Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Learns How Dogs Helped Fix What Healthcare Broke

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

Uncle Si goes off-leash with Duck Commander’s best furry, four-legged employees, and Curly opens up about his roughest days working as a nurse during a global pandemic, why he left the healthcare system behind, and how training dogs gave him a new purpose. The boys crack up as Si repeatedly butchers dog breed names, ranks his favorites, and roasts Phil and Kay's yappy ones. Martin and John-David chime in on why they’re really glad pets can’t talk, while Si shares the most unforgettable firearm lesson he ever gave. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People wanted us to stop talking over each other, so here we are. We've got two special guests. We've got... I want them to introduce themselves to the people listening. I don't think they can introduce themselves. Plus, they're very humble, very obedient, so they're not going to talk much. Big talkers, though. Like ruckers back.

No, we've got... Teal. Hello, Tiel. The original. The OG, you can tell she's a little gray around the muzzle. She's about to be 11 years old. What's her name now? Teal.

Teal. Like the duck. Teal. We have animals in the chairs right now. Yeah. And then right beside me, we got Bay, who's training. You know, you never know. She may go pick up cranes.

So she's got her goggles on. Is that a parachuting dog? No, that's just for in case she goes to pick up him Sand Hill cranes and they turn around and try to fight back. It protects her eyes. They're not dead. So, yeah, if you got some poor shots with you and cripple some and the dog got to go get them, they need to be able to.

Yeah, Jay's did that one time over in Texas. Jason. It was Jason. Then when he walked up on him at Crane, then got up and, yeah, you don't want to. He hissed at him.

Well, you know what happened. You don't want to take on them taradactals without some form of protection. Yeah. No, but we got Teal and Bay. The top employees of Curley's top dog,

our neighboring business here. What are you doing, girl, I know. These are the two calmest dogs I've ever been around in my life. I want to ask them a lot of questions. Have you ever thought about what it would sound like if dogs could talk?

I'm glad they can't. Why? Because I just don't know what they would say. I mean, dogs sometimes catch you in precarious positions, you know. Dublin saw me naked a lot. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Like, Jude likes to come in there and keep your feet warm while you're using the restroom. You know?

Like, it's incredible. They see it as a, they see us at our worst. Yeah, I don't know if they're protecting you. Like, they make a sense somebody don't sneak up on here because you're vulnerable or. Are those dogs happy? They're very happy. They're very happy. Well, this one looks happy, but this one's just like, with the goggles,

just staring at your hand like it's going to be a treat in it. Well, the goggles aren't her jam. Like, that's just... May is a show pony. Yeah, that's not, that's just kind of forced. She's waiting. Yeah, she's good, though. You take them goggles off.

She lay in my lap more sleep. That's the difference. That's why she got the goggles on so she don't come in. But they spend a lot of time in my office, man. They come in there and lay there and just, I'm glad to work at a place that allows dogs. Friendly. That welcomes dogs. Not just allows them.

Like, yeah, bring them. Come on. Bring you dogs. We couldn't have got Dublin into one of those chairs. No. God rest his soul. But he definitely wouldn't have stayed in it for this long. This is the most impressive thing I've ever seen.

Well, he's this sweet girl. Animal, look at me. And it even looked just straight at me. Teal looked straight at me when I said that. Yeah. Yeah, Teal's a good one now. She's a good dog. Look at her.

Got that gray around. Curly is. Before, Curly's about to join us, I hope. Yeah. We'll just talk to the dogs the whole time. Curley has built an empire over there, I've noticed. I'm not here every day anymore, but every time I drive by,

there's something new being added on. Well, looks are deceiving. Curly's top dog. Because when you drive by it, you don't think much is there. Yeah, just a little white house. Yeah, just a little house. Well, no, you go in and then you say, oh, good grief. Yeah, what in the world?

They speaky dogs up in there. Yeah, what in the world. Sometimes he got something big enough you can put a saddle on. I don't know what them things are. But he bring him in here because he trains them for like obedience and like being calm around people. And somehow, I ain't kidding. You put a daggum saddle on them things.

I would like to ride a dog going back. Well, he's had one over there that me and you both could ride. The most impressed I've ever been with dogs was in Germany. Oh, no, of course it was. No, no. The hot dogs or. Hurley's not even here to offend himself. Hunting dogs, every dog there is, okay.

You know, you go in a restaurant, you sit down and people are bringing steak by you. And this dog is sitting there and you know the smell. They've got sensitive smell. Mm-hmm. And look. Now. That may be why to use all that hot mustard.

Well, I mean, I'm serious. The well-behaved dogs is a understatement. Oh. In Germany. There's nothing that can ruin a hunt faster than a bad dog and nothing that can make a hunt better than a good dog. Oh, yeah. I've been with both.

Oh. But their manners Their manners are just unreal But they're used to it Well you know a lot of times dogs mimic their owner So if you won't know about Phil and Jason's dogs I mean that I'll tell you

They're just a little rough around the edges Right I can't wait for Curley to Joe There's just going to stare at us and not move And I thank Curley will back me up on this You know some people should not have dogs Okay Because they're not dog

antlers. Because, hey, to put up with an animal, okay, and then to try to train him where he'll be, will be obedient. That's a whole, that's a, you know, that's a mouthful. Oh, I guarantee you. I'm learning, I'm learning it with human puppies. What are you talking about? I'm serious.

