Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Goes in for a Surprise Heart Procedure

Episode Date: July 12, 2022

Si has an unexpected health scare, and his producer sends a group text that freaks everyone out. Stone loves his new job managing Willie's property. Martin's wild vacation included chasing after a runaway dock with a boat still attached and meeting Peyton Manning. Godwin and Martin weigh in on whether to ask your future in-laws for their blessing over the phone. And Jay and Si have advice for members of the military about how to handle leaving your family to serve abroad. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, welcome back to the duck call room. It is good to be back. I've been on a little bit of a hiatus. I saw y'all brought in the B squad. Phil, Jace. I ain't even sitting in the right spot. All the rookies. See what all this stuff is over here.

That's all the rookies. Well, first, let me say thank you to Brian Burroughs for the gospel carving that you've done for me, sir. That's pretty awesome. I love it. Pretty. Okay. And then also from Christopher and Theresa, I think is how he pronounced this, from Oklahoma. It's a T-shirt and beef jerky.

Beef jerky. Thank you for the T-shirt, beef jerky. Where's the bag? Do what? Go ahead. Y'all just keep talking. I ain't here. Neither one of us are.

Let them roll with it. Well, hey, I'm still on my adventure with my lungs for the, suffer vowels. Okay. So I had to go to my heart doctor and have everything there. So she had to stress tests and I went through all that. She didn't like the looks of something. So we've done what, I think, a heart, whatever, they run a scope up your main artery.

Do you watch it? Up your leg. Yeah. They go in through your legs. Heart cast. So they check that out, okay. And I thought she was just being cautious, which she was, because everything, she checked everything out,

my bypass surgery and all that, because I had three bypassed, okay, so she checked where all that was tied in, and everything's clear. So I got a good report on that. So she gave the okay to Dr. Connors, you know, for the valve. And I've got what, I think one more thing I've got to do before he schedules, you know, the operation,

which is nothing but more than just putting some little vows in my lungs. Well, you know, our man Hunter over here scared everybody half to death. He sent out a text. A group text said, Si has blockage going to the hospital. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm taking back your shampoo you got.

Yeah. whatever that fan man. Yeah, it's affected his brain. Well, when I read that, I said, oh, no. That's what I? Oh, no. I mean, I was just like, what happened? You know.

She was just being cautious. Which is a good thing. I'd much rather her send you there for that. No, no. And nothing be wrong than the other way right. Well, no, no. She didn't like the way it looked because when I went over there to discuss it with her, she said, see right here, and she had a bunch of pictures of it.

She said, that's not good. It's the wrong color. And I said, well, you know, and I said, what are we going to do about it? She said, well, we're going to go up there and look at everything to make sure, you know, actually look at everything and say, okay, then we'll determine what's wrong and then, you know, go from there. Because we like this, what is known, then it's manageable. Oh, I ain't that to turn. But I just, I thought when she's done it, I said, well, I said, I think she's just being overcautious.

And she was because, you know, she was ready to put a stand in it if she had to. Okay. And everything was clear. So she said, no. Okay. You tell them it ain't been that long ago since y'all been in there? No, no, yeah. We just left.

That's why I'm always telling her, I really, me and doctors, I don't like y'all. It's nothing personal, but when I go to the hospital, I always end up, you know, yeah, I don't like the result that's been going on lately. Surely that thing got more than a 10-year warranty on it. But, hey, whatever thing's good. Like I said, I think I've got one more thing to do. And then, you know, Dr. Conner, a schedule around his schedule whenever he can work me in to put them in. Well, that's good. Because all it is, it's a, you know, I thought it would be something like Star Wars, you know, all this fancy stuff, you know.

All it is is a plastic tubing. Yeah, it's like they cut the end off a straw. Yeah. Yeah, they're going to insert it. It's, this is tailor-fitted, okay. It's, you know, size and all this. You know, like I don't know how many they'll put in, yeah. But they'll, you know, they'll do it.

And then my lungs will be able to expand, okay, and it won't let it come back in, the bad stuff. It'll all go out. Ain't no telling how much you'd be talking in. Well, no, no, yeah. Out with the bad and with the good. That's what I'm excited. I am too.

I'm just glad that that text message was like false alarm. Because I was about eight hours away. Well, that was, no, that probably was our fault because we had said, she had said, you've got a little blockage. And that's why she put it. She said, you've got a little blockage. So that's what we said, which is, you know, according to the doctor, I have a little blockage. Is there such a thing as little blockage when it comes to your heart?

See, that's, you know. I don't want no block. I don't want a little. So they were initially thinking they were going to have to put a stint. Yeah. But thank goodness that. Which is a lot better than the results you had a few years ago. Well, no, no, because here's the thing that gets me about all this.

Yeah. The Bible says that, you know, why are you aware of us, God, you know, man? But this body that he gave us. It's really super fantastic. It really is. It's a machine. Oh, no. I'm telling you.

