Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Busts Out of the Hospital & He’s Still Kickin’

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

Uncle Si is alive and well after a brief hospital stay, and Phillip was there to witness just how tough Si was when he woke up in a pool of blood one night. Martin declares that Si has officially reached Robertson family legend status, while John-David takes the death of Si’s beloved cat, Sweet Pea, pretty hard. Martin proclaims that squirrels are, in fact, NOT cute, and Si proposes a plan to whip Congress back into shape. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to the duck car room, ladies and gentlemen. We got a good one today. Uncle Si is back. But before we get started in that story, I want to do some housekeeping. Look, hunting season's here. People are duck hunting everywhere. It ain't open here yet. And if you need a duck stamp, head on over to duckstamp.com, get your digital duct stamp.

You got it on your phone. Everything's... You can even do it while you're in the hospital. That's a perfect job to do it. You don't even have to go to the post office. Yeah. Right there from the comfort of your hospital bed, duck stamp. But Cy's back.

His voice still isn't. as strong as what it was, but he wanted to come up here and do this. So we're doing it, man. Look at, oh, yeah. They all are trying to kill me off. Sa, there you are. Nobody's trying to kill you off. We were trying to keep you alive.

Yeah. All I did was show up for the selfie. I'm just going to get out ahead of this before. Y'all brought him lunch. I was driving by. I said, well, I want to see Sy and I stopped in. And then McMillan posted a picture. Next thing, you know, we're in the New York post, and Sy's on his last lung.

Hey, did you have a hard time getting into the hospital? So I want you to know you are more protected than all the gold in this country. They wouldn't let me in. Yeah. I mean, I fought with the guy to get that sticker. I was like, no, he's in here. And I gave your date of birth, your address, everything I know about you. I was like, no, he's in here.

They was like, hold on, we got to check a special unit. And that's where you are. I will say, so I was not in the computer. The guy had to go to the clipboard both times. No, he wasn't in the computer. I wasn't paying attention because I happened to walk in with Ms. Christine. we showed up at the same time. Yeah.

And Ms. Christine was showing up that morning. And I said, you go ahead, acting like I was being a gentleman, but I really just wanted to go, I'm just going with her. Yeah. I'm going to try and explain myself. I'm with her. I'm with her. I'm her security.

Don't worry about me. But no, you were very, nobody. Well, I say nobody knew you were there, but somehow everybody knew you were there, even before I did. Because one of the reasons I posted this is I left you and I walked into Academy and one of the guys that worked there who's known us forever walks up to me and says, I heard size in the hospital. I said, no, no, he's not. And of course, I'm straight lying, right? You know you still had the sticker on.

No, I took it off. I know you did. Yeah, I took it off when we were walking out. But I said, no, man, he's not in there. He's fine. Well, then I saw everybody around there look at me. And I was like, well, crap, I guess it's time to get out in front of this. Sy's dead again.

But no, he's alive and well. So, I mean, he's getting well. He's still got a little bit of a hack. So he's got a pretty good sinus infection that got into his chest. But he's, he working on it. How you feel? You feel, you feel, you feel better. I don't know if you feel better.

I feel better, but it's just, it's going to take a while. Get your energy and strength back. Yep. Have you been eating anything? Not much. I will say, I did do something in honor of Si yesterday. What's up? I was flipping through channels.

Mm-hmm. and PBS came up and I was like, let's see if it's really as good as you say it is. Sir, I watched a cat 20 feet in a tree

jump out of that tree and almost land on an Impala and it was the most exciting's not the word. It was fabulous. The entire store was locked in. I was like,

nobody's working, customers aren't shopping. We were watching this cat and I was like, I get it now. Yeah. Yeah, it was awesome. Yeah.

That's just a total sidebar. And if you ever need just to truly entertain, I think we should sell tickets to Si watching politicians on TV. Oh my goodness. It is one of the greatest entertaining things you can ever watch. To hear his color commentary on it. But the first day, the first day was, he was kind of low talking. But after he'd been there a couple of days, then he started getting loud at the TV.

I said, yep, he's getting better. Yeah, he's ready. And I got a call from Liz. And Liz was like, hey, we took sign to the walk-in clinic because his, oxygen was low. He's not feeling good. And he hadn't been feeling good for, what, Sai, four or five days before that, huh? And we went to the prison ministry. We got back, and then Sigh went hunting with Stone. You were on a pretty epic little run there. Yeah. Yeah. Well, anytime that man tells me I ain't slept in five days, I'm like,

uh-oh, we got a problem. You didn't sleep for five days. You're the king of sleep. That's what I'm talking about. A man who got a nap every day at, He had 24 and a half years in the military, he didn't sleep for five days. We got a problem. That is the red flag of all red flags. Well, when they finally got, you know, some medicine into him, and he got some sleep. Yeah, about, he's the all the men, I know that they gave enough steroids to tranquilize a horse. And he went straight to sleep.

A horse would have been running the world record Kentucky Derby. Her exact words, the nurse said, this will keep you up all night. You're going to party. Yeah. And as soon as she gave it to it, he said, all right, Philip, I'm going to sleep. Yeah. Boom, he's out. Turn out to life.

Five hours. He did make the sound. Yeah, you look a lot better. You look way better. Well, I feel better, but it's just going to take a while. Yeah, take a while to get your voice back and the quick cough and all that mess up. But that's what happened. Man, you get older.

Sinus infections, they ain't no joke when you get to that with all the underlying conditions, too. Yeah. But we're glad to have you back. If we just wanted to, you know, basically show everybody you're still all right. You're good. He's solid. Your side. Do you have any take-on from the hospital? Do you have any, do you want to go back?

