Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Comes Closer to Being Scrooge than Santa’s Elf

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

Uncle Si realizes that he might not be Mall Santa material after moonlighting as a Christmas elf with Phillip for an evening! Martin’s twins meet Santa for the first time and if he’d made a bet on how it would go, he would have lost it all. John-David brings in his Uncle Mac, who was recruited by the real-bearded Santa organization, which is actually a real thing. Si is rescued by his tech-savvy wife from sheer boredom, and the boys dish out advice for dating the preacher’s daughter. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to the Duckball Room, ladies and gentlemen. We are here. We are, yeah, it's the winter. We got the holiday season is all around us. And, man, I hope you guys are having a good holiday season so far. I hope you're getting ready for Christmas and all the things that go along with that. Christmas time. It's here.

Oh, that reminds me. Here you go, Johnny D. That's the worst song ever, and Willie always sings them. And now I've carried that tradition on to my children and annoy them by going, Christmas time is. And now I'm annoying people that are listening. So we had a very special guest, stopped by the house. Oh, yeah.

The other day for the boys. I'm texting this to Johnny D. Okay. Okay. You hired a Santa to come to your house? Is that the real one? No, this is one of Santa's helpers that spreads Christmas joy before. That looks joyful.

Before Christmas Day. and my man Jackson full of Christmas joy just struggling man he's struggling no the guy dressed as Santa here is a very good family friend of ours and he does this during the holiday season

for folks and every time he does when he's dressed up he calls and like hey are the boys awake we'll stop by so that's awesome he dressed he was already doing another deal and he come by and the cars that you see them clenched so tightly in their hands is what he gave

them. Whalen got him an orange car and Jackson got him a red car. But no, Jackson was, man, he's my little socialite, but not with people in costume, apparently. The beard was too big. Yeah, I would have lost a lot of money on that interaction. I was expecting Wayland to be headed for the door and Jackson about, oh, yes, man, he's tied.

Yeah. And so Jackson was like, he finally broke down some trust issues. and walls with him and, you know, it just took a minute. I give you that where he's hugging him. So he finally hugged and kissed Santa Claus. But yeah, it was just, it was very strange because, man, I would have pegged Waylon for that one. And not, yeah, not Jackson. It was, but Whelan just went to him.

He was like, oh, if this man's giving out cars. I'm in. I'm in. Yeah. If he's giving out cars that make noises, I'm in all that. So, no, that was fun, man. It's, it's fun. And we're going to have Christmas here at Duck Commander, too.

So I'm going to bring them up here where we have a Santa Claus. You know who you should get? I do know who I should get. I should get our guest that's coming on here in a little bit. Mr. Mack Owen, Johnny Dees. My uncle is a bona fide Santa. Bonaf, a card carry member of the American Santa Claus Association. I don't know if that's what they're called.

It's even called like the real bearded American Santa Claus Association. Really? Look, Santa run a tight ship. Yeah. You don't get all around the world in one night without having some rules and regulations. And without having some help from your friends, right? Yeah. You need people to stand in the gap while you're finishing up the toys and doing all the things.

So he bit, look, side, look at Mac. Wow. Look at Owens. Wow. So you've got to find some people to lock it down for you. And, you know, you got to pass some rigorous testing. That's a good Santa and good elves. What about that one elf?

with a little stash. I don't know about the else. I ain't trying to help but one's my uncle. They're a dime a dozen. Do you know the other one? No. Oh, okay. I said the Denver Mall.

If you're in the Denver, we're going to talk to Mac about it here in a bit. If you're in the Denver mall, go see my uncle. Yeah. No, that is cool. He's helping out Santa Claus this year. That is a cool.

That's a, I did send you one of Santa and his special elf. Oh, my word. Oh, there he is, boys. That's the grumpy elf. sexual. Sa. I got questions.

Is that you? That's Phil. Oh, wow. Who are the two ladies? Hey. It's not Christine and it's not Alicia. So I got a question. Well, it was a party.

We had a Christmas party. Me and Sai had to go as Santa Claus and the Elfs. I almost not been feeling good that day. Look at that look. Yeah. Yeah. You're probably hungry. Oh, hey.

Elf, why are you mad? I wasn't pretty good at the day. Si, you do know that there's a book out there that exists. It's called like Uncle Si, the Christmas elf, right? That's it. Si's mad about Christmas. You look like Uncle Si, the IRS elf or something. Like, I don't, I mean, like, you like your taxes are passed through or something.

I don't even know what to think of. I've never seen that. You must have just woke up. That's what it looks like. What? Hey, I really don't because you love smiling. Phil's smiling so big you can even get through the face. Did you see my machete on the side there?

Yep, there it is. What is that? I had a machete in case I got in any trouble. Look at size shoes. That's what it is. It's just like the ranch. Size shoes were too tight and his head wasn't screwed on just right. Yeah, because I know it's not his heart was too small.

Yeah. That is not the issue. It's not that his art is three sizes too small. It's that his shoes are too tight. And his head might not be screwed on. The hat might be too tight. A hat. Yeah, something.

