Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Gets Owned by a Text from His Wife

Episode Date: August 25, 2022

Uncle Si's wife, Christine, fact-checks his budget claims in real time, and it doesn't look good for Si. Stone and Si witness "Mad Max"-style anarchy on an infamous local road. Si's latest crazy dream catapults him into space, and that has John-David wishing he could watch Si's dreams. Si attempts to offer advice to a new college student, but it quickly goes off the rails. And the boys share wisdom with a fan who wonders what the circumstances of his friend's death mean for eternity.  -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do I smell today, Sire? I got no pit stains. You would have to ask someone that's got a good sniffer. Yeah, Sire sniffer ain't worked in two years. Hey, look, I don't, you know, now my wife would tell you if you walked in the room, he'll take a shower. You know, that's why I want people to say, hey, you need to bathe. I said, hey, no.

That dog won't hunt, son. Because I live with a woman that's got a nose. You know, she's got a better nose than a dog. What does it mean? Yeah, B.O. bothers you. This is a wrong bunch to be running around here. Because Phil Robertson. Well, hey, the man knows that washes his hunting clothes.

Or his body. Never. Well, you know why? I don't know about that. I just know his hunting clothes to not get washed. Well, you know, Siret. You know why he don't wash his hunting clothes. He said if you wash them during hunt season, they're not as warm.

that and they'll flare the birch and it and it fades the camo I was like how would that flare oh oh yeah that's big talk coming from a man with a white beard that's moss sir yeah I understand well according to him he don't ever flare it does oh yeah that was a good one that day but Phil wore a light gray a light gray it was by their white oh it was real close to white It was close to white. Real close. Well, it may have been a hinder gray in it, but no. This sucker was white.

Of course, he's sitting on the end of blind down there watching it on. Wide open. You know, by the time the sun got up where everybody could see, Jace looked down there, he said. He said, I guess white's in now. Or camouflage is an option. Yeah, that's what he said. Yeah.

He said, I guess camouflage these days is optional. Well, I never forget. What was that, probably six years ago? Five, six years ago, I showed up on opening day. Ready, you know, it's opening day, you ready. It's kickoff. Yep. And I look over and feels wearing a red flannel.

And I'm like, boy, we have, we have come a long way. He's wearing a red flannel. You felt like I used in Minnesota. And face paint on. And I'm like, but part of this don't go together. Yeah, what's wrong with this pitcher? Pitcher. Now, granted, if you sit in the middle of Phil Robertson's duck blind,

you could wear an all-white painter suit, and you ain't going to flare nothing. Because not only can they not see you, you can't see them. Yeah. But on the end, you kind of wide open on the end. I'm the only one that can say something and get away with it. Yeah. I always do. Because, hey, every time I get in the blind, on my spot,

I got a stone. Let me see your saw. I've got a cut just walking. stick my gun prayer all out. Okay? And then they said, hey, what are you doing? You flared that bunch. And I said, hey, y'all need to stand up, both of you.

You on the left field, you on the right, Jay, stand up. You're in the ball, A-O. I got a tree and bushes where I can't even see you right now. I'm talking to both of you and can't even see you. and I'm the one that's flaring duck That's right Thank you You used to get banished to the dog

For that movie Oh I wouldn't mind I know because I went with you Yeah I didn't mind Hey manish me to the dog Yeah I go over and kill fun You'll kill ducks

And have fun and laugh While I'm over there For our listeners That's the name of one of our Duc holes The Dog Dog Bay you We're not talking about a literal dog

I don't know It kind of is like a dog not a good one. An old mangy one. Yeah. An old mangy one. But you kill them out there eventually. You stick with them long enough. You kill them. You may be there till dark.

Yeah, he used to be real good because it was about 10,000 right on the other side of Fields property line on dog barrel. Mm-hmm. You know, belong to George Franklin. And he held about 10,000 acres. And he didn't really hunt. Now only about 7,000 ducks come to Louisiana. No, I see. say if that on a agree.

Hey, we got about four or five hundred blue wings right now. No, no, that's what you was telling me? Like I looked, I had to look at my, what, 22nd of August? Yeah, they're about 30 days early. Yeah, they are early. These are the early birds. Yeah, because we usually don't start sitting, watching for them, you know, like the first week of September. Yeah.

Yeah. Feel out there may be, you know. You know, another name for that sitting before season, watching for ducks. another name for that is scaring them off flaring them. You know, last year is such a struggle

for everybody duck hunter-wise but Jay sent me on this scouting mission it was about a half a mile up the slew and about about three-quarter a mile

and this one area we thought we saw a group of ducks go down when he went on me to go see what was up there so I paddled up there in the P-Roe I saw what was there. I came back.

He said, what was up there? I said, One matter, Drake. And he said, you don't try to kill him tomorrow? I knew what was coming when he, he said, what's up there?

He said, one matter of Drake. I knew what the next question was going to make. Are we going to hunt there tomorrow to kill him? Tough time. Oh, it's tough. We are. We went five days without killing the duck. And I looked at Phil.