Hey. Humans is hard enough to get to mind to be obedient and have manners and everything. Look, look at this dog. That's unbelievable. I mean, Bay is just, she's like, I'm just happy to be. For those driving these dogs. are sitting legitimately in chairs up to microphones. You need to go to YouTube and watch it because they're just don't move.

But they're not going to make it. Oh, why would that have got comfortable? Tio said, I've just laid. Hey, I don't got comfortable now, boys. This is unbelievable. We're going to be here. We're going to be here. So, hey, let me go ahead and lay back, get chilled out of it.

I mean, have you ever met any more model employees? They don't talk. They do what they're told. You've only met one of my dogs. Look at there. look at that i mean just lay her head on my hand hunter's jealous hunter says he needs an emotional support animal you need you need to come pet it hunter you need to come do some dog petting do we need do we need to do we need to start offering that here in the office dog petting that would be so happy

if we did were you the one in the airport that walks by the people with the golden retrievers that's always in there and stop and pet them for a little while you was waiting this past weekend no no no you didn't do that you didn't find them all they're all in the airports now you can just go by pet dogs. I think it's... Wait, what? Mm-hmm. They just got...

People walking around with like badges and stuff on and like they offer dog petting to calm anxiety while you're flying in an airport. That's a thing? It's 20, 25 in America. Oh, well, that's cool. I mean...

Cool's not the word I would have used, but... It's a word I would use. I'd love to go pet a dog before riding an airplane. And with animals, the love is unconditional. Yeah, she ain't even mine. There's no strings attached. To be fair, they're literally just staring at Curley, wondering when he's going to come sit with him.

I know, but Bay love me, man. She spends a lot of time up at my lap. There's lots of pictures of Bay in my lap doing all kinds of things. Last week, she rolled over and just laid on her back in my lap. I'm just sitting there rubbing her belly. Yeah, scratch my belly. And the only reason she left because Curly made her leave. I didn't even know dogs could do this.

I thought they were all wild and rambunctious. This is why you get labs. Most dogs can't do this. I've never had a lab. You hear teal. Speak. I was kind of disappointing. What if you would have looked at me and said hello.

That ain't one of my commands. What kind of voice you think that dog would have? Do your best impression on looking at teal. What kind of dog? I don't know. It would be roof. I think kind of like gravely old granite. You know, she's 10 and a half.

She's 10 and a half now? Yeah, she's about to be 11. Yeah, like grandma come out there to whoop you with a switch. You know, that's the kind of voice I hear coming out of teal, you know. That's wild. And Bay's still a puppy, really, in the grand scheme of thing. How old is Bay? I'm not sure.

About four months? No, she's older than that. Four years old, I think. He can't put a pair of parachuting goggles on a dog at four months and it sits still. Parachuting goggles. Do you ever seen them? I've only seen them on Collieie. duty, but they got some dogs that they go out of airplanes.

She's a young dog. Wait, there's actually dogs at parachute? Man, you got to get. Like in real life? Oh, yeah. What kind of dog? I don't know. What kind of dog?

Baby seals. One you don't want to mess with. Well, they're humans. I'm talking about, like, they make canines that do it too? I'm talking about the dog. Or do they like jump with a human, like the human holder? I don't think they just throw a dog on his own out the window. Well, I'm just wondering if he run up to the door and said, let's go, boy.

Oh, no. Hey. If the handler goes, he goes. Yeah. Yeah, the dogs, yeah, here it is. Well, this dog ain't even got parachuting goggles on. Now, that's when you wonder, what is going through the dog's mind? Please don't let go.

Like, I don't know. I can tell you. Like, let me add him. We're on a mission. Yeah, I smell him. Hey, we're on a mission. Oh, Lord. I'm serious.

Well, K-9 counterparts. Thanks. Thank you all for joining us. I guess we'll get your human handler in here. Let's get Curley into asking questions about parachuting with bass and hounds. And if it's a time. Bay and Teal. Bay and Teal. Bay and May stay because she looks like she's cozy.

Yeah, she's chilling. She may not go anywhere. Teal's like, can I get down now, please? Tired. Curly's going to sit down. Tiel's going to get up under his basket and lay on top of his feet. Come on, I'm ready to lay down. Yeah.

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We're back, baby. First question. How many dogs do you run through your spot? Daily? Yeah. I want to average about 40. Okay. Yeah, because I keep seeing every more when I come in. When I'm up here, I see you as yo.

My dog's a regular visitor of the day spot, Curley's top dog. Well, let's give an introduction to Curley real fast. Because Curley, where did you start at Duck Commander in the Duck Hall Room? Duck Hall Room. This room we're in right here. Zah was still riveting reeds in the corner. Yeah, oh, Curley. Carly was just putting them together,

and you were in school to be a nurse? I was a nurse in school. Yes. That's back when Stone sent us all of his. Did you get a degree? Yeah. Okay. I worked as a nurse.

So you are certified nurse. I still have my license. Okay. I just don't practice on humans anymore. Okay. You were an emergency room nurse. Yep, for three and a half years. And then made Teal somehow the world's greatest dog and said,

I'm actually pretty good at this. Yeah. So actually I did that while. I was nursing, in nursing school, and got offered some pretty substantial amount of money for her, which just opened my eyes to how capable she is and maybe my talents. And he worked three and a half years with miserable humans. That's true. And said, you know what, I'm going to go work with somebody that can't talk back.

