Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Reacts to Oliver Anthony's 'Rich Men North of Richmond'

Episode Date: August 29, 2023

Uncle Si hears the song "Rich Men North of Richmond" by Oliver Anthony for the first time and his thoughts on it are totally unexpected. Martin and Jay get Si fired up about all the wild things they see in Si's neck of the woods, which leaves John-David confused again. The boys talk about their weirdest and craziest poop stories including something that Phil left behind in the woods that even the animals refused to touch for months. John-David, Martin and Jay give advice on gift-giving for fathers, and Si cautions shoppers not to overdo it. -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I don't know how we'll use this, folks, but we're going to video size first reaction to watching and listening to Richmen North of Richmond. I don't know how you've never heard it. Yeah. I've been selling my soul, working homes, and waste my life. What the world's got. People like you wish I could just wake up, may not be true, but it is. Oh, it is. Living in the news is rich men know.

for Richmond, Lord knows it all, just want to have what you think. Well, I know what you do, and they don't think you know, but I know that you do. Because there are politicians look out for miners and not just miners on an island somewhere. Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothing to heat and the whole beast milk and welfare. Well, God, if you're five foot three, and you think,

300 pounds. Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds. Young men are putting themselves, six feet in the ground. Because all this country does is keep on kicking them down. Lord, it's a shame. What the world's gotten to for people like me, people like you wish I could just wake up and it not be true. But it is. It is.

Because your dollar ain't sh- And it's taxed to no hand Cause the wretch man North the wets man But it's still a greatest country on earth Need to add that to his song That's their size opinion There's their size take-home

And he's not wrong Neither one of them are wrong No He did it was hey But it's still a greatest country on earth But there's our man Big Ollie The boy tells it like it is.

Big Ollie. But the boy tells it like it is. You know, it's bad. It's true, but it is. Okay. So, hey, welcome to the new world. He made a post on Instagram another day featuring a fudge round. I took that in a little personal.

But. Look. He didn't have no words or nothing. Just a fudge round. Just a fudge round, boy. You know. Oh, that's funny. Look, Ollie leave.

Size still soaking it all in. Ollie, you leave Debbie out of this. That's all I'm going to. say she ain't done nothing. Right, don't be picking on David. If that song said Christmas tree cakes, Martin would have went on strike. Yeah. I'd like a ladder standing in the background.

Oh, yeah. That old boy, he wilded out. But look, hey, good for him. Sigh, you do realize Washington, D.C. is almost directly north of Richmond. Yeah. Yeah, okay, that's making sure. He was in Virginia. That's where he went to the water zoo.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, there we go. Oh, he knows what they're talking about. You want to do a remix like called Poor Men South of Balkenville or something? No, we should. We better leave it alone. We could talk about, you know, all kinds of things. And there ain't many people listening to that anyway.

Who's that? They ain't many listening. They ain't paying attention. To who? To who? To whatever. I'm about to say because my red-headed friend there has become quite the sensation after that tune. Well, look, hey, you have to do it.

a lot to what to be noticed yeah yeah you have to you know you have to do something different well he did it okay so he's he's doing it yeah this is going to and there's nothing wrong with he telling it like it is i think he'd be fun to sit down and talk to you for a minute because i think he's one to get his worldviews yeah yeah yeah to get into the mind of a redneck okay that's a dame that's a dame that's always that's like star trek was you're fixing to go where you've no one's been before never been before that's right where's he from well i don't know kentucky i think kentucky or west virginia or something like that yeah well i have them both good states i was thinking richmond maybe well i'm married to kentucky regular virginia yeah regulation

virginia not that western one where is he from regulation virginia Virginia. Oh, yeah. That makes more sense. That's a little more on brand. Yeah. Because if not, he could have said, you know, like, rich men east of Morgan Town or something.

I don't know. It doesn't go. It's very catchy. It is a catchy little tune. And good for him, man, living the American dream. Who to thunk it? I can appreciate it. And if he ever wants to come sit down here and chat, he's welcome.

If anybody knows him. Yeah, if any of our fans know him, y'all come on out. Or if you tag you, I don't know how I'd do all that mess. some of these platforms. Let him know. We talk to him. We chat with him. I just want his opinion on

if you're 5'3 foot 3 and 300 pounds, what can you buy bags of with food stamps? I'm just curious. Uh-oh. He's curious, but... Oh, wow. I'm curious, because it ought not to pay

for your bags of fudge rounds if we're going by what he says. I'm curious. I'm just curious. You don't quit preaching and got to medics. I would like to know his opinion. Yeah. He only gave us the ought. He's probably going to say bags of quick creet and start toting them back and forth

till you ain't 5-3-300 anymore. Fad again. Work it off. Yeah. Work it off. Work it off. But good for him. I want to go home.

That's his new song. Oh, he's got new music? Mm-hmm. Oh, this man's about to be putting out an album every other way. Good for him. Adam. He turned down like $8 million for some record company. At least that's what the child works for me.

So he can't be all bad. Now, see, why? Why would he turn down $8 million from a record company? Because he's fighting the man, man. Because they won't total control. Yeah, he ain't, he's, he's, he's fighting the man. That's right. Power to the people.

