Duck Call Room - That Time Si Almost Shot Martin

Episode Date: August 19, 2021

Si came way too close to shooting Martin, but he thinks he had a pretty good reason. Si tells guest Marty Smith of ESPN about the greatest football game he ever played. The guys discuss what being on time means to a Robertson. Godwin is back to rate your sammiches. And John-David reads emails from fans in desperate need of dating and relationship advice. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Okay, look, we're back. Back where. In the duck call room. It says it's all on your shirt. That's right. Lookall room podcast. Even though this is the first thing I've had to eat today, which is a peanut M&M. Oh, right.

And these have Spanish on them. That was from, that package came from Mexico. It says Spanish, but one thing I'm looking at here says Mars Canada, Inc. That's hilarious. Yeah. Everything else in Spanish? Come from Canada. Isn't the world a great place?

Wait, is that French? Have you ever? Only in America. Have you ever heard going around my lars? I got to look at the box. Oh, that is French, Hammer. Uh-oh. But they come from Mexico?

I don't know. In Louis Canada. That's from Chase. That was package was from Chase in Alberta. There you go. Brand Prairie, Alberta. I'm guessing Alberta is AB. Yeah.

That's a guess. That's a minute. He up there. He up there where the ducks live. That's that, boys. Where they raised. M&Ms for hosts of my favorite bags of podcasts. Well, thank you.

I read that wrong. He read it wrong. Oh, that's fine. Oh, they got regular. What was his name? Chase. There's more candy. Somebody sent Twinkies, airheads.

Chase, we thank you, buddy. Look, but we're back. I'm on the diet. I'm still on a diet, everybody. He's on a diet. Somebody in the comment said, Mark his words, he won't be soon. Still on it. There you go.

He won't be what? I'm on a diet too. I'm trying to lose weight, man. I'm on a diet too. Look at sin. Look at the side. Look at the... You ain't got to be on a diet.

You're 78 years old. Gobblin? Here's Johnny Deer. Are you ready? What? Gobwin's back. Goblin's been back. No, but I'm saying he's back.

We haven't done this in a minute. Are there a few sandwiches we can have Johnny Galvin? We're going to start with sandwiches? Well, why? I haven't eaten anything. Like, except for those in-and-in-in-in-s? Sandwich time, boys. Hey, Gobwin, this is smoked maple syrup, bacon with a little...

I don't know what that word is. That looks like a duck called me. Under a soft, I've got to read it all. Soft, yolk, fridge egg. No, it didn't make it. Rate it. Scale of one to ten. Oh, right there. Uh-oh.

I can't zoom in. Oh, I got to. You got to get better pictures. No, I'm in on him. No. People don't take great pictures. Say that again. Ham eggs.

And butter on the bread, it looks like. And, uh-oh. Whoops. That's all of it. That's my next. I got to get another screen up. There you go. Yeah, that is.

Ham eggs, buttered toast. Look, there's one for both of us. One for each of us. I'd eat him. That is the sunny side up. I don't like a sunny side up egg. Well, I mean, as soon as you bust him, that yoke's going everywhere, which is not a bad thing. No, it's going just to go into that bread.

It's not a good thing for a sandwich, though, is it? Yeah. You sop it up off your plate with the corners of your bread. Absolutely. That's probably sard-dough bread, too. I'm going to give that one a solid seven. and I know this is Godwin section, but I'm so hungry, I'm giving him a seven. Easy now.

There's no, I don't see any pepper on the bread. I'm fine with that. I'm just hungry. One to ten, God. Look how that one's go. It's got the crispiness around the outside of the egg. The ham looks sliced just right. And butter on the bread.

Grandma and Grandpa used to put butter on all their sandwiches. instead of mayonnaise. I wish the bacon was cooking more. I wish the bacon was cooked more. This is from Lee, by the way. That's smoked bacon, evidently. Okay, you don't want it. Is it smoked?

I like crunchy baking. Is it smoked bacon? It says smoked maple syrup. That's what I'm talking about right there. With a little... You don't know what you smoked bacon looks like. Is that a typo? I don't know.

I think that's a typo. All right, one to ten. What are we here? What are you giving it there, Godwin? I'm a Martin. I'll give that a seven. He's giving it a seven. That's going to...

Well, it's only because I hadn't seen the rest of them. Yeah, that's a good place to start. That's a good start. All right, this is from... Uh-oh. This is from Michael in Central South Dakota. It is sourdough bread, fresh tomatoes, salt, fresh cracked black pepper, longhorn cheese, slice of ham, black olives.

and toasted zucchini. I'll give out an ate just for the look. The presentation is a lot. Really? I'm not much on black eyelids. Oh, I love them. Me too. Love them.

And don't know what a, what's a zucchini? What's a zucchini? Like a squash, but green. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't. They don't, they go beside, I don't know. I'm just, I don't know. How healthy that looks.

But that's a cucumber, right? Yeah, yeah. Which turns into a pickle. No, that's a zucchini, he said. Man, that doesn't look. I would, I would have bet the farm that that was a cucumber. Five. We're giving it a five.

He didn't even like rationale that one. He said five. Central South Dakota gets a five. I gave it eight. So I gave it an eight. I'm going to stick. I mean, I would go back seven again. Is that toasted bread?