Sa, you was just... He ain't liking something. Si was in a picture with two females. He ain't smiling and he ain't got his arm around with him. You're right. That's unusual. That is wild. Yeah, that may be the problem.

Yeah, you just woke up. And you're wearing candy cane pants. That's right. They aren't really that tight, though. They look kind of cozy. Were they comfortable? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. You still got them? I hope so. He is wearing the all-new Duck Commander's socks today. I gave that man two pairs of socks that day. He thought he won the moon. So we got them Duck Commander. Sox back, baby.

It's the way into Sy's heart. Sox? Yeah, absolutely. I still got a lot of the old Duck Commander socks. I got two pair of the green ones that I wear hunting just about every single day. Oh, no. Mine are like the ones with people's pictures. Yeah, no.

No, I went with a green ones with them. Like Phil, I got a pair of Phil's face on them socks. Yeah, so if you think you got everything Duck Commander, odds are you probably don't. Because we got socks now. Order you some socks. And don't forget, add them teacups. I did find one with size some eyes. There he is. He's happy now.

Oh, no. He's... Happy elf. You know why he got the microphone. Well, probably so. That's what makes Cy Robertson a happy elf. Give him the microphone. You over putting him in a corner. So many shoes.

Don't put Elfy in the corner. Don't put Elfy in the corner. That is... Wait, what is... Is that a palm tree? Like a blow-up palm tree? They're at a Christmas luau that says Rednecker than you on the backdrop.

Oh, my goodness. I got way more questions than me. Well, I will say. you have you hired Phil and size your Christmas entertainment, you are definitely rednecker than me. That's true. Okay, so then the real question, how was the food? Excellent.

Oh, it was so good. Was it? What did y'all eat? We ate the habachi. Habachi? For Christmas? Mm-hmm. I got a question.

It was redneck. That ain't... The only redneck hi-bachi is in the house of waffles. Yeah, that's Waffle House. Unless y'all was eating something scattered covered and tall. That was in Mississippi. And we went to a habachi grill right after that. Oh, it wasn't like cater.

Okay, I got you. Does Siah catch a shrimp? Yes, he did. Probably not in his mouth, though. I love when they cook in front of you on that flat top, though. It is fun. Yeah, if you did a good one, it's worth the show, man. Yeah, a little.

I always wanted to do that. What's that? Be a habocchi chef. So I did it. When I was a kid. Like, I wanted to do it as a job. He did it. So I did it on Duck Dynasty.

He did it on Duck. Oh, Duck Family Treasure. But those things are kind of like Hooters. You got to have a certain feature to work there as a Habachi chef. I love where you're going with this. We got to be Asian. Oh. Yeah.

Yeah. I know. He did the trick with a spatula. See. I don't want to. At Hooters, you ain't got to be Asian. I mean, you see where I was like, I thought you like. You got to fit a stereotype.

I thought you were going to say big hands or like, I didn't know where we were going. Coordination. Yeah. I don't like stereotyping. There's a white guy at the local Habachi. Yeah. I would be disappointed. I don't think that's wrong.

I think that's okay to say in 2024. There's certain jobs meant for certain people. I don't know if this can air. I'm willing for it to. So you're saying like, oh boy and the chosen has been typecast as Jesus, you're saying that Habachi chef should be typecast. I mean, like there's a prerequisite

in what you're doing, you know? It would make it more. more fun. Gotcha. Like, if that guy's doing the, if it's me up there, I'm like,

hey, everybody, here's a little Japanese Coca-Cola. And I'm like, this isn't fun. So since we're going down that room, if you had to type

cast a Waffle House cook, what would you go with? I could do that. You could do that. I could do that job. Have tattoos in prison. Could you? Is a prerequisite.

Redd there. Well, and as long as somebody else is dropping me off, then I've covered all the bases to be. Community service. A Waffle house.

I'm going to have to leave that watch at home. If there's not a police car in front of it, I'm not even stopping. Hold on. Here's the deal, though. Everybody likes to make jokes about Waffle House like that, but when you go in there, they got their years on their name badges. And you see, like, some people have been doing that for like 14, 15 years. Yeah, I was always wondering if that's how many years they've been there or how many years they got left, you know?

On the work release. Yeah, I've never asked for the math equation. It's actually a token of sobriety. Is it? That's cool. You read it on there. That's awesome. Oh, I thought, no, they got like how many years they worked there, though, too. Do they?

Yeah, for sure. Gotcha. I think so. I was just at Waddle House recently. I love that place. Speaking of token of sobriety, we have got our good friend, an original duckman. Chip Knight. And a global leader.

Universal director. Universal director of Celebrate Recovery. Johnny D's uncle. Mack Owen stopping in for the next couple of segments. So I hope y'all enjoy and we'll see y'all. Once Mac heads out. So we'll be back right after this. All right, look, springtime is here.

It's warming up. You know what that means. That means more outside cooking. And y'all know, we love to eat beef around here. And that's what because of our friends over at Triedells beef makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sall Robertson would say, buy on the grill.