He's fighting the industry. Fight all you want to, but take their money and then fight them in a couple of years. Get the money. You ain't got to sell the rights to the song. Maybe that's part of it. Maybe he don't want to sell his music rights. But if they want to pay you $8 million, they cash it in, son. But then he'll be who he's singing about.

So there's probably a little. That's a problem. There's an issue there. He does. He does look like some of my wife's kinfolk. He could be a Gibson. There ain't no doubt about that. I noticed I ain't got no.

comment. You're getting awful close to that blade. No. He's not cut everything over there. He probably doled that rascal. No, it ain't very sharp. Oh. I'd make a good throwing nice, though.

You do have to love 20-23, though. Man, what kind of instruments he played there? That was a dough bro. A dough bro. There you go. I knew he'd know. Oh, hey. I'm not up to.

I got one, so yes, I know. Yeah, I'm not up to. You know who else played a dobro. Hey, who's that? Curtis Lowe. Curtis Lowe. Curtis Lowe. Hey, greatest guitar picture in the world, boy.

I guarantee you. Greatest blues. But, no, I mean, I just, I think he's good for him. My cell phone camera. It has got a unique sound, though. What's that, a dobro? Doe, bro. Yeah.

Got the little twang in it. His voice is unique, too. And he's got a good voice. And that voice don't look like it should be coming out that mouth. You know? I think that's part of the. Oh, no. Redneck surprise you.

Oh, yeah. He looks like a mashup between Jimmy Red and Benny Doodoo. That's a good analogy. That's a good analogy. He does. Can we put up a picture of Jimmy Red and get him on gold side by side? There's not many people are Ben Long Gold. He left one out.

Dr. Deans. Dr. Deans. Yeah, he's got the hair of Dr. Deans. I'll see it. Benny's not like a man who knows a lot of cameras. A good friend about him. He's on the back side of him. You know.

Old Coot said that Dr. Danes looks like a cross between a coyote and a squirrel. Scorle. He's got the personality of a squirrel, that's for sure. Oh, he's something. Yeah, he had a little old squirrel on the side. So you think this old boy could be from Hattiesburg if he tried a little or? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Hervis. Or low oil at least. Lord. He's right in that area. He goes, shot out. Just Laurel, Mississippi, catching a straight. Look, I love Mississippi now. Don't give me right.

Oh, I do, too. A lot of good friends in Mississippi. I'm going to write another song, Painter, South of Jackson. That's that, boy. That's it. M.D. South of Jackson. Because they'd treat me better at hotels. Oh, man.

Well, there you go, folks. You got to see Cy Robertson's live reaction to Richmond, North of the Richmond. He was feeling it, though. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. I saw him tapping along that by the end of it. He already knew the...

Hey, the guy's got a good song. He already knew the word. He does. But I do like your addition to the song. Well, no, he needs to end it. After bad mouth and everything, he needs the end of it. But, hey, it's just the best we got, okay? Yeah.

Rather be here than... I was right. Oh, yeah. Where else could you sing that song? You could do worse. You could do worse. Yeah. That's for sure.

In this country, you can do that and you'll be praised. In other countries, you do that, you'd be snuffed out. There's some kid in Ireland listening right now that's about to go listen to this song and be real confused. Who? Some kid listened to us in Ireland. Oh. We got a couple Irish fans. That's good.

Go Irish. I've always wanted to go to Ireland. It's awesome. It's pretty. It's pretty. You being? Mm-hmm. Oh, that don't surprise me.

I name a dog Dublin. Fastest growing city in Ireland. Fastest growing city. It's Dublin every day. Anyway. Oh, I'm sorry, Godwin's not here. That was weird. I couldn't even have fun with that one.

Anyway, let's take our first break. We'll be back right after that. Or I'll break. Who knows what break? That'll be. I don't even. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up.

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It's on fire? What the house? Not the one across street. It's kind of catty cornered right here to it. One at the end down there. We've officially reached the summer that is so hot that things are just spontaneously combustive. Well, no, see, now this one wasn't spontaneous combustive.

Oh, how did it catch on fire? Somebody got loose. Somebody started the fire and it got loose. Somebody was smoking something back here. Yeah, somebody was either smoking something or cooking something, but they got him. Cooking something. What were they cooking? Ramen noodles? Maybe fish.

I don't know. Fish fry. They got them? No, yeah, they got it. You put that up on your Instagram, I said, that's a regulation fire there. Oh, big. I mean, I expected to walk outside and like when I finally took a picture, so it had already been getting doused, I sent you the picture.

It had already been getting doused with water, but when I walked out there, I was thinking, you know, they're like, it's a fire. I'm like, I'm expecting to see, like, some smoke, you know. Oh, yeah. But, no, that thing was all the way. It was passed, so you see that limb, it kind of goes out like this. Yeah. That real big and it was, the flames at one point were up above that limb.

Like that building was completely. Oh, the house burnt down? All the way to the ground. The house did? Yeah. Oh, hey, that's a good thing because there was some trouble back there. Well, the trouble has been apprehended as the suspected starter of the fire. Yeah, okay.

