Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Was Pranked HARD by a Game Warden

Episode Date: February 10, 2022

Si gets detained by a game warden and unexpected hilarity ensues. Martin remembers getting the third degree from a Texas game warden. Si hangs out in Nashville with John Schneider and reveals why he won't wear skinny jeans anymore. Stone shares the highlights of their veterans-only hunt. We finally meet Si's buddy Evil Eye. Phil and Miss Kay track down a mystery varmint in their house. And John-David reaches into the mailbag to help a fan figure out what to do with his life. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What did you say? What have y'all been up to? Well, you said y'all are going hunting. We're going, me and Si are going to Texas. We're going a little hunting this evening and tomorrow. It's February. You know the motto, right? You know the motto, right?

What's the motto? Don't mess with Texas. Oh, I thought everything was bigger over there. Actually, we're not really going. We're not really going hunting. We're going grocery shop. That's right. For what kind of.

We're going, like B.K. would say, Meat on the ground, boys. Eat on the ground. There you go on grocery shopping for some backstraps and whatnot. You can, oh, you're doing a little late deer hunt. That's right. Exotics. But I wanted to start this out and tell you all about the veterans hunt this past weekend.

You know, in Louisiana, they give us a weak buffer. And then one day, well, last year it was a Veterans Day and a Youth Day. Today was the veterans and youth on the same day. This has been a struggle bus for us, Duxie. reason this year. But, uh, which way does it go? Is it? So, were you not there?

Si, I wasn't there. I wasn't there. I had previous. Macmillan, Macmillan had lined up some trip. Previous engagement, boys. He went, he went to, I'll let him tell you all about it.

I'm sure he's got some good stories coming off that trip. But anyways, long story short, all the veterans showed up to see Sai. He wasn't there. And, uh, but we ain't good anyway. That's pitiful. When Dunkin the next morning did not. kill a duck. Y'all didn't kill a duck? Did not kill a duck. A week after the season closed. All the ducks left. A front came through. They all left. No, they never come down. No, they were there.

Because we killed them the last weekend of the season. I don't believe. I didn't see them. That's because you didn't hunt for a month and a half. It's because you were in your bed. Well, there ain't no ducks. Ain't no use going. That's right. That's the first time I've ever heard you say that. Well, I had look. I had it from the man that was on the inside. That's right. And the man on the inside said, hey, don't waste your time. Yeah. I took him at his word and I didn't show up.

He got his rest pretty much all season. I was always checking my eyelids for pinholes. So anyways, we went duck out and didn't kill a duck. You know, I was a little disappointed in that, but it is what it is. And we went back to Phil's house, and he made his famous smash butterburgers. Uh-oh. That's a good one. And that was the highlight of the day.

Black skillet with a little bit of peanut oil. And a lot of smoke. A lot of smoke. Got to have a lot of smoke for hamburgers. Open the doors and windows and turn the AC on. There ain't a bin hood made that'll suck out of it. Turn the fire alarms off, boys, and just, hey, let's have some good burgers. But anyways, we aim to kind of make things right on this trip to Texas.

You know, fill the freezer up with some nice back straps. and then we'll look forward to doing a little fishing. It ain't revenge you after? No, I'm, hey. It's a reckoning, ain't it? It's a wrecking. Hey, I'm going to get, we'll make it right. We'll make it right a bit.

Hey, look, there's lots of rebels in Texas. Oh, I'm telling you, we fix to make it right. Lots of work to be done there, sir. Get over there and get to work and bring me back one of them backstrap. Oh, yeah. Since I'm letting you off work. Yeah, and then old stone, we'll take it and put it in that little 30-gallon trash can. and smoke that bad boy.

Oh. To perfection. Oh, it ought to be good. Oh, no, it'll be with. It'll be there. Have you had Axis? Uh-huh. Fantastic.

Tindlerloin, boy. It's a big tending. Unbelievable how good it is. Oh, yeah. Tenderloin. Mm-hmm. Cook to perfection at 1.30. I see why them people loaded them up on a boat and brought them over here.

That's right, boy. They're that good. And then turn them loose is a strong time. Do you fry or do you smoke? You can do either one. Chicken fried is fantastic. Smoking. It's good.

You can't screw it up. That's good. I think I've had Axis sausage, and it was fantastic. Yeah, well, just straight off of the ball on us. Great. Fallow deer, same way, really good. Some of them goats is a little rough. We always get into the food.

I ain't in the goat. Huh? We always get into food. We're big on food. No, we're just big. Yeah, but the reason we're big on food. Talking about food. I haven't cooked crappy last night.

Uh-oh. That boy. Was it good? Was it good? Did he use the sour cream? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh.

Doritos? No, he just did flyer because we's cooking for all them fishing boys that's in town. Uh-huh. I got over there on the griddle and did some blacking ones for the healthier minded. Uh-oh. But I tell you right now, then fried ones were fine. Golly, they were good. Godwin got that sour cream trick down.

He's good at it. Gobwin catches. It makes a good batter. Probably. I mean, how many croppy does that man catch a year? I don't know, but I put in an order for him, and he went out there and clipped him for about 30. That's what I'm saying. That boys cooked some croppy in this time.

I said, don't worry about building duck calls. I need about 30 crappies for that. Yeah, that was a little snippet is all that was. 30. Yeah. That's just a snippet. Well, I got a... Because I fed them green wing teal the night before.

Had none of them ever ate duck. Oh. I mean, they ain't ever ate wild duck. They obviously ate tamed up, but they had never eat a wild one. And they said, do all ducks taste like yes? I said, absolutely not. No, sir. Nope, they don't all taste like that.

