Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Runs Smack Into the Scariest Moment of His Life

Episode Date: October 18, 2022

Si talks about the most terrifying moment of his life (that may or may not have involved a Sasquatch). The boys discuss whether their instinct is fight or flight, and no one is surprised by Si's. John-David finally gets the conclusion he needed for his chili debate. Godwin talks about his experiences at a renaissance festival in Texas. Martin gives advice for those moving to Florida, and Si talks about hunting in Phil and Kay's front yard. John-David is adamant that he will never try Miss Kay's squirrel brains. -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is that the duck? That's the 2,000-year-old decal. Let's have a look at it. What? Huh? Look, that's why I wanted to say. What? Welcome back to the duck call room.

I got to see that. We got a story for you. For years, you've been known as the decoy technician. Yeah. What do you think about that decoy right there? God, that's pretty snazy. That thing is 2,000 years old. Wow.

Discovered in Nevada. Look. And Nevada. Well, that's where they already been a bunch of ducks over. Look how he used the feathers. That's what I'm talking about. That is awesome. And you said, hey, let me just go ahead and tell you something.

Ain't no man ever designed nothing look like that. The women done the duck hunting back in. Well, the women did the decoy building. The women were the decoy technicians. I can tell you, that's got way too much care to be a man. Well, what that tells me in Nevada, there was a lot of canvas back. That is a canvas back. Yeah.

That was one of the questions was what kind of duck was it trying to imitate. But look at that thing hand woven with real feathers. How cool is that? And it's home. It says it's 2,000 years old. Cy, what do you think? I think it's pretty cool. Would you shoot it?

What's the threat? Oh, yeah. Side beat first thing. If the birds get over the decoys, they just accidentally get shot sometimes. It happens. It happens. I imagine they used bowling hairs back in. Or rocks.

or sticks. Rocks. Oh, I've seen somebody that shot him with a bowling hour. Yeah. Oh, Tommy, Freddie, Freddy, Tommy, I think shot one.

Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah. But that, I thought that was cool. It's not, I, uh, let me make sure

and get his name right that shared that with us. Otherwise, I'd have never seen it. 2,000 years old. They've been hunting for a long time. That's when Jesus was here. Yeah. Derek, one of our fans, Derek sent them.

I want to give credit where credits do. I didn't want to think that I should have a lot of off. He found it. Well, what's the story about him finding it? No, he just shared the story. They were going to discuss it on another podcast. He said he thought it would be good for us to discuss the fact that the folks has been duck hunting with decoys for at least 2,000 years.

So that's a. Spears? Yeah, the Native Americans were probably chunking rock spears, bowenaires, whatever they had. I doubt you know they was good with them bows. Oh, ain't no doubt. But, I mean, and the ducks probably wasn't quite as slick as they are now. They were probably a little more tame, so to speak.

They probably didn't have near as much to fear as they do. Now, if he finds a mojo. That's going to be in bad shape. Somebody going to have to find out here. Well, they could have done it with pulleys and ropes. Yeah. And they could. And I got over a peddling.

It looks like it was made out of that stuff like they make, what, retain chairs, like some kind of vines that they weaved. I mean, that's what it looks like. A wicker basket. Yeah. Wicker, if you will, retain. Okay. That's what it looks like.

I have no idea. But if that's the way they found that thing. But that doesn't look like duck feathers. Well, what it don't look like is 2,000 years old. Like, I mean, that is pristine. shape. I don't know how... That ain't duck feathers. Nevada?

Yeah, it could be eager, but for whatever reason they're gray. Here's the thing about rain, maybe. Because they're old. Maybe. That thing... You wouldn't believe how that thing would move. Oh, it's light, yeah. They're just made out of basket weaving material. Is that a

loop in the front of it? It looks like for a weight or something, don't it? Or a strain. Rock, be a rock, being. Wouldn't have been a weight? Wouldn't have been a lead weight. Them's all in the wall eyes. But, oh, it's cute. Miao.

Um. Good, gory. Boy, that story's still going in. Yeah. But I thought it was cool. Kind of weighty. I mean, just think of duck hunting 2,000 years ago. We sitting here complaining about tungsten shotgun shells and, you know, automatic shotgun.

All they had back then was a flu-flu-flu-er. Oh, they found a dozen of them things. A lot of feathers? of them. Yeah, I just found it. Did you agree? That's like Paula seen on the side of the box of that heavy shot, that shell turned over and all them shots spilled out. She said, all them's in there? I said, yeah. She said, well, no wonder y'all don't miss. The ones JD's got, you can see it. It is the basket weaving. Is it? Yeah, they're reproductions, though. They did it how they used to.

Oh, they went and made what they found. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. See, I'm just reading about duck decoys this morning. That's wild. But still, for them to do that. But here's what I'll say. Like duck hunting 2,000 years ago. And here's what I'll tell you.

Ducks were coming to things that looked like that. You ever think we overthink what we doing? Yeah, a whole lot. A whole lot. You ever think perhaps we're giving that duck just a little too much credit? Yeah, but. Some of it's for the person, not for the fisherman or the hunter. Yeah, but today, hey, they see so much that, no, you got, it's got to, you know,

because you can't, you know, in Louisiana, you can't hunt like they do, like up, you know, up northern states. You would kid dooddy squat. Well, when you was a kid hunting, with your dad and Phil and all of them, Tommy, What was y'all's equipment when you first started ducking? How did you get to the buy? We had the guns. Okay, that was our equipment.

