Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Gets REAL About Why It Sucked When He First Left the Military

Episode Date: October 3, 2024

Uncle Si doesn't hold back when a serviceman asks about transitioning from military life to civilian life in the debut of our fan voicemail segment. But first, Martin and Godwin offer encouragement to the people in Tennessee and North Carolina going through hell on earth. John-David describes his stint behind bars and the amazing opportunity he almost missed out on. And Si is surprised to hear how Lauren Daigle acted with the death row inmates of Angola State Prison. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He's in charge. All right. I got a question of all the fans out there. And welcome back to the duck call room. Hey, they need to help us. Time out. Hunter, where's my clock? The clock's going.

Seven. Eight. Nine. Boom. I need a rearview mirror then. 11. Okay. Now we're ready.

Hey, everybody. This is the duck call room. I don't know why it turned off. With all your favorite Duck Dynasty stars, Uncle Sy, Side, Justin Martin, John Godwin, and me, the Trotsy Side King. How are you doing?

Willie's old assistant. And I got a challenge for them. Oh, go ahead. Yeah. Well, hey, here's what I want to know. Okay. All right. Our great minds of this country.

Oh, Lord. Have got guesses or theories, whatever the word you want to use. I want to hear about, hey, how do you think everything you see got here? We, the people. I want to hear from the people. What do you think how it got here? What do you? Our fans?

Hey. Yeah. Hey, come up with what you're how you think everything got here. You're asking. Y'all, you're going in great detail if you feel like it. Let there be. Let there be. I got a feeling.

That's one way. Can we start in Genesis? Yeah. I think that's where our fans are probably going to lead you to. Well, how, you never know. Page one. Well, how, you never know, though. In the beginning.

Yeah. I got one on me. They can leave a voicemail. They can leave a voicemail about it. Oh, leave a voicemail. We'll have a little explanation. I really want to know because, hey, look, you know, there's some smart people out there.

I want to hear from the weed of people. Page one, that's what I'd go with right here. You know, that was something I was talking about to Si, when I went to Yellowstone. Okay, before phones, you know, we hear about, we go out there hunting it with real, tree in Wyoming. There's always a fire.

Well, they was fires before we were here. Oh, absolutely. Lightning. I mean, lightning strike. Yeah, that happened. That happened before mankind. All right. There's a large pole pine tree grows in Yellowstone Park.

I'm sure it grows other places. This thing has a ross. A certain number of cones on that tree has a rosen on them. And the cone don't open. Don't let the see that. Unless. there's extreme heat heat so it takes a fire

to reproduce God said I'm going to burn it down and I'm going to replant it I'll rebuild I'll burn it down and then I'll rebuild now was that design

accident yeah although that would just happen chance now yeah why would a pine tree in the middle of yellow stone take extreme heat

well not on that Look underneath all of what's going on in Yellowstone Park. I've never made it. You've got to ask yourself, why does that, you know, and like what is it? Old Facebook comes up, does this thing ever, like, every few minutes. Yeah, 90 minutes. Every, you ever take?

Would you think, you ought to think maybe, well, maybe there's a reason that it actually, every 90 minutes, some pressure is released. Yeah. Because otherwise, if it don't, then maybe we'll have a camera down in there. St. Helens. It's got. It's got.

It's got two chambers and like a little old bitty, four-inch file in it. And it rises up in there and heats up. And that chamber fills up and starts boiling like a tea kettle. And then when the tea's ready, it blows it. No, because see, that's what I was saying. There's so many. Any thanks, in my humble opinion, okay, of all these ego systems and all this stuff and all the stuff that you can see.

But when is all that water coming from? Out there in a drought. I mean, it's been doing it for. Well, again. Ever since. I mean. They don't ever run out of water. Does that?

Because God said, I did what? I separated the waters from the waters. Hmm. The, uh, so as a man who loves a hot tub, did you go stick your toe with it? Oh, no, hey. Oh, that's acid. That's acid? That's acid?

You don't even stick your face over. Hold on. Yeah, you can't mess some of that stuff up or you, you know. It'll burn, it'll burn your hide off. Hold on. Guy one said you don't even stick your face around that thing. Yeah. I'm serious.

Are you walking on them boardwalks and hot water out there? Do you feel the heat radiating off of? Yeah. I didn't know. I don't like. That's, it's got some type of acid in it. I think it's heavy and soft. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, it smells. I just got that rotten eggs. Iron brimstone smell to it. Yeah, it's got rotten eggs and stuff. Yeah, I don't like that. That all let you know hell's a real place. Something like that. That's just a little preview.

What's a volcano? That's just showing you a little snippet. Yeah. That's probably what the gates look like. Yeah. You don't want to get in there. Yeah. That's an amazing place, though.

I'm glad old Teddy. Yeah. but that 1870? What was the most interesting critter you saw out there on vacation, go? And it's interesting critter. Buffalo. No, he said that.

It wasn't a wolf, but it didn't get to steal a wolf. We're saying the moose. The interesting thing was this analog. He was herding his woman. I mean like a cutting horse. He was running her all over to play. He was trying, all them cars, I feel sorry for them animals sometimes.

because they're trying to get across the road and the cars all pile up and they can't. Like this, where this grizzly had two cubs and she was walking into, she kept. What, hold on. Grizzly bear? Yeah, yeah. She was trying.

