Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Defies Doctor's Orders & Risks His Health to Help a Kid

Episode Date: November 21, 2023

Uncle Si's dance moves make a kid's day at a fundraiser with Phillip McMillan. John-David and Martin decide that they’ve got beef with Thanksgiving turkey and poorly behaved family members. John-David and Si give a quick PSA on how NOT to burn your house down when frying a turkey, and the boys discover a new cranberry sauce commercial that has some of them wiggling and giggling. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, welcome back, folks. Welcome back. Welcome back. Hey, what's up, fellas? We got old Philip McMillan, the villain that was stealing on Duck Dynasty. I'm glad to see you're doing okay. I was worried about you, Johnny Dean. I'm fine.

We're not even going to talk about it. We've talked about it enough already. Stone gave me the stink eye the whole time. He did? Yeah, I told me I needed to go wrestle people that way it wouldn't happen again. I don't know. I'm just kidding. I'm fine.

I love that Phil and Sire wear matching shirts. Hey. Mine's a little nicer. Oh, coffee flying in. Hand-delivered coffee for Sime for this episode. Man, good for you. Grief. Hey.

We're starting to get on a trend here, people hand-delivering pies and now coffee. Oh, you missed that episode. Yeah. I hate you didn't get none of K, sweet potato pie, but. I'm hating it, too. Where's it at? Yeah. It's gone.

It's gone. I hate it all. It's gone. How does she make pie that good? Because it's made with love. Over years. She loves what she's doing. Now, wait a minute.

I did get to eat Ms. Kay's squirrel and dumplings. How about that treats? Over the weekend, it was excellent. Squirrel and dumplings are awesome. Did you pop any of them heads open? Did I? Hey, I had that spoon. Paya!

You know, what's wrong with chicken and dumplings? You had you some tree oysters? I do like chicken and dumplings. But Ms. Kay was, she was sitting there eating the brains, wasn't she? In front of us. Mm. So. Squirrel brains.

That's Phil. That's why she's so squirley. It's a squirrel brain. She's connected with them, huh? That's it. So what you boys been up to? Y'all been traveling everywhere. Where are y'all been gallivanting off to?

Well, we headed to Houston, Texas. Okay. For an annual event that the quarterback of the Houston Oilers. Dan Pastorini. And Pastor Rini, he does every year. Okay. And Randy Byer, with the pipeline people. Eagle.

Yeah. When I was the ambassador for his pipeline, you know, got me hooked on that. It's for special need kids. Let me read a little bit more than that. You know, it's a charity, be an angel. Okay. Be an angel. dot org yeah and uh they've been serving limited income children with special needs from birth

to 22 years old since 1986 that's pretty awesome you know so it is and they raise you know these are a hall of fame people celebrities show up all that you know and uh they raise a lot of money because like they got kids that are deaf you know hearing aids for them and all this you know but they got all of it and uh they had a live band there okay and tanner he's in a uh specially built wheelchair for him he can run that chair oh yeah he running and he he's zooming everywhere since he can't speak he's got a uh a computer to type what when he wants to talk to you yeah you know well Me and him, the band is playing Chris Stapleton's Tennessee Whiskey.

Okay. He comes out and look, he's spinning that thing around and dancing in that wheelchair. Okay. And me and him locked eyes, I'm singing with the band. We got a video. Oh, yeah. We got a video. Yeah.

Okay. So look, I'm singing with the band. Well, he comes over to me. So I start dancing with. He literally was trying to come. out of that wheelchair. Oh, man. Okay, and the reason I thank me and him when we locked eyes, we connected.

I've always said, I'm a 17, I'm a 14-year-old kid in a 75-year-old body. Well, that kid, okay, special needs, okay, he can't talk, okay, but he can hear. He has eyes so he can see. Yeah. Okay, so he's literally, okay, like I feel. Yeah. He's trapped in a disabled body, you know, but he's aware of everything going on. And look, here's the thing that always gets me.

That's a good one. This charity is Be an Angel, okay, and they always put on the song that Randy Owens, the lead singer of Alabama, sings, there are angels among us. He has no reason to smile. But every one of them I've ever seen are always, a big smile. My man got them Chuck Taylor's on, too. I like that.

That's awesome, man. But Dan and his charity do a, this has been going on for like 15, 15 years, okay? Yeah. And he's raised over like $2 million for all these kids. So be an angel.org if somebody wants to get involved with it, that's cool, man. Yeah, it's actually a really good charity. And trust me when I say this, all the money goes for the kids, okay? to make their life better.

That's what the whole thing was about. That's cool. But it was a really nice, you know, we've been with them now for about, oh, what, five years? Yeah. Yeah. Well, as everybody knows, the kids, they got a soft spot in our heart.

I'm saying the fan, you know, from years gone by, like if you're in an airport and you try to stop me for a picture, you know, I may keep walking sometimes, like if I'm in a hurry, but if there was a kid involved, I'm saying if I'm missing a flight, not if I got a two-hour layover.

Like, please help me kill the time. But, you know, flying from Monroe, we generally, there's always some sort of delay. So you're always, whatever time you scheduled, you're generally in a hurry in the airports. But if there was a kid, I didn't care. Like, I was going to stop with a kid. Oh, I'm like Miss Plain. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I was standing there signed an autograph, take a picture.

