Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Misses Tough Kids

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

Uncle Si reminisces about the good old days when kids broke bones doing dumb stuff, comedian Justin Stagner shares the hilariously painful story of how he accidentally made his son walk through Wal-Mart with a broken leg, and Buck Commander’s Tom "Tombo" Martin reveals how a backyard bonfire at Willie’s house turned into a 2 a.m. baptism. Duck Call Room episode #460 is sponsored by: https://puretalk.com/duck — Support veterans by switching to America’s wireless company for as little as $25 per month today! https://www.mypillow.com/duck — Get the MyPillow percale sheets for as low as $24.98! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Okay, I got it. He's got it. He's ready. And we're back. Welcome back to the duck call room. Ladies and gentlemen. Buckle up for safety. Look, as you know, we don't dabble in politics and we're not going to today.

It's set for the fact that we have a future president of the United States with us. Carter. Carter, Owen, is back with us. Carter, how you been, son? All right. It's been good. That's awesome, man. I want to bring this up.

Our fans are great, right? They send us all kinds of stuff, lots of time snacks, all the things. But Carter got his first piece of fan mail the other day that I delivered to your dad. Did your dad give you your fan mail, Carter? Yeah. You better say yes. Say it in the microphones to the people here. Oh, he did.

Okay, good, good job. From Ms. Brenda in Florida. She sent you a book, right? Uh-huh. What was it about? It was about what to do if you want to become a present. and this is a special shout to Ms. Brenda from Florida. I don't know, probably from Miami or Orlando or Jacksonville.

And thanks for the book. How does he know that many cities in Florida? The boy knows the maps, son. He's been studying the electoral college since the kindergarten days. It's very important to win Florida if you're going to win it. You can't win the presidency without winning Florida. There you go. So you're starting off good.

But like Alaska and Texas and California, I got like a lot of, That's true. Did you say Alaska? Yeah. I don't know that that one's true. I know. You should look it up. I got the computer.

I said, don't doubt me. He said, don't doubt me. I'm going to say they got like four. What, Alaska? Alaska. We're going down something. I don't know. I don't know.

Yeah, electoral college and all the things. They got three. Alaska's got three. We ain't got to worry about Alaska. But Alaska, we love you. Vote for Carter. Texas and Florida. You're going to need to win them.

Going to need that. I think Bigfoot was there to stop extract destroying the valley in Bigfoot family. Wait, what? I've watched this movie called Bigfoot Family. It's about this guy named, this is a guy who was a scientist that like a- Time out, time out. In Alaska, which was actually-in-hurt. Hold on, hold on, hold on.

You're bringing up Bigfoot something else besides Duck Dynasty Bigfoot. Is that what you're doing right now? Bigfoot, it wasn't exactly Bigfoot. It was actually Godwin. That's true. Yeah, and Goblin was this man's henchman that got hired. So, you know, what'd you pay Galvin, by the way? What?

I was just hired Randy. Randy, who is a level 18 bigfoot hunter. Okay. Randy's a level 18 bigfoot hunter. What did, what did you pay Gobwin to dress up his bigfoot and scare all us with? Um, snack cake. I know nothing about it. You know nothing about it.

I don't know. me think about that. He's pleading the fifth, boys. Pleading the fifth. What do we say it on camera? Can we just play that clip? I don't have that. Son, I'm pretty good at this.

I'm not good enough to just pull up clips from Duck Dynasty. I love the fact that he's like, hey, Hunter, pull that clip up, son. Drop that real quick. He's been watching podcast getting ready for this. I like, who you think we are, Cardiff, O'Von? We ain't got that kind of imagine. Who's that dude on Joe Rogan? Yeah, I don't know.

It's not Hunter. He's better than Hunter. That he gets paid more, too. To be fair, we're not Joe Rogan. Oh, or Theo Vaughn or... We're us. The real bigfoot was showed up if you didn't eat the beef jerky. Instead, you caught a Godwin instead of a Bigfoot.

Yeah. I like Godwin more than Bigfoot, so win-win. Well, I will say anytime you're baiting the trap with snacks, there's a pretty good chance of big person's going to show up. Like, Godwin or me. You like snacks? What's your favorite snack, Carter? I'd say probably, um,

hmm. Oh, deep. Recy cup? Let's say, I like, like, like something that has salt and vinegar with it. Salt and vinegar. Big salt and vinegar. Big salt and vinegar. Well, I saw the other day, though, that you, you made the cover of a pretty famous

YouTuber's Instagram post, right? Yeah, Ryan Treyhan. There you go. We can blow up his picture right on the screen right. Actually, I'm like, I can probably pull that one since I... Maybe it can pull that one. Since I did take that photo. Okay.

So what did you think about Mr. Trahan's candy? Is it good? It's pretty good. I like how it has no sugar, no fake chemicals in it, and it makes you feel good after you eat it. It made you feel good. And he's on it. And he actually won the world record.

Did he? Rime Trahan has somehow got an army of children selling candy for him, and I respect it. Yeah. Look at that. There's a picture. In fact, he got me to Target, taking pictures,

and I somehow ended up in his Instagram post, which was cool. And there was his comment like that. Let's go. And it says it was five days ago with like 4,704 likes. Yep. And I did so reply. I got 424 likes.

Oh, man. That's awesome. So what do you like about Mr. Tray? He actually traveled to class. He traveled from California all the way to New York. He hasn't done it yet. Just with one penny to deliver it to Mr. Beast.

He did do that. The richest YouTuber are alive right now. And he took him a penny. But he's one on the first day he donated $500 to activate the wheel of Doom. $50,000. Yeah, $50,000 you get to activate. We're really doing a whole commercial with Ryan Trehan right here, aren't we? You get to choose what they have to use.

