Duck Call Room - Uncle Si’s Cold Weather Plan Makes Everyone Nervous

Episode Date: January 27, 2026

Cold weather gets the Duck Call Room thinking in survival terms, and Uncle Si is more than ready with his plans for riding it out—cuddling included. Jacob’s dog Dixie unofficially turns the studio into a doggy daycare, while John-David channels his inner nerd and falls hard for a local ramen spot that reshapes his cold-weather priorities. The boys oblige their fans’ requests for more listener emails, and pass along a reminder that community matters most when life gets tough. This episode was recorded on 1/22/26. Duck Call Room Garmin Group: https://connect.garmin.com/app/group/5408185/about Duck Call Room episode #521 is sponsored by: https://rocketmoney.com/duck — Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster! https://Quo.com/DUCK — Try Quo for FREE plus get 20% off your first 6 months using this link https://nutrafol.com — Get $10 off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you use promo code DUCK! https://donewithdebt.com — Start building the life you deserve and talk with one of their strategists today. It’s FREE! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

She's saying, Dad, I get up here. Now, that's what we're talking about it. But it sure is slippery. Yeah. He said, let me get this alligator. She's thinking it's too sleuth. I don't ever get on a dinner table, Dad. Yeah.

We got a dog on the table. Welcome back to the Duck Hall Room. You never know who you're going to have, and we have our special guest, Dixie in here. It's a dog. It's on the table. I don't know, Bella's dog, Jacob's dog. Whoever, their dog, I don't know who's dog in there. Just a brown dog.

We did discover. It's a family pet. why it doesn't like me. But Jacob just happened to take duck hunting when he goes. She growled at me. Is that right, Dixie? That's that right. Yeah.

It's a pretty dog. But she grouted me again when I walked in. But turns out she also growled at Hunter. She don't like Star Wars. She don't like nerds is what we... That's what we... That's a Johnny said. John David.

We're in it together, though, Hunter. It just seeps out your pores. Yep. She can sniff a weakling when she sees one. rouse at us I wonder what that is about she likes hunter now I got her

yeah it takes her a second she don't trust us and now she does I made her get a little belly rub from my I think they're friends and just fair warning if I have to get up and leave it's because my kids are here

so wrecking shots I tried to get them to hang out dad forgot snacks and they were not interested oh that ain't good the good news is I know where Christie's toy chest is so they're probably in there

destroying christie's office there you go it's fine run wild children yeah run wild it'd be all right hashtag family business is the duck commander family daycare oh man no it's here man uh the big freeze is coming look if y'all i guess by the time this airs though it's it's gonna be over it'll be the big thaw hopefully y'all have power to watch this on youtube or to charge your phones or listen to this i'm not sure but man if you do be sure to like and subscribe that's exactly right tuesday it'll still be frozen Yeah, but hopefully. I just hope we got power.

Yeah. That's the one. Like, it's about to get cold for somebody that ain't got a fireplace. That's right. I got three fire pits and one fireplace and I'm ready to burn stuff. And you're surrounded by trees. I got a chainsaw, buddy. I hope we have power because I'm going to be in the woods and belly going to be at the house.

Oh, boy. You go to the woods. You may get stuck there, so better prepare accordingly. Oh, I know. I'm not getting without a walking distance. It's a big Dave's house. It ain't going to lose power and it's going to have good food. I'm going to start crowding that sucker too.

It's going to look up. Y'all going to look up. They're going to be a Kawasaki in the driveway. Martin's back. You can sleep in that thing, honestly. You could. I don't want to. It's nice.

It's got a heater, but I don't know that it can keep up with 16 degrees, 15 degrees. What's your plans for the big freeze? Do nothing. Hunker down. Hunker down. You're going to be snuggling up? You got a generator? You're going to be snuggled up.

up within blankets. Oh, oh, I, that snuggled up Miss Christine. Oh, here we go,

but you say you had like, you put on like 10 blakets at night. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And it's rove. It was just, you can't even roll.

You're going to add any more? No, once you get in, you just lay there because you can't move. A little sigh, a little bit of, too heavy.

It does stink that it waited until all the way to right now to get there. Oh, I know. Well, that's not typical. It's typical.

It's typical. Last few days, it'll be a shoot-em-up. Well, it's like February, March is usually our coldest years. I feel like the last five years. I have a just burning question to ask, though. Yeah. We get these checklist of rules when this happens down here. Right.

And it's all very foolishness because I don't think people in Minnesota are filling up their bathtubs with water to flush the toilet. Why do we have to do that and they're cool? They're just like, oh, it's 18 inches of snow. We're good. Oh, because they got the infrastructure for it. They got better pipe. They're stuff ready for.

Infrastructure. Yeah. Just like if it were to get 105 up there, they'd be folks dropping like flies because their air conditioners ain't big enough to keep their house cool. And like, yeah. Well, there was another checklist. They'd be sure to have plenty of ice chest available in case your refrigerator and freezer goes out.

I said, gang, I got a porch if it's that cold. And there's, that's, go it outside. A lot of truth to that. It is. A lot of weird rules. I think that's just for the longevity of how long we could potentially be without power. Yeah. So, because, I mean, technically your refrigerator and freezer are both ice chests.

It's kind of what they do. Yeah, if you don't open it. Yeah. If you just leave it closed, that's kind of their thing. It'll take it a while for it. I'm just going to go throw some obstacles out on the front. But if anybody needs a Yeti, I got some. So I got plenty of them.

