Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Breaks Down Why Filming "Duck Dynasty" Wasn’t Always Fun

Episode Date: April 16, 2026

Uncle Si and Martin pull back the curtain on “Duck Dynasty,” sharing the funniest moments that never made it to air and why some of the most iconic scenes—especially those family dinners—were tougher to film than fans ever realized. John-David finds himself on the receiving end of a legendary scolding from Bill Dance that the guys can’t stop laughing about. Phillip and Uncle Si get a little misty-eyed answering a fan question about what it was really like to give their daughters away on their wedding day. Duck Call Room episode #544 is sponsored by: https://trybeef.com/duck — Get 10% off your first TriTails box straight from their ranch to your door. https://fastgrowingtrees.com/duck — Get 20% their first purchase when using the code DUCK at checkout. https://rocketmoney.com/duck — Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster! https://drinkag1.com/duck — Get a FREE AG1 Flavor Sampler and Vitamin D3+K2 in your AG1 Welcome Kit with your first AG1 subscription order! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And you got one of them butter faces. What's that mean, Martin? Everything looked good, but her face, hot. Oh, always. I've got one of them unforgettable faces. You do now with all them teeth. She's like that alligator. You got all them teeth but ain't got no toothbrush.

I hope you don't get honoring. Hey, I got some choppers now. Look, he's trying to hide them. Pull that mic down closer to them so we can hear you. Hey, we got to get him a haircut and a little trim. I need a mustache trim too. Then you could actually see. I arranged this and you know show it.

Yeah, you bailed on. Well, hey. Now he's ready. Oh, raise it again. Run it back, he says. Hit them again. Let's see what I can do. All right, Sae, how, look at the camera and smile.

We got our final set of teeth in. The permanence. Looking good. God. Hey, look, who there ain't no good at will work. Uh-uh. Under it now. Huh?

Okay. Because everything, these, my healing teeth were larger. You know, the, had more junk in there. Yeah. Then this, this bottle that I've got is more compact. The 2026 model. That's the new sigh, 27. Hey, when she was a young lady that was putting them in and, you know, tighten the man.

She said, hey, I'm going to have to tighten them down all the way this time. So you're going to have to, you know, grant it made it be a little pain. You don't have any black eyes this time. so. Hey, that's a plus. Hey, when she said she was going to talk now, she wasn't playing. She tightened them. What are you talking about?

Send some down. My favorite part is Sip, your teeth into your face? Zai had no idea what his teeth are like, but I did because Philip was texting me the whole time. Oh, no, no. They wouldn't let Sye see his teeth until after the whole procedure was over,

they hand him a mirror, but the whole time I was letting Martin know. Oh, yeah. He's like, step one, step two, step. I saw the whole, I saw the whole tree. transformation take place right there inside the office how you feel good yeah there you go that's a lot better so he's back back where's the old ones that's the house the healing yeah they let you have the healing teeth uh yeah i probably got told him yes he's got him i said hey take them you know but they didn't leave they didn't leave all them on there like the part that you have to have to put the screws down

uh-huh oh that part was that they let that out wait like this ain't like this ain't like you auto parts. Hey, I feel like the bionic band. No, no, I'm serious. When she was tidying them down, when the girl said, hey, I got to tighten them all over it down. She wasn't driving. Oh, boy.

Because, hey, she was cranking that thing. You know, she had a ratchet. There you go. Oh, and hey, she rushes it tight. Ah. And when it was, when she was doing the last little, uh-huh. It was pain involved in that.

What side? She said, I told you to tell me to stop if it was pertin. I said, well, daughter, you doesn't say that you got to time it down. So it ain't used to me, you know, saying anything about pain. Ain't no reason to drag it out, is? Yeah, no. Well, it timed down. The only thing I was worried about it, I said, I sure hope the pain don't stay there after she does it.

But it did. Well, she cinched it down. It hurt there when she's doing it. But, you know, five minutes that done it, after I was going to. You don't have to go back to innovative dental and St. I mean, in Springfield, Missouri. That was your last trip. That's a good thing.

There's not like a check-up. I love the guys up and the women. Well, he'll have to go. You will have to go in February of 2027. He said, and the women. Which brings me to my next point. Okay. Anytime Phil and Cy go on an adventure, these are the photos I get, Martin.

We got. Oh, yeah, I got those two. That's what I'm talking about. Oh, yeah. That was the one that was, she had to wrench her down there. The one on the right. Yeah, that's Shayla. My ride or yours?

My right. Size, right. My right. Never gets old. He doesn't ever. Every time. He doesn't. My ride or yours?

Every time they go on an adventure, there's sigh with women in a photo, and then it always gets followed up with feeling. the, Hey, Dr. Megan. Hey, look, everybody said that, hey, yo, my teeth, my smile is back. Yeah, it's not back. It's existent. Oh, no.

Earlier it was. And it's full. It's more than that back, Jack. Hey, what did Willie say when he saw size teeth? Were you in here? No, well, he kept, I was walking through the office and run face first into him. And he said, what are you doing here? I said, well, we got podcast.

