Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Accidentally Shoplifts, Tipping & His DoorDash Habit

Episode Date: April 3, 2025

Uncle Si goes off on tipping culture, defends senior discounts, and relates to being as broke as he once was. He admits to only watching Buck Commander for Luke Bryan, and even confesses to accidental shoplifting of a fishing rod and reel. John-David bucks the trend on tipping, and Martin uncovers a podcast throwdown from Jase Robertson. Plus, when Si needed first aid, Martin was zero help. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to the Duck Call Room, ladies and gentlemen. And back by popular demand, Duck Commander's newest employee, Cade is joining us again. By popular demand. We had a lot of people ask for you to come back, Kate. They said they loved you. You fit right in, all the things. Like, they were actually giving us an add-a-boy for doing our homework

on finding a good employee. What part of Florida are you from? North Florida. From Lake City. Straight out of Lake City, Florida. Cade's back in the house. Yeah, hey, it was so crazy. We even had a hand calling here and leave a voicemail for you.

Uh-oh. Or something. He said he was your buddy or something. Oh, Lord. He said that he was going to do that. He just confirmed all the stuff about the alligators on the football field and all them. Oh, all them tells you was telling. I think there might be a few of them now that will say they're my buddy.

Oh, so maybe we have. Might not even know them. We may have a poser. How are things, man? How are things, Ben, since we had you on here last? You adjusted into life in North Louisiana, all right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's been great.

Yeah. Travis Matthews. Travis. Oh, Lord. Yeah, I know him. He's actually one of my good running around buddies. Oh, see, there you go. I know running around buddy.

Running around buddy. So is that like a drinking buddy or? No, not that. Okay. I was just curious. But now, how are things here? You like it all? Oh, yeah.

I've been enjoying it quite a bit. It's been adjusting really well. Good. I said, I ain't met nobody around here yet. I was, you know, didn't like. I can introduce you to a couple. What's you like for me? How much time you got 10 minutes?

We can find somebody. Oh, okay. No, I'm just. We can run somebody by evil like. Right. So how's the, I forget what, did we talk about your love life here in, Louisiana last time?

Oh, no. Well, then we will this time. Ask Cudder, it's what I like diving into. Well, how old are you? I'm 19. 19. Are you meeting any young 19-year-old? I don't know what that's like.

No, not really. You're just hanging out with Stone? Well, yeah. Okay. Not a great way to meet people. Okay, I think... He doesn't really have a lot of influx. I think someone says you play the guitar, right?

Yes, sir. Oh, he does. You got a band? I did. Yes. Well, I still do. I'll go back home and play with them some when I can. But, yeah, real good band, too.

We've only been get about a year, but I mean, I pulled from a lot of different bands and people I've met over the years playing. And it's a good, all-star band. I got about four guitars, but I ain't learned how to play them yet. Well, if you need a new front man, Si, I ain't too busy. Oh, yeah. He's done at one. He is the front band.

That's what I'm saying. I actually had a man and went on the road and had a blast doing it. Yes, sir. But it's a young man's game. Oh, yes, sir. He still made a pretty good chucking. I had a lot of fun doing it. That's all that matters, right?

At your age especially. Well, I don't know. We wrote, what, six songs, me and the band members. You know, Bridget Tatum was one of the band members, okay? My daughter-in-law, Marsha was the other one, you know, and then I was, you know, vocals only since I couldn't learn how to play

the stupid guitar yes sir he's I can't you know that's just something but you could sing there's some things God is not going to give me

and guitar playing is one of them and that's probably for the best right well the hardest thing about guitar is the beginning of it

so once you get past that stage it's well see that's what was my problem oh yes sir yeah it gets a lot of is I never could get I couldn't get any progress

well your boy oh what's his name Oh, Travis gave you the guitar hero, cord buddy thing. Idiot proof. And nope, that ain't going to work with me. Okay. So, you know, what is that thing called? The cord buddy.

I remember him. You put it on your guitar and then you mash the colors. Oh, okay. Yes. So, you know, for G-Cord and all that. Right. And I actually, he come up here with his band. and we fooled around and played a little music at Willie's Restaurant when he had it.

And I was, you know, they done a video on me playing it. Oh, yes, sir. And he said, hey, he said, no, you should be playing. He said, you did great that night. You know, you was with us, you know, the guy that was playing. And I said, well, I didn't feel like I was. And he said, well, hey, trust me what I said, we went and watched it very carefully. He said, you was right there with the guy that were playing, you know, for real.

Yeah. So I just said, well, it didn't, it didn't, it didn't, it didn't, uh, sink in. Mm-hmm. You know, maybe it's like baptizers, you know, some of them don't take. Well, get to our playing didn't take with me. Sometimes you get baptized by water. Yeah. Yeah.

You just get baptized by the spirit, right? Sometimes you just get wet. Yeah, sometimes you just get wet, you know, nothing really happened. You didn't change. Oh, Lord. Hey, speaking of people that play the guitar, do you watch American Idol? Yes, I, you know, what's, that's what always gets me, okay, when I watch somebody live on the stage. This is good news for you, too.