Clothes? No. We didn't have clothes. Waiters? No. Waiter was a pair of blue jeans and tennis shoes. That's how you went ducking? Oh, yeah.

Well, I bet that's cold. Oh, no, it was. Yeah. But you like, no, no. I wonder you like fire so much. Oh, no, no, no. Look, I've, you know, they used to, boss Lake Days, okay. They finally, Tommy and them, when they got in college, they got educated.

So what they did was they went and bought them some wet suits, okay, that you use for skin diving. Like Michael Phelps. And look, they would put on wet suits. Okay, under their clothes that we went hunting with And we'd go wading Okay, it didn't make any difference What the temperature was The only thing on your body

It got cold was your feet Was feet and your hands That feet and hands Yeah Because the rest of it was just toast Yeah, but see, I can't handle When my feet get cold Well, they don't know about how it looked like me

I didn't have enough money to buy them stupid wetsuits Oh So, hey, I just was You know. Your brothers wouldn't buy you one? No. No. That's terrible.

Every man for himself. Hey, every man for himself right here. Who's a man? Yeah. Who's a man? Who's a man? The motto, who's a man? The age old question in the Robertson family, who's a man?

I know, because the guys that come would come, like, from Tennessee, and we'd go waiting, you know, in September. What's that saying? Tell me, hey, I just don't understand it. The him are the toughest guys I ever seen. It was 18 degrees that morning And hey, they just stepped off in that cold water Like it wasn't, you know, like it was summertime What they didn't know is they had them

They had them wetsuits on Yeah Oh, good, Gary. So what was your decoy spread like? Oh, a lot of them handmade, you know, carved out of wood Wasn't much. Black plastic jugs. Yeah, black plastic jugs.

Yeah. Anything that would float and would bob up and down. Yeah. Yeah. We used it. Yeah, some of the decals we have that, I'd say probably it was 40, 50 years old. What kind of duck call was you blowing? P.S. Oats?

Yeah, because we wouldn't. Hard, hard black plastic. Yeah. Keyhole. Yeah. Hard plastic, I mean, too. That's what I learned. And loud. And loud.

Yeah. Loud. Yeah. You needed a tank of oxygen to go with it. Oh, no. You got that. You get done ringing on an oak. You get done barking on him.

You look up and you see them little phantom ganats. Yeah. Them little spark. Yeah. See spots before you have. You put your shotgun to your shoulder. You got to figure out which one's a duck and which one's the oxygen deprivation. One for each of you.

Yeah. I don't miss them days. That was the first time I went in a hundred real foot lake. It was just amazing to me to see how close the blind. were together and how many decoys they had they had a lot of jugs you know and how long and loud they blew them duck calls here's the thing that was my take home from real fun all the way to the water my dad and uncles okay hunted when it was legal to have live ducks as decoer as decoys and he said hey y'all do better y'all do better than we did

did when we had 200 live miles sitting out there in front of us. Huh? Live ducks and decoys? Yeah. All they do is crop their wings, okay, keep them, you know, the feathers cut, okay, and then tie strings on them just like you do a regular decoy, throw them out. They'd swab up around there. Just think about it.

You got 200 live decoys, and like when ducks come over, Mallard him, they're going to talk to them. Well, no wonder you shoot the decoys. Well, no, no, because I'm serious. I was about to say, boom, boom, boom, boom. All right, we're done. They're right there. It just amazed me when Daddy told Phil that

because Phil was asking him, you know, him and that film and said, well, look, good grief, y'all. Y'all was in the day when y'all put out 200 live decoys. That's a man. I never knew that was in. Y'all, and he said. And they were that shy then, too. And they were that shy.

He said, oh, Daddy said there was a many days when a flight went on. They'd have all them ducks calling at them, ducks flying over never never broke up they're gone so what you're saying is it shows that animals perhaps adapt to what's going on around well no no could like today I'll tell you we're hunting super ducks I'm saying what Louisiana people because you got to think about okay they come from Canada

okay and they see they see a lot before they get to the state of Louisiana yeah hear a lot of duck calls hear a lot of duck calls so hey they That's right. They get pretty slick. A lot of people that's way better than me on one, and a lot of people that's way worse than me on one. So they've seen it and heard it say some speak, you know, all. Yeah.

Yeah. Seeing all your flappers and all your spinners and all that junk? I'm just glad to know that 2,000 years ago, Gadwals were flaring off somebody else's plugs. That makes me hate it. You know, I'm just saying that. Well, a gadwall is a crazy duck anyway. Guarantee you.

You part gadwold. Yeah. Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah. They're insane. Mm-hmm. No problem. Because right when you think your face is just murder them, then they flare.

Then they'll lead everything astray. And about the time you fall asleep, you look up, there's 20 of them backpedaling in your dick. Oh, yeah. And then they get away too, and you're like, well, yeah. Okay. That's it. All right. Good day.

All right. Well, let's take our first break. We'll be back out after that. All right. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means? That means more outside cooking.

