Duck Call Room - Uncle Si's Hospital Shenanigans

Episode Date: September 15, 2022

Si is back, Jack!!! While he's new and improved, he's still recovering and feeling a little rough. Phillip and Si share some hilarious hospital stories, including stealing wheelchairs, putting on hospital gowns backwards, filling up bedpans, and accidentally calling for nurses 24/7. Si's wearing a cool black panther hat sent in by a fan — and all the boys are jealous. Martin and John-David help Si give advice on how to spend more time with your kids when you work a full week. John-David and Phillip talk about whether going to church is something you have to do. And thank you — everyone! — for keeping America's favorite uncle in your thoughts and prayers. -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, I will say everybody we knew, including the group from here, wanted to text and know how you doing, how everything's going. I never had so many texts and calls and emails my whole life. And Facebook, lit up. I figured he was getting blown up. Once you sent the text, I was like, I'll talk to him when they get back. Yeah. I was like, man, as long as... Well, I got confused.

I told everybody the surgery went well, but then the surgery was the next day. Well, it's really Speaking. Speak it into existence. No, I think you were right. It's really not a surgery. It's a procedure. It's an implant.

Yeah, they had to go in. Yeah. You know, and then they did a... Size's got breast implants. What happened, sign? I mean, they're behind his breasts. I got six pieces of the plastic in my airways. That's what I'm talking about.

So... Just like a breast implant. You could tell an immediate difference. Oh, yeah. I mean, just that quick. Like when you woke up. Yeah. Are we rolling?

Yeah, we're rolling. Of course we are. Size back, everybody. The most amazing thing is, out of all this junk, there was no pain. None? None. Not for you. Norris.

Yes. And I can tell you, I feel like a battery that's on its last little bit of electricity left. Because it's rough. Well, let's plug you up, son. That's why you probably put it up just like that. Hey, and then the bad part I don't want to tell you right now, okay, and this is part of it. Every once why I cop up, you know, blood.

It's curdle blood. Yeah. My body is trying to make buttermilk out of my blood. That's blood or milk, sigh. Buttermilk. Or on the way to making butter. What a great attitude. It's clevering.

Okay. Can we just. Well, now a little bit of that's normal. The doctor said that would be a little bit normal. I've already called him. I said, hey, I told Chris now, I said, call Tony, Dr. Connolly's nurse. Dr. T. You know, ask her, how long am I just supposed to go on?

I know it's expected. You know, to cough up a little blood because you put some foreign implants in my body. So, yeah. I want to see what it looks like. I don't. I was just fixing to say, well, hey, right over here in this coffee. You got something, will you? Yeah, I just.

Show it to Johnny D. No, no. There's nothing else. I'll let him report. Oh. Well, it looks like that VNA sausage he ate. That is, that jelly. That's rough. I'm glad you're here, man.

Well, no, no. That's why I said, this is a tough deal here, I'm telling him. At all the things Sy has done in his life where he ain't coughed up blood, the one thing that's going to save him and keep him here a little bit longer is making him cough up blood. That's just, hey, life's funny, man. Well, let me tell you all. No, no. Hey, and I'm telling you, this body that God gave.

gave us. It's amazing. Ain't it? Okay, I'm serious. You know, just kidding grief. I mean, you think about putting some foreign object in your body and making your body work helps you make it better. Yeah.

Johnny D. struggling. Oh, he's struggling. There's a reason I got into nursing school than never, well, I didn't apply, but I was ready to. And I was like, you know what? Since you brought that up. I'm weak at the stomach.

I can't do this. Kudos to the Methodist Hospital in Houston. Thank you to them. To the doctors and the nurses and all the staff that work there. Very professional. I received excellent care and the most polite people I've ever met. And I was there to witness these guys. Did any of them listen to us?

Hey, I mean, I could get no rest, okay, but you don't go to the hospital at rest. what you go there for you go there to get repaired but just about the time you fix it to get some sleep we got to draw blood we got sticky over here we got sticky there

but hey they know what they're doing that's the finest care I've ever received let me tell you all this when we knew now this has been a couple years trying to get this procedure done and when we knew

we were going we talked to the pilots for patience out of Monroe, and they are a awesome squad. Oh, yeah. Non-profit financial, you're a nonprofit financial. Yeah, my old boss flies for it. Who is that? Wayne Peters.

