Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Suffers From 'The Yips'

Episode Date: May 30, 2023

Si gets a Si-choanalysis from Phillip about an embarrassing performance issue he’s been having! But it takes Martin and John-David all of 30 seconds to diagnose Si with the dreaded "yips,” even though you’re not supposed to talk about them out loud! The boys reveal their own experiences with the yips and how they were able to break free. John-David shows some wholesome photos from a recent family fishing adventure. The boys congratulate a father and daughter on their commitment to Christ, and they give advice to a young man who feels that his girlfriend is spiritually out of his league.  -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back. Welcome back. Welcome back. All room. Ladies and gentlemen, look, Phil, we got a score to settle. Uh-oh. Wait a minute. What was this about the barbecue ribs?

And the brisket. Si gave us his opinion without you here, right? Okay, yeah. Yeah, because Gobel was here. So you had the same thing that Cy had. And I hate start like this to everybody gets on. Y'all talk about food and make us hungry out of time. But I just have to know from the other man.

that was there, how good was the brisket? They were some of the best, I guess the ribs and the brisket. Brisket probably some of the best I've ever had. I mean, it was worth... My conscience is clear. It would be worth driving back. Now, look, I'm not saying it's better than stones,

but it's up there. How much does Stone pay y'all for these endorsements? Like, what is the deal? Is he about to go... Is he about to go rogue and, like, open a barbecue joint? What are we doing? No, it's just, stones are that good.

He would have business out of the world. Well, he wouldn't have business because you eat for free. Well, he would have an uncle. But I thought the ribs were equally as good. So there you go. Okay, so that's a much better take than edible. So we got that out of the way. I called it edible.

Si, that's what you said. Yeah, he said it was edible. Wait a minute. Did you tell him about the 72 box of bones that I found the next morning? And they're sitting dominoes. No. This is rib bones. Rib bones.

Hey, ready for this, though? Those ribs? My friend Doug that had y'all come over, he texted me. The funny thing was those ribs were cooked by our guys. They just had their version of stone out there cooking them real. Well, they were good. But I had both of them, the country tavern plays and their guys. So there you go.

Yeah, the ribs are really good. All the food was good. It was a great event. We loved it. I thought it was awesome. You do realize this is the one time you could have brought something back. with you and it would have been okay. They ate it all.

I know. We put it in the refrigerator. I don't know what happened to it. The only thing he could say the next morning was, oh, it was so good. That was so edible. You didn't eat them all, did you? In case any of y'all at home

or ever wondering what traveling with size, like Phil can give you a firsthand account of it. That's what he does. Okay, boy. Whoa. Okay. They're always checking the fact on me, boys. No, I just like to confirm.

He was there. Didn't a different story. Not a different. He was there. He was just another witness. This is why eyewitnesses are unreliable, right, son? Isn't that what you say all the time? Hey, that's what the cops say.

I'm just saying, I'm just going with the police. The police. There you go. Well. The police. Well, Phil, what's you been up to? Well, my son, I had my middle child graduated from college. And so, Blake.

I thought he was your youngest for a sudden. No, Blake is the middle. Okay. So he graduated. We went to that. So it was very exciting. I was about to say, you're so old, all your kids have graduated college. No, no, no, no.

No, Bryson is in the Air Force. Blake just graduated from Tech. And then Amber's right behind him. So I saw Martin graduate. Yeah, I graduated with Phillips' wife. So he married younger. No, she went back to school. What he graduated?

What's his degree? He is in graphic design. Okay. So he's actually, he's going to be here for a few weeks, and then he's heading off to do an internship at Disney. So he's excited about that. World? Or land?

World. That's good. You're saying Florida's better in California. Take me to Florida, baby. That's cool. He's going to the retirement center. He's going. He's probably retiring.

I don't think he's retired, yeah. No, he's going to like the youngest place in Florida, not the oldest place. Oh, yeah. Well, that's cool. So he's one of those creative types. I'm not that, I'm a nuts and bolts guy. I'm not a creative type. So that's the way I am.

Yeah, they put your hands on it and everything will be good. I can't, yeah, the imagination. He's creative because he can play, he can play a guitar. Is he? Yeah. Yeah, I got none of those skills either. I don't either. Not narrow one of them.

That's not. You can play. I've seen you do it. Well, I'm getting better. Did you tell them about our conversation? No. Okay, do tell. I'm interested.

A trip from Longview to here back. Yeah. Okay. We psychotherapy session. We psychoanalyze my problem with the guitar. Wait, wait. Let's clarify. Just one problem.

with the guitar. You out of lying to me, tell the problem. Well, Sye is, I think he's scared to succeed. Because whenever, I've seen him play every chord, every chord, every chord, trust me, I've been with him for years watching him do this. But when it comes time to make the song, he sets the guitar down. I just says, no, I'm done. I said, Sire, what do you want to do?

Because we've had several people try and give him lessons, guitar. our lessons. And he says, call this person, call this person, and he does it. He goes, he takes the lessons. He says, all right, I'm in that mood. I want to take another lesson. So call somebody and I call him. He says, hang up, I don't want to do it. No, because that was one question. He said, hey, look, I'm going to go find somebody. But you're going to have to pay him to teach you to play the guitar. And he said, what do you got to say about that? I said, nope, I ain't going to pay him. That don't make him scared to succeed. That doesn't That makes him cheap.