Toasted sourdough. Yeah, the bread. Five point five. Five. I brought it up a nut. All right. Next sandwich. I don't understand it.

It's called a screamer. I need to read it first. It was made famous by Tony's Lunch in Garardville, Pennsylvania. This is from John, John, and drums, PA. It has marshmallow fluff, adobe onions, and quick cheese. Why in the world is there marshmallow on a hot sandwich? With, I got a lot of questions. Yeah, I'd scream, too.

Yeah. I'm not trying it. I'm out on him. I think they, presentation. What is it? It's got marshmallows. Marshmallows, adobe onions. I like adobe, which is just smoked chili paste.

It does it. He didn't say what the, it looks like a burger maybe or a sloppy Joe? I like everything. It looks like a burger. I like everything but the marshmallows. Yeah. I'm saying two.

Two? Yeah, I'm just not even trying it. There's marshmallow. With 10 being the high and two being the low. I give that in a sick. You're giving it a sick. You're putting that above the last sandwich? That's right.

With the ham? Yeah. All right. Guy one's interested in a marshmallow. Well, I don't want them black olives and zucchini. This one has marshmallow. Don't give you milk. The next sandwich is a 10.

Michael from South Dakota as well. Sit it in. He calls it a pancake sandwich. A pancake sandwich. Homegrown eggs, homemade bacon, and made from scratch pancakes. Oh my gosh. Yes.

I'm so hungry. That's a 10. What is it? Where can I get that? South Dakota at Michael's house. That's what I mean. I'm fixing to go to South Dakota. That's like taking that thing.

thing that McDonald's has got, but making it way better. How far from Sue Falls is? Michael? Michael? Excuse me. You may have a visitor. Michael, you may have a visitor. He didn't give a city.

He just calls it as pancake sandwich. And what I really notice, he grows, he's got his own chickens. Those are his own eggs. He made his own bacon. Absolutely. Oh, Michael. He didn't make it.

it he grew it Michael, can I ask you, can I ask you to do one thing? It's a 10. I'm going to give it a 9. Whoa. Here's what I want.

Here's what I want on it to make it a 10. Okay. I want a piece of breakfast sausage spread out thin as wide as the pancake. Well, that's back there on the side. And then 10. Oh, I'm with Martin on that.

I was just fixing that 9.5. but if you go with them put a sausage out there. And the essence of archery, that would have to say that 12. A 12. Hey, I would have, you would have to say sausage. I'd give anything about that. My mouth is watering. Golly.

Hold on. If your mouth's water, I got one more. One more real quick. This is from a person with the food Instagram, Kamita means food from Nampa, Idaho. There's no description, but good gracious. Oh, no. I like the cheese.

I like all the cheese is dripping off of it. Yeah, I'm in. Onion. Yeah. She sent a lot of pictures, but there's a three patties. I mean, that's a sandwich right there. Maybe three pads. Is that a shroom I'm looking at on there?

I don't know. There's onions. There's ranch dress. That's just, oh, my word. That's another 10. We got tans all over the place today. Let's take a quick break. I'm going to come back with a buddy of mine.

Ooh. And I'm probably going to go find me a sandwich. So we'll be back right after that. He thinks to find something to eat down here. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means? That means more outside cooking.

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Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's trybeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. All right, we're back. Look, we have a guest with us today. If you follow sports, ESPN, anything at all, you probably know my good buddy, Marty Smith. Marty, thank you for having us. Thank you for coming on. Thank you.

Thank you for the ovation, everyone. Yeah. Absolutely. Marty Smith in the house. I said to the fellows before I sat down here that, you know, I'm still close to like all my high school buddies out in Appalachia. And they couldn't give two hoots that, you know, I. do this or that on ESPN, but the fact that I'm sitting here with you rednecks, they're going to be so daggone happy, they're going to pee their pants.

Oh, size big in the mountainous regions of the United States. In the Appalachia. How did you say it? Appalachia. Appalachia. I would have mispronounce that. Would you have said Appalachia? Yeah, see, that's a sinful.

Well, I apologize because that's why I've done it my whole life. I just learned. I was, I did a college football game last year with my buddy Mike Golick. I'm sure you guys know who Golick is. He's a great man. We were doing the North Carolina, NC State game, I think. He said something about me being from Appalachia.

And right there on a broadcast, live on a football game, I said, sir, that's Appalachia. It's commonly mispronounced. You're not alone. Does that run through Tennessee? It does. That's why I thought.