There you go. The White House is gone? No, there was another one just right by the White House. Oh, I'm not. There's a little, there's like a 20-yard gap, and then that fence, and then that house was right there. Yeah, I should have knew that when I drove in, because I should have seen it, but I wasn't paying attention. Yeah. Back there.

Well, that was, yeah, a couple days ago. I'm glad they got there when they did. Oh, man. Yeah, so I went back there because at the time there was only one fire truck there, and like two men got out of it. And I said, they were looking around. I said, look, I'll help you. You just tell me what to do. I said, other than going that way, I'll help you because I don't know what to do.

Because I don't know what to do there. Oh, we could just keep it from spreading and let it burn it down. Yeah, but I was just like, if you need me to stretch that hose out, I feel qualified for that. But other than that, I ain't qualified for what y'all do. But then about three more fire trucks showed up, and the Washtaw Parish Fire Department got it put out pretty quick. And in their investigation of it,

they discovered a gentleman back there sitting there who had been just decided to sit in the woods and watch it burn. Was it usher? I don't know. but he he was also a gentleman that decided to help himself to the local business's product that morning on security camera about 6.30 a.m. And then the last place they saw him was walking towards that building. Then it's on fire. Yeah.

And as you know, contact clues ended up with him and the sheriff. Hey, we've got our cupboard. Yeah. Context clues and him and the sheriff's department are now friends. They're friends. They're acquaintances. He might be an uninvited guest for a while. But I say all that to say this.

to all the first responders out there, and especially right now, dealing with the heat wave that's going across the south and fighting fires like that and all that, thank y'all. Like, thank you. Because that one didn't like much more from getting really out of hand with as dry

as that whole block of wood. Oh, yeah. So we appreciate you guys, because they were telling me what, they fought a 40-acre one right next door to field the day before that. So 40-acre fire, somebody, somebody done. done caught something on

far down there, but I probably one of them Joneses. Bush hog. There go, Hunter. That was your chance. That was talking about your family. We don't, uh, we don't start fires. Oh, here. You don't start fires.

You didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. Hey, we didn't start. I wed to show grandpa burn about, uh-oh, 400 acres. Uh-oh. We do it responsibly. Responsible fires.

Responsible fires. No, they said there was... They said it was... Maryland Monroe. Forty acres burned on Watson School Road down there that day, so they probably all drove by your house. Probably woke you up.

Oh, there was a biggin on 34. Oh, hey. I'm used to that there's stuff to... Their sirens going by you at all time. All the time. I just look up and I say, well, okay, there goes three cop cars. Oh, yeah.

There goes an ambulance. Okay, somebody may have got hurt. Yeah, 34 sales is a hot. Oh no, and hey, you don't want to be out in the wee hours of the morning. No. I don't want to be out in the wee hours of the morning, no one. No, no. No, no.

That is, hey, after 12 p.m., 33, anything south of 34 turns into the twilight zone. Zombies. It is no telling what you will see. It's the zombie apennel. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Isn't there another? It's out of stairs.

It ain't no telling what you're going to see. skateboards walking I'll give you I'll give you a quick snippet oh boy I'm going duck hunting okay this is in November of y'all and it's pretty cold okay and I look

in the road and I think it's a garbage bag he thinks it's a big bag of trash yeah I think it's a bag of trash so it's in my lane so slow down and I get on the left side of it and I go around it and as I go around it this thought hits my

mine. Surely that wasn't a body. But you say you turned around and checked, right? Oh, no. No. No. And hey, look, and my pistol is loaded with hollow points on my seat beside me. Yeah. Okay, because I've had some crazy stuff happen to me down there. So anyway, look, unbeknown to me, stone is coming behind me a little late, a little later. Oh, that's because we've all been trained. The first thing he sees, he sees their body and he said, uh-oh, Uncle Side doesn't run over somebody and kill somebody. Well, that was my initial thought. So him and Jace ended up stopping, and Jace walks up with a pistol in his hand. Jason didn't walk up. He stayed in the truck.

Well, Stays was truck anyway. He yelled at the guy. Jace was looking around in the woods for ambush, which was smart. Yeah. On his part. Jay's worried about being a victim of human trafficking. Oh, no. they're going to snatch him up i don't think he's going to snatch him he ain't going to snatch him yeah they if he did they said without nope yeah they bring him back yeah you can go you may go sir

yeah no chance they keep him yeah you may go so you know what you ain't worth it there you go oh boy I mean I just that's just one time yeah I've had multiple things happened on 34 oh yeah at night it's a weird place late in the morning early and the morning. One time in the middle of the night, there was an eight-foot-long alligator that someone ran over on 34. You, you saw that? Mm-hmm.

What time? It was nine o'clock at night, 10 o'clock at night. Well, that ain't even, they ain't even got the stirring good. No. You're going on to her. Yeah. They call that Tuesday. Yeah.

They just waking up. Yeah. Honor, if you want a real experiment, go visit you folks down there about 2 a.m. Yeah. Anytime after midnight. Just go slipping down field pot real slow. I'll tell you. And I, drive alert.

