Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Thinks Pepsi Is Garbage – But Is He Right?

Episode Date: August 10, 2023

Uncle Si and the boys revel in the glory days of their youth that contained dangerous stunts, comic capers and a couple run-ins with the law. Si once sent his brother on an emergency visit to the dentist, while Martin ponders what’s in store for him with his twin boys. John-David opens a whole can of worms when he ventures into the great debate between Coke and Pepsi. Phillip reveals that he’s been pulling the same prank on Si for years now and Si has had enough! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sloth. Here we go. Welcome back, ladies' small. Welcome. Welcome back. My dog. John David's Trixie today. I've been on mood to throw things.

Good arm. He's playing baseball today. Somebody's been watching Dude Perfect all weekend. Yep. The Survivor games just came out. Huh? Oh, here we go. That one dude's way better at all the other stuff than the other Dude Perfect members.

I don't know which one you're talking about. You will. My boys ain't there yet, but I know it's coming for me. I'm just staying away. Hey, great guys, by the way, if you're looking for something else clean for your family to watch, dude perfect is a great one. Oh, yeah. No, they're cool.

That's just a side ad. I don't even know why. We're just trying to get them on the podcast. It'd probably do pretty good ratings. My kids would die. How's it go? Tall guy, beard twins, Purple Hoser. Are they a purple hoser?

You do know it. Yeah, they are actually. But my kids also, because I know Willie, think that I can just call any famous person in the whole wide world. And like, hey, can we go over to their house? I'm like, not how it works, man. And then, like, I can just walk in a duck commander so they think we can just go over to a dude perfect

to walk in and start playing basketball. I'm like, I don't think that's how it works. You don't know until you try. Yeah, you got to try. Why not give it a whirl? I make sire with you and you can do it. Why not give it a whorle? You can pull it off.

Yeah, let's say start doing trick shot. He did make that one. He did do the one. I've seen him make some sense then. Oh, hey. Unbelievable. Well, Philip, look. You said you had you ran into an old friend or something.

Well, I did. Me and Alicia were out eating. And, uh, where? We were actually at my favorite restaurant. What, what is? I want to judge you. It's a great little seafood place. Captain Dee!

Hey! Captain Dee's in the house. You know what? As someone who should be against that, it's really pretty good. I'm going to say it out loud. So I saw, uh, an old friend of mine. I haven't seen him since we were kids. And, uh, so we talked for a minute.

And when he left, I told my wife, I said, let me tell you about this guy, because she didn't know what it was. We were young when we knew each other. Oh, and your roller skating days? Before then. Okay. A little bit before then.

So, anyway, the story that I remember about my buddy is this. And really it's the story that identifies him. He got some brand new rubber boots for Christmas when we were young, probably seven or eight, nine years old. I can't remember. But he said, watch what I. I can do with these rubber boots, and he touched our neighbor's electric fence, and nothing happened to him.

So then we cranked up a push lawnmower, pulled the spark plug back, and he said, these boots will protect me from anything. I can pee on that spark plug, and it won't even hurt me. No, he didn't. Well, I said, let's see it. I mean, I'm all down for it. Yeah, I pulled the spark plug off, and it's got the little fire. He peed on it, and it knocked him back about 30.

30 foot and all you saw was singe black and he was screaming like a little girl. Well, at the time. This is one of the things you do not do, folks. This is one of them stupid things you never do. Even with rubber boots on. And look. As invincible as they may make you feel. Yeah.

No matter how good you weighing boots are. And I hate that that's what I remember him by. You know, he's a good guy. But every time I see him, I just like, yeah, there's old singy. Well, I mean, how could you not? We're all remembered for something, though, from our elements. That one was a keeper. Most of the time is something very stupid.

Mine also involves electricity. Yeah. I wasn't the guy that really, like, I really, I don't know if I was the one that was causing people to do things. Like, like, getting them going. Oh, 100% you were. Maybe. But sometimes I was the guy who did things as well. No, but you were the idea, man.

What were you? I agree with that. Yeah. But I didn't say, I didn't say. I didn't come up with this peeing on the spark plug thing. But what story did he tell about you when he left? Because there's one. That's probably.

And you know what it is. We don't try this at home. Yeah. We did dip tennis balls in the kerosene, light them on fire at night, and hit them at cars coming by. I don't know. I mean, that was one thing that we did. It's stupid. Don't say, I don't do that.

You probably done stupid. Is that arson assault or? It would bounce off the windshield of the cars. Yeah, that's assault, brother. That's assault, brother. with a deadly weapon might I ask a tennis ball bouncing off a windshield that's on fire

I mean do you know what the Romans could have done with hey Roman candles they used to have Roman candle wars everybody did that the boom bombs were the best what's the boom bomb they're the ones that hit you and would explode even more they'd put a pretty sizable hole in your shirt

and just a small mark on your flesh small's a light term what side what was some things called that you could flush down the toilet and blow up the cherry bombs the commode he was a cherry bomb guy pull that mic up a little bit there old man it was cherry bomb boys

cherry bombs so you it had to be the red one no other cell over there because hey I bought some black ones thinking it was the same thing yeah and we went through town through that and we went no big explosion well we come to town like 10 minutes later throwing them out hey and it looked like the town it burnt down. They were smoke bombs.

Oh. There you go. Did your brothers ever whoop you when you hit them with a firecracker? Oh, yeah. That's interesting. Martin, do you have, like, whenever somebody sees you at Captain Dees and then you leave? And then they say, you're never going to believe. That's right.