Yeah, I grew up in southwest Virginia. The hills of California. Right near Tennessee. I live in Carolina. You're in Carolina now? That's God's country. I live in Charlotte. now but because you're a NASCAR man yeah that's right that's why i live in charlotte when i

first got out of college i moved down there to chase race cars and we've never left and having actually met and and been in the same room and chatted with junior johnson i'm fascinated by that whole era oh and the whole how NASCAR was born from shine running it's just so fascinating to me see how i was around see how important shine is is shine's very important don't let anybody tell you all different and now it couldn't be any further away from shine running if it wanted to well that's exactly right you know i'm not sure that if it's they drive they drive fast cars still no i'm talking about nascar i'm talking about nascar i'm talking about nascar well okay because you look at them boys now and there ain't many rednecks left in nascar

they're just no there ain't many of them no they're they're like they're they're athletes they're you know they it's just a it's a different breed of man than you know the the the dell earn hearts and all all that kind of stuff what made dale dale was he was the every man and he still i mean he he would race a car on sunday and he'd come home on monday and tuesday and work on his farm yeah he'd be throwing haybell and moving dirt yeah and that that doesn't exist anymore no that yeah that's that's that's what made him so popular he was extremely relatable just like this fellow right over here because everybody has that uncle like i mean everybody's got a sigh i don't have that uncle by the way i guess i guess i have this one you've got an adopted one he's right there beside you so i'm adopted by everybody but that is

i mean that's what made sigh sigh that's what made dale dale and you know you can say that for a lot of people throughout throughout sports like or without anything life in general people the reason they're memorable is because they remind you of somebody in your life they're authentic too I mean, if you're genuine and authentic people will remember. They were real. Yeah, that's exactly right. So Dale would take you out in a car without a car. He didn't make any of it.

He'd take you out. I'm serious. Is that your driving philosophy as well? No. Oh, come on, man. We've been working on size road rage. See, have road rage? We have to share scriptures at the end of this to work on road rage.

Oh, no, no. Now, I do have roadways because, hey, trust me, they're, hey, the roads are full of Idiots. Okay, and people probably think I'm one of them, but hey, I'm just saying, you know, if the speed limit is 50, yo, hey, please drive 50. That's the limit. Yo, well, no, no, I'm just saying, please drive 50. And look, if you're going to, if you're going to get in the fast line, get in the other lane,

if you're driving 30. But you're 45 minutes early to everything you go to in life, so why are you driving so fast. Well, I don't have to drive fast until I'm getting ready to go home. Yeah. If I'm coming to something, no, I'm going to be early and I drive sensible. But if I'm going home, it's something about, hey, you got a rush to get home. Don't get in his way leaving here.

Are you one of those guys? Are you one of those guys that if you're on time, you're late? Oh, no, no, no, no. Oh, absolutely. Is he? Absolutely, yes. And you better be if you're hot with us. If I'm late, something happened.

Yeah. Okay, I mean that my truck is broke down or I got run over or something. And by late, Sae means not 15 minutes early. He was here 30 minutes early today. Yeah, that's just, he walked past my office, 30 minutes before he was supposed to be here. That's why, like, Marty, you ever end up down here, we go hunting at Phil's place or something. If Phil says be there at five, that means at 455, he's leaving.

We're leaving. That doesn't mean, like, at 5 o'clock we're rolling out or getting ready. At 455, he's gone. And he'll look up and say, well, I'll wait two minutes for any man. And I'm like, but it ain't five. No he won't. You know, I'm like. The Andrew, no he won't.

Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, this whole crew pretty well operates off of the, you know, on time is early, late is on time. And it just, that's just the way we operate. But I think that comes a lot in the hunting outdoor space. Like, I think a lot of that is kind of boring. And because you never, like, to go do it, you don't ever want to be late.

You don't want to miss the sunrise. So you'd rather get there 45 minutes early than. Well, hey, if you miss the sunrise, you miss the morning hunt. That's exactly right. Yeah. So, you know, I think it's a lot. Yeah. Phil, though, what cracks me up about Phil and this whole crew, really, we get there at the same time on November 21st and January the 25th.

Well, in that time, daylight has changed 30 minutes. So instead of sitting there for 30 minutes like we do in the early season, by the end, we're there for an hour in the dark. Just sitting in a dark. Watching a blue flame on a heater. Yeah. Sitting there like this saying, why do we get here so early? And this is even during till season.

And that's one of the mosquitoes are just eating you alive. Yeah, and a cotton mouth crawled between your legs and everything. Yeah. And when you get into the blind where you're standing, you know, it ain't nothing worse than stand up and then see something moving right where you're fixed. Yeah,

I can skip that part of the... The only time I've ever been scared of my life, scared for my life with that man right there during the till season, we moved the boat, and there was a little water snake up under the boat, so I reached down there and grabbed him. And I said, sigh, here hold this for him. And look, he grabbed that shotgun.

He said, don't you come another thing? He was fixing to get shot. No, no, no, he was fixing to get shot. Okay. And I believed him. No, and he was saying, it's a water snake. And I was saying, it don't matter. Yeah.

Yeah, I believe. It's still a snake. Yeah. I said, it don't matter. It crawls on its belly. Don't come over here. I will hurt you and him. Absolutely.

Well, look, let's take our, let's take a break. We'll be right back, and I think we come back. We'll talk about a little foosball. I love a foos ball. I do have a lot of questions. I have a lot of questions. For us? Yes, I do.

Oh, absolutely. We'll be back right after this. I got very few answers. All right, we're back. Here we go. Marty, you said you had some questions. So I'll give you the honor. You shoot first, and then we're going to ask you some things that we got questions about.