Do you want to stay at the house? He didn't want to go back. I didn't even want to go there, and I'm the one that told myself to go. Yeah. Yeah, Miss Christine told me when we were waiting to get in, she was like, he looked at me and said, I need to go to the doctor. Well, that's saying something. It must be serious.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, because he ain't trying to go nowhere to get poke, prodded, or anything else, because we already know the boy don't like needles or pain or anything. So that's how you know he's sick whenever that happens. Well, Sa, how'd they do? How'd the nurses do in the doctor? They did it go, William? Normally, normally they bother you all night long.

Yeah. When you sleep through it. Waking you up for this or that. Yeah. No, they come in, did what they had to do, and then left. Said, hey, you got the call button. You need to be called. You got that special treatment.

I love hearing Sye with that call button. He was very direct, clear as kind. He told him what he needed. And hey, one time it scared me to death because I got up and I was checking him out, making sure he was okay and checked. And I turned the light on and there was a big huge puddle of blood all over Sye. I said, sigh. He was like, yeah, I know.

I don't know exactly what happened here. We started looking around and his IV had come out. He doesn't. He doesn't shake him free. Yeah. That scared you to death, huh? No. No, I didn't scare you?

What did you say? Oh, hey, I thought I'd pissed on myself. Oh, God. That's what you thought? For the record, if you do and it's that color, there's a lot more problems than a sinus. You need to go to the hospital immediately, even if you're in the hospital. Yeah, that's when you need to use that call button really quickly and often. Oh, goodness.

Call, call, call, call, call, call. All I was was as Uber Each for breakfast. So, and which at both times he took a bite, said, no, it tastes like crap. Well, he couldn't taste anything. I know. Yeah. Oh, I didn't take offense to it. But when I was there, you were in a really good mood.

Oh, he was in a great move both mornings. I was with him. He was. It was funny. I'm telling you right now, watching the news with size. Oh, yeah. It's a great spectacular sport. You don't really want to get involved.

No, because people were coming in, and he was getting louder and louder. I was like, Sire, let's see what else is on. No, hey, uh-uh, no. We're going to watch this right here. Then we talked about postseason baseball because we're finally after a hundred and however many games they play to games that actually matter. We did watch a couple baseball. You know what I would like to do?

Whoa. For real. Okay. I'm interested. I would like to have me a 12-foot black quilt. Whip. Black wimp. And I would walk in.

down there where they have all the meetings. And I said, well, you got two choices. You can shut this, open the government back up. Oh. Or I can just take a bunch of hide off of all of you. Yeah. You choose. You choose.

Your choice. Maybe we can have a little unity here. You've been watching the news, huh? They didn't have PBS up there. Yeah, they did. Oh, they did. We watched two channels of PBS. Oh, Ben, it watched us.

chased down a fall a hollow that's what I was why we were watching it together and he was giving me the play by play

okay boys this cheetah's doing about 65 he literally what the next one was the thing coming out of the tree I was watching

that while so I was in the hospital at work sorry dad and it was awesome I love the play by play and then and so I said

okay now he's supposed and put the grip on him right there on the neck yep yep that's it turn out the line The party's over. Now you've got to suffocate him.

Just so we're clear, I watched a bunch of that growing up, and it's why my fear of big cats is very healthy. Well, I think, even though I know we don't live there. No, we do. Hold on. I don't want a big cat after me. We live closer than you may think. To a cheater.

Hey, who says you that picture of the Black Princess? Oh, you showed him? Yeah, I showed him. Are you going to show him that one? I was about to say, you know, you know what happened while you were in the hospital, Si? Is this the picture you're speaking of? Yeah.

Yeah, there's another it originated from. Went crazy over this. Who did? The entire internet. There's another large black. People were posting it, and every post had Uncle Sai was right as the top comment. Yeah.

Kim sent me the explanation. Well, you got to think about this now. If you go over there and get on a helicopter at the airport, you fly a lot. you fly from here to the Gulf of America. Thank you. Of America. All right.

It ain't nothing but pine trees. And I'm telling you, until the loggers go in and cut some strips in there, you couldn't even crawl through it. And then you're all going to tell me that that don't exist. Thank you. All right. Look, springtime is here. It's warming up.

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Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's trybeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. Hey, sweet fee have more issues than most humans. Oh, that's true. I mean, look, his liver was crystallizing. Uh-oh. Oh, yeah, yeah, Sweet Pete passed away. Oh, yeah. No, no, no, no. He had. I am shooketh.

Hey, he was, he was, he was, the only cat I ever liked, and this is how I find out. Yeah, and hey, he was on the diet, he was doing good. And he played poker with us. He'd get up on the table and sit by side. Rest in peace, sweet pee. Okay. I'm like we need to say a prayer or something. Yeah, that's a rough lick there, so. When did that happen? Oh, that's been a while back. Did you cry?

No. Did you bury him? I don't know what they do with it. I think Christine took him and gave him to a vet. The vet got him. Well, no, no, no, but here's the same. Hey, he was... Something in me hopes that sweet pee is in a little urn and size house somewhere.

I'm just saying, because you can have your pets cremated now. Right. He was, yeah, but he, uh, it was something about it. It was, uh, something was crystallizing in his liver. Okay. Well, that's not good. But Sweet P was old, too. You know how old Sweet P was?

Yeah, Sweet P had a good life. Yeah, but was there a ceremony? No. You didn't even tell any of your friends? No. Y'all are just now finding out. Like, I feel like we would discuss this. I'm actually a little taken aback of how that wasn't the opening topic one day.