I said, what about it, Phil? He said, what? I ain't got nothing else to do. I ain't on city town. We actually took one day off the duck season this year. That wasn't a Sunday. And it was right after that four or five-day run without pulling the trip. Oh, yeah, and torrential downpour.

I remember that. Yeah. Just like it's doing out there today. Yeah. If you all wonder why Johnny D. shirts two-tone. It ain't from sweat. It's a little sweat.

A little sweat. We got seven pallets in about 20 minutes before I had to leave, and we don't have a loading dock per se. So I was just out in the rain slinging boxes around. Hashtag family business. What would you estimate of what we got rain watch? Right now? Yeah.

Today? Yeah. I don't know. It's a bunch. An inch and a half, two inches? I don't know. It's a lot. I would say two inches.

It fell in a hurry. Because when I got in my truck come up here, I mean, the dits, that guy had just mowed it. And he mowed it down to the ground, you know, dirt showing everywhere. How much that cost you? It costs me nothing. This is the... That's pear. Oh, pear.

Oh, I thought you were talking about your yard. No, no. Oh, don't even go there. No. They're ripping me off big time there. But, hey, yard carriers are rip off anyway nowadays. I used to mow a five-acre field. And it's a woman's yard.

She called it a yard. for $5 with a pushmore. Five acres with a pushmole? You get a yard my size? That's $400. Your yard ain't even that big, here. 400. It's more than a lot.

You pay $400 a lot? Yeah, for it. A month or? Oh, no. Every time he mows it. I'll do it for 300. Who is this human? I ain't worried about that.

Are they related to you? No, I ain't related to me. They just got it. Mowing your yard care? Is there yard service a non-profit? Huh? I'm just trying to figure out the tax benefit. I'll do it for $300 tomorrow.

Yeah, I won't even give you a bid, $2.50. Fight unseen. I think. $2.25. Crap. Race to the bottom, boys. He's going. All of y'all.

Ah, you talked me into it, $200. Yeah. $400. It's a yard mower. I bought a whole lawn mower for $1,000. Well, hey, look, I'm telling me. And it's a good one. mow yards are getting filthy rich.

And I'm serious. If they're hustling they are. No, no, I'm serious. They're getting filthy rich because they're hustling. Hey, they drive up on a truck, big truck. If I can find five U's a month, I'm doing pretty good. Look here. Got a trailer behind them with three or four moors on it.

Oh, I know it. Oh, you're doing one of them big operations. Hey, I'll tell you what's the guy. The guy that did mow it, he just retired. Let's tell you how good they are, okay. He's just retired. He's about 40, okay, and retired. Good for him.

Hey, him and his wife, it took him on about, oh, I'd say, what, 10 minutes to mow it. Mo yo-yard? Yeah. They backed them things off, I heard. Boo, no, woo, woo, whee. Rain him got out of bed yet. 10.30 in the morning. Hey, no, no.

I had just got up and, hey, they loaded up and had not. Gone. And they done weed-eated and mowed and everything. All of it. All of it. And gone. $400. $400.

$400. So think about that. They may have spent 20 minutes there. Yeah. Well, hey, $200 for 10 minutes? That ain't bad. I'd do it. $1,200 a hour.

Yeah. More than I get paid. And look, and I mean, he's on down the road and pulling in and doing the same thing at somebody else's yard. Except they get charged $150. Oh, I'm telling you, hey, they're making a killing. Oh, yeah. I got a lot of questions.

I just sent Christine a text. We'll find out for sure. Hey, she'll tell you. Hey, she'll tell you. We're fact-checking him, boys. The truth-sayers back. Well, let's take a break. 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 Tritels beef makes such a good product, ain't it good?

It's so good. Our friend, Sal Robertson would say, buy on the grill. Look, before we got Tritels, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery store, do all the things, grab whatever was left in case you were late in the 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. Tritails 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 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 ain'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. Okay, you're ready for the truth?

Yeah, what did she say? What did she say? The woman that pays the bills at your house. What did she say? I asked her how much y'all be in charge to get your yard mowed. She said $75. She's doing this. When they just mow.

She's doing this just to say that. $100 when they spray the driveway. So another $25 for chemicals and whatnot. And the truth. Shall set you. you free. Well, there's something going on fishy here. I got to check in.

Because I signed a check for 400. Maybe that was for the whole summer. That ought to make you feel better, side. No, now I'm wondering what's going on. My offer for 200 still staying. I love it. That's hilarious.

Good grief. Here we are, man. It's almost that-degum hunting season. We at the end of August. I'm about to be. I'm about to be 37, man. I was like to say, where did it go? 37.

Yeah. It goes fast. The whole year is bonn. About to. Yeah, about to. Yeah, about to. My dog's about to be 14. Look, hunting season old and then next day, next day it'll feel like next day close.

Huh? No, it don't ever feel like it. Oh, no, it does meet. By the end of day 60s. That's because you only go four or five days now. When you hunt once a week. Hey, look, I've spent my time in the duck blind. riding the hole as my brother likes to put it.