So I want to get Sy's perspective on, and I know you guys have probably heard this ad nauseum. So forgive me, maybe even listeners, but I've not heard it. I was interviewing Trace Atkins recently, and he went into Phil just walking out of practice, and that's why Terry Bradshaw became the quarterback at LaTec. I was so fascinated. I knew that story, but Trace had more depth. I want to hear from your perspective, like, how that unfolded and how that actually ended up spawning this entire empire.

Here's the thing. Phil had the talent, okay? He was first string quarterback, Bradshaw was second string quarterback. But the only thing was, okay, football season and duck season are the same coincides. Yeah.

There's the same time. This blows my mind every time I hear this story. So Phil, just, you know, he wasn't never, he loved to play the game, but it distracted him because it was during duck season. okay he had come to practice sometime and have squirrel brains on it you know he had just got through killing a bunch of squirrels and cleaned them and bradshaw even told this story he'd come into practice and have squirrel brains on his on his shirt you know bradshaw said why didn't you change clothes and he said what are you boys what you're talking about son I hunted till it was time to get up here for practice you know what you're talking about you know you don't know what you're talking about but anyway Bradshaw okay

the only thing Bradshaw wanted in life was to be a NFL quarterback and everybody said he ain't got enough sense to be quarterback and daddy always told him said yes he does because here's the thing the man

loves the game okay so Phil just finally come up and said hey he had offers to go pro and all this and he said Terry and Terry said what? He said son I'm handing you the torch and Bradshaw said,

what are you telling me? He said, he said, I've got a dilemma here. It's either play football or duck hunt. And he said, hey, I'm duck hunting.

I ain't going with the football. And Bradshaw said, yeah, but look at the money you make and Phil said, no, there's some things it ain't worth it. And he said, to me personally,

it ain't worth it. So, hey, it's yours, son. Take over. It's unbelievable. And run with it. Ain't that so? And hey,

all did. Four Superbowls. He did all right for himself. He's got four Super Bowl rings, okay, and Daddy was right. Yeah, he's good enough to be a quarterback, because, hey, he had a counting for an arm. He could throw it 70 yards on his knee. The crazy thing about Phil, too, right now, if you

threw Phil of football, he's spinning it still? He can still spend it. Oh, no, no. And he'll hurt you. Really? Yeah. Oh, no, no, absolutely. Oh, he knocked, he knocked, you know, and Terry, Terry had it too. He had knocked some of his receivers down. How old is Phil? 74?

75. 75. I'm 75. Yeah, 75. He's 75. And he can still spend. He still humming. He still can do it. Okay, he actually pitched baseball too, hardball.

You know, and I hate, I hate hardball because I had to catch him. And it was always I was getting hit. So were you not super athletic? Uh-huh. Because even Phil's kids are sneaky athletic. Like Willie and James. I was the best downfield blocker that has ever lived. Look, I flipped a guy.

The best game I ever played, we got beat 77 to 14. What was your contribution in that? Hey, look, we had the perfect, this was a AAA school. We're a Class B. Okay, this guy was 195, okay? He was a football god. Okay, perfect bill. fast as a cat, okay.

He was a kickoff man. He would kick the ball. As soon as the guy caught it, he would just kill him, put him on the ground. So Coach Snigris, our head coach, we watched about three films, and it was just kickoff, kill. Kick off, kill him. Kick off, kill him. And he shut the film off and said, okay, first order of business is someone has got to knock him off of his feet. So, hey, I'm sitting there. A hundred and thirty pounds soaking wet.

My man. Warrior! Warrior! So, hey, I'm waiting for somebody that's the 180 or 90 class to say, I'll get him, coach. Well, everything's solid. And I went, and they said, he said, Coach, I can start laughing. He's what? I said, if you'll leave me in my position on the kickoff of receiving team, which is in,

I'll take him, coach. Well, they're all on the floor of rolling, laughing. Just like we are. Yeah. Y'all and I'm saying, hey, it's not that funny. I said, I will get him. So nobody else wanted a job. So, hey, he left me.

And, like, the first time, it wasn't nothing to it. I just run like that cut. And about the time, he'd seen me dip under it and knock his feet out from under him, he's flipping in the air. Yeah. you know, boy catching the ball. Well, like I said, they got the ball. You know, they stopped us.

They got the ball. They scored. He kicked off again. Boom, I get him again. Yeah. We get the ball scored. Okay. They get the ball scored.

And it just, it finally got so bad we was behind like, you know, 60 points. So the coach has done sent all the scrubs in. And I'm on the beach, you know. And the games got like a minute and a half left. He didn't there kick it off again. I said, I'm trying to get Coach Sargis's attention. Hey, hey, he ain't paying no attention. So I just said, put my helmet on, run out there and told the scrubbed.

It had my possession. Hey, hit the bank. He said, I didn't see the coach. I said, hey, don't worry about the coach. Get your butt off. I got to get him one more time. Did you get him again? Oh, no.

By this time, he would done got Larry. It wasn't no kicking running wide open. He's coming down looking. And this one probably would have, the referee could have threw a flag on me and said, clip it. but anyway I waited till the last second as he was fixed to go by me

and then just did like a wood duck I just did one of them dipping maneuvers and he made a bad thing and jumped up and pulled his feet up well I just done like a wood duck and hey like that he just on my shoulder pad

and just run under him and he bam so look the game's over we had a shower that used to have two doors on it and we tore them off. Okay, two doors, why?

