Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Burst into TEARS on His Trip to Texas

Episode Date: November 29, 2022

Uncle Si & Stone are excited to show off the deer they killed on their last hunting trip — but what made them burst into tears after? The boys make fun of John-David for his love of soccer, and Martin recalls when he used to watch it at Duck Commander all the time. Si reveals what Phil Robertson did when everyone went hunting with food poisoning. And the boys give advice on how young is too young to get married. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And we're back. We're back. We ready? I guess it's running, boys. I'm just here. Well, put your ears on, son. Put my ears on. Put your ears on, boys.

Hey, all right, I'm ready. He's ready. Oh, man. Oh, man. So? It's duck season. It's duck season. It's the season we hunt ducks.

Well, hey, first order to have been. Okay. I got a card. This is no ordinary card. Thanksgiving card. Was it a Hallmark card? Well, I don't know. Heartline.

Yes, it is. Heartline, Hallmark cart. All right, and it's from Lisa Ayersworth. And all the need you read is, you are the best. There you go. There you send them some time. I appreciate it. L-Y-S-A?

Ms. Lisa. She sent me a pair of socks. Miss Lisa has sent us a bunch of stuff. I got excited because it's... Best catch ever. Look at that. You don't need to wear them. Oh, no.

I will wear these. We're pride. I know, but Christine's one that deserves them. I busted a hole in my pair of socks this weekend. Do you only have one? Well, no, no. I have a couple of pairs. I know this.

He runs them American flag once often. Yeah. Hey. I don't blame it. American, son. USA. Man in America, baby. That's because he's watching the World Cup.

Oh, I ain't watch that crap. That junk. Excuse me my name. It's the most popular game in the world. I don't care nothing about in those. soccer? Yeah. USA.

I mean, if, uh, that's as bad bad as golf. Almost. Almost. I'm going to keep my opinions and lots to myself. Watching grass grow, watching paint dry. Watching paint. But you know what I say. What?

What are you say? Football is life. Football is life. But football is also death. Cy, you've been duck hunting yet? No. Why not? You don't like it anymore?

No, because I've been on the road. What you've been doing? Well, I had three days at the triple eagle range. Three eagles. Three eagles. The triple eagles. Y'all might want to think about changing it. Okay.

And I killed a deer that just got a big chandelier on his top of his head. Hell yeah. Yeah. It's a 27 points. You couldn't find one bigger than him? Oh, no. No, that's what was insane. It was just a little small deer.

Yeah. And look. What I was in the stand. Stone got choked up over this, dude. Look, there was four deer up there about 130 yards, okay. Two of them were bucks, one dough, and a little yearling. And they said, don't be careful, don't shoot the yearling. I said, well, okay.

So I didn't see the animals. How did you not see the animals? Are you blind? No, no, because it was early. Plus, I thought I thought the scope was fogged up because my eye relief wasn't right. So anyway, I'm looking and I said, is the deer I'm supposed to shoot broadside to me? he said, yes it is. I said, I'm going to shoot him, bam.

And it was just that quick. He had no idea what he was shooting. So look, no idea I was shooting a buck. Okay, because that's the question. Is the deer I'm supposed to shoot? Broadside. He said, yes, he is. I said, I'm going to shoot him.

Bam. So look, we go up there, the boss, Eddie, since his son says, y'all go up and find the deer, and then I'll drive aside right up to it. We'll take pictures. So look, we walk up there.

They want up there. they walked up about halfway and turned around and come walking back and I said, boy, it's bad news. I said, they've done that so quick, I must have missed him. You know, and everybody says, you didn't, I said, I'm telling you, it's bad news. They didn't look long enough. I missed him.

So they come back and said, oh, he's laying in the brush here about 10 feet from where he was. So I walk up there and Stone said, haven't you seen him? I said, no. I said, it could have been a doe as far as I knew. I said, but I was told it was the deer I was supposed to shoot was brought to that. But anyway, I said, wait a minute. Is that antlers I'm looking at sticking about four foot off the ground? Yeah.

Yonstone said, yeah. He said, you mean you didn't see the antlers? I said, no, I didn't see the antlers. So I walked up there and said, good grief. So you did this one with one shot? Yeah. One shot. One shot.

One perfect shot, by the way. Oh, no, I was fixing to kill a big axe deer at 470 yards. Okay, but Now time out How far was this How far was a deer you killed? 130 130

130 and you couldn't see his antlers But you was about to shoot at something 470 away That's it But hey look We had seen it Okay And it was a big buck

Axis deer And I could see he had antlers like this Okay So you near side No you far sided Further away you can see it Well I'm getting old So

I'm getting old so But anyway I was going to shoot him because I told Justin I said hey you know, set that thing for 470 and hand me the gun. Well as soon as I touched it that big axis deer felt my death raise. So son, he jumped in the brush. What did he feel?

He felt my death ray, okay, because I was fixing to shoot that big sucker and kill him dead. Okay, but he slipped me a death raise. So I had the next day I had to turn them, I lowered him real. old loke. Death ray. So that big plug, and he didn't feed him.

I think we did a Duck Dynasty episode about that him and his icy stairs. That's right, boys. What was that old, that old turtle guy? Is that what that is? It's like the long horn thing,

but upside down or something. Oh, that was an awesome trip, though. But before Cy killed his buck, Bullfrog. Killed a brute. Killed a 160-inch eight points.

