Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Lets Loose About His ‘Duck Dynasty’ Nemesis

Episode Date: January 21, 2025

Uncle Si gives a peek at how the magic is made on reality TV when he addresses his rivalry with Phillip “McVillain” and the one food that “Duck Dynasty” ruined for him. Martin dispenses love advice to producer Hunter after a relationship mishap, and John-David takes on one of Si’s quirks only to find he really enjoys it. Phillip reveals that being a heel on “Duck Dynasty” put him in some sticky situations in real life, and Si and Godwin’s seat in the actual duck call room gets taken by a young buck that fits right into the role. Duck Call Room episode #415 is sponsored by: https://www.publicrec.com/duck — Get 20% off with the code DUCK and upgrade your wardrobe today! https://www.mypillow.com/duck — Get wholesale prices on the standard size MyPillow, just $14.98! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I told the whole production crew today in a simple text that I wasn't showing up today unless Hunter had a camera on him. I don't have a camera. I should go back home. Welcome back to the duck call room. We're kind of getting ready and started. Martin's sorting out all his things. Phil McMillan's in the house. What's happening in?

The world famous Cy Robertson. I'm doing this like... I got a bone to pick. Oh, no. And where it started? Hey, I mean, we throw out a Jason. under the bus at one fly. What is this doing here?

They left their, is this they rubbing it in? That is. Or what? Guys, you want to know how you know if an awards. Johnny D. is holding up the K-Love award,

by the way. 2023 podcast impact on award. Unashamed with Phil and Jace Robertson. If you get me a Sharpie, I'll write your name on there. Hey, Jason got talking to me about throwing them on the bus. And he said,

are y'all going to stop that? And I said, No, we fix to get a bigger bus. Oh, he got tired of us throwing him running the bus. This thing's heavy. But hey, look, here's the thing. Okay, look, I'm tickled to death that they won that, okay? It don't bother me that they won an award.

Yeah? No, I don't. Hey, because here's the deal. They think we're upset they won an award? Yeah, here's the truth of the matter. We wanted them to win. Hey, I consider them, okay, Al. Family.

and Jays, I consider them and Zach biblical scholars. You went too far with Zach. No, no. He's part of this. I agree. Okay, but look, hey, guys, hey, y'all don't have to, you know.

They just left their awards sitting up here in your chair? Was it intentional? No, actually, they didn't leave that there. I put it there. Well, I'm getting on the wrong people in. No, so they move it in back to the office Oh. For the unashamed set.

Oh, Unashames headed this way? Uh-huh. So I helped them, the hunter and crew, unload the, uh, the truck. The stuff the other day. It was a small truck. But go ahead and put it where it can be seen, boys. Hey, look.

My hat's off to you war. So while I was helping them, I went pilfering. Have you seen what else I got? There's a world wrestling champion belt. That thing legit. Hey. Is it? No, it's real.

It's real? Yeah, hold on. Who did you, wait a minute? Who did you get? that from it come in their decoration oh it comes in this yeah i didn't think unashamed had cool fans like we did oh yeah the world tag team champion i'm in atlanta anytime anywhere it makes me one i don't think that says n w a i don't think it's going to fit you hey i don't think it's going to fit you hey is that is that real heavy oh it's heavy yeah no that's that's

legit yeah look at that thing you won't feel it no yeah bring it over here let me see I'll throw it at him. I don't throw it at me. You'll kill me. I'm trying to see. They don't have a voting for 2025 on yet. Questions. Is this two before Duncan?

I don't know where it comes from. Hacksaw, Jim Duggan. That's right. You could win the belt today. You could win it today. That's a tag team. So that's only half of it. We need somebody to find the other half of it.

Like there's two of them. There's another one somewhere. Uh-oh. If you have the matching NWA tag team championship belt, you're invited to the podcast. That's it. Oh, yeah. Because we want both up. Go up and bring it.

Say, who would be your tag team partner in your family? No, you don't have to be family. No, I want to know in the family first. Hey, no. It ain't that. Dolly partner be my tag team. Oh, here we go. It's a belt away.

Buddy, baby. Oh, boy. Oh, that's reminding me. Look, I found a new channel on TV. Oh, Lord. Is it one of the scrambled ones? No. Oh.

It's really the Republican channel. The Republican channel? You mean CNN? No, no. But hey, hey, President Trump, he and him got in office yet. He's got, what, four more days before he takes over. By the time, this will probably air on inauguration. Hey, he has got the Democrat and the media.

Yes, they can't, they've lost their minds, is what it is. of all his appointments he's making to putting his team in place. Yeah. It's hilarious to watch. It really is. I'm so glad I don't watch it. No,

no. Hey, I laugh. I watch it for about 45 minutes. And I'm on the floor rolling. Because you're talking about a bunch of people who shook up. Okay. President Trump's got them shook up.

Good work now, Prez. Oh, Pras. Yeah. You think he'll come on the show now that he's elected? Probably not. I bet we could call him. You got his number? The president of the United States of America.

No, but Jason's got Trump Jr.'s number. Maybe we could get to him. I think I got his number. Well, hey, there we go. He probably changed it by now. Or at least block me. This is a pretty coat. Championship Rasseling.

