Duck Call Room - Uncle Si & the Dale Earnhardt Story You've Never Heard

Episode Date: August 26, 2021

Si trades stories with hunting legend Michael Waddell, including why Dale Earnhardt intentionally bumped one woman's car on the way to a turkey hunt. The boys recall the phenomenal duck hunting footage from the early days of Duck Commander, and Michael talks about his podcast, "A Bone to Pick." Phillip and Si remember the Alamo. Si, Martin, John-David, and Phillip imagine where they'd go if they could travel back in time. And Si has a huge bone to pick with the results of one "MythBusters" experiment. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's crank his baby up. Welcome back. To the Duck Call podcast room, gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen. What is happening. It's Duck Call Room podcast. I got to cut that. They have to be in that order. I said he's taking over, well, hey, well, go ahead and redo it then.

Don't redo it. We don't redo it, but don't tell us what to do. You're back here in the Called Duck Podcast Room. I mean, besides. Well, they know what I'm talking. Hold on episode 64. They know what he's talking. They know what I'm talking.

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All right. So we are back. I come in all fired up today, y'all. He apparently spent the weekend at the Alabama. That is in San Antonio, Texas. And here's the little news you may not know. My second child, which is my son, Scott, that's where he was born. The Alamo?

No, in San Antonio. Oh, good grief. I knew you were old. In the Army Hospital. But anyway, look, we took the river tour. Okay, in a boat. I didn't do the river walk. I done a boat river tour.

Is that really a river? Yeah. Yes, a river. They got flood control gates on and everything in the city. I'm with Charles. I didn't say, I thought it was a little bitty pond kind of deal. A little creek deal? No.

No, this is the river running through the whole town, and this thing goes on forever. So a river runs through. The river runs through it. Good one. And it has got some of the most beautiful cypress trees. Okay, because look, they're not native to Texas. Cypress trees are not.

They had to go get them and come back and plan them. Hey, there was one of them that tell me that 11 people, you know, hand to hand. That's how big a tree was. So he'd been there a while. Oh, that's a bull. He'd been there a while. Yeah, three or 400 hundred years. But it was beautiful.

we enjoyed it and then we had a first class private what would you call that a private tour of the alamo okay by Kobe and Ernesto yes okay and they showed all these replicas of stuff not well some of them weren't replicas somewhere original you held Daniel Boone's gun yes I actually held we got a picture of it that is Daniel Boone's long rifle flintlock i need to talk to somebody if that's actually daniel i've got somebody on the line we got i see it we got colby isn't that lucky okay you got colby and ernesto yeah and hey introduce our guest mr macbillan we have got coby and we've got ornesto from the alamo and they gave us a private tour and we took some pictures and they actually let sigh put on the

white gloves and wholesome stuff so let me get them on the phone hey guys can y'all hear us yeah we can here you. All right. Welcome to the podcast. Sy calls at the in the duck car room podcast with Uncle Si, but this is just the duck call room. Hey, first of all, we want to tell y'all, thank you so much for giving us the tour. And I'm going to turn y'all loose to talk with Uncle Sy a little bit, okay? Okay. You're going to have to do all the talking because they can't hear us. You realize? You do it. Can you ask them for real, though? Is that actually Daniel Boone's rifle. So Ernesto, John Day wants to know, is that really Daniel Boone's rifle? No, it's a rifle that was used at the Battle of the Alamo and found by something for the town.

Okay. But it was an original rifle. Okay. I thought it was Daniel Boone. It was there. Jacob Dickert, so it's pre-1820. It's an original gun that was used at the Alamo. That is pretty cool. So did it have an open bore? Uh-huh. I was just a chance. What caliber was that, Anesto? What caliber was it? 58. 58 caliber. That's a bull.

That's a hunk of lead. And that would knock your shoulders smooth off, Sire. Someone actually done a test with that for 300 yards, and he hit paper on it with it. Really? The 300 yards. What's that barrel on that thing? About 40 inches?

No, it's longer than that. How old is it? About 43 inches. 43. Pretty good. Pretty good estimation there, Mr. Martin. Martin's got, I'm pretty close. I like a 30-inch shotgun.

I know he's way bigger than that. No, no. Hey, what was amazing about that? When I threw that thing up to my shoulder, it literally really felt good. I thought as long as it would, it'd be real awkward feeling. Yeah.

That thing's well balanced. So as Colby, Colby's the one in his picture, right? Yeah, now that's Kobe. Kobe, what do you want the people to know about the Alamo? I think, I think, for most people, they think about one building and they think about one, you know, set time period, and that's March 6th, 1836 during the famous battle.

But the Alamo's history is really long and, you know, spans almost 300 years. And we've got a lot of really neat artifacts and a lot of story to tell. So I think when people, if they're thinking about coming to the Alamo and they're only thinking, well, it's just a battlefield. It's so much more than that. And so we want people to come and hear the full story. I didn't know it was more than one building. Oh, no, no. I thought it was like a fort.

No, no, it was, it's rather a compound, like a square compound. I've been there, but it was, I was like, it's 10. Okay. But one of the most amazing things to me was they had a, it was in a folder, their clear, clear view on the front, right? You can see to it. And they had General Santana as marching orders for the next morning's battle. So let me get Ernesto to tell them about that.

Ernesto, will you tell about the marching orders that General Santana gave? Well, we have the original battle orders that were issued by Antonio Lopez of Santana to his officers, and they were actually written down by Vicente Amador, who was at Aid to Camp, and they give you basically a blow-by-blow description of how the battle is going to take place. you have the papers so so yeah signed by general sent heaven

oh yeah so here here's your marching orders this is what I want you to do I want you to dress up I want you to wear this wear that dress uniform wear your shoes

ain't that what they told them yeah that's basically it and then he tells us cavalry you're going to start circling at about three in the morning so he tells everybody what they're going to do

and how they're going to do it and it's very it's a really important document because it's from the, you know, right out of the mouth of Santa Ana, straight to his officers, and they have to carry that out. Well, you know what was a little strange to me is that also, he said, now when you die, here's who's going to replace you in line. Is that a contingency of a clam?