Yeah, and look, hey, I don't have it. Somebody tell Bailey she's hired. No, no, no. Because unlike her great-grandpa and her great-uncle, she wears the right stuff. Oh, yeah. Oh, no, no, no. I might tell her she can work for duck commander. Hey.

I ain't got to fight her like I do telling Jay. That puff right there, his horns were bigger than my teacup. Okay. Okay. I mean, at the base right where it comes out of his head, I put my hand around, I said, good, go he fast bigger my teacup. I got it to house. Yeah.

I said, you killed a brute girl. But she, when she shot him, it was lights out. High shoulder. Hey gone. How good was in backstrap? You ate them yet? No. I shot the deer.

Eddie gave the meat to some needy people. Oh, okay. That's worthy. Well, it did not go to waste. That's a worthy cause. I can appreciate that. Especially when you're traveling. It's hard to get it back to and fro.

Yeah. They're in South Texas, Freer, Texas, I think, the name of the ranch is three Eagles range. The airport that we land in is Alice. Yeah. Okay. And then the ranch is about, oh, 45 minute drive. In Freer, in Freer, Texas. Yeah, okay.

And, boy, it's a beautiful country down there. I'll tell you that. Oh, it is. Top. Do you see any cranes? No. No. No.

No, they killed all the. A lot of doves. Yeah. Doves everywhere. There's a bunch of dubs out in. And look, in the opening day, our first day I was sitting, I seen 35 bucks. And I kept looking at Justin. 35?

No, no. 35. I said, we've seen a total of 65 deer. 35 of them. Look, they just kept coming. It was like a parade. No, no. And look, I'm talking about this is 100 yards.

I want to go hunting with you again. Oh, no. I said, I looked at Justin, and I said, I was looking at him. You know, and he's over kind of just kind of a year. Well, the biggest thing is the places I get to hunt now have gotten way better. Oh, no. Than when I was running around. Oh, no.

We're running around hunting a bunch of gars. Now we just got. He was at the Triple Eagle. We've been at Triple G. Gar-Grindlegoo. Gar-grinnell and goo, boys. We've been, yeah. Listen right here.

That's what guy with his name is Guide Service. Hey, look. Gar-Grindlego. Triple G guide service. Triple Eagle, that is a first-class operation from start to finish. I believe. Eddie's the good shelf. He cooks fine food.

Look at them deer. Okay. And then the deer. Oh. Look. But let me tell you something. I got emotional. Y'all don't went down there and killed 400 inches of antler in two days.

Oh, no. That's wild. Two shots. Yeah. Oh, it's top of the, it's top. It's top. So Sae goes up and lays his head on this giant rack. And I can see his eyes starting to well up and a tear come out of his eyes.

No, no, no. I'm serious. I felt bad for shooting that deer. That's the first time that's happened to you in me and my entire life. And then when Bullfrog saw him well up, then she went gave a big old hug that I started crying. Everybody cried around there. Everybody crying, but Bullfrog.

Yeah, she wasn't crying. She's just a deer slayer. That's a gift. But that deer was so beautiful, okay? Yeah. You know, that it actually, you know, I was kind of mad at myself for actually shooting it. well he was up there in age so he was but he gave him five years he didn't have long left

they said he was six and a half well okay I knew I knew he was five oh old old deer oh dear oh dear and that one boy frog shop was old deer too he sure was and hey that axis deal would have got shot if he hadn't felt my death or 70 four 70 he had I was fixing to shoot that joker big time but it was an awesome huh yeah hey then the little bitty one the little bitty actus buck comes out staring the broadside in the sunlight. I said, I ought to kill you just for doing it. Just for looking at it.

I said, but I'm going to let you go. I'm going to let you try to grow up. But we made a lot of good memories on that trip, and that's what hunting's all about making memories. I was just hoping you. I was just hoping you brought some of that backstrap back so we could dunk it in that w sauce and get to eating, son. I fix the pill three of them tomorrow.

Okay. He's filling three tomorrow. I'm in. Half sauce, we'll travel. He's talking about them, like that are orange. Yeah, I like that. Well, let's take our first break. We'll be back right after you.

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No. All right, we're back. We're back. You don't want to get to three. That didn't take long. So, Sye, yeah. Opening day of duck season, I did not go. What?

What? I didn't go. What were you doing? I didn't get out of it. I just said I wasn't going. Oh, you ain't going? Well, there was enough young hands there. I didn't, I wasn't worried about.

So we got some help for a little while anyway. So I felt good about the crew, take care of Phil. Well, did they kill anybody? No, they killed five ducks. Oh, good grief. That's another reason I didn't go, because I knew there wasn't nothing there. There you go. They killed five, and you haven't been either.

Oh, and I probably ain't going. I've done turning into a deer. He'll go when I call him. I've turned into a deer hunter. Yeah. Okay. You know, it's way better. It's way more fun.

Yeah, it's way more fun. Well, no, sometimes. Now, this morning was fun. Yeah, and I just got the news that there's a big ghost. deer at my stand bigger than anything else he's got on camera. I got 30 cameras out there and they say I don't have a picture of this deer. Don't have a picture of this big one. I find it hard to believe.

There's a ghost out there. They call him the ghost. I'm fixed to guess what. What's you going to do? I'm fixed to pop the big ghost. Okay. How are you going to shoot a ghost if you can't see? Hey, hold up.

Hey, I can shoot my imagination. Yeah. What does that mean? Well, that's what a game war. That's what a game warden told me when I call him, could I shoot a Black Panther? And he told me no. And I said, wait a minute.