Because I look at my brother, we food with water all the time, pumping it up and draining it. Okay. And this is made out of stainless steel, no less. And they break down all the time. Yeah, I've got this thing that's flesh and blood. And this baby has a little been worked on, but it's still just kicking on down. He's kicking on down the road. What's that you got on?

That is, I am an official deputy of Luchenbach, Texas. Oh, Lord. He's been to Lookenbach. That's right. I've been in a Lookin'Bock. And hey, no, no. Do you say Willie and the Boys? No, no, it was really, yeah, that's where Willie and the Boys are.

Way, Willie and the Boys. But anyway, it was really cool because, hey, you know, I asked them when they told me, a bunch of Germans come through there in 1849. Mm-hmm. That's why they got all their meat markets down. Well, no, no, and I'm saying, well, what is a bunch of Germans doing in America in 1849? That's better in Germany. But, hey, well, that's what I figured out. They said, well, hey, it was just, you know, they was getting away from oppression.

Yeah, gold rush. A lot of cows. A lot of cows. So it was pretty cool. And it's an old site, okay. And, you know, the first thing that Jeff said when I told him, Jeff said, that's what we need. to go with our beepers, you know, our metal detectors. Oh, Lord.

Well, I'm just saying. But it was a- It might be some German gold down there. Yeah, it was pretty cool. Yeah, that's where I've been in Santa Tone. Yeah. So it was, I preached the gospel about three or four times. Good deal.

So, what, Friday, I was there, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. And then the fourth, it was a travel meeting. Okay, but anyway, that's what I've been up for the weekend. That's good. You still try. It was a good deal because a lot of people that has not heard the gospel, okay, and we gave out, I've got bracelets with the symbols on them. Yeah. I gave out like 1,400 of them.

That's good. I was like, because, you know, so it was actually a really nice event. That's good. No, it's, yeah, it's been weird not being here. That's the longest I've been gone from his office. Well, no, no, because it was weird doing the point. podcast without you because you're the one that kind of oversees the going zone here. I watched what y'all did, though.

Y'all did a lot. Y'all don't need me. I can head on out to pasture now. I have heard so many good reports about when Ms. Christine was on the podcast. It was the best one of all times. She's great. She's fantastic. No, no. Yeah.

And I was shocked she even come over. Cocos. Yeah. But everybody, because Brian even said, he said, hey, tell Mr. Christine, thanks for, you know, overseeing and checking you on everything you have said. Well, hey, there you go. There it is.

Well, let's take our first 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 Triedells Beef makes such a good product, baby.

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Unless we need him. Unless something happens. Unless it's a code red. Okay, so you're out of the duck call making business. Yeah, that's right. So what are you doing nowadays? I am Willie's new property manager. Okay, so Fat Boys acquire some new property, huh?

Yeah. That he ain't told me about it. Yeah, he's got some. Okay. See, the problem. Has any of it got any good squirrel woods on it? Maybe. That neighborhood's full of big old fox squirrel.

Yeah, his house. Well, hey, I'd rather choose a fox squirrel anyway. His cat squirrel is too little. His house, yeah, that's right. Oh, his house? A lot of squirrels. Well, hey, hey, hey. you go.

The next thing I need to do then is buy me a lawn chairs, go set up and strategic places. Buy me a rocking chair to put out there and a pellet gun. There you go. But the problem is every time he hires somebody else, it's making John David feel that much better. Because John David, Willie doesn't put three people in new positions. And John David used to do all of them. And he was, he was telling them all. He was doing them all.

Well, that was like me. Okay. So, you know, they had about six people. You know. That's what's funny. To me, that's just what's hilarious. But, like, we get on John David, which, look, I was John David for a little while. You don't want it.

Those 10.30, 11 p.m. phone calls are misery. Yeah. You're like, hey, I got to go put my freaking breeches on. I got to go do something. And I was like, boy, when them days left, I said, whoo, okay. Now my 10 p.m. phone calls for them during I have to do with the business, which don't mean I got to get out of bed. I can sit there and still talk about that.

Yeah, that would like the military. You know. They always was telling me, tell me, hey, yeah, I'd do something on the weekend and get in trouble. You know, and they would say, what are you thinking? I said, what are you talking about? He said, you're in the Army 24 or seven days a week. And I said, you may be in 24-7. I said, but this kid here?

No, sir. I said, you're paying me for 40 hours. That's what you're getting, son. That's it, you know. No, no, but see, that's the thing about being a personal system. You're on call all the time. That's like the military. They was always telling me, you know, hey, you're on call.

I said, no, wrong answer. I said, this is just like any other job. You got me for eight hours. And I said, look, if we had to work overtime, that's fine. I'll work overtime. But this thing about living and breathing, no. I ain't you got. I ain't you man.

company man, boys. I have noticed. I have noticed this. When I walk by the two new guys office, they're busy, busy, busy. I mean, they're doing stuff. They're on the computer. They're on the phone. When I used to walk by Johnny Dee's office, I would say 19 out of 20 times.