Ryan, if you're watching, we'd love to have you. I know it's a big deal. Yeah, we love to have it. And I just hope I'm there. Well, he's doing 50 states in 50 days. I'll bring some joy ride with me. I'll bring some joy. I hope he's got his own joyride.

Well, we spent $50 on joyride the other day, so I hope he can buy his own. I expected to be like 300 because a lot of it was like, because I saw the price tag on it. It was like $50, $51.47. We'd spent $51.47. I'm tired of your memory, by the way. Anyway, Ryan is a YouTuber who's going across America with his wife. They're hitting 50 Airbnbs in 50 days in 50 different states. And so far they're doing it.

But that's not all of them. They're on state 15. He has one store places. They've been down here yet? He has a piece here. They didn't get your Airbnb? He actually goes around places around the world. He's a good YouTuber for kids to watch.

But he's raising money for St. Jude. and he was trying to raise a million dollars in 50 days. Okay. And I just pulled up. Look, he did it. He did it. He did it. He's on day.

Congratulations, Ryan. Hey, that's what I'm talking about, boss. A million bucks. He's on day 15, and he's already at $1.4 million. Yeah. $1 million. It's actually $1,417,615,000. $55 raise.

Yeah. Boom. I'm talking about, baby. But he said he had to raise a million dollars, and now it's about a $2 million. He said, why stop at a million? We can get to $2. That's right. We can make it.

God, I love your excitement. I'm fired up a damn, too. I love it. We watch this every night right now. And they're, oh. There's their current map. That's what they've driven so far. Yeah.

Now they're at, hey, look. And now they're at Florida. And now they're in Florida. I'd say, I suggest him to go back around to California. I bet he's got a point. Asap. Asap. Because he might fill the challenge if he doesn't.

He's got 50 days, we'll see. You have 50 gram? We can activate the Wheel of Doom and make it harder. I actually have like a lot of money. How much money you got? I'm saving it off for college to be an astronomer. Because I would have a lot of satellite that can actually see if there's actual life in like in out in space he wants to be

because you can't have sorrows without alien I promise I didn't know that's what he was going to say you God you want to be an astronomer thank you Jesus you're saving all your money to become an astronomer at ULM at you dream higher I don't know shoot higher buddy as a as a fellow alum

love it yeah dream bigger I don't know that their astronomy programs that's strong. Yeah. And I'm not even sure it exists. But I like the fact that you're staying close to home. Mark Lover wants us out like that can take selfies in space. Now we're going down Mark Rober, everybody. If you're wondering who the big YouTubers in the kid world are that don't cuss,

ask Carter, he'll tell you. Yeah. So, Carter, what do you think, like now that you're old enough to watch, when you were a young book, we did the regular Doug Dynasty. But now we have... Duck Dynasty and the Revival. Yeah. What do you think about seeing your dad?

on TV, man. How's that? Yeah, that's awesome. Cool, his dad at school. He also ate the beef jerky. I could have got a big, but only caught a godwin. Yeah. So what do you think of the show so far? It's pretty good. It is pretty good. You've got any highlights that you love? Oh, I'd say, I'd say I really need those crutches. The crutches. Oh, from... Yeah, from episode four, because I've tested a out once. When were you on crutches?

And they're actually pretty good to use if you don't feel if you're too lazy to walk. Crutches are harder to walk than regular walking. Hey, no, my, hey, I tested them out. It's kind of fun. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that

means? That means more outside cooking. And y'all know. We love. We love. to eat beef around here. And that's what, because of our friends over at Triedells beef, makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sao Robertson would say,

buy on the grill! Look, before we got Triedells, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery store, do all the things, grab whatever was left in case you were late in the day. And you never really know where that beef comes from. But with Triedells beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way. Triedales comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth generation American ranch, so they've been at it for a while.

Now, look, the beef comes straight from their ranch and other ranchers they work with who raise cattle the same way. Their steaks are properly aged and shipped straight from the ranch to your door. We threw a couple of ribbys on the grill. Look, salt, pepper, garlic, hot fire, that's all you need. Look, because I tell you what, when the beef comes from people who raise cattle for a living, you can taste the difference. The tenderness and the flavor are fantastic. So if you're stocking the freezer for grilling season, go check out Triedails beef.

I know in size case Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat. She isn't a big meat eater, folks. Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's trybeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. So that's the highlight. You got any low lights? Anything you changed.

Anything you'd change. I bet you know why. Oh, yeah, he knows. Oh, we can't go down this road. Can you, can somebody just fire a Lexus on me? Thank you, Jesus. You can't. Oh, I tell you that one up for him.

Okay, so at our house right now, Carter is a very polite young man. Is that correct, Carter? Yeah. And we don't like when people use foul language. Is that correct, Carter? Yeah. But if someone makes a mistake, it's okay. Okay, that's right too.

Okay. So just because someone says something, if they get scared and didn't mean to say something, we don't have to call their boss and complain and fire them. I don't think that was an accident. Oh, here we go. It might have been our purpose. It might be an accident, but just, please don't do it again. Like this, so if you're watching.

What? Should I go get her? No, just don't get her. Don't tell her. No, he won't be able to handle it. He doesn't want to see her ever again. It's been a nightly occurrence. I think I started.

I think she asked me where we, we're going to talk about. No, that was the Duck Dynasty crew. You haven't seen her yet. I was nervous that you would see her. My face hurt. Oh, man. What a life, man.

Carter, how old are you? I'm like 11. 11? And by September, I would be 11 and a half. I was like, what's in September? He's 11 and a 3rd. 11 and a half in September. That's correct.

Oh, man. I love that. Golly, Carter. Well, you are a one sharp dude there, Mr. Carter. You are a delight. Mr. Owen. Wow, that really. Anyways, yeah.