As a man who's been in the emergency, I'm not going to say which emergency room he was in, but I've seen him there because I had to go there. I don't. That's very true. Curly worked during the tough times there. Oh, yeah? Yeah, Curly. Well, you're actually an emergency room.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm certified, dog. Okay. He's certified. No, no, I guess, you know, this, because of my whole family, my mom was a nurse, my sister was a nurse, okay. Yeah. And I've got a lot of kinfolks that are nurses.

And you can't stand needles, blood or pain. Oh, no, yeah. Don't come in me with a needle, but I can poke you. Oh, really? you really so you can you can poke somebody well hey here's the thing when i hope you're you're generally than most people most people don't know how to give a shot

i'm in and out baby yeah yeah i'll never feel a thing you don't never feel nothing yeah i don't feel a thing this ain't gonna hurt me one bit there goes yeah but currently a generational nurse too is mama nurse practitioner like she's she stabbed me several times and my sister yeah there you go look at there yeah

Family business. What would you tell a young lady or a young man about, you know, going and getting a nursing district? Don't do it and get dogs? Get out. Get out. Well, no, no, because it's a... I made my final decision because our health care system is so out of whack that I didn't see it changing in our lifetime. Thank the Lord that RFK Jr. is in there now and kind of getting stuff situated.

But I didn't see it changing. So I looked for an alternative, which in this case was dogs. And dogs appreciate whatever you do for them. So I'm helping. Their love is unconditional. I'm helping humans through their dogs. There you go. That's way better.

That's got to be better. Yeah. Well, anytime you have something that you're dealing with the public, it's going to suck. Just putting them out. In politics. Oh, no, no, no. Because, see, that's why I retired.

I bring my military career. That's why I retired at E7. Okay, because really, and it was good for me, and it was also good for the people that would be under me. Right. Because I'm not political. That's right. Okay.

What's in this mind is fixing to come out of this mouth. No. And, hey, and you can't do that. No. That's why I spent 24 years living hell, okay. with my job because hey i always opened my mouth and it always got me in trouble so curly you were fed up with the the nursing world yep and you said what if i take i remember the first day i looked over there and you're you're renting out a house from willie and you're just like

i'm just going to see what happens here how many dogs did it take before you had an actual you had a business but when were you finally like okay i can do this i don't know that i had an actual business when i the first months i was in that house okay i was just trying to be nice. I was worried for you. He just had an idea. I had five dogs and I wanted to get it out of my backyard. So I started renting the house because then I could get away from it. But I had no help.

So as me and my now wife working every day because in Dog World, you can't not show up one day. Just because you, you know, it's Lord's Day and you won't stay home. You can't. You got to be there. You got to tend to them. So I think we did that for the first six months. I did not have a day off. it's totally worth it kept growing and then I grew enough to where I could pay one person to help out

one person I was like oh man this person this time dollars time this is awesome yeah man I could take Saturday and Sunday off every once a month and I thought I was I was I was killing it yeah said boy we live in now yeah now he works out at 11 a.m oh he's part of peteen on that he's part of the Pickleball. You just roll up to Corolley Park at about two. Hey, he's out there playing him. Easy. I love it.

Curley come in here early. He said, I got to go. Where you go? Well, I got to work out. And I'm like, oh, okay, the old midday workout. All right. I got to wake up early and train. I like it, man.

He's training in the morning. Yeah. The dogs get too hot later in the day. Oh, man. So, anyway. You work early. Yeah. And he works late.

Yeah. You got to work early mornings late after. That's one of those jobs. That's the hard part of dog training in the south. Oh, it just. That's why most dog trainers also got a house in Minnesota. Like, come June, they just take off. They're like, no, I'll see y'all.

I'll see y'all in October. You're the business owner. Yes, sir. Okay, you've been in both worlds. A employee and now you're the both. Yeah. What's less stressful? Nursing.

It's not less stressful. It's a different kind of stress. Here's the biggest difference. In nursing or in employee world, you get blamed for stuff that you don't do. do, right? And just got to take it. You don't do it.

Or you don't get it. Or you're over somebody that. And you never get a pat on the back for what you do. Exactly. So in the boss world, if it doesn't get done, it is your fault, right? Because you have control of the situation. So it's just a lot more autonomy and accountability. But I'll take this over W2 employee any day.

On the worst day, it's better than the best day in nursing. Well, that's because you're feeling with the public. Yeah. Yeah. And go to the side. That's, uh. Well, no, no. Because, hey, you never can't please them.

Right. Well. Look, Curley, I commend you because I went to school pre-med thinking I'm going to be a doctor, man. And I interned at a hospital. And I said, I didn't have to work there. I said, uh, no, I went back to my advisor and said, uh, we got to do something different because I don't care how much money of them boys make. I ain't doing that.

I ain't worth it. Like, I was just always. like find the one with the biggest paycheck, you know, let me get work a few years, retire. I applied to school. I said, no. I was getting in. I was like,

if I was pretty much shoe in with my grades and then they said, okay, you're going to take this one class where we tell you scary stories. And I said, you win. I think maybe if I'd have stuck it out like my brother and sister-in-law, they're to me in the best part of all the health care stuff. They're nursing ethic.

I would never. So they put people to sleep. They walk in. They walk in, give a shot. and then they walk in give another shot, make sure you wake back up, and everything's good.

