Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Moved to Tears by a Mom’s Miracle Story

Episode Date: November 13, 2025

Godwin’s “Speedo situation” steals the show early, and Martin confesses to a major parenting blunder that has the potential to ruin his duck hunting season. Uncle Si meets a little girl named Lydia who’s fighting a terminal illness. Her mom, Morgan, shares how one small $16 miracle has revealed God’s hand in every step of Lydia’s journey. Si is moved to tears, and John-David, who knows firsthand what it’s like to watch your child face medical challenges, urges anyone who’s able to help this brave family in their time of need. If you’d like to help Lydia and learn more about her fight, see the link in the show notes below. https://www.gofundme.com/f/SaveLydia - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, welcome back to the Duck Call Room, ladies and gentlemen. We are back. Here again. It's been so long since I've been here. It's November. And yeah, it's a good time of year, man. Full moon. Full moons, rocking and rolling.

Duck season is right there. You can see it. But before it gets here, make sure to get your digital duct stamp and duckstamp. It's so easy. Gobwin did it. Gobwin, pull up your wallet and show them your duck stamp. They're tired of looking at mine.

Watch how quick this works. Do you just watch you. Boom. Oh, oh. Yeah, boys. Almost as fast as me. I was praying. That is good.

If you are, if it's a little complicated to you, find a friend like Martin. There you go. It's real easy. And then you're done. You don't have to worry about your duck stamp anymore. You're legal. You can go duck hunting, but. And it's duck season.

And we just got through celebrating an event over in Texas for duck hunting. Me and Galvin went to the Ducks Unlimited. What was it, Ray Hubbard? Lake Ray Hubbard. Cliquette. What's that? It is more. One of them cities outside Dallas, you know.

Oh, it's a taral. I'll tell you where it is, about 20 minutes from Buckees in Terrell. That's exactly right. It's rude when you send me that photo and then don't bring anything back. What, me and Godwin? Where you eat it? Yeah. Me, Godwin, and Philip spend an hour at Buckees.

It was magical. An hour? Probably, yeah, by the time it's all sitting there. Chocolate covered, pecans. Yeah. Slice, brisket, salmon. I mean, you're not going to get recognized in every gas station you go in, Godwin. But were you like a bar.

Mild's like Justin Bieber in there? A baby just looked. They just looked and they said it. That's not, he wouldn't be here. Yeah, I got it because I was walking around my little vlog camera. I was buying the boys, you know, obviously we've documented Crunchy, the beaver on here. Oh, goodness. Well, Buckees is a beaver and they have little beavers dressed up as Santa Claus.

So I got the boys Santa Crunchies and now it's what they sleep with at night. So I did not. That was not the intention. It was more of like, ha ha, but no, they just hug the bea. So now I can't. You got to be nice to crunchy now. You have to kill that beaver. No.

You have to shoot that beaver. I can not kill the beaver. We've already raised the funds. Yeah. We got Clay in, I'm in. I got a couple of sponsors for a stuffed beaver. So your kids are now sleeping with bucky stuffed animals at night? Mm-hmm.

Get them a duck. Good on you, sir. No, I ain't getting them a duck. No, ducks are off limits. We're not going to watch Peppa Pig because wild hogs are very much on the menu. I didn't really think about this one, Paul Patrol and Rubble were saving that beaver.

You didn't think it would go down the road. I didn't think this part of it through. Now you're like a beaver apologist. No. Is that the right word? No, you just can't do it in front of them. So, Cy, I'm going to need you to calm down on the beaver talking for the boys if you don't mind.

We're taking Crunchy to Jee. Okay. Because he's been bad. For eternity. He's been bad so we take crunchy to jail. That's what we do with him now. So how does that? I've failed as a parent is what I see in your eyes.

I can see it in your face that I have failed you as a dad. What do you think, Cy? I'm speechless. That's the first. The only thing that could make Cy speechless was Martin's kids falling in love with a wild beaver that will ruin all of duck season and martin can't bring himself to disposing of him oh that's a unique animal he is he's a cool one yeah he's he i say this like field didn't ever kill him all either not because he couldn't it is fun like the little chess match with a beaver is actually

pretty fun because they're better at it than you are that's the that's the fun part is trying to stop something that's smarter than you at making water flow or stopping it from flowing. It's actually-Napom. Well, yeah, sigh goes big. Si uses excavators and dynamite. Burn them out, boys. That first season of Duck Dynasty was wild. Yeah.