No, no, because, hey, most of the time, okay, and when they had told me this, I kind of look and say, well, they line, you know, there are thousands of songs you can play, okay, and you only use the top four. frets. Okay, you got to think about that. You don't even have to move. You're just on them four. Well, you got four fingers. But it's just, you know, no, it's amazing. That I watch them on live on stage.

Hey, the only time they go down the guitar if they want to go higher. Okay. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Because most of them, if you just play on the first four French, it's low.

Right. Right. It's low. You've got to go toward the bottom. Sound hole. Right. Sound hole. Yeah.

But it's just, you know, it's in a way. I've always said, especially when you run upon someone that you ask to, do you read music? No. No. Do you understand anything? He said, no or don't. I always said that, get to a place. is a God-given gilf.

It really is. Well, there's some girl from Monroe who can play the sound hole pretty good. She's made it on American Idol, and she's your age. Yeah, so funny... Uh-oh, he's excited.

Funny thing about hers, I'm actually, I'm renting to the house I'm renting in, is kin to her to that girl. Oh, that? Yeah. What's this girl? Clara?

Yeah. Name Clara, Ray? Yeah. I was sitting there watching American Idol. Not my choice. I'm going to be honest. So it was Allison's choice. And all of a sudden it said,

Monroe, Louisiana, humongous on the screen, and they're over at the Flying Tiger, and she's singing songs. Did you happen to look at the credits of that episode? Well, what's the young ladies' names that lives? Hold on. Honor, he barely looked up in time to see Monroe, Louisiana. He didn't watch.

Were you part of that? Yeah. I PA'd for that episode here. So you knew and you didn't tell us? Oh, I signed an NDA. That's a good point. Well, American Idol, rest assured. Your boy kept it.

Because now he's smiling telling us he worked on. We were this clown every day. Look, NDAs go out the door when you walk in this door. Well, I can't exactly say it. That's crazy. Well, if you run into that girl, I sent her a message and said, Hey, if you want to come talk to Uncle Side about American Idol, feel free to. I have her dad's number.

I know her dad. I was like, I recognize that guy. and she she she ghosted me I got no response so if you want to come on the show you're married with children so good for her for ghosty well hold on but I sit

uncle sigh I understand but how many she's just made on American Idol how many how many creeps you think went in there you sure are pretty you know yeah like I mean like said my my landlord say they know her akin to her I gotta just call them

they'll probably get older too see but you can't do that you're looking for a date but I'm not no no not at all. She said, no. Why not? Well, I think she's married. Oh, really?

Yeah. That checks out. She's from Monroe 19 and married. Those all add up. Church of Christ. I don't know if she's married. Oh, she can't be church Christ. She's playing music.

I'll keep you out. She can sing, anyway, I found it interesting. She's, okay. She's like singing at Enoch, singing at all the places I know. Well, she looked like,

I don't even know who y'all talking about. Oh, she's a fine little thing. Oh, okay. Well, she's 22, so that's not. weird um i don't no she might not even be that old i'm just guessing that's her i thought y'all said 22 clara ray congratulations how'd our buddy luke treated that's it he was nice he said quit playing the guitar go a cappella for a minute of course he did and then that's when she killed it that's a luke from way back we didn't have a luke in here luke's actually the only reason i will watch american

idol because he cracks me up well yeah that's the same way that's the only reason i watch buck commander because Luke Bride for me. Oh, no. I mean. And that whole bunch cracked you up. Mark, Mark, hey, you got time to listen to my duck call. I was like, yeah, Luke, I got plenty of time.

Listen to your duck call. But the duck call ain't you problem. You're in a hot hole. Just sit there, shut up, and shoot them when they get, right? I mean, I went fishing with Bill freaking dance. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means?

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So I turned into a bass fisherman the other day, too. I saw that. Yeah, I took the old man fishing, man. I wasn't, Cy. It was fun. And look. Can y'all? Oh, you're bleeding?

That's from a bass yanking that reel against my finger and it blistered. Yeah, he asked me. He said, you got a band-aided in this boat? I said, no, that's actually one thing I don't care. I normally tape it up and I had forgot it. That man caught so many fish. His hands are bleeding. Hold on.

Between catching the fish and swatting a purple-tailed was, we was having ourselves. And they go on Friday, so I can't even, like, get an invite us. we caught about 60 bass probably maybe more i don't even know i lost count we didn't count yeah we didn't care what were you doing when they were doing this working probably yeah sucks y'all like we weren't working oh shit oh here we go that's what most people don't understand hey if you go fishing hey you get a workout but it sure was fun man i giggled and i laughed and i netted size of i always give uh it's a commentary on a teutut the hook on one.

Oh, good. Goodness, you rascal. Oh, okay. That's a good one. The best commentary were the ones that get off, though. Oh, yeah. Oh, no, look, I lost four of his baits. The bait, the line kept, you know, I set the hook.