My best part of it. I bet that made it hit home to them, boys. Oh, no, no. You're up next. Yeah. Yeah, the best part of it I like, okay, you got to understand. stand they had been shelling them with cannon fire for like three days and nights so the morning of the major battle okay everything Santana told them okay psychological warfare no noise

none everything should be solid okay so that was the coolest part about me he's he gave that order to his officers. Yeah. At 10 o'clock they got real quiet. At a certain hour, they're going to stop the cannons. And like the horses, they want them riding around. Don't be yelling, don't be talking, don't make any noise. You just circle a compound.

Okay. It's psychological warfare. And there was 189. And how many was in that army, the Mexican army? 2,500. Yeah. That's right. Yeah, it's roughly 189, maybe as high as 220 Texans,

but from our research shows, about 189. Not very good odds. No. No. You're going to need the good Lord on your side on that one. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that one, yeah. We got the picture of the cannon I was standing behind.

Is that, what, a 16-pounder, I think y'all said? Yeah, that's a 16-pounder. That would take about 8 pounds of gunpowder to fire, and the muzzle velocity of that is equivalent to about a 9mm handgun around. Oh, so slow and big. Yeah. It's going to cause a lot of damage. That one's called the Johnny D.

No, that was one of the things. That one's called the D limer. A who? The distance that ball would travel is just under a mile. Yeah. Oh, okay. That had hurt somebody. 16 pounds rolling through you for a mile.

Oh, yeah. God. I'd take a plug out. I hope. Boy, heavy shot just that wasn't even the largest cannon at the battle. That was just the largest one we have

currently in our collection. Did y'all let Cy fire it? No. If he comes back down here, we can probably arrange something. I'm in. Okay. We're all going to the Alamo, boys.

Hi, that, look at that cannon, I had to ask, how many cannons was in the Alamo? There are 24 total canons. Of the 24, 18 of them are fully functioning. Oh, okay. Well, listen, guys, this is incredible,

and we appreciate everything that y'all, y'all did for us, and the tour was awesome and great. Two more things I want to bring up. First of all, Kobe, I love the challenge coin that you gave, Uncle Si. I think we have a picture of it somewhere. I don't know if you can find that one, John David. The coin? Yeah.

It looks like the... Is this it? That's it. Looks like the All right now? Yeah, can you make that bigger? So Kobe was in the military. He gave Cy that challenge corn. and that's awesome and that was that was really cool you want to talk about that

Kobe and okay yeah yeah there's a tradition in the military where when you meet someone for the first time or you meet a fellow brother-in-armage you can give them a coin that you keep and that way you tie that friendship together and I knew uncle Si had served in Vietnam I had a cousin that did not come back from that war and I was I was kind of moved by his service and some of the stories I saw online about him so I decided to give them the point that I had in my pocket I've been carrying for a few years, and it's in the shape of the Alamette. That's awesome.

I know. I think the veterans share those stories, and we share a link regardless of when we served. And I will cherish that, sir. Thank you very much. Yeah, that's awesome. You're very welcome. Any questions for these guys on the phone? Colby, I have a question non-related to the Alamo.

Where is your favorite place to have a breakfast taco and send? Antonio. We like this place. A little hole in the wall called Sandia. It's over off of McCola and I can't remember the cross commerce. Oh, Commerce and Callahan. Excuse me. It's called Sundia, which means watermelon. They've got great tea, which we covet, Ernesto and I, and they have fantastic tacos. Look, my favorite thing about the city of San Antonio are all the options for breakfast tacos. They're so dead good. I got to get back to San Antonio. Oh, they're so, and I haven't had a bad one yet that's why i was curious on what your favorite was being a local i like yeah that's our favorite me and ernesto we we uh take the taco uh breakfast taco

pretty serious and those are the best ones we've ever found hey and plus ernesto he's kind of big so he he's going to need something that's filling no he's tall he's big he's a big man over six foot yeah we know where uh the good food is is there a website that uh people can go to if they're interested yeah you can go to the the alamo dot org and learn more about the projects that are going on here the alamo.org yeah that's awesome well look guys we appreciate y'all you all joining us thank you for taking care of the old man and show i know sigh is a big he's a huge history buff he loves it so that's pretty cool i know that was probably something on his list of things to do and uh we'll be back right after this break all right look springtime is here it's warming up you know what that means that means

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that was fun and it's about to get even funner it's gonna be more fun it will be less educational Funner, more, yeah, there's a good chance we may all lose some brain cells in this next couple of segments. But we're going to hear some good stories. But we're going to laugh. Uh-oh, what happened? But I've got a buddy. I know. JD, hey, look, we've got a guest coming in there, so you got there.

Bye, JD. Hold on. Let me ring the bell for him. I'm leaving the game. The bell tolls for JD. I thought, wait, come out. I thought Johnny Dee was there. I thought Philip was out.

Johnny Dee just got back. Look, hey, this is America. I'll leave it up to the... No, don't vote on it, sigh. That's going to be two against one. Hey, democracy. Philip, you're out. I will see you.

That was fast. That's what you get for beating us in that outhouse right. The bell tolls for me. I gave you a free t-shirt. Let me. Let me change it. What? The bell told for you, young man.

I thought you'd be on my side. I even brought my teacup today. Oh, I had forgot about you. Philip, we'll catch you in about 20, 30 minutes. How about that? Yeah. Anyway. Who's our guess?

Without further ado. Is he in the room? It's a guy that our redneck fans are for sure good enough. That's right. He's a hunter. I'll give you a clean. No, no time out. He ain't a hunter. He's a turkey hunter. He's a killer. Okay. You don't want to, you don't want this next guy hunting you.

Because if he does, you're gone. He's probably going deflate you. You're going to look good on the wall and you will remember you for a lifetime. That depends on who he's hunting. And the last thing you're going to hear is that Hoyt bark probably. So, ladies gentlemen, it's none other. And Michael Wadillo.