It was sign every explosion he could come up with versus the beaver. Yeah, every reason to make something blow up. And I didn't know about the what perma thing on the ground. because when I threw my napalm and a fever hole, it set the woods on fire. Oh, yeah, with the whole tunnel up under there, the whole tunnel system, yeah. Si had 100 yards of ground on fire.

You found every hole in it because smoke was coming out of it. It was pretty funny. That's awesome. I like setting things on fire. Yeah. What is it with fire? I will say if you hear something in the background, folks, we have a special guest that's going to come in after this opening

segment. It is a really powerful story. Unbelievable story. Technically, I don't know that I believed it for a second. I was like, this is for real. But right now she's playing with a balloon having the time of her life. That's all good. And I love it.

Yeah. So we'll get to that. I just wanted you all right. What's that sound? It's actually not my kids. Praise the Lord. Which is a shot because all the cameras are still up right and nobody's been tackled yet. None of them have had a rock thrown in their back.

Any more fights lately? Yeah. Yeah, Wayland's become a pretty big fan of the word mine in the past few days for some reason. I'm a big fan of that word too. Yeah, but what he doesn't understand is technically none of it's his. It's technically mine. So, or his mother's. Except for that beaver.

Except for Crunchy. They can have Santa Crunchy. Wait, is it a Santa Buckey's fever? Yes, he's got a beard. He's got a hat. Oh, my goodness, Martin. What have you done? Santa Crunchy.

Oh, there was a big, big, sign of blow-up Santa Claus, about 30 feet tall. Yeah. And Martin said, I need to be it on. I was going to buy it. He's carrying around. So he's got a duck call around his neck, and he's got, like, ducks in his little toy bag. And it's a blow-up one? Yeah, but we were already burning a midnight oil,

and I didn't want to have to wait on it to deflate to take it home with us. So I passed on the option of buying it. He said, I need to get that. I wanted it, though, because I thought it'd be a great conversation piece for my neighborhood. That's a good conversation piece. I almost bought the Chewbacca stand up for the living room that has a Santa hat on. And it's like seven foot tall. But I was afraid that Allison would leave.

But I'm still thinking about it because they got a couple of them. I judge him about a hair you left on that deodor. You could just walk in wearing a Santa hat and get the same effect. I'm not Chewbacca. Just from the neck up, I can grow a lot of hair. But at what I'd say. At 36, it's starting to get weird. It's starting to grow other places.

I don't like it. I'm not a fan of it. I'm about to Michael Phelps my whole body. Oh, really? No. Okay. All right. I'm just accepting it.

Yeah, that's fine. Godwin's got a visual there for a second. Godwin, you ever wore a Speedo and shaved your legs? Yeah. I ain't shaved my legs. Wait, out of those two, the one you've done is worn a Speedo? What? When?

Why? Where? How old? Because he could. Pictures. Because he could. Does your Speedo have like Paula's face on him? That'd be kind of funny. I am the proud owner of a camouflaged duck commander speedo that I've never worn in public.

Really? Somebody sent it to Willie. I said, keeping that. But you've worn it? Around the house. Just to see. Yes. Sometimes you got to make your woman laugh.

Yeah. And that will do it. And that's something. borrow. Yeah. Right? Hey, man, let me borrow that speedo. No.

No, we're not, no. So you had one at one point? They'll got it. Yes. You got it. Yes. Why? He said that was a little twinkle in his eyes.

Yeah. I've heard vacation Godwin is a different kind of guy, but I need, I need you to tell me. Oh, it ain't going in public. Okay. All right. This is private parties only, son. You wear it to the deer camp when it's this year of Ms. Paul?

Oh, yeah. I'll tell you where, where is it? Where? Hot tub. Oh, boy, boys. Hot tub. Oh, is it your hot tub speed of? Yeah.

Okay. There you go. We had so many plans today and this was not on it. Rollmast is in the air. It is. Love never dies, right? There you go. Is yours camouflage like mine?

No, it's red. Oh. Like fire engine red? Pretty much. Hey, Red. I'm guessing. Hey, red is a good color. Yes.

Do you have any red speedos? No, but I had a red silk jacket with a dragon. A big fire breathing dragon on it. Yeah, he knows. And he was bright, bright red. So I doesn't have to wear red. He married red. That's it.

You know, it's, wow. I don't, it never, never ceases to amaze me where we get to in here. Got some initials. And I'm not real sure how to get from Speedos to our next topic of conversation. Yeah. there's no way there's no line from this to that there isn't one i've tried to build a bridge but i don't think it exists i had the intro in my mind when we came here i think i need to do like crunchy and just build a beaver dam and just stop the flow yeah let and then we'll remember when we used to say hey we're

about to have an ad we might should do that yeah we're going to take a break yeah yeah okay well let's take a break and we're going to get our guest in here and uh hopefully you guys find this as cool as we did. I find it really. And as we do, did, do, I don't know. A lot of things. Whatever. Anyway, we'll be back.