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You're making a fish hook over? Yeah, I've been trying to be Maui. I've been watching all them Disney movies trying to get ready for what my life's about to become. Yeah, it's technically by now my kids are approaching a week old. Yeah, we got, this is our last one though before you have kids that we're going to have in the in the pipe. Yeah, this will be it. So after that, when I come in looking at rougher than I do now, he'll be on maternity leave. I think it's pu-ternity.

But I also know that we don't offer that here at Duck Commander, so I'm going to take my, I'm going to take the rest of my vacation, and then I'll come back and recoup it. Recoup it. I'll recoup it for time. I'm irmed, but yeah, no, I don't know what I, I just keep playing with this old bread tie or whatever, some kind of wire tie. What you've been eating? Nothing. I just found it sitting here. It was probably something good, which is out for me.

I didn't have nothing good. I did say bread, didn't I? Have y'all had any chili lately? I do the keto. Chili. Oh. To the Victor go the spoils, by the way. I had chili.

Who won? Free doors the night. Did you? What was the final count? Was it, she looking up the final. It was somewhere, so we had, I was the only person that said beans belong in chili. Yeah. I'm normally outnumbered in here.

And the Frito was a big dip type. He's talking about his meal, though. What kind of chili do you have? Wolf. Woof. With or without beans? Without. Without.

That's what I'm talking about. You don't put beans and chili. 75-ish percent of our listeners say beans do belong in chili. Nope. Nope. If you're going to put anything out. You did what I did. Y'all making taco meat.

That's a mulligan. Dip, dip, free those, and then you spice it up with pepper sauce. Chili don't have. A lot of pepper sauce. About half a bottle. Well, we asked the people to give their opinion, and the people have spoken, and for the first time ever, they're with you. People are with me and not y'all.

Some people say they can fry chicken, too. Well, hey. You can fry a chicken? Hey, the people are gaseous. People what? Gaseous. He's saying they like to fart. I thought you said they're against us.

If they put the beans in it up their gas. They're on the gas. Beans on chili wins according to the beans. And somebody tagged me in a comment on that mess. I was like, look, here's the if you want to put beans in it, that is your prerogative. Just know. Make me a sign. order that ain't got beans.

No, I'll eat yours. If you took the time to cook it and you decided beans or what goes in your chili, I'll eat your chili. But just know if you come to my house for chili. You better bring you on beans. You better bring you a can of beans if you want them in there because it ain't going to be in there. So you're just making sloppy Joe. My man Jake said y'all just like sloppy Joe meat.

That's all it is. Chili's not intended to be that thick. It's got to be thick. Sloppy Joe, you can't put a chili on a bun. I mean, you can, but it's just going to sop it up. Yeah. That ain't chili. What do you people got against adding water?

Like, where's the rub here? I don't understand. Got tomatoes, green chilies, and all kinds of stuff, onions. Beans. Hot dog, we know beans. No beans. Nope. No beans.

That's what I'm saying. If I'm making it, it won't have beans in it. But if, for whatever reason that night, Brittany decided to make, guess what? It's going to have beans in it, and there ain't nothing I can do about it. I'm just going to eat it. You don't have. And sire cream. It's a chili dog.

It ain't a chili dog with beans. It's not a bean dog. It's not a bean dog. It's a chili dog. There you go. So I said it. So I said it. Well, I just want to let the people know what the verdict was.

You wanted to gloat. And I wanted to do that, too. Nobody's ever on my side. I want a bed of rice. That's how we eat. What were beans? I squirt some ketchup in there. Oh.

Chili? Yeah. You eat chili with rice? And ketchup? He eats it in the way. that's interesting i don't i don't eat you eat it just by itself saltine crackers yeah or cornbread either one of who good with either one either or it's almost that same thing on a better rise that's that oh i wish i had a big bowl of chicken with with chicken cornbread in it chili it would be fine

if you had the cornbread you don't need to write it then i just put that half a bottle of pepper sauce in there That would be fine, boys. Fine is wine on a sweet potato vine. That's why I'm telling you. Oh, man, there ain't no chilly been talking to around my house. She got a heartburn bad enough as it is. I couldn't imagine turning it loose with that. She turned into one of them dragons off Game of Thrones or something.

Golly. Just fire breathing. A loose hack. I don't know what just happened. We got the fire breathing dragons. I was very studied up on medieval. Times in trivia. That's one of his time period. Medieval Time. Yeah.

Have you ever been to medieval times with the Red Night and the Blue Day? Is that fun? That's all right, yeah. I think I went, but I was too young to remember it. We went one time to Scarborough, Texas. Scarborough, Texas. It's a 40-acre castle. 40-acre? It's a courtyard, the courtyard. I got to look this.

What were you, Gavin? I was a Scottish. I was Scottish. I had me a kilt on. Coolest costume there he is. Especially if it's windy. Heck yeah. It was windy, he said. Wait, there's a castle in Texas.

Yeah, it's a castle in Texas. You didn't know that? It's a fanth around it. I'll go during the King's Games. Do they actually joust? Yeah. Like real jousted. Oh, yeah.

They knock each other off of her. Knock each other off of the horses. When is this coming back and when are we going? It's in April and May, I think. Yeah, Godwin used to go every year. Yep, I found it. It was a lot of fun. I went one time.

You got to dress up, though. Oh, you have to dress up? Oh, yeah. You got to. You want nobody talk to you. That's it? I may now talk to you, but you dress up and you become. What did Al go as?

