Duck Call Room - Three Decisions That Made Duck Dynasty Possible

Episode Date: April 14, 2026

Uncle Si, Godwin, Martin, and John-David pull back the curtain on how and why they each ended up at Duck Commander—and what they sacrificed to take that leap. Si admits Miss Kay’s cooking might’ve been the final push he needed to say yes. Godwin has the guys cracking up after a video of his baby granddaughters goes viral for all the right reasons. John-David finally finds a zoo he’s not a fan of after seeing a questionable setup, and Martin shares his slightly questionable parenting plan for when his twins graduate to big boy beds. Duck Call Room episode #543 is sponsored by: http://ponchooutdoors.com/DUCK — Get $10 off your first order and free shipping! Bugs hate to see you coming with Pestie. Go to https://pestie.com/DUCK for 10% off your order. https://myphdweightloss.com — Find out how Godwin is losing weight! Visit the website or call 864-644-1900 and mention "Godwin" to get 2 weeks free in the program! https://quo.com/duck — Try QUO for free PLUS get 20% off your first 6 months! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, would you like some good news? Good news. It's Masters Week. No. The good news is the duck call room is back, but we're back with our good friend John Godwin, who has went viral. Johnny Godwin. Have you been on Facebook, Cy? No.

Somebody runs my Facebook, but I... Well, I haven't. Since you're not on it, I got to get this full screen. What is John Godwin gone viral doing? Hold on. Oh, you need to. Oh, your kid. I like the way y'all done y'all's hair this morning.

you want some coffee that's so good I like the way y'all done y'all's hair this morning so good you want some coffee I love it look at them so good

I love it oh God when that was the highlight of my weekend right there we kept them all night oh man that's so good I was the next morning before I even turned the volume on I just started dying out laughing whatever I got on what I got on Facebook and it was right there.

I was pretty early in the game too to seeing it because I didn't listen. So I put y'all obviously have the same hairdresser or something like that. Yeah, you put y'all got the same haircut. Lots of laughs in the comments section. But then I turned it on and I was like, well, that's what he said, you idiot. But I just watched the visual of it because I don't ever have sound on on my phone. The visual was, man, that was good, Govan. I guarantee you, did you post it Saturday morning?

Saturday morning, yeah. Yeah, I think Saturday morning, yeah. Well, how is Grandpa and Grandma, especially Grandin? We kept them. Well, Johanna was off. Well, she came over at 10.30 Friday, good Friday. And Paula was wanting to do a bunch of chores. She wouldn't expect her.

Because we were going to keep them that night. She left at 10.30 that night. Paula was like, are you going to go? you might as well just spend the night. It was the first time she ever been away from them. She just couldn't leave them. And then she finally left and they come back. But they come back late in the day, Saturday.

So they done good, but we had a good time. I'm here sleeping all night. That process right there gets easier and easier. He'll look up and say, you sure you don't want to get mail like Grandma also? Mom and Dad needs a break. Two of them. Two of them.

Yeah, Mom and Dad needs to break at once in a while. Well, one day, Cecilia kept one and she kept one. And she came over to the house and they was, you know, and she was like, man, one is so easy. Mm-hmm. Who is? Yeah. Yeah. Load them in the car.

That's why I said, Mom and Dad needs a break with two. Things two diapers. Beat two, baby. Yeah. Well, yeah, you load up half the house. Yeah. That's what I always said. Now it's a breeze because you don't have to.

I mean, you take like a, now I get to take like a change of class. Well, when you look back... Wait until they can buckle themselves. Well, you look fast. You ask yourself, how do we get through that? If they could reach the door handle, they could get in and buckle themselves in now. So it's like, I mean, I sit there and watch them and make sure they do it right. Oh, yeah, Brittany's, uh, she's headstrong about getting them into big kid beds.

And I'm like, you sure you don't want to leave them in them little prison cells a little bit longer? Like, they ain't got out of them crib. Yeah, don't rush that. Don't rush that, get them out of the van. Oh, it's coming. Oh, it's coming. We'll just wake up and they'll be, like, Looking at you.

No. No, I'm turning that lock the other way. What? To their bedroom door. You're going to lock them in their room? Uh-huh. Absolutely. Why not?

I wouldn't you? Never thought of it. Yeah. I'm going to turn that knob around and that lock going to be facing the hall. Yeah. There you go. And then they're going, they're getting ripped in the comment section. That's fine.