It happened yesterday. Come on, Morgan. We'll be back. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means. That means more outside cooking. And y'all know, we love to eat beef around here.

And that's what, because of our friends over at Triedale's beef, makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sao Robertson, would say, buy on a grill! Look, before we got Tritels, 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 Tritels beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way. Tritels 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 Tritale's beef. I know in size case Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat. She isn't a big meat either, folks. Yeah. Just go to Tribalienable.

beef.com slash that's trybeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. I hate all social media to some extent, but I know it's a good thing, right? Yeah, it can be. It can be a very good thing. And we've stumbled across something, Sa. We have a friend, new friend. We met her a minute ago, but we met on Facebook yesterday. Her name's Morgan. She's got a crazy story to tell. But here's the deal. It started with TikTok, and I hate TikTok. So now I have to apologize because TikTok has done good in the world.

TikTok costs me a lot of money. Does it? Yeah, Brittany loves a TikTok shop. Is that a thing? Mm-hmm. See, I don't even know that. Is that a thing? Yeah, man.

Like heated gloves show up and weird, just like, I don't know. It's weird, man. Okay, so anyway. Anyway, I digress. We found great news on social media and the world has enough bad news going on. So we've got a cool story to tell.

Cy, this is Morgan. Hello, I'm glad. You ever met? Great to meet you. I've never met you in person, obviously. But here we are. Here we are now. So Morgan kind of reached out on Facebook, but she basically said, does anybody know any of the Robertson podcast people?

And we, you've got some. Desperate, okay? You've got some. I'm going to do what I got to do. And I've asked, and here I am. Here she is. And Beth said it to me, and then me and Martin talked about it. And I said, I'm just going to see what she's doing tomorrow and morning because we're filming.

And here we are. Yeah. I took off work. I made him take off work. That's awesome. Well, also, kudos to your bosses for letting you do this because this is a, I mean, I view it as a very worthy thing of what we're about to talk about. I don't, you know, sometimes you don't know why you do these things or what the platform is there for. But then every now and then, it just kind of writes itself.

And this one wrote itself. Morgan, I don't want to just say go, but yeah. Go. Why are you here? Why are you here, Morgan? All right. I'll start from the beginning. Okay.

So. You have a good podcast voice. I'm going to let you know that. Oh, yeah, she's good. Yeah. She's in. But go ahead, sorry. So that's our little Lydia.

She's three years old. Lydia's in the building, by the way. She was playing with the building. The problem with Lydia, there was one problem when they walked in. They said, we're sorry she doesn't like guys with beards except for dad. And I was like, Crout row. I was a little nervous.

She's not crying. So she was waving. Yeah. We're making progress. And she's waving now and smile. So we're good. We're working. So Lydia was born on October 16th in 2020.

Three years ago. So I had the perfect pregnant. Well, my twins were born October 12th, 2020. So we're four days apart. That's crazy. Awesome. I knew, yeah. She's taller than Wayla.

Oh, yeah. She's a big girl. She's tall. That's awesome. She's a big girl. Sorry about that. You're good. So, I had a perfect pregnancy, perfect labor, perfect delivery.

When she came out, doctor said she was perfect. Just living our life, brought her home. We have a six-year-old also. We were just so happy to have our little complete family. So when she turned 18 months old, my mom sends me a TikTok video. And it's a little girl that looks just like her. Could have been her twin. So immediately got my attention.

And I was like, that looks just like Lydia. So, you know, I'm just flabbergasted about it. And it's a mom advocating for her daughter of a disease called San Felipe syndrome. So I'm just stalking it. And I'm looking. And it, the mom starts to say it's turretsy. It's like childhood Alzheimer's. The kids will lose all of their abilities. Walking, talking, feeding themselves, suffer with seizures, and die. Life expectancy is not past teenage years.

So I was reading more into it. And symptoms that were going along with it, the mom was advocating about, ear infections, a distended belly, GISU, such as constipation, sleep disturbances, thick eyebrows, Those symptoms are common things that babies have, so I was never alarmed by anything. So I, at this point, I cannot sleep at night. And it was just a radar ringing in my head constantly. I could not sleep. So I took it to our pediatrician, and I felt like I was crazy, like my child is perfectly fine, and I never thought anything was wrong with her.