He said, right now, I said, yep, and so I got all his teeth fixed. He said, oh, I'm coming. I got to see this. So here he come right in behind me. I got to see it. He just said, Willie said he was going to have to go get some Bondo work done too is what he caught. I didn't realize how rough, you know, the lifestyle is on teeth.

Your lifestyle, sir. Yeah. Yeah. Because I mean, you, hockey players, you know. Boxers. Yeah. Pretty rough. Pretty great time to be a dentist, pretty bad time to also be a dentist.

But also, Phil sent me one other thing. What is going on here? Yeah, who's that guy? Is that the doctor? And there's a cutting board. Yes, so. Hey, he brought me a steak. Yeah, Dr. Olson cooked sigh steak and said, try your new teeth out on this.

Yeah, he said, try it y'all. And hey, first I had done, when I cut it, look, I dropped a piece of it off. It fell off, y'all, it fell off, y'all, let me come in another break. but I said, hey, I said, you're a pretty good shelf. I said, because, hey, that idiot New York. Uh-oh. Okay, that said he didn't know what Medium Plus is or there wasn't on such thing. Well, Doc knew it.

Because, hey, look, it was light pink in the center. Hey, nothing like a steak on a couch by the bathroom. Hey. In the dentist office waiting area. Hey, that was cooked to perfection. I ain't ever seen that. Hey, because I just kept cutting pieces of it either. Did y'all hit up Lambert?

Yeah, we did. I got to tell you what happened. Did y'all hit up to Bass Pro Shop? I got to call it timeout on this. Okay. Cy says I will not go to Bucky's because I can't get in and out of there because in fairness, he can't. Buckys people are size people.

Well, okay. But there's another place that falls right in line. Well, I'm going to take the blame for this because the last time. We were there. Especially on the way to Brants. I heard about the place in Springfield. It's called Lamberts, and they throw rolls at you. I love rolls.

And so it was. And we drove all the way through with no stops. I said, sigh, I'm starving. Let's go where they throw the rolls. He said, pull on in there. And we'll go in. Yeah. Did you get some proud over?

Yes. Yeah, they're fried over. They are fresh out of the oven. So, hey. You need some, you need some gloves to. catch him. Did you catch one? No.

I called him for him. He called him for him. He almost got hit in the head by one. Oh, hey. Only my cat light reflex is saved him. I told me you want from me. What else do you eat there? Well, I had roast beef.

Roast beef. I will say. Jackie cheese. Fried ochre? No, and fried ochre. Yeah. Yeah, they got young ladies walk around with a pot.

Yeah. Of hot, flying oakers. Just all the hours of grease. Oh, I know. It was pretty good. And everyone in that restaurant DVR Duck Dynasty for eight years. Yeah. Well, hey.

They're your people, sir. And they just bought a new Samsung and found the fast channel. So. Well, look, we got away with it at first. Oh, this is that down. We were eating. That was a good picture. And then all of a sudden,

that he makes one picture, a hundred people are gathered around him. And he just stops eating. He's like, I can't eat. Look, I did. I went to Facebook to go to Lambert, see if they posted Uncle Sy's swung by. No, I just typed in Lamberts,

and the first thing that came up is Sai and this little girl taking a picture. I didn't even type in, Cy. Yeah. Oh, that's cute. Oh, there's his roast beef. I see it right there.

Hey. Oh, man. Were you hungry, son? No, hey. Did you go hungry that's your own fault? Yeah. Go, hey, good. Corrie.

That place is good. There's going to be somebody in hell. They're walking around with the first thing of fried ochre. I'm here. Look, you can get rolls, cornbread, butter and honey with them rolls. Oh, my. They're tall. Wait.

And it's all fresh out of the oven. You go on Facebook and just type Lambert, Tsai Robert. It just keeps going. Yes. Cy, you were, those people had no idea that the mayor of Lambert's was about to walk in and eat there. Oh, did you meet Mr. Lambert? we met somebody who came out and gave us our meal for me. I haven't worried.

They gave you the milver first. I wasn't worried about meeting him. Okay. Oh, this is what I've been out. But we brought our own cups because we got a bunch of them. And so Silas signed them and hand them out until we ran out. That's amazing.

Yeah, that's awesome that y'all just busted in a Lambert's and just did a meat and green. That's hilarious. And you had no idea it was coming. Well, no, no. That's why it happens. All the whole time. Last time I was at Lambert's. If he's driving, look, if he's driving, Becky.

It happens. And then if Stone's driving, it happens. The Stone's the same way he is. If somebody walks up, you know, he'll say, you know, would you like for him to sign your duck call or whatever? Yeah. And then the people, you know, when people got phones, they come out of the woodwork.

They come out to woodwork. Here they come. That's it, because they get on the phones quickly. We got to do... Guess who's just walked in here. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means?

That means more outside cooking. And y'all know we love to eat beef around here. And that's what because of our friends over at Tritels beef makes such a good product, ain't it good? It's so good. 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

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go check out Tritails Beef. I know in size case, Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat. She and a big meat easier, folks. Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's tribeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. You ain't bit Miss Christine yet. Well, I've dumbled a little bit. Hey. Fast forward. I wanted to see just how uncomfortable we can make John Day.