That's fine. We got cameras in there and they got the hatch. So when there's green light, I will have been there to. unlock the door, then you can come out. But other than that, you stay in there. Staying in the room, boys. They don't get some toothpicks and learn how to poke it in that hole. The good news is they've got each other.

So, like, one of their favorite times a day is when they both wake up and you turn a nightlight on on the camera and they sit there and talk about the nights that they had, even though it was right beside each other. They discuss their. Yeah, I think they talk about their dreams. I think they're getting to the point now where they're not their dreams for life. their dreams from the night before. Well, here's you another good email from,

I like this name. Okay. Ailey. It's like Kaylee without the K. I like that. That's a good name, Ailey from upstate New York. parentheses, not the city, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point. No, no, I know why he does that.

I'm assuming Ailey's. The city sucks. Upper state New York, don't. Yeah, thousand. Island region. Hey, you're talking about wildlife. You go upstate New York. You'll see a Black Panther.

There's a bunch of wildlife. Me and this fellow drove from Watkins Glen to New York City. Yep. New York City. Yeah. I was his father. I drove when I got into that. You know that bridge you see in the movie, double-decker bridge you always see in the movies?

He was on the wrong level. Yeah. I ain't getting on that. I will get in a blue angel before I get on a double-decker bridge going into New York City. So she has a question. It ain't good. I think it's funny. All right.

Especially because I think the four of us can answer it phenomenally. She just wanted to know what convinced us all to join Duck Dynasty, which I would say would be Duck Commander in y'all's three cases. I came after the show. Was it the money? No. No. No. Raise your hand if you held your paycheck here.

Raise your hand if you had to hold your paycheck. I never held mine, but I... It wasn't the money. It was never the money. I started at $9 an hour and had to go back because they accidentally did $8 an hour. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. I negotiated nine, please.

Here's how I got aboard with Duck Commander at the end of the show. my brother called me I was in a miserable job in Alabama. Greenscape. I was doing repair work on houses, carpenter work. Okay. And then I had a guy, he owned the company. My next door neighbor did.

And I worked for him. He was the most negative person I've ever run into in my life. And he was driving me insane. So Phil called you once out and said, hey, look, you need to come work for me. He said, it ain't no money involved in it. I said, well, I knew. I know that. I've been over there, son.

The pace sucks. The pace sucks. The pay son. He said, hey, there ain't no money involved in it. He said, but here's the thing. He said, the benefits outweigh all that. He said, because, hey, you have to spend 60 days of your life. okay, each year in a duck plant.

It is a must. That's part of it. He said, then the food will be excellent, okay? Whatever we have available that we're cooking and eating, it will be good. He said, so look, the benefit. And confirm. The fringe benefits outweigh the no money part. Galvin, why did you come aboard?

I just, once I became a Christian and was going to church. with them. I got, and Al got pretty close, and I'll invited me duck hunting, and I got to go duck hunting a bunch, and I would go down there on my days,

I just kind of, I don't know, we was gone one time to, me and Si, I was hunting down here, and they were hunting in Texas. Texas, on the pond, they told us to get up there,

they could finish. They called Kay, they called Kay, they called Kay, and said, hey, whatever you're doing, drop it, get out of the blind, you're all going to Texas. So we went.

So I said, I was going to go and said, okay, we're going to Texas. I was on my five days off at Riverwood. And he says, you about ready to quit that plan, ain't you? I said, well, heck it. On the inside, I was doing somersaults. But on the outside, I was, you know, new house, new daughter. How did I bunch of it? I knew it's going to be a cut and pay.

He said, get me, Ms. Kay and see what y'all can figure out. So we did, and it took about, I don't know, two weeks. We prayed about it, prayed about it, prayed about it. I never got the inclination not to do it, even though it was a cut and pay. There you go. And so I called Riverwood and told them that I was wanting to retire. They said, you ain't been here long enough. I said, okay, I quit.

whatever this terminology needs to be. So you quit at the plant and then ended up down on the river. Yeah, they said I couldn't, I took my two weeks vacation, and I had four weeks vacation, so I told them, give me two weeks vacation pay, and take two weeks as my two week notice. Oh, here was the best part of all this. We'd get a big order of duck halls, okay?

And half the people that's church were going to. Come up was filmed. Free labor was a thing right here. Yeah. They'd come show up and hey, they'd all get a good steak, good steak dinner. Oh, man, we fed them Johnny's people. Look, it is time to trade out the cold weather gear for something more lightweight. Whether you're fishing, working out in the yard, whatever you're doing, comfort matters.