Yeah. Like, hey, guys. But that is also the most Robertson thing I've ever heard. Well, no, no, because, hey, Christine was only one hard. Hey, but good for you. You're also a Robertson that let your pet die of natural causes instead of, you know, playing in the street. Thanks for keeping your pet safe. Well, I don't know, because that's why I finally gave up getting dogs.

I always run off. All my dogs like run over. Yeah. Are you in and OFT? I had one. Oh, boy. Merlin got bit by a rattlesnake. Yeah, now Merlin, Merlin, that little dog, oh, man.

But I tell you what he does have now. By the side on Merle. There's a lot of cats coming around size. house like just hanging out. They're putting in their resume. I didn't think about that. Oh, that ain't that. To be fair, Sweet P had the greatest life of

every cat ever known and 85% of humans. Oh, well, then Christine's shopping. Christine shopping for a cat. Was Christine sad? Huh? Was Christine sad? Yeah. I'm sad, and I don't even like cats.

I like this cat. I mean, that cat was redneck royalty and didn't even get a proper send-off. He was a weird. Yeah, we know There was a whole episode About that cat No, no, because I was petting one day You know

And he bid me Well, hey, he got backhanded Across the room Just like any other grandkids That's it, hey I'm trying to think of all the cats That might be more famous than Sweet Pea And all I can come up with

Garfield And if Garfield died There would be a major situation Oh, he did lasagna got him lasagna got him I mean that's an important cat to America's society

and you just casually dropped a hat on us yeah put him in the past tense well I when Beth said it I was like well I heard it but I just you know figure he'd been in the hospital a couple of days so you know maybe it was past tense like he ain't seen him since he got home no he did he gone he gone

sweet pee gone just gone and the weird thing about it's been a rough year man Sweet Pete. Hey, don't you have an anniversary coming up? Isn't it in the fall? Isn't there anniversary in the fall? Why am I thinking that?

Am I wrong on that? It's November. That's what I thought. November. Hey, get Christine a new cat for your anniversary. There we go. Look of there. She's got 10 cats at the house.

But get her like an exotic one, like one of them hairless freaks for like that sit on them pillow. Or one of them actually looked like a tiger. Just got like the spots on them and stuff. They don't get very big. But the tigers have stripes. Oh, yeah, whatever. I live next door to it.

Jaguar, you're thinking of. I know you don't know about cats because you thought that other one was a jaguar. Yeah, the splotchy looking one. Yeah, him. She lived next door to y'all. Where? Now? No, it's three-port.

Oh. About three-port. Okay. Yeah, look, this lady had 40 cats. Persians. Now, see, that's a crazy cat lady. No, no. Oh, no.

These things were beautiful. Oh, I believe it. Oh, I want, oh. Hey, what's the biggest cat? I got a giant cat. I believe a saber-tooth tiger. Oh, I'm talking about a cat, regular cat. Oh, like a house cat.

Biggest house cat. Sorry. Like, largest. Maine Coon. Oh, yeah, we talked about him. Yeah. It's also known as the... That's a pretty cat.

Yeah, we've talked about him. Yeah, he's the one that looks like the one on like Alice in Wonderland or something. Yeah, that thing looked like it'll cast a spell on you and end up in a tornado. I put a spell on you. No, no, because it's like it's a commercial. This guy's drinking a cup of coffee, and across from him in there is a big gray cat. They're just looking at each other.

I can't trust cats. They're in the same book as horses. I just don't trust them. They always seem like they're up to something. Sa, is it true when y'all got Sweet Peat at first you thought it was a girl cat? No, Christine did. Okay. That's why y'all named it's Sweet Pete.

That was problem one. Well, no, no. And I looked and I said, baby. I said, but at least you didn't name it Mike. I said, hey, I said, hey, Mike. Are we sure that lizard was a boy? We don't know. So what happened?

You said, hey, this ain't, this thing. I said, yeah, he walked by me and I said, Christine, that ain't a female. Yeah, I look at that undercarriage there. I said, hey, he's got your wrong equipment. Equipment. Yeah. Yeah.

Anyways, the clock stopped. Oh, it didn't. We're pushing through. RIP, sweet pee. Yeah, I'm super. I don't, I'm bummed, man. Like, today was supposed to be like an uplifting size back from the hospital. Oh, yeah, my cat dad.

And then we all just found out sweet pee's been dead for maybe a couple of years. Nah, I've been. Oh, it ain't been that long. Been a few months? Yeah. I don't know how long have been. I'm telling you. And so.

But we, yeah. Poor thing, man. Yeah. Yep. I hate it. But hey, let's see what he had. He had sugar diabetes. Now, he was big. Oh, yeah.

He was a fat cat. No way that this is going down right now. He's big of fat. You have a list of its ailment and you don't even know when it died? Yeah. Hey. You didn't even go to the funeral? No.

You cared about it enough to know all of its illnesses. I tell you, he was weird, son. What else did he have? He had high blood pressure? blood pressure. He needed his schizophrenia. He needed his old

psychiatrist. Oh, man. You know? Obsessed. You would think after he got backhanded across the room at many times

that it leveled him out, you know? No, no, because, hey, that's the craziest thing by it. Y'all, he would come up in my lap.

You know, I mean, if I didn't start pedding, he would get his hand, you know, stick it on my hand. You know, without a pet him,

then there was why he had bite me. Did he stop biting you finally? No, no. And every time he did it, he got back and it crossed the door. He told his friends outside watching, hey, watch this. Oh, man.

That's a wild situation. That's crazy. That's crazy talk. You got a little blood on your hand you need wipe off? Oh, my what? No, that's a scab. Oh, it's just a scab. Yeah, we're good.