They're fixing to close the door. Yeah. Like, hey, no, you wait a second. We got this kid. we're going to take care of and then we'll get down there but that you know the the kids are what make it worth it and um and i like the like-mindedness of it you know we've met some other celebrities and uh matthew mconehe's brother at rooster uh he's been on some different movies and he had his own show him and butch had their own show it was pretty good on a one of the channels

but anyway we've met some really great people matter of fact rooster went to the bathroom no i was just excited rooster gets up and has to go oh there he's a restaurant restaurant Look, his table spends about $100,000. While he's gone. He's got to come up with. They're raising his tab. I'll teach you. No, you know what he said when he said,

heck, if I'd have been here, I'd have spent $200,000. Uh-huh. But he's great. He's a big hearty guy. Oh, he really is. And we met so many Hall of Famers that I knew growing up when I'm, you know, the Dallas Cowboys had all these Hall of Famers, and then I'm getting to meet these guys.

So it's really cool. and like you said Martin, they all have a soft spot for kids. And so that's something else. I didn't know until I just read it here. Dan said him and the team used to go to all these special needs kids. And he said that was a highlight of his year for the whole team. Yeah. And I think we'd say the same about during the height of the show, we did basically make a wishes like once a month.

Yep. And they were gut-wrenchingly sad. But just like Tanner, every one of them always had a smile. Them kids had no reason to smile. No. None. That's what gets. Not one.

Yeah. And they all smile. Yeah. That's why I loved Randy Owens writing that song about there are angels among us. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. No, that's not kid ourselves.

The kids are the angels, not us. Right. That's it. That's the really cool part. Because you get to experience those deals. And it makes you wonder how people in life get to a point where They can't smile. Like, these kids got no reason to smile, and they are full of just pure joy.

Yeah. You know, and then you walk past somebody on the streets, got the biggest grimace on their face, and I'm like, well, hold on now. The shoes look all right. Them clothes look all right. Yeah, you got no reason. Like, you're walking, you know. Like, everything looks good. You were talking about some kid walked by me at church the other day and had a big scow on a fan.

I said, hey, smile. Life can't be that bad. Guarantee you. Stop busting on them. Well, no idea because I said, hey, smile, it can't be that bad. Well, she started out laughing. Yeah, that's what, hey, but the world needs more at, you know. I mean, that's just a good thing.

But I think sometimes we get caught and wondering about things we don't have, and these kids are the kings of focusing on the things that they do have. And they've got life, they've got happiness, they've got people that love them, and, you know, there's just all kinds of things. Well, I just say this. Hey, being an angel charity is the real deal. It is. And I want to thank Cheryl and Randy Byers with Eagle because they have a heart of gold. And like Toby and Renee and some of those guys, I mean, they've all, they're so like-minded and that's what I said, just giving back so much.

And I'm glad me and Cy are able to do that. Now, we do some other things, as you know, just in charity work. But this is absolutely one of our favorites. And look, I want to tell you something else. when when sye got up i know that sye can't breathe well and so you know he's got to have his oxygen and so when he got up i wanted to go grab him and say what are you doing but i saw him walking to that kid and i was like okay everything's okay but knowing how much that hurt sire to go and do that i was like i was emotional i was like oh my goodness sigh you okay and uh there wasn't a dry eye in the room and then all of a sudden there was just you know hundreds of people around sye and this boy Yeah, I've never seen anybody quite break it down like at the Tennessee whiskey now.

That's pretty good. That's kind of a slow jam, and y'all said, now, they did it. I like his time. When I touched his hands, he was literally, if he could have, he would have got out there and we'd been dancing. Yeah. Didn't need the motorized wheelchair. Yeah, no, that's awesome. Okay.

So we was getting into it. There you go. Well, hey, Stapled doesn't have that effect on you now. Oh, yeah. He's good now. Ain't no doubt about that. Let's take our first break. We'll be back right after this.

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Thanksgiving. I'm so thankful. Phil, am I wrong in thinking this may be one of your favorite holidays? No, you are exactly right. Because you know what comes with Thanksgiving. Leftovers. I love leftovers. We know you do. You put them in your backpack. You towed them around everywhere with you.

That's unfair. Why? Because I noticed you said unfair and not true. Y'all are teem enough on me. I will eat the leftovers. I mean, it's just as good as second, third, and fourth day. me. That is one thing about Thanksgiving. Like it generally, it, it takes longer than Friday to work through them. And look, it's a, when my mom makes turkey and dressing, and every once in a while,

I'll get a duck and put it in there if I give me one. I mean, I ain't going to go kill it. Yeah. But that is the best dressing. You can eat that like all week long. Oh, I love dressing now. It's going to be a lot of fun for me, too, because it's like the boy's first one, not their first. They were obviously here last year, but they couldn't, or taking any of it. But now it's going to be like cutting off little pieces of stuff and handing to them and seeing, I'm sure Wayland's going to look at everything like it's a bucket full of armpits because that boy don't really like trying anything. A bucket full of armpits. I mean, that's what he does to any new food.

