Duck Call Room - Uncle Si’s Favorite Fishing Secret

Episode Date: November 16, 2021

Si relives his earliest hunting experience and shares his secret to great fishing. Martin’s first solo fishing trip ended with a hook in his finger, and Godwin’s first deer kill ended with a whupping from his dad. John-David tells the story of his first deer kill (which wasn't that long ago!) and shares LOTS of fans' photos of their first kills. Si reveals his favorite Christmas movie. And the boys try to figure out how soon is TOO soon to decorate for Christmas. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, welcome back, folks. We are here for another episode of the duck call room. Look, we want to thank you all so much for the overwhelming, overwhelming response to our first picture request. So there's all. We have got a lot of first. We've got first deer, first ducks, first. Doves, first fish, first everything. And I, you know what that says?

They're still, there's still hope for this country. That's right, boy. Because there's little boys and girls. About toting guns and killing stuff. They're hunting and fishing and there's little Ryan would say loving every day. That's right. Enjoying God's creation. I said it means they're still listening.

Yeah, well, that is. Well, they are. Yeah, they are listening. Which is also surprising. It's going to get dark tonight. Which is awesome. They're listening to us. They ain't just hearing us.

So that's a good thing. That's, that's, but look, on that thread, why don't sigh? Yes. your earliest hunting or fishing memory. What is it? I'm curious. That would be with my dad when I was in what? It would have to be, okay.

Vivian, I went to the first grade. Was that 1,800 or 1900? Well, hey, I don't know. Anyway, I was in the first grade. We're going to Blackbow, get in the boat, a wooden boat that my father and my uncle built made. That's good. Okay, put a motor on it, and then we go to the blind. You get in it and we're sitting there and the first thing dad does says

Marf, you need to check, see how many ducks are out there on the water, surrounded the blind. So Uncle Marr goes, quang, quang. You got an answer over here behind us, said there's a bunch behind us. He turned this way, down the other side. They answered, you know, he says, two bunches. He said, well, check out in front, you know. Then he got checked out front.

There were so, though there were four groups of mallards around us. So daylight break, nothing comes in. They're called in a bunch. Didn't work. Didn't work. Well, I noticed there's a duck out there swimming around not far away. At about time, I said, Daddy, can I shoot him? Shoot him.

He went under. Okay. Uh-oh. And Daddy said, here's the gun, 16-gates. He said, see them three little weeds sticking up over the left? I said, yep. He said, put your gun right there. Be looking right down the barrel.

And when his head pops up, shoot him. So, hey, I'm sitting there. Yeah, it was just, I mean, that quick, the head, poop, boom. Yeah, well, it was a, it was a coot. He didn't got him with a Coot. Oh, yeah, I didn't kill me a Coot. So, Daddy, when we got home, he said, all right, pick him, got him, and clean him all that, and he said, then go out there and get me a piece of board about, oh,

just big enough to put the duck home. I said, okay. So I did all this. I was fired up, y'all. I got my first duck. You know, he said, all right, he turned that oven home to boil. Okay. How's there to go?

And just, he said, hey, look, put a lot of salt on him and heavy pepper. So I just covered this sucker solid black with pepper, you know. Look, put him in the oven. He said, hey, give it a couple of hours. A couple hours? Oh, yeah. On bra.

Not on bra. Look, I burnt this sucker slown black, okay? One of them is just charcoal. He said, now, he said, what you do is he said, go outside and sling it duck as far as you slamming and eat the board because you'll enjoy it better you're making duck bacon I'll never get that because the whole time Marl over we're listening and just die laughing you know Uncle Marr what a great time of year to be talking about that Uncle Marvin oh man hey that's but that fits that your first animal was a coot oh no

that one oh yeah for some reason that fits with you. Phil. Phil was, I think, a teal and a pintail, Drake. Yep, really?

Yeah. First two ducks. He come home and said, Dad, I've struck. You know, and he threw them on the ground, he said, what did I strike?

Yeah. He said, I have no idea. What did I kill, Dad? He said, that's a green wing till Drake. And he said, ooh, you got the good one there.

That's a pentail bull sprag. Bullspring. That's what I'm talking about, boys. Oh, man. That's fine. First are always memorable. It doesn't matter what it is.

I got my tail tore up. You first. I mean, my first deer. What was you? What did you kill? First deer. Well, what did you get your butt whooped for? Because I got off the stand.

Daddy told me I was eight years old, and they put me on the stand by myself. Of course, I'm sure he was close watching. Oh, yeah. He said, I'll hear you shoot and I'll get down. You stay on that stand. Don't get off of it. if you seek. Well, then what did you get down for? Because I shot a deer.

Well, I know, but hey, you don't told. You've been told by your dad. Don't get down. He had a big, he used to go to Colorado all the time hunting. He had this big old flame orange coat, and that sucker was like a blanket to me. Boy, I loved it. It was warm. Oh, I done got hot. I done shook that thing, throwed it on the ground. Down that stand, I went over there, and I had that deer in my lap pet me. And I heard something running, a bunch of racquet.

And I thought, golly, another deer. And I'm over here in my guns at the stand. And I heard John, John. And I said, I'm over here, Daddy. And, boy, he stopped. And I had to look on his face. I'll never forget it. He come over and shook him cover all, boy.