Look, before we got Triedails, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery store, do all the things, grab whatever was left. in case you were late in the day. And you never really know where that beef comes from. But with Tritails beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way. Triedales comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth generation American ranch. So they've been at it for a while.

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

you can taste the difference. The tenderness and the flavor are fantastic. So if you're stocking the freezer for grilling season, go check out Triedails beef. I know in size case, Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat. She isn't a big meat easier, folks. Yeah.

Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's trybeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. Why were you mad this morning? Welcome back to the duck call. Get it in fast. He's already done three segments. We have a guess.

It's my uncle, Mack. They've already preached the whole gospel. And ready, set, go. Hey, look, hey, I woke up this morning, okay, and I always go and turn on TV, and then I put in 0999-29-29-63. What? And that brings up, yeah, that brings up gospel music.

Well, hey. On your TV? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. What? It's, what, Syria? Syria? Syria?

Sirius. MX, yeah, MX. Yeah, yeah. Or XM. Yeah, RXM. But anyway, it brings up the gospel music and look, hey, no. No, it didn't do it. That's the message on XM-S-163.

It had some kind of stupid kids thing with a little boat coming down on water. That details? With the sound of like a waterfall. Uh-huh. You know what I'm saying? I'm saying, Christine, I said, what's wrong was this stupid TV? Yeah, I said, well, let me check the sports then.

I put it into my sports channel. That's gone too. So I'm saying, what in the world's going on? You ain't paid your bill? I don't know. I evidently. Wait, wait, is that the end of the story? Evidently.

My wife gets on the phone, she said, hey, look, y'all are killing my husband. And the lady said, what are you talking about? she said, y'all shut all the things off that he watches. Did they shut off PBS? Oh, hey, yeah, probably. That's a vital part of this podcast. I'm sitting there yelling at this stupid TV screen. Why are he yelling at it?

Because he won't do what I want to do. It won't bring out my music. I won't bring up football. You know, well, hey, she got on the phone in about 30 minutes, all this junk and, you know, all the questions, all this, and then finally. She said, well, it'll be done by 11. So I look, Christine, and said, well, let's 1130.

Try it. So hey, boom, turn on, hit 09963. I said, great work, darling. Good job. Can't beat a good woman. Yeah, hey, I've tell you. You got to have a lot more. God knew what he was doing when he told you that, hey, Adam needed a help me.

Because the serious XM on his TV, he wasn't working right? I was saying, they saw this day coming. No, they had to hear it through the grapevine. Hey, Cy, I got one thing to say about that. What? I thank God every day for women, good, godly women who have questionable taste in men. Well, I know four of them. That's right.

I know at least four of them. They take care of us, right? Well, no, no. Hey, look, I don't say this. I said, look, if it was up to the male, I said, hey, this planet would have nothing living on of a human because hey there ain't no way we're going to go through all the changes they go through with childbirth I don't think so

no hard pass yeah they always talk about the weaker sex that's a big ha ha ha okay well you're tough oh no I'm just joking yeah I know you are okay no I look just hey think about what life would be without if we didn't have our ladies. Well, I wouldn't have made it here, nor would any of you.

Yeah. Amen to that. But anyway, that's fantastic. Mike, to pry in on you a little bit, what brings you to town this time, friend? Welcome back to Westman, run. Yeah, yeah. Duck cotton, you heard the duck hunting was so good, you decided you'd come back and cook biscuit?

That's exactly right. Well, I remember them dated. Let me tell you right now, if you went duck up with us, that's all you be doing is cooking business. Well, that's not much difference in Colorado. There ain't no ducks up there, man. There's some big game up there. It's pretty fun to chase around.

And taste better, too. Oh, man, do they? I don't know if you guys are suave in anything, but I suveed a mule deer backstrap the other day, and my son-in-law thought it was the best piece of beef filet he'd ever eaten. Really? It thing was good.

Had any horse radish sauce on it, you know. You ruined it for Martin. You lost me. Martin's afraid of horse rash. I lost me. I just don't understand that that stuff called on. Because he said he shot one of them mule deer. And he said,

they ain't like a white tail. White tail is really good, but that mule deer was not, you know. Depends on where they're at. If they're lower country than I am, they need a lot of sage and they're really strong. Where I'm at,

there's no sage and all they do is eat grass. So I loves a sage. Now he put a whole bottle in the dressing. Well, hey, look, I like a little of, you know, you like a lot of it. Well, I know,

but they say it's just, too light. Yeah, there's a difference between a little and a lot, though. Well, no, no, because that's, well, no, it ain't a lot. Okay, Mac. I mean, it's got a good flavor. But I never realized what a chore it is to cook if you cook, you know, like a couple of casserole dishes worth of dressing. Yeah. Hey, that's a workout.

Yeah. Expect it for a 76-year-old man. I guarantee you. Cutting up all the bell pepper and onions and, you know, then mixing all, let my wife cook the cornbread, you know, crops it up, you know. But anyway, what brings me to come? What brings you back? Louisiana.

Yeah, well, I always love coming home, first of all. This will always be home. But our Celebrity Recovery at White's Fair Road Church had their 20-year anniversary. That's awesome weekend. So I got to speak at that about legacy, passing down a good, healthy legacy on Friday night, and then I got to preach on Sunday morning. So you just have come time been working. That's right.