He will get it like right here and then stick his tongue out like a lizard. And then he'll just make a god awful face. I'm like, you didn't even think about trying that. And you're like making this face like it tastes terrible. They don't grow out of that, by the way. Really? where they won't even like touch it to their tongue before they decide how it tastes. Benz will touch it to his tongue and start gagging like something just choking.

I'm like quit faking. But that's because I never like forced him to eat stuff. Yeah. He now, I feel bad about it because like Carter, we had a we had a showdown over some roast one time for about two hours in a high chair. I said, you're not leaving until you eat it. Yeah. And we sat there. Had that famous line?

That's a strong will dad. That famous line my grandmother had, you'll eat it or you're. will wear it. I don't really know what where it meant, but I believed her, so I ate whatever she put in front of me. I really, I didn't want to find out what the wear it part of it meant, but no, he'll just get it like right here.

And no. But they're going to get their first sweet potatoes with like sugar and stuff in them instead of them plain freaking sweet potatoes that they like to eat. That's one of them deals about it. It don't look right. I just think he's ornery. Because then you go back

like three, you go back like three days later, and put it in front of him and he'll just throw it in his mouth. I'm like, you little punk. Well, just, hey, strong will. You caught him in one of his mood. Jackson, on the other hand, I'll go in blindfolded like this. Eat whatever's that. Just eating everything in sight until, I mean, if he finds something he don't like, he's like, no.

But he at least tries it. It at least goes here before determination is made. So do you get all your family come together? No, I mean, you know, my brother lives in Johnsboro, Arkansas, and, so I pull your mic up a little bit, they're asking. But I didn't know any other way. Well, I had to drink coffee one ago. Yeah, but no, my brother lives in Jonesburg.

So we generally do Thanksgiving with another family, with the Holman and Holstead family a lot of times, just because it's like me and my mom and Brittany. And we generally all get together at Christmas. But my brother and them, they work. They're nurse and ethicists. So they do the on-call stuff for, holidays because their kids are a little bit older now.

And that way the people with the young kids can be there with their family. So they'll take one for the team on certain holidays and work those shifts and do all that kind of stuff. Well, my oldest is coming in from London. He's in the Air Force, Bryson. So I'm excited about seeing him. And then Amber will be there. I'm excited. But Blake is at Disney World working and he can't get off.

They don't shut down for nothing. I'll have to take him some leftovers. He's going to be on that Mickey Mouse. Are they opening on Thanksgiving Day? Although they probably are. Oh, they're thankful for every dollar. What does he do at Disney World? I don't know, but he's ready to get out of there.

Oh, it's no longer the happiest place he learned. He told side he didn't want to be an adult anymore. And then he said it sucks. No, yeah. Wait, does being an adult suck or does like working having to pay your own bills? Yeah, I'd pay your own bills. I don't disagree with that at all. But what does he do?

He's like, he, like, sending people on roller coasters or is he goofy? No, no, he works at one of the resorts. Okay. But still, I mean, it's work. But he's got, he's got the happiest place on earth attitude. Like, I would like for him to check me into a resort at Disney World. Yeah, he would do okay, I think. I would feel better.

I'd be like, man, that kid was happy. I think it's just maybe a culture thing, but now does, what about you and all your family? Does everybody come over to your place or do you go to your dads or what? You know, you know, my in-laws live three doors that way. my parents live three doors that way. We never know where we're going to. We just. It's like a Sunday.

We all get together. People start migrating. We go to Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is from Wednesday when I get off work until Friday when I go back to work. We just keep going to different places and grazing. Well, yeah. I know duck season open Saturday. So Phil's got all his ducks picked.

He's going to have them pretty belly up in a pot of dressing. So how you get to eat some of that? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm going there for a recession. Yeah. Saigon take his own sage shaker, too, and just add a little more. No, you can't do that.

I always tell them, you know, that's why they always, when if I show up, they said, you don't taste it. And the first thing I say to them, hey, you need to put a little more sage in it. It'll give it a way better flavor. No, he's like whaling. He don't even get it to his tongue for a sudden need a little more sage to it. Hey, I taste it, but hey, they always are a little light on the stage. Sagey side. Oh.

The only problem with Thanksgiving for me is, we're going to get to meddling here. At my in-laws family things, it's like they don't, they want it to always be leftovers. It comes out as leftovers? I don't, it comes out and then it sits there until everybody shows up. You don't eat it while it's hot. It's like, I don't know who we're waiting on. No. And I'm looking at it, I'm like, it's ready.

Yeah. And then it's still ready. waiting, no. Yeah, I and then it's still ready and we're, I don't know who and then like cousin Paul shows up and's like, okay, now we can eat.

And I'm like, well, now, we didn't. That's poor management. Yeah. Yeah, leftovers are great for Thanksgiving, but you also want the real deal. When it comes out, you got to eat it. That's poor manoeuvre.

You want that dressing so hot that it, is your borderline like first degree, second degree burns on your tongue. Oh, no, that's never happened at their house. Yeah. Yeah, see, that's a problem. So you never just busted in there and started eating? You need to invite me and Martin over.