Yeah, I finally figured that out. I finally figured out why you lost my $12 cricket. Well, hey, look, it wasn't my fault. No, well. O.G. Taddy, 1099 at my shot. Well, well, we had a cameraman. We had a cameraman. man, it was time.

I might go up because I ain't trying to be people. That wasn't the problem? No, look, what happened and y'all didn't realize it. So I had Jared in there filming and Jared, once I would get hung up, I'd just, I would drive the boat because the wind was whipping pretty good. So I just drive the boat and let Jared get him on home. Well, you know, God bless Jared. He tries.

Jared living proof? He really does. Well, he broke the tip off at one rod and I never even knew it. So every time you were zinging out there, you were having that little six-pound line hit the end of that broken tip. So you were cutting your own line every cat. So then by the time something would pull back on it. Oh, he broke. Yeah, when I got back, I had a broken rod.

Oh, okay. I said, well, this checks out. I love fishermen. I said, this checks out. He has and old people. They test stuff up. Yeah. And I love them both.

But it actually made sense of why you kept breaking your life. line. I was like, well, there, there we go. So what was he used? Just a little spinning rod. But it was, how much of it was gone? A little bit. Just a tip. A little bit. Just a tip. So the last eye. Yeah, just the last eye. And it was, it was like, it was splintered. So, yeah, it left the shop thing. It was fine. So every time size, it ain't got thing out there, he's just cutting his line. He didn't even realize it. That happens. Oh, it's fine. I mean, I didn't care. I mean, I've had that rod for probably 10 years. So, like, I got my money's worth out of it.

Eight dollars, I'll put a tip on it. You ain't got to. That's waste management's problem now. You know, sometimes you just know, like, you know, that has been a good one. Thank you. Let's just go. I need to bring you to interview. I need to everybody go listen to what Martin just said.

I mean, if it would have been the second trip out with it ever, okay, let's go get it fixed. But I have had a time with that. ride. Like, we're good. That's one of the things that made me mad. I finally get where I have some money. And I actually, I'm looking, I want to make my own little combo. Yeah.

So I go in there and, hey, there's a reel. And I didn't know it, but hey, it was for salt water. And it's on the rod. So I go in there and I literally have to take my pocket knife and cut the pan. The zip ties on? Oh, yeah. I cut the zip tie off. of that one.

Bandilism. I get this real. I go and get find the ride I want and put it on there. Look and I come to the checkout and I said, you know, I want to buy that. You know, and the guy said, wait a minute. Hold it. He said, I can go go check something. So he walks away with a rod and reel in his hand and he comes back and he said,

where did you get this reel? And I said, I cut it off of that rod over there. He was honest about trying to steal it. I want this reel on this rod. They wouldn't send it to me. I said, dude, hey, I don't care. Mark it up $200. I want that rod and that reel.

Hey, that's the maddest I ever been. Well, yeah. I went through everybody but the owner of the store. Hey, well, look, you can go see the owner of the honey hole right now. His name's David Olin. You can make your own. You can make your own. make it happen.

You can cut all the zip ties you want. He probably won't get this man as they will. You can make your... Don't do that. Well, hey. Well, it ain't like I'm trying to steal it. Right. I just, hey, I want this real on this ride.

But you could go there and make your own combo and I bet they'd give you 10% off. No, he got more money to know what to do with. We tell him we did. Actually, what you do, here's the best part. Let him go in there and make his own combo. You give it to him. And then you build that combo and put the side. Robertson special.

You sell that. I'm on it. Ugly stick, pistol grip. As good as the Godwin Rod's doing, the side combo got to do something. Look, that ain't a bad idea. Cy combo. He's like,

I'm in. No, side don't even make nothing. He just gets free riding real. That's it. I get the equipment, boys. They're both people. You got to have, you got to have equipment to fish.

them old people always wanting a senior citizen discount from me too do you ask for that everywhere you go uh i get that's what like when i you know i didn't have any money i couldn't borrow five dollars from nobody the only difference is that senior citizen don't come see you about four times give me stuff and i got the moment on yeah and i said where were you people at when i was just didn't have a dime of my name giving it to people that were like you are now that same old thing that's what phil always said said you ain't what i had always said

when I tried college that the whole world they, whoever put this in play screwed the whole system up. Whoever put college in play? No, no, I'm talking about the way the world runs. They screwed it up totally. Yeah. Because number one, the real

working man just paid peanuts. Then you got some clown that's got a piece of paper that said he's educated. Yeah. Having a marketing. He didn't his butt doing nothing. That's right. That's dang right. Yeah. No, no, it's always been backwards.

Oh, yes, sir. Yeah. Yeah, you ain't wrong. That's that for here. Plus, and I'm not, I'm not really down on education, but in the way I was. Because when I was in college, I had buddies that had graduated before me. Okay. They had went to college.