I've been working for that minute down. Working the whole time. I didn't hear the recovery. I didn't hear his Sunday sermon. It was good. I was it. It was good. Okay.

I heard it was real good. No. You know, people make religion too complicated. Okay. And the human race is taking the word religion and destroyed it where it's not even recognizable. Religion is very simple. It's light. It's about light and darkness.

And it's about life and death. The worst problem about all that is John and Paul, two apostles, both said that what does light have in common with darkness? And they said absolutely nothing. The two cannot be joined together. But as humans, we seem to want to get in the middle of that and somehow get in a gray area.

We're bad fence stradlers. We really are. Yeah. And God says there's none of that. Speaking of believing in something. 20 years ago. CR. CR.

That's incredible, though, that we're there. So that's what you were doing 20 years ago. You were starting CR here. and now you're, what's your technical title? Universal director? Yeah, universal. Global, global liaison. Cosmic director.

He's the cosmic director. Just in case we find life on Mars, if they do that, I'll be there. It's going to go the week in and preach. And I don't know if you know the number. Probably don't. How many thousands have? Well, over 6 million people have gone through a step study

in celebrate recovery. Over 37,000 churches are using the material. 37,000 churches? Yeah, so quite a few people. That's pretty impressive. Six million. That's pretty impressive. And that's not six million lives that have been touched

because then you extrapolate from that. That's six million people that bought in and said, I'm going to commit to a 12-week study. Because they got better, their families benefited from that. And so the number goes out exponentially from that. Yeah, that's incredible. The beauty of Celebrity Recovery is we help people do exactly what we were talking about in that text earlier in Hebrews about throwing off where he says you're now surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses.

So throw off everything that hinders you. Anything. Yeah, anything. Enders you. Get rid of that garbage. So speaking of that part, my dad, this lady was telling my dad this really cool story the other day. And she was like, this church down the road from here that a long time. time ago this man came in and and he had been uh you know he had been a drug addict and he finally just

walked up front and told the whole church at one sunday and said i'm tired of living this life and everybody walked down there and can you help me and she was telling my dad this story and he goes yeah it's my brother i know that cat and she was like are you for real so like she didn't know you but she'd heard the story of like all this forgiveness and throwing off everything that hindered you back then and now the life you're living now and she was just amazed to tell people about that story and it was like it's funny to think about because to her it was like almost folklore like this amazing story she'd heard about and she was telling your brother like and i was cracked me up i don't know if he told you that bark but it was no he did do i could i could see the look on big day's face

too he's sitting there taking it all in he just let her go oh yeah that's my brother oh matt i know no no no right you know the interesting thing that's about that is at that time the whites fair road church where we were going really didn't know what to do with yeah they didn't have no idea i mean they they actually said you're our first drug act we don't know quite what to do with you um i was just the first one ever said anything actually there was plenty of them out there you were just the first admitted one right right you knew everybody else in there oh i knew it yeah i knew them man and so um but so so they didn't know what to do but they did say the little old lady came up to me one night she goes you need to go to a-a-a-a

And I said, is that like a car club? She says, no, that's AAA. You need AA Alcoholics Anonymous. So that's where the church sent me. And then the irony of ironies, A.A. sent me right back to the church. And so that's why I ended up. I didn't know what to do either.

Well, yeah, well. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and that's the thing about, I love secular recovery because they're helping people get sober. Unfortunately, they don't have near as good retirement program as Celebrate Recovery does. You know, we have an eternal retirement. program so yeah i need to say do i just had a brainstorm so like the army has all these veterans that are dealing with all their traumas okay do you keep going on that and i'm going to tell you

something in just a minute yeah so we need to start something because like you know how's a doctor okay that's just he's been in books all his life how's he's going to have a veteran that's had to kill kids. Right. Well, He don't know what to do. And here's what we got. In Celebrity Recovery, we have a part of our ministry now called Welcome Home. You know who that's for? Yeah. Veterans. Every one of them. We have a whole arm now. Okay. Okay. Celebrity Recovery that only deals with veterans. How cool is that? Yeah. Yeah. I passed. I passed. I think you found a guest speaker. That's right. That's right. Or a spokesman even. Because we lose him too many.

That's right. Every day. Every day thousands are losing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So if you are listening to this because you do love Uncle Si and you are a veteran, A, we thank you. But if you are in any struggle whatsoever, check out what Max's talking about because we love you and we want the best for you. And just go to celebrate recovery.com. You'll find everything you need to know on there. You can find out if you go to the About tab, you'll see the different ministries that we have on there and what them is called Welcome Home. Paul would say, that God says, I want to do more than you can ask or imagine. But that's not true. That's not what it says. It says, immeasurably more than all you can. So whatever you can think up,

he says, I'm going to do so much more. You can't even think of what he can do for you. You really can't. I mean, one day you may look up and you be a mall Santa. Bump, you know.