So I took it to our pediatrician, who is my pediatrician. We live in a small town. Everyone knows everybody. Amen. Same. Same. Right. Martin still goes to the pediatrician just so we're all clear. I went in. There's no aid limit.

Just because they specialize in kids, they're still humans. So, you know, they still give you a steroid shot. I was going in anyway because she had an ear infection. It was like her 10th one at this point. And we're going to get a shot. So while we were there, I looked at our pediatrician and I said, do not think I'm crazy whenever I show you this. But I came across this video and this little girl is her twin and she's having these same

three or four symptoms that Lydia is having. And I showed him the TikTok video, the side by side pictures and he looks, he sits down and he says, I've never been asked this before. I'm going to have to leave the room and go look it up myself. Give me 15 minutes and I'll come back in here. And so he did. And he comes back in and he says, I can't tell you she doesn't have it, but just know that children come in here with all the times with ear infections.

They don't sleep. They got constipation issues. But I'm going to order you the test so we can roll it out and you can sleep better. So we go to Willis Knighton and Shreepwork because our little hospital did not facilitate the blood work and testing. It was a urine test. And we go to Willis Knighton and had the lab work done, the blood test. and I was going, I hadn't heard anything.

It had been a week. And I got off of work one day to go pick up the girls from my mom because she keeps them for me. And I'm sitting in the living room. My mom says, have you looked up her test results yet? And I was looking at every day. And I hadn't that day. So I'm sitting in the couch.

And I pull up the patient portal. And it says positive. San Felipe syndrome in PS3. That's okay. Yeah. You're good. I've done this a million times. Huh.

As you can imagine, breathtaking, worst I'm off. For sure. The fact that I thought she was perfectly fine for 18 months. And then, bam, a terminal disease for she's going to suffer and lose all the abilities that she was gained. Yeah. children don't usually get diagnosed until they are four or five, six years old when they've already started to regress. Lydia has not had brain damage.

She has not had any regression. As you can tell, she is your typical titherto. Yeah, she's having a ball over there, by the way. Yeah, she finally got comfortable with us. My mom witnessed me that TikTok video. She's no longer afraid of beards. Yeah. If my mom wouldn't send me that TikTok video,

I would still not know any different because she is full of life. I mean, she has a slight speech delay, but even whenever she had her evaluation stuff, they said it was nothing to be alarmed out. Yeah. Yeah. So we found out I was hysterical.

As you should be. That's a fair reaction. I felt like the life was ripped out of me. Yeah. And my mom obviously had been looking this stuff up before she sent me this video. That woman is my rock. and she looked it up. She saw that there was treatments out there in the world,

but they were only in clinical trials, and they were not approved by the FDA yet. So they were not on the market. So she looked at me and she said, Morgan, I do not look as this is terminal. You get out there and you beat her voice and you go get her that treatment. So it took me about two weeks.

I was in a very dark place. I wasn't eating. I felt like I couldn't even be a mom. I just feel like I could not do anything. And I was laying in bed one night and I was in my dark place, couldn't sleep. And something told me to go look up if Lydia meant anything in the Bible. So I'm laying in bed and I Google. Is Lydia mentioned anywhere in the Bible?

And it brought up Acts chapter 1614. Lydia is the woman of purple as she sold purple expensive cloth. So then it just hit me. Lydia was born on the 16th. I found out I was pregnant with her on Valentine's Day on the 14th. So then I look up what color represents San Felipe's syndrome. It was purple. Lydia was also born at 808, which is 16.

San Felipe Awareness Day is November 16th. So this 16th, this number 16 has been what's pulled me and my Godwink immediately whenever I saw all that, it like pulled me out of my dark place. I stepped out of bed and I hit Kirk and I said, look at this. And from that moment on, I knew I had to be that voice. I couldn't be in a dark hole anymore and I had to get out there and fight for her. We went, put her on the wait list for a, looked up a clinical trial. She was on the wait list for one in California. Should not get into it.

And I said, okay, well, I just got to get her voice out there. I got to let people hear her story before it's too late. So, like the mom I saw was advocating for her daughter, I got on TikTok and I made a hope for Lydia TikTok. Immediately the first three videos introducing her to the world and telling her story, how she was diagnosed, got millions of views, and I had zero followers. Don't know how that happened? That's a God thing in itself. And I was like, okay, I can do this.