They had two degrees, a BA and a master's. Yes, sir. And guess where they was working? At McDonald's and Burger King, flipping burgers. And I said, wait a minute. why would I waste four years, six years,

eight years, depending on how much education you want to do? And then the last thing I hear out of you when I go for an interview, well, I can't use you there, a young man,

you're too educated. So I just, you know, hey. So I chose Vietnam over McDonald's. Well, no, no, because I, well,

hey, no, I chose partying and chasing women. Okay, I mattered and partying and partying. and majored in women. Oh, there it is.

Go on now. And, hey, look, I told my mama that when she told me, hey, you're going to college. Go on now. And I said, Mama, don't waste yours and daddy's hard-earned money. He said, hey, I said, look, all I'm going to do party. And she said, well, make it a good one. Oh, look, hey, we're both happy. You might as well enjoy it.

Hey, y'all, I told her, I said, hey, I made it a good one. I partied a whole semester I was there. Oh, Lord, have mercy. Yeah. Hey, what do you think about college? You opted out of it? Well, so when I was in high school, we have dual enrollment in Florida, so I took college classes while I was in school. Yeah.

So, and I got a pretty good dose of it being there around it and all that. I mean, it's, I kind of realize that probably ain't somewhere I would be. Well, it's not for everybody. Yes, sir. No. Yeah. You go walk on these pipelines because I got a young man I know. I love a friend of mine.

He's in Alaska right now, 40 below. Okay, but he is getting... There ain't amount of money on Earth. I would choose... I'm out. I'm out of that. But at least he's not having a finance door dash orders. What is that?

Ladies and gentlemen, if you're listening... I want to know what side. As a man who took six years of college to get a finance degree, So look, you know, there's all kinds of ways you can order food and have it delivered to you. You know they'll deliver anything to your house? Yes, I do. Okay. Do you ever door dash your food?

Doordash. That's what it's called. It's an app. It's an app that you can order food on and they'll bring it to you. Well, no, no, I do. I do that. Okay. You'll like this.

And guess who I ordered it from? Who? Johnny's pizza. Thank you. There you go. Yeah. Oh, imagine. I order pepperoni.

Sausage. Sausies, alipanias, and cricket. Oh, that sounds so good right now. Oh, two or three times a month. There you go. I thought you were going to say a week and you were about to be. Oh, no, no, no, no. It's about four times a month.

Once a week. Weekly pizza. You ain't eating one of the week. Matter of fact, hey, guess what we had at the poker party? Pizza. I'm just glad you didn't feed them embeciles and fish I cleaned for you. No, no. Oh, no.

No, that's going to be for me a mixture of a thing. That, uh, maybe. Philip and his wife a leash. Well, now. But what if when you order Johnny's had it delivered, you could just pay for it later. You could just finance your pizza. Oh, finance that later.

The pizza. Well, back in the day, I liked that real good. Eight easy installments. Now, okay. I can pay for it. Yeah, you could end up paying $127 for your $20 pizza. Yeah, six percent interest. No, hey, that's what just shocked.

Do not finance your pizza. I usually didn't look at what it cost. Yeah. So one day I was coming back, you know, from work, for famine, so a poor Lungianni has ordered me a pizza. He wasn't even going to wait. No, no, look. It had to wait like 30 minutes before I got it, you know.

And then when I seen the price tag on it, I went back and I said, woman, why didn't you tell me that pizza was so expensive? You can't put a price on a good time. Oh, well, hey, that's starting. Yeah. That's what I finally realized. They gave me 40% off the other day.

If you're hungry for a pizza, you know you ordered a lot. $25. It ain't nothing. No. I eat so much pizza last week. Well, if that's a problem, don't eat Johnny's pizza. Like, there's an easy way to do life. I feel like we've given a lot of really good advice this episode.

Can I just say that? Hunter. Hold on. What about Hunter? I'm just interested. Does Hunter need advice? Do you DoorDash? I did back in like 2021.

No, you were the Dasher? or you ordered Doordash? Like ordered. Yeah. Yeah, I kept getting sick with a certain virus. Oh, that one. Oh, that one. Yeah, the one that they'll send us over.

But my sister and her husband, they actually were DoorDash drivers for a while. I would do that in a heartbeat. That's a great way. Yeah, they love doing it at night. You know what you could do to not have to finance your DoorDash? You could actually be the driver. You could just get a job.

Yeah. I just, I don't know. I thought it was weird that they started off from financing. They're too expensive anyway. I would, I'm not. That's a rip-off. Yeah. I had Domino's delivered.

It's double the price. It's a big thing now about everybody's getting mad because of tippet. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's been in the new. Where was I at the other day that asked for a tip? Probably like at McDonald's or something like that. Like, they'll do it now.

You go there and they'll put on the screen. And Sonic. Yeah. My new favorite restaurant. Right at the road. Hey, could be in a cheap, you know what. Right. And they'll be offended when you don't give me a tip.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Give the person to, you know, a tip. Oh, yeah. Huh? What?

What? We're talking about here. I think we're on two different. I think we're on opposite end of the spectrum. That's what the rub is right now. But we're not like, hey, if I'm not sitting down, I ain't. No, I'm not tipping at a fast food restaurant. I'm not doing that.

