Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Had Cops' Guns Pointed Straight at Him

Episode Date: March 22, 2022

Si got an unintentional crash course in what NOT to do when you get pulled over by the police, and Martin says he's not the only one! Stone is going through a midlife crisis, and Si is helping redefine it. Si shocks John-David with his signature Robertson honesty about Bullfrog's kitchen mishap. And Si and Stone offer advice on how to support your spouse while they're on active duty in the military. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, welcome back. We're here in the Duck Call Room. It's a beautiful, I don't know what day it is. Day in March. Yeah, it's a springtime day. All I know is a day in March. It's a day in March and things are starting to turn yellow. And I'm fishing antennas are starting to buzz.

It's the middle of March, and me and Si have not been fishing one time. Me neither. And it's killing me. I don't know what the problem is. Yeah, it's killing me. I guess we're trying to get off of it. or something. I don't know how that ain't. I'm not. I ain't got no time. I'm waiting

on the man that takes me. You're waiting on your butler. Well, no, I'm just waiting on the man that's... I'm waiting. Got the truck and the boat and all the equipment. Well, I'm waiting on... And I told him, hey, I'll gas the truck and boat up. Well, I was fixed to say, I've been waiting on my loan approval so I can get some gas. So I can get some gas in the boat.

You don't have to go no for a loan. But anyways, look, I got a question for you. you. I got off my lines. I want to know the answer to it. For me? Yeah, for all of y'all. Oh, okay.

Go ahead. What constitutes a midlife crisis? Ooh. The first definition is convertible? Midlife. At what point does a man feel like he's at the middle of his life? I would say 40. 40?

Yeah, 40 to 50. I think it's different for different people. That's a good place. 40 to 50. Yeah, somewhere in there. Because then you start the deal about, what am I doing? Some would argue going neck deep in judicious training at 47 would be considered a midlife crisis. But I also don't want to get choked out.

So I'm sliding over a little bit here. I always remember when it hit me and I said, what am I doing? There's got to be more to life than just what is going on here. What were you doing when you were? I was in the Army. 46. I was in the Army. So you were at the tail end of your career.

I had my head. You had a midlife crisis? Well, no, I just had a midlife doubt. Okay. What is going on? Why didn't you do accomplish something in your short life you've lived so far? Oh, now see, now I got to know. What did you not accomplish that you felt the need?

Nothing. Oh, okay. Nothing because, hey, that was the problem. My whole life, all of my mentors and all of my teachers. You know, all I ever heard from was, well, look, hey, you find something that you do that you're really good at. Okay, and then you give it all you got. And it only took you 65 years. It took me 65 years.

And look, it was the fan that told me what I was good at. Blowing smoke. Hey, I make people laugh. So the question I got to know is, why would you bring up a midlife crisis? Well, I found myself today. Well, of course, you know, I've been. I started this jiu-jitsu journey a little over a year ago. Mm-hmm.

You know, and it's pretty late in life to be doing something like that. But, you know, I thought, what the heck. Not really. You enjoy it, right? Oh, I love it. I love it. Then, no, anything you can find that you enjoy doing and you have the money or the time to do it, go for it.

Well. Okay, because life is too short. Okay, because you'll wake up, you know, and then you'll be my age. Yeah. Because an old man told me when I was about 25, and he was about 65, he said, hey, you better enjoy it. He said, you'll wake up tomorrow and you'll be my age,

and he was like 65. So the reason I said that, because today I trained with the Leo's. What's the Leo? The new law enforcement officers. So just I wanted to see where I was at. Okay. Are you thinking about a career change? No.

Okay, I was just... No, I was just trying to say, okay, I'll just go train with the Leo and see where my game's at. Let me tell you something. I ain't there yet. He ain't there yet, boys. I could already see where this was going, okay? Because you got to understand something about a policeman, especially if he's been in it for a few years. Okay.

They had the saying about, oh, I'm sorry about that, I went in cop mode. okay because when we was filming with Duck Dynasty and I did a ride along with the police oh when they put the cuffs on and they can't help themselves okay it's no nice it's no gentle hey

what are you doing trying to cut my wrist off you know and he said oh I'm sorry I was in a cop boat yeah and like Willie Willie got in the back of the car Willie's afraid of codenball No, no. And if they hadn't to let him out, he'd have been whimpering like a little baby. He's, whoa, whoa, whoa, I got to get out of here.

Okay. And then he was telling. What are you doing? He said, open the car door. I've got to get out. It's a little tight back there. Because, hey, okay, no, this was not made for comfort. No, no, you don't end up for a pleasurable ride.

Yeah. They ain't worried about how you feel once you get there. They just drop me off in the corner, you know, and you get a nice, easy ride. No. Yeah. They're not trying to make it comfortable for you. Yeah, no. And let's be real.

If you're getting cuspid on you, you don't deserve to be comfortable. You know, that's why me, it's yes, sir, no, sir. That's right. Yeah, what, y'all, because, hey, I've actually had them pull me over in Texas, and they actually got behind open doors and drew their pistols. On you? Yeah. What were you doing?