That was even better than I thought it was going to be. Well, that's why our YouTube and what we watch selection is pretty limited because no cussing is allowed. Uh-oh. Well, then we better be careful. Oh, what the guys walking is the rest of this episode. Oh, man. Yeah, so Carter, I had something else I was going to ask, and I totally got derailed because you answered that so perfectly. I knew that was coming.

I know. I thought we were going to avoid that. No, I needed. him to... He tried to face them. Oh, that's what I was going to ask you. So, like, I know, because you sent, you did this in a video, so what

should a person do if they get scared? They should just act calm. Act calm. Close their eyes, right? Or maybe jump back, something like that? Just not use... We're probably tied to faint.

Tried to feign. Yeah, Tink or D. I'd see that in a TV show once were, like, a camp director actually skis. with somebody and then they fainted. And that's better than profane language? Yeah.

Okay. It's a better option. Just pulls that bunk clip up and it's also on episode three. We're not watching any Disney clips in here either. It's Netflix. Oh, my son. Get it right, dad. It's like a dictionary for protein.

Oh, my goodness gracious. But you had a specific reason you wanted to come on the show today. You wanted to talk to Sai about something. Uh-oh. Hmm. I wanted to talk about all of y'all, like, what I want to be, like, before my presidency. Okay. Probably I might work for dad at the honeyhole before I become president. A lot of presidents started off sleeping crickets.

And probably just work for the duck hall room. You work for the duck call room? Boy, it doesn't pay. Because the more I'm in it, the more money. Why did Hunter laugh so hard? Yeah. A lot of laughs. I'm just going to encourage you.

More comments, more likes, and more money. Can we get a more comments, more likes in the comment section just for Carter? Just spam that, the whole thing. More comments, more likes. When Carter's on, we get more comments, more likes. Is that right? That's because I got a lot of good pop comedy. A good prop comedy.

What prop did you bring? Yesterday I shipped I did some Star Wars jokes. Okay. Do you remember any of them? They're pretty hilarious. Hold on. Like what did Papatine say before they doled? He said he's an old geyser.

You're like Popatine. Have you seen him? That guy looks like 100 years old. I don't know kids. I don't even... I don't even get the joke, but I love his delivery, man. He's got delivery. Hey, hold on.

So you want to be president, you want to be an astronomer just to see if there's aliens out there. Yeah. Because obviously we can't have Star Wars without real aliens. Yeah. And you also want to work at the honeyhole. Yeah, for retirement. No, you're going to retire at the honeyhole? No.

After my presidency, I will work for the honeyhole and the duck car room. Oh, there you go. Secret Service at the H.A. Superstore. I don't think that's going to work, bro. Could you imagine George W. Bush in the. the honey hole right now? Yes, I can, and it would be fantastic. I would love it.

Well, I would be pissed. Mr. Trump, our president, he worked in the McDonald's the other day. Uh-oh. That is true. Wait, how about that? He went to McDonald's awesome. I wanted to go to that McDonald's he went to. What else you got, Carter?

I mean, you're... This is your show. Yeah, they're going to be... So you're going to be an astronomer, you're going to work at the honeyhole duck call room. Any other... Can I ask if you got a big goal? other than presidency?

I know, but like before, you know, you got to get all this stuff doing for you, the president. Probably hope the rocket that launches and the satellites actually work and just don't explode. Okay, rockets and satellites. So you're saying tighten up NASA? I see some clips of satellite rockets exploding

and one of the episodes of Mark Lover, which was pretty satisfying. Yeah, pretty sad. It probably cost them a lot of money. Carter, do you remember when you were a kid, you would sit in your dad's office all day and watch car crashes? That was actually, I actually watched Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. You did watch that too, but...

Because Mickey clearly Walt Disney's goaded. I will never forget walking in, though, and seeing the pure joy on your face from cars crashing into each other. It was a cartoon car. I know, cartoon cars. Not real car race. No. And I always wondered how that was possible.

Then I had twins, and they love... I love a good car crash. They love fake cars running into each other. It's hilarious. toys like toy cries yeah well Carter golly yeah I mean I got nothing I got nothing either it's my child

well I do have one more question what are you planning to do this summer you're out of school you like you got the whole summer it's time to be a kid what are you doing this summer oh we're heading to Disney world going to Disney he's been reading some books too you're going to get a new lightsaber no you already got one those are expensive I was trying to really put it on your dad here where you have to deliver that no no it's Very soon. Very soon.

We're lightsabered out, brother. You got one. Can you bring me back a light saber out? I wanted to zoom the camera in so I look more dramatic. More dramatic. Are you trying to produce this thing? Hey, I'm not trying to produce it. I was just trying, I was just using some suggestions.

Yeah, look right in the camera. He's trying to make it better. Right in the camera. This is right here. Look at it. He's trying to make it better, guys. Tell the camera what you needed to do right now. I'm going, that says I don't need a lightsaber,

but I'm going to make another white saber soon. Yeah, make another lightsaber soon. Yeah, put it online. Hey, we'll get you, we'll get you an online campaign just like that candy. And also, I did the first one out because that was just, um, that was just, um, take one. Yeah, listen, honor. Hey, this is a podcast. Hey, all right, all right.

Jay J.J. Abrams over here. What are you doing? Hey, my name's Carter, my name's Carter, not JJ Abrams. My bad. You're just trying to direct. I'm not directing. I'm just clear. I'm just using suggestions. I appreciate it, Carter.

I will do every suggestion, don't worry. Oh, boy. We're about to get the wildest Instagram reel of all time out of this. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Like, probably like a billion license comment. That's not going to happen. You know what I found weird? I figured with size sitting beside me today, I wouldn't have any fun socks to look at,

but Carter wore his Christmas socks out here in the middle of July. That's because he's the only player I found. And they look good, Carter. You only got that boy, one pair of socks. Hold the phone right now. How many? No, not really. That's a suggestion.