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some time away from my research, like, because that crap will just scramble your brain. so I asked for some mind-numbing labor for free. And you walked into this room? No, I didn't even walk into this room. No, I was in the sales department. No, and when I say in the sales department, I was the sales department. He was the sales department. It was me.

And you were just cold calling people. Walmart. Not people, Walmart. Individual Walmarts. And he became a woman's personal babysitter For a little while, yeah, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, like, because I think it was Bo Dottley first, which is a wild story, like, way back when I think that's, and then he, he tabbed me with it. And then I was like, well, what, I mean, like, I, I, you need a book a fly. He's like, now I already booked it. I was like, well, it don't sound like you need an assistant, bro. Like, I already booked it. And I don't, yeah, he's like, no, I've already done everything. I'm like, well, what am I supposed to do to get back to calling Walmart?

And then I ended up with an email and he said, well, if you got an email, you got a choice to make. You're going back to school or you're going to work here. And I was like, well, I kind of like Godwin, went, thought, prayed all the stuff and signed on for $20,500 a year salary. There you go. Me and Willie were making that. You know how he sold me on it? He said, you're going to make the same thing I make. I'm duck commander.

That's pretty good. From Duck Commander, mind you. He didn't talk about what he made from Buck Commander or DC products. For owning the building. But he had me. He said, you're going to make the same thing. That's a pretty good salespits. And I said, well, if we're making the same money, let's roll, baby.

$20,500 is what I signed on here for. Willie called me at my old job. I was selling North Face jackets to rich women in Monroe while I was in college and said, hey, I need you to come over at Duck Command and talk to him. And I was like, what the heck? I walked in there and he was like, here's the deal. We got this store. Nobody here knows how to do retail or anything.

We're just shoving people in, checking them out, shoving them out. That's pretty much it. And I was like, well, okay. I said, but I like my current job, so I'm going to need a raise. That $9. He said, how much do you make right now? I said, $8 an hour. Did you?

Did you actually make $8? Oh, yeah. Okay. I wouldn't lie. I wouldn't. And then I said, I mean, I guess I'll take this job for nine. And so, you know, at that time, that's like, I was working like 20 hours a week. So it was over 20 bucks.

And I was like firm on it. Then I got here and saw all these people showing up. I was like, why did I not ask for 10? Yeah. Yeah. That's, I just started just. At that point, we were still, when you got here, we were still like caged animals in this room. Because Linda would just walk people back here while we were building duck calls.

Oh, yeah. It was just like, I mean, we're sitting here building duck calls. we look over our shoulder there's a family of 10 we're like, what's up guys? I showed up. We're just right back to building dead gum duck calls. The end of season one. And then it went berser.

Well, I ended up in a duck call room because I was so good at sales because I sold 6,000 duck calls we didn't have. And then I ended up down there. I was like, look, I can help put them together. And that's when Jace was like, well, do you even blow a duck call? I'm like, well, I mean, I think I'm pretty good at it. I'm not sure. but I've killed a bunch of them.

He threw me one and he said, well, blow that. And I blew it. And he was like, yep, sit down. You're not going back up there. You're in here from now on. I was like, well, you're going to need to take that up with your brother. Yeah. And you're going to talk to.

Oh, then I was about to graduate and I was going to go work in a bank or something. Yeah. And I looked at a fool. And Willie called me back there and was like, here's a deal. Here's what you're going to do. And I was like, might as well see what happens. Yeah. I'm young.

It's fun. Let's go. But the best quote of all time was from a professor when I was like two months until graduating. I was already working full time for Willie. He said, John David, I need to talk to you. And I said, what's that? He said, if you don't shave your face and start dressing better, you are never going to get a job.

Letter did he know, that was part of the deal. Not a part of the gig. Yeah. I literally, I started laughing. He looked at me funny. I said, have you heard of Duck Dynasty? And he goes, I said, I'm working there already. We're good.

This is, this is, this is the wardrobe. What were, but she said, was it for the money? What were the other things? What else? To share the gospel. So that kind of, that Godwin alluded to that. Yeah. And then, oh, shoot, I lost it.

Ailey, I'm sorry. Yeah. Where did it go? Well, you're the only person in here named Ailey. I bet you if I just, yep, there you go. Or something else. So those are kind of how we all got here. Yeah.