No, no, no, no, no. I was driving a car that that car, that car, That same kind of car was involved in a robbery. Well, you got to understand something. In Louisiana, back when I was a young man, just learned to drive and all this, when a cop pull you over, you got out of the vehicle and walked back to them. You walked to the cop car? No, no, no.

I got out in Texas and was starting to walk back. And, hey, the doors were open and guns were drawn, and they were doing this, and I'm going, hold it. They said, what are you doing? I said, I'm coming to back you to the car. And he said, get back in that car. Yeah.

Because, hey, them barrels on them 38th look like a 105 houser. And I'm saying, whoa, holy guy. I made that mistake one time, too. Don't get out of a car until they tell you. I mean, I knew I got pulled over. I was for speed. I mean, it was very, very clear while I was.

was getting poured over. I was like, well, I'd go talk to him, you know, whatever. I wasn't trying to hide nothing. I opened that door. I heard that over that loudspeaker, get back in your truck. I said, oh, yes, sir. My apologies. No, no, no, no.

And I was sitting there just like this with my hands out the window, like. And that's on me, bro. I know I was doing 80 and a 70. This is on me. Like, guilty. No, no. They walked up to the car because he told me the same thing. When I got back the car, and they, you know, they walked up and had their pistols in their hands.

One on each side. They didn't go that far with me. I got a leg out before they hollered. No, no. He said, hey, let me see your driver loss and wallet and driver loss and all that. And I'm like this with a steering wheel. And I said, you got your gun caught and pointed in my direction. And I said, I'm not moving my hands until that gun is, you know, at least pointing away from me.

I said, I'm not being belligerent. I'll do whatever you say, but with you got the gun, the cock, no, I ain't moving. What year was this? It was a back way back y'all. Seventy-two. He literally scared the, you know what, hey. You had to change your drawl? Oh, yeah.

Yeah, because, no, hey. Oh, man. I love it. Good times. I hunt, and I know what a gun does. Okay, so I don't want you pointing in at me, okay? Like you were talking, hey, cuff me, take me to jail, whatever. But, you know, no, I ain't moving.

Oh, I ain't no doubt. Well, let's take our first break. Let's move on into that. Johnny D. going to keep moving via that QBie. I'm working out. I ain't got as much time as you used to, so I work out here. That's good. All right, look, springtime is here.

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I'm training about. So you're saying there's a big difference. saying when you do something as a hobby versus having to do it as your livelihood, essentially. Oh, I am. Well, you got to realize, okay, because like I was saying, if they've been in, like, you'll say they've been in the police force for 10 years, okay, they've got all that training, okay, and it's, you know, it's like, you know, Muslim memory. He was talking about muscle members earlier.

Okay, all that stuff goes like, that's why when they're doing something, Okay, it's cop mode. They go from, okay, I'm just a dad or whatever. When the time comes, okay, and they shift from dad to cop mode, it's entirely all business then. Okay, and there's no nice, no nice, no, no, no, it's cop mode. But is it weird that I enjoy going in there and getting smashed? Yes.

By law enforcement? No, no, correct. No, no, it's not. You're getting something. That's not weird. No, it's not weird. Because I tell you why he's doing it, he's getting better. Yeah.

You don't get better when you win. You get better when you lose. There's no doubt about that. I still don't want to stop breathing due to somebody's half around my now. But you know what you learn? Don't do that again. Yeah, your incentive is just what he just said. It's to keep breathing.

You learn good defense. Yeah. Okay, so don't let me, don't let him get me in that. That's cold because when he does, it flies out. You got them. Your first, pretty much first two years, you learn how to defend and how to escape. Because if you can't do that, you can't do anything. But the problem is when you're rolling with somebody at a higher level,

they know how to keep you from escaping and defending. So you just sit there and get smashed over and over and over. but you learn how to be how to relax under a stressful, a very stressful situation. Mentally tough too. Yeah. So here's the thing. If you don't, you're burning energy that you don't have to spare. That's right.

Okay. Where the person and the reason, now I've watched him, okay, and that's why I told him, if you enjoy it, go for it. Yeah. And I've watched you, okay, going through it. Okay. And when you and Michael, the arm wrestling champ, okay, when he grabbed you. I see, I didn't learn much there.

That was no contest. Well, no, no, but you got to understand. This guy's a giant and he's strong. He's talking about those grip brakes. Yeah. Oh, yeah, there you. His Michael grabbed him and it wasn't, what, three seconds? And he doesn't bust it, bust it out.

And Michael, he, Michael in, hold it. Let me grab that again. You can't do that. You know, we grabbed it again, Stone, just, you know. So it's impressive because when I've been watching him do stuff, he would show people, somebody you would come by and he'd say, hey, let me show you his whole. Oh, yeah.

When he was learning all of it, he used to throw Johnny Dee on the floor in my office every day. I went down quickly. Like a wet rag. That was what was impressive because I told him, I said, this has nothing to do, strength. Technique. I said, this is all about knowledge and technique of how to, to beat it.

Yeah. The problem is when you run across somebody with the same said technique, then it becomes a little bit about strength. Well, I don't know. Either that, they're so muscular, that you can't get your arm in position to make the holt. Because he tried that with Michael.

