Duck Call Room - Uncle Si's Eye Surgery Was a HUGE Success!

Episode Date: December 20, 2022

Si is feeling GREAT after he underwent surgery for cataracts. He's seeing so well out of his left eye that he's already changed his glasses! Martin talks about recording Phil's thoughts on Duck Commander's 50th anniversary and why Phil's answer will always be #goals, not just for the boys, but for anyone who follows the Lord. Si shares the coolest thing he ever heard Phil say. Si's dreading the cold spell coming to Louisiana, and Martin says he's a "fairweather hunter." Martin & Jay Stone don't miss having to help Si with his broken-down Bronco. The boys share some advice for a couple figuring out how long to wait to get married, and John-David can't believe he's in the minority when they all have a big disagreement on whether or not a fan is about to be dumped by his girlfriend.  -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did they start on your left now? Yeah, I can't wait. I can't wait now. I'll get them both done. The best part of this is that he's got one lens in his classes. I don't need it. I don't need the lens. So you just took it out? Took it out?

We're back. And we're rolling. No, no, look. I just had a... Are you serious? Huh? Look at him. No, no.

You can see that that one ain't going to. Hey, I know, he's got one. He's got... I sat down. I looked down. You know it ain't there. Yeah. Oh, that's hilarious.

Because I don't need it. He's got one. Yeah, one guy glass on, okay. Glass is, we need to get you a monocle. What's it called? Yeah, monocle. Yeah. Like the Monopoly guy.

The Brits. No, no, this was been, hey, this was a, hip. What I just went through, this is a trip to the twilight zone. But you didn't even want to do it. No, no, because look, I show up at, at 915, okay, and the surgery room, okay, where you check in is slam full than a chair empty.

Okay, so they're coming in and getting them one at a time. So, hey, of course I'd be the last one. So it's about 11.30. That's good, though. I'd rather be last than first. They're in a good routine. Okay, yep, you're right next. Yeah.

So I go in there. Okay. and I wore this shirt without a t-shirt. Okay, because they said, hey, we got to hook you up to all the monitors and the blood pressure and all this. So the first thing she said, okay, sir, lay down you on the bed.

Did you have it open like that? No. No, I had it. Well, anyway, she had done, you know, so, you know, she hooks me up to all the KG junk, you know, about six or ten of them, whatever it is, you know, puts the blood pressure on the right wrist.

The anesthesiality comes in, you know, guy that gives you, goat puts you under. And he said, okay, I'm going to give you something and I'll use his terminology. That's going to relax you.

Okay. So I'm not, I'm not, I'm just in a relaxed state. Did you bring some of that with you? No, but hey, look,

it's good stuff though. Yeah, I'm aware. But anyway, hey, then they take me in and the doctor says, okay,

we're going to get you, you know, so they put a big, uh, mat over me, okay, and it's sticking. So they push it around my eyeball.

Okay, it's got a little hole. Then he puts in the thing to hold my eyelids open. Okay, where them ain't following in the way what I do it. So he said, okay, now we're ready. Okay, so hey, then it's just a bright light. And all I'm seeing is there's all kind of colors. It's like the kaleidoscope. You used to put you on and you turn it.

They show you all these beautiful patterns with all these beautiful colors. So that's going on for the first few minutes. then he gets to the point where he busts the lens in my eye. What'd that do for you? No, no. Then it went in black and white. You lost all the colors? No, no.

The colors are gone, okay? Then it's just look. And it's like a mass escape, okay? And since the eyeball is round, it's going out and down. Everything's going out and down. And then he says, okay, now I've got to clean up a little. little bit. He said, you're going to hear a sound, so he said,

ooh-woo, and what it is, it's the suction. Vacuum cleaning. Yeah, vacuum cleaning. So the maid is coming in, and she's cleaning up, zzzzz, zh, you know. So the whole time, he said, okay, now, he said, I'm going to put in the new lens. So it goes dark for a minute, and then it's back.

You know, and he said, you see the red light in the center? And I said, nope. So he moves it around a little bit. And I said, okay, now, yep, Red light there. Red light. So look, the only way I can describe it, there's three things in your eye, okay,

in the center of your eye. I call them pie cake pans. Okay, there's three of them, okay, and the cake is out of them. The cake's floating above them. So he had to start moving all this stuff. He's pushing this stuff around. He said, I'm trying to get it centered now.

Yeah, so they're getting closer and closer. and close, and then finally, voila, they're all in the, the cakes are in the pan. I said, he said, that should be centered right now. And I said, it is. You know, so then it was over. Yeah.

But it was a wild trip. So you were from seeing in colors. Oh, yeah. Black and white. Look, I said, I said, I'm really a little bit scared and anxious about this because my tolerance are playing. a pain, a pain is zip zero. You know?

If we're going to be informative, let's be informative. Yeah. So, hey, that's what got me. The problem is, you see the problem with that. What they busted was behind everything else. Well, no, no, no, no. They bust that bubble. The lens is at the back.

Yeah, but they busted that bubble that you see stick it out and then replaced it with an artificial one. And, but hey, kudos. to the doctor. So I got a question for you, obviously. Because, hey, look, there, you know, I thought when he told me, he said, no, there's not going to be any pain, sir.