I'm not uncomfortable. He kind of. I mean, they are you? I'm sitting beside them. I'm going to my neighbors. I'm moving. You not go over there past 8 o'clock. As soon as I got home, she was outside.

You know, Phil come in with putting everything up as I had. So I walked out there and just, you know, smiled at it. She laughed, and I said, what are you thinking? She said, well, they're doing pretty good. Y'all knows she'd come back and she said, I was just joking. She said, they're fantastic. There you. You did a good job.

Oh, man. They really did, though. I just, the fact that y'all rolled into Lamberts just has me thinking of what other places in America could Sigh legit not go enjoy. Well. And Lamberts might actually be number, I mean, it sounds like you enjoyed it. Oh, yeah. It was good for.

The place you would get recognized the most. Well, they recognized, we were driving down the road, and they were going around us and stopping and waving. I said, Sa, how do they, they can't even see hardly in this truck.

But they saw the Duck Commander logo on the front, and they were beside him trying to get him to roll his window down. I was like, wow. Well, you get stuck on that two-lane road up there, too. I did that. I did that in Nashville,

and I wouldn't even thank you. They had pulled up and recognized me. You know, I had some ice and I bought or something that wasn't any good or coke. So I just rolled the water down. I didn't even look. I just rolled down to do it out the wonder. Well, then people that pulled up again, they had their window down. I drowned them people with that coke.

And you're the only person that they laughed about. No, no, and they did. They smiled while they clean the coke out of their truck. Well, that one, it was hot too in the summertime. So I had cooled them off. But that was so funny. I said, oh, I'm sorry. Cooled them off.

That's a terrible defense. I can't wait for it to be 98 degrees outside. I'm just going to pour coke on me to... Going down the road, so it dries almost instantly. That way you're just like stuck to your seat and your door. That's awesome. Thank you, Uncle Sy. All right, well, next time we go somewhere, we're going to Buckees.

I mean, Buckees. I ain't going in. Yeah, you went to Lackie. Now you can go. No, Buckees is a lot further walk because we pulled right up to the front and he got out. And, I mean, he just walked for me to hunter. Sir, I think you could park by the beaver and nobody would say anything to you. You could park by the brass bever and you'd be all right.

We'll make it happen. All right. We're going to Buckees, sir. I'm going Buckees this week. Hey, bring me back to them chuff. Well, I'll take it back. Peacons. Peecaps.

Phillip will get out the wheelchair and wheel me in and I'll go. And Philip, I get out the wheelchair. because I ain't walking. I'm strapping a GoPro to him. I just want to know what it's like. Me or him? Him. It's right on his chest. I just want to know what it's like.

And I just, I think he would get swarmed and it would be amazing. Yeah, it'd be great. I don't know if they'd cover your bill, but. No. No, they wouldn't do that.

Before you've got to find out, make sure you find out first. Yeah, don't get gas. Because then I can send you a list of what all we want. I was just pretty sorry. A fire pit. Yeah. Sunglasses.

Let's get that old. I love going to Buckees. Beaver Nuggets. Oh, I know. Buckees is fun. Well, they got good stuff now. Oh, that's fun. I enjoy it.

It is a good quality stop. Oh, man. They're going to finish that one over by you? Mm-hmm. They're working on it right now. You know, you go in there, you ain't going to get out without buying something. Mm-mm. Because there's too much stuff that you like.

Yeah, and you're going to go T-T and feel good about it. Very clean. Very clean. Very clean bathroom. Um, hmm, that's fun. That's the update on Si. That is a good time right there. Lambert's.

I can't imagine him walking into Lamberts. Was it like lunchtime too or something? No, it was 7 o'clock at night. Oh, dinner time. Yeah. But the place was packed. And we were starving. It's Lambert.

It's Lambert. Both of us was starving. It's a lot down there to Gulf Shores and go in that one at any time of the day. You can't. You can't. Like, it's because you know why they're walking around with fresh hot fried of okra. Oh, that's good.

That is really good. I love Frito. I'm going there this summer. I just decided. So good. Anyway. Any Hoosers? I don't even really know what else we need to talk about.

I do have some news. Oh, there you go. You have some news. I have some news. Roy McElroy. Did you watch the splashdown? Like a hawk. And then they made me wait for two hours for them to get out of there.

So I ate a whole pizza. I was glued to the TV and had nothing I was emotional eating Is everything okay in there? I was like I will say nervous eating

Whenever they they dropped them first parachutes and they're falling at what feels like an incredible rate I'm like and then they cut them suckers

and some new ones come but nobody told me they were going to cut the first ones I got a feeling in my stomach that was not good I was like turn away kids

I thought we were about to see that sucker go to the bottom of the ocean. You know what surprised me when I was watching that. Capital come floating down is the fire that kept flashing off of the... Off the deal. The bottom of it? Yeah. Yeah, you don't want to go that. It was fire just coming off of it every second or two.

Yeah, because they were going as fast as you did when you melted your shoes. Well, it surprised me how fast they was going. with the shoot to three shoot. Oh, yeah. Oh, you got to think it. By that time, the bottom of that sucker or the face of it, whatever you want to call it was like a lit cigarette. No, no, because that's why they land in water.