Okay, because you never know what you're going to run into. Best one I ever saw on 34, an old boy swerving, swerving, and swerving, stuff was flying out the window, and he slowed down about five miles an hour, passing the door open, and the old lady got out. Out the door. Kicked out. Get kicked out. Yeah.

And she took about three rolls. and popped up like nothing happened. Like nothing happened, boys. And it took off running after. That's right. Then it took out of running at you. That was on 34 south. You saw that after.

A little family squabble. Oh, yeah. A little disagreement. He doesn't put the boot to her. I mean, she comes out flying out. I'm telling you, hey. And it stopped, drop, and rolled and took off chasing. Oh, yeah.

Come around a car, and there's a pickup truck, a trailer, jacked-knife. He's got both lanes, block. And hey, instead of leaving his lights on, he turned the lights off. Why? I guess he wanted to commit suicide or something. I don't know, but he turned lights off. And I said, hey, you need a little help?

He said, well, I should get it out of the middle of the road. I said, yeah, I threw a chain around that piece of junk, dragged it off in the woods, and then took my chain, threw back truck, got it, and went to the house, went to fields, one, duck hunting. So what determines what will stop you for helping somebody at 2 a. Hey, if he's blocking the road? If he's blocking the road. Oh, so you needed to get around him. Oh, yeah.

He's in his way. Oh. I'm going to move him to get around. But if you can go around them. If I go around you, you're on y'all. Ah. Yeah. Hey, look.

Yeah. Well, hey, you, because you don't know what you're getting into. Not out there. Uh-huh. Okay. And especially, what's that cut off between Philpott and your house? Red cut loop? No, the other one, the little, the little dim trail through there.

through the pine thicket and the bottom. I can't even think of the name of it. Hight Kelly. I go, hey, well, I've had three or four. That's what I'm talking about. Just crazy stuff happening. Especially in that bottom right down there. I always, after then, I just,

pistols loaded with hollow point. Oh, yeah. Because if I, if I had to shoot, I'm going to have some DNA proof. He got, he got three extra magazines. With hollow point. When I slide down that road,

I got a tire on each side of the yellow line. Yeah. I ain't getting nowhere near the edge. I've never seen a stretch of road that is on during hunting season. And even after and before hunting season, there's nothing but carcasses lying both sides of that road. That's the true. It's straight away.

No, no. Every 20 yards. Anything, anything in the road that moves is suspect. Okay. And I, and somebody is like to, they, It would like to kill it. Yeah. I guess every redneck down there, it's like they're dumping ground.

They go dump their bodies. On Ick Kelly. Yeah. But it ain't in the curves. It's on straight away. Straight away. It says like they can pull up there. They got somebody in the back.

They kick it at the tailgate and keep on driving. That's it. That's also where they dump off like unwanted pets because that's how my cousins get their pets. Pets or pets? Do what? Pets. Oh, gosh. That's why they get their pets.

That's how his cousins get their pets. say it. Oh, okay. They're run over and if it lives, it's a pet. That's not exactly what I said. Leave it to a redneck boys. Okay, what are we doing today? Oh, we're going to look for pets. We're going to pet shopping. We're going to pet shopping.

They're tough enough to take on a tire. They're tough enough to live with that. Oh, man. There are certain times. I misunderstands. something that I just truly appreciate and that is one of them. Golly. So that's a stray dog

dumping area? Yeah, absolutely. Straight dog, stray cat. They used to be a sales house. Well, there's plenty of it. It's still our house. Like, they dump them on Jones Road all. Oh yeah, cats.

They could least stop before they throw them out. They don't have to be going a 90 mile an hour and they throw them out. Yeah, hey, I'm 90, Throw him out the back. Oh, wow. What a life.

He did not. Was Joe Biden on this show? Who saw? There's some aviators over here. And they're Rayban. Rayban aviation. I'll thank him. Those are got to be Willys.

Willie just came by the store and bought a pair of glasses because he forgot his at his house. Oh, that's probably, uh, Philip. He was here last. Philip, where's aviators? Uh, he's got a bunch of, Like a white, white. That's got to be Willie's glasses. That looked like a Willie move.

Hey, break them so he'll come by some more. Hold them hostage. Who knows? I'll take them home with me. Oh, that's funny. That's funny right there. It's where them Jones get all their pets. That's it.

On Akelly. Kelle, boys. Do they just go over there hunting for them? No, it's usually on their way to work. They just see someone just dump a pet. And they pick it up? Well, my cousins have a heart. I guess I don't.

I ain't getting no pet off the side of the road. I mean, I already feel bad enough because Dublin, whenever I got him, he was discounted. He was a clearance puppy. And I learned from him, like, you won't pay full price for a dog. You want to? Yeah, they're better that way. They come out with all their parts, right, screwed in, right. Okay.

You know, you know, a more expensive, there's a reason the dog's more. expensive kind of like a dishwasher he's got all this parts the more expensive ones work way better yeah but them cheap ones is tough them cheap ones they are they're talking about dogs they've seen so yeah they all got that 500 mile stare at stare in their eye because for 12 hours they lived on ikelly road that boy that's right you know and learned how to survive off of carcasses Oh, carcite. Mm-hmm. Is it Carcassiz or Carc-Eye?