Any particular reason? Well, we just, you know, guys being guys. Young and stupid. Yeah, yeah, being stupid. Because they were there. I was in the shower, y'all. So, someone stepped in the doorway, okay, and all I hear is, who's number 22?

And when I look, okay, there's no room to go by him. Yeah, that's when you start pointing somebody else. That's him. No, no, no. And look, I can't even see any part of this guy's body. It's covered with Harry. He looks like a gorilla. Hey, hey, take it easy.

No, no, and I'm going. Take it easy. I'm going, whoa, oh, gee. Well, he steps in. I'm gone, okay. He's looking for you. Yeah, and he said, hey, guys, no, I ain't going to cause a trouble. And he said, who's number 22?

He said he just left you. He just ran by you. Yeah, he just run by you. So he comes walking in, I remember getting them on civilian, my civilian clothes, y'all. And he comes in and he's looking in my jersey. He's civilian clothes. Well, hey, look, you know, uniform. He did have 24 years of military training.

Well, no, no. Anyway, my uniform, okay. So he says, yeah, he said, you, he started laughing then. He said, you can't be number 22. I said, unfortunately, I am, you know, because I weighed a hundred thirty pounds. He's one ninety-five. You know, he said, I probably want him to be able to get out of bed in the morning. I'll tell you this.

He said, you've hit me so many times tonight and so hard than I, you know, I'm probably going to be crippled. He said, you're a little old class B school. He said, we, I'm an all-American for crying out loud. And he said, I ain't never been that hit that hard and that many times. Well, you should have told him you shouldn't have put up 77 on us. You wouldn't have had to kick off. That's right, you know. Y'all should have called the dogs off when you got about 50.

Hey, you should have put in the scrubs. Yeah. What you want to ask me? Oh, we'll take another break. We'll get to that. But I do. So I wanted to. Hold on.

This whole story, I thought you were tackling the return man. You were just blocking the kicker. I was taking the kicker. I was taking the kicker off. his feet. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

No, no, look. Who's the... Football was different in the 50s. Washington's. Exactly. Who's the coach? Head coach now. Now, Coach Arledge.

Arlidge, yeah. Yeah. Okay. He was coached when I was at... And he had some of the film of me. I don't know if he's got that one, but he used to, you know... You just blasted a kicker? Oh, no, no.

He told me, he said, if you could... If you had weighed $195, you'd have had a scholarship to attack. You weigh $1.95? No, no. No, I ain't no way. No. Side bumping about $160.

You know, because he used to say, he said, you're crazy. Well, that's a fact. He said, you're insane. He said, because you will tackle anyone. Yeah. Because like one time we was playing in. Oh, Lord, here we go. How long is this story?

It's the Charlottman. Okay. And I want to hear it. No, no, look, it was Bird High School in Freeport. C.E. Bird. I can't remember the guy's name. He was a full. and he was about 5-4.

Okay, and I'm talking about 5-4, and it was like this. Yeah. 5-4, he built like a box. And he had, he had, and 5-4-tall and 5-4-wide. And he didn't have no neck. Yeah. Okay, he had a big head on a big body. Easy.

No neck. Keep describing Martin. Yeah, why. As I kick her in a full-back, but shorter. On defense, on defense, I'm Monster Man. Yeah, we're aware. I have no. We've seen that picture.

Hey, I have one thing. I need to pull that picture up. Get the ball. Okay. So look, the quarterback says hut, okay? And when he does, I could have drove a fleet of 18 wheelers through the hole. And there you are. So I'm standing there looking. I said, okay.

Not good. I'm running toward them, okay? The quarterback is spinning. And I said, I'm not going to make it. I got to hit the fullback, which is bad news. That's what you were talking about. That specimen. Hey, this is, oh yeah, Monster Man.

His name was Steve DeBair Jones. That is the football. He was all-American, okay? He was all-American, okay? And I said, God, I wish I could get to the quarterback, but I'm not going to make it. I got to take on. Look, I hit the guy as soon as the quarterback's putting the ball in his belly.

He stompts me, okay, and beats on me for 35 yards. behind me. Brother, I got the same story. Oh, no, no, no. Look, I look like a monkey on a football. Okay, this kid is killing me with his knees, and I'm all you, well, I finally slide down

and grab him by the tennis shoes, okay, and trip him, 35 yards behind me. I am black and blue when I go in to take the shower, my whole body. He had stomped on me and roped on me for 35 yards. but I did tackle it. Well, see, we don't have the same story then.

Actually, I got rant. I was a 135-pound defensive back in high school. And there was a kid named Cornell Wesley that played for Radford High School, and he was 215. And he was fast, and he hit me. And he, like, I mean, I knocked, I knocked the crap out of this guy. Yeah. And I laid on my back, and I watched him go 80 yards like here.

I think we all had one of them playing football. Mine, interesting enough, was against Byrd, too. We didn't pass the ball much at West Monroe. Through an interception, I'm an offensive lineman. I'm like, man, I get to make the tackle. About that time, middle linebacker found my earhole. Oh, I hate it. We watched that clip for 30 minutes on Sunday film.

