groceries.

Well, right. And that's, it's just fair. I don't mind them stopping over for groceries. Hey, co-do. Stay in the night. I love it. Then you start sleeping in my bed. Then there's problems.

Yeah, I went over to your parents' house last night to eat with y'all. I didn't go get in Big Day's bed. Yeah. That's not. That'd be an issue. Well, not this time you didn't. Last night at 8.04, my mom looked at me and said, it's our bedtime. And I was like, what does that mean?

Leave. Bye, mom. Thanks for the birthday party. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means. That means more outside cooking. And y'all know, we love to eat beef around here.

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I know in size case Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat. She isn't a big meat either, folks. Yeah. Just go to Try Beef. slash that's try beef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. So I'm glad Jeps here because I'm fixing to go through something I've never been through and although you're younger you've been through it several times. Hey the nest is fixing to be empty. That's exactly right. So when me and I saw in Arkansas, I get a phone call from my son in England. I'm like, I got to take this.

Yeah, security. He said, oh, oh, something's up. I got to go. Bryce, if something happens, Bryce don't never call. So. Yeah. And I sent you a picture, John David. And so my son, Bryson, uh-oh. Yeah, is engaged. Oh, well. He said, Dad, she said yes. I was like, what? So, yeah. Did you know he had a girlfriend? Yeah, I knew he had a girlfriend. Yeah, I know he had a girlfriend. But he asked her to, yeah, they're in English. She was born in Australia, raised in England. And she's an Aussie? Yeah, she's an Aussie. So, yeah, they're getting. She say, oy, oh, boy, oh. Hey, that's good. Oh, wait, oh, way. Yeah, that's good stock. So he's getting married.

Amber's getting married in June. I don't know how to handle it. Wait, we got to back up. You have. We got to back up. That's a live photo. Can you hold on to that? He called that.

He just called your Australian, uh, soon to be daughter-in-law, good stock. Yeah. Thank you, sir. Hey, hey,

if you live in Australia, you've got to be rugged, son. I was hoping I could figure out what that box is. It just says butter on it. I'm very, I'm very interested. I'll ask him.

Yeah, Justin. He loves the... So you've got two in gay. Yeah, all of a sudden, all my kids are, you know... They're abandoned a ship, boy. How many of your kids are married? Two. Most of them.

Two? We still got one that's holding out. So what's the... What's the advice? Oh, marrying your kids getting married? To me, honestly, it was just the first one that was hard. But mine were... Yours are boys, right?

No, Amber. Amber. She's my young. youngest and she's getting married in June. And Alicia's been trying to get married. Alicia's been trying to get me ready for it, but I'm such an emotional person. I don't know if y'all know that about me, but I am. I'm trying to get tough before it happens. Now, just be a baby.

He's a pushover. Why are you got to be tough? Just to like try and get through it. No, you'll be fine. Jeff, did you cry? So here's what happened to me. I was 100% fine, never thought about it. Oh, we're good, we're good.

We got married. They got, we got married. They got married. Well, she is sleeping in your bed. You get it right. We got married.

That was like you married this guy, man. It's eating your food parking in your spot. That's right. And his wife sleeping in your bed. We're married. We're all married. Maybe you and Austin just on the couch out there. I mean,

hey, they kicked you out of your bed, son. Yeah, you're married. We were at Jason's, uh, old home in Monroe,

his little wedding venue thing. And, uh, I was, totally fine and then we walked down getting ready for me to walk her down the aisle. Yep. And dude, I just like, I didn't talk. Like, I was just like, I was stuck.

Like, and I didn't think I could walk down. I was like, I looked at her like, I'm done. Like, I'm on your own. And she was like, she freaked out. Did you get the wedding? Did you get the wedding yips? I did. You got the yips.

This ain't giving me no warm feeling. I lost control. I had no foreign substance in my body, but I lost control of it, which is weird. Well, I look, I can tell you what's in store for you in the future. You're going to break down. Yeah, you know I'm emotional.