Don't be so literal. You don't have to pick up my phone. How many pairs of socks do you have with, different president's faces on it. Like a lot. How many? But I know two of them on is this one is Queen Elizabeth and the other is Hamilton.

We have Queen Elizabeth socks? She's not even, she's not even America. She wasn't even American. She was British. What do we do? That's true. All right, well, you have Abraham Lincoln socks, JFK socks. You have like three pair of Trump socks.

Trump socks. Trump dance. He's got a pair of socks of them doing the day. Oh, really? Yeah. So don't tell people those fleece line Christmas socks are the only socks you own. Okay, sorry.

You got any, you got any Biden socks? No. Why not? That's because he might have looked kind of famous because he would do a lot of video games in Roblox. But he wasn't really that good of a president. Yeah. And I would have used...

I would have used one. I would have probably some people watching. Okay, I'm done. No, no, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You want to get political, here we are. All right. Back up the truck. Back up the truck, son.

Put those headphones back on, man. Back the truck up, take the trash out. Okay, just put them back on. Okay, so no Joe Biden socks, no Andrew Jackson socks, right? Oh, boy. Andrew Jackson and William Hart, Henry, Hawing, sucks.

I don't know how to say the last name. William Henry Harder. Because that guy hired, hired crooks. He hired crooks. They dropped that duck call. You better get that for it. Well, Carter, we appreciate the laughs, man.

You're a delight. I'm glad to call you my son. Oh, praise God. Thank you for stopping by, Carter. Come back anytime, my friend. You're welcome anytime, Mr. President. We salute you, Mr. Any last words?

To tell the people. Until next time, until next time, I'm in the duck-car room. See you later. Like and subscribe. All right, there you go. Oh, maybe I can do this.

I make no promises. Hey, you can do it. Yeah, I can do it. You have twins. I have Carter. It's what we do. I know, but Carter says real words. Yours are going to do it one day.

They might just be more. dialed in. Oh man. Well, that was a good start to today's overall. Let's just, it's a wild podcast. Let's call it comedy day, right? Like, I don't know the better term to use for it. We now have our good friend, Mr. Justin Stagner, back with us. He's in town helping out at the sportsman's camp. So we said, you know what, why are you here volunteering your time? Why don't you come give us some free time too, so, you know. I don't mind volunteering. He's a volunteer all around. I thought you were a roll tide guy roll tide i still volunteer though my moonlight is a volunteer oh i married one don't do that oh man oh man how you been mr stagner how's life been since the last time we got to talk to you it has been

crazy it's been wild how have y'all been we've been sitting right here yeah i know i try keeping up as well as i can yeah we don't we don't get too far but how's the comedy thing doing i see now you're doing a lot more shows and things like that. So you're on the road kind of like we were back in the day. How's that life? It's fun. I try to stay gone only like two days a week tops because I just like being home with the family at least five days a week.

That way, you know, it's still better than the four night shifts that I used to work, you know. So just being gone two days coming back. You worked night shifts? Oh yeah. I worked two weeks of days and two weeks of nights at a steel mill for 13 years. And 12-hour graveyards don't play, do they? Man, it was rough. Your body wouldn't get used to it, you know, and then in two weeks later, you'd switch.

Yeah, they'd switch over. Yeah, that's what it done it. Yeah, terrible. Go from one to the other. Yeah, and you never get used to anything. Yeah. Then you stay confused all the time. I'm not used to it, and I've never even done it.

That's what everybody says about TV show and all that. We know it's a lot of work on you. I'm like, yeah, but it beats you a 12-hour graveyard. Exactly. Somebody came in the store the other day. They're like, you working hard? And I was like, not compared to them boys in the minds. Yeah.

I got air conditioner. I'm doing all right. Yeah, let's just call it what it is, man. That's the truth, man. Those 12-hour shifts are brutal. Owee. But, no, we're glad to have you back, man. And the lower Alabama seems to be thriving right now.

It's y'all's time of the year anyway. All the rednecks from up here, go down there and see y'all. Yeah, it's getting nice and hot. Everybody's heading to the beach. They stop by on their way to the beach. And just wave, huh? Uh-huh. I tell people when they come see me,

when they come do the podcast or something, They said, man, I didn't know Alabama look like this. I said, well, the rest of it don't. It's just us. We're the only ones on the coast. You have to have Al stop in. He basically lives down there now. Al and his beach house.

Yeah. I mean, Lisa sells real estate down there too. So they might as well just get all their mail there instead of up here. But no, man, I don't, I'm still trying. My mind's blown from a 11-year-old. He'll do that to you. How old's your son? He's six, and he's freshly getting out of a, he's in a boot right now.

He just got out of a cast. He broke his leg. How did he ride in bowl? No, he was riding a hoverboard, and the hoverboard has a safety mechanism where it beeps three times and then just locks up. Oh, boy. Uh-oh. So it's like, well, I guess the guy that designed it was like, look, give him three beeps

and then teach him a lesson if they don't listen. And then break their leg. And it did. It locked up on him at the skating rink, and I guess he hit it when he fell. Question? In the skating rink? Yeah, oh yeah, they let them hoverboard now. Oh, okay.

Yeah. That hadn't made it to our skating rink. Do you all have the walkers yet? No, we just have regular rollerblades. See, no kids learn how to skate anymore. They give them a walker. Really? And then they go get their skates on and they just push this walker.

So nobody learns how to skate. I just find it puzzling how the only two people that I somewhat know that have been to a skating rink in the past 10 years are sitting across from me right now. I know. I was at a skating rink like, weeks ago. And nobody was last week? What about scooters? They let them bring

skates? No, no, it was all skates. But I was so my middle son, Ben's it was actually a, my youngest, my daughter's friend's birthday party and all the dads were standing over there and I showed up a little late and my son comes up because are you going to skate? I said, son, I'm not going to be the only dad skating.