He was going to put the choke on him? No. His muscles were too big. Too broad. Yeah. He was too big. He was the size of a refrigerator. He couldn't lock his arms down.

A big and too. Not like one you keep in the garage for bottled water. Like a double. Yeah. Yeah, he's a side by side. I will say this. I've made a lot of good friends in law enforcement through doing this, through this journey.

And there's no better humans on the face of the earth. Yeah. Then those who have chose to serve, and they do that for a living, they serve us for a living. No, no. That's why when I run into and was fortunate enough to meet, Okay, soldiers that was in black ops

And then the seals, Navy SEALs and all that Okay, these are a different breed of men Okay, so this thing about, okay, mind over matter Okay, it's the real deal Okay, because a lot of time I used to not believe it It was like I met a guy one time And he was in the barracks And he was sitting on the top bunk

on a double double bunk he's sitting there in a yoga position yeah and he's got his eyes and somebody has had his hands out like this oh no no he had them like this

just cross yeah so he's in a yoga position okay with his leg cross it took me two hours to get uncorked if I did that

anyway they were saying he's not there you know that's what the guys was telling me he's not there I said no this bull you know And they said, oh, no, he's not really, he's not there.

And I said, no, he's there. Do you think he was remembering the days of growing up and grabbing goldfish? Oh, no, no, no, no. I don't know what it was. Okay, but hey, when I tell you, when they said he was not at home, that was a true statement because the guy went and got a needle out of his sewing kit. One of the big ones, yeah, and this guy is like this with his eyes closed. And look, you know, at first he just made it.

like an eighth inch, the needle point, eighth inch. He says, is that enough? And I said, enough for what? He said, oh, I'll fix sticky. No. This is a 10 out of 10. Don't recommend. I thought this was a real story.

But anyway, this is a real story. Okay, because, hey, he said, that's an eighth of inch. He said, oh, Joe, just so you'll actually believe it. Let me slide it out of it and make it a quarter inch. And he actually got a ruler and pulled a quarter inch of his needle out. Okay, and this guy's like this. And look, he just, right in his behind, you know, and he said, look, you watch, he just, well, hey,

he should have flinched or done something. They's hustling you. Oh, no, no, no, there wasn't no hustle on this. Okay, because, hey, as soon as he did this, it was blood. Was there blood? Oh, there was blood? Oh, yeah. And he just never came to?

He didn't even move. He wasn't there. He was not at home. Where was he? He had left his body and was somewhere floating around looking at stuff or something. Because I'm telling you, okay, I would have never believed that to be possible. But I've seen that because I'm looking, okay, after he came back home.

So this old boy passed advanced interrogation. Oh, no, no, no. What are you talking about? He wasn't home. I'm telling you. He was not mentally there in his body because, hey, look, I'm telling you, you can't fake nothing. If somebody sticks a needle in you, you're going to jump.

And look, he did not jump. And I'm looking at the blood, you know. So when did he come back? Hey, about an hour later, we come back in and he said, yeah, what's going on, fellas? Did he ask you why his rear end was bleeding? No, no. Somebody said, hey, have you noticed your pants there? And he's what you're talking about.

Then he looked down, there was a pot of blood about that back around where it bled. And he said, oh, y'all been climbing around again, huh? Oh, so they had done this before. They done it before. So that's why I'm telling you, this mind over matter stuff, okay, because you've got to think about, you know, hell weak for the seals. Did you see any mushrooms laying around anywhere? Hey, look, he may have been on something, but I'll tell you,

whatever it was, he wasn't home when they stuck him with that needle. I was more inclined to think sigh may have been on something. Oh, no, no. That's what Phil said, but I wasn't on nothing. It's okay, because there's some things. If I don't see it, I won't believe it. That's right there with that Matt. That was one of them that, okay, no, I won't believe this.

You got to understand when they're training. So you understand why we're having a hard time. Oh, no, no, no. Hey, I can understand why he said, well, I had a defined midlife crisis for me. Okay, because all men go through it. Uh-oh. Yeah, they do. All men go through Midlight crisis.

What do we? Hey, let's take a break. All right. And come straight back into that. Let's do that. Maybe we need to redefine it. Redefine what? Instead of a mid-like crisis.

Oh. Every human being male and I imagine even women do it too. And sometime in their life, okay, they're going to take an inventory of where they, where they at, where they think they should be, you know, and. And then start doing juge. Well, no, no, because it's like, okay, a religious man. Oh, you're going to serious route. Well, no, no, I'm just saying both ways.

Okay. A religious man, okay, is telling me, okay, where am I at? You know, my faith is not at the strength I think it should be or this and that. You know, everybody's always taking inventory of where they are at, where they should think they should be, or where they want to be. You know, I want to be at this point in my life. Like a lot of people say, okay, you know, how long am I going to work before I retire?

I'm ready. No, no, I'm serious. People think about it and say, okay, I don't want to be like dad. He had to work until he was 65 years old before he could retire. I want to retire like when I'm 50. Well, you better get on a stick.

and really make some money and put some money and investments and all this stuff. But on the flip side of that, I see, well, most people, when they retire, they get bored. They just start slowly kicking dirt in their face. Well, no, no, no, no. If you're not active, you're not doing anything. Yeah. That fix put you in the ground.

