Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Takes on Violence, Guns & What Really Needs to Happen in America

Episode Date: May 31, 2022

Si and the boys hold nothing back on America's cultural and spiritual breakdown and the recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde. But first, Martin reveals his favorite sauces and the best gift he ever gave Brittany, and Stone shares his mouthwatering shrimp recipe. John-David admits his mom ate high-mercury seafood during her pregnancy and says it didn't affect him at all ... or so he thinks. And Martin and Si offer advice on the best way to give your significant other space. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

side did you tell them about our trip what about Venice yeah you give your version yeah he's already told the story I got on him I loved it look I got on him about forgetting him chicken and all he did was the key Robertson deflection he started telling him he started telling me no he didn't even do that he just started telling me about hand feeding alligator that's right he didn't even acknowledge the fact that he forgot I will say this I was a bit nervous when I looked Oh, we had about 10 or 12 gators around there was five of them. They failed more than that. You had a fish carcass and he was slapping the water with it.

And you never would have known a 10-foot gator was right there under it. I'm talking about on the bank. Yeah. And he was slapping that water and those eyes popped up. And that thing come out of that water. Oh, I got some footage of it. Oh, man. It's pretty impressive.

But then I looked behind. behind him and there's four other ones coming out the other pond full up boys i'm telling you so we're surrounded it was impressive he wasn't nervous though he kept thong kept grabbing my leg and i said hey what i'm scared of is right over there i ain't worried about what's behind me yeah i ain't worried about what you grabbed my leg i said i see what i'm scared of right over there yeah 11 foot gator you're talking about a beautiful place on planet earth you know if the old lady ever decides to run off that's where that's where you'll find me miss stone fixed a move to Venice

voice for me I'll miss y'all oh no I'm serious he gone I don't think stone's going with you so we stood up on the front of the boat and Captain Josh he pulled up he said all right boys cast that way and we were catching four pounds speckled trout on every cast I made pretty ones too

I mean I've never got into the big ones like that I was having a big time and then so I said all right, let's go somewhere else, try to catch some red fish. Well, I want some red fish. Okay, they fight better. I said, we're literally catching four pounds speckled trout. But I did you a favor because you had to clean all the fish. Well, that is true.

You can throw them back. You can throw them back. No. So I don't throw nothing back. Then we come on. Look, then we come on with about 16th scrimp, oysters, and filet spele-speckled trout. and then the big fish fry. I had two,

665 Yetis, slam full of shrimp and some old Terry's oysters down there. You ever had some of them? But you know what they didn't have? They didn't have no chicken. No chicken, Lawrence. No stuff chicken.

Not a one. Not a one. That's all the Warren asked me about, where's the chicken? Yeah, where's that chicken? Where's that chicken? I did forget the chicken. thing but the chicken but the chicken i would be honest with you that was partly my fault too i forgot all about the chicken see that's what stone does know he just owns up to but that's it's

that's acknowledgement that's not hey let me tell you a story about this alligator no no he's got too much on his mind boy yeah he's blaming stone i was driving to rig But it was a fun trip We had as always had us a blast And weather was nice Those on those scums And I asked Martin a question when I got back Okay how did this moon

And the tides coming in and out How did that work? Then we discussed flat earth Welcome to the duck car room About the gravitational pull of the moon Yeah He says pulling away from the earth Or toward the earth, whatever it is

And moon's big and this has got grass Yeah. That's all you need to know. It pulls and pushes. Hey. When it pulls. Hey, to the tuna about three miles an hour. Yeah.

Okay. It can be stronger than that. I watched it come in and out down there. It was cool. It can be stronger than that. Josh's backyard is gravel. And then when the tide come in, I'm looking at soft shell crabs all over the place, over the gravel. Them's good, too.

Oh, yeah. They're edible. You can eat them. And you can eat all of it. They're edible. Hold on. I told, you know, we've got some somewhere. I think Florida Keys, the guy gave us a bunch of them.

And Tom said, I said, I don't want them. I said, I don't like crap. Tom said, hey, hold it. He don't. He don't speak for us. Hold on. He said, hold it. We'll get it.

So when he comes back, he cooked them. And I said, well, maybe these are different. Let me try. On the end, it was. Claws and all. They are fine. All of it. Lord.

Not many things better. Yeah, it was fine. I was just shocked. I like them. Soft-shell crab. I had, what, the king crab, I think, what it is? The big old, big old long things. I'm talking about big.

Yeah. Deadless cats. I tried them and them had a real strong taste to them. Fishy taste? Yeah, fishy taste. Yeah, well, that's what happens whenever you don't eat it straight from the source. Yeah, I got a general rule about seafood. If it wasn't brought to me from down there,

I need to smell salt water. Yeah. Fresh is better. Okay, because I didn't care for the king crab. Like, there's a few places that fly that stuff in pretty quick and it's done well. But in the end, I'm not going to Iowa to eat sushi. That's not. Which baffles me about that sushi place in Springfield.

