Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Almost Died Fighting a Redfish

Episode Date: October 11, 2022

Si gets philosophical about life, death, and why he failed algebra. Martin debunks this with the REAL reason. Stone tells the story of Si almost dying while he reeled in a redfish. And is it worth it to pay for preassembled furniture? Si and Martin think so. Stone describes how the mind can twist specific events around ... like when it comes to "seeing" black panthers. John-David gets his own black panther hat — since he's the other believer in the room. Plus, the boys share encouragement for a fan who feels he's not doing enough for his wife and family.  - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Martin, are you ready? I'm ready. Welcome back. Sire, you got something in your crawl you want to get out today. Well, no, this is going to be the educational podcast. Oh, boy. I want to talk about education. I just finished reading Dr. Warren's book.

Okay, I've got to give him a review of his book. Is that what that's called? Are you about to? Yeah. Oh. Dr. Warren? I got to write it up. I guess I'm going to be a critic and give him a criticism.

Are they going to put you on the back of it? Well, I don't know. He may put it, may not. Did it have a lot of pictures in it? No. Oh. But it is a, I guess the term I'm looking for is it is a must read. Okay, because you've got to think about this, okay.

This is a neural surgeon, okay, and the, The book is about his life, his suffering, his patient's life, their suffering. Okay, so it's really a book with a lot of wisdom, knowledge, and experiences all rolled into one. And there is, he covers it all, okay? His family is very, what's, the word I'm looking for, intimate. Okay, nothing is hidden. Everything is laid out on the table.

All his failures, all his doubts, all of it, and his patience. So it's a really good must read. What's the name of the book? Hope is the first dose. He had written one before that. I've seen the last of you. Okay, it's the same caliber of book. Okay, because it took, I cried during,

I've seen the last year about 10, about 20 times. Okay, I had to stop reading because I couldn't see because of, you know, crocodile tears. Well, this one here about 10, about 10 times. Oh, so this book isn't out yet? No, it's, I think I'm right when I say there. He's still tweaking it, okay, and finishing up. You just got the early edition.

Oh, no, it's, I've got. His original manuscript, okay, he sent it to me. So I guess to be on that back cover. Because I've read it. Must read. Side of Robbers. And I couldn't put it down. Really?

Okay. Because like I said, this man and his wife and his children, okay, share their most intimate secrets, okay? Their doubts, their failures, their highs, their lows, okay, and his patience. Okay. So it's really, I say it's just a big treasure chest of wisdom and knowledge about life. What can be thrown at you, how to handle it, what not to do, what to do. So it's kind of like your book.

Kind of like your book. Well, in a way, but this is more, this is more earth shattering. okay because this is this is about you know life and death situations okay and he uses one term in there TMT the massive thing is coming for you okay and that could be take any form that could be hey you go to the doctor and he tells you hey you're ate up with stage four cancer that would be your the massive thing my life so far was when I had a heart attack and had open heart surgery. Mm-hmm. Okay.

And I did not handle it well. You've had actually two big things. What's that? What's the other one? The COVID. Oh, that, too. That one I almost got you. And then the other day that big redfish almost killed you.

Well, that would have been a good way to go out there. A 40-pound, 40-pound redfish would have been a pretty good way. go out. Well, he, uh, he, he, uh, he scared me there for a second. Yeah, y'all are in Venice. Oh, yeah. We, we, we made us a nice little run to Venice, Louisiana to see our good buddy, Captain Josh. What was the date on that? Because I had the, the implant surgery for my lungs on the seventh. It was seven days after that. Okay. So seven days later, I'm fighting a 40-pound reg. Yeah. That is running out, you know, he's making a real thing running out lying on me.

Do you know what you didn't do? What? Bring me that chicken. Well, hey, I ain't worried about the chicken. I was worried about the 50 pounds, 40 pounds redfish. So you caught him? Oh, yeah, we caught him. Yeah.

You or we? No, no. It was five of us. We caught about 25. But one almost got you? Huh? Oh, I've won the one I caught was the biggest one, 40 pounds. Oh, yeah.

Well, the way it happened, me and I go to Venice every year, the teal hunt and redfish. And the doctor said, wait 45 days before you do anything. So I called Si, I said, look, I'm just going to take one of my other friends down to Venice. He said, no, no. No, no. He said, I'm coming. So we loaded up, went down there, whacked the till that morning, got in the boat. And it was hot and muggy.

I'll tell you that. It was really hot in muggy. So we made it out to the beach. and there was a school of a thousand redfish surrounding the boat. Big bull reds. Of course, they're not good to eat, so don't ever keep a bull red. Oh, but they're fun of the fight. But they will wear you out.