You mean I can't shoot it if I see it? He said, no, because there ain't no such animal. And I said, well, I'll be shooting my imagination in. I said, I got dues for you. I fixed to shoot my imagination. You may want to just stick with shooting a bull. You're way better. You have a particular set of skills.

Hey, I'm serious. I'm serious. I wouldn't shoot him if I saw him. I know you just didn't. Just to prove the point, okay, just to prove the point, I should just shoot him and say, okay, all you idiots, all you non-believers, I kill this thing just so y'all would know it existed. So I'm going to look like that.

To all the non-believers. I ain't going to do it. Just to prove you, you idiot, no, I know he's there. But he knows he. But he knows the gig is. up if he ever does. Oh, no. No, no, that ain't even coming into a place. Not even. Not even coming into a place. Okay. I just think he's going to kill him because it may be the last one on earth. That's a good point. The problem we got stoned is we now hunting with a bunch of old men.

Oh, I know it. When we're the youngest of the bunch, that's a problem. I'm 50. I'm steady recruiting somebody younger than me. I'm tired of this jump. I'm creeping up on 50 and Phil calls me the young but that's what I'm saying. You got to understand. We did it for, you know, we've done it for 70 years. Yeah, but I always noticed when y'all got about our age, you started bringing in younger crew. Oh, yeah.

That's pretty slick. Well, you got a train. You got a trained. That's why I got the nurseman and old Cody. But are they really younger? Yeah, they're 10 years younger me. Oh, well, then they're my age, yeah. That's good for another 20 years.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's just, it's wild. I'm looking around this weekend on opening day. and seeing how slow everybody was on the shotgun. And I say, yep, I'm hunting with a bunch of old men now. So I'm old guys. I used to, whenever I used to call the shot, I generally say kill them.

And most time I couldn't get kuh out of my mouth. Yeah, yeah. Now I'm going, kill him, kill him. Yeah. Kill them. Shoot him. Yeah. And then reached over and poppy, I'm talking to shoot him.

He's one of them calling right there. I ought to put his old butt on here. He doesn't got old and slow. Clay? Clay? Clay is old. Yeah. He didn't got old, boys. He missed a duck. He said, well, that's wild. I just went to the eye doctor.

I said, you need to get a refund. All right, how's that? Go get your money back. I said that didn't work. So how many did you kill this morning? How many jocke? You said it was a fun hunt this one. I got my limit. There you go.

We're limiting them out. Six of them. I got my limit. That's good. I think we killed 17 total of four of us. That's good hunt. What did y'all? What'd y'all?

Woodies, Gadwall. Gadwall. Till, gadwall. Teal. Teal? Yeah. Yeah. He doesn't told them story.

And then five shelters messed up coming there. Uh-oh. Oh, it ain't nothing dies more prettier, more prettier than a shovel. That's a bad deal for them wide bills when you ain't hunted in about 300 days. That's a bad deal for them. Oh, yeah. They die so fine, though. They do.

One pellet. One pellet in the wing and they'll flip over backwards. Oh, yeah. They're like, oh, I'm dead. They're dramatic. They're like, sorry. soccer players. Oh.

It don't take much to put them down. Would you say the score is 5-0? No. I'd say that the United States is going to look like it's 1776 all over again against Wales and England. Pick a country. You can't have that many.

That's all I'll say about that. At what point in your adult life did you start watching soccer? I've always watched soccer. Are you serious? Yeah, he has, yeah. He watches it during like June. Well, that's when the World Cup normally is.

No, but I'm saying you watch like Premier League and all that mess. I saw you in that office next to me, son. You ain't. You still need to attack me here. I'm not attacking you. I just figured you were the only person in North Louisiana that's subscribed to NBC Sports online so you could watch soccer at work. There's a couple of us that's not very big.

It's not a large community here in North Louisiana. I knew every day at approximately 2 p.m. What's your next 90 minutes consisted of. All 90 of them, baby. I mean, I will say that for soccer. They have a very for sure time limit. Yep. Like, you can set a watch by them.

They're not the game that's going to be over in an hour or last five. It's, it's, what, 90 minutes? I just like soccer. It is, it's like, uh, we're just waiting, we're just waiting. But then that you get that moment and it's exciting. I like Ted Lassa. That means I like soccer. They ought to make it a rule.

They can use kung food and soccer. It'd be way more interesting if they could use their hands. Oh, no, no. They can do stuff with their feet. And they can't do it. And if they actually scored points. Hey, it's one to nothing. Thank you.

Neil. Whatever. I do know that. In your face, whales. Pick a country. I don't even know if you are one. My biggest problem with soccer has always been that they can declare a no winner. Like during the regular season, they just walk off.

Kind of like what's wrong in the NFL now. They can walk off and say, no, it's a tie. It's a tie. I don't like that. No, somebody needs to lose. Yeah, plant. Play it till a loser. Oh, there's a lot of things wrong with the NFL right now.

Well, I'm just a tie. I'm just saying the fact that a regular season game can end in a tie, I don't like ties. There's a winner, there's a loser. I want to see that through. You need a winner. I do. I need a decision made.

If not, why'd you play? If we can walk off and there's no consequence, why would we come out here and play? We get a point. I'm out on that. Well, they don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. That is true. That would be like playing poker for cash. And then at the end of the game, everybody just gets their money back.