Then we just held on for the ride. Yeah. what are you talking about? I was getting paid $20,000 a year to go hunt ducks. I was living the redneck dreams. That's what we all aspired to be. We all showed up for the fringe benefits. Perfect,

outender. Yeah, I was making more from ULM as a graduate assistant than I signed on to make here. And they don't pay graduate assistants anything, mind you. Like, I mean, next to nothing, but they do. They paid you more than $20,500 a year. But here we are. And here we are and here we are.

So there it is. That's a wrap. That's how we all got to this room. Blu, blu, blu, eventually. Yeah. That's the good Lord, man. He's the one that drove all this. It didn't have nothing to do with us.

The only thing we had to do was be obedient. I had a terrifying dream the other night. Uh-oh. It was so scary. Really? I woke up in a hot sweat and couldn't go back to sleep. Really? Uh-huh.

I was dropping the kids off from school. Uh-oh. Motorcycle crashed behind us. That was freaky. I was like, why would that happen? Pull into the school, kids get out of the car, giant Black Panther. I'm not joking.

Comes running into the school building. Wow. And that's when I woke up right then, right on cue. And I said, oh, no. Do I watch a jungle book? I don't know what I watched, but I did not like it. I mean, I was terrified. Wow.

And I woke up. I really thought there was a Black Panther on the loose in the children's school. I should stop hanging out with you, Sa. there you go I ain't shot at one over the top of her house over the black band yeah when she was pregnant

you heard noise and went outside with 30 30 in her hand hey John wing John wing she did when she walked out there

all she heard were and she and there was a black panther on a roof oh it was not there's so many layers to that story I feel like we just

glanced over. My aunt walked outside, shot over, up in the air while she was pregnant. Oh, no. He was running along with Liam. She missed him. The only thing she was missing was a sagrant. He probably had more. That Black Panther in my dream was bad. Or a dip of snow for him.

Well, you know, as a child, I heard one that sounded like a woman being tortured. And then also then I said, and she's got a baby with her. It was a baby cry. They cried just like a baby. baby. Could have been a man. And they can sound like a woman being tortured. Huh.

I'll be. So much to unpack there. I'm serious. Why do they always sound like a woman screaming? No, no. They all had the best line about that. Well, no, no. Elf's got the best line about that.

He said, well, every time I've come up and investigated it, it was a woman screaming. Yeah. He was screaming. I remember when he's done that, and everybody in the duck, I just died laughing. He says,

every time I was investigated, it was a woman being tortured. Yeah, in fact, it was one. Oh, my goodness gracious. That is. Anyways. Yeah.

My dreams are always, I'm either falling. I just jumped off a mountain. I wake up, I'm just out of breath. Because I've been running and doing all this physical. But you can't run,

fast. It's like running. It's like running in molasses when you're trying to run in the dream. I was running fast, but I was scared I was going to catch you. Hey, I probably run 10 miles while I'm dreaming. That's more than a day. Yeah, that's right. Martin's got things to say.

No, I just am a little bit jealous because I don't really dream. I don't like it. Or at least I don't remember. I'm not saying I don't. I don't remember them. I don't remember last time I had. A lot of nights I wake up, I mean, mornings I wake. up my know I've dreamed but I just don't remember what they are but you got to be in rim

sleep right for dreaming he's checking his yeah I've come right I am Martin well it says I had a hour and seven minutes of that so somewhere in there shouldn't I've had a dream maybe you're just not a dream you have to be dreaming right at the very well you may not dream oh is that why I always wake up scared yeah that's the only reason you're the only ones you remember is at the very end of your sleep not in the beginning Josh is full of such oh that's like the best one okay okay and pale Interesting. He's got K.

He's got K and a headlock. Oh, good night. I don't like dreams. I don't even, I've never had a good one, though. I've never woke up and said that was fun. I almost texted you at 2.30, Martin, because I didn't want to forget it. About a Black Panther dream?

Mm-hmm. That was a good one now, though. No, it wasn't. It was chasing my children. I would have responded to you sometime between 6 and 630 a.m. I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have been. there to hold your hand at 2.30. I'm sorry. I was messed up. You got the wrong feller on that one.

I just didn't want to forget it because that's the worst. Whenever you wake up and you're like, man, that was a wild dream. And then you're like, but what was it? There were dead gum termites everywhere. Oh, I saw them. It was a swarm. And the only thing I could think about was please don't get in my house. I got pasty with my rechargeable wand.

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I could see the deer. My dog was barking, and I woke up, and my dog was really barking. See? It's weird. But in my dream, but how's that? But he wasn't barking at a deer. He was in the house. But he woke me up barking.