And he goes, it'll just prove you're the only dad that's happy. And I was like, ma'am, can I have a pair of rollerblades please? Y'all got any rollerblades? And so then I was the only adults out there. Not me, buddy. Screws and through it.

That's a far fall when you get older. I went. I was skating. I needed a walker. Still on blades. Oh, yeah. Oh, I'd have had to do blades if I was doing it. I couldn't do the speed skates.

No way. Them four wheels that are beside each other? It's dangling. I don't like that. Well, my cancles wouldn't take none of it. No, my ankle. When I got done, my back was in a lot of pain. Well, you know, those brown skates don't have any ankle support.

It's just paper. Them brown skates. Yeah, I do. And everyone knew what he was talking about immediately. Exactly. They bought them when Sai was in elementary and they've been renting them out ever since. Yeah. And then they gave Sonic a heck of a deal on the closeout when they started to put a drive-through.

I know. Whatever happened to that, man. When they skated? Yeah. And now it's optional. Every now and then you'll see, like, oh. I have not seen a skater in a long time. Well, to be fair, I haven't gone to a non-drive-through Sonic in the last few times I've been there.

So I haven't even given the opportunity to walk it out there. Oh, man, that's sad. Really? It's America's driving. This is America's driving, but I ain't. Ours is horrible. My gas is so expensive. I ain't trying to sit there in my air conditioning.

Ours is horrible. It is. But, dude, it's so funny when he broke his leg, like, you know how parents are. I was like, son, your leg's not broke. What's wrong with you? Walk at all. Yeah, spin. Oh, no.

You went with that? Oh, yeah, dude. We got him walking in Walmart and everything like, oh, God. And then, look, afterwards, afterwards we're sitting there driving and his leg just keeps getting bigger. And I was like, he might be on to something here. and so it's so crazy

because my son's so dramatic he's in the back seat like this was my favorite leg like he's going to lose it that's your left leg you don't even use it for anything it's my favorite leg it was sad

he got put in a wheelchair for like I don't know six weeks that was pretty brutal and you were walking him through the Walmart yeah that was before we got the cast before we even took him to the doctor

we were like dude just walking off and he's in Walmart just like Yeah. It was terrible. We had to apologize to him a lot after that. That checks. Yeah, it felt bad. Yeah, that cost you some things.

It did. It cost you some new toys. It cost you a whole trip to the Super Nintendo World. Yeah, that'll do it to you. Well, tell him there's still hope because I was about six years old. Yeah, I was in kindergarten when I broke my leg. I did kindergarten in a wheelchair. Yeah.

Did you really? Yeah. Well, that was before they knew that you didn't have to, like if you broke your lower leg, you didn't have to have a cast all the way up to your hip. Like, I legit in 19, whatever, 1989, 90, 91, whenever that happened, I had a cast from my toes to my hip because I broke my freaking tibia.

That's down here, by the way. That's what he broke. That's not required me for my toes to my hip for that thing. What did you do? Did you follow up a segue? A bicycle. A bicycle wreck, yeah. I got twisted up under in a curve,

and it just, I felt it when it happened, my parents did say, thing. Yeah. They said, I said, oh, I told my buddy who's right there with me, because he stopped checking on me. He's like, you're okay. I said, no, man, I think my legs broke. Oh. Yeah, I remember. You knew it? I felt, I felt it go, you know, I've broken a few things since then, and a break has a certain feel to it once you experience it, that it's like.

I've never broken a bone because I'm soft. But my parents were like, get on your bike and get it to the house, you know? So I went peddling with a broke a leg, back to the house. When Carter fell off the seat, Segway and he didn't break his arm, but it was nasty. It was all bruised up and stuff. Yeah. The only thing that brought him piece is that we read that the owner of, the inventor of Segway fell off a Segway and died and fell off a cliff.

Yeah. He was like, that serves him right. That's amazing. The company survived that. Well, he sold it. And then he was riding around his Segway and, and Carter was like, yep, that's what Segways deserve. That's when he gets for quitting on his own product.

No, Carter was like, I'm never riding a Segway again. And I said, do you know what happened to the inventor of Segway? And he's like, I can get, I can get down with Segways again. As long as he got in trouble. Yeah. He bruised my elbow. Breaking your leg at that age, though, that's tough because now he's, he's inside, like going stir crazy. A week before graduation, he graduated in a wheelchair and he's been, well, now he's in the boot, so he's running everywhere.

Got to tell him to chill out a little bit. I play Dee ball in a wheelchair. No, I was the catcher. No, you were just there. Yeah, I know. I was the catcher back here, but I had my leg propped up at a wheelchair. What? Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Are there photographs? My mom has photographs of me playing T-Ball cast. Well, I bet y'all was in first place, wouldn't you? Oh, yeah, we was pretty good. We had all the studs of the deal, so it didn't really matter, you know. But that's back when T-ball was still kind of like baseball. Now it's just wrangling cats, like when you go watch it.

It is. We were taking ground balls at practice when I was playing T-ball, but my coach was my buddy's dad. Here we go. No, I'm just saying he wanted to win at every level. It didn't matter if we were five or. if we were 15 you like. Well, that's the travel ball teams now. Yeah, that's all them boys doing that stuff now.

We don't belong there. No, not anymore. And my kids hopefully will never grace the presence of a travel ball team. So I'm going to teach them out of fish and hopefully they spend a lot of money with you. I'm down with that. You know what my dad told somebody the other day about me? It kind of hurt my feelings. Do you realize that it was true?

It was very true. It was talking about kids playing baseball. He goes, oh, no, John David was the perfect baseball player. He said he was good enough to where he was interesting, but he wasn't so good that I had to spend a lot of time out of there. There was no future going to happen. No future. But he was okay to watch.