Yeah. What would be the sense of that? Well, if you played for a really long time and just all even, you don't leave. No, it's got to be a winner. You've got to be a winner. I got nothing. Somebody has got to get strapped for the game to be in. There you go.

I should like duck hunting. I can't support a tithe. Okay, back to duck hunting then. Well, no, it's staying weight. That's what our people want to listen to anyway. I mean, we start out with duck hunting. Mark. Well, have you been winning?

I only went once. You've only been once? We killed more than five. They killed more than five. Four than five. I mean, it was hunting. Four of us. Four of us?

All four of them. Yeah. Well, you better be real careful. What? You ain't got one on each one and four to play with since you killed more than five. I said we. We killed our 24. Oh, okay.

All right. I shot four green wing till and two gadwals. Shot four green wing till we shot together with. eat the four green wings throw the two gadwals away I don't eat them gadwals too he ain't got to eat it he'll have to eat everything

they just take a little prep that's all a little more TLC A little soak in the W amen long soap in the W baby long

let them soak in that W for about 24 hours it'll take that mustiness out of it you can soak a shoveler in that W for about 48 hours and he'll be at them oh Johnny Wink said that's the

the flying ribby of the sky. What is? The shoveler. Who's this? Johnny Wink's. Fired up. Yeah. And he's the same man

that if you ask him how many you kill, all he ever says is, hey, we shot four boxes of shells apiece. Fired up. I used to work for him. I said, Johnny, wait a minute.

How many ducks did he kill? Don't matter. He said, I don't tell you. We shot four boxes and shells a piece. Mm-hmm. Get the blast. I said, I got it. I got it.

They ain't picked up. a hole since 1982. They think it's fertilizer. I don't know what they do with it. I think it's fertilizer. Just keep turning it under, boys. Yeah, it looked like Christmas.

It's like that big hole y'all threw the dirty. You like that? No, y'all should have put gravel in that. No, hold on now. Let's take a break. We'll talk about that. Yeah, I got a lot of things.

The police jury guys showed up this morning and asked if it was okay if they parked their trailer on our parking lot. And I said, yeah, that's fine. I don't care, whatever. You know, and then I said, what are y'all doing here? I didn't know what they were doing. Yeah.

I had no idea. They said, well, we're digging these ditches out. I said, well, that's good because it's a little soggy around here. Yeah. I said, what's you going to do with that dirt? He said, well, we're just going to haul it to our landfill. I said, no, you see that big crater back here? Go feel that thing in one time.

I said, just get me a base layer started with that mud. That's right. Yeah. Because you can hardly get nobody to come fix a 10 by 10 by 10 piece of asphalt. No. And so, and you certainly can't. afford it if they do. Okay.

So I'm starting with dirt first. Okay. Now I understand. And now if you were dumb enough to drive through it, I'm sorry. Did you drive through it? No, there's no. No, they had cones. Okay, good. That hole wasn't becoming a problem.

Oh, yeah. I started to get out and move the cones and then I was going to pack it down for them. Well, that's because the garbage man. Yeah, that's because the garbage man come through here three times a week and he said that I ain't doing about 30. Yeah. Boom. I show about twice.

He's doing that just for funzies. Yeah, I swear that's the way they love to start. But I got a free load of dirt. And once the dirt gets in there and gets packed, I'll get some more that SB2 back there. Okay. I just figured it was a cheap way to fix that gray rock back here. Okay, all right.

It was a small pond at this point. It wasn't a puddle. It never dried up. In the drought that we had, it never went dry this year. It was a couple feet deep. Yeah, it was getting close to Lake Peking. It might be a spring at the bottom of it. You might can catch you a fish.

Lake Peking is one of the greatest parts of Westman row until they tore Peking down. Hey, that was, you brought up a thing that I always wondered about because every summer, the ponds around the house at Dixie, Louisiana would dry up, then when the rain would come, we'd go out to catch the fish in it. Uh-oh. How'd that happen? No, no, how does it happen?

No, I don't know. Oh, I did you just? I'd tell you, very simple. Crane steps into eggs that have been fertilized, and it sticks to their feet. They go to the pond after it dry it up when it's got, rain in it and they fall off and they become fish and then hey next thing you know you're catching fish in a dried up pond they step on them fertilized eggs during winter hey that's how they do it bring them back in there hey god god has got to plan boys he can make fish appear in ponds that dry up

every year especially goggle i that's it boys yeah goggleye just appear out of nowhere oh he can live in he can live in mud i ain't sure that goggle i ain't like a coot just take off walking down the street get there. I put bullfrog on a mission down Willie's Pond. I said, catch every goggle out of that pond. I think she might have done it. I ain't caught one about a year. He ain't caught one, boy.

That's fantastic. But going back to the duck hunting, we oh, P.R. had him an injury the day before a duck season. I don't know. He was backing the boat down into some shallow water. He had old Dan the butler with him.

And he tried to push the boat off into that shallow water. It was too shallow. And I'm pretty sure he tore a muscle in his back. He pulled a muscle. He was in some pain. I told you. We're hunting with old men. So we get out there this morning. So he goes to the doctor. They give him some muscle relaxers, you know. He's in a lot of pain. Yeah, that's what my cameraman told me. He said, I never seen Phil like it. So I go to his house yesterday. I said, Phil,

the only thing that's going to fix this is rest. There's no ducks on property. Why don't we just take a couple days? Take a couple days off. And see what happens. Yeah, let it build up. Let a refuge begin to form. And he says, it's duck season.