That's something I've learned throughout the years of my 73 years on this earth. Okay. If you just quit, you know, someone is fixing to go to your funeral. Okay. You've got to, God didn't create you or make you, okay, to sit on your rear end. Okay. You got to stay mobile. You got to be doing something.

And to size credit, even though he has COPD, which is a good excuse to sit on your rear in. and do nothing. So I don't slow down. He's wide open. Well, I wish that was something I could actually stop. So I'd be one better off if I could do it in moderation. I don't know that that's true, though. Well, no, no.

If you slow down, I mean, you already take 18 naps a day. There's some places, there's some times that you need to do things slowly. And once you get my age, do something slowly now. Okay. Because if you do it too fast, you're going to hurt you. Oh, he does everything. They're fast. He's got one gear.

So we go hunting with my buddy, at Arkansas. He's got a stand 20 feet up in the air. Like a house, 10 by 10. Staircase goes straight up. Did you get in that? John David. The staircase goes straight up.

It's nice staircase. I ain't getting that. It's stable. So I said, I said, take you time. I said, That's okay, no problem. I said, take five steps, stop, breathe.

I mean, he's got COPD for crying out. I look up and he is just, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Well, all the way to the top. We're going in a deer stand and there's seven of us going in. Seven people? No, no, yeah. It's a house.

I'm thinking deer hunting, get in the stand, sit down, and get the hunt going. So Jeff turned around, soon he turned around. He said, I thought Stone told you to take it easy coming out. I said, well, I did. No, you said, I did, pah. Well, then I had to sit down a little bit. I had to take a hit oxygen, but I mean, hey, my mind is going to deer hunting, okay? That was a fun thing, okay, it's best you slow down and do it, you know, at a slower speed.

I'm going to make a new drink called the Cy Robertson, half oxygen, half tea. It's like Arnold Palmer's half lemonade, half tea. We're going to make the sigh, half oxygen, half tea. That way you can get you a little recoup, huh? That's it. Hey. Well, just a splash and a lemon. A little lemon sauce.

A lot of lemon juice. It was a splash. How many of your little packets you got on you right now? I got three right here. Okay, just making sure. I'll have to hit it again here. It keeps them on them. Oh, I love it.

My back on what we're talking about, okay? It's okay to do that. Because all you're doing is you're taking inventory of your life, you know, of where you want. to be where you're at, okay, and then what, you know, then you look at it and say, okay, now what's the plan? What am I going to do to get where I want to be?

Yeah, introspection's a good thing. Yeah, yeah, because plans change. The problem is, the problem is when introspection turns into like depression. Yeah. When you get caught and looking back on where you're at. And you don't like what you're saying in and it's, whoa, it's me. Yeah, some people go on the other end of that instead of taking it as a chance. challenge to get to the next level.

They get caught in that rut right there and they can't come out of. That's when it becomes a bad thing. Then it's a bad thing. And I think that's when you probably hit the term of crisis. Yeah. Yeah. When you're not doing, when you're, you've looked at it and then you've given up,

you're not doing anything to either help it, hurt it, or something. Yeah. Just do, you know, do something. Even if it's wrong. Do something. I don't know about that. I think he's talking about wrong. Yeah.

Not spiritually wrong or morally wrong. I think he's like just try something different. To do nothing. Even if you do it the wrong way. Like Jason's always said, okay, the definition of insanity is that you keep doing the same thing and you expect the different result. Yeah. Change something. Yeah.

Change something. You don't like where you're at. Okay. You know, it's like a person that's trying to lose weight. If you're not losing weight, then you're not doing something right. Change your diet. Change your workout. Change something.

Because, hey, if you're still just continuing to get heavier, what you're doing is not working. And for you to think it's going to do anything different, wrong answer, dude. Wrong answer. Change your diet. Like me, I probably need to give up, you know, Blackwall

No, no, no, no, no. But at my age, I'm not. At 73, don't change nothing. No. Go on rocking what you're rocking. He's 70. I thought he was 74. It will be in April.

Okay. In about three weeks. We're going to have size birthday party right here on the podcast. That's right. Last year he showed up with a hat and a boa. Uh-huh. He had everything. It looked like he fresh out of Marty Grop.

Another year. Another year going by, son. Another year, baby. That's the microphone. Well, Fraud said she'll make you a big pan, a homemade business. Oh, talking about that, you need to ask your daughter, okay, and I'm not bad-mouthed her. Uh-oh. Oh, but hey, she was off her feed the other night when it was over and I ate the steak because she didn't eat the steak.

That was the first clue. She was off her because she didn't eat none of the steak that he cooked for us. Okay. Okay, so that was first thing, Antana went up, and then the cake was a total disaster. No, no, no, no, no. Hey, she either forgot to put something in it. I'm uncomfortable. Okay, or put, or either the sour cream she used was bad.

Because the flavor was not there. And when I'm saying it was a disaster, it normally, when she sprays Pam, I think, on the inside of it. And when it's baked, she just turns it over. So you want to be friends with something. No, no. You Robertsons are all heart. No, no, no. Godle.