There it is. We got him. We got it. Waddy is in the duck car room. Dude, this is big as getting a Waffle House endorsement to come. Oh, okay. You know how long we've been trying to get that?

I know. Maybe Waffle House will be listening. This is the crew. We've all had it scattered, smothered, and covered me. Put us in a booth. Look, I ate there every day for about a year and a half, and I got up to 313. I finally figured out, you know what? Their food is not healthy.

It's good, but it ain't healthy. I eat there every time. Tuesday from kindergarten until I graduated high school with my dad. And we're big boy, get out of it. But what's the alternative? I mean, Subway had Jared, look, that turned out to be a catastrophe. So I'm going to stick with Waffle House. Trust me, not your food.

I can't disagree with that. See, that's why I told you we were going to laugh in here. Look out. Oh, my goodness. Jared probably saw that from prison. He's probably like, I see. I swear I never liked that guy. All right.

What have you in that crazy bunch of real tree he's been up to? Nothing. Obviously, not much, really, honestly, when it comes to. Well, y'all never have done much any. No, not. Really, honestly, it's funny. I just now, the last two years, got a paycheck from Bill because I was having to pay him.

He's been working for free, boy. Bill, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. We definitely been doing a lot. And then, of course, Nick, I just, I just got a text. Actually, last night, Daniel Thomas from Realtree, we flew in last night in here to Monroe and to come hang out and be on the podcast. And you guys, we had a chance to do some stuff with our podcast.

And anyway, long story short, I got a text from Nick late last night. He shot an elk. So here it is August. And he shot a big old nice elk. So obviously, I know they weren't bugling. He probably had stalked him and shot him in his bed. There ain't no telling him. But Nick is out hunting right now, and he got a nice elk last night in Utah.

Nick. Nick, you ain't got to talk him into letting that trigger finger get to work, do you? Nick, where's my invitation? No, forget that. Where's my tenderloor? I'm convinced. Well, hey, you got to. Hey, Nick, forget their invitation.

Just send me about, oh, 50 pounds of a backstrap. There you go. 50 pounds. Well, that's one of them. Well, hey, that's one of the backstrap. I'll take, you know, I just took half. I think Nick, no doubt, like you remember when everybody was eating those chocolate-covered grasshoppers, I think Nick was walking around stomping them.

That's how much he likes to just hunt and get after stuff. There you go, boys. Stop him on top. Let me kill him grass robbers, Nick. Oh, my goodness. No, it is hard to believe. We're sitting here right on the eve of hunting season. I mean, it's August in Louisiana.

I think it's like 99 out there today. It's about 82 in this room right now. So you see any sweat. Don't just disregard that. Budget cuts. They hit everybody. So, you know, we're no different. Here's the bad thing about that.

It seems like duck season just closed. But it'll be here in about two and a half weeks. No, no, I know. It closed for most people. Yeah. Not everybody. Phil is not in present. That's all that.

Don't be letting out family secrets, son. I know it. Oh, Lord. How much. You get Phil Robertson to this office. Something has gone terribly wrong. Either that or there's a check here with his name on it. No, no, no.

What it is. Yeah, he's either here to pick up money. or he's sick. That's right. Or the Lord come to his neighborhood first, and he's coming to tell y'all, hey, Jesus is over here. I just want to let you all know.

Jesus has come back. You better hurry. You better come down here to the river. Hey, on this one, his first serve, your first come first serve. Oh, I love it, man. Godly.

Well, Michael, look, for folks at home that may not know Michael, I'm not sure how you don't, because he's been doing this for a long time. He's been hunting. started out as a cameraman for the real tree guys and then like a lot of us he worked his way up through the ranks and now michael has got his own show bone collector he had real tree road trips for forever that torch has kind of been passed and now you're doing a podcast called a bone to pick

which we we had some fun on that that was awesome and and i listened to sigh so i finally got to do a little controversy so that was fun wasn't just a variety hours so si was spitting some truth if y'all haven't checked that check that out um over on the real tree page and we're going to take a quick break we'll be right back and we'll get into some more stuff michael appreciate you for coming a bone to pick that's a good name so see i'm learning stuff right now i didn't know that you used to film all these idiots having fun yeah and then you said hey no i don't need this camera i need to be on the other side of this job have you heard the man tell a story it was nuts it was sir seriously it was crazy because i my my job when i first came was kind of a

A guide, I'd been in turkey calling contest a lot. And so anyway, when I got to Realtree, my main job was to kind of help guide, and they was having, you know, outdoor riders, that was a thing. And, you and Phil, you know, bit to business on a lot of outdoor riders on Duck Commander and stuff and the VHS tapes and stuff,

even before Duck Dynasty. And same with Realtry. And I remember I'd come in, and then David Blanton's like, hey, man, why are your guide and won't you try to run these cameras? And I knew nothing about it. I was only about 18, 19 years of age.

So I just started running the camera. One thing led to another. And the only thing I got lucky to do a little hunting and maybe talk about, you know, back in them days, seemed like everything was about a tip, you know, like a turkey calling tip or duck blind tip, white-tail tip. So I got to do some of the turkey calling tips

because I had won a world championship with Ricky Joe Bishop. We'd won the two-man team, Grand Nationals, and the world championship. And I was young. So Realtree kind of had me on their little advisory staff as a hunter. But I was working as a guy and run a camera. and then next thing you know, they sent me to editing school to learn how to edit.

And then next thing you know, I'm getting a chance to produce Realtree outdoors. And so it was like a craziest Ozzy Osbourne crazy train ride ever for me. And I'd never been on an airplane. And heck, I didn't, I'd never even made of it like eating appetizers and stuff. I was kind of more like, I think that's why I related to the Duck Commander and Duck Dynasty and the Roberts and stuff. Because I remember going to this fancy restaurant and they ordered a bunch of squid and cheese sticks. and little sausage balls and I made, man, what in the heck is going on? Yeah, you're like I would be.

Like they eating before we eat. That's a true story. I'm like, man, I told my daddy. I said, which by the way, he's so pumped on over here with you guys. He's a huge, huge fan. And if I ever got Si and my dad and field together, let me just tell you something, a podcast right there. That would be one of those 17 hours and 30-minute podcast.