I said, I know. I know. I said, well, you got to rest this injury or it's never going to heal. He said, well, don't tell them boys, it was my idea. So in other words, he don't want nobody thinking. that it was his idea to take a day off. I would just say, okay. I say this.

76 years old, all right. I remember him missing one day of duck season, like 25 years ago. Yeah, he didn't even miss it when we all had the stomach flu. Yeah. Oh, no, no. The food poisoning or whatever we got that. Oh, no, he got in the boat and something. Hey, wait.

Yeah, that's right. He did. Oh, he's not going to miss. Okay, all right, let's go get some plans. Hurry up. Yeah, my favorite one was when he said, he's down on end of the blind. I was right there beside him. Look, I'd been green in the gills for about three days.

I finally got the feeling all right. They feel, said, oh, it's good to have you back. He said, yeah, I'm finally starting to feel better myself. I said, yeah. I said, well, it seems like you still got a little lingering effect. He said, no, it just happens in the morning times now. I mean, he's just throwing up his toenails from food poisoning and we got. He's tougher than me.

Oh, he's tough. Oh, he's tough as booting. So he, the thing with him is, he didn't care nothing about the duck hunt itself. He just wanted to be there. He didn't want to miss. FOMO. He didn't want to miss what happened. So we, we look down there, the first bunch comes in this morning.

Me, Jace, Gawin, and Phil. First bunch comes in, we raise up. Bum, blah, blah, blah. Jason's like, Phil, kill that one on the end. Nothing happened. We look down there and he's asleep in the bottom. in the bottom of the blind. Yeah, that's the picture I got.

He didn't miss because he heard it. No. He was there. Three valleys in a row, and he never moved. He slept for an hour and a half in the bottom of the blind while we were shooting ducks. Yep. And Jason's like, boy. Well, like I said, I've been with him for 76 years, and he's missed one time.

But he didn't miss it. He did not miss the duck cut. He was there. He was there. Oh, yeah. We had a nice hunt and he raised, he got up about 30 minutes left of the hunt. He stood up and he said, ooh, he said, you boys done some fancy shooting down there. There was a pile of ducks sitting around inside.

I said him way one time. I learned my lesson. I went and got my wisdom teeth cut out the Friday before a second split and woke up next morning and felt all right. And I went and I shot my shotgun one time, I pretty well wrapped me up. Oh, I bet. I'm done with that. Yeah, I ate the medicine they gave me, and then I went to sleep, and I woke up, and we had, however many people, they had a limit plus one, the one that I killed, my one shot.

Yeah. And I did, I slept through the whole thing, had no idea that they had shot 30 ducks or however many it was. I promise he had no idea of what we did. Yeah, it's a bad deal. But there's something about going that I don't feel that way no more, but I know where he was. I know where he is. It's incredible that at 76 he still got it because Ducks season been open three days.

I've been one time. So I just. Me too. I ain't mad at them. I don't know. It's been open. I ain't worried about that. I went one time.

We killed one mallard, Drake. I didn't see very many mallards. I said, I'll be back when the mallards show up. I got no interest in shooting Teal and Gadwall. That will be around the 20th of December. Well, I know one old man who likes to shoot Till. Oh, is that, Si? Well, that's my favorite one to shoot.

Yeah, the problem is hunting too rough Go shoot them teal right now. You got to go weed out there after me. Oh, no. They ain't around a duck blind. As way in days are over. Yeah. Yeah, they get there.

It's only a matter of time. That's why I'm going to, I've gone to deer hunting. They just drive up to the deer stand. They get out, walk up the stairs, sit down, get my gun ready, and then when the deer come down, pop him, and then they come down, load the deer up. We go back to the lodge. They clean him.

I get my truck, go home. That's a dear one. So you kindly a fair weather kind of guy. Is that what I'm doing? Oh, yeah. No, if there's any ice involved, hey, don't even bother to call my number. I ain't coming. Well, this has got a...

This cranking a chainsaw up and cutting an ice hole. No. No. You ain't trying to catch a polar bear? No, no. That's right. I ain't got no English piece. Classic.

But this is like the coldest Thanksgiving, I feel like we've ever had. Yeah, somebody told me it snowed last night. Yeah. Like at 1 o'clock in the morning. It was sleeting, sleeting. Well, I know it snowed in Baltimore. To the duck cold this morning. Was it?

Yeah. I know it snowed in Baltimore because my wife told me 77 inches. What? I think that was Buffalo. Huh? Well, she said Baltimore. Was she there? No, but she keeps up with it.

And she said, you know that's over six foot. And I said, yeah, don't. are than 72 inches is 6 foot. So 70s 7, it's 5 inches over. Math. I know. Yeah. Yeah, pretty much me in snow.

Yeah. Yeah. That's a lot. Because I'm a lot. That's a lot of snow. That's a whole lot. I'm interested in snow. Roofs are caving in.

Yeah, that'd happen. Too much weight. Mm-hmm. Too much weight. You got to get up and get it off your roof. It will cave in. Too much weight. Not enough roof.

