Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Was Pranked Hard on His Birthday & LOVED It!

Episode Date: April 28, 2022

Si turns 15 — make that 74 — and can't stop laughing at the elaborate birthday prank Phillip and the Robertsons once played on him. John-David is shocked by what Si wasn't allowed to say on "Fox & Friends." Si loved seeing Willie get roasted at his 50th birthday party. Martin learns what a squirrel sheriff is. And the boys have a whole lot of wisdom for people who struggle with faith in what they can't see. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We got birthday presents galore, son. Birthday. Who had a birthday? Happy birthday, sigh. Nobody had, well, this will air after your birthday, so. Your birthday is what, the 20? 27. 27. You need a knife?

No. No, we got some more crystallized lemon. Crystalized lemon from Toby and Renee. Oh, all right, boys. Toby and Renee. Welcome back to the duck call room. We're going through. We had a bunch of packages.

show up for Sa for his birthday. A shock. Thanks, Toby. Thanks, Renee. Don't cut you down. Martin, what do you think? Martin, do you get that hat for your birthday? He's still trying to roast somebody.

We got a plethora of them in the warehouse, so I'm just trying to see if somebody watch this and like it, want one of them. Give him a good deal of it. Oh, my goodness. Call this hashtag marketing. Hashtag marketing, boys. It looks like a big check.

I can use that. That's a bill. Somebody sent you 30 pack $30 worth of lemon I'm dropping stuff I'm sorry for those driving in your car and just This was like when it doesn't say who it's from Yeah oh

This was like a Toastish Twinkies When it aired Where I ate them hostess Twinkies There's some lemon raspberry Oh a little flavor Coupon Fruit infusion

I think Or did they send it? I think they might have sent it. It sounds like drugs to me, boys. But somebody paid $30.94 to send this to you, Zai. Well, hey. Well, what I appreciate it. While you're opening his last one,

I will say that I came back from my week gone to a nice, large box in my office that had four cases of diapers in it. And it didn't have a note. Four cases of diapers? It was addressed to Big Martin. So whoever sent an Amazon package to Big Martin

that had a bunch of diapers. Thank you. Four cases? Yeah. That's like a hundred thousand dollars. Yeah. And then I also got a bunch of cheese dip from Arbo's cheese dip. What in the world? A Rubik's cube? A Rubik's cube? Okay.

Some cupcakes. Whose kid can I give this to? Happy birthday. Challenge your mind. Hey, I don't have a mind of challenge. Moon pies. I can't eat the hook. Did we get a R.C. The host is Cupcake, boy. All right.

And a poem to celebrate your birthday. The sun is way up in the sky. The lake is filled with trout. You were younger yesterday. Jack just thought I'd point that out. Happy birthday. From your friend Lisa. She sent the shirt last year.

Lisa from Minnesota. Oh, yeah. She sent me a message saying that she had sigh a birthday present showing up. A poem. We got fruit snacks and moon punting. Some herbal tea. Hey, in my case, the sun is way up in the sky and the lake is full of crappie. Crappy.

Okay. You were younger yesterday, Jack. How old are you now? Or tomorrow. It's going to be 74. 7.4. Just all that I'd point that out. Also known as 16.

Yeah, are you 14, 15 or 16 now? I turn 15. You're turning 15? Interesting. It's a frame teaser. He's turning 15. Ladies and gentlemen What are you doing for your birthday?

Nothing. Nothing. Being me. Philip McMillan, what's he doing for his birthday? We got a big party lined up. We do have a party. It's a party for Sy.

And paid for us. Brittany and Paula. Yeah. Everybody? We're just piggybacking off of it since it's on Brittany and Paula's birthday. I like that. It's not piggyback it, boys.

My six-year-old birthday tomorrow. Well, I mean, he's five. My wife told him that enough she just started to die 11. That's what's so funny. She said, you're big birthday bass. You're praying for it.

I said, well, okay. That's good. That's right. That's all right. Oh, no. You got to put this puzzle back together. Oh, no. Yeah, that was a mistake.

You probably should have taken a picture of how it was correct. But anyway, we're back. Yeah. Welcome back. Welcome back to the Duckout. Celebrating Cy's birthday, 74 years. Seventy-four years young, boys. That's hard to figure, size 74.

That's awesome. That's a good time. Last night we celebrated the boss's birthday. Willie, he turned a big five-old. Not Bruce Springsteen. Willie is 50. That's wild. He's 50.

50 years old. 50 years old. And still hurting himself in Church League basketball games all across this. He'll never stop doing that. It don't matter what he does. If it involves any sort of athletics, the boy gets hurt. Like, it just, it don't matter. He's competitive.

I tell you. how dumb he really is. He just always likes to have... He should realize by now he's not athletic. Well, the problem is... He's sneaky athletic. I'll have you know he was going to be a professional bowler.

And then a golfer. And then a golfer. I wish I'd have been here when he was doing that. A professional bowling? Yeah. When he was going through bowling? Because I actually bowled in military bowling league. And I actually got pretty good.

I smell a you. YouTube video. Oh, no, no, no, because I, yeah. Do you think we did it one night? Can you still do it? Huh? I don't know if I could still do it, but I was good at one time. Could you be really?

I was in the bowling league and I was in that for what? I was going to be five, seven years maybe. Did you ever roll a 300? Nope, I got close. Last one. I had nine in a row. Or no. It's what is.