No, no, because I did, okay. You did? Oh, what are you talking about? Was it tears of joy or sadden me? No, no. Like, get out of my house? No, she chose a good one, so there was tears of joy. But I, he's getting a little emotional right now thinking about it, aren't you?

Well, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, because, hey, look, that's my baby. Dad's a girl. Okay, hey. Dad, because that's why I want everybody says, you got what? And I said, hey, grandson.

I said, God knows what he's doing. Because he had gave me a granddaughter, she wouldn't be worth nothing. And it's, and I think it's easy. Look, she'll wrap me around her little finger and she'd have got all the money. It's been that way with me and Amber the whole life. I got nothing.

Yeah, the boys I was hard on, Amber I was like, what can I help you? Yeah. You know? What do you want, baby? Yeah. My daughter's the same way, so if you y'all want another one, like we love. I'll say this what could help you potentially, I think. You need to go watch the, because I think it was filmed, watch when Carly got married with Jay.

He, were you there? Oh, my gosh, dude. Stony crying, because he's. Stone cried? Oh, I've seen Stone cried once. Well, no, no. I'll tell you. He bawled.

And that got me because that dude never cries. Yeah, but he was just sad because they was coming to live with him. Oh, maybe. Maybe. Think about that parking lot too. He's looking at your driveway and said,

I ain't ready for that, man. It seems like these daughters, they get married young, they turn into a boomerang. Like they slide out there, and then they say, nah, let me get on back.

Well, I, let me come on back. Look, wait to BK. All right, baby you may, I think it would be with B.K. He cried with Carly. Well, I'm just saying when Sage, oh, BK gets married,

oh, he's going to be worse than he was with Carly. Don't a big soft and deep down. That's why he goes to choke people all the time, so he acted tough. Yeah. No, I'll see him cry. You're talking about that's the second time that I heard about him crying there,

but the other time was when Si had COVID, and we had to go get him out of the hospital. And look, I mean, Jay's a tough guy. He cried like a baby and I did too. But, you know, when something is that close to you and you're so emotional about it, like, I can't even talk about it with my wife.

She's like, oh, you're going to be a mess. You're going to be a mess. I'm not ready for it. Well, no, that's what I tell you. We're going to film me. The thing about Stoneley is, well, I had the stupid cold. You know, Donald didn't give me a chart. He said, oh, Mary.

get dressed I fix you up in your underwear and we're going to the hospital and I say whoa ho ho I'll get dressed I'll get dressed okay that's because when you had it you turned into a vicious liar well see I didn't know that he was 5% truth back then no

yeah he'll do that too yeah everybody asked you did you take your medication I said yeah I took it I thought I had okay yeah there we go Then when I found out, y'all, everybody's calling me a liar and you're hard to get along with and all that. So how long did we got until your daughter gets me? June, June 21st. That's next month.

Yeah, that's right around the corner. That's less than a month from when this layer. Yeah, y'all are making me anxious. Yeah, let me ask you a question. Where is it? Willie's farm. Okay. Okay.

Yeah, so. You give me the friends and family this one. Yeah. I really don't know yet. Yeah, you'll have to tell me what you paid. I'll tell you if he'd cut you a deal or not. He didn't. Did the guys that married your daughters,

did they come talk to you and ask you for your daughter's hand in marriage? They did. In fact, they both asked me when they took them out for the first time, which was kind of interesting. They're like, can I marry? I'm not going to be able to marry your daughter? No, I'm saying.

Like, both of them separately met with me, weirdly enough at the same coffee shop. I think the second time I was like, let's mention this. This is where I interview kids. You always do them things in public. Yeah, no, they said, hey, I really like, let's just say Tyler, for example, he said, I really like Merritt. I'd like to ask her out. And so is that cool?

And so we just talked about, honestly, just their faith. And I got to ask a ton of questions, just to ask them out, which I thought was cool. Yeah. So when it came to the Merriam part, it was pretty easy because I had already known these kids for so long. And we, you know, they're good boys. but I know I do, I'll say this. Now with, I know with Austin, I just tried to talk him out of it.