We just saw Captain Morgan. Man, there ain't no telling. I don't know. I did that deal, you know, out there off of, what's the road that goes by Sheney? Washington turns into what there? like I don't know 30 33 or something anyway they had them they got them dirt pits out there whatever that's a good that's a good that was a good guess it is 33 yeah 30 33 that's where we used to go ride three wheelers yeah oh yeah so I was right we were riding all all of us in the high

school was out there riding three wheelers um I just you know we we we did it every weekend but apparently where we had been riding they decided to get that that particular hill for dirt and not tell y'all. Well, I mean, of course they didn't tell us. We're trespassing anyway. And now the hole? The whole backside of the hill was gone. Absolutely.

You feel a hill there. I'm leading a pack on the big reds, huh? And I get up there and I'm like, uh-oh. And my buddies told me, it said all we saw was brake lights and gone. Ooh. Like, and then so I just, you know, I locked them up and then just shoole-straight down. Of course, and a matter of most, moment of clarity there, I said, I got to get off as three-wheeler.

Yeah. I jumped. Like, because I mean, it's kind of sandy dirt. It's not really that hard, but like, and I said, go, I jumped off three-wheeler and I go to tumbling. Just head over here. Boom. I'm like, oh, okay, this ain't that bad.

I'll be all right. Did the real quick three, three-wheeler catch up, pee? That, I, I softened the blow for the three-wheeler's final resting spot. That thing landed across. Look, I still got a dent in my butt cheek from where that thing hit me. Gravity. How many feet up where are you probably? I'm going to guess it was probably about a 50-foot fall.

Oh, those, this is I say they got rid of a hill. Yeah, oh yeah. I've seen it like that. I mean, look, you never want to go over the top of that. And if I'm like 20 to 30 feet either direction, the track hose here that was digging the hole and there's a dump truck here. A dump truck. Like, I just happened to split them. Yeah, he split the difference.

And landed in a little soft wet spot, but that didn't keep that. three-wheeler from pounding me and having a den across my left butt cheek like yep that's the story they tell yeah yeah it was a pile of us and everybody said i got up you know screaming my back's broken but they said you were walking so we thought you's fine you know and then they they we carted me out of there you know i just rode back on the three-wheeler i limped her own back and then i got my butt tore up again when i got home for bending the rack on the three-wheeler so tearing up daz three-wheeler so Have I deserved it? I earned.

Hey, three wheelers, man, they were dangerous. They're still dangerous. Oh, I would love nothing. Well, I mean, I'm sure our Honda Big Red would crank right now if you just put the fluids in it and took off. But I'm going to save that for when my boys get a little older. I'm handing them the keys to that thing. Three-wheeler? Heck, yeah, man.

Hey, I got one and I love it. I'm here. A big red just like that. I survived it. Let me tell you something. I used to, they tell me, I don't really remember because I said, young. They said, get on that thing, ride a wheelie for about. about 50, 60 yards, flip it all the way over back on top of me.

Dad come out there, flip it back over, and I get right back on it and go again. Like, it didn't bother me, not none. I just, the worst is when before they come out with like four-wheelers. Everybody could afford. We took them three-wheelers, duck hunting. Oh. Well, the front tire ain't pulling. So eventually it gets caked in mud, and you can't even steer the thing.

You just, you're just along for the ride. Them back two tires are, and you're like, well, I hope I make it. You know, but, oh, I had some time on that. Then they got me the Yamaha Breeze, a little automatic 125 as mine. I thought I was in high cotton, buddy. I never got to ride three-wheelers, but we had four-wheelers. Yeah, three-wheelers was us rednecks on the other side of town. That's right.

We couldn't afford all four towers. Mm-mm. We got three of them. I got three-year-old. I had enough to buy three of them. My dad had a three-wheeler. I don't know what ever happened to it, but, yeah. Well, he was probably smarter than mine.

Now, he got rid of it before you got there because he didn't want to pay a hospital bill. My dad just likes to see just how stupid I'd be, I think. We almost earned a few hospital bills. That day, Blaze broke the backstop for the little practice field we had because he was trying to watch me run over a squirrel with the four-wheeler. I almost got that squirrel. And then... So I rolled his eyes out of it.

He was looking this way and he snapped like two four-by-fours in half he was going so fast. On the four-wheeler? Uh-huh. It was crazy. We, and then, you know. I bet when he hit that backstop, it said, wait a minute. That's the story I tell about Blaze every time it's up. Hey, man, one time that kid ran smooth into a backstop.

Oh, I've got more, but they're generally, that was the one with probably the most people around there. Like, I got more that were just plain dumb. Mine involved an electrical outlet and a science lab at OCS, and I think I've told it before. Electrical outlet. Oh, yeah, stuck a fork in there or something. It was tweezers.

Yeah, tweezers. I turned all the electricity off. in the whole school for a minute. Yeah, he shut down the whole school with a fair tweezers. I mean, it ain't a big school, but that's still a pretty good building to shut down the whole thing. The kids that were almost done with their computer lessons were mad at me. Oh, start over.

Yep. I'd have been mads. I'd probably been playing Oregon Trail or something. I'd have been just done beat the dysentery. Yeah, you were going to die anyway. And you locked me out. I locked the whole school out. So y'all had some electricity issues when you were in Vietnam.

Yep. Burning up generators. Tell us about it. Well, the warrant officer in charge of the motor pool couldn't figure out why they was burning up. The generators were burning up. Yeah, we were literally burning up. We'd lose one about every two weeks. A big generator?