Oh, I'm going to go graze on that ham as ASAP when I walk into a place for Thanksgiving. I'm about to go peel some skin off that baby. Trust me. See, they're fancier than my family, so it's like, I don't know what I'm about doing this. I'd find out. I would put them to the test. I'd be over peeling that little piece off the bottom side of the ham, so nobody sees it's gone. But one year I said, you know what?

That's how you wouldn't wait. I'm tired of this, and I just fried my own turkey and then cut my own turkey, and I was done eating by the time I was done cutting it. Did you cut it or did you just skin it? Well, I skinned it for a hell. There ain't nothing better on this earth than fried turkey skin. Oh, it is good, ate it? I love it. That little crispy part between the leg and the breast, that little flap right there that holds it all together.

That flag, baby. That's a mighty. It's good. But yeah. I get mad when meat comes off with it. I'm like, no, I didn't want none out. Just give me the skin. Unbelievable.

But I've told Allison about this, but her family doesn't know, but they're not listening, so it doesn't really matter. But it's weird. It bothers me. I'll send y'all pictures on Thanksgiving of the food. Of you waiting in line? No, no, there's no line. It'll all be prepared and look beautiful and be sitting out, and then it'll be like, all right, we're going to pray in about 45 minutes. Have y'all ever addressed it and talked about it?

I think I'm the only one that thinks it's weird. So everybody is the outsider. Everybody else is like, this is what people do. I'm like, y'all need by warming of it. They're like, look at the steam coming off of that food. Stay away from it. Yeah, I don't know what it is. Well, my grandma was still alive.

It looks like it's still hot. We were all hovering around that kitchen like buzzards waiting on that dressing to come out and the lid to come off. Because as soon as it did, it was fair game. Oh, fair say. Like, you sit them English peas over there for two hours. I ain't going to touch them anyway. If you show up late at my house, like if my brothers or whatever, they don't show up with their family on time, I mean, we're already eating. They can be the second wave.

I mean, we take off. Yeah, if you ain't on time, you just, really, the only thing about being the best time was like 10 minutes late. Because then everybody doesn't make their plate. You didn't have no riff or after going to the line. I agree. You reminded me something, though, me and my granddaddy, when he was still alive, we'd always post up in the corner of the kitchen where we knew my uncle was going to cut the turkey. And me and my granddaddy probably ate more turkey skin together. Getting that shrap.

Getting that shrap. Yeah. We're just sharing it. He's carving it. We're just eating the greasy skin together. Oh, yeah. That's one of my favorite Thanksgiving. Oh, man.

I want to know about Thanksgiving at your house growing up. Uh-oh. Well, I mean, you had a huge family. Well, before we do it, let's take a break. He stabbed them with forks if they took too many bites. No, if you reached for the last piece of chicken. You're going to get stuck? Yeah.

So what all did y'all have just turkey? Did you all, I mean, squirrels and rabbits? Squirrels and everything. We have you. Squirrels and me. From hearing him and Phil talk, I mean, they were hunting whatever they could get for food. Oh, no. It's a big family.

Everything we killed went to the table. Yeah. Groceries. What's your favorite Thanksgiving thing? The duck dressing? It's the dressing. Yeah, the duck and dressing. Yeah.

That's the only thing I'd show up for. Well, I like Phil style of doing it because Phil puts the whole duck in it. So it's actually really cool. So, like, you just pick up a duck and it's got dressing in it, around it, on it. Like you don't a lot of I've been to some make duck and dressing where they shred the duck and put it in there and it just it loses some of the some of the luster some of the pizzazz. Yeah. Well they run that's really good dressing. Yeah. And bones have great flavor in them. They do. There's something about bone. And the deal with the whole duck is I can follow the wound track. So I know if I'm on a path towards steel shot like I know if I'm headed towards somewhere to break a tooth or not. When you shred it and I don't know who's doing the shredding. I don't trust. I don't trust. it. So then I'm eating like it. Oh, it's a little tiny bites because my dad

ain't a dentist or nothing. So I don't stand to win by somebody biting down on a piece of steel shop. He said my dad. Talking about that, I had an uncle okay, that ate so much game as a kid and an adult. Here we go. No, no. Look, he's in the hospital and the medical staff cannot figure out what's wrong with him. Well, what was it? They took an x-ray.

No, no, look, they did an x-ray. finally somebody that had some sense said well hey x-ray maybe we can see something in the x-ray well when they did he lived up like a Christmas tree all the steel and lead shot all the lead shot and I think it was the spleen they picked out like a hundred and twenty-four pellets spleen shot okay they all they took his spleen I almost said the number that I thought he was going to say to see if they'd match and I was was going to say 120. Well, no, no. So this story's true. No, no, but anyway. It's kept track.

I've told it before. I'm just saying, I know you have, but you're telling the same story. But look. Which isn't always the case. Yo, hey, he was on death's doorstep. Because of lead poisoning? Dead's poisonous. Really?

Yeah. When they took it out, hey, I'm telling you, he looked like he was 50 years old and he was 70. Wider Shade of Pale. Did he chew food? Yeah, he chews food. He just said, hey, so much you're swallowing. And if you don't hit it with your teeth, you swallow it.