He was Friar Tuck. Friar Tuck, Morris. But with a bad. He was a priest. Yeah. And I say, who was, Howard went. Howard was a. Carbo?

Yeah, he was a wizard. Who was a jester? Who was a jester? Oh, a wizard. Yeah. A wizard. I was just trying to guess. What would you go as, Jody D to medieval times?

A night? Excuse me. There you go. Wasn't bad manners. It was good tea. That's right. It was good tea. That's what he said.

I don't know what I would go. because I don't want to end up on a horse because I don't like them, so I wouldn't go through a night. Oh, you gotta have a horse. You just go watch. You'd go as a beggar. Oh, yeah, I could just go around. Am I normal everyday attire? There's all kind of characters walking around that thing.

Really? But it's not like Lord of the Ring. He couldn't go as a dwarf. You could. Okay. That's going to be hard for you. Well, but I want to axe. Oh, yeah.

He won't. No, like I think. I was a Viking. A North man. My son's got big into Vikings lately. The other day he started telling me about some Viking. Yeah. Leaf Erickson, Eric the Red.

Eric the Red. And I was like, how do you know all this? Which one? What's he got about things with horns on their head? He loves that. He like that Rhino. Now he's on them Vikings with them horn helmets. Just don't ask about Thomas Jefferson.

Not a fan. Yeah. He didn't like T.J.? I don't get it. I don't know what he got. He says he's too boring. I do wrote the Declaration of Independence, man. No.

He's out. The Vikings movie starred Kirk Douglas. That was way back on her. That was way back there. Back in the 1900. So I can go as a Viking? My man, I want to go to this.

Only because I want to watch jousting in real life. But it's pretty hot in Texas, and you want to... I'm telling you, that kilt's pretty cool. The whole thing is. thing about that movie was when the guy... Put you some Tommy John's under it. Yeah. A Viking said, give me a sword. Kirk Douglas gave it to him. They cut his arm

off because of it. And then the guy that he gave the sword to, he jumped into a pack of wolves. This doesn't sound like fun at all. Oh, no, it was great. It was a great movie. Oh, I thought you were back on a Renaissance special. No, this was a great movie. We're actually cutting arms off. Your boys out.

Oh, no. It was a great movie. I want both of us. They got a honing. house there. I don't do haunted houses. Haunted castle. Harned Castle. Uh-uh. Hard pass.

I'm out on that thing. I don't like Halloween. They got falcony, got birds flying around. I don't like scary movies. You seen that one called? No, I haven't. I ain't going to say the name of it, but there's people smiling in the preview, and all of a sudden this person's head flips upside down, and she's smiling through a car, and I laughed, and I laughed,

but it was supposed to be scary. But then people are like, don't go see the movie. movie you won't sleep ever again. I'm like, why do people do this? And it was funny. Yeah, why do people like being scared? What's that about? I don't know, but they do. I don't like Halloween at all. Yeah, I'm like, I'll dress up

as Mario and go to the fall. You like that. But it's in the daylight. Like, all that stuff happens at night. We spend way too much time in the woods, in the dark, with little to no light for me to want to even. My imagination were wild anyway when I hear things. Like, I'll

there in the woods because you like especially now around here not that big of a deal when i go to yama every twig out here in the dark is a cat like i'm already scared is it yeah but them movies were like small children dressed in all white to the fear out of the darkness no no i'm out man i get nervous when my kids wait me up in the morning and i'm not i've i've seen so many of them movies at the house at nighttime if i hear a noise i don't go look for it and i lock the doors no that's when people get killed get your gun don't go look for it Yeah, don't go downstairs. That's the dumbest thing.

Yeah, yeah. You don't go downstairs. You wait for it to come to you. You just lay right there with that Glock across your chest. That's right. Hey. And say, well, if you come in here, that's your thing, not mine. That's on you.

I'm not coming. I ain't going that one. If you get shot, it's your own fault. But most of the time, it's just wood popping and it don't really even matter anyway. Yeah. But, like, you know, it's just. Just the trees. Yeah, I don't, I don't.

No, I'm not. Just, it's fine. No, no. I didn't know what it was. No, no. You're not going to believe. He's playing jump rope with Mike Corey. Well, you're not going to believe what I just.

Me, Tommy and Phil or frog gigging. There you go. Okay. Tommy's leading. Phil's behind him and I'm behind him. He was always a tail, wouldn't you? No, no. Well, yeah.

Okay. So look, I have this feeling something's behind me. Mm-hmm. We're walking. It's a night. Black Panther. Tommy's got the flashlight up front. Okay, so I'm literally walking in the dark.

Just, you know, I watch it feel, you know, and I feel a presence. Well, I turn around and look, just two eyeballs. I mean, even with me, is it a person? To this day, I have no idea what in the world it was. How many size 11 foot press you put on Phil's back? Oh, no, no, no. I run over Phil, push him into Tommy. we all fall in a pile and they jump up so what's wrong with you i said behind me you know and they

see something take off okay and it goes in a cupboard you know where water runs soon well Tommy goes up there and shining the light in flashlight there and all we can smell is a skunk it's a skunk eight well no no it's a say but hey i'm telling you look i don't even remember how old i was but i was I was probably maybe four foot tall. Oh, it wasn't Sasquatch then. No, no. So look, this thing is literally, literally eye to eye with me, whatever it was. Not, what if it was a young Sasquite?