Yeah, big generator. So he finally came in, he said, I don't know why it took me so long. He said, I'll see him in right before dark, we're going to shut them off. Spent about 30 minutes checking oil and everything. get refueled and all this, and then when we crank them back up, these would go from 110 to 440. You had to switch.

You could switch them to different settings. So once we crank them back up, after it got dark, or we waited until it got slapped dark, we cranked them back up and then flipped the switch to 440. All we saw was red lines going from our generators,

downtown and then the lights downtown got real, real bright, real quick. So they're all using y'all's electricity. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they hooked at all our generators, the whole town. Okay. Well, then the explosion started. It looked like it was having incoming mortars because there was televisions blowing up, you know, stereos, whatever else.

Whatever would have electricity going to it. Got hot real quick. Like 4th of July. Yeah. He's blowing out. It was a great fireworks display. Hey, there you go. Hey, that stopped the generator problem.

I sound like Jimmy Red having his power. There was a young man and a young lady on the red. I want to hear that. Three-buyer. Oh, the three-wheeler? Was it a three-wheeler or four-wheeler? That's my mom and dad on a three-wheeler. That's the only three-wheeler I ever had.

I thought it was you and your woman. Well. You sure that ain't you and your wife? I wasn't around back in. Oh, you weren't around? In that picture. Well, that it was your mom and dad. Look at it.

Big Day, look at Young Big Day on a three-wheeler. Hey, hey. That's a good first day. I just pulled that up, so look at it because that's the three-wheeler he had. That's a Honda Big Red. That I never got to ride. That's a Honda Big Red. That's a little 125.

Yep, 125. That thing right there with them two on it would stand straight up and just go. Oh, yeah. I'm talking about just go. Yeah. Let's take our first break. We'll be back right after this. All right, look, springtime is here.

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The wide herb episode. Now tell us what y'all were doing, first of all. Hey, well, we was playing cowboys. Get your mic. So, yeah, we was playing cowboys. So we all had pistols, okay, homemade pistols, okay. Now, this was when Wilder arrived on the scene. Well, he had what they called the Buntline Special.

It had like a 12-inch barrel. We made ours 18. Okay, now, how could you use it? Well, look, you take an intertube off a car, okay. You cut it into a quarter-inch circle. okay quarter inch wide a circle and then it was all you could do to pull it all the way back on that barrel 18 inches sounds dangerous and all it was and put it in the trigger the trigger was a closed pin that you had taped to it to the hamel you'd put it in the clothespin when you hit the clothespin you know squeezed it let that rubber band go and hey this thing would put a blister on you when it popped you. And like we didn't have on t-shirts,

this was summertime. We weren't you, barebacked. Naked anyway? Oh, yeah. And then you put it right there and just, pow! It would likely put a blister on your back.

Well, it was a lot of fist fights after that. That's what I was going to say. Y'all finally fought a lot. The gun is empty. You just fired your only round. It's a single shot. Well, then, hey, then the fist started flying.

Now, what about your gun? Bloody noses. teeth loose, all this good. What about your brother, the one that hit behind the tree? Oh, no. Well, that was one we had, our slingshots. Okay. And the same thing.

You'd take and you'd cut quarter inch strips and you'd make them about 18 inches long and when you pull them all the way back, you know, well, we finally found some steel ball bearings out of a, out of a, some kind of, what am I, what am I thinking about, it goes in all your farmer equipment, bearings, wheel bearings,

yeah, little bitty ones, you know, about the size of a buckshot. Well, we found a bunch of them, you know. Well, then we were used to shooting rocks. Well, now we've got a round steel ball. I used to have something, man. Okay, and look, and hey, these things would go through metal. Oh, buddy.

Would they? Would smash a beer can. Oh, yeah. Smash a beer can, go through to it just like it was butter. Like I used to beg my pap order to get done with his. So look, we're having, we're having, hey, we're having slingshot wars. Uh-huh. Sling shot?

Well, my brother is standing behind a tree. Which one? Harold. Okay. Second to the oldest. General Frank was oldest. Harold's next. He's standing there and, okay, it was a ricochet.

I thought the ricochets was just old wives. tails oh no no no you yeah we'll be on pshaw he hit the side of the tree and then unfortunately hit the field of it Harold right in the mouth oh two front teeth gone

oh what did harold do next he whooped somebody probably oh no he yelled and hey then once he called us then it was a whoopin yeah and then I bet mom and dad got their turns and they got to pay for his oh yeah then everybody else got another whooping from dad

uh huh from doing than that, you know, because he had to go to a merger room, you know, and had to, what else? Oh, yeah. I have one of them slingshots. Oh, yeah. Man. You know what else made good, good ammo was them berries that are on a cypress tree? Oh, yeah.

Oh. Or China berry. China berry. Yeah. China berries, green. They're green. They were, they'd leave a whip on you when they hit. Oh, and the same way with them, them cypress little berries, they left all that sap, that

cypress rousing on your shirt. It ruined you stuff. Yeah. Oh, you get you. But then my bum a whoop your butt for coming home with the toes best up. You're going to get a whoopin. Oh, yeah, you're going to get a whoopin. One way or the other.

Hey, my parents were big into do not, what was the Bible first, spare the rod. Spoiler child. Spoil the child. They was big on sparing the rod. Yeah. Yeah. They spared it all the time. Spared it on your rear ear.

I said all the time. Yeah. Here, here, here. Yeah. Get you some of this. My parents and grandparents took that one to heart. Oh, yeah, yeah. But, you know, even nowadays, the kids, they do things that we think are stupid,

but when we look back, when we were young, we probably did stupid things too. Well, I didn't ever anything. Probably? Something you would digest. No, no, I've never looked at. We wasn't food with food. No. Yeah.