I got a couple. But, yeah. If your power's not underground. probably going to go out. Yeah. Ours is buried, but I mean, it doesn't matter

if the transmission stuff could go around. So we'll see. We'll see what happens. Hunter, what are you planning on doing? You got any shows downloaded? What's your?

I'm so excited. I got blankets. I got warm. I got blankets. He's prepared. He's been waiting for this moment. Warm drinks, blankets,

movies. I cannot wait. Hunter said locked inside sounds great. That's why that dog growled at you, man. And me. no one's going to come over no one's going to ask anything of me it's my ideal weekend

Martin bring that Caliaki we're showing up to Hunter's house ideal weekend boy I may pull a Johnny D on a trash can you're about to your house unless you do that then I have weekend plan I can see Hunter and like a parka

inside 16 degrees just like is it you go to different places and it can be that cold and it ain't that cold yeah yeah because it's a wet cold here yeah

I want to when we hunted Rio Grande in New Mexico. Yeah. It was six. Nah. And I wasn't cold. Yeah. Colorado.

It ain't a, it ain't a wet cold like Louisiana. I go to Colorado, it's like that. I've already been in single degrees once this year. And it wasn't that bad, but we were in North Missouri. So. Well, no, that's why I'm saying it's weird. It was tolerable. It's weird.

Yeah. Because if you get to six degrees here. But it's been 75%. the past month. Yeah. Yeah, it's, I went on a walk outside this morning. I was like, I got sweaty. And I was like, how's this going to happen?

I'm going to be interested to see what all our trees do, because a lot of them butted out when we had like that second week in the 80s. And now they're about to get dope popped by ice. Speaking of trees. Yeah. And Minnesota. Did you see the warning they got? Oh, yeah, exploding trees.

How cool is that? That's not cool at all. Was it from the ice? It's so cold in Minnesota. soda right now. The trees. The trees will just blow up. Like, do we have a video of this?

What it could potentially do? Is it like blow up or like that? Just like crack from inside. You know what I mean? I don't know. It said exploding. I don't want to see this. I'll see if I can.

I didn't. I don't know if it's like cracking an egg or, hey, somebody from Minnesota. Holler at us. Tell us what that's about. Send us a video. Videos. Hopefully it doesn't affect your house.

Yeah. Crack. They're trying to read, but Michigan. When I think of exploding, I think of fire. I'm like, does it, it's not crazy. I'm just thinking about a bunch of shrapnel, just like toothpicks going everywhere. Yeah, that too. But the, what are they saying now?

How bad is it going to get? When temperatures drop, the bark shrinks, but the inner wood takes a bit longer to cool down. If the temperature drop is sudden, this causes unequal contraction between the bark and inner wood tissues causing a frost crack. This sudden split can even cause a loud bang. bang baby why didn't people it will be it will explode oh yeah it'll definitely go why did people just say this is where we're settling this is it's pretty well where the tree has got like gunshots they just that cold they just I wonder if it like shoots out or it just falls you know what I mean man if it cuts in half or it kind of like just shoots out what

happens when the when the wood turns petrified what happens there petrify wood Petrified wood. I don't know nothing about petrified wood. I found some, but that's not all I know about it. Let us know about the petrified. Well, no, no, because that's pretty well there. Yeah, it is. A tree that turns into rock.

Yeah. I mean, literally turns into rock. I just wonder how much of this stuff we're going to get. Yeah, me too. That's the big wonder. Well, you chief meteorologist, Jared Floyd, Tom. Hopefully not very much. I don't trust any of me.

I trust Jared Floyd. I hope it's a short deer rate. him because he well it's only going to be about two days worth of bad well no that's all about yeah short duration by two days a long time when you got twin three-year-olds yeah and you're stuck inside when it's down you're going to take them on a little ride in the cows on well i got to figure out how they're going to sleep without their sound machine but i got my little lithium power station that'll that'll run them for a for a minute they'll run them all night anyway i'm just winging it just winging it's just going on it see what happens yeah i feel like this how to

is they're going to say whatever they say and it could snow you know five inches or never well i'm not worried about food right like right got a gas griddle got freezers full of ducks deer fish like i'm not worried about eating right that that's not an issue but entertainment man cold why is everybody so concerned with a toilet paper yeah i'm not no i'm not gonna crap that much either we'll be able to leave on wednesday y'all yeah and some people get anxious you know oh we'll be able to get out and about tuesday Mark, remember back in the day when you had to get an Excel sheet and try and break down your whole budget and do it all yourself? Oh, yeah.

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Well, I know what I do. What's your going to do? I just loaded 28 gays I got and go out and shoot me about 25, 50 blackbirds that are in the yard. Sounds tasteful. You ain't going outside. Quit like. Oh, no. I wouldn't.

If he was starving. What kind of jackets you going to wear when you walk out of? Oh, yeah. No, I'll boom, boom, go pick a bump, come in a nice. He liable to just crack the window. Oh, yeah. All right. Raise one and shoot them and then go get them.

Yeah. Raise away. That's happened. Yeah. That was one of the things I used to joy about when I was a kid. Yeah. It is all the birds were easier to kill. There was snow on the ground. There ain't no hiding.