No, no, no. Because he said, well, why not? I said, because he ain't able to teach me to play the guitar. So I'm not going to pay him. This is just one of 20 people that have tried. So you're saying he is scared to be successful. Yeah, I think so. Most of the time you hear of a fear of failure, not a fear of success.

No, he sabotages. When he starts doing good, he sabotages himself. He self-sabotages. Correct, sir. Which is a term that y'all probably use a lot in the counseling. business right I just oh we also discuss one other possibility wait what is it that you're just not any good just to interview me give me a battery of your test do you need a do you need a sport psychologist do you need do you have the yips when it comes to playing guitar talk about the yips

nobody says the yips out loud well no no because because it's just so many issues come up okay but right now I'm on the deal on the right track okay because I went over to Dave he's a guy that he teaches music guitar player you know and I ask him he said well you're getting better is what he told and he's known me for like the last

five or six years he was the one I went to when I needed voice lessons when I had my band we need to get our lawyer after him so anyway he said hey You're getting better. Dave. He said, because you're asking the right questions. So I finally figured it out with his help the other day when we were doing all the psychoanalysis.

So I went back to him and I said, okay, here's what you need to do for me. And I don't even know if you can do it. I said, you need to pick one song and tell me the chords I need to play, the strings I need to pick. on what frets. So he's done that. Within about all 30 minutes, he showed me how to play the Johnny Cash Riff.

Okay, and then he also showed me how to play the Rift for Sweet Home Alabama. He said, because the lead guitarist, all he's doing is just right here. Turn it up. Yeah. So he played the Rift, and I was watching him.

I said, You need to write that down. So look, he wrote down on a sheet of paper with music measures, you know, the strings. And then he had one chord up there in a box. Well, I got home, and I started practicing Johnny Carr, Johnny Cash Riff. I done that. I'm okay. Then I tried to play the Sweet Home Alabama.

The Sweet Home Alabama. And while I was having trouble, you're playing D. C and G. And all you do is you hit on D, it's 4,4, 2, 3, go to C, 55, 2, 3. That's the strings. Okay, then you go to G 6623, 66623, and then that's, you know, that's... Oh. Is that simple, huh?

Yeah. Is that all it is? Okay. But anyway, back. Back to the one cord that I wasn't paying attention to, I was doing the Johnny Cash Rift, and I was having trouble doing it because I'm doing it on the second frat just was moving my fingers up and down the deck.

Well, I kept asking, I said, wait a minute. I said, why not, what did Dave say I need to do with that B-7 cord? So I go back over. So I'm back on my next day I get up and go over it to him. I said, hey, what's in the same? B7 court. He says, that's what you do for the Johnny Cash riff. He said, that's the only cord you need to make that. And he said, then all you've got to do is, is you go 5,55, 4, 4 on the 4 strings,

back to 5, bend 6 to 6 string, and it opens on the 6. And all you do is you make the B chord, and you raise this finger on the 6th, Six. Family show. One time. So you can make the whole riff and you ain't moving but one finger. So, Sa,

did you actually pick that up from Dave last time you were there? Yeah. He just told a whole story about letters and numbers. You've got to at least have worked hard to know. Here's what you don't know. Sa has read several books. I'm talking several books. Oh,

he can make all the chords. And what happens is when it comes time to play the music, he has a block. I mean, it is real. You've got the yips. That's exactly what I was. You've got the yips. He's got the yps.

100%. Do you know what that means, Sye? Yips. Yips. That's when you shanked the ball every time you hit it. You can't get in the air. No, no, I had a buddy. I had a buddy in high school got the yips. He was a shortstop.

Couldn't throw at first base? He still, to this day. Andrew Dye cannot throw a baseball from shortstop to first ball. Explain to sigh what the yips are, Martin. When something that you used to do or have the ability to do routinely, very easily, when it comes time to do it, you can no longer do it. It happens a lot in golf with putting. You'll see the guys just blow up and they get there and right before they put it in.

This is guys that do it for a living. Yeah, guys that do it, professionals. Oh, professional. Johnny D. Had a friend in high school, apparently. How many times he'd throw a ball from shortstop to first? Couldn't throw it past the pitcher all this. That's what I'm saying.

And then just start spiking it into the ground. You got kickers in the NFL that have made every one of them, every one. And then all of a sudden, they can't. When they get out in the game, it can't kick one. It looks like that they have it, they don't even know what they do. Danny Rojas on Ted Lassow got the yips for a little while. That show stinks now. They got a, they got a sport psychologist and they're in fixed it.

Why IP? Because guitar is life, but guitar is also death. So. Life and death. Yeah. Well, no, I would like to be able to play one. Well, that's what we need. I always look at it this way, God, I've always said,

anybody that can play a guitar, God gave him that gift. Yeah. Especially on those that, hey, they can't read music, okay, and yet you can put on a seven-minute Beatles song, okay, and he can grab a big guitar, okay? He can't read music, okay? And he just takes off and he plays the whole song, lick for lick.