Okay. Them days that's behind you, ain't it? Yeah, from daylight to dark. He five. I gave up on that about four, five years ago. Well, as you get older, you're supposed to get a little bit smarter. And I have, I've got a little bit smarter. I'm proud of you.

I found as you get older, you get more ornery. No, you just get smarter. He hadn't got more ornery. I don't get annery. My wife has sent me ornery twice. Okay, and I had very good reason both times Well Well, I am in the past, sir

I'm interested He said he's interested This isn't an hour long show He doesn't want to get an honor anymore man He's not, he's a happy-go-lucky 14-year-old trapped in this old body I'm cool with that But look, Johnny D, while we were waiting on you to get here

Oh, sorry No, that's fine Hey, business happened The man had a drink. Oh. I need, I need sigh. How would you like to be put on a spaceship? Interested?

Taking up to space and then they just open the door and kick your butt out. Not interesting. And then drive off. And then drive off. And then drive off. Hey, I've seen that happen to some woman in Balkanville not too long ago. A spaceship? No, not.

Were there aliens? It was a pickup truck except a spaceship. They started slowing down and swerving in the turn. trash started flying out the window. I didn't mean to interrupt your story. I'm sorry. No, that's fine. And the next thing you know,

the passenger door come open and outrolled this woman. And they was going about 25. She did about two forward rolls, popped up, and made a B-line towards this guy. Oh, it was quite the thing. And you saw this? Quite the spectacle.

I was right behind them. That's amazing the things of morning and nitrate can do these days. But I didn't see that until I got, to Balcquemville Hey, when you head South on 34 You better watch out

Watch out Because look Where do you live Ducks say Hey I left south On 34 And hey, let me tell you

This boy has made some things Okay One morning When you get to that levee Things change Oh no hey I'm telling you You get to that levee right there you're like oh boy you've heard of uh i had woman one time in in

Vegas said uh hey you spend a lot of time out in the wilderness well hey when you go to south on 64 yeah that's wilderness oh yeah it's kind of like book of eli stuff oh yeah that's right yeah this is biblical man max okay look one other time it was two times i normally just drive down and don't worry about okay so i come driving down red cut loop okay and this dark 438 in the morning. Okay. No lights anywhere except my truck lights. Then next time I know, I'm lights in my face. Here comes a car out of nowhere coming up behind me. You know, and tries to go around me, which, no, wrong answer. You know, I stomp that Chevrolet out of driving and left him. Well, from then on, when I go down that road, I got a pistol loaded with hollow points on on

my feet in case the idiots show up again on their feet on my seat oh on your seat yeah well hey guess what they showed us the next day and i'm well i'm fixing to get go to the pen because i'm fixing to kill these idiots it's probably just me going around you it's probably mark no it wasn't martin no no you're right i ain't that early oh no definitely wasn't willie no no it had to been about sun up oh i've seen some strange things going down 34. That's amazing what Drano can do. Oh,

no, no, I'm telling you. And whatever else they get a hold of. Mm-hmm. Oh, my dad.

Don't do drugs. Let's take another break. And then we'll get back to this story about floating in Spain. Oh, yeah. We'll get back to the South 34 natives. So, Sa,

we took a little trip through space there, also known as Balkenville. Well, okay. And the outskirts of Luna. But back to your drink. Yeah, back to my dreams. So you're in a spaceship.

That's what happened to me. They put me on a spaceship, took me up in space. Were you with Elon Musk? No, and they kicked me out. Were there any... Close the doors and then the next time, I see, they're going away.

And you didn't know anybody there? Well, no, no, I couldn't see nothing. Okay, I'm in the void of space, okay? No, in the spaceship. I... No. Was it aliens or humans? No, it was humans.

Okay. How many of them? The human race did it to me. That's why I'm just making sure you want to... The human race did it to me. But anyway, guess what? When I woke up, first thing I did, I went and got my Bible.

turn to Genesis 1-1 and read about creation. So now I understand it when I read it better. Okay, it's dark and formless. There's nothing. It's a void. Well, I've been there now. So I understand it. Okay.

He's been to the void. So you read your Bible once you woke up. Oh, yeah. What did you do while you was floating and said void? just went with it. Did you go anywhere cold? Oh yeah. Well, it was cool being up there.

Could you see the earth? No, you can't see nothing. Oh, you were in deep space. Oh, yeah. It's dark and formless, void. There's nothing there. Well, then you got to ask the question, where did all this stuff come from that's here?

So that's what drove you to Genesis. That's what drove me to Genesis. I had to read the account of it then. Man, I'd like to take a loop around space beside. Oh, no, no. Look, I'd like to just watch his dreams like on TV. I don't want to be in on them. When I get to the heaven, I see Jesus face, face.

I was Lord, I'm going to take me a holiday for about three months. That's it. You got eternity. No, no. And then I'm going to say, hey, and the reason I'm doing it, I want to see the rest of what you've created. I just got a glimpse of it now. I wanted to take a little trip, you know, interstellar traveler.