Yeah. Got a good background, huh? Yeah, like a barb. And you ate those? Robber gets bright. Okay. What you wouldn't taste best? Oh, no.

Oh, they're good eating. Brown Thrasher. That little Lou Geh. Hey, look, a brown thrasher is a quail. Yeah. It's white meat. Yeah, but now.

There was a party thrown when I killed a brown thrashy. Oh, the quail taste so good. Oh, that thing was, hey, that's a quail. Those kind of birds don't taste the same anymore, though. Because now they're diet, it's like Walmart parking lot cigarette butts. Well, now they're not real, right? Yeah. They're all drones.

We could find out this week. disappointed in that movement. It really died off. That guy was in charge of that was hilarious, and he just gave up on the dream, man. He sold enough stickers. He said, all right, I'm out. I'm good.

See ya. Oh, man. Yeah, I don't know. We'll see what happens. I know this place is going to shut down. So in the apocalypse, you're just tagging out the yard birds. Oh, hi. Well, you start on your porch.

You kill what's close and then you start expanding from there. Look, hey, all you got to do is crummel some bread told out there at ice. Oh, he's baiting now. Now he's baiting now. I like it. Now he's baiting. Yeah, we baiting.

And the apocalypse all's fair. I don't disagree. Yeah. I always told Stone if the apocalypse happens, I'm just going to walk down to his house. He can be in charge. Just tell me what to do. Oh, yeah.

And he said, Johnny D. We'll start with the squirrels and we'll end with the dog. There's plenty of both in that neighborhood. You hear that, Dixie? Depending on how bad it gets. It's how low we go. Yeah. So he puts the cats before the dogs.

That's interesting. We ain't got no cats. Oh, that's the last boat. The cat. Not Taco Bell. That's when you're down to starvation. No. Taco Bell, that's first on list.

Not if you were in 2024 through the Midwest. Remember they're eating the pets. Oh, never mind. That's just a blast for the past. Eating the dogs. Eating our dogs, man. Eating our dogs. That's terrible.

I'm not interested. I have to be. I have to be in a pinch for that. I always like to get conversations going with us with people that, you know, they're not country people. Yeah. And then you ask them to tell me, well, what would it take, you know, before you would eat, you know, your pets? Oh, you know, they were saying, oh, I would never get that hungry. I said,

wrong nicer. Yeah, you would. You would get that hungry. Hey. You would come down. You'll be surprised what you will say. I'm going to try that.

Now, the good news is I'm stocked up enough or that's a long time before I got to figure that. Yeah. That's was that billboard that used to have all the animals on it and it said, oh, where do I rank? Head or food. Where do you draw the line? And there was a very clear line like between the cow and the dog of where everybody would draw the line. Right here.

Yeah. Right here Yeah, that's where I'm eating That's what I'm not Yeah, yeah Yeah Although the rabbit Was on the wrong side

of that line If I remember right Definitely edible Oh yeah Ain't no doubt of you Thumpers getting smacked You know what I mean We don't have enough

Wild rabbits here I've seen some recently Well, we used to What got? I'm just here Did you get them? Hey, oh What are you talking about?

Down it feels there You know I mean I would see like a hundred going down for Duncan in the wee hours of the morning.

No, from Leanne where you turn on Leander Road down the field of lair. Just rabbits everywhere. There was rabbits everywhere. And there was awfully big cats everywhere. Oh gosh. Because, hey, both tracks.

Wait, like how big are they? Hey, like your Black Panther. Oh, goodness. Yeah. I'm starting to see. I mean, hey, it was regular, I'll put it this way. It was regular.

sightings, okay, on Fields property after rains, with the rabbits were there. Man. Then, guess what? No rabbits? Guess what? No cat tracks. None. So in order to find a Black Panther,

you need to rabbit. Food source. We just need to go to the pet store. Well, no, no, food source. And release a bunch of rabbits. Hold on. Food source. Who stores? Petco sponsors. Paramount. In their world. Shout out, Petco. And there's one way to make a bunch of

of rabbits has put a few of them together. Oh, yeah. They do like that. You get repopulated. Get half and half. Yeah. 10 males, 10 females, and hey, come back two weeks later,

you got 50 rabbits down. Reproduction. Hey, you know that commercial energy or bungee? Hey, that's what's happening. Going around banging a drum. Oh, they're banging. They're banging that.

They're banging on. They're banging on. They're a drum. I feel like rabbits really felt a lot of style. He's saying them rabbits, they're always in the rut. Hey, that's it. Hey, the run is always on with rabbits.

I don't even know how to handle this. I don't either. Because I was just thinking about how rabbits aren't cool anymore, and they used to be. Everything used to be rabbits. Batteries, cereal, cartoons. Where are the rabbits at now? I feel like rabbits used to be, or like a bunny used to be like the best,

what would you show and tell when you're in like kindergarten, you know? Oh, the kid that would bring the rabbit was always cool. Look, there's Easter, my bunny, and he's like, has a big old brown. Every time I see, every time I see, what is in zebras? Every time of zebra, I can't believe they didn't domesticate them and ride them. Is it a zebra? No. Do you think anyone has done that?

I was looking up what animals reproduce the fastest. Zebras are on the list. He saw the zebra. white men, hey, the wild Mustangs, hey, we roped them and rode it. There's got to be somebody that's super rich that owns a zebra and they ride it. That guy by Caney Lake used to have zebras. No, I'm saying, but like rides one. I could just see a super rich person.