And coach is just laughing. They said, oh, big boy, you're going to learn to keep your head on a swivel, ain't you? And I was like, Coach, I don't. I said that whole thing right there, if I was ever concussed in life, it was right there. Because there's a little gap there that I was like, what just happened? And that middle linebacker lit me up. Just licking his chops at a 64 guy 270 going on. It's a dream.

It's a dream. Here's the worst part about mine. I played cornerback. Okay. And here's the bad thing the coach is always telling you, you never, if you're a cornerback, you've got to turn them in, but you never square up. Don't sway. I'm up now. Okay.

That's technique. I see them coming. Okay. I see the fullback 50 years about coming. And a bad move. I turned. Well, guess what happened when I turned? The pulling guard?

Gotcha. He's about 235. Yeah, buddy. He's running wide open. Amen. Okay. I love pulling. He knocks me.

And I probably do maybe 10 to 12 backward flips. All the way. to the track. You know, that's the only thing I miss about football is running traps. I quit for me. I love being a pulling guard. No, no. Loved it.

I loved it. I loved it. Bill, it scared him. That defensive end always thought I'm about to make the play. Oh, yeah. Me too. I'm a bad move here. I got this.

And about the time I said, I got this. Oh, I got it all right. Yeah. I'm telling my story before we go to break. Hey, go ahead. Because I quit football because I didn't like getting hit. Then my senior year of basketball, Charles Scott running back, LSU Tigers, Philadelphia Eagles.

Jonesboro Hodd. We were playing. Hey, he didn't start for the basketball team. That's how good they are. He played for the Philadelphia Eagles, but he wasn't good enough to start in high school basketball. He comes off the bench, and I look at them, and we're down by like 50. I'm like, hey, man, y'all going to take it easy at some point. I'm just trying to make everybody laugh at this point.

It's a free throw. He looks at me, and I was like, okay, not in the joking mood. and he boxes me out and puts me on the floor and I couldn't breathe for five minutes. I was like, this is basketball. I quit. I didn't want to play you in football, and I got laid out by a professional football player

in a high school basketball. I love it. It wasn't fun. I didn't tell you, that's what happened for me when they come over to the track and coach was sitting there lifting me up because I couldn't breathe. Herschel Walker got you in a basketball game?

No, he had knocked me. Bill had knocked me out before I couldn't breathe. Who's Bill? No. The pulling guard? We need to take a break. No, we'll just let's let it bump because look, I got to know, Marty, now you get to do like something that a lot of people consider a dream job.

You get to cover college football. It's the best. I mean. Oh, you have. And college football, especially the further south you go in the United States. It's better when you go southern. Yeah. So favorite coach you've ever interviewed spending.

any time with. I mean, it seems like the obvious answer, everybody would know. But, you know. Si Robert. I want to know. I just got to know. Out of all the stuff you've done, who's the coach? Well, I mean, I've been really blessed to build a great relationship with Saving.

Yeah. And he's the greatest to ever do it. Do you remember when the University of Louisiana Monroe played Alabama and Nick Sabin's first year? That actually was the first thing that came up this morning when I said, hey, Martin at dawn. Just, you know, alma mater. I told him. I said, look around. That billboard may still be up.

I'm not sure. I should have worn my t-shirt. I've got a question to ask you on that since you said that. Okay. Back when you was playing and when I was playing, okay. Y'all are 30 years apart. Well, no, no, no. But I'm just saying it's the same thing, though, okay?

No. The talent level today. Oh, it's crazy. Okay, because we had some guys that was good at football. ball but today they're not good this is going to the to me personally it's going to an insane level yeah of what they can do and and honestly that's why coach savings the greatest of all time because he sustained it it's one thing to be good for a year i know how don't know and i got the next question is how do they do it okay because uh the guy from doing the day from doing

Duke, the basketball coach, is the same way. They got a team. It don't make 10 years in a row, 12 years, 50 rows. You know, how do they pull that off? So with Sabin, so they do it in different ways. But, I mean, I guess similar in this way. Their entire foundation philosophy is all of these young men that play for them have been told since they were 10 years old,

you're the greatest athlete that's ever been born. You're going to be the number one pick in the NFL draft. You're going to be the number one pick in the NBA draft. You're going to break every record. You're the greatest of all time. That's what these kids have been told, not only by their parents, but by everybody in their town.

They're the best athletes that's ever been in their town. Well, they show up at the University of Alabama. They're just another guy. However, Sabin tears them down and builds them back up. The mastery of Sabin and Shosh, is they take all these young men who've been told you're the greatest thing since peanut butter and they make them a unit they make them a unit and it's brilliance well no like they're like you think about okay there are so many countless players at the university of alabama who had to sit

for three years they had to sit for three years before they ever saw the field but they know if i get that one year if i work hard enough to get that one year i'm going to the league yeah you got to be that way. You have to evolve. Absolutely. Was that super inside baseball right there? No, hey, I love it. Well, and the thing is, is you can take that from college coaching to life. Yeah.