But they fly that stuff in every day. That's why you pay a premium and it's good. It's solid. You got to get it from. But fresh, boys. They fly it in, that quick. Yeah, so, I mean, there are anomalies. Oh, that one we come,

they literally got it that night and that morning, it was right off the boat. I'm talking it literally off the boat. Tying up its ropes, like he just come back in. Yeah, he literally took one step with his Cajun Reeboks and handed me the bag. Cajun Rebock. A shrimp season.

just come in too so we got the pick of the litter he was talking but oh it was just ridiculous shrimp everywhere yeah I'm headed south by the billions I've been eating shrimp for hey when do we get back I don't know I've been eating shrimp and fish ever since I enjoyed him the other night I got four little filets left that's the problem with the newfound pregnancy world is they put restrictions on how much of that seafood and fish and medium rare rib eyes and all that stuff that they eat. Yeah, it'll make you get ill. The Martin House, we chicken eaters right now. My mom says she doesn't believe in any of that because look how great I turned out.

I agree. I agree, but on the off chance. They said you can't eat fish from the Washington River. They'll tell you that like that. Well, they should have been more specific. Bass, correct me if I'm wrong, Martin, but the bass. but the bass is the one you got to watch out for with the mercury. Well, Cropy, too, all the game fish.

If you eat smaller fish, you got to watch how much you eat it in. Your hair fall out. No, never mind. But that's just my- I got plenty of hair, and my mom says she ate it every day while she was pregnant. But that's the problem with our river. You can still go catch them out of a pond and cut their sides off. That's what we do.

I go to a pond, knock the sides off about eight or ten, and that's what when we eat fish, that's what we eat instead of rivers and all that stuff right now. But, look, I've ate river fish my whole life. The only thing I can tell you is I weigh about 265 and I ain't got no hair on top of my head. If both them side effects got something to do with it, I live. I'm cool. It don't matter.

Yeah. I saw Jace yesterday sneaking over to Willie's Pond. I'm going to catch a Cropley. I was like, hey, man, you live on a Pond. I didn't say anything, but I was eyeballing him. Yeah. What did he say last time? Man, them Cropi made a comeback.

I said, yeah, we stocked it last fall. Yeah, that's what he told me. Yeah. We paid them. I thought them crap is supposed to be sterile. I'm like, no. He just restocked them. Because you called them all.

They are, but we put a thousand more fingerluns in there and said, let's see what happens. And then the owner can't even go out there and catch one. Well, that's a personal problem, too. Yeah. Zing. Yeah, but then it's pretty easy. They did the same trick. They've done the same thing.

Especially if you got some minors. Yeah. Willie goes down there with worms and a cane pole. That's Willie's style of fishing. Which is fine. Hey, it works for everybody. You know what honeyhole sells, worms, cane poles. Lots of them, maybe.

That's how it started, boys. That's right. Yeah. Worm. Sticking a string. Yeah. A little worm. No, that's a good time.

All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means? That means more outside cooking. And y'all know. We love to eat beef around here. And that's because of our friends over at Tri-Tales. make such a good product, baby.

Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sal Robertson would say, buy on the grill! Look, before we got Tritels, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery store, do all the things,

grab whatever was left in case you were late in the day. And you never really know where that beef comes from. But with Tritails beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way. Tritales comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth generation American ranch. So they've been at it for a while. Now look, the beef comes straight from their ranch

and other ranchers they work with who raise cattle the same way. Their steaks are properly aged and shipped straight from the ranch to your door. We threw a couple of ribbys on the grill. Look, salt, pepper, garlic, hot fire, that's all you need. Look, because I tell you what,

when the beef comes from people who raise cattle for a living, you can taste the difference. The tenderness and the flavor are fantastic. So if you're stocking the freezer for grilling season, go check out Tritale's beef. I know in size case, Christine, loves it, which is just a She doesn't eat meat.

She ain't a big meat eater, folks. Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's trybeef.com slash Support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. When that first batch of fresh shrimp come in,

I took that shrimp, butterflied him, devanned him. Took a little smear cream cheese. So, okay. A little smeared.

It took a little half of a piece of thin bacon. Seasoning up with the seasoning of your choice. It was good, too. Put a sliver of onion in there with that cream cheese. Wrap that bacon around him and then top it off right at the end. This is on the grill with a little bit of Mike's hot honey. I knew where that was. It is funny.

Well, we're all. Oh, that was fine, too. Oh, you talked, look, we had that down a hundred. I did about a hundred of them, and they were gone and literally gone in three minutes. What cracks me up about all of us is, is once we get on something, we can't get off. And then we'll use every protein and do the same thing. Yeah, that's right. Right now I'm on that stuff called the W-sau sauce.

That stuff is so good. What is the Wosthia sauce? It's a Worcestershire sauce. A Worcestershire. Boys made in Key West during COVID. It was their secret family recipe thing. they were fishing guides and they didn't they wasn't making no money because you know COVID yeah or I can't even say that word we'll get branded with for more information for more

information click here ha talking about a history lesson right now the C word anyway so they said we're gonna bottle this stuff and sell it well I've been fishing with them boys so once they got it up and running they sent me some said let me know what you think I was like hold on now bear and burton's yeah I was like you you boys is on to something now I'd love you I need Give me something. It may be the, I had a Gualaamanian that showed me how to make that stuff like that. What?