Well, no, no, I'm telling you. Ain't you ever heard of baby Sasquatch? Hey, no, hey, I'll tell you, I had to know a deal. What it was. Yeah. You know, Tommy just rolled it off as all. It was a skunk. And I said, Tommy, it ain't no skunk that big.

He was looking at me in the eye. It was a baby Sasquois. So, Sawha, what I'm hearing in the time of fight or flight, you're a flighter. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. Way back. Hey gone. Making things out.

Making things out of the dark. No, no, you got to understand that happens so many times, okay? Other time was we're playing on sandbars on Red River. And they've got will of trees about all three or four foot tall. so we're running through chasing you having a big time yo and like Tommy's in front Phil's there and I'm behind it

and look Tommy stops and throws his hand up whoa yo Phil runs into him I run into Tommy and what it is is one of them hog-nosed snakes that blow up like a cobra yeah they just

they puff out just like a cobra does you know and we both Tommy throws his hands up yet a cobra Yeah. Sa just keep on running. There's a lot of snakes on that red deer. I'm gone. I'm gone.

I just keep on run. I'm with him. I'm gone. You make things. I mean, we was sitting there on a deer stand the other morning, me and Paula. And it was breaking day, you know. And she said, there's a deer. There's a deer all there.

And kept getting daylight. I kept listening. I could, of course, I can't hear no way. Too many shotguns. She was. Too many paper machines. She goes, oh, never mind. That's a bushing.

You ever done that on a deer stand? Every time I go. Start getting dark or getting daylight, you see that. But I was sitting there. Oh, it don't matter if it's broad daylight. When them shadows change a little bit and all of a sudden that green bush in that shadow of that black. And then he looks brown and you're like, oh, that's him. Then you're like, he ain't moved in 17 minutes.

I don't think that's him. Ain't him no more, y'all. Yeah, it ain't him. That's why when I get in a deer, Stan, I look around and talking, okay, what's going to be a deer when it starts to get, the light starts to go bad? Yeah. I really do. Yeah, which one's going to? That suspect right over where that bush is.

Yep. Y'all, and then when it, just that perfect time, you look over and I said, yeah. Hey, Stone, there he is over the left bush. Yeah. And Stone puts his bedonker up and says, that's this bush, idiot. Yeah. I was watching it break day and listening to the thrasher, wake everybody up. He's the first one awake.

I was sitting there thinking, there ain't a whole lot of people get to see this. Well, not on that. They come up to you. Okay, you're sitting there, and then all you hear is, he starts fussing at you. Who is that? The bird. Oh.

I thought it was three. He's done landing on the window seal of the stand you're looking out, And he's fussing at you. He's talking, hey, when you get out of here, you idiot. I'm trying to live up in here. Yeah. I'm trying to be high out here, and all you are, you're making all this racket. Different things happening, you know.

It's pretty neat to watch the woods wake up. I was blessed to be there, especially with my woman. Oh, yeah. Pretty, pretty awesome. Did she get anything? Didn't get nothing. Didn't get nothing. Well, always amazed me.

We could. We said a lot of dear. All the leaves have fell off the trees, and they're about two foot deep. And you walk in and you stand, you know, hook it to a tree, you climb up, you sound like a herd of elephants going in.

You know, you climb up about 12, 14 feet, you know, and you're sitting there and everything's been quiet for 30 minutes. Yeah. And then something moves right down here under you. And you're saying,

wait a minute. You look down there, and it's about a 200-pound dough. tell me, how in the world did she get under me? You can't hear them. Without making any noise on all of them dry leaves down there that when I come walking in here, it sounds like a herd of elephants walking through the woods.

And yet she's standing under me, and I did not hear a thing. Bottle I would have heard it. Or, or, right. My ears. Look, here, one evening. Look, hear one eating, I'm in the stand. And I keep hearing leaves crunch.

Been hearing it for an hour. And I'm looking, I'm looking all around, and I can't see nothing. And it was just like somebody slapped me on the head and cleared my vision. Then all of a sudden, I hear crunch, and I'm looking, and I'm literally, there's 40 deer around me. 40? Yeah, I'm serious. And you didn't see any? And I hadn't seen none of them.

And then, hey, I'm serious. It's just like somebody slapped me on the back of my head, and it cleared my vision. And all of a sudden, I'm looking, there's deer everywhere. They blend in. That buzz wore off. He's back in that mustard tree. Oh, no, no, I'm serious. It was the weirdest feeling because I'm serious.

I'm talking about, there's deer like on me right here. There's four or five over there There's seven over here There's ten coming this way And I'm looking and saying Why haven't I been looking at seeing these deer Not all neighbors Pollockers

Yeah some of them had to gather sticks and berries No no I'm serious It was wild I'd be moving policy I hear one coming That is you, it's your britches or something moving No it was a deer coming Oh she just heard it around the bed down there

I said, you know what I thought? After she's saying, heard two deer, but I didn't hear them. I said, I need to put them Tetra's on, come out here and try hunting. Yeah. So I put them things on, and I started hearing stuff. I didn't know exist. Oh, no. That was like help.

A cameraman, back in the old days. Ed was saying, get out. Here comes a bunch. You know, and everybody would get out and looking. He's seeing ducks at our 200, three, 400, 400, 400, yards away like they was right in front of us. Yeah, I hung with them people all time too. I say, I don't look that far.