That was ignorant. I've never looked at something and said, I'm wondering what that tastes like. Yeah, yeah. That ain't, ours was all bodily harm. Yeah. jumping off bridges in the water you didn't oh been there done that you waited for like the river to get to flood station you could go out there on uh by joe bobs and jump off the bridge oh yeah and all the trick with that was they didn't tell you the current was ripping at about

seven miles an hour and you'd have to end up on the other bank for you could get out of the river like remember first time did that i was like uh oh boys for i do that again we got a laugh yeah that ain't very strong i was going downstream pretty quick than I was comfortable with it. We got in a lot of trouble by that bridge by Joe Bob. Oh, yeah. Because my dad told us of all the glory days. And so I was like, you had to continue the tradition.

Well, it was a rat, right of passage. Yeah. And we had to jump off the bridge. Great, great. Well, I've done it. The cop showed up one time. And I played baseball with this kid. He goes, John David, what are y'all doing?

I said, my dad told me we jumped off that bridge. And he was like, well, yeah, we did too, but you can't do it now. Yeah. Ran us off. But then we got clever. So we had one friend who could weld. I don't know how good it was, but he could. And he made us a little, we had like a steel two by four that was about two foot long,

and he put a loop on the bottom of it and welded it. And then we put a big rope on it and made a rope swing. So then we'd walk across that bridge and lower that rope straight into the drain hole. And so then we could just hang out under the bridge and nobody called a coppice. Yeah, I was the one climbing the arms of the bridge. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I've spent a lot of time under that bridge.

I look, every time I drive by that bridge and think about the times I've climbed it, I'm like, boy, that looks like a field full of tetanus right there. Yeah, it does. Here we are, just climbing it with reckless abandon. My kids do that. I'm going to, I guess I'm just going to say, yeah, I get it. Yeah. I'm going to have to be mad for a little bit.

Then I'm going to be like, yeah, I'm guilty. Like, I've done it. There ain't a rope swing on the Washtaw River that your boy ain't been off of. Like, I mean, we used to ride up now. You see somebody's rope. You're like, yep, I'm in on that too. Gotta try it. Yeah.

Except now I'm a lot smarter. Like when we was up at Chickamauga, there's this one area that's a bluff wall that all the folks jump off of. I look up there at about 30 feet. I was like, mm-mm. Nope. It don't even tempt me anymore. Like, but 20 years ago, I spent, let me get up there. But I know more.

Times change. I'm probably doing any of upswings. There you go. Well, let's take another break. We'll be back right after this. Ooh. Yeah. Early, early, are we doing early?

We're still on the early. Yeah, we're going to stick with the early email train. So right here smack dab in the middle of the show, we're going to get in that inbox. Hello at duck call room. Hello. So coming into today, I had a question for all the people listening, right? Because I ran into a situation the other day that drives me absolutely insane.

What was it? It's not, it's very first world problem. Nobody should be upset about this. But it makes me, I'm like, I get super mad and angry about it. And I shouldn't, but I do. So I go get a hamburger, I get some French fries, and I say, yeah, and a Coke Zero. Why? And their response...

Like, why? Yeah, well, that's not... That ain't it. Coke Zero's awesome, back off of me. Oh, okay. Just because I like the taste, sir. Okay, that's fine. I was hoping it wasn't a diet decision.

And over that intercom, the lady says, will diet Pepsi be okay? Oh, wow. No, she didn't. Yeah, does that not make everybody... super mad? Oh, wow. No, it doesn't make me mad at all. It doesn't? No. Oh, wow. Martin? Yeah, Pepsi's not coat. Yeah, it's different. Yeah, just don't even ask me, just say, we don't have it. We have Pepsi products. What would you like? A water. A water or, you know, give me a Dr. Pepper or something like that, but like, no. So that's a normal thing, right?

It is for me. That makes me, yeah, I'm, we're, I don't know, like. Because we're Coke people. Like, you want a Coke? Yeah, what kind? Is it that kind of deal like where you're raised? I mean, is that just kind of the thing? So that was my question, because I was like, I wonder if somebody up north or wherever people drink Pepsi. Up north. Yeah.

Europe, maybe. Or driving through and are like, hey, yeah, give me a Pepsi. And somebody goes, is Coke okay? And then they get furious. I don't know why you would because that's not any good. Up north, they call it a pop. You guys want a pop or no? So then I was like, I'm going to ask.

the people on the podcast, like you, seven Pepsi people that listen to this. And then literally three hours ago, I got an email, disappointed at Buckees. Uh-oh. Which I was like, that can't be true. What calls of Pepsi? He said, this is Brian. He said he couldn't wait to go to Buckees. He's amazed at how big it was, how clean it was, how much stuff.

But they- Pour out of Pepsi. And then move your mind. Then they poured out a Pepsi. Oh, good, great. he said all he wanted was a Pepsi while he was there but Buckies only has Coke and so he was disappointed

so it is like why can't we just get along but I was just curious I didn't know that other people went through this the Pepsi people I knew Coke people did because we're weird yeah it's kind of like when you're like hey can I get Dr. Pepper and they're like we've got Mr.

Pibb and I'm like no see I'll drink either one of those Mr. Pib didn't even get his degree And I like Pepsi and Coke. You took your wife to eat at Captain D's the other night. Of course you'll drink Mr. Pib. I don't appreciate the Captain D. Slander. Does Allison love it?