His feet were kicked up on the desk, and he had his arms crossed. And probably watching European soccer. And watching soccer. Peter. Well, that's a good pose. If you can pull it off. You've done that. Because that reminds me in my days.

Yeah. That's about the same way. Yeah. Lay it back, you know. Johnny D. said the problem was, I remember what he said? He said the problem is I make this job look easy. That's it. Hey, there you go.

But you know what? I'm loving it because, you know, how much I like to work out side. Oh, yeah. Oh. And doing the food plots on the hunting property and everything. That was my therapy time. But now I get to do therapy all day long. Oh, I was going to say now your therapy will be building duck calls.

Well, no, no. I like this is going. This is good. People don't realize. That's the opposite of therapy. How soothing, okay, just being able to get up and go out in the woods in the morning. That's right. Watch the sun come up.

No, no. I sat on my back porch this morning, drank a cup of coffee and watch the sun come up. Yeah. And then I started my day. Preach it. Well, that reminds me of the scripture. Just be still and know that I'm God. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Yeah. Amen. There's something to that, guys. You know what I'm saying? Solidity. Yeah. Yeah.

Just, hey, get quiet, get quiet and sit down and relax and look around you for crying out now. There's also something to be said for driving a skid steer. Oh, yeah. Ain't that fun? Oh, it's fun. It's one of the funest pieces of equipment ever invented. Could you tear itself up? Oh, you can turn it into dust.

What are you doing? Skids tier. Willie's got a skid steer. Yeah. Is that one of the things you drag logs out of the woods with? You can. They make an attachment for that. But it's just like got a big cutter on the front of it.

It's basically a front wheel drive bush hog. You get to see everything you're cutting instead of looking behind them, making sure you don't hit that. This I had the bucket on it today. Oh, you're moving. dirt. There you go. Now, that thing. So this is one of them that you just switch whatever you want. Yeah, it's got a hundred different attachments

you can put on the front. When I was in Alabama, okay, I had three big cedar trees, evergreens about that big around. You still know where they are. We need some cedar for them down. No, no, because, oh, I know where they're at. Look, the mountain boys, what I call them, that keep

him high lines up and over the mountains clear, they got this machine. It's got gigantic tires on it and they have got this big thing on the front of it that, hey, they just walked up to them big trees I had like this and started at the top and said, to the ground. And all it was left was two picks. And I said, hey, there's three more. That's where they come from. I got three more right over there.

Please hit them. They just bop. I wish you still had them because we could be drying them. Oh, no, no, no, no. I would, hey, I would love to drive it over on Fields property when he gets dry enough. And I'd get rid of all that buck brush. Oh, I got something. You go around cutting out a button will, you'd lie able to get runned off from around there.

You'd be able to get RU.N. Oh, no, no, no. Well, he can run me off, but hey, I'd get the damage done before he had gotten gone. When he goes to be with the Almighty, every button will out there, Oh. It's gone. Preach, buddy. Oh, yeah.

Go on, say it louder for the ones in the back. You need a good old Keper over there with them and just, hmm, boom, hmm, read them to the crown. I got no love loss for a button mother. You know why? Because there's always a purple tail nest hiding in them. Oh. Every one of them.

Either that or got a Congo land at the bottom of it. Yeah, they harbor things that will hurt you. Now, ducks like them too. Yeah, I almost stepped on one at on the, John go at Willie's Pine this morning. Oh, no, no, no, no. Look, hey, this is Louisiana. You better watch where you put you for it.

Oh, yeah. Because they're here, baby. Watch what you pick up off. We got all five of them. There's five poisonous, and we've got them all. Venomous. Venomous. Well, poison is the same thing.

Venomous. No, it's not the same thing. Nasty things. It's like a clip in a magazine. Yeah. There you go. Clips something you put in your hair. That's right.

There you go. Look, hey, we learn you some things around here now. What are you talking about? One of them, man. Don't. Don't play with snakes. I still play with him. I'm sorry.

I can't help myself. I play with them all right. I do too. A little shotgun blow their head. Clean off. Smooth. I had a picture. Smooth off at the neck.

I had a picture pop up today on my memories of a mud snake that I caught and posed and was taking pictures of him from like 12 years ago today. I was like, oh, man, them was a daze. Oh, the coolest one that I ever saw. I used to catch them snakes and put them in an ice chest and get them real cold. and then I could go out there and pose them. And you got like five minutes where you can take a good picture before they get warm again.

The best one I like was when me in the field and Tommy. Tommy's in front, field's right behind him with stairs steps. Just, you know, Tommy stopped, Phil running into him, I running into the field. Cobra! Cobra! No, no, one of them was what they call Hogdney. A hog knows, yeah.

He puffs out. Them old rednecks around here calling us a spreading at it. Yeah, they look just like a cobra. He blows that thing up and he is bad looking to the bone. Yeah, they're awesome. Well, let's take another break. We'll be back right after this. We've sold three of the metal detectors that I told me.