I was like, I'm just going to see what he says. If I just give a bunch of, what if this happens? Why not? Willie, when he started out. Yeah, like, let's just see where this kid's at. And so I, and he would, you know, he was all in. Oh, man.

It was easy. And I love DJ. And he did. He came to me after church one day. And he said, he said, I need to talk to you. I want to ask you something. And I figured out what it was really quick.

And usually, you know, I like jump in and save people if they're struggling. That's just my nature. But I just let him talk. I just let him finish. And he was like, I want to marry your daughter. I was like, okay, yes. So you had no idea of that picture was coming? Oh, that's Brian.

No, no, no. But I'm just saying. Bryson just did it out of the book. Yeah, this is. Bryson's about to be out of the military. Did he tell his mom? Oh, he told his mom before he told him. He's going to do it?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, no, no. He told his mama before. Okay. But, uh,

oldest. Oldest. Oh, I get them mixed out. Yeah. Oh, the oldest. Yeah. So.

The only one is going to be left is Blake. Yeah. Elvis. Elvis is, he ain't left the building yet. He has not left the building. So he joined the Air Force. Yep.

Moved to England. Mm-hmm. And married a girl from Australia. Yeah. Good start. Good start. Good stock. Emily.

Emily. Good stop, Emily. So are they staying in England? That was my question. No, they're moving here for a while, and then they're going to move back. That's all I know right now. Back to England or Australia. Is there a chance you have an Australian sign?

Like, does she ever want to go back to Australia? No, her family is in England now, and her dad is the surgeon to the royal family. Really? Okay, so time out. Wait a second. When you say they're going to move back here, do you mean West Monroe? Louisiana, the United States. See from Buckingham Palace.

That's what I'm about to say, man, she's going to be let down. But you know what? That's why they probably won't stay here long. Yeah, they won't. They'll be out of here. Unlike the people at Jep's house, they were loaded up over there. She's going to pull into town and smell that paper mill. I said, no, bro, we got to go.

We're known for the paper. We've got to get out of here. But first, they're going to drive past the landfill coming into town. And she'll be like, what have y'all done? She's going to say, that's where the dead bodies are. What have y'all done? I think what I bridge. person says jog on, that's the same as like,

we gotta go through this. Yeah. I watch a lot of British shows and movies, do y'all? You ever hear them say jog on? We had those two British guys on the show. They never said that one. No, they're actually, they're actually fun to watch. Yeah. I watch a lot of the British people. But one of the guys did say, is now you big into Bridgetterden?

No, fouling. Bigging to what? Bigging to what? You know what that means? No, I don't know what that is. I don't even know what that is. Fowling. Fowling. Fowling? Fowling, yeah, no fouling. No taking a dog.

Okay, there you go. Foo it. But I'm just so, dogs taking, but she's coming from Australia to England to Louisiana. That's tough. You know what, though? She's going to find out what Tony Sashries is. Oh, that's good. She'll probably take that back with it.

I bet they get an ice machine when they go back. Yeah, he probably already has that Tony Sassarys. Yeah, she's going to get on that iced tea and not hot tea. She's going to, okay, y'all do have something. Oh, wait, so do you get to go to England for a wedding? Yeah. That's where they're getting married. It's an easy.

You can't get married here? Well, I just thought they may just, since they both world travelers, may just pick somewhere else. Well, don't see that? Eight halfway? Yeah. That's the problem. Bermuda or something.

You've got to go through a bunch of stuff to actually be able to leave and then come back. It's weird. Yeah. Where do they live, like in London or somewhere else? Well, he's stationed there, and she lives there. I think she's just finished school at Cambridge. Good stuff. I think I married up.

Everything I've heard so far, Sight hit the nail on the head on this one. Yeah, she's a sweet. Hold on, right. She's smart. Does she know who you are? Yes. Matter of fact,

Bryce said, he turned the TV on saying, here's my dad, and I'm riding up on a lawnmower. What about it, duck boys? She was like, okay.