And people are reaching out to me. Within two weeks, I had people's magazine reaching out to me. Like, let me help you, share her story. And I got about 15 different news articles and worldwide news places reaching out to me on the story of me wanting to save her. So I was just busy, busy, busy. And I got her story out there. And once it were to the People magazine,

it just was all over the place. So. When was all this, by the way? She was diagnosed on April 4th, 2024. So it was a year and a half ago. A year and a half ago, 18 months ago. Yes. So I just got out there and I've been advocating for her ever since.

there has been she didn't get into that clinical trial there's also one in japan that gives in the medicine that they need and that one was already full with japan san philippo children because there it's one in 70,000 seems small but there are hundreds of kids out there with this and so i've been advocating for her there's been no treatment options we and every i've just been fundraising and fundraising trying to get a clinical trial started the clinical trial that she was on the wait list for It shut down last year because of funding. A new pharmaceutical company bought it out, and they are taking that research that is enough research to the FDA saying, this drug works, and we need to get it to the kids.

So they're taking all that research and sent it to the FDA, and this was announced at the beginning of this year, and they're sent it to the FDA at the beginning of 2006, so this year. That pharmacocastodal company that we heard on Sunday, there has been no treatment option for her. her and we're getting into the period of time to where she is about to start regression, regression, and time is ticking. On Sunday, we were told that that pharmaceutical company that has all the research and has made the drug and sending it to the FDA can make extra medicine for the children to get while waiting for the FDA approval if we can get to,

get to $6 million and $3.8 million by December 1st. So that is a miracle in itself that this medicine is even reachable for our child and it will be available for 15 other children like her. So we got this news. My community and us and us advocating had already reached I think $473,000. and it still just wasn't enough for a clinical trial. There's a millions of dollars. So for this pharmaceutical company to come out and tell us that my kid can get a treatment, my can get a treatment before brain damage begins is a miracle in itself because it's never been an expanded access period for any kid in the same flavor community

to get that drug. So once we were told that news on Sunday, I immediately went on my social media and was like, Help me now. And I truly feel that God made me her mom for a reason. And 18 months ago, I was such in a dark hole. And there's absolutely no way that I can do this. And I feel like God gave it to me, gave it to us, because he knew that we could handle it.

And I feel like that I've become such a large, voice for these children that it's my only option for my child. So I have a voice and I'm just trying to get it out there that there are children like Lydia and others like her. There's a treatment out there that can save her life. And the science of it is her body is missing an enzyme that our bodies have. Without that enzyme, a toxic waste is going to build up in her body and it is going to cause brain damage. That's why children look like they have their normal children and they have all the potential in the world.

That toxic waste. She's getting on camera now, by the way. That toxic waste will build up and that's what causes the brain damage and then you just watch the children deteriorate over time. So I was given the news on Sunday and I have been not sleeping, advocating, putting it out there, the story like, help me save my daughter.

and this is our last chance to save her before the disease takes over and the brain damage begins. So this is for 14 other kids as well? Correct. All right. Girl, you got a wild story. Yes. So the $3.8 million has to be reached by December 1st because that's how much it takes for this drug. And it is a blessing that this company is even saying, hey, we will make extra if y'all can,

if y'all can come up with the money to get this. I just Yeah I'm trying to figure out the words So you know I got on TikTok And I was like So let me tell you about this God wink I mean I tell you there's been God wink

And I'm going to tell you we would be here all day If I told you about all these Godwinks Sorry are you on TikTok Has been That God has placed in my life during this And to be honest I went to church New God

But I didn't ever feel God until this. And he has pulled me out of my dark place. And I just feel like God made me her mom for a reason. And he gave me the situation to get closer to him.

And I tell God every night, make this my testimony and give me this miracle so I can shout it to the roostop so I can tell everybody else. Yeah. So I got, after we found out on,

remember number 16, I got on TikTok, social media, and was telling her story that Sunday night after I found out and this is what we need. So I was in Hobby Lobby and...

Praise God. I was in the checkout line getting something from my daughter. You can get up here. Get up here and talk in that microphone. Yeah, come on, sweet girl. This is Lydia. She's in now.

Yeah. You say hi. Hi, Lydia. Hello. Yeah. She just wanted to make sure that we knew who it was. She wanted to put a face to it, right?

Yeah. So I was in her. Hobby Lobby, and I'm at the checkout line, and there was this book sitting on the shelf, and it said, the women of the Bible speak, and it was 16 women, and then it was purple, and it said the price was 1619. And I'm like, hmm, I'm going to get it. Yeah, you should buy that. I should buy that. That is the Lord telling you buy this book. That's the Lord telling you buy that. So I get up to the cashier and hang on, bring me my phone card. I got to read it off.