I'm thinking about my head, you blind, dog. That's what they all said. You're telling a man that has got this much tolerance of pain, okay? Not a lot. Yeah. Which is none, none, okay.

Yeah. So, but they were, he was telling me the tricks. There was no pain. involved, period. First doctors ever told you Oh, no, no, that's the first one has never told me. This may hardly be, yeah, yeah. You heard a little bit.

You idiot? No, they just, hey, my hat is off. You know, because, hey, it was not any pain, and now the boy can actually see. Okay? Because when I went home, okay, and I'm right after surgery, they're on TV, the bottom of the TV comes on and he's got fine. print down there and I'm sitting there reading the fine print and I'm going whoa

them are actually words you saw you saw what it said when it said visit omegaxel.com slash duck yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah just it's insane it's thunderstorm warning when he was ridden yeah go right now all these lights so taking the lens at the glass was that the doctor's call or yours no that was christine I said I don't need it anymore so you just pop that out at home? Oh, yeah. She just unscrew it a bit and put it out and screwed it back together. So are you about to be glassless?

Yeah. You're going to leave them. I won't need them. They probably tell me, well, you probably have to have them for reading. Now, when you get the other one done, are you going to... When that happens, are you going to pop the other lens out? Oh, I just throw this junk away. No, you got...

I don't know what you look like without glasses. That ain't going to work. No, no, see, that's another thing, because I got to get with them because I want to have some like protective lens that are clear. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, you can't, you lose them glasses in that holder.

I ain't even going to know you up. Nobody even know me. That's what I'm saying. You built the brand, sir. Next thing you know, you'll start drinking Dr. Pepper or something.

I don't know. I mean, what the hell? No, no, no, hey, no. I don't mind an occasional

Dr. Pepper. They're pretty good. But, but hey, y'all, that's mine, that and lemon. Barton,

you need to be on the lookout. for size some of designer frames. No, no, what one of our sponsors? Some of those big black. I get him so. Yeah. Yeah, big, thick-rimmed ones.

No, I. He's got some cool sunglasses he brought with him, too. Give me some Tom Cruise glasses, son. Where's your sunglasses? He's got those behind his tea. What are those sunglasses? These are the ones you wear when you come out so that it don't burn your eyes up.

There you go. Right now, I look up now. Oh, okay. God, I wish you had on white tennis shoes. And Jorke. I mean, those things slipped right over those regular glasses. That ain't even close to us there. Old three lens, I.

Phil got a pair just like him. No. He hunts with him. Yep. Now, that was one of the reason I was so scared of the eye surgery. Him and Tommy. Tommy talked Phil into getting something done to their eyes. well for five days

Phil laid in the recliner at his house and had to have his head like this the whole time what? I think he had a hey

and he just had a big bloody spot where his eye used to be I think Phil was one of the first pioneers of LASIC Oh no no no I think he was early in the game I like them to dial that in so he's he just

I mean he had to lay there for like a week. You don't want to be the pioneer of a surgery. On your eyeballs. Well, that was a new thing because, hey, they just got in a brand new laser machine when, from my surgery. Oh, you were with a fresh hot laser.

They had it broke in because he was last. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's like getting fries out of fresh grease. Mm-hmm. That third batch. Yeah, once the grease is broke in, but it fries.

It's still new. Yeah, that's what you want. That's where you were. I ain't believe in a man went home and took a lens out of his glasses. That's funny. Well, hey, you don't need it. I love it. Why would you have it, you know?

I don't know, but you can't get rid of them glasses because the only time I ever see you without them, you're asleep. So I don't. And a lot of times I go to sleep with them all. You go to sleep with them all. And then my wife comes in and takes them off and put them on to you. Oh. I love it. Well, hey, I'm glad you.

I'm glad they didn't lie to you. I know how much you hate pain. Oh, what are you talking about? I'm glad that that was a factual statement. When I talked to Chris Dean yesterday, she said, shocked. She said, he is fine. No, no.

But he needs a driver. No, no, that was the coldestamp out of when I went back yesterday. Yeah. Went back yesterday to have it checked. You know, the nurse looks and says, okay, read the chart. You know, and I read it, she said, you can drive. you can pass the driver's test and I said, good deal.

There you go. So you can read the whole chart now? Down's about the fourth line. Can't read the bottom one. I tell you the most incredible thing is the ducks that I actually saw him kill when he couldn't see. I ain't no telling him what he's going to kill now.

Oh, no. Like he's on. I was with him the other day. Well, no, no. I shot of D-Corp. I think it was a stupid matter at hand. He did do that. That's a factual state.

That's why I said, you know. When they told me, said, well, hey, look, you know, I've done the exam and all that. And he said, well, look, here's the deal. He said, it would really be a waste of your money for me to actually tell me, okay, let's up it where you can see. He said, because that ain't going to last long. Yeah. He said, number one, your eyes or your lenses are scarred bad.

Number two, they're starting to harden. I saw them years of you weld them without a hood on it. Well, yeah. Yeah, coming back to night. But anyway, y'all. You know, and I said, well, I said, Yonita, we got one date open this month. And I said, hey, scheduled the first hour for have it done.

And I said, and then scheduled the next one as quick as you can do it. So they started on your left one? Oh, yeah. Yeah. He says, would your dominant eyes, what, you shoot right in? I said, I'll shoot right in. He said, I'll start with the left. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah, I can't wait. I have both eyes and I can see. Yeah. You boys in for a show. Hey, I'm coming to watch, you. Yeah, you're in for a show now. Let's take a break.