There you go. Masai, I have heard you play. You played a blue, song you just you just clown that's why I want to be able to do this okay you were clowning around and you sang a song about your woman took off and and left you wrong mean heifer yeah and hey look it was actually that kept me awake one night I woke up in the middle of the night and said wait a minute that's good and I wrote the whole song in my head you got up whoa whoa whoa you wrote a song yeah no no I wrote the whole song well let's talk about that in a second let's take a break

We'll come right back at that song, give Johnny D's bice up a rest. I got the yip. That's what's wrong with you. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means. That means more outside cooking. And y'all know we love to eat beef around here.

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We will talk about the yips. Let's talk about the yips. Look. I can call my friend right now. He literally cannot throw a baseball. Can't do it. Have you seen the video of Charles Barkley trying to swing a golf club? Have you ever watched him try to hit a golf ball?

No. For years, he was able to hit a golf ball fine until he wasn't. And then he lost it? He can't do it. And now when he gets the top backs when he and just freaks out. And he basically sends. So this is a legitimate, just something that happens to people.

Yes, absolutely. I'll tell you this. I borderline one time during duck season got the yips on shooting. You got the yips? I went for like a week. You're not supposed to talk about the yip. I know. We're all screwed.

But the part of, I went for like a week where you can ask Clay, who I went with every day. That's what's been happening to be in poker. I wouldn't kill a nothing. No, you can't get the yips in poker. That's what's been happening to me in poker. I've got the yips. I got the yips.

I show him sparkly. Watch him right here. Let's see. We can't show it, but I can show side. Look. Oh, wait, too far. Look, he's about to hit the ball. Oh, then he swing.

Oh, I see what he's done. He ain't, no. He's got the yips. He can't. He can't go from here to here anymore. He can't make a smooth swing. He can't. can't do it anymore. That's what you've got with a guitar. It's psychosomatic. Yeah, you can't make a smooth

transition. Well, I got it two areas. I got it with a guitar and then I got it to poker table. Now, that's just stubbornness. I got to, yeah. You're going to have to give me that psychotic deal. So here's what he wants to do. He said, I think the guitar one can be fixed. I don't know that there's any fix in the poker. No, we would all agree. Wait a minute. If I got the yips that I gave, I have bound to be a cure. See, let me give you an example of what the yips is. so that you really understand. You've played Domino's your whole life. Yeah.

If all of a sudden you got up to give me 25, and you just couldn't get it from right here. You can't slam it. You eventually just had to go lock up. You lock up and you go 25. No, this is worse than we thought. That is the... You don't have that, though.

You don't have that. Do you? No, I do. But you might get it now. But I'm just giving you a real example of what that would be in your life. It'd be like you go into, and you can't. And then I couldn't complete the slam. And you just have to go 25.

Okay, great. That's a sickness hour. That's what I'm talking about. That's a sickness there. It's the yips. It's the yips. But y'all ain't told me the magic word I want to hear. Well, how you get rid of them?

Yeah, how you get cured. You go to a psychologist, and they break down whatever mental barriers blocking it for you. So, hey, well, set it up. Set it up. I'm going to go. And I know there's a thing. The Yitz are on the Mayo Clinic website. Hey, and you didn't tell him.

You need to tell him up front. You ain't paying him? You ain't paying him? He's not going to pay you. Unless he gets rid of him. Unless I get, I get, I'm curious. Oh, ho, ho. By that, that means that I, I pick up the guitar and play,

and I beat people at poker. You want a money-back guarantee. That's right. Money-back guarantee. And I know. So he wants an IQ test, too. I believe in doctor-patient confidentiality. I really do.

I think it's a very vital thing. No, we need to have this person. Please video this. You're going to do what? I want a video what they talk to say about. We'd all get the yips if we did that. It's so contagious. It all started back in Vivian, Louisiana.

I know. A young naked man was running through the fields. No. Very young naked man. At 14. Yeah, a very young naked man. It's not very young for being naked. So here's one of size defense mechanisms, Mark.

Martin. I have seen his defense mechanism when it comes to playing the guitar. He just puts it down? No, no. If somebody's teaching him and everything's going good until they say, okay, Sire, now put this together, and I want you to start, you know, sing this little melody. And he's like, hey, have I ever told you all about the time I caught that fish down at Caney?

And he tells a 20-minute story until it's time to go. Well, yeah, Philip, that's what this podcast is. Who's he told me this? We're driving along. True or false? I busted out laughing. He said, what's funny, I said, I did that the other day to Ramon. Ramon was trying to teach me.

Who's Ramon? He's one of 20. My housekeeper's cousin or somebody that she knows. Have you ever considered to just start drinking? Well, I've already done that before. That doesn't work. I'm just talking about when you want to play the guitar. Get down, heavy a tall glass or something and see if it helps.

He's got his fingers hard. Hey, he's on my fingers from putting on the guitar strings. I'm working on that right now. What's the last time? Man asked you to fill his fingers. That's not his issue for you. Touch my fingertips. You can look at them.

They're different colors than this one. They're brown over here. There you go. Because they got calluses. Stop, Phil. Stop. I'm serious. Well, you got that down.