I get up to the cashier and checking out. And he was like, hmm, that's a weird price. And I'm like, hmm. So I'm like, is this a God wink? I'm always looking for Godwinks. So I get to my car and I pull up Bible verses with 1619. And it pulls up. Joe, 1619.

even now my witness is in heaven. My advocate is on high. I am the advocate. I am the advocate. And my witness is in heaven. So, there's my 16. So then my husband was... I ain't cold, but I got chills.

My husband was elk hunting in Colorado that same week. And he gets on on Thursday and he has... Did you kill a 16 point? Unfortunately, none. Oh, my word, Martin. I was going to lose it. Did you miss at 16 yards? because there's a lot of ways this could go.

I'm kidding. So he brings them home a, it was like a little moose. Purple, it was like this purple tinted moose. And on the price tag it was 16. Purple, 16. So then, you know, I'm advocating on TikTok. You know, I'm just, I'm always feeling these Godwinks, but I'm advocating on TikTok.

At the point in time I had 375,000 followers. one of my followers comment on there and she said if you have 375,000 followers if 375 people sent you $16 that's your $6 million and I'm like okay God here I go so what did I do? I got on TikTok

and I told them about those godwinks and how 16 so you're just raising his number $16 I asked 375,000 people to send me $16 and I want to say since I've done that, I've raised over $200,000 just from the world trying to help me with $16. And every minute my phone is popping up with the number 16 from people sending me $16.

Our community has been the biggest blessing behind us. And right now there's about 30 raffles. She's marking her spot. Yeah, right away. That's fine. Go ahead. There is about 30 raffles got. She does have a Sharpie now that she just found.

Everybody's written here. I'm going to give you a shout out. You thought it was another pen. I said, I'm going to warn you. That one's a little more permanent. Yes. And it's so beautiful how the community and not just our community, every time I open up Facebook, there's a person messaging me.

I can't keep up with the messages. There is not just from our town. It's like a local parish and out of town people doing fundraisers for her and put that 16 out there like she just needs $16.16 can save her life. And number 16 for LSU Tigers is a mod bro who is a local guy from Rustin, Louisiana. I'm just, I'm not very good, very good young man by the way, very good kid, you know, have ducked under with a buddy of his and so I just you start thinking about all these things as I'm here looking at this purple LSU Yeti Cup and I'm like, I'm trying to wrap what am I supposed to do with this purple cup now because I want to do something.

with it like you know i don't need the thing i can drink out of anything when they told me a little bit about your story i was thinking about okay how can i help you know and the first thing that coming to my mind was who did you turn to when you got hit the gut with this well i know this you was in a dark place but guess what okay there's three of them involved in this. Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Okay, because there's too much

tied to his biblical word with this young lady right here. Absolutely. That's why I say. Give me this miracle so I can shout this to the roof. No, no. I don't know how this is going end.

Okay, but, you know, have peace in your heart Almighty. Does it Paul do this? I believe it 100%. Oh. Mm-hmm.

You ain't supposed to be the one crying, old man. You're supposed to be our rock. Yeah, but I can't help it. Everybody knows me and him do this. No, no. Because when I'm out speaking, I always tell people, you don't believe because you've never

seen them do anything or folks open your eyes, God's heavily involved with this couple here and this young lady. Like said, Father, I don't know how you're going to end this,

but, you know, thank you for this testimony because it strengthens me in my faith and my belief in you three. Yeah. Tell him. Say amen. Well, here's what I'm going to do for sure.

But anybody, of our fans, here's what we're going to do. I was wondering what to do. Lindsay just text me from behind camera. I mean, I don't think it's a just happenstance that there's a purple cup that I sit here and drink out of every week. I'm going to sign it.

I'm going to get side to sign it. I'm going to get Johnny D to sign it. So if you're listening to this on Duck Call Room and you feel led to donate $16 to this call, put DCR out behind your name wherever this is. And one of y'all will get this. I'm sorry if you're not an LSU fan. That's not my fault.

LSU on the front. tiger. By the way. Purple is still a good color. Purple still a good color. Get past the LSU, fill it in, do whatever you want to, put roll tight across front. I don't really care. Because we got a lot of them Alabama folks in here.

But as we should. But whenever you do that, we will get with them and one of y'all will get this cup. So we'll give the cup away as part of an incentive program. We don't. We don't currently having a purple duck call. I would say we could do something there. But I don't, we couldn't get that turned around in time. for you guys for December the first either.

Yeah. My mind is just like just wrapping my head around the fact that. You think yours is, my kids are four days older than that, than Little Lydia. Yeah. Like four days. Like we're talking about not, not four years, four months, four days. We were all in the hospital at the same time. Yeah.