I got in trouble. They get paid by the hours. I got in trouble by Brittany for not tipping the lady that cut the boy's hair enough the other day. I'm not I've gotten four haircuts in my life now so I can't well let me tell you how I did this so it was $50 I guess it's $25 each for the boys gracious now what I'm paying I'll think it's granted wrangling them that's something which we did most of the house but we did most of the wrangling so I'm cool but when it come to the tip deal I just went with the one of the ones

one in the middle. I didn't look. Like, I didn't go all the way left because I figured that was like cheap skating was probably zero. And then there was one over here. But there were like five options and I just chose the one in the middle. But it wasn't enough according to my wife. And I'm like, well, if it's not enough for the hairdressers, why don't they just up their fee?

Well, why are you dependent on a fix-a-a-fix? Is it because tips aren't taxable? Is that what the big thing is? No, no. We need to have Russell in here. I've tipped him. We need to get Russell who owns a barbershop slash salon slash everything. I promise you if I ask Russell to show up.

He will be here an hour early and he will stay an hour late just for the opportunity to sit in here. Well, and he'll probably bring his son too because his son watches everything we do. I guarantee you his son has already watched me inside go fishing because every time I go in there, he won't know when I'm going to take his son fishing, which I'm totally cool with. An expert in the field of being tipped. Oh, he's probably working right now, though, and he works with his hands, so he never text back. Well, but at least he'll have the... I'm just curious.

I don't know. Like, where do we draw the line? Should Cade put in, like, on every duck call he built? Should he put on a tip for building that duck call? Like, when you buy it at Academy, can you tip Cade? Like, is there an option for tipping the duck call builder? I've never been tipped. I've been tipped one time.

Here's my question. What's the rub here on the tippet? I just think there are some things that because you can put. Are they too high the money that they charge you? No, I just think that they started putting a tip on everything for some reason. And I don't know why. At restaurants, I get it, man.

I'm a great tipper. Well, I was saying. That's what, you know. I was once told by the crawfish guy by the house, I'm a better tipper than the rod. Hey, this is, well, here's the thing. That's right. This is when I was.

broke, did have any money, okay. You know, and I've tipped waitresses before. Yeah. And they actually, when I handed them the tip, they cried. Yeah. I mean, most of the time my tip in cash. These people are struggling barely to make a living.

Oh, man, I have a great tipping story, but it's rude. Same in music, too. I mean, you go to... Oh, no. That's, hey, you just hit on something and I was shocked when I actually went out with my band. Yeah.

Because I was planning on paying my band big. And then when the reality of what they do it. Yeah. Yeah. I said, wait a minute. Hold it. You're playing the band how much? Mm-hmm.

Yeah. I said, wait a minute, this is the people that make the music for you to sing to, idiot. Yeah. You're giving them peanuts. Mm-hmm. No, I know it. So did y'all have a tip jar? Oh, yes, sir.

Yeah. And after about every fourth or fifth song, I would get up and do a whole spiel about tipping your bands and all that because it really is necessary. No, no, if you don't tell them, they don't give you nothing. They won't do it.

No, sir, they won't do it at all. I was shocked that, hey, that's why most, you know, when my band, when we wasn't on a gig, hey, he's playing somewhere else at night. Mm-hmm, yep. just to make enough money to pay the bills. Exactly. I got Russell for next Monday.

I don't know. Yeah. Hey. He said, do you want me to come now? That's why I was saying, quit being a cheap, you know what.

Oh yeah. No. If someone serves you a meal, that's fine. It's on your back on a call. Hey, tip the person a decent tip. But the problem is.

I agree more. I went to nukes. It was nukes. On Friday night, I ordered it. I went, I walked up and said, order for John David, hands it to me, put my card down, and it's like 15%. I'm like, well, you just, you handed me the food.

I'm not, where's the line? Yeah, where, where, yeah, now it's like everywhere that has the option to put tip on their receipt, they do. That's food service 100% tip. Yes, absolutely. I do it all. But now there's just like, it shows up in weird places. It shows up in a lot of weird places.

shows up in weird places. You don't know who's getting it. Yeah, and I don't know why. That's why I'm just like, could you just up the price to cover the tip? Can you just up the price to whatever you think this is? Can you just increase the price? All right. Russell, my friend Russell, who is one of the more eccentric human beings in the whole wide world,

he's actually my new barber. He's who I go see once every. Yeah. And my boys get their haircut by somebody at Russell's shop, never Russell, because he's hard to get into. Yeah. Well, he's like Sadie's. hair stylists.

Yeah. Me and Seth. You heard that right. Me and Sadie go to the same guy. Hair stylist to the North Louisiana stars. Yes. And John David. But that's just because we're friends.

All he has said is I have strong opinions on the matter. And if Russell has strong opinions, because he's a very opinionated person. He is that. He is a Facebook risk. I got a question. So if you were to, I know you guys probably don't go to coffee shops and get coffee, but if you were to. That sounds awful.