I said, and this ought to show you my level of friendship with you boys. I'm feeding y'all a premium. Yeah. Preim. Like, the premium product I'm feeding to you boys. I said, most other people I feed mallards and gadwalls, just to let you know where we stand on this. That's right.

It's not like it's easy to do. No. No, but they were good. My goodness, they were good. Them late season green wings were fat. Ooh, buddy, they were good. Did you top it off, a little honey glaze at the end? A little honey, a little honey red pepper blades.

A little honey is not honey. Yeah, little. Well, I made it myself. I didn't have none of mics. That's always the best kind of voice. Yeah, I put some red pepper flakes in there. Oh, yeah. And then put the honey in the microwave and got it where it's real loose and then drizzled it over the top.

Oh, that sounds good. Making my mouth water. I like Martin's. We're going to have brunch. up in here. That's one thing I did this weekend is I ate real well. Well, I saw a picture of you in a Porter-Wagner jacket, so what in the world was you up to again?

You back on the road singing? I went back to Nashville. They kick you out again or they want you to stay? No. I actually had a very relaxing and productive weekend. Well, what did you get done since you call it a productive? Well, first of all, on Saturday night, we went to the grand old opera. That sounds productive.

And it was. It was a fine. Did you say? No. Did you tell Joe? I went back. John Snyder was there. He sang.

He invited me back to the green room. We talked a little while. John Snyder from the Dukes of Hazard? Yeah, from Duke's Azzard. I actually stole the general league one time with him. He's a singer? Yeah, he's a singer. Hey, okay.

Wait for the tangent. We'll get in a tangent in the second part. What else? So you was at the Grand Ole Opry? Let's stay on task. I'm just curious how you ended up at the Grand Ole Opry. We had whispering Bill Smith. was there, okay, and then

Jenny C. was there. She sang a couple songs. And the other people, I don't remember who they was, but they was all right. The best of all was the riders in the sky. Riders in the sky. A fiddle, a bass fiddle, the fiddle, and a

bass fiddle, the big one. And then two guitars. And they just won two Grammy awards for some Western that they just wrote songs for. Okay. You know, they was in Tell me that they was put up for a Grammy and they won it both both of them. But you didn't sign it.

No. You was just in a tent. No, I was in an audience. How long it takes you to get in them britches you were? Oh, hey, it was tight. I figured I had to work out a little more on my cuby. Johnny D. If you want to see it, go to Macmillan's Facebook.

Yeah, I'm trying to find it. But hey, I was looking good now. Go to McMillan's Facebook. Because I took about 200, 300, 300 pictures while we was waiting for the shoulder. Did you? Oh, yeah. That's good. He's a big deal.

We went in there at 7 o'clock. The show didn't start the 8. Okay. So they had the lights on, and everybody recognized me. So then they all come up with got a picture with it. Well, with what you were wearing, you weren't trying to hide. Well, no, hey. I'm here to tell you right now.

Oh, hey, that's my Nashville outfit, okay? You got to look right when you go to Nashville. It was that black jacket, he's that black jacket with the white. Look at them. Look at them. Red shirt, little boat on time. Right. I had another prayer.

Skinny jeans. Okay, I had to what they call skinny jeans, okay? You got to chill out on that black walnut ice cream. I don't wear them anymore because it's just too much trouble to get in and out of them. I thought you had too much trouble getting them over your cowboy boots. Oh, man. But we had a good time, and then we went to the House of Cards. Okay, and what that is, it's a restaurant, okay, underneath in a basement.

Okay, and they've got musicians that come to your table and do magic. Musicians that do magic or magicians? Oh, okay. Did I say musician? Yeah, I was wondering what kind of variety show you went to do for dinner. That sounds like Vegas. But that was fun too. Did they show you any good tricks?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, they had the, he was a mentalist. A mentalist. What was that mean? He read people's minds, okay, and he had stuff on stage. I'd love to know what he said was in your mind. You look at the stuff on stage. You only had one of them that was a big question mark.

And he just said, all right, what card are you thinking about? Everybody think of a card, you know, for everybody thought of a card. Then he finally asked, well, what was your card? You know, what would you think of? He's been up here talking for 10 minutes, okay? And when you first walk out there, it's a deal back there with a question mark on it. And he said, well, here's what, let's see. Let's see what he got here.

Oh, yeah. you chose the four clubs sir and then he took the question mark off and written down okay he had written it down before the show even started the four clubs so it's pretty cool so you don't reckon that hand was a plant uh well you know i don't know how had done it so i thought it's pretty cool okay but it was a good show and and best of all was the steak they served there was excellent well that's good because i usually tell them how did you get it cooked they said hey hey said hey you want it, sir, and I said, I wanted light pink and milk. Medium plus. No, no, no. See, I have the chef say that that's an old thing. But anyway, they said, well, you mean medium well, right?

No, no, no, no. No, somewhere between medium and medium well. Don't put no well in there because, hey, if you do, it's going to come out tough. Yeah, okay, and dry it out. I said, I want it, here's what I want you to know. I said, I want it light pink in the middle. Somewhere between medium and medium. When I got it, I was shocked.

Well, look, here's all I know. It was light pink in the middle. Perfect. Here's all I know is after that trip, you're going to have to double up on your cuby. Oh, no. If you want to get back into the dream. Oh, no, no, no, yeah, because I said either these pants are shrinking every time they wash them or something around here is getting bigger. Let's take our first break.

We'll be back right after this. I'm going to do a magic trick for this break. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means? That means more outside cooking. And y'all know we love to eat beef around here. And that's what because of our friends over at Triedells beef makes such a good product, baby.