Let me in a row. Mm-hmm. Let me in a row and I had the one last ball to throw. And look, it hit perfect darned to what, tin pen, I think. So you rolled like a 299. Didn't go down. Didn't go down. Didn't go down from perfect.

I was so mad. Oh, I was mad. Because it was a perfect hit. Okay, it should have been 300 and the sucker wouldn't fall. Unbelievable. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.

So you bought a 2.99 if it was on the last one. Yeah, it's 299. He had 9 up on the last one because that just got. Nine up on the last one. I couldn't do. And it should have. have been 300 games. Oh, I couldn't do it either.

One time I bowed like a 95. I'm lucky to break 100. Yeah, I think my max is like 140 or something like that. And that was on one of them. Okay, we bow, we bow in the league and then at dinner time, we'd bow, you know, a game, you know. The problem of bowling is it's extremely more technical than it appears to be. Oh, no, no, no. And I'm the loser that shows up.

I own bowling shoes. I don't know where they came from. I don't know why I have them. It's how you release the ball, okay, and you've got to be consistent with it, and you've got to hit your mark on the lane. Yeah, see, I just get up there and hurl that sucker as I can throw it. You've got to have one of the arrows, and you've got to put it on it every time, and you've got to lift it the same way where it'll actually, you know, curve.

I get the heaviest one I can sling and pray to God. And pray to God my thumb don't get stuck in it on the way out. When it makes that sound, you're like, ah! Hey, knuckles swell up. I went to a bowling alley in Arkansas one time, and it had a speedometer on your throw. See, that ain't good. So I did not care how many pins were going down. I said, we're setting a record tonight.

And I won that for at least all the four lanes I could. I was just hurling it. Yeah, I prefer for it to get down there at the end, and I almost get airborne as it's going through the pins. Like, just, I mean. It needs to be a little dangerous. Yeah, I just. Did you ever? get up there and watching people like spin it from side to side and everything.

Did you spin yours? Did you spin it? I didn't have a lot of spin on it. Yeah. I never did really get why I could control that. I couldn't control it. The ones I watched on the pro bowling league. I don't see how the guy, he ain't got no, he don't have finger holes.

He just has it in the middle of his hand. Yeah. You know, carries it, yeah. Yeah, and carries it. And then he, I mean, you're talking about, you, you're talking about, you, you're talking ain't got to get low to put it on the floor you know but they they they work it out no i try to go right down that middle one and throw it as hard as i can amen did you ever let it go and it's up in there too high yeah that's the one that really hurts your finger that's because you them thumb holes is too

tight well if you hit the spot like that yeah oh you're all going down because they're going all jump at the same time yeah okay like he said because then you know i've seen bowlers they throw it hard but they got the they got the wide sweep because they might there throw it where it's might be in there falling in the gutter and then it breaks yeah they go from like board to board oh yeah yeah from one side to the middle yeah not me yeah straight down the middle buddy it's hard right down the middle and I still when you hit the spot they all go down too yeah if you hit it squared oh yeah but you rarely hit it square yeah you generally hit it one side or the other and you're like dang missed

never going to get that thing back together. I got the instructions, though. It's a non-Q test. You ain't a way to get back together. I feel like you at Cracker Barrow right now. I'm good at that thing. Cracker Barrow, I was smoked that little peg game. Yeah.

I know that one. I got that. I'm more of a Waffle House man. He knows the pattern. Oh, my God. But Cracker Barrel does have fun games. What was your favorite thing about Willie's 50th birthday, Sae? The food?

No. Oh. The roast. The roast? I got tickled at him. I was watching him. Yeah. They had him just where he couldn't even, he couldn't even, he was crying.

He's on, you know, run out of tissues and everything else, you know. Then he got up there and he couldn't even talk. He couldn't even talk when he got up there. Oh, man. I thought, Martin, I thought you did a good job. Oh, everybody did a good job. We roasted Willie, but it's kind of scary to roast Willie. So he didn't get, it was more of a toast than a roast, if you will.

Yeah, yeah, I, yeah. Well, see, I had the assurance that my. job would not be affected by whatever I said. But I still didn't trust it. But you didn't trust you. I didn't trust that. No, I didn't trust that. Plus, it was a minute.

I mean, there were people from ages two to 902. Yeah. Like, so I was like, man, if I tell some of these stories, there's going to be some of these people hard judging me and Willie and things we've done. So I just, I took the foot off the gas. No, I kept really, really nice. Yeah. He said he got nervous when I walked up.

Well, he should have. But I think he knew that I wouldn't go, I think he knew on me like, well, he ain't going to say nothing because they're just as bad on him as they are on me. So I was like, yeah, I'm going to edit. I'm going to self-edit on this deal. But I was hoping sigh would come up too. I just wasn't in the mood. And he rags him every day.

No, no, because I do, you know, because, you know, we had it for like what, seven years. Yeah. But before, before we go to our first break, though, the coolest gift, I think that he got,

whether he'll admit it or not, our friends, the busbes has showed up. Yeah. And Big Bill bought the boss hog a pig for his birthday. So now Willie is a proud owner

of a miniature pig. Oh, he owns a pig now. He does. For real, boss hog has got a pig. He owns a pig. Okay, because I,

when he was saying, And Bill, I didn't put it together because I didn't even see him. And, of course, we had the whole hog roasted. So the first thing Willie did in typical Willie fashion was went up there and showed that baby pig, the big pig it was sitting there roasting. And said, you don't want to end up here. Hey, that's right. No. Don't make me mad.