Yeah. I said, if they're that far, I can't kill them there anyway. It don't matter. Hey, they'd be a cross over there at the cutoff. That's the same people that say, get on that horn. Get on that horn. Yeah, no, no thanks. Get on the horn.

Well, let's take a break. We'll be back right after this. I got to get an update since it's going to be a minute until I see you next probably other than a quick visit or something but how's you how's your sugar doing you doing all right i don't know i keep yanking them things out of them on why man you rub up against a lamb you put a deer stand up hey some dude told he was in the store yesterday and he said i listen to the guy when talking about yanking them things he had like a black patch sticker that goes over it he said he yanked him out all the time and he put it on the back of his arm over it

the thing, he said, works like a charm. You'd be surprised how much you brush your arm against something. Even on the backside, you ain't putting them on your arm and keep them on there. Unless you got something like that. Where'd he get it at, do you tell you? He didn't tell me. Well, you get a big band-aid like Martin put on my... I found it.

I was the other day when it was bleeding. I got a lot of hair on my arm, though. I'm like a woolly bearer. I pull his shirt off. He's like a woolly bear. I don't believe it. Look, here it is. The whole world's seeing it.

It's this thing. Look at there. You put it on there. Skin grip. And boom. You have the freestyle Libre? I do. There you go.

Look at that. Oh, there you go. 25 bucks. And then they said it worked really well. Well, I think it's just, you put it on there. But it says it stays on for like 10 days. The sticker. Really?

That's what it says. We get your little big band-aid You got two deals They're 75 bucks a pop There's two of them $75 a month plus that No, just hey I think I'll just guess that

You get the big band-day like Martin put on my hand on that He said I think I'll just guess that I got my eating down pat But you're still feeling better? Yeah You look good And still medicine free You've always looked at it on that cinnamon

On that cinnamon Oh That's good I got some cinnamon honey. Cinnamon, no. I think that's counterproductive of what God was trying to. That's just cinnamon toast crunch. Yeah, I got to try it out.

I don't got to eat, well, I'm eating this. I tell you, I want a hamburger so bad I can taste it. Well, why don't you just eat a hamburger? You're good. Well, hey, just be good to it to yourself one day and a half one. Boy, that'd be just make me mad. Do you have to have the bun to make you? Make it right?

Oh. Well, yeah. Okay. I don't eat many buns anymore. I don't. You don't eat the bread much? He's a no bun. Well, I mean, I ain't either now.

Yeah. I just, that's one of them deals kind of like sweet tea. Once you get off of it, I'm like, now when I eat a bun on one, I'm like, it just is like thick and heavy. I'd rather eat peanut in a meal. You know what I like about hamburgers? The ones with the cheapest bun possible. like just make the bread hardly there at all yeah not a distraction i don't need a premium fancy buns yeah yeah i like just 99 cent buns yeah oh the off chance i do i take one of the

buns off either the top or the bottom and just use it as a vehicle kind of it's a vehicle yeah but that's good though you still you are looking still a lot better that's good i'm proud of you i'm still going down perfect i reckon i'm eating the bright stuff. What's your favorite diabetic dish you found so far? I like Johanna's Shepherd's Pie with that cauliflower or potatoes. You can't tell a different. I mean, you can, but it's not untolerable.

I mean, you like it. It's good. It just ain't potatoes, but it's good. Good. As long as it's good. That potato good, though, ain't. He is. Man.

Now, I do eat sweet taters. Sweet taters, yeah. Sweet taters are good for them. I'll eat them, yeah. Yeah. I hate them. Well, you get to put on. Well, you can put cinnamon on it.

Cinnamon good for you. You just can't put no sugar. Mm-mm. Yeah, no butter. Well, there's going to be a butter shortage here soon. Well, I use that. Is it? Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Well, did you use that? I can't believe it. That ain't real butter. And it's just one. There you go. Why is there going to be a butter shortage? I don't know.

And why am I just now hearing? Well, every time there's, well, here's a problem. We don't eat up all the cows. In America. We killed them all because they're carbon. That's all, anyway. But as soon as there's a report of, hey, this could be a shortage, that is what causes the shortage. Is there no more dairy farms?

I don't know. I opened up our refrigerator yesterday. and there were 16 to 20 sticks of butter. And I said, whoa, whoa. How much toilet paper y'all got? I don't know. We got a bidet. You better get some more.

We don't need that much of that. But I was like, Allison, why have we got so much butter? She goes, I heard there's going to be a shortage for the holiday, so they want to run out. And I was like, that's why they're going to be a shortage. She might have to make some of that sard-do bread. Yeah. But that's good, so it's out. It's out.

Well, so she heard there may be a shortage. And that's that. I looked it up. I heard it. I heard it. I heard it. Why are we having such shortages? Can't get parts.

Can't get this. But unemployment's at an all-time low. I'll point you in one direction. Really? And from here, it's northeast. I mean, it don't make no sense. And I'll give you one name. I know it.

Anyways. There may be a butter. But that does not blow your mind? Like, I think if we all just chilled and said, look, we're running short on something, let's all just take what we need at the time. But people, like, stock up. And I'm guilty because I got more butter

than anybody in the neighborhood right now. And she said every time I get groceries, I'm just getting one extra now. I said, well, you're part of the shortage, girl. Yeah, that's part of the problem. So come Thanksgiving if y'all need some butter and can't find it. I got some.