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Well, Sy, who you got there next to you? All right. His name is less, okay, but Phil nicknamed the first time he met him. His real name to us is evil eye. Yeah. Okay, and that's kind of bad in a way because he had an accident as a young man, okay, with his eye. Well, here's how it went down. Les is a good friend to ours.

He's from Texas. So odds are he's a pretty good fella. That's right. He's from Texas. You got better eyes than other places. But we were going duck cutting one morning. and Phil never met Les before and he he looked out there and he said

Stone get old get old get old get old get old get old evil eye in that blind and y'all started handing me the grit so we laughed Les laughed you know I laughed evil eye so well from then on his name was evil eye but they had the podcast on the Unashamed podcast where Jace was griping at Phil Yeah, he was, that's not a good thing. Because he didn't want to use the word evil in somebody's name.

And Phil says, well, Stone said that was his name. Oh, so you got hung with it. He blamed Stone. Oh, you got hung with it. First thing got the same was Robinson, okay, says, that's blank. Well. So when they didn't come up and said, well, hey, Phil's the daughter, I didn't name it, man, that Stone did. Look, here's the deal with Phil.

One of the greatest men you'll ever meet. give you the shirt off his back, nice, loves people, trying to get them to heaven. But if he ain't ever met you, he's going to look up and down. And whatever physical characteristic sticks out, that's your name. I got hung with horse head. Yeah. When I first started running around. And it stuck.

It stuck. Or so. And heaven forbid if you have red hair, he's going to add a Y to your first name. Red. Jimmy Red, Billy Red, Tommy Red, you name it. You're something red. But that's what Phil does. So, you know, I'm sorry about that. I'm going to call you Les. How about that? Less is more? Less is more, boys. Or less. We graduated from Evil Eye, though, to hear as of recent Booger Eye. Bugger Eye. That's right. I forgot about that. Well, I guess that's better than I bugger. I don't know which one of them is better.

Well, see, Jay's, you know, he kind of, like you said, he got on Phil for that, which, you know, everybody laughs. It's funny. I think it's funny. And anyway, I guess he felt bad about it and tried to, first of all, he tried to throw Jay under the bus and said, Jay's the one that came up with that name. Well, that's not, that's not exactly accurate. Phil is the one that dubbed me evil eye. And then I guess his, I guess his conscience got the better of him. So as of late on our last hunt, we went on, I have graduated to Bugger Eye.

Bugger eye. Ain't no telling what you're going to be next year. But, you know, the thing is, here's the deal. I've been told if you don't have a nickname, well, you just, you ain't quite making the mark yet. So once you get your nickname, you've made the mark. It's kind of a badge of honor. It really is, yeah. It really is.

Yeah. And the best thing about that is Phil don't mean nothing by it. But if you told him your name was less, there is zero percent chance he's going to remember the name less. I think I've already told the story, but I can't. I can't help it because it's such a good story. Phil, we go duck hunting like Tuesday. Wednesday, okay, we go again, and a cameraman, a new one, said, like, God, I forgot my waiters.

Phil said, well, hey, you wear my hip boots. Yeah. So look, the kid puts on the hip boots, and we're walking in a line. We're hunting in the timber, okay? No blind this time. We're just standing in the timber, flooded timber. So we're walking back and he's, guy, Phil, your waiters leave. And Phil said, no, them waited don't leak, son.

I wore them yesterday. And he turned around and he nicknamed this kid, no legs because, hey, Phil's waiting. Phil's hip boots were great on field, but hey, this boy was short-legged. So, hey, they didn't work for him. The water came over him because he didn't have no legs. No legs. He named him no legs. So from then on, who was that?

Hey, it was one of our cammen, but from then on, hey, he didn't have a name. me talking about hey where's old no legs he showed up today talking about no we're waiting in deep water but anyways uh the first time we went over to the lasses we we we had us a little nighttime hog hunting expedition and uh oh si he thought he was about to be stampeded that was a scary night let me tell you okay because look yeah hi let me tell you okay we've got we're in a pickup okay and we've got we're in a pickup okay and we've got got a guy in the back riding, he's sitting on top of the cab. And when he sees pigs with ultranite vision, okay, whatever it is. Yeah.

But anyway, he, like that on top of the top, we get out and they hand the guns, you know, that's got the night scopes and all this stuff. So Les hands me my gun that I'm supposed to be shooting pigs with, okay? So he said, they're right out in front of you. He said, but don't shoot the fence. This ought to work well. You can't see it in a day. And when he said fence, I'm thinking.

banking bobwire fence, okay? So he had me the gun, y'all, and he said, they're right out in front of me, about 40 yards. So I put the scope to my eye, and the first time I look at it, I said, I said, cow, I turn the level a bit, cow, turn to the right, look at cow.

All I could keep saying was cow, and I hand him back to the rifle, and I said, I'm not shooting one of these Texas cow, because I've heard they're pretty expensive. So he gets a gun About that time They said All right y'all go ahead and shoot them

Stone just lays one down Because you hear Piawop Y'all And then I hear Okay what you hear When you watch the show Raw-Hite

Hit them up and move them out boys Because hey I am Just a thunder And I said Uh-oh We're fixed to die We got a flimsy little

Bobwire fence in front of us And they're fixed These cows fixed to come through that. It ain't going to slow them down. Well, he's in a pickup truck. Yeah, but no, we would already got out of the pickup truck and walked away from the pickup truck. Oh, okay.