A Guilomanian. Oh, no, and look, I cooked a whole bunch of it was fine. It's got 63 ratings, all five stars, Martin. I didn't do none of them. I'm not just, and they don't pay me a dime. I'm just telling you right now, if you want something that puts good flavor on your stuff, that's stuff right there, fire.

Okay, boy. Like, you just, you marinated in it for, and you ain't got marinated long, you just pour a little bit over, throwing a bowl, swish it around, and then take that, put it on a grill. I don't mind overnight. Well, you can do it overnight, but the longer it sits in there, the more it's going to taste like that. So if you want to save the taste of beef or whatever.

We need to. That's the fire. It's good. Have you tried the fire shire? Yeah, I got it too. It's hot. They mean fire. Oh, no.

Yeah, a little bit of it go a long way. So what's the difference between that and, uh, there's a thicker. Theirs is like, it's thick. so like when you put it as a marinate it doesn't just you know you pour you go get leon perands or whatever hines whatever brands you want to use pour it on something it's like water almost theirs is it's just thicker so it holds to the meat and it's it's good they're smart they got like buy three get three 50s so that's cooking tips for me that stuff right there is good well the one i done with that guy we had it in a big i mean giant it was an army

Caldern, okay? Yeah. Huge. Okay, and I bought just like $400 worth of meat, and that whole thing was full. You get it from that $50,000 bowl? No. But anyway, 25.

25, 20. You know, hey, it turned. It turned it kind of, uh, tan color. Yeah, that will, if you, if you, if you leave it in there, that'll turn it. Oh, I'm saying, you tell me. Oh, hey, look, I had $400 worth of meat. meat, okay, ribs, steak, and, hey, there was nothing left. It got it all.

It wasn't about 12 people. Side went down that close out aisle at the meat market. It was one day from going on them. You got pork, bee, chicken, threw it all in one big. I threw it all in there. And hey, hey, look, and I want to want in there to get some more. Now, Christine said, well, you're telling me, it ain't none left. And I said, wait a minute, that's $400 worth of meat.

I had like 12 rack of ribs like this big, you know, I said, surely we didn't. just 12 of us didn't eat all of that. She said, yeah, we did. I love it. I love. I'm telling you. Fine. Nothing about that sounds good to me.

Oh, it was. Oh, it sounds good to me if you was in the Army and you'd been eating whatever they're serving. Or drinking whatever they've been drinking. Look, I cooked it all morning. I cooked it all morning. I got up all, it's soaked overnight. Then I cooked it all day long and like six o'clock, we ate it. It's been on the grill.

all day long. Everything was just, it was burnt. No, it wasn't burnt. It was melting your mouth and it was fine. I'm not interested. I had a two briquette fire over there. Oh, no, hey, I had a real full of charcoal. Well, I wish somebody who was a part of that would be listening.

Well, they succumbed to salmonellas. They would say, hey, we ate it all. Because they bought it. Salmanilla. Guys in my squad bought it. It wasn't 12 of us. They ate at all? They ate at all.

I'm telling me. I just ordered me two bottles that sauce. I looked in there on the platter where all the ribs were, and it wasn't nothing but a pile of bones. Oh, that stuff's good, though. I'm not, I shouldn't be allowed in front of a computer. They just start showing up at my house two days later. I'll tell you about good stuff I discovered.

I'm not to try that. Whether they, I got something. It may be the same kind of deal. I'll bring you a bottle. I got something to help. Okay. Johnny Deed just gentlemen. the gun i'd have brought you a couple of bottles i saved 50 cents by getting one each it's good i can't

pass up a sale no it's it's good i'll pass along any cooking stuff i come across it's good i tell another one i found is some little small batch cheese dip company called arbos buddy you can't order you can't order you you can't order about that and i thought you it auto corrected to arby's and i i really doubted you that it's like a casso yeah it's casso but they make like five different kinds of it and some's white some's yellow but the cool thing it's like the only one you can eat cold or hot

it's got that consistency where you can take a chip and dip it in it cold and it's still lonely deal like a cheese dip or you warm it up in the microwave or whatever it's a small batch grocery I'm trying to get them into brooksia so I can go by it if it's hot or cold then it's good oh yeah they're like

yeah they're like i 40 through Tennessee Like, it's a, yeah, it's a veteran-owned deal. The guy sent me a message on, he watched the podcast and loved it. He said, I'd love to send you some cheese dips. Boy, he speaks your love language. I said, well, not mine. I like cheese dip. It's not one of my favorite things.

But you want to get my wife something? A five-gallon bucket full of cheese dip. You want to talk about love language? Forget the dozen roses, son. A five-gallon bucket. I'm talking about she clouted up and rain on a bucket of a cheese dip. Don't give me a half of gallon. I'm just...