And it would be the best on earth. That'd have to be an epic. miniseries. It was crazy. But he loves, he loves what y'all've done with, you know, Duck Commander and Duck Dynasty. He's just such a big fan like all of us. But, uh, but yeah, it was crazy. So I never, I never thought I'd get to do what I'm doing. Well, David Brown, he did you a favor about saying, hey, you don't run this, run this. He did. He did. And I didn't. Yeah, he just said, hey, won't you give it a shot.

And I remember I asked David, that was back in y'all, you probably remember the old beta cam days. And I said, David, I don't know how to turn this thing on. And he said, well, be careful with it. It's expensive. I said, well, what are we talking? And I never forget. He said, that camera right there is about $50,000 to $60,000. And I said, that's more expensive my house.

I said, I can't take this thing. No, be careful with it. You know, then you bought the deck, and it was a beta, a BVP 90. So somebody wants to fact check me to see if David was lying. But he said he paid about 50 grand. The lens, a big old Fujian line, you hit a little switch of Dublin. You could reach out there, and it was like a suitcase. That thing was big as a truck.

up almost, it seemed like. And BVP 90. BVP 90. He said, try this. And then when you asked the question, if I'd have been there, it would have been me. When he said it was $60,000, I said, no, no thing. I'm too clumsy, so I'm not going to hold your $60,000 camera. I think David was exaggerating because I took it immediately to the pawn shop.

And they wanted to give me 10. Oh, yeah. Yeah, David just lied to me. This thing ain't worth them. He's supposed to do. Yeah, I told us, Dave, you're supposed to be a Christian man. You're lying. I couldn't get nothing over there at the northside pawn shop.

The Pond Shop wouldn't give him but 10. Exactly. Well, look, I know you had the opportunity back in the day to film some pretty interesting characters. We were talking about it before we got on here. And look, I know a lot of our fans are our NASCAR fans and grew up in it. And Marty Smith was just here. And Marty Smith was just here. And he talked about the intimidators.

So give us your best, Dave. Well Earnhardt's story. Because I know y'all spent a lot of time in a tree and in camp together. It was amazing. And me, it's funny, man, I've obviously, even after Duck Dynasty, I know, you know, when you think about becoming a star or celebrity or personality, obviously y'all experienced that in walking around the country. You know, in your own mind, you're thinking, man, I'm no different. I'm just this guy from Louisiana that likes to hunt duck and loves God and loves a good country-cooked meal at night. but obviously when you're on TV and you do things that people respect you become the celebrity

and over the years and just like y'all I've had a chance to meet a lot of celebrities to the public you know and they become friends but to this day I've never ever been with a personality or celebrity that completely had shocking all like having Dale Earnhardt with you and and of course me I was pretty intimidated by the intimidator I remember he came down and I had this shotgun It was an old Remington 1187 I'd won in a Turcalling contest. And Dale showed up, and he was a Remington guy. And I remember Remington used to sponsor at the time. He used to sponsor Dale's car.

Anyway, I remember I had this shotgun. I said, Dale, if you want to use my shotguns, yeah, I'll use that shotgun. And Bill had told Dale, he said, look, I'm on, and David Blanton said, hey, I'm going to get Wadill to go with us. He's a good turkey caller. And he won the World Championship. They were bragging on me. And I was this young kid. And so Dale said, that's like, I'm a world champion, too.

I want the best caller. So we go. And I'm like, man, so now I'm thinking, oh, my God, David, quit bragging. Yeah, David, David. Yeah, Blanton was always great at bragging on me. In this case, it freaked me out because it's like now I'm knowing Dale, it's like, and I remember he's like looking over and so, all right, boy, I'll see your stuff in the morning. I want to see your stuff.

I want to kill a turkey and I'm like, oh, my God. The whole night I couldn't sleep because I'm freaking out. And anyway, throughout the history of having a chance to hunt with Dale and we killed a lot of turkeys, Dale would always come down right before the Talladega race to Real Tree. and he would hunt, and he always wanted to use my shotgun named Grady. He killed many turkeys with that shotgun. But one of the craziest stories I remember is I had this old Ford Lariat at the time. Well, it was brand new.

I bought it from a friend of mine, and it was the nicest truck I'd ever own. And so Dale didn't want to be seen in this Ford because he obviously was racing for RCR, which was Richard Childress, Chevrolet, was their deal. And so anytime we'd go anywhere, you'd come up to a red light, and over just out of Salem, Alabama. And I ain't lying. They'd be a redneck with Earnhardt sticker, the old big old mullet and Budweiser hat,

and he'd look over and they'd see Dale. And it was like they had seen Jesus Christ. I mean, it honestly was. They would be sitting there in their jaw, and I'd be looking over, and Dale would be sitting there with them old gargles, and just the mustache and big team real tree hat, and he'd just look over and wave at them.

Are we going to a convenience store, and people would start, cussing. I never get, there was a lady one time we walked in this convenience store. Dale goes in and we get a drink and get a little, you know, pack of crackers, spend turkey in it. And if she looks up and she's just going through the line, and she looks up and she sees Dale, she says, you got to be blanketed, blank kidding me. Freaks out, you've got to be. And immediately she starts going off on Jeff Gordon, starts going off on how Dale should have put so-and-so's butt in the wall.

That's right. Put him in the waffle. Yeah, and just, like, and then wouldn't believe it. She said, I think I'm dreaming. There's no way you're standing right here in front of me. He said, well, I am, honey. I'm standing right here. And Dale gets over there and takes a picture with her. Back then, it was like one of those disposable.

Oh, like a fun. It wasn't nobody hand you to camera. You got charged. Yeah, kids camera. Kids camera. Like, grab a camera back here and take a picture. And so, man, at the same time, Dale was always aggravated at me because he said I was a slow driver. And he was like, man, you don't drive fast enough.

and it's probably this old piece of junk forward, and he was going off on my truck. So finally one day we'd stop and got a pack of crackers, and Dale would only buy a Gatorade because Coca-Cola was part of them. He wouldn't let nobody in the car. He was the most loyal partner person I'd ever seen. And so we get in the car, and he said, I'm driving. He said, you drive too dang slow.