And then they don't ever see you again. Right? Like that, I think if I'd have known a little more about that, then I may have slid that way. I had no idea. That's a lot of chemistry. Yeah.

Most doctors, like Curtis said, when he first was working, they never had no time off. Yeah. Well, my brother, damn day. They're always on call. Yeah, that's my brother. My brother or sister-in-law are on call every other week.

Yeah. So one of them's got the girls. Hurley's constantly on call. Because you've got dogs 24-7, right? 4-7. But I have help now. It's important. I'm still available, but I don't have to physically always be there.

That bound to have been rough getting employees that are dog hethers. What are you talking about? He comes in here with a new one every other week. I don't know. I don't cut him no slack. Curly stopped by and say, I want you to meet my new employee. I'm like, y'all. Hey, I've been around Phil and Jason and Bill, you know, with dogs.

And all three of them, none of them are dog hunters. Bill thinks he's one, but he ain't. They got a lot of sighing her. I just lay down here and go to sleep. See, that's one thing you can't train them on. They've either got it or they don't. The hunting? Yeah, the fire.

Yeah. They either enjoy it or they don't. Reminds me. Some of them, I mean, if you come up there and they, you know, they getting your stuff ready and putting it in the four by four or whatever you're driving. You know, if you, you don't go let her out or let her heal them out, you know, they're just over miserable. Come on, come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Go. I want to go. And then he got ones like we had to trace that didn't like you. No, no. Hey. No, she didn't like, she didn't like Jace. She took a dump in Jason's blind bag.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Blue didn't like side. Blue always pee on side. I'd go to sleep. Blue guy. Next thing out of here, water. He's the leader of the pack. Blue had the worst manners of any dog. I know. Blue. That dude would run all over the buggy,

all over your stuff, jumping everywhere. Yo, but hey, I will give him one thing. He was the best retriever we've ever had. Naturally. Incredible. I mean, just, hey, and he had to fire. Yeah.

You had to put him in a chokehold on the way to the hole. Oh, no. Just to keep him there. And he was so fired up. If you started blowing a duck haul, it's... There's Nadie. Oh, yeah. The singing me.

Hey, and you couldn't stop him. Yeah. He was excited. You could, hey. Right open. If he could have, you were trying him to shoot, he would kill him and then go get him. He was like Phil.

Yeah. He's got to kill him. Oh, yeah. He was... Wasn't he Phil's dog? Yeah. Oh, yeah. He's Phil's dog.

They imitate their owner. Well, Blue didn't know how to turn it off because, like, what got Blue in trouble? was Phil shot a cotton mouth. Well, here goes blue. Because Blue don't know that it ain't duck seeds. They just riding around, Phil shoots cotton mouth in the water. Blue takes off.

Retrieve said Cotton Mouth. We all know what snakes do. Yeah. They ain't dead yet. So Blue took one to the chest and then ended up in the vet for, ooh, a hot man. And I'm talking about it. Literally, it rotted.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Blue took a direct hit from a cotton mouth. This thing's head was bigger than my field. right to the chest. And then but Blue recovered, but that actually...

You survived that. Blue didn't start moan until after he took the cotton mouth thing. I'd moaned too, good. I wouldn't want to be out in the woods after that. No, he liked it, man. Blue was incredible. That's funny about some dogs, it don't affect them. Well, once they survive one, it gets a little better.

Well, I think of that we had a Wiedemeyer, a big old female. and well we had two we had a little curdog we called bullet he faces you know hey look why we moved into the house why mariner okay we moved into the house the lady next door had 38 cats okay we noticed oh no no no blue was that lady's name lady bullet bullet and mamie was the greatest cat killer team ever Oh, God. You know, so, hey, look, I just put it, I'll put it this way. When we left, there was two cats, and they lived in the top of a walnut tree.

And when I say the top, I'm talking about on the furthest limb, North sky, okay, and they sit there the whole time doing this. And they were, what kind of dogs? One of them was a car and in the weaterbower, maybe it was a weed bar. Hey, you know how fast the cat is. Okay, because look, you can hold one, take it and turn it upside down and hold it that far from whatever you're going to drop it on. And it's going to flip over and land on his feet. So, hey, they're quick as a snake. I'm talking about, hey, Mamie would grab them and break their back and she'd never had a scratch.

and hey, Bullet would come home and be just clodled up. I'm talking about. But that cat, that dog never got scratched not one time. Well, to be fair, 38 cats is a little irresponsible. 58. 58, however many they have. Have you been to Jepta's house? They got that many?

Not quite, but it feels like it. I have got a lot of questions for Jep and Jessica. I don't know how many animals they have. Well, they're homesteaders in a subdivision. It's kind of weird. They got, hey, they're going to have to put in a parking garage soon. Oh, I'm surprised that they hadn't got two mules and a wagon. I'm serious.

I'm surprised that they hadn't. Goes, hey, they're prime ears, okay? They got chickens. They got the old. And there's two big old gold doodles just staring at you when you walk by. Poodles. Poodles. Oh, so, yeah.

Poodles. Are they poodles? Yeah, poodles. Did you train them? I actually help breed them. Okay. Well, they don't move. They just look at you.