We weren't having to do any all-stars. Yeah. But he wasn't terrible. I was like, I don't know whether I'm happy or offended. Yeah. But you weren't eating nachos in a dugout either, right? I don't know. I watched the video the other day and it's this mom,

and it starts with her kid as like a little bit over T-ball, like Coach Pitch. And it's just her saying like, dang it Charlie for like 20 years all the way through college every time he strikes out you just hear the mom being like dang it Charlie I was like that might not be Charlie sport you know yeah yeah I like he's stuck with it but let him try something else chuck go go try something else chuck yeah no big deal well what's next for you mr stagner what where's where's life taking you after a sportsman's camp which by the way thank you for coming and investing in these young yeah what are you doing at sportsman's camp while you're here what are you teaching uh today we did some

rifle range stuff with the kids which was awesome i did it as buck norris my character buck norris who's america's greatest hunting coach uh you probably pull that up jade i've seen it it's rich in quality he's america's the greatest hunting coach you know i shoot with both eyes closed and you talk to the kids like that yes yes i did i did did they learn anything no they did not that's what tombo was there for but it was fun to watch man some of these kids have never fired a gun before in their life and then by the end of it they're just doing amazing you know they're hitting targets back to back and you can just see the fire in their eyes whenever they get it going so it is stuff like that i don't mind doing stuff like that it's it's it's it's as much for me as it is for them

that's exactly right yeah we've we've done it how many years now is this year five i think this is year five i was trying to i was talking to some parents and they were like what all do they do and i was like well technically i was only there for the whole thing for year one and we were really winging that yeah it's definitely gotten more robust It's like, they were like, did they bring their own guns? It's like, no, no, no, we got it all covered. Yeah, just like tomorrow, I'm actually taking my boat out there. And we're going to go through all kinds of things like.

You're taking your boat? I'm taking my boat. Are we putting it in the pond? No, I'm not going to go live-scope to Camp Chiokla. I'm not going, no, there ain't but that one six-pounder lives in there. He's been caught like 97 times. Let's go get him again. Yeah.

But now, just teaching them some different things like boat safety, like just things that you just don't think about. man like things that yeah we take for granted that our fathers and grandfathers and all that taught us i mean there's a lot going in when you decide i'm going to buy a boat and i'm about to haul this thing on a trailer around the country like there's just a lot a lot of things and nobody you know these kids aren't exposed to it so it's really fun to do these kinds of things for the coolest part is some of the kids are like you go out there and some of them kids i'm like well and i'm like oh crap he's he can fish better than me well and i'm like yeah but you notice those are you know those are kids start helping out the kids who parents in them there because they're trying to learn and it's

really cool to see that well and if you see kids also then you end up with kids like kade who i met i would have never met kade if he hadn't to come to sportsman's camp and now he works for us like so you know for us like you get to interview kind of the next generation of workers and kids and and all the thing like you that's what i'm saying you may want to pay attention when we're out there tomorrow night like you can find little diamonds in the rough and kids that get it and Like they just have the right personality, right blend and all the things. So it's very much a recruitment tool for us. You know, kind of on the job training.

Like, because one of the deals of building duck calls, I always ask. Like, it was the best one who did pretty good at that. Let me know. It is a different world, though, because I remember when I was a kid, you couldn't find another kid that didn't grow up the way I was growing up. Yeah, and we were all growing up like that. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, we were all rubbing dirt on it, say, and walk it off. Exactly. You didn't want to get in trouble from your parents. Everybody's leg. was broken in Walmart back when we were kids. Well, yeah. I mean, your whole Christmas break, you were hunting every day. Yeah, every kid was.

That's Thanksgiving break. Yeah, Thanksgiving break, same way. You come home just long enough for dinner and then you went right back. Exactly. Hunt it on Thanksgiving. And that was amazing. And it's a lost deal today. We watched the parade.

Did you? Yeah. I didn't grow up hunting. I grew up fishing and, you know, November. You're just going to watch a parade and take that. That's like, you know, people that live in the city. they have no idea what goes on with farmers, what they do and all that. You know, because they've never been around it.

Exactly. So like when you were talking about these kids teaching them something, you know, that's a good thing. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Because some of them come from families where they've never, you know, gone. What are you talking about? Right. You know, for people that actually live and hunt all the time, well, that's just another tool, one of our tools will use.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, people that don't do it. Well, that's something rare for them. Right. Oh, no, I remember year one of sportsmen's camp. Oh, what, Chambo? Oh, big chamb.

Yeah. Big cham, man. This dude had never been exposed to the outdoors or anything, and he hooks into a decent bass. Yeah. And I hear, I got one from across the pond, and I take off running. And I'm like, just back up, man. Don't even real. Just back up.

run up to run up the bank. And he just backs on up till that thing's on the bank. He picked that sucker up. You would have thought he won a million dollars. Yeah, he had my rod and reel. Oh, it was awesome. With a, that gum Ned rig on it, and he just threw it out there. And a big dummy went up there and ate it.

And it was like, the smile on that kid's face. His whole week was made on like the first afternoon. Yeah. Well, that's what I was telling Tombo. It was like, you see, just like that kid we were talking about today, that never shot a gun before, and then hits 20 in a row. it's like the light in his eyes. He's 20 in a row?

20 in a row. I'm not doing that. And look. I'm way too fidgety. What I'm saying is he might not ever shoot a gun again. That's the sad part. Yeah. But,

and it could also ignite a fire that next time you see him, he's shooting for the U.S. Olympic team. Like if he went, that's what Tombo said. Yeah, I mean, you just never know. Tombo Martin is in the house, by the way. Yeah, we're going to get Tombo in here, too.