Caleb Award that I'm happy they won. I'm happy they won it, too. We give them grief. We just need A one more continues So much Mr. or Mrs. Love Whoever's in charge

of those awards I believe Sye deserves a lifetime achievement award for me here here For bringing joy to the world I don't know if you heard It's a song Joy to the world

And Syes is responsible For a part of it We got an alligator head What That's what we can You know what I'm going to put a request in We need some new weird decoration

So 117 Kings Lane Attention Justin Martin If y'all could send that Westmore, Louisiana, 7-2-992. There goes my office. This is mainly to the rednecks. I think we should. What's that?

I think we should have a little more decoration. I really want the matching belt to that. I don't know. I don't know how you find that. It's somewhere at a pawn shop near you. Hey, what happened to those stickers of our faces? Oh, man, I don't even know. That got lost in the fray.

I sent you a picture of it. that don't do me no good. They have stickers with their face? One of our fans, I sent Johnny, oh man, I don't know, I'd have to look back. That was during Christmas. That was a lot back. Yeah, a fan made like stickers of all of us.

Well, some of us. I've read some of them. Sorry, Philip. Was there a height requirement? Yes, there was. It was 6-1. So I used to be 6-1, so it counts. Yeah, when he lays flat.

Oh, I used to be 6-3. But my wife keeps telling me, You're not 6-3. You stand up. Six-three. Really? Oh, he ain't that far. He ain't that far.

He's definitely, his spine is compressed at least a couple inches. Oh, that's gravity. Gravity. Everything goes downhill, boys, when you get old. I've noticed that. I remember the day I got taller than my dad, and I was never much taller than my dad, and now I'm a, I'm, I'm, I'm, yeah. I'm a couple more.

inches taller than my dad than I used to be. And I ain't grown none. Big Dave. I don't know. That's a thing, though. When you get older, you start getting shorter. Everything goes southwise. He right everything.

Everything. It's an almost 40-year-old, everything. Everything. Are you almost 40? I will be in a few months. Wow. Literally. Well, hey.

Think about adding 30 to that. So, you remember when we met Martin, he was about 16. And he looked 40? I was mid-30s in, yeah. Yeah. I was 16. I was about six foot wide. Yeah. When I met Martin, I called him, sir, because I thought he was at least 12 years older than me. He didn't know we barely. Was it at Willie's house? He didn't know we barely miss high school together.

Yeah, I was like, yeah. He was a senior. I was in eighth grade. And I was like, oh, man, check out that old guy. He didn't know we barely miss high school. Oh, man. I'm just tired, man. Why are you tired? You've been running against. I think it's in the weather. Huh? Well, I've been tired of than I normally am. I just Googled Duck Dynasty.

Duck Dynasty legend. Uh-oh. Retiring after 25 years. Legend. Johnny Goblin got hung with legend? By A.L.com. So he's... What is A.L.

Alabama. A.L. A.A.O. Roo. Alabama. Alabama.com considers Duck Dynasty legend. All right, look,

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Duck Dynasty icon abruptly quits. Texas hunters remember. Huh? I don't know. Is that when Si quit and went down the field house? Who quit? Si, I don't want to quit. Goblin retired.

What is a difference between retirement and quit? This is about Godwin. song a gift take this job and shove it there you go johnny paycheck johnny paycheck maybe i've had all the more take of you yeah i guess i quit but god wouldn't i guess retirement is that you don't go to a new job you just quit working all together you just i've been retired for a few years yeah bian god said i told god when i said look i'll pay you hourly sonner you pay me hourly i'll come back I said, I'm going to expect a little more productivity. Yeah, once I'll give you, pay you hourly.

I don't need you sitting there working on your YouTube video on the clock. Like, I didn't mind it when you're salary just because you help us all, you know. You become an hourly employee. We're going to have to cut the YouTube off here, John. That reminds me when Willie talked about me that he had told his dad, I fixed the fire your brother. I'd have been a bad call. He said, leave him alone.

Yeah. And he's a reed, man. And then Phil said, leave him alone. O'Sai ain't hurting nobody. Nobody wants to do the reeds. He said, hey, he's doing a job that nobody else will do. Leave the boy alone. Ain't that's true.

Hey, I'll tell you. I'll tell you what, though, sir. Hey, I even got, it got so boring that I put the rivet machine through my fingernail. Look, here's, you're going to like this, so. So I said, a kid that I hired, again, not to replace God. Because you can't, he is unreplacedable. Like, but. Is it unplaceable or irreplaceable?

All of it. I don't know. Both. It can't be done. That's right. Personality evolved here. So, like, you just, there's not, there ain't another goblin, right? Because who else's hands smell like taco meat?

Nobody's. Who else needs subtitles? Yeah, there you go. I don't have to translate for this new kid. But look, I walked in there the other day. Gawin doesn't mumble. And he's watching. You know what he's watching?

What? I got the TV in there. Motorcross. Gunsmoke. Oh. This kid 20 years old building duck calls watching gun smoke. I said, well. A kid has potential.

He fits him better than me. Hey, the kid has got potential, boys. I said, well, I have a young sigh in training. Like, this ought to go well. That's right. Pistle with him, Matt. And then on his second day, he decided to turn around in the back of the warehouse and got stuck. Buried.