Yeah. But they, but there's all, they, they need a parking garage. I need to know what's going on at Jeff and Jessica's house. It's like a whole little house on the prairie thing. Well, just ask them. They're your neighbors. Well, I'd never see them except for across a pond. And I think it seems rude to be like, why are there so many cars at your house?

Like, that would be weird. Well, paddle over. That's a lot of work. That's a lot. The mystery is more fun than the actual answer. It's way more fun to have conjectures about it than actually what it is. I got a lot of ideas in my mind. And they're way funnier than probably what it truly is.

You have never seen a Wheatemeyer or a Womberiner? A Womoriner, I have no idea what a Wetermeyer is. It's like a witty dog. Bill's always said I've missed to pronounce it. Well, hey, look, it's called two things. Wimber. Wemmer. Which is that pronounced wrong.

And a weedermire. Womoraner. They say that's wrong. Worcestershire. But I just know this. We had one that was, she was silver. Mm-hmm.

You talk about a pretty dog. That's a Womariner. Yeah, Womariner. Silver. I mean, beautiful. Just, you know.

Mean thing. Oh, no. Yeah, not that good at that. Our neighbors had a pair of them going up. I don't know. I don't know. What happened? What kind of dog was Kujo?

But somebody trained this dog or either abused this dog. No, no. My brother, Phil had to tackle that dog in mid-air because a kid walked across our yard yeah he was taking a shortcut and hey he was fixed to get that boy no that's a thing you know so somebody abused this dog or you know or or someone because she was as sweet as she could be you know and but hey nope or some of them dogs just like it and some of them people have out about them too because you know every dog every dog it goes by jimmy red bite him no no for good real right

Hey, I'm always said. That's honest. I don't know. My mother told me this. We was at the house and somebody showed up one of his daddy's workmen. As soon as the guy walked in, that sweet dog I'm talking about just started. And mama told me, she said, hey, if a dog don't like a person, that's learning you. Hey, you don't trust that person.

And hey, that's true. Expert opinion. Hey, that's it. Dogs don't lie. No, no. I'm serious. The dog doesn't want. The dog grouching somebody, hey.

I say that, but my mother-in-law got two dogs that ain't ever like me. Every other dog, look at me. They come up there, they get in my lap, they do it. But them two spastic things living at my mother-in-law's house. Are they yippy dog? Yeah, what kind of dogs are they? They're muck. Are they like Jace's dog?

They're rescue muts. Oh, so with a rescue, you never know what happened beforehand. Yeah, but apparently somebody about 6'5 with a beard did something to that one because she's like, she's got serious trust issues with me unless I got a glob of peanut butter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She don't run up there then. She cautiously approaches, and then she'll get to peanut butter, but she ain't running up there. Yeah, but as soon as she's done with a peanut butter, it's like I'm the spawn of Satan again.

But all I know is, dogs have a six cents, call it. If they don't like someone, it's a reason. Oh, yeah. It's a reason. There's always a reason if it's a PTSD. Oh, no, because it's like Jimmy Redd, okay. The reason he had that grow out of Jimmy Redd is because Jimmy Redd's kids, we went by there one day and they'd whoop him one with a stick.

Terrorizing. Yeah, yeah. Just being mean. Well, they get what they deserve. If I, if, you know, if it had been in the old days, oh, I'd take my belt off and took the stick away and just poured that out. Yeah. Remember when Phil had old Bobo, though, where he finally got him trained where if you walked in,

it didn't matter who you were. Hold on. And covered your face, that dog would try to eat you alive. Dang. And then as soon as you moved your hand, he would go to the happiest wagon tail plant. Oh, no. He jumped up in your lap. I mean, but if you walked in there with their hand over your face.

Bobo wasn't a bleed. Bill trained him. He thought it was funny. He's done it. Yeah. He said, watch his. He'd get you out of the arm and tell me. Come here.

What's this, yo. Yeah. Bobo. I'll sit my little ankle bit on you, yo. Yeah. We'll laugh and I said, hey, that ain't funny, son. Yeah. Bobo come nip you.

But as soon as you dropped that hand, it was up in your lap like peeing, he was so happy you were there. But, buddy, you, if anybody would ever tread on fields with their face covered, they're in a bind. Bobo was coming. Because Bobo, the half rat terrier, half whatever he was, half gorilla. He was. was fast enough if a squirrel got on the ground he'd catch him and kill him before he got to the tree that's her oh yeah yeah yeah so and hey snakes that dog climb a tree hey he'd kill snakes he was so quick he could grab one by the tail and shake it a couple times throw it down and he could finally

he'd be striking him at a little time yeah hey he'd get where he couldn't strike he'd just literally well you'd be tired too well i'd like to know what the other half of Bobo was because he definitely has some rat terrier in it but whatever he was he was built like a damn gum cement factory I mean that dog didn't have an ounce of fat on him fast and

it's got to be tough to live down in the mouth well if you're going to survive the Robertsons I mean I mean every animal's a death sentence right because we're going to outlive 90% of them but if you end up a Robertson pet you're in a bind except for sweet peeve that's why she hides and figure it out you know what I want to know though what what curly's favorite dogs are not like individual dogs breed yeah but you

that's an obvious one well number one's obvious oh yeah black lab yeah yeah but like where where's your ranking of uh man saint bernard what's that thing what's that thing it's as big of a horse you bring in here oh that south borough uh south african bore bowl uh it's a south african mastiff let me tell you up that dog right there buddy that that's that thing from the sandlot he couldn't wear your glove no he need a bigger pair of glove yeah it's thin hair it's a it's a more athletic build of a mastiff yeah it's not big and chubby it's freaking muscle yeah i'm telling you slap a saddle on him hey his head is bigger than my leg yeah he could put his head down and run through that wall and wouldn't ever feel nothing nope like it is just solid ball and like the most passive dog you've ever seen

when he brings it in here, I don't know if he is at home or not. I think I've seen that dog once. He's a giant. He's awesome. So should I get one? He's a big baby. Yeah, heck yeah. No, he looks expensive.