He started, well, I told you. Oh, I told you. I told you. Trying to get away. How many times have I heard that? I told you. You ain't hunting no more this week. I killed another dude next day.

I don't told you. I always said I hate it when I start following you. I tried to get away from him, but boy. They're quick, them adults are. But anyway. So you got a whooping. I'll never forget it. He whooped them boys.

There is something about that. Like when you first start hunting by yourself, I remember my grandparents when they finally are like, no, you old enough now. You can hunt by yourself. And that don't get out of the stands. I'm still not old. But as soon as you shoot something, at that age, you can't get down that ladder faster.

No. You're like, I got to go. Yeah, it's one of them. I got to go see this thing. Yeah, you forgot about what they said about don't get out of the stand. Now, curiosity kills a cat on that one because you got to know. You just, you got to know. He's seen that flame orange piled up under the stand.

He thought I didn't shot myself or whatever. Scared. You know, when they always whoop you. That's why he whooped you. You scared him. Yeah. That's why you always hurt. But they whoop you and they tell you that you'll understand when you get a little older.

That this hurts me. No, it don't hurt them. Yes, it does. That's tearing me up. No, no. Yeah, but it does hurt them. It does earn them, too. But I do understand.

You know, that's going to. When you get kids, you're on it. Yeah, you'll understand. Oh, man. Well, trust me, God was whooped his enough on his own. I can. He thinks he understands? Or that one.

The thing that gets me about it is, everybody says God don't have a sense of humor. Oh, yes, he does. Yes, he does. Because, hey, he made a bush grow in our yard. Okay, and it done one thing. It grew the best switches here on this earth. It don't bring no little. Okay.

Oh, no, no, no. That was the insult. hurt me more than the whipping. Okay, you had to go get your own measure of destruction. I know it. Okay, so I got smart. I got smart in smart age, is what I called it. Yeah.

So I went out there and I grabbed it and before broke it off or tried it. Yeah. I said, that and there lasts about three or four legs and I being good. So I broke it off and come back and give it to mama. Yon, it was that I told you started. she started eating them legs up for that little thing. Because all she had to do is do her hand like this. Yeah.

And that thing would just eat you alive. Worse than a baby. Well, yeah. So it broke after about the fifth leg. And she said, young man, go get me another one. And she said, you better make it a good one. Or we'll sit here today and pick that whole bush. Uh-oh.

Yeah. Look, she whipped me with that one for about eight months. look and I'm serious I'm serious Oh no what are you talking about You're talking about stupid Okay She whooped me with that thing

For eight months And when it broke She literally cried crocodile tears Boy boy that was a good one I had Mr. I had Mr. Flint When I worked out there at Riverwood That Flint ink

Pattle That you mix that ink with I brought one of them home I'd tell her You don't make me at Mr. Flint. Oh, no, they have one in, they have one of them in school, and the guy, coach, he took and drilled about one of them big drills, okay, bit,

and drill some air holes in it, and the bad part you could hear it whistling before it pop you. Like one of them bombs. Oh, no, no, no. Hey, yeah, hey, hey, that thing was sucking air, and so was you when he popped that button. Because hey, back on the whooping. I'm serious, hey, when we grew up, hey, the teachers would grab you and paddle your old tail. Three legs. Okay, three legs.

No, our coach couldn't count. But three is all you needed. I was saying, coach couldn't count them. Okay, he must not have graduated high school because he couldn't count. They still did that in the 2000s because I got one. I got one. I saw that shadow coming too. I look at.

Coach Anworth, if you listen to this, I love you. But, dag, gum, you didn't have to get all. five, seven of you into that paddle. Yeah, Coach Bristow slings hard, too. I looked at the wall and I could see the reflection in his diploma and I tensed up. I could just see that shadow. And I said, uh-oh.

Tell me, yeah, something bad. I deserved it. Yeah, something. No, it's all dad ever asked me when I heard it. Yeah. Did you deserve it? Absolutely. And the one time that he had pure child abuse? No, I didn't. All but one. Oh, no, no. Hey, he drew blood on that one.

You deserved a whoopin. You didn't deserve it. I didn't deserve a flogging, okay? I wanted you to remember it. All right. Well, let's stay disciplined and take our first break. We'll be back right now. All right, look, springtime is here.

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I'll leave you with this. I'll leave you with this, though, parents. Spare the rod, spoil your child. Here's what I can tell you. None of us were spoiled. Hey. Because that rod was everything but spared. I think mom and dad, well, my wouldn't mom and mom and dad. I was memmon papo, but I think they went through a, I think they went through a few rods on me.

I don't, I don't think we stopped it just one. But look, they're the ones that took me hunting and fishing and everything. And I, I never forget. Well, I got two of them that are just as vivid

in my mind as the day they happen. One of them was deer. I was hunting by myself. I'd been hunting. I broke my wrist. My neighbor broke my wrist. We was playing football in the backyard. That's what I'd say.

No, so I had a cast on. And I was right-handed, but it was my right hand. So I was sitting there, deer hunting. And that cast makes a pretty good gun rest whenever it's deer season, just so you know. I sitting on a little ladder in the woods and this big buck come stepping out. I'm tall all I could see was hamper.

