Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Has a New Weight-Loss Method & Godwin Is Down 28 lbs!

Episode Date: November 1, 2022

Godwin isn't gonna stand for Jay making fun of his weight, and he decides to let him know exactly how much he's lost and how well he's doing. Si loves everything about the state of Mississippi, especially the Homes of Hope for Children. He recounts the time a prank was played on him at the Longleaf Plantation ... and how it took him a second to realize it. And why doesn't he like chicken pot pie? Stone knows exactly where Willie learned not to sit still and elaborates on all the customization he's had to do for Si's childproof, Si-proof, Willie-proof deer stand. Si and Jay take turns making fun of Willie for how he acts in the blinds. Jay wonders why people choose parking spots close to the door, and John-David explains the science of why it doesn't matter.  -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to the Juck call room. We have Martin is at the pediatrician this morning. Kids are doing great. But we have Stone, Goblin, Si. Sighs and all orange. Oh, I'm bright today. Yeah, you are, baby. It's a bright, sunshiny day, J.D.

It's kind of chilly outside. No, I just picked this up from Mississippi. It's not. I've been to Mississippi here lately a lot because I'm going again tomorrow. You're going, yeah. You just got the, well, me, Allen, Phil's got an event that we've got to go to. Big time. Well, yeah.

What were you doing in Mississippi? Well, I was with, one of my ministries is the children, Homes of Hope. They have, due to difficulties with the guy that was running it. Okay, we had to get a new president of the board, okay, and then a new manager. Okay. So I went over to meet them. Okay. Okay.

Okay. And then the guy that actually sent a plane to pick me up and take me over there and bring me back, Jay Fenton, okay. You know, we stayed at his place, which he's got a fabulous, you know, big 80-acre lake. If he's sending planes, I bet he's got a nice place. Well, no, no. Oh, yeah. Well, he's a great guy, though.

You know, he's involved in the ministry with me. Okay. So that was a real good deal, meeting all the new people. that's going to be having it from now on. Well, good. So that's a good deal. You know, and, you know, rich, you're ensuring the kids that, hey, everything's cool.

You know, life, you know, life happens, and then we've got to deal with it. That's right. You know, we call a lot of baths. And then the other people that I need to talk about is long leaf plantation. Okay. There are a first rate or first class operation from lodging, food, and then the quail hunting, the guy, the dog handlers and all of them,

they have got, if you need to go quail hunting, go to Purvis, Mississippi at Longleaf Plantation. It's a good time? It's a great time. We killed about a hundred pheasant and quail and chuckers. Them thine's a good, eat. Oh, no. No, no, and I bought a brag back, and it's at Stone's house, and whenever he decides to cook them, then I'll get an invite.

That's right. You got a great system. But the best part of that place, Longleaf, it's not the huts. It's those old women in that kitchen that have cooked you up the finest pecan pie. Oh, I forgot to tell you. Ooh. What happened? No, look, we're sitting at the table.

The lady's coming. She's putting a big old plate of roast beef and potatoes and gravy and all this, you know, putting on one one on the other side of me, put another one. and then the other one of three people. And then she comes out and puts a frozen chicken pot pie. Still frozen? Look, no, no. I was rain dead.

Okay. Inside a joke. Yeah. So the first time we go there, this is the height of Duck Dynasty, all these old women there, they love them some Uncle Sight. A bunch of old women in there cooking. So Uncle Sight comes in, we've been hunting, we're hungry. and Uncle Si says, what's on the menu today, ladies?

And she brought out a chicken pot pie and put it in front of him. And he looked at it and said, no. No, no. I felt so bad because they had been working all morning on that chicken pot pie. And it made me feel so bad.

So when she did it, I was just brain, it took me a minute, my brain to process it. And I'd bunch of it. And I busted out life and I said, nice joke. And then I said,

this is stone and Dr. D's doing. But it wasn't. It was Reese's, okay, the manager of the. Well, Dr.

Deans was behind the whole operation. Yeah, he may. But just because it took me, I sat there for about two minutes looking at it. Because I'm looking at all this really good, you know, roast beef and gravy and potatoes and everything.

And then I busted out life and the girl that had brought it, she was just doing what she was talking. Oh, yeah. Y'all and I said, hey, darling, and she said, what? I said, take this junk out and throw trash down. No, but the first time it happened about six, seven years ago, you would have thought that he would have stuck that old lady with a knife. It broke their heart and it made me feel like a dog.

But Sae just don't like chicken pie. I just don't like it. That's what it boils down to you. Hey, if Kay cooked it and I won't eat it, I just don't like it. And Sae's got a great way of telling them. people know. That's right. No, no.

I just, y'all, I did. I felt like blowing a dog. No thank you. Hasn't ever come out. I love. He'll say, that ain't much. That ain't about. That ain't much.

That ain't about it. Got you another chicken pot pie. But it was after. It was for last. He ain't no pot pie, man. I'm not either. So I don't eat pot pie, budan. What else do you don't eat?