The big one. By your car? The big one. Well, 100 yards. Yeah. But she was trying to cross the road to get to the creek. At the zoo? No, in the wild.

In the wild? Wow. Yeah, I got a video of her. Yeah. That's wild. They kept stopping and she kept having to walk home. And that's one thing people don't understand. These animals are wild.

But they are so used to these vehicles in these parks. They let you get a little closer than what we see around here. And then that's very, very, very dangerous. I don't want to get close. Yeah. You touch a grizzling. Oh, I didn't touch it. I knew better than that.

We've seen five bears one day. Five bears. Three black? No, two blacks. I don't like bears. I actually took a picture of one bear, and there was two of them in the picture. I didn't know there was two there.

See? And they're sneaky. Big ball out. That whole park is nothing but for the enjoyment of the people. Yeah. For the people. Benefit and enjoyment of the people. the people.

That's right. Oh, he was a, he was a, he was a, he was a, conservativeist. A what?

Conservationist. Or conservatives, whatever. Conservationist. You know what I was talking about. Yeah, that's what he is. It's on the list to do with the boys once they get of age to enjoy it.

Well, it's worse, it's worse going. Yeah. It really is. Did you got? Uh, oh,

good grief. Uh, probably in the 70s. Okay. Been a feeling, and we had a big fight and it made my mom so mad. she said, she said,

if I had a broom, a camel, I'd beat both of you. Oh, so you took, it was a family. Oh, yeah,

it was a whole deal. Was Phil there? Dad, Dale's pipe fitting out there, you know. Was Phil there? Huh? No.

Daddy was big, he's a big history buff or was. So he, he looked at all the wagon trails that, when I was moving west. Mm-hmm. So, you're talking about,

you know, What would you do if you come up to the Grand Canyon you're in a wagon train and you've got to cross this sucker? I'd probably stop on that inside of it and that'd be where I call home. Go across that dam. I didn't know.

They didn't know. You'd got these sites that's got it and they said nope. What we did is they broke out the block and tackle and the ropes. How did they get up the other side? Hey, let them down. Let everything down.

and you'd have a bunch that would, you know, go around the long way and we'll meet you in two months and before you ever. I'd imagine. When you could get on that two month journey. Yeah, you're standing there and looking at this and saying, wait a minute, they lowered big wagons, mules, six to eight mules for each one,

you know, all, everything they had. Top of that canyon be what you call a pinch point. Yeah, right. Yeah, you know, it was a lot of jane. It was amazing. I just said, well, hey. But what if you were... When it comes to manhood, I don't match you up.

What if you was just bebopping out across there and you saw that hot water shooting out the ground? Well, that's another thing. I mean, that's another. I mean, I'm a different direction. Yeah, yeah. I would have never made it there because I was going to see a bear. I told it over.

John Coulter, my man was the first one to see it. Some of the movies. And he came back to the rendezvous and was telling them, they said, you've been in the woods too long. You don't got on that peyote. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. You got to think about it. How high does it shoot? Yeah. It's cheap, but I don't know. High, real high. Oh, yeah. Did you have to do this, Gala?

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you got to look at it. Oh, good gracious. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's a gizer.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, no, Faithful blows. Yeah. It's something to see. No, that's a cool one. That one's there. I mean, right there, we've seen Devil's Towers.

were so much hunting out there. That's kind of, you kind of get numb to it. But for people, I ain't ever seen that thing out in the middle of nothing. That's a neat one. We went up to the bottom of it.

Yeah. Walked halfway to the... I shot a deer looking at it. Yeah. staring right out. Well, I just, when I think back, I like the first guys

that, you know, Jim Bridger and them guys, the trail brazier. Yeah. Well, that was man. Or when they first come up on stuff like that. Mm-hmm. what they must have thought.

Oh. And then when they come back, you know, like you talking about they were telling them and say, hey, you've been out in the wood too long.

So you're hallucinating. Yeah, people looking to them like we look at you when you start talking about that panther. Yeah. Whoa. Before we did,

hold on, I met somebody. It was pretty awesome. Oh, oh, he met somebody. Very, very good place to go. And she said she's seen a black Florida panther.

A black Florida panther. okay i told you about that and jay's baptizer so she's not lying okay that's that good for her the christian woman would not lie our friend amy painted this rock and dropped it off for us and you know what i have actual proof that she did that who did that so amy just saying yeah amy who just saying you know when somebody says they painted a rock there you go and they drop it off that's a painted rock this is way more proof than a black cap so just saying so while i was gone i heard there was a lot of discussion about a black cat yeah which i hate i miss black being i don't know none of us were there nobody here was there so why would we talk about it like we're right right me inside right

uh it out no it's weird because like this first time i think i've ever gone to full till season without hunting a god when he went on vacation come back got sick and then next thing you know it's over i know i got scolded for that this morning i got to add it unashamed jays said this is a Plus, if I am that the Black Panther exists. Oh, boy. Tell us. Because if I was down on Fieldsland, deer hunting, and one actually come out in front of me, okay, and I got my rifle in my hand, I could kill him.