Buried. Oh, over there? Yes. The same place Godwin got stuck. I mean, he's checking a lot of boxes. Like, I said. I said, hold on, let me look through my phone. I said, I got a selfie of me and Gobbin with him buried back here.

Is he the same, is he the same body type as Gobbin? No, he's way more side. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of tall. I bet he eats just constantly, too. I don't know.

I ain't seen him eating nothing. Oh. He just sits there and, I did good on this one. I ain't trying to brag on myself. Yeah. I did, hey, I think we need to bring back bragging on ourselves and being proud of it over stuff like that. I did well on this one. Especially when it's just, you know, a deadbeat job.

Don't tell him that, Roy. He just started. You got to let him figure out. I don't know. I'm just saying. Dead beat. But hey, look, I always looked at it. It's not dead beat.

It's dead end. Well, I know. But, hey, look, it's just. I hope he's listening. I hope he's not. He's going to be gone. But here's the thing. Okay, without him, there ain't no duck calls.

Yeah. So it's the most important job in this joint. And poor Stone is just... What's Stone doing? I walk in there like... Is he cheerful? No, the kid's third day. I look over here, he's building the single hardest call we have to build.

I'm like... I thought you were going to say Stone had him doing push-ups or something. No. No, Stone's got him over building them triple threats. And they're not hard to build. They just take forever. Like, in most calls, you can build like 6, 700 in a day without much stress. Them triple threads, you're lucky you get 300 in a day.

Like, that's just... And then Stone's... got the poor kid i said oh boy freshman hazing buddy sorry like that used to be the teal call because i know because i built all of them like that took forever not anymore we we fixed that but and that poor guy just didn't ever grind in a way on them triple threat i said well you gotta you got to earn you keep i suppose you know well i kept telling phil with the wooden call i said hey look you need to double the price on that call

I said because there's more time spent on that call than any of them you do. We've tripled the price and still can't keep it. On the DC, what is it, 200? Yeah, classic commander, yeah. Yeah, but he was giving them away. Well, I started. Literally.

He'll give everything away. Well, I'm saying. He ain't a businessman. That's sure. You said it. Nobody else did. Hey, hey, that wasn't what he majored in minor. then. So okay.

Profit wasn't over his concern. Yeah. Moving calls is what he did. I don't even see a classic commander on the website. That's because we add them. That's what I'm talking about. Wow, the prices of everything are way different than when I learned here. What is the word I'm looking for?

Pazazazaz. No, he's got a vivid imagination to come up with all the calls he came up with. Creative. Yeah, creative. That's the word. Yeah. Well, anytime. Because when he come up with all of them, like,

the wood duck to make that sound. He was always going around and part of it was some kid walked by playing with a toy blowing on. And Phil snatches out of his hand. Let me see that kid. Oh, yeah. That was the whistle. Yeah. And then he come up with all of, you know.

So yeah, he's very creative in that because he's put the time in. Not in the while. Everybody's spending that much time alone, you start talking to yourself, you get creative, you know. Yeah. I'm just saying. Not to mention the boy lived with demons for a long time. So they don't tell him what kind of conversations. Hey.

He's had time to have conversations with himself. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No doubt. Do you talk to yourself, buddy? As much as I've sat behind the windshield of my truck in the past two weeks, I'm having full-blown conversations with myself. Do you?

Yes. So the other day I was driving home. And I thought, should I just start recording everything I say? Because I just have full-blown conversations with myself all the time. I now get why side does what he does. He does. I get it. I get it.

I get it. I get it. I get it. Well, no, no, because Corey used to when I had showed up early for the poker game. Shocker. I would be dealing hands. And look, I played it out all the way. I deal out seven hands.

And you had to get up and be every set. He plays every position. Yeah, I played every position. And tell me, you stupid idiot, what are you doing, call him in? You got that? I don't do that. I don't go on that far yet. I don't act out at the whole scene.

But sitting behind the stairwell of that Chevrolet, buddy, I have, I'm just like. You just talk out loud? Oh, yeah, 100%. Me too. I turn the radio off and I'm just talking. I like, I'm just sitting there in silence, just talking about. Phil, do you do that? Are we weird?

No, y'all are weird. I'm sitting over there, like, drawing on the dashboard while I'm driving with my finger like like a plan for next year habitat stuff like man if we take that out like I'm like drawing out a game plan I'm like you tell me hey I look up I've been 30 miles and I'm yeah what just happened if we just planted this differently something else yeah well at least you're doing something created I mean usually I'm just singing whatever country music's on the radio I see I don't heard or my playlist but I can't do he's man's got a playlist about him oh philip oh for sure well that ain't but his four

We're bands, but it's just every song that they have. But, hey, but it's a good playlist. Hey, Sae loves it. I mean, if you like Abba and the guy. No, no, no, this is my country playlist that we listen to. Oh, now he's got a country play. Oh, yeah, he ain't got nothing on there post-1980. That's fine.

Negative. Yeah, no. Bonny fingers. Hunter. That's a good one. Hold on a good one. Even though we- Work your fingers to the boldiness.

Pause. Boney fingers. Hunter. We don't have a Hunter. Do you talk to you? I imagine Hunter talks a lot to himself. Oh, yeah. Just out loud?