Both are bad. It's a lot. Yeah, I don't really know about... No, do you yourself a favor about mid-December? Drive-down-Akelly. My mom doesn't let me go down that way. I'm just going to... Now, you can go during the daylight.

I go in the daylight. That's a good time. If you go during the daylight, you've got to dodge buzzards. Yeah. There's that many dead animals. Oh, yeah. Every 20 yards. Yeah, you can roll down your window and smell it.

Like if it's that weird Like, if it's that weird little warm up during the winter where you kind of got to run air conditioning to keep you inside of your truck, when you round the corner, they're turning on to it like that air sucks in that deal from outside and you're like, I'm home, you know, I mean,

it's just, it's got a, it's got an aroma about it. I told you the better song would be, I'm speaking of it. Poor men south of Baltimore. Curly dawn. Curly dawn. Uh-oh. Tiner Peachter.

We have some good curly dawn stories. Is it tax season? Oh, never mind. No, what about the log? Yeah, that's a good one. We need to have Curly in. Oh, the law. We need Curly here to take up for himself.

Yeah, at least. I've never heard his version of that story. I've taken a dump in the duck line. Yeah. On the log right outside the door. Yeah, and then wiping your butt with a life jacket. And then wiping his tail in. Oh, no, it wasn't on the log.

You saw it? Hey, he was right in the door. It was in the door way. Yeah, he was in the door. doorway. Are you sure about that? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

And then he wiped his butt with the life observer and threw it back in the boat. The life of a man. I got a question. I got a question about that. How in the world does a life jacket get your rear end clean? That's what I was thinking. I mean, at that point, just wear it home. Like, how are you going to get your rear end clean with a life jacket?

Like at what point was that a good idea? I got life jackets of every shape and size. I don't even want to go there. Size used one before. Because I have no answer for that. What's the weirdest thing you've ever wiped your area in with? Corn cob. Yeah.

That's a normal one. See, it's got all the little, it's got all the deals in it to catch. It's got velvet on it, boy. Yeah. You get tiny d. Tiny D is uncomfortable. I'm a bidet man myself.

The best thing I ever used, used out in the wilderness with snow. No, I said the weirdest. Snow, that would be. Snow was a good one. Yeah, you pack it down a little. Then whoop. It's just like a wet wipe.

Then you throw that thing out in the woods. Then you got a new pile of snow. Then you got a new pile of snow. Now that seems rude. Speaking about, movie. So you wiped, you've wiped with a snowball. Oh, yeah. Okay.

That's pretty impressive. Hey, that's a mountain man. Did it melt fast? That's a mountain man, but it was up in like Colorado. That's it. There you go. So it wasn't like, snow here. You'd get dirty hands.

Best one ever is just jump in the lake and let it rip. But you got to swim away from it. That's right. You got to figure out which way to Kern is. No, you got to swim away from it. Because when it comes up, it's going to float towards you. It's like a magnet. I'm serious.

You're going to have to swim from this. Okay. This coming. Oh, and you ever wipe with anything bizarre? You know, when you're in a bind, you pretty much just use whatever whatever's close. Yeah, I mean, we've all cut off our shirt, my drawers off, you know.

Or cut the bottom of your shirt. Oh, I've said a lot of underwear away. Oh, I've come back. I've come back sockless. Yeah, oh, yeah. A lot of time. Yeah. You split that sock down the middle.

You get two wipes, man. Yeah. You got four that are pretty much get you out of a bag. Or a long sleeve shirt. Yeah. Become a short sleeve. You just come back and tell what happened to you, you left sleeve? Well, I had an emergency arise.

It's laying back here by the big tree. I'd recommend staying away from there. I was traumatized as a kid. I looked up. I used to go home with my dad. I looked up and he looked like a dog trying to pass a peat seed over there. Uh-oh. Oh.

I had some coveralls pulled down where that collar and the coveralls was sticking out a little bit too far. Oh, no. Uh-oh. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Did he? Yep.

Did he? He did it? Oh. It caught. It caught. That's a bad one. And then, when you go to pull the cover of all that. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, then how you just, ooh. Yeah. What's that? What's that? Yeah. Yeah. The best one was, Phil took a dump on the log.

Yeah. Yeah. On the property. What? And I'm sending you for two years. Every time we'd come around the corner, somebody would say, shoot the calm, cut the mouth. Hold up.

Now, look, you think that's a bunch of bull. But that is a true story. It stayed for two years? It stayed there for two years. Not two years. Not two years. Not two years. we come around and everybody says, shoot their cotton mouth.

Nothing would touch it. Nothing would touch it. There wasn't a fly on it. There wasn't a, the coyote didn't eat it. You would think something would come by and eat it. And it was black in about three and a half foot low, just like cotton mouth. No, no. And it was curled up.

Yeah. No, no. That's, I'm serious. That's what was crazy. That's a true story. But it didn't last two years. It was like four months, though. It was a long time.