And then all the discussion would end. Mm-hmm. Okay, I wouldn't do it. Mm-hmm. Okay. That's how much I believe, okay. I'm not going to shoot him because he might be the last one. Well, just so we're clear.

No. Mm-hmm. On the other side of that, if I do, I will. Well, hey, each to his own. Is that legal? Not illegal. Hey, I call the game wardes. They told me no.

And I said, wait a minute, hold it. Everybody's always laughing and accusing me. Oh, he's insane because I said, now I call the law. The law? Game wars. I call them and said, hey, look, why can't I shoot my imagination? since y'all say I'm crazy and I'm just making it up. Thank you.

I'll tell you why. Because if I shot him, then it would be over. It wouldn't be no doubt. Okay. Uncle's right. He did exist. And, hey, he finally had to kill him to prove it to you, idiot. I'm telling you right now, I'm going to roll the dice.

Well, hey, roll the dice. I wouldn't kill him if he's, you know. That's actually a great question. No, no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't kill him if I could. I'm going to do that, then I'm going to get him taxidermy, then I'm going to put him in your living room. There you go.

Right. That way, we just have... Can I inherit it? Hey, I just thought I had a few fans now. With a sign on it that says, I was right. That's right. I was right. This old deal about, you all.

What Phil said, the new book he wrote? I might be wrong. I might be wrong. But I doubt. I'm a Robertson. Oh, no, but I doubt. Hey, that's a great question, though. If a moose walks into my backyard,

there's no moose season here. Yeah. Can I shoot it? Probably. I would. You might if I felt my life was threatened. That's right. You better go, after you do it, you better go grab a hoof and hit yourself in the face real hard with it.

Why? Because there's no laws against shooting moose. Oh, hey, got that dragon. Throw him through the front one. Hey, look, I was sitting here watching a ghost smoke. The next thing I know. The man been jumping. I don't.

I mean, he's in a lot better shape than he's ever been, but I don't see my man dragging a moose. Dragging a moose is going to take a second. Me neither, because it took all I could to drag that 300-pound alligator up that hill. There you go. Louisiana moose laws. Six per season. Oh, six per season. Oh, I didn't know that.

They said fire away. Oh, that's deer. Oh, that's deer. Okay. I do you explode, folks. 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. here. And that's what because of our friends over at Tritels Beef makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sao 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 come to them. But with Tritale's

beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way. Tritels comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth generation American ranch, so they've been at it for a while. Now, look, the beef comes straight from their ranch and other ranchers they work with who raise cattle the same way. Their steaks are properly aged and shipped straight from the ranch to your door. We threw a couple of ribbys on the grill. Look, salt, pepper, garlic, hot fire, that's all you need. Look, because I'll tell you what, when the beef comes from people who raise cattle for a living, you can taste the difference. The tenderness and the flavor are fantastic. So if you're stocking the freezer for grilling season.

Go check out Tri-Tales 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 tribeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. We have a lot of fans in East Tennessee and Western Carolina. Oh, yeah.

And you guys are facing, I mean, essentially hell on earth. Let's just call it what it is. Disaster, roads crumbling, can't get two people, all the things. You are certainly in our thoughts and prayers. And if anybody listening is wondering how they can get involved, I want to make sure I say this right, which is why I'm getting on my phone. You can help with donations to our friends over at Samaritan's Purse, which obviously we've talked about a lot on here,

or to the Black Mountain Children's Home. So those are two causes that we know that, that we support here. So if you're North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida, if you're any, Georgia, if you're any of that stuff, won't know how you can get involved.

Those are two great places to help get involved with the disaster relief and all the things. But, no, I mean, I saw what Greenville, Tennessee. I've done a couple of events in Greenville, Tennessee,

meet and greets and stuff like that. We all did one in Greenville together. And so, you know, yeah, our thoughts and prayers are out with you guys, along with our resources. We've donated some stuff, money for waters and foods and all those things. So keep your head up out there.

I know it's, I know, I know it feels like hell on earth and it is while you're living it. But, yeah, it's crazy that a hurricane can do that to mountains. So, um, hurricanes are,

they suck. At the end of the day, man, they suck. Nope. Like, it just, they are what they are.

They're part of it, but they suck. So, There you go. We're praying for you. Yeah, I had to mention our hillbillies. And look, just out of the good spirit of things, we'll give you this. Johnny Dee's wearing that hat today.

Rocky Top, baby. Oh, Rocky Top. You'll always be. You know. Oh, sweet home. Oh, listen to them vocals. Yeah. Go on.

Good. Oh, Rocky Top. Woo. Rocky Top Tennessee. Yeah. Get it, boys. I did wear this hat just for Brittany today. We got apparently, my brother and his dog is going full. He's buying into it.

buying into the hype. Hey, better than any other football team I'm sure. Hey, no, people, you're not by yourself.

No. Got people that love you and are willing to do stuff for you. Asher and Nile them in the Carolinas, they all on top of a mountain, can't get out. Yeah,

we had some people email in about checking in on the dashers and our contend, we can have a contingent in, uh, aisle and them got out. We finally got them dashers where we want them. On top of them.