Oh, your dad, he seems like he's a little crazy. Oh, well. Oh, that's, Parents are proud, man.

If you look up me, you're going to get some. I'm way more interested in the interaction of the parents. 100%. Yeah, you and Alicia with the royal surgeon. Yeah, well, the royal, with the royal surgeon? Can I come? I'm in. Yes, yes.

I just want to be at the same restaurant as y'all while y'all have been here for the first time. I don't want to sit with y'all because that'd be uncomfortable, but I want to be over there observing. Yeah, it'd be too, uh, What's the word I'm looking for? Awkward. Yeah. To be with the royal family, you know, I'm more embarrassed you people. Oh, man.

You need to bring side with you for sure. I would love to. Yeah, I'll embarrass you if I'm with the royal family. I'll say this, though, I think Australian people, in my view, when you get out of the city and stuff, like, they're kind of like southern kind of redneck people. Oh, yeah. Oh, no, that looks like to me. These are fine ears.

Yeah. If you come from Australia, you're pioneer. Yeah. Yeah. If you were brave enough to hop on a boat, I come from stock that hopped on a boat and said, we're going down there. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

You got a lot of pine air blood in you. Yeah, that's, that's a. You got to see what's on the other side of the hill, boys. Yeah. That's crazy. Oh, and I can tell you what's on the other side. A bunch of crocodiles. And I got the boots to prove it.

And I got to set a boots on. Oh, man. That's crazy. Well, congratulations, Bryson. And what's her name? Bryson and Emily, yeah. Congratulations, Bryson. and Emily all the way from Sunny Westmanorham.

They'll never see this. Y'all have no idea how many other guys. I mean, cockatiles, I had a rousal to find my pair that will fit me. Oh, Lord. There we go. Here we go. Could help myself, boys. But anyway, well, that's some fun family news.

But, Jeff, you came on to share. You asked that if you could come be on the podcast to share something that you guys are working with. So I want to give you the floor to do that right now. to, and I don't want to misspeak, obviously, but we know you work with all God's, all God's children international. I got to go a little fast there. And y'all have a big initiative going on right now. We do.

So it's kind of cool. My new kind of main job now is getting us sponsorships for these kids. And so I've been over there. I think I told y'all, didn't I tell you when I went to Ethiopia the first time? And, like, I saw some, like, oh, man, some hard stuff. like going in some of their orphanages and stuff like that. I was like, ooh, man,

like we, uh, we, we, we complain here about our system and it's not great, you know, the, but it's,

it's, it's far worse over there. Just a amount of like homeless kids in the street stuff. And what they do is, I didn't realize this. You get over there as a sniff glue like, like, because it's like,

easily accessible. So you see like a lot of little kids walking around just kind of out of their, out of their, out of their mind. out of their minds and it's like really hard to watch. But that's where we come in and we step in and help these orphan kids and there's so many to help. But we basically pay for their school and their groceries and we get them to church. And we have people on our team that share Jesus with them, which is awesome.

And so yeah, I'm excited to be a part of this little initiative. And we made a, I think, a cool. commercial. I helped with the idea. But so pretty much our whole family's on it. Kind of all the couples, me Jess, Jay,

Smithy, Willie, Corey, Alisa, and some of you guys, we filmed today. And so when y'all watch this podcast, I ask that you check out that video.

I think it's really cool. It's time. It's time. It's time. Time to talk about what's happening in Ethiopia. Families are struggling. Hungry. Being ripped apart by

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$40 a month, and you can really help a child. I'm always like, man, I sponsor eight kids, but I'm like, I get this quite a bit. But I'm like, man, just skip a few meals a month. I need to be skipping bills anyway. That's not eating out twice a week. Right. These days, I mean, you pretty much, if you go eat out, that's $20. Nowadays is, like, even Taco Bell.