I'm saying that's... No, no. That's part of it. You know, you got to get your finger stuff enough where you can hold the strings down. Oh, yeah, I've tried, and I'm too big of a sissy. That mess hurt. Do you ever lock up?

though like you just can't do it no I wouldn't call it lock up I just put the guitar up yeah so that's what I'm saying so he might not be the urge I'm telling no it's a version of the it's it's it's like a yip like symptom it's a yip like symptom yeah he can be he can play every chord and I've seen him do it he can play every chord but when it comes time to put them together in some kind of melody then he's like here go put this up so Phil's saying you just ain't got the guts to go for it oh he can do it. Which is why I suggested the drink. Get a little liquid courage. Look at him. He's reading about the yubs. Look. He's changing the conversation again. He's doing it again.

100%. Watch you. I mean, look at the boys. We're on to you, man. Nope. I just say, hey, look, all these books I've got, I got 20 of them, okay? Look, I've got four on my little table right beside me. and I'm reading parts of all four at the same time because they don't tell you all the stuff you need to know. But the basic problem is, okay, is the chords. Now, you got to know what string to hit, when to hit on what fret to play music. But, and I'd say like, yeah, that sounds tough,

but not 15 minutes ago, you just went, you know, G2, 2, 4, 3, 5, 21, 8, 10. And me and Martin were over here like, what's he talking about? Well, no, no. So you know that. You know it. Well, no, because that's why Dave said, he said, hey, because I had told Dave when I went back to him,

I hadn't been to his house for quite a while. And I said, I'm back, and I said, because here's the reason. I've been reading, I've been doing stuff, and all this. Now I think I'm to the point that I'm actually teachable to play this guitar. And he said, well, you're great. He said, because you're asking. the right questions. Well, I went away from there

thinking I was going back, go back, play music. As soon as I got home, I got frustrated again because I couldn't get. Flustrated. That's a goblin word. But all I know is, there's a lot going on. Can you do the circle thing?

Hey, I'm telling me, hey, there's a lot going on when you play music. You can't do that. You can't play music. Especially No, no, because here's the deal. Hold on. Nope, so you can't do it. No, no, here's the deal. He got the yips.

Okay, look, it's okay. You can wiggle your fingers and do all this stuff with them. You're looking at them. Because there's a thing. I don't think I understood the circle thing. But with the guitar, you got it. Are you going in a different direction? Yeah.

You got it and you got to use this and this. I can only go one way. We're having three different conversations. Yeah, because look, if you can make your hands going to opposite direction. Say, you got it. Not even close. Meet at the top and the bottom. It proves you can consider.

control both of your hands with different side of your brains. I cannot play an instrument, but boy, am I good at Call of Duty. That's what it's taught me. That's all I got. So maybe you're a piano guy. I've tried that and I could play the first part of Jurassic Park. I actually worked. Just in case.

I was going to get somebody to hypnotize me. Yeah, I can't do that. Yeah. But I can skip a chatter bait out of sight, so just stick with me here. Yep. I got the yips. I can't stop the chatter, babe. You got the yips.

Well, I don't even know what we're talking about, which is normally what happens on here. Let's take another break and we'll try to get back on some sort of time. Ah, yeah, Johnny D. had a little family fishing day. He sent me a picture and I was trying to figure out if it was a brag or status report. Oh, no, I was bragging. Oh, okay. because is it an optical illusion? What?

I mean, that fish was kind of small. You sent me the picture. That fish was tiny, son. Oh, okay. I caught it with a frozen pole. Like one of the little Disney poles? Yeah. It wasn't going to strip no drag from it.

The movie Frozen. Frozen? Yeah, but hey, did you let it go? What's that song, JD? I let it go. I throw it back in. Well, we went over to my mom's house, and she was down there.

You know, my mom, she grew up all right. But every once while that Rocky Branch just shows up. And we're teaching the kids. We're trying to teach boys how to ride bikes. That's a tough ordeal. I didn't know that was that hard. I was like, I'd go. And I thought it would just happen.

It ain't. I'll get them a four-wheeler. Any Hoosers. Well, we go down there and my mom's just, she's deep in the crickets. And she's like, I've caught 20. And she just keeps throwing them back. Well, then my kids are like, you got to go home and get our poles. Well, okay.

But Lottie's got this, you know, two foot long Disney princess on. Yeah, it comes with a little rubber thing where you practice casting and all that stuff. And I was like, I was looking at the fish and I said, hold on. I can catch one on a frozen pole. And it's one of the highlights of my weekend. I caught a fish using a child's toy. Four inch blue gill. He got him once.

Look at it. Do you work at the honey hole or something? Yeah. I was just curious. Did you pay for that pole? No, I just took it off the shelf and ran. But I'm allowed to do that. Did you put it in your pocket?

Nice lift. I cut the reel off of the frozen pole combo. Just took the reel with you. Hey, look at this fish, though. Look at that giant. Oh, yeah. Look at sea. We were just catching.

See, putting that thing in a stranglehold, son, and I'm about to choke you. We were just catching giant fish after giant. Dang, Ben's fishing deep. That's pretty good. That's where they were. He's fishing. Dang, he's fishing deep.

Ben's got it. He can cast and get out there. Lottie could too, but she was mad that I took the frozen rubber bait off that doesn't have a hook. Oh, that's what she wanted to fish with? Look, even Allison got in on it. Oh, look at Mama. Look at Mama go.