Well, good. All right. We're back rolling. Yeah, I don't know. I'm glad they're doing that and the treasure part of it is pretty cool. It just, man, you do a lot of digging for not a lot in return. Well, no, if you find one of them good ones, because they ain't do it because they had to give it back to the guy

that we found on his land. The 24-pounder, I'd like to see it cut up and then make some pistols or something out of it. You're talking about a beautiful gun. This thing is black, shiny, and it looks like it's got diamonds all throughout it. What is it? That major right, they cut one that was the same type.

They didn't cut the big one when they found. It was gorgeous. it boils down to have a hobby like that, you've got to have a lot of free time. Yeah. Oh yeah. We all got the wrong last name. Yeah. That and then actually got to make a lot of contacts to actually get to a place where this you can actually

find the good stuff. Well, what's that fish guy when they call like the fish? Oh, a musky. Isn't he like a fish, a ten thousand cast or something? A thousand. A thousand cast. That's kind of what that metal detecting seems like. Yeah. You dig you a thousand holes. You'll find you something good. So it just... Why didn't think musk was that hard to catch? That's what they call him.

I don't know. I don't... Well, hey, oh, I can't even think of his name. He's one of them pro-bass fishermen. He catches them all the time, and I mean big ones. I actually saw, laid my eyes on my first wild musky while I was up in Tennessee in the Ocoey River. Oh, no, no, no, they're bad to the long now.

Huh? Did you cast at him? No, I just kind of got dumbfounded and watched him swim around the boat, and then he was gone. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, they look like a barracuda. Yeah. How big was?

He wasn't very big. He wasn't very big. He wasn't very big. But it was cool. Oh, then they get huge. Oh, they get real big. But this was a baby, but it was just cool because there's like no denying what you were looking at. And, you know, we don't have that stuff down here.

And then the other cool thing is we were fishing for bass. And Wheeler flipped up there, set the hook. And he just snatched. He just flipped up a walleye. Oh. We gave him to the guy at the boat ramp. Yeah. He didn't make it.

Yeah, he didn't go back in. We were going to keep him and eat him, but we didn't catch enough. We didn't catch enough other ones of his family to. My father said that is the best eating fish. There is. He's an interesting looking critter. It's walleye. Yeah, I got to survey some cool stuff.

He caught him out of Lake Powell while he was young. We had fried walleye. We went up to Minnesota, remember? Yeah. Oh, Timmy. menace. Oh, yeah. With old tin.

It's a flaky white man. Tim. It's good. Yeah, they just strange critters because we, I mean, I say strange for people that catch them all time, they probably ain't too strange. But for us, it's like, I just look. He's a pretty fish. We had him in the live well, and I just sitting there looking at him.

I was like, I like petting him. I was like, oh, man, this thing cool. He's going to be somebody's dinner. I was hoping it was going to be mine. They put some in Darbon. Walla? When they first built it. They didn't make it?

No. Too hot of water. Too hot. Too hot and not enough flow, probably. Probably. Yeah. They got to have more current for the auction. But look, we were.

Somebody caught a while like a couple years ago. On the river. Remember that? Mm-hmm. Yeah, they still in Washaw River. They just get lost. They come through the locks and dams with everything else from up there north. But you get up there close to Lake Washhtaw.

It's full of them, supposedly. Yeah. It up there. It's cold up there. I've fish going, so I get in. No, straight line, it ain't very far. But there, we were, we fished below that dam on Parksville Lake. And I just looking at that thing.

And I said, you know, it took some men to build that thing. Like, because that thing been there for forever on the Ocoey River. Way tougher men than what we're making these days, I can guarantee you. To put that big plug on that lake. Well, no, no. But it was, I posted a picture on my Instagram just because I was like, I don't really take selfies that often, but I look at that thing, I said,

yeah, I got to take a picture in front of that. I was just like, man, that thing's cool. Hey, every time me and him head south, go to the Gulf, when you get on all that long jumps over it. Oh, what are you talking about? I said, hey, they lost a bunch of people doing that. Yeah, that causeway?

Yeah. Yeah. All them bridges through that swamp? I did. Because, hey, you're talking about Congo's. They're Big gators And gators

You know A lot of gators On the bar Buy By a dog on Yeah Really I say one

Every time I go on Really Same one That's amazing Little preening That ain't a big one Oh that's the one You posted on your stuff

Wouldn't it Yeah Yeah That's like it was big That was a good one And they was a little Yeah That's the problem

Where there's bigans They're Littalins and vice versa too. That's the first, well, I mean, you see them there every once in a while, but not every time you go. No, I ain't seen them there that often. That's why I was, but they're making it come back. My lizards are everywhere. Well, I think so, because I can't even think. Roller Martin, yeah.

Roller Martin was showing. He was in some canal down in South Louisiana, and they come around a bend, and it just, the canal went on forever. And it, I mean, it was alligators, and it was mating season. And I mean they were literally everywhere. And I'm talking about... I thought you were a walrus. Yeah. That's what they sound like.