Like, I went to Taco Bell. That's what I was like, $80. That's what I'm saying is like a trip to Chick-fil-A now is, I mean, it eats up the better part of our 20. We're 55 for our family. Yeah. $55 of my family eats a chicken for that. Yeah.

So it's $40 a month and you can sponsor one child. That's right. Yep. And I'm going in September. So I'm excited. We've been doing a lot of cool new stuff with like Tim Tebow's, a big helps with us with some of our homes over there. We have a boys home now. It's because we have a couple of girls' homes.

And that's more intensive. like we have counselors for them and we and they go to school and like they kind of have their own kind of kids we couldn't get you uh re unified uh because we always try that like try to find them if they're an orphan or whatever like try to find an aunt or uncle somebody that can help them and uh so we do that first but if not we have these homes and stuff we can um take them in and they're just sweetest kids man what what uh what's the numbers do you have any numbers Is I mean a kid? Need sponsored?

I mean, it's hundreds. So. And we're kind of, we, you know, we, it's kind of an urgent thing. So that's why we're kind of doing this.

It's like, we've had some sponsorships drop off, which stinks because it's like, you know, this kid was like really flourishing. Yeah. And then if they don't get that money, you know,

they're back to hard, hard living. So we want to try to make sure those ones. So when we've gotten almost all of them, there was like a goal of 50. And we're like, we have like 40 out of 50. So.

we almost have all those kids back taken care of. Okay. Yeah, man. I love it. It's really cool, man. You meet these kids and they're caretakers and they're so grateful. I mean, you know, they have nothing over there and they're so happy. Yeah.

For the little they have. It's really cool. Yeah. And if you look on maps and stuff, where, like, the gospel is on fire. It's like sub-Saharan Africa, like in all of that area. So the Lord's doing work there anyway. So, you know. However, we can support it.

You know, we know, and I think Jeff would even tell you this, we all know that we're in a weird economic time, like money doesn't go as far as it used to. So $40 is, we're in a different spot. That is a commitment these days than perhaps even five, six, seven years ago. So, but if you do have it and you do feel led, where can they? Yeah, you go to all godschildren.org slash sponsorship.

And like you said, we always ask people like prayerfully consider like, you know, just pray about it. And the Lord will tell you what to do or not. And, but it is rewarding. And we do have, you can, you know, you get stuff from these kids. Like you get checkups and like what's going on in their lives and they send you pictures and stuff like that. So you kind of know where they're at. So it's pretty cool. And you know, you can see where your money's actually going.

It's not going into a mutual fund that gets doled out. That's going to a kid. It's cool because, like, out of my eight kids, I've been doing it for six or seven years. Like, two of my kids have went on to graduate high school and they're in college. Like, they've made it past the, you know, they're doing okay now. They have a job and they're going to school. So they eventually can get out where they don't need a sponsorship. But, you know, when they're younger, especially when they don't have family.

Yeah. It's crazy to think that $40 a month is enough. Oh, my gosh. I mean, because, again, we're just going to go. It goes a long way over there. That's a couple of meals here, about $40 is a month. enough for a month for a child. Yeah.

That's incredible. I've heard some of our people from a White's Ferry Church of Christ that have went on missionary trips to all different places. And they come back and apologize to their parents. I'm sorry I've been such a whiner. Yep. And, you know, because when they see how little some people, other people got and they're happy.

Yep. Okay. And here they are. I'm, oh, good grief you y'all. you, bye, bye, bye, y'all. Well, that's what got me into the whole ministry was, going to Waste Free Road. I went to, I went to Dominican with, actually with Corey,

I think Sadie was there, not Willie. And then we were doing like a VBS thing with these kids. And what got me was they, we brought them some toys and stuff, and they were like, oh, cool. And then we got them like, like, just like tidy witties and little white shirts, like little haines. But they had never had, like, new underwear and like a T-shirt. And they all cried.