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a picture of him. Unsung heroes. Yep. So they just flew y'all down there. Yeah, they flew us down there, and they had plans to fly us back. No charge. Then they've got a group on the ground they call angels.

Yeah. Okay, that take care of the ground transportation from the airport to the hospital. Absolutely. I mean, it was first class. It was awesome. They loaded us up. We actually had another patient fly with us. Mr. Billy?

Yes. I used to work for his daughter for a long time. He's a good dude. Yeah, he's real cool. You got to understand, guys. Hey, no finances, period. The pilots do it for free. They bring their plane, fly their plane.

They don't get paid. okay the people that you know pick you up and take you the hospital and bring you back all that they don't get paid just it's all volunteer work you know servants taking care of the american people look i recommend flying with wayne anytime because he doesn't crash twice and he's still with us well no no because hey that's what i he obviously knows how to put one down well no no because hey that's what i told the guy in the army you know i said you know he was a tank tank man okay I said, did you ever get shot up or shot out of a tank? He said, oh, I've been shot out of six of them.

And he's still here. Y'all and I said, well, wait a minute. I said, why wouldn't you want to? He said, hey, look, if you got to go, he said, I ain't walking. No. He said, I ain't walking. He said, I could never make an infantry. He said, why walk when you can ride?

There you go. I said, yeah, but you got blown out of six of them? I said, that's pretty dangerous, you know. he said well it's better than not being he said just think of it this way you got armored protection are all around you yeah he said they got to have a big gun to get you out i said well i understand what's saying now that's wow no that is cool people step up and do that kind of stuff just have the kindness of their heart no no yeah so the first day when we get there we know the next morning when we get to houston method we know the next morning we have got to be where the procedure's going to happen and it's about a mile away

I mean, this place is huge. In the same building? Yes. They've got building. That's why you've got to Houston, man. Yeah, this place is... That's why we need pilots for patients. Well, hey, this is called a recon operation.

So here's what I did. I said, I said, we've got to figure out a way to get you from here to there. But the golf cart people, they don't show up until eight. We got to have him there at six. So I walk around, I'm looking, and I ask the information desk, I said, we need to get a wheelchair. Can you help us out? And he was like, man, you're on your own.

all the wheelchairs are gone I mean by this time first thing in the morning people are getting them you got to go down to the basement and see if you can find one and good luck doing it I was like man so I went some old guy was driving a golf cart

and I asked him I said do you know where any wheelchairs are and he was like what you're going to do and I told him he said well here's what you need to do he said you need to commandeer one of these wheelchairs take it the hotel where y'all are staying, hide it in your room,

and have him come over here about 5.45 in the morning and take him to his appointment. So I come walking in the door, knocking, bringing a wheelchair inside. I said, hey, what is that for? I said, you never saw anything. Nothing never happened.

Do not worry about what this is. This is one of them. You did not see this. Comedere in wheelchairs. Had to do it. But you got it, man. Oh, we got in there. Hey, I could have walked.

Oh, no. Christine then would come walking in, they'd be out of bread. So, get out of the long walk. And I said, yeah, okay. So then we first started when I was talking about, okay, the doc said, okay, I'll come in tomorrow morning and, you know, if everything's good, I'll release you. Well, he come in and said, okay, I'll release you.

So this was at 9. So I told them, I said, hey, one of the nurses come in, I said, and they, y'all got my discharge notice? and he said no then another one come in I said hey you got one in the discharge notice so I'm ready to go

you ready to get out of it yeah I'm ready to get out he's already impatient bust him out boys so we leave about one oh well let's let's tell the story on on how we got to that point so look

when they call side back me and him over there at 6 a.m we're ready for anything and we thought it'd be a couple hours because we had to fill out a bunch of paper work where his wife gets there, but she don't get there until about seven. They've already taken Sye back, and they're doing all the preliminary stuff and asking a bunch of questions.

But the first thing is, Sye putting on that hospital gown. He said, I got it, I got it. I said, Sia, let me help you. Ha, ha, ha. I got it. I got it. He's got it where the flaps in the front. He's walking out.