Yeah. This is where you'll go. That whole pig was good. Oh, no, no. Oh, that was amazing. That's the best thing to have. My boy, Rick brought the heat on that one. Yeah, that was the best thing to have.

He did a good job. But let's take our first break. We'll be back right after this. 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. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Cyrabs, would say, buy on the grill. Look, before we got Triedells, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery store, do all the things, grab whatever was left in case you were late in the day. And you never really know where that beef come to him. But with Triedales beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way. Triedales comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth generation American ranch.

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That's trybeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. The best birthday ever was when we set this thing up about three months in advance. We rented out a building. We put paper over all the glasses, and we put out flyers that said, one night only,

Native American... Artifacts. Yeah, go ahead, Simon. But anyway, they made up flyers, okay? And it said, okay, well, not only, Native American artifacts, okay? And they even had a Native American, full-blood sheriff, deputy sheriff,

he comes to the house, okay, knocked on the door. and I answer the door, may I help you? And, you know, I'm looking at it's bad. I'm scared that, you know, what's going on? You got caught. But anyway, he said, well, I heard, uncle, I heard that you're into Native American artifacts.

Yeah, talking about your uncle's got about 10,000 arrowheads. He's found over his lifetime, you know. And I said, yeah, he actually donated to LSU campus. And he said, well, hey, this is one night only. We're going to have people there that will show you how to make a boat. from scratch, arrows from scratch and all stuff. And I said, well, man, hey, you know, if I ain't got nothing on pressing,

yeah, I'm going to make that. So here's his dilemma. He does have something pressing. It's a poker game that we're going to play in honor of his birthday. But we're driving around. He was like, I wanted to go to that Native American one-night only thing they're having. And I was like,

we can't. We've got to go to the poker game. He was like, all right, go the poker game. So we're on the way. Okay. To the poker game. Yeah, to the poker. So I get a call. His phone rings in the truck. So I put it on speaker phone, and it was one of our friends' nurse,

and he was like, man, I got some bad news, you know. My parents are sick, and we was going to have a gathering over there place, but we're going to have to call it off. Yeah. Had to run my dad to a merchant room, y'all. And Sal was like, now you can go to that cell. Yeah. No, no, we're saying.

I said, oh, God. What time is it? What time is it? Yeah. I said, golly, I said, I'm mad. I said, you know, I said, we're missing down on everything in the night. Y'all, and then Phillips said, well, hey, it ain't but 7 o'clock. And he said, it's right down here, we ain't, but, you know, about a mile from where that stupid Native American Indian artifact thing is.

So I said, okay. I said, let's go that. So look, when we pull up, it's dark. All you can hear. All you can hear. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Oh. Oh.

Oh, y'all, so Philip pulls over there. But you can't see in. You can't see in. All I can see is flicker light and shadows in this building. Because there's like a format. Look. He's getting nervous because he said, when I pulled up, he was like, I don't know about this. I said, it's going to be fine if you don't.

No, no. He pulls up and shut the end up. I said, Philip, I said, I got a bad feeling about this. I said, go ahead and fire this thing up. Let's go. Take me back to the house. He said, no, we're here. He said, hey, look.

He said, I said, no, Philip. I said, I'm serious. I got a bad feeling about you. I said, you got to take me home. He said, y'all, he puts his hand on my shoulder. He said, it's okay. He said, look, I'm telling you. He said, we'll slip in the back door.

That's right. And sit down just in the back. So we open the door. You can't see nothing but shadows and they've all got head gear on. Like headdresses. Head dresses. Okay. And it's always, and then every once while I was,

Oh, and I, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, y'all. So I grab him, I said, Philip, we need to get out of it. You know, about that time, Chase jumps up and screams, and they grab him and take him down front. And I said, Philip, they got Chase, let's go. And I'm handed towards the door, okay. He failed on Chase. Oh, yeah, I fell on Chase.

I'm out of here. you know that's when they turned the life zone you know and I look and I said okay you actually got me on this one I said yeah so Phillips head of the party planning committee that's what you said oh yeah we party planning that one did you have around town we probably had about 10 of them but we had them at different places where he goes we brought one up to duck commander oh no I thought them were legit oh my goodness gracious that's amazing that was the best one okay because I When Jason jumped up and screamed, two people grabbed him.

We're just pushing him down to the front. And I said, Philip, they got Chase, let's go. I'm trying to hold him and not let him run. He said, thanks a lot there, nephew. Yeah. Yeah. So, Cy's that canary they always talk about. Oh, yeah.

He's singing on you. He'll sing and he'll run. Oh, yeah, I'm out. I was laughing so hard I couldn't hold him. He was like a. Oh, I was already out. to get away from me. I was like, wait, wait, wait.

I was out the door headed towards the truck when somebody said, hey, you're going to play poker or not? It's the only time I've ever seen him leave his tea pitcher behind. Oh, yeah, everything was on the floor. And, hey, I didn't even pick up the glass. Yeah, I got to go. I got to get out of here. I'm out of here.

I'm serious. I said, y'all, y'all got me on that one. That's funny. That's good stuff there. I was looking for you a special. birthday present this week. This past week I was over in Georgia. And they had just dissed a lot of them food plots up,

and they always find a bunch of airheads. So I went around kicking dirt for about five hours one day, and I never found one. Found some little pieces, but I didn't find nothing that I thought was worthy of you. Mac Hobbs is like an artifact magnet. Magnet. Hang.