He stepped out about 30 yards broadside and I had 270. I was like, oh yeah. What? Here we go. Bam. Got him. Big buck. He would have scored about 11.

inches he was old spike bucks on but all i can see was him antlers and he was standing out there in front of me and i had i had to have him and then you know they come down there and said what'd you get i said oh big old buck big old buck you know i was fired up so and i had deer blood on that cast from dragging him and skinning him but the other one was the first time they let me take the boat out by myself i think i was 10 or 11 and I wasn't very old. But I wanted to go bass fishing. You know, I was like everybody else, I was watching Bill Danz. So I done, got off them crappies, and let's go catch some in bass.

Everybody catching on TV. And we's on Lafouche Lake. And we had camp down there. Papa said, well, just take the boat across the lake and go try to catch you one. That's a big deal. First time you get to go on a boat by yourself, like I'm running the motor and everything, that's a big deal now. So I get over there, I throw up next to this bush, tiny torpedo, baby bass color.

I'll never forget it. Pop about three times. I said, ooh. A rat. Got him up there. He about three pounds. He's jumping everywhere. Well, say, I've been watching him, boys. I had to get down there and lift him by the boat. I didn't know nothing about no boat flipping at that point. And when I grabbed a hold of that thing, he slung that treble hook so far in my finger.

And I still got a knot right there. You can see you got one. Still got a knock right there where that hook went all the way in. Well, now I'm in panic mode. I'm attached to a bass about three pounds that will not quit moving. He's trying to still get off. He thinks he's trying to swim.

He thinks he's still in the water. So, you know what I do? Well, you got to hold the fish with this hand. And then you attach to this one. What else you got? You yank it? The only thing you got left is your teeth. So I reached up there with my teeth and yanked that hook out.

Ah. Now, at one point, if that fish turns his head one way or the other, now not only am I hooked in my finger, but I'm like him. Yeah, yeah, he's hooked you too. I just, I panicked, you know, I just, I panic. Oh, yeah, but that's, but when you don't know nobody. But that's the beauty about being young and all these, all this stuff we're seeing, the first timers and outdoors. That's the fun part of all the, the learning curve that comes with it. Yeah. Because there ain't no telling when I grew up there hunting how many deer I scared off.

Yeah. Before I ever saw one. And not to mention, once I finally saw one, they weren't near as big as I thought they were. Like I was sitting there looking for a goddamn elephant walking through the wood. I know. I was looking at the tree squirrel hunting. Yeah. You're looking down there for something eight foot tall walking across the road.

You know, you just don't know. Well, they're right there. Yeah. You were talking about that first squirrel I killed? I'd watched him for 15 minutes. until it just finally struck me. Dummy, this is what you're hunting. Because he was up there, he was eating and watching me,

eating a pecan and watched me, dropping stuff all over me. Then when I finally said, good grief, you know. Boom! He was just dared you. Yeah. He said, here I am, son. I'm right here. I'm making you a pecan pie right now.

Oh, he was having big time. Oh, man. Johnny, do you? Your first deer story ought to be vivid. Well, yeah, it was like a couple days ago. No. It was a couple years ago, but it just happened. Yeah, it was recent.

I didn't grow up hunting at all. My dad didn't hunt. He fished. If he had time off, he wasn't wasting it in the woods. He was on water. That's his thing, as evident by his career choice. So I didn't really hunt until I worked here, which I do have a cool. I took my dad duck hunting for the first time, like five years ago,

and he shot his first duck at that age. And it was because I took him. But he ain't been back. Yeah, it's not for him. He's got to go fishing. He ain't about that life. Hey, I can appreciate that. But my best story from my childhood,

fishing-wise, because I didn't hunt, I did shoot a squirrel in the backyard once and it scarred me for a while. It was not properly done. I was so sad. I watched a lot of animal planet, and I popped that thing square in the spine. And it couldn't move and it was screaming.

I'll never forget it. And I took it to my pap ball and we skinned it and we ate it. And I still have the tail to the first squirrel I ever killed. Really? Uh-huh. And then. Squirrels good. That's cool.

Oh, hey, that's my favorite wild game. Squirrel. Let me ask you a question. Did Dave throw the fish on top of your coax and ice chest? Mm-mm. I hated drinking them slimy coax. I hate it. We had a live whale.

No, not us. No, no. Mammal wouldn't do that. Mammal wasn't about that live oil back. Then you got to get in there and clean that live well out there to get the stanking on you. We had a troller motor. Oh, yeah. But me and my dad.

Sculling man. Sculling man. I can scold the best of them. I'll tell you. Hey. Yeah. He would take me all the time, but I always wanted to mount a fish. And he caught like a nine-pound bass when I was little.

It was the biggest fish he'd ever caught, and he mounted it. So then I was on a mission. I'm going to mount a fish one day because I have to because it's what you do so I'm I'm like I'm gonna catch a trophy and so he made a deal with me he said I will mount you a fish if cool we're going croppy fish and he goes if you catch one over two pounds tonight I'll mount it which is doable but but that's a big it's a good one that's a man you know and like so he didn't really think it was going to happen I caught six croppy over two pounds that night and that's why He owns a tackle shop.

And so. That man puts you on. Yeah, he put me on. I figured there was no way it would happen. But he put me on him. And I still have, I told me, I don't have the picture. I have a picture of me holding it up. And I have it on the wall in my parents' house still, that fish.