So it's hot and muggy. Side throws out there hooks into one. He fought him about, what, minute and a half? No, but it was about seven and a half minutes. Then I'm over there. I'm over there, and I said, I'm taking it. I've had him taking you on the guy. So he just takes the ride and mill and he said,

hey, look, I'm just going to hold him to run around. You got to rid them in. Yeah. So I sit down for about 10 minutes and put on the auction and I said, all right, bring him over here. Let me get a little sucker in. So then I got him, you know, they feel me, really running him in.

And he's about, oh, he's about that long. About the table side. Yeah. We got the whole trip documented, you know, it's on our YouTube. But it was wild because we caught about it. It was five of us on two boats. and at one time

we had five hooked up we're running under each other and running to the back of the boat because the redfish is just going crazy and then he's got the drone up and our boats are pretty close together and Josh the captain is telling me hey drop it right off the side of the boat

they're right here under it and it's down set the hook you know so it was wild it was the most epic fishing trip I've never been on in my life. The wind was not blowing at all, Martin. It was glass. It was dead calm.

That makes it hot. Oh, no. And it was hot. It was hot. And when Sa got done with that redfish, he leaned up against that center console, and he turned as wide as that cut. There you go. Well, I had had a workout. He didn't say nothing for about 15 minutes.

Well, then all I heard was, hey, here's another one on. Really? Me. Nope. No. Did you? Like a stupid idiot. I grabbed him really, man.

That's your own fault. You knew what he was going to do. I ain't too bright. And this is seven days post. Oh, yeah. Seven days. Having six, six, I can't even think of. Val.

Suffolk vowels put in my lungs. Which has helped me immensely. Okay, with my breathing. So you go back today and fish again. Oh, yeah. I ain't quite no trip to Venice. That's my favorite spot on this planet Earth is where the Mississippi River

runs into the Gulf of Mexico. That is a cool place. Oh, no. It's just, you know, the wildlife there is just, you know, it ain't going to tell them what you're going to see. You know, you motor for a hour and a half and then you grew around on Mars, and here's a stupid Brammer Bull out into Mars.

How do you? get there. Hey, he waited. It ain't no telling what you're going to run up on a purposes running through you on there and you throw out there and if you put a live bait on, throw it out there and then drag in a big crab.

You know, just it ain't no telling what you're going to get into when you go to the market. That is true. Alligators eating your teal that you're shooting. Boy, you ought to do a documentary down there. Oh, no, no. It's beautiful. Because look, we We hunted till to 8.15, which if we had hunted to 9, we'd have had full limits.

But we didn't kill but 11 of them because it wasn't a whole bunch down there. How'd you shoot? Good. But the next day is when the till came. We didn't go. We didn't go. We just went, we went till hunting Thursday morning, left the boat, you know, left the marsh for the teal. At 8.15, run for an hour and a half in Josh's boat, and then start catching his giant redfish.

for the rest of their day. Got into a few triple tail, too. Yeah, plus it, yeah. That's fine. Did you catch you one now? Nope. They's too sweet. Oh, and look, and all they're doing, they were moldering, and here's a piece of cane.

That's all it is. One piece of cane. Y'all, and they look, said, yeah, there's some fish on a two and they called Three Tipple Trail. What they look like is a big, giant white perch. They're pretty and they are delicious. They're real high on the food. table. Yeah.

On the table. Did you bring any of that back with you? Nope. We ate that. They grilled it. Stone grilled it. Yeah. And it was fine, too.

He came in there and tell me, hey, taste this. I guess I'd go get me a can of Star Kissed or something. Well, hey, look. What's a vian. No, Gobind done made off with all my viennaers. They got on. He ate, Godin. He would hit them hard.

Every time I see him, he got a vianna in his hand. It's a good smack. No, it's not. Yeah, yeah, it's a good smack. Oh, man. Well, let's take our first break. We'll be back right after this. Oh, I didn't even get to ask my big question.

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Our friend, Cy Robertson, would say, buy on the grill! Look, before we got Tritels, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery store, do all the things, grab whatever was left in case you were late in the day. And you never really know where that beef comes from. But with Tritales beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way. Tritels comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth generation American ranch.

So they've been at it for a while. Now, look, the beef comes straight from their ranch. And other ranchers they work with who raise cattle the same way. their steaks are properly aged and shipped straight from the ranch to your door. We threw a couple of ribbys on the grill. Look, salt, pepper, garlic, hot fire, that's all you need. Look, because I'll tell you what, when the beef comes from people who raise cattle for a living, you can taste the difference.

The tenderness and the flavor are fantastic. So if you're stocking the freezer for grilling season, go check out Tritale's beef. I know in size case Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat. She isn't a big meat either, folks. Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's trybeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. What's the best way to learn?

Doing. Yeah. Correct. And then how many different ways is there to learn? There's a bunch. But to me, the best way is to learn by doing. You do it. You can figure it out.

Trial and. And not only that. it, you can remember it. Yeah. If not only that, do it. Do it multiple times. Yeah. Yeah.

It's all about how much. Repetition. Yeah, repetition. But, you know, I was one of them in school. I could read. I memorized whatever you wanted out of textbook. That wasn't a problem. Well, that's like Phil.