We'll be back. Martin was saying, they're right here. And I was over here talking, what? Yeah, I did have to turn his head a couple of times. I said, no. He took my head to like, eke. I just thought, man, that old boy shut down when it gets cold. But, you know, no, let's take a break.

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and eat some dang good steak. I ain't ever been hunting with a blind man before. That's fun. Especially one that I didn't know that was right beside me. They told me that, you know what I told me, hey, you didn't kill them to the Scrocloth. We put blanks in it. And I said, hey, that's when you know when you're really good, when you kill them anyway.

When you kill three out of three and they gave you blanks in your gun. Well, I can confirm. I said, I killed with a wadding, boys. I can confirm on a man that couldn't see nothing at least four kills because I'd look it right down in his gun barrel when it happened. So the fact that he couldn't see and did that, that's incredible. Oh, that's impressive. I mean, he was just going on feel.

Oh, no. It was just muscle memory at that time. Well, that's it, muscle memory. You could hear their wings. I don't tell y'all, hey, as long as you leave right, you can kill them out to just infinity. Also, if you got your lead right, hey, it don't make you there kill them. I'm also mildly concerned. I sat in a metal box by a blind man with a loaded shotgun.

But, you know what? God is good. He knew what I was doing. He saw I was there for the good of everything, and he took care of. He took care of an old man, blind man. Yeah. So, you know, there you go. But when you left, so when you left the doctor, though, you got in the wrong car?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I was trying to. They didn't let you hear? Oh, no. Unbelievable. But he was laughing because he had them black tased on too. He just had his done too.

He said, I know what you're doing, brother. Now, just think, you're sitting in a parking lot. And a man looked like him come trying to get in your car. I don't know what I'm going to do gas it yeah I mean honk the horn get my cell phone out you did that and I said well she's honking on but I can't find her no but I'm talking about if I'm the one not picking you up I'm like now hold on like what grab your pistol yeah I don't know I mean I guess even with sigh the good news about sigh even walking around you can tell he's got a sunny disposition so you probably wouldn't be too afraid of him Oh, I'm harmonous. Yeah, as a hill ham.

But, I mean, it's just, I don't know. That'd be weird. Have somebody just walk up to your door trying to get. But I guess it all, you'd be sympathetic of a man. Before all this happened way back, I actually got in the car with a person. You know, he, I'm serious. You all he's sitting there looking somewhere. I said, I said, oh, I'm sorry.

I got the wrong car. Elaborates? No, no, I just did. Then I opened the door and got out. Oh, so you sat down. Oh, yeah. This was a different time. I actually got it sat down and shut the door.

And this was when you had too good out. When I had any of room I, before my eyesight went, boys. He just. Did you buckle up? No, I hadn't got to the buckle up stage yet. Then I looked over and said, oh, I'm sorry. I've been in the wrong car. You know, it wasn't too long ago.

There was not a law requiring you to buckle up. I can remember when I was a kid being in the back window of a car. In the window. In the window. Hanging out. Hang it out. Oh, I remember as a kid riding on the console. Not in no chair, not in none of that.

On the damn console, like sitting on it. We'd ride the back window, the back of the truck. Oh, I remember riding in the back of the truck. People look at you like you're crazy now if you do that. Oh, yeah. I was in the neighborhood the other day. I was like, boy, it's jumping the back. It's fun.

Trust me. and there were people like, are those children in the back of a truck? I was like, yeah. Within the back of the truck. Just in the neighborhood. Yeah, that's fine. My papa, when I was a kid,

I lived across the street from him, he would take us to get snow cones, and we would be on the hood of his car until we got to the busy street. He's like, yeah, just ride up there. You don't have to get in. I was like, I just living there.

That's right. I can't tell you how many time. My grandpa put me in the back, said, hold on to this. We're just going right down the road. Right down the road. Right down the road was anywhere from one mile to 12 miles. Yeah. But, you know, rope was too expensive.

Didn't have no money for rope. You just hold on to this back here. We'll be all right. It's not like that back to feel. Hey, come on. I'm just going to be over for 10 minutes. Yeah. And, hey, three hours later. Sun's down. You know, I'm talking about, hey, when will be leaving? Then I remember today he got like, when they first come out, one of them old camper shells and that thing, and I thought that was the coolest thing. Like, I had my own little fort in the back of his truck. Until I realized I had to get up to the front and get everything out of it

when we'd go to the hunting camp or fishing camp because his old buck couldn't get up in there to it. So he'd stack it all the way to the front, and then I was up in there crawling. Yeah, I was a husky. A husky. A ski. I was in that big section.

Not the tall, just the big. You grew into it, though. Yeah, it took me a while. But, yeah. And it was a good old days there. believe but we're living in the good old days too but it's uh it's so funny to look over at a man with one lens one lens one lens just hopping in other people's call i didn't notice until that glare hit it just right you don't notice how much bigger as other eye is yeah them things used to be

strong oh yeah oh yeah that's awesome yeah that's fantastic that's awesome yeah that's fantastic Well, any other news from the eye doctor? No. You're just full of great eye doctor. Another one I'll be done in January. Did you go home and tell Christine how beautiful she is? Oh, I do that. Now that you can see her.