That's that. Not enough roof, boys. Need more roof. That's late. Well, nobody, nobody's ready for 77. inches of snow. We ain't ready for seven inches of snow. No, we tried that one time. It shut the whole town down. Yeah, for like a month. Yeah, that's bad deal. It's funny watching people driving that don't, has never driven in mud. If you've driven in mud, you can drive in snow. Yeah. Not around here. Oh, yeah,

you can. It's different. Most people can't. When it snowed like that, I sat outside and watched a Honda Civic just try and go past my house, then start going back down the hill. Then try to go past and then back. I watched them for 20 minutes. That same way I got that hill right there by my house and everybody in the cul-de-sac trying to leave doesn't get cabbing fever. Couldn't make it. Can't go. They all ended up back down at their house. We don't have the proper equipment. I took off walking

to the Dollar General just to get out. There you go. Didn't see no Panther. Just walk to the Dollar General. But, you know, a Black Panther in the snow would be easy to spend. You know, there's been a bear and a Black Panther at that Dollar General. There was a bear. I got a picture of that. Yeah, that made the news. I'm with you

on that. I'm with you on that. That's legit. Well, hey, look, he didn't have to shop that day. That's why he didn't see the Black Panther. Oh. He had gone two days prior to that. He didn't need nothing. He knew the snow was coming.

Yeah, he knew the snow was coming. So he bought his stuff early. Hybernate. Two days earlier and then had to go down the snow. But he don't like to walk in snow because it's wet. Triple G. That's got to be it. Guard and a good boy.

All right, let's take another break. We'll be back right after this. Yeah, we need to have them on here to tell that story about what that dude did. About what, dude? Old butt cut. What did he do? What, he shot? He missed the deer twice.

He only took two bullets with. He missed deer twice. It's out of bullets. Run back to the camp. Got some more bullets. Turn around, come back. When he come back, the deer was standing essentially up under the deer stand. He shoot him?

Mm-mm. No, because his cameraman was still up in the stand. He doesn't miss twice. You can't be firing off. I mean, wouldn't. That's a good, yeah. I mean, if you miss twice, you can't fire when the cameraman's sitting beside the deer. You can't shoot under the cameraman.

Why not? Oh, my goodness. He's up in the stand. Do I need to play a replay of the deer you miss six times? That ain't no, you know. Ladies and gentlemen, do not listen. Hey, he's up in the stand. The deer's below it, go.

Shoes the deer in time of me. Hey, come on out of there and take that. I'd probably work if the two misses he had wasn't high on the other one. Hmm. You know. Well, oh, he was shooting high down, I understand. It don't matter if he's shooting low. You don't take that shot.

You don't, no. You don't take that shot. No. Si trying to get Western out there. I mean, take two bullets on a deer hunt? I've done that for. Why? Have you, real?

Y'all don't. I'll tell you what they. I take two bullets on a deer hunt and you take 125 shells on a ducking. He takes five boxes of shells. I know. A hundred and a hundred and a little. 25, you can't kill but six.

I thought I told you all that story. I'd love to hear it. No, no, I went to the woods and I had three buck shots in my 16 gauge, okay? Because I know my gun, so I know it ain't on tape but one shell. But I got two extra just in case.

No, no, no, just I got two extra in case. But anyway, I walked down there and a doe jump start to take off running. I got a dough tag. So I just, boom, she don't fall. Boom, she don't fall. Boom, she don't fall. I said, Keith, I can't believe it.

I said, something's wrong with my gun or I had the bad chills or something. So look, I go down there to look where she came from, okay, because it's like a little hole in the woods. Well, I walked down there and I stick my head inside this hole looking down through the wood. And if I'd have been fast enough, I could have slapped a big, beautiful eight point. Because he's ticking his head. he's sticking his head. When I stuck my head in, he stuck his head out.

Well, look. Hey, look. What? A white tail, big buck, eight point bucks. He let you get that close to. No, no, look. Is it in a breast top? I know.

It was a thicket. You know, well, he jumps out and gets in the open field I'm in. Look. Hey, I just wheeled a shotgun toward him to see what he would do. He just sit there shaking. his tail. He knew I was out of bullets. He knew. That dear knew I did not have but three bullets and I'd done shot him and I missed. So look, he just walked away wagging his tail at me looking back. You wish you had a bullet, don't you? That's why I said you need to stick to shooting a bull.

So after that, I had a bag of bullets. That was the day that he decided. I've told it. I've told you your bag enough for you to know. There's five. I have. I don't. I've told you. I boxes of shells on him for a duck hunt. That's right. I will never run out of bullets again. He said never again. Never again. No, he'll have so many of them.

They'll drop in the fire of his heater while you in there. He set his jacket on fire. They won't go off, though. They'll just melt down. Yeah. I'm aware. They may back up. But they still make us scramble.

Oh, no. You drop shells in a fire? He was so close to the heater. He didn't know he had set his jacket on fire. My jacket was. and shells were dropping out of the jacket into fire. There's a rain jacket, you know, like slick material, so it just started melting like a plastic straw.

So it started going up, so I ain't got no idea he on fire, and them shells are blupe right in the heater, bloop right in the heater, bloop right in the heater, bloop right in the heater. And finally, we all down there, we were running for cover, so we didn't know what was going to happen. Yeah, I wouldn't know what happened. I mean. They don't just, they don't pop, do they?

No. I didn't stick around long enough to find out. So I knocked his heater over and got everything put out there, then threw his jacket away. His jacket melted up to like right here. Went from a full rain jacket to right here. Oh, crop top in the duck blind. I look like one of them running backs that's where the Jersey is just, you know, too high. Yep, that's what I thought when I saw you running back.

That's not running back, but I wasn't running. They was. He said running. I said, golly, there's Derek Henry. Yeah. Yeah, good times. in the woods. There ain't no doubt about that.