Hunter, you play video games, right? I do. You want them with a headset? Yeah. Well, I got your buds, but yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. Different tax bracket, huh?

Yeah. Okay. Not that rich. Hey, we do need to help Hunter out, though. Do we? What? My man, she cut him off. Back on.

No. Hunter back on the market. Oh, he's got woman problems? No, he does not have one. No. There's no such saying as women problems. There's only such thing as women opportunities, Hunter.

Hunter, what do you think about it? You want us to help you? Hunter's head is buried and he's over hanging his hand, boys. This is why I want a Hunter camera. Are you laughing or crying? I can't see you funny. People with opportunities. Yes, you have opportunities.

Hey, he got them feet shaking again. Hunter, you can go to Chick-fil-A tonight. Place an order if the girl's cute say, hey, what are you doing after this? I got a... That's called opportunities. I got to swear off going on dates, man.

I'm tired. Too much effort. Too much work. That's why I... What I said was correct. These girls are mean and I'm tired. There you go. Look, I ain't trying to drag nobody.

What do you say? I ain't trying to drag nobody. Because I don't even know her name, but whatever. And I guarantee you she don't listen to this. Allegedly. Maybe... Unless she misses Hunter. Like her aunt probably does.

but Hunter said the other day, I said, well, how's the woman going? He said, man, girls are mean. And I was like, wait, what happened? Really? You know, then he went through a little small expose. I said, well, what did you say? He said, nothing.

I said, you're better than me at that age. Just walk away. Because I'd have had her crying by the end of that, buddy. Hunter, I have a question. What happened at the UPS store on Sunday? Oh, yeah, there you go. Hunter just texts me out of the blue, me and Martin, and says, this girl at a UPS store got some wild stories.

And all I sent back was, well, then you should ask her out. And then he said, he's off of that for the moment. Yeah. So I have a friend in North Carolina that wanted me to ship something to them. So I did. And when I, apparently there aren't any water burgers in North Carolina. You shipped your friend to hamburger? No, I shipped them spicy ketchup from Walmart, like the waterburger spicy ketchup.

Oh, spicy ketchup. I don't know. Their Walmart ain't got it? Or are they in the part of Carolina to still rebuilding? No, I mean, that's a legit because they probably back up in. Raleigh? Raleigh. Raleigh?

Raleigh. Honor. I haven't had caffeine this morning. Honor, that's an indictment on the American education system. Did you just say she lives in some town Raleigh, Riley, Riley, Raleigh, North Carolina? Raleigh. Do they not have Amazon there? Probably.

It was way more fun. for me to, you know, ship it. To go hit on the girl at the UPS store. Okay, now we have the whole story. So the girl asked me, like, how much would it be to replace this? And I was like, or after she was laughing at me for what it was. And I was like, I don't know, like 10 bucks. That's correct.

I don't know why you're being weird about this. People ship even weirder stuff than spicy ketchup. Wait, does she have like a list? Yes. Okay, so here's what I'm hearing when you're saying this. Like, I do listen to one other podcast, quite a bit, Theo Vaughn. and he sometimes pulls people from like weird jobs and just interviews them. Like he did that lunch lady one, which is hilarious.

Lunch Lady land. Yeah, he made that joke several times. Dang it. He's done, yeah, he's done a few. So should we have UPS shipper come be the fourth chair one day and just talk about what all she shipped? I think so. Will you go ask her to do it?

Yeah, I need you to pull your pants up, walk in. Record it. wearing some boots and say, hey, miss, I'm the producer of a podcast over at Duck Commander. We want you on. My heart will be beating too fast. I might need a friend. Take side. He can be your wingman.

I'll go with you, but only because I'm recording it, and I'm not going to say a word. Also, you could have got a three pack of spicy ketchup for $8.97 on Amazon and shipped it, and then you wouldn't have to pay shipping and it just bothers me how much money you wasted at the UPS store. Boney finger. I love it, boys. Uh, yeah, Hunter, your new job. How old is she? I don't know, she seemed like my age.

What she is? What are you? 25. Yeah. Hunter, your new job is to get the UPS girl. Yeah, I think, tell her for payment, I'll send her to dinner with you. I'll make her a pizza. I don't know.

You're welcome. I don't know about this one. Hunter's having a panic at that. Gosh, nobody. Kids these days in their anxiety. Oh, man. I told it. I told Hunter,

I said, I'm glad you're still here, man, because I said, to hear you tell it, there's people who's been through a lot less that aren't with us anymore. So, like, I'm glad you're sticking it out, buddy. Hunter's the man. Just letting him know I was proud of it, man. Like, it was, I did, I didn't laugh at him. But on the inside, when he said, man, girls are mean, I chuckled. It was like when, yeah.

Yeah, they're mean. I was like, I just chuckled on the inside, but I didn't want to offend. That's girlfriend I had was mean. Huh? Yeah. Somebody asked me what happened in the blockbuster. I thought you all stood date and I said

you're all mean That's pretty much what Hunter said the other day You gotta get away from the mean They made a whole movie about it Did she say something mean? Oh yeah It was like to your face

Or did she text it It was over text Let me read the text What? Let me read the text No Let me read it No

Let me read it I'm not doing that Read the text Come on man Read it Come on Rocks ain't a big surprise Come on

I'm totally on Hunter's side As a man who's read all the big words that she looked up to send this. There was one sentence in there that I... There's a lot of buzz words. He's already read it. Let me read it. Hey, I was...