We're going to get the other Martin in here too before we get out of here, for sure. A buck commander. You just hoped that they go home. and tell their parents how much they loved it and they say okay well maybe we got something here well and then you that you tell their parents too that may think that all guns are bad right because there's they get a lot of negative press they get way more negative press they do good press but you know in the right hands and taught the right way like they're a very good tool for

having fun if nothing else like i mean earning powder is fun i don't care what anybody's no like me okay we actually supplemented our food you know groceries mm-hmm absolutely When I went to the lake, it wasn't a plate. No. It was to catch the fish day for supper. Yeah, now they got us all convinced to throw them back. My grandpa dropped out of high school to sell catfish. That's a true story.

He dropped out of school to sell catfish. Hey, Phil Robertson built this whole place off of running trammel nets, hoop nets, and every other kind of limb line net thing you could think of because he had to sell fish to buy the wood for the duck calls. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, because everything he did, okay, was to sell the fish. Yeah, sell them all.

Hey, throw lines, your death, drop lines off of limbs. Any way you could catch a fish, we did it. Yeah, and I remember being a kid going with my grandpa, and I would get excited until I realized we had to run trot lines, and I remember as a kid being like, like, even if you knew it was going to be a long day. Oh, that's it. A long work day. That's another thing.

Most people don't understand. okay for you to go get in a boat go fishing somebody did a lot of work before that exactly okay because fishing and and hunting okay is work you know people always tell me oh i can't believe you're shooting them a little defensive land of us i said hey you need to close your mouth because you're showing your ignorant i said because hey look i said if it all it was to kill a deer hunting. All it was was pulling the trigger on the deer. I'd sell,

never going to God, never go again. I said, I'm shooting that thing for a reason. Amen. Hey, I'm going to take him and drag him back home after I gut him and get 90% of the weight out. Then I've got to go home, skin him, cut him up before I could put him in the freezer and we're not let the meat run.

Okay, and I'm going to eat on that sucker for about three months. It's going to be delicious. Yeah, which is, you know, venison is one of my favorite, you know, steak. It is my favorite. Oh, high in protein. Very high. But most people don't, they don't get into it because I always, I was watching the news one night. And that's been years ago.

And a woman in New York City said, oh, I'm so sick and tired of hearing about the farmers and all the trouble they got. If I just want some hamburger meat, I just go to the grocery store and get it. She said that? Yeah. No way. That woman don't even know. that a farmer had to raise that cow and then had to slaughter it

and take it yon to the meat then they cut it up, grind it up make hamburger meat out of it. I said, welcome to the real world there. Stupid? I've got to... I thought he was going to say sister, but stupid is black. I've got to say him with my son. I don't know if I told you all this or not.

I can't remember. But I'll say the world and my son will say is full of stupid people. Then I will say, don't. And he'll say, be one of them. And I said, that's right. I don't know, Ronald White is my favorite comedian for one reason. Oh, man. He comes out to sit.

You can't stick stupid. You cannot. You can't. Not even with duct tape, right? Well, on that note, I'm going to step out and let another Martin have my chair. You're gone? Yeah, I'm just going to. We're bringing in another Martin.

Well, look, I ain't trying to get a sigh up. Yeah, get another Martin in here. Well, look how fun this is. Yeah, I saw one all political on, y'all. Hunter, repeat after me. The world. No, I'm kidding. It's full.

I'm trying to get a catchphrase going here. I'll repeat that to me. Don't be one of them. Trying to get a catchphrase going. Ladies and gentlemen, our next guest joining the podcast is none other than Buck Commander, the Houston Astros own, Tom Martin. What's up, guys? What's going on?

Who's that guy? Look, there's pictures of you all over the Internet, man. Yeah, I was young at one point. You were young at one point. Nobody believes that. Tombo of Buck Commander and baseball fame has joined us. So he's teaching kids out of shoot with their eyes closed. What do you expect for me?

I can't do it. I can't shoot with both. What are you out there doing? He's going to do it. He's just open. That's right. Both of them. Both of them.

But I got a question. How did you meet Willie Robertson? Oh, Lord. That's a question that a lot of people ask me. I don't know. I'm serious. Okay, here it is. I was pitching with the Rockies back in 2006.

And I walked into the clubhouse at home. And there was this dude sitting on. on one of our couches. Yep. A hairy dude. With the ugliest boots I've ever seen. Red boots. Oh,

Lord. You got it. Exactly. That's exactly right. I love it. So I'm walking around a clubhouse. I'm like, does anybody know who this cat is?

I just want to introduce myself to him. I knew he was at media. They're not allowed to sit on the couches. They got to stand up and wait by your locker if they want to talk to you. And Willie didn't look like he wanted to talk to anybody anyways. So Todd Helton finally comes in from the batting cage as early hitting. I said, I said, do you know who that dude is? He goes, that's my buddy Willie.

I said, is he homeless? He started laughing. He goes, no, he's not homeless. He goes, you ever heard a duck commander? I said, I've heard of him. But I'm not a wing shooter. He goes, yeah, they've been doing it since the 70s, and this, that, and the other one, Willie kind of running the company.

And I said, all right, cool. So he's a buddy year. He goes, yeah, I said, whatever said, hey to him. And that was it. We just started talking about hunting and stuff like that. and he said, you duck, hunt? I was like, no, I don't. I said, I would.

I just don't. I have a hard enough time shooting things standing still, right? So to sigh. So we talked about it a little bit, and then he showed up again. We were playing the Dodgers. He showed up, and we hung out a little bit in the clubhouse. He goes, man, he goes, we're going down to Texas in the off season to shoot some deer. Would you like to go?

And I was like, well, of course I would. So without even clearing it with my boss, you know who that is. My wife, I said, I'm in. I thought you were going to say the coach. No, no, I didn't listen to any of them. That's why my career was so short. No, he means real balls. That's right, the one that counts.

The one that counts. Number two, behind the big one. Okay. Right? So, yeah, so we talked about it, and I said, I'm in. And after the game, I called my wife, I went home to my wife, I said, I'm going to Texas this offseason. She said, for what? I said, well, I met this guy, and he said, you want to come hunting?