No, man. I'll tell you. Man, I lie. So when you go in duck hunting? You ain't? I may not even go. Taking the year off. No, I'm serious.

It's depending on what Stone says when he calls. Okay. If he calls and says, hey, ain't nothing down there. All right, I'll see you later. There you go. You only go deer hunting a seed? Yeah, let's go deer hunting. So you ain't got to get up early, Andy,

get to stay warm. That's right. That's hard to argue. with, ain't it? Yeah. Yeah, I'm not mad at them anymore. You know, if I don't ever kill another one, I've killed enough in my life. Well, you know, I said that, but I went, I wasn't mad in them until they got down in my face this morning. Well, that's something about, and then I got mad. Yeah, once they do it, then you're talking about, all right, if you're going to act like that, boom, boom, boom, I'll just go ahead and go ahead and put it on. That's it. Yeah, I ain't near as

mad at them as I used to be. I found that out Saturday morning. Generally, you can't keep me from going to the duck blind? Well, I mean, I went. But like the first three come in there, I just said, kill them. I never even grabbed my shotgun. I mean, hey, backpedaling in the plugs. I never even grabbed my weapon, I said. I was like when I first hunted in the ponds over in Texas, which is ridiculous.

That kind of a guy. You know, they were to shoot that big old amount of drink. I had a cigarette in my hand. I said, hey, Yavin, shoot, you shoot it. Take another drag. I didn't really care. It was so stupid, okay. y'all when are you going again martin i'm going in the morning are you okay yeah i just waiting for the

conditions get right yesterday was sunny which you think's good but didn't have no wind today was just cloudy kind of junk and that's always tomorrow ain't no good is not well i got a good wind for where i want to hunt so i'm hunting i'm like deer hunting them i'm hunting the wind that's all i'm hunting i'm just straight hunting the wind trying to find a right spot well i want to go kill them where i want to kill them. That's kind of that kind of deal. I don't want to. Just in the timber? Mm-hmm. Yeah, he's a little nest of them in there. What's the way in the morning? What is it?

I just like, it's basically. North-east? North-North-east, yeah. At about eight. It's supposed to be pretty good. I may have to go sit on my deer stand in the morning. Hey, might as well, can't dance. Stone's set. No. Well, go sit on stones. I mean, I can get you on a deer stand in the morning, but it ain't going to be yours. Oh, okay. Because we'll bump everything out there.

I'm waiting on a good strong south wind. We get a trout, which is weird, because it's November, and we ain't had a south wind in like two weeks. Not what? So I'm waiting on, we get a good south wind. I got a spot that's going to be fun. Yeah. In your face.

Can you get a sigh in there? Yeah, I'll probably get him in there. In your face. Nice, comfortable duck blind. You just sit back, turn your hat around and hold on. Hold on. All right, boys. I'm going to let you have it.

All right. Get on out of here. Go kill you a deer, stone. Oh, I'm going to take... What are you talking about? I ain't killed nothing all year. That's what I'm saying. Go kill you one.

He's a manager. Huh? I'm the protector. He's the one that says, Hey, Stone's the protector, and he's headed there now to protect. You can shoot... Who are you trying to weed out? Huh?

Who are you trying to weed out today? What do you mean? Oh, if you protect him, I figured he's trying to gar or somebody. Oh, yeah, Reed. Reed, oh, yeah. I got to keep him from killing him. Tell Reed, you send him to the Triple G stand. Don't tell him what it means.

I take him as to keep him. There you go. Go guide them, Stone. All right. We'll be back getting that mailbag right after that. Get in the mailbag, baby. Johnny D. What's in that mail bag?

You know, we got a lot of good emails. Do we? We've got a lot of people that want to propose that don't know if they should. Probably not something we should decide for them. You know? I don't agree on that. So my man, Jack, over here in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. Is that a real place?

I don't know, but it sounds like a. Church of Christ is there. I can laugh at that. Amen, you can. First, just want to say, we're all super cool guys. He's been watching for several years, which is crazy to think. We've been doing this. We've been doing this for several years.

Second is, I'm 19, and I'm thinking about proposing the girl I've been with since I was 15. Y'all think it's too young? No. I didn't get married until I was 29. Draw your own conclusions. Cy, you say no. I say no if you love her, hey. Different strokes for different folks.

I've seen it work. Yeah. So I ain't going to tell you yes or no. I just waited. I waited a while. I had to get the selfish me out of me before I could even think about that. Just took me a little longer than most. So there you go.

So, Sy, what do you think? Hey, 19, if you, you know, you want to get married, get married. You've been together four years already. Yeah, I've been together four years. Oh, Lee. They've been together 20% of their lives. You know? Wow.

It worked for Jordan and Ange. Worked for Jordan and Ann. I got married at 21. Now, I have another email from another guy who's wanting to get engaged, and I've lost it, and I feel terrible about that. But I know it's right here. It's all they need is the woman. Yeah, here.

And Asher from Polk City Iowa emails in, and he gives a lot of info, like finances and all this stuff. Oh, he doesn't went that far. Yeah. So what I would say to Asher is, you're planning to that. If you want to be engaged, what was first guy's name?

From Bellbuckle. From Bellbuckle? I don't remember. If you want to be engaged, you got to, you can't, my favorite line of all time from Duck Dynasty.

I think I know what you're going to say. Was when Phil Robertson said, oh no, we'll just live on love. No, you won't. You'll starve to death. Yeah, you'll starve death. Yeah.