It was a long time. All summer. After till season, it was still there. Yeah. It was crazy. True story. When we first saw it was me and Jace in Argo, we rode up, Jay's like, get you going.

There's a Congo. I stopped and I looked at there was a toilet paper. I said, that ain't no Congo. He's like, good. Quote, this is what Jay said. He said, whoever done that, they ain't going to be around for much longer. and it was his dad yeah oh no but that is a true story right say something about when a man gets in a bind in the woods here's oh here's another one here's another one that i've never figured out

all right he said he said he gave an answer anytime i kill a cotton mouth like on the road driving in blow his head off well you come by 30 minutes an hour later He's gone. And I said, what in the world would take a dead snake? And he said, Bobcat, Bobcats love him. Really? Is that, you ever heard that? I mean, I've heard how big wild hogs eating them.

The hogs, they eat them alive. I've actually seen that. But if you're in, I mean, you got to think, if you're something wild and you come up on a free meal, I don't know that you care what. Well, I, everyone I've ever shot in the middle of the real. road, hey, go by, come back an hour later, it's gone. Well, there's a lot of owls down there at hawks and owls. Maybe, but something, something gets them.

I mean, I wouldn't put it past it. I mean, hey, this thing, you know, 12-gade blew, blew his head smooth off. So he ain't going to the way. I wouldn't put it past a coon or something like that to either. A lot of raccoons down there, too. Yeah. Well, there are raccoons there. Remember that time that hoodow tried to get the deer stand with us? Oh, no.

This was the funniest thing. sitting there right deer hunting okay and something comes just buying and he lands over on the oak tree on the knot on side of it so stone starts making a little squeaking

sounds with his mouth well I had my hunt gloves on which are brown so I just said well he was squeaking so I just done like this on the top of the window sill and just

you know And I all done this, just as soon as I did it, like that, disappeared. He done it like that. Then I got up again. I went back and, hey, here he comes. Oh, yeah. Look, this thing, his wingspring was about six foot. Yeah.

Okay, look, there's a slit like this. Oh, yeah. This thing is coming in the window. Yep. He's done coming and it's gone. Don't I hear crash Donald just fell off of the chair Okay and I said did you get that you was video on it right?

He said no I ain't getting this guy I'm thinking was coming in the window I was getting out of wait Hold on he was coming he was coming to get that what he thought was When size took his finger up there that his eyes just Yeah just boom and he was like that and then next thing And I looked up and he was gone Yeah You got below the window.

And then he just... When he appeared, he was like in the window. We laughed for 30... Scared down there. Out of me, son. I jumped. He was big. No, you should have been video on the east of all along.

I had... The sad part, I had the video camera going, but when he got into blind... When an owl shows up... I threw the camera. Me and Benny Dudu had an owl laying right beside us in a tree one night, and it freaked me out. Well, you wouldn't even mess with the one that was on a... ground would have broke away and a towel over him. Owls are freaky, man.

Have you ever seen a baby owl? Oh, yeah. Those, them, them. Plus, hey. Oh, no. Freaky looking to know critics. And they're quiet. They're just on you.

They're just on you. They're sharp. Them talons? They're talons. You're talking about sharp. Well, yeah, I used to work in college doing all them wood duck boxes, so you know what likes a cavity. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. I've peeled the door back on them, any of them. And there he is looking at me. I'm sorry, sir. Yeah. I'll leave you back. Except for the little screech owls, I played with them. I'd take them out of there.

They mean, too. Mean-spirited, a little rascal. Mean spirit. Oh, they're back you to call you? Mm-hmm. Call them mean spirit? Oh, they are. They get to, they're looking at you like,

they get to clicking at you. Yeah, they got very sharp beak. Yeah. It's catchy. And some sharp toes. And they love eating tree frogs. There was all kinds of dead tree frogs in there with them. Mm-hmm.

That's the thing about when you run up on where they're there's going to be a lot of bones. Yeah. Yeah, we got a barn out down there where we duck up. I always, if I know somebody's freaked out by it, I'll park at the barn. First thing in the morning about 4 o'clock in morning, shining my headlights in that barn,

and that big old white-faced rascal will come out of there and every one of them hit the dirt. It's a good time. Because I know he's in there, so I'm ready for him. But that big old white face comes out at you in the middle of it, you know, everything else around you's dark. There, you're like, PBS, I watched the show on that.

You're talking about some acute hearing. What's that, Al? Yeah. Oh, yeah. He's got three different things, you know, like this was up north and it was the great northern now, big one. I mean a big one. Well, he's flying and searching for food.

There's a mouse under two foot of snow. His hearing can pinpoint where he's at. the other part tells him how much speed it's take, okay, to get to two foot to get him, okay, and the third one does something else, but it showed it. And then it showed him just, here he come, and that's where we got our stealth fighter.

The owl. The owl. He makes no noise when he's flying. None. It's a good thing they don't hunt us. Oh, me too. Oh, I'm he made no noise when he's flying. Like that A-10 Warthog.

Oh, yeah, like that Warthouse. I was up in the salt flat up in California. And next time I know, a shadow's over me. We're standing around talking the shadows over me. And that 8-10 Warhawk is turning. I'm talking about like 10 foot above us. And talking about, hey, if y'all would have been the enemy, you'd have never knew it.