No, she won't let everyone. That's what I'm talking. I'm not saying, if you go there and sit in the corner by yourself or, you know, like us, when we used to do a quarterly visit, I'd go with you. Like, that's fine. A dirty little secret. But if you're like, hey, baby, you won't go to Captain D's? A, I got real questions for Alicia, too. Like, does she do that just to humor you?

Like, after this many years of marriage, she knows you love it. It's a great little seafood place. Thank you, John David. It really isn't, though. Like, I mean, I'm with, I get why you would like it as a guilty pleasure. I'm totally cool. But I'm a great little seafood place. It's a once, maybe twice a year.

That's a stretch. Yeah, we, I mean, I might go once a month. I will say for the place what they always have really good when I go. It's Coke. Their tea. It's true, yeah. Their unsweet tea is really good. And I know I probably, there's a lot of people coming, unsweet.

We all drink unsweet. Like, sorry. I hate to burst your bubble. That's unsweet in that joke right there, people. John David, you drink it unsweet, too? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, you're a sweet tea guy because you like Coke and Pepsi.

That's true. I like it sweet. I like it sweet. There you go. Well, size is definitely unleaded, I can assure you. If I drank sweet tea, he would weigh 452 pounds. He'd be bouncing off the walls. We wouldn't be on episode 267 or whatever.

It's over. O-B. Like, if he drank that as much as he pounds ice cream, too, like, it's over. Sugar. Yeah. Sugar will get you. Sugar. He would have one of them things Godwin's got in his arm or used to having his arm, too.

I mean, he'd just be a poster child for the diabetes. I mean, you know. Sweet till he'll get you. Yeah. Anyway, that was my question for the fans. I wanted to know, because I know Coke people, like, if you're like, hey, you can have a Coke and they say it's Pepsi okay. We throw this irrational fit and act like children.

Of course, I'm one of the weird ones. But I want to know if Pepsi people do it too. I'm one of the weird ones that refers to all soft drinks is Coke. Yeah. No, that's just up. That's our culture. Is it? Do you want a Coke?

Sure. Yeah, what kind? That's normal. Of North, they call it pops. You want to pop. Well, and you get the weird ones to call it soda. Not that you're weird. Sorry, but like, I know it's what it says on the bottom.

Soda. Hunter, you're laughing. What do you call it? He likes sodas. I call it soda. Oh, yeah, of course you do. This dude from the 7-1-292 calling it soda. Well, I have my family's from up north too, so they all call it soda.

Nobody in my family. So they don't call it pop? No. Okay. All right, I was just curious. Soft drinks are a very weird thing that people are very passionate about. Like, you run into a Diet Coke person, it's like drugs. It really is.

And they're weird about that. It's amazing. The Diet Coke addiction is real. Yeah. I'm not that high maintenance. I mean, that sounds a little boozy. You know, if you aren't high maintenance. You put hamburgers and a carry-on.

Just give me a cold drink, a pop. A pop. Yeah, I'll take a pop. Oh, my goodness. Any kind of Coke, Diet Coke, Diet Coke, Diet Diet Diet Sprite, I'll drink. I'll drink it all. No. I can't.

Like, I can't do it. It's weird because we were in Hot Springs last night. And, you know, they, for a little convention deal. And before the dinner, they got a little bar area set up. And they were mixing drinks. with Pepsi products. And I was like, I've just never, like, all the cocktails down here are mixed with Coke products.

So, like, I couldn't imagine, like... Pepsi's so weird. It would be weird. But people are drinking it. They got Super Bowl commercials. Yeah. Yeah. I just don't know any of them.

My father-in-law used to work for Pepsi, and it was like, oh, crap, I can't drink a Coke in front of them. As a kid, I remember, like, really enjoying RColas. Oh, I did too. Like, I really enjoyed an awesome. R.C. Cola and a moon pie. Yeah. Well, I was R.C.

Cola and a nutty bar because, you know, my girl, Debbie. That's right. Moon pies are good, though. That's it. I like the thin ones, not them big thin. Yeah. There's a banana. Mm.

Oh. Yeah. You don't like the banana moon? No. Oh, hey. That's the best one. I was one of the kids that didn't like the banana laffy-taffy. That fake banana flavor just don't do it for me.

I love it. I love the fake banana flavor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We got one anti-banano. No, it's just, I don't, it's weird to me. I don't know. My wife's that way with, like, great candy. She can't do it. Oh, C. I love great. I love watermelon and watermelon candy, but watermelon candy tastes nothing like watermelon.

Oh, six, no, yeah, that's a bummer. Like, to me, it's a bummer. To me, they don't taste anything alike. Nope. I'm about to tell you the truth, though, watermelon candy is way better than a regular watermelon. No. No, not a good one. No, sir.

Watermelon kind of a gar, if you ask me. Super unpopular opinion. Pineapples way better. I said it. Bite me. Now, what do you eat with your watermelon? Do you put salt on it? Yeah.

Do you put salt on it? No, straight up. I'll buy it with salt on it. I'll eat it straight. I'll eat it straight from the field. Like, chilled is great. Don't get me wrong. Killed slash cold is fantastic.

But I will go pick one off the vine. and just cut the heart right out of it and get to whooping on that sucker. What about cantalope? Love cantalope. I put black pepper on cantalope. Yep, and salt. Yeah. Black pepper and salt.

I put that on tomatoes. And I still eat, I eat black pepper on like a honeydew. Any of those kind of thicker melons like that, like the cantalopes and honeydews and stuff, I eat with black pepper. How did we get here? We always do.