I said, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. You're not supposed to wear it like that. He was like, yeah, I am. This is the way it goes. Why is there not a picture? I did take a picture. Where is it? I made him turn it around.

No. And then he laid back in the bed. And that's how I ain't a hot, man. I mean, put on a gun on you put it yourself. Inside wearing it like a bathroom. And not before the nurse came in and said, honey, you got this all wrong. I love it. Well, look, let's let you catch your breath.

We'll take our first break. We'll be back right after you. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means? that means more outside cook and y'all know we love to eat beef around here and that's

what because of our friends over at trytales beef makes such a good product ain't it good it's so good our friend sall robertson would say buy on the grill look before we got tritels getting ready for a cookout man somebody had to run the grocery store do all the things grab whatever was left in case you were late in the day

and you never really know where that beef comes from but with tritels beef we skipped the grocery store and do it a different way. Triedails comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth generation American ranch, so they've been at it for a while. Now, look, the beef comes straight from their ranch and other ranchers they work with

who raise cattle the same way. Their steaks are properly aged and shipped straight from the ranch to your door. We threw a couple of ribbys on the grill. Look, salt, pepper, garlic, hot fire, that's all you need. Look, because I'll tell you what, when the beef comes from people who raise cattle for a living, you can taste the difference. the tenderness and the flavor are fantastic.

So if you're stocking the freezer for grilling season, go check out Triedails Beef. I know in size case Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat. She ain't a big meat easier, folks. Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's tribeef.com slash.

Stuck. Support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. And look, his feet are this long. They bring these socks in there, these yellow padded socks. They're like, sir, we need you to put these socks. And it goes on half of my foot. Half his foot. And he said, he said, Philip, it ain't going on.

Yeah, it is. Pop, pow, pow. I'll try, I finally get it on. And it pops off multiple times. Finally, he says, hey, this thing can work. Is it the compression sock? Oh, yeah. Keep you from clotting while you're laying in a bell.

Yeah. I was wondering what was going on. They was fooling around down on my feet and I couldn't sit. Okay. The next thing I feel, you know. Yeah, you went, you went in for lungs, surgeon. They down there tickling your feet. Yeah.

No, now I'm looking down there and I'm talking, okay, wait a hold, what's the pink chunk that you're putting my feet in? Huh? And then a white thing coming up my leg. It's supposed to stop the clots. Then I heard, you know, I felt something. Yeah, the massagers, yeah. Even from getting blood clots.

They blew it up. Yeah. Compression. Yeah. Impression. Yeah. Now. Forcing your blood to go back and forth so it don't get stagnant.

Also, they would come in in the middle of the night and pop him with a shot in. the stomach. Oh. Oh yeah. That's what they did to me when I had COVID in the hospital. They did. At 2 a.m. And it was the most painful part of the whole thing. Yeah, but here's the deal. That's to prevent blood clots. Yeah, it's what's called. It fends you out. But it is. It is one of them that if a nurse, don't know what you're doing. LASIC or something. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, it's really painful. She dope out you in the belly, though. Oh, yeah. Several times. Gut shot. Oh, they just grab you, squeeze that. Yeah. Squeeze that.

walnut coconut bacon ice cream The first time she didn't do it right It hurts Yeah

The first time She didn't do it right I'm good Okay Why don't you Why they got to do it In the middle of the night You know

I had that question Many times Can't y'all schedule this for 6 a.m? I've been around nurses my whole life Because mama was one My daughter

Judy My oldest sister was one Okay So yeah Yeah He said no He said no He said I got nothing

That's one thing I could not do. Be a nurse. Nurse or a doctor. Well, no, you can't even go to the hospital with your wife. How are you going to take care of somebody else? Philip, come pick up this. Yeah, Philip's pretty much a nurse at this point. They said it best.

God takes care of children and old fools. And I'm both of them. There you go. Okay. Two in one. How many times did you in the hospital go, oh, ho, ho. No, no. I said, ah.

How many times? How many times? Please let me tell this story. Well, go ahead. All right. So I will say, Cy, you were very pleasant to the doctor

and to the doctors. There's like a staff of doctors waiting in case something happens. You know, they come and introduce themselves. To the nurses, everybody involved. Cy was really nice. He was a little grumpy,

but he was nice to everybody. Except for? No, no, I think he was nice to everybody. I was just, he was grumpy. Yeah, I was just, but. But here's what he did to me. He was grumpy just because he's having to lay in for 48 hours on bed.