Oh, no, no, no, they got zebra races in the Middle East. No, they don't. You pull that up? I'm trying to see that. You don't know about zebra? No, they throw money on it? They do have camel races in the desert. Yeah.

Boom, right there. That's for sure. No way. Google Zebra race. I've never seen this in my life. Hey, I've never seen that before. They do ride them. That's actually really cool.

They got a bunch of clowns riding a bunch of zions. I wonder what... Those aren't clowns. Those are just human beings in bright colored uniforms. Jockeys, if you will. I wonder what the difference is speed. How much faster or vice versa? Who's faster?

A zebra or like a Mustang. I'm way more interested, way more interested in your list, by the way. The fastest part of the Mustang. It's not right. It really skips a run. Doesn't? It may not be. Secretary?

No, no, yeah, because it may not be because, hey, there's a lot of fast things chase zebras. That's what I'm saying. I don't know. Yeah. All right, that may be the other way. Hold on. They do it in Delaware.

What, zebra races? At the Delaware Park. But I just wondered why they didn't domesticate them. Did you not just see those people try to ride them? I don't think they like that. I know, but just, hey, look, yo. What? Figure it out.

I guarantee you before I would. would walk if I was on the continent of Africa, I would rope me a zebra and ride him. Well, they did that with camels. Huh? Yeah, they figured out the camel was way more friendly. Easier, it's easier to fool with the camel, yeah. The only thing you got to worry about him, he spits on you.

Yeah, that big old tongue. He chews tobacco and spits a lot. It's pissed. Oh, my. I'm sad, and what is it? What did you just say? Perute. And that was from Peru, and spit, too.

Lama's alpacas. Lama, Lama, Red Pajama. Yeah. Oh, I've read that book too many times. Ludacris does a great one. Does he? Oh, yeah, look it up. It's fun.

Like the rapper? Yeah. Nice. Lama Lama, hey, red pajama. Really? Oh, yeah. That's how I read it every time. Oh, I didn't know that.

Oh, yeah. Really spiced up Lama Lama Red Pajama. In our bedtime store. Hey, pipe down, Hunter. You get, you have kids one day. You'll know. Do anything. If they want to read Lama, Lama,

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Oh, man, I love it. That's crazy work. I'd rather deconstruct it and make it a jumbalaya. You should work at a worm shop. Now a bowl is great. Like, no, but like caging it up and making it. Who come up with sushi? Who?

Lazy people. What? You ain't ever tried to make it then. Because there's way too many steps. It looked difficult. I was like, just put all that stuff in a bowl. What kind of sushi did you make? I didn't do nothing.

I said what did they make for you? I saw some crab and tuna and something. I don't know. Yeah, I don't like tuna. I saw your wife. I love raw tuna. I felt bad about that because I was like, I got you tuna, so there's more protein. I said, hmm.

here's the problem that. I was like, your boy ain't eating fish that's the wrong color. I must say one thing about it. It is pretty looking. What's that?

Sushi's pretty looking? Yeah. You know, it's pretty looking at that? They roll it up in, you know, they roll it up in little nice rolls and it's all these different colors.

Yeah. Pizza way prettier. But, did you put like, did you put like cucumber and asparagus and all that stuff in there? There's all sorts of weird stuff. Cream cheese.

Yeah, all the, I ate a roll, just, you know. Just for fun. Yeah. Then I went and found some chicken nuggets. My dad fried last night. Then I went back to America.

Thank you. A little bit of fire to it. Can I send you a video of a sushi bar that I went? It's not a bar bar, but it's called a sushi bar. Oh, Hunter's like, I'm still Christian, guys. I didn't go to a bar bar. I went to a sushi bar. Yeah, y'all say off me in the comments.

Yeah. I do have a drink every once in a while. The Golden Corral Bar and buffet. It's okay to say a buffet bar. man. I made it ate a chocolate fountain, but it's close. Send me the video, Hunter. I'm so excited. What is it? You had them make, you videoed the guys making it? I just looked over at Hunter, and he was scrolling through his phone with the speed I've never

seen before. Wow. How long ago was it you were there? August. Just type in the word sushi, man. It's 2026. It's a, it's like a, it's a conveyor belt of sushi. So you just sit down out of table. No, you didn't go to rock and roll sushi, did you? No. I forgot what it was called, but it was in Texas. Hold on. What? Top. Hold on.

I'm out. You sushi on a conveyor belt in Texas? So many problems. Is this when you went to the Barbie movie? No, that's when I went to go see a band. Christian metal. Is this,

give it up for Jesus Christ? My chemical romance. Oh, I know my chemical romance. Hunter really would have thrived in like 1992. Oh, no. Yeah, assembly line. Oh, you just grabbed it as it went by if you liked it.

How did they know what to charge? They charge you. They charge you by plate and you put your plate into a thing that just like takes it. And it just counts how many plates you, you. I don't like the future. I used to like the future, but now the future is getting too far. What happens if you throw your plate on the ground? Break it.

They ask you to leave. What happens if it's? What if you grab the wrong one? I don't want to be charged for something that's trash. Is there a sneeze guard like at Golden Corral? Because what if the person on the conveyor belt before you? You sneezes on it. Yeah, your placement on the belt is key in this deal.