I bet this was chat GPT. Hey. Hey. I was... I'm sending it to you. One line in there I didn't like. I want to say. I've laid out my feelings.

Hey, this is for the babe. I bet this is... Hey, you don't lay out your feelings. You, hey, you lay... Hey, you, you, I don't even know how to say it. How do you say it? Yeah. Yeah.

Hey, you are emotionally involved with feelings. Thank you. They're just feelings. You don't lay them out. She does wish Hunter the best, no ill will. But this is it. She hopes they can both grow from this experience. I'm calling chat GPT.

You got dumped via chat GPT. She's straight up put into an AI. internet bot how to break up with someone he seems he texts me too much and this was the answer that it gave her you couldn't hey she couldn't how uh hunter is a communicator yep yeah yeah he couldn't handle it you know what hunter just did you ever seen the matrix so hunter she she she she she she dodging stuff i do i do want to ask the matrix stance on her boy i do want to ask one question hunter dodging bullets i want to ask one question for you because i feel needed.

Okay. She said, this is the last time I'm replying. Praise the Lord. Please tell me you gave her the courtesy to, after that, just say thank you or something to that effect. You didn't keep texting. L.O.L. Thumbs up. Something. I think my last text said something like, well, I'm not those things.

Thank you. But, all right. That wasn't me. That's good. That was it. That wasn't me. So you haven't gone back to it? No.

Okay. No, I got the hint this time. Oh, that wasn't a hint, buddy. That wasn't a subtle message. As a guy who just read that, that was not a hint. That was as straightforward as you could get. While it did have some certain teeth to it, I will give her that. Girls are mean.

I can see why you said mean. I get you. Pull the claws out. She pulled the claws and a thesaurus out and got to work. But, you know. The source. And the last girl that I was dating told me I was going to cheat on her as well. What?

Yeah, I know. The girl, to work with your mama? Yeah. Yeah, that's a weird. I'm just taking a chill pill. That's a good idea. Hunter, you know what I like to do? Get socks like side.

They make me happy. I got banana socks now. Banana socks, boys. Watch it taste slippery. Yeah, you bust your butt on them. You'll bust your butt on them. I think that's going to be my new thing. Man, I didn't know that was going to be.

be that rough. Yeah. That's why I'm trying to change the conversation. I know. I was scared to send it. I get it. Now, I was hoping you were embellishing the meanness of it.

But we've all been there, Hunter. There was this girl that texted me and said, good morning every morning. Well, that's nice. No, it wasn't. I don't need to talk to you until this lunch. This is a human. It's nice.

This is a human being. I'm going to start texting you good morning. Yeah. Hunter. Challenge accepted because I wake up way earlier than you. This is her. for the next 14 days anyway. This is more about her issues than yours.

You just need to blow that off. Oh, yeah. Honestly. She did say that I did text too much. And in my defense, in the very beginning, I said, hey, I do this. I know I do this. I see the text.

I get a little anxious. And I'm like, oh, I got to reply to that. Yeah. And I was like, if that becomes a problem, you got to tell me or else I'll just keep doing it. She's like, oh, no, no, no, no, it's fine. But it wasn't fine. She should have set boundaries and said, hey, look.

Hey, the first step to being a successful human being is being self-aware. And if you know that something you do, then you're on pace. I do this thing where I get a hobby and it becomes my whole life. And I talk to my friends about it all the time and they get annoyed with it. Jump ropes. Anybody want to talk about them? My friends don't. They're sick.

You had said what you mean, but begin with about, hey, I'm a communicator. Okay. Yeah. If you're a communicator, you're going to always, you know, if somebody says something, you're going to reply to it. that's just common sense yeah hunter got to learn how to leave people on red yeah yeah yeah you ain't got a reply yeah you don't have a response

is a response yeah it's just not the response people were hoping up with a girl before for texting me too much but she would like I know so after reading that what does texting you too much look like it was good Lord every second even when I said like oh I'm going to the movies or I'm oh you don't text Hunter in a movie he's trying to watch Barbie

for crying out loud I find it funny that Hunter said he texts too much but he's always the last one to reply in our group text It is true You not like us? He's got better about it

Are you not emotionally dependent on me Hunter? Yeah Like we're Like Do we not mean that much to you? I'm pissed now Yeah

No Hunter. Now I'm offended You think she's mean, hold on You think you're emotionally dependent Wait till you hear about that Let me shoot you a text In those group texts I'm usually learning the stuff

At the same time as you And then I'm like All right, well, now I know what to do. Like, I don't know how to reply to any of that. Yeah, I think you ran into a situation, a bus saw. You ran into a bus. No, but there was a boundary set and probably it was a little bit too strong of a boundary. Maybe she hasn't set a bunch of boundaries before in the past.

But now she knows and you know, and y'all are both better off. You know what you don't want now. Her. You know. I say carry on. Oh, 100%. I'll be fun. Yeah, yeah, you're fine.