It was close to it coming up. So he's, look, when he can finally drink after the, you know, I guess they did the procedure. And then he was like, okay, Phil, I need my ice, I need my tea. I need my lemon, whatever powder he's got, you know. So I'm running and going and getting it. And he was like, okay, boys. That's what it started. Okay, okay.

And then he started. to fill up so many of the plastic urinal. Because he couldn't get out. He's like, Philip, give me that other one. This one's full. I'm like, call a nurse. I can't do it. He was like, come on, bring me another one.

All you got to do is empty it. Bring me the bottle. No, I couldn't do it. But I did. Finally. Hey, I'm just glad they didn't put a catheter in you for all that. That's a big deal. That catheter hurt.

Oh, no. That catheter hurt. No, I don't want to go there. That's what I'm saying. They send him home. He's there now. Hey, they did say. That rascal hurt.

Mr. Robertson, have you had a bowel on me yet? He said, I ain't going to have one. Don't worry. They said, well, no, no, no. They said, for four days. He said, oh, I can hold it four days. He said, well, wait a minute. She said, well, first of all.

That's kind of amazing for somebody who's so full of it. Well, no. No, no. No, no. Because that was the first thing. She said, well, wait a minute. When did you have your last? one. I said, four days ago, darling. Yeah, ain't no big deal. I said, but it ain't no big deal.

I said, hey, look, I ain't going to have one. They got a chair beside him. They brought it right beside the bed. Now you can get out of the bed and have a bowel movement right here. He was like, yeah, save it. I don't need it. I said, hey, y'all. Don't put that one on my bill. No. Take that in the way. I ain't going to worry about it. Question. Yeah. At this point, have you? No, no, yesterday I had one. I'm just making sure. It's four days.

It seems like a long time. If I ain't had one in 45 minutes. It better not go over a day. I'm worried. Yeah, I'm calling a doctor on day two. Yeah, I can set my watch pretty much by mine. You went four days. Well, no, no.

Normally, I have a bowel movement every day. Oh, okay. Praise God. Welcome to the Doug Call room. With everything going on and I didn't know how I was going to feel, I said, the last thing I want to do is that, one of them that, you know, that I've got to really bear down to get rid of. You know, so I just said, no, I ain't going to have a bowel movement.

My man said bear down to get rid. I don't know if I can be able to handle it or not, okay? Oh, patient side may be my favorite side. If I got one, I'm going to bear down on it. It ain't going to happen here, boys. Yeah, I ain't going through that. You ever heard a home field advantage? That's right, that's right.

We go into the house. I'll just take care of this. Don't worry about it. So I actually thought about it. I said, maybe I said I started to ask Christine, could I call them and let them know that I had a bowel movement? You should have taken a picture of it. It said all good.

She said he was hunkered over like a dog passing a peach scene. Was he? You're quivering? No. Oh, never mind. He had to bear down, though. I don't run this thing out where all of what I have to do is just talking. Okay, yep, it's gone.

He didn't have to try He just had to give it permission Oh, my goodness Oh my goodness Oh, I ain't got to sit down and talk to you clowns In a couple of weeks This is good here I've been spending all my time alone

In a deer stand This is good here Oh man Welcome to Medical 101, boy Medical 101 Oh man What you didn't know you will tell you.

So what did you do? You said that that Methodist Hospital was good to you and everything. What did you have to eat in there? They have good food? They have good grub. For a hospital. Yeah. It was decent.

Solid. Yeah, it was decent. Yeah, it was decent. Yeah, it was down in Houston. Y'all have breakfast. They did have those. Every time they come in and ask me. Come to Mr. Robertson, what you want for breakfast in a warrant?