Five gallons, buddy. But when I discover that kind of stuff, I'm like, man. Well, hey, whoa, now available at Harvest Foods. What's that? Arbo's cheese dip. No, I ain't a way. Why, ain't no way. You got it up there.

Is it? Arbo's dip. Hey. Cheese with a kick, boys. It's a cheese with a kick. Look. Here's what I'll tell you. Arkansas Road.

It's at Max Fresh Market. If that's available, go get it. I'm going after this. I'm going right after this to that Max Rush Market. Which one is that? That's the one, both of them. Got it.

Arkansas Road. That one's closer to the honeyhole, and I'm going to buy some chips, and I know what I'm doing for lips. I'm just telling you right now, go get it, thank me later. I prefer the hot one. It's called like spicy and his yellow,

which is kind of weird for cheese dip, but Brittany's on that white, you know, the white cheese dip, whatever it is. The standard looking. and cheese dip, but that's spicy yellow. I love it. My kids love cheese dip. Oh, yeah.

I'm more of a salsa, man. Oh, I think I still got some mild out there if you want to take to your kid. They may be more, but it's yellow. Now, they're white. See, that's what I'm saying. They've all been brainwashed into thinking cheese dip got to be white. Yellow cheese is good, too, now. All cheeses.

I ran across many cheeses that I'd turn my nose off. Here's what I'll say, and our fans are great, because if it weren't for our fans, I'd have never discovered dot's pretzels. So there are people out there that I tell you about good stuff. And ever since then, I don't know how much money I've spent on Dodge pretzels, but I know they're $7 bag.

We got a free bag. I'm saying, them things are hiring the cats back. But they're good. Look, my sister-in-law made some pork chops with dots pretzel batter. You can buy that crumbull. You can buy to crumble at Hobby Lobby

that you can put on like batter stuff. Let me tell you something. He's still my heart. Was it good? Oh, was it good? Was it good? Now, I'm going to take it to the next level. I'm going to dip me some of them, some of them crappies, belays down in there.

I'm on a path back to 400 like you ain't seen. A little mustard than dredge them in that and that Dots pretzel batter. What are you going to do? Yeah. That is a way for me to end up. If you fry something in Dots Precious, oh, I. I'm in trouble. Your boys in.

Mega trouble. I'm coming with you. Yeah. I've got to go work out after this. I'm probably going to have to go get that wheelchair as I have when he hurt his foot up here. You can be rolling me around places if that becomes a thing. Golly. God, pork chops and dots pretzel batter.

I've never heard of anything better. I think we can end the podcast right now and just tell everybody go out there and be somebody. Go get you something. I'm trying to think of a way in that where I'm not just a full-boned glutton and sinful. But buddy, I could. I could skull drag that. I'm with you. You wouldn't see nothing but that little tea bone

that's in them thin-cut breakfast pork chops you fry. I eat that sucker like a chicken wing. Oh, I'm telling you. I'm like, running in one side and put the bones, spit the bone out the other side. Here you go. Here's that little tea right there's what you need. All right of it is gone.

Oh, man. I'm making me hungry. I'm starving. Well, you see those little packets of true lemon? Mm-hmm. So me and Siah went down to Venice. The marsh. And catching big, pretty speckle trout.

Fat ones, I'm talking about. And I spent, when we left, I spent about 12 minutes, 12 to 15 minutes, picking up true lemon packets all over Josh's camp. Oh, you did. They were strolled out from here, from two to fro. sounds like a Robertson to me when the boy gets on something and I tear it up

I empty it in there and then I stick it in there and twist it okay so hey trash can no trash can oh yeah it's trash can you can never

accuse Cy Robertson of it doing anything halfway Lehman packets he's in that's right Winston's he was in that's right three every time

I refueled. Unsweet tea. Unsweet tea. En. With three lemon packets every time I fill up, boys. He knows what he likes. He drank 27 gallons of Mr. and Mrs. Tees, and then he got off that bag. That's right. Well, hey, I still got a bunch of them, but I do love it. Oh, I know you love it, but you quit drinking it morning, noon, and night.

Now it's a special occasion. Well, hey, that's the only thing that got me through COVID. Tomato juice, boys. That's the only thing he would. Mr. and Mrs. Tees consumed. I'd eat tomato juice. It is pretty tasty. Oh, no.

It's good stuff. I didn't enjoy it. A kick to it. That's got a kick to it. That's probably the only thing he could taste when he had that. Well, hey, I had a moment again, being the Almighty. How important are flowers? Very.

Yeah. I Google it if you do not know the answer to that, and you will be shocked of how much and how important. a single little flower is. How? Because I'll tell you, your vegetables and your fruits and everything else, okay, would not be in existence without a flower. Yeah.

So, hey, I thought it was pretty interesting. When did you have this epiphany? Oh, I had it this weekend because I asked my wife, said, hey, Google, importance of flowers. and hey she googled it and I said wow okay this is impressive that I actually asked the question that's what was the impressive

about it yeah what's even more important than them are not more but as is the little bugs that make the flowers go around and the insects yeah to pollinate life is a lot more simple

than us humans make it complex and complicated. Okay, but it's really simple. Did you pick Miss Christine some flour? Hey, I'll send her to them all the time. That's good. And with my love. She's mean, but she's sweet.