And expensive. It is expensive. But if you were to go to a coffee shop, you get one cup of coffee. Do you believe in tipping for that, too? If they bring it to, yeah, but no, if I'm at the counter and I get it, I'm, I don't think so. That's what I'm saying. Our local coffee shops do that. Just up your price.

Like, I don't understand the reason for a tip. I'm about to put a tip jar out on the counter and just see what happened. I don't get it. Should I put a tip jar out this evening and see what? what happened. You should. I'll tell you what it happened. They'll probably leave.

I ain't doing it. But in the words of, in the words of Wayland. Every once why you'll get a good guy come in and maybe drop some in there. Overall, I had fixed the guys like mods and reels up before. It was like 18 bucks and then about here's 25.

And I'm like, oh, thank you. This is neat. Yeah, but see, that was an extra service right there. So I could see, like if you had a tip, if you had one guy doing real spooling, that's, that's, That's a different service. But for you to like have tip on your receipt

because somebody went out there and got four packets of worms and two packs of hooks. That's weird. And brought it to you and it says tip. You're like, uh-uh, no, I don't. We got a problem on that deal. Tip's weird. Yeah, it's just weird.

All I'm going to say, though, is this was just a plethora of knowledge on this episode, which leads me to talk about something. Okay, go ahead. I was very bored the other night. When I tell you very bored, I mean so bored, I ended up on YouTube with this show right here, known as unashamed. Because the title was directed towards Sa. Uh-oh. And I'm just going to play this.

I had Hunter pull this. Thank you, Hunter. I'm going to play this in its entirety for Saa. Zach need to put a little powder on. Well, Zach's not the problem. I'll let you guys do the problem. He needs to put a little powder on. His face is a little shiny.

I'll go one deeper. I did not know that. I'm a redneck, but I didn't know. There's another world, Jace. There's another world inside the world, the redneck world that I got to taste a little bit of last time I was there. And it's actually right across the hall from where you're sitting right now called the duck car room. I was a guest on the duck car room. Oh, boy.

Yeah. Now that's a world. That's just on the other side of our wall here, that world within our world. Yeah, there's the end line between a podcast. that that has meaningful material and just a pool of ignorant babble. So you're saying they're going back to, we've been talking about going past the Tower of Babel. They're going back to the Tower of Babel.

I actually said that the last time I walked in, I said, now over here, right next door, we have multiple men speaking one language that is Jesus. I said, in this reign, we have a table of Babel. Actually, two tables, two tables. It was fine. I'll tell you that it was.

Zach was all, yeah, he was all excited. Yeah, I mean, the Tower of Babel had a purpose. Oh, yeah, there's an energy there for sure. To lead you to men speaking one language that was fulfilled in Jesus. I mean, he went at us there, friends. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But, you know, my problem. That's your nephew. He ain't even got his microphone on. Hey, put your head. Put your head set back on so we can talk about it. So he straight called us babbling fools, basically. Well, I mean, to that point. A little bit.

He's not wrong. But I've never seen anyone come out here and not smile. But to say that we don't have any substance. Well, no, no, no, but he's wrong. He said it right at the first hour when he said, hey, the tower of babel, have a purpose. Yeah.

Right. Well, look, I've got a purpose. Uh-oh. Okay, you can do things, okay, and be miserable. Okay, or you can do things and have fun. Boom! That's right. Okay.

Here's all I'll say. I'm not going to be miserable. Life is too short. Okay. Well, here's what I'll say. That was so funny. For people that are full of substance, they should do pull from our pool with talent. often and get them sitting in that chair in there, mainly you.

So I don't understand that. A treasure show was about you. Uh-oh. Hey, they're going to do the revival. Who should we bring in? You. Here's what's so great about that, okay, is look, I learn here. Okay, and when I go next door to the game, I learn there.

But you know with your nephew. It's always a contest. Well, no, no. Everything's a contest. No, no. Everything is a contest. And to be fair, if you want to go listen to a deep theological discussion, you're in the wrong spot. By all means.

No, no. No, also, I'm not going. I actually disagree with that because I've told everybody that's been involved in my podcast. Okay. We give out some very. good advice. That is true. Like, don't finance your door dash.

Okay. Absolutely. Okay. And I told y'all to your face. Okay. I was shocked at how smart everybody that's here that's been on in a city. We're sneaky smart. We're all smart.

Hey, hey. Yeah. So, look, but the main point is, hey, life is too boring. Drudgery. Okay. Living life. Life is hard. There you go.

That's a true statement. Life is flat out hard. I like to add a little fun to my life that is boring. Amen, buddy. Okay, and if you hold that against me, hey, I pity you. I pity you. Yeah, I pity you. Okay, because you don't have any fun.

Life too short. Yeah. It really is. Okay. I just love it. Oh, the Bible says it best. Hey, you're just a myth that's here for a short time and then you're gone. I just love everything.

What a little meaning into it. Okay. Learn to laugh at yourself when you do something stupid because trust me, folks, you're a human being. You're going to do a lot of it. Okay. So, hey, learn to laugh yourself and move on and have a good time while you're here. You're not going to be here long. No.