What I didn't know, you know, the next day they went back and looked, okay, to see what happened. You know, there was some cows killed in the stampede. Two of them were dead. Okay, but the good thing wasn't it wasn't a barbed wire fence. It was one of them sucker ride fences that they, you know. So I felt a lot better once I said. Oh, there's some iron in front of us.

But I was scared that night because, hey, I thought we'd be getting the stampede to death. Two cows did die. It's bitch black and all you can hear Si say is stampede, boys. You look over and he's standing by the truck. I'd have been in that, sucker. Hold on. I was right there again. I'll tell you.

Look, the earth shook. Hold on. It was like an earthquake. I don't know how many cows was out there. How many head was out there, Les? Oh, it's probably 7580 heads. Oh, yeah. And, hey, you're talking about it's the thunderous roar?

Okay. this is like when a storm's going and all you can hear is the rolling thunder yeah oh yeah okay i was waiting for the song to break out head them up boom my hawk oh hi oh lord oh man oh sir i got checked about a game morning that night oh that was fun oh yeah and he he's hold hold on now you got no no no no time out no time out let's take a break let's tell the game warden story when we get back all right we'll be right back It's worth staying for our boys. Oh, yeah.

All right, look, they set this up before we went over there. So we're riding around and they're talking to some people on one of them radios. Uh-huh. How do y'all see anything over here? We ain't too much over here, y'all. Check and say, well, have you found some picks for us to you? No, tell me, well, hey, look, okay, we'll come up there. Well, about that time, we're going along.

Y'all, lights. Cop lights. you know it's in a pickup I said what's going on here? They said all right boys Game board step out and as soon as they step out

talking about what you got in the back of the pickup and we had Stone's dead pig in there and said you know the first thing last said is Uncle Si shot that pig y'all he said

where's your license Uncle Si and I said for pigs he said oh yeah he said you're in Texas son you're hunting stuff he said where's your hunting license I said well number one

I ain't got any license. And they said, well, that's a problem. I said, yeah, I figured that. Y'all. And Lester said, oh, yeah, that's he shot him with that rifle. That's his rifle. That's his pig. Yeah.

And I said, hey, wait a minute, boys. I said, let's get something straight right from Jump Street. I said, the only thing I did is I looked through the scope. Oh, so you sung like a canary. No, no, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah, I didn't shoot nothing. Oh, it gets better. Oh. But then, hey, you straight, you straight and sung. You all goes up at the game more than. I said, I know you, come here. Come here. He said, empty pockets.

You know, so Lest's son emptied his pocket. Well, he said, uh-oh, we got bad news here. Something fell out of his son's pocket, and the game were picked it up, and he said, this looks like a joint to me. Y'all, and Lest said, hey, hey, look, if it's a joint, go ahead and light it and pass it around. And I'm looking at this, you know. I said, what have I got into here? I said, first thing they said is this is a joint

and let's said if it is, hey, fire it up and pass it over here. At this point in time, Si didn't know Les very well. We had just met. Y'all, and I'm looking at, he's giving the game words. They're getting right up in each other's face, y'all. Oh, yeah. And I'm saying, we're fixing to go to jail. And I said, and they'll probably lock the door and throw away the key.

He had broke out. I said, Les, hey, hey, settle down. So finally, the game. He was getting into it and I said hold it you know and he said you smoke he I said did you take some of this I said hey look I used to smoke two-packed cigarettes today I said well let me tell you about what's been smoked here tonight oh yeah I said they ain't been nothing smoked here tonight you don't got mad oh he was mad oh yeah he don't got mad he was hot I said hey you know I said I I ain't smoked doodily squire I said there's been nothing smoked in that pickup truck that you just got us

out of. And I said, as far as that pig is concerned in the back of it, I ain't shot nothing. Oh, you singing, son. He threw me under the butt. Yeah, done got to singing like a canoe. I said, hey, I ain't shot nothing. I ain't smoked nothing. And I said, that's all I got to say. Oh, that's exactly what that. He stood up and was pointing at that game board. He said, ain't nobody smoked nothing here. Then they come standing and they all bust their life. So don't operate in no shade of gray with that. I looked at them all, I said, it's a good thing I ain't got that gun, Les, handed me to shoot the pigs with. I said, because I might shoot some game warden, and then they all busted out like that.

Oh, Lord. Well, old Les said him up pretty good. I got set up like that down there in South Texas one time. Same deal. They pulled up to the boat ramp. I see the game ward, and I'm like, oh, well, here we go. You know, but I'm like, ain't no big deal. So I grabbed my duck strap.

And y'all know, y'all's hunting with me a nut. I asked, I don't know how many times, how many we got, what you got, what you got, because you ain't, you ain't catch me on no technicality. Yeah, right. So I picked up my duct strap, and the limit to end was three redheads. Well, when I picked it up, of course, I looked at it. Somebody doesn't slid a fourth one on there, and I said, no, not today, son. And I just took that thing, and I shoved it in the cameraman's chest.

I said, figure out something to do with him, he ain't mine. But I was going to the game more than first, you know. someone say, hey, this is my stringer, but hey, somebody has done put a new one on. I didn't say nothing. I just took him off and shoved him in the chest of the guy's walking past. Here, deal with it. I wouldn't worry about it because I knew I hadn't killed it. But I went up there and that old boy, man, he gave me the fourth degree.

And then finally, they slipped up and I caught one of them cameras over there in the corner pointed at me. And I said, oh, you suckers. And then that old boy started laughing. Then Texas Game Wormons is pretty cool. I will say that for Texas Game Wards. I've been checked several times in Texas, and every one of them is nice, cordial, like they're just out there to do their job.