Yeah. Where the stupid thing are cool off. Wait, that's why? I'm serious. I just thought it was a softer landing. And I was getting annoyed. That's why. That's like, if y'all could have got on land, they're, oh, man.

Oh, no, they could land it on land. Oh, if they wanted to. Yeah. They didn't go start a brush fire. Yeah. But then it was going to start a fire. Okay. Because they were like...

The reason they splash down is to cool that stupid thing off. That's why the shuttle was so cool because then it was just like a regulation airplane. You just land and do your thing. Oh, yeah. Okay. Apparently terribly inefficient what they do. Okay. That makes sense.

Well, they're going to get it one of these days where they go up and come down and land on like an airport. Yeah, like an airstrip. That was wild because I was like, just land. They were going 25,000 miles. per hour and then they slowed them down to 19 miles per hour in like the span of like 10 minutes and that's what they were going when they hit the water I was like 19 just go land somewhere in the desert and hop out and get in a car and walk yeah because I imagine that difference though yeah you go from 25,000 to 19 you're like am I ever going to get there and then you're stuck in a

boat yeah because now it's no longer spaceship it's a boat then they get you out of out and put you on a helicopter and take you to another boat. In Great White Shark territory. I don't want to get eaten. See, I think I would have said, hey, man, y'all might dump them in the Gulf of America? I mean, they got some out there too, but not as many as they got over there where they went in. San Diego, there's some large. Yeah.

Yeah, I've watched Shark Week. I know what them boys do off them coast over there. Yeah, that's where the big ones are. That's where the big ones are. But welcome home. Yeah. Welcome home. We got to get that Victor dude on.

How close today gets to the moon? 4,000 miles away from it. Which seems really far away until you do that. But it didn't with the photographs. Yeah, it looked closer. Yeah, you're right next to it. Yeah, yeah, they were close. Considering how far we are away right here, 4,000 miles really close.

They were on the other side of it. We can confirm that. Yeah. No, that was, yeah, we need Victor. Victor, talk to Butch. Butch talked to Victor. Yeah. Tell them how good of a time we are.

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You've hired someone at the store. Oh, am I going to start getting paid? No, you're not getting paid. Oh, come. Yes. Still working. What is, what did you hire him to do? Yeah, let's find out what that is.

Yeah. I just need you to sit at the register, talk to people, say hello, check people out, and then his main domain, oh, I gave it, I gave a part of it away. We narrowed half the population. His main job is to be lured over the bait room on Saturdays. That's all I need. Has he ever been convicted of a crime? I don't know.

Asking him, he's right there. He is in the room with us. Oh, Hunter's working for you. Look! Hunter's getting shatters, y'all! He's a Shatterman. Look at that. Hunter came to me.

He's like, dude, if you ever need any help, I'm like super bored on Saturdays right now. And I said, well, it just so happens, I'm not bored. on Saturdays right now because it's our busy time of year so I said if you want to he's like that UPS driver that shows up at Christmas

I got Hunter that's just my little wing man Hunter needs that he needs to do one thing uh oh don't listen really sell shunners you need you need when the people are there you said hey let me show you how good these shunas are and eat one and he said

fish won't be able to stand it they have to eat them I'm not going to do that Hunter, it's not required of you. You would sell a zillion of them. If you would like to come over and do that, you can be my guess, but I'm not. Hunter,

I will give you a bonus. Hunter said, at the end of our busy season, if you eat one Shiner, but you have to record it. Yeah, Hunter said, I'll video you clowns doing it. Let me do my part here.

I got record. It's going. Most of the time. Yeah, I could do that. Most of the time. Oh, hey, you just be a salespitch. Hey, look, I'm going to tell you. How good?

Shiner's so good, I'll eat them. Look here. Hey, these are so good that fish can't stand, they got to eat them. Oh, yeah. And your breaths. Hey, hey, because they hook me. So, hey, it's my Saturday busy season help.

I'm just glad you y'all got shiners. That's a tough week last week. There wasn't ever any shiners in there. It was never any shiners anywhere in North Louisiana. That's what I'm saying. You buy the little bit of ones that you buy like the two inches. I got all. Both, I am.

Depends. But call them Trotland Charles. Because the boys walked in and wanted to go see the Shiner Tang. I said, boys, it's over. It ain't there, boys. It's been, we're busy, which is why we need a lord over the bait room. There you go. It was a lot of fun.

I had so much fun doing that. And he loves it. Those are your people, they do. Well, he's from the 292, baby. Yeah. It's right in. Yeah, you see a lot of people you know in there. So I see them every day.

I did have to go to the honey hole. a little while back. And it was a Saturday and they were understaffed. That's right. And we needed Hunter and so here we are. And so Bryson's mother and father-in-law and their grandparents, his in-laws, they all came from England to hang out and be available for the vow renewal. And one thing we did, we took them fishing.

Oh, they kept. Every time they put the cricket out in the water, they caught one. And so a lot of free. Just caught a bunch of brim. Anyway, that's my news. Hunter now works six days a week and has a part-time gig and a tackle shop. Have we talked about Bill Dance? What?