I mean, I'll be waiting. I'm already. Thank you, Mark. Did you have? I'll be a TV star in the whole world. calls you uncle. That's right.

Yeah, but that's old news. Yeah. I have your retirement plan. And he's working for the big guy from the North Pole. That's right. You're representing my man. That's right. That's right.

I was actually recruited into the international real bearded Santa Claus's of America. You are accepted, my man. And y'all go out and you send it all back to the head honcho. Oh, yeah, yeah. We take the list up and then set it back to the big guy at the North Pole. We're as helpers, but, you know, I'm just like a, I'm an ambassador. Ah, that is so. Do you have any idea that's one of my, like, dreams in life whenever I go gray to just go around as a Santa's helper?

But you got to have the hair, too, because he's got the perfect Santa hair. Yours is straight. It don't, it don't have. That's only given to a few people. I'm serious. Yeah, because most people don't know what to do with. I'm serious, you know, because I had a lady in Kentucky, went to church with it. And she had the most beautiful white hair, okay?

And I mean, like yours, it's full. It ain't falling out. Well, he's my uncle. Well, no, no. Hey, this man used to have a fro. So did my dad, and I didn't get it. Well, I'm just saying, okay. You got you, Mom's straight.

Hey, look, look, here. I just got to clear some of what you just said, Sigh, all these little old ladies have and look, they all come up to me, these conferences that I do. Yeah. And they're like, oh, I love your hair. They're so weird. I look at them. I look at them.

I say, it's just like yours. I know, he's jealous. I have little old lady here. Yeah. Yeah. You have a little quasi-permed white hair. Oh, yeah. I love it.

Earl's. Yeah. Yeah, but that's the difference. They perm theirs. I don't. Mine was given. Yeah. God-given.

So, Mall Santa, I got. You were, you were actively recruited. Look at it. I was actually recruited from a. Hey, drafted. Get it right. He was drafted. Hey, not only was I recruited, I had to pass a background check.

Oh, I would hope that that would be a prerequisite in today. So he's not at our mall. It's just better than I. Did they look BC? Because that's a different. I was kind of concerned. You tell them a big change happened right around. About 1992.

Oh, but hey, guys, I give you when to start. When you start the background check. Yeah. Go back. Yeah, you go past that. I ain't ever qualify for nothing. Well, I'll say this. When they first called me, they said,

we want you to go to New York for two months. What? Are you kidding? I said, let's do something a little more local first to make sure that I can, you know, pass the whole test of having kids that many kids and all. So they put me in a big fancy mall up in Denver. And so on the weekends, I will be Santa Claus up there and I'll have my whole helpers.

I got two very luxurious velvet suits that they made. Oh, padding. It's a real deal, man. You're going to be, now, I mean, I feel like I have to fly the boys to a mall in Denver so.

I'll have a fixed shake. They could sit in max. I don't like taking shots at local things from around here. but you're better off going to Denver than you are staying here. Mack, do you have a rate? Can we book you? Is there like a rate card on this? Friends and family rate, you know.

We're going to have them at the honey hole. Here in the week. It's out there in a parking lot in a camouflage one. There you go. There is one really good Santa in town. He doesn't do the mall. No, he's coming to Duck Commander on December the 14th, yeah. What?

It's the same one we have for Duck Dynasty that time when we did that, right? He's the legit guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like Mac. He's been vetted and tested. Yeah. Well, that's a church Sunday morning. They had the announcements at White's Faye Road.

And they said, hey, special day in two weeks, Santa Claus is going to be here at White's Faye Road. So when I got up to give my servant, I said, hit your lucky day, I'm here. I'm early. And I got a car here. He said, go right. Santa Claus is out of here.

I just didn't know that there was a whole recruitment. Like, did somebody submit a headshot of you or something? I was doing a conference at one. of our Celebrity Recovery conferences that we have all over the United States, and somebody saw me and said, here's another Santa Claus. And so evidently he got some funds for recruiting me or, you know, turning me in, you know. Oh, man. It's kind of like Santa might be running a pyramid scheme.

Multi-level marketing, yeah. Yeah. I didn't have to put any money into this. That's good. That's okay. That's good. But you can use code Mac 10 to save 10% off of your. Oh, man.

Well, Mike, thank you so much for joining us today. It is always our pleasure. We left you with like 18 Bible verses. Yeah, there's a bunch of them. But if you have one that's, you know, on your heart, on your mind, we would love for you to close us out with a verse for all of our listeners. And please, when you come back post, is this your inaugural Santa season? It is.

Okay. When you come back post Santa season, I want to know. Okay. I just, we're going to need an update of support. And I'm sure Mary will send some pictures and stuff too. Okay. Yeah. Sister Mary, you just send them all. Okay. And then no doubt about it. I have a verse that is with me right now. It's Colossians 1, 13, 14. It says, for He God has rescued us.

And that's not one of us, some of us, it's all of us. He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the sun he loved. of Jesus in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of all our sins. Amen. Jesus is the light of the world. Amen. Amen.