We're good. Bettsch's looking out for him. Yeah. We just making sure. You know what they call that? Canada nice. That's what we like to call Canada nice. Canada nice.

Oh, man. I'm in shock. I legitimately am. So I wish you to broke this months ago. When my dog died, we had a whole episode where we all cried. When your cat died, who's way cooler than my dog, we just got. No, see, but it just got a fact to a couple months later. Yeah, it just got casually bas.

Happenstance. Sweepie's gone. That cat. me and cats got issues. Well, yeah. I'm serious. Yeah. Also, Jace called up there to check on Sye and Willie,

but Jace called and talked to Sye. Sigh told Jace this story, and Jay said, Sigh, in my older age, I wouldn't doubt it. He said, I'm kind of starting to believe some of this about the cats. Look, this is Stephen Rinella's post. it was probably the one that got sent to me and Martin 800 million times. Oh yeah, look, Uncle Si wasn't lying.

Uncle Sai was right. I want to believe. You were all the top comments, sir. Everybody was like, praise Uncle Sai. Meat eater, sign this man up. That's such a pretty animal. Oh, that was beautiful. That big black jaguar right there is beautiful.

Hype. Sir, man just got out of the hospital. You showed some respect. That is a black jaguar. In Mississippi? and in Arkansas and in Union Paris. He's been everywhere. The guy,

the cat is a world traveler. Well, you'd be two if everybody was trying to find it. That is true. Hey, I thought this one was Rocky Branch. See? That's the picture I got. That's because you're only on Facebook. Yeah, you need to get on Instagram.

It was in Big Creek, Mississippi. We're not positive because the first picture I show, I purposely scrolled down so nobody would see that it actually said Bradley, Arkansas. See? That's the one Ms. Sarah sent me. Either way. He's like that old boy in a Ray Stevenson.

He's everywhere. Oh, yes, they call him the street. He's gone. It's gone, boy. Look out, Ethel. That's right. Don't lockout until, too late. Them got moon.

She doesn't got a free shot. Free shot. Oh, man. Yep, there you go. That's the, I will say, I mean, the one thing I agree with is it is a black jaguar. which is what he said, melanistic, but. But you don't know where it was. You don't agree that it was in Mississippi, Arkansas.

I don't agree that it was in the United States of America. Oh, no, no, no, no. When's the last time you've seen a set of truck mirrors like that in the United States of America? That was not a jaguar. Thank you. Uh-oh. No, that was not a jaguar. Thank you.

A jaguar is three times the signs of that. I don't know. I'm pretty big now. No. That one's large. That one pretty big. A Jaguars three times I was that. Okay.

Hey, look, you're here, you made it. I'll go with you today. Look, the other top comment is you just pointing, sign. The only thing more popular that day on the internet than that cat was you because of that cat. It's always good when you take, well, it's not always good when you take over the internet. Well, you got to think about you. No. For you, it is.

A food source. Uncle Si was telling the truth At the duck call room When the food source is scarce That cat right there will travel 500 miles And the same truck Wow

That's why we used to see Look when the rabbits was down there At Fields House You'd go you'd see A thousand rabbits going to Fields house When they was there We've seen them tracks all the time The rabbits went away

tracks were away. The rabbits ran out. Then the whiskey ran out. Then the beer ran out. He ran out. He ran out. Then the panther ran out. Outlawed Josie Wells.

Was there a migration of rabbits? I don't know. I don't know what the deal was that. You are talking the man with a documented migration of squirrel, so there could be it. That's a true thing. We looked that up. Squirrels migrate. There could have been a rabbit migration.

That was the craziest thing to ever witness. I bet it worked. Squirrel season opens tomorrow. Are you going? No. You got any shooting from your porch? I'll come up. I may go down there and, uh...

I'll come load you going. Sit on, uh, Kay's ports. You might as well. Hey. He ain't there anymore. It's open. Yeah, it's open season down there now. Who cares if you drop them on the roof?

Hey, take me with you and I'll go pick them up. Mm-hmm. Philip make a good dog. Oh, no, I just want to eat them. Oh, there you go. Oh, there ain't nothing better of squirrel. No. That's a young one.

So I made squirrel and dumplings, uh, last year for us and fried squirrel. And it was delicious. Oh, fried squirrel with russia gravy and a biscuit. I can't get over the fact that it was a cute squirrel at one point. Squirrels ain't that cute. Are you kidding me right now? They're really not.

First, you were just trashing God's creation. I want you to know that. I'm not saying. Squirrels aren't cute. That's where we just ended. Oh, yeah, they are. Thank you. Cute.

Black Panthers, not even real. It's a Jaguar. Like, you know what? Dang. Cute. For a squirrel? You don't think a squirrel is. absolutely precious.

The election was won over a squirrel, sir. Justice for a peanut, and you just called him ugly. I think a chipmunk is way more photogenic than he is, but... A chipmunk. Those are the three most annoying creatures on Earth. I always wanted to say it was good as a squirrel. What a little chipmunk? I know they're too little.

It'd be hard to cut the tithe on a chipmunk. Yeah, you'd have to eat him whole. What about a bald-faced squirrel? Are you seeing them? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Are they good eating? Yeah.

Well, I mean, why wouldn't they be? They just squirrels that need a little neutral hole. That's one of the bigger squirrels, too. Oh, yeah, that's a big fox squirrel. Yeah, but that's like saying a racket. I just can't get over the squirrel. But I didn't know it had a, it's a specific, you know, the ball-faced fox squirrel. Yeah.

He's called like Bachman squirrel or something like that. Well, I don't I look at it? But I'm sure you're right on that. But you're wrong about them being ugly. I didn't say they were ugly. I just said he wouldn't cute. Something cannot be cute, but not be ugly. Like a koala bear.