Calling you out? What's not, dude. Oh. What happened? Oh, no. You remember our friend Juicy? Yeah. Big Juicy with a big hair.

So he got to do the social media thing of Bill dances like three questions with Bill dance. And Bill asked him about the worst fishing experience of his life or something. story not the worst. He said it was the best experience of his life. No, but Big Juicy went ahead and ratted out John David for not knowing how to tie a knot. And Bill Danes got on him. He said, if you don't know how to tie a knot, tie a lot.

You lost the biggest best known to mankind. There we go. Because Johnny D. Didn't tie the knot right. You know, good buddy man told me one time, if you can't tie it out. There it is. Hey, go. There it is.

Johnny D. Now lives in infamy on Bill Dances social media. Don't feel bad. I got jumped on with both feet by Bill freaking dance. Hey, don't feel bad because, hey, I want Martin to that reservoir, catching them bass, and I set the hook, and the bait would come off. Just take off of the bait. Oh, yeah.

This wasn't me either, by the way. And I said, what's going on here? I said, is this old line? He said, no. I said, well, it keeps breaking because, hey, that's about the third base. Bass run off it. Who was fishing? You and Martin?

Yeah, but we had a cameraman and a camera out when I'd break it all. He was tied the next one on. Who's the camera, man? Good job, Jared. At least Bill Dance isn't making fun of it. I just thought by the time we all hit our 30s, knot time yeah not time it was one i just thought it was a thing yeah yeah one especially if you yeah especially one look if you run a tackle shop one that's the bad point one that's the bad

part this one knot your band worked at a tackle shop and can't tie a knot yeah oh don't worry after bill dance jumps on me that'd be like me picking up a duck call and blowing it from the wrong in. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Shut up. I did that on TV too.

Duck Dynasty. Whoops. Look it up. And then if that wasn't bad enough, Big Dave sees it. He said, it doesn't take a genius to tie a knot. I've taught you this son.

Because it's Wednesday. He's off work and he's getting text that Bill Dance is making fun of the air to the honeyhole. Oh, man. There you go. Thank you, Mr. Bill Dance. It was the best day of my life. I've never seen somebody more fired up to be put on blast by Bill Dance.

I sent Jody D Bill's number too. I said, here, if you want to take it up with him. Oh, no, no. Mr. Bill Dance, we appreciate everything you've done for the fishing community, and thank you for making fun of me. Anytime you need someone, I'll be your Huckleberry. And come sit in my chair one day, Bill. Yes.

Come sit in my chair, I'd love to have you. Shoot, Bill Danz knows the rules. Whoa. Go fishing, fall in the water, and post it on social media. Yeah. Or just don't tie knot quite perfectly. Tie a lot. That was my favorite.

If you don't know how to tie a knot, tie a lot. And just juicy, dog. Like, I thought we were tight. Oh, juicy got you, bro. Juicy's been all over the world. First Jennifer Hudson, now Bill Dance. Who knows where that kid's going to end up next? Well, now he's what on some watch list for like elementary football players or something I saw they posted.

I'm like, y'all don't really start watching them at that age. It's just a hair. Juicy never change. Oh, yeah. got put on blast by Bill Dants. Good for you, man. Thank you. You're welcome.

I didn't know if we talked about that. No, we didn't. I was going to kind of let it die, but you didn't. I posted my response and some guy said, what a way to be remembered by Bill Dance. And he thought that was a shot at me. And I said, he don't know who you are.

I said, but he does remember me. But he don't know who made that comment. I do. I'd have to look it up. He was on a couple of episodes of Duck Dynasty, wasn't he? Just on one. Was that the one

where we were all fishing out at Clay's place? Mm-hmm. Pond fishing. Were you on his team? Whose team? No,

Sye was on his team. Oh, yeah, we won. I had my own team and we did not win. Yeah, we won. Caught them all off a shocker, Bill. Wacky worm.

But I had a little local knowledge. So, y'all didn't catch much when you went with Bill. Huh? There's no cheating. No, yeah. Yeah, I just went around a bank throwing a frog. I went out there where there was open water and threw a waggy worm.

They were throwing a frog? It used to be frog paradise out there. But when it gets real hot, they pull out in them deep holes and you just throw a wacky worm in them. Hey, you know what? Three of them suckers in. I do got to brag about one other fishing story. Yesterday, going home from church, Carter said, today's the day. We're going to go catch a fish.