So we jumped in the car, and we'd ride down through there, and we're talking about, I never get it. There was a field over Circle Inn. Tyler Jordan had know exactly what I'm talking about because he knows his dad would always make these rules. and Bill would pull me aside, and even though it would be a Dale Earnhardt or whoever, he would say, hey, hey, he would tell us, go wherever you wanted.

Like, y'all go over there. Man, Michael knows that place. But then he'd pull me aside and say, hey, hey, don't go to stubby field. I'm saving that. I want to go down there, you know. And so it's still running on today. And it's a fact. So Bill was like, hey, don't go to stubby field.

Well, Dale would pick up on stuff like that. He'd be like, I heard Bill say, don't go to stubby field, so you're taking me immediately stubby field. So he's talking. And that's the reason I remember the conversation. hauling butt down the road. Dale's just driving. When I say hauling butt, there's a stretch.

I think it's highway 280. So it's not like a true interstate, but it's a four-lane road. And it's obviously, you know, your left lane's fast lane and your right lane to kind of keep rolling. Right. And so Dale's going down through it and he said, hey, we're going straight to stubby field. He's going about 80, 85. Now, at the time, this is, I think, a 60, 55, so he's already smoking it. Way fast when I drive.

But I'm not afraid at all because I'm with Dale. traffic's rolling pretty fast. Well, finally, he gets to, like all of us, he gets to a point in this four lane to where there's an older lady that's in the left lane, just, you know, kind of lackadaisically forgetting that you post the speed up and slow down. Forty-five. Yeah. She's going 45 to 5.5.

Well, at the time, she's probably going 55-60. You know, she, and now this other guy who's rightfully should be going to speed limit in the right lane, has got the whole interstate backed up or this four lane. So Dale is talking to me about Stubbyfield, and all of a sudden he's right on this woman's butt, and I'm like, geez, he don't know how. close he is of this woman and just ever so slightly he starts bumping oh oh oh it's just

like no no no but he's still wow you're not doing yeah yeah I never get left hand and like we're going to stubby we're going to go on it I don't care what Jordan says you're going to take me down there if you're a world champion and this woman can we go and it looked like the

Sunday school director we get around her and she is just like shooting us birds and just giving us all these gestures and Dale just waves at her like it like It's okay. You don't understand what's going on. The turkeys is God, but that's okay. And what was odd is we never even really talked about it, and I'm freaking out.

And I immediately get out of this truck. I don't even go get my turkey calls. Dale pulls up to this little spot where we park and circling, and I'm running around to the front of the truck. Look at his truck. My truck. Look in to make sure no dits, and there weren't. And I was thinking, oh my goodness, man.

He didn't even think nothing about it. So he hit me. I was like, how many times he ever done this? Is this something they do all the time? Maybe some NASCAR guy can chime in. Is that just something you do? I mean, I don't know. Yeah, except the difference is they do it now like at 180.

Yes. They bumping in to each other. Yeah, it ain't like 80. Get out to what? Yeah. It was 55, 60. It was no different, though. The way he bumped was no different than, you know, if I want to haul off and hit in my camera,

I said, hey, buddy. It was just a lightest little. Just a little encouragement, if you would. Look, I'm just going to just kind of help you get you on down the road. And to this day, I wanted to do it. And I've never done it. This day I've wanted to do that. I'd be able to screw that up in a hurry.

Me too. I'd end up in a ditch. Lord, have mercy. Well, look, that's great. But let's take another break. We'll be back with Michael right after this. No, no, I'm like him. Because there's so many of them I pull right up behind.

I mean, hey. Move, yeah. And then I have one of them. I have one of them. She backed me off because, hey, she's don't throw on the brakes. Did she really? I like to run up her rear and then. hey, and then I scared her because when she finally,

I just started easing over toward her. Just right beside and I started easing over toward her. I was about there yelling, blew the horn at her. Side getting on that side draft. That's what them NASCAR racers said. You're on that side draft. Well, no, because when I, you know,

I heard people talking about it, you know, said, well, no, Dale, Dale was such a sweet person. He's like old, old Mike Diffka when they played football. He said, oh, no. Diffka's so nice. He'll give a shirt off his back and all that. But, hey, one thing,

about it when you put on a helmet he puts on that foot helmet he turns into an idiot animal. Just ready to go. That's the way Dale Hard is. Dale Earnhardt is. Once he gets them behind that wheel and crank that engine, maniac. He's fixing to put you in the wall. No, I hate to tell you, that's how all of them are. I've ridden with a few

of them. Boyer. No, y'all got some that boy. Boyer. That joke, he's a, he's several pickle shive of a deluxe cheeseburger. He's like, he's a few carts short of a deck full deck. Yes. Okay, because hey, I'm in the car with him, and Martin told me, I didn't even know how fast he was going.

You know, I'm out. Look, I'm looking at this, and it's just, I'm about that far from the wall. As at Talladega. Okay, and this is. So, y'all was on the track. Yeah, we was on the track at Talladega. Size is in the front seat, the passenger seat, and I'm in the back seat. You're in the street car?

We were in a pace car. We were in the pace car. Oh, hey, he's running, and it's, you know, and it's just, you know, and I'm like there right there. and Boyer's over there and he's like this and he's the whole time he's looking at me and whatever you're up he's talking

he only got to turn left and I'm going I can't hey you need to watch where you're going for crying out loud he's done about 130 yeah that's the one we got in trouble for because the light flew off the top of the base car

yeah they flew off and he said he said, and when he did it, he said, oops, he said, and Martin said, what, oops? Yeah. He said, the people don't like it when I blow the lights off of them. Yeah. The light on top of the pace car come on. He drove too fast? Yeah, from driving.