She's mean, but she's sweet. And I couldn't live without her. Oh, man. You're going to pick up some flowers on your way home? No, I made my order some when we're in Arkansas. There you go. Yeah. Order them.

Order them. I'm going to stop and pick some. There's wildflowers blooming everywhere. I don't know. That's this time of year is fun to watch. Yeah. Then Black I was driving in. When I was driving in, there were all kinds of flowers in the trees.

Yeah. Three limbs. I just, good, great, look at this. It's like that. I'm serious. It's like that old saying, April showers brings May flowers. It's true, right? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Because, I mean, I just, I kept looking. I was good, there's another bunch. There's nothing. Just all the way in. Everywhere you look, there's flowers in the trees. And then if you look close, there's birds and bees

and all kinds of insects doing their thing. That's a glimpse in the size head. Oh, no, no. Hey, I love it. Actually, the birds and the bees and the flowers. I mean, that's what's inside of it. That's right. Like that whole.

It's like Cinderella every morning when he wakes up. My cranium. It's all kind of good-looking stuff that's going to come out. Butterflies. rainbows. And that is why your America's favorite uncle, right there. Well, no, I just tell you.

Right there. Life is great. Okay. But then on the other sides, you got the bad side. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention.

Yeah. Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody in Uvaldi, Texas. Mm-hmm. After that moronic outburst. Yeah, that's a tough one. Coward. Call him what you will.

Just don't mention his name. Don't make him nothing. Don't make him something he's not. And the same with the families in Buffalo that are reeling from that deal too. It's just. And I will say this. They keep screaming. We got to get rid of guns.

Folks, the guns ain't the problem. We've got mental illness out in our nation in the world for crying out loud. Let's address the real problem for once. I agree. I agree with that sentiment. I also wonder in the world that we live in, if we saw another animal going through this kind of change mentally, and they were changing their behaviors and changing this,

we would spend billions of dollars studying it. Not to fix it. Studying it, trying to figure out what was wrong. Why are we not doing? doing the same thing with humans. Why does that not exist? Yeah. Why?

Yeah. Stop addressing the wrong problem and let's get with the real issue here. Yeah. What is the real problem here? Okay. So if they did a study, if I'm not a bet, ma'am, but I would bet that it would come right back to this. I would agree.

That's part of the problem. The cell phone? The access. The internet. The internet. The access to the internet, not the phone itself, but the 24-7 at-your-fingertips access to... Well, that's proven by if we look back through history. Yeah.

Okay. That's proven. And another thing, and we talked about this earlier, what did Phil used to say? He still says it a lot, by the way. Well, I... They take out prayer. Yeah. They take out the Ten Commandments.

If you take out the good stuff from our schools, from our government, from our daily walks of life, guess what's going to happen? The bad stuff is going to move in. Yeah. Okay, that's just common sense, guys. Yeah. Phil used to always say, you know where you end up, the courthouse? You know what's at the courthouse? Yeah. The Ten Commandments. The Bible. Yeah, when you break one of the laws. They said, well, you put your hand on before you got to say something, the Bible. He says, so you end up, you could have been taught this, or you end up going to a place where you figure it out.

He said, that seems to me you'd want to start here, so you didn't end up there. You know, that's that common sense. I've always said it, okay. We've got all this history, okay, and we're going back into it and destroying, like, the monuments that was done for, it's our history for crying out loud. Now, what are we doing? We're tearing them down all over our nation. Yeah.

It's a reminder, good, bad, or indifferent of where we come from. It is part of our nation's history for crying out. out like quit being an idiot and leave it alone yeah learn from it and do better yeah yeah and this is coming from an idiot so hey good grief well that statue hurt somebody's feelings one day well and i think that's that's well that's another thing that we need to address okay get it yeah no no sirs what happened to we the people not an individual one individual said all that hurts

my feelings will suck it up and let's go hey we the people that's what our Constitution starts out with for crying out now and speaking of that

Memorial Day is coming up I want to thank everybody that has served our nation our first responders our police officers our men and women in the military. Thank you very much for standing up

and dying for our nation for crying out loud. And I think that's the point I wanted. Those men that did that were raised to be men and women were raised to be men and women. But that's my issue with this. Enough is enough. I'm with you. Okay.

I'm following you. We've been just, what is the saying, if good men don't do nothing, then you deserve what you get. The only thing, yeah, that's the old quote, is the only thing necessary for evil to grow is for good men to stand by and do nothing. That's right.

Which is what all these, do grocery stores, schools, all these little whatever they are. Yeah. They're not being raised to be, and when I say men, I'm not talking to these men. I'm talking a man who loves his neighbor,

a man who loves people, and that's a real man. Yeah. And we got off of that somewhere. And now there's 18-year-old dudes who, I don't know what they were raised to do. But we're missing something in America. And I think we talk about it taking out of schools. It starts at home.