No, it's fine. If he wasn't fine, he wouldn't have sent us all the text messages to talk about. Well, I can also cut it out. Well, I think he's, I think he's quasi using us as therapist, you know, because he's kind of cheap. But I would, I think, and this is free. He saw a free service coming from a counselor. I get it. I would do the same thing.

Right. I'm very frugal. No, I know. Then you were like, you were very resistant. Every counselor I have. Time out. These boys could actually probably help me a little bit here. So I'm going to throw it out to.

Every counselor, I've never been to counseling, but I have fed a lot of my friends who are counselor's pizza. Yeah. There you go. And it just turns into like, hey, let me run something past you real quick. It's in my head. Did you make out with them? No, house is not a license counselor. But it's the same thing.

But it's the same thing. Like, if I go in the Martin's office and close door and say, look, I need to talk to you about a couple things. Yeah. I mean, you know, we just hash it out. We chop it up and you move on. Look, we all do it. Half of my time on the road with my windshield time, when I'm not talking to myself,

I'm talking somebody else off a ledge of doing something. I don't know why they feel the need to call me. I mean, I appreciate it. Hey, that feels like a personal attack from literally yesterday, okay? Hey, here's the deal. No, see, that one wasn't even in reference. You got your perspective. You weren't to the ledge.

Hey, look, you're not happy with what you're being with. So you go to a friend and say, hey, look, here's what I got going on. And I'm not really sure how to handle it. I think most people view me as Switzerland, because, like, I am pretty analytical, and I'll play the other side with you. Like, I'll go, like on that deal. Like on that deal right there, I would say,

all right, so, Hunter, did you, in fact, takes too much? I mean, I would just, I would ask the other questions to figure out. Yeah, I mean, he's admitting it. Oh, yeah. I used to do that all the time. Like, hold on. Because I'm a person who needs, I can't leave things. I'm like, no, no, no, we're going to talk this.

I don't care if you never want to talk to me. A simple yes is what you're. ever going to ask me for it, you got the wrong fella. Because I'm about to figure out, should I say yes or no, but we're about to go down the no road too. We'll go down all the road. Let's explore that one for a minute. And then if it comes back to yes, that's fine.

But I think that's kind of like the science background. You just have to look at all options. You're like Mark Rober, man. And the Bible says, if you're smart, you're going to seek wise counsel. Yeah. You know? And I'm not one to make emotional decisions either. I'll wait three weeks before I respond to something.

It gets me like emotionally involved. I just don't do that. Don't rush into it. Yeah, no, I'm a. Actually step back and, right, let me think about this a while. Yeah. I think part of that too come from working for Willie Robertson. Oh, you got to be tough.

Well, not only that, but like I found out early on, he'd ask you a question. but he would want you to know his answer before you answered. Like, what was he going to say? And if you didn't, he just berated you. Like, I mean, but he wanted you to have taken the time to formulate in your head. What are all the possibilities? Yeah, why are we having this conversation? Yeah.

Answer all these questions before you even think about replying to me. Like, and so he actually trained me really well on that in the early years of here. So, like, I wasn't always, but I was a kid when I started here, too. I mean, it was Hunter's age. So, you know, I think that Willie's thought process on a lot of that stuff helped me a ton. And I think that's why I do what I do today. Like, I just don't make those knee-jerk reaction. Because if I did, buddy, I don't know.

Because I asked what I had six months. There's been some that I'm like, I. You go into the boss and ask him the question. Yeah. Hey, I need a race. Yeah. And then the first thing he's asked, asked you is. Why?

Why should I give you a raise? And you don't, you haven't even thought. You haven't any thought. That's exactly what he was saying, yeah. Yeah, you better have an argument laid out. You better give me some, you know, evidence why I should give you a raise. Yeah. But I think it's an important skill.

I think you develop that as time goes on. I don't think anybody's born with it. And how is that the age where you start to figure that out? Remember Jenna from New York? Oh, is that? No, Jenna from Ohio. Is that the one side? said just go make out with him or something.

I just wanted to go grab him and just lay one on. Just lay one on. Lay one on him. She sent me a message on Instagram. She said tell Uncle Syth, thanks. But no thanks. I knew that was coming. She was kind of embarrassed when she heard it,

but she was glad to receive the feedback. They started chatting. They hung out in a group setting and watched Ohio State, and they won that game. I bet that ended well. So they're probably going to watch National Championship together. Yeah. She says, thanks for the advice and go Buckeyes.

So we're just really relationship experts here. Oh, no, no. Hey. One of the reason is because we've done everything wrong. That's right. And now we've all landed on it. Oh, no, no. And you learn from it.

Hey, well, here's the deal. Okay. If you ask, okay, what is the, how, what's the best way? Okay. Experience is the best way. Right. You've tried it. didn't work.

Yeah, foul. That's where wisdom, that wisdom's coming from. So, you know, you don't forget that. Yeah. And like with a drive and it don't work. Well, you don't, you say, well, you know the definition of insanity. That's right.

Keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Is that a definition? I mean, it should. Everybody always says the definition of insanity is that. And I don't. Go to Webster. Well, I mean, it's the practical definition. Yeah.