And I was like, we were all crying. like, oh my gosh, like, that meant a lot to them. Well, no, no. A little something. You know, the appreciation. You know, Prio done a great lesson on it one time about nobody appreciates nothing anymore. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

And when you drive, if you drive around, like, if you got in your car and drove around, one of the road and looked at people parking, you know, at their house, they got two and three cars sitting there. And they're saying, yep, got 12. And they're saying they're poor. Trust me, I know. No, no, and they're saying they're poor. You don't know what poor means.

That's right. You got three cars sitting in your yard and you're 40 pounds overweight. No, don't tell me how bad you got it. Yep, he really looking at you on that one. No, no, no, I'm just saying, you know, when you go to somewhere else, they ain't got nothing. Willie took me to Peru one time and them kids were living above the river. Like, their houses were where the only reason they were able to live there is because there were no rules where the Amazon backed up. So it was like, well, we'll just go there.

That way we don't have to have no codes or nothing. And I saw a kid literally like going from house to house in a bucket as a boat. Oh, no. And I was like, man, I'm going to try to stop complaining. Here's the thing. And he was proud and appreciated that bucket. Yeah, he was glad. He was glad that bucket was watertight, man.

He was like, hey, best bucket out of. That thing has multiple use for him, too. Yeah. Bath, a boat, like, all the things, man. Well, that's cool, man. Now, that's one of the reasons we were like, well, of course you can come on here and talk about it. Because we do reach a broad audience that may feel led to help with the sponsorships. And if nothing else, just like Jeff said, just pray, man.

Pray for these kids. Play for these families. And, yeah, it's an area on fire for the gospel. So that's a cool area of growth. in the spiritual world. And also you can choose to, hey, let's do it for six months and see how we like it. Or let's commit to one year and see if we can continue doing it, you know. For sure.

Jeff ain't going to show up to your house if you do it one month, fall on hard times and don't do it the next. What are you doing? Where are you? You know what's funny is though, people that do sponsor and usually people that do kind of bigger, you know, gifts or whatever, I will call. And so shout out. I called this lady the other day. She was super cool. And she was like, oh, I'll sponsor some kids right now.

I was like, heck, yeah. So she's on her computer and we're talking about it. And she goes, hey, can I text you what I like to do for fun? And I was like, what is that involved? She was like, hunting. She was like, what I do hunting wise? And I was like, oh, well, heck yeah. Well, yeah.

For sure. And this lady sent me, I need to look it up and show you all. She kills deer with a. Spear. Yeah, okay. Out of a tree stand. No, no. Oh, no.

No, up in like Wisconsin or Michigan, where if she's from? No, this lady's legit. Chunk and I want to see a picture of this. Oh, yeah. Spear chunk. I've heard, I've heard, you know, I've heard about it. Yeah. That's the thing.

This is a primitive weapon. Oh, for sure. A stick? For sure. So can you imagine you killing toothpick with a spear? Oh, no. I had two years. struggle to kill him with a high-power rifle.

But I've read about it, seen it on television, about, hey, they all they hurt with primitive weapons. Yeah, Kim Wells does that. He's the one that kind of made that a thing. And his daughter with one is Sidney Wells. She killed him a one too, man. I mean, they, that's kind of people you don't want hunting you. Because you wouldn't abide.

That goes along much. I throw a jabbling pretty far. That goes wrong about with Emily. Good stock, boys. Good stock. There you go. He's going to deal with a spear. Yeah, you have to be able to do this.

Good stock. So, Jeff, did you call her? Did y'all talk on the phone? I did. That's a lot. Oh, you got to send that to John Day. Oh, yeah, she ain't played. Yeah, that's awesome.

You don't see that? That's a bull, too. That's a good buck. Oh, yeah. I was like, this ain't like throwing, you know, getting those. Hey, that's 15 yards or less probably. I was impressed. That thing's got a big old spear tip on it.

Like, look at that thing. So, Philip, you kind of work in this same realm. Yeah. At $40 a month, is that not mind-blowing? I mean, because you know what it takes. Oh, my goodness. Yes. In a system in America.