Well, buddy, I somehow always whack that sucker with my tooth. I'm just saying. I'm, oh, I bet down on it and chipped it. Thank goodness, I guess. But, boy, that doesn't ever hurt any less. Yeah, but you're using steel shot back in the day. Oh, no, because, yeah, lead gives. Yeah.

Yeah, lead gives a little bit. Steel, don't. That's true. Wow. Yeah. Unbelievable. Yeah. Get the lead out.

Yeah. That's what, that was his motto. Oh, somebody told us they've got a little, uh, metal detector. Yeah. Yeah, I've seen him thing. Have you? For what? Your body?

No, no. When you're cleaning a game. Or your bird shot. Yeah. It's like a little wand that they use at the airport. Yeah. Like that little orange carry they use for a treasure. And it beep, beep, beep.

Telling, okay. It's got the end. My deal is like if you've killed enough of them, you kind of know where they go. Like, you end up. That's why I like the whole ones, because you'll see the little. holes in the skin and you know like okay be careful proceed with caution when you get to that point but you know a lot of us a lot of the ones we pick for feeding that we shoot on the water let's just call it what it is and there's not a pellet past here so yeah you do that for the dressing ducks

you aim at the dome yeah you let the woodies come in land in the plugs and then you shoot them because that's what everybody that's the dressing you want you want wuddies and teal you don't Oh, yeah. You don't want mallards and gadballs up in the middle of your dressing. You breast me a mouth. That would be the small ducks. Yeah, usually little flavorful ones. Why is it that turkey is so good, though?

Because they're huge. Because they're fed corn their whole life. If you ate a corn-fed mallard, he would be good, too. Oh, they are. Yeah. No, no, no, no, because we kill some. Look. Not of you a whole deep fried.

No, no, no. Look, these were so fat, okay, that, hey, we grabbed balls of fat. Yeah. And Daddy put it in the pan and rendered it down in the grease. Oh, duck fat fry. And then fry them in that. Mm-hmm. How did you kill them?

They were spectacular. You fried duck in duck? And duck fat. You got to be a big boy for that. If somebody ate me, they could do that. It was excellent. Yeah, you could definitely have you some Martin fat. No, no.

No, no. Soon as Daddy seen him when we clean them. He said, save all that. He said, I'm going to take it. pitch you boys on today. And he did. And he did. There you go.

I'm, I'm not understanding. Did y'all go and shoot these ducks? They were just super fat. No, no. They were balls of fat. They were neighborhood ducks is what we call. Oh, pond ducks. Well, hey, I don't know if the neighbor's pond ducks came walking over.

I know one thing. They had been living high on the hall free grazing. This is them ducks I read about in my kids' books every night. Oh, no, no. Pet ducks. And look, you're talking about a good table fair. They were delicious. What he's not telling you is that that Thanksgiving, they stayed at a hotel in Memphis.

They couldn't fly. They couldn't fly. They couldn't fly. The Peabody. No, no, I didn't shoot the Peabody ducks, but I told them when I walked in there one time, tell me, hey, I always had a shotgun. I'd stop all this walking on this carpet. Yeah, I'd stop all this crapping in the lobby.

I don't get that. I put it in all this walking in red carpet. Oh, man. What is the best bird to eat, though? The teal. That's, I'm saying. Green wing, teal. You're putting that over chicken?

Oh, right, yeah. I like dove. Oh, the best bird. Oh, you said bird. I mean, bird, yeah, because turkey reigns supreme on Thanksgiving. We were talking about ducks, so I just thought. Which is the biggest farce of the whole thing. Whoa.

I don't look forward to the Thanksgiving turkey. What? Near as much as I look forward to that Thanksgiving ham. Well, that's why you got out. I know. I don't disagree with that statement. I don't disagree with that statement, but I love a ham. Over a turkey? Absolutely. You know what you don't do with turkey balls? Make a pot of beans three days later. Hey, that's it. You throw that stuff in the trash and you move on. I'm going to, you know, I'm going to back off that. That is true. He said, that got back out. I've just said, like, that ham is juicy. Man, he's good.

So you're a Thanksgiving ham kind of fella. You find me about a ham and roll. Hey, he's thinking about the pinto beans after two days later. You find me by the ham and roll. I didn't know God when was on this episode. I'm just telling you. I like a ham. Like, I can do fine with dressing.

You ain't even got put no meat in it if you ain't got it. I don't even care about that. But dressing, ham, and candied sweet potato. Oh, no. You got to have sweet potato casserole. You got to have sweet potato. Yep. Okay.

Now, them little green English peas. Get that out of here. The devil's testicles, you can leave at someone. Hold on. You can throw them away. What about deviled eggs? Oh, smash. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Smash. Bring them. Hold on that. Bring them. Bring them. Bring them. Bring them.

We did just have some turkey slander, but, and I don't like it. But the, because turkey is awesome. But why have we regulated turkey to holidays and fairs? I guess because I, You can only have a turkey. Too much room in the grocery store if you go year-round. Won't fit in the freezer. I feel like that should be a regular thing you eat all the time as a fried turkey.

Well, you have that option, sir. Yeah. Do you have that option? Can you buy a turkey year-round? If you want to buy your turkey, do it. I can tell you this. I'm sure they kill them every day. I don't wait for holidays if I want turkey.