Mama got a regulation riding real. Regulation's a strong word. Well, I mean, you know, it's closer than frozen. It is closer than frozen. That's a good time. But then they all got bored, and then that's what I brought up. Did you win 100 grand fishing? Bro got the real stuff.

No. No, that's my buddy. My other buddy that did that. That was cool. Watching Jacob Wheeler, a guest of our podcast, winning him 100K yesterday. That was cool. How did he do that?

I can't say. No, he won the fishing tournament on Lake Gunnersville. He beat them all. Gunnersville. Gunnersville. The place that spawned Sigh, not really spawned him, but he spent a good bit of his life out there on the Bates.

I wonder if he tried that baits. I told him the devil horse. No, he was fishing a little bit deeper than devil's horse would allow. He's trying to be a big baits. Yeah. I just, I texted my buddy. Mm-hmm. About the yips.

About the yips? He said worst experience of his life. Hey. So then look, literally. Does he still have him? I think he got. That's a good point. Hey, you know what though?

Like, for real right now. We can't get off of it. No, I'm not, I'm not going back down it, but I am going to ask our listeners are the people that watch us and comment if you've ever had the yips. Send us the story. Send us your yip's story. Because I'm sure it's going to have happened in a bunch of different things. I just want to know where it all, like, it can happen with anything that you do routinely.

How far is this? Yips, go. And Andrew just said, we need more Yips awareness. But he said, coach him and took him out there in the outfield right in front of the fence and said, throw this baseball over the fence into the woods. couldn't do it he said that's all you got to do right now just throw it over the fence straight into the dirt

I was first base so I hated it everybody was kind of laughing and I was like this miserable because I'm running all over the place every time that dude went up to throw

just straight down it was outstanding but just more yips awareness yeah more yips awareness yeah more yips aware of the table but I am interested

if any of our listeners have ever have dealt with them yeah send us the yip's story like I said there was a week of duck season. We may come up with a

se yours was very temporary. Mine was temporary but you got to remember something for me to go a week of that. Like, size hunted with me enough, all my buddies is hunting with me. By the time the second week or so a duck season comes around, if my 20 gauge

goes off, there's a pretty fair chance that something got to. I don't take, I'll say this, I don't take many shells with me when I go hunting because I feel like there's no need in it. But for like a week straight i was taking two boxes and shooting every one of them and i may come back with ad duck and that happened for like a week straight and i was like i this may be the end of my

duck hunting career like i had i because everything the skill may have left everything felt right everything looked right like i've done this a long time my sight pictures were there and everything and i couldn't kill nothing and i was just like this is it boy this word in Okay. They would ride your butt for. Oh. Oh, I bet. Oh, yeah, I bet they rode you like a dog.

I mean, I was shooting at shovelers. Like, and you know if you shoot it a shoveler sometimes, he just fall because of loud noises. I couldn't even knock them out there. Martin was hurting emotionally. Oh, yeah. You could just let him fly by and say booing he'll fall. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, I just, and like, I was just.

That makes more sense that it's temporary and you got it back because I can remember standing up. and I've gotten in front of people and spoken in big groups all my life and trainings and teachings or whatever and I can remember in South Louisiana getting up in front of a thousand people and I was doing the training for about 20 minutes along with some other people

and I got up and forgot who I was, where I was and what I mean? I mean that was, I guess that's kind of like a yip story but it only lasted for a few minutes and then I was like, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, but for what, seemed like, you know, 10 minutes was probably two minutes, but I was just like... But it was something that you've done your entire life that has always been easy, done,

and then boom, it's gone. It would be like Psi, who can speak in front of millions, it would be like Sye getting up and not knowing what to say. Just be like nothing. Then just turn around and walk off. Yeah, just go, I mean, I can't do it. Yeah, unbelievable. Can you imagine that?

No, I can't. It's the yips. Yeah, there it is. That's why. We can't get off the yips. We're stuck. The title of this episode is going to be, Si has the yis.

Let's just remind you. Send the yip's stories in. Yeah, I really am like super interested in reading. My buddy Andrew, he could still throw a softball. It was just a baseball. Just a baseball. Football fine. Football fine.

So he said he was like that little kid on the little giants that could only catch anything but a football. He literally just couldn't throw up. Oh, hot hands. Oh, hot hands. Oh, hot hands. Mountain Man's got the yips. That's pretty wild. That comes to talking fast.

Now, that's a thing. That's just him. Oh, man. All right, well. Mountain Man told me happy birthday like four days after my birthday, and I don't know if that was on purpose because he's so slow or just, that's just Mountain Man. Well, he started on your birthday.

You just didn't hear it. Happy birthday. He started on your birthday. Them H's trip him up, man. But anyway, well, let's take another break. We'll be back right. We can't get out of the yips. What's wrong with y'all?

What if like a surgeon? Somebody that educated necessarily isn't us. No, what's the definition of yis? Like if they got it, like if they got there and it's like a routine surgery, they've done their whole life and they get there with scalp and they're like, nope. No, a dentist. A dentist. He's like, I can't do it.