But he was, in my dream, he was barking out of the deer out in the front yard, eating him acres under that tree. I was like me. I was like me in school. I was daydreaming. And I was slipping up on a big brook deer with a bow and arrow. Mr. Kimmins was calling my name and I went, I'm slipping up on a deer.

Oh, boy. I probably didn't go over very well for you. Tell the teacher to sh. Sigh and school didn't. No, no, no, what won't be up? I brought me out. I know there's all the kids busting out laughing. Oh, I'm talking in your sleep.

He was 100% dreaming. Oh, I was out. I was out. I was a la la la land. Oh, man. So in my recent happenings, I've now become a NASA fanboy, and I just read about NASA all the time. A lot of, so I took the time to read the comments of our good personal friend, Butch, the Navy, the Navy pilot turned astronaut. We got a lot of people in there that don't like space or believe in it.

They just think it's not there. They just, yeah, it's just, it's a weird. I was once one of those. It's a weird. I've been converted. He's converted, boys. We landed on the moon, Martin. He said it.

I told you I believe that because it was a fabric of my childhood and denied I was going to be really mad about all them hours I spent memorizing that stuff for history class. So anyway, so here's my new favorite part. I found out why I'm such a big fan of astronauts. Have you seen the pilots or the astronauts now? Have you seen them? No. They keep showing them. Well, there's a pilot named Victor Glover.

Victor. Yeah. Okay. apparently because now that we know an astronaut they're all that smart oh well i mean i think you'd want the smartest people in well yeah you would hope so yeah but uh so they're they're talking back and forth some and they're interviewing them while they're on the way to the moon and they're like hey you're about to spend easter up there what's that like and i can't play the clip because NASA probably owns it and i don't want to get in trouble but i want to read this to you read the transcript

i'm gonna read his quote okay from space and i think you're going to be fired up about it. He said, I don't have anything prepared. I don't, this feels prepared, sir. This is off the cuff. This is off the cuff. Yeah. But I'm glad you brought it up, though. I think these observances are important. He's talking about going and taking all the pictures. As we are so far from Earth and looking at the beauty of creation, boom, thank you. I think for me, one of the really important personal perspectives that I have up here is that I can really see the Earth as one thing. When I read the Bible, I love this guy, and I look at all the amazing things that were done for us. You guys are talking to us because we're in a spaceship really far from Earth, but you're on

a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe and the cosmos. I said that's good. Victor just dropping bars. Go ahead on, Victor. That would be kind of a humbling place to spend Easter. Yeah. Oh, no. And he can. He's like, hey, y'all think we're doing something special, but I'm just trying to tell you you are special. And all the emptiness, it's a whole bunch of nothing. And he's there. This thing we call the universe,

you have the oasis and the beautiful place that we get to exist together. Yeah. He just ripped that up. I don't know. See, people don't look at that. Like they said, they didn't believe in space. Wait a minute, you dummy. How can you look up?

the sun, the moon, the stars, and not believe in space. They've been watching too much of that show, Paradise on Hulu. You're talking about stupid. Paradise. Oh, goodness. I've watched it. See, that's what got me, when Bush was here talking about all this, that man has had a unique experience of actually we look up at the stars.

Uh-huh. That man was up, you know, a month of stars looking down through him. Uh-huh. Saw the whole earth. And looking at it like he said. For 2605 days. He's looking at God's creation a little bitty ball that we call Earth. That was made for us to inhabit that has everything we need on it, water, food, all.

You know, and that just happened. Yeah, at the perfect distance. Yeah, yeah, at the perfect distance from everything, because if we're one degree nearer to the sun, we burn up. One degree back, freeze over. But, you know, because most people, there's been a lot of people saying,

hey, I'll fix to prove once in fraud there, ain't no God. Well, guess what happened when they went on that little journey? My favorite part about that whole argument, but it takes way more faith to believe that. Oh, no. And then a man named Jesus. Oh, yeah. But that's what was so cool to me.

I don't believe I'm eating my ancestors. No, you're talking about believing, you know, that's like believing in the twilight zone. Twilight. Oh, cousin, Cropi. My cousin Cropie. If I'd have given him enough time, he'd come out. Oh, I've got to tell you, that's my cousin down in the monkey.

Yeah. I ain't, I ain't kidding. reincarnation? No, he's talking about evolution. Evolution, there we are. No, but I just thought it was super cool that the guy with the microphone and the whole world's watching him as he's headed towards the moon looks back and says, yeah, that was created, gang.