Yeah. Yeah, that's on you. That's on you. If you want it bad enough, this is. This America, you find. He said, that's on you, homie. That's a good point. Like, I just wish we, we treated the turkey like it was a pig or a chicken.

I understand ham you can get any day of the week anywhere you want to. See, the problem is if you get... But if you buy hands... Whoa, homie. This is America. You can have ham whatever you are. You got to get a good ham. You got to get a good one.

But you also have to have a group to help you whittle it down. Yeah. That way you can have it and the bone and everything by time. ready for beans. You can't just like take a ham home to you and your wife and expect to not hate ham for the next six. I love ham. Like, it's a group.

It's a group. It's a same thing with turkey. Nobody wants to eat the whole turkey. No. You want to skin it. Quit playing. That's what. I really like quit playing.

That's all you want. You want to skin it. That's it. Them turkey thighs, though, that thighs be swinging. But I like him wings too now. Wings are good. Legs are good. I'll eat that crunchy wing.

That big white part in a middle. middle and everybody else. They don't get. Ash is made for cutting up and taking a picture. Like, that's all that mess. All right. Let me tell you all something.

What? Turkey. At the children's home, they give us a turkey each year for Christmas or for Thanksgiving, you know. Oh yeah, you got to go to Super One pick it up or something. No, no, no, they have a,

and it's like a huge warehouse and all the employees come and they hand them out. Yeah, we don't. 100 employees. Yeah, we don't get that here. Okay. So look, they give it to you in a white box, you know,

I don't know how many pounds it is, but a friend of mine that I work with, he took up all the freezer space with his turkey, you know, where everybody keeps their food and microwaves, whatever. And there's 600 of you? We're total employees. And there's only one freezer?

Well, we're in the building that I work. Okay. So anyway, he wouldn't take it out. So after a few weeks, I get the turkey out of the box. I get one of the nursing gloves, the rubber gloves, fill it up with water, put it back in the box,

freeze it and leave it for him and took his turkey home and ate it. So look, a few weeks later, people were like, get your turkey out, get your turkey. He finally did, opened it up, rubber glove, full of ice with the fingers poking out. That'll teach him, sigh. Did you ever admit to that? Nope. Unless he listens to this podcast, you want to know.

If he listens to the podcast, if he'd have found out. I would have loved to have been there when he opened it up. That's terrible. That is funny. Turkey. Turkey's the best. Look, this is Tuesday, so if you ain't taking your turkey out, you're late. Take it out, let it thaw.

You don't want a grease fire. No, it's too late. Go buy somebody else's turkey. Yeah, yeah, go do something else. But anyway, let's take a break. We'll be back right after this. Do we need to do a public service announcement to not burn your house down this turkey season? Yeah, we should.

Martin, I feel like you led into the last break. Yeah. People, if your turkey is frozen and you are going to fry it, you are going to fry your whole house. Run. It is not going to work. Yeah. Weren't you on a commercial for that once?

Well, frying a turkey is very dangerous. It is that. Okay, so if you don't know what you're doing, hire somebody. Don't know it near a house either. Hey, and look, I'm going to cook my own, obviously, but I paid, what is it,

60 bucks to the bunch out there at that clawed daddy's place in Monroe because they sell fried turkeys to then feed a Thanksgiving meal to the people of Monroe, like for people that can't afford it or low income or whatever, they'll host everybody at their restaurants. So, and you pick it up on Wednesday.

So see, Wednesday night, I get to go in there and skin me a turkey and then slice it up. And when you show up Thanksgiving, you're like, hey, all right, thank you. No, and a full well. I got one thawed back at the house, too. But for 60, I mean, it's a pretty good deal.

And you're helping out the community last year. year I went out there to pick it up and they, they had, something happened and they had run out of knives and I was like, for cutting, for carving turkeys for their big one. And I was like, well, y'all boys need a knife. They were like, yeah, I said, well, I got like three filet knives out there in my, out there in my pickup truck. They were like, filet knives.

I was like, yeah, why would you slice by hand, son? You just push a button on these and they go. I said, they brand new ain't everything used. I just bought them. I had just re-uped. And so I donated my three filet knives to the, to the calls out there of them boys feeding the community. But I think it's a loyal deal.

And there's places like that all around. I got the bag last week from the Boy Scouts, you know, on your porch or whatever, where you sit the canned food out there, canned food drive. And we did that and had the boys like take them and put them in the bag. I mean, I know they're one and they won't ever remember it. But just, you know, an opportunity to show them to give because it is Thanksgiving. Man, we've got a lot to be thankful for. Well, you're right.

Seriously, though, it's very dangerous to, fry turkey. If you don't do it, because the grease is very, very hot, and then you put that big heavy bird in it. And water and grease. Yeah. Nope. Yeah. Don't mix. Yeah. It's an explosion. You can get burnt severely bad if you don't know what you're doing. It's better to hire it done. So let somebody know what they're doing. Yeah. I just found out something. What? Did you know that the greatest chicken restaurant in the whole wide universe sells whole turkeys at things? Oh yeah, Popeyes. I've been see in the commercial. You didn't know that?