I'm talking about, hey, some of them look like they're wild and half in this table. Unreal. You know, we go down there in the spring and those gators are dead all on the side of the road. Oh, yeah. Walking. Some young males get caught up. Speaking of young males, how's you look? bear doing it still i hadn't seen him ain't seen him he didn't move on oh i had a couple tell me they

had a bear who was it it was Sheila yeah Sheila and uh murray had a bear on their property and she'll just come out with a pan and making a bunch of racket and run toward him and run him all and they ain't seen him since huh so if you run up on him and see him yeah keep you pan with you yeah keep your pan with him and make it a barrel's moon and run at him and chase him out make sure you put that frying pan on the tractor, will you just in case you're... That's right, just as a bear. Just as a deterrent. Phil probably got one in his blind bag.

As heavy as that thing. Oh, I'm sure he does. I towed that thing from the lake blind all the way to the to the North Lane floater. I went and hid the boat and Jay's come and said, hey, Phil left his bag. He wants you to bring him back. That's like carrying one of them sand anchors with you. Oh.

That thing. That ain't weighed 40 pounds. Yeah. What on? isn't they? Oh he's got tools about six bucks. Oh hey y'all underestimated that. Well he got a big like six inch crescent wrench in there. Yeah but it's more than 40 pounds. The crescent wrench is for um for undoing his propane bottles where if he would just put them on

their hand tight you could get them off with your hand. Yeah but no he's got to he's always got to put that last little tug on it. And he also screws in those kicks chokes with those with the pyres. Yeah. Yeah, when you're putting the wrong thread of choking your gun, yeah, that's good idea. Just tell me, I don't know what the problem is. I said, really, it shouldn't take a pair of pliers to screw you choke in. They said, no, it'll be all right.

It'll be okay, okay. It'll all work out, boys. You can buff it right out. Those threads are gone. Yeah, if y'all ever want to wonder what we're dealing with around here. That is it in a nutshell right there. But let's take another break. We'll be back right here.

Oh, boy. Making a feel, as all the dirt work and pipes and everything in place down there now? I hadn't been there in a while. You don't know? I've been busy with others. It wasn't as of two weeks ago. It wasn't as two weeks? I thought he said he was done with it.

I know. No, all he had was a big hole in the ground. Which one? Which place? Where he's trying to put that new dump in. It is not. They ever told me that the rocks were ordered and had to fix them. I figured all the dirt work, all that.

I took your boy DJ down there last week. What he had to say. He loved it. That's good. He's giving me some ideas of my food pies. But the dump had been fixed. Had it? And there were big rocks pied up on top of it.

Okay. I thought they said they'd got the rocks in and then, you know, pushed them off the side. That's why I was saying two weeks ago when I was there, it was still just a big cut. Well, the only man I know tried to block up 50 yards wide worth of water with one 20-inch pipe or something. I was like, that ain't going to work. Now, Martin did the math. What do you say, 120 inches? I said we needed about 110 to 120 inches for that flow.

Well, Martin told Phil, he said, you get 120 inches a pipe, you'll be fine. So what did Phil do? 94 inches of pipe. Balling on a budget. That'd be enough. This is a man that's got a degree. Well, I mean, water flow is somebody a lot smarter than me figured out water flow. You just had to plug in the numbers.

Like, it's not hard. They got all the equations. You just have to put them in. Well, he should have checked with you before he's done that. No, but you can't because that's not the way Phil works. It's right now. That's how Phil works right now. Big hurry.

Yeah. Well, I got this pipe. Let's try it. What's the worst that can happen? Oh, I know. Blow it out. Shum. Try it out.

Because what? That wasn't my little old shower to come up, you know. A little four inch shower. Yeah, four inch shower. A little four inch shower draining through a 50-yard-yard way. ditch and one pipe in the middle of it. That's what tickles me. No, no, yeah, that's what tickles me about.

Okay, this is a dog. I can't believe in the flood. You haven't been around the river during flood stage. Oh, man. Because I tell you, hey, yeah, I've seen Red River during flood stage. Giant oak tree, big as a pickup. Big as that pickup I got. Floating downstream.

Root first. Oh, I'm in the river. Oh, no, no, no. Look, but it's going down. I mean, this sucker is a bull. Probably, what, oh, 300 yards high, at least. Yeah.

300 yards high? Yeah. The root wide. Nine hundred feet. No, no. I'm serious. Hey, this was a bull oak tree. Look, it's floating down the river.

Route wide first, okay, during high water. Okay, you would think, okay, it hit something. It would swing it around. No, sir. No, I just plow through it. Uh-uh. It stood that bad boy up. Come on now.

I'm serious. It stood that whole oak tree up. The root water hit, it stood it up, fell back, and went on down the riverwood. And I'm telling you, it was as big of that pickup I bought. 300 yards tall. And 300 yards tall. Three football field length. That's like a keep off the grass sign.