Fool around, I'm going to change the door code. And with that, I hate. I appreciate everyone in this room. Amen, buddy. We appreciate you, too. That's why you tried to. Like the other day, I had so much fun with you and the cameraman. I know.

And look, you know you're welcome and go with me. I know it's a short window with you now because you can't really take the heat and it's about to get hot. So that's why when you said, hey, I want to go, I said, well, we're going. Let me just make sure I can find us a place to. go. Yep. But, you know, I mean, God, I don't get it, man. Oh, no. On that.

Well, is we fine. No, I just don't get the comparison. His whole life is a comparison. That's what I don't understand. Well, on that, hey, the only thing. And I love Jason. The only thing important in this world for you and whoever else you run into is the relationship you form.

Amen. with everyone you come into contact to, you have the opportunity to form a relationship. Yeah. Okay. That is, in my home of opinion, it's priceless. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Okay, because, hey, that's what life is really about. The relationship first with the Almighty, the one that created everything. All right. Then the second one is, hey, the relationship, whether if you found a woman you marry, you have kids, okay, it's all about, hey, the relationships you have and how far you take them, okay? And that's, you know, that is life. And a good one. Well, and I think, we're getting deep, man. Yeah. Well, and I think our relationship in here is one,

like we just, we all cut up together. And I think my favorite part of, of that whole little clip of them getting on us is the fact that Dasher couldn't stop smiling just remembering all the funny hat. I know. And he said he got whiplash because we're all yelling and screaming and just being weird. He did have the unenviable middle seat,

which is the one I had for all of Duck Dynasty. That's a tough place to sit. And look. I sat there one day with Phil K and Sye. That's a hard spot to sit. And I was like, Bill left in the middle. Here's the thing. If I remember correctly,

and guess what we was talking about? about family relationships everybody had with each other yeah oh that's why he had so much fun we talked about his mom who's in heaven now about my sister judy she's in heaven now you won't know the other reason he has so much fun in here he actually got to talk that that is a truth that's because we will let anybody have the microphone none of us care like well i like If we do care, we'll just start shouting above each other until somebody says something interesting. And we'll go with that. We'll go with those famous four words to Hunter.

Fix it and post. Yeah, Hunter. Hunter actually has the hardest job of any of the podcast. Sometimes you just got to run it. All right. What's the Almighty going to leave us with here today, J.D? Are you ready to go home? We got, we probably need to answer at least an email or voicemail.

You got something else? You got a voice mail? Whatever y'all want to do. Hunter just gave me the saddest look ever about a vote. They're not sending as many. Well, we haven't been teeing them up either. Yeah, we've been having a lot. I want to break it down real fast.

Hello at Duck Call Room. Ask us for advice. I'm going to read the emails. Or not even ask weird questions. Weird question. Give praise reports. We like seeing all of it, right? Things happen in everybody's lives.

So like if you got something cool that happened, let's talk about it. If you got. And sometimes I'm going to read weird. I kind of got a weird one today. And the voicemail, leave us a voicemail. It is 318. You'll hear your voice on this podcast. It is 318.

215. 215. 65. 6.5. 5.9. Yeah, it had been a minute, so I wanted to make sure I got that right. Hold on. I would have hammer this home.

What is it? 318, 215, 655. 5.9. That's what I thought it was, but I just wanted to make sure. Hold on. Hey, Jack, this looks fine. You've reached my answering machine. This is the voicemail.

And look, make me a message for us to play in the duck hall room, and you just might hear yourself in an upcoming episode. But please, y'all, hey, keep it short, and don't forget, make it funny. Your buddy called that. Hey, this is John David O, and I'm from West Monroe, Louisiana. Is Hunter as... Just kidding, Hunter.

Anyway, I got a... I did get a... I got a good chuckle. Craig from Pensacola Florida emailed in. Craig. He just watched Duckman 21 the Last Supper. Well that's old.

Oh gracious sakes alive. Actually, I need to do this text message too after this. This is, we're all, we're, I got a text message we're doing after Craig's email. Okay. Craig from Pensacola, Florida. He said, during the bullfrog hunt, I've never watched this, by the way, Martin, that is not really my cup of tea. Jay Stone appeared to be in the...

the worst shape than anyone on the DVD. That includes God one, isn't it? Mm-hmm. How did he turn it around and what motivates him to keep the momentum going? I'm going to guess that watching that video is one of the things that helped turn him around. And I wanted to do this with him not here and you here because you know him well, because he would just say, well, I'm here to cause physical pain on others if need be. Yeah.

Or simulated murder. And he would give you some answer like that. But what would you say keep stone motivated to keep the weight off? Well, I do know the original reason why he said he wanted to start losing weight. He said that they was hunting one day and he had to go, hey, crippled a milder, and he had to go after him. That's the story. Yeah, yeah.

That's the story because I've asked him. Yeah. He said, hey, I run after that crippled myler and I had to stop him. It was like that old man there. Yeah, he was huffing and puffing. He said, hey, I want to get rid of this. This ain't right. Yeah, I'm too young.

I'm too young to feel that bad. Yeah. I think that is what he doesn't want to go back. Well, you get, yeah, everybody gets to that point in a lot. Well, and you have a bunch of kids, and you get to a point where you're like, oh, wow, I might have made some. And I don't know whether she's serious or not, but Anna always told him if he got the 300 pounds. Well, no, no. That was the other.

I've never heard that. Hey, that was the other one. Oh, yeah. That was the other one because she said that in front of me before when I've been always out. We, I don't know if you don't have that weight. I'm going to give me a new one. Yeah. Nan always says, if you get 300 pounds, I'm out.

Yeah, I'm, I'm fired at new one. Used to hang out a lot back then, been both of our heavyset set days. House of pain. No, no, no. Just eating. Iron cactus. Yeah, iron cactus. Yeah, how to do it.

Then Monterey fajitas. Oh, poor pork on top. Some top shelf readers. Oh, but back to the deal about losing it, it's nothing worse to see someone that has lost a lot of weight and then it gains it all back. Yeah, getting that back up there. Come on.

I did that. Two years ago. Johnny did it was a roller coaster. You went through it and lost it, and then why would you be that stupid and go back? Here's the thing. People say you feel better, and that's, I don't know that that part's true because you don't really notice it. But what you do notice is?

I do notice it. And your everyday things, like, Casing ducks. Oh, yeah. It's way easier to do it whenever you're in shape. Like taking side fish another day. Way easier to do it in shape because that's a lot of work. Yeah.

He's still feeling. That's what most people don't realize. Yeah. Hunting is a lot of work. Fishing is a lot of work. But like in that hole we fished in is like bumper boats. So stumps everywhere. So the whole time I'm constantly just going back and foreside to side

and getting off stumps, on the stumps, all the things. And if I hadn't lost the weight, I would have been dead by the time we left there. As it was, I still could have fish the rest of the day. Every time he'd hit one of them stumps, it was out of looking to see if he's going to fall in. Yeah. I'd almost got me.

You ain't wait, you ain't ready for it. Bam. I almost did one. Yeah. Because they said, watch out, tree. What they didn't see was the stump in front of the tree under the gunwale of the boat. Yeah, he knew it was. He knew it was too far away from the tree.

Yeah. He didn't see the stump. And that thing hit that thing with that wind blowing crossways. And buddy, I bought that way. And hey, the wind was that about 10 and 12 miles an hour. I kind of peeked over my shoulder and saw the tree. I was like, oh, I got plenty of red. No problem.

I just used my peripheral vision. Yeah, then about that time. I said, oh, God, I'm going swimming, boys. Yeah. But I stayed in the boat this time. Well, hey, at least if you did, like I say, you probably got a little bit more, a little more ump until you to get away, you know.

Yeah, I could have, I mean, it ain't no big deal. I could have just stood up in that hole. It's pretty shallow. Oh, well, yeah. But, like, no, it's just, no, you, I do feel better. Like, I don't have that dragon feeling. It's when you're doing stuff. Yeah.

You, like, just, you could do stuff. Like, I had to move a treadmill recently. The best thing I ever did was quit eating lunch. Mm-hmm. Because it didn't matter what I ate. I always kind of felt like trash from, if you eat at 12, you don't feel yourself again until, like, 2 o'clock. Yeah.

So, I just cut it. that crap out and do the intermittent fasting all day until I get home at dinner time and I feel we built the whole home gym thing and I moved the house and bought this stupid treadmill like goes under the bed at one point and she wanted me move it to the garage and I was super out of shape and it almost killed me getting it there and then one day she was like hey I kind of went that back in the bedroom and I was like I walked out there and I picked it up put it over my shoulder and walked it in the house I was like off with it oh wow I am in much better shape and that and remembering stuff that I'm like, okay, we're going to.

It's easy for me now too, because them two youngans, they keep me motivated to want to be able to play. The energy. I didn't. The energizer bunny. Like, and they are. Okay, here's the text message, though. Okay.

I can't end without this. Do you know Kip from the production team? Are they, they're like all from, the production team doing the TV shows typically like Californians and people from all over. Yep. This person just said, what kind of lure? Should we use for the water at Phil's property? There's just one.

They're not going to catch anything. Who's fishing? They didn't respond. How are they fishing? We have no idea. Nets, lines, yo-yo. They need live bait. They need live bait and a court.

They need crickets and shiner. Like legit crickets. I call everything. I just think it's funny that the out-of-towners are down there like. Yeah, that's right. What kind of lure should we use for the water? You send her a picture of dynamite? The hell, yeah.

That's their only chance. Well, let's get out of here. I got us a verse, specifically one of deep meaning for the people that like to have fun in life. Psalm 126.2. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with song of joy. Then it was said among the nations, the Lord has done great things for them. Amen. The joy of the Lord, unashamed people.

Joy of the Lord. It's just some of it. Will be my strength. Smile every once in a while. All right. We'll see y'all next time right here in the duck car room. We're out.