Yeah, I do that all the time. Well, that's good. As a matter of fact, we pulled up, she went to the grocery store, and I pulled up my son. Hey, good look at the red head. Get your butt in the car. I'm going to take you home. I like your look, girl. Come on.

Did you imagine the game? that Si had when he was in his 20s. Oh. I'll say this. It was the sink or swim method I can guarantee you. Hey, she can only say no. And you only need one to say yes. I wasn't afraid to try it to meet.

Sing or swim. Hey, girl. Oh, that is funny. Oh, my goodness gracious. No, that's all of my fondest memories. It's my dating days. Oh, boy. I think we can tell them.

Yeah, are those... Oh, no. I wonder what the attrition... Let me be ready to explore. Oh, oh, boy. Oh, okay. Oh. Even America's favorite uncle has a pass, boys.

Anyway. They'll know us by the power of our testimony, everybody. Oh, my goodness gracious. Oh. So the next one's in January. Ninth of January. Ninth of January. Where are we going once you get that done?

Once you've got two good eyes and no linds in the glasses. Oh, hey, I can go down there and show them boys put on a shooting demonstration for them. You probably all not wait until the 9th of January. I wish it was legal because I pulled my stunt my uncle used to pull. Okay. What? Do tell. Hey, meet me down at the lair and bring plenty of money.

Money? He's fixing to shoot wood ducks in the head. I fixed shoot with a ducs flying. With a 22. With a 22. Open shot on it. Hey, you know what? Iron sights.

You may actually win at poker now. You're going to know what two cards you got. I can actually read the cards. No, I think it's going to take a lot more than cataract surgery for him to win at poker. He always wins because he's got the deepest pocket. He'll just keep coming back. He does have staying power. We'll be back right after.

We ain't afraid to lose. Are you aware that this is this year, March the, 50th anniversary of Duck Commander. No, I didn't. Did you know that? Fitty album. Nope, 50 years. 50 years.

50 years. Phil didn't either until I asked him sit down and film something for it. He said 50 years. I've just been doing this for fun. My favorite part about Phil, we asked him in the deal, and this video will be out eventually.

We're not done with it yet, but asked him about 50 years, and here's who feel that he could care less about this cup. me the first thing he did. Phil, what's 50 years mean? You've been doing it, you know,

all that. 50 years. Well, 2,022 years ago, a man named Jesus, Kay, and I was like, you know,

that's the kind of perspective I hope I keep in my life. When I'm asking you about your success of what you built from the ground up. For 50 years. For 50 years,

your blood, sweat, tears, guts, you name it on the Washtaw River. You're way more concerned with 2022 years. And you your only concern is telling the story of Jesus before you even talk about yourself.

That's goals. Like, it's hilarious to watch, but that is, that's goal. You're not worried about your story. Like, that's, to me, that is a cool perspective to have on life. My whole body right now is tingling from the tip of the

hair all the way down to my toenails. Because of that. Yeah. It's hilarious, man. Because looking back, okay, on the Robbersons as a whole, on our whole family, I can see God's handprint clearly. Okay, and everything we've ever been involved in. Okay, and that all started with mom and dad.

Yeah. Okay. That's wild, man. You finally give a man a care. and like, hey, talk about yourself. Talk about yourself for a minute. What about your 50 years? Nope.

Let me tell you. 22,000, 22 years ago, Jesus, the son of God, left his footprint on this earth for 33 short years. Yeah, it was, I mean, but that's just, that's Phil. And again, that's just a perspective that I hope I can have one day. I mean, like, it was just, I don't know, it's hilarious to watch because we know Phil. And I've heard that many times from Phil. No, no.

But it's the coolest thing I've heard. It's expected at this, but like you know he's going to do it. The coolest thing I ever heard him say was I come in from leave in the military. Yon, I said, well, what's been going on? Yeah. And he said, well, you know, about that time, here comes a pickup load of his buddies. You know, they pull in and told him, hey, hey, you've been all right. Yeah, we've been good.

and they said, hey man, let's go drink some beer and you'll run the women. And Phil looked at him and said, boys, y'all don't realize it. That guy's dead and buried. And I'm looking at him. And they just blanks, tell me what? He said, that boy died. And I buried him.

You're looking for a dead man. He don't exist no more. you know and they how else yeah they're gone they gone yeah because I told him I said hey the best sermon I ever heard you give

well that day that your buddy had asked you hey let's go get drunk run the women and he said hey that boy boy died he don't live here anymore he don't live here anymore

he's dead and buried he's dead and buried he's saying that's what made me think of the exact way he put it he said 50 years he said And anniversaries ain't something I celebrate. And then he said, except for one, he said, the birth of our Savior, Christmas, it's coming up. And Christmas.

Christ. And then he went into the 2022 years ago. The first thing I thought of, whatever he said it, I was like, dang, okay, that's unfortunate. Anniversaries ain't something I celebrate. I was like, well, I bet Kay loves here and yes. Yeah. You know, but it was, it was classic Phil and just, again, a perspective that I hope we, you know, something we should all strive for.