Hey, if I look at it. and they say taste it and I said, nope. I said, all I got to do if I don't like the looks, I ain't, I ain't fun of it. So what else is on that list? You have pot pie.

Not much. Boo Dan. Boo Dan. You don't eat boo-d-d-an? Anything that you stick and it just starts oozing out, no. Nothing that oozes. New.

You eat that Wilson, weenies. Oh, no, well, hey, that don't, no, that pops. Yeah, they pop. Yeah, they pop. A popping and a oozing. It ain't nothing better than red fruit. Don't eat the Hoosers. He eats the poppers.

That's right. Pops, boys. There you go. Oh, my goodness. Sausage it pops. It's in. Yeah. What else?

That's about it. We had a big time, though. It was a good fishing trip, a good quail hunt. Well, and because in my home, opinion. I've done a lot of charity events. Okay. And the most kind and people that's

really reach in their pocket and bring out money. I would thought it had been Texas since Texas is so big. But hey, Mississippi's got, Mississippi is far as long as I'm concerned. The most kind of people I've met. There are a lot of good people in Mississippi. Co- on charities. Hey, they reach in their pocketbook.

bring out their checkbooks and hey they do it son for real i'm talking about you know so you know kudos to mississippi that's taking care of all those kids over there who need help that's you know that's biblical the reason i actually got involved in it was that i found out hey they go to court okay and pay lawyers fees to get these kids out of drug-infested homes and all this junk. And when I heard that, I said, okay, I'm in with you. And that's basically what McMillan does here, right? Yeah, too.

And he's associated with the government. He has to deal with it, but I don't understand it. I don't think he goes to court, you know, to fight for him. Yeah. And it makes him sick, okay, because they've got to get, they may get to keep them for three months, and then they've got to send them right back. But nothing's changed. yeah so at least homes of hope hey they take them out and they don't give them back they give them hope

they give them hope that's exactly right it's a fitting name which is what keeps me going yep no no oh yeah everybody yeah because if you're hopeless yeah you know you ain't got nothing to look for yeah nothing that's kind of what we talked about with martin y'all aren't here when martin came back for for last episode. Yesterday was kind of emotional. Yeah. Because he was tearing up. And me and J.D.

got the tearing up. So, you know. Yeah. Don't get me to tear it up. We won't get you to tear up. But it was just talking about the NICU and kids and, you know, with that. And you just, I don't get how people do it without any hope beyond what we got here. Because like I said at the beginning, you know, life happens.

Then you got to deal with it. Yeah. But if there's nothing out there besides this. old ball twirling around. No, no, well, see, that's what always got me, okay. If you don't have a strong family relationship with your mom, dad, and if you're lucky enough to have siblings with your siblings, and then if you don't know God, the father, son, and Holy Spirit,

and have a relationship with them, you know, I could go to the doctor, okay, in my life, and if the doctor said, okay, you got cancer, state four cancer, and you're dying. I could deal with that. But if I had taken my kids to the doctor, they told me and hit me in the gut with that. Yeah. That's totally different.

I don't know what I'd have done. And I've met people that had to deal with that. Okay. And I just said, hey, and the only thing I can tell them to help them, okay, and any time they'll make a wish foundation kids and all that come, I'll do anything to make a smile on the face. Mm-hmm. Okay.

That's true because one time they were here and Si walked into the warehouse and he was in a full clown outfit and I said, what's happening? I'm just trying to make people smile, baby. That's it. Yeah. Yeah, because I just, you know, a child should not have to face nothing like that. That's just my humble opinion.

A child should have a, you know, Martin says my brain busted open and what would come out would be butterflies, unicorns and everything nice and spiked. You know, and that's about true. Yeah, it is. Okay, that's about true because I just, you know, I've never, you know, I hate to see anyone be mean to anyone else.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, because when you get right to do it and say, okay, well, what's the reason behind it? It's not a good reason. No hope. Yeah, it's not a good reason. No. I see people fighting all the time and have seen families

families that wouldn't even talk to each other for like 50 years over the stupidest crap you'd ever want to believe here. No, I know it. Yeah. And then that's your, that's your blood, can. And then you won't, you can't fix it, you know, like someone. Everybody, if you think you're going to walk this earth without having troubles, you're living in a fantasy world. No, there's going to be trouble. There's going to be troubles.

There's a Bible verse about that one too. On this earth, there will be trouble. Jesus tells us two things, okay? You're going to have trouble. But hey, guess what? Don't worry about it. I'm going to be with you through it all. And I think the one thing you have figured out on this life side is there will be troubles,

and I'm going to have the joy of the Lord in me, and we all can learn that from you about having joy. As long as he's with me, I can deal with anything. And we'll leave it, go to a break on that note. right there. We'll be right back. 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 because of our friends over at Tritels Beef makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sal Robertson would say, buy on the grill! Look, before we got Tritels, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery store, do

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Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's trybeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. I like it when we preach. They need it desperately, okay? We need it desperately. He said, I like it when we preach.