Look, I seen the squirrel at Moss Lake. Menfield pulled up in the Jeep, shut it all. Yeah. He fell out of the tree and fell on top of the roof. Without being shot? No, one shot. He just wanted to see you. Well, when Phil slammed the door.

Scared it. He's a bare sleep. Yeah, he fell out of the tree. And look, that thing was as big as a fox. Oh, yeah, they're big. No, no, I'm serious. This thing was big. is a park.

Say it's not cute. I just don't find it cute, man. I don't know. You've eaten too many. You know the only thing I'm thinking about about now. Maybe I've eaten too many. What are you thinking about, sign? I think about the cross-ed red roughly nine.

See? He's a lot cuter, he's a lot cuter golden brown next to some biscuits. No, no. My son-in-law. He's a lot-keater. Yeah. Yeah.

They're in a, they ain't a... Oh, I thought you was going to call him a squirrel. No. They're in a park. You know, sitting on the beach. and a bunch of cat squirrels kept running by. When they were dating? Yeah.

And Tracy said, I wish I had dad, 22. And he looked at him and said, why? She said, I'd kill them something. We'd be eating squirrel or suffer. I got a question for you then, since you're the squirrel expert, do you prefer cat squirrels to fox squirrels on eating? Oh, I would rather have a fox. You'd rather have a fox squirrel?

A young fox squirrel? Yep. See, I like him cat squirrel, but. They ain't big enough. Well, they ain't big enough, but they also don't live. live they don't they'll eat pine but that that fox squirrel love a pine tree oh no sometimes you get them when you eat them you're like oh no yeah it's got a little different flavor yeah you look and you're like wow did i really did i really just drink some dry gin with the squirrel or is that

just how he tastes from all the from all the botanicals he's been eating so no daddy come down and visit when i was in port poke him and my mama did and when went squirrel hunting now i had two den trees. Oh, you was, you were saying where they stay. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I was sitting there, you know, and he come out, pow. You know, well, daddy thought I had a squirrel

hung up, you know, so he'd come, walk over, he's got one hung up. I said, no, I don't kill eight.

Out of one tree. Yeah. You know, and he said, well, good grief, that's a mess. Let's,

let's go back and let them all fry them up. You know, we'll go have breakfast. Yeah. Man, squirrel is good, man.

that's my favorite wild game i haven't looked up peanut in a long time he's got his own wikipedia page and it is lengthy that's pretty impressive for a six-year-old squirrel that got euthanized by the city of new york yeah he got got man yeah justice for peanut though amen justice for peanut i've seen two big squirrel oh a buddy of mine had had got him a fox squirrel that's a pet you know he he fed that sucker so much oh i bet oh i bet that sucker so much oh i bet they would get big if you'd Oh no, look. Because they eat everything inside anyways.

He probably weighed five pounds. A five pound squirrel? I'm serious. I'm serious. He'd make him limbs. Oh, no, no. He was big as that barned nose dog. A squirrel?

Yeah. Fat Gus was pretty big. Because when he first got, he'd be a little old beast, and he had a little old just, like a dog door. Yeah. When to go out in the yard,

Did he house train him? Oh yeah. He wouldn't poop or pee in the house? Oh, that's incredible. Oh, no, hey, he was a good pet. Mm-hmm. And like you said, hey, when he was up the top of the bigger tree, the tree was shaking.

For a while here, for a while here, we had Digger. Oh, I remember him. Yeah, Digger was pretty cool. He lived across the street. You could almost feed him. Yeah, you could, he would get right up to your hand. He wouldn't take it out of your hand, but he'd watch you sit it down. We trained him.

Somebody said Phil had a squirrel when he was younger. Oh, no, we used to have pets. We had a pet, a bunch of them. Did y'all fatten them up to eat them, or was that just kind of a hot? I just don't think I could eat it. Well, we did once. Mama had just bought a brand new couch. Uh-oh.

Uh-oh. Okay, and that squirrel. He got to eat. Went in and gnawed his way in on the bottom. Yep. And he pulled all the cotton out of the spring. And went and made a nest. Well, hey, guess what?

He got fried. He tasted like cotton. Yeah, he got fried. Teat. Mama said, hey, you know, $1,000 counts, and you ruin it? Yeah. We're eating you to that, buddy. Oh, I had one bit me one time.

A squirrel? Yeah. Yeah. And their teeth, their teeth come together real good. Yeah. Big. Paralyzed me. Which hurt more, the squirrel bite or when you had, when you were making them reeds and you.

Oh. Oh. And it went through your. Really? Dang, did you go to the hospital? Yeah, well, I had to, I wasn't sure the rivet wasn't in there. Okay, okay. But I look, it's, I had it like this, and it's done this way.

So do you have YouTube? Do I have what? YouTube? YouTube. It's what we're currently on. Mike and subscribe, but do you have it? Philip, does he have YouTube? He's got access to YouTube.

No, I'm going to send you a video. He's immune to it. He's got a resistance built up to it. I'm going to send you a video of squirrels on it. obstacle course. Send it to me. It's Carter and Ben's favorite video. Oh, no, I've watched that.

The Mark Rober stuff? Yeah, the guy, the guy made the whole thing in his backyard. So you do have YouTube? Yeah. Oh, I've seen that before. We've seen it in here. You've shown it in here.

Oh, that's hilarious. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, when they were, like, trying to get up the grease pole and stuff. Like, there were all the... Me and my kids watch it about once a month. The people are bad about doing that

with all kinds of animals. What? You know, trying to see how smart an animal is. They pretty slit. They're pretty slick. Yeah. Yeah, they pretty sweet.