Yeah. And I said, where you got? Black walnut ice cream. No. Close. All I ordered was, okay, what kind of stupid you guys? got. They said, a chicken noodle. I said, give me a bowl of that. I said, what else you got? And tell me, well, we got mac and cheese. I said, okay. So every time they'd come in and say,

what are you want for dinner? I said, hey, bowl of a soup and mac and cheese. And ice cream. He is a child. You want a thing? I said, well, whatever you got? What do you got for dessert? They said, ice cream. I said, okay, mac, cheese and the soup and the ice cream. He really is a child. Hey, and tell me what else do you want? I said, I don't want nothing else. That's all I want. backing cheese but chicken noodle soup and ice cream that ain't going to produce a bowel movement anyway what were they hoping to get at it i mean good night of living i said hey i'm the type that as you find something you like that's what you keep going because hey you know never know it's a good point

that's like nolan ryan you got to stick with what works yeah yeah yeah some of the coaches it's playing into college need to take that to heart that's true because you watch a lot of football we did we did watch a lot of football and And who was it? U-TEP. U-TEP's coach lost the game because he'd run the ball three times in a row. You watched the U-TEP?

No. Hey, it was Florida. Florida and U-Tip. Florida's got a... Utah. Oh, Utah. Yeah. Yeah, okay.

He watched a lot of... He was in back for 48 hours. Gators just got a bad team this year. Yeah, that's why they got beat by them wildcats. Well, hey, who beat them? Kentucky. Kentucky. Kentucky beat them.

Kentucky beat them. Remember the other night at Stones? You got to. Gordon came in and said, That was a fluke. Yeah. They got some big horses. We got fans everywhere.

That was a fluke. What did they beat them by? 15 or something. Yeah, I don't even remember. Oh, yeah, that's a fluke. Hey, Martin, Tennessee's good. Allegedly. Allegedly.

Oh, Rocky Top. Well, I just got a lot of people excited. Hey, I'd tell you right now, my woman got to hollering that TV so a lot. I said, hey, hey, we're trying to keep them kids in there. I need you to calm down. Hey, sell down, Dor. It's the second game of the year. They're playing pills.

It ain't that big of a deal. But they won an overtime. It's a good football game. Now, we listened to that game while we drove back from Houston, and let me explain. What, the balls and pit? Yep. But the pilots for patients had a schedule to fly back, but the doctor came in and told,

Si, you can't fly for six weeks. And so we had to cancel our flight. I said, no big deal. We'll run down to the, you know, rental place and get us a car. No, sir. they will not let you rent a car and drive one way. That's not a thing anymore? Even if they do, it's like $1,500 extra on top of the rental fee.

I would have came and got you for a friend. Well, we got somebody, Old Evil, I showed up. He came and got us. Over around Carthage or something. We couldn't get halfway. Yeah. No, I'm just saying, like, we could have, hey, y'all got to learn the power of social media. Trust me.

I know some folks in Houston that would have started driving this way, and we could have just met on a road somewhere. So we got, O.E, Y. Networking. Yeah, we were networking. Evil I picked y'all? He came and got us. Oh, Evali.

Oh, evil I. My favorite was when he was driving and texting, and he had that one eye. That's not funny. I said, sir, are we safe? He was like, oh, yeah, don't worry about it. He got it. Nothing about that is my favorite. You should have called Dr. Dean.

Dr. Dean. I had probably wrote you a different, a different, He could have helped us. Oh, he'll bring his van and I could have went to bed. The paint van. Yeah, I see. He's got his traveling van. It's got beds in it and everything.

Kitchen. Oh, yeah, he does have a real nice fan. He's got a traveling van. Not to be confused with his daily driver. Yeah. No, he's got a pothole for that one. There you go. An old one.

Like your dream, baby. You got to crawl out, you've got to crawl out the window. The door won't open. It's the commercial. You get in it? You get in it? You get out through the wood.

Well, let's get out of here and take another break. We'll be back right after this. No, I had a fun deer hunt. It was... Wyoming.

It's Wyoming. Yeah, it was... I love that place. It's cool. We didn't kill nothing, or I didn't kill nothing. Who'd you go with? The guys at Real Tree.

Went up aired to 7J Outfitters, and man, if you ain't ever been... If you ain't ever been in northeast Wyoming, put the circle that one on your list. Like, you just need to go

that part of the country. It's beautiful. It is. But I was looking, you know, the crazy thing is, for five days, it was hotter there than it was here. Oh, it's fall, people. And I told them boys. Right there.