We were doing like 1.30 in that little Toyota thing we were in. Yeah, it's supposed to go 1.30. Well, look, when we got to pit road back on the deal, when we got to pit road, he said, he said, when I park this thing, let's just all go. Don't hang around. He said, we're going to get in trouble. So we just, we got out of the car and we took off. Nobody found us.

But they were sweeping up that light for the next hour. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, they're looking for us. Trust me. But Johnny D, you found some internet gold. Michael, what's going on in that picture? I just saw that. I grew up a little bit.

Wow. That old lady might have got bumped drafted right before this. It could have been. And here's what's crazy. So Blanton's there. Look, David's super young. That's Glenn Garner in the far left the right hand. I'm glad it had a caption.

because I didn't know if that was you or not. And I'm over on the left. I was probably, I had to be, I don't even know if I was, I was probably just 21 or two. I don't know when that was or I have to look at the date, but I was young. But man, and that was it. So those, when Dale came down, he was real traditional.

He had to have me, Glenn, and David. That was all he would hunt with almost every time turkey because he had found success. And here's what side. So Glenn was a great hunter. He manages Jeff Foxworthy's farm over down the road from us now. and David obviously was very, very serious about at the time videography. He loved video turkeys.

I was kind of a cameraman guy, so you got basically three camera guys there, and to this day we never got a good turkey hunt with Dale because he was so impatient. He would crawl away, crawl up on a turkey. He always, I bet he killed five to eight turkeys with us. Never once could you right now pull up a turkey hunt with Dale Earnhardt. We got deer, we got elk, we got everything, but he was so impatient. he would crawl off or we'd be working a turkey and he would go, you know, tree to tree and get ahead of the camera. And when the turkey come in, he'd kill it and we'd just have a tail fan.

And Bill Jordan would go crazy because at the time we were on TNN. And at the time, TN was similar to what y'all experienced with A&E to where TNN was in every home. And so it would come after a NASCAR race. So that was truly when on the real tree outdoors, you would have millions of people, literally millions of people watching an episode, one episode. Oh, yeah. So Bill was like Blanton, Glint, Wadillo, make sure you get Dale killing a turkey in Alabama just before the Talladega race. This would be a good rated show. Never to this day.

We never failed to get into turkey, but we failed on getting footage. We never did with Dale. He was hard. He didn't care if we got it or not. He was going to go turkey hunting. Oh, man. Well, after a turkey hunt with David Blanton, I get why Dale do that because David. Oh, dude.

He's way laid back, man. And just sit there. And watch the turkey, turkey walk up 20 yards, walk off, he'll call him back up there, and he's like, I think I'll kill him now. Yeah. David, David sells out for that footage of them turkey. He sells out. He ain't going to say nothing, but David's going to sit there with a slate call and his two decoys. And he's going to call that thing in three times before he kills it.

Well, no, it's incredible. He's into the call it. No, he's into watching that turkey dance. He wants to get good footage, you know. But like y'all do, y'all did it. Yeah. Duck Commander was the kings of that. I can't imagine, you know, sitting, because I know y'all want to kill them all,

but y'all got footage of duck. The first videos ever saw of a duck's head getting shot off. Oh, yeah. Was Duck Commander? Used to, it looked like a bunch of ants, fire ants, getting shot. You barely could say, and tell them, what is they shooting at? Yeah. Oh, oh, oh, oh, did you see a black spot falling?

That's right. That's a dot. That's exactly right. It was Harlan. Oh, no, no. You don't know. People don't understand or realize how hard that is to do. It's in part.

For duck. You know, especially when it's like 50 mallards. Okay. And they come floating over the decoys about 25 yards. And they're not fast. They're just floating over them. And we're sitting there because we don't move until you hear the words, cut them. Cut them.

Yeah. Okay. So, hey, if they ain't backpedaling, you're not going to hear that because one of my buddies, he went with us. And when they got in 25 yards, he ready to do a boom, boom, boom shot. Nobody else got up. And then Jason said, hey, Philip, nobody shoots ducks around here until Phil or me says cut him. Well, hey, that was like 25 years ago.

He's never went with us again. That was it. And that's why you're sitting in the chair right now. You got his chair. That's why you got his chair because he's banned for life with a robbery. Is he anywhere in here? Oh, yeah, he's nowhere. Oh, yeah.

we still keep him around we only use him when we have to there you go oh lord have mercy well look he's my best friend okay but anyway he asked me quite a while back

you know last year said hey can you get me into duck blind again I just said uh-uh no you're out you're banned for life Phil we can go together sometime me and you'll find the spot

Martin yeah you'll end up up there at Russell sage. Don't worry about it. It's open to the public. That is, you're talking about two of the old NASCAR stories. Clint Boyer.

I remember you was talking about how Clint took you out in a pace car. I was just with Clint not long ago at this event. And I said, dude, Clint, I mean, you know, what's the dress code or what do we do? And it was this little event that got thrown. And I said, man, what do we expect? And it's funny thinking of that story how he said, let's just parked a car and let's all leave. Now, this is a guy who's well-respected NASCAR.

Clint told me. and I thought this is pretty cool. He said, Wadale, here's the deal. Just wear what you want to do, say and do what you want to do. That's what I do. He said, but look, anytime I get invited somewhere, I figure my action is going to be bad enough I'll never get to go back.

So I just do what I want to. He said, and then if I don't ever get to go back, then big deal. You know, like, I totally expect to get kicked out and never get the chance to go back. So that's like, good idea. I see you there. I like the way that is because, hey, all it matters, okay, it's just your perspective. That's correct. Okay, and he's got the right.

He said, hey, I'm probably never going to get invited again. So, hey, I just make the best of this one. Yeah. That's awesome, man. Well, Michael, look, we appreciate you stopping by hanging out with us. Look, if you want to check out Michael's podcast, all you got to do is search it, a bond to pick with Michael Waddell. It'll be on all the podcast apps, be on Real Tree's YouTube channel.

So check that out. Look, if you're new to this channel, YouTube.com slash duck call room, all one word, like, subscribe, hit the bell on that. I got one question that. No. Is this on bone to be picked? Is that what this episode or is his podcast going to be on? That's the one that you filmed earlier.