I didn't know that. Popeye sells turkeys? Yeah. Absolutely. Is it good? I ain't ever had it. I just saw it on a commercial, but it comes from Popeye's,

so it can't be bad. Cajun's style turkey. The problem is if you go to Popeyes to get your Thanksgiving turkey, you're going to get it at Christmas. And if your group goes and gets it, y'all can't eat it until you get home. You don't want to eat it hot.

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, you may want to swing by Popeyes. On my way, out of there you. There's a Popeye's on 160. You'd be having shrapnel go out the window the whole way. I've thrown many of chicken thigh out the window on the way to places where I wasn't sure how the food was going to be. I will hit up a Popeye's in a hurry and get a three-piece thigh only.

Eat that sucker, throw it out the window. Buddy, if you don't think I ain't done that with gas station fried chicken, you've got the wrong fellow. Last time I was in, Farmable, because their Popeye closes at like four, because that makes sense. Farmable, what are we doing? Well, just drive on past it's that Southern Classic. That's exactly what I do.

with the dirty rice. And I had southern classic thighs all over the street. You know what? I'm wrong. Why do we want turkey? We have chicken. Thank you. Chicken's great.

The turkey is actually pretty low on a foul list, really and truly. He's not that great. That's rude. That's not true. He's just convenient. He grows bigger than everybody. What if we fried a whole ostrich for Thanksgiving? It'd be like a prime rib, but I'm not against it.

I mean, as a man who's ate it. So like, I'm not against it. That's too big of a bird to cook. Yeah, I would imagine him legs is a little tougher. I'm about to order me a turkey from Popeye's while we're doing it. So can we buy Johnny D. a hot plate and send it with him for Thanksgiving? I just want to know. We'll take up a collection.

Johnny D. going to show up with all the catering where to put up under the food and sit it up off the dim. Got that little flame up on. Yeah, his is going to be hot. Oh, man. That is wild. I can't. I take some pictures of the cold food this year.

I'm going to. I'll send it to all y'all. I'll send it when it sits out. And then the sad face. When I get to eat. No, no. That reminds me. Hold on all for me doing the meals on Doug Dyerty.

We always have to eat it cold because we sit there food around. Yeah. Come on, people. Oh, and that was what Phil's line when we worked down there. He'd buzz over there on the phone and say lunch is ready. And then if we didn't come right there because we'd do us up. like packing an order shipping it out he'd say the next call was it's turning into leftovers it's turning into leftovers that's right we fixed you put the refrigerator basically said you better come

yeah you better come now or it's going in the refrigerator yeah and uh no that that's why because every all of our family deals it is your vultures circling the kitchen waiting on the last thing whatever that last thing may be generally the dressing yeah to come out that you that's all you were waiting on because you knew that little pot of giblet gravy was ready. Man, I do like that gravy. At our place, whoever says the prayer gets to go first. And so we got everybody fighting to say the prayer, let me say it, let me say it. And we're trying to calm everybody down. Then I say it. Oh, here we go. Then he says it. Yeah. Man, I do love food holidays. Praise God. Praise God for food holiday. Oh, man. And yeah, it's great. And, you know, it's a time of year where you can talk about

what you're thankful for. Yeah. I remember growing up, like, the biggest rush was to, A, make sure you're not late because maybe I'll be mad at you. But then you were also like, can we hurry up and get this cleaned up? Because we go into the hunting camp. Yeah. Like, I knew as a kid, that's fine.

Like, I was about to spend Thursday afternoon till Sunday morning at the hunting camp. Like, it was like, I mean, it's a core memory and feeling in my life of like, I'm about to go to the hunting camp and I'm going to eat leftover dressing and chicken and dumplings for three days. and I'm going to be reeled with that decision. That's it. Like, and it was just one of them deals, man. It takes you right back to it thinking about it. And, you know, one of the kind of deals you hope you can do with your kids one day

where they have something, even at 38, they look back on and like, yeah, man. It's important to build those traditions, you know, and all your kids and families going to look forward to it. Yeah. Like what you're doing with your boys. I mean, that's going to be more familiar to them next year and the next year and the next year until they start remembering all those things. Oh, and if it's got anything to do with their mama, it looks like Christmas threw up at our house right now already.

Amen. That's good. I'm sorry, I'm reading reviews on Popeye's turkeys. I just always have like, hey, let's not forget Thanksgiving. Like, let's remember to be thankful for we get to Jesus's birth. Because we're thankful for that too. Right. But let's not forget to stop and count our blessings one by one because, you know, we're all blessed more than we deserve.

So it's a fun time. you get to celebrate, high-five, do all the things. And generally you get like two of them. So that's kind of cool. Like, you know, either lunch and dinner or like, hey, we're actually going to have ours on Wednesday because so-and-so we've got to do this. You're like, okay. I'm telling you.

All right. I'm crazy. Yeah, we're making. 4 o'clock Wednesday till 7 a.m. Friday. I'm crazy. Boy, going to be crazy. We can do that. I ain't stopping.

You going to end up backing out of ER, big dog. You know, no, I'm not. You know what we needed to have on this episode, though, because I doubt. Beth from Canada and her weird Thanksgiving. It's like three weeks early. Got Popeyes Thanksgiving, which I've never had Popeye's Thanksgiving. I'm still hung up on this.