My uncle Mac's the best. Oh, Mac is awesome. Mac is goals, right? I mean, minus the BC part. I mean, I'm glad. No, that is, well, no, that part. But it wouldn't be, it wouldn't be this part without that part too. So like, you know, Mac is.

You want to end up. how Max ended up. Yeah, that's right. Agreed. The jolliest man on earth. Agreed. Yeah. From the North Pole.

Who gets paid for it? Well, the coolest thing about it is, though, okay, is how one man, you can't, one man can make a different. That's right. Oh, ain't no doubt. Yeah. Okay, because everybody's always saying, no, you can't. Yeah.

That's bull. I'm too far gone. Yeah. That's bull. Because, hey, one man does make a difference. Max's awesome. Because I think Mack would tell you, too, ain't nobody been further gone than he's. was.

And Mary, you got to give her credit. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's been extremely transparent in all the duck blind conversations and everything through the years and all the Celebrate Recovery stuff he does. You would be struggled to find somebody as lost as Mr. Owen was. You know, so that back is cool. And now he spreads joy through Celebrate Recovery and via the Denver Mall.

Via the Denver Mall. Good thing it's not the Denver Airport. That's a whole different podcast. Oh, boy. I got, I do have one email. Yeah, go ahead. Fire away. What we got?

And I wish Mack was still here because he'd be a great addition to this one. But I think we can all help out. Oh, Joe emails in. Joe? Uncle Joe. Not my uncle Joe. He's from Evansville, Indiana. Okay.

And he asked the preacher's daughter out to a dance. Uh-oh. See, why did you say, uh-oh? Because I don't know this because this either going one way or the other, and I don't really know. Now he's kind of freaking out. Well, yeah. Because the dance is less than two weeks away. Like, are you trying to learn how to dance in two weeks?

That's not going to happen. If all goes well, he'd like to ask her out again. But we're 15 and we can't drive by ourselves. Okay. Do you have any advice on where to take her? Uh. You're 15. Take her to church, bro.

Yeah, church. Where are you going to go? Duck hunt. Duck hunting? Yeah, get a ride to the park in Evansville, Indiana. Yeah, I mean, duck on be trash. I was just trying to think of something where adults are going anyway. I was trying to think of something to not make it inconvenient.

Oh, y'all, 15, y'all go see Moana too. That'd be tight. Why are you laughing at? Hunter's already seen it. They're from Evansville. They canceled Disney. I'm just, what do you think, Sal? Where should he take the preacher's daughter?

They're going to a dance, so, I mean, they're clearly a different breed of Christian than I was growing up. Because dances were the devil. Oh, yeah, they got to be Baptist. Hey, we were good dances. Can Baptist dance? Yeah. Can Baptist dance? Can we?

Yeah, I don't know. Can we? All right, so you got that going for you. You can dance. You can dance if you want to. I would just ice cream. This is always a safe bet. Pizza?

You can't do that, not with the preacher's daughter. Well, you don't have to ask the question. Just ask her if she wants to go eat pizza. And she says no. If she says no to pizza, you run anyway. Yeah, you got to go, man. Like, that ain't, that ain't okay. Actually, you should do it.

She's a preacher's daughter. She's dying to have some fun. Look her in the eyes and say, you want to go get a pizza and make out? Just deliver it well, my friend. They're 15? 15. Backer to the prom.

Oh, I like that. To a dance. Well, that's where they're going already. Well, hey, I'm talking about the high school prom. We got to discuss something, actually. We have not covered this epidemic that has happened to our country. and,

Sai, you don't know about this. When you went and asked the girl to prom or whatever it was you may have gone to, what did you say? Will you go to prom with me? I just went up and said, hey, babe, you know, hey, prom's coming up. You want to go with me? No, he said, Miss Davis, where you go to me?

Is that the teacher? No, no. That's varsity blues. Come on, man. I know what he's getting, though. Uh-huh. Okay, hey, today, this stupid little thing called a cell phone. Yep.

No, no, no. Oh, yeah, because you got a report. You got to record stuff. They work harder on asking girls to prom than I asked Allison to marry me. Yeah. And they video it. Right. Post it for the whole world.

You'd be shocked, sir. It's got to be like super over the top. Yeah, they're recording. Yeah. You know, we got to make a special video. Have you seen this, Martin? I just made cool signs. See, he had to make signs and he's already old enough that's weird.

They all said no to me. Yeah, it's like a big dance and a big. production. Wait, what? You made signs and they said no? My senior year, I made two signs. Yeah. And asked two different girls and they both said no to me. For the third girl, I didn't make a sign and just asked her out and she said yes. Well, that's a, see, that's a good thing. No, that's a good sign. That's a good sign. That's a good sign. Two signs bad. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, because I look, I've had, matter of fact, I had a young lady talk to me somewhere that I went out for an event. And she said, What's wrong with me? What's wrong with it?

Because nobody was asking this girl out. And I said, hey, you're too fine. I said, the boys around you are scared. Have confidence problem. Yeah. I don't think anybody in this room. They just think, well, okay, she's so pretty, she won't go out with me. Yeah, they ain't none of themselves.