Hang. Yeah. So is that your cousin? Huh? Is that your cousin? Yeah. First cousin. look he hunts a lot on red river so he's in the woods on red river he shoots the big 12 point bucks

goes down to admire him okay and while he's gotten him and getting looking at the horns and all that he looks right beside him and here is a half of a spearhead about eight inches long it's actually you can tell us and this is out of flint yeah and it's broke you know so he you know drags his deer and takes it home puts out in it and he's like it and he's out and he's down and he his collection, well, a year the next year. He's hunting in the same general area, but in a different part of the woods.

He shoots another big leaven point. Goes down and is admiring this one and looks over here. Here's another eight-inch spearhead, half of spearheads. And he said, surely this can't

fit the one I found last year. Yeah. So he goes back, pulls it out of the door. You didn't want that chunked at you. Yeah, yeah. He acted and look, I was fooling with it one day and hey, it was so sharp on the edges. It cut me just like a razor blaze.

But, you know, the whole time I was living in Dixie, we lived on Red River fishing. Okay, me and feeling Tommy. So I was always looking for stuff, you know, our heads, all this kind of junk. You know, so he's on. On River River, him and his brother are going deer hunting. And they come around where there's a big giant cliff on the deep side of the river.

And he looks and something is sticking out about all 12 foot out of the cliff. Well, they keep coming. They go up there. It's a canoe, a Native American canoe that made out of a big giant Cypress tree. Well, they dig on it for like two hours trying to get it out. Well, they find and said, okay, no, went back and said, you know, they called somebody about it, you know, down there at LSU. You know, they went up there and dug it out a 30-foot warrior, warrior canoe, okay, that would hold like 30 people, six, it's actually like 60 feet long. Unreal.

You know, out of a giant chopper tree where all they did was they'd build a fire, chop it out a little bit with Tommy Hawks. Build a fire, burn it, chop that out. Build another fire, burn it. It holds 30 men, 30 warriors. Unreal. They donated that to the LSU campus, just down there and the campus. That's awesome. When we were in Mississippi, the chief.

Chautau. Yes, the Choctaw Chief. Chautau Nation. He was showing you a big drum that was handmade. You remember that? Yeah, I can't remember what kind of tree they make it out of, the wood. I want to say Tupelo. But anyway, they got to go out and they listen for the woodpecker

pecking on the tree. And then they go out there, okay, and they cut down the tree, and then they cut it in strips real thin where they can wet it and bend it. Okay, and then they tie everything off with leather. Well, they've got, and it's a, God, I can't even remember. But anyway, it's tied. It comes down and do this all the way around the drum.

You know, and it's like this. And then they put a little piece of leather that will slide up and down, and you can change the tone by moving these slides up and down on the leather. You can make it soft, you can make it ring. Yeah. But this thing is dropped dead. gorgeous, okay. It's the craftsmanship on this thing.

It's unreal. And they make them by hand, all of it. They kill the deer, they tan the hide, and then they use the deer hide, okay, in strips to, you know, and then like, I think even the covering, the drum covering is deer height, that they stretch, okay. But it was, and I ask him, because I'd love to have one.

About three grand. Oh, is what they're going. Oh, what's three grand? Yeah. Yeah, but I'm saying I would love to have one of them

because they are, you know, because he changed his tones for us. We should have taken up a collection and got that for him. Oh, no, no, no. If we pay it at 75, we got you,

that thing, that thing is dropped dead gorgeous. I'm serious. 75, we got you, dog. But we met him. We're replacing that bell with a drum.

That's the coolest story. We met him when he was, just one of the council members on the council. Yep. Okay, well now, okay, he's the head man of the Choctaw Nation. And he can't get you a discount? No, they're going to pay for it. Tell him you'll do an Instagram post, man.

Just swap it out. No, no. He's cool. He's cool. Anyway, let's take a break. We'll be back right after this. So I do have a question for you. How was it with Kay and Lisa on here the other day since the rest of us

We're all gone out everywhere. Was that a good time? Yeah. To me, that was one of our best ones. Well, good. It really was. Because I had a guy I rode in that had been with this lady. He was in love with, he said, for seven years.

Said he was in love. And said, but I went to, me and her went to a wedding the other day. And he said, and I went, he said, I lost it. So, you know, and Lisa told him, she said, hey, you're not committed. And I don't think you love her. There you go. Scared of commitment. Yeah.

Scared of commitment. And I said, and along with commitment, I said, you're also a responsibility. And you got, you got neither one. Oh, that's good. Yeah. But it was actually, I thought it was one of the best ones we've ever done. Well, good. Yeah, me and Godwin were down in North Florida speaking at a church.

How did that go? Westville, Florida. It was good. I mean, when I tell you, buddy, we was out in the middle of nowhere. I was in sticks. I was in the sticks. I was in the States. I was talking about it.

in the middle of nowhere. The boondocks, boy. Yeah. Oh, we've been there. I've been there. But we're sitting there, and it's kind of funny, the cops showed up. You know, local sheriff's. Uh-oh.

They're just coming. Church always feeds them. Oh, okay. But I got nervous. You're a wanted man. What did you get nervous for? Well, their sheriff's department wears a green uniform. Ooh.