They're not looking for nothing. You give them your stuff, and they shake your hand and say, enjoy yourself and move it. They don't try to sit there any longer than they got to be, and they rock and roll. So Texas Game Mordons, if you're listening, thank you. Y'all good.

I should have knew something was up, because as soon as it all started when we got out of the truck, he had the biggest grin on his face I've ever seen, and I should have knew right then. Okay, man, something's going on because stones are aware. He was video. Oh, yeah, I got that footage somewhere. I was on the edge that truck with my phone like this,

and side just kept looking at me. He had a big grin on his face like he had just swallowed the canary, and I'm going, Oh, the canary was right there in that purple shirt. You were singing, son. Oh, yeah, I was singing. Oh, everybody there was there. Then they started getting serious.

And that's when I got mad. I said, hold it. Let me tell you something. Ain't nothing been smoked in this pickup. And then they couldn't stand at the aisle bust out laughing. Say, ain't you ever heard the phrase snitches get stitches? Yeah, hey. Well, hey, yeah, they can stitch all that one.

Les showed up this morning, and we all fixed to get in the rig. Me, Les and Sal, we're going to go down to South Texas, have us a little. What's y'all after, Les? A little safari of sort. Yeah, we got a smorgasbord to choose from. We're going after a side. We're going to get him a good white tail, and we're going to get Jay a couple of axes probably,

and just kill a little time and relax. What you do with them axes, too, is save the hide off of them. They make a beautiful rug. They make a beautiful rug. What you want to do, if you can get two big ones, make you a rug, and then if you've got a big enough hide, you can make two pillows for your couch. Yeah.

Real pretty. Yeah, they make a, their, an axis is a cool little thing. They are. And the good eating little rascal, too. He's good. Are you up for another trip to Texas? Oh, yeah. They better watch them warden, son.

Yeah, I know. Yeah, I'll be on my guard this time. Oh, this time they'll get you with a border patrol or something. They know you're going to be looking for the warden. We got friends down there, too. That's one good thing about being friends with Les. You've got friends all over Texas now. No, that's the first thing he told the game work.

Yeah, when they said, well, you'd be going, but, and that said, hey, I don't care who I go. I know them all. The judges, I know them all. The guy wants to say, well, you know, judge, so, so, these lessons. Yeah, but I ain't really, you know, that good a friend with him, but hey, we're still, we're old-speaking term. You know, then they get in each other's face arguing about who's going to be the judge, you know. Well, what part of Texas y'all going to? They're going to go down around Alice.

Alice, okay. Yep. They'd be a dairy queen somewhere down there. Out there next to Corpus somewhere. Oh, next to Corpus. Yeah. Yeah. Look at them cranes down there.

They down there. Is that where they at? Uh-huh. Oh, yeah. Big Sandhill crane. Yeah. Lots of. I know what they.

I'm looking forward to that clean air, that dry air. Oh, I'm about to say. You may not want to go to Corpus then. No. We're going to be a little ways from Corpus. We're going to be the clean air side. Yeah, that's good. That's good.

Depends on which way the wind's blowing, I guess. We're far enough away. It'll still be clean. That's a cool little area. If there's any water on that place, you'll see ducks. It's a neat little place. Ducks in a desert. That's where I went crane hunting.

Any little water hole down there will be packed with birds. Yeah. That ain't the case here. No, you can have five square miles of water here, and there won't be nothing on it. It won't be a piece of fowl on it. We'll have a good time. We'll get side deer. axis and I just I just want to relax hey blood pressure medicine that's right well

les I'm glad we got to set the record straight oh yeah on who named from the man himself on who named who so now now we know yeah I wouldn't ever hung you with name of somebody evil that was always that's feel through and through what brought it up was we was going through the boat run which is buck brush all around both sides and we kept yelling and feels hey well I Watch that good eye there, Abelah. He don't want to punch that another one out. No, no, no, I'm serious. One of Phil's favorite lines is eye poker, eye poker, eye poker.

That's all he says the whole time when he's going through the woods. Eye poker, I poker. And when he gets in a blind and breaks a piece of brush, he says, eye poker. Now, you break that brush out, you're in trouble. If you hear it crack, he's, oh, hey, who's pro. Hey, get your hand off the brush. I learned early on. I got some straying down here.

That's what he said. I got some strain. you need to tie it back. Oh, we have had some adventures. Oh, no, I hunt was schizophrenics. Okay, because anytime you pull out a saw and they hear the, the next thing you hear, somewhere, where's the spray paint? Yeah.

Spray paint the brush you just cut. That's right. Spray paint the brush you just cut. Okay, let's take another break. Yeah, we'll be back right after this. Let's say Uncle's sign is costume. Hi, Johnny Dee. You had time while my friend.

Les was here. That was fun. To find the picture of Silas. I lost it again. Oh, boy. I wasn't ready. Oh, it's fine. Who's taking pictures?

I deleted... Macmillan take pictures everywhere y'all got. I didn't even know that. You didn't know Philip McMillan takes more pictures than any human being on there? The only thing I ever worry about is, hey, is the fans coming up to say, can I take a picture with you? Did McMillan bring home any leftovers from Nashville? There it is. Oh, yeah.

Look at that. There's old Reed. Reed getting in love. He just had a kid. Oh, I didn't even tell you all that. Yeah, Reed lives in the national. Who are them other two hands, side? The one in the middle is John Snyder, and then the other guys with,

yeah, I can't even think of the band. That's the Duke's a hazard. Yeah. Yeah, John Snyder. Yeah, the bad here. Him and Bow drove the General Lee. I actually stole the General Lee one time. Really?