Oh, no. I didn't get there. No, no. Hey, oh no. That was like we would just. We had just walked over about an acre of land near the river. Okay, just got off of it and was on the levee looking back. And hey, I ain't saying I don't.

And hey, that acre of land was gone. I ain't saying I don't believe you. But I got to Google World's tallest tree. Hold on, they got some of the redwoods over there. Hey, they're up there in the States. 600. So the tallest tree in the world is redwood. is 380 feet tall.

There you go. Feet. Well, okay. Not yards. Well, not yards, all, you know. A factor of three. Well, I'm just saying, hey, I was close. I mean, John David's not here, so I kind of feel like I have to take up a little bit of his slack.

He had a 50-50 change. 380 feet is pretty big. Oh, that's big. Oh, yeah. It ain't 300 yards, though. I'm just saying. Hey, that was a giant oak tree. That's all I was talking about.

This bad boy was big. Those rednecks we hunt out of it. They own 10-foot towers. Just think about that. That's only 10 foot. Well, no, no. I know. Think about 380.

No, no. That's one of them you've got to look backwards that. Yeah. Oh, no, no. If you're standing on it, you'll break your neck. You'll fall backwards trying to look at it. You can't breathe if you get to the top of it. I'm going to tell you.

You may have an auction. I just had to. No, God. Raising the death. Oh, you're talking about things floating down the river. So I was in Nashville that day. And I get a text. And it's a dock, a boat dock.

A boat dock I know well. And it ain't where it used to be. It's not broke loose. Floating down the Tennessee River. Jacob Wheeler's boat dock, storm come up. It comes undone. And it's gone. And it's gone.

And it's floating down the river. Meanwhile, he's on an airplane headed to Venice, Italy. He said, I need help. I was like, oh, boy, what am I going to do? I'm three hours from there. Well, we rounded up a crew. We saved a boat dock, but there was a boat dock and a pontoon boat attached to it just floating down the river. Just headed on down the river somewhere.

Oh, no, no. Phil, that boat dock, we park our boat in over on the lake. It come floating down the river? It comes floating down the river. He put it in the paper. told me hey look I've got a boat dock tied up down here at my property he said fix to be fine as his keeper if you get your chances I put in the paper free I think if we looked at these two boat dock so we could believe one of them broke free and the other one would

be a little bit harder to believe that it broke free well no you're yeah yeah Jason's probably bigger ooh it was well you part two boats in it yeah you know four-foot boats yeah on the fields I just ain't ever seen that I ain't ever just seen a boat dock with a boat in it, just headed downstream. Yeah. I said, boy, you've about to have the TVA all over you, son. Finders, keepers. I told him we needed to sink that pontoon boat.

That thing ain't been nothing but cursed since we did it. I said, that pontoon boat's what did it. I said, let's sink it and catch a bass off of it. How about that? Make a reef out of it. Yeah, make a reef. Put him out there on the ledge and let's catch a bass off of him. Call it good.

Go up there and look at your scope. I'm talking about, yep, there's fire of everyone. They're big ones. Let's get them. We did that. That's for sure. But I did get the opportunity to meet a legend while I was there. Okay.

Who's the legend? You may have heard of him. What career? He's famous for a line known as Omaha. He said it a bunch. Omaha, Omaha. Oh, football player. Peyton Manning.

Yep. That's what was in my mind. I just, I knew. He was out fishing. And we knew the guy that he's fishing with. He said, come on over and meet him. So we stopped and shook hands with him. He's a good dude.

I didn't know he had twins. Small world, right? He had his twins out there taking them fishing. So. Well, my name's got twins. It's kind of like when you get a new vehicle. You don't never notice them until you buy one. Mm-hmm.

And then everybody got one. Yeah. Yeah. You see them tunders everywhere, don't you? Yeah. Yeah. As you stare at his forehead? No, no, it big.

But he's nice a fellow as there can be. Pretty good-sized guy? Yeah, he's big. He bigger than you think of you. Okay. Because you don't look that big. How tall is it? We're probably the same height.

Yeah, he's probably six-fourish somewhere around there. He's bigger than I thought he would be. He don't look that big. Well, that's because everybody's surrounded by a six-eight. Well, no, no, I know. Basketball players don't look tall either, and every one of them you meet you go. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. How's the weather up there in the cloud. Yeah. Yeah. And they all got a size 15 and everything. Well, no, no, because I always said, hey, I said, until you meet him in person, you don't realize. It's easy for them to hold a basketball. I said, they got the hands the size of about half the size of a basketball.

Yeah. But I thought it was cool. They did. Yeah. You know, what I found the coolest about at all, though, was a man who could want anything, right? I mean, anything he wants he'd get. He'd buy. He'd write a check for it.

did catch and he had his kids out there trying to catch fish i said they're that that's parenting done right right there that's good even with all that and all the distractions they could have in the world they out there trying to catch a bass and they caught them too they caught them they were dropping these little things called salties down there to the bottom a little minner and them bass eat eat them boy yeah ate them i don't care how pressured the ledge is they bite them it was fun to watch We sat there and watched a burial of men. It was fun to watch. So it was, but it was cool.