Phil's got a photostatic memory. A photostatic? Whatever. Well, whatever he read, just up there. Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of the way I was. I didn't really, I could listen in class, and I was fine until I got to college. Then they started asking you a little more comprehensive.

of questions where you had to really understand the full picture of things. So I actually had to study once I got to college. High school never studied nothing. I have problems with progression. Progression? Yeah, I can't, you know, I can read something, but I can't put it together and then go to the, you know. Yeah. Yeah, I see that.

I mean, there are, there's a hundred different ways to learn. Because, like, my biggest struggle in school with organic chemistry, because you had to use your mind to visualize. like these things flipping and turning. I ain't got that kind of, that ain't, that ain't how my mind works. Maybe that's what's wrong. I don't have much of them.

I'm nuts and bolts. Like I can't flip, turn, shake, move, none of that. I'm more of them emotional. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, instead of, because I never could progress.

Do you regress? I read good, but in comprehension, but I just, when it goes, goes, okay, step one, step two, like algebra. I never learned the rules. Algebra's got what laws, I guess you would call them. There's a few of them in there.

I never did learn them because then I couldn't do it. So do you know, like, order of operations? No. Yeah. Like. Partheses, exponents. Multiplication, division, additions. Well, I can do the four math, but my father told me,

Because, like, dad would look at an algebra equation. You could give me one a mile long. And he'd just tell you the answer on top of his head. But he couldn't work it out in algebraic form. Because I turned my homework in, and the teacher would give me a big fat elf. And I said, wait a minute, is that the correct answer? She'd say, yes.

And I said, well, what did you give me an F for? Show you work. She said, well, you can't work it out. an algebraic form. And I said, wait a minute. What do you care? Is the answer correct? How do you care?

That's just like, hey, if I owe you $40 and I give you $40, we're square. You know? And you're telling me we're not because, hey, you didn't know how to work it out. So you're saying you had a problem following instructions? Well, that may have been one of them. Is that? Yeah. Hey, yeah, that may have been one of them too.

Is that where the real rub lied was following instructions? Well, hey, no, no, that was, you know, because you never know, okay. Here's an example of one of the things in the book. A death certificate. You've got the cause of death that you have to fill out. Okay, then you got the mechanism of death. What's the difference? Huh?

Like when I liked to die with my heart attack. Okay. What would your cause of death? The cause of death would have been, okay, clogged artery. Which led to, okay, the heart cannot pump enough oxygen to the brain so the brain dies. You know, the heart cannot pump enough oxygen to the lungs. So, hey, I literally choked the death without oxygen. So that would have been the mechanism?

Yeah. The cause of death, okay, was actually a clogged artery. But the mechanism was, hey, he choked the death. That's a vixiation. Yeah, lots of oxygen. There you go. I didn't know. I ain't really ever looked.

I ain't really ever surveyed one of them yet. That was in the book. Being educated. Yeah. That's why I said it was life and death experiences, okay, which is, you know. Educational. Oh, no. This is a must-read book because it's,

tells you, okay, when you think about it, okay, the boogeyman is coming to get you. It's my term for it, okay. Well, it's coming for all of it. Well, no, no, I'm serious. So if. Okay. And you don't know what, okay, what form this is going to take. All right.

So in the case of that redfish, if you'd have died from that fighting that redfish, well, hey, it would have been my own fault. Cause of death would have been. Ignorance. No, you knew. You knew you weren't supposed to do that. Those doc said, hey, take it easy for a few days. The mechanism would have been a 40-pound redfish.

Yeah. The mechanism would have been, yeah, would have been 40-pound red. Yeah. I bet you'd have been the first one. Well, you know. I'm not very good at following instructions. Again. Okay.

It all comes back to instructions. Well, no, no. Well, you know, because maybe that's the reason I can't progress, okay. I would suspect that's got a little bit to do with it. You won't follow instruction, dummy. Yeah. So you go, like, go buy something at store, you got to put it together. That little instruction sheets, you just throw that to the side.

Well, no, no, because, hey, look, you might never have to have a PhD to put some of the junk we buy together. Why don't it just come pre-assembled? You can get it that way for a fee. Yeah. Which I am happy to pay most of the time. Well, I'll fix it. That's the easy way. Yeah.

Hey, put this stupid thing together and bring it to the house. That's exactly right. I like that. That's a good model right there. Because what I would charge an hour to do it, I pay way less than that. You build an all sorts of things. Well, that's easy.

Oh, yeah, but that's, you know what? Before this pre-model. CREBS. A form of learning. Yeah. Okay. Because that's like plumbing. Yeah.

Okay. I do not do any plumbing or any electrical work. I'm not a, hey, babe, fix this. I'm not a fixture up her. Yeah. I'm going to tell, hey, call the plumber. Who are you calling stupid? Well, I'm just saying.