When I saw a man coming up dressed in green, I said, oh, Lord. Yeah. Here we go. This is the end up. But the guy to come up to me, he said, oh, don't worry, we're not squirrel. sheriffs, we're human sheriff. And I had never heard a game warden called a squirrel sheriff. Yeah, around here we call them possum cops.

They don't like that either to say it to their face. But he said they wouldn't squirrel sheriffs. They was people sheriffs. I said, oh, okay, never mind. That's the best one that Phil ever told was that, you know, all the game wardens were somewhere down in Lafayette and Phil was a guest speaker. You know, and when he walked up there and he looked around, he said, he's boys, he said, I got to let y'all know.

He said, well, I stood up and turned around and looked at all of y'all and green. He said, my first instinct was, run. There is something about it, ain't it? Because it don't matter if you're doing everything by the book. When they show up, you get nervous. You don't know. Every time I get stopped on the water, just fishing. or something, I'm like, man, what am I about, what's about to happen?

What is this going to cost me? Of course, now most of them I know them, and they're just stopping to talk, just chit-chat. Well, they've checked me enough to realize that I ain't up to no good, but they've, they've checked everything in that boat a few times and, you know, fire extinguishers, and you name it. But every time they come up, you can be just at a boat ramp mine in your own business. Every time, I'm like, oh, boy, here we go. I'll ask something about it.

I'm like, man. Really? Are we going to have to go through this again? Yeah, again. Every time. They just doing their job. Protecting us, protecting their resources. Because that one old boy fell in the other day.

Who? Did you see that on Darbo? No. What happened? Too windy. The wind ended up making the waves so big, sunk his boat. He's in the water. Really?

He was wearing a life jacket, thank goodness. He's God for that. But then he finally, he saw somebody up at their house. on the bank he's yelling. Come out here, get me. Help me. I'm cold. Hurry up.

So then it was a big rescue, and he's okay, but he ended up in the hospital for hypothermia. He was in the water long enough to get cold. Good, 9-11. But, yeah, that's what, which is why they make you have a life jacket. Because without a life jacket, he ain't with us no more. No. No, and I guess a good thing about Darbon, at least you probably, that wind blowing that strong, you eventually blew into a stump if you was out there that long, so at least you could hold on to something.

I mean, good night. He was in the water. So his boat sunk. Yeah, I don't know if they got that back. Golly. That's some crazy wind. It's been winning. It has been winning.

Well, hey. Yeah. Starts white cabin. It gets dangerous. Oh, it don't take long until you spear one, and then you're in a bad spot. I've done it. I speared one, and I look down there at me, and there's water up to my ankles, and I'm like, oh, Bill's Spunk, please work, please work, please work.

And you just turn that thing on and pray, start shooting water out by. behind you like all right we gonna make it we're gonna be all right stay on pad boys but no it can that is it was fun though I like going out there and speaking all these people man it's it's a good time you you meet some of the best people in the world doing that they them folks in north Florida was just good old people look I knew I was in the right place wild game supper right we've all been to however many of them I look over there and one of them is fried fish well you know what they got. Whole fry bluegill. Did it eat the tail? Yeah. Oh, I picked me a few tails off.

Amen. I said, but we around the right people here. If they hold frying bluegill, we around God's people here. I said, I said, y'all made a man feel like he was at home, just right there. Whole fried bluegill, man. I said, but I'll give you all a little tip. If you'll cut that little slice right down their back, they're even better. Oh, yeah. Get that meat away from that bone just a little bit right there, just flare them open. so when they cook you get all that and they're just looking at me they ain't they ain't heard that trick yet i said you're gonna be glad you did that that's why you need one like this thinner he actually thinner

right right down that top on each side yeah when you throw it in the grease it gets hot it'll actually lay open fold off yeah buddy that's good that's a good piece of meat making me hungry i cut i cut them for it there literally you can just flip it it off, turn them over, flip the meat off, and then throw the rib cage away? Oh, the rib cage away. Yeah. Especially on the big hybrid brim that I used to catch in

that, yeah, Fort Bragg. Found a pond down there, and I found the guy that actually it was a hardwood bottom. And all he did was come in with a D-9 and push them big oak trees down. And he made him a big, line of oak trees and then made him a pond, okay.

It was 30 feet deep behind them big oak trees for the dam part of it was. And he took that dozer and knocked holes, about eight or ten holes in the shallow water going up to shallow water. And he told me where they all was. And when the brim got in there, hey, how for them?

It was on, huh? Oh, what are you talking about? No, that's good. Our table is doing something wild today. Well, I'll tell you how big you was. I could only put 10 rim. You know that a half-gallon bucket of butter that you can buy? A half gallon of butter?

You buy butter by the bucket? Yeah. Anyway, I could only ever bought it by a stick. Country crop, baby. After I cleaned them. That's margarine. Which is cut the head off, cut the fans off and all that. After I clean them, that bucket, half-gallon bucket would only hold five.

That's how big it was. Half-gallon bucket. And they was cut. And they was cut way down. So when it fried, it just lifted off. They was good. Flip it off, throw the bones away. I'm starving.

That's good eating. I am, too. You know what else we did when you go to North Florida? You know what you drive past, right? Buckies. Buckees. Did you go? Buckeys.

Did I go? How many people in there said? I said, Martin, this is the greatest place I've ever been to. They were all happy. Everybody was happy. I never met a sad person at a Buckees. Everybody was happy. Ran into a couple of fans of the podcast.