Hey, you big dummy, that's the ones I go for her. Yeah. I got turned down to go to, we didn't have prom because dancing is of the devil. We had junior senior, senior. Yeah. I got turned down. Really?

How you like me now, girl? What's her name? Saying it. Oh, why not? She's a local, I see, her kids go to school with my kids. Be weird. That is weird. That's a tough one.

Yeah. You're already in trouble with school. So, Hunter, I needed to put a pen in something here. The girls that told you know, did you see them at prom? Since you, in fact, went? only weirdly quiet one of them only one okay so one wasn't going so that's not as bad and one just didn't want to go with you one didn't want to go with maybe she was already going

like in fairness on the one that you asked and said no was that like I'm just going to shoot my shot here I really like that girl huh I really liked that girl at the time yeah I just found out the other day actually she said no to me because her she knew her parents would say no because Hunter's a bad boy. They know Hunter. His reputation. Okay. So there was some mutual likeness.

I just didn't know that at the time. Okay. Are you going back for it? Because why did you just now find this? Because you're like, how old are you? I am 24. Yeah. You're a long way removed from prom.

So why? And now y'all, now you're like, remember when we should have gone to prom together, girl? Y'all still talking. I update. I'm single again. That is enough, right? You need to sing Toby Keith's so.

How do you like it? Why do you like me now, baby? I was, I was broken up with, and then my friends were like, here, let's set them up with someone else. That's good thing. And it was the girl that said no to you at prom. And it was the girl that said no to me at prom. Oh, that's a tough.

You got to get better friends. No, we just need to move to a bigger town. But yes. Oh, my God. But can I say something? What did she say this time? She said yes. We're going to go look at Christmas lights tomorrow.

Really? There you. Hey, all right. Whoa. You know what's about a Christmas? like Johnny's Pizza? Thank you. Can we say something though about all the email?

Yeah. Hunter. Hunter ain't scared, y'all. Oh, no, he shoot a shot. That's why I was asking the situation. You need a heart monitor on me. I am terrified, but I'll shoot my shot. Say, shoot you shot.

Young men that listen to this podcast that email in are nervous as crap. Shoot you shot, man. Look at Hunter Jones. Am I allowed to say your last, you've been saying it. Hunter Jones is the man. I live by the motto period in life. The worst thing they can say is no. Is no.

And slap you. Move on. And she ain't the only fishing in the sea, boy. But they might just say yes. Yeah. Look at Hunter. Hunter's going back to prom. Hunter, are you taking a sign with you tomorrow?

Do not. Please don't. I should recreate the sign. No, you should. No, you should. No. No. Bed flags.

Bed flags. All right. No, no. No signs, Hunter. She said no because of the signs. No, because then that's going to later to think, oh my God, he remembered. Hey, you used the Lord on that. I'm like, you ain't getting the sign, Jack.

All right, signs are out. And if I can make a suggestion, let's not bring that up again. No, I totally agree. After I, it was, it was, you know, she was there. Just first name. What's her name? Kylie. Who?

Kylie. Kylie. Okay, that's cool. Hi. And here you go. Kylie, welcome to the duck call room. part of the family now. Good for you.

I don't even remember the last girl's name. She's out. Hey. I don't even know who she was. Thank you. Look at Hunter. See how far you make it down.

I wish we had a Hunter camp. Ladies and gentlemen, Hunter is the shade of red. Well, good for you, but I'm happy for you, man. Just get right back in the saddle, big doll. Christmas lights.

He didn't get right back in the saddle. I didn't want to. I've been broken up with for a good month, but my friends were like, there's this girl that you knew. You still got you all. home place. Like, hey, you got a lot of things going for you, big dog.

I love it. No, that's awesome. Hey, but wait till after Christmas. You ain't got to get no gift. No, that's just cheap me talking. I'm sorry. That's just cheap me talking. I'm sorry.

That's the difference. I would actually do that because I was the opposite of, I'm going to get her something cool so she really likes me and then they dump you. So be like Martin in this. Be frugal. Be frugal. A little bit of frugalness go a long, long, long way. But preachers kids, where do they go?

Oh, we send them to eat pizza. Okay. They're going to get pizza. And if it does bad, he's going to be like Hunter and just. Go see some Christmas lights. Turn his sights elsewhere and just keep hopping back in the saddle. I mean, I don't know much about Evansville, Indiana, other than I tried to fly in there one time, which was next to impossible. I've been there.

Yeah. And so they're pretty, it's pretty small. Like, it's like right across the river from Louisville. No, not Louisville. From Kentucky. Yeah. Oh, go to the zoo. In the winter?

there's no zoosies in martin. ain't it cold though? I ain't trying to walk around and look at them animals being cold. Yeah. They move more in the winter. Yeah, because they're not burning up.

Okay. In the baking and the sun. There you go. Rocky and Adrian did it. Ohio rivers right there. You go not catch a fish. Wow. So rude.

That river's a tough place fish, man. You read everything about it. That place is hard to catch one. Ohio River. Like the Washah. Yeah, like the Washaw. Well, Washdaw just ain't got no water in it.