And I got two little three-year-old boys that, I mean, I get it. Like, I don't understand. Yeah. You're processing through all this is. Incredible. Yeah, you were right. There's a reason God chose you. I'm just going to say it like this.

Mom, my hat's off to you. Yeah. Because you could have chosen a bunch of different paths. You could have stayed locked in that dark spot and accepted, you know, the current fate of whatever that looked like or you could get up and fight. And fighters fight, man, and fighters win. And fighters, I mean, it's a really cool deal of the path that you chose. I just want to commend you on the path that you chose because that even this path, while we all say that we would do it, and it seems, it's very easy to seem like that's the right thing to do.

It's not easy. It's not easy. Getting up every day knowing that, holy cow, we've got to raise $6 million. Holy, but the fact that there's even a chance to raise $6 million to be done something is incredible, by the way, that this is there is a treatment out there. Thank God for living in 2025, right? So for all you people griping about where we live, yeah, this wasn't possible a year ago. Just remember that.

Like, this was not even possible. So before you get on your little soapbox about where we live and why it's so terrible, look what could possibly happen for young Lydia and this family and for 16 other families, right? 15 other families. There's more good people on the world than there is bad. Yeah, just the bad ones. I just see it to hit all the good people. Well, the bad one, you hit all the good people.

But if you are bad, we'll take $16. A lot of people, you can believe in circumstances, and you can. can believe in coincidences and you can believe in all this or you could just put your faith in one man it's not a coincidence there's too many godwinks i haven't even would be on her hours that's what i'm talking about it to be a coincidence it's way it's way it takes way more faith to believe in that many coincidences to line up than it does to believe in a creator just think about that the almighty is is involved in this and like i said i don't know how he's going to end it but I know this, he takes bad stuff and then turns it around and uses it to show his glory.

Amen. Yeah. Okay. And Father, that is our prayer to you. Yeah. Take this disease and then make it a laughing matter because your glory will shine over all of it. Hey, well, better than that, let's just make it official. Do a prayer, big fella.

Let's do it. Father, we bring Lydia into your throne room. And Father, we know there's three of you. You, your son, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, and your Holy Spirit, who guided the man to record your word. Father, our request is, and we are on our knees, Father, before you, is it please not only heal Lydia, but also heal those that are affected by it.

the other 15 or even more than that. You know how many. Okay, but our request is, and we beg you, Father, please heal this child and the rest of them. And we ask this to your son and our Savior and our master, Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Amen.

Amen. Unbelievable. Now, this isn't just our family having to fundraises. This is all the families. Yeah. It's all the families together. Yes, and we have hit 1.2 million as of yesterday. We got 2.6 to go.

2.6 is what we need. We got 16 popping up on my phone. Okay. And we got those other families found the right little nurse with the can-do attitude from Nackettish. Yeah. They're like, they made you feisty for a reason. They did. You send all his orders back at the restaurant, don't you?

Yeah, well, somebody got to tell them they screw. I'm married to one just like you, so don't worry about it. One person can't like a different. Yes. It happened. She's a little lip. Oh, yeah. And good for being a mom.

Good for being an advocate for your child, too. And a day where, and it is easy, right? Like, I'm not even going to protect, but like the same deal of, you know, we had one Jackson who ended up in speech therapy and like just the delays and the things that then you, you go down a tailspin spiral of something's wrong with my child. And, you know, you're told by everybody, no, it's normal. No, they're normal. It's fine.

That's just an average, you know. So good for you for advocating for Lydia. Thanks for, she can't say it, but thank you for being her voice. And thank you for being the voice for all the 1 and 70,000 out there. I did get a little nerdy and looked up some stuff on it while we were, while we were busy doing it. And so what a time to be alive. And pharmaceutical companies, they're out here raising this money for my challenge to you.

Should any of y'all listen to it, make this stuff affordable for families, man. like let's figure out a way for all of us to subsidize it where we're helping them as well like they're going to help you get to this point and then once you get there then help them out in the return don't don't make people finance their life a way to save their child for crying out loud like science is there yeah it's there it's there it's available and there's some stuff that's just done for the greater good so um man our are our yeah crap we live in a world where you had The worst news ever of Terminal and now it's not. Yeah.

And all that stands in the way is money. Yeah. And our hope will always be eternal, which is a great thing, right? Like our hope, but the hope that you have here on this earth, that's a cool thing. Because there's, you know, even for some things, there's a lot of people that don't end up having that hope. And so the fact that there's only a couple million bucks that stand in between you and your hope and for 15 others. and then hopefully once they see that that's able to be done, they can continue and you have 15 true cases of success and whatever success looks like.