Oh, we're back. Hey, hey, welcome back. I didn't know we're doing that. We went to break and all sides said was, I like it when we preach. That's it. We need it. Everybody needs it.

You need hope. But speaking of hope, you recently, Stone sent you hunting with Willie, was there any hope in that situation? No, not really. Okay, he moves too much. Who, Willie? Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Well, hey, look, you're deer hunting. Deer, you know, like, Phil and James both have not figured out. You know, it's not, it's not someone standing up under a brush pile on top of him. Just standing there,

watching okay they don't see that they see this just a simple head shake yep you know here's the or get him from my other brush well no no I'm serious so the whole time yeah I'm looking you know he's got a deal and hey and the cup it's white You and Willie. Oh, look, we had a bunch of doze around us, okay, but that ain't what we're hunting, you know, we're hunting bucks. Yeah, and hey, they're not stupid, okay? They don't get them big animals being dumb, okay?

So they're pretty slick, so. No. So you're saying Willie just doesn't sit still. Well, hey, he's worse than a child. Where does he get that from? Like, is there any family relation? That can't sit still. That is the question of the day.

because he didn't get it from his dad but can you sit still huh yeah I sit still yeah I would have to disagree with that it's the old I tell you I wouldn't this reports are not reliable so

size got a taj Mahal of a deer stand okay so they they built this thing during Duck Dynasty just for an episode for one episode it treated lumber Phil made them use treated lumber Oh, yeah. Because he was going to take it over and duck hunt out of it.

That is it. But it turns out the spot that he put it was not conducive to ducks, but it is for deer. There you go. So I turned a 30-foot duck blind, 20-foot on 20-foot stilts into a deer stand. Into a taw's my hall. So the first year, me and I hunted out of it, it was open shooting porch like duck blind style. Well, there was so much. movement in the stand that especially with me and b k that was him that we kept getting spotted

deer would see it deer would see it so then i put a roof over the shooting porch but the window was still you know too wide too tall about two foot so the deer could still see all the movement yep in the blind so now after five years of r and d all we have is little slits it is Well, it works. Black, and I had sound. Yeah, he went behind the, he went behind the field and painted inside it. He went behind us and playing everything black. I put in the inside black.

Oh, back out. You can see how little slits. That's on me. That's on me for you. Blackout. Sound, what are those, sound panels in the walls? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because a lot of noise. Todd's my hall indeed. With Hill and my daughter hunt together. There's a lot of noise. So, childproof and sigh-proof. Same thing.

Same thing. And willy-proof. And it works. It works. It does work. I will say that. It will. It works.

We finally got it to the point where they don't know we're there. They killed it. We killed it. And we kill what we want after. That's it. Oh, speaking of, I took Cody's little girl yesterday with Bullfrog and she killed her first bug. A cold.

Oh, yeah. Oh, that old. He didn't have a tooth in his head hardly. That's crazy. But, uh... You didn't have no teeth? No, I mean... It's time for him.

Oh. He was really old. That's what... What does that is what they eat. Okay. It actually grind their teeth down because I've hunted a lot in Germany, kill something that didn't have...

Yeah. Just no teeth. Well, it's just bad. It's bad... What's the world we're looking for? Where they eat is not good. Yeah. Too much, too much grain, you know,

too much sand. or something. Just it grinds their teeth down. Very much age. Well, no, it's age and that. But mainly what does it, it ain't the age. At least that's what the guy that would age them, said. He said it's bad.

What they're eating is bad. Their diet is bad. These deer are eating really good. Yeah. Soybeans and corn. I think so. Fat ain't the word. And rice bran.

I said that one. Yeah. No more rat. That one must have been eating like black walnut ice cream. Oh no, hey, look. Manabreda. Emery killed one a couple of weeks or what a week ago. Yeah.

She killed a nice call, okay, six point. And just, I mean, you could have, you could have actually took the fat and, you know, turned the oven on. You got it rendered down to have your whole skittled of. A deer fat? Of deer fat. A deer fat. Hey, don't knock it. Because, hey, Daddy did ducks that way one time.

We killed some real fat mallors. And we were cleaning them. He said, give me them them blobs of fat out of the middle. So he did. And, hey, he threw it in the skillet, rendered it down through the junk away and then cooked them in it. He's talking about good. Oh, duck fat is delicious.

Oh, no. It was, them ducks was the best. Duk fat fries. That's the best fries I've ever had. I can't have it. I can't have it. Well, you had it for. You had it for 50 years.

I used to think it was... You got your money's worth. I used to think it was the... Yeah, I did. I used to think it was the table. But I figured out it's the refrigerator. What? Is that what it is?

I used to think it was the table, but I figured out it was the refrigerator. Going back into the fridge, boys. Yeah. Back into that fridge. Back into the fridge. For goodies. The duck fat fries. Yeah.

Fridge fries are. But you keep doing what you're doing, you'll get to the point where you can have them about once a week. I moved a deer stand yesterday, and I was up there and limbered around, I said, I'm moving pretty good up here. Yeah, for an old man. How much are you down now? 28 pounds.