On the top of them out. On top of a house, please. They can't get that. We got a baby's nice ladies. They barely got back. They weren't even there when it happened, I don't think. I don't know.

It's messy. That's just a joke. A Black Mountain region is beautiful. We like to give them to Asher's a hard time. So that's just a joke, obviously. In all seriousness, we do love you guys out there. So anyway, Johnny D, you had an interesting follow-up. Last time you were here, you talked about...

Interesting is a word I would refuse to use. You talked about you were going to prison. I went to prison, Zah. We're into prison. I've been to jail before. Okay, okay. So I subbed in kind of for Sae to go to Angola. And that, yeah.

Yeah. That's a different place, old Angola. Would you want to go and live there? Maybe like if I was the warden. Everybody else I'm not. You don't want to be one of the inmates? I'm going to stay on this side of the bars. What did you experience?

But I will say. I got no, I would go back in a heartback. I would go back tomorrow. If they were like, hey, we got a thing going on. I'm in. Like, it was amazing. What was cool about it is. So I was, and then I didn't know, like, they're like, hey, you speak for like, just short.

You and Willie 30 minutes. I was like, cool. That means me for four. And Willie for 26. Yeah, there you go. And so I didn't know, you know, what we were doing. Didn't know the schedule. And then I look up and I, me and Willie are first.

So like, first guys. that people are going to hear. Oh, go ahead. It's like, hey, everybody. Get in there, coach. But it was like, I was watching them worship and I was like, I got up on stage and said, Willie invited me to prison. We ended up at church somehow.

Like, they were all fired up for Jesus. Like, I just mentioned my favorite Bible verse. The dudes in the front are like quoting it, like reading it along with me. I'm like, what is it happening here? And they're like, oh, those are the guys that all. have been through seminary. I was like, oh, they're just here volunteering. No, no, no.

They live here. Yeah. But once they got here, they changed their lives around. And what they chose to study is, you know, seminary, the Bible and all this. I was like, really cool stuff. You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. And so I think we had 900 inmates show up from different prisons. Unbelievable.

Oh, so this wasn't just an Angola thing. They brought some in. They brought in people from outside. They bust in a few other prisons. I've got a guy that worked at the automotive place right here. Really? Yeah, he was like, hey man, I used to work right beside you guys. And I was like, oh, he goes, but I'm getting out November 7th.

He's not in that Gola. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, he's in prison. Okay. And I got his name. I said, hey, come see me on November 8th when you can come see me. So what I think you was fixed to say, and then we got off on something else is there just people. 100%.

And I've never. that have run into what this world has to offer. Made mistakes. Made bad choices. Yeah. And we've all been there. We've all made bad decisions. Some of them just have longer standing consequences.

Yeah. And I met some great people, great guys. I do need to say this. I've been in a lot of back rooms helping out with Willie. Met a lot of big time celebrities. And I feel like I got a pretty good nose for which ones are jerks and which ones are the real freaking deal. And Lauren freaking Daigle, the

girl that sings the Christian music. Oh yeah. Whenever we get to heaven and they're giving out the words for best Christian, she's going to win them all. Like it was the most unbelievable thing. And a Louisiana girl. Yeah. Lafayette Louisiana girl. She's up there doing her set

and the inmates are like yelling out what song they want to hear. So she's just changes. She's like, yeah, I'll go with you guys. And it like sings the song. And they know every word. And I'm like, I thought we were going to prison. Like, I thought I was going to, like, meet some rough guys and tell them about Jesus. And they're like, no, they're here to teach you. Well, you had a revival. Oh, yeah.

In other words, you as a president didn't even come in. Well, that's pretty awesome. It was really cool. Hey, I told you it's going to be a neatie. It was unbelievable. And then, so we do the whole thing. And I did find out that's the first time anything like that's been in Angola in seven years. They've done smaller stuff, like in their chapel.

But 900 guys out there worshiping. it's been seven years since they've done that which was like that's crazy to think about like these guys haven't got to and to go they which I was like man it feels kind of open like who's to say we can't just all start running they didn't and I was like they know but yeah and like they just had them sitting there like we're bringing you lunch so to go to this thing you had to commit to eight hours sitting there listening and you the only reason you got to go up was to go to the bathroom and you had to ask and go

with them. But I, like, walked around, handed out some God Behind Bars braces, but God behind bars is doing incredible stuff. This is amazing for some reason. Corey was here on the podcast talking about when we went to St. Quentin. Yeah. I had to leave early. They stayed, you know, and baptized, 86 people that night. And Corey said, like you were talking about, she said, I didn't really, we're in St. Quentin, but it was like we was at a great Billy Graham revival meeting. Oh, that's how it was. Well, that they was just on fire.

All of them are singing and praising Jesus. Yeah. So it's, I guess she won't follow. That's the cool part about that. That's why I brought up about, hey, look, they're just people, okay, that made some mistakes in their choices and life. Yeah.

Okay. And now, like Martin said, the consequences are a little bit heavier. Okay. But we've all been there where we've done stupid stuff, okay. and then you have to suck it up. If you do the crime, you do the time.