And who are we raising our children to be? And you talk about Memorial Day. And we talk about you and Stone who served. And thank you for that. But y'all were raised in a different way. I was raised in a different way. Martin was raised in a different way. and where something is missing in these kids' childhood, shocker, I bet it's Jesus,

to where they grow up with a light about them and how to actually be a true man, a true human, and this is what we end up with. Well, we need to get rid of, okay, all the bad stuff. Well, look, before we go down that row, y'all know we dodge these topics if you're listening to this. We stay away from this because we, Want to put a positive spin on thing. I think today we're going to delve into these topics just because we need to.

Well, it needs to be remembered. That's exactly right. I think personally, one of the problems with all this is the breakdown of the family dynamic. I think that has a major factor in all of this. Now, when I'm saying that, some people get married. do something stupid and divorce is the only option right but i see it in and my friends that have gone through that when their parents were committed to working together for the betterment of that kid even if a divorce was involved guess what everything turned out better because the the end game

was to raise this child right but when you have people going out there they and and guys, I'm talking about you here. You get a woman pregnant and then you bail. Yeah. That's not okay. Because you were part of that. Yeah. It took you to do that.

Stay in that kid's life. It takes two. It takes two. If you're not ready to make that commitment in the words of Phil Robertson, keep that sucker in your pocket. Keep that thing in your pocket. If you're not ready for that commitment, don't pull that thing out. That's just where we're at.

But the world that we live in and the breakdown of that at home is where all of this starts. And when I was growing up, Stone growing up, Cy, John David, if you had a problem with each other, somebody generally ended up getting hit in the mouth. That's just what happened. You can call it violence. You can call it whatever you want to. It was a way to settle a dispute. And you know what happened nine times?

times out of ten you got up and you shook each other's hand whoever got their butt whooped and whoever won you looked each other man to man you got up dusted each other off you shook their hand said we're good and most of the time you've become best friends a lot of time and you know what you had for the other one either way if you were the winner or the loser because i've been on both sides of it you had respect for that person standing across from those days are out yeah because you had pushed him you had pushed him to a point that hey he He had enough of it. Yeah.

You back a dog into a corner. Yeah. You're going to fight. You rattle his cage, the big dog going to bite you. Yeah, those were the days where there were always consequences for your actions. For your actions. Yes, sir.

And now we try to legislate that crap. And you can't legislate that crap. No. That's just what it is. Well, and you can't even get mad at your friend. Like, my best friend's name is Drew. Yeah. Me and Drew got in a fight on a golf course one time.

We were in junior high and we threw down on a golf cart. So your brother-in-law is your best friend? No, no, Drew. Oh, I was fixed to say. Drew, my brother-in-law is good. Me and him haven't gotten fist-a-cuffs because we didn't grow up. You're grown now. Yeah.

You know how to handle that another way? Me and Drew, and you know what? We were better for it. But like, nowadays it's like, oh, he made me mad. I'm not his friend anymore. Bye. I'm like, what? Huh?

Yeah. Handle it. You're canceled. Yeah. It's this whole idea of if somebody hurt your feelings or somebody did something wrong to you, you just X name from your life. No, you have grown up man-to-man conversations. And that's part

of what you're talking. Like we've lost the whole family dynamic of... A family unit. Yeah. Okay, the family unit and it consists of a dad, the head of the household, a mom, the homemaker of the household. Yeah. And then the kids. That's the way

it was meant to be. Yeah. Okay. A man married to a woman. Okay. That's the only way you're going to have kids, male and female, get together. Science. Okay.

You know, it's backed up by science, okay. Science only works when it's through their benefit. Okay. And look, the evil one ain't stupid. Okay. If he breaks down the family, and that's what's been happening in America and the world. Yeah. Okay.

If he's breaking the family unit apart. And it's easy today, too, to let screen time parents your kids, right? Because both parents in most cases are working because to make it in today's world, you have to have two incomes. Oh, yeah. Because of inflation and everything else that is going on. You have to have two incomes to survive. So when you both get home, you're tired.

You're tired. You're war out. So it's easy to hand them an iPad and say entertain yourself. The fantasy world. So that's not a lot. a problem when they're two or three, you can control because you go on there and hit play. Like, oh, okay, you're watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Cool. No problem. When that gets to seven or eight and they learn basic spelling and can search for whatever the crap they want to on there,

because no matter what kind of controls you're in, kids are smart. They figure it out. That's why that's why we're a resilient bunch because as a kid, I didn't have none of that. I had to entertain myself. You know what I did? I figured it out. And the kids, that's no different with a tablet or with a screwdriver. It doesn't matter. You figure it out. Like, you sit there and tinker with it until you figure it out.

And that is one of the problems when you're not sitting there controlling what that is, whether that is screen time. But if we could get to a world where the mom doesn't have to work. Or if she's the breadwinner, hey, there's very brilliant females that get paid a lot of money or the dad doesn't have to work where you can pour your time, effort, and soul into those children instead of depending on technology to babysit them. Then you start making headway into what we're doing here. And you get back to if there is a problem, these kids know they can communicate it.