I got my first two-pound crappy mounted, too. Yeah. And then I got a 3-49 mounted. That was a bull. I'd love to say that was skill, but I was bass fishing, and he ate a crankbait. You know what? Still counts the same. He still weighed 349.

That's huge. And that's a bull. Where did you? Where? All out there in one of them subdivision lakes. High fence fishing. Hey, that plays anything by high fence fishing because them boys fish that pond all the time. I mean, that's a tough pond to catch them on.

But it's got big. Well, the biggest place to go catch good crop in all that is golf course of ponds. Golf course. Yeah. I'm sure. I've got run off from them any of them. Oh, no. I call one Elver and Huntsville that I worked on.

He would have weighed four. Yeah. I didn't weigh him, but I'm telling you, hey, that joker was a bull. Biggin. He was a big. Oh, big. Do you eat him? Nope.

Turned him. Nope. Nope. Turned him. Oh, I forgot. I remember. I asked for pictures. I said, so you got a picture of that thing?

He said, no. Turn to eat him. I said, that's what I said. Look, I had about 25 baths and crappie on. the stringer, okay, and one four-pound cropy. And all it was left was the lips. That big loggerhead turtle he'd ever bid of him. He's the only one he touched.

Freaking turtles. Didn't fool with none of the rest of them. I said if I could see, I'd put it in your head. Boy, if that ain't a fishing story, I ain't heard on there, son. The old boy told me. That ain't even the bigin that got away. That's the big and that just disappeared. He was on the stringer.

That's the bad part about that. A guy told me, he said, man, you need to go put him in your cooler at the truck. No. I said, no, that truck's up at a thousand yard. They bite, and I'm fixing to catch me some more. You don't got cocky. Yeah. I said, no, I don't need it.

Pride goes before the fall. I grabbed it to look at it. When I lifted it up, I said, what's wrong with this darn stringer? And then I turned and looked at all just half of his head, his eyes and his lips. You know, I said, you saw a mite, pitiful. I want to take dynamite and blow that pond up and kill everything. I'd have to cut the levee and just drain. Oh, no.

I want to blow everything up in it. Hey. I love a good fishing store. All right. Well, let's take another break. We'll be back right after. All right. Well, here's the problem.

You don't take it. What's the problem? Your first deer. You called me. Stop it. And I'll never forget. I was nervous. What did he call you?

He called me and said, well, I have it. He couldn't talk. I said, all right, calm down. Call me back. Hey, back to my first fish. Look, there he is. That's not my first fish. No, but you let him eat it, son.

He had been there a minute. Look at that Johnson. Look at that cool picture frame it's in, too. When he woke up, he finally realized that the court was gone. I'm changing the subject. There he is on the wall. Oh, Lord, have mercy. Leave me a lot about my dear.

Okay, so here's the deal. I wish I still saved all my text messages because I said, I do. Calm down. Call me back. I probably have it. I said, but send me a picture to video because I knew they were filming. Like, video the video, send it to me. Let me see where you hit him.

Square. I squared them up. This video was so shaky. You could not. He was so nervous. He couldn't even video the video. I got it, Mark. All right, let me get it to my computer.

Let me just tell you this. This is the shakiest piece of video. Yeah, it's going to take... Ten minutes after the deer's been shot. It's going to take me a second to show the deer had been shot. He's been gone. Oh, no. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay, yeah. Because look, I got the arrow right here at 615 and the video. You shot him with a boat. Crossbow. Crossbow. Okay. Look at him.

Look how good of a deer is. But you broke all the rules of first deer. What? You go out there and kill this. dang mega hammer everybody's first deer should be a button head yeah right yeah here's the video this is what he says not a bull this is what he sends me to say can you see my shot is it good look how shake that's him holding the phone that's how much he's shaking there's a thing called buck oh i seen it exactly and it is real i mean it's just and this is after the deer has done this it's

over you should have seen what he looked like in the scope boom i saw him i saw underneath it I finally got a good enough video. I saw you, he did. He ain't far. And I didn't know. He didn't run far. He worked about 80 yards. He went right over a little hill so you couldn't see.

But I heard him crash. And so I was like, we got to find him. And then I was with Willie and I didn't want Willie to spank me, Godwin. And he said, you don't get out of that stand until I show up. Well, he was old enough to understand what that really meant. I told John David, I said, go find him. Man, he don't care. Go out there and find that second.

I wanted to really bad, but Willie wanted to train Spaz too. Oh, yeah. So Spaz was with us. Oh, that's it. And then we found him. But you kill a 130-inch deer for your first one. Oh, 120. Well, you might as well hang it up.

Yep. It ain't getting no better than that. He's a big O. 8 point. He's up. Hey, what did you get in that? In Louisiana. That's a Louisiana deer?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Gracious. Anyways. Right now, you know where he's at?

where right next to my Christmas tree just sitting up there he's rude on my kids call him Rudy rudolph he's had an American we paint his nose red we should paint his nose red we should paint his nose I've actually thought that

you better be careful now them deer this time of you're like to rub him cedar tree no how much money did you make if you made a red nose for deer mounts that's a brilliant idea somebody steal it I'll buy them from you

why not just paint it I mean the nose is painted anyway oh that paint it yeah after Christmas paint it And it black again. And it black again. Get the primer on it and go with it.