They've done some of the, I don't remember what it was. I think it was a big cat in Africa. I ain't doing that. They may have been a, I think it was live. I think it was a cheetah. You know, they had all kinds of traps for them

to figure out, hey, it didn't take them long. They figured it out. They figured it out. it out. I just sent you a picture. This will fire, Sae, up, I think, maybe.

Once he sees you have to pull it up on a big screen. I'm nervous now. No, it's wildlife-related. You've really built this up, though. No, I think it will. It's just a field. Because I just know, Cy. Cy, what are you seeing that picture?

Oh, hold up, man. Hold up, boys. It's hard to see. The down low and the dirt? It's in the dirt. There's a few of them. A coil. Yeah.

Right there in front. Look what I saw. I saw. some wild quail the other day. Where? There they are. I am not saying. Wow.

Can you give the state? Wild plates. It was in our neighboring state where I hunt. Ain't that something? That doesn't narrow it down. I know. I'm not trying to narrow it down because I want them to stay around. Louisiana's got too many farmets.

Yeah. Red ants. But I mean, it is. It is very much Louisiana adjacent. So I thought that was really cool. There's quail here? Wild quail, man. We didn't turn them out.

We've turned a bunch of them out, but they don't ever make it. You can't do that, though. Yeah, we've tried it, and they just don't ever make it. But this is, we've never turned any out on this piece of property. So we went hunting in Oklahoma on it, hey, he would buy like 5,000 eggs. Yeah, hatch them and turn them loose. And then just turn them loose. Well, you can't make it work that way.

But it would be fun to be able to do an old-fash-eastern, and quail hunting on wild birds like if you could so we're doing everything we can to take care of. We became a quail conservationist. Well, I guess technically I always have been. I've just never had the opportunity to conserve any of them. Yeah.

I've never been around. I can't put it off. I saw a wild cubby. Yeah, when we were in Oklahoma. Oklahoma. Yep. The problem is I'm going to be walking. You just said you saw a wild one and you sent me a picture of taxidermy.

So this. This, I want you to see these pheasants. That's a ditch chicken. So I got that for Blake's birthday. Look at that belt buckle, by the way. Hey, that's nice. I can't see the taxid every from Blake's amazing belt buckle. Yeah, so it's Blake's birthday.

Happy birthday, Blake. And so I went to Mississippi and got this for him because he went hunting with us several times down there. And he loves pheasant hunting. Is Blake the one that married the Queen of England? No, that's Bryson. Is he the one that works at Disney World? Yeah, he was at Disney World. until he turned them down now.

He's a graphic designer in Rustin. But anyway, that was pretty cool. Look at McMillan just doing dads. Oh, you know who else's birthday it is? Stone. And Sage. And Sage's birthday. Sage's birthday.

Stone and Sage have the same birthday? I don't know. Sage's birthday. Here's what's why. We're friends, but I don't know your kids' birthdays. That's a rule. Here's what's why. Martin's kids are sometime born in the next few months.

You would thank the Red Tail Hawk next week. Would go after a quail. Mm-hmm. Uh-uh. They kill over at Longleaf. Yeah. They kill a pheasant all the time.

What's that a hawk? Yeah. Yeah, that's because that pheasant ain't that slit. Yeah, but you would think he would take, he would go into the small part. Yeah. I got to be honest. No, man, not me.

We got to have a whole pizza. If I'm going to have a small pizza or a large pizza, I'm going after that large one. The slug. I did learn that on PBS with the Cheetahs. They didn't want a little one because they were more hungry, so they waited for a big one. Yeah.

Well, if you're going to expend all that energy. How do you get eaten if you're a bird? Pretty easy. You can fly. Yeah, but see, the problem is they're not that smart. Like literally, like if you're going to get eaten by something that can't fly and you can, I got a lot of questions for you in heaven, brother.

Well, that's another thing, too. Redtail hawks are. bad on young squirrels. Because they can fly. Yeah. And the squirrel can't. No, no, they can. Squirrels can fly?

Yeah. Flying squirrel. Flying squirrel. That's just falling with style. I'm just saying. Oh, hey. He's got his own parachute. So does he have wings?

Oh, no, he's got, he's got, he's got like a suit. That's just a bud, light, your action figure. His skin is connected to his four and his legs. and he's got just a... He can go. He can go out. I remember the first time I saw one of them things. I about fell out of the deer stand.

You saw one in a deer stand? I opened the door and a sucker jumped out on me. Oh, yeah. I was like probably just 10 or 11. A flying squirrel? Yes. Hold on. Here?

They love deer stand. Oh, no. You put up a box stand? Hold on. He's coming. We have flying squirrels here? Absolutely. Oh, they got one down there, you know, in my old stand.

Mm-hmm. No. Like somebody. He scared me. I mean, I was like... I was sitting down and I heard something. You know, all of a sudden, like I felt something. Yeah.

I'm normally on side side with everything. Same way. I opened a door and you heard the scurrying. And then the next thing I know, because like we didn't have nice boxes. This is before, this is when box stands were homemade. Like you built them out of scrap lumber.

So you're on a straight vertical ladder like yeah. And I heard the scurrying. And then I felt something hit me in the chest. And I'm like, what does happen? And I looked down and there's this little flying squirrel on my chest. And I'm like, well, now what? You know, and then he finally got up there and jumped. Throw him, they'll fly.

They like them stupid, or flying fish. Flying fish, yeah. I do believe in those. Oh, I do now. I saw it. What are you going to do? Look, he'll run up a tree and get to the top of it and just bail out. And I suck her, hey, he'll glide 600 yards till the one he wanted to go to.