And I was like, it's always full. Like, how in the world do you know who I am? I'm just like walking down here through a Buckees in the middle of nowhere. Just trying to get me a brisket sandwich, some chocolate pecans and some dachshunds. And some beef jerky. Yeah, I didn't get none of that. Maybe a... I hit them chocolate pretzels or chocolate pecans pretty hard.

But then I looked beside me and, you know, there's Gobbin with me. Well, Gobbin's wearing a shirt that's a duck commander on. I said, oh, never mind. Golly. You ain't got to be a real hard detected to figure out who we are. No, Goblin. Yeah, it was good. What do we got to do to get one?

I mean, there's a perfect spot for it, down in Pine's exit. You think they'd lose their luster if you drove by it every day? No. I think I'd stop every day. Too much to do. They got too much stuff in there. I mean, you can go a week in there. I mean, I dropped $30 in about five minutes.

That's it? That's what I'm saying. And I was like, I wouldn't even like shocked by the total. I can't even, I can't get out of there for like, it's 90, 100 easy. They got, they got new, they got these new ones called small batch pecan. Ain't no more pieces. It's the whole pecan dipped in chocolate. That's best $13 I spent a long time.

Man, they're good. We need all of our fans to bombard the Bucky's email, whatever it is. and email them and tell them the Downing Pines exit in Westman Road deserves a Bucky. They seem to have them spread out where they're like a tank of fuel between all of them. That's why. We're perfect. We're perfect from the one in Terrell. Yeah, from the one in Terrell.

Four and a half hours you stop here, West Monroe, Louisiana, and make it the greatest Buckees on Earth. I will personally go there every day and greet people at the door. Thank you for stopping here at Westman Row. Enjoy your stay here at Buckees. They got that beaver figured out, son. Golly, good for them. I like seeing good people do good.

Yep. Let's take another break. We'll be back right after you. I got a line for you. I heard from an old man. What was? So it was Bill Jordan, the founder of Realtree, and his old high school football coach,

and a guy he played football with, we're all sitting there together. And the old football coach, look at him. He done figured it out. Puzzle made. I think that's it. That was easy. That was easy.

Then he threw it apart. That was not right. But it was right. It was a line that made me think a sigh. What was it? The old man said, so the old football coach was a football coach. Then he was a principal. And then he was like the director of schools in the Columbus, Georgia area.

So he did it all in secondary education, you know. He said, you know what I found out over my years? He said, crazy don't age well. And that's the first person I thought of was sigh. That's like that age. Crazy does not age, period. Even better. I like it.

I never thought about that before. Crazy does not age period. Yeah, he said crazy does not age well. Sounds like a t-shirt. And then he paused for a minute. He said, and it's never cured. And there's no care for it. The first person I thought of was that man right there.

And he ain't crazy, but he'll make you think he is. And he has a darn good time doing it. And I can appreciate that. Where was it? We was, cow, where was you? I think it was in Seattle. And the whole crew was there. You know, all the Robertson family.

And they all went on stage and they got me out there last. You know. And when they asked me, somebody asked some stupid question. And I said, well, yeah, it was talking about, Well, how would you describe yourself, Uncle's eye? And I said, I describe myself as two things. I said, I'm like an uncurable disease. Or, I said, if that don't work for you, I'm like space.

I just go on forever. Oh, I was going to say there's a lot to be explored. Lots of unanswered questions. But Willie got up at there, and he said, wait a minute, let me get this right. he said a fan asked you to describe yourself and you describe yourself as an uncurable disease and i said yeah is there a reasoning behind that right look it's just what hit me at the moment you ain't ever had a script have you no no i'm what you say i'm a man that is i am proud shoot from the hip if you will shoot from the hip baby he's the best oh he is that

He said I'm an incurable disease. Si, why is it? And maybe you guys can help us. But if Si's going on stage to do something and I say, Si, do not say Pink Elephant when you get out there. First thing he's going to say. Oh, yeah. Have you boys seen that pink elephant running around here?

Hey, Jack, Pink Elephant. That was Fox and Friends. For 30 minutes in the green room, they keep saying, don't mention the word script, you know, and I'm going. Yeah. Because everybody else is talking, and then they finally asked me a question, you know. And guess what I say? Yeah, okay.

The dirty words. Yeah. And everybody looked and I said, well, hey, it's, don't be, that's all you talked about for 30 minutes. Well, what do you think I'm going to say? If you don't want it in his gray matter, you better know. That's right. Don't put it. Hey. Nope.

Because if you don't say it, he ain't going to say it. That's right. He's going to say whatever it comes to his mind. You also can't, you can't say scripts on Fox and Friends or here in the duck call room, Sigh. It's a matter of that. He says strips. Well, everybody asked me, says, that thing's scripted.

I said, have you seen, Cy? Like, ain't nobody wrote that. No. They may give him a general idea, but first thing he's going to do is screw it up. That's right. He's going to say things like Clift. Yeah. That word ain't ever had a T in it.

but I like it. Not once. Yeah. Clift. The cleft of the rock. Look at her. Look at that new Yetty cup. I guarantee you.

You got a new Yetty cup for your birthday? Spill-proof. There it is. Boy, right. Let me have a look at it. This baby is spill-proof. Look at there. No drip even.

That's pretty good cup, boy. That's a bit. He finally admits. Hey, how many? Oh, man, look how tough it is. Hey, don't break my bone, my bone. Oh, we don't got goofy now. Oh, it's always derails.