We're going to cut that sucker's sides off. Then we're going to fry them and eat him. And I got him set up. He did the worm on the hook, got the fish off, he filleted it. We had some help with the peanut oil and then he ate it. Look, we all remember the days you had to balance your checkbook, right? Like keeping track of your finances used to take so much daggum tight. But now we're in 2026 and life has gotten easier and that's where Rocket Money comes in

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you told me you did so it'd be awkward if you didn't I don't remember the phone number 318 it's 318 21565559 6559 I don't I've already forgot the 215 I knew the 6559 215659 area code 318 Make it funny Or at least interesting

Yeah And enjoyable Hello to Uncle Sai Love you my man Hey you guys have talked about your favorite episodes before I would love to know if there were any episodes or scenes from any episodes that you absolutely hated doing

for one reason or another. All right. God bless you all. Take care. Keep doing what you're doing. Bye for now. I thought he was going to say scenes that you thought were hilarious

that never made it. Because I got one for you, buddy. Well, I got one that the people that run the show has it. what that was one way is at jason's when you were miced up and they said don't get in the water and i had told them i said y'all better do something with this mic because i said i said that the crew hated what he did you know i know

the cameraman and all them you know sound man all them that fool with microphone stuff yeah they hated it because i had told them i said hey y'all need to do something with this uh microphone I don't think I... They didn't pay attention to me, and the next thing they heard was, and I'm running off the pier and doing a on my back out in the water.

Because we're filming in July, and it's 115 in the shade, and we're wearing chest wagers. That's warm. That's hot. Yeah, it's hot. It's hard to say... I told them, if I fixed the cool off,

well, hey, they should have listened to me. I'm looking through the episode list. To be fair, I think I filmed the least in here. But it would be hard to say you hated it because, like, there was a time you were cold, like, and you were stuck outside waiting. But, you know, we just watched boys in a boom truck

in the ice storm up and doing their job. So hates a strong, I mean, like, you don't want to lie about... There were definitely... They were making TV and it stinks. That's, I was going to say, there's one episode where we did the lawnmower races, and it just took so long. I mean, it was two days of filming.

If I disliked any of them, it was everyone where you saw us at night. Yeah. Yeah, because those were the longest daggum nights. Like, you're sitting there at two in the morning doing nothing, just waiting on them to get lights set up. You're like, my God, guys. For a bunch of people that go to bed,

not long after the sun goes down and are generally up about sunrise, working until two and three in the morning was like, uh-uh. Like, this is out. What about when you and Martin, no, you and Godwin and Jace were in the boat and it sank. That's fine. I mean, I was just, that was by you water and, I mean, I was cut off by. And you were standing on the motor? Yeah, I was just standing on the boat.

I was like, just stand up, guys. Like, it's not that big of a deal. But that one, I was, look, the other one at night sucked. Bees? Yeah, whenever we went and robbed the. stupid beehive at night and then got stung by bee that sucked like that was no fun the worst one for me never while phil was laughing while phil's just sitting there laughing and they're not because he's at the back of the boat and they won't fly but they crawled all over us and ate us up I'm like this this

ain't funny this isn't like I'm sure it is from where you sit at least they put it out there is from your perspective you got to look at the thing I did when we were at willie's duck diner making the fried bologna sandwich. I was like, it was me and Willie, and he's talking about what should we do? And I was like, add jalapinas. They're delicious. And I just started eating jalapinas to show them. And I was like, yeah, it's more tingly than hot, just trying to prove how, you know, they weren't that bad. And I ate like 40 of them in a row. Do it again. Do it again. And then tears start. And then I was like, now that you've said that about eating, yeah, every family dinner.

Misery. No, no. Misery's a strong term, though. You just sat there and got free food, man. No, here's the problem. You got A.D. No, it's cold, wasn't it? Here's the problem.

Season one, Phil and Kay cooked every one of those family dinners. And they're really good. And they're everything that you want is good. And then you go to get it and they're like, nope. Yep. It's cold. And they're just like, yeah.

Waze? Nope. Waze. And they're like, do that again. Yeah. Do it again. Then they're like, all right. Now, y'all get up and walk out and leave your food on this plate.

Don't eat. Just get up and walk out. We're going to shoot that side of it. You're going to talk about torture and old Martin. Yeah. Oh, when they were doing now, as it progressed, they started catering those meals and it wasn't that big of a deal. But then first season, man, that was all filling cake cooking that.

And I'm like, yeah, Swiss steak, praise God. And then I'm going to go. Yeah, and we can't eat it. I'll just step outside for 40 minutes and let's just get cold and then come back. And then we're going to force you to eat. Yeah. It's like, come on. I just ate jalapenias until I cried and they didn't use it.

I was pissed. Yeah, there was a lot of stuff that they made you do that's kind of dumb that they didn't use. But, I mean, I'd really have to go back and look. I mean, I hate they didn't run, but my pants busted on the date beside. Like, that was funny, but nothing inconvenient about it. But I sat on that pallet boy, and then suckers split from my crotch to my ankle. I was like, whoa. I wish they would have put in there what happened when I jumped off.

We were racing the outhouses. as I jumped off and y'all are all standing there. And so I started, before I could say anything, so I started running me over, hollering stuff at me. I was like, I just stopped and turned around and walked off. I was like, I don't know what to do here. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of good.

There was just, there was some things that were inconvenient, but nothing. You had to eat cold food. That sucks. When it's good food. It's like, oh, man. Yeah, well, like I said, one of the funniest one of me was when we was in Shreport.

at some restaurant. We was trying to get the people that worked there to say some lines. And we fooled with them for like two hours, and every time they saw the camera, they couldn't even talk. Yeah, I bet. And there's nothing like having five cameras and boom mics all around you. Because one wouldn't be bad.