And I said, yeah. She was, well, who is you? I said, I don't know, really. He said, well, his name's Willie, and his family shoots a lot of ducks and stuff like that. And this is before I knew anything about y'all, the life or the story. And, of course, I learned a good a bit about it later. But we had a good time. And we met in the hill country of Texas and for four or five days just shot everything we saw.

And now I can't stop. There you go. And that's how, that's basically the story of Buck Commander was Willie sleeping and hanging out on random couches until he got enough people to pay for it. That's correct. Now, you can call it what you will, but that's smart business on his part. No, no, I fix it. That's the entrepreneur in Willie.

Hey, if you ain't got any money, find those that do have it. He picked a pretty target-rich environment with baseball. No, no. Hey, you know. That's what you're supposed to do. If you want to start a business, you have a good idea, but you don't have the capital. Yeah.

Find the people that do and have like interests, then go for it. And here we are, 20 years later. And look what happened. Yeah. But I'll tell you this, and we have you to think for this, and you and you over there, my favorite Martin, when Doug Dynasty took off, we were right behind y'all.

Without y'all, we would not be where we are. So I thank you for that. You guys paved the road for us. I would point towards a certain old gentleman who used to wear glasses for that. He really, and here's one of the things that. that I need to add right here, okay? People always say, hey, can one man make difference? I'm here to tell you, one man can make a difference.

That's correct, yeah. Okay, if he stands up for what he believes in, it always does, okay, I call it, hey, you talk to talk, let's see about can you walk to walk with it. Well, and really, that's what the Robertsons are good for. 100% okay is that god blessed us okay knowing okay and this is infinite wisdom of the almighty knowing if hey you know i always said this way hey god did his part he blessed us just so we could bless other people and that's that's the way this should work and then when you think about it it's a good way to do it God blesses this person, and then this person blesses 25 more people, and then those blessed.

And then it just keeps, the ripple effect just keeps going. It's infectious. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Another thing, if it wasn't for all of this happening, I wouldn't have been baptized. I promise you that. Because I was never even a thought in my mind, right?

Mm-hmm. And I knew Willie for, I don't know, nine, ten years before we even had a discussion about that. And it was in his backyard. We were doing commercials for the Buck Commander. And we got stuck on this one sponsor. We just need something funny, something cool. We just couldn't do it. He said, we'll stop by the house afterwards.

This is like June, like now. So we pull up, and it's 97 degrees outside. Willie's got a fire about nine feet high in his backyard, and he's just sitting there. I'm like, what is it? Trial by fire, huh? Oh, this guy lost his fire? Yeah, he finally lost it.

And so we pull up and we start talking about just stuff. And then Grant Taylor had just got back from a trip from Georgia and he was like, yeah, I got some people on the radar. I'm like, what do you mean? What does that mean? Well, people, I want to bring to the Lord, you know. I got them targeted. I'm like, oh, cool.

So we talked about that. And I don't know, two and a half hours later, we got through all the commercial stuff. And they got quiet and I was just hypnotized by the fire. And I could see Willie's head just go. I'm like, I. And I'll put my hand on the Bible. At that point, I said, here we go. I knew what was coming.

So weird, man. Not weird. It's just weird for me. Yeah. He said, Tom Boggs, I've never talked to you about your conviction. Man, where do you stand? I said, what does that mean? He said, if you were to die right now.

Where do I stand? Where do I stand on what? Well, I'm sitting at your house. Yeah. He goes, if you were to die right now, would you go to heaven or hell? I said, pretty sure I'd go to hell. He goes, whoa. I said, what do you mean?

He goes, I've never had anybody answer that. Most people say purgatory or heaven, which there is no purgatory. I did not know that either until that night, right? So about 2 o'clock, 2.15 in the morning, I went under the water. And I came up, man, it's a different feel. You know, you guys know what I'm talking about. Yeah. It's incredible.

That's a real buck commander's story. When you come out of the water, you feel lighter. I felt so good. No, no. It was incredible. And, you know, I watched one of our camera guys get baptized at Adams Place in Fort Scott and cried like a baby. And I told Will, I said, I don't understand why I was so upset.

He goes, do you feel like you're missing something? I said, dang it. Yep. I guess so. I didn't know it, but yeah, man. And he goes, well, are you ready? I said, yeah, let's do it. He goes, you serious?

I'm like, yeah. But the only bad part about it is I had to wear a pair of his swimming shorts. Those didn't fit. Well, it's not even the fit part I was worried about. They smelled? I don't know. I just know they were on him at some point. I didn't fit for sure.

I didn't know how we were going to end this one with Tombo coming. This was not my. Yeah, but that's what, that's kind of what we always do because you're right about the fact that we're all in this room because of one man. And I'm going to point back to your brother, who we just lost recently. And because he made that decision, we're sitting with Justin. We're sitting with Tombo, Hunter's in here, Justin Martin's in here, size's in here, Beth's in here. And without him

turning his life to the Lord, I don't, I mean, you're probably still a comedian. I don't know what I'm, I'm just selling worms on the side of the road. I'm not here. I'm not here. I'm trying to figure out how to wrap up this episode because it was a wild one. We had the president, we had a comedian, we had baseball,

we had sigh, we talked about all sorts of stuff. But we have sportsmen's camp, and I think we always end one with the Bible version. I think I'm just going to go with one of Phil's favorites. Because all of us in here are blessed to work in the outdoor industry in some fashion or make jokes about it or sell stuff for it or shoot stuff on video. And one of Phil's favorite verses was orders from headquarters boys.

Acts 10, 13, and there came a voice to him, rise, Peter, kill and eat. That's what we're doing. That's what we do every day. We're just out there making food because it's delicious. Lots of it. God's grocery store. And that voice that said that was the. creator.