All right. So are you ready for the story of all stories? Get it. This is the story I got. So then we're done and they're like, you guys want to go visit death row? And I'm like, no, thanks. I think I'm good.

Yeah. I don't believe. Legitimately, I was like. I think I would have passed. So here's the story. Yeah. I get back on the bus, not the prison bus taking everybody.

Corey's getting on. Jeffrey's getting on. Parker. getting on. I'm like, I'm kind of tired. Nah. And then I see Parker and his guitar and I'm like, are these guys about to go worship on death row? And I'm going to be on this bus. Bus is about to close the door. I jump out. I'm in. Jump on the bus. And I'm the last person on bus. And here we are headed to death row. Warden gives us a big talk. Like no pictures, no nothing. So we're going in there. He's like, some of these halls.

you're going to look, you're going to see people down them, you're not going to meet those people. You don't get to talk to them. You don't want to talk to them. I was like, deal. There's another hall you're going to walk down, say, hey, to a few guys. I shook some guys' hands. Then we're going to go out to the yard. The yard is like a half court of basketball.

That's it. That's the only outside. So this room, essentially. A little bigger in this room. Just a little bit bigger, yeah. Maybe double this room. But we're going out to the yard where. there's guys who have been given the death sentence, and that's the only outside time they get.

And we're walking out there with them. And I'm like, what have I got myself into? So I go out there, I'm talking to a guy. I bench pressed, you know, just in case. They had some weights. I was like, I'm going to do this real quick. And I'm just trying to be kind of friendly. But at the same time, I'm like, we're here.

You talk about a bunch of boys. I ain't got nothing to live for either. On this earth, I would say, like, because. is what are they going to do? Go back to prison. They're there. With an expiration date. So Parker and this other worship band, they start leading worship.

And a couple of these inmates are just all in. And I'm just, I getting chills thinking about it. So I, you know, I was nervous. I'm not going to lie. I ain't going to try and act bigger. How could you not be? I know. I got my back in a corner.

Like, I'm like, mm-mm. Like, ain't nobody. behind me. I'm behind Parker. I'm like, from the group I'm here, can I recommend stay real close to Parker? Yeah, Parker's strong. He's younger, stronger, and has a weapon. But, uh, yeah, he got to guitar. We're going to go WWE up in here. But the guy's all super nice. And the warden

kind of explained his theory on death row. And it's, it's different than a lot of them to give them a little, I mean, one, everybody that's been in there, has been in there, there's guys that's been in that building for 30 years. One building. sleeping in a cell got a one hour a day to go outside like it's crazy to think about and they did stuff where they earned it

you know oh yeah um so we're doing worship songs we do two I look over Lauren Daigle by the way I'm in the corner like eyeballing kind of she's out in middle eyes closed hands in the air just worshiping she knows one guy in there

because she's been there like five times I'm like this lady's unbelievable she gets up goes and rips off her you say song just a cappella and I was like I'm about to just boo-hoo cry and then it happened this guy they called him up and said

hey you want to sing a song a dude on death row led 40 people going to do prison ministry like we're like oh here let's what Christians are going to go do our prison ministry he gets up and start singing I need thee

I looked him up because I know his name I met him he's been in there since 1995 in that building. Wow. I was six. Yeah. The end of the day,

they're no more or less deserving of Jesus's blood than we are. Exactly. We all need Jesus's blood and everybody. As for all of us. There's no difference. Yeah. For them to change, you can really say the power in the name of Jesus.

Yeah. And when I tell you, that dude got up, like you can tell, he spent 30 years thinking about what he's done. Oh, yeah. And he knows for a fact, who he needs is Jesus. Believing in Jesus don't get you off of earthly death row.

Yeah. He knows where he's happening. Just get you off of eternal death row. Yeah. He knows where he's at, but he knows where he's going. Yeah, amen. So it was just unbelievable. That Jesus is who he said he was.

Yeah. That's when you get that, when you get that, you'll change. It was, it was unreal. If you ever get a chance to do any prison minister, I highly. So in fairness, you'd say the prison ministry is less for the prisoners and more for the people doing it. That day, you know, as I baptized probably four or five guys, I think 40 people were baptized. I got more out of it.

That's one of the- That may be anybody. Isn't that funny how ministry works like that? It's weird how that stuff works. That's how I look at it. Okay. You said, okay, we don't know who's getting the most benefit from it. That's a God thing.

Oh, absolutely. No, that's the funny thing about when you put yourself in uncomfortable situations like that. I know Johnny D. was dreading. I was supposed to go, but his life would have it. I was gone on an extra day. I had kids. My father-in-law's coming in town. I wasn't dreading it.

I was just nervous, yeah. And I was just like, and we had podcasts to do, so I was trying to stack it up on everything. So I was like, you know what I'm out? Hey, they asked the question. You're going to go death row? I'd have said, I'd have been a little nervous about that. I'm going to whip out on you boys, okay?

I'm just, I don't think I can't. Hey, can't recommend it enough. Great experience, five stars. As long as you're visiting. The cool thing about this is,

don't do nothing to get you there. Just go visit. Is it was God is behind bars? Yeah, he's everywhere. He's everywhere. Okay. But that's the cool part about it, okay? Like you said,

hey, there's no where you go that he's not there already. Mm-hmm. Right. And hadn't been there. It hadn't been there before. And there's one other place we have now been invited, my friend. Oh.