Yeah. because they had it parked down in the alley with coming out of the restaurant and they said here's what we want you to do on the side of that's what that they said come walking out of that door jump in the general leave

fired up and just squall out of here look at size britches is that stealing I like the wrecked look at that belt buckle oh hey that's my that was my singing outfit for somebody that ain't a cowboy

you sure dress like one oh I am a cowboy are you what's a cowboy A cowboy. Oh. All hat. He all ha.

Here it is. Hey, women love cowboys. He's all hat, no cattle. That's the only reason I'm a cowboy. Women love them. Oh, that's quite a get up here. But look what he got in that hands on that tea glass. Oh, yeah.

Hey, I'll go nowhere. I walked in here behind him today and he had his tea in one hand, his backpack in the other, and that big old bottle of lemon juice in his pocket. Well, he ain't wearing them jeans. if he got lemon juice in his pocket. I mean, I carries lemon juice in his pocket. There it is. And I'm not even, I'm talking 32 ounces of lemon juice.

That's a big bottle. How many those you go through a week now? About two. Godly. Oh, that makes my lips puckered. Oh, no, no, no. Look, that's good stuff, boys. That's a new addition.

Hey, I mean. It's a good, it's a good colon, clip. How long you've been carrying around the limby juice now? About a month. About a month. And he's been on it. Oh. Well, you see, you can't carry around fresh lemons.

You know, they'll soil your clothes. Well, did you change your tea or something? Because for years, you didn't need none of it. No. You just getting burned out. Well, I just want something different. Oh, I got you. You got to spice it up there once in a while I've watched.

There it is. Last year about this time, it was Mr. and Mrs. Tees. Oh, no. I was on that hard. I drank that. I drank some of that up there. before we were staying. Now he's just on pure lemon juice.

Pure lemon juice. 100% pure limine juice. I was just trying to make sure you weren't supposed to refrigerate. He said, get your hands off that. Hey, I do put it in a refrigerator. Oh, oh, something happened at Philling Kay's I meant to tell you all about. Uh-oh. What happened down there?

So, you know, Kay's sister A-N-An-Anne. Mm-hmm. Stays with her for weeks at a time. And, uh... Bobo bite her? No, no, no. Okay. They stay up late watching Lifetime movies.

So He said Bobo bite her Well Bobo did bite her So anyway They stay up late Watching these

Lifetime movies and whatnot So the dog bowl Is behind the couch You know where Bobo's dog bowl is Oh I like yeah You know Miss Kay's couch It's over here And then there's another couch

45 degrees from it Yep Well And there's a big gun case And A and A And was sitting on the couch With the back to the dog bowl Kay was sitting on

The other couch Watching the TV Well, Kay was asleep, and A&A sitting there, she heard this crunching. It sounded like dog eat dog food. So Bobo getting him some dog. But she looked at Kay, and all three of them dogs were asleep right next to Kay. Uh-oh. So she turned and looked, looked over her shoulder, and she don't know what it was.

And she hollered. A critter. A critter. Unidentified vermin. Unidentified vermin. And when she hollered, that thing took off running after the dog. door. So that's ain't his first

trip in there. Oh, that's right. He knows the entrance and exit. He'd been there before. Ain't it. She said, he said, that thing,

it was like a squirrel without a tail. Squirrel without a tail. And he was hopped on his haunches, just a crushing on that dog food. She said, I don't know what it was. I've never seen nothing like it.

On an identified creature in the house. Big old cotton. rat yeah got to be so huh didn't have a tail that ain't him well it was dark it was dark and she's in her 70s oh she's 80 so i'm i'm giving her credit that if the tail didn't have no hair on it like a cotton rat she may not have seen the tail that's where i'm going with it so phil comes in there he's investigating now he said this if phil had it down to he was convinced it was a mink because a rat is not smart enough to go out that doggy door which it made it little bit of sys. Now, A-N-Anne said it went out the doggy door, but it was not confirmed.

So Phil calls me up. He says, don't get you a deer camera, set them up on the dog food. On the doggy door? He said, yeah, we got to find out what this varmint is. But in the meantime, I told Dad, I said, get some of them sticky traps and put them where everything is. Well, where all the evidence of a varmant has been. So something that won't hurt the dogs, you know. Yeah. So all of a sudden, the next day, the electricity goes out on one side of the house.

Uh-oh. Okay. Something been gnawing some wars. So they bring the electrician in. He pulls back the gun cabinet against the wall. And there's five pounds of dog food under the gun cabinet. Stored behind the gun cabinet. We got a pack rat on our hand.

That's right. So that just made feel, I think, even more so, that it was something other than a rat. Because rat ain't smart enough to do that. Well, like you say, pack rat. I mean, that's where that come from. Turns out it was a giant rat. That it was gathering the dog food and carrying it to the other rats, storing it behind the gun case, going back and forth,

and forth, back and forth. It wasn't a mink. It wasn't any of that. So, yeah, I'll put up the deer camera and... You got a picture of him? Got a video. Guess what it is. And let me tell you something.

That rat... He's a bull. A.N. Ann was right on her description. He was that long. The body. I don't think I saw one that big in Afghanistan. It was a big kangaroo rat. That sounds like a wharf rat.