I go to JD's house, boys. just look for that blue container I think I'll probably just use baking grease in place of it I'm not a baker so butter it and I ain't got to fold nothing into a dough so I'll be okay I can get my grease from somewhere else

there's other avenues of grease I just said we go break out the baking grease baby churning butter there you go but I think it's a cream it starts at the cream

I don't even know and now we're short on butter We're not short on butter yet, but we could be. So everybody buy all the butter, so we definitely have. It starts with milk. And we're right here around elections. Yeah. Okay.

It all makes sense. But ain't none of it tied together. Gas prices go up, gas prices go down right before election. Hey, I have that. Oh, boy, we're not that smart. We can't figure it out. Yes, we have. I'm voting John Godwin for.

What are you running for? Anything he does. I ain't running yet. Still just walking? I'm just walking. I'm in that arm slanging greek. Uh-oh, he's an arm fling. How many days a week y'all do that?

Well, we ain't done it too much this week. Hunting? We've been going, yeah, hunting and going places. But I guess we just sling them real light going through the wood, you know. You don't want to make a bunch of motion. You got to ease through that. This is restrained slinging. Yeah, restrained slinging.

Hey, but it's moving too fast. Look at it there. We've already had another one fly by. Let's take our last break and we'll get in that mailbag. We'll be back right out. Mailbag. Hello at duck callroom.com. That's the email address.

Johnny Dee. Oh, right. You say you got us a bizarre one. It's just a little weird to me. I like it. Let's see what it is. What up, Michelle? She's up by north of a little town called Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Everybody knows where that's at. Boots on there. Oh, yeah. The home of Dunder, Miffon. But she's never been further west than somewhere

in Missouri, Cape Girardi. Yeah, Cape Girardeo. She said there's a bunch of scary snakes there. That's her memory of that place. Okay.

And the furthest south she's ever been is just east of Knoxville, which to me is very far north. And there, her memories is that they have

have enormous spiders. Either snakes or spiders, boys. Take your choice. And so here's the situation. She's going through some stuff health-wise, and we're going to be praying for you, Michelle. But she needs to move closer to family. Problem is that family is in Florida.

Who? And Florida basically terrifies her. And she says she's a river-loving, kayak fishing kind of girl, which I think's awesome. But she likes being here in Pennsylvania where she says the creatures are way less dangerous and a lot smaller.

Yeah, they're at a minimum up there because they stay frozen half the year. Well, okay, that's a great point. So she's really afraid that Florida is going to be a living nightmare. And if we have any advice and tips on adjusting to a different unpredictable environment known as Florida.

Well. And first of all, I think you do need to move close to your family because I think they can help you through this little medical situation you're going through and we're going to lean on Jesus for that. Amen. But my girl Michelle scared of animals.

I'm just saying, Michelle, if that's the bug of booze you have or snakes and spider, is there a problem with just getting closer to Florida? Yeah. Because Florida, I don't think it's for you. Oh, so you say. I'm just saying, us in Florida got a lot of similarities as far as Florida and Fauna. We ain't got them lizards, big lizards.

Well, that's all the way down, Florida. You're talking about iguanas? Yeah. Yeah, that's all the way down down. Where's she going in Florida? Let me look it up. She gave me the city, Lakeland. Lakeland.

Oh, yeah. That's Tampa. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Between, I mean. And there's, after that hurricane and all that water, there's probably going to be a pretty fair hatch of bugs come off of this too. I'm just worried for her because she's got some fears, right?

She don't want to move, and that's normal. And you don't want to live in. And you don't want to live in fear either way there because that ain't living. I just, you're going to have to. Buckle up. Really do some mental gymnastics. here and get yourself prepared for what is about to be. But if you get close enough to the ocean,

the wind to keep a lot of them bugs at bay. Yeah? It ain't going to help much with the things that crawl on their bellies, but it'll at least keep the bugs at bay. You know, I don't know. What do you think about somebody that's just afraid of the, which I don't like them, but the creatures of the earth that are scary?

Just going to have to. I don't know what to tell her on this. I'm barren, can her family move to her. If all your people live in Florida, okay, and you need to get close to your family, there's a lot of creatures in Florida. But they'll help her. Just like Louisiana, there's a lot of creatures in Louisiana. They'll watch out for her and help her show her how to avoid most of them.

Yeah, and if you move to a city, you'll be like. You know, there ain't a whole lot. You ain't going to live in the Everglades for crying out loud. Yeah. Don't go there. That's probably not a place you want to visit either. And Lakeland, that's kind of like big city almost. Tampa.

Yeah. So, you mean, they. They probably, they probably ain't a butterfly around there either because they probably spray for mosquitoes like they do here. Yeah. I think you'll be good. And the odds of a hurricane like that hitting again, that's astronomical. So like, I think, hey, head on to Tampa.

Your biggest adjustment is going to be the humidity. Yeah. I think you may find that scarier than the insects. Yeah. Being a PA, being a PA person, I think the climate's going to be way more intimidating. Climate stuff. For sure. Yeah, I didn't even think about that until you said that.