Like, we're going to sit here. We're going to hunt this spot. We're going to have the decoes. We ain't moving to decoys and ain't adding no brush. And we still ain't killing them. Let's do it again tomorrow. We're going to come right back here tomorrow and do the same thing. Ride the hole.

The first question is to deal about the question. The first question should be asked, wait a minute, there's ducks everywhere. Are we in the right spot? Are we? You know, why ain't we killing them? Yeah. There's a reason. Why we're not killing them.

Yeah. And we always bring it back to hunting, but it goes for anything. Yeah. Fishing, hunting, loving every day. Yeah. So there you go, man. It's, uh, I didn't know. That was a fun episode.

I didn't know we were going to go down that road. Yeah, the answer to some of this is so simple. You just need to step back, you know, you're involved too, too closely. Step back and get away from it a little bit where you can look and see the whole picture. That's actually a great. observations. Speaking of being closely, we want to be close with you guys. 318, 215-659, leave Uncle Si an email, and you might end up like Jenna, who got great

advice and now has a person she's hanging out with. Or you can be like Hunter and get all sorts of advice just because we love Hunter. Hunter, do you have any good voicemails for us? I got a few. Let's hear them. I got a couple of emails too. And you can email us at hello at duck callroom.com. A lot of people are,

we got a lot of opinions on how cold it needs to be for schools to shut down. But we'll just move on from that. Hello, my name is Gabriel. And I have a question for Philip. When initially I watched the show, I kind of didn't like you because they played you as the bad guy, Philip. We still don't like him. And did you experience that at all in real life?

Did people have the wrong impression of you? And if so, do you have any cool stories about it? And I'm from... I have no idea where he's from. Texas. No, he's... Kentucky. He's from somewhere like Delaware.

Kentucky. Wisconsin. And I'm from California. Oh. California. Who was touching that border? I knew it was touching the water. I knew it was touching the border.

That's actually a fascinating question. Oh, it is because when Duck Dynasty started, I just decided, hey, I talked to Phil. I said, I'm going to come down to the garage sale that they're having. And I came down on this big tractor and popping and everything's going on. And I just had a wig on and I told Phil, I said, this is going to be funny. I'm going to go and they're not going to know who I am. And I ended up buying two guns from Missy. And Cy walked outside and said, who is this idiot?

How does Willie find these weird people? And Phil said, that's your best friend right there. He said, no, that ain't my best friend. I play poker with my best friend every Friday. And that ain't Philip McMillan. And I walked in and I took that wig off. And Cy died laughing. He said, well, hey, you pulled it off.

And ever since that episode where the out, whatever, the garage cell, Ms. Kay had, I started getting on the show and doing other things because I grew up with the Robertsons and we were very competitive so when they needed somebody to compete with they said, Philip, let's compete and I usually beat them, that's the truth. But yeah.

They added it out the times you lost. I can confirm that. Thank you. Anyway, we would go to different places of me inside and people would be like, what are you doing here? Why are you here? I'd say it's a show, man, you know?

So people really, really were upset. Oh yeah. Well, look, we're in line. There's a line to see Si, because I've traveled with Cy for 12 years, and I'm counting the line to see how many we can get through. And they're like, hey, aren't you from the show? I'm like, yeah, yeah, you know, you really got to watch the show if you've seen me. I'm only in like four episodes. But they're like, why are you here? Get out of here, man. And then me and Cy were going hunting one time. And the guy said, no, he ain't welcome here. that's true because I had to calm him down. You're a buddy.

They thought you were actually the villain. We come down to Clay's for a dove hunt. Oh. And Clay said, you're not welcome to leave. And I said, Clay, I said, that's my best friend. He said, no, no, he ain't you a friend of yours. I've seen the show. I'm serious, you know.

They edited it to a way to where it looked like we were a complete adversaries with you. Yeah. Wow. In fairness, though, like, nobody really understands how much time it takes to make those TV shows. Yeah. If you put a real adversary in there, we'd probably end up scratching gravel out there. So we needed a friend willing to be an adversary because there's a lot of times you just sit there and look at each other. Yeah. Ain't nothing going on.

You just sitting there doing it. And I love Willie. And if you don't like each other. He loves me and we're buddies. But there was a time where we did not get along, and especially Jace. Me and Jace didn't like each other at all. Well, Jason's weird. And the weird thing is,

Jace is the one who shared the gospel with me and my girlfriend, and 35 years later, we're still together, married, all Christians, our families changed because of it. So I'm glad I ran across the Robertsons, and the show was a lot of fun.

Hey, Hunter, next time you find you a woman, you want me to set you up with Jace? It worked for Philip. Hey. I guarantee you this, he'll share the gospel with you.