I mean, in your own life, like be willing to make that change. Whatever you see coming, be willing. Just be willing. You don't have to do anything other than be willing. Be vulnerable enough. If you want to be the greatest at what you're doing and be the best, the best version of that that you can be, you have to do that you have to work your butt off you got to put it in the time you got to put in the time and it doesn't matter if you're sweeping floors duck hunting playing football being a broadcast guy it that doesn't matter whatever your path and your choice is hard work my father will get you there my father said that yeah going when i was growing up young

telling me hey you be the best whatever you're doing yeah and that's what my my parents instilled in me They told me from an early age when I got my first job, said, make them wonder what they'll do tomorrow if you don't show up. Like, whoever you're working for, make them wonder tomorrow what's going to happen if you don't show up. If Nick Saving doesn't show up to the University of Alabama tomorrow, there's going to be a lot of people panicked. There's going to be a searching rescue party.

I won't be on this little academy tour that we're doing right now anymore because I'll be on a plane to Tuscalo. Right, but look what started in that bearer. right. And he had the same kind of, same kind of mentality. We up against it, Marty, look, thank you for coming in with the crowd. That was fun, thank you guys. So much. And have safe travels on your little tour and until we see each other again, which will

probably be pretty soon. We'll work closely with a guy. You've now invited me to come down here hunting. Absolutely. You're in. You're in. We love to have you. Appreciate you guys having me.

I love your spirit. I love your spirit so much. That will be fun when you come, ducking with us. Well, you know what I'm, you know what my job's going to be. No, you're going to have to keep that thing in your pocket. I don't want to hurt you feeling, but you're going to have to keep that in your fucking. Hey, man, it won't come from me, Marty.

It'll come from a field and Jason. I understood. I love it. All right. Well, let's take a break. We'll get out of here and we'll bring Johnny Gobwin back in. And we're back. Well, Godwin, appreciate you stepping out for a minute while we had our buddy Marty Smith in here,

talking about all things. now football and I know you'll probably go pick his mind in a little bit about NASCAR since that's where he got his start and I know how much you love him cars where I met him and takes his motor speedway Marty's an interesting dude I'm somebody I've got to work with a lot through our academy relationship so it was fun to actually have him down here I got to show him some stuff this morning and the duck hole but look we're back we're in our last segment hello at duck call room dot com. That's the email and Johnny D. What is in that

inbox? We got some relationship advice to go through today. We got three emails. We might get to all three of them. I like them. But first off, Noah, my man Noah. He bailed the boat. Good name. He's 22 years old. He's not 500

so different Noah. But Noah's been dating a girl. He needs some relationship advice and he said apparently you guys are experts at this point. Who would have thought? I don't know about that. So he's been dating a girl for four months. Okay.

They were doing great. But now. But now. She keeps blowing off dates. Uh-oh. He works overnights and she doesn't. So they were only able to see each other like once a week. She basically's left him hanging three times.

And he really doesn't know what he should do. He brought it up to her and she apologized. But she continued to do it. Any advice you guys can give. would be greatly appreciated. One word. Goodbye. He works night.

Well, if after four months... He works nights. Look, if after four months you're not a priority, let me tell you what's not going to happen. I skipped a line in his email. He said, I feel like I'm not a priority in her life anymore. Uh-oh. And if that has happened after four months,

it is not going to get better. Here, I will use, and I will use two words. Okay, it's time for you to move on. I was like, that is a lot of words. As a shift worker for 21 years. Look, listen to this guy. He's a shift work, go. It takes a special woman to be married to a shift worker.

We had, me and Ms. Paula had one weekend off a month together. Of course, you know, we was married and I was there every night, every day or every morning sometimes without her i'd wake up and say her but it does it takes a special woman to be married to a shift work absolutely my my dad was a shift worker too so i got to see that that relationship it's a it's a different one but i'll tell you this when they did have time off and time together they did prioritize each other they prioritize themselves over us even which looking at it now, I'm thankful for. Because that is a big deal to take care of your marriage as well as taking care of your kids.

So that's why I'm saying if this is already happening at four months, my man, look, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's time to roll, Jack. All right. Next up. Speaking of somebody else, I hate this email. Jake. From State Farm? Nope. I don't know where he's.

What are you wearing Jake? But he sent this. He sent this about two weeks ago. And he, okay. He wants to say he loves the show, but he would like to ask for our advice on how to remain faithful to his girlfriend when she goes to college in two weeks.

What? Jake. Come on, man. Come on, man. What? Be a good dude? Jake. I mean, Jake.

Do you really need advice on me? Jake. Jake. He just let her know. Yeah. Jake is, you may not have to worry about it. Jake.

Yeah. Come on, Jake. What kind of question is? All right. All right. We need to send that one to Monday night football. Come on, man. Come on,

Jake. Just don't be a bad guy, Jake. Just be a good guy. And look, let me tell you something. And if you don't want to be with her, dump her. Better or know. Find somebody else.

Jake. Find somebody closer to home. Now, the question is why is she going off to college and you're not? Jake. Jake, what do you do with? All right. From Cody, from Ontario. Oh, Canada.

Is Ontario a state? Ontario, Canada. I'm so confused. That's a problem. Caledon, Ontario, Canada. Yeah, there you go. Okay. There you go.