What happened to grace and mercy, y'all preach about? Don't worry. He said he doesn't mean to offend her right before he said it. Well, no, no, that's why I said, boy, hey, look, it was a total disaster. But he prefaces with, I don't want to hurt her feelings, but. It's a total disaster, but I just could not eat more than three pieces. It was terrible. No, no.

Look. B.K. cooks these things, perfect. Yeah. Okay. This one was. So you think there's something wrong in her life? Well, no, no, no, it's something going on is all to said. Okay, because number one, she didn't eat any of the good states.

You're scared to death. It could be a little boy, aren't you? Well, no, no, no. I'm just saying, well, yeah, she's getting that age where it may be a little boy crazy. Distraction. I don't think, no. I don't think she's going to be a boy crazy. Yeah, but something had her distracted because no one.

The mother ones, though, yeah. She did not eat the steak that you had cooked, which was excellent. You know, I think she was feeling bad that day. Well, no, no, I'm serious. I was talking. I was worried about her. I really wasn't. I was worried about her.

She ruined my cake. Well, no, no. And now I'm going to tell everybody that she made a bad cake. We brag and brag about her, but the one time the cake wasn't perfect, you throw it out to the world. I was worried about my partner. Okay. Okay. It's the most of Willie, Phil, Sy, Jace.

I was actually worried about her daughter. All of them. No. One mistake, and they're just, throw you to the worst. They ain't on that baseball bag. There ain't no three strikes. Strike one, BK. So you were genuinely worried.

I was genuinely worried. That's true. She's right, though. Oh, by the way, she just started coming to a jihitsu class with me. And I hope she heard. I was thinking about it. I was wondering when she was going to get tired of saying. Yeah, because she likes to do what Daddy does.

Well, no, no, but I'm just saying, you know, because sage has been a little, She's been, you know, kind of irritating BK. Well, she's, that's what she's good at. I said, she's fixing to get sick of this, sage. And now she's turning to turn to Jiu-Jitsu. She's sick of it. I think we found Bullfrog's motivation for her jitzy workout, though. Just play that little clip of how bad her cake was from her favorite.

No, no, hey, look, I ate the cake. Okay. But it wasn't up to its regular stend. No, you said it was ron. There's a difference between not being up the standard. It was a disaster. Well, it was a disaster. Look, y'all didn't see it.

Okay, y'all didn't see it. I saw it. I thought, I thought, well, you know, that would not look like it normally does. Oh, no, it wasn't. But I didn't try it. Well, no, no, because I'm telling you, okay. And you didn't dare tell you little girl. No.

See? See, I'll have to talk to her now. Yeah, that's terrible. You're going to have to apologize. I will. Yeah. Okay. But I'm just saying, I was.

As you eat another piece of cake. I was actually worried about her. I'm serious. I hope the next one she puts X-lax in. No, no, hey, I'm going to tell her to say, hey, hit that vanilla twice. Oh, now you're going to make it back. He's critiquing. She makes the best cake on earth, but let me tell her how to do it.

I'm not critiquing it every time. You Robertson. I said, hey, because the first time she did that double, what kind of vanilla extract was it she got? It was a bourbon. Bourbon vanilla extract. And instead of giving it one shot, B.K. said let's give it another one and I said BK whatever you did on this last cake I said me and my wife both soon as we ate it said oh my goodness what did you do different whatever it was do it

again okay I was just making sure yeah let's take another break oh the double verbin vanilla extract is in boys it's in boys and we're out let's take a break Take a breath. That's the most Robertson thing I've seen. And see, look, I always just tell people you wouldn't like the rest of them. Well, hey, look, criticism. That's there. Loving criticism is good.

Next thing you're going to be telling her to put sweet, next thing you're going to be telling her to put sweet condensed milk in her dressing. I think y'all missed the loving part sometimes. But he didn't know why he did that. He said he had a dream. I had a dream that I actually watched my mother do that. And it was a false dream. Okay.

I made that up in my head. Okay. Wait, so you have false dreams? Yeah, because that didn't work. Everything's becoming... So he called me up on the phone. I thought it was an emergency. He said, hey, hey, get over here.

Don't. I told somebody, hey, I want you to call him. You know, hurry up, call him. So I called him. I said, hey, is everything all right? And he said, no, no, no. I need you to come down here and try this dressing. Get over here now.

You know, I live 25 minutes away from him. He said, I got two kinds of dressing. I did this and that. I said, I ain't going to tell you what I did. Just come over here and try it. You got to tell you. I hope you use the word disaster. No.

It was actually decent. Okay, but he, you know, him and my wife both said, I don't care for the sweet. No, it wasn't. I mean, it wasn't, it wasn't, as you would say, it ain't much. Yeah, it ain't much. So I go over there and I walk in the door, the first thing I smell is, it's like burnt fat. when I opened the door. Sweet thing,

I look close to the toaster. No. Si's got them wood ducks or teal whatever he had, probably wood ducks. It would. We don't see till anymore. He had wood ducks sitting on top of the dressing, and they was as black as that can right there. They had burnt a little bit on the crispy side.