Yeah, I don't like this place. Yeah. Now, if there was a Popeye's with a conveyor belt of chicken, I'd be there. Hunter, I'm not one to micromanage you, but I could be back to August in my phone way quicker than that. I don't know what all you're documenting on there, but August wasn't that long ago. Hunter, was it? Oh, they cover it. It's in like a bowl, so you don't get, there is a sneeze guard.

What is that? Someone looked like two big shrimp. I think it was what it was. What kind of sushi was that? I don't remember. That's ill. That's ill. That's nigeri or something.

All right. We've gone too far as that. That wasn't even sushi because that was just sitting on a bed around. You like shishimi? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That Raymond noodle place in town's awesome. Have I talked about that?

Have I talked about that yet? Nardot place. Just on your just on your Instagram stories. What is that? So you know how I've always said you want, you know, the vibe to be right in a restaurant? You don't want to walk into the high bachi and be a bunch of white dudes. Yeah. Yeah, that's terrible.

You leave. So there's this place over in Monroe. I was like, let's try it. It's ramen noodles. And they make fancy ramen noodles now. Oh, yeah. I love ramen. It's good.

It's pretty good. I've always had it in the package. On Katsu. Yeah. Yeah, that was there. So I walk in and it's like. It's like Hunter opened a restaurant. Because there's like Japanese cartoons everywhere.

What's it called anime? Everybody wearing dark colored hoodies. Yeah, there's a lot of band t-shirts. Much a bleached hair. Oh, bad t-shirts. But then I'm like... Did it smell weird? No.

A lot of different color hair. I really expected to walk in and it'd be like this super like... I thought... Let's just say. I thought like there'd be a fourth grader checking me out and a couple other kids working. You thought you were going to Eastern. Yeah, but I wasn't it.

It was just a bunch of hunters working at a Japanese restaurant together. Yeah. Well, ramen ain't nothing but broth and noodles. No, sir, it is much more than that. It is heaven in a bowl. I don't disagree. That's what I love about ramen. This place was phenomenal.

Yeah. And I was trying to go back last night, but I wasn't had to do something. And I was sad. Yeah. When I tell you, I wish I, whatever that guy's name is and started that joint, I wish I was him on the cold front because he'd just be sitting at home making delicious hot soup with noodles what did you get? I don't even know

the Naruto place couldn't tell what it was in the bowl What's the name of it? Naruto Oh no I got the order no the name of the place Oh Naruto ramen Naruto is that a cartoon? It is an anime but I've heard it Naruto and Naruto so I can't tell you what it's called No bro I can't

Look I'm with you with Star Wars I draw a line somewhere Naruto Yeah But it is It is so good it hurts but it was so spicy too where is it? Over by the college well when you leave you should get you a bowl ramen

noodles that place it might be the best restaurant we have in town it's a restaurant it's a chain so I know there's another one somewhere in Texas but it's a chain all over the country man why is everything? No there's only two I looked at I deep dove this place if you're not good one is also Texas

Creeport oh I do like ramen they do have one in Shreveport this place is where the guy that we hunted with in Missouri made one night where he he called it duck ramen, which he just made a really spicy broth. There's some ramen noodles in it, and then...

There's some duck it made in it? Seared duck. He seared a bunch of duck breasts and sliced it thin, and laid it on top of it. And it was fantastic. Sounds like it. Then we took the leftover noodles and dumped them in a gumbo the next day and ate them in a duck blind.

That's good, too. Hey, gumbo with ramen noodles. Really fantastic stuff. They know how to make a broth. That's actually probably the best part about being an American. you get everybody we just steal everybody else's food hey Vietnam and it's great

Mama son used to make hey you got a cold don't get you a bowl of soup mom's son hey you ain't got a cold y'all carry on without me for a minute uh-oh martin's kids guys are acting up boys

well we'll carry on without you because I have great news but you are going to miss the fact that we have the complete dictionary of dreams now uh-oh For all of Sye's dream interpretations. I need to take that home and read some of it. Oh,

what did you see? What was your last dream about? My last dream was I was in Fields, four-wheel drive, just, I mean, pick up deep in mud. And I kept going because I knew if I once I stopped,

I'd never get it out of there. Right. So I just kept the, you know, pedal to the metal and, hey, you know, and I woke up and was literally,

pour out and out of breath from fighting that steering wheel in mud. Yeah. Mudd's not in here. What is it? What's in there? What is the chapter is called? No, it's by it if you have a certain thing in your dream. You have a dream, this will tell you how to interpret. You ever been on a dream on a

Ferris wheel? Because I could tell you what it means. I mean, here's my main dream. I've always, I get myself on a mountain. Yeah. Well, I have to jump off of it. Does he got that one? It's the wildest thing that ever, you know. It's got Mountain and Mountain Lion.

You ever dream about Mountain lions? No. Mountain, you are dreaming of challenges or obstacles that you best? Obstacles? About challenges. Does it say obstacles like that in there? Yes. Jeez.

I read it how I want. Especially as they might relate to new ideas. You're 79 years. 78 years. 78. Mountains are formed when two opposing vectors of movement And the earth, well, that's just the definition of the mountain. No, no, because I always get, I always, I'm climbing.

I got one question, sir. Yeah. Do you have a lot of obstacles in your life? Obstackles. Obstacles. Obstacles. Okay, hold on. The mountain is symbolic for newly formed high vantage place that member.