Well, I mean, I would think you'd go a little bit longer in three months, so. No. I mean, you got to turn it. I will be, I will be, you know, three months of seeing it, it'll be enough. Because I won't even touch it either. Okay. Because we're getting just a snippet. Like this podcast, y'all just get a snippet of me in this podcast.

You know, there's way more. Eternity awaits for those that make it to happen. This boy then meets the eye. Boy, you ain't ever said nothing more true in your life. I love it. What are you going to do for the next thousand years after your three months is up? Then you got, you know, eternity. It ain't no telling.

That's the good part about it. We have not got a clue. The next three months he's going to be with Peter confirming all these stories. He planned out three months and he's got eternity to go. I'm going to tell Peter, hey, it's okay, brother. I understand. I'd be the same way you was. Yeah.

Yeah. He really would have been. He'd been jumping off boats, swimming naked. Yeah. I'd have been dumb enough to say, okay, wait a minute. I'm coming. And then he'd have been like, no, wasn't me. Then my faith would waver and I'd say, oh, help, help, help.

Help, I'm sinking. Bible jokes. Oh, man. Well, no, I'm just saying. But you got to, you know, that's like me in asking the thing about what, you know, since Jesus was a human being, a male human being. Yeah, nobody ever thought about it. When I told Jace, Jay said, I thought of that too. Of course he did.

Yeah, of course he did. Tommy Topper. That's what I was when I asked him about, well, what blood group is Jesus? And it's just too much. He's got it all. He's light, he's life, okay. He's resurrection power. Okay, and then you've got to throw him.

Oh, negative. He's light, life, resurrection. Universal donor. Positive. Blood attack, boys. He's positive. That's it. He's positive.

Everything he does is positive. I like it. Oh, no. I'm fired up. My little space trip last night fired me. Oh, that was last night. Oh, yeah. He was in the void last night before it was on resurrection

because I watched that alligator attack that guy from Florida. I saw that too. That's a bad deal. No, no, no, that's all I can think about. I said, hold it. Wait, I thought this was like PBS Planet Earth. No, no, no, no. This was just the news, which I've rarely watched,

but I've clicked it on, and what I see is a guy swimming past just the dock. What? I shouldn't have a black flag. You can see him, but at the same. same time he's alive he's splashing but there's something swimming toward him big well and what it was was a 12-foot mama alligator and she's got a nest nearby so she just eats this dude up i'm talking about no yeah yeah where was this oh no his whole head is nothing but staples and scars but he got away from her and that's what amazed me i apologize for laughing i thought this was a pb oh no no

no this is a real ordeal this is a real ordeal this is a real ordeal This is real deal. Yeah, this is one of the best topwater bites. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's a top water bite and it was a good one. He survived. He got away from her. That's what was so amazing.

And look, the whole night I was laying there and talking about, yeah, that guy would die probably. But don't worry about it. Reservation is coming. And that was your dream? That was my dream. There you go.

Yeah, I saw that on the interwebs this week. Oh, no. I know. I don't watch the news. Oh, no, I got all fired up about it. That's true. Boy, so. Along with it.

There my, I ain't going to say that thing that it led me down a deep hole on the internet. There's a picture of some killer whales jumping. I don't know if y'all have seen them yet, but it's very intriguing. But I'll let you find that for you said. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they're pack hunters. They are. Sea wolves.

The sea wolves. Sea wolves. Yeah. They're, they're slick now. because it showed them they heard it was a mama uh yeah can't think of the name of a whale yeah can't think of the name of it anyway a mama and a calf well they keep going to mess them with her till they separated the calf and they killed the

calf an idiot yeah mama couldn't no because hey look then a bunch of dolphins come up wouldn't let them either really yeah the dolphins run the stupid killer whales off I thought was cool yeah there he is that's crazy I just watched the dude oh no no sir I apologize for laughing I did not realize what the severity of what we were talking about and look that was a 12 footer

500 plus pounds he got to attack you he got got oh yeah well I'm glad you're doing okay sir yeah oh no is he doing okay that was amazing he's doing better he was smiling in a picture I saw in the hospital yeah and he said I just wanted to go creatures. Now his head was put together like a jigsaw. Oh no no no it looked rough. He was a Air Force veteran and firefighter paramedic. Yeah. Thank you sir for your service. Good grief.

And hey great escape. Hey I was impressed. I was impressed. This was like a mission impossible boy. That's a great escape. Yeah. It's like mission impossible. He said he felt like it got hit by a telephone pole with teeth. Oh yeah. Oh, I bet. That's pretty. I would say that's pretty spot on. That's amazing stang. That he got away. That he got away from her. And he heard a tale that story.

Oh, yeah. Regardless. And didn't have no ill effect toward the alligator. No. You know, that's, you know, it just, it amazed me. I mean, it'd make you want to get a belt or some shoes or something made out of one. Oh, I'd go for that one. Yeah.

I'd be on the hunt. You'd be like Happy Gilmore. There'd be rotten chicken breads hanging all over trees. around there. That's a bigan. Oh, yeah, boy. I think it's alligator season in Florida, too, so they all be up. You know what they all do.