Right now, I mean, one of the problems, I look at it now, who does a kid go tell if they're having a problem at school? Like, and how do you do it without then other kids picking on it? Yeah. Or where is the safe spot for these kids to say, look, I'm not in a good spot. Like, why do we not have those avenues built in? And you say we do, but you don't because when they're at school, they have a schedule that they have to maintain. So they're either going to have to show up early or stay late to address their problem with somebody.

Well, they're not going to do that because by that time, you're ready to go home, right? Yep. And the parents generally rushing to get them there anyway on time. So why do we not have a built-in time there for these kids to discuss these problems? It's a weird deal. But until we address that, none of this is going to change. I don't think it doesn't matter the weapon. It doesn't matter.

The argument is there. Well, 18, 19 died. You know, if we didn't have that, maybe they would have stopped at one. Well, one's two d'agum many. Yeah, one is too many. One is too many. One and 19, both of them, too many. And it doesn't matter what it is, because that one is as valuable as those 19 are.

So how do we get that out? And I don't know that answer, but I know it ain't legislation. I know it's got to be a communication issue somewhere where these kids can get help if they're feeling that way. That's right. And people do not use those devices. for babysitters because obviously there are a lot of evil humans on this planet. Well, you got, you got the world at your fingertips. They're hunting.

They're hunting. They're praying on them. So keep a close eye on that. Use all the apps. You can get to filter all that trash, but be very protective over your children. Absolutely. No, I mean, I just, but that, to me, is where John David was right.

That is where it has to start. And it can't, it's got to start in those four walls. Yep. Where you spend 90% of your time. And size. And look, I got nothing but the utmost respect for single parents that are out there killing it. Yep.

Raising their kids, honoring their responsibility, doing what's right. I hate that they're single parents. I do. But the ones that step up, strap their shoes on every day and say, I'm about to provide a life for my kids, my hat's off to you. Because I ain't even a parent yet, but I'm sitting here watching my wife try to raise two of them inside her belly. And it's unbelievable.

And I can't believe there are people out there raising humans right by themselves. Like, that's incredible. So my hat's off to you. And I know you're doing your best. And that's where we as a society have to step up and help those kind of people do even better. They're doing their best, but how can we pour into them? and until we can do that kind of stuff on more than Wednesdays and Sundays,

we're in a bind. This is a generational problem. Oh, yeah. This is not a legislational problem. This is a generational problem. It is trending. It is in the wrong direction. But we'll take another break.

We'll be back. All right, Derek from Sparta, Michigan. Sparta, Michigan. Sparta. I go to church regularly on Sunday and was wondering if you guys have any advice to make church seem fun for my four-year-old because he never wants to stay in class

and he wants to sit with us, but we feel like the Sunday school classes are more for his age than the message. How do we get our four-year-old to stay in Sunday school? He's four. You walk in there, drop him, and you walk out.

And say, stay. And you close the... No, that actually, I laughed when I read it because I've been there. My daughter will cling to your leg and she don't want to stay. She don't like humans. She's not like Stone. She's looking at everybody's sideways.

You're talking about it. I like humans. Yeah, three of them. All of their last names are Stone. All three. But, you know, she's shy kid. You're not shy, but she's like, I'm not sure I want to be here with all these people. I don't know.

And so. Strangers. well, I'm like, here you go. Good luck. And there's a moment. And by the time you get back, they're having a good time. And so my advice is force it. Yeah.

Especially since it's a four-year-old. But there's worse things that I'm coming out sitting and hearing a message with you. Doing a little praise and worship, all that kind of good stuff with you. So there's worse. At least they're at church. That's a good point. My hat's off to you for that commitment. Yeah.

So keep doing what you. you're doing and I bet one day it'll stick where then you're probably they're gonna halfway through before Sunday school starts take off walking towards that hall yeah they're gonna be ready where'd they go so and Carter used to be like that now but like I'm worried Carter's gonna get hit in the parking lot because he's running trying to get the class I'm like hey bro slow you're gonna get there yeah it'll get there um just stay with a commitment yeah it's the biggest you're doing the right thing Derek that's the most important part all right now Seth Seth from Alabama Sest got tough

Seth's going through it boys His girlfriend of two and a half years Who I saw myself marrying Doesn't want to be with me right now We've had a few issues recently She's going through a lot She doesn't want to hear from me or anything She still loves me and I still love her

But she wants this time apart I don't know if we'll get back together or not But I hope we can after some time I'm trying to stay in prayer in the word but I'm still struggling. I'm struggling on how to leave her be during this time because I'm afraid she's just going to move on completely. Any advice on how to get through this is welcome.

Oh, I've been out of the game for a long time. I experienced so when they wanted, if they want the break, give them the break. And if they move on, you wouldn't going to keep them anyway. And if you keep trudging after, you're going to move her faster than if, than if you let the process play out. Give it over the space.

And I'm not sure if you know this, my friend, there's a bunch of them out there. A bunch of them out there for two and a half years. So it's hard. Two and a half years is fine. This hurts. There's no doubt that it hurts. But she needs to see your respect right now for her wishes if this thing is,

because you're going to have to respect her going forward, the rest of your life if this thing works out. So like she needs to know right now that you'll, honor that respect. So if she wants a break, it's a, go get you a fishing ride. Yeah. And you, hey, think how much money you'll save, son. You buying dinner for one now, not two. Like, just get you a fishing ride. Go fishing. Get you a kayak. Go, go do something else. Like, go somewhere where there ain't no cell phone service. That way, you ain't got to worry about what, you know, and just don't, obsess over it. You got to give her some space. Been through this. We weren't dating two and a half years,

but a girl named Allison once dumped me. There you go. And she was like, I'm out. I need some space. And I was like, no, we were supposed to get married, right? And I was like, nope. We ended up literally, we dated other people, like after we broke up. And then one night, we ended up back in like the same group of people.

And I looked at her, said, we need to talk. All right. Like, is this what you want or you want to try this out again? And now we're married 10 years. So there is hope. But I'll be honest with you When she dumped me, I went I was like, nope, we're going to talk about this

As many times as I can And I was like, no, no, no, we got fixed What do we got to do here? And she was like, nope, need some space. Yeah. So I had no choice but to say, all right, see you later. And like, we didn't talk for a few months. Yeah.

But giving her that space made her realize that I was really cool and she really needed me in her life. No, no. But she really missed pizza. Amen to that. But Seth, that might be what she needs. You know, she needs some time apart. And she might realize, oh, wow, Seth was a great guy.

And, you know. I mean, I saw it happen to a buddy of mine. Everybody just always assumed, I mean, they were together longer in two and a half years. Everybody assumed they would be married. And all of a sudden, she was like, no. I'm out of here. And now they're married with three kids. But you know what?

Every once while you got. That happened. And me and him went fishing. And we got away from that. that situation, got distracted from it, and now they've been married for 10 years, three kids, and everything is fantastic. Yeah, every once in a relationship at that stage, it's not married, it's just dating. You might need to both step back and think about it.

Count your inventory, see what you got going. Pray about it. And the Lord, if you're praying, you say you're praying about it, what's best for you who's probably going to happen it might you might not think that you're like what what's going on here but the lord bring you back together the lord could introduce to you somebody you don't even know because there's six billion people on this planet that is way better for you and life will be way better and i got news for you and when you get married guess what she's going to want some breaks every now and then yeah yeah she's going to say don't you need to go somewhere yeah you're going to

say you know what i think i do yeah time to go yeah there's going to be times where you she's doing her thing. A long time, boys. A lone time. Allison loves alone time. She likes reading books and like, I'll get in bed. I'll be like, hey, you want to watch TV? She's like, nope.

I just want to read my book. And I'm like, what do you want me to do? She's like, whatever you want to do, but don't turn that TV on. I'm like, hey, see you later. Headphones in, do whatever you go to sleep. I don't care. Just let me be. Yep.

No, but yeah, just respect. You got to respect her wishes, man. that giving her that respect will probably do more for you than you realize so in this situation all right martin you i got a little long one to send us out of here you ready for it rock and roll all right so i've said this before i think if i haven't said this before hear it now i used to look at the bible as a rule book but it is a playbook on how to have the most fulfilling life you can and we talked about how the house of like the family unit of america is just kind of in shambles and there some verses in Ephesians, and they are labeled instructions for Christian households.

If we can follow these instructions, I promise you, life will be way better than you could ever imagine. And I figured that, I didn't figure that out at a young age. I didn't figure that out when I first got married. It took some time. And when me and my wife figured this part out, life's been way better. So Ephesians 521 through 33, submit instructions for Christian household. Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to yourselves, to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands and everything. Husbands love your wives, just as Christ loved

the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy cleansing, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word and present her to himself as a radiant church without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body just as Christ does the church, for we are members of his body. For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This is a profound mystery, but I'm talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you must also love his wife as he loves himself and the wife must respect

her husband. If you want to fix the problems in America today, it starts at home. And that is how we're supposed to live our lives at home as one unit. And men, we got to step up. We got to raise our sons to do better. We got to lead our wives. It's biblical. Ephesians 5. Go read it for yourself if you don't believe me. It is on the men of this country to raise up other men

and other women to be better. And I think we can all agree right now. It's time to do better. Absolutely. It's all got. What's you got, sir? Well, Galatians 523

talks about the fruit of the Holy Spirit. that's what you need to do start putting that in your life you know kindness love peace joy goodness brotherly love all the all the good thing whatever you've got like selfishness throw that out and bring in self excuse me self control okay it's also from the fruit of the spirit but hey put the good stuff in your life okay love it we love y'all We love America and everything is going to be just fine. That's it. That's what I'm here to tell you.

Put Jesus first, you're in good shape. We'll see y'all next time. We're out.