That's neither here. How you doing now that that tournament's been canceled? That's kind of a toughie, ain't it for y'all? 300 boats were coming to fish Washdaw River, then they moved it. Because the Corps of Engineers. Christmas is canceled due to the Corps of Engineers. The Corps of Engineers guide us again. They don't send him a video of Carter on Christmas morning.

Jerks. All they got was his book from the Book Fair. Thank you. That's all good. The Lord's blessed us. And we'll keep selling stuff to the, non-300 people that were just going to show up and we have a very captive audience. Yeah, from out of town.

Ah, we're good. Oh, man. I'm angry, but I'm good. Yeah. Well, that's a big deal, not even just for y'all for this whole town. So that's what really says about it. Local economy could have really grabbed a boost here right at the holiday season. Big good people eating out, hotels full, all the things.

All the things. But, you know, hey, whatever happens, happens for a reason. So the good Lord didn't want it to happen for now. We'll readjust, whatever that is. That's, yeah, interesting. Man, all the thing, all of the, yeah, I'm still stuck on Mac being Maw Santa, too, if I'm being honest. It's something that I'm going to think about every day for the next three weeks. You know, do you think your dad could be Maw Santa?

Nope. Nope. Nope. He ain't got your right of color hair. Actually, Big Dave's got perfect hair. Big Dave's just not quite as cuddly. Jolly. He's jolly.

Yeah. Is he, though? Not with you. He ain't cuddly. Well, Santa Claus got. I got to be cousin. Yeah, that's the deal. Like, I walked in the morning, me and Big Dave just sat down and started chatting.

Man, he was standing up. He pulled up a chair. I said, well, I reckon I sit here with him. And we waited on Johnny D. to get to work. Yep. He wasn't that far behind me, though. It was.

It was good. No, it's fun. I found a new line that I told him I was going to steal. Oh, no. Somebody tells you something you don't want to do. Big Dave, look at him and said, I'd rather have polio. It's Big Dave's line. Yeah.

One day he's going to catch polio. It's going to be really bad. Yeah, then it's going to come back on him. Because I don't think most of the time he means it. No. Awful. But it's such an old disease. Most people these days don't even know what you're talking about.

You know what? I hear him say that often, and I don't know what polio does to people. Yeah. How do you get you? I think it's gone, right? Mm-hmm. Good for us. Didn't we eradicate that one?

Way to go, America and the world. Yeah, we eradicated him. You can talk about a good time to be alive. I don't think he's a thing anymore. But maybe. Yeah, I'm no expert on polio. Did you, were you the age where they just walked around school and gave you that shot or whatever? Right here.

Yeah. Like a little circle. People say, some people say they still got the little circle in. Oh, yeah, you're going to have it for life. Yeah, like, you get that in school. Like you walked up at schoolhouse and they pop. Oh, they've just, you know. Got the little needles. They got the little scar.

Yeah. It leaves a scar. Yeah. A little scar or a circle scar. You'll have it forever. Yeah. That's interesting. that's one of them weird facts you remember i don't have that oh oh they start walking around with needles in my school i'm leaving school hey don't worry they wouldn't let y'all dance chance of

needles coming through there still can't dance either oh they still is that why they have silent disco or whatever it's called yeah is that what that's about my son went to a birthday party yesterday that was a silent disco of all third graders he came home because dad you know what my favorite song was ice ice baby and i was like you didn't give any time to guess and B, a bunch of third graders were listening to Ice Ice Baby and dancing on with headphones on. That sounds actually kind of fun. Really? Yeah.

It's a new thing. They all listen to the same song? You put headphones on and you all get in a room and they listen to the same song and they just dance. We should try it. Is that better for you? I like it. Just playing over to speakers or? I assume it's for the people without headphones to laugh at you.

Ah. That's what I want to do. And the teachers know that you're preoccupied. Yeah. Yeah, right. Silent discos. It's a thought. Silent disco.

And y'all, are they like Bluetoothable headphones? I guess. Oh, you got to, like, get a whole company. Oh. Because there's, like, a hundred kids. Okay. And they all get their own headphones. So this is a business.

This is a business. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's a silent disco business. Everybody knows about it. John Travolta. John Travolta. He would have crushed it in a silent disco party.

That's interesting. Well, there you go, folks. You never know what you're going to hear on this deal, but. That's what you got today. Johnny D. You got a Bible verse you want to do. Mac already sent us out with one. Oh, did he?

Yeah. I forgot. What was it? It's a couple days ago. Well, Mac didn't send us out with a verse. He sent us out with a whole chapter. Yeah, well, like seven of them, yeah. Hunter, call it back to that.

Yeah, there you go. All right. Enjoyed it, y'all. We will see y'all. Also, hold on. Before we get gone, ladies, if you're interested in Hunter, email me. Hello at Duck Call room. We're not doing that.

Can they leave a message on our voicemail? Ladies, leave a message for Hunter. there's a girl at the very first email named Talia I think you two would hit it off you should check her out if your date doesn't go well goodbye I'm going to sell worms yeah all right we'll see y'all next time we're out like how hunter starts yelling no like he doesn't have the power to just totally take it out