I can't pull the teeth. Is that where we're going? Worst professions that could get their yips? Ooh. Players, sports, such a dentist for sure. Baseball. Now that we're back from break, I had the computer here, and he is reading the yips by the Mayo Clinic definition.

It was once thought that the yips were always associated with performance anxiety. Mm. Mm. That? There you go. They make a pill for that. okay

and there's medication call the male clinic it feels like why you're laughing call the male clinic if you need help I never see Martin term rain Martin no but like what if you that's a good one

because they do but just the way you said it performance and anxiety I mean there's just a lot of things oh I get it yeah wow Just, okay, I'm caught up. That's why I was laughing so hard.

Family show, my mind. I just went back to Smiling Bob again, so like, it's fine. Could you imagine, though? Some people can't get the yips or bad things would happen. Yeah. Like, what if your pilot was like, all right, we're heading into runway four? I can't land at somebody else to get up here. It's just like, I forgot how to do this.

Oh, that's a real, I hope it hasn't happened, but it could have. That's why. That's why there's a co-pilot. Just reach up her and hit all right, pal. What about, but I'm saying like, so. Has a pilot ever got the yips is the first one? A surgeon. Yeah, a dentist.

A dentist? Yeah, somebody can't finish this. I got half the tooth out. Yeah, like, imagine like, you know, you're going in surgery, and then all of a sudden, scalpel just locks up. Like, no, can't do it. A therapist. How do you feel?

I can't ask you any more questions. That's crazy. I mean, it is weird to think about some of the professions that could. But, like, what if you're a welder by trade or something? And all of a sudden, like, you just... That's not good. You can't. You can't do it anymore.

Si, have you ever got on stage when you were singing with your band and forgot the words? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's not. But that's a product of being 70. Wait, that's good a lot. It's not yippie. Forgetfulness is not yippie. That's yippie.

woman was out in the audience and me and her everybody's eye contact what do you just say that's back to performance anxieties right hey was you getting yippie with it and hey i forgot where i was that i-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-k getting yippy with it that has nothing to do with yips that just has everything to do with sigh being a ladies man the good-looking woman mesmerized me there you go she had the prettiest eyes and it can even happen when you're 70 and harmless I mean okay so my question is this but then i overcame it and sang a love song to her. Oh, good grief.

I doubt that. It was. My question is this, is there something that triggers the yips? No. You know what I'm saying? You never know. And you identify something.

Just sneak up on you like a thing in the night. There's a trigger, boys. Like, I'm curious to know what your day was like before you started not being able to shoot. I don't know. I woke up one morning and was like, man, that sucked. It's like, and then the next day I was like,

well that sucked again and all of a sudden did you feel anxiety oh after then I started like the worst part was then I got like super mechanical and everything like shoulder in my gut

like coming out lead super analyzing himself I'm trying to figure out what in the heck is going on here the whole time I'm doing that I'm just getting worse and worse and worse and it just

then finally one morning I woke up and I said you know what I'm not even going to think about it I'm just going to do what happened and first dutch coming there and it was boom bow and i was like okay we're back maybe we're back i did have a temporary it felt like insanity but i mean it was just like yeah i just i forgot how to duck but it was real i mean it was real yeah i forgot it i mean i forgot how to do it you had to yips for about a week now size may be a little bit different but i do think you hit on something there with a big case of the yips with a little performance anxiety i think that's it i'm telling you that's it and it may you said fierce

successful, but it may actually be fear of failure. Like, he doesn't want to screw it up because he loves music. I mean, the man loves music. Hold on. Like, he loved legitimately loves it. He doesn't have a fear of success because his livelihood, he's successful in all the things that he does. It's great.

He has a fear of being successful at this one thing. Because any time he gets to take down the wrong road. You see what I'm talking about? Did you hear that? What? You are 75. How many more roads you got, Hammer? Well, hey, look, I didn't have no big, hey, in no big rush.

You see what I'm talking about? I mean, I love you and all. But, like, what road is this one going to take it out? Sex, drugs and rock and roll? I'm just saying. Where are we going there? Oh, Sigh, he had it made until he learned how to play the kids. You never made it through the 60s and 70s.

I think you're good. Then he, look, it was all going good. And then bam, bam, bam, bam, bang. Crash and burn. Oh, Sye took the wrong road. He was on A&E for a totally different reason. There's all kind of stuff you get. The true Hollywood story of Uncle Psy and his addiction to the guitar.

I said he's afraid it's going to take you down the wrong road. Like, where are we going? I'll go with you. That's all I'm here to tell you. I'll go with you. There's a Bible verse about being pure and heart. Well, I mean, there's a reason we didn't meet till later in life. But I'll say right now, whatever road you travel down, I'll go with you.

Like, I ain't scared of it. I'll pull you back on the other side of the road if that's where we need to be. But good night of living. I think it goes back to a teacher one time. Okay. And see, now we're getting, this could be possible. No, no, I'm serious. All right, tell us.

Industrial arts teacher, I go into shop, you know, and it's like seven o'clock. Yeah. I get eight o'clock. And for the people of today's world, industrial arts would have been like wood shop or something like that back in the day. Yeah, I'll take welding, welding, you my full attention. Learn the trait. Yeah. But anyway, I come walking in and look, I'm, me and a teacher and then one of the students in there,

and James is over doing something. Yeah. So I come in and I don't even remember the guy's name. And I say good morning and then, hey, I say something else. And then he just jumps on me with both feet. He said, Robertson, I hate your guts. The teacher? Yeah.