Hey, a kid sent me a letter for life advice, which is my favorite life advice. He wants it or he's giving you life? Well, how is this kid? This is Nate from Marshfield, Missouri. Missouri, show me, state. He sent this to John. John David that 117 Kings Lane, West Florida, Louisiana.

What did this boy say? He drew a picture of a duck call. Okay. They can't see that on YouTube. Dear John David, I'm 12 years old and I need advice. There's this kid who goes to church with me who is a big troublemaker. He always follows me around whenever he is being bad while following him around, I always end up getting in trouble for no reason.

What should I do? sincerely Nate dog I added the dog What's your advice to him son? Here's here's Here's one thing my mother told me A long long time ago

Your reputation You will be known By those you run with That's true Well there's a lot of truth to that I've always heard you are the You're running with that young man That always is in trouble

Yeah okay you're with him so hey you're in the trouble too well he's saying this guy follows him around so here's I think initially I know he's he's only 12 but initially he's got to set some kind of boundary with this guy that's where you start I like that I mean set a boundary with him and say hey I'm not going with you I don't want you following me

I mean you have to start somewhere this is true I just got more like because you're getting in trouble for no reason. Every time I ever said I'm getting in trouble for no reason. Yeah, I was guilty. When I was 12, there was most assuredly a reason. Yeah, yeah, I was guilty.

Nate dog. Yeah. So I'm just asking. The story always starts off. Now, I was doing what I was supposed to be doing. Let me just say that before we go. But the troublemaker. Trouble maker.

There I was. But I will say, there was sometimes when you were trying to get away from something, people just follow you. I turned around and kicked a kid one time. I'm not suggesting you do that. But he was making fun of me and I'd had enough of it. Was his name Willie? No.

Matthew. Oh, Lord. That's a fun story. But anyway, no, I think you got to, I think the boundary things, right? And I would ask you to look at yourself and see if there really is no reason that you're getting in trouble. Yeah. It's hard to buy it, ain't it, Martin? Yeah.

Well, I mean, you, yeah. We've all been 12 before. Sigh just two years ago. Yeah. Yeah. He's still playing with this puzzle. Yeah. Martin, what do you got?

I'm just trying to think my way through, like, all the times that I said, I wouldn't even doing anything. Oh, I was doing something. Was there ever one where you weren't? I mean, there was one that I was collateral damage in. Oh, I remember that. But I'll tell you what happened. Instead of laughing at the situation, I learned from it.

I mean, because I started out laughing, and that's what got my butt tore up. that happened to me too yeah I was laughing at my brother getting woke and my dad looked over there and said you laughing and I said yeah he said I'm about to show you why you don't do that and then you found out like that and then I remember

you know what when dad says don't throw fireworks it's too dry I didn't throw fireworks because it's too dry because the three fire trucks putting out the woods fire was pretty fun your brother started a fire Oh, did he? Digging. Quick. Vee.

That man, like, woo. And he told us, last thing he said was y'all don't be playing with them fireworks. Oh, he had warned you? He had warned my brother. Damn me, but see, I was still, like, too scared, like a cigarette lighter, like, you know, like to go around, or whatever, that's what we call them. But to go around and light stuff, because, you know, that thing gets hot on your thumb trying to hold us. They wasn't really my jam, but my brother, that didn't bother him to. He let that thing through that sucker out there.

buddy woof I said ooh but then he started getting whoop and I started laughing he's like I told you nothing I'm over there just

dying laughing like ha ha ha ha ha there's another saying oh here you go misery misery loves company but yeah on the other

99.9% of times I said I wouldn't do it nothing I was doing something oh yeah but if you weren't doing anything then just call this old boy calling I mean just said yeah like Phillips says

set some boundaries say I'm not doing that and then you don't do it Sometimes you just got to check it to the whole bunch of them, boys. Yeah, start over. Start over. You know, but we'll, there you go. Let's take one last break.

We'll get back in that mailbag. We're going to take a little quick dive into our mailbags. Hello. Hello. We're going over today. Duckcallroom.com. Randy from Sycamore, Illinois sends this just seems like something you'd be interested in. Enjoy.

Gentlemen, little Debbie is releasing a lot of. line of candles for Mother's Day that smell like it's snack cakes. Can you imagine Godwin's living room smelling like a honey bun? Unbelievable. Oatmeal cream pie. So they're coming up with candles that smell like snack cakes. Do you want your... No, I don't want my house smelling like snack cakes.

Well, Randy sent that in because, you know, we're the little Debbie folks around here. All right. Michael, Mike, Mike, from Nash County, North Carolina. Oh, North Carolina. Good country. First off, best wishes for the Martin family. Oh, there we go. Thank you.

The twins are on their way. So here it is. I'm 35 and find myself lost. I didn't grow up going to church. I've been going regularly for the past two years, and my neighbor is actually the pastor. The more I go, though, the more confused I get. My brain has always been very analytical. Everything has the beginning and everything has an end.

So before everything was created, there was a creator. Well, where did this creator come from? And like, how did it all begin? It's just very tough for me to believe in something I can't touch or see. The floor is y'alls. So the first thing that comes to mind is that you can see the creator by the creation. And Sy talks about it all the time. During this time, during spring, you see everything resurrected, all the flowers, all the colors.