Canada. All right, he's 19 and he needs some of our great dating advice. Don't be like Jake. What's up? All right. Step one. All right. Me and my buddy go to a burger place.

every weekend. And for a full month, I've been thinking about if I finally got this beautiful lady's phone number and he got it. He's been messenger for about a week,

but he's terrible at that keeping conversations and texting going over the phone. So he's not doing good there, but he can talk to someone in person all day. My question is, how do I ask her to hang out sometime

to get to know her better? That same number lets you talk to her. And where's a good... He can hear. on the other end of the phone. That's the same number. Yeah, you use that button instead of the one that comes up looks like a letter.

Like a little air quote. There's one over there that kind of looks like an old school phone. Tap that one. She answers her, say hello. You fine thing. You good looking heifer. Yeah, you good looking heifer. Leave off heifer.

I'm going to die if you don't come out and let me take you out and we go dancing and we get to know each other. Do not ask her to go get a pizza and make out. You're not there yet, Co. But where is a good first place to go? I thought that was a good. So first thing you need to do is call her and say, hey, let's go hang out and go on a day. Say, I want to take you on a date. Coffee.

Say those words. Coffee. Go for coffee. Really? He's been texting her and not talking to her on the phone? I guess. Here's why I say coffee. For about a week, he's been texting.

It's not working. I want to know why Mark's saying coffee. I'm not a coffee, man. Well, I don't drink it either, but they generally have other options. But it's in the morning. It's like it's a non, there's a timing deal with that one where there's not like, you're not dinner becomes like this deal with,

in theory, romance and all this. Coffee actually talked to her since apparently you suck at texting. I don't know how you can do that exactly, but that's bizarre. That's what he needs to do. Well, you get there, but you go have coffee and see if you can talk to each other at 9.30 or 10 o'clock in the morning.

If you both have a day off. And you have an out. There you go. At breakfast, you have an out. It may not be what you think it's going to be, but it could be. And then you say, look, what are you doing tomorrow night? Then you go to dinner and a movie. Take around Tim Hortons.

I like it. Marr just trying to get them both on kind of neutral crown with a coffee thing. And there's more, there's like, there's people in a coffee shop. So it's a comfortable, friendly situation. Like, so. Because you may just be friends. Like the other may not be there. And this is a no pressure like super simple.

There's no expectations with coffee of any sort that you're just getting to know each other. Like and that's that's that today that's where you got to start. Yeah. To get to know each other. They're going to the coffee house. Okay. And it's a setting or neutral setting. What's the Canadian Starbucks, Tim Hortons or something like that?

I have no. Go there. But I'll say this. Ice cream can also. It is at night. Yeah. I mean ice cream is. I was always a.

you want to go to some ice cream? And we'd go to like Sonic and just sit in the car and talk, which works. But you could go to a little parlor place. I like the ice cream. And then it's not as long as dinner. Yeah. It doesn't get weird. And then if it does get weird, just,

it's like coffee. Slurp that cone down and get out of it. Yeah, no, he's in. Go get something to eat, open the door for and then take her to the picture show. I've just, and then see where it goes. Well, because a movie you don't have to talk too much. I just don't like going to movies because I'm bored.

Yeah. It's got to be a really good move. I always like to go to drive-rams. But the first step is if you suck it, if you suck at texting, then get off the texting. Caller. Caller. Go see her.

That's right. You know, whatever. Just if you're terrible at that, sometimes knowing your weakness is way better than knowing your strength. Well, I fix that. Get off the texting, okay? Use your voice. Knowing your weaknesses is better than knowing your strengths.

A phone. That. A phone is meant to be chemical. Did you get that out of Proverbs? I don't know what's wrong with an old-fashioned date. These young boys, they don't know how to woo a woman. Well, I'm just trying to limit expectations for the young. Well, no, no.

I like it. I like Mar-a-D-Lay. Yeah, I don't know. I like it because it's on a neutral setting. And you move on to the next? Hey. Yeah. You just keep, it's just like shooting at ducks and you miss.

Just keep shooting. That's right. Just keep shooting. That's right. Hey. I don't like fishing. If Paula doesn't work out, ask a roommate Paula on a day. There you go.

This move to the next one. There you go. Oh, that's good stuff. Do we have, does anybody have a verse for a day? I got you one. Okay. If you want one, boy. Yeah, go ahead.

Big Dave of the Honeyhole Tackle Shop, he sends me a verse every morning. I like this one. Love it. But for that very reason, I was shown mercy. So in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life. 1 Timothy 1.16. And that would be tall talk.

Paul talk. That is Paul talking. He's saying not only is he a sinner. He's the worst of all sinners. The chief of all centers. And that is who Jesus used. And Jesus showed patience. God showed patience with him so that he could display the everything.

I mean, Paul wrote half the new testimony. So no matter what you're doing in life, who you are, God's waiting on you. If you ever think that you've done way too much to be forgiven for, wrong. Wrong answer. And he's waiting on you. And whenever you do show up, he's going to use you. He's there, boys. In a mighty way.

Amen. Well, look, we appreciate y'all joining us this week. Check us out next week right here in the duck call room. We're out. Same place, same channel. YouTube.com slash duckcar room, all one more. Bye. Like and subscribe.