Yeah, I told them boys, I said, I'd rather be at home deer hunting right now. And they said, why is that? I said, because our deer are used to this. Yeah. Y'alls aren't. Like, them deer up there said, they went on a hunger strike. They said, no thanks. We're out.

You know, and they just, they didn't do nothing. Oh, it was too hot? How are you getting up? They come out late and they left early. So it was just. So it was hotter there than it was here? The last evening I hunted, the heat index was like 103. I was walking to the stand.

I was walking to the stand like, wait, what? One of three. Yeah, in Wyoming. So needless say, that last evening wasn't very productive. Nor were any of the other times. But it's the best time of year. Oh, it is. Because you walk outside in the morning, you're like, it's fall.

and then you go home and you're soaking wet with sweat because it's not fall it's like fake fall here in the man oh yeah it's like 95 in the afternoon but you can tell that we're going to get that one week of fall and it's any moment now yeah it's just around the corner but yeah that was my week in my omen it just wasn't much but i did have a weird we went and hung a stand for a deer that these boys been watching we hung stand four of us but stand up in tree got it everything done, got up in the tree. And the deckum deer was laying right there the whole time. Right beside you?

15 yards from the tree that we hung the stand in. Are you kidding me? And he just watched y'all hang the stand? He watched us hang the stand, watched me catch my breath after that 400-yard walk. It was at least a half mile. I don't know how far it was. But with no oxygen.

Elevation guy. No oxygen. So I'm over there sitting on the ground. Wishing I had that backpack. And so I finally caught my breath. We got stand hunk. And he didn't move. We was up there beating, banging, saw and limbs, you name it.

He did not move until it got quiet. You know when it got quiet? When I got up in the stand, there was screwing my little hanger for my bow in. And he took off. And he just stood up. And I said, what in the world was that wrecking? I turned around a look.

There's about 130-inch nine point just standing there. And I was like, I looked down. My bow is still on the ground because I can't. I ain't ready for him yet. Yep. And obviously there ain't gonna be a deer there. We have been beating them banging on a tree. He's just watching y'all.

And he just stood up out of his bed, shook off, and said, Deuce's player, and just walked on out of my life forever. And then he told all of his friends, hey, by the way, don't go over there. Yeah, I don't know what he did, but... They've been beating and banging all afternoon. I told him, I said, that deer right there remind me of, I don't know what. He's so stupid. He let us sit there and do all that before he said, no, I'm good.

Remind me a Phil's lying, though. When you get to slipping, they get to slip in. He's up there beating and banging. He didn't care. He's like, they ain't after me. We got up there and got real quiet. He said, oh, they may be after me. He said, I better get out of here.

But yeah, camera for the cameraman still on the ground. My bow's on the ground. The deer just stands up 15 yards. Oh, I got a better on that. I said, bye, buddy. We had hunted wood ducks. We found a bunch of wood ducks in the woods. We had in there and just,

we'd been shooting for 40 minutes. Bam, bam, bam, bab, bow, pow, pow. And there was a little old island over there, all just about as big as this table with some brush on it. We had done one over there four or five times and picked wood duck up that it fell over there. Well, we crippled one down.

He hid in the brush. We could see him. And I said, Phil. Go over and kill that Woody. Just crippled. So he walks over there And he's walking around trying to find him He's, you know, boom, he finds

Sixth Point Stands up on the island After he shoots him in the brush, he'll get like Woody He kind of just look like that Shook his tail a couple times And gone Walked on it off Yeah, strut it off

I said, you know, they know They ain't after me They ain't hunting them They ain't after me They ain't been over here five or six times It ain't after me Yeah But it is teal season too.

Now that's been good. Have you been hunting? Every day. How many killed? 24 a day. 24 a day, boy. Oh, you ain't. You ain't full limit every day?

Wow. Are you the only one that's doing that? Well, I mean, Phelanems on a good average. They've killed one a day. Oh, they have killed their one a day? One duck a day. Yep. Who killed it?

Si killed it from the hospital. The stone killed one of them? I think Stone killed the one this morning. There you go. I think they're one, I think they're two for two on ground swaths. I always root for the man in the middle that you can't see him.

Oh, he's on the end right now. Oh, is he? Yeah, because Jace's gone, size out. So. Jace's gone. I mean, Stone's like second in command right now.