Get him a tag and start a YouTube show on getting revenge. That very specific. No, that guy ain't that type of person. No, the title of it is it ain't revenge. It's a reckoning. It's a record. It's a wrecking. It's a get even.

I'm here to make things right. That's what. That's Robertson. and technology get even boys. We don't get mad. He wants to grab her by the head, shake her a couple of times and let her go. Yeah. You know.

But that was an amazing part to me that he actually got away from her. Oh, so he was exercising. Yeah, he was just swimming. He was training for a triathlon. He's just swimming through a lake and then didn't see it. And then swam and then swam away. He was still in the water. Oh, no, she grabbed him and then done the death row with him.

It's what they said. on the news. And he got away, that's what got me, he got away from her when she's done that. You know, and I've seen,

I've seen photographs of, of, uh, or films of, of crocodiles. Yeah, it was a, some kind of,

uh, Wildebeest, uh, uh, a, uh, a, in a river,

in a, in a tree. Well, shows one of them big crocodiles come up and just grab it and start rolling to, you tore it in half. Yeah, so you know, man got away. Yeah, and the man got away, and I was looking and I said,

ooh, who, good grief, you know, yeah, that's pretty amazing. That's crazy. Unreal. Let's take another break. We'll be back right after you. Does he know the cost of anything if he doesn't know how much he pays to Mose Yard? Who, Si? No, he doesn't know the cost of anything.

No. It doesn't matter to him. It doesn't matter. Okay, well, that's what... He's 74. Christine texted Stone. He just sent it to me. and she said he has no idea what anything costs.

That's right, that's it. Capital no, exclamation point. There you go. No idea. And, and I don't care. How about that? You're going to pay it anyway. I'm going to pay it anyway, so, hey, why care?

There you go. That's good. All right to check, fun. And I'll sign it. And I'll, oh, hey, there you go. I'll sign it out. You got it filled out. Good.

Bring it here. Done. Put the things here on it. Big time. That's a good spot to get to in life. Hold on. Me. I'm like,

you sure it cost that much? When I had him and Philip looking for a pickup. Yeah. And I said, well, they said, well, where were you? I said, hey, give me a user. Yeah. Well, then when I got to think about it, and they come up with what I would pay for a user,

I said, hey, put a, put a, nick that usual. Give me a new one. Yeah, just get a new one. There you go. I'm going to pay that for a user. Give me one brand new spanking nick. I just go ahead. If you're going to take a bite, hey, take a four.

Make sure it's big. And I did. If you're going to be a grizzly, I mean, if you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly. He almost got it. That's right. I almost got it. If you're going to be a bear.

That's right. It's got it backwards. You're going to be a grizzly, be a bear. That's right. Be a bear. Man alive. Where do we go from here? I don't really know.

What a time to be alive. Well, we can tell this. What? Weather has been wild. Yeah. This year in the summertime. Okay. But it always does, though, when it gets really super hot.

It was hot. I remember when we was kids, we couldn't wait for the afternoon for it to rain and cool everything down. Back then, when it rained, we was out of it. Getting wet. Yeah. Tell me, we're going to cool off for sure, baby. We're going to get in the rain. What you do now?

I still do it sometimes. I'm going to say, I figure you sleep. Oh, no, no, I don't mind getting wet. I've never really understood rain jackets and umbrellas in rain like today. Oh, no, no. It didn't help. Look here. Best one is to have you a place somewhere where there's a lot of fish, like big baths.

And then you know when it's going to rain, especially a light drizzle because we had a pond where we grew up in Dixie, Louisiana. It was in Blanchard. It was about five acres and had a lot of lily pads on it. Well, we could see it when it comes from that area.

It'd be get dark over there, dark clouds. We'd jump in the falcon and grab rod and reels and we're going bass fishing to that five acre pond when in the rain, that waste deep water. with a tiny torpedo. Mm-hmm.

Perch-colored. Tiny torpedo. Perch-colored. I had one. The, what am I thinking about? The blade? The prop on it. Well, it's the style.

That, that, gosh, I can't even think of it. Devil horse? Well, no, no, the pattern. Yeah, the pattern. Oh, the pattern. Okay, it's got to be the sun perch pattern. I had one that had all the colors of a sun perch. Fire tiger.

But it wasn't the sun perch pattern. So I'd throw it. They would roll behind mine. I'd twitch it, they'd roll behind it. Phil, well, he had one with the sun perch pattern. He'd throw it right behind me. Five-pounder. I'm serious.

That works, baby. I caught two bass that afternoon. So you may tell me that them fish can see the top. of that bait from under the water. No, no, no, no. I'm telling you. Careful, Martin. It's something about...

It's a large industry, depending on people not figuring that out. I'm telling you, it's something about the pattern on that. When it sits in the water, I would throw mine, twitch it. He would roll right behind it. Phil would throw right back behind me and twitch his, and it would just explode on it.