I'm amazed right now. I'm going to be honest with you guys. I really thought flying squirrels were this exotic creature that you could only see on PBS. And I just pulled up the map and they're pretty much in, you know, it says they're anywhere from Canada to United States to Mexico. They're everywhere. Oh, yeah. If you built like a tree house in your backyard and just-

I've had tree houses and just didn't go in it. Yeah. Like you just leave it unoccupied for about eight months. Why on earth would you do that? Tree houses are awesome. Well, that's essentially what a box stand is. It's a tree house that you leave. unoccupied for about eight months a year.

And when you go in there, things take up residents. And they love living inside your houses. So like those kinds of things. But they're a cool little animal. They make good pets. Yeah. Yeah, I was about to say that. You can get one as a pet right now.

Yeah. But it's not a flying squirrel. It's a sugar glider. I mean, they're essentially. How different are they? They're cousins. But, yeah, I mean, yeah, flying squirrel would be a tough one. But a sugar glider, yeah, they've got those.

Did you imagine? You're putting a leash on a flying squirrel? No. What? A leash and trying to keep up with that thing? If I had a flying squirrel inside my house, Jude would tear the walls down. I only have pet lizards. And they're everywhere.

The geckos. I had to send Martin another picture. Geckos in my home. They got him again. They're taking over. I said to him a picture, too. I said, yours must have been, or mine must have been listening to yours because they're never by our door. Another night, there were two of them right above the door.

I've got some that live outside of my door. That was in my garage, actually. So, like, yeah, that's, no, that was not inside the house, but I looked up and I said, oh, they watch. Oh, they just watch. They just watch you now and they're watching. You ain't looking. They go in. Oh, they're fast, too.

Those are the fastest little things. Man, they can go straight up at wall when no problem, them little suction cup feet. I struggle to catch them. Yeah, you got to get them on the floor. If you can get them on the floor, you got a chance. You just need a good broom. They can't outrun an extra six feet arm. They ain't that fast.

You might be quick, but you ain't that fast. Well, and their tails are like the most brittle thing ever. You touch it and it falls off. And then it sits there and wiggles, and you're like, oh, man, you just feel terrible for them. What's the one that he's, whatever he's on, he changes. Camillion. Camillion. Yeah.

The karma, karma, comma, comma. That's cool to watch. Yeah. Almost as cool as chamellionaire. Oh, a chamellionaire. Yeah. I like watching the lizards out back. When me and Lisa are in the hot tub, we watch the lizards walk around.

Atlanta rapper chameleon. The little red thing at the throat. Oh, that's a green animal. Dancing around. Why do those not come inside? I got those. Yeah, they don't. I feel like I live in a swamp.

Well, here's what I'll tell you. Well, you do. A lizard swan. The name of the one that's after you, his name is a house gecko. So apparently he loves human domiciles. Well, every one of them loses their tail and then gets flushed down a toilet. You know what's crazy, too? They're not even from here.

here. They're from the Mediterranean. They're the Mediterranean house gecko. That's what's fun. When I was in herpetology, we went to this before. Now they're a lot more widespread here, but we would go to like pilot, and there's a bunch of them, and you shoot them with big rubber bands to knock them down. Pilot, the truck stop? Okay. Yeah. And that's how we would collect them. We would go up there and he'd have these big rubber bands. You sneak up on them, pop them in the back of the head, and it kind of dazes them, and then you can catch them. And then, yeah, we were doing collection. stuff on them doing like this is what you did for college yeah we did DNA test on them we go collect them and then draw and you got a degree yeah yeah man got a degree of rubber band gunning that sounds

fun yeah that's what see that's why you go with biology man that's like Willie and Corey went who won on yeah they well yeah they were actually trying to kill them I was just trying to get them get their blood and let whoever was doing their graduate project on it the next time one of those gets in my house I will rubber band that if you get one of the big thick rubber bands and sneak up behind it and hit it in the back of the head, he'll like, eh. No, no, no, I ain't sneaking up on nothing. I'm going to get that sucker from 10 yards away. You're going to call him out?

Just, I'm going to lead them a little bit and pye-ow. Yeah, I mean, they need to enter concussion protocol once you do it to them. But they recover, and they're fine. Give them a day. They're back. They don't have a tail anymore. Yeah, well, no. And they were already uglies.

Oh, they're going right back. It is crazy. They're like see-through. I hate it. Yeah, they are. If that thing was like a green lizard, I'd be like, come sit on the couch with me. Like whatever.

Sit right here. The fact that I can see your organs, I'm like, I'm out. Halloween freak. That is funny. Yeah. They're a little bit scary, I guess. I don't know. We have a lot of them outside when I open up the front door.

They're all over. I mean, they're everywhere. What's that the John Luke's got in his office? That bearded dragon? Yeah. That thing's terrifying. Yeah. Because if it wanted to.

Or if he bite you, it hurt. Forget to have them claws, man. If he just wanted to come at you and throw them hands at you. Yeah. Like, uh-uh. Bryson had a bearded dragon for 17 or 18 years. Yeah, John Luke bought this. This one's old.

I mean, he's not a young fella. 18-year lizard? Yes. And look, here is he finally passed away or did he get rid of it? Yeah, he finally passed away. But the only thing this thing didn't want to do was go outside. You know what I mean? He didn't like that?

No. Oh, okay. He's like, uh-uh, we ain't going outside. I guess every time he went, it was like to the vet or something. Probably. You take a lizard to the vet? I mean, it seems like the right thing to do, right? Yeah, if he had to.

I think he was afraid of the birds. Maybe getting eaten or something. I mean, I don't know. What are you doing with a lizard at the vet? Like it's a yearly check? Oh, he's about 84 in dog gears. It's a lizard. His tail came off.