Whatever's below general, whatever. So has Godwin killed one? Godwin said he ain't even like put a shell in his gun yet. He just sitting there. He bird watching. Bird watching.

So I'm rooting for Godwin. Who are you going with Clay and them? Uh-huh. I got you. Yeah. On an Arkansas line here? Right here, yeah, 20 minutes from here. He ain't going to tell you much, but.

By as good as you're going to get, draw a 20-minute line around this thing and figure it out from there. I'll leave that up to you and the folks over at the hunting map apps. If you can find us, you can figure out which LLC it's under, good luck. That's right, fine. Which LLC is on there? It don't make much sense, but, you know, whatever. No, it's been good, though.

Teal season has been surprisingly. Good. That's why I invited you to go. I was hoping he's feeling good enough to go. No. He ain't there yet, boy. I ain't no happen. I ain't hunting to you. That's fine. I may hunt later on this week at the end of it. Hey, well, if you do, I'll let you boy. I got the easiest hunt you could ever have. Well, I got that down there at Josh's. Oh, well, I was going to say.

We're going to Venice. I can drive you right up to the blind. You take two steps and sit on a chair. Literally two steps. Martin knows how to hunt. Oh, yeah. He does it. I didn't know. You work hard in the off season to make it real easy. The prep work. Yeah, it's easy now. In the season. It's easy now. My neighbor looked at me a little

sideways when I was cutting that cane the other day in our yard, but I call it our yard. Mostly hers. A lot of us off a deal, but I don't know about it want cane growing in their yard anymore, do they? I leave it growing in my yard all year long for this one week. I'm doing you a favor. Yeah, I'm just getting rid of it. She did looking at me. That'd be all right. It'd be all right. She'd probably just ready for a remodel to be over.

She'd tired all that racket around. In a few years, you'd just send them boys over the Martin boys. Them old Martin boys. No, a couple of years, I'm going to throw them on the other side of the fence. So y'all, y'all cut that hand that over here to me. We've got to go duck hunting. Let's go. What's that, boy?

I've got to brush the line. Yeah, amen. Well, let's take another break. We'll be back right after this. I'm thankful everything worked out for Sae with those nurses and doctors. all that stuff man that's a that's good everything the doctor called me early like the lady from the front desk called me and said philip the doctor wants to talk to you it's supposed to be two hours so me and christine and miss elizabeth we all went to um to grab something to eat and like 45

minutes later she was like hey the doctor wants talked to you so i just took off you know i thought if it's that soon there must have been bad news so i was like what did everything okay he was like Philip, everything's great. So I came through so well, everything's perfect. It couldn't have gone any better. Every time they cut the man open, they say everything's perfect. His heart, they operated on it between beats. Now, that's a true story.

I know. He's a modern miracle of science. I wouldn't have never believed it unless I heard it first hand. I mean, if you look at him, look at that chiseled physique. That's why I always tell people, look at me really open your eyes and engage your brain. I'm living proof. God is live and well. Yeah.

I can't wait. I can't, I mean, I am. It's going to be sad. But when you, when you go on, we're sending your kidneys to a nephrologist. Because them things need to be imitated. Whatever, because you have put them things through some strain, and they keep on pumping, son. They keep on churning. There ain't any of strain.

Tees good for you. Thank you. It's got a bunch of antioxidants in it. Annie what? Dr. I said it. Antioxins. This is what the doctor said.

Very healthy kidneys. Oz. Oz, yeah. Oz says, he asked the question, who's got the best kidneys out of any of this? And Jessica jumped up and said, I am because I'm the youngest. He said, wrong answer.

He does. Because all that tea. All that tea. Hey, he's on TV. Well, you've got to think about it. Two gallons a day. That's what I'm talking about. That's why we need to study.

Yeah. If we can figure out how your kidneys work, we can keep New Orleans from flooding. That's all I'm saying. Well, hey. That's all I'm saying. I can't even think of the name. Name them.

Who runs flood control? The Corps. Corps of Engineers. Hey, that's who they need to educate is the core engineer. Yeah, now see, look how these things work. That's how you should work. Right there. Whatever happened in here, that's what yours should do.