You know, you always worry about that kind of stuff. Like meeting those kind of people, you're like, I don't know. And then you do, and you're like, yeah, man, that was awesome. Regular dude. Regular dude. Regular dude taking his kids fishing. That's what you always hope for.

Yep, that's exactly right. So any of y'all out there wondering about Peyton Manning, he gets my stamp of approval 100%. I mean, he already had it because he's a good guy, or I always thought he was a good guy. He just confirmed the fact. Well, we're going to take our, last break and I've been going through these emails like John David so I think I got a few so

we'll come back and get in that inbox. Always good. See what the boys are happy to out there. We're back. We're in the inbox. Look, John David's not here so I'm taking it over. If you have stuff, send it to us. Hello at dot callroom.com is the email address. Our first question that I have, I thought was interesting since we're all four married. It's from a fellow named John. They said, hey guys. Good name.

John here. I've been hearing a lot of y'all's advice lately, but I haven't heard this particular question yet. Do y'all see it as tacky to ask your future father-in-law for his daughter's hand over a phone call? If I'm ever around her dad, she's there too, and she's already suspicious since I've been talking about proposing for a little while now. Any advice would be great. Don't do that. I'm a stone on that.

It's, uh, face to face. It's just, it's better face to face. Yeah. This is, this is a big deal, okay? You're asking for the man's daughter's hand, okay, to marry. Show me, you're a man. Phone call is just, to me, it's, it's, the only word I can come up with, that's a cheap deal. Okay.

Face to face with a man, telling me, hey, you know. Man, I was cheap. Your daughter is the love of my life and I'm, I'm going to marry her. Yeah. Come show me you're a man and that you can take care of. Yeah. Well, see, I had to call

because me and Brittany were seven and a half hours apart and I just decided to do it because I wasn't going to do it. I was going to wait a little bit. But then once I had that ring in my possession, that thing like hot potato. You got to get rid of him. Like, you got to...

You had to overcome it, right? I called her dad on the way up and I said, and I called her mom too because her parents were divorced, so I asked both of them. But I said, look, I'll come see y'all just as soon as we get this done i just i want to ask for your daughter's hand in marriage i'm gonna go do it i said i'm a nervous wreck i can't like i can't i just got to get this over yeah they both said absolutely and then once we did it we went immediately thereafter and saw them and then we're able to shake hands

face-to-face you know look each other in the eye kind of a deal so john if you're able to and you're close yep i think you should because you can call you say her dad's around but you can call and set up a lunch with him and she won't know anything about it like y'all y'all both And he'll appreciate it. And he will. Yeah. Her dad was actually really appreciative that I called him, even though I couldn't be there first.

And then we went and did that. And I just spent all week with him. So everything's good. Everything's good. This is one since we got Sign Stone here. This is from our buddy Austin. Gentlemen, I'm leaving the country soon due to military work. And I was curious if Uncle Cy or Jay had any advice on how to stay positive on being in another country

while having my wife and my wife. one-year-old daughter back in the States. Thank y'all for everything and God bless. Before y'all answer, thank you, Austin, for the sacrifices you make serving our country. And please pass along our thank you to your wife and your daughter as well,

because you're not the only one dealing with it. So thank them. But I'll let our two veterans weigh in on this. I'll start it out with this. That's a hard one, okay? because no one, being in a foreign country, and especially if you're in one of those that we're at war with, so to speak. Okay, because it's, it messes with your mind.

It's an attitude thing. So my thing is, hey, take God with you, okay, and lean on him more. Because it's a tough one, being away from your loved ones. okay and especially being in a foreign country and especially if we're at war with them yeah so stone what you got well fortunately i was not married with kids when i was in theater but i was with some guys that were and it was extremely difficult on them extremely difficult so you know we it's it's a tough one but i would say stand contact with them as much as possible.

Yeah, because the tablets. Nowadays, they had the technology is a lot different than it was back when I was in, especially when you were in. When you were in, there was nothing, you got nothing but letters. I mean, we wrote letters too, but we also had, we could talk to them on the phone, and they did have a room with computers that you could, you could, you know, look at pictures or whatever. but yeah i don't know i don't know what they have now but use it as much as you can don't don't

take it for granted that no i don't feel like talking to them today talk to them every day if you can and just keep in keeping in contact as much as you can that's that's my advice i'd say mine to me you know lean on god more he'll help you with it okay because like said it's it's definitely a mind You know, this attitude is totally different when you're in a foreign country. So it's a tough go. It'll wear on you. 100%. Now, that, man, I can't imagine how tough that that would be.

Like getting ready to have two little ones and then knowing that you got a one-year-old that you're leaving at home. Not on that. Sometimes you watch it pregnant, you deploy. Yeah. You're not there when it's born. That'd be tough. Yeah. God.