Yeah. Right? A lot more. A lot more. So the fact that you could do that for a child with 40 bucks is incredible. That is amazing. And I think, I mean, that's very worthwhile. So I'm going to commit me and my family are going to do that for a year.

Yeah, thank you, Phil. That's all that's your family getting smaller. You know, you've got less. Now I got more money. Yeah, your kids don't show up and start eating all your food because they got across the Atlantic Ocean. Hey, do you have more money now that some of the kids are gone? They're all still there. They never left.

I just have grandbabies that are at my house. They're like me and Jenna except they spend the night sometimes. That's right. I was hoping it would get better. You always go home, oh, huh? Yeah, I ain't. No, no, Big Dave looked at me one time. He goes, you get in a bind.

I'll get your hotel. You ain't sleeping away. I love that. I'll buy you. Hey, I may use that. He said, we'll figure it out. We'll get a hotel. Like, you ain't staying here.

Yeah, I'll put you up to hotel. We got any, any interesting emails? What's now? Hunter? Hunter? Hunter? Anything that. Hunter's.

Oh, boy. Oh, he's been out. Hunter's still recovering from hernia a surgery. Oh my goodness. Did you really? I had a hernia surgery before. I would love to talk about this.

How long were you out of work? I was so scared. So here's, it's kind of a funny story. I was playing basketball at the time. I thought I was really good. And I was like, oh my gosh,

like down in the netheres, there was a bulge coming out. And I just, where did I never bowl? That's right. Right. Yeah, you used to other bulges. And I assumed.

I was like, I got cancer. Like, do you know what I'm saying? Like, worst case scenario. I wouldn't tell anybody because I was so scared. And it kept getting worse. So what I didn't realize if you had a hernia, that whatever that tear is in your muscle fiber, whatever, it just keeps getting bigger and stuff keeps coming out.

And so it got to a point where it was like, I would get up and it was like, this big bulge. I'd be like, oh. And it hurts so bad. And I'd be like, oh, my gosh. And then finally. So I can't hold it together over there. Finally.

I'm like, how detailed should I get in this story? I told some, I may have been my girlfriend at the time. What was, like, look. You can't hide it forever. I got a big problem here. And she was like, you got to go to the doctor. And I was like, no. But if I got cancer, I'm going to die.

And I don't want to, I don't want to know that I'm going to die. I just want to die. I just want to die. Is that what happened? Is that what happened to you? Hunter just yelled that's exactly what happened. Okay, same story. Time out, time out.

Same story. I ain't no way you were playing basketball. I don't know what you were doing, but it wouldn't play a basketball, Hunter. Dead lifts, okay. Hunter was dead. Hunter works out. Hunter lifts weight.

And that might have been how I got it initially was weightlifting for about, because we were lifting weights. And then, yeah, the doctor was like, it was this old man who I think my dad told me to go see which is weird because but this guy was I go in there I'll never forget he said

I got a and this is what he said sorry. I think your dad's advice on a lot of things hernia doctor's dog but he's like I'm going to I probably shouldn't say that I'll have to check your back end and your front end. Basically how he put it. Okay. And he was more colorful

and I thought oh and that's another You're 16, you're like, oh, no. Yeah, time out. I didn't sign up for this. Like, what are we doing here? Why are you checking the back? Obviously, the problem's in the front. Right off the bat, he looked, oh, oh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, you got a hernia son. Yeah, we're going to have to do surgery. And I was like, oh. And it was before they did. I don't know what happened to you, but like I have a big scar, like a humdinger. You got a pretty big, okay. Oh, you're going to show us? Yeah, comparing scar.

So mine was a little lower in the region, but, yeah, it's still, it's still numb to this day. Really? Like weirdly, it feels weird. Okay. That's interesting. So, Hunter, you had your girlfriend check it out too? That's the first person.