Oh, beyonder? Oh, Gobwin, you're going to like this one. Goblin? There's a certain lake in Louisiana that is behind bars. You can't get to it unless you got an invitation. Yeah, it's got real big fences around it. And we got an invitation to go fish the lake in Angola. Oh, yeah, they talked about that.

Because they were actually talking about it for prisoner escapes. No, you ain't escaping that joint. Well, I know, but they said, well, there's too much, there's too much against you. Yeah. Okay, because if you make it out of the, out of the confinement area, then you've got to deal with alligators, cotton mouths. Yeah. All this stuff.

I mean, the Mississippi River right there. Yeah. Yeah. And the Mississippi River. And especially think about it, okay, you choose to do it in flood states. Yeah. Well, then now you've just doubled what you've got to face. I was in the safest place maybe on Earth.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there is an argument. Those maximum security places are hard to get to. Hey, it was crazy. But they, so the other prisoners, they got jobs. There's a dude whose job it is to catch Cropi for the warden.

Yeah, like the governor comes to town. They fish. Darwin, if you're going to go road, go all the way. You may get that man's job when he steps down. I'll take that. Hey, God said, I volunteer for that one. My dad said, that sound like a good time. Hey, I'm telling you.

It sounded like a good place for a honeyhole hat. They did tell me you probably don't want to bring a kayak. Like there's some large alligator. Lizards. I got a 21 footer all but. The lizard population is probably very doing very well down there. Oh, I imagine. In South Louisiana.

Yeah, I don't imagine they thin them out. They use them as security measures. Yeah. Yeah, that's part of the force. Yeah, the rest of us thin the mouth. Use the force. The only thing is you got to dress. Use what God gives you, boys.

Dress code. No bell. No, you can't wear blue jeans and a t-shirt because if you get out of line wearing that, you might get tackled. Oh, yeah. You got to separate yourself as a visitor from resident. Bright colors then.

Yeah. Yeah, wear like, yeah, charteruses and stuff. Yeah. Exactly, yeah. You can't be, you don't want to, you don't want to blend in. You want to stand out. You blend in, you don't know what it might happen. It was, like, I could go on forever.

I'm not going to, but like, it was the crows. I would stand out. I would be the one that was my pants would be wet. Huh? Pants would be wet. Oh, T.T. Yeah. There's a couple guys that look like that.

That's what I was. Hey, I would stand out because do. Why. You know, there's something about going behind lock gates. Any of them say anything about this podcast? No.

A lot of them like, oh, so my intro. I was curious because I don't know what kind of media they can consume. That was my actual. Yeah, that's what I was just interested. I didn't.

One hallway I went down, there was like a one 15-inch TV for all of them on TLC, very far away from. I was like, what's the point of that? Background noise. But they did know you. Well, yeah. I got up there and I said. Well, no, that's what I got been one with one St. Quentin.

There were one in there, knew me. None of them knew me. I mean, it was not one. It ain't just, oh, yeah, I've heard it back. No. No, they knew me. They knew me. I did this for you.

First thing I said, I said, anybody here know of Uncle Sop. and they said yeah i said well he's a good friend of mine and he wanted me to tell y'all something y'all see that big sun up there i said i said i know the man who hung it oh that's funny they all got a good laugh out of that hey that'd have been a good place to ask black panther question oh yeah there's probably who knows i may be one in there 18 000 acres yeah good that's how big that place that's how big that place is 18,000? It's crazy.

Wow. That's big. The bus ride to go from the rodeo. I got to go to the rodeo. No, no, I'll go for that. I wanted to go see that. I ain't see that. It's coming up.

Yeah, like next weekend. Oh, that quick. Oh, God. Yeah, well, sorry. I got too much going on. There was a big sign up. Hey, there was a big sign up that said, Wild cow milking contest.

Yeah. So they go out and catch a wild cow. Well, they put it in the sheet, and you got like a 16-ounce Coke bottle. Yeah. And about four of them have to hold that cow down. One guy's got a milk. Get some milk in the bottle. But it ain't, it's a while.

It's a crazy heifer. Same thing about how they got a poker table, and you're playing poker. Yeah. And there's so much money involved in the pot, okay? The guy that does not get up wins the pot. Yeah, the last man sitting. Yeah, the last man sitting. They got money the hard way.

They turn bulls loose and they're out there, raven red flags all around these guys sitting down. They got a chip on his head, money chip. Money the hard way. Look at this. Yeah. I know. The Angola Prison Rodeos, I assume what like 1942 rodeos were like.

No, they usually don't let everything out at one time. We are watching a YouTube video where six cows just broke out. and guys are just dodging them. And they're trying to rope them so they can milk. That's insane. A dumb question. All the guys in there are inmates? Yeah.

Like inside there. And now I can say I baptized some guys right there where that cow's kicking that guy. Oh, y'all did it in the rodeo arena. There you go. And horse troughs or cow troughs. Yeah. That's cool. That's what I gave one guy a concussion.