You've got to have financial support. I agree. That's one of my take-homes from Duck Dynasty, too. I'll never forget. You know, hey, we're young, we're in love. We're just going to live on love. No, you won't.

We starve to death. No, you won't. Trust me, we did it. And I will say that I got in, my wife was just turned 19 when we, no, she just turned 20 when we got married, which is, it was young. And there was some stuff we had to learn about each other. And we were young. And so it's tough. But we got, I quit my job, went to work somewhere.

I was full time at a grocery store. part time at a jacket store and full time in school. So you got to change some things. You can't live on love is what I'm trying to say. So Asher, I'd say, I mean, I can't tell you what your finance looks like. If you've done the research and it bears itself out that it's a good decision, then go for it. Yep. But to my other man in Bell Buckle, where'd Bell Buckle go?

I want to know his name. I've lost it. Bell Buckle, you remember your name. There you go. Yeah, he knows who we're talking about. You know who we're talking about. Jack. Jack.

Hey, I should have remembered that problem. Yeah, do some research. Sit down. You're going to be living together forever. Talk about your finances and all that and then make a decision after that. Amen. I agree. I just, ooh, 19.

I couldn't. I agree. I couldn't do it. 19. 19. 19. I'd have been divorced by 20. It was a wild ride.

I can tell you that much. Yeah. All right. And then Ali. Allie emails in. And it was just a big thank you. And I'm going to thank her. She watches the show, and she's a NICU nurse.

And so she just wanted to tell you. Praise God. And everybody in here who's experienced, all three of us have been to the NICU before. And she was just like, hey, I really appreciate you shouting out NICU nurses. Absolutely, Allie. Thank you for what you do. For sure. Amen.

Go on, girl. And so I wanted to toss her out there and tell her thank you. And then one more relationship advice. We got time? Mm-hmm. From Greenville, Tennessee. We're a big deal in Tennessee. Sorry about your football team.

I was on that bandwagon for a minute. He's 20 years old. Oh. And that wound's still fresh. I wouldn't have said that if Brittany was here. He's 20 years old. Him and this girl were often on through high school, right? Mm-hmm.

And they, you know, grew up, didn't talk to each other in a while. And she used to be a quiet girl at church, right? Mm-hmm. And he was kind of wild. The roles have reversed. Uh-oh. Now, she's kind of wild, but he's kind of a quiet guy. trying to, you know, live a more biblical-led life, right?

I can dig it. And he's just, it's kind of tough on him because he likes her, but he's like, eh, I don't know. She's kind of. Have we done one similar to this? Probably. Yeah, I feel like we have. Yeah.

Most problems all boil back to the same thing. Yeah, that's why sitcoms work for forever. Yep. Yeah. But so that, his question is, does he continue dating this girl? or try to date this girl he said everybody he asks tells him something different

and I would say that's probably because there's not a right answer yeah that's one you're going to have to get comfortable with what you think so I'd say do whatever you can he's trying to live I would be real careful okay that would be my advice to you be careful in this one

okay you know yourself okay you know you know because because you went wow once okay now it's flipped the other way she's going a while yeah yeah i would be extremely careful with this one yeah well you are who you hang out with eventually and you'll be known by you know if you hang out with you know someone that's doing bad things you'll have the same reputation whether whether you're involved in the bad things or not

yeah okay and then at the same time though, we're also not called to build up walls and be Christians to just look over and say, ooh, look at them doing bad. So, yeah, I think it all depends on your maturity. See, like, when I became a Christian, I had to get away from some of my older, my, not older friends, my old friends. Your old running part, right? Yes, because they were still doing the things I was trying to get away from,

and I was not mature enough. If I went back to over there, I can't handle it. I was going to go right back into that. And I didn't want to do that. Yep. But now I can go hang out with them. Of course, a lot of them have settled down and have flipped the switch too now. But I'm saying at that time, if I'd have went back over there, I'd have been nose deep back in,

doing, just running, doing whatever we were doing, you know. So I think it depends on your maturity level in your faith. If he's mature enough to be around that. But when I say mature, you can't sit there and judge her while you're looking at it either. That's dumb. That's going to lead towards ill will. You just got to be a part of it. try to show her Jesus the best you can

and see if she comes back to you and if you don't, you got to be okay with saying, all right, we can be friends but this is it. That far as this is going to go. But don't let the water in the ship. Keep the plug in the boat like because you don't want to go down with it.

They don't have the best thing of like what you're talking about. All the guys that used to run with him when he was a heathom come back and try to get him to go and go ahead and get back into it. And he said, guys, y'all don't. realize that man's dead yep okay but the thing i want to point out about that is okay you think you might

can pull it off but trust me when i tell you you can't yeah it's tough okay because hey the temptation is there and you you don't want to uh i don't even know how to word this it's best that you hang with people that are living a life that you want to live especially until you get to the point where you can turn around and go get people out of that old life. Yeah. But if you're going to fall right back into that old, I mean, you see it every day still happen. Great guys that have made a change for the better end up right back in it because they, they wouldn't ready yet, you know. And it's just, it's a tough deal, man. Why put yourself in that position is all I'm saying? You'll be better off not to do it.

Amen. Okay. Because I'd say 90% of the time if you do it, you're going to fail. because you're going to go right back where you was trying to get out of. Okay. I agree. Y'all nailed that one. Well, I'm going to send us out of here. You good with that?

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the duck hall room that's a way to go out boy martin's on the phone or something