Ow! No, I'm just like, check it out. I'm just saying, that's the first person you can find it in. Well, see, because when I have my deal down there, the hydro seal or whatever, you know, like this one, I showed my camera man. I was like, yo, buddy. I mean, we've spent a lot of hours in a tree stand together. So, like, we're... No, not Jordan.

and Stephen from Realty. We spent a lot of hours together along me and him, and I got out to shower after I discovered it. And I was like, man, you don't see him right. So I just walked out of there. I said, does this look bad? You know, and just opened it up. And Steven said, yeah, bro, you got a problem.

I said, okay. I said, I just making sure it wasn't like some weird angle, some trick mirror in there, you know, I just was confirming stuff. Yeah. It's funny who you can find that stuff in. you know because you'll do it to anybody except for like immediate family you're like no i got or a physician or a physician well you don't want to just walk in there feeling like that you don't want

someone they say hey what's wrong most time you like yeah i got a little cough got a little fever you don't yeah you don't want to tell that okay you don't always walk in there and drop you drop your bridges like you know but yeah that's what i'd do no you wouldn't you'd hide it you'd call me you'd call you'd call three other people for you're like yeah okay now i need to go to the doctor because As a man, the last thing you want to do is that Mitch, you got to go to the doctor in life. Because you know they're going to get the knife out. There's no way to fix it without a knife.

Right. On any of this stuff. And you don't want that. Nobody wants that. You don't want to go sleep. You don't want to go night night. Because then you got to wake up. But trust me, man.

I'm telling you. And when it's down there, you're like, oh, now we signed up for a vasectomy. That's fine. No problem. We know what we were getting into walking into that. It's the surprise ones that bother them. I haven't had any surprises down there, so I'm good with it.

Yeah. Well, good luck, buddy. I hope you don't get it. Just be safe. I see you working out a lot. But if you do, it sounds like we've got the whole gamut of it covered. We can give you practical. Yeah, I guess I'm calling Hunter first thing.

Hey, Hunter, here's that picture. Is this what yours look like? I'm going to send Hunter a picture and be like, hey, this is what you need for the podcast. And it's like, piao. Now, did Phil come help you put your pants back on after? surgery? No. Because Hunter's dad did.

No, I remember showing up down there. After I had surgery and I was like barely getting along and he just started dying laughing. He's, yeah. Yep, his gut done ripped on him. It happens. Who's that? Phil. Maybe he probably hit you there.

Yep. We've all been real concerned. Oh, Jepetot. We're real concerned and loving about stuff like that. Yeah, that's it. Oh, man. Well, I guess we're in here. Are we?

Yeah, 52 minutes. Well, I didn't have an email, but that is because our email box was full of people reaching out about my uncle and all that stuff. So I just want to say how much I appreciate all the messages. Yeah, we're making it. We're moving along. And that's why today's Bible verse is so perfect. For Jet being here with all God's children and stuff.

James 127, religion that. that God our father accepts as pure and faultless as this, to look after orphans and widows in their distress to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. If you want to do something right, look at somebody that's going through a hard time that might have just lost your husband, or look at something like what Jep's doing

and helping out kids that don't have parents to help themselves, and that'll keep you right in line with what God wants you to do. Help people out that can't help themselves. Amen, brother. Well, Jeff, thank you. Come back anytime. You're always welcome here, especially not you got 20 people in your house. You probably won't get away from that.

I did. I wanted to get out of there today, especially, to be honest. So we hang out here twice a week for a couple hours. You can always stop by and visit. By the way, those that were affected in Kentucky and Missouri. Yeah. The tornadoes, man. The tornadoes that hit and killed a lot of people.

We'll be praying for the ones that lost loved ones. and in for the recovery from the tornadoes. Yeah. And there's, uh, you've gone obviously. I know by now I'm a big weather nerd. There's a couple more coming. A couple more outbreaks coming this week. So like it's that time of year.

Be safe. Be smart. And man, just be thankful, right? Like it's not thankful for that, but I'm saying thankful for what you have. And if you're not affected, really be thankful because there's a lot of people who are hurting. Hurting right now that are, yeah,

that trying to figure out, way to recover from all this. Thank you all. We love you guys. We'll see y'all next time right here in the duck call room. We're out.