I caught two. He caught 27. 27 to 2 That sounds like it might have been the man behind the rod and reel, sir No, it wasn't the rod and reel It might have been the twitching Nope I'm saying operator

Nope it wasn't an operator I'm telling you They know Okay It was the pattern Done it too many times So why didn't you switch I didn't have one

Why didn't you take his Yeah Yeah he's big and I am Okay. You mean he wouldn't share? No, he wouldn't share. He stabbed me 27 or two. Well, you know, the same thing happened to him a few weeks.

A few weeks ago, when me and I went to Arkansas. Uh-oh. Yeah. Oh, that's right. Stone was on fire on them big brown trout. Did he have a different color cricket? Nope. Nope.

Well, he did have a different colored dog. What was the bait you used? That maribou jig. That croppy bag. a purple Marybrew jig. I had a different color. Black and purple. Black and purple.

He was, you know, one of them would hit my eye and I'd tell him, Gah, missed it. Boom, okay, you missed it. The only would do it? There he is. Three-pounder. He caught about...

27. No, you caught about 20. So is that the jig? And how many did you catch? One? One? One. Sorry to see a thing in here.

One brown. Boy, that's a big. Pretty fish, though. Oh, they are beautiful. They are beautiful. And they get big. No, but we had, we had the bunch, you know, the fishing with us.

It was two boats. He had, they caught three five pounds. And they were really pretty. Mm-hmm. Really pretty. So they brought a tiny torpedo with you. But the guy said, oh, Jeff, he said, you got to, when you're working at Jed, you got to pop it.

I mean, give it a good pop, and then watch your slack line, let it. They'll bite it on the fall. Pop it again. Watch your line. He's got the high-viz line. Yeah. See it with a leader.

Well, I was doing what he told me to do. So I called myself doing it too, but it evidently. I was slow rolling, and he would pop it every now and then. Well, he's fed me. Nobody said anything to him because. Oh, no. It was any nice to. I've always found it when I get out fished generally because they have better fishermen than I am.

Generally. That ain't true. I usually catch my share. But, hey, that day. Oh, he does. He does. He gets his most of the time. He's going to get his.

Yeah. Yeah. But that was a fun little trip. It was. Things get different when you ain't dragging a wacky worm around, don't it? Well, no, no, no, because, hey, look, I'm telling you, it's all about how you present it. Okay, and, hey, it's, you know, you've got to be on, on your game. Oh, yeah.

Kind of like life. Yeah. Oh, no. Presentation. You ain't got, like, I used to be one of the greatest one fisherman there was. That's right. Because I had to touch. You knew how to wiggle it.

Oh, no, you just, you got to have the feel for it. Yeah. Because that, you know, some of them, somebody can catch him in favor and just knocked the fire out of it. What did you say, Zah? You said you called a Shiner on a 10-inch warrant. Oh, no, no, no, look. That's what kind of feel he has.

I'm serious. I'm talking about, hey, this is one of the giant purple worms. Oh, my. Okay. And look, I'd guarantee you that bass was about as big as my finger, okay, and about that long. And when he hit it, I, and I guess where he would look, right in that, right in the lip. Martin, what you think? So that's when you got to touch.

That's right. Okay, when you catch, like, when you catch a big shiner, and I've caught big shiner. It sounds like to me, another bass ate it, and that one risked collateral damage. Now, now, that was what hit it. Yeah. That was the same way When we was done there Redfishing

I have no way to prove it Didn't so there's no reason to argue this I first cast Okay It's just like Just boom And when he did it

Boom I set the hook Okay And start reeling him in He comes on top of the water And it's 40 pound You know 40 pounder

Redfish And you ski in him And I stuck him And I'm really playing it Well he's Straight hook Straight hook out got off. Well, they put my new bait on there, do it out there.

Same way. Just a little, boom, out there. One hour and 15 minutes later, I'm still trying to get this whatever I've got on up. Okay, and hey, I finally get him and I'm just about to see him. And then it's just for about 150 yards. And then I said, somebody else take over because he just whooped me. I fought in for an hour of 15 minutes. I ain't got no more left. So Jason grabbed it, and he said, oh, he's fixing the, he's fixing come up.

So, hey, he just started cranking, you know, now straightened hook out, got off. Never seen it. I had no idea, and they asked me, they said, what was it? I said, well, I figured about a hundred pound redfish. World record. World record, okay. Bigging. Bigging.

Yeah, and I said, no, I said, hey, I'm telling you, it was a redfish. We never saw it. I was there. Yeah. I can confirm the validity to this story. Oh, no. And look, when I looked up, when he got off, Jason was fighting him. I looked over, we're one mile from where I stuck him.

Yeah, it's all so true. And look, we're in a big boat. A lot of current. A ocean-going boat. He doesn't drug us one mile. And then, hey. It was big, whatever. it was.

Yeah, bye-bye. He's gone. Even old God, he didn't really know what to think about that. But I'm serious, the way he bit, I'm telling you, it was redfish, about a hundred-pounder. Because he just, you know. He was just swimming to where he wanted to swim, and, you know, I'm long for the ride. Me and the boat. Fishing with you wild, man.