I skipped. No, I think what I, here's what I, I, I'm, I'm always going to be on the high ground. Right. Well, I'm in control of their area. Obi-1 canobi. Good. That's good. Yeah.

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I haven't had a dream about, I haven't had a dream about, I have a little out. I haven't had a dream about diarrhea, but I woke up in it. Something is out of control. Yeah. I'd say so. Maybe your stomach. Out of control. Yeah, I haven't dreamed about it, but I woke up in it.

We found the mountain. Size is just on the mountaintop looking down at everybody is basically what it says. Oh, really? He's amazing. I think I've got to have an advantage point of being high ground. Oh. I'm serious. Because that's my, that's the one that I do more often.

Why does he jump? He has to give up. He has to give up. He has to give up his high. Get down. You got to get off the high ground. Yeah. There you go.

It relates to the control and you got to get up your control. What's so wild about it is, it's like I was telling Jacob, I said, these are not little hills. These are some serious places I've got myself into. And the only way you can get out of it. I actually just interpreted it is bail out. Mount Drisco. Oh, but that's what you want to be. Bail out of it.

Because you were in the lower depths of friction causing emotional. States, but now in the long run, you have built new, higher terrain upon which you can see more of your life. And I can jump higher and further. There you go. And anybody. Hunter, you had any weird dreams? I'd really like to interpret you.

Not recently, man. Y'all are missing the most interesting man in this room, aka Hunter. He said, I actually used to dream about fingernails a lot. What? What about them? That you had them? It's in the book. It's had what?

Let's hear it. Oh my goodness. Gracious sex alive. What? I need to know. Fingernails are often adorned to draw attention to them, but they can also be a place where anxiety is expressed in the biting of them. Well, ding, ding, ding.

Either way, the creative expression associated with fingers as a symbol has the added distinction of adornment when fingernails are featured in a... Creative, creative fingers. even if that adornment is the evidence of a nail biter. Are you a nail biter, hunter? I am not. But you are creative? Yes. Are you anxious?

Josh Allen is a nail bitters. Some may say that. Josh Allen, what is that going to do with anything? Hey, he said so amazing. You're talking about nail bitters. He's a nail biter.

He's a nail bit when he's on the bench. He's over there, on the bench. Yeah. On the bench. On the bench. When he takes a sit out, he eats his nails. When he takes the sit out.

You don't want them things long. He looks like a witch. Hey, they're good for scratching. Ugh. You don't like a back scratch? Don't touch me. I'm saying if your wife was scratching your back, you don't like that? Don't like anyone scratching your head?

I would, sharp objects. That hurts. Really? Geez, I'm just talking about really a back scratch and a head massage. Yeah, me too. That's good. I just saying, I know. I mean, a doorpost hates to see me coming.

I'll put my back in between and start rubbing. Yeah. I do that like a signpost. Vinnie the poo? Isn't that thing? Like a big bear, polar barrel or a grizzly barrel on a tree. Yeah, gobbin big into that. I do that.

I do that. I do that. Big Dave does it all around the store. Does he? He's just laying a scent. He's making a little scrape. Mm-hmm. Certain dominance.

He's a little buck row right there. I just wish I'd dream more, but... I don't like dreaming. It's always weird. My weirdest dreams for me is I'll go to sleep and I'll wake up at like three or four o'clock and I'll pee and I'll go back to bed and that dream I'll have a dream between then and eight o'clock and it'll be like the weirdest dream I've ever had my life and then I'll wake up and I'll forget it all but I'll just feel so like out of it just like what just

happened when do you dream what stage of sleep rams sleep is that rams sleep is that rams sleep is that rome when he was talking about what he we got up depends on what they'll want back sleep that's rush sleep REM sleep? Is it R.M? Yeah, that's rush sleep. Rush sleep. That's why it's so weird. Yeah.

You're trying, you're going back to sleep and you're actually tired than you normally are. But I always have the weirdest dreams, like, in between that time. No, no. Ever when I sleep fully, it's always that. If I wake up and go back to sleep. Man, night before last, I had almost two hours of REM sleep. That's good.

That's why I was checking. I was like, huh. Martin loves all the day. Hey, you hadn't joined the group, man. Oh, yeah. I was going to ask you how that was going to join the group. Yeah, I'm in the group. I hadn't looked at the group.

Dude, the problem is we invited some nerd who apparently just runs his whole life. Yeah, look, there I am. Justin Mark, Wastaw Parish Walking. I'm in the group. I'm in the duck call room Garman group. We have it. If you got a Garman, join the duck call room group. I'm in fourth place.

Martin, see, you're not on the leaderboard. Are there competition? You're not on the leaderboard. That's what I don't understand about. Who's number one? Some guy named Adam Adam, shout out of Adam Some guy named Adam

Was walking 18,000 steps a day So he's absolutely I'm not being Adam and a roach This week I've had 70,000 steps That's all I know 70,000? This week, yeah That's pretty good

Well, I like it because I like going back And looking where I'm hunting I like watching and see what I did While I was hunting You're going to have to fix this for me I'm going to fix that Also, we might not have told it We did start the group

but we put it up on Instagram. So if you want to join the group. What's it called? It's called a dog call room. You just go to groups. If you have a Garmin. And we're going to fix Martin, so he'll show up on the leaderboard.