Gagabble, what was your first deer, do deer? Button head. Button head. Well, there was two deer come out. I waited until I was... Daddy always said the buck's in the back. Yeah. So I shot the back deer.

I didn't know it was a buddead. And this buck was trailing his mama. Probably. Which is fine. Look, ain't nothing wrong. Look, your first deer, who cares what it is? Nobody cares what it is. It's your first deer.

most of the first deer are button heads or spikes because everybody knows they're like a young male human they're not very bright no to be fair to be fair to myself though if I wasn't so shaky my first deer would have been a doe but it was one of those size shots oh yeah it went over there something yeah my first one was a button head my second one was a spike my third one was like a three point I mean I was heck on them young bucks growing up now that'd be tough on them young yeah But you get to a point there where then all of a sudden you're like, I want to kill a big. So then you'd rather just kill a dough than you would have young buck.

So that's where you all graduate to. But I tell you this, them young ones taste just as good as them old ones and vice versa. They're all good to eat. And they're way better than a duck. I don't care what anybody said. You know what's even better than a duck? Chicken. Yeah.

I said it. I'm not going to disagree with you. My first duck was a mallard hen. Milder. Groundwater? Gain Hill Road. No? She didn't.

I should have let her land, but I didn't. I remember my first duck that I confirmed, killed by myself, was a Mallor Drake in Holly Ridge, Louisiana, and a skid. I don't want to tell my first. I went hunt. I went duck hunting a lot before then, and it was eight guys in a pit blind, and everybody's staying up, boom, bow, bow, bow, boom, bow, bow, ducks falling everywhere.

I don't know if I killed one or not. Like, you know, hey, all I knew is I was pointing and blasting and having a time of my life. And every, I was like side of everyone that come in there. I got him. I got everyone, every time that dog bring up back, give me my duck. Give me my duck. I was claiming all of them, son. Give me a thing.

Claiming them all. I didn't know nobody. My first duck was a coot. See, there you go. It's driving me every time I start to tell a story. I get more like size. Look at you. I shot a coot.

We were hunting hard. My buddy, Jimmy would take me hunting with him on the old public land. And we had a little spot. and we hunted hard. And we never could kill anything one day of Coot right before we left. I said, well, this is it, boys, I'm doing it. He comes swimming in, ground swelding. Yeah, there you go.

I like it. I said, it's time. Heck, yeah. And then the one time we had, I'll never forget it, we had a group of four mallards just lightening the decoys. You all right? Beautiful, right? Listen, and we didn't kill any of them because a game warden was checking us at the moment.

Oh, I told him, me my gun. He pulled up on us, and I was like, I don't, I didn't know the rules because I was so new to it all. And I was like, I'm about to shoot. And I was looking at him. I'm holding my gun. He's looking at me. And I was like, I've had them walk out there that pit blind. I say, get in here.

We're still hunting. Get on in here and check. I ain't got my limits yet. Yeah, we ain't done. And then that game. Go out in here, son. I had a buddy in mine. We're sitting there and checking us.

And a squirrel runs in between us. My buddy was right to kill that squirrel. It was open. scared them game warrants and hit day, well, well, settle down. I said, we're out here hunting. Yeah.

We come from meat. Yeah. And there's a squirrel. I don't hear nothing. He was safe. I said, he killed a squirrel. He was on parlor. He said, yeah, but I said,

I know, yeah, but nothing. I'm hunting. You came to me. You came to me. I said, hey, don't get in the way of me hunting trying to get some meat. Doggone. We hungry around here.

We hungry around him. I'm hungry right now. Are you? Well, then let's take a break and get a snack. Oh, that sounds good. I love snacks. You're going to take a snack, boy. Hey, enough about us.

Yeah. Let's put in that inbox and let's just talk about a couple of our first time. Okay, so this is actually really hard, and I just want to thank everybody for sending in what you got. But I started, I was like, I'm going to make a folder because I didn't think we'd get as many as we did. My keychain's going off. And we got a ton of them. So, Well, pick one.

Are you ready? Yeah. This is my man, Jacob. Let me pull it up for y'all to see. Why am I so terrible at this all of a sudden? I give up. All right. Here's Jacob.

Boom. My man, Jacob. Look at that. Twelve years old. First deer killed during youth modern gun. And on their farm in Kentucky, Jacob was born death and had some challenges in life, but it has never slowed him down.

as made evident by that deer right there on the ground. And he's never met a stranger, and he watches both of our podcast, Unashamed, and the good one. What's the good one? The duck call round. Well, Jacob, congrats, man. And you smoked him, too.

Jacob from Kentucky. Kentucky. You're just beginning now. That's pretty awesome. He's up with Daniel Boone, boys. He was born deaf, and he's still out of deer hunting. That's awesome. That's fantastic.

I love it. That is. Well, that's fine. You can't hear deer anyway. They do walk on cats. Oh, you're talking about. Yeah. But that's awesome.

Good for him, man. That is fantastic. And then I got another one from Uncle Nate. Uncle Nate is kind of my hero because Uncle Nate told a story. He kind of like Uncle Cracker? I don't know. Where's Uncle Nate from? Anyway, Uncle Nate was allowed to go on his first solo,

fishing trip when he was 12 right uh-huh Nate dog he loaded the boat sigh he got that turtle to make your crappy he got the turtle out there good good for you Nate so he took his bicycle

to the park and his dad thought he'd come back with nothing right like your first solo it ain't going to end up good he comes back with a turtle on one handle bar and a whole dozen blue gill on the other one riding up on his bicycle.