Oh, yeah. I'm hungry. Every time I'm like, no, thank you to Watermelon. People look at me like I'm crazy. Rocky Ford. Rocky Ford. But it's like Willie Robertson, of all people, hates a cucumber. And I'm like, what do you hate a...

Oh, no. It's one of the mildest flavored. Oh, no, no, no. I like it has no flavor next to no flavor, really, in the grand scheme of thing. And it's got a good texture. And he likes such strong flavored things. Yeah. He's just like, no, get those things away from me.

Like, they're terrible. They're awful. I'm like... I love a cucumber sandwich. Cucumber sandwich. That's all right. Oh, yeah. They make like this little mayonnaise type deal with deal with deal in it.

Oh, my goodness. And then put it in between two. Two pieces of white bread. Oh. Just eat a cucumber. No. That's good. He's running a good cucumber.

Yeah. Ain't no reason to put mayonnaise on a cucumber. It ain't mayonnaise. It ain't mayonnaise. It's out of way. You got something. Yeah. That's called a pickle.

That's it. Plus, I like it. It needs a pickle for them, too. It's a quick pickle, but yeah. Anyway, I had to go down the Pepsi thing for the emails because it's been bothered me. I just wanted to know. And then the question got answered before I could ask the question.

Yeah, fans in the comments. Are y'all Coke or Pepsi? What is your, what do you call it? Is everything a Coke? Is everything a Pepsi? I call it. Hey, it ain't got no carbon. What is the carbonation?

Carbonation. A Pepsi is a flat drink. It is. It's really not. No carbonation. It is. It is. It is.

It is. Hey, every time I've ever had to just, I was out. Like, give me a Coke, and they said, all we got is Pepsi. And I said, well, I need something to drink. And then I always, hey, take a little small and spit it out, throw the whole candle. Pepsi's like if a Coke icy melted and that's what you were drinking. That's right. Cy drinks Pepsi and don't even know it.

He sends me to get him something to drink. He's drinking Pepsi. I don't. It ain't a peasant. And he's drinking it through a cardboard straw. The longer I sit next to Philip, and we have these conversations. The more I realize. He said over and just bald face.

Well, the more I realize I cannot trust his opinion on anything taste-wise. He said if I drink Pepsi, he doesn't lost his mind. Hey, he just said, no. Si was being quiet about this whole thing. Now he's riled up because he knows. Oh, no. Well, I'm just saying. He don't know.

He said, Philip, go give me something to drink. And I say, sigh, what do you want? Give me a Coke. I bring him Pepsi in a cup and drinks it. It ain't nothing worse than opening a Coke that the carbonation is too old. The carbonation is bad. Now, that's true. a flat drink.

I'm with you on that. I've never had a Pepsi that ain't that way. Yeah, if I make the decision to consciously drink a soft drink, which I don't drink hardly any anymore. Yeah. I want there to be so much carbonation in it burns whenever I take a swig of. I want it to bubble and burn.

It's called Dr. Pepper. Look, back in the old days, there was two coax in a glass bottle. The little short six-ounce. and then the 12 ounce. And hey, we used to see who could, who was man enough to turn it up without stopping

and drinking the whole thing. Let it burn. Hey, it would burn. It would burn your nostrils. It would burn your, all the way down. That's one of it was, who's the man, who can do it?

We did the same thing with Miller-like ponies. Oh, boy. Well, there you go. That was BC. BC, y'all. I can go for a Mexican Coke right now. They're good. Oh, Mexico knows how to make a Coke.

Yeah. You can still get those around here. 100%. Well, let's take another break. We'll be back right after this. I won't go to restaurants because they're Pepsi people. What do you think happen to KFC? Other than their chicken sucks.

Their chicken sucks. That's all so true. Popeyes. Now, Phillips says something suck. It's bad. It's a gar. It's bad. I won't eat it.

I won't eat it. While we're on, the turkey-fired chicken, let's go down that road. The chicken tastes old and it's tough. That's because it was cooked yesterday. Well, nobody bought it yesterday or today. The best, the best,

you know what KFC should do here in West Monroe? They should pay. No, they should pay to have, they should pay to have a concrete strip, go to the Popeye, so if you get, just absolutely tired of sitting in the Popeye's line because it's atrocious,

but you still want fried chicken, You can cut a cross right here to KFC. That's the only chance they got. You're tired. You're so sick of weight. If you are just sick and tired of Popeye's line, you can just veer and you'll end up in the KFC parking lot. That would be the best probably six grand they could spend on concrete.

Oh, that's funny. You heard it here first. You may get somebody to come buy one of them weird bowls where you just dump everything you got in it. So why is it? That's like a mystery box. They're just trying to get rid of stuff. stuff at the end of the day. Like, I can't trust that.

Apparently, they have a clock at church's fried chicken. You pull through and... Yeah, and then they start the clock on cooking your chicken, and 19 minutes later, you get some and then you go home. That's the clock they got. Why do they say 20 minutes on chicken? Every time. Hey, can I get to...

Yeah, it's going to be 20 minutes on the chicken. It takes a minute to fry chicken. I don't want to move up, but the little clock they got. Why don't you have any cooked? Yeah. Like, or really close to being done. Is this the chicken house? Like, if I end up at church,

I've got to get fried okra. Well, they ain't ever got fried ochre ready. So then you're pulling up for about six minutes on that one. You're right. I never accidentally ended up at churches because there's a Popeye's half a mile away. Uh-oh. Look, sometimes you want fried ochre.