I said, well, okay, that's what that burnt smell is coming from. That's a burnt smell. I said, but I'm not going to eat the duck. I'm just going to try the dressing. So all I used the duck far was broth. Just broth and presentation. But I'd have thrown that mess in the trash. But so he laid them two dresses out front of me.

He said, I try this one first. I ain't going to tell you what I did. I try this and first and then try that one. So I tried the one first. It had a little sweet to it. And I'm like, he put a bunch of sugar in it. You put some sugar in this one. Well, okay, you got that right.

But I will say it was edible. Yeah. It was edible. I know, I wouldn't have gone back. No, no, he didn't care for the sweet. I wasn't going back for seconds. No. Now, I went to the other one, and it tasted a lot more like dressing.

Dressing, what mama makes, you know, except it had way too much sage in it. Oh, yes, I like that, Sajet. Yeah. Phil's always, Phil's always light on it. And it was a little dry, but it was good. He had a really good start to a bread, but. pudding is what you're saying on that other one. Yeah, he had a really good bread pudding.

He was getting there, baby. It was cornbread pudding is what I was. All he needed was some of that bourbon vanilla and he'd have been in the brain. That's what he was missing. Some of that black walnut on top of it. Shave you some black walnuts and you'd really have a time. But anyway, that more I thought, boy, something doesn't happen to side.

I go over and no, I just need to taste the dressing. No, he fell asleep with the Food Network on. Here we are. And he had a false dream. Yeah, he had a false dream. False dream. Which explains a lot. Well, hey, there you go.

False dream. I thought it was a vision. Did we ever decide anything about midlife crisis? Is it all episodes? I don't know. Did we? I don't think so. I don't think.

I'm not there yet. I don't think. Ask the man. He's the one of that's the question. I think your point about when you get to the crisis. That's when it becomes a problem. Yeah. That's a problem.

You should change things up midlife though sometimes. All right. Almost all the time. So when I was in a little bit of, what you would call a rut, I guess. I just want to get myself out of the rut, set myself a new goal, and get after it.

And look at you go. That's why I told you, if you enjoy doing it, go for it. And it doesn't have to be anything extreme. Look at what Johnny Dee did. I mean, he lost, how much weight did you lose? 30. 30 pounds.

33 pounds. Well, we're back of 30, though. So you're on your way back up? I've been maintaining. He's planing out. I've planed out, but I'm I'm about to jump back on it. What, the weather's getting right.

The weather's driving rough. It'll be daylight. Cuby does that. By the way, did we see what the Senate passed yesterday? I called it, boys. Daylight save his time. All the time. Starting in 2023.

It's just got to go through the crazy house. Yeah, it's got to go through the crazy house. No more fallback. And then we've got to get Sleepy Joe to sign on to it. And then we'll fall back one more time. And then next time we'll spring forward. And we'll spring that thing forward and we ain't looking back. And we're locking it either.

Also, dear folk. of Seattle, I understand why you don't like that because the sun will rise at 9, but I'm selfish and I'm voting for myself here. And if we're being honest, you really like being in Seattle anyway. Come on down. Move to the middle. If you're in Seattle, you're sleepless. You ain't get no sleep anyway.

You ain't get no sleep anyway. Don't worry about it. Well, they've always been on to do their own thing over there on the West Coast anyway. Switch time zones. Do the Godwin thing and just move at 30 minutes. Yeah, do whatever you're going to do. But I will, you know how awesome duck season, 20-23 is going to be? do you know how awesome you won't have to wake up in the fours

you can wake up in the five wow and then how about that that mentally you're like okay and then even after work you can still do some a little bit it's still going to get dark early but you still got 30 minutes i'm still going to wake up in the fours I was waking up in the threes okay so we're going to weed that three out the three's out no more threes no more three He's up to the four. If I'm waking up at three, your boy ain't going to sleep. If the alarm says three something, all right, I'm just staying up. It's a handful of times a year.

Mine has to say that. That's the way I am. Play poker to 3.30. Hey, go to the house, change clothes. It's 4.30. Sleep in the driveway. Go down to the lot. It's hard for me to believe that there's that many grown adults in this area that can stay up to 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning.

Oh, I don't want to. play poker. Oh, look. Oh, I can't do that. It's adults and juveniles. You can't say you're playing poker or juvenile. Dear FBI, please disregard the last statement. When I'm on the highways driving to where I'm going to a lot. When I was a teenager, I stayed up all night. Yeah. Yeah, but that's just never. Yeah. I was talking about grown people. There my. I'm grown. I go to bed at midnight. It's one of the things about, hey, you got something that you need that have fun doing. I finally figured out nothing good happens between an hour. to 12 a.m. and 4 a.m.

Midnight is not to go to bed. Nothing. Is it dark? Nothing. That's when all the mischief happens. That's what I'm talking about. Nothing good happens between 12 a.m. and 4 a.m. The mischief.