Even if success is just slowing down, like, you know, what does success look like in that? We obviously pray for complete healing for everybody, you know, and it just is. I pray for no suffering. Yes. Yes, absolutely. And for y'all too, like for the parents for, what was big brother. I'm sure. Big sister.

Big sister. She doesn't know. She has no idea yet. She hasn't. Yeah. So, but that day will come, right? And so, which will probably come with a lot of questions too. So pray for you guys to answer those questions and that, you know, that her mind's at ease and her hearts at ease when hopefully Sissy starts a new treatment or whatever that protocol looks like. So lifting all your families up. I just want to say, before we wrap this up. Yeah. Oh, boy. $16 isn't a lot. skip lunch, sit in your car, pray, and then throw the $16

into this. It's a way better cause. The duck call room can make a difference. Yeah. As a dad of a kid who also had some stuff, it's like really tough. And I never heard the word terminal, but I've opened that portal and got good news. And so you are incredible. I didn't plan on all this, but, you know, I don't know.

why we have the duck call room sometimes. But today felt like, let's try this, see what happens. And I know how many people have just bought a hat or a duck call from us. Just go throw $16. That's cheaper. And we got a lot of listeners.

Tell them how to do that before I, you know, snot all over myself some more. Our gofundme is www.gofundMe.com slash say, Dave Lydia. Babe Lydia. S-A-B-E-L-Y. If you're listening, that's Lydia, you hear, by the way.

That's not Johnny D. That's not Johnny D. Blowing his nose or nothing. That's actually Lydia, who is here with us in studio. So if you haven't, man, go check out our YouTube part. Just put a face to it, right? Because a lot of times putting a face changes things.

You know, and for y'all's sake, like, I mean, Lydia walks in here. I'm with you. Like, she walks in here looking like a toddler, right? something I'm very familiar with times two yeah what can I grab and what can I throw cool that's exactly where I am in life and so yeah 16 bucks man if you got it we know it's the holiday season we know in the United States this ain't necessarily the best time to be asking for money right like you all have your struggles out there we're not trying to limit that right but if you

do if the if the Lord has been indeed great to you and blessed you man what a 16 bucks Like it's... For it to be the time frame of Thanksgiving and seizing forgiving. Yeah. Yeah. The phrase it comes to mind is, by the grace of God, there I go. Yeah. Folks, this could happen to you.

And again, one in 70,000 sounds like a long shot, but it's, I mean, you start looking at a world that's got however many billions of people on it. That's a lot more common than you think it is. Yeah. You start doing the math on it. a little more. With Carter, we've got a lot of those 1 in 30,000, one in 100,000, one and then I'm like boys, we're really, we got to get some lottery tickets because we're doing pretty good at this odds thing. And that's because it

affects way more people than you think. And there's a lot of things, but, and it could start right here with Lydia. And this could be a thing that, you know, we look back at the 20s and there was diseases that people worried about, we don't even care anymore. That could be what this is and it could start right here with her. Yeah. So you've got a chance to be a part of that. And to me, that's cool as crap. Man, that's real.

That's rewriting history, man. Which is really, that's really stinking cool. And thank y'all so much for coming on. Thanks for having us. Well, thank you for being willing to share, right? Thanks for let me call y'all out and y'all writing. Hey, call. But no, thank y'all so much.

Lydia, you're awesome, girl. But you are, you're awesome. You're exactly who God intended you to be, young lady. You are going to be a world changer. You already are a world changer. And you got the exact mom and dad that he intended you to have for sure. Yeah. Yeah, that's awesome.

Yeah, and y'all keep fighting for your girls, and we're going to keep supporting in any which way that we can. Thank you all for tuning in to another episode of the Duck Call Room, which is a different one. But if y'all, I figured out by now, we'll cry. That ain't no problem. We're willing to change it up on you. We'll get serious.

We'll talk about platypuses, and then we'll try and save some kids. Yeah. What a great world we live in where that's possible. Hey, it is. Look, and in the words of Hunter, let's give it up for Jesus Christ, man. Give it up for Jesus Christ. Thank you all so much for joining us. We'll see y'all next time right here in the duck call room.

We're going to drop a link down below that will make this easy for giving. And go from me, if you hear this, don't take the percentage from them. Let them raise their money, man. Some things are even bigger than y'all, bro. So we'll see y'all next time right here in the duck call room. We're out.