That was a neat thing. They didn't know how they was going to keep, you know. because Corey said they just they was doing so bad and so fast William and uh Brandon the other guy you know that the water was you know going out of the time yeah and she said it was a god thing of course said we looked up later and not only is the water should have been muddy and it wasn't it was clear and and at the end of this thing after they babbed 86 people it was still about three-quarters full. And Corey said, hey, we had looked and didn't think about it,

and she said, God provided. Yeah, and that's what stinks. Like, that's the kind of stuff that, you know, our media should want to cover. And don't. And that you don't. No, you don't. And that's what.

It takes platforms like these to actually hear the good things. Well, no, no. Like you said, it should have been. It should have been on the front page. Yeah. 40 guys in Angola baptized today. Yeah. It should have been, you know. Luckily, Corey's got some reach, so we got the word out pretty good. Right. There you go. But yeah, definitely check them out. I do have other big news, Martin.

Uh-oh. I can't find. Oh, you're just full of joy today. Today is a good, today is a good day. Do you bring us some pizza? Oh, and family of six. I love it. I love it. Oh, not that kind of news. Do you bring us some pizza? I didn't bring pizza. I will say, I apologize if anybody smelled anything. I I made chili this weekend, and my stomach has been just real. Good for you. Lucky Charms, Chili? Yep.

But Martin. It hasn't even been hot cold enough yet. I know. I just like to pretend it's fall. I wore a corduroy shirt this weekend. Hey, let me tell you something. As a guy who teal hunted every day, this last week was exceptional. It was cool in the morning.

I mean, the mosquitoes didn't know. I didn't hunt one day of tails a year. Well, if you did- If you would have just missed the first week, you'd have been happy. But that second week was pretty good. Martin convinced me to get something. Uh-oh, what I get? And it is at my door.

I just checked my doorbell. Oh, a griddle. My griddle is at my doorbell. Look at there. I bought one from pit boss. I'm very excited. I just got that while we were sitting here. What is that?

Navigator? Oh, no. That thing is awesome. That's like a high-batchie from Waffle House. Oh, just right there on your back. porch. Oh, man. When are you and your woman going to cook or something here, son?

You made some fried rice on it yet? Well, it's in the box. It's in the box on the front porch. Let's go build some. I know. I'm going home to build something tonight. I'll go get some eggs. Anyway, that's exciting.

You'll never cook breakfast inside again. It's crazy. You're going to be outside. The problem is we've been on waffles, but I think I'm off of waffles. Yeah, I get on that rice. Well, you can make, I mean, they call pancakes, but pancake and waffle, same thing, just without shape. Yeah.

They was a huckleberry jelly up there in Yellowstone. Huckleberry. Everywhere. Thanks for saving him. And they had. Huckleberry jelly. Disappointed. We was going to ride the Teton.

We was going to ride the, what, the trolley to the top of the restaurant. They said you have to go up there and eat the huckleberry waffles. But it was raining. They won't run it. And at the top of the mountain was cloudy, you couldn't see anyway. How many times do you hear I'm your huckle bear? I didn't hear it. You would have found a better.

But I know. Every time we went, there was some Huckleberry liquorish. Yeah. And Jackie was on that, Paula's brother. Yeah. And getting his daughter some. And Paula bought some pancake mix, Huckleberry pancake mix for Johanan, some jelly. It was pretty good.

There you go. Well, what's in that inbox? Well, first off, 318-215-6-559. That's Uncle's size personal cellular device. Where you can leave him a message. And call me. We can play it here on the podcast. Call us, leave a voicemail, and Hunter's about to play us our first ever.

Uh-oh. From size cell phone voicemail. And here we go. Transitioning out of the military, to be honest with you, it's really the only life I've known. And what do I need to expect on the other end, civilians? So thanks for all you all do. God bless. Talk you later.

What was his name? Clay? I couldn't hear it as a beginning. because he decided to call and leave a voicemail while riding in a Jeep. I think of safe. Wane. Wane. I thought it was Wane.

An open Jeep. Oh, it doesn't say on the transcript. We got a 50-50 change. New rule. He knows who he's going to a quiet room when you call. Yeah, well, he knows who he was. Do you hear what he said?

Before Sye answers this. Thank you. Thank you for your service. Absolutely. Thank you so much. And the answer to getting out, okay. First couple months, it's going to suck.

Okay, because if you're been in the military, however long you win, you get kind of ingrained into it, I guess it's the word I'm looking for. And you're going to miss the people and the guys and women you serve with. So, but hey, then after that, it finally, it gets all right.

It's all right. It gets hot. Yeah, I can. You make new friends here or wherever you at. I certainly can't offer any advice other than, My heartfelt thanks for what you do. Yeah. And what you have done and what you'll do till you're done with it.

You'll just have to make your own missions. We call them goals. You got any other ones, Hunter? Oh, Hunter's got another one. Fire another one away, Hunter. Hey, don't call room. This is Ian. Hi, I really enjoy listening to y'all.

I got a joke for you. Can a kangaroo jump higher than the Empire State Building? Yes. Yes. Well, of course, it can. The Empire State Building can jump. up. Y'all have a good one, bye.