He's not expensive. The only dog I ever bought was on clearance because he was the only one that survived and he had a lot of issues, but he made it 14 years. Hey, before till, I've never bought a dollar. I never spent a penny on a dog. They've all been rescues. Yeah. And they were awesome.

That's awesome. Yeah, a lot of rescues, man. They're thankful for the opportunity. So loyal. And they're like, no, let me get in on that. Yeah. This is better than where I last was. Yeah, this is, this is better than that.

I would say, I would say lab for all around dogs. Uh-huh. Okay. Just, I got three kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Might go fishing. I might go hunting. I need a dog.

Yeah, so all around dog. I would say Lab's golden retriever is right up there. All right. Lassie? Yeah. Lassie of collie. Oh, yeah. Golden retriever was on Homeward Bank.

Golden Trever real smart. I was more of a chance guy on Howard, Brown. They're somewhat more ditsy, or they're known to be more ditsy. But anything you ask about the dog breeds is kind of like asking a health care question. There's no cut and dry answer. It's just a generalized stuff. Okay, so I have considered another dog recently. What?

Because I want to get a Scottish terrier and put a sweater on them and name him Scotty. I think you should just borrow a friend's dog That may be the whitest thing you've ever seen They're awesome though I don't know if you're like you go home And they're like hey what got a dog You got a dog? Oh that's my dog Scotty

And is he wearing a sweater? You're going to get him to bring you a Zen and a white claw too Like I mean where are we at? We're going to read books together man This is an adult's dog You get him some glasses instead of goggles Yeah That'd be so tight

Like a cartoon dog. Doody D after sophistication. I can't remember the name. Got a study. Pornadier dog. Real point of deer. Black. Doberman?

Doberman. Cobberman. Cane Corso? They're mean. A Doberman? A Doberman? But they're used for guard dogs, so I understand. Yeah, they are.

There's two guard dogs. They're not as good. I would actually get a cane corso before I got a Doberman. Not hating on Doberman. They're just more instinctive. But the dog breed I've been bitten the most by? You want to guess? Basset hound.

No. Yorkie. Close, though. Yorkie. In another way. Weenie dog. A weenie dog, meaning. I've had them my whole life.

A cur. Yeah, curs are pretty tough. Two instinctive, not a family dog. You try to domesticate them and they don't get their energy out. They just become. Where are you staying on blue healers? Kind of the same thing. Yeah.

They're nipping those. For what they do. Absolutely. Yeah, for what they were bred to do. I was saying you're close because Corgi is. is number two of what I've been bit most by. Oh, yeah. Jennifer, who still works for us.

Yeah. Had the dog for seven years. Milo. That is the yappiest thing. No, you ain't been by Jason's house lately, then. What's he got?

Them two little old marshmallow-looking puff balls. You ride your golf cart pass, and I'll say, no, no, no. I got a question to ask him about that. Yeah, get rid of them things. What are the point? Chihuahuas,

what is it about little dogs that they are mean? Dude, the hardest. The hardest dog to train is a small dog. They have so much personality. They have small man syndrome. That's what it is.

They met good cops. Well, I just know that I dated a girl. Thank you for your service. You had one of little chihuahuas, and that dog hated me. We had wieny dogs growing up, and if you weren't in our immediate family, they were not a fan of you. It didn't matter what we did, man. Hey, you had to be immediate family. I caught he's got a lion syndrome.

A what? What? He thinks he's a lion? Oh yeah. When it comes to his pride. Well. I mean his family. Yeah.

No, ain't nobody coming in there. No, you had one. Merlin. Yeah, you had Merlin. Yeah, you had Merlin. Allison had one. Yeah. I had one.

But they were bred for what getting in a foxhole, right? Yeah. Like, I get it. And gophers and stuff. Yeah, like they went in holes. They got instincts. Yeah. That's why they built like that.

Hey, that's what got Berlin. What are Jay's dog? The bass and ham. The Rattle State guy has big ears so it can waft up. Oh, that dog. My dog, he would wake up in the morning and go over the entire yard and just sniff the whole thing. Yeah. But what's the point of them stupid dogs Jace has?

Them little white things. Because you want a dog, but you don't want a big pile of crap to pick up. I mean, I don't know. It's the only thing I can figure. Does he still have you? I mean, Sadie and them got that wild thing, too. It's the same thing Sadie got. Okay, good.

Maltipu? Yeah, something like that. Maltese and a toy poodle mix. Cabo, she's the liquor from hell. Well, I would be, too, if you dyed me pink. Like, I mean, crap. She kind of liked that, though. She's stuck up.

That's the deal with all these small dogs. They're stuck up. So they're smart. Any dog under 30 pounds? They're smart, but they choose not to listen to you. So they literally look straight at you. They choose by them. And say, no.