That's a good point. When I stop at churches, it's about the fried okra. It's not about the chicken. The chicken is just incidental. But like December, November, December come around and the garden ain't had no ochre in a hot minute. and I want some fried ochre. They got pretty good fried ochre.

They do. Like, right now we got ochre coming out our ears, so I don't need, I don't have to go to churches to get okra. Now, if you don't know this, there's another good okra that comes from Captain Dees. You should try it. If you haven't had it, you should try it.

I'm interested. I mean, really. It's good. It's probably the same thing. Yeah, it's really close to churches. Do you think people from Kentucky are proud of that chicken? I think they're the reason that it's now just K.S. They took Kentucky off the sign.

I think they boycotted. After Popeyes, Louisiana Kitchen just whooped them. Well, it should. It's a superior product. It is. Yeah. I mean, there's just no even argument there.

Do you think people in the comments right now are furious at us for talking bad about them? No, because they don't like KFC either. No. No, if they've stuck with us this long, they ain't KFC. Now, that old boy that hollers at you all the time in the comments is probably eating some KFC

drinking a Pepsi. Right now. You're in trouble. big dog. I will say Kentucky fried chicken, when I went on a mission to eat every fried chicken sandwich in this town. Yeah. And the one day I was like, well, I guess I'll go to KFC.

I got to rank them because I ranked every one of them. Yeah. Well, what do you rank them? Kentucky fried chickens was surprisingly. It's crispy. Really good. It's crispy. Now, I do eat at KFC in the town of Rayville.

Like, because when I come back from deer hunting, it's on the right side of the highway. I don't have to cross the highway or nothing. goofy and shocker there's never anybody there and i get my kFC i get my i get my chicken strips where i get my chicken strips where i can eat them while i'm driving down the road and i wash it down with an ice cold just gar Pepsi because that's the only thing they have oh and it's like but i mean that's that like eight o'clock after you've done you know either killed a deer or cleaned a couple deer or whatever and you're just like the next available food purchase will do and it's the first thing you come to and it's like okay whatever

there you go so ravel louisiana kFC you you get significantly more of my business than the westmanrow kFC which i'm much closer to and way more often like location location location yeah because i can't stop at waffle house and i've ran that dragon of the mcdonald's and ravel too many times that i know better just don't go up there no macdonald's chicken sandwich oh no gar gar mega uh oh mega pop eyes number one Chick-fil-A number two. Really? KFC and Zaxby's kind of fighting there at number three. For real. Hey, Wayne Stop chicken sandwich pretty good.

Look at Sine. He's cutting his wrist. Yeah. He's giving up online. What are you doing? He's had enough. We'll let you finish that off and we'll take a break and we'll come back and finish this thing.

I just, no, I don't know. But I guess it's whatever. I think if Louisiana was Pepsi country and we were raised on Pepsi, we'd probably be there saying, man, that Coke is trash. I think I'll broke free from those trash. No. Been generational curse breaker. Change the future.

Because there's like those little regional ones too. Like the Carolina folks love that sun drop or whatever it is or something, right? Yeah. Like, I mean, so there's all kinds of little weird nichey soft drinks. Yeah, I mean, Texas is on that topo. Chico water. Who? I guess if it's something you're not used to.

If you bad mouth Topo Chico right now, we're going to have to go down that road. You like just bubbly water? Oh, you squeeze a little lime in a topo chico and sit outside once a 112 degrees. Right by itself? Oh. No. Like, I'm with Ted Lass. And then you're still thirsty at the end of it, but it's nice.

I'm with that lasso on that. Bubbles don't belong in water, man. Like, only for fancy people. I'm a flat guy, like, for water. Like, I don't want. Now, that La Croo. stuff that's terrible yeah the stuff the production companies used to drink and loved and i mean they but uh but a lime in a tobo chico just right by itself right by itself

really i'm into carbonated water with line no with a line no no you don't want no carbonated water so y'all didn't have that growing up did you all you want on water is like spring water son fresh and cold just ice fresh and cold yeah water and Doesn't need nothing but hard water. Refreshing. Period. They don't need no bubbles. Side, did y'all have,

no bells and whistles? Did y'all have a well when you grew up and get water out of the well? Yeah. It's pretty good water. No, it's hard. We had hard water. The best is spring water. Hot springs has spring water, but if you drink that,

your insides would be melted. That water was hot. Well, that's hot springs. You don't drink hot springs. Which, by the way, I was in hot springs last night. I just throw this out there. Did you go to the pizza place I told you to?

I didn't. I didn't have time. You didn't have time. I didn't have time. I said it. They sell Pepsi too. I had to eat at a dinner at a convention center, which you know how convention food is. There was not a bottle of good sauce to be found anywhere.

That's a bar. That's a gar. I take some with you. That's a gar. However, I did sit at the table with Bo Jackson. Whoa. You did sit at the table, Bojacks. So you can say, no, I know, Bo.

Bo knows Martin. Bo knows Martin. No, Martin knows Bo knows Martin. It's way cooler than Martin knows Bo. Bo knows Martin. That's pretty cool. No, it was tight.

Is he still in shape? Is he a bull? Oh, yeah. I ain't messing with it. Yeah, you don't mess with him. But it was so cool to hear his story because I had no idea. Oh, don't play. I had no idea that there were 10 kids,

five and five, five boys, five girls. He said he's the original Jackson five, not them weird ones. Not the weird ones. His line, not mine. He had nine brothers. and sisters? Mm-hmm. And they lived in a 700-square-foot house in Bessemer, Alabama.