Somebody asks you to talk about yourself and the first thing you do is talk about Jesus. I mean, that's a. But in Phil's case and in all of our cases, there is no us without Jesus. Well, it's, you know, there's no you without him, and especially in our case. Well, that's, can I got to bring this up, Sunday, Al preached. Okay, and he gave the contrast, okay, of living a life with Jesus versus, and I'm not even going to use the word life because without him, there is no life. Yeah.

Okay, and he contrasted that in his sermon the other day. Okay, and it just, you know, that's why, in my home of the opinion, the human race has gone slam stupid. We've been in that way. No, no, I'm serious. This is, hey, look, and I'm part of it. All the difference is today, you know about it. All right.

That's the biggest difference is it's so connected. You know all the crazy mess that's going on in the world. Which, by the way, speaking of crazy mess in the world, look, our folks up in Farmable, our neighbors to the north, they took it on a chin from a nadir. So, man, I just, weather's weird. I've been here 37 years. I just, the last couple of years, we've had tornadoes during the middle of winter.

Like, it just is, it's mind-blowing. Like, now it's becoming normal. And I'm like, uh-oh, like, what's going on on this big thing that we're shaking? Like, what is? And then we had tornadoes last week, and they're talking about getting snow next week. Like, that don't happen down here. It's supposed to be 19 degrees here in about, what, six days? Mm-hmm.

Like Christmas Eve, I think. It's going to turn it into a bear. Yeah. A hibernate. A hibernation. Oh, man, them deer are going to be moving. You got to go. Yeah.

Hey, they're going to be missing me because I ain't going to be moving. So, Cy's a fair weather, honey. I'm a fair weather hunter. Sidebeat, I chopped down that whole deer stand, burnt it all the pieces. Hey, before I'd freeze it dead, oh, I'd burn everything. I got. That house go up in a flame, boys. Let's take a break.

be back right after this. I told Phil about it once we realized 50th anniversary was upon us. You know what he told me? Uh-oh. He said, huh, I was just trying to figure out a way to make a living where I could go duck hunting every day.

That's all I was trying to do. He figured that out. Well, you pulled it off and then some. Hmm. Well, I think that's what he figured out in life and if people see him as attractive or have it figured out, he figured out what being content is and what following Jesus does.

You say being content that he's living in the same house that he was living in 40 years, 50 years ago. How long has he been there? 55 years? 72. Yeah. Well, 72 is 50. That's what it's 22 now.

So, yeah, 50 years. 50 plus, yeah. That's the house he moved in when he left Junction City. That's where Kate, he told Kay, he says it in that video. He said, I told Kate to find me a place on the river. He said, this was the place she found. We're still in it. Yeah.

Now, granted, it has changed a lot. It used to be two houses. Yeah, I mean, but it's still functionally the same place. They didn't tear it down and rebuild it. No. Now, they moved metal buildings in and out and around and added on. And add it on and put a concrete slab. And, like, you know, there's a little bit.

But the structure is still what was there. And that's wild. I mean, you know, because, I mean, the man's walking around puppy pads every day. Like, he got enough money to send them dogs to a dog trainer. He's like, man, ain't that big of a deal. Like, he just walks around. He got enough money. to build something super fancy down there too.

Yeah. To level of a whole thing and build whatever he wants. Why? Why would you waste your money? No, he's not saying he should. He's saying he could. I said he could. But instead, he lives in the trailer house that he was in

and walks around puppy pads every day. Happy, happy, happy. But you know, but here's a difference. When he pulls up to his layer, the workplace, because Kay kicked us out, she got tired of us coming in at 4 in the morning. That's understanding. Making a racket.

Well, she should have been used to it by then. I still miss mornings it feels, watching the weather channel and opining about, hey, we ought to do this and we just do the same thing we were going to do anyway. Like, nothing changes on that regard. But when he pulls up to the layer and he sees that trachho and that dozer and M2 tractors, he wells with pride. If that ain't redneck, I mean, the door. falling off his house but by God I got a trachho of dozer and two tractors and those

tractors are not hey to work my land my land that's it mine that's the thing yeah okay because I told him I said hey you ain't never been too bright but the brightest thing you ever done was bought that land oh yeah but that is we've hunted on it he is a he is for sure an example of contentment oh yeah and where you are this man sitting right here has the same Absolutely. Si's house was falling down and all he did was bulldozed it. Oh, I wish that had filmed, let me do that and filmed it. All he did was tore it down and put him up a sci pad.

Yeah, Cypad. And called it good. You remember those billboards you'd be driving down at interstate and there'd be a big picture of him standing next to the sci pad. Get a sci pad. Yeah, the side pad. Get a sci pad. Man had a whole house named after him. You couldn't go 10 miles without seeing his face.

On the interstate for sure. Yeah. It was fantastic. And that's, I mean, up until what? Last year, he ain't ever had a brand new vehicle. Man, 70, well, 73 years old at the time. I ain't ever bought a brand new vehicle and could have bought us all one at any given time over the past 10 year. Yeah.

And then finally decided to get him one. I was like, when he did that, I was like, that's awesome. Like that, you deserve it. Like, you earned it. I mean, you used, how many times? well, let's stop pick you up on that Bronco because it broke down between your house and field. I used to go home that way out of my way to make sure he wouldn't walking home.

And when I would go duck hunting, I would go that way to make sure Si made it. He'd come around a car. But, yep, because I got done it. Sighs there with a hood up and we over there just jumper cables and trying to get everything back connected. That is wonderful. You know. Have you seen what field drives around at White Trip? Oh, the single cab?