Y'all and I said, whoa, wait a minute. I just got here. I couldn't have done nothing. why are you so, you know, jumping on me to, you know, do you get out of the wrong side of the bed this morning? He said, no. He said, you've got it all, and you're wasting it. He said, and then take James there. He ain't got nothing, but he's got the heart of a line, you know.

He's always given his best job, working his butt off, and he said, you, you got it all, you ain't using none of it. I said, well, thanks a lot, yeah. But that goes back. Okay. I think I was actually secure it of succeeding back then. I think I've got a phobia. A block, yeah. Yeah, a phobia of being successful.

But you did 23 and a half years in the military. And took a now. That's a success. Sticking it out. It depends on you. No, that. It depends on who's saying to, You did have 23 and a half years.

That's a success. I don't care how you look at it and whose definition of it is. Anybody argues with that. I'll slap snot at them. You come here. You didn't work hard per se. You did have the most thankless job in this business. I'm giving you that.

I have a first job in the company. 100%. I do not disagree with you. But successful. But successful because you made, our reads are still, they're good today but they're not like they were when you were making them. You were still the best

we've ever had at it. 100% that's successful. Hold on his list and tell a story. But you're worried about being successful at something that you want to be successful at. You desire to be good at playing the guitar, right? Well, no, no, because I know if you learn how to play a guitar and you play it good,

you're going to be in, you're going to go to the bar scenes. Well, we could go church scene. Well, I mean, you could go other places. Yeah, you could go other places and play it. Okay.

Yeah. But in a way, I guess, yeah, I probably am scared of it. There we go. Look, we're tearing that walls here today,

boys. I'll tell you right, we ain't even got the emails to get deep. Look at it. Hey, I like to have fun. Amen,

you do. Yeah. You're a happy person. Hey, there ain't no fun involved. I ain't coming. Yeah. And I know how much fun I

have if I could play a guitar, but I also know how much trouble I could get into if I could play one. Because the women love the bad sinly band. We could probably, we could probably get you on like an assisted living home tour or something. We'll have you done playing by 6 p.m. Just like his birthday part. Yeah, before Jeopardy's over. Man, we get you. We get you in and out. Hey, hey, back to the yip. Remember your yip story. He's doing it again. He's changing. He's doing it again. He's scared to him because he's taking the story. I love it. This is fantastic.

All right, let's take our last break. We'll get in that mailbag. Saw, that's funny. We're back. Hello at duck callroom.com. What's in the mailbox, J-D? What's it? All right, remember Aaron who emailed in?

Who? Aaron? You remember. She lost 223. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that inspired somebody else to email in. Brantley. from Gerard, Georgia.

He listens to the podcast. And he just says, y'all do more for people than y'all realize since I've been listened to you. Not only has Brantley lost 250 pounds plus. Golly. Whoa. I got, I got,

he got to baptize his nine-year-old dog. No, he got baptized, and his nine-year-old daughter is getting baptized next Sunday. because she saw him do it. It's awesome. So he's leading by example and his family. Hey, we got pictures of this guy.

Okay. The shrinking man. I'm believing. Awesome, dude. So how cool is that? That's just another cool one because this isn't, the coolest part about this to me is there's a lot of weight loss podcast, and we are for sure not that.

We talk about Little Debbie more than anything. That's smashing brisket. Oh, smash a brisket. The only thing I can say, dude, is, hey, turn the dogs loose. Hey, that weight loss ain't got, that weight loss ain't got nothing in comparison to, A, you getting baptized and B getting to baptize your daughter. That's right. That's big time. That's big time.

That, you know, life changes are great for your time here on earth, but that one life change you made was eternal. So that's cool as crap, man. That's fantastic. Yeah, but he emailed that in and I was like, man, another cool story. And it, you know, we're real people. We're not those people that tell you to, I mean. Stone might tell you to go work out every day. I'm not doing it.

It ain't going to happen. We're all struggling, lose weight together. Yeah. Look, while we're talking about it, when me and Si went and did the last event in Longview, and so I don't know if you remember me telling you about this, but there were over 20 people to come up to me and say, hey, look, I want to tell you, thank you guys for the podcast.

We listened to it. And look, it was powerful because I wasn't used to hearing that many people talk about our podcast and especially this section of the podcast when we give feedback to people at the at the end of the show we mentioned the most important thing of that event we baptized 31 people over that night you didn't mention that that's I can't believe I was uh baptized 31 and had edible brisket unbelievable that's what the yips would do to you sigh real what a lot Gives are due. You're now baptizing.

Don't get the yips there, man. And then he drops them because he got grease all over his fingers from eating them ribs and brisket. All right. It was edible. Hey, congratulations, though, man. That's great. Yep, yeah. That's awesome.

Thank you for emailing that end. That's encouraging to us. Anyways, speaking of Longview, this guy's not from Longview, but he is from East Texas. See where I went? I was like, where's the correlation then? Like, is he from Shorttown? or, I mean, like, Hey, hey, easy.