Oh, no, hey. I love it. It always has been. I guarantee you. Oh, no. Some of our best days. was when we stuck woolers in Red River. Wade out there in the middle of the river,

stick it in the middle and bait it up with live perch. Wade out there, you know, get them off the hook, stick a rope through it, tight to them, you know, go to the next one. Well, let's bait another line and we'll be back right after this. What's in the inbox? Whoa. Are you ready? Yeah, we're ready.

All right, as always, email us at hello at duckcallroom. Come, I'll go through. Pick a few. Hey, we got to update. Uh-oh. You remember the kid Nick from Ohio who emailed in? He had like another job offer. Mm-hmm.

He didn't know if he wanted to do it. And he's so, I don't even remember the advice that we technically gave. I remember giving him advice. Um, but Uncle Sally said he sounds like a great employee. That made him happy. But he took your advice. He said he took Martin's advice, stayed at his current job because he felt like there was. Yeah, he had two of them.

He felt like there was more opportunity. for growth there. Two weeks later, got a promotion, got on full time. Woo. I thought you were going to say got fired. Oh, hey. Oh, it's a good update. You didn't have nothing to do with that.

Well, you never know how updates go. Yeah, but it was up to him. Yeah, I stuck it out two weeks. It laid me off. Cool. What was they? But he got it. Hey.

There you go. Raise promotion full time. Look at there, son. There you go. Stick it out. We gave good advice, or you gave good advice. I think I told him to move on. So way to listen to Martin.

Stick it out, boys. All right, here's Nehemiah emails in. Nehemiah. Where's Nehemiah from? Where do you think Nehemi's from? Old Testament. Oh. No.

Pennsylvania, probably. See, that's what I thought. Oh, Ohio. San Tan Valley, Arizona. Oh. I started to say that. I have no idea where that's at either. Yeah.

Yeah. from Arizona. But he loves the show, hadn't missed the episode, been listening, and needs some advice. He's going to college. Okay. That's it. I know Martin went to college, so do I. Can you give me any advice for going there for my first time?

He's only 17, and he's a little nervous about it. I was 17 when I went to college. Of course you were. I just got that late birthday. I made my birthday this week, so. I was 17 for like two weeks. Okay. But I was a 17 year old in college.

I was a fresh 18 year old. No, enjoy it. Have fun. Man, college is college. You'll figure out real quick if it's for you or if it's not. It's not for everybody. I can tell you that right now. The quicker you figure that out, the cheaper it is.

I'll raise my hand on that. It wasn't for me. The cheaper it is all around. I'm saying like. Did you go to college? I tried it. Where? He went like three weeks to tech.

Yeah. Oh, you went to tech? I majored in girls. and minored in women. And ended up in the army. And ended up in a place called Vietnam. And I knew it was coming. And hey, look here.

That's funny because, hey, Uncle Sam didn't waste no time. As soon as I dropped out of college, I got the old letter talking about, guess who wants you? Yeah, you're coming with me. They sent you a letter? Oh, yeah. I mean, hey, it wasn't a week after I was.

I quit college. Boy, they didn't know what kind of GMA got in you. Oh, what are you talking about? They kept me for 24 years, and then they finally got tired of him and kicked me out. But they did. They did. I was getting pretty lippy by then.

They got lippy. No, that's all I got for him, though. Just figure out what you want to do, try to do it. But you ain't got to do nothing your freshman year. Take all the classes, figure out where you want to go. For class. Show up. Yeah, you got to go.

But I'm saying, like. Well, see, I didn't learn that. Declare a major and all that. I mean, you can if you know what truly interests you. No. You know. Go a couple of years before he being decided what you're going to be. Two semesters, anyway.

Get through the introductory classes because they all the same for everybody, unless you clep out of them and stuff like that. You played baseball in college, didn't you, Stone? Yeah, I played a couple years in J-Co ball. A little bit. Yeah. Any college advice? Grief.

Well, I would say try to. stay focused on what's important. I was fixing. I got one word to. Because there are a lot of distractions. Yeah. I got one word for you for college. Preservance.

Endeavour to persevere. Endeavour to persevere. Reservance. I'm serious. Preservience. Okay. Preservance. Hey, because like Stone said,

there are a lot of real pretty distractions at college. You're the one that said that, sir. Well, hey, I'm talking. Stone never said that at all. Well, hey, yes, he did. Yes, he did. He just didn't put it truthfully. Yeah.

Okay. And look, don't let nothing surprise you that you may see in college. Especially nowadays. Especially nowadays. Yeah, he doesn't say what college he's going to. But Arizona, that's a great stare at Arizona. No, he's not a great college. For party in schools, isn't it?

There's a couple of them over there. I'm pretty sure. They're all party school. I don't pay attention in PAC 12 schools. Oh, boy. He ain't there. I went to college forever. My only advice is don't try.

Don't be the guy that ends up with a four-year degree in three and a half years and then realizing. Oh, I've got a buddy. That's not what you want to do with your life. He's a professional student. Who, me? No. I'm serious. I got a buddy.

He's still in college. What? He's the same age I am. That's not. I'm serious. He became a professional student. student. That'll be.