Yeah. We ain't here by chance. Yeah. And he used the word cosmos, so I knew it would fire you up. Yeah, yeah. Creator of the cosmos. Oh, it was so cool, though. Oh, that's because I'll say it all the time.

Look, we only see a snippet of creation. Oh, I know that. Because Bush said it. He said, hey, when we're up there, we're looking through telescopes, and I guess what? We've looked and there's another thousand galaxies we just saw. Hey, guess what? God, creation is still going. It's wild to think about.

And they were just, all they went to was the moon. You're going to tell me, you're going to tell me this. you are here on this ball we call earth. At night, when you look up and watch the stars and the moon, and then you don't believe in space, well, what do you think you're looking at? Hey, do you think they played Pink Floyd when they went around it? Oh, yeah.

We don't know. For 40 minutes. Oh, hey, they played. I was on the edge of my seat for 40 minutes. Hey, no, no. Hey, they played music. Yeah. Oh, trust me, every time we do anything, we got the jam going, buddy.

No, I was just, you know. If we go to war, we're going to play some music. Well, I'm just saying, when you go around to the dark side of the moon. They were there. It seems. Wish you were there? Wish you were here. They could have played the whole wall album, right?

Yeah, that's right. Well, that would be a fitting song to play as you're going on the back side of the moon. Yeah. Wish you was here. Yeah. It was cool, though. I mean, I was glued to the TV all day yesterday. Well, they're headed back.

They're on their way back home. They're probably taking a nap now. Well, I love the guy. looking at creation. Yeah. And talking about now when I read the Bible. He's looking at the whole thing. You know, I'm seeing, I'm seeing the big picture.

Did you say that picture of the earth and that over the North Pole, that green lights, the northern light? Oh, there, Aurora. Yeah, you can see it. It's pretty cool. It's really cool. Yeah. But the thing that finally got me, because, you know, the moon landing, it's just a hot topic.

but there was an old astronaut that went to the moon for sure now I'm positive and he actually because it's all such simple points everybody tries to make and then you can't really argue them that's how you argue something he said you really think Russia China and everybody that doesn't like us wouldn't have proven we didn't go by now and I was like that is that's one I never but you had I never thought about it you had the simple one that always that actually brought it in the question for me is why we've been back well now we are yeah and And so, but then they could have landed if they wanted to. And then that astronaut said, if you don't think we landed on the moon,

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he was wounded okay okay and still climbed oh 7,000 feet 7,000 feet mm-hmm I ain't much air on the on the on the ground I hadn't he got I don't know if he was I don't know if he was at zero but he got to 7,000 feet altitude he got to a 7,000 foot wherever he was oh no and they got him back activated his beacon oh yeah and they went and got him Right. Yeah. So I don't know, I don't know if he had to traverse all 7,000 feet, but point may, he got over a mile high.

Hey, look, they just had a little help of going over and getting him up, getting him back. There was a hundred and fifty-five aircraft involved in it. Yeah, looking for you. And we got him. We got him. And one of them got him was. But well, more than one.

The A-10 Wartthawk. and that bad boy I'm telling you I seen one coming in land and numb that was literally it looked like Swiss cheese

oh you see threw it the bullet holes hey everywhere it wasn't a spot on it there wasn't a big hole

but they had that's one of the things they said it's what's so amazing about it is that hey you shoot that baby to pieces

and it'll still do its job and still come home that's wild Well, then I want to get in him. I've seen behind enemy. Here's another thing. Remember that movie with Owen Wilson? That's a good.

Hey, I'm standing on a Salt Lake City. What? Or in California out of the desert. I'm in the desert in California. Look, no sound. It's a bunch of guys about a company. You know, 300 people. We stand out waiting to whatever we're going to do.

And the best thing we see is a shadow over about 30 of us. and we look up and there's an 8-10 warthog oh maybe 50 feet above us hey we never heard anything and until the shadow

coat us we didn't see anything hey by the time if we was enemy we'd all be dead because that bad boy don't make no noise fishing's dangerous it's dangerous it's dangerous it's fun

but it is dangerous It is. Look at that. Your hands kind of looking like leather now, Gobba. Good grief. They got a look about them. That's the one in the bass shake, and then the hook gets in your hand. Oh, no, no, no. Why would anyone want that to?

Gobind ain't caught a bass in a hot minute. I caught one yesterday. I called one yesterday. On purpose? My people did. That was fishing with me. His people did. Large bow?