I had no idea. Right. And he was the bad one. Oh, he said the youngest or the older? He was number eight. He was eight out of ten. Mm-hmm.

And he said he got so fast because he went around hitting all of his brothers and sisters were rocks. And then take off, and I bet. And it took off running. What's that? He said every time he broke a run in NFL, he was just saying, don't let him catch you. You're going to get your butt-wook.

And he said it worked out pretty well for him. Oh, that, what's that? But, no, he was super cool guy. I didn't realize that he was, I knew he, obviously, and what we do, I knew he hunted and he fished and all those things. I just didn't realize he was as into it as he was. Like, my man orders like aeroshafts and builds his own arrows. He doesn't go to the store and get pre-made errors.

He does it all himself. Wow. Does the whole thing? Like, yeah, just totally nerded out on it. And we got to talk and actually what got us talking is, they showed the clip of, him with Adam La Roach's son. So, of course, I got to chuckling and he looked and he was like, well, what's funny about that?

I said, I know that kid. And he was like, you know La Roach? I was like, oh, yeah, I technically worked for him. Yeah. So, yeah, I've been with him a lot. Yeah. And that's what like broke the ice between us. He then realized like, oh, we got a common friend.

And then we just sat there and started talking. And man, just a super cool, cool guy. He was wild. He didn't know any of his stats, which I found. He makes it a point to say that. Like, I don't know. I like that. I like that he doesn't have to know.

Well, he was just like, he said, I started chasing my stats in college. He said, and I would get complacent. He says, so then I swore I'd never look at him again. Wow. He said, just tear it up, tear it up, make you money. He tore it up. He said, Bo was good for football, but football was great for Bo. I love to watch them play.

baseball you remember when he'd strike out he'd break the bat oh yeah all 100% yeah i tried that once with a wiffleball bat and that bad's still alive yeah that bad is still intact and i knee hurt real yeah that's a good way to hurt yourself yeah uh but it is cool and that's why i told him i said you know what i can appreciate about you mr jackson he said what's that i said i ain't heard nothing out of he since you you retired for the most part i said except for when you're doing like charity work and good things i said yeah You've done it the right way. Just slide off into retirement and enjoy your life.

And then he got talking about his grandkids. And then I got showing pictures of my kids. It was just kind of a cool thing. And I taught Brittany in to go. And it was our first day where both of us were not, one of us was not with the kids. That was the first time in almost 10 months. So, like, it was a big day. It was a mom and dad day date.

We went to the big town of Little Rock, then slid over to Hot Springs, then come on back home. Headed on over hot spring. Did you tell Bo to come get on the show? Yeah, no, I didn't. No. Did you ask him? I just enjoyed the conversation.

No, I didn't ask him. He kidding. He'd be cool to talk to, though. Oh, he would be. He would be. He would be fantastic. But I just, no, I respected his privacy. And I didn't even ask him for a picture.

Yeah, I'd like to hear some family stories. Yeah. Him growing up. Him growing up. He told a few of them, and I was like, wow, man. He made everybody stop during the middle of dinner and give Yeah, because it's different, you know, if you're in a big family. Yeah.

What did he do? Big time. But he stopped during the middle of dinner and made everybody get back up from their plate and stand up and applaud the service crew because his mom was a server. Oh, wow. And she was a single mother, and that's how she provided for all the end of them. He said every one of these I go to. Hey, that's how she raised 10 kids.

Yeah. And he said, I got a soft spot in my heart from the service industry. Oh, yeah. So he was, I mean, he walks it, he talks it, he's, he was cool. He's definitely the coolest Auburn Tiger I've ever met, 100%. Trying to think, yeah, it'd have to be. Well, we got a couple of Auburn grads that like work here or around us now. Joe Jackson way cooler than them.

Oh, guarantee you. 100%. That's looking at you, Parker. But, no, it was a fun night. It was, he was one of those like, you know, they say don't meet your heroes. Of course, I had the poster on my wall, Bo with the shoulder pads and the baseball bat. Like, he was bigger in life.

And he's one of the heroes. I was like, glad I met him. Like, that, he was a cool. He did not, he didn't let expectations down. Well, that was like, a lot of times you're disappointed. Yeah. Yep. I was not.

Never meet your heroes. I was actually far more impressed than I even thought I could be, you know. So I was a little younger than you. So I was more of a prime time. Don't tell anybody this. I might have a Dallas Cowboys jersey as a child, but that was just Dion Sanders, not the other one. And I met Dion once at an Under Armour thing,

and he was awesome. Really? Dion fishes. Oh, yeah, I went fishing with Dion. Yeah. So, Dion. If that's your hero, if Bo Jackson or D. If they play both baseball and football, you should meet them.

Yes. You won't be disappointed. 100%. Those two guys are straight up. just good, good people. Like hard workers still working hard. And it was... You got to work pretty hard to be the best in the world at something in two different things.

You won't send us out, I guess? I'll send us out of here. Let's wrap it up. So, because we were talking about Phillips' friends passed and peeing on lawnmowers, it reminded me of a Bible version. It did. I'm probably wondering how you got there. How did get there?

It is a little tricky. But we're all remembered for something, right? And some of it's good, some of it's bad. But Hebrews 812 tells us, for I will forgive their wickedness and I will remember their sins no more. So whatever you've done in life, you can be forgiven by the Lord

and he ain't even going to remember it. He ain't going to worry about it. He chooses to forgive you and not remember all your mess. So there you go. A great example for everybody out there. Yeah, that's right. To strive for that.

Amen. All right. We'll see y'all next time here in the duck car room. We're out. See ya.