Go ahead. I got another one, though. Let's do it. Because this one, like, just came through. Good. And at the end he said, P.S. Bidays are awesome. So you're getting yours. There you go.

Oh, Ram! His name is Ram. He needs a bidet. He's from Gonzales, Texas, and I've never heard this. But he said, he was wondering if Uncle Si could tell the story of the time you were bitten by a half-dead squirrel? Oh, yeah. Did that happen? Mm-hmm.

Unless Sy has done forgot it. Yeah, it happened. No, I had a pet squirrel. What? Cat squirrel. Okay, and I was petting him one day. Well, hey, you got to think. Okay, this is a wild creature.

Well, hey, I was petting him and, hey, he literally, a squirrel's teeth go over each other. The top, go over the bottom. Yeah, the incisors. Yeah, okay. And look, he clamped down on me right there, and he paralyzed me for just a second. He was half dead?

Oh, yeah. you know and I literally had to put my thumb and index finger right here and just crush his muscles to make him open his mouth ram I thought this was going to be a funny word oh no I'm serious because hey he literally paralyzed me for a second and look but when I made him open his mouth I started bleeding like a you know like a stuck pig I throw them in a Chinaberry tree

Okay, the limbs are little and they're not, they're easy to break. Then I go and let my dog out of the dog pen. That's all you need to know. The rest of it, you can figure out. I broke a limb, the squirrel falls and, hey, and the dog takes care of business. That's all you need to know about that one. The more of this story is, don't bite me. I'll sick my cat on you.

Sweet pee ain't climbing no tree. Oh, I'll stick something on you. Yeah. Sweet pee ain't climbing no tree and she's certainly. It was fine until he bit you. Yeah. Yeah. Ram, I don't know how you do.

You're talking about it. Oh. There you go. You got to think about it. They got teeth they get it at Hick or not, which is as hard as concrete. You've been squirrel hunting yet? No. No, I got to go because that's my favorite wild game.

Yeah, I'm with you. I didn't see one. You what? I didn't say, I seen one squad, on a deer stand the other day. No, what's the deal with this? So you go squirrel hunting. You ain't hunting around the acre?

The migration is. I am. You go squirrel hunting. I'm in an acre and tree. You don't see nothing. You go deer hunting and they overrun you. Well, not Saturday they wouldn't. You go, you go squirrel hunting, you see deer.

You go deer hunting, you see squirrel. They see squirrel. That's exactly right. I do know where one big fox squirrel is. One big fox squirrel. That's like that big as a gorilla. I would just fix that. down there on Fields property or about as slick as they come.

Oh, you just need to go sit on Kay's new porch anyway. That's where you did most of your squirrel killing was in the driveway. All right. That's where most of them are at. We'd be sitting there putting duck calls together. You hear, and then you hear, like, I got him another one. He dropped it on the roof, boys. He had their long chairs.

That's right. Them old yard squirrel. I got to go get the ladder and put on the roof. He had long chairs strategically placed around me. Oh, yeah. He'd go sit here a while and he'd go over. You slip down there on that tree, sitting in a long chair for a few minutes. I remember the first time that happened.

Scared me to death. I heard the gunfire, and then I heard on top of that building. Yeah. I was like. Yeah. He shot that and he was over the roof of the building. I mean, that man, there wasn't a squirrel safe around that place. So I got all of them.

You got to quit shooting them square. Quit shooting my pets. I said, they ain't pets. I noticed that when men filled them and brought them in there, she's fried them up quick enough. Yeah, she showed it. Yeah, she didn't mind. She didn't walk at that.

She's trying to get to them heads. She liked them squirrel brains. Squirrel brains, boys. A lot of people cook them with, and like hog brains too, cook them with scrambled eggs. Yeah, I've heard of that. Johnny Dee, what does that do for you? As a man who don't like a vienna.

I'm just curious. What do you think about? Nope, not trying that one. I don't even know. My anis are gone, by the way. So if we kill a sack full of squirrels and get Kay to cook them, would you eat some of Kay's squirrel brain? I've never done it.

I'd try it. My grandma used to eat them, too. She'd crack that thing open like an oyster. Have you tasted them? No, I just, I ain't tear yet. What do they say they taste like? Chicken? No, I don't know.

But, I mean, I just, I ain't tear. Chicken. He got too much meat on his legs. and his back strap for me to go after her brain. And that's the best eating there is. But that's the way my grandma did it. She would, when she'd clean them, instead of using a Sharpie to put on her bag, she would like leave the eyeballs in the old ones when she froze them.

And she put all them together and she'd take them out of the young ones. That way when she went to the freezer, she knew which one she put, were they fryers or were they dumplings squirrel? Oh, dumplings squirrels. Yeah. That's how she separated. I like that squirrels. dumplings. I was like you couldn't just take a but that's good so that's out you couldn't just take a sharpie right old. Old or old yeah we had to leave him you know he's looking at you when you

opened her understood it. That's a country living boy yeah yeah oh man well send us out of here all right big Dave sent me this Bible verse this morning 530 Michelle I think you can get a little something out of it. The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of troubles. Those who know your name trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you. Psalms 9, 9, 9, and 10.

Beautiful. Psalm 9, 9 and 10, baby. All right. Let that be your anchor. Martin, go have some kids, man. Yeah, next time I'm going to have some bags under my eyes. We'll check back in on the front side of this.