No, I'm just saying. He was like, speaking a long view, I mean, he's not from there, but it's kind of a cool segue. Yeah, hey. He'd learn that from Si. All right. Sometimes you just got to talk till it comes out

and then see if it makes sense. Justin from East Texas, speaking along view. Maybe from Longview might not be, but he's from East Texas. He has a question. Could also be Shreveport. Oh, sorry.

Zing to the, uh, even Texas. There's, South Arkansas at this point. So I already read it. All right. Where are we at? My name's Justin.

I recently started dating this really cool girl from my youth group. She is a very godly person, and I love that in her. But I'm worried that I'm not good enough spiritually. Failure of fear of success. I guess I was just wondering if you have any tips on getting back into reading the Bible more. I used to read it, but I felt like I was just reading another show. story book. Any advice would be great because I really want us to have a godly relationship.

I'm just going to say first off, your measure of Christianity is not how much you read the Bible. Yeah. That's important. It helps. And it's going to put you on the right track because whatever you put in is going to come out. But how much you read the Bible isn't how good of a Christian you are compared to others. And you probably shouldn't compare yourself to others anyway. You should compare yourself to Christ.

And you're not going to match up there. so you should just turn to Christ. And it's not about just a checklist of things you need to do. It's about what you're doing every single day and the person that you are. You be the best you can be every minute. Hey, I like it. And sometimes that minute's going to suck. Yeah.

I like it because it seems like this woman is making him strive to be a better man, which is a good thing to have in a relationship. And you would hopefully one day flip that script to where she sees what you're doing and makes her want to be even stronger, which would be cool. And then you can tell her about this part of your life whenever she was an influence on you. So that's pretty stinking cool. And you're already self-aware, so that's good. So I would encourage you to, I would say, fall in love with Christ.

And that's going to be getting your mind right about wanting to be. closer to him and then she'll see that but then also you'll grow from that and y'all can do that together something you can both do but none of us are good enough you know ain't none of us good enough for christ and ain't none of us good enough for the women we chose either so just deal with that big dog yeah that's true hashtag deal with it yeah except hunter he don't have a woman yet yeah but he's working on it i got a couple emails about him yeah oh oh here we go that's the email males I want to look at on that bag. No, but I do think we do that because we are human beings and we think of things in

order. And so we got to, I think what you're doing is like, okay, she reads the Bible a whole bunch. And you're like, oh, I don't do that as well. But it's not about this checklist of Sunday morning, read my Bible, pray. Like, that's all going to come very naturally once you have a relationship with Christ. Right, because you're going to see the fruit of that relationship, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, those type things. Those should, like, have a name, like, if you put them all together.

It's like they're almost like fruits, like you want to eat them. Oh, that's good, Martin. Like, you just want to absorb them. But like from the spirit. Yeah, you know. These guys are giving me the yips. All right, go, go, counselor. That's all I go.

That's all you got. But don't people do that? Like we try and just check off some list because it's what we're supposed to do is good boys and girls. Well, okay. Hey, Ali, Martin, y'all, sit on it.

If you want to do it that way, that's fine. That's true too. Okay. Because it'll drag you there. Here's what you check off. Here's the list you check off. You got this problem? Okay.

Go to the fruits of the Holy Spirit. You've got an anger problem. Go to the fruit of the spirit, you might need some patience. Think before you speak. Okay. You've got other issues, okay? Sometimes you're out of control. Well, go back, look.

Oh, what does the fruit of spirit say? Oh, I need self-control. Yeah. So, like I tell you, be the best you can be, okay, by God's standard. Not by man standards. And by that, I said, hey, anytime you have doubt, go to Galatians 5, 23, I think is the correct verse with the fruit of the spirit.

If you got a problem, get rid of the problem, and then replace it with something the fruit of the spirit has. And here's a promise from God. If you're seeking him, you will find him. And I think it's Hebrews 11, 6. Jesus always said, okay, you do not have because you don't ask. Yeah, without faith, it's impossible to please God because those who believe. Hey, I've got this problem, Lord.

Size on we. Well, that I got fired up, boys. Well, go ahead, Zah. I'll ask you to read. No, but you have to know that God is going to reward you and read Hebrews 116. Read Hebrews 116. That's a good one. Or just quote it again and we'll close on that.

How about that? Oh, that? He did have one other thing that I just got to do. Go ahead, Ty. Have we asked Godwin to try bacon stuff pancakes? I don't think Godwin's allowed to eat that anymore, but color me interesting cakes? Bacon stuff, I guarantee you he would. Oh, I would just think so.

I bet he'd take a bite. Hey, no one trying it. Okay. When you seek him, he's not very far from you. Okay. Philip? Are you going to send us a... Do you got that verse just in...

Yeah. That one's on speed dial? I got that one. That one's in your holster? Send us out, man. Without faith, it's impossible to please God because those who come to him must believe that he exists

and that he rewards those earnestly seek him. And we'll leave you with that thought right down. I couldn't have Googled a better one than that. That's big time. Spoken like a true counselor. You can't go wrong. What if I got the yips?

What if you want? What's what, Jesus? Well, you, I almost gave you the yips. Yeah. We'll see y'all next. All right, we'll see y'all. We're out.