When you walk outside, if you're not careful, you'll miss it. But you can recognize the creator by what is created. And the Book of Romans talks about that. Yeah. And then there's also what now faith is being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you do not see. What you do not see. There's a lot of, there's a lot of emphasis through the New Testament on not being. able to see it because Jesus is gone at that time. He's returned to the father.

I have an analytical mind as well. And what gets me is I go back and look at things in my life and I look into science too. Like how evolution, hot subject, right? I believe evolution is real. I do not believe that's how this all came to be. But I do believe that the good Lord gives animals, creatures, plants, you name it, the ability to evolve. Because if he didn't, he wouldn't give us the power to change our lives. And our change comes through Jesus Christ. So why would he limit that to us? Do certain salamanders or whatever get cut off from another one to make their own species?

Absolutely they do. Why wouldn't they? Why don't they have the same abilities of something? of that stuff that we do. And to say how I know, I believe. It's not that I know. I mean, I do know. And to dumb it down, Phil, it's one of my favorite things Phil always says.

He says, well, look at it this way. We're the only ones that can win. Because if we're right, we win everything. If we're wrong, then we're just going in the ground anyway. but if you're wrong and you don't believe you got hell to pay so it's like don't don't you want to win in the end don't you want to be offered the way that that offers you a win like an eternal life that's enough to get me interested then you study about it and the same deal with we count time by this guy like this this man jesus was strong enough of a figure in his time here to count time by

that's a big deal like that that that's that's that's a big thing but i get it on questioning and and it ultimately comes down to a belief of you know do you believe in jesus do you believe in god and if you do those questions no longer matter um yeah you'll you'll forget those questions and it's a really cool thing uh when you do make that transition because i mean like i was a biology major we were taught you can't bring faith into any of your answers can't bring it into any of that so like you know i mean i dealt with all sides of it but it is cool to see those people that are scientists that believe as well and i mean some of them are brilliant well the thing about it is the bible says it just way without faith okay it's impossible to please you okay and and

I look at it from a common sense viewpoint. Okay. You know, you asked yourself, you're always talking about you analyzing stuff. You ask you, says, okay, where did all this stuff we're looking at come from? How did it get here? Not only how did it get here, okay.

If you look at the kingdoms, the bird kingdom, the fish kingdom, the mammal kingdom, all these different, species of stuff. Okay. The Bible tells us we need to strive for perfection. And the only way we can have it is we strive to be in Christ.

That's the only way we can have perfection. But look at everything that you see. Everything's too perfect. For, you know, because just like saltwater, the scientists say we, an amoeba, one single cell across, out of salt water and then all this evolutionary theory comes about. A theory is nothing but a guess, okay? Whether it's educated, uneducated, whatever, it's still a guess, okay, in my humble

opinion. I'm looking at the perfection of everything. Yeah, the design. The design, okay, and I'll use the stars, the sun, the moon, okay, the constellations in the stars. Okay, there's 88 different things up in the sky at night that you can see with your naked eye. Okay, and they've all got some wonderful design to them. Yeah.

We can actually navigate the huge five oceans we got on this planet by looking at them things. That's not a happen chance, people. No. No. And it takes way more faith. Yeah, that's right. Personally. That's right.

believe that something Yeah. Came from nothing. Yeah. And, well, not only that. That's faith, buddy. Yeah. Everything you see started from one single sale.

Yeah. That's faith. Now, no, that's. If you believe that, I got a story for you. Yeah. Hey, I got a Brooklyn bridge. I'll sell you. So, but, John David.

And I'll give you a deal of the lifetimes if you give me money for it. But I've always said in the study and stuff, give me somebody that believe something. over one that believes nothing. If you believe, then I know it's in you. And it's in there. The ones that claim they're just, hey, this is just what it is, and they don't believe nothing.

I'm like, all right, now, we got a problem here. You've got to believe something. And then we can go from there. He goes on in the email a little bit. And I think we've all had our doubts at moments. Oh, who has? Everybody, one of the apostles was doubting Thomas. He said, I want to touch you,

and I want to see some. scars. Then he was like, oh yeah, now I'm in. So I don't think, I don't think you trying to figure it out and like, man, this is weird, is a bad thing. I would just say, do you, have you heard anything better? Yeah. Well, think about this. What else you got? I mean, because Martin's 100% right. When it comes down to what makes more sense, an all powerful God who designed and created everything, or here we are. Like, And everything fell into perfect place. I always remember that faith comes through hearing the message,

the message about Jesus Christ. That's where your faith is going to come from. And before I became a Christian, I kind of wanted to see, you know, can I do this? Could I do it? But I couldn't. And I was like, I'm kind of not ready and I'm staying in this cycle because I don't know if I can really do it.

But once I did it, when Jay's shared the gospel with me, I never went back. Yeah. I mean, that's 100%. Well, let's close us out of here with a Bible verse. All right. I was about to get one. But we had one on speed.

But I think it's actually really perfect for this question for Mike. And John 146, Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man come to the father but through me. You got one way off this right. rock as far as I'm concerned and as far as everything I look at shows and that is through Jesus Christ. Amen. I'd say hop on board, Mike.

And one last piece of advice, he said your neighbor was a pastor. Invite him over for dinner and say these things out loud to him. I bet you he's not going to look at you downward. He's going to say, oh, no, I can get that and he'll help you out. Just go knock on his door. Yeah. Go knock on his door. He's probably a great guy.

I like it. We'll see y'all next time. Right here. In the talk. Call Room. Call room.