So his dad snapped this photo of him. And now Uncle Nate, Uncle Nate is just passing it on. That's him and his niece. Look at there. Teaching her how to catch Cropy. We're not really sure how to pronounce your name. We think it's Kaylee.

Oh, Nate coming there and said, Dad, sharpen you knife. We're going to have fried fish and turtle suits. So, yeah, we got. Side, tell me a number one through 20. What's on your stringer? Go. 1 through 20,

Sa. On that? Just any. No, no on that. Just a number. Pick one. Pick a number.

Number seven. Lucky number seven. Seven. Come on that, boys. Roll them down. All right. Roll them down. See, and I love pictures like this.

Uh-oh. My man's just sitting there waiting, and he hadn't killed anything yet. Oh, but he's looking. But he's got snacks. And he's there. And he's there. Look, speaking of snacks. Look, speaking of snacks.

tell you y'all something i i can't believe i went this long without telling you what last night i had my first christmas tree cake of the year what'd you do about one i bought a box of well or i didn't buy them brittney bought them now you won't know the best part about them i mean it's good man fresh but she messed around and bought the megas them old big christmas tree cake jane d i'm sorry you're on that house of pain membership and this will get you can't eat none of them but that's It's always a reward day, Johnny Deke. Always a reward day. Hey, so I went just the other day to Walmart, and this is my buggy right there.

Oh. That's not really my buggy, but somebody sent us that picture in. They didn't say who they were or their name. Is that crisper tree cake? It is. That's why we can never find them. Also. The big ones?

I don't know which ones, but there's enough little ones there to make a big one. He's got the buggy four, boys. While recording this podcast. literally five minutes ago. I got an email that said for Martin, reference Little Debbie ice cream. A loyal fan of the duck call room Cassandra

writes, she wanted to let you know where they were because we haven't found the ice cream. Yeah, I ain't saying to you. I won't. She emailed Little Debbie herself asking for a location that sells it in our area just for us. Did I have one? As of this morning.

Walmart on Louisville Avenue and Monroe. I'll be right. I'll be right. We go on, boy. We're out. I got that while we're recording. We'll see you next week. Hold on. Time out.

I'm texting Brittany right now. Hey, he's sending a woman boys right now on the little Debbie eyes cream run. All right. And then I want to get back on these deer photos. Get two gallons of it because I want a gallon. He won't take out of them boys. You want a gallon? All right.

Here's my man. Tack it. Pack it, boy. Pack it. Tack it. Tack it. Tack it. That's the perfect size.

Oh, tack it. And he tacked that dope. That's awesome. Eight years old, drop that thing at 24 yards during Texas bow season. My man, my man, Tackett, went to Phil Robertson School of Deer Management. Yeah. Oh, hey, that's good. That's perfect.

And look. I love it. His dad was super proud because when they got there, he prayed and thanked the good Lord that he got to kill his first deer. You called it a doe. Are those knocks I see on that one? I can't tell you. Because if so, that's how you're supposed to start deer. Oh, I think that's a buttonhead.

Amen. Good for him. He has got a long future in the world. Tackett's dad just says deer. And I lost my favorite picture because there's just so many of them. Look at the smile, though. You can't replicate that smile anywhere. No, and look.

He's saying, I just provided for my family. I did that. Yeah, I just did that. We're going to eat this. I wish we had the picture. after it because if they don't do it in Texas, they need to, where's the picture with all the blood on his face?

Yeah. Because you got to be initiated, right. All right. You ready for the next one? Yeah, sure. Fire away. I've never had more fun reading emails than I did today. Well,

I mean, these are cool moments for people. Look at this guy. Who's, I'm as resident fish judge. He doesn't call for many fish. He's done got burn up, took his shirt off. That's exactly how you're supposed to catch a fish.

Absolutely. He's holding it right. Blue Crocs with no shirt on. He turned five literally yesterday from when we're filming this. And caught him a big one. And what he asked for was flutes, crankbaits, and a pair of boots. Oh, my birthday. This is my man, Grantley.

He's registered it past, pro. Grantley. It's all right. Well, you, Grant. I'm just going to call you Grant. He'd rather be outside practicing casting than inside watching TV. And that's a proud dad. His dad sent this in.

I just like the fact that he's dressed for the job. Dressed for the job you want, not the one you have. Yeah, absolutely. And you'll end up like sigh. Kudos. I mean, but I've got literally there's 60-something of these, I think. Wow. So.

You didn't make a scrapbook. I don't even know how to go through them. Brittany said, on it. Oh, she's going to get the ice cream? Bring it up here. Tell her and bring it up here. That's a good woman right there, boy. That is important.

I'm here to tell you. I'm owning. But we also got a bunch of pictures, and it's not even people with animals, but it's just them and their families hunting. Which is fantastic. Which is what hunting and fishing and everything, even if you're a camper, hiker, kayak, or whatever, outside, that's what it's about.

That's why we do it. It's about the fellowship. It's about the fellowship. It's about the connection with the creator. Because even inside this room right here, You can't feel that. I mean, we're all laughing and have a good time. But just like this morning, I went speckle bea goose hunting.