I would like to do that and film it. Yeah, I can assure you that. Maybe to keep some of that meanness out of her. No, you ain't going to get rid of that, sir. I didn't forget. It just wasn't on top of my mind. But while we were listening to that deal about Gabriel,

I just got a message on social media. Look, the hunting communities are pretty tight-knit. And this week up in the great state of Arkansas, there was a kid out chasing ducks who had a really bad boat accident. I won't go through all. the specifics because I found out about it while I was there. But our young hunter, Ben Wharton, is his name, could really use some prayers in his family that, you know, that, I mean, I'm always a big proponent of God's will be done, like whether that's healing or whatever that

looks like. But Ben was in a terrible accident, chasing ducks, doing what we do every day. You know, and we always say it, nobody ever believes it. Duck Hunt is dangerous. Like, it is not, it's it's just dangerous at the end of the ones are involved yep so if you think about it we believe in the power of prayer lift up the wharton family as they continue to figure out what's going to be

with their son and what that looks like and we know we know the ultimate healer and that he can and he will that's important okay you just thought you got to think about it you go into the throne room of God Almighty and you you buy name you mention being warden okay he's had an accident he's ill he's hurt okay and we petitioned the almighty intervening father and healed him yeah yeah because it's it's it's one thing to okay you say his name

out lied to the creator of the universe okay trust me there There's nothing that is he cannot do. Amen. But we do petition you, Father, to heal this young man. You know, and make him a mighty warrior in your kingdom. That's our prayer, and it's in Jesus' name, our Lord and Savior. Amen. It's always a tough one this time of year, because there's accidents that happen every year, man.

Oh, yeah. And hey, look. Doing what we all love and that we've done 100,000 times. You're not guaranteed nothing, guys. Okay. So, yeah, it can happen to anybody. Yeah. What else we got, John?

Oh, y'all be safe out there when you're hunting. Yeah, amen. You got another one, or you? What's going on, fellas? My name's John. Good name. I'm from South Jersey. Oh, wow.

I didn't see that coming. My and my dad's favorite episode of Duck Dynasty was when you guys were eating the donut competition. Oh, God. Did you guys really eat that many donuts? You know, I especially, did you really eat that many donuts? All right, take care of them. I've gotten this email a thousand times and ignored it every time, Sam.

I'll answer your question. I told them they filmed me all day donuts, turning my way, eat one more, and I said, here's what's going to happen. I said, if y'all make me eat this one more donut, I'm fixing to get up and chase every cameraman we've got, and I'm going to puke all over. over each one of them. That's a lot of donuts.

I've been eating donuts all day long. So the answer to that, yes. I was ill from eating too much sugar. Let me tell you about a very important skill we learned in Duck Dynasty. Like, I remember it from the first family dinner. Like the very first ones, Phil and Kay actually cooked.

Like, I mean, they cook the whole thing. And so, I mean, you get there and you're like, oh my goodness, I'm about to smash.

Let's get on that chicken. You sit down and you make that first plate and you're like, yeah, buddy. Well, then what you didn't realize is you had to have that same plate again. And then you had to have that same plate again. So, and the donuts was early enough on. We still weren't real sure yet. You go in there, you're like, okay, this tight. We eating donuts for breakfast.

And you go in there and you eat your normal amount of donuts. And then they're like, yeah, do that again. And we're like, huh? Yeah. They're like, and then because they're like, oh, we're going to change position of the cameras. Do that again. Then we're like, we've got to get a close up. Now we got to get a wide.

Now we got to get a wide. Yeah, to get a wide. And now we get just for insurance. We got to do it one more time from a different angle. So at the end of the day on the donut episode, I don't know how many Silas Robertson really ate. I ate enough. I know. I know, like, if there's food involved, that first round, don't touch your food.

Do not. Do not touch it. Just, just, you know, turn your shoulder to it. Do not touch that food unless you want to eat that three more times exactly the way you just did. Like, it is, I don't know how, yeah, I mean, for real, so I ate, I don't know how many you ate that day. Hey, my life I ate about three dozen. It was a lot when we were sitting at that bar and hassles donuts. That's 36 donuts.

Oh, you can eat a lot. People don't understand how much you can eat. I somehow ate the same little fun-sized bag of Cheetos last night, three different. different times and never run out of them. I mean, you just learn how to do that stuff. Like, it's like, uh-uh, uh-uh, you ain't, you ain't getting me, boys. Like, I'm old me, what I just smashed? I'm about, well, I need another bag of Cheetos.

That's cool. I'm getting free food now. My favorite time where we all ate together was on Duck Family Treasure when all you boys were there and we were fishing Willie's pond. Oh, wait for those fish were awesome. Yeah, those fish were. That was a good, that was a good friend dinner at three o'clock in afternoon. It was still good. It was so good. All right, I'm going to say, are we good? I think we're

ready to land the play. Yeah, I think, yeah, I think we're there. I've mentioned the Bible recap on here. I'm still going and some people have emailed in and said they're going. So if you're with us on that, every once in a while, I'm just going to throw out a Bible verse from somewhere you're probably close to. And today, I just finished reading Job, which is kind of a tough read because it's like a poem. But basically, the story of Job is some bad things can happen to good people. And then he realizes, good things can happen to bad people. But at the end of Job is a great little reminder. Job 4210, after Job had prayed for his friends,

the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had had before. So, you know, in like the case of Ben, you know, we don't know what the answer is there. We don't know why it happened. But the good news is, even if it's not here on this earth, we have the hope in Jesus Christ to be restored more than we could ever ask, imagine, or come up with. And that's kind of what the story of Job is.

So check it out. If you're reading along, I'll keep going with it. But I think that was just fitting for today. Amen, buddy. Excellent. All right. Well, thank you all for joining us. And we'll see you next time right here in the duck call room.

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