But like Stone said, hey, we've got the technology today. Talk to them daily if you can, if you have that opportunity. That way, at least you can share pictures, see each other, talk each other face to face. Okay. Yeah. So, because like I said, letters, you know, because it took forever, seemed like for a narrative letter to get there and then to get back to you. So, yeah, it's a tough go. Did you write Christine letters when you were in Knob?

No, I wasn't with her then. I met her. Oh, that's right. That's right. Yeah. But I just know, I was like you, I was, family man was there, okay. And they, you know, when, you know, they got a letter, it was a big deal. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Well, that's awesome. Look, Austin, again, we thank you for your service, buddy. Yep. We'll keep you lifted up while you're over there. And we're up against the time. So, Godwin, do you have a, you have a, you have a. You said you had a verse you wanted to share with us to send us home.

What you got, old buddy? Yeah. Well, it's actually, but I loved it. I have the Bible out, and this is the verse of the day, which is a good one with what's going on today, and everybody's down and grummy. Every morning I get up and make coffee for Paula and make a cup of coffee for myself,

and we read the Bible. Start off. We don't turn on the TV and we just do this. But this is the verse, I will remember the deeds of the Lord. Yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago. I will consider all your works and meditate on all your mighty deeds. And if you'll meditate and read the Bible in the morning

and just sit there and think about, you know, just meditate on God's greatness and what you've got, what he's done for you, and write down prayers and just come back and read them later. We was reading prayers from 2016. There was a lot of stuff going on then that we didn't see prayers being answered that they actually was. We just couldn't see it. It was neat.

It's neat to just write down a prayer. Just like you're talking to anybody. It ain't no special pattern on praying. So if you do that, it'll make your day seem a lot better. And not only that, we've got a direct line to the Almighty, to His Son. Amen. All right. Well, we've enjoyed it.

I hope y'all enjoy this next little clip from The Treasure Show that can be seen on Fox Nation streaming. You can veterans and first responders all get a free membership for a year. Is that correct? That's correct. Yep. So if you want to check it out, be sure. Hop over there. Check it out.

We're going to show you a little clip right here. Thanks for joining us in the duck call room. We'll see y'all next time. Who invited Kay on this podcast? She invited herself as she's got to write up. Jump invited me, didn't you, Jeff? Jeff. Say the baby.

The baby. He loves me. I hadn't heard that from you lately. Well. Kay, what do you think about these guys, treasure hunting? Well, I think it's pretty good. It gives them something to do. And I don't know.

They just need to learn where to go. That's what they need to. Tell us where we should go treasure hunting. And most important place is Bernice, Louisiana. There ain't nothing in Bernice. There's nothing there. No, because Willie was born there. That put it on the map.

You think there's something buried in Bernice. There's here. There you go. I remember somebody had robbed something, maybe the late 1800s or something like that, and buried it. What was buried? Yeah. What's the treasure we're looking for? A bunch of gold is hid close to a church.

Somebody stole the money off the railroad and buried it. So you're sure this happened in Bernice? Okay? Yes. Mary, have you heard anything about this? Yes, but not Bernice, Flemerville. I mean, as I heard this story, it was a stagecoach rather than the train is involved. The story of the stagecoach robbery with the gold coins buried in large jars.

Yeah. That was in Farmerville. But that's just what you heard. Yes. I mean, they're only 20 miles apart. It could be the same story. Oh, it could be. We could split up.

Yeah. Yeah, that's what we do. I'll tell this. Two of you go to Bernese, okay, and two of you go to Farmville. I'm going. And whoever finds the best treasure will win a prize. I think me and Murray will go do some door knocking in farm and see if we can find any truth around there in the time period. And then, Jeff, why don't you go with Ms. Kay and y'all go visit Bernice?

It would be fun, Jeff. It's not really fair. Me and mom, I guess Jason Murray, that's not fair. What are you talking about? Yeah, I'm the rookie. We'll just dig up all of Bernice. There you go. How long will it take us to do some research and go?

You want to do it tomorrow? Do it tonight. We'll do the research tonight. We'll go tomorrow. May the best couple win. But what's the prize? I want to know which prize is going. I ain't come up with it yet.

What if mom cooks? If y'all win, she'll cook your favorite dessert. And then if I win, then she'll cook mine. Okay. If we win, Kay cooks me and Murray. You like sweet potato pies, Murray? You love them. All right, we've got sweet potato pies.

What do you want? What about fried apple pies? Oh, apple pie. Oh, good grief, you run it. So who's going to judge this competition? I'll tell you how to make it fair. We'll let side be the judge. So that way it doesn't matter what it is,

whatever he judges to be the best fine. I like it. This is kind of a moment. we actually have come to an agreement. The treasure hunt officially starts at sunrise and ends at sundown. I just got to get my sleep, you know? No, did. Beauty rest, Jay.

Beauty rest, boys. I could all use some of that. I think that ship has sailed for most of it. I would say it has not sailed. It sunk. May the best team win tomorrow. And we will.