Yeah. There you go. I said, you want to keep in? They said, yeah. I said, good night. I said, if I throw this on the bank, the Coons wouldn't even eat it. They walk around them. No, Coons leaves it along.

They said, I said, there you go. Guy when they ain't eating no bass, y'all. No, when I got croppy, but I'm like him. I'd eat them for a... The potter bass in the lake, back in the lake. The potter bass ain't bad. Mm-hmm. Amen.

But they ain't got no flavor. Not like... They ain't got no flavor like the coffee. I'd eat them for a... Oh, a big old worm. Big. A big old blue gill or a little chinky pen. Chicken pen, as Paul says.

Yeah. Chicken pen. We always go back to food. Mm. Yeah. I love it. No matter what we do, it goes back to how are we going to eat. Hey, we're in the side.

Hey, most of the Robertson memories are made around a table. I forget. Or around a campfire. Well, something can be cooked. Yeah. You cook a lot of stuff just on open fire? Oh, yeah. Oh, I've been doing it since I was a child.

When was the last time? Because everything I killed with my beauty gun, you got it. A lot of truth to that. I stuck a limb in it and roasted it on fire. That's the only way I knew a brown thrashier had white meat. Oh, yeah. Hey. Oh, that was a celebration when I killed a brown thrush.

I told me. Then I had to. Hey, Brown Thresher, he was white meat. I had to trust, but verify. That's the question. whale species of... That's that first bird you hear in the morning, I... Yeah.

Yeah, he sounds... And the last one. I was chasing one. Here's a deal. It's an evergreen. My neighbor's a yard, big old thing. Y'all, and I'm under it. Chasing a brown thresher. Trying to kill it.

They don't sit still long. No. They're always on the move. Well, guess what? There was a covey of 30, Quail in that little street, too, that I didn't know about that scared the living, you don't want it out of me. Because when I stepped on the wrong place, why isn't it have to be living? Hey, all 30 of them left. So I watched where they went.

And then I went home and told Eddie, hey, I know who are a covey or quail are. Well, he grabbed the 16 gauge in a box of shells and said, let's go get them. Yeah. So, hey, we went up there and how he took a... Mamey, our gray dog, the Wimberramer. The what? Wemarer. There's two ways to pronounce it.

And I pronounced it wrong. Depending on what side of the bed you get up at morning. There's two ways to pronounce it. We haven't found it yet. But hey, she was pouring them. She would pour them. They'd get up, Daddy would kill them. Well, hey, one of them, you know, we kept going to the church,

the Presbyterian church that had a fence around it, link fence around it. Well, every time we'd get on this side with the dog, they'd go through the fence, and we'd have to go all the way over, back around, you know, to get back on them again, whether they do the same thing back and forth. So they're finally done that, and I said, hey,

I said, what are you going to do? What are we going to do? He said, I'm going to tell you what we're going to do. We're going to stay here. He said, I'm going to stay right here. He said, you take off running around right quick, and, you know, get them up. go past them and then come just be shaking the fence.

So I did it. Well, that jumps up and look across the highway and there was some box carts on the siding. At the house, yeah. Well, hey, a couple of them got up and they was going in between the cars. And then he had to check both directions, make sure one of those cars coming. And then, boom. And kill them us. They wouldn't be able to train the box cars.

He, hey, he put on a shooting demonstration like I ain't seen lately. There you go. Does everything he raised up of that 16 gauge on? That's where you got it from, huh? Himself suckers falling. That's where he got it from. Just destroy. Professional shotguners, boys.

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that's QUO.com slash quote no miss calls no missed customers. I have a troubling email. Oh, troubling email. Why's it troubling? What's you got to? Hard to read. See? What's you got in?

Michael from Max Meadows, Virginia. Virginia. Send an email in. He said you guys rock And Jace is my favorite. We'll pass that. But he sent Black Panther.

Oh, boy. And he said he saw it in a zoo. But I'm not going to say the name of the zoo because, what? How is this a zoo? Now, hey, here's the question. I got a question. No, you don't change it. No, that's the same thing.

That's the same. What do you notice, first of all, when you look at that photo? A big red ball. No, I know. What's behind that big red ball, that big black ball? that big black tail going from his A propane tank? That butt all the way down the ground and curling it up.

Okay. Is this a backyard zoo? I feel like Joe Exotic got out and moved to this place. Yeah, that's... I feel so bad for this cat. We sure that's not like the Virginia Humane Society or something? Speaking of that, that looks like that place Sarah McLaughlin's saying. I just got...