Oh, boy. That's good. That's awesome. That is good. It ain't quick enough, though. Boy, I want something good. Well, I got, my wife just ordered something. I'm tired.

We're going to try it out. It's a pill. You just take the pill. Oh, boy. And you lose weight. Nope. Don't do it. Well, I'm just saying, hey, no, we're going to try it.

We got Dr. Oz in the house. I want to say, instant. Well, no, no. Because she works. She's the one that ordered it. Okay, so I'm going to try it. So,

hey, look, it may work. About five years ago, I got to exercise them pretty regular. We're about a week. About a week. And then when that week was, up, he said, I should be in shape by now. I said, say, he got about a year to go. He said, no, I'm done with this.

So in his mind, if he didn't get in shape in a week, it ain't going to happen. That's the most, that's the word that me and B.K. hear most, okay, when we're with him is patience. Yes. Patience. Patience. Yeah, okay. Patience, my child. So, you struggle with patience?

Well, no. But I'm getting better. He is. I am. I'm getting better. Okay. Oh, that's good stuff. No, I am getting better.

I've never been one. Okay. Yeah. Patient is not one of my strong points. And that's because of the military. And it should be just the opposite. They should have taught me patients, but they did. Because there's always, hey, get there 17 hours early.

Hurry up and wait. Hurry up and wait. Yeah. Yeah. You are the first person here today. That's just their mode of operandi. That's it. Hurry up, wait.

If you're on time, you're late. Yeah. And if you're early, you're on time. Yeah. You used to make me so mad. I have to go up there. It makes you mad, but you're still like that. No, no.

Well, I have to go up there for you on 4 o'clock in the morning, okay, and we would not do a thing until at least about 8, maybe 9, maybe 10. Yeah. But you were there? Hey. Was you having a stand at attention or something? No, it's just you had to be there. Just be there. I could say it if you was doing something.

Yeah. But no. You just got a cleaving. And you should have picked up a frame and went to sweeping or something. Well, no, no. Because I tell them, I said, do you realize how much sleep I could have got? Oh, yeah. They had to take a man.

They don't want you to sleep. Yeah, but hey, I slept them on nap. Yeah, you did. I'm the only man I think in the world that actually got a nap. his whole career. I'm still trying to figure out how you did. Oh, no. Oh, I've slick them on that.

Oh, he's, you've got to be real slick to do that. I'm telling you. Well, we're going to have. I can go to sleep. No or not. Might are standing up. I'm serious. I know it.

We know it. Well, if we take a break, he's going to go to sleep. We're going to take a break. Let's side take a quick 30-minute nap and we'll be back. I bet you that's on the Mississippi River right there, J.D. No, I think my dad's on Darbone. Or the wash of it. Where do he find sand and darboe?

I don't know where he's out. That looks like Mississippi River. Where is he at? I don't know. We can go into this. Here, you tell me, Godwin, if I can get it up. My dad just... Oh, my goodness.

My dad just sent me this. Where is that? He's on the river. He found some deer on the river. He's not a very good cameraman. Oh, I know where he's at. He can't really see him. He's right above Moon Lake.

Moon Lake. See? Moon. Hey, is Moon Lake on Mississippi? Now it disappeared. It's on the washout. It's on the washout because it's got water. Mississippi ain't got no water.

What happened? Does anybody, I mean, Martin's the biologist. It ain't rained in eight years. Great. The drought. Are we in a drought? Yeah. The Mississippi.

Because have you seen the Mississippi? No, no. Yes. It actually showed us on the news the other night. A guy's sitting down beside an old wreck out on the beach where the water used to be. Oh, when I went over it to go to Mississippi, look down. Yeah, it's low. It's big time.

You know, I went to church and the preacher man talking about the end of times. I heard that song. And the Mississippi River is a going dry. That's right. That's what they said. Yeah. The interest is up. But that's a bald-faced lie.

It is low, but it ain't going dry. The interest is up. The interest is up. And the stock market is down. That's right. And you only get mud when you go downtown. That's right. Hey, that's the song.

I don't know this song, but I'm very interested. You don't know a country boy can survive? Oh, that's a country boy cancer. I do know that. What year did he write that song? Because it's coming true. Let me look it up. Right now.

80s. A country boy can. 80, I'm thinking about it. He's a crappy fishing. 79 or 80. Is he? I'm saying 79 or 80. You're saying 79 or 80?

Yep. 1881. Oh, it's close. Oh, it's close. Wow. That's a year. I knew it was in the 80s. But I live out in the woods, you see.

Yeah, that's right. He can't survive. My woman, my kids, my dogs, and me. That's right. Hey, boy knows the song, I'm telling you. Country folks can survive. We grow good old tomatoes. Hey, he can run a trot line.

He can run a trot line from dust to dawn, boys. I've done it. We can skin a buck. That's right. Run a trot line from dust to dog. What if Hank Williams, Jr. called it. He did call it.