Yeah. He ain't worried about buffing all of him dead south. No, well, he used to say it was two inches narrower than it was when he bought it. But now it's like seven inches narrower and four inches shorter when he bought it. He just keeps backing into things. Luckily, it ain't Ston's truck no morning. Hey, them trees ain't got a lot of give down there. Neither to Stone's truck.

That was a good morning there. I told y'all not to park there. He passed it on to his son. too because I remember that day that Al, I'll pull in between them two trees and left the door up when he he hung the verge, just hit it,

he finds you, don't just tore the door off. Down the road he goes. He got wedged in between two trees. Instead of just, you know, tried to assess the situation, it was a fit of rage. We're just,

boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. the phone jackknife in between two trees and it it was impressive he got it out of there that was that old brown ford i remember that was funny that is hilarious and that was one of my first hunts down there and i thought what in the world oh yeah what have i got myself in here yeah i may need to fire me somewhere else instead of looking getting out like stonged out and walk around talking about okay what i need to do here no yeah nobody got time yeah this is way quicker. Anybody got time

get out of the truck. If I do this 19 times, that'd save me how long I'd have been out of the truck. That's funny.

Oh my goodness gracious. Yeah, I'd never forget that morning. Phil. Boom! I told you

I'm not to park there. No, yeah. He got on the truck. I was parked. I was parked. Don't pull behind me. A hundred feet

behind his rig. I told you all not to park here. Yeah. He just backed right into it. It said, send me a bill.

Yeah. Hit me a bill. Rolled down his window. I told y'all not to park here. Send me a bill. Everybody gets backed into down there. It don't matter how careful you are, man. God, I'm backed into me on the phone with me.

He was talking to me. Boom. He said, I hit your truck. You said I felt it? No, I was down there. You weren't in the truck. You were just on the phone. No, I had that are moving decoys around and crap.

I'm going to have to put rearview mirrors on those side by side. Yeah. You know, he run over. Why? He won't use them. No, he can't turn around. Look behind him. He gets to by right here as far as he can go.

Oh, because of his back. Just in 76. I'm talking about Godwin. Oh, yeah. I thought you're talking about it. He's on the field. No, I guess he's constricted because of his clothes. Yeah, that's it right there.

That's it. He turned his phone and says. selfie mode. That's it. Oh, that's funny. You got spoiled by that backup camera. Of course, I have two. I don't look behind me anymore.

Backup cameras are nice. Oh, I don't know what took them so long to invent them thing. Mine doesn't work right. Brittany's new rig got them 360 camera. She still turned all right around and look behind her. I'm like, this right there. Everything you need is right there. She, nope, can't do it.

Can't do it. I wish I had it. But, no, this man. That's good times down there, man. Unbelievable. Fifty years of them. A lot of good memories. 50 years of them.

Only about 12, 13 of them for me, but they were some fun ones. They're some miserable ones, too. Well, you know, Phil has an infatuation with misery. He does. Especially with somebody new comes along. He's going to find out what kind of man they are. Who's a man? I slept on his couch and many nights because he told me I should move the decoys in the middle of the night.

Yeah, that's just a lunacy. Yeah. I did it. it though. Why did it too? I was earning my stripes within my thought and then I finally said you know what there's a better mouse trap somebody else come down here and hunt I'm out but you know what you did it because you wanted a duck hunt every day so yeah putting out decoys in the middle of the night building duck blinds in the middle of the night oh my gosh the day before duck season me yeah I remember that me it was me you feel gobbling yeah down there at midnight on the lane with chainsaws and two befores

Yeah. Because that was a good idea. I don't know how one of us didn't end up without a digit on that deal. We was holding headlight, cutting two-by-fours with a chainsaw. It feels like, oh, if we just rip them at this angle right here, we can jab them in the mud. So we're cutting them with chainsaws and hitting with a sledgehammer in the middle of the night, the day before duck season. And then, what, about 2 o'clock we got done? I was like, why don't we just get in this thing, go to sleep?

They're like, no, let's go back to the house. I'm like, well, there's another hour gone. we'd have been way better just sit down and go to sleep sit down there, wake the daylight. Yeah. Wake up. You know. Oh, I remember them days.

Yeah. I tell you what I did, though. Just sheer stupidity. I put two boards on the bottom. That way I didn't fall out the front of that rascal like I did that other one. Oh, my gosh. I had me plenty of room for that size 13 foot on this one. That was the beginning of the less is more blind building.

Yeah. Less is more. Less is two. It was two boys. One for your butt, one for your feet. Yeah, budget. We's on a budget, boys. Well, that went from, hey, you know, they put three blinds together and said, hey, they'll never notice the duck blind because it's too big.

Too big. We went from extreme comfort to extreme misery. Yeah. Yeah, you used to have a toilet in a duck blind. Yeah. And then we went to the low profile stage where. Phil wanted low-profile blinds, but that meant Gobwin was the only one

who could actually sit upright under the roof. All the rest of them had to be honked over. And we couldn't afford chairs, so we all sat on five-gallon hydraulic fluid buckets. Black and yellow buckets. Black and yellow buckets. No cushion. There were two chairs in the blind on each end.