We didn't kill nothing. Well, we killed one. Might as well not killed nothing. Yeah, might as well not kill nothing. But you know what? I turned and looked over my right shoulder for about 30 minutes, and I watched that sun come up. And, man, if that kind of sunrise can happen in North Louisiana,

imagine the sunrise going to happen in heaven. What are you talking about? I mean, are you kidding me? And you know what happened in heaven? And Specklebell has actually worked, too. Because them suckers wouldn't do nothing this morning. Sorry, rascals. No wind.

There ain't many people get the hair of the woods wake up. I love watching them wake up and I love watching them go to bed. I do. I thoroughly enjoy that. But let's take our last break. We'll be back right after this. All, and we're back. Look, Sy, we're going to kick off this last one thanking our fans.

Look, they still send us some great stuff. One of them sent you a Christmas, present and I put it in that box right beside you. So if you want to take a minute and look in that box. Please do. Uh-oh. Uncle size Christmas present here. Heavy.

Yes, heavy. You know why? Oh, Lord. All right. All right. Christine's side. Okay, look, this is so funny, okay. We're terrible at opening boxes.

You got, okay. This is called the bod. Oh, there we go. Okay. It's four men. Okay, Lisa and Al Robertson gave me this as a gag gift one Christmas. Okay, but the gag is on them. I went home, okay, and I've got this plus deodorant that I mix.

Oh, boy. Okay. With a little cat pee? Well, no, no, no, no, no. No, no. I put, yeah. Oh, and this has to have to get body wash, too. There's body wash.

He's excited. There's fragrance, body spray. No, no. There's two in one shampoo and conditioner. What is that? What is that right there? And your hair hasn't seen conditioner. Oh, this is a fragrance body spray.

And I think it's the French poor le corpse. Okay. So I was in the military for 24 and a half years. So, hey, I think that's cool. But anyway, whoever sent this? Thank you very much. She said it out. My wife.

Yeah. She sent it out. Okay. Enjoy your gift. Hope the mean, redhead enjoys. Oh, what I do you all?

Kimberly. The mean redhead can't keep her hands off me when I wear it. The mean red head turns into wow. That's right. It's a little wild red head, boys.

But anyway, thank you very much. Okay, because this was a gag if I would tell you, and like I mix it. Okay. I put the odor on, and then I put a little this over the arms, and then I put it on my face.

Okay. You put it on your face? Yes, I do. Okay. All right. Moving on. The next thing you know, I ain't wearing nothing but a smile.

Next thing you know. That's that, Ward. I'm here to tell you. That's good. You got a story. You give me hope. You know that? Yeah.

I hope one day that mean brunette I'm married to. I'm going to have to get some bod. See if it works that good. Oh, no. Hey, I'm telling you now. Hey, it works that good.

Yeah. If I walked in wearing that, Brittany said, what the crap are you wearing? Oh, I'd get in trouble. Yeah. No.

She would tell me, Hey, I figure to rip him clothes off, you bad, big boy. You better not. I'm not a big smells guy. No, I ain't. What else we got in that inbox? I'm just so.

Hey, I've had thousands of women tell me that, oh, my goodness, you smell so good. I don't sound it. I believe it. Okay. What was your name, Kimberly? That was Kimberly. Kimberly, thank you for size Christmas. Thank you very much.

That's awesome. Burning an image into my mind that will never be erased. And then I met a kid today, big fan, and I told him I'd give him a shout-out because he was a super good kid and he was super tall. Matt from Prescott, Arizona. He's a family. That's a long walk.

I met them outside. You met them too? They said they'd been to the honeyhole. Oh, I took a picture with them too then. You did too? I want to come in, I took a picture with you. I didn't get to know about it. Triple shout out.

He was super good dude. So, hey, Matt, we appreciate you. Martin, did you meet them? No, I've been inside working. Yeah, too bad. Too bad. You're lost. You're lost.

You're lost. Oh, they was awesome. No, great people. I just like meeting fans and every once in a while. I meet one. I'm like, and he hadn't got to watch a couple episodes and he felt bad. And I was like, hey, guess what? Your name's getting on an episode today because I'm about to film one.

I bet he watches this one. I bet he does. Anyway, Gina from Fair Grove, Missouri, ask a very, very important question that needs to be answered for Americans to know the proper way to celebrate Christmas. When do y'all start decorating for Christmas and when do you start listening to Christmas songs? Day after Thanksgiving. Heated debate. Go. Day after Thanksgiving.

I do it all year long. And that's true. Hey, I'm serious. What? Look, you can get in... I celebrate Christmas every day. Yeah. You can get in size truck at any time and you're liable to hear, I want a hippo-bapid a mess for Christmas. That's it.

Hey, I love you more than my. True story. No, no, I'm serious. Right. Every day. It's the day after. I'll tell you, we would go the Sunday after Thanksgiving was, we'd all go get a Christmas tree. Me and Paul and Johan.

And then on Christmas morning, Johanna and Paula would make Jesus a birthday cake. That's cool. I like that. To make you. Did you ever eat any of it? You bet you. Oh, no, no. That's cool to me because getting Christmas tree.

That was one of the neat things we'd done growing up. Yeah. Okay. Daddy would grab an axe. Okay. We'd go to the woods. Oh, I thought you were going to say go to the store and buy it a while. No, no, no, no.