A what? A wharf rat. warf rat Wraith rat But anyways There for about three days It was Astor Splinter done moved in

Astro Splinter A Phil Been living there Unbeknownst to him Six feet away From a whole bunch of rats That's carrying that dog food That's right

By and hiding it under that gun Cogne And look Bobo and them other two dogs They just let them do it That's when you need a cat That cat wouldn't let that happen Oh yeah Cat stop it

The only problem is that for Sweet Peep because Sweet Pea couldn't fit through the doggy door. Well, no, that he'd have to grease up the doggy door. Well, the only problem with that, Bobo don't like cats. Yeah. Well, Bobo's getting close to the end of his days anyway. Yeah. Oh. There'll be another one.

Yeah, that's right. Bobo six. What? Bobo is Bobo four? No, he's Jesse seven or something. Jesse James number five or something. Jesse's the one with numbers. Yeah.

He had Jesse, JJ, Boe. Just whatever, but they all named Jesse Jones. What was actually on the camera? A rat. Big rat. A big rat? Oh, yeah. Oh, I thought it was a flying squirrel.

A rat the size of that decoy. No. Dad, dad. Look, if you eat dog food, I, you know, because, hey, my wife used to feed a bunch of cats in the neighborhood. Okay, she'd put it out on the porch. Well, what she was. Don't. Yeah, she wasn't feeding cats.

It was a hundred pound cake. Oh, no, no, no. 125-pound coons. Hey, I heard it, okay, I heard them out of their crunching. So, hey, I flipped the porch light on. I'm telling you, these were Arnold Schwarzenegger Coons. Okay. Cat food is very, you know, they like it.

Okay. Got sterile. Okay. Okay, they're about, Ray, they'd have rock the scale there at about 125. Oh, Lord. Oh, bad. Yeah. Here we go.

I wasn't ready for it when I turned light on. I said, good. grief look at the size of them suckers oh man there they are there they are sad's friend that's sigh right there hold on 125 pound coon boy there it is look at him there's his boy right there's his boy right there behind his shoulder that's you one day side just giant raccoons feed them dog oh well let's take our last break we'll be back right after this move him out all right Some advice, Daniel from Louisville, Kentucky. He's 19.

He thought about joining the military. He isn't going to do that now. But he's trying to figure out what he wants to do as a career. He's currently working a job that he hates, but he wants to figure out what to do with his life, but he doesn't want to go to college. So how do I figure out what to do, quotes, the rest of my life. Oh, Lord.

I don't know. Well, you're not interested in college, so here's where I would tell you to go. Look at all the trade schools. That's a good one. If you enjoy working with your hand. Yeah, and then see what you could get into there that you may want to do for the rest of your life. Does it say what he's doing right now? He just hates it.

He hates it. Well, you don't want to do that. Yeah. Don't do that. My advice would be, what are you in a hurry for? to figure out what you want to do for the rest of your life. Yeah, the earlier you start, the longer the rest of your life is. I would just think that.

I can give you. I'm just here to tell you that right now. I can give you my experience on a T-shirt. Yeah. Because people always, you know, all of my mentors, my teachers and everybody, they was always talking about, you know, you need to do this, you know. Or you need to find what you're really good at and do that. Well, for, you know, from childhood to about 65 years old,

I was looking for what am I good at and never did come up with nothing until Duck Dynasty showed up then I know what I'm good at the fans told me, okay, making people laugh then I done that Yeah, he's good at it

That's for sure One of these days, you know, just smack you right in the middle of the between the eyes, boy, he's talking about this is what you're good at So hey, go with it I've noticed on all them old pictures aside in that tour when he was in NOM and in the Army

they all all those pictures beside it had one thing in coming everybody he was laughing and everybody around him was laughing a big grin everybody's cheesing well that's my motto though see my motto is hey if there's no fun to be had guess who's going to be absent the kid the kid ain't going to be there the kid ain't coming the kid ain't showing up

and the boys ain't either And the boys ain't either. Hey, that motto is. Hey, got to have fun. Because the boys go where the kid go. I mean, I would say, I guess, to close out on that, if you want to find something you want to do the rest of your life, you're going to have to be willing to make certain sacrifices to make it happen.

Yeah. Whatever those sacrifices may be. Mine, and I didn't know I wanted to do this the rest of my life, working at Duck Commander, but I started here. I didn't get paid for about four months. You know. Better than my wife. She didn't get paid for three years. Yeah. She was on that extended payroll.

You got to understand. Limited budget. You know, but that's... So, I mean, you got to be willing to make certain sacrifices. And those sacrifices may be working at a job you hate for a few years until you find out what it is. Like, you know, at 19, I didn't know my head from a hole in a ground at 19. I couldn't have told you what I wanted to do the rest of my life at 19. I switched majors in college.

Yeah, but it's... It's about your perspective and about the benefits. Yeah. Okay, because, hey, working at Duck Commander definitely has some super benefits. Oh, the most freedom you could ever have built into a job is right here. That's right. But one out of ten people that we've hired can handle that freedom. Because it takes a lot of self-motivation to make yourself get up, do your job, make sure everything's done.

Nobody's watching you. Nobody's watching you. Well, every now, time out. And nobody's going to check you. Key word. Time out. Everybody watching. Oh, yeah, you're being watching.

But nobody says anything. That's right. Because we leave it up to the onus of the employee to know what they need to do when they need to do it and how they need to do. Key word, you said it was self-motivation. Self-motivation. Yeah, because otherwise you finally realize when the door hits you in the butt when you're leaving. Yeah. Yeah.

I'd have to do that. I must have not been doing what I should have done. They'd do that now. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Guess what? Because when those numbers for the year come up, guess what? Yeah, we always watch them.

We just don't ever say nothing. You know, we try to let people give them the benefit of the doubt and let them make the adjustments. It is a hard place. All the thing is, bye. If you don't do what you're supposed to do? Yeah, and we're not built real strong off Adaboards either. So, you know, it's fine. Oh, there's no positive reinforcement around here.