And go that way. And I'm like, no, we ain't doing that. That's not how this works. Hey, hey. You don't know who's in charge here. Yeah. Exactly. And they're so small, it's hard to catch.

Yeah. Yeah. So when you got somebody come in and drop you off a dog, say, I want it for, I want it trained for something. Do you ever judge a dog based off the owner? Absolutely. Okay. I was just wondering. I haven't admitted that until right now.

You ever look at the owner and you're just like, you all know about this. Hey, here's, here's the biggest kick. And I'll let you in on a little secret. It's not a secret. But if you're in this world, if they come to drop off their dog or pick up their dog and they have kids, and the kids are running around the whole office

or outside, beating on the walls, just out of control. While I'm talking to you, I know they're not going to make this dog listen when that goes home. It's just a telltale sign. There you go. And then they asked me, jokingly,

to train their wives or their kids, and I'm like, no, I'm out of the human business. He trains dogs, people. Dogs only. Yeah. Okay. We don't even do cats. We've talked about Curly's whole business, but Curly, you recently became something else.

Oh, yeah. I'm a father. He's a dad now. Curly's got a kid, man. He's got a human. He's got a human puppy. Them are tough. Does he sit?

Does he sit there? That's a way different. You can't put them on a kennel. It's round upon. Wait, you can't? You're not supposed to. Hey, it's five-star rated. I'll fix that you can, but it's frowned upon.

Does he sit yet? No, he's smiling. It's pretty cool, man. Yeah, how is it, man? You're in the thick of it. Your boy is, what, four months? He's about to be four months. Yeah, four months.

Yeah, a little boy. Yeah, a little boy. Man, I was always scared of having a kid just working in the ER, just having to work on infants and babies that young is very sad. But I found out they're really resilient. As long as you take care of them, oh, man, they're awesome. Kids are bouncing out. If you ask Jason about Mia.

Yeah. Mia taught him more than he could have learned from 100 other people. Yep. I'm just glad somebody I know got kids younger than me. That makes me happen. Because everybody else. kids that I hang out with, their kids are like in junior high now. You know, they get,

West Monroe, you generally get started pretty early, you know, I'm glad school. Usually high school. That's something that's in the news right now. Generally, Prong. It's fixed to give women $5,000 to have babies.

Do what? I want my 15. No, no. Hey. No, no. I'm going to need my 10. Yeah. And I think you deserve a little bonus for two.

Yeah. Let's go time and a half. Yeah. Look, they give you, hey, if you become a mom, I'll give you five grand. For real? You got to be married. Where is this? It's the news.

Here? Yeah. Oh, it's on no news. Trump's saying, okay. Hunter over there nodding his head. He's in the man who saw Fox News in the corner of his eye this morning. Is making us all healthy. Yeah.

And when they were looking at everything. RFK. Baby, you know, an ain't a baby booming anymore. used to, you know, they'd go a while and I did this, you know. That's because of all the synthetic stuff in our thing. Well, it's just, no. Microplastics.

Here we go. Y'all want to go down a wormhole. Wrong show. The young people are saying, you know, why is it? Nobody wants to get married. We don't want to. Well, that ain't stopping them for making babies.

It's also really, really expensive. There you go. Yeah, and you only get a $2,000 tax credit. The $5,000 doesn't really, equal out the cost of having money. Are you looking up having babies? No, I was reading about this.

Up the money there, Trump. Bro. Somebody actually called him and said, hey, $5,000 enough. That ain't enough. We just had our baby, and we didn't even have to do a C-section,

15 grand. And we were in and down there in under 48 hours. I will win this story. Yeah, you don't want to. You don't want to compare medical money. It was only $800. But insurance cover. I was pissed.

it wasn't a million. That's when Duck Commander, everybody got new insurance at Duck Commander after car. Johnny D. Calls our insurance to go through the roof. It went up and our coverage went down.

Is that why you went to Honeywell? And now you don't work here no more. Well, no. No, that was kind of like you and a nursing. That's kind of like you and your business partner. Yeah, I was sitting there looking at it. Look, he had a job. He wasn't.

It was a nightmare. You were looking at the dogs. And I said, yeah. This emergency room sucks. One big day passes, we're going to name it, I got worms. We're going to call it. We're going to call it, the pet store. I got worms.

I got worms. Hey, fun tidbit, though, the creator of the Honeyhole Tackle Shop in 1991 is Curley's grandpa. We're a very small town. Bobby Phillips himself. Bobby Phillips himself. The local legend crappy fishing extraordinary. Oh, man, many a morning spent in that. building. I'm so glad that y'all got it. That's awesome. In 2004, my dad bought it from his

grandpa and had a great name and a great business and look where it is now. Keep rolling with it. It's crazy how that happened. Bobby probably said that name on stuff now. He's like, boy, I never saw that. No, look, Drew gave him a shirt or something. He's like, man, this is a rare now. I'm like, yeah, they got 50 more of them. Like, 50 more styles. Bobby did teach me everything I needed to know about. He goes, it was like, I'd started working there. And he was like, hey, are you nervous? I was like a little bit.

He's like, you want to know how you know how to tell people how fish stuff? I said, how? And I was like, he's about to bless me with some insight that I never even thought about. He goes, it says it on the back of the package. He was like, if somebody has a question, turn it around and greet. Hey, but here's what I'll say about Bobby Phillips. your dad, curly, anybody in the small business, business, when you go there, they're there. That how you make a small business work is you have to work it.