4 a.m. with the time that we have, you sometimes have to get up to go to the boat ramp or the duck hole or something. So that's why I cut it off at 4. But from 12 to 4, things have gone terribly wrong for you. If you're awake, things have gone terribly wrong. Get six hours of sleep and be fine. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

I thrive off about six. Okay, I'm just making sure I was normal. Yeah, no, I thrive off about. My friend thinks I'm weird because he sleeps like eight, nine, ten hours. I'm like, what do you do it? Couldn't even guess the last time I... What is the first time I have to be weird because you're sleeping, you know... All right, Rip family.

We're throwing you out of this. Like, that doesn't matter. I took a nap every day for 24 years. Look, Christine called me the other day, and she said, size has been sleeping for 16 hours. I said, we're going there, make sure he's still alive. She's coming there. She's coming there.

Yeah, I'm laying there. And she's, are you going to get up? And I said, why should I? She said, because it's like 12.30 in the afternoon. I said, again, why should I? Yeah, I've already slept half a day away. Let's go and finish her all. Okay, I'll get up.

Because you're missing. I got up for about an hour and a half, which now is 2 o'clock. I said, well, I'm going to say, well, I'm going to say, Oh, my going to be back in bed and sleep to four. Well, let's take a break. We'll be back and wonder how he's awake enough to do this. Hey, that's why I'm so pretty, boys. Okay, is I get my beauty rest.

Beauty rest. All right, we're ready? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, we're back. Let's get in that mailbag, Johnny Dee. Hello at dot callroom.com. That's the email address. What is up in that bag?

That's my email address. Well, Larissa. Larissa. Larissa. She emails in, and I liked her question, especially since we have two vets in the room. Her and her husband, been together for 11 years, started dating in high school, married for seven years with three small children. Good gracious. Oh, my goodness. That's a lot of kids. I know from experience, so to stone. He is currently in his 10th year of serving in the U.S. Navy. Thank you, Larissa's husband, whose name we do not have. And thank you, Larissa for what you do.

Amen. He doesn't like talking about his deployments. She respects that. But how can I best support him is her question. So I'm going to, I don't know, were you married when you were in Afghanistan? No. No. Thank goodness.

Were you married? I was. Not when I was in Vietnam, but in. In the military. So what's a good way for a wife to support? Because what she's doing is crazy. She's raising three kids. You already do it.

While her husband's deployed. While he's deployed, you're at home taking care of the kids. and business. Okay. Running the household. Okay. You know, and then communication back and forth between you and your husband, yeah.

But nowadays it's a lot better because there's all kind of good stuff that you can use, Facebook and all this stuff, you know, where you can actually see each other's face while you're talking to each other. I think, you're already doing it, darling. And I don't really know a whole lot about this, but I do appreciate one thing. that she said that he doesn't like to talk about his deployments when he comes home and she respects that rather than trying to pull it out of him. Yeah.

And I think that right there says a ton about your character, Larissa, is that you respect those boundaries that even as a husband and wife that are up. That's awesome. Well, it may be the deal about, okay, the husband, okay, may have a job that, you know, he don't want you to share with the family. Yeah, yeah, and that's awesome that you don't try to pry it out of him. I can tell you, even though if he doesn't say thank you, he does appreciate that. And I think we'll say thank you to all the moms out there, staying home with their kids while our men are out there doing whatever it is they do.

You know, that's, I'm thankful for these two guys. I'm thankful for other guys I know and thankful for all of them and thankful for the strong women that stay at home. And that goes both ways because there's a lot of women serving. Oh, yeah. Okay, and they deploy, and the man, yeah, Sevilla, he stays home and takes care of business. 100%. Yeah, no, that's awesome.

So it goes both ways, but that's why I tell you, you're already doing, there's probably something if you really think about it, you know, more that you might do that you could call supporting him. But you're already doing the major stuff of being there at home, taking care of his and your kids, okay, and taking care of life in general. Do not serve him a poorly done pound cake. It could be a disaster.

Y'all get off of that. Just be nice. I'll tell you what. I'll say this. I noticed with the married guys that I served with in Afghanistan, they always look forward to getting something in the mail, notes, just pictures, whatever. But in your situation, I would say, I'm sure you're already writing him notes.

Get your kids to write him notes, write him up to date on everything. And just keep doing what you're doing because, like Uncle Sioux said, you're doing the hard part already. So, you know, just I would suggest if you're not already doing it, take a little more time and try to keep a steady flow of letters coming. That's even more important. share what you do during the day with your kids no matter how stupid it may sound okay because trust me when i tell you dad will want to know what's going on back home what are the kids doing what crazy stuff did they that they're putting you through you don't think a seven-year-old be that way he's there three kids probably under seven yeah yeah you know that way he's there with you

you when you share that moment with in your letters or either your Facebook time. Yeah. He's actually, he's there with y'all. That's awesome. Yeah, because I got three kids under eight and my wife's going to a Bible study night. I'm nervous. I got to get myself psyched up, so I couldn't imagine a deployment. So thank you so much for everything you do.

All right, next one, Vaughn. He says, P.S., please answer this on the podcast because he's sure there are other people in similar situations. So I'm going to. He's 21. He's got his own one. wife, got a kid, and his question is, how can I get my dad to treat me as an adult? This bothers me in a way that doesn't really bother me. That's a weird thing to say. Any advice would be very helpful.

Start acting like an adult. Just because you're 21 and you got a kid, don't mean you're acting like an adult would be my guess. Generally, parents do that when people continue to do things that are childish decisions. Reproducing doesn't make you a man. man. Martin with a tough line. I'm just saying, I mean, I don't, you know. No, he's got a point. I mean, I'm just saying that doesn't,

just because you're 21 with a kid doesn't mean that you're an adult. We all mature at different stages of our lives. There's not, that's why I hate like 18 and 21 as like these benchmarks where you're supposed to be a man, have it figured out, you can do this, you can do that. Like, there's,

I mean, I know some people that matured at 16. Like, I've been very honest It took me about 24, 25 years to pull my head out of my rear end Like I wouldn't I wouldn't ready for any of that at 21

I was still very much a kid Doing childish things And he knows somebody It's like 65 or 73 That hadn't mature yet Oh you're plenty of mature You've raised a family You've raised two young ones

No no but that's one question I have to ask him Okay have you got any siblings Yeah are you the oldest Are you the baby? They may be holding on to something. Are you the only child? Because I know for me, okay, like my brothers never treated me as a man. You was the baby.

I was always the kid brother. Yeah. Okay, and I'd have to look at them sometime and tell me, hey, I'm 50 years old, you idiot. You know, I'm married and got two kids. I've spent a lifetime in the military. Yeah. And y'all are acting like I'm still a child. Oh.

But that's because you kept them young. Well, I don't know. But that's where it may be with why, okay, there's a lot of factors here that we don't know. When is dad going to actually treat me like a man? It may not be, have nothing to do with you. It may be where you was at in the family unit. Yeah, could be. There's a lot of factors we don't know.

Yeah. Because I share a little bit with Saia. Unfortunately, I was the youngest sister, it felt like, because I had all-girl cousins, and I was the youngest grandkids. but yeah I mean my advice would be tell your dad yeah everyone's a lot I mean me and my dad have just real conversations been like hey right out asking yeah hey why you treat me you know I think you're treating me like a child you know I'm 21 years old and I'm married and I've got a you know a young one to take care yeah I could tell the difference in my dad when he realized that I had

pulled my head out of my rear end you know it it went from coaching to helping, so to speak, like on how to do certain things and this, that, the other. Then he would let me do it first, and then he'd come over and fix what I screwed up. Instead of just taking a bull by the horns and doing it himself, he would let me give it a whirl, because he was extremely mechanically.

Being honest, you gave him some good advice. Yeah. Is this really on your shoulders that you are acting immature? And that may be the reason the dad's treating you that way. And he's protecting you. Don't let your dad. I mean, your dad is still trying to protect you and be a father by doing that. But your dad has to learn when to let go too, when to unclip the leash and let you run.

You know, so it's a, there's a balancing act in there, but there's no doubt there's a lot of factors in here that we weren't told in a three-sentence email. Yeah, I don't know if this will help you, okay, because growing up, okay, I have full all the, brothers. Dad seemed to me, and this is just my viewpoint, okay, to me it was he loved Phil more than he loved me, okay? And that was far from the truth. Because one day we actually got in a dunk line, just me and him, and I finally confronted him with it and said, you know, you love Phil, and he said, no, that's not it at all.

He said, he needs my help. more than you do. Okay, he's always got to be in the spotlight, so to speak. You don't have to be. So it was, so it's one of the things that your viewpoint or your perspective, it may be right or it could be out of focus and wrong. Because mine was totally out of focus, okay, and dead wrong. Very insightful.

No, I'm serious. That's what's up. That's what's up And the manliest thing you did there Was sit down and have a real conversation This is how I feel I'm asking Okay, I said

Because hey, it's bothering me Y'all and then he says He said You'll understand this more Once you get married And you have kids of your own He said because it don't many Depend on how many you have

You can't treat them The same That's right Different individual beings That's what's up disregard everything we said prior to that. That's right. Boom.

Because that right there is what's up. On that note, what's our Bible post today? And also, I'm going to go ahead while you're finding that. I got out. Oh, okay. Go, go, go, go. Oh, just thank you to whoever sent the gourmet popcorn in. It showed up today.

There was no note. It just was four bags of gourmet popcorn. I didn't order it, and it was shipped to me. So I'm assuming one of you did. Thank you. Let us know who you are. Somebody sent a bag of you. bag of chili.

Okay, that's... From Cincinnati. No, they sent two bags. They sent two bags. I'm sorry. That's weird. Instead was the best. But, hit it, Johnny.

You're right. And, you know, I like that how sigh ended that because I think sometimes we got our view as a man screwed up. And here's a verse for you. First Corinthians 1311. When I was a child, I talked like a child. I thought like a child. I reasoned like a child.

When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only reflection. as in a mirror, then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain, faith, hope, and love, but the

greatest of these is love. Sometimes in this world, we think being a man's being tough, being all this, and, you know, I'm surrounded by three pretty tough dudes, but I know they all love me. And that's the greatest way to be a man. And it's love.

There you go. It's right there. Boom. Amen. Amen. We'll see y'all next time. We're out.