The Mississippi, like, Jesus coming back right now. Yeah. Maybe he will when it airs. That'd be cool. Yeah. But. I don't worry about it.

It could be the end. I don't worry about it. I ain't worried about it. I'm looking forward to it. But trust me, the Almighty can fill it all back up in a day. Yeah. Has this happened before?

Mississippi River run dry? I don't know. It's got low. Not this low, I don't think. Well, not gone. No, they're all been out of shape because it's got this low. Because the barge traffic cannot, they're dry docked.

Yeah. But hey, rivers go up and rivers go down. Boy, you can find all them good catfishing spot. Oh, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? You find that deep holes. I need some skip jack. Skip jack?

Skip jack. I need to find out where I can get me some skip jack. Can you cast a net? Hey, that reminds me my fish's trip. I can practice it, though. Yeah. We had two major boards. Bates that was fantastic.

One of them is I call it the chandeliers. Five, five baits in one. There's a name for it. Umbrella rig. Umbrellae. I like a chandelier better. And then the other one was a wing dinge, I think.

It's just wing ding. It's a little bitty, head weight with a little spinner on the back. It was the treble hooks. How you do you just throw it, let it go to the bottom, hit the bottom, and then it hangs up. No, no. Yeah.

Exactly. Well, then you bunny hop it back in. It's like a little forge. What, the energizer, the energizer bunny. Tail kicker. You just bump the, keep doing that, and then it's... You just turned everything off. Everything's gone.

He just knocked everything out. It's a piece of junk then. It's back on. Hey, I had to sit there looking. So you're fishing wing things and your umbrellas. Well, what was you catching with that? Bass. What I got to do was Skipjack.

What he just... Well, it just... I can tell you where to get both the things. He just said. I don't know where to get skipped. I bet you can buy them a honeyhole. 399 for a wing ding. There it is.

$3.99 for a life I live now. Just a little soft sale. If you buy that umbrella, hey. Catch fish. Cy proved. Have you got the umbrella? Yeah.

Yeah. What does it cost? The umbrella. $3.99? Oh. Maybe $12.99? Don't let it go now. That's a steel, boys.

Yeah, it's made out of the deal. Run to the honey hole and buy all of them. I don't know how we got here, but I love it. You're sicking him, boys. That's hilarious. Because, hey, look, you can catch four or five at a time on that. How many did you catch it once on the umbrella really? I caught two. But bull, y'all.

Is Bull a guy? Oh, yeah, a buddy man. Is that his real name? No, his real name is Richard. But everybody did I play poker with, they've got nicknames. Yeah, a little bitty fella. Bull, chicken, fox, nerd, all these guys, okay. Prime time.

Wow. Bull chicken, box nerd, prime time, and dear old uncle's son. He threw that big umbrella out there, let it go all the way to the bottom, pick it up,

and just as soon as he did, it just, boom, you know, and here he comes reeling it in. He reeled in 16 pounds of bass, four a piece on that bait. 16 bass,

four pounds of piece. No, four baths, four pounds a piece. On one cast. One cast. Oh, they was catching three and two in a time all the time. That just sounds like a lot of fun. Oh, no, it was.

It was a riot. And you caught two? And I caught two. I didn't have to get no more. If what would do, you'd be ridden it, boom. You would set to hook. Well, what you do is you slow it down, and then it would, you wouldn't feel the other one bite, but it would get heavy and just harder to reel, which is wild.

You don't feel the second one hit it. Like, trying to get it for it like a dog. Yeah, he just comes, runs up and grabs it, and then hooked him. stuff and you just I said oh it got heavier yeah then riddle it in two of them side just having a good old oh no it was a riot all right should have it on film bad move didn't take a camera on me didn't take a camera man with you everywhere you got that's right except for maybe a nap although those are probably entertaining well it would be funny they didn't watch that too oh it is they say they sound like a lot bunch of hogs in the wood he quit taking naps and the blind

because that dog kept peeing on him. Every time I'd lay down and... I'm serious. Every time I'd lay down and get comfortable out here, I'd say, it's raining? Oh, blue. Old blue. He just long, too.

Hey, great retriever, but he's got horrible manners. Oh, I wonder where he got that from. He must be a Robert. That's where he got it from. Oh, man. We're going to take a break. Go out for a long one. Why do people drive around a parking lot?

Looking for the closest spot. Looking for a parking spot close to the door. So whenever I had my Fitbit, I measured everything I did in steps. And I realized if you drive around, you were saving yourself a gram total of about 30 steps. That's literally it. If you park at the back of Walmart, which is like the biggest parking lot we got, is like 100. If there's a parking spot... Which isn't far.

If there's a parking spot by the door, God wants you to go in and buy something And it's a sin if it's on sale and you don't buy it What if there's just an open parking spot Right when you pull in the parking lot at the back? I don't worry about that That's too far to walk Oh no

No Do you drive around the parking lot Looking for a good spot? No, I just find one I'm a first spot I see a guy There you go I never And like, oh, the only thing it makes me more angry in a parking lot is whenever you pull in and you get behind somebody.

And then they're like, oh, there's somebody with their buggy about to move out of this parking spot. And then they stop. And they're like, I'm going to watch them unload all their groceries and then pull out. That way I can have that spot instead of the one that's 10 yards. 10 yards. That way. And I'm like, are we, is this where we're at? Yeah.

Side, where do you park? I park in the handicap That's what I'm talking about No I'm serious I got a little tight for it That's different That's way different Yeah I mean you have COPD So you need to

I mean I don't I don't drive around and look I just try to get close as I can and park 30 steps is a long way for me I'm serious Well there's Well there is differences But most of the time

It's just people that want to be By the door for some reason? Because I don't know why. I've never really... What is that? Why don't you want to be so close? I can tell you why.

Okay. It starts with an L, the word. And then you add a A. Lactosin tolerant. There you go. They're afraid of milk? They're lazy. Oh, lazy.

That's right. They're lazy, okay? That is correct. Well, I just remember myself when I was healthy. Okay. That's why fish don't have feet. They're lazy? No, they're lactose.

Okay. What is with the world? Are we getting lazier? He just made that up. Oh, yeah. He did. It was good, too. He can throw out dad jokes now.

Hey, the boy's quick now. I'm scared of the calendar. This days are numbered. The days are number. He's scared of it, boys. My dad did get on the, the laziness of America the other day. And I think he brought,

because he was raised, and probably you were raised, by the greatest generation. Yep. That is correct. Who didn't take. And he was telling me about the dude that he used to buy crickets from,

who was, like, we have the biggest cricket farm in, like, the world here in West Monroe. Yeah. What are the odds of that? Who knows? It's Armstrong cricket farm. But he talked about the guy that started it.

Every Saturday, he had to drive past my dad, and he'd call him and show up. He's like, 80 years old and he's still working hard and he's like he got tons of money he don't need it right and he just kept working hard all the way till the end because it's had the way he was right and what happens i you've been here for all of it i haven't no no the reason okay i would say it's an oxymoron because they're they're what i describe is hard people okay but on the other side

okay they're not they're kind too yeah because that whole generation okay if someone drives by sees a guy walking most people drive by them back in then today they do it because they're afraid this world's got so crazy yeah but in my day when I was a kid okay if someone's walking nobody went by them I remember that yeah they'd always stop picking him up say where are you going there. Where are you going, sir? Yeah? Well, I'm just going down the road.

We'll hop in. Get them closer anyway. So where do we? And if they say like I'm going 10 miles up, they wouldn't drop him off. They'd drive him all the way to 10 miles and say, okay, have a good day. Man, I appreciate that.

Like my brothers, two brothers that was in the Air Force, Jim and Franklin and Harold, they hitchhiked home. And it didn't make any difference where they were stationed. They could make good time. because every car would pull over, pick them up, expect if they was in uniform. They'd pull over, pick them up, take them,

and a lot of them would take them, hey, where are you going? Well, hey, I'll go out of my way 50 miles to help you out. And they would drive 50 miles more, let them out and then turn around and come back. That's why they're the greater generation. But do you think it's because they, you know, they lived through the Depression. They literally had to fight for everything.

You know, somebody sent me something. Now we just expect people to give us everything. Somebody sent me something the other day. You said that he preached on laziness. Field priest's on, okay, there's no appreciation or thankfulness. Yeah. Okay. And they go together.

Okay. That's the thing. These people grew up. All of them was man. Man, most of them was farmers. Okay. The greater generation was. So a farmer is worse.

He's used to one thing. he gets up early he goes to bed late and he works his tail off that's right okay and look and and none of that and he and and he was very thankful and appreciative of what he had yeah which was not much not much but he worked his tail off but he worked his tail off of what he had my dad's favorite saying is good things come to those who work their butts off well no no that's right no and look and look There is a lot of truth to that. It is. Somebody sent me something the other day, which is very, rings true, very much so.

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times. Ooh. The cycle. It's a cycle. Oh, no, no, no, no.

So we have a generation now, don't get me wrong, there's a lot of strong men out there, especially in our military. For sure. But there's a much higher percentage of weak men than it was even 10, 20 years ago. And things are not trending in a very good direction right now. But that makes a lot of sense. Oh, no, no, no. That is very true. Okay, and like, here's another one.

My mother told me when I was teenager, you know, I'm feeling bad. You know, woe is me, you know, pity party. You know, so she said, come in a minute, sit down. Yeah, so we did. And she said, hey, you know, what you need to do when you're in this kind of mood is clear your mind, look around you, okay, and then hit your knees and thank God for all the blessings that you have. That's right. But that mindset has lost.

Yeah. It's not totally lost. There are people that, but you look at people now and they're like, That thing is just what he read, okay, rings true. The same thing mama told me then rings true. Because I look, I look, okay. Oh, I had a bad day, but that guy Overe just lost his child to a disease. So, no, I ain't, I ain't even, you know, bam, shame on you.

Perspective. Yeah, shame on you. You know, you're just feeling bad. This kid, this man just lost his daughter to a cancer. Yeah, so it's the old deal about, no, you know, and it's the thing about weak and strong. Because, hey, like I said, life's going to happen, and then you're going to have to deal with it.

Yeah. Okay, and I think that's the reason they were the greatest generation, they dealt with it very good. Well, they wanted to make themselves better. They wanted to have better, so they worked hard to try to get that. And then when they got it, they appreciate it. Yeah.

Well, today, they don't even want to do better. Well, no, no, today is always, give me, give me. If you don't work, you don't get money. Oh, the Bible even says that. If a man won't work, don't feed him. That's right. Yeah. That's just common sense.

And what we're discussing here is common sense. And that's becoming a rare thing in our human race. Common sense. Yeah. A lot of. Well, I don't know the answer to fix it for society as a whole. But if you're listening, work your butt off, be appreciative for what you have, then have some perspective.

And I can almost guarantee you. If you do those things, life will be better. Life will be better. Not only for you, for your community. Yep. Okay, because the greater generation was, you know, I grew up as a child. You know, I'm a teenager. I'm going to act up and do something stupid.

Well, hey, if a neighbor seen me, he'd grab me and whoop my tail. And then he'd get on the phone or either walk to the house or drive to the house and say, hey, Mr. Robinson, I just caught Silasacking up and I tore his butt up with my belt. Well, guess what dad's going to do? Take his belt up and take his belt. He's looking for his belt and he's fixed a tear by a butt up. Yeah. Okay, because you didn't act up in the neighborhood.

Nowadays, kids can sue their parents. Yeah. What's that? No, no, I had a guy in the military and like when it happened, it just, it bothered me this, you know, He said, me and my dad had a fist fight the other night. I'd have lost that. And I said, you and your dad had what? He said, duked it out.

And I said, it wouldn't make any difference what my dad done. That would never enter my mind to raise my hand to my father. It wouldn't even, it's not there. Because number one, he had killed me. Because I like breathing. I like breathing. Number two, no, I respect him too much to, that's so foreign to me. It is.

I stuck my chest out to my daddy one time. He says, boy, you ain't ready yet. He slapped me. You're not quite there, son. He slapped me on the ground. Yeah. I talked back to my mama a couple times. I never talked back to my dad,

but I thought I could get away with it with my mom, and then my dad let me know that wasn't going to work either. He'll talk about. Every time. That's one of the things that I told my children. I said, you can stomp on old dad and do him wrong. I said, but if I ever catch you doing her wrong, I will hurt you.

Yeah. And that's just me. You know, it's like a red, red skeletal, not red skeletons, Red fox. We're talking, hey, I brought you in this world. I'll take you out. I've heard that say before. No, no, y'all.

Oh, yeah. But, hey, you can fool with it. You can fool with me. But don't fool with mama. Now, she's the one that brought you in this world. Hey, yeah, you better show due respect. Well, me and Martin was talking about that earlier, you know, when he was here with the babies.

He's entering a new perspective. Fatherhood. Yeah. He got a new perspective now. Yeah, he does. Don't fool with mama bear. Well, let's take a break. Don't fool with mama bear.

And nobody fool with mama bear while we're on break. We'll be right back. All right. And we're back and we're in that inbox. If you ever want to email us and have us maybe read a question or whatever you want here in the duck call room email. I said, hello at duck call room.com. That's the email. Say, are you ready?

Yeah. Are you reading it? No. I thought you read my that. No, I can't do that. You can't see that, boy. That's fine print. That's fine print.

That's like a contract. Lawyer's drawing. Fine print, you can't read it. Well, go ahead, though. Tell us what the man's got. David from North Carolina. Oh, North Calculac, baby. Good country.

I've been five years old. That's Fort Brake. Well, he's got a tough one. Uh-oh. He's got a tough one? To me, it's not that tough. No, it ain't tough. It's a weird one, and I never thought I'd read this, but it's simple.

Can tobacco use send you to hell? Because apparently there's some family disagreement. I won't get into all that, but he likes a little bit of tobacco. Some people in his family say it'll send you straight to hell. I don't think it'll send you straight to hell, but if you're on that path, it might send you there quicker. Yeah, it'll get you there quicker. That's for sure. Well, I'll fix that.

I'll give you some medical advice on tobacco. It's not good for you. Okay, trust me, I smoked for 20 years. Okay, and I've got, I'm paying for it now. I've got C.O.P.D. Which is bad lungs. Medically, do not do it. Okay.

But will it send you to hell? My opinion is, well, let's see. You know, I'm trying to learn to play the guitar. and I've been told that I've sent him to hell. You know, look, the Almighty's got in his Bible and his words. He had a man that made string instruments. Okay. So look, I think the Almighty and the Holy Spirit and the Son, they all love music.

Okay, because that's one of the, I use it when I preach. Okay, so I'm going to give you an example. A man comes up, walks on. on stage, he's got a little podium in front of him, and he's also got a little plastic stick in his hand, and he taps on that podium. He's got 1,000 people with different instruments in front of him. He taps it, and here he goes, and the music starts. He cuts it and talks about, hey, third chair fiddled, you're playing a D when you should be playing a E. Wait a minute, folks, the man is listening to 1,000 instruments all different.

And yet God gave him the ability to distinguish between what note they're playing on all these instruments. So look, it's not going to send you to hell. It'll make you feel good, make you feel sad, make you feel bad, whatever you want to say. You know, it's emotional. But, hey, it's not going to, you know, smoking a cigarette is, hey, look, you might smell like hell. Okay, but it will not send you to hell is sigh's humble opinion. And I'll leave it with that.

Anybody else got anything? I think I'm on the same page of Cy here. I don't. There's freedom to do stuff. What's Colossians 216 say? I don't know. Well, look it up, Jay Dean. I don't have no idea.

Yeah, let's read it. Do you have it pulled up right now? Because I don't know what it says. I'm totally guessing at how to spell that. Therefore, do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink or with regard to religious festival. Don't let anybody judge you for what you eat or drink. Or smoke. Or smoke.

Or drink. Or drink. Well, you got to read all of it for the context. Hey. Yeah, there's context there. Drink a little drink. That's what Eric Church said. That's what he said.

It's good enough for Eric Church. It's good enough for Uncle Zy. Well, no, no, I'm just saying. Now, here's the thing, okay. You've got to think about this, okay? The Bible has never said, it's that said just the opposite. Hey, can't, don't be drinking beer. That's going to send you to hell.

The Bible never said that. The Bible said, hey, drink a little wine for thy stomach's sake. Okay, because you, hey, again, We're lacking the human race is, common sense is a rare thing nowadays. It's rare. It's rare. Okay. So, hey, look, with all this stuff, God gave you a wonderful brain.

Use it. Use a little common sense and plight. And, hey, that's especially true with religious stuff. Use a little common sense in it. Because God's giving us a lot of really great things here on this earth that can't. be wonderful, but they can also be abused. Going back to the tobacco thing, yeah, I don't say how anybody can sit there with a straight face and tell you you're going to go to hell because you're dipping snuff.

Oh, they've done it. Oh, I know it. They've done it. But at the same time, I'm also guilty of being a tobacco user for, I would say, good night. 25 years, dipped me Copenhagen. and I can't tell you how much better I feel. I've been quitting out of four years, I think. Medically, it's better.

And look, that stuff just ate away at my gums. Every time I brush my teeth, my guns will bleed. You know, it's terrible. It's terrible for you. But I just quit cold turkey. Now, I ain't going to lie, I had five days where every time that door slammed, I was just ready to fight. The withdrawals are real.

Stone would win that. But it only lasted about a week to withdrawals. After that, it was all between your ears. So I would say if you're doing it, you know, you need to quit. Yeah. You know, but, you know, I don't think it's going to send you to hell. I mean, good grief. I mean, where's that?

My daddy taught me. My daddy taught me not to be a quitter. Well, no, no, because here's the deal, guys and ladies. Okay. Your desires, okay, is what you're dealing with here. Whatever you desire, if you overindulge in it, that's what will send you to hell. Yeah. Yeah.

That's got what I was, the Lord's giving us a lot of great things. We've got freedom. Jesus came to give us life and to give it, not just life, but to give it abundantly, overflowing with good stuff. Yeah, and there's stuff that's good. And their stuff is bad. And there's stuff I can do with my wife that's great. But if I go out and just whatever, win it, that's bad.

So you got to read the Bible and you got to know his plan for it. It's like what size said with alcohol, glass of wine is good for your belly. It says that in the Bible. It also says, don't get drunkard. He just said, here's the key. Not my plan. His plan. Okay.

And his plan is, hey, I want to give you the best life you can possibly have. okay but hey you you've got to do it on like marriage you know people say oh no you can't have sex yes you can yes you can yes you can you can have all you want okay but it's got to be under god's umbrella of marriage put a ring on her finger and love her for your entire life and let her love you back for her entire life and shockingly enough if you follow god's plan There's no problem. Life's way better. There's no problem.

And that thing you do with your wife is way better. And it all just keeps getting way better. It's like God knew what he was doing when he said, hey, here's what I think you should do, guys. It's not because I don't want you to have fun. It's so that you can live life to the fullest and be so happy. And when you lay your head down on your pillow at night, you go, you got peace. Wow, what a great day. Not a peace.

Wow. Wish I hadn't done that. So that's it from the duck call room. There's the podcast. I'm going to call back to the first segment for our Bible verse of the day. James 1.27 religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. And the greatest generation did that to the fullest.

That's why they was the greatest. All right, well, thanks for tuning in. We'll see y'all next time right here in the Duck Call Room.