How much does that pay? I don't know. He may have inherited a bunch of money, but I'm telling you, he's still in school. He's still. Good for him. And I don't know how many degrees he's got. You know, he's got them. There's more than one.

Oh, yeah, he's got a bunch of them. What else you got? Do you got. I think he actually went for the, he's doctorate. He's still going. I'm serious. Still going for it. He's still going for it.

75 years. Hey, 74. I'm going to be a doctor one day. I got a real heavy one if you want to do it. Well, let's go with a heavy one. But I think it's a quick answer. Hey, I'm heavy. Let's go. And I get where this dude's coming from because he's in a tough spot.

And when I say a quick answer is because the answer is just really not easy is why I think. Oh, it's easy. Trust me. Gary from Swindon, United Kingdom, our friends over across the pond, No, Britt. His best man and his best friend had some tough times following on, and his best friend decided to take his own life. That's a rough one.

Yep. So he's upset, obviously. He's mad. His friend never really tried to contact him, and he didn't see it coming at all. And he's worried that he might never see him again whenever there's a change of address, as we like to say. is how he put it.

That, sir, will be left up to one entity. Yep. And it ain't us. And it ain't us. That's kind of why I said it's. Okay, that is a tough one, but that's God's call. Yeah. Okay, because only God knew his heart.

Okay, and I know why you're mad. You're angry, okay, that number one, and you got kind of a guilt complex, you didn't see it. Okay. two, he was your friend and he didn't think enough to call you and talk to you about it, which you may have, could have talked him out of it. Yeah. A lot of that stems from embarrassment, though. But, y'all, it's one thing because I lost the nephew that did the same thing.

Yeah. Okay. And it's shocking is all I can say, okay, because it comes from nowhere. and then it happens and there's nothing you can do about it. Yeah. I lost a cousin, same thing.

Never knew. Yeah. Until, until it happened. You wouldn't know. Yeah. Okay, because there wasn't,

you know, there wasn't a lot of signs saying, oh, yeah, I've got a lot of problems. No, this guy was happy and go lucky. Okay.

And it just, it blew everybody, you know, it surprised everybody. Yeah. Okay. So, so it's one of them

thing and if he was close to you he was a friend okay i'm sorry about your loss okay but don't have no guilt complex over this on it you may have not even if you had a new you may not could have done nothing about it yeah odds already couldn't have so yeah you know that's one of them thing is we ain't the judge there is a judge and we ain't him so and no matter how you see it ain't for us to determine. It ain't for us to determine. All we have is we know that God has grace for anything. There's nothing that Jesus' blood can't cover. Yeah. So, you know, we're all rooting for everybody to get there, no matter their situation. And when it ends or how it ends, we hope there was some point in there. We're getting there by his grace and his mercy, period. Yeah. Hopefully there before

the end, there was a moment of clarity of some sort and, you know, whatever that may be. not for me to determine. Not our call. And not, yeah. Or anyone on this earth's call. No, that's wild, man. Yeah, it's a crazy deal. It's always a tough one to deal with.

I mean, like I said, when it happened to my cousin, we were like, huh? Like, do what? You know? Yeah, and I kind of wanted to do that email, because it is super heavy. Yeah. But we have gotten a few emails in on that topic, and I'm just like, oh, that's, That's heavy. So if you are struggling with that in any way,

reach out to somebody. To a friend, to your parents, to a brother, to a sister. Heck, somebody you don't even know. Go to a random church that has a cross on it and just go in there and say, I need some help here. Talk to somebody. We love you and we don't want you to face that alone. It's facing it alone stuff.

Yeah. So talk to somebody for sure. Amen. No, that's, yep. It's an all too common thing these days. That's for sure. Unreal. Well, what you got for?

I got us a little encouragement Bible verse that kind of goes along with Si's favorite word per perseverance. Philippians 3, 13, and 14. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do for getting what is behind and straining towards what is ahead, I press on toward the goal. Pereserver. to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Amen. That's a good one. That prize is eternity. Yep. And we know what size is going to be doing for three months of it. He already got the first three months schedule. That's wild. That's wild.

Interstellar traveler. I think I'm going to be a little more. Cheusy? What's the... I guess you don't need to be choosy. No. Not sporadic. What's the...

I don't know what the word is. Let's go with the flow. Spontaneous. What are you going to do today? Don't know. What are you doing tomorrow? Ain't got a clue. I don't know.

Noah, it's your call. Yeah. Let's ride, though. Let's go look at that boat. Why'd you put them skaters on there, son? You should lift them off. Yeah, but just think of all of them, because I've looked on some of the PBS, especially, showing some of the stuff that they're spotted out in the universe, all the lights.

Okay. You know, they've got what nebulars, I think, is what they call them. Yeah, nebulae. Yeah, nebula. Yeah. Just, you know, I want to go see all that. Yeah, go surfing, buddy. Yeah.

Get out there in that black hole. Let them kick you out the bus. Oh, back to the point. It won't matter then. Oh, you can fly. That's right. You just get the flapping, son. That's right.

I won't need a spaceship, maybe. All right. We'll see y'all next time. I'm looking for them. Warmer Rainers.