Can we sweat back home? People take lizards to the vet? I'm guessing it seems like the right thing to do. You want to take that? Hold on. Hold on. I don't think so. Because I know where they buy all their lizard food from.

Oh. From you? For me, because they just buy crickets. So they're not even going to the pet store. Well, you got a better deal. Good for you. I just don't think people are taking lizards to a vet. No, they do.

Yeah, I probably do. It's not a commoto dragon. Yeah, he does. A bearded dragon. It's a bearded dragon. A commoto dragon, I don't think about him for a... No. Yeah, those good zoos.

Oh, yeah, zoos, yeah. But those... they have a vet. Well, yeah. I would think every animal in there goes to... I know people... I've been at Cooper when they brought their snake in. I don't know. No.

Oh, yeah, I got their snake in a cage. What are they, are they like, does it, how could you tell if a snake's acting, like, I could tell if my dog was acting weird and needed a vet? I don't know. Well, I'll tell you about the bearded dragon. There's five. Five what? Five vets in the area that could probably do a bearded dragon.

Yeah. So when this bearded dragon was like 17, Bryson was in the military, you know, in England over there in the Air Force. and me and Alicia was kind of watching after it. So Alicia said, hey, it's not doing good and I think it passed away. So I go in there and look, ready to have to,

you know, take it and bury it or whatever. And it just pops up and he's alive. He's like, hey, man, what are you? It's cold blood it, dude.

It was hibernated. What are you doing? Get that shovel away from me, that little thing you got right there. I'm still alive. I was like, whoa. Okay. The thing lived another year.

Did y'all have a service? No, but I was close to it. I'm all ready to bag him up and take him off. When he did pass away, did he go ahead and say it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, he deserved it. I mean, he got a little headstone. Oh, yeah. Yeah, okay, that's neat.

His name was Mike. Mike the dragon. Pretty cool. Seems like there's a lot more names for. Hey, that's Bryson. He's just going to be playing Jane about Mike. Was his cousin, Ike? Like, Mike and Ike, did you have two of them?

Hey, that's a lot to take in today. A lot of animal information. Oh, you wouldn't. I'm still not sure about people taking reptiles to a vet. If you're a vet and you're listening, I just thought that was for like dogs and cats. Squirrels. Well, I mean, horses are up there too.

Yeah. Well, that's a different vet, though. But they're at the same vet office. No. You ain't ever seen the horse trailers pull in there to Cooper and they unload them? That's a different vet. But it's in the same office. But the vet I go to there was never like, hey, let me walk.

my horse into the lobby. Well, you're not going to walk him into the lobby. You pull around back. Pull around back. No, my vet didn't take horses. It was dogs and cats every time. As far as you know. I mean, I get, I don't know how they'd get a horse in the building. Horses are huge.

And they go to the back. Yeah. They just vet him outside. Yeah, a lot of times they'll just leave them, they'll even leave them in a trailer. We need a list of what the vet can work on. I need a veterinarian that is listening right now to break me down in percentages of what you're working on by animal. Or even better,

hello at duck call room.com. Yeah. I had strange pets and like weird vet stories. I'm actually very interesting. Yeah, me too. Like this is like do you, if there's, if somebody, there's people out there's got like pet tarantulas.

What do they do with them? You don't take it to the vet. I mean, I don't know. What if he gets sick? How would you know that a spider was sick? What if he's got a cough? You know, I don't know. He's not.

He's not. You'd have a mouth that you can see. He's not eating. I don't know. Oh, by the way, thanks to all of our friends post-rucker episode with the scorpion who have informed me that if you want to go look for scorpions, just take a black light. Because apparently they glow in the black light. And I said, no, I'd rather not be terrified if I find one. Do people take their scorpions to the vet?

Surely nobody's got one of those devil creatures. Oh, no. Oh, yeah, they would. But they got them for a vet. Yeah, they would. Really? I'm talking with the big ones. People are weird, man.

I'm serious. On a leash. That's a weirdest looking thing. We're going to eventually get into what a bad pet owner I was, but you can't say that because Dublin lived well past the average age of a Bacetown. You know how many times he went to do that? Three or four. Like, not emergency, like check up, anything.

So you weren't on that six-month schedule? Why would you do that? Why would you do that? He was fine. I don't go to the doctor How do you know he was fine? He may not have been bad. He may have been through it.

He wasn't going to have a cough, man. He was doing all right. Well, Johnny Deep, I don't know if there's a proper verse for, yeah, there is. For RIP, for our pets, but there's not. But there is a verse about cats. Okay. And it has to do with anything you may be going through in life.

You might be having a tough year. You might be in the hospital. We're super thankful that sighs here with us. today obviously but there's this story in the Bible about a guy named Daniel who was thrown into a den of cats. They left him in there with a bunch of hungry lines and he was like

man you gotta think he was like this kind of bites. Yeah, but hopefully and so do they. Yeah. But I mean he was going through a tough time which you may be going through but he trusted in God and when they called down to him after the next morning when he should have been being digested he answered

in Daniel 621, may the king lived forever. My God sent his angel and he shut the mouth of the lines. They have not hurt me because I was found innocent in his sight, nor have I done any wrong before you, your majesty. So whatever you're going through, whether you're shy in the hospital or anything in life, just remember, God can send an angel and you will not be hurt, even if you're in a den of hungry lines. There you go. Also rest in peace, sweet pee, pee. Yeah, all right, sweet pee. We'll see you in heaven. Hey.

Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. I never had a conversation. I just got to be honest with you. I'm 50-50 on sweet feet. Hey. Hey.