That's right. Next to the heaters. The rest of us on hydraulic fluid buckets. I'd leave air like, I mean, I'd leave air about Gobwin's high. Like I could not stand up. I was just like this all morning. Cramp, cramp.

You know, W.E. Phillips, the wise philosopher, he has it right. He said, Phil and Jace, they have a problem with the concept of other people. But let's take our last break. We'll be back right after this. Johnny D. What's that? What's in that inbox? I got some.

But first off, most important advice, always take your own car. get out of there someone we'll call her Whitney it's not Whitney she said to keep her name anonymous well I get why so we just edit it because I accidentally read your name she said

she's looking for some advice well she doesn't know if she's looking for advice but she thinks she needs some advice so her boyfriend and her they're 32 and 30 they're ready to move on with their lives and they are ready to get married normal thing to happen

but however this past summer his brother decided to finally she put quotations proposed to his girlfriend so they have a wedding date next September so she want they want to elope

just have a few friends there boom get married but they don't want to steal the brother's thunder and get married right before he does and make it about them but they're also ready to have kids. They're 32 and 30. They're ready to tie-knott, have some kids, start

making a family. Go to the Justice of the Peace. Don't tell nobody. Then have a ceremony eight months later. There you go. Like, this ain't hard. Well, they don't even want to have a ceremony from what I'm reading. They said they wanted a few friends there. Two. When I said a few, she literally put it with only like two friends there. Oh, well, go down to the Justice of the Peace, do you think? Yeah. Two witnesses.

And start. Tell them you're married. Figure out what, and figure out how to have kids. Start doing that. Yeah. Hey. You got to figure that one out on your own.

We're not giving that advice. Yeah, I don't think I get that you got family and they got big plans, but you can't. I think the only way you steal the thunder is if you announce it. Announce it into a ceremony. You go down just a piece on a random Tuesday. No, I don't, but I don't think if you get married and say, hey, we're getting married. The only way you steal the thunder is if you. you like do it right next to their wedding or at their wet.

Like, yeah, you can't. Go tomorrow. You can't let someone else's celebration, which is a great thing, happy for them to hold your life back for years. Especially if you're in your 30s. Yeah. I say leave tomorrow. Yeah.

Get in the rig, go get it done. That's going to air on like a Tuesday. Wednesday, y'all should go get married. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I say. December 23rd.

That's your anniversary date, Whitney, not the name I said earlier that we edited out. Yeah. I mean, the sky is blue. Quit it. Anyway, I think we all, I think we're in agreement, Zai. Yeah, go get married. Hey, used to, when I did it, it cost $25. I don't know what to fee you nowadays.

Hey. So he said ID, we jumped into a car and headed south, boys. Oh, how the heck out of Massachusetts? What's it? Get out of Massachusetts. And they got the right idea, too. I got out of the Army and got married, same day. Thank you.

Went out from one of one context. track went to another one. Hey, that's what the judge said. And that's the only reason the judge, hey, he wavered five days of all this junk you had to go to. He said, I got one question. I said, what's that? He said, you just got out from a four-year contract with the military.

This is a lifetime. You sure you want to do it? I said, yeah. He said, all right, everything's wavered. Go, here. Go see this man here, and he'll marry you. Boom. Oh, I'm going to do everything.

saying my power to try to talk my daughter's into doing the same thing. What's that a lawyer? Yes, sir. It's way simpler. Go to a justice of the piece. Pay the man, whatever, $50, $100, and hey, that's all it's going to cost you. And then spend about $5,000 and throw you a really good party. That's right.

Then, hey, if you want to throw a party, then throw you. Spend $5,000. And spend the other 10 on a trip. Whitney, even better idea. You can announce it at Christmas. Oh, by the way, everybody. Oh, by the way. We're married. We're married.

Merry Christmas card. Merry Christmas, everybody. We got married. And then it's all about Christmas and your brother's not until September or his brother. And if he gets upset about that. Oh, yeah. Find a new brother. Now you can't do that.

That's on him. Yeah. I mean, he got issues. Hey, strike while the iron's hot. You're 30 and 32. Let's waste the time. We're getting people married. Move on it.

Careful. may have twins. That's right. Hey, there you go. You know where that came from? What? I don't know. It just happens.

No, I don't know where the other one come from. Yeah, me, you're glad you. Yeah, thanks for you. You can have them. You got one more? I do have another. We're going overtime today. Over time, baby.

We may have some stuff we call from the earlier. Who knows? Well, we already had to add it out. We'll make Hunter do his job. Corey from Maryland's name. Corey. What's up, Corey? His subject line was Black Panthers Rule

the earth. So I was almost like, here we go. Another black band, but he's right. But he, that has nothing to do with that. He just wanted to grab my attention. So his girlfriend and him have been together coming up on three years now and they've hit a bit of a snag. She claims she's getting a little

bored with our relationship. She still loves me and I still love her. But our time together isn't as exciting as it used to be. First piece of advice I'm going to give you is, duh. I'm wondering if there should still be is spark in the relationship after this long. And if there is, how do we keep it?

Long story short, what we do together is getting a little repetitive, and we missed the times when we first got together, and we were so head over heels for each other. Any advice you could give us would be awesome. Martin said he ain't touched you. What? Hey, I'll give you a heads up. You're on your way out, Jack.

No. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I don't think that. Hey, read the signs. There's the right on the wall. No. Okay, you're gone, dude.

I don't think that's true. Oh, it is true. I don't think that's true, Corey. Get back women when she dumps you. Hey, I'm just being honest here, boys. I just got to say this. If you ain't got the pass code to her phone, you need to get it. Oh, my goodness.

I'm against both of you right now. that's normal I mean not to say it out loud yeah she's letting her feelings be she's setting up for the goodbye I don't know but I mean you're not why are you bored did you quit putting time

into the relationship did you give up on the effort did you stop dating did you do you watch Big Bang Theory every night like what do you I mean that is true where you at with that deal but I do think three years in you're not going to

it should be better yeah but you're not going to have the lovey-dovey no that leaves but it's replaced with other things and if it's not better things if it's not getting replaced then there's an issue okay I don't think you're getting dumped

yeah Corey I think you can save this when I hear that though I do think she's practicing her goodbye I'm just being honest they want to know what we really think that's what I think is happening Corey I read this and didn't think that's so there's a chance

yeah that's fine but we all have difference of opinion. You've got to step-up-ed-e-e- You better make something happen. Steppy game-off. Here's what you do. You record this conversation, play it in front of her, and look at her reaction. That's right.

Wow. That's a risky strategy, but it's good work. And then you'll know. Dear. Hey, I hear the whistling of an act. I hear the whistling of an axe coming down. I say, as a man who we rarely agree on a lot of things, me and him is on the exact same page. I know, it feels weird.

So I just, that feels like the practice of goodbye. I think, but three years, I think she loves you. And this is her way of saying, hey, dude, pay attention to me. Hey, dude. Step your game up. Yeah, because odds are there's somebody trying to do that. Whew. I'm just, that's the only time that that becomes an issue.

I'm just saying. I mean, you're not wrong. She's telling you she's bored. You're gone, dude. No, she's given him the nice way of saying something's got to change. Yeah, give a little. He's gone. That could be the change.

That could be the change, boys. But, well, either way, we gave him a wake-up call to step up. So I put the fear. I'll be honest, though, when people send these kinds of emails, and I appreciate them. I appreciate all the emails. He knows something needs to change. Yeah, otherwise.

It's like he's afraid to pull the trigger and he needs us to tell him. Well, change something. Change something. Either change girlfriends, change tactics, change something. Hey, I will say this to you though, dude. Hey, it's a big ocean.

There's a lot of fish in it. Corey, three years of your life and you say you love this girl, go fight for her, my man. I'm not disagreeing with that. Look, hey. That's good advice. Great advice.

Go to six-five or something. But they're just girlfriend, boyfriend, boyfriend, right? Correct. Yeah. Yeah, there's no paperwork in there. Well, and like there's no reason to go to counseling or anything. In marriage, if you were married, I would say go find you a counselor. No, no, no.

And, like, find you an unbiased third party that can tell you what you're missing. Because we do, I mean, we do run into ruts and relationships where you just start missing things because you're so dialed in on here. Me and Brittany have gone to marriage counseling, like, three times now, three different occasions, just for refreshers. Like, just to say we're committed, we want to make sure we're not missing anything. It's not because we're having problems, but we want to make sure that we head off any issues that we could have. And it's like, me and Allison have had to have conversations like, you get busy, you start just getting in a routine. And then, you know, bro, what's kids get involved?

It's a whole new game. And you start paying attention to the kids and you got this going. on. She's got that going on. And pretty soon you got to go, whoa, timeout, time out. And I think that's what your girlfriend's doing. Like, we're missing each other. Something's got to change. Yeah. And for you, you ain't married, so the change

could be you. Sigh, here's the whistling. So I would say this is her desperate, this is her plea to you to step your game up, pay attention to her, and quit doing whatever it is boring

her. Yeah. Hey, what a. What's the deal with those argos? What's the downside to an argo? Hey, maintenance. High maintenance, boys. Hey, you may have one of those. We don't quit preaching and got to meddling. Oh, we don't got to meddling now, boys.

Hey, perhaps he's high maintenance. I know how high maintenance. You never know. You never know. It works both ways. It works both ways. Well, send us out here, Sean. All right, I got.

I hope we did ruin somebody's Christmas. Oh, he, hey, oh, who. $199, baby. $199. All right, well, this is the verse I thought of when we, and I've done this verse before for sure, but this is the verse I thought of when it was talking about Phil, just the life he's lived and how content he is and the life that he's got now. A lot of times I think we, John 316, everybody and say, hey, God loves you.

You can go to heaven. But Jesus also said this. the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life and they may have it more abundantly. I'm the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. Jesus wants you in heaven. That's of great importance. But if you follow him and you do what Phil Robertson did and turn your life completely around and bury that old man, he will give you life abundantly.

It might look like catching catfish. It might look like making duck calls. But I guarantee you ain't nobody on this earth as happy as Phil Robertson. And it all started with the decision to find Jesus and say, what do you want with me? And that man's got a life abundant. For some people, that looks like misery.

But for him, it is an abundant and fantastic life of duck hunting, fishing, and doing what he loves. And it all came from Jesus. and now we're celebrating 50 years of this company because of it. Well said. Amen.

There you go. Merry Christmas. We'll see y'all. And a happy new year. Merry Christmas. And a happy new year. Is that for you, Corey?