Ian, my man. Ian. We got to work on your delivery. Yeah, leave that to Godwin. Hey, don't give up for your day job, Ian. Leave those jokes to Godwin. You know how many times Carter has told that specific joke in the last month? Hey, good for him.

At least seven. At least seven. Anyways. Back to the emails. Hey, call us. Maybe you can outperform it. Ian. He put the bar about as high as the Empire State Building can jump.

also matches a goblin's vertical but a kangaroo can't I can get a little higher now okay somebody emailed in and they have a daughter named Merritt Merritt yeah I know somebody's got a daughter named Merritt from North Carolina North Carolina

but they're not from North Carolina Merritt was diagnosed with cancer in 2019 as a baby tons of treatment all that stuff on August 17th she rung the bell to signify that she was cancer-free So that's awesome

At 2020 So she's been cancer-free for a while But that's awesome But during her treatment She fell in love With someone who she shares the name with Silas Merritt And this TV show called Duck Dynasty

When she found out It was Cy's middle name was Merritt She started calling herself Sy So Sy's her hero Well you were just in North Carolina Yeah And she finally got to meet Sigh.

This is her right here. Oh, look at her. That's Merritt. And that's also her, but with a beard. There you go. Hey, she's looking pretty good, boys. Hey, she got a wood duck call and a mystery. Look at there.

That's awesome. And she also met. Philip and Miller. Oh, yeah. But I just thought that was a really cool email. It is. That's cool. Yeah.

And they're sending us some wristbands that say, cancer mess with the wrong warrior princess. That's right. I love it. So that was the cool email of the day. And here's an interesting one that we haven't. I mean, we've kind of talked about it. And Martin put a video up of watching an alligator bite a hook the other day.

And it just goes straight with this. Kenny doesn't say where he is from. But his name is Kenny. And then he said he is from Thief River Falls, Minnesota. He just put it in a weird way. he wants to know what we think about the future of hunting, fishing, and the outdoor is range finding scopes, crazy crossbows, hunting clothes, trail cameras that allow someone to watch deer activity from anywhere, apps that allow hunter to scout without even going to it.

Ain't it great? I love scouting. Hey. I knew more about Angola's pond before I went there than when I was. It's called technology, boy. It's technology. Yeah, but look, I have all that stuff. If you don't use it, you'll lose it.

If I don't, I have all that stuff, and I still work my tail off. Yeah. Yeah. That's part of the industry. And I'm going to stick up for him here. He never says it's bad. Yeah.

He's just wondering our opinions. I think it's great. I mean, because you can be more efficient. And the way things call. these days? Not only that, all of it is a great management tool. Okay, for your property and whatever you're trying to raise, okay, and do the best job you do, like we all want big bucks with big antlers. So, hey, it's just a good management tool, okay? Like a lot of people are against feeding the animals, which, you know, hey, that's your opinion.

Well, okay. It makes your life better. And I just don't understand the people who think they're squanto or something and have been sitting in a bush with a stick and a string. And they're the real hunters of the world or the real fishermen. Like, let everybody do it the way they want to do it. And if you're not breaking it. I don't doing it that way. I like it this way better. Yeah, this way is way more fun.

But like, I just don't understand the cremudgeons, if you will. Oh, everybody's got to have something to die on. They got to have a hill to die on it. As long as you, look, every tool made, period in the story. If you want to use it for bad reasons, you can use it for bad reasons. That's right. If you want to use it for good reasons, then you'll get the good out of it. Like I run cellular trail cameras.

Martin. Of the good cell cameras. I do. I do. I do love my spy points. But they, I use them for ducks. Now, if I use all of my tools scouting the day before, the night before, We always talk the night before.

What are we doing tomorrow? We develop a game plan. We go. I'm not one of those that if I check my camera and then magically there are ducks where I chose not to go. I don't just load my crap up and go over there. I say, you know what? I chose wrong.

I picked wrong. They win today. It is what it is. So I'll see you tomorrow. In other words, you don't make a plan just to change it on a whim. No, I don't. But there are people that will sit there. I've heard stories, people sit there in their office,

they get a picture of that deer, and then all of a sudden they go out there and grab their rifle, pull up to their place. They got it where they can sneak up on it and shoot said deer or something. See, now, see, that's not what this tool was designed for. This tool was designed it to keep you out of the woods and keep pressure off of animals,

letting them be wild animals more often than when we're out there with them. And you can keep an eye on them. And you can keep an eye on them and your stuff and all the things. like all that kind of stuff. So again, I think if you use it with the right mindset and the right reasons behind it, they're awesome. Well, I'm going to send us out of here.

Finish it up. Romans 12-2 is the verse that is my favorite verse in the whole wide world, and it's the verse I shared in Angola. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, and that's the part we always hear about and say a lot. But the next part is, then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is,

his good, pleasing. and perfect will. And I'm here to tell you today, I don't care if you're in Angola. I don't care if you're at church yesterday, Sunday, whatever day you go to church. I don't care who you are. God has a good, pleasing, and perfect will for you and your life.

And you can find out what that is just by following the man that hung the sun. He's a friend. Ding, ding. His name's Jesus. We'll see y'all next time right here in a duck call room. Goodbye. We're out.