Yeah. Can you all have a deal on a Garman watch? We'll link it in the show notes. No. We'll link it in the show. I didn't go with that big daddy. How much is that one? Don't worry about it.

You all sell those at Honeyhole? I used to don't worry about it. No. You don't sell those? No. Come on. I'm trying to spend some money with you. I wonder how far I walk in my drink.

I pretty far. We want to put one of these on your side just so we can see how much you sleep. I'm bored out. Every time I'll stop. I'll wake up. Wait, I just realized this. I don't know if you're talking about it. You wear two watches.

It's the new thing I'm trying out. You wear one for flexing and then one for walking. See, but I've been doing it for a month and you just realized. I know that's what I'm saying. Yeah, but the one is his grandpa's watch. So that's kind of cool. It's a weird thing. This one's for fun.

This one's for steps. Yeah. How do you feel? Do you feel like balanced or what? You feel a little heavier on one side? Well, see, the deal. was I saw Chris Pratt did it once, so I was like, well, he's cool,

so I got to be able to... I can't make fun of me if Chris Pratt did it. I'm not making fun. I just didn't realize. I'm making fun of myself every day. I look down, I'm like, do I really want to do this? Pratt, Prat, Prat, Prat can do it.

Why can't I? Yeah, anybody can. Well, there's so much information out there. Like, Martin knows what his heart rate was when that guy was robbing him. Yeah, the data is what I'm obsessed with. When he robbed you? Well, he'd come out to house. He didn't rob me.

He tried to. He attempted to. Interesting. He got shut. That's a handy gadget to have when that happens. What a gun? Well, yeah. Because here you say, okay, yeah.

Never heard a gun refer to as a gadget. Yeah. That's a neat little gadget to get there. Well, I was talking about, well, my pulse stayed the same. My heart rate raised five beats per minute. Oh, more than that. No, Martin's heart was beating out of his chest. Yeah, I ain't ever pointed a gun at somebody with bad intentions.

Yeah. And I didn't have any bad intentions. intention was just you was hoping he didn't have yeah my all the bad intentions I had was protect myself yeah yeah um but you know yeah no it is cool the data is what yeah I love it I like sitting there looking at heart rates and SPO2 and all that kind of stuff it's just different different cool stuff let you know how you're doing in life like where you're at what's your what's your fitness age 36 and you are 36 yeah I'm 40 and a half I didn't know they didn't know they didn't half. It's a 40.

Oh, I was 36 and a half, but I fell up the wagon. Yeah. It kind of went through a little stressful time. And you know how those people, they're like, oh, man, I just been stressed. I ain't been eating. Now you got me wondering. I am the opposite. Oh, I'm an emotional eater.

Yeah. When things get tough, I eat. So I gained about 20 pounds. There you go. Good for you, buddy. It's fun, doing it. In like two months, but now I'm already back down to you. I would like to see some of the.

Navy SEALs on this thing when they're on a mission. They got a little bit different tracker. Well, no, no. But I would like to see what their bodies go through when they're on a real mission. The crazy thing about them is their heart rate would probably never increase, which is what's wild. They definitely would be stressed. They're just trained animals. But what is the date?

The day is the 22nd. I'm almost at two years, though. Since I, like the 28th or 29th, that leapier got me. I woke up, 252 pounds, got down to 199. I'm trying to just remain at 215. 199 was a weird world and I didn't like it that much. That was too small. Are you still jump roping?

I jumped rope last night. Yeah, he logs that on there. But I, but I stopped because just the life got too crazy. But now I'm back. Well, in the weather. And my step streak will be at two years. My day you went to hospital and took my mind off a thing. You're playing on steps for this freeze then.

But I'd not see what you were talking about. Very small laugh. Their heart rates and all that, they don't do what their normal man would do. I bet it doesn't even blip on the radar. Yeah, they don't do what a normal man would. They're the type that it may actually slow down. Yeah.

You know, like calm, cool. Because I read a book about one that he wrote, wrote about all of his combat tours, and he had a lot of that in there. Yeah. And he was always telling himself, calm down, slow your heart rate. Yeah. And I bet he got 10,000.

What do they call it the zone? Like getting into the zone? Well, it ain't a zone. No, I'm saying it's like they go to a place of their own. Right, yeah, yeah. But I'm saying there's like a mine thing where you get into this like thing where it's tunnel vision. It's go time, Martin.

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specifically from Amber. Amber. Oh, about Amber. Here's the deal. Hello at Duckcallroom.com, and we're about to have a conversation, everybody, because Amber, the subject line says, fire Johnny D.

To which I said, well, I'm going to delete that before anybody not me sees it. I have that power. I said, let's go ahead and read it. All right, Amber. Amber says, can we get a new person to read emails? Then she says, ha-ha, hopefully the subject line read you to read the email.

Amber? You got me. Good work, Amber. Can we please get more emails read? Seriously, love all you guys. Don't really fire Johnny D. Thank you for that. And she said I'd be missed.

So we've kind of slacked off on the emails. We have. And by we, we're going to turn that W upside down and make it a meet. There's just a lot of them. Yeah. It is a lot of them. But because of that, now it's not a lot of them. And no offense, you all that are still sending some of them, they're just,

They're just not, like, they're hard to force into a podcast. There's not questions. There's not other stuff. I mean, there's some good stuff in here and there's some deep stuff. But like, make it shorter. Hit me with the too long, didn't read version of it. And we're going to get back into the emails. And also with that.