Go to the woods and cut down. Find the best cedar tree you can find. Oh. It's an evergreen, okay. Yeah, a little cedar. Yeah. A little swamp cedars we got around here. Yeah.

That's awesome. Yeah. It was a big deal. But I, they would come home and then they put all kinds of stuff. Your mom would cook up a whole bunch of popcorn. We'd string it up on string. What you did, me?

All this. Yeah. Well, oh, no, you had a belly full. Okay. But anyway, we, we, with, these were always homemade decorations. Oh, ornaments and stuff. All the ornaments were homemade. That's awesome.

It was cool. So this year, I was going to decorate my house October 1st and go as Santa Claus for Halloween. Because I don't really like Halloween. So I was like, what if we just fake Christmas? all October. And then when people are like, why is your house decorated? I'm like, I'm dressing up as Christmas. But my wife wouldn't let me do that.

But we already have decorated for Christmas. This week. There you go. We already did it. But also, we're in the... I just don't want to push Thanksgiving along. I welcome Thanksgiving with open arms. The Saints play on Thanksgiving.

Because the leftover dressing. Thanksgiving's like the OG. It's okay to eat too much. Oh, like. Praise guys. Oh, that's a given. You know, that's what I, but so I don't want to rush that along. Like, then Christmas eventually got there.

It got less about presents and more about eating, especially the older you get. Yeah. Well, in this year's- Charlie Brown's Christmas tree now. Yeah. Everybody's gone. Well, and I have a seven-year-old, a five-year-old, and a two-year-old. So, like, I've never been more excited.

Like, I'm more excited about this Christmas than any Christmas before. Yeah. Because, like, we're in prime time. Yeah. Your oldest is old enough now to really understand what's going on. And you're two youngest, they could unwrap an empty box and they're still fired. Yeah, and it's just like that my little girls run around the house yelling ho, ho, ho on Monday night because we're decorating. And I'm like, these are the, like, these are the good old days and I'm just watching it.

And I'm having the time of my life with it. So I, hey, you want to put up Christmas decorations and watch them up whenever you want to. I just prefer the music to wait. I don't like for radio and stuff. We watched Tom alone already. Oh, I've already watched Christmas vacation. The year LSU won a championship, I'll have left their Christmas decoration.

He said, I'm leaving them up till they went another. Well, he finally just took everything down. They stayed up for a long time. I'll have a joke there, but I'm not. Did you see my new Christmas decoration for this year? Uh-uh. I put it on Instagram. Uh-uh.

I got the leg lamp. Oh, I did. I see that idea. Yeah, it's on the far right corner of my house in the front window just for my whole neighborhood. Every time they pass by, they see just an illuminated leg. Sal, what's your favorite Christmas movie? Have we talked about it? I don't know.

He's he dropped. I don't know the name of James Stewart's stars in it. James Stewart. It's about when he. It's a wonderful life. Yeah, wonderful life. He's got like the really good one. We're all like a Christmas story, Elf, Home of Life.

and Christmas vacation. The home alone's cool. Home alone's a good one. Okay, because I like the thieves and he gives them thieves. He's back on that Marv bag. I got to, hey, he gives them one far. The wet bandits. The first time Carter saw that, he started booby-trapping our house everywhere.

But he wasn't very good at it, but you'd be like walking through a doorway and just run through a piece of tape, and you'd be like, what is going on? And he'd pop out and just start laughing at you and run off. Oh, yeah. So, yeah, our house is booby-trapped. Leave it to kids. I love Rudy. I love it.

Rudol, the claymation, Rudy. Brittany's favorite is a claymation, the year without a Santa Claus. That's her favorite one. I don't know that I haven't seen it. Oh, I've seen it. I ain't seen it. It's a lot of show, though. Frosty, the Claymation Frosty.

Yeah. Used to come on CBS every. Oh, yeah, that one's. I probably have. That one's decent. If you've watched CBS during the holidays, you've seen Frosty and Rudolph and Claymation. But most importantly, we've got to get some of that ice cream. I know.

Before Christmas. Call Britain and see where she's at. Oh, I can just track her if I want to. I can hit her with that. I can hit her with that. Find my friends real quick. I ain't no problem. I ain't scared of it.

She ain't got no express BPM. But I need to put my lights. I'm putting my lights up this week. I hadn't done that yet. Yeah, lights will be like that. Do you do Christmas lights? Yeah. I love putting up Christmas.

Straight white. Yeah. Yeah, no colors. I can't wait for Thanksgiving. Because that's when we have ducking dressing. Oh, you're going to have it next Saturday. Yeah. At the latest Sunday, if I kill a bunch of green wing teal, then y'all don't.

Oh, yeah. No, no, no. Hey. I make myself sick. He's hungry, boys. Oh, man. I am ready. I'm ready.

We ready to close this out? Martin, you got the Bible verse of the day? Yeah, I'll go with it. Let's go. Hebrews 412 says, for the word of God is alive and active, sharper than any double-edged sword. It penetrates even to devise. even to dividing soul and spirit joints and marrow it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart so as we go into this

christmas season folks go into it with a thankful joyful heart even if you don't really have a reason to necessarily be joyful we all do because there's this place called heaven that we can all get to so see you there yeah that's it let's all meet up there looking forward looking forward to it amen all right we're out of here we'll see y'all next time we go.