That's why I was sad when I opened it. like, ooh, a zoo, you know me. Hey, I just got a big envelope from BJ from Virginia. Okay, he had a bunch of photos that he wanted me to sign and send him. Uh-huh. Yeah, I thought

that was pretty cool. He wrote me a book. I got what, three pages? His letter was three pages long. Did you read it? Yeah. It was really a little little letter. I got it on my couch. God, I love that, man. Well, no. How does he know where you live?

Oh, everybody knows for them. Oh, that's a moving target now. Everybody knows where all this. You're playing a shell game now. Look over here. No, I'm over here. I'm over here. Yeah, that ain't a zoo.

That's a, well, but, oh, that looks like somebody's backyard. They clearly caught a dog with a dog cage. But that is a pretty black panther he's got in there. I mean, that's a ball, right? Is that a baseball-sized ball? It looks like a house cat. Hey, that's his toy. he pounces on that thing all the time i'm very confused i've never felt worse for a large black cat

please let that thing go so that we can now have true sightings of a large black cat yeah that one let that let that one go he deserves better hey i'll tell you or whatever whatever sex it is i'm so sad about this i know we need to let that one go oh there's my giraffe well now i'm on the the website of the place where he said it was and it seems better than that. Like maybe that was just a... Maybe they're renovate. Maybe that was a holding tank.

Is that the back rooms? That was the tailgate. That's the big roaring lion. All right. Bring the website. I can't. I don't want to bash the place. I feel like they're doing an okay job.

I want to see more about it. I want to see what they portray. They have a summer camp. Okay. Where you can apparently capturing cage animal. We got to move on. Junior zookeeper.

I can't do this to these people. Because I do think that was just a bad angled photo, but. No, the angle wasn't the problem on the photo. Well, maybe there was like... He was in a dog kennel. Hey, what is that? I don't know what that is. I mean, a kennel like that during hunting seasons

that got 19 beagles in it waiting to go chase deer. Hey, he's because of the Jim and Durand. One down there by that tree, he got struck by line. Hold on. Oh, serious. That's Jim and Girrandi. Jimmer Durandie's cousin. Oh, yeah, that's him.

Who? Which one is that? Is that a taper? I think so. Yeah. Zos are weird. The world's largest rodent or something. Is that right?

I don't know, but I just got that email and I was just, I was like, oh, Black Panther, I'm going to prove it. And then I clicked on the picture and I felt sad. Well, hey, it is. He's got him, they got him in a zoo. They all turned him loose. I mean, if that's what qualifies as a zoo, Jude also lives at a zoo. It's my house.

Yeah. We all live in a zoo. My favorite is, and I promise you, most of our emails are just Black Panther sightings now. Maybe that's why I dream the way I do. Eddie emailed in one. Uncle Eddie. They see them often around North Florida and South Georgia. North Florida and South Georgia.

Martin, how many times have we seen this exact photo over the last six years? And it never gets in a new location. I wish it was. I wish we got a new one, but we just hadn't got any good Black Panther sightings. I wonder why. I'm surprised they,

yeah, hadn't brought in a bunch of new ones. Yeah, same reason we ain't found the missing link. Yeah. That's okay. He's their,

he's there partying with that ivory-built woodpecker wherever they are. Yeah. There's been a while ride too, hadn't it? Oh, yeah. Not as wild as them boys

on that rocket. It ain't over yet either. We still go into the moon. Actually, we're on our way home. Speaking of going to the moon it on the way home. Today's verse of the day comes from a little place called Twitter, which is a cesspool of activity.

But I was reading about NASA stuff and it gets... Isn't it called X? Whatever. Whatever it's called. Hey, Elon paid a lot of money for that X, man. Sure. But, so they were talking, there's a bunch of Moonland, NASA stuff and I'm just reading it and I'm like, I'm enthralled.

And someone tweeted, boy, they really slapped with Psalm 14 right now. And I was like, I don't know what Psalm 14 says. There's a bunch of them. So I went to it. And it brings me back to our friend Victor, looking back at the creation. Psalm 14, 1 and 2.

The fool says in his heart, there is no God. They are corrupt. Their deeds are vile. And there is no one who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand and any who seek God. Yeah. Wow. Don't be a fool, y'all.

Hey. Somebody had to make this old ball. I guarantee you. It didn't. It's too perfect. And it's a ball. It's too perfect. Not a sheet.

It's a ball. See y'all next time. Right here in the duck car room. We've landed on the moon. Oh, what?