I'm sorry. I want to know too now. I don't know how I can't figure it out. Probably ordered on their app. Next episode we have in here that we'll probably record before Thanksgiving. Let's take a break. I'm going to walk in with a Popeye D. figure out of order a Popeye's fried turkey.

We'll be back right out of time. Go get it and bring it back. All right. We're back. Hello at duck callroom. Hey. All right. I got a good one for you two,

ham eaters over there. That's me. Amen. Because a YouTube comment from peppermint 661. Mm-hmm. Can you believe there were 660 other people with the name peppermint on YouTube? That's cool. They commented for you two, specifically,

to drink tart, cherry juice, and lemon to cure gout. For the gout? I've got, I've already got some. the tart. You just been drinking cherry juice? I beat it. Yeah. Now, I now...

How are you? Martin, look here. Last time you were in a lot of pain. I'm better now. People are concerned with your feet. Yeah, no, I'm better now. They put you on some medicine? They put me on some medicine, and I've got everything cleared up.

I've been drinking water like crazy. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm good. Yeah, you can beat it. Yeah. There's ways around it. You can beat it. And my doctor's getting me hydrated.

Mm-hmm. So I've been... With cherry juice. Egg emailed in too. He said cherry juice, man. Yeah. Yeah, I got some. I didn't know cherry juice was a thing.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm learning so much today. Somehow binds to the uric acid, something in it, and then you just tee-t-tee it out. Is cherry juice like in a bottle or in a can? No, it's over there with all the other apples and grapes and... There's cherry juice?

Oh, yeah. Yep. Oh, straight cherry juice. Yeah. Just straight, yeah, don't go eat cherries and suck the juice out of. Oh, yeah. You go buy that. That'll take forever.

I drink the juice once. once they ate the cherry. Yeah. Yeah, they got the juice now and the gallon jug. I ate the cherries first. They'll drink the juice. Yeah, you can buy it over everywhere you get the rest of it.

Oh, well, I'll have to give me some cherry juice. What's that? The one that makes all the cranberry juice makes it. Oh, the cranberry juice commercial is funny. Have you all seen that one? Look at the cranberry juice commercial place. Was the guy going down the road? No, no.

No, no. They come out and sit, they sit down the cranberries. Have you seen it? Please play it. What they do, no, what they do is the old three cans of Hold on. Hold on. Can we turn it on?

You boys watch too much, Steve. No, just tell us about it because I don't... No, this was... You want me to turn it on. I've never seen it. Not in it. It's got to be the cans.

Yeah, it's the cans they bring out. It's the cans. They bring out three... Wobble, wobble. Wobble. Oh, I hate that song. Oh, no. They set it down on the table.

And the cranberry is doing this. All three of them. Well, the next thing, you know, it's about six of them sitting at a table and they start going... One of them starts to... Is this it? I'm sad.

What's it? Martin. This is hilarious. Okay, they're all bored to death right now. Jiggle, jiggle. Huh? I'm the wrong age. Probably your holidays, boys.

I don't know. Maybe it's because I don't like cranberry sauce in general. That stuff always weirded me out. That was the weirdest commercial I've ever seen. What time does that? That's the commercial that's only on at 2 a.m. When me and you were asleep. Or at 10 a.m. when we're working.

Yeah. Know your demographic. That commercial comes on during the prices right. That's funny. That one comes on after nature on PBS. I'm like, right. That one guy was going wild, though. Yeah.

All right, anyway, be sure to dance with your cranberries. You don't like cranberries? I love cranberry juice I don't mind the juice I don't like the sauce I like the sauce What about the just The actual berry

I don't reckon I've ever just had one Oh no yeah Cranberry's better Berries are better Are they? Yeah Hmm That sauce

That sauce always weirded me out I like the shape of it Stuff out of the can Yeah I'll eat it But I would prefer I mean a vine of sausage Don't come out shape like the can

Yeah You know That's gross I don't know That stuff Moving on before we get down that road. Another YouTube comment from World Pass 9,633,

which is really hard to believe there was 9,632 of those before him. But it was on the episode where Brittany and your children came in, where they were having a big time. But the question's an easy one. Is that who Martin had the first date with back in the day for that one episode where you split your pants? It was. He didn't put to split your pants.

No, but that was, yeah, that's true. Live action there. Yep, not that's her. And then here we are. Brittany. Tim, no. Yeah. So your children have a side of thing because he worked through all that.

Yeah. Is that the one where he said call me Tiffany? Uh-huh. Yeah, my name's not Brittany. It's Tiffany. Yeah, there we are. And he had those feathers. Yeah.

So. That is so weird. I'm not awesome Tiffany's in my life, too. They all crazy. They're terrible. Redheads. Tiffany is terrible. Tiffney.

Wow. We're offending everybody. Beth just gave me the, we got a big Tiffany divinographic. Tiffany's and Cairns are all out there. Going to be real mad at this episode. Psalms 95, 2 through 3, turkeys. No, nothing about turkeys.

Let us come before him with Thanksgiving and install him with music and song for the Lord is a great God and great king above all gods. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. We hope you have a great one. Gobble, gobble, gobble. Turkey. Turkey.

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