Can we ask chat GPT to summarize? They do now. It's neat. Yeah. But I feel bad doing that. Why? It's there. I don't trust it.

Have you seen that movie with Tom Cruise? Which one? Where the AI kills everybody? Yeah. Because they're robots. A lot of robots. We're headed there. You can't trust robots.

You think? I can't trust a robot? Yeah. Really? That cop was pretty cool. Yeah, they're going nuts. All right. Well, here, look, here's one that it's a little lengthy.

That cat that brings your chips is pretty nice. Oh, man, that's awesome. Yeah. All right. What? What cat? I was talking about robots. Like the robot cat that brings you chips and awesome.

That brings you your food. That is the best robot we've ever had. Although humans do it better. I agreed, but it's always good for a laugh when a cat brings you chips and is awesome. My kids do love it. Anyways, James was from Wisconsin emails in. And this one has been AI overviewed, which is hilarious. And it makes me want to read the whole email here.

What's a drunken scones. No, he is not. He is a law enforcement officer. from Wisconsin, and he works the 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Oh, he got some stories. Yes. Jane. Thank you so much for this. Well, he doesn't have any stories today, but thank you for your service. Yeah. Of sticking up with the Wisconsinites from that hour.

Yeah. You imagine. Yes, I can. Anyways, he, he, let me make sure I got this right. Um this is not where podcast thrive Yeah I know

The AI is confusing me Martin That's what I uh does Just read it I'll cut out the pauses Anyway Okay That's not AI He emailed him before

That's H-I And apparently we gave them suggestion And it was very stone suggestion Oh good Get that TV and phone out of there And Well apparently We really helped him out.

Well, good. And he's in a way better place now. He's also been through some other stuff. It looks like. See, this is a pretty long email, so I'm trying to get through it all. But question, where should me and my family visit

during their trip to Louisiana? Because they're going on a journey as a family. They hit a couple states up every year, and they're going to get all of them. They're saying, like, what part, like what city? or whatever they're coming to our state new orleans you got to go to new orleans for like a day yeah a day maybe too just for the dining the culinary the culinary the commander's palace that is new orleans we're trying the food cafe dumont french quarter commander's palace french quarter have you ate there

yeah it's good solid dw fend i thought you're about to roast me for no it's just you're just pulling out all the stops without i mean that's that's kind of the pinnacle isn't it? I like it. I like it. I mean, I like it. I mean,

I like it. I mean, I mean, New Orleans. It's our shining spot. Don't go to Shreveport. No, time. No,

I go to Shreveport. I can probably say I wouldn't really spend any time in Alexandria. Yeah. Hop over to the Lafayette area and get you some Budan to take back home. Have I told you about my sales rep?

No. But does he bring you best up Budan or something? No, he brings me chicken cracklins from some gas station right south of Lafayette. Oh, I know that gas station. Okay.

It's so good. Yeah. I lost a few pounds and then I gained them all back to the desk. So New Orleans is like your fine dining experience. Slide over to Lafayette to eat out of gas stations. Yeah. What's it called? Because it's so good.

It's a beautiful. It's a sandwich place there. Old time grocery. I like that place in Lafayette. Yeah. The, they're the blue dog down there, the blue dog, a little restaurant. But that's really about.

Then you can slide back here if you want to. Or you can time it around the Angola rodeo. You can go to the prison radio. That would be pretty cool. That's worth going to. Yeah, that would be good. Going our big state prisons rodeo. Yeah.

It's cooler than you think. It really is. That's a cool. And you probably leave with a rocking chair, you know, or something. Some other inmate. I saw Willie when he had to go bring a trailer. Yeah. Which is wild.

So, yeah. There you go. And here's the last part. of his question. It got all, and this one's pretty heavy. His father suddenly passed away in November, which is tough. It was one of those heart attack things where nobody saw it coming and boom, and it just hits you like a ton of bricks. And, you know, I'm kind of partial to those people, and we all are in this room because it's been a lot lately around the Duck Commander family, all of us that are in here. So he asked if we could say a prayer for everybody that's,

lost to love one recently. There you go. And I think that's a great way to end it, James. Yeah, we'll wrap it up right there, James. Thanks for your service and enjoy our state when you come. Si, you're in charge of you. You're in charge of that. He said, no, you're the elder here.

You got, I'm just the announcement guy. Like, I'm the announcement guy. I want to hear you say this. He puts you on a spot. I want to hear you say it. I've been known to pray before. So we'll end this one without a Bible verse and we'll just speak to the almighty right here.

Father, we just thank you for the opportunity. to do this podcast and have fun and talk about the weirdest and wildest stuff that comes in our heads, but also get to just point people to you. Our brother James up in Wisconsin doing hard work up there all night long, protect him, protect the people he works with, Father, but also going through a tough time that all of us have experienced when death comes from out of nowhere and you had plans with that person and you don't know why and you ask questions. And Father, help us to know it's not our job to know why it's our job to trust in you trust that you have our best interest in mind and trust that one day through your son jesus we will all be together where there will be

heartache no pain no tears and there will be joy and laughter and hopefully somebody from lafayette brings chicken skins and it's in his name we pray amen amen amen wouldn't that be cool if there was just chicken skins everywhere we'll see y'all next time right here in the duck call room we're out