Oh, just what to go? You will be on hit. Hey, look, folks, let me tell you. Oh, boy. You don't want to miss that one. It was awesome. Okay, trust me. Okay, trust me.

Okay, y'all don't want to miss that. Because look, they pushed the, just to say it in a nice way, they push my button. Oh, boy. No, we didn't. We just pulled the string and got out of the way. I'm not like an old radio. I don't have an off button. Look, side.

They finally just, hey, the cameraman turned all their stuff off and they walked out. Size is the first man Michael's hat on there that actually had 12 bones to pick. I loved it. Oh, I had a bunch of bones to pick. We didn't. And they cleaned. And, hey, look, if he invites me back, I may get to finish the rest of them. They clean, too.

Their bones are picked. Clean. Yeah, because, hey, look, I only got about half of the carcass. I wanted to get. Okay, if he invites me back, we'll pick it to the bone. There ain't a piece of nothing left. Lord, have mercy. I love it.

Let's take a break. We'll be back right after you. All right, we're back. Look, Philip, appreciate you stepping out and let Michael come in and sit down in opine with Si. What about getting thrown under the bus? Well, that just means you loved around here. You know that by now.

If we don't pick on you, though. Hey, and here's what I'll tell you, you earn that bus throwing under by shooting at 25 mallards that the shot wouldn't call on. That's right, boy. Your only saving grace would have been if you killed three of them. Kill them all. He didn't kill nothing. He said.

He ain't cut a feather. There you go. That's what got him saying. That's why you weeded out. That's why you weeded out. You can't chew. But anyway, we're back. Look, we're going to get in that inbox.

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Everything disappeared. You hit the table again. That's all right. What just happened? There it is. Caroline and Reagan. Caroline and Reagan. They listen to our podcast every afternoon.

They're from East Texas. Oh, that ain't far. I just left Texas. And they have a very serious question. Subject line. We have a serious question. We'd have a question. We'd really like y'all.

parentheses especially sigh to answer do you think it's true that you get wetter running in the rain than walking in it because i've heard that if it's raining and you like run from the grocery store to your car you end up wetter then if you just walk i disagree that that depends that's right you know this is like if it's really raining okay because look hey and when i say really raining like the Vietnam mansons monsoons? Yeah monsoons but anyway

because look I'm telling you a company of soldiers in a monsoon will disappear you can't even see them yeah because it don't matter then it wouldn't matter if you

walked our rain I mean I think they're talking about walked or ran like regular East Texas rain not Vietnam monsoon if you run to your car you're going to get wetter. Then if you walk.

The only way I would say that that is true that you wouldn't be the same amount of wet is it running, you're probably going to get a lot more splash up from your feet. Especially in your legs. Big feet. I guarantee you. I mean, but as far as the rain,

I mean, I would think, I don't know. You're covering more area quicker you get into more. I don't know. But you're running into more because it's falling. No, no. Here's the deal. No. No.

No, I ain't buying it. Hold it. I got it. I got the answer. Here's what I've been talking about. I was talking about White L's podcast. Uh-oh. Common sense.

Oh, boy. Okay. Common sense tell you if it's, let's just say it's a slow drizzle. Yep. Okay. And say you've got 50 yards to distance to make from where you're standing under something to your car. Okay. If you walk, okay, you're going to get wetter because for one reason.

If you run, you're out under something. the rain less time. Incorrect. That's commas there. That's not incorrect. Sorry, I'm going to go along with you on this one. I watched a lot of Discovery Channel as a young man and the myth, but members to show Mythbusters. They tested it. They concluded that you get wetter if you run

through the rain. You know what I'm going to say on that? The Mythbusters messed up. Because that is, to use the initials, that is total biz. Well, hey, here's the deal. In America today, everybody doubts the scientists, so let's move on. All right, my next question. You don't quit preaching and got the meddling, son.

My next question, well, the good news is almost past high school. All right, J.D. and Martin. No, I actually got the certificate. I graduated from high school. All right, here's the next one from Jeff. Jeff, from where? Oh, man, he's got a cool nickname.

Bopper. Bopper. Where's the Bopper from? Have we had a question from Bopper before? Bopper from Longview, Washington. here is a question to discuss. If you could travel back in time, where and when would you go, and you can't answer Jesus because that's too obvious. Wow.

Yeah. I mean, for me personally, I would go back probably about age 10. Oh, you're not even going back before you were alive. No. How many years is that, Martin? That's 25 years ago. 25 years ago. Or about to be 26.

Okay, I'm with Martin. And here's the reason I say that. I would just like to go back and spend more time with my grandparents. Like, I mean, I would love to go back and hunt with them one more time. Oh, that is great. And go fishing with them one more time. You just, that's what I would prefer to do. I'll also say I would benefit from hair conditioning has been invented.

And refrigeration has been invented. I don't think you have to stay there. You can bounce. You can just go. what's happening and then come back. Well, I'm just saying. If I were going to go back, I'd go spend more time my grandparents. You'd be 10 again.

I'd be roughly. I mean, anywhere from 10 to 15. I'm Mike Martin. I would go back to my childhood. But unlike him, I was not lucky enough to know my grandfathers on either side. And that has always just ticked me off to the max. Well, you could go back further and get to know them. Yeah.

You'd go back a little bit further and get to know your grandfather. You got a time machine. You got a time. There's no rule. Get on back there. Just got to go 80 miles an hour. 88. Fact, fact check.

See, I would go back to the 80s so I could watch cool movies. Make it to Hondo, boys. Hondo. Silos are 100 miles. What about you? Fill up where you go. I was thinking while you are talking. I really don't.

I don't think I'd go back any time over the last 50 years. I think I'd go way on back. Maybe the first century. Oh, if I could go back to meet my grandfather's. Oh, trust me. That's what they're saying. That's an option. You can go back and look at Noah's Ark if you wanted to.