There's a new engineer in town. Hey, it don't matter if you got to bleed the line. lines off and just keep them going, buddy. Let's side go down there and tell them what they're doing wrong. Uh-uh. No, he'll blow the whole mess up. Where did you get that hat, by the way? It's awesome.

It's awesome. That came from a fan. I don't even know the name on it because I didn't, I was sitting in the dark in here when I opened it. But it is awesome. There you go. I would actually wear that one. It says, it's a black panther with the word pantera on it.

And I want one too. That thing. That is a bad looking cat, though. Oh, yeah. And he had on there, a Tensured cat killer. He's a rat killer. No, a cat killer. No, Phillips a rat killer.

Hey, I wouldn't even, hey, to just approve a point, if I had to change to kill one, I wouldn't do it. I have a question for you. Yep. I got a lot of questions for you because I missed you because we filmed like three before you went out. for your procedure. Did you watch a lot of PBS or just football? No. No, I watched a lot of football.

Man. I was hoping for some. No, I hadn't seen a good PBS for quite a while. That's disappointing. I thought surely in the hospital PBS would have been. I don't know. That's in Texas. Maybe theirs ain't as good as ours.

They just watch high school football, junior high football. That's all it's on TV. Friday night light. PBS. how to play football. High school football. PBS has got a lot of good stuff on town. Oh, yeah.

It really does. It's educational. Yeah. I love it. So what's your future looking like now? So you got 45 days till full recovery. 45 days and then maybe I'll feel better. What are we on now, Philip?

What day was the deal? Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Friday, Friday, Friday. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. So we're at Monday, right now? Monday. So we're five days in. Yeah. So you're one-ninth of the way back to feeling like yourself.

And that's rough, too. But it's just, you just wore out, essentially, right? You don't hurt. Well, look, you got to think about it, five days, but they can get me on sleep. Yep. Yep. Because every time I was just about to really doze off him, you know, oh, ow, how it's got. You turned into a human pen cushion.

Yeah, I'm a pen cushion. And we talk about a man who. got a nap every day in the army. That's right. 23 and a half years, he took a nap every day. And for five days, the Methodist Hospital wouldn't let him sleep. And then they rolled this X-ray machine in. They said, sir, we're going to have to do some x-rays.

They got the lights on. They was like, well, you need to be at least six foot away from Sae while we do this. And Si, I was like, no, he's fine. Go ahead and hit it. A little bit of radiation. They never hurt nobody. I got some second-hand radiation. I'm working pretty good here.

No, no, what was cool? They had a team of doctors on standby. You should have held something behind him. In case my lung collapse? Panther. In case my lung collapse, they had a team of doctors that was rushed in and then blow it back up. Yeah, and put a tube in.

Put a tube in. Put a chest tube in and call it good. And what was cool is... But it went swimmingly. Yeah, it went great. But they came in, and they came in, they were like we just want you to know who we are so we're not meeting you know if it happens we want to meet you now we're on standby you'll know who we are if we need to come in yeah if you

see us things have gone wrong yeah yeah that's right don't panic you don't want we're only here if things go wrong how amazing we don't want to see you these days that's what we like that's the country and you know people badmouth the medical field a lot because of the cost and all that but Like, I like a place where I can go. And the cost is, you know, it is what it is. It's not, we might fix some things. I don't know how to, so don't ask me. But we got a dude who knows what he's doing and five other dudes that know what they're doing just in case this happens.

And one other guy over here in case this happens. All the while getting ice cream. Yeah, just wait. Hey, mac and cheese. Sub me in. If you need me, I'm here and I like you guys. Put me in, coach. That's wild.

I like doctors and nurses. Yeah. No, I'm a big friend. I think we just need to reiterate that. Yeah. No, I'm a big fan of all of, especially the ones that kept working through what they went through for two years. I mean, are you kidding me? Oh, no, that's why I can.

The ones that stuck it out, unbelievable. I couldn't be one because, hey, you don't have any your time. No, because the first time you walked in and somebody was going. Yeah, change this out for me. Yeah, you'd choke slam him. No. Did you take him a bell? No.

How many times did they want to get thrown out? No, he did hit it a few times on accident. They're like, sir, can we help you? He's like, Philip, are, can we help you? Figure this out. Talk to them. They want him again.

Hey, I hit the wrong button. