Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Is Fired Up About This School Prayer Lunacy | Duck Call Room #73

Episode Date: September 30, 2021

Si is truly baffled by what some people do when they're alone in their cars. Stone has a few bones to pick with idiot drivers, and he and Si play the "idiot game." Si reveals his biggest pet peeve. A bold group of high school athletes gets the boys talking about prayer in school. Si says it's biblical to pay NCAA players. And Martin gives a fan crucial advice about how to avoid bathroom emergencies when you're away from home base. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are we back? We are back this time. We're back. Okay, I was just making sure we're back. We are back in the duck call room. It's been a long weekend. There it is. And, uh, oh yeah.

I mean, kind of. It feels long. It does feel long. But anyway, we're back fresh off of a couple of traveling trips for both of us. And I went to the best place on the planet Earth. Really? Yeah. Venezuela.

Venezuela? Down there where the Mississippi River. runs into the guffa mexico that's right a marshala venice venice yep not venizuela seen a big old gator

about oh he's probably about a 10 12 footer out there sunning had a big grin on his face with his mouth open he was a hammer too boys did you touch him no no how was venice no we uh since the hurricane we went

me inside did our annual trip down to south louisiana to do little teal hunting But Captain Josh Goth, Gawt. Josh Gauth. Josh Gaut. But we went down there and, as they say, burned our gun barrels off. Burned.

They had a few of them. I had a little issue there when it first started. About the first fire that come flying there, about 25 miles away in there. And I wasn't up to the game. And Uncle Sine was shooting about five feet behind them. I was way behind them. Then I said, uh-oh. I said, yeah, I'm going to have to get mad.

I thought, well, this is it for side. He ain't got long left. But then all of a sudden. Then it was on like a chicken bone. Do you undo that open bore and put you something a little tighter in? Well, you know, he gave me a box of six. It stone did. Yeah.

For my 20 gates. I shot him and I wouldn't kill anything. And I said, well, I got fours in my bag, so let me break out the fours. And I put three in the little old 20 gauge. in the next five that come in there died violently and quickly. I was there. He had two witnesses.

It was like a hole in one. And he shot two in one shot. On the water? No, no. Oh, no, no. This is flying. We needed three for full limits. And hey, here come three.

They banked out there and come in there. They got just right in front of the camera and read up just, boom, just two of them. Folded. Yeah, and somebody else killed it. It was documented. I put a GoPro. I put a GoPro out on the mojo, the spinning mojo. He put it out, I just guessed at it, and it was pretty good.

Look at you. It turned out real good. It was showing the blind and showing up to get up, and then the ducks would splash in the water. It was pretty cool. What I'm most curious about, forget them blue wings. Do you catch anything? Nope, because the hurricane done a number down there. Yeah, it was bad.

What did it look like after I had to get the? through it in there. You know, we come driving down the highway, and I'm looking on the thighs and in the medium, okay, and it looks like somebody had brought in a whole bunch of hay mixed with dirt. And the hurricane had flooded that area about eight feet deep. Mm-hmm.

Okay, and with that, with all this marsh grass and this mud combo. So it smelled good. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And, hey, look, there was dead critters everywhere. Mainly hawks. Yeah, mainly hawks.

Well, that's good. Oh, yeah. That's a good thing. Thank you, Ida. Last time, we saw a bunch of alligators on the road. Yeah. For people to run over them, wondering what just,

they were crossing. Yeah. And I mean big ones, too. They weren't old little, bitty ones. Some of them, you know, eight, ten foot long. How would you like hit that when you pick up truck? I wouldn't. No.

That's a speed bump there. Yeah. No, but oh. You're talking a speed bump, boy, that would be one. Oh, a big and. So old sigh, he was showing flashes of his. his youth. That's right.

He was hit, boy, he was quick with that 20 gauge there towards the end. He got a little groove. It was impressive. Bye-bye. I mean, we had five singles come in a row the second day, and he, bomp, bomp, bomp, bong. And they're moving. Five in a row. Because, like I said, the first five I shot at, I was about four or five feet behind them.

And they just going on down. And they were all head shots. Yeah. Oh, he got way on out in front. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I got on a minute. I got on roll. I got mad.

Yeah, I got mad at it. But what I figured out going down there that, you know, there's a pandemic going on, all right. And it ain't COVID. No. Wait, that's it. That is going on. But the worst pandemic is idiot human drivers. Well, here we go.

Okay. I'm serious. What did you do to? I didn't do nothing to. So anyways. Yes. You remember that old thing? What's his name?

Jeff Foxworthy used to do. You might be a redneck. If. Yeah. Well, I got a new one is you might be an idiot driver. If you do this. If you pull out in front of somebody and calls that person to slow down, you're an idiot driver. Oh, he lost the bike.

He just saying you are an idiot driver. You're an idiot driver. You are. You might. It ain't on might be. You are. You know where the mic's driving. Well, the worst one was, is a logging truck.

Oh, all right. We're running 70. If you're driving a logging truck and you pass somebody up on the two-lane road. You pass right on the speed limit. In a curve. In a curve. They pass you? You're an idiot.

The logging truck did? Oh, yeah. Oh, that freaks me. I don't. No, if you're in a traffic jam and you keep switching lanes back and forth. You are probably the reason there is a traffic jam, you idiot. I'm going to tell it like it is. We watched them all the way from here through New Orleans.

And by the way, one thing I hate is driving through big cities. Big city traffic is on my list of things I hate and big city traffic is on the list. And New Orleans is out of room. No, they're out of room. Yeah. They're out of room. And they're below sea level. Yeah.

Well, that's not enough new with the traffic. That's another problem. That's another problem. But I witnessed so many instances of idiot human drivers that I can't. I can't remember them all. It's dangerous. I can't, but that's the pandemic. It's a dangerous world out there, boys.

Every time I get in my rig and go somewhere, I come across at least one of them. Oh, they're moving north. Because muddle is full of them. Oh, well, I drove to Chattanooga this weekend. Let me assure you something. I-20 to 59 from here to Chattanooga, they're there too. They're everywhere, boys. Well, what kills me is the ones that their eyes ain't nowhere near the road.

No. Why and what is so important on that phone that you cannot wait? Now look, if you ain't got one of them things, hold your phone and you got directions and you need to look down because you're about to turn, that's fine. But there's only about five turns between Meridia. and Birmingham. You ain't looking down because that turn is sneaking up on you. Like, that ain't it. Like, that ain't what you're doing.

Maybe they're playing Candy Crush or something. No, you do that deer hunt. You don't do him while you drive. I just, for the life of me, I have no idea how their life can be that important. And my daughter, we play a game when we drive down the road. We watch humans coming by and we count how many. has a cell phone in their face. Oh, no, no, no.

And hey, it's entertainment. It's one out of five. It's the entertainment. No. One out of five. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Have a phone in their face while they're driving.

Hey, here's another one I want somebody to explain to me. Uh-oh. You're in a car. In a car. By yourself. Yeah. Why would you have a mask on? Yeah.

Are you that afraid? Oh. You need to go and get right with Jesus. If you're that afraid, you need to get right with Jesus. You saw somebody with the mask? I see them all the time. I did it once. No, you didn't.

It was an accident. Oh, you didn't. I walked out of the grocery store with the mask on and forgot I had it on. And then I was at a red light and somebody was looking at me and I was like, hey, take a picture to last longer. because I didn't know why they were looking at me and then I realized they had a mask on. I was like, oh no. All those low-key judging you.

Oh, they probably took a picture of me. I'd have been judging. There was, you were on Facebook with the hashtag snowflake. I can go ahead and tell you that right now. That's right. Oh, yeah. Hey, I'll tell you. Yeah, because, hey, whatever I do, if I do something,

hey, somebody's going to take a picture of it. That's true. Oh, my goodness. Or take a video. I'll take a video. Because, hey, the people in the airport in Dallas got a free one-hour show. We know that guy, by the way, that took it.

I said if you're in a car by yourself and you got a mask all. I saw a dude mowing a yard. That's fine. That's dust. If he's protecting himself from dust, I'm cool with that. It didn't seem dusty. Well, no, no. If you got to.

It's dusty around here. Well, no, I'm just saying if you got a breathing problem, I'm going to understand it. Okay. Because I've got a breathing problem. But not by yourself. But I mean, you know. In a car. Not a car by yourself.

If you're in a car by yourself. and you're wearing a mask? Yeah. I don't get it. I don't need it. I'm sorry. I don't know. You got to understand, I ain't educated.

I ain't never claimed to be. But I just don't get it. And look, this ain't us being insensitive. All four of us have had that mess. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. All of us, hey. It's real.

Stone was the only one. Look, it's real. It's bad. Okay. And I, you know, but, hey, you know, just. That's so funny. So I said, you're an idiot. We need to have a full episode.

on. Just people that are idiots. Look, and this is an idiot. Call him an idiot. That's right. Okay. Yeah. I've done a lot of idiotic things in my life.

Oh, no. Yeah. But there's just some things. There's just some things you got to call out. Yeah. I agree. Well, you just got to tell it like it is sometimes. Okay.

Well, yeah. We're wearing masks by yourself in the car, texting and driving and pulling out in front of people. Yeah. Well, no. Oh, there's a list. We're going to get into that after the break. Oh, yeah.

No, hey, don't even go to. like Stone said, you're going to use to. Let's go down that road. Let's figure out the big... Because when you used to take a trip, you would do something to occupy the kids' minds. Now you just have a phone. You would tell us, okay,

we're going to count, we're going to count a license plate and see how many states we can see on the road trip. We used to play punchbug. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. But now, now it's, okay, hey, let's watch for the idiots.

Yeah. Okay. And why we're thinking... Hey, this is the idiot game, okay? Let's see how many idiots we can see between here and Arkansas. A bunch. Let's see how many idiots we can count in this break. We'll be back right now.

That's the game of the show. The idiot game. 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.

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Yeah. Just go to Tribesies. beef.com slash that's trybeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. Si, what is your, if you had to name one, what is your biggest pet peeve in this world? Like, what is the one thing that drives you nuts that people instantly get hung with idiot when you Well, no, no, because it's probably, it's got to do with driving. Okay. It always goes back on driving.

Here's the rule. This society, okay, we're under. a judicial system, this society of ours. That means, okay, there's laws that we're supposed to obey. Yeah. Okay. Look, there's two lanes on a highway. Sometimes there's four.

But mainly if you've got two lanes, one going south, one going north. Okay. Or east and west. All right, eastern west. If you've got two, one of them it's call is to the right is the slow lane. the one to the left is the one that, hey, the people that like to drive fast like myself, okay? I don't get why you're...

The speed limit, okay? If the speed limit's 50, I like to go 50. At least. Okay, at least, okay. So look, if you like to drive 25, please do me a favor and get out of my lane and get in the right lane. It's called a slow lane.

So that's your thing? That's his thing. Size pet peeve. Size pet peeve is the left lane is for passing. That's right. Well, hey, look. That's it. That's what the law says.

The law says if you're going to drive slow, go in the right lane. Only use the left to, like, if somebody's slow in front of you in the slow lane, you want to go around him, get in the left lane, go around him. Now, I will say the left lane from Del High to Ravel. is made for driving because you can't drive in that right lane from del high to ravelyle. Coming back on I-20 westbound. All you're doing is your blink, your back lights are coming on. Oh, because it's pothole after pothole after pothole and all that.

So look, if you go on a little slow in the left lane between Dale High, Louisiana, and Ravell, I get it. Yeah. I've been there. Like, I get that one. You're trying to save your car. Yeah, or yourself. Yeah, or yourself. Or your boat behind you.

anything else. What about this one? If you, if somebody passes, say two big rigs are driving side by side. Oh, buddy. One of them's in the left lane. The other one's in the right lane. And one of them's going 71 and the other one's going 70.5 because of that governor on their truck.

Number one. It takes 17 miles to pass. Either tear your governor off of it if you're bad about doing that. Or if you're the one going 70.5, just back off the throne. Or stay behind it. Because you're never going to pass him because you can't go fast enough. I think they do it on purpose. Well, they're racing.

No, they're racing. Oh, well, yeah, yeah. But it's not just big, they got a deadline to me. But it was just like that guy when we were on the Pontchartrain Bridge. You tell you, he's yelling. Oh, no, like, look. Hey, you're on the Causeway? So look.

No, we were not on Pontian Bridge. We were on 55. 55. Anyway, it's, you know. No, no, I'm sorry. We're on 10. 10. Going into New Orleans.

Yeah. It's like 30 miles from. Yeah. It's bumper to bumper. Bumper to bumper. Bumper. It's not a fun place to be. No.

And we're looking up there, okay, and we finally get to it. It's got a sign that's just left lane, closed up here, yo. Merge right. Yeah. Boy, them boys that take it all the way to the barrel. Oh, no, no. Oh, no. We're in the right lane, okay, because the sign says, okay, yo, and I'm looking.

And here comes. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So finally, a big rig behind us, because if I'd have been driving, I'd done it 20 minutes before this guy did. Big rig behind us said, I'll stop this BS. Hey, he just pulled over the middle and just slowed her down, baby. He was straddling, straddling the line.

I'm fixed to make you obey the law. Look, they kept trying to get ridder. Yeah. And they just, the weaver birds are just, all you big rig drivers out there. Just panicking. happening straddle that line you're in charge make the idiot slow down they're so ignorant they can't obey the law it says left lane closed murder murder's right well they're trying to get up in front of you that's right and if it why is everybody in such a hurry they're all in a hurry because they're all

but you're in a hurry too you're mad about the fast lane well no no and you're going to be 45 minutes early to wherever you're going hey i'm mad because hey they're driving in the wrong line lane and they're not obeying the rule it's out of a prince so you're a man of principle it's a principle of the thing that's right so you're not in a hurry what about this my wife says i am okay so what about this if somebody pulls out in front of you what is your initial reaction what do you do well i'm scared that i'm going to bang in you know run my truck driving up the rear end well right you know so first thing i do it hit my brakes and then i go and then what Then I call, you idiot.

So, yeah, you don't, you don't. Then I got to look up and say, I'm sorry. That's right. Take a deep breath. So you don't get up on their bumper. Like somebody pulls out front of you. My gut tells me. I have, and I have repentance of it.

Well, numerous times. My gut tells me get up on their tail and put pressure on them. Well, no, no. You know what? I just might turn myself into an idiot driver. Well, no, no. By doing that. Because I did that the other day, and look.

and hey, what did they do? Normally they speed up and get out of the way and get over. No. Yeah. This one hit her brakes and I mean, I like to just pick up, and I would have been over her in the back seat. Oh, Lord, you must have got behind my wife. Oh, no.

Well, I may have. She'll break, check you with the best of them. The only problem is she like you, she likes to go fast anyway. So if you're riding her rear end, you're moving. Get ready. And she'll get over. But, but. Well, no, that's why I'm saying, though.

Okay, you got two lanes. Once for slow drivers, once for fast drivers. Hey. Now, one's just for making the pass. Even for the fast drivers, you don't stay in the left lane. Still, I'm just saying, yeah. Once you get over. But I'm just saying, okay, hey, yo,

I know what you're saying when I pass you. When I go by flying, you're saying, I hope to log it. Hey, if I'm driving fast, I will, hey, if you do the crime, you got to pay the time. Yeah. So I'm willing, if I'm going to 80, if he gets me, I'll have to pay the fine. Yeah. You'll pay $2.26 million. Do not get in my way.

Let me drive 80. Stuff's turning off over here while he's slapping. I ain't believing y'all ain't talked about my worst one of all that. Is it driving? Uh-huh. I'm just saying, yeah, of driving. My least favorite one, they make on ramps a half a mile long. Where you don't have to stop.

You can get to 60. You don't have to stop. All you have to do is a steady acceleration. I'm with him on the stopping because that man in Eldorreda, Arkansas that one time that I ran into the back of that then drove off because you stopped on the interstate. Then I got a ticket. Yeah. During the Super Bowl? Yeah, I remember it.

Yeah. I'm still mad at that guy. Yeah, the – Oh, that happened to me. I guess the technical term is not being able to merge. Merging is a difficult thing. Oh, no, no. I don't think they all know what it means.

Because you should never have to hit your brain. Because if you're in the right lane, you should be paying attention and say, let me move over. And it's a two-second pass around in your back. I'll have to use speed control. I'll have to use Ron White's favorite little gig. Uh-oh. Okay. Is that okay for our audience?

I guess. We're a family show. What it is, the phrase is this. This is according to Ron White, and I have to agree with him. Folks, you can't think stupid. Not even with duct tape. Hey, duct tape can do a lot of things. things.

Uh-uh. Heck, it don't help. Oh, man. I do hate that one. Like you're talking about, I'm coming in a streetport upon the bridges to come home to West Monroe.

Oh, that's a circus ride in and of itself there. What are you doing in? I'm looking for an opening for me to get in. Well, unbe-known to me is, nope. One of them's running up there right to a deal and just,

Oh! And that's on. Stop. Doe pop you. Yeah. I don't run it. in the back of him because hey, he had already put on the gas and

changed his mind. Stop. I'd done the same exact thing. And then he called Gordon. That dude tried to sue me, yeah. I'm saying, what are you doing? Yeah, I think there was nothing coming. Why did you stop? Yeah, I don't know.

We should have a driving instructor. What's his name in town? Scooter? I don't know. I think, yeah. I took it from Coach Middleton. What do I know? Scooter? Hey, I, that's me.

My driving instructor was our line coach. Yeah. Way about 450. Scooter taught me how to drive. Right, right. About 450, his side of the car was, you know, was eating asphalt. I think it's nice. Maybe it went down the road.

It was hard around. It was always, it was always wanting to swirl to the right. Just. Had a little pull to it. Yeah, had a little bit pull, a little to the left, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

Oh, boy. in the right seat, boys. Man, I will. No weight distribution. I may leave it with this. It is funny that everybody thinks that their way of driving is the correct way. That's what's funny. That is true.

That's what everybody is convinced the way that they drive is the best one. It ain't just driving. Humans think their way of doing anything is the right way. And everybody else don't know what they're doing. The human being is one messed up dude. Oh, I guarantee. Oh, woman. And I'm part of it.

Hey, good thing. We get forgiveness. Amen. And on that forgiveness line, also remember grace and mercy. Show it to people, even out there on the road. Even the slow drivers. Don't get bad. Don't get up on their tail.

Just laugh at them and move on. Call them an idiot. Yeah. Give them some sign language if you got to move on. It's the good Lord. Thumbs up. Trying to teach me some patience. Well, they can't.

me and sigh entertained all the way to the order which i'm having a hard time dealing with yeah i'll be back right after this let's take another break little confession so now what well hey here's one i very seldom watch but who won the game between the 49ers and and the packers the new or the packers won nobody cares the packers won but not by three and a half four or five and a half because that's both the bets I put on it. They won by two. Stone does not watch football.

So the man, my man, Roger, put it on. Yeah, eventually. But he should have really put it on him and I've won $400. I know. As it is, I'm down a little. Oh, you're down a little. See, you should have been like Stone. Just turned it off.

Yeah. Then I can't bet on it. Well, that's what I did. That's why I didn't know who wants. I don't watch any ball playing of any kind anymore. Any ball playing of. They all show their true colors. Well, I still watch college now.

Okay. What? College, yeah. I watch it all. I love football. Well, I mean, I love it too. I love the game of football. They just got a lot of too many issues that they're dealing with and trying to.

I understand that. Bring it center stage and all this and they're going about it the wrong way, in my humble opinion. But that's near there. We're covering the gamut of controversy. I watch that, hey, I watch that at home with the Robertson's episode. At home with the Robertson's. They got issues. They got issue.

Which is why I just watch it for the game. I could care less about the players. The Saints got major issues. Lots of them. Namely, quarterback. The roof is on fire. I missed it. Their back mills on fire.

Yeah. We saw the roof. That's a problem right now. The roof's okay, by the way. That's the problem when you said quarterback, that's the problem team-wise all the way around. That's a good point. College, pro all. Okay.

Well, there ain't too many Joe Burrows running around. I have a question. I have a question for y'all, though. Go for it. Speaking of college quarterbacks. Yeah. I'll leave this one's name out of it. What do you all think about NCAA players getting paid?

I'm fine with it. Well, yes. Is education enough? How much is an education worth? Well. It depends on fair market value of their tuition. And depends on what school. Well, the Bible said,

A worker deserves his wages. Okay. Okay. So if a college athlete can sell a million pairs of shoes. Well, I'm just saying, okay. Does he deserve a little bit of a cut? Because in a way, any way you slice it. I'm for them.

I just think they need to be smart about how you give a 19-year-old kid a million dollars. Well, no, no. I don't know. There is a smart way to that. Yeah, all it is. It's called a trust. Well, no, that they've gone. They've gone overboard a little bit on that, on the pay scale.

Yeah. Okay. I just wonder, we've had a few of them reach out to us at Duck Hunt. That's why I was curious. They need sponsors. They've went over. In my humble opinion, they've went overboard on the pay scale. Well, we can't afford to give you a million dollars.

Because really, when I found out, because I like the guy. Okay. but when I found out that the chief's quarterback cut paid like a half a billion, which is $500 million. That tells you how much those teams are making. So once again, human beings are putting ballplayers on a much too high of a pedestal

when they're playing a game for a living. I mean, give me a break, you know. So now you're not a Mahomes fan now that he's making 500 million? No, no, no, no. I still love the guy. I figured it may have had something to do with them being one and two. I love the guy for one reason. Okay.

And Texas Tech, he was a gunslinger, and I love gunslingers, okay? He's a Texas Tech man. Red Raiders. So I had a FAR of Jersey back in the day then. But I just look at it, and like I said,

the pay scale is, it's really out of whack, okay? Well, yeah. Really? So what should he be paid? In your opinion, what should Patrick and the home make?

What should the best quarterback in the, best football, player in the NFL besides Taysam Hill be paid. Well, you got to, you got no, you got to look at it

this way. Look at it this way. Like I said, okay, the Bible said, the working deserves his wages, okay, and then you look at it,

okay, their medical bills, okay, if they're any, in the NFL for any length of time, they have a lot of injuries. Uh-huh.

Okay. because just because of the sport, because of the talent, and because of the weight, y'all, if one of these boys just fall on you wrong and you're not level on the ground, if you're twisted one way or the other. Well, you know what you call that. Something fixed to get broke here, boys. You know what you call that? Hazard pay.

Well, you signed up for it. When you went to Vietnam, you got hazard pay. I know very little. How much? It wasn't worth the hazard. I don't remember, but it wasn't. worth it, okay? What Patrick Mahomes makes in about two hours.

Well, no, no. Is what you got for a month or maybe more. Patrick Mahon's life. Yeah, make it a year. It's life. Oh, yeah. Make it a year. Once again, the human beings that should be elevated are the ones that serve

in our military, not people playing a game. Well, no, no. The statement of all the goals you made, okay, that New York is firing doctors and nurses. We're off of that. Well, I know. We had to start over. Wait, now,

and now we're back on. All of this comes into play. Okay. It's a whole tangled. Don't, wait, we can't talk about it, side. It's a controversial way.

We tried, we changed subject. Is this America? We change subjects. Hey, this is America. I can talk about it, Jack. You can talk about it, but you're wasting time. Well, I'm just saying, hey, you know, this all ties in together.

We got to move on. It needs to be, our system in a way, needs to be revitalized. okay and change oh well you're right wait 100% I'll tell you a cool story from the weekend so you brought up your hazard pay and military and all that good stuff so I went to host Jacob wheelers college fishing tournament basically he put on a fishing tournament for college kids where they could win $10,000 cash okay to help them that's a good deal for their education education or to pay for them to be able to fish like the bass opens or the MLF Toyota series or whatever.

The minor leagues of fishing. 20 years ago, Jay Stone would have won that. Nope. Potentially. Nope. But so we're doing the dinner and I'm just looking out across there and they all look like, yeah, I'm the MC, they all look like college kids. It's Hepharesne 2.

And they had on the University of Alabama fishing team. Of course. Alabama cheating again. Of course, I have to make a joke about it. You know, I said, look, Nick Sabin's still, he's just trying to, up his Annie out here. He's got, this is a college fishing tournament, and we got two guys over here in their mid-30s,

crowd, and 40. What's up? What's the deal? Well, little did I know. And I got a little embarrassed. Oh, no, Martin. But these guys were super cool, because we talked for an hour after.

Well, these guys served in a military. One of them did 13 years. The other one did 10 or 11, I think. One of them was Army, one of was Marines. and they took their GI Bill money, went back to school. Got to a degree. No. Well, they're getting a degree, but they went back to school so they could be on the University of Alabama's fishing team

and have a chance to fish in a Bassmaster Classic through the classic bracket and all that stuff that they do. So these guys went to war for our country, protected our country, and then said, I want to fish for a living. or have a chance to fish for a living. And we talked about for hours. I mean, they were super cool guys. But that, you're right, that's the kind of people to me that deserve to be celebrated. That's right. Versus who a lot of times we, in fact, celebrate.

I mean, people celebrate us for crying out loud. We ain't nothing but a bunch of rednecks with a platform. Let's just call us what we are. And that's God given. That's God giving, you know. There ain't nothing we did to earn it, deserve it or anything. And a lot of times we're idiot, idiot rednecks. Yeah.

And I'm only kind of a redneck. Plenty of times. Yeah. I don't know if you read or net, but you want to. Stone said it, okay. Stone said it's, we've, our priorities are not dead on.

I agree. That's it. Yeah. Our priorities are mixed up. Yeah. No, absolutely they are. Yeah, because, you know, just, yeah, I don't want to.

Yeah, get off of what you're about to say. Yeah. No, no, no. Hey, he's fired up. We need to readjust our price. priorities to match what really needs to be done for the people that really should be elevated? Absolutely. Of course, the problem with the whole thing is, is you know who won the fishing tournament?

They're teammates from the University of Alabama. I said, y'all ever get tired of holding up trophies? They won? Yeah. I haven't made a deal with them because I didn't think they was going to win. I said, look, if y'all win, I'll say roll tide on this stage. Oh, did you have to do it? Well, I made the bet.

I paid my bet. He paid a bet. I'm not... Deal the deal. Yeah, I'm not one to renegg on a bet. I will pay my... Even a roll-tied one. It didn't come off their good.

Gave me a little heartburn, but you know what them boys earned it. They earned it. You know, they earned. Because the time about it is, hey, practice does make you... But it was a super cool story on the guy that won it, too, because he, before, went applying to medical school to try to fish the bass open,

to try to make a living fish. smart kid and he wants to fish for a living. How do you L.M. do? They did not weigh in the first day, so I'm going to assume they didn't catch a bass. I didn't see my LSU tigers either. I don't think they caught a bass. That pond was fishing tough. We're alumni.

Could we go participate? We still have five years of eligibility. I checked on that. We have five years of college fishing eligibility. Let's go, boys. To fill fish for a living. And I was with him a lot of times running nets and stuff. Fishing for a living is a tough life.

Yeah, but these boys is making more than $2. Well, I know, but hey, but I'm just saying, hey, it's still a rough life. Yeah. Okay, because, you know, yeah, that's a. Kevin Van Damans. 40 cents a pound for the buffalo. Yeah. For the rough fish.

Yeah. All right. Well, let's take a break. We'll be back right after this here in the duck car. And we're back. Look, for all of you folks at home, look, we know we like to talk about good news. Good news. I want to talk about some good news on our end.

You know, we've told you about Becky who works here, donating a kidney to her husband, Wayne. So far, everything is going as swimmingly as it could. His body is using her kidney, showing no signs of rejection yet. There's still a little time window here that, you know, that it could still reject it. So they ain't out of the wood yet, but so far, so good. And for that, we're thankful. We're thanking the good Lord that that has gone, gone well. They're both still in a little bit of pain, as I can't even imagine that kind of deal. But they're back home recovering well and just going through the process of what all that means.

But Johnny D, you got us, you got us some more good news? Well, it's good and bad news. Okay. I'll start with a good. No, it's one story. So it starts with bad news. Okay. And we got an email. Let me go back to it real quick. Reese from Baxter, Tennessee, 19-year-old duck hunter.

Hey, go Reese. We like you, Reese. Yeah. He also enjoyed Duck Dynasty. He sent an email in from his hometown and his high school. Upperman High School. I guess that's in Baxter, Tennessee, because that's where Reese is from. They have a tradition.

their football team would always go out on the field after games and the coach would lead a prayer over anybody that wanted to hang out. Circle up and pray. Yeah, we did it too. Normal thing, right? The state came in and said, nope, can't do it. Can't circle up and pray? The coaches could no longer pray.

They could not, the state employees could no longer pray on the football field after the game. What do they do? Move it to the parking. lot? Nope. Oh. One of the football players said you didn't say anything about football players leading.

It's a while. Oh, so. Yeah, man, 17, 18, 19. Elijah. Be counted, dude. Burgess, according to this Fox News.com article, said, I'll do it. His quote is, they told us not to pray, so I had to do that. Good for you, Elijah.

That's like one of the things that I've got to do if someone tells me not to do. I love Shadrach, Meshach, and a bendigo action right there. I like that. That's good. I mean, what is it? I didn't know we were still in that stage, though. Of praying? Of praying in school and it being weird.

Yeah, I don't know what the, I mean, it's been so long since I've been out of school. I don't know. Do they still pray over intercoms and stuff like at school? I don't know. I mean, I don't. Well, I'm proud to say that. this kid emailed in and he goes to this school and he's fired up for his friend. What state is this? Tennessee. Of all places. Of all places. That's...

Hold on now, Tennessee. That's kind of the heart of the Bible Belt right there. That's like the buckle. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. When the state of Tennessee comes out and says you can't pray. Yeah. Well, it's not even... It's not even like... That's just a surefire sign of where this country is headed and it ain't good. Well, it's not like they were doing it. Like where the kids Like, hey, if you don't want to hear it, go get in your car and go home. It was after the football game. Yeah. So I don't get that.

It was all voluntary at that point. If you didn't want to be a part of it, you're headed to the locker room anyway. But I guess those people would argue, well, if they walked away, they felt like they'd be judged. Well, the people in the circle ain't doing no judge, and I can assure you that. If they got that much faith, they know what it says about judgment. Yeah, they're mine somewhere else, boys. Yeah. That's incredible.

I just, I do find it weird that we got to a point where prayer in school was out. It bothers me. I mean, I just thought, I always thought it was bizarre. This school district did say, courts, blah, blah, blah, blah. So the, you can't prayer and proselytizing, quit using fancy words, cannot be sponsored by schools or school personnel, but we support the students right to lead it if they want to. That's incredible. So, like, I mean, ugh. I mean, a lot of our coaches growing up were like Sunday school teachers too.

So, I mean, it wouldn't, you know, I mean, it was just kind of. This don't even make sense. I just don't. Okay. Yeah. This is one of the. I mean, prayer has always been optional. Like, you don't have to opt into the prayer.

You can stand there with everybody else got the head bow. They don't know what you doing. Yeah, that's so weird. When did it offend somebody? I don't know. When did that hurt somebody's feelings, though, say, oh, I can't, I can't. I can't be around this anymore. That's the part that has always set me off.

Okay, because all of this started back in the day when one person says, I don't want to hear it. Wait a minute. What happened to weed the people? Yeah. I agree. Yeah. Freedom of speech and all that good stuff.

Yeah. Our constitution starts out, we the people for crying out loud. If somebody's doing something, I don't want to be a part of it. guess what? I'm just not a part of it. I'm not a part of it. But I know that it's their God-given right as long as it's legal and moral that they can do whatever they want to. I don't have to be a part of that. Even if it's not moral, they can do it.

Yeah, they can do it. Just keep it legal. Doesn't even have to be close to moral. And you're like, that stuff's halfway celebrated now. And it's like, hey, you shut up over there if you're praying that nobody got hurt in a football game. Who's the person after a football game? It's like, they were so, they thanks to the Lord that nobody got hurt. curse and I can't bear to be around this. Make it stop. Who are you personally? Or even if somebody did get hurt, would they say the same thing? Can you believe those kids are praying for that other kid? Yeah. He just got hurt. He got carted off of here. You believe they're praying for him? That offends me. That is so selfish. That's what I'm saying. Well, you know what they do?

Driving the left lane going six. That's it. And they're the same ones. They're the same ones. We're even left and right. They're in a hurry to get somewhere and they don't want to hear what you have to say about it. They'll pull out in front of you, you can slam on the brakes. Yeah. Literally, it just, it boggles my mind that we got there. Because here's, hey, Ben's play soccer every Saturday morning. He's just on a random team. I didn't know. I never met the coach. His son goes to school with Ben's out. So I was like, hey, good to meet you. After the game, that coach grabbed them all up.

Said, we're going to pray. Ben's got in trouble for talking during it. I was like, good job, coach. Way to get him. I got a boy. I like it. And so it amazes me that, like, we can do that at where's the line? Yeah. So I vote. We just keep praying and if you don't want to listen to it, you should. And even if you have an alternate religion

and you want to have your own prayer before or during this prayer, knock yourself out. I'm not going to walk away from you. I mean, I stay right there. I'll pat you on the back when you get up. Like that doesn't bother me. Because I know there's different strokes for different folks on that regard. That's what makes humans great.

But I mean, the fact that you're just like, no, shut her down. Shut her, for everybody. Just shut her down. I'm like, man, I can't get behind that. Those humans live a miserable existence. They really are. Because the normal people, Elijah and Reese here and the other kids of this school, were like, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

We're going to do it anyway. We hate that the coach can't lead it because we look up to the coach. But we're going to do it. Meanwhile, somebody's just in their base. basement going, we got them. Yeah. They're the epitome of the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

That's it. That's what they are. They like him people that come out on Instagram said, oh my God, I can't believe you killed that duck. Yeah, I did. I say, you ain't ever tasted him. Hey, not only did I kill him, I grilled him in 80. Thank you.

You ain't ever tasted it. I am going to put this photo up, though. Uh-oh. Well, it's of them praying. Oh, that's, because like all their... Absolutely. Oh, well, it's not working. Oh, now it's working.

I broke it. Yeah, so I punched my computer 17. I keep on banging on that. Anything here lately, boy? Which way to go? What is happening? Went the wrong way. Yeah, check it out.

Oh, wow. And that's all student led? That's the students led it. So all the parents said, because the parents normally are going to the car, getting ready. Everybody went down there. And you can see, there's white and gold and there's black and yet. So both teams got involved.

Oh, yeah. So to that community, I say, well done. Well, done. And thank you for. sticking up for what you believe in. Good job, Baxter. Sigha likes his stakes. Didn't you say he's from Baxter, Tennessee?

Oh, yeah. Baxter. I mean, I know it ain't the name of the high school. The kid's name was Burgess. Yeah. Elijah was the prayer later. But that's not just Elijah there. That's the whole community of Baxter coming together there or however.

Yeah, and I don't know who they played, but it was Uppermin High School. Good job. Putnam County, Tennessee. Puttum County, boys. Good deal. Good for them. I like, I want to. I wanted to read that one whenever I got the email.

Take a stand in the other way. Or take, in that case, take a knee in the other way. Or stand. Yeah, whatever you want to do. Just out of your head and do it out of it. If you want to participate, you participate. If not, you walk away. That's just, that's the way life is.

You ain't got to say something about it. That's just unreal. Well, let's take our last break. We'll get in that hello at duck call room. com mailbox when we get back right after this. We've been getting emails about people that like food. It sounds disgusting like the girl with peanut butter and corn in the cob. Still interested on that one.

You're still interested? Does anybody try to? No. No. It's not crawfish season. I'll hit that one once crawfish season. Well, no, no. I'm not, yeah, I didn't think that, too.

Mark brought up a good point. That's liable to be a winner. So Michael, he didn't say where he's from because he's gross. He said we need to try yellow mustard on watermelon. All right. Now, hold on. He tried it at a barbecue. Now, hold on.

I'm just saying. You what I said. I love mustard. Okay, but you don't put mustard on the water bottle. This man. I mean. You put mustard on a hot dog. If you're going to put something on watermelon.

Ant those monies in there with it. If you're going to put something on watermelon. Salt? Salt. A little salt. I've even seen people roll with black pepper on there, too, with their salt. It's fine. I've eaten it.

Not a problem. The Mexican taheen on watermelon is good. because it's got a little spice to it. Yeah. But yellow mustard on a watermelon. No. No. No.

No go. All right, moving on. All right. Moving on. So none of us are even thinking about trying that. No. I'm out. You're gross.

No. I'm out. All right. And then my man, Logan, from Mendota, Illinois. Mendota, Illinois. He sent like everything about him. That's too much information, man. I know your job, your address, your phone number.

he sent a question in is there anyone in our group that always has to use the bathroom when the group goes out to hunt and is there any red flag that you don't need to do before you go to the blind so you don't end up in the restroom

oh you're just talking about duck cutting duck hunting or just life in general if we're always waiting on someone in the bathroom oh no what no I don't wait. He just goes. Let me tell you something.

Now, I'm getting close to 50 now. Oh, boy. So the older you get, you get in your mid-40s, that old prostate starts growing on you. And you got to pee, I got to pee twice as much as I used to. He stopped four times. Oh, yeah. Do you stop more than him? Oh, yeah.

He got to stop four times coming back. Well, how do you know? You were sound asleep. Hey, every time you pulled over you by, I'm going to frustrate you. expect to go in the ditch, son. Look, him and our new camera, our new cameraman, Jacob, are the worst travel companions you could ever have. Every time I looked over, both of them sound asleep.

Oh, I was not asleep. So, and we went hunting that last morning, and I drove back without a nap. It was a pretty good little jump. But I got on that food bar. He gets him one of them energy. Oh, yeah, energy shot. It's called a food bar.

It fueled up beyond the RECM. He hasn't. He hasn't slept since he drank. No, no. It does. I've had a few shots called food bar before, but they meant something way different. It's fueled, fueled. Yeah.

Anyways. Yeah, that acronym meant something else when I used to do it. We're talking about people that always make you stop and go. I've seen Si P on a plane. No, we've covered this, I think, already. I had to install a year. urinal in his deer stand. Yeah.

Because of how often he has to go to the bathroom. And he's acting like it's not true right now. Well, no, no. Yeah, it is. I take this with me wherever I go. When I go deer hunting, I have a glass and ice tea. I mean, I know people like that. I like to enjoy my hunt.

Gobwin lives by the mantra of never pass a bathroom. I got to know what? The boy is right. Even if you ain't got to pee. You might as well. But there's a chance that you may go for a while before you can pee again. Go ahead and empty the tank. There ain't no reason to keep it.

You might as well pee. But I mean, I watched one of our guys Saturday morning run down a dock because he had to use a bathroom and then poor boys had to wait on him to get back to go fishing, you know, so it's just. But Logan also had a buddy who would eat a breakfast tornado, which sounds fantastic. I know what follows a tornado. A bag of donuts and a large energy drink every morning on the way to the blind. Oh. And the guy always found himself, quote, compromised.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, you can't just eat whatever you want for breakfast before going duck hunting. He's one of them. I hope you at least left it covered up with toilet paper, so I didn't step in it at the boat ramp. At least you got that going for you.

I never eat before going hunting. Oh, look, me and Godwin fish a tournament one time years ago, and we got to the ramp, and he said, I got to go. Uh-oh. And 30 minutes later, he come walking back out of the woods. I said, what did you eat for breakfast? I stopped the country corner and got me a biscuit. Don't ever do that, boys.

Gas station biscuits. And two cups of coffee will do it every time. Not look, I've been on the side of interstate, just out of the headlights in the morning going duck up and hat. Yeah, I didn't got in a bind. Look like that dog, you know, just. Oh, yeah, like trying to pass a pizza. Yeah, just quivering, you know, just quivering, you know. You never heard that for?

That's when you get that quiver down there. That's when you got a hold for a little bit. I mean, I've been compromised several times. Like, I'm not going to say. But I generally, people want to know why, like, if I got to be somewhere at six, why I set my alarm for five. You got to flush the system. I like to get that out of the way on home field advantage.

Home field advantage. Amen. The thought of going in a gas station and sitting down on a warm seat is enough. is enough to make me wake up. I like a warm seat, but I prefer that to be electricity, not somebody else making that happen. Yeah, that just violated it. It was in just the same kind of bind you were. I was in a bind going to New Orleans one time, walked into the bathroom, and it was so disgusting.

My body said, we're good. You're no longer, I made it all the way to New Orleans. Never had to go to the bathroom again. Oh, man. Because it was that nasty. When that mustache get to sweating, you know it's real. When that upper lip right there gets to rolling, that's how you know it's real. Rough.

Well, Logan, thank you for the bathroom-related question. Yeah, let's end this baby with a Bible verse and get on out of here. I got one for us that goes along with something we were saying about our priorities in whom we honor being out of whack. Romans 13-7, pay to all what is owed to them. Not fun. Taxes to whom taxes are owed. I don't like that Bible verse sometimes. Revenue to whom revenue is owed.

Respect to whom respect is owed. and importantly honor to whom honor is owed. So it is important, like we said earlier, to honor those that deserve it and make sure you know who deserves it and get those priorities in line. And that means this biblical, boys. That's in the Bible.

Boom. We're out of here. We'll see y'all next time right here in the duck call.