I'm not doing that because he didn't let anybody else on the boat. That he knows of. Oh, come on. I mean, I might go like... When the boat stopped, I'd like to see the animals get off. I don't want to go before the boat. Eight and all were saved because they were floating on it. Yeah, I mean, it would be cool, too, to, like, go back to before humans really, like, before the European.

Before the European settled America and it was just Native Americans. I mean, that would be a pretty cool time to see this landscape before there were interstates and roads and everything across it. Hey, during my travels, I fantasize about that all the time. That would be pretty neat. I'm serious. I'll fantasize about that. I decided that I'm going to go all the way back to the garden,

and I'm going to say, Adam, don't do it. Don't do it, brother. But then would we be here? That's a massive butterfly back. I'm willing to take the chance. If I'm going back, yeah, I think I'm going back to check out the arc when it landed.

But if it's in my lifetime, I'm probably going to call 2010 the year. Go back. Saints? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Good, great. The Saints did win the Super Bowl that year. It started strong with that. I also got engaged and married in 2010.

2010 was just a, it was a good year for John David. John David. Wait a minute. Before the podcast, you were telling us you wish you could have 2010 to do over again. Oh, boy. Oh, good, great. He's lying. Hey, if you think Allison watches this, we'll ever hear that joke.

She hears enough of me whenever we're at home, so she's out on listening to this. Do we got time for one more? Yeah, let's hit one more. One more. All right, we got a little bit of advice. All right. Oh, we're giving the advice. Here we go.

No, we're giving the advice. Oh, okay. Oh, no, let's not do advice. I got a good one right here. All right, boy, he changed mine. Isaiah 21 from Grand Prairie, Texas. What was y'all's first car? This is the second time we've got.

this question. He had a 1999 Toyota Rev. 4 and he ran it into the ground at exactly 300,000 miles. And it had an 8-track player in it. In 1999, you had an 8-track player? That's amazing. That's like that show Bert Reynolds when he put the 8-track in there. That's Isaiah

from Grand Prairie, Texas. First car, Cy? 19-something Plymouth. Fort Fury. A canary yellow. Okay. I don't know.

That's right. 19 something. No, the 19 something. Look it up. No, no. It's 1970 something. Okay, because I was in Fort Evans, Massachusetts, and I paid like, what, $700 for it, okay?

It had a little, need a little rust on one place. You had a little paint spot, you know, repaint. And then look, on the distributor cap, the little thing that's supposed to open and close your gap. Yeah. That was burn off. How many folks you think today know what a distribution of the cap is? Or where to find it on a vehicle.

But anyway, but hey, anyway, on the cam, it had something in it, and it had a little thing that stuck down on it that opened and shut your points. Yeah. Okay. That was burned off, but it run good anyway. There you go. Quality craftsmanship. Hey, five-speed hearse transmission in it.

There you go. Okay. My woman, the woman I've been married to. two for 50 years. 50 years. She made a special cushion where she could sit right next to me. Oh, God. Here we go.

I don't believe you this. Phil, what kind of coach got? It was a romantic time in my life. What you're saying is it was a bench seat. Oh, yes, it was. That was size 2010, boys. Look, sweetie had to sit beside me where I could have my arm around there. Philip, what about you?

Well, hold on. I'm getting sick listening to size story. 1983 Mazda So I take it back No, I'm going to tell her on you 1983 Mazda With a wankle engine

I don't know what that means What is a wankle engine It's a German engineered Rotary engine Did it wankle down the road? Hey, it would out wankle anything that pulled up next to it Boy, it sounds like this

It sound like this And the next thing you see is me waving Bye Bye Mine was there Yeah, 1999-G-G-C-Z-71. I think it's the last ones you could get that had the four-wheel drive on the floor. Oh, yeah.

Like before everything became push-button. I think in 99 everything became push-button, didn't? No, because my first truck was a 99 Silver Auto Z-71 with four-wheel drive on the floor. Okay. So then 2000 would have been the year. It's gray with a red-pins right. It would have went all push-button. I had duck commander's seat covers and 35-inch Mickey Thompson's with the

The six-inch side of a skyjacker suspension. It was the coolest truck in the parking lot. I bet it was. I missed that thing. That's pretty cool. The transmissions in them things didn't make it long. That's when I got rid of mine. When transmission went out, my parents said,

we've got to have something to get you down the road. Because they wasn't going to drive me nowhere. I got married and had three kids by the time I was like 19. That's not true. But I got married pretty young and started having children. So I switched over to a family man car pretty quick. Yeah. So there you go.

That's us. Philip, you're going to send us out of here with a verse? What's you got from? I really am. This is something that's pretty good. Let's see here, boys. Good. How on, some, what's how's font you got on that thing?

Well, this is so I can read it. Well, so can I. So this is. Wait, turn it this way. Oh, you can read it from there. I got no doubt. I'll try and read it from here. All right.

Are we ready? Yeah. Well, hold on, Martin doesn't mess me up. How'd I mess you up? Because now he's got to move it further away. He needs the font bigger, but the phone's got to be further away. You want me to hold it for you? No, now I got...

You might have to read it. You might have to read it for it. What's the verse? He's in First Peter. First Peter. That's a good one. That's a good one. First Peter.

NIV? Okay. One and three. Oh, no. He tricked me on three. No, I was going to three, Martin. Oh. Hey, he's done.

I don't think he's ever going to get it. Now he's on two. No, no. Now he's in First Peter 3. We're going to get you a regulation Bible so you can get you a bookmark. Read the verse. Hold on, side. Now I've got too much pressure on me.

You're terrible. Y'all is terrible. I've always said they should have iPhone classes for people. First Peter 1-3. All right. First Peter 1-3. Praise be to God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In his mercy, he has given us new birth into a living hope.

Thank you, Sigh, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil, or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation. Bless you, Sine. That is ready to be revealed in the last time. So that's our verse today.

The reward is waiting for all those. who believe. Amen. I can't wait. And our reward is in heaven. That's right. Don't store it up here. No, you don't eat it here. I ain't taking nothing with me. Nope. I ain't taking nothing with me. All right. Appreciate you guys. We'll be back next time right here in the duck call room.