That big mini gun would have already taken care of you. You'd just say, ooh. He didn't make a sound. You'd just had, ooh. Those things are pretty awesome. They've been around a long time. Oh, no. Hey, you can shoot them to pieces and they still fly.

They showed a picture of one coming in after they, Iraq. And, I mean, he was literally just, it was solid holes. He just come in, landed, and here they come, gas it back up, refurb. re-ammo it. I'm like, okay, you're ready to go again? There's some duct tape on it. Hey, they do that. I'd have probably had to sit that one out, coach.

Oh, no, no. Hey. I probably said somebody else going to fly this one. You're talking about it. That was like a V-52 and all the big bombers. Hey, they could take them back shot up, just slam the pieces of teeth. Keep them flying, boys. That's crazy.

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com or send us messages, Facebook, Instagram, all that stuff. We try to check and stay up with you guys. But Johnny D, what you got? Oh, I got an interesting one. That was a weird, like, Northern accent. I accidentally just did there. Oh. Anyway, Luke from Michigan emails in, and he tricked me into telling his dad, happy birthday.

Jason from Michigan is about to turn 53 right now. So happy birthday, Jason. Thanks for listening. But Luke's question is, what do you get a 53-year-old man for his birthday? Which is a tough question. Hmm. It's a tough. The dads are tough to shop for.

Maddie Musil. Now, get him a steak, medium plus. Oh, Lord, here we go. Hey, you can't beat that boy. He's 53. His teeth aren't as strong as they used to be. Hey, give him a few. Matt and John, medium plus.

All right. He's done with it. Sugar-free, Madame Musil changed my life. Uh-oh. Sugar-free. When you get around 50, you've got to start taking it. All right, but you all heard it here first. It's one of the best gifts you could ever get him.

That's it, boys. What is it? Medamusal. It's fiber. Come on, man. Piper, boy, fiber. That's fiber. Keeps you lower bowel and...

Regulated. Intact. That's right. Regulated. Sugar free. 53 years old birthday gift. Medetamusel? Really?

It's a necessity. Well, I mean, yeah, but I don't know. I'm not 53 yet. But what does he do? Did he give us any hobbies? We got no, he just says, you know, dudes are, all dudes are hard to shop for. Yeah, absolutely. Because we all have our hobbies and we all don't want you to get us something.

And we all hide how much we really spend on. Yeah, and we're all very particular. Yeah. So shopping for dad's tough. I always just get my dad raw meat and just go buy steaks or what. And then like, hey man, eat when you want to. Yeah, I knew like on my dad. I knew the brands of tools he likes.

So generally what I would get were like accessories or extra like batteries for drills and stuff like that. Like the stuff that I knew that he wouldn't want to spend the money on, I would go spend the money on that for him. Nothing makes a man happier than an extra battery for his drill. That's right. And you're like, oh man, I would never bought that for myself. An extra charger.

And a charger. Yeah, like all that kind of little knick-knacky stuff that they're, they'll tough through it. and go put it on charge for 20 minutes to finish using it how they would, or they would have an extra battery and charger, you know. So if he does stuff like that, I could, that's what I would recommend. If he's a handy father. He's handy.

Yeah, if he's a fisherman, don't go try to buy him a rod and reel. I'm like, because he's going to be very specific. Same with duck hunting or anything like that. So, yeah, stay out of those. Gift cards and that. Gift cards, yeah, but gift cards are kind of lame. Or just cook him something really nice. invite him over where he doesn't have to do anything.

If he's a fisherman, you can go look in his box and buy just one of everything he's already got in there because he wants to anyway. Yeah, and he's probably got another box with that same stuff in it. So that's a good thing. Just pile on what he already uses. Green pumpkin. No, yeah. But I'd do some investigation of what he's already has in his little area, whether a garage shop,

just go look around and buy accessories for it. Now, me and my sister did figure out for my dad, if you team up with your brother sister and you get them something that you both benefit from, like a griddle or a grill or something. Like me and my sister have been teaming up for years on what could dad use that will make us happy? I'd really like to see Big Dave try fried rice. Let's get him this big monster grill. That's exactly what he did. Let me tell you something about Big Dave fried rice. Ooh, it's good. We don't go out to eat no more. Big Dave got it down. We hadn't had fried rice in a minute because, you know, you melt when you walk outside.

So them griddle's kind of tough to work right now. Yeah. They got a little sweat and you fried rice if you cook it now. But, man, he does have it. And I don't know a man that's every bit mad at a bag of charcoal as a gift. Or pellets, depending on what kind of grill he's got or whatever. I get my dad charcoal every Christmas. Mm-hmm.

It's funny because it's cold. Mesquite. All right, whatever kind of. Yeah. Hickry. Any of it. It's that lump. Yep.

No, I meant mesquite. Yeah, wood for smoking. Or Hickory. Yeah. Oh, you just adding on. Wood. Yeah, wood. For flavor.