No, no. Hey. But I'm used to that. You know what your job is. Okay. So it's up to you to do your same. job but you know it but that's at 19 if you hate your job go go work another one find you another everywhere in the country right now is higher and find you another one you may stumble across one that

you love that you had no idea you'd love and like size said it took him a while to figure out what he was good at yeah find out what you're good at and go from there yeah exactly that's exactly right so but you don't know that at 19 you ain't got a clue no no because i'm like you you know when people saying well you know like my brother Tommy he knew what he was going to going to do from good grief. Yeah. Ninth grade. It took me about 26 years to pull my head out of my rear area.

You know? I'm still waiting. Okay. That is what it is. And I had trying a whole lot. I don't think mine's all the way out yet. Oh, I still stick it back in there from time to time. I guess just to check and make sure there ain't nothing changed.

But, you know, what else you got, Sean? Make sure nothing change. All right. We're just going to stick with career advice because that was a good one. and we're going to go down that road again. Bryce, I don't know where he's from. It might be better that we don't know where he's from because he has an opportunity for a new job.

He's a teacher and a coach at a pretty big school, loves it, loves the kids, great job. But on the other hand, there is an opportunity for a new job in his hometown teaching coach at the school he's always wanted to teach and coach at. It's tough because he loves the kids. He likes all the people that works with, and it seems like it's going to be a hard time leaving, but there's a lot of good on the other side as well.

I'm not sure what to do. Any advice would be great. Well, first of all, pros and cons. Pros and cons to fit you. Okay. This is for you and for your future. Okay. So pros and cons.

you know, thank it out and then make a choice. I would say figure out what, which one, which option will be best for your family. Yeah. And go with that. Yeah, but that goes with you though. And any time I'm faced with these kinds of deals,

which we always are, take it, take it to the good Lord. Take it to him, take it to your buddies, kick it around some people that aren't at that school, you know, and your wife, and if you have a wife, kids, whatever,

you know, you may want to be going back to your hometown. now she may not want to. It just, there's a hundred different factors in there. And you're making a great impact, sounds like, where you're at. If you love your job and you love the kids and all of that. But at the same time, the people in your hometown may need that more than the kids you got right now. So just, just the good Lord, if you'll, if you'll give it to him, he'll lead you in a way. He'll point you where you need to go.

Now, you got to be, you got to be smart enough to listen. The answer may not be the one you want it to be. Yeah. Yeah. But you got to be smart enough to listen. But, you know, at the end of the day, our advice ain't going to touch what he's going to put there in front of you for what you should do. So, but I just, I recommend give it to him and figure it out for mayor. That's a good point because, you know, I've looked at my life and he's put, he's put people in my life.

Mm-hmm. Same here. That helped me go where he wanted me to go. Yeah, one of mine is wearing a purple. shirt. Yeah. I mean, I'm just telling it. I mean, I'm just saying.

I just found this in the closet other day and everybody's made comments about it. That's a pretty shirt. You've worn it every day for two weeks. I can tell you like that. I'll get into that. It looks, it matches your eyes. It makes your eyes shot. There you go.

I'm like a big, big, uh. And the purple shirt says, we're fixing to go to South Texas. That's right. But we're going to leave it with a Bible verse. I got you. I got a Bible version. just for the two thinking about jobs and switches.

Beautiful. No need to worry about it. Jeremiah 2911, for I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord. That is a good one. Plans to prosper you. Not to harm you. And not to harm you.

You have to give you a hope. Yep. And a future. Amen. Well, we had that one memorized. I think everybody knows that in here. That's a good one. That's a comforting one.

When you don't know your head from your rear end, that's a good one to go back. to you right there. I'm going to throw this in there for the vets. The chaplain down at Fort Polk had asked me to speak to the Tent Mouton Regiment. Okay, they had just been back from Afghanistan. Their suicide rate was human, you know, if it's one, it's too much. Yeah.

But anyway, and I didn't know what I was going to say. And then this is like a three-month period goes. And look, I'm always a procrastinator. stuff all I kept I was thinking about it when I was putting off I was thinking about it what am I going to talk to him what am I talking about well look it's Wednesday night okay and I'm going to go to church and Thursday morning I'm supposed to be down at Fort Polk speaks to the troops okay and didn't have a clue what I was going to talk to him about and I went to church and one of the elders shared his testimony with us about his life as a teenager okay he had an abusive father

alcohol and all this other stuff okay bad bad childhood okay he had actually seen his dad shoot people and everything else well he gave his testimony and when he got through he said well that's all i got for you folks so i get up and was going down and everybody's going good grief what's uncle sat down the front far you know so i walked up there and i said hey first of all your story was amazing and i said number number two i won't is it okay if i tell your story to the troops down on Fort Pope. And he said, of course. So they and I used Jeremiah 29 just what you said.

Because I was telling them, I said, hey, if you don't get nothing else to this 30 minute I talk to you, remember this. Please do not harm yourself. I said, because, hey, God has a plan for you, okay, to prosper you, not to harm you, okay, to give you a living hope, okay, and a future. I said, please don't mess with what God has planned for you, because you may just be flabbergasted when he shows you what you're meant to be. Amen.

So I thought it was a pretty good deal. Amen. I'm flabbergasted. You use the word flabbergasted. And you got it out. Without messing it out. Perfect, but creation, baby. Ever once while this old boy hit home?

run every now and I hit the ball. All right, we'll see y'all next time right here in a duck call room. We're out.