Right. But when they do it, it'd be about seven cameras. come on to me when it did you'd see it I mean you're talking about you talk about a deer in the headlight so I want to know

how long did it take for y'all to get comfortable with all the cameras and the mics and all that stuff I know you didn't like it at first but me I got where I didn't even notice as they was there

well they all most of the crew I mean there was some turnover but like the main parts of it stayed the same so they became really good friends, man. So it was nothing, I mean, you got used to it really fast. Yeah, I mean, I think the biggest deal, because we had done the Bonelli show, and so you were used to having two or three, four cameras around,

wasn't that big of a deal. The biggest one on this one was all the extra people. Like, just, there were 30 people with us at any given moment. Because they had producers, directors, assistants. Like, I don't know. I was why these people can't like put their own battery in their camera they got to have somebody back there to put a battery I don't know it was I mean it's just Hunter shaking his head he's worked in production

outside of this place he knows oh no like Hunter's probably at his level probably is the guy putting the batteries in the big cameras for those guys were you like were you like key grip or something I haven't worked on bigger productions like that I think the biggest I've done was production assistant on the blind and that's about it yeah I've worked on short films But there's a lot of people there to do some very menial tasks. Yes. Well, that's why it takes so long.

And you can't help with any of them. Yeah, you can't. The other people can't help and fill in. It was wild. What area you're in, that's where you have to stay. Yeah, and it was so unionized. That's like if somebody accidentally kicked a plug out, electric plug, shut her down.

Nobody can touch it except an electrician on the set. Yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy. What about the, uh, the color? run when y'all got hit in the face with all that oh that was fun the side didn't like it though oh the one with the latrille and yeah well you got hit in the face with all that color on the color run oh yeah i had i had some weird color boogers for like a week after that deal that was crazy well all that dust go straight up your nose because you're jogging and they hit you with powdered color and you yeah it's i mean can't

help you get it in your lungs yeah yeah yeah it was it was a weird one but i yeah there's there's there's were some definite inconveniences, but nothing that I hated, I don't think. Like the first time I went off that rope swing, a redneck water part, landed sideways, water in my ear drum. So the rest of the day, I was just, like, I'd move my head and all your roo-roo-woo. But there we were. We stuck it out for the rest of the day. Then I was like, I got a get attacked out of here, boys. Like, I got my ears killing me. But I wasn't going to quit because of that. Like, let's do it. here life gets busy travel eating out all the things but one thing we keep consistent

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It wasn't anybody's we'd ever heard. Oh. And my voice just went wild. for a sentence and Willie looked at me and goes, is that, are you doing that now? Like, is that your new voice or you're just going to act like yourself? Where we're at here? And I was like, I don't know where that came from.

And then after that, it was like, rock and roll. Yeah, because you were going to have to do that from being on. But I was fine. The only times I ever really got nervous was, you know, whatever Phil or Jace would enter the room. And then I was nervous and they live, I'd be fine. Yeah, but that's weather without cameras. Correct.

What about everybody telling Mountain Man to speed it up and he's like, No. Well, this is how fast as I go? That is a really good impression. Bravo to you, sir. That's a good one. Well. Hunter, what's the other one?

Is it Duck Dynasty related? Willie. Well, no, no, it's not. She punched me in the liver. The liver punch. Oh, I'm not. feeling so good. I had a date last night.

Girlfriend punched me in the liver. Yeah, I told you all about the blind date he went on. That confession happened to church, by the way. You suck or punched me. Right in the liver. Right in the liver. I wonder what Pope Leo'd say about that. And confessional.

I'm nervous about this. I'm ready. We're ready. We're ready. This is Josh. Hi, Josh. question for Philip, for Jay,

and for Uncle Sy. How was it when you gave your daughters away in marriage where you guys are wreck? Love what you guys do. I'll be all there. Martin, sit out.

Wow. Just listen. Hunter was there when I did it. So I'll go first. When I gave my daughter away, what was my emotions? He wanted to know. So I was a mess.

I mean, I tried to hold it together, but I mean, this is my little girl, you know, been with her her whole life. And, I mean, so it was very difficult for me to walk her down. And I held it all together until I walked her down the aisle and then I just cried like a baby all the way down. So, yeah, I mean, it's just, it's going to be emotional. But it's a, it's a happy, happy time, happy emotion. So it was tough. And I'm still, it's still tough on me because I want to talk to her every day. but she's married and so, you know, we do stay in touch, but I got to give her her space.

Sy, what about you when you gave your daughter away to marriage to Kyle? Was it hard on you? Yeah. Yeah, he's tearing up this right now. I'm looking at him. You know, Phil, Phil always run his mouth. You know, and I said, hey, a daughter would not been very good in your family. Evidently.

No, no, I'm serious. Because he wouldn't have been able to handle it. He really wouldn't. It was hard on you? Yeah. Do you remember? Well, people, you know, when people said, you know, asked me questions about the kids,

and I said, well, I said, you know, I said, my son and my daughter got married, and they both gave me four grandsons. And they said, only grandsons. I said, yeah, and I said, God, God, I had a hand in it. I said, because if I had a granddaughter, I said, the rest of the kids wouldn't get nothing. Can I interest you in Lottie?