If you ain't there, you're losing money at the end of the day. So anytime when Bobby owned it, if I went into the honey hole, Bobby Phillips was at that same circle table. Your daddy's sitting at right now. Bobby was there 10 years after he sold it. Oh, yeah. Bobby kept working there after he sold. And there's a 50-50 chance if you go by there between the hours of 6 a.m.

and 8 a.m., Bobby's still going to be sitting there drinking coffee. He might show up. And talking about catching coffee on Darbonne on the trees. You know, it's like so. I remember me and my cousin, we were one year apart. I was six and he was five. And we're sitting in Honeyhole around that table. 5 a.m. in the morning, an hour before the sun come up,

time jigs and drinking coffee was 60-year-old. in. Yeah. I'm like, what? That was, the daycare. The honey hole was the Waffle House here before the Waffle House was here. Oh, that's a little.

I'm serious. What you just said, that's what's wrong with America. Yeah, don't happen anymore. Don't happen. Nope. Well, your kids are going to be doing that with dogs. You got a screen in front of you. You know what I had?

Bates. You said, go put them up. And then listening to what all of them old men was talking about, talking about back in 92, who would use, you know, we're using this for it. Yeah, I believe. That's a treasure trove of knowledge. Well, and that's like your elders.

And one of the reasons Curley is successful in his business is because he watched his grandpa show up at 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. A lot of days. A lot of days. He built something from the ground. And if he wasn't there, he was not. to bark off trees at Darbonne Lake. I mean, he was doing what his tackle shot.

That's why I got burned out. Yeah. Curly said, I'm done being your netman. If we were, I'm going to train dogs. I ain't going to fishing. We were fishing. Yeah.

I'm like, dude. Curly said, I'm tired of cutting. It's raining. You guys, they don't matter. They're still hungry. Yeah. They're going to get wet. That's what my grandpa used to always say.

Make me fish and rain. He said, do you think they worried about getting wet? And I'm like, well, I am. Yeah, I'm tired of cutting these rib cages out to his feet. Man. Like, I'm over this, man. Come on now. I learned how to fish the river real early.

Yeah. That was a different task. That's different than the lakes. It's also where I had, I don't know if I can say this on here, my first pinch of skull. Oh, there you go. No, you can say that. That checks out. Yeah.

I thought you were going to say something way different when you lived. I don't know if I can say this on here. He's back in the boat in, and I don't know if y'all remember this, the old Cougar brand. Oh, yeah. It was hot. Yeah. So me and my cousin took a little pinch, put it in her lip. and it started burning.

Our eyes were watering. Hey, as soon as we got brave enough to do it, we look up and here he calls back to the truck. And if you know him, you're getting whooping with the near switch. So look, we toss it out real quick. You can smell it. And our eyes are watering. Yeah, he gets in there.

Oh, yeah. Hey, y'all ready to go? And we're crying. He goes, what's wrong? He started feeling bad. I'm like, uh, we're trying to. some you're going. Yeah.

And so we got the lecture, we got a whooping. About that, papal. That's hilarious. He goes, what's wrong? Hey, that better in size, I made his smoke a whole pack when he caught him smoking. Woo. I didn't make a whole pack.

But they had one lit one each, yo. Put in a trash tray when I walked in. I said, oh, no, no. Get you in a lot of it. Oh, no, no. We're going to say you're going to enjoy this. Hey, hey, you want to smoke. Hey,

I said, Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Not your, no. No, you take a big breath and Full drag. You inhale it. And you know what? You ain't know what?

What was the president? Said, hey, Clinton? He didn't do it? He didn't inhale? Yeah, he didn't inhale. I didn't inhale. I didn't inhale.

Yeah. I said, oh, you ain't to be like the president. You're going to inhale. Well, I was one of our Instagram, Rio was going to come from. Well, hey, look here. Both of my kids told me when they got grown and married and got away from him. Thank you.

Thank you for the way you, it seemed unorthodox at the time. And it was. I can't do cigarettes. Well, no, no, because that's why I tell you with your kid. Yeah. Oh, I've done stuff with my kid. Make them smoke. People seen it, they would be called the cops on me.

Right. And, hey, all I would tell them is. It's effective. And all I would say is, hey, look, are these your kids? Oh, man. Well, then get your nose out of my business. Oh, there you go. Hey, hot stoves, man.

Hey, look, dogs learn it too. I had a problem with that play. I was learning quicker. Wanted to play with dad's guns. Yeah. I don't know. So look, me and my wife had just come in from groceries. Okay.

And I run about an $18 roast because, hey, I just do it in the yard. And I said, you two have been fooling with my guns. Let me show you why dad gets so mad and you get your butt. when you do. Did you shoot the roast? You shot the roast? I blew that roast just bloody scrap everywhere. And I said, this thing is made for one thing to do, just what you see it done.

Killing. Man, it's been a lot easier like to shoot a Dr. Pepper. You don't play with this. It's a no-no. All right. Well, get us out of here, John. Proverbs 12.10, the righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked or cruel.

You want to be a righteous person? You can start off by just being kind to animals. Care for your animals, man. Look at this thing. Look at Bay right here. See, I told you. She ain't leaving. Hey, dogs come up backwards as God.

They're God sent. Boy, now there's a T-shirt.