For stick burners. Yeah. Yeah. So, there you go. Hawaiian shirts. Hawaiian shirts. He's got about like 20 Hawaiian shirts from me and my sister. Your dad does?

Yeah. I've never seen him wear one. Well, he doesn't wear them when he, like, works, but on his, like, off days, he wears one. He used them as that all rights. He said, I've never seen them wear. They use them out all rights. Well, what else we got in there, Johnny D? Oh, how about this one?

Carrie from Maine. Loves to work, make money. Got three jobs. Oh, wow. There you go. Job number one, eight years. That's how long. Job number two picked up about a year ago.

Give me a bunch of skills and qualifications that I needed to get. Job number three. Job number three just offered full time with benefits, paid vacation, significant increase in pay, compared to what I'm making at all the other ones. My question is, how do I quit? my other ones without feeling guilty about it. Walk in there and say it's been fun.

Hey, look, it's been fun, been real, but hey, I've had enough of it. That's what I say, when Willie asked me to take over the duck calls, I was never told that principal. Yeah. I said, well, I won't be back. Yeah. It's been fun. It's been fun, been real, and it ain't been real fun. So, hey.

Yeah, but go in there to your other one and say, look, man, I'm, you know, I've been offered this and. Give them a chance to ask the offer. Yeah, I've got to take. it, you know, and then maybe they offer it. But then, you know, offer like, so if you want to find somebody, if I need to train my replacement or whatever, if you're in an important position, like give them a week or so where you can teach somebody. But if anyone, move on, man, it's better than yourself. Don't feel guilty about bettering yourself. If anybody ever is,

tries to hold you back from an opportunity that is obviously, like, there's more information here, like less hours. Yeah. The 10 hours shifts. Well, anytime you go from. It's, it's, Obviously better. If anybody's like, oh, you shouldn't do that, red flag, you should have to get out of there anyway. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

And then, yeah, I would just. They'll cheer you on. They should. Willie laughed when I quit. But he was like, oh, okay. I was like, yeah, I got to go. See you. How'd you tell him?

I said, I got a job offer. Then he started laughing. And then he asked me how much money. And then he really started laughing. He's like, well, see you later. I was like, oh, so long seconds. I actually didn't just. leave that day. I actually finished the summer out.

I did. I did have 10 years in education before I started with the duck calls. But I finished the summer out. I didn't leave that day. Yeah, I finished. You always want to leave on a good note. That's exactly right. Offered a train or replacement or whatever, you know, tell them you got a couple of weeks and a week or so. I stayed here for a month after me and Willie talked about that. Well, and then, yeah, I still text you stuff. I didn't. I just threw the bag of reads and Martin said I quit. He did do I'll tell. I witnessed that.

He threw them in my lap. I left. Tell fat boy I'm done. I did not let the door hit me in the butt as I've done it too. You were out quick, weren't you? I moved out, boys. Yeah. But what's funny is he moved out and there for like two months,

he still woke up and drove down to Philin case to take a nap on their couch. Hey. I'm not even making that up. Oh, have it's a hard to break, boys. You went and took a nap? Yeah. Look, I don't know if it was the nap or... Then I woke up and ate a fine meal that Ms. Case.

And then he'd go home. Then I'd go home. He did that still. I don't know if he was going for the nap or for the lunch, but I'm not going to fault him for either. It was both. Both. Yeah, that's definitely a two-for-one cell there. So I got you a quick one that was some form of message.

I don't know. But Jaden from Alberta, Canada. Alberta? He wants to quit smoking and wonder if you had any advice for him. Yeah, hey, throw that trash in the trash can and don't ever touch it again. Because here's the deal. It will give you bad lungs, which you will regret later in life. But how did you quit?

You just walked away, though. You're one of the few people that said cold turkey, I'm out. Well, yeah, but hey, a heart attack and open heart surgery will do that. to you. Yeah. Yeah. So, friend, you have a choice. It was time to make a change.

I should have made it 20 years ago. Mm-hmm. And then I wouldn't be in the shape I'm in right now. If you want to spend quality time with your grandkids, you need to quit. Don't throw that junk away. It's bad for you. It's no good. There you go.

Go to Walgreens. They got a whole section on helping people quit. Yeah. There's gums. I don't know, no, no. I did cold turkeys. None of that stuff. You quit dipping cold turkey, huh?

Right. Copenhagen. If you're looking for a miracle deal, nope, you just got to suck it up and quit. Yeah, I will tell you this. Every time that door slammed

for about five days, one of them kids slammed the door, boy, the width your awls are real. But it only lasts five days. After five days, it's all between your ears. So five days.

You can survive five days. The rest of it's between your ears. There you go. Interesting. There you go, Jake. You just got to make up your mind. to do it and do it. And Jayden, good luck.

Oh, yeah. If you, we're rooting you on, man. Here's your Bible verse for it, Jay. Go ahead. Romans 5, 3 through 4. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character, and character hope.

It's going to suck for a minute, but at the end of it, it's going to be way better. There you go. And they left out, hey, patience. There's more to the Bible verse. Yeah, it keeps going. It keeps going. Anyway, all right.

We'll see y'all next time. Right here in the back call room. We're out. We're out.