I can dabble with plumbing. I don't fool with electricity. Hey, if I fool with any kind of plumbing, flood. Then I'm going to have to play the plumber double, because I've done screwed up four times more than I can fix. Hey, water flows downhill. Well, I'm just saying. That's true.

That electricity, though. Hey, he'd go anywhere he want to go. You can't see it and it'll bite you. So don't foe with it. That's the least resistance. That's a bad deal. Yeah. No, electricity, I don't mess with him. I've had too many altercations with it already.

Have you been electrocated? No, but I've been swung around on one of them little chains that you clicked the light on it off with. You held on to it? Oh, yeah, I held on to it. And it was above the sink and the sink was wet. Oh, when I clicked it, we got a connection. The crazy thing is that thing held him up. Oh, yeah.

No, no, that's the only thing saying, me, if my weight finally clicked it off. Because it was just, I was just, oh, oh, oh, oh, ah. I'm serious. For real? For real. Where was this? It's in the house. Your house?

Yeah, I'd not well when I was growing up. Oh, okay. I'd reached up to click it, click the line on it. Oh, yeah. Let you up. I was grounded good. Who did the wiring in your house? Huh?

Who did the wiring? Hey, who knows? Shade tree looks. Danny may have done some of it. Hey. I've been bid a couple of times. He was a fixer up man. It ain't no fun.

I don't fix nothing. I know it. Well, I'm saying. Which is amazing because you tear so much up. I know how to fix it. Well, no. Hey, look, it's the old deal about, hey, if you work with it, okay, equipment's going to break down.

Especially if you don't maintain it. Mm-hmm. Well, look, hey, I'm just the operator. I ain't the, I ain't the, I ain't the, Can it? Well, their mama said that talking about Si and Phil, they're like two young coons. Whatever they don't tear up, they crap on.

What they don't eat or tear up, they crap on. That's it. There you go. All right, well, let's take another break. We'll be back right after this. I still ain't real sure what we're talking about education. You just want to know how you learn? Well, yeah.

All the different ways. Yeah. Hands on. Well, he was talking about his degree that he has. And then, you know, what the, what is the best way to learn. You've already said it by doing. Yeah.

But you set up, you were talking about your degree when we walked in, before we walked in. Yeah, what do you have a degree in? Hard knocks. All right, Jay Z.

What I said? He said. No, I didn't go to college, so everything I learned. Oh, you went. You went. Well, well. You were enrolled.

A couple days. I guess you can call it. I went. Okay. But I did not, what is the word I'm looking for? Participate? Progress, if you will. You did not progress after the second day.

Yeah. Oh, I progressed. All right. Oh, boy. What I was progressing for was not what I went there for. Yeah. There you go. Okay.

You know, let's just say I got sidetracked by a lot of other. So you got a 74 year to go. in life. That's what you're saying. You got distracted. Yeah. Yeah. All of mine was learned through hard knocks and experience.

Yeah. Okay. Which is the best. Get knocked down, okay, but get up and dust off in. Let's go another direction. That actually hurts. Yeah. That's better than a college degree.

What have you, what is the one thing that you have learned? What's the greatest thing? Your 70-year degree. that life is tough and most of it sucks. Welcome to the duck call room. We're hoping you're having a great day. And this is coming from the world's happiest man. My stuff and it sucks.

Well, think about it. Everything you do, just like right now, you're in the, how do I put this, you're in for a wild ride. I just read part of that book, and one of the things is in there is the people from Wyoming. I haven't got a saying, okay? It's like riding the horse. They're going to buck.

So, hey, let her buck. Yeah. There you go. So that's the way life is. Life is just like getting on a horse that has not been broken. I will say there's a lot of truth in your statement, though, about life sucks. I mean, it's actually a lot of fun. But at the same time, none of us are immune from hardships and struggles.

That's the thing about it. It's sometimes it's so beautiful. Yeah. Okay. And then sometimes it's so ugly. Okay. And the problem is, as humans, we get focused on the ugly. Well, no, no.

That you can't see the beauty even during the ugly. That's a problem that we have. Oh, no, no, no, no. That's a lot of the Doc's book. Yeah. Just what you said. Yeah, we get stuck on focusing in the ugly. And look, and when you do that, it's unhealthy.

very, very unhealthy and it'll literally kill you if you let it go too far. That's why this book is a must read. Okay, just for the general population to know, hey, there's some bad stuff out there. Oh. Okay, and look, and here's the alert part of it.

You're not immune to it. No one is. That's why he's. said, hey, the massive thing is coming for you. Yeah. Okay. And it, well, that's the thing about life, okay? Here's my best advice in one.

Life is going to happen. What you do with it when it does happen is going to make you the man or woman that you're, that God meant you to be. Mm-hmm. Because, you know, the Bible says the way what is perseverance. and then precedence builds character and character builds, you know. Maturity. Maturity and hope, you know, at the end of it, all of it. Where you lack nothing.

Yeah. It actually gives you hope. Yeah. And that's part of the Doc's book. That's James, what, one two through four or something like that or one through three. That's first of James. We just think about it, though. It's one I read a lot.

If you're living without hope, that's so pretty miserable as it. Well, no, no. Because look, what happens to you can put you in that. Oh, yeah. It can put you in, he talks about darkness and light a lot. Okay. Because when you're facing death, okay, that's darkness. Okay.

But God, Jesus tells us two things in John. He tells us first that, hey, you're going to have trials and tribulations and suffering on the count of me. but don't sweat that because hey I came here for one reason I came down to give you life not just to give you life but to give it to you abundantly overflowing

so that's why I would say it hey you've got this massive thing coming for you okay no one's going to get out walk this earth and not get scraped and scarred and marred. Yeah, the problem humans have,

as we compare the scrapes and scars and say, well, yours ain't as bad as what I went through. Well, no, no, no. That's the problem. It don't realize that all that weighs on each person the same. And it may be totally different. And from your point of view, it may not be as bad as what you're going through. But that person, it's equally as bad as what you're going.

No, no. That's one of the points that he brings out in his suffering, his family's suffering. Nobody can understand. Okay, all my grief, I'm alone. I'm in the darkness. There is no light. My mama had told me when I was a child, when you think you are ready to,

you've reached the point that you no longer care and you're ready to die. I give up. I don't want no more of this. I'm done with it. Let me die. When you're at your lowest point, you need to clear your head.

look around you and then hit your knees and praise God about how great how many blessings you do have because when you're you're in the pit is what they call it you think you're don't want to know's how you feel well that's not true no because your pit may be different than us somebody else's pit your massive thing is different yeah don't compare pits yeah but it's not a competition yeah yeah You know, this is not a competition. Oh, my, my injuries are way worse than yours. Yeah. No, you've got an injury and I've got an injury.

Okay, we're both going to suffer from our injuries. How you handle it is going to be, you know, determining the person you are to become. You know, that's why I've met people that it looked like, you know, the evil one had threw everything in his book at him. And yet they was always smiling. And then you ask yourself, how in the world do you do this?

You've done been knocked down, run over, backed over, parked on, stomped on, you know, and then you've got just in an ability to just overlook it and say, I'll be all right. I'm going to get through it. Oh, yeah. You know, you'd finally just say, hey, when are you going to just throw up like,

when Job's friends were telling him, hey, curse him. God ain't with you. Look what you're going through. Well, all the time he was really with you. Because Jesus, that's what he another thing he's told us. Hey, don't worry about it. I'm going to be with you wherever you go to the end of the ages. But we forget that.

That's why I was saying about education. Okay. because your perspective of something will determine how well you handle it. If all you can see is darkness and all you can see and all you can feel is pain, you're not going to make the right decision. Because in the book, because here's one for you, the lady has a brain tumor, they operate on her, okay, and they cure her. They get it all.

Well, she has pain and she has pressure. Okay, and she comes back to the doctor and says, hey, it's come back. It's growing again. I can feel it. Well, the MRI and today's technology has gone where they can, oh, they've got fantastic x-ray machines. You can actually ask the person, they're looking at a brain scan, you can ask a person different things

and you can see the blood flow changes. It goes to this part of the brain. You know, ask them another one, something sad. It goes to another part of the brain. Yeah, it's hard to hide now. Yeah, and it changes color. Okay, so what you think is very important to your health.

That's why the Bible says, hey, physician, heal thyself. you know and the doctor in his book talks about that you have to on some of this stuff that you're going to run into you have to do you know brain surgery on yourself and say wait a minute maybe i already ought to get a biopsy and check what that growth is first because in the book he has one he's already thinking this guy has got a tumor it's cancerous, I've seen the last of you. Well, when he gets in, he said, well, it's so big. Let me take a needle and withdraw some of the fluid out, okay, and shrink it so I won't have to cut such a big area.

I can cut smaller. Well, when he starts taking it out in the syringe, it's the wrong color for a tumor. It's white. So he says, oh, wait a minute. this is a, this is just a pus. Okay, this is just a infection this man has in his brain. So he drains it.

Now, now the whole thing has changed. He don't have cancer. He's not going to die. I haven't seen the lives to him. I can actually curing and treat him with antibiotics. And he goes home and now raises his son, which his wife is curing. Yeah. You know.

That's pretty cool. No, no. So it's really, it's really, you know, that's why it's a must read. Okay. Don't change. Don't make the wrong diagnosis on yourself because that woman did. She was convinced that the tumor was back. Well, it wasn't.

She was cured. The mind is a powerful thing. Oh, no, no, no. Not only can you heal yourself with your mind. You can turn a bobcat into a black panther. He's going where no man should go, okay? And then you'll wear the same panther on your hat. I just had to put my hand on the shoulder.

And then you can stand firm and say, they do exist, baby. Yeah. They exist just like this next break does. Let's take you. Get out of here. Yeah. Well, you know, at least

Si saw his Black Panther in the woods. Mine was going from one woods to another one. Johnny Dee saw his Black Panther at Dollar General. Yeah. No, in front of Dollar General. Going from the dumpster back home through the cat door. Going? Because he had done whatever he needed out of the dumpster.

This was not that small, sir. This thing was huge. He looks huge, boy. You ever seen a cat around a dumpster? Only every other one you look at. A lot of cats around. They got mean real fast. Hey, mean.

Hey, that's education for you. We're trying to educate you, boy. We're trying to educate you, boy. We're trying to educate y'all. Hey, that's education for you, boy, right? Well, speaking of going to the woods, we got our youth and veterans. Hey, coming up. Rifle season coming up. The Great State, Louisiana gives our youths and veterans one week of early rifle season.

This weekend. It starts Saturday and runs through first. Right. Size both of those things. So if we have them kids, can I take them hunting? Yeah. Put a tag on them. That's why three of us around here is fired up.

Yeah, that's right. Me and stone and then BK. Bullfrog. You're ready to get in the woods and tell me not. Can I shoot him? She's ready. She's getting close to not being a youth. She's got an itchy trigger finger.

Oh. Yeah. Patience. Patience, my child. But her and her and Sire about on the same level when it comes of that. Oh, I'm working on that. He's getting way better. No, no, I'm working on that. So I used to want to shoot everything that comes out. Oh, no.

But now he enjoys... Wow. That's 74 years of life degree. That's right. He's lined a little about it. Knock him down. No, what's really happened is the boy saw what he did last year with a rifle and he's just scared to shoot. No, it ain't that. He's scared. We'll get it on video. I don't tell you on that. He totally. Hey, I did brain surgery that day, and hey, I guarantee you. You removed it?

Hey, oh, no, I was brand dead. But then later on, he totally redeemed himself. Oh, I can shoot now. Don't ever think. Don't ever doubt that. I never doubt it, Martin. Oh, I've witnessed some pretty impressive shotguning from Sye over the years. I'm going to have some fun on one hunt this year.

In the process of this cleaning out, moving things around at the house, I found a gun in the back of my safe. I ain't used in my old Winchester. 94 lever action 30 30 30. With iron sights. It ain't the 73? Mm-mm. I'm going to get me a,

I'm going to get me a deer with an iron site 30-30. Right. Just like they did. Oh, it'll do it. Oh, 100% of it. It'll do it now. The problem ain't it. The problem will be me.

No, no. No, Phil had two of them. I've got one of them that he had two of. I've still in, and I've used it a lot. Oh, yeah. Where the barrels rusted out on them. Well, I don't know. I ain't looked at it as a long time, sitting safe.

This one's still in good shape here. Oh, no, that's interesting. Yeah. The last deer I killed with it, I shot him right between my eyes. And look, hey, look, when I went up there. Is that where you were aiming? Yeah. Oh, okay.

I was just, I had to know. I'm sorry. Look, and then when I went up there and picked him up, it literally right here for the deer, and it cleaned all these. had was the bottom bottom yeah we're good we're good we understand we understand what that'll do yeah that's cool took his head slam him off yeah he kept going but hey i tried to stop him hey this is life 74 years baby you know last thing i went through that deer's head no i'm kidding size oh hey the last thing i went through it he was i was looking and after all i remember

yeah So I did share one of them blue wings head off on that trip. Oh, I've done that before. I saw it happen. He said, I've done it. It took me three shells because you come in there and he was doing the little, the little Yeah, that's why I asked you how you shot because that part made the video and I was looking. I was like, boy, he missed that sucker by a foot.

Well, no, no, because he was doing this. Boom, boom. And then he was about from here to you to me. I said, boom. That's when him is. I didn't miss him. That's when we shot at the same time. I kind of thought I heard two guns.

Oh, now Stone's getting in on that. Oh, I love it. I love it. That's the reason you go hunting, boy. That's it. The fellowship, okay. Problem is, a camera don't lie. That's what someone was going to do.

That's when I shot, it failed. I've been there before. I got a tickle of that. If it wasn't, if it wasn't for me when these boys go hunting, they wouldn't kill nothing. Yeah. It's one of them same old deals with them boys. They always shoot their life. until they don't kill nothing,

then they were shooting at the ducks in the middle. I'm like, oh, okay, all right, cool. They pulled that stone on me one time and said, hey, look, we put blanks in your gun. I said, yep, y'all just told people how good I really am. I said, when you can kill three for three with blanks, you know you can hunt, boys. Sa just scares ducks to death.

Oh, if I look at them, then they'll fall. It's that icy stare, baby. It's that icy stare, baby. He said he killed him with him. blanks. Oh, man. That's when you know you are really good. You know, he had that uncle that used to shoot them wood ducks for 22s.

Flying in the head. All head shot only. Head shot only. That was legal back then? No, it was illegal, but he did it and made a lot of money. Because everybody was better than he couldn't do it, and then he'd take them down to the Black Bayou on the Woody roofs and show him, hey. He'd shoot a Woody in the Head with the 22?

Flying. And not all of that, then make the person that bet him after he gave me his money, swore him out there and get the duck. Uncle was hardcore. I'm normally on the shot on stories. Because we can't say where I hit him until you get him and bring him back to the bank. And then he'd say, where was he hit? And the guy would say, in the head. Seems safe.

Oh, no. I've killed him flying. I've killed him flying. Just shoot them up with a 22. Back then, you didn't have to work. The mind is a powerful thing. It is a powerful thing. It'll make you believe what you want to believe.

That's the next T-shirt. The mind is a powerful thing. The mind is a powerful thing. Si's going to be on them Nureva commercials for a long time. The brain health ones. The mind is a powerful thing. That's where Si is headed to next. That's one of the points.

That's one of the points in the book. I'm serious. What's the point? Is that, you know, is that you can think of stuff. I'm witness to that. You can think of it and it's wrong. But it's more about like if you think you're sick, you're going to end up sick. You can think yourself in a bad health.

No, no, because, hey, I'll give it the example. And if you think you saw a man take a deuce and a half tire off the side of one while it was moving. Oh, no, no. You can eventually believe it. It didn't think about it. Nobody saw it. The evidence was there and it never, the truck never was under 10 miles an hour.

And if you think you saw somebody carrying an engine block across a hole that was 200. Sir, that is on military record in the United States of America. Oh, no. Hey, that was written down, sign and put in the books. That's somewhere in the archives. I wish we had them books. I'm telling you. I'd love to read size.

Oh, no. That's why the lieutenant, the officer of the day, said, Robertson, are you really going to sign your signature on this? I said, hey, that's what happened. That's what happened. I'd just like to go and read what he wrote compared to what he tells. Size files got to be somewhere in Washington, D.C., right? Better be in the Smith-Som.

He did ask me, off the record, off the record, how do you think they pulled it off? and I said, well, it took 40 of them to do it. And I said, and hey, the one on the bottom was the really key to the whole operation. He had 39 more on top of his shoulders, and that sucker was strong. If they averaged five foot tall piece. Oh, they're short. They're short. That's right.

That fine was 200. Oh, it was deep because, hey, I'd been putting carcasses in there forever for six months. Carcasses. Yeah. Vehicle cars. metal carcasses of deuce in my hands. I needed him to clarify that. Three-quarter-time.

We've already been shooting 22. There's bones in that there upon. The bone yard. Well, let's take our last break. Oh, goodness gracious. And we'll get into some real stories. Where are you going? Well, hey, Johnny D.

Okay, it's on me. Hey, look, my man that sent you the Black Panther hat? Yep, he sent you one, too. He sent me one, too. I'm talking about, baby. So now we're matching. Yours has got a panther on it. Mine says panther.

I got the Latin version. It says Pantara. Sires looks a little more intimidating. But Sia just like himself has got more gray in it. That's right. That's right, boys. Oh, those are different panthers. Yours has yellow eyes.

That's a little bit. That's about that proves it. Sye a little bit on your hat. You got a different pattern on your hat. I got the friendly zoo pan. Anyway, we didn't know who sent it. Kenny sent it to Sigh. Big Kenny.

Big Kenny. I don't know if he's big or not. But he's from Wanata, Indiana. Wanata. And happy birthday to your daughter, Kenny. And thanks for the sweet hat. That's the Indian word. He's also a Black Panther believer.

I don't know if that's true or not, but if he's going to send the hat, you're on our side. I believe. Thank you, Ken. I bet I could pick him out of a crowd. I believe. Does he be wearing a sweet hat? Ronnie Dunn's saying says it better. I believe.

Okay, anyway. All right. Yamez, or maybe James, from with. Wisconsin emails in. Jimmy. We get a lot from Wisconsin. We really do. Like the last few emails, sharp as attack, I tell you.

He remembers everybody. I thought that when I saw this one, I was like, man, Wisconsin really coming through strong. Go badgers. Anyway, he could use our help and thought we could answer this email. He's a police officer in Wisconsin. Thank you. Thank you for your service. Absolutely.

Everybody said it before me. Be safe. But yes, be safe. He's happily married. has a one and a half year old son. That's awesome. Wife's pregnant. March of 2023.

They're going to have another one. He loves where he lives. He loves his work. He has great friends. He eats well. And he's really got a pretty good life. Doesn't have anything to be worried about, ungrateful for. But he used the word, however, so I like that.

Lately he's been having a rough time. He works nights, which has got to be tough. And even though I can go home to have dinner, be with my family for a few minutes before, bed time. I feel like I'm not home enough or I'm lacking in being the leader of the man of the house. I've been on a journey of returning to my faith in Jesus. I've just been feeling low in my self-esteem lately. Like I haven't been doing good enough, haven't been paying attention to my wife enough, and that I need to be doing more. And this next part to me is important. Even though my wife tells me every day I do plenty and that she loves me.

He's just asking for advice or if we've ever felt like this. Like, man, there's got to be, it just feels like I'm trying to do my best, but it doesn't feel like enough. And he asked if we have any go-to Bible verses for that. And I might have one or two. Me personally, I've been where you're at, okay, because I was in the military for 24 and half years. Okay, and I used to tell my wife all the time, well, I'm not there enough.

And I apologize for not being there. That's when she would break out the photo albums and said, well, here's you are dressed up as a big giant bunny rabbit, you know, putting Easter eggs out for the kids. Here you are on a bus playing Santa Claus with the kids. you know so this is something you're doing to yourself

you're there more than you think dude okay ask your wife sometimes to break out the photo albums I like that

and she can actually prove it to you you're there more than you think but you can make it better okay because you can make a bigger effort to the time you do spend at home, make it quality time.

Okay, and that's the important thing. When you are home, be there fully, you know, with all of your attention. Yeah. Man's got to make a living, okay? You've got to provide for your family. Yeah. Okay, and all of us, I think, have been there

and felt, okay, well, I'm never around enough. you know because i'm always it always seems to me i'm at work because that's the way it was when i was in the military i was always gone yeah you know that's got to be tough working a night shift you're asleep they're awake they come home they're asleep you're awake you know it's got to be tough but like sys said when you do have time to spend with them make sure it's quality time plan activities um make the most of it but sire's right you got it mean you got to make a living And I say this, it's always good to hear people wanting to do more because it seems to me most problems arise when you get complacent and think you're doing enough. Well, at least he's aware.

At least he's aware of it. That's generally when the rub comes in any relationship. I'm not talking about just marriage. That means your job. You get complacent and you're like, oh, I'm doing plenty. I don't need to be doing more. things generally start falling apart about that time. So the fact that you're aware and you're wanting to do more, that is a positive sign.

I'm not saying that you need to do more by no stretch. You probably are just like your wife says, doing enough. But don't hear that enough and then sit on your hands either. Like continue to want to do more, to try to do more, and whatever that looks like, because I'm telling you that complacency is when things get bad. generally that's when a problem arises. So as long as the effort's there and the want to is there, I think you're doing exactly what you need to do when you need to do it right now

and in this season and you'll figure out when the next season comes where that needs to be. But I would say just, you know, hold the line, keep doing what you're doing. And, you know, your wife will let you know if that is, in fact, I've figured that out. If that is in fact the case, she will let you know. She will make you very aware. One thing that helped me, I cut the cable off. So all that time sitting in that chair watching ballgames, I watched ballgame three years.

I spend a lot of time with my kids, my wife and kids, because of that. I mean, just think how many hours you sit in front of a ball game. At least three. You know, blood pressure goes up for no reason. But, yeah, you can make. you can make some adjustments that will help that. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I think Martin's spot on.

It's, you know, here's your first. In Ephesians 5, we're called to love our wives' way Christ love the church, which is perfect right there. And we're not perfect. So to me, it's just striving every day to just do something else, do something better, which you're clearly doing. And I think the biggest advice I have for you is trust your wife. She's telling you you're doing enough.

Then great. Now keep trying to make her keep saying that. Every day, wake up and say, how can I make sure my wife and kids know that I love them? And then when they're like, man, you're great, man. Quit beating yourself up. Agree and say, all right, I am great. I'm going to quit beating myself up, but I'm going to make sure they say that again tomorrow. Yeah.

So, James, I'm going to go ahead and assume you're a great dad and a great husband and keep doing what you're doing. And thank you for sitting out all night making sure we're all safe. people of Wisconsin are safe because I'm sure you get phone calls at 2 o'clock in the morning that I wouldn't want to take. Yeah, no. So we appreciate you, man, and you do definitely stay safe out there. Yeah, because we've got a full moon coming, so be on, keep your wits about you, son. Full moon.

Head on a swivel, boys. All right. Send us out. Send us out. Okay. So, Sai talked about how life sucked, and he brought up, what was it, James One? Mm-hmm. So the verse immediately came to my head, and this is Jesus Christ, a guy from Nazareth that I know and loved talking.

John 1633, he was talking to his disciples about the day that is coming, and he ends it with this. I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In this world, you will have trouble, but take heart. I have overcome the world. That's kind of the key there. You're going to have trouble. Life's going to suck sometimes. But in me, that being Jesus, you can have peace because he has overcome the world.

If you're in Jesus, nothing can stop you. He's already won. So just lay your head on a pillow at night knowing that. Amen. All right. We'll see y'all next time. After a good one. We'll see y'all next time.

We're out.