No, no, I'm serious, because, hey, hey. You know, like people said, well, what, you know, when, you know, when, you know, when, you know, I was in the military, I felt like I was away from home a lot. You know, and then Christine would always say, yeah, yeah, I know, you. you never was around. Well, she'd break out photo albums. Y'all says, so, well, what about this? Here you are as a six-foot Easter bunny.

You know, in a pink rabbit suit. Yeah, but I felt like I wasn't there. Yeah. But if you have a, when a man marries and then has a daughter or a child, she's going to manipulate dad. Okay. Johnny D. It's just...

Johnny D. It's just live, okay? She's seven, and she's already caught on to them. Well, no, no. Oh, no. The seat and, yo, and I don't know what it is. Hey. They catch your own real quick.

My daughter's sandbagged for three quarters of a soccer game the other day until I said, hey, if you actually try hard, we'll go get an icy after this, and she got a hat trick in two minutes. I was like, just start like that. Yeah. Wow. The girls, I don't understand women. And girls are even worse.

Yeah. That's because they're all insane. I would get on to my boys and say, clean your rooms, clean your rooms, and they would. And then I'd say, Amber, clean your room. And she was like, Daddy, can you do it for me? I close the door and say, yeah, I'll do it. Don't tell your brothers. Don't tell you, mom.

I'll tell your brothers. Are you brothers? So it was, when she was getting married, was at a time, because y'all were. close. I mean, well, no, no, because that's why I told CJ, okay, when I got it alone, when we was taking pictures. Oh. And I, no, no, I'm serious. And I was standing there and I said, hey, he said, what? I said, you better treat that queen, right? You know, I said, she's a queen, and I said, you better treat her like that. I said, you know, that girls grew up with me. Okay, so hey, she's kind of like my daughter too.

I said, you better treat her like she's, you know, is a queen. Oh, you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was talking to DJ. He said, DJ. Yeah, I was telling him. He said, hey, son, he said, I love you. He said, but you better treat her right.

I thought you were talking about yours. And I said, man, Kyle with a season, interesting. Oh, I was a little confused, too. To be fair, I didn't know you were given just the threat to everybody. That's the thing that entered to the father. mind more than anything else. Take care of your little girl. He's, hey, yeah, you better take care of her.

And when I say, take care of her, you better not make her cry. Yeah. And Kyle's done a great child. You better treat her like the woman she is. No. So you've got a great son-in-law. And I do too.

I love D.J. He's fantastic. He's doing wonderful. I ain't got no son-in-law, but if you're out there, I'll kill you. But he's taking application. Well, no, no, because everybody that's dating my daughter. Look, everybody that dated my daughter, they come to pick her up and all that, drop her off. And when they come pick her up, I said, I said, I'm going to tell you what you're going to feel.

And the boy would look, say, what am I going to feel? I said, yeah. I said, you're going to feel the crosshairs on you. That's aggressive. And this kid's sitting there, and he's looking at a bunch of skull mouths, I've got a deer. I said, you treat her wrong? I said, your head. Your head will be up there.

You got a couple. Still something Willie. Christine, you just get so mad when I do it. I've got a plan, but I'm waiting for it. Right now there's just some kid that Lottie came home the other day and said, John David said something funny. And I was like, I know, I'm hilarious. And she's like, no, the one in my class has said, you tell that kid to watch it.

Yeah. It's my name, not his. You're going waterboard him in the China. He ain't that funny. Hunter's going to be their help. I think he's a good kid. Hold him in the water tank. I've never even met this kid's parents.

I don't even know if this joke's funny. You better get you a deep breath. Yeah. She said he did something funny. You better mean this one. That's right. You better hold this one long, man. Many rednecks.

That old reverse baptism. Yeah. We go on face first, son. Oh, that's, yeah. Yeah, girls are scary. Good luck to all the girl dads out there. But you can do. it. You can do it. Good luck to y'all. Good luck to y'all. He says, luck to y'all. It requires luck.

But you know it doesn't require luck? Scripture. The Lord. That's right. It's in the beginning. I'm not actually going with Genesis 1 today. I'm going to go with Psalm 127.3 because we talked about kids a lot and you're pointing that gun at me. It's all safety. No, it ain't. It is, too. Ladies and gentlemen, if you do listen, we appreciate it. if you would like to understand some of the things that are happening, head on over to YouTube.com slash duck call room, like and subscribing. You will see that for the past 10 minutes,

assault gun has been pointed at very different directions. It's on safe. Anyway, Psalm 127.3, children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring, a reward from him. Oh, oh, that was not on safe. I ain't even shot you. I was acting like a kid. You tally way?

do. That's what your kids. Them Martin boys were in the honey hall the other day. And Martin said, hey, quit grabbing your tallywacker or something like that. And it was Jackson. Jackson said, he said tallywacker. And he kept saying it. The boy is, whatever he is, not quite for it.

And it's completely, apparently obsessed with that thing. Yeah, that happens. They get off of it eventually. But we'll see y'all next time right here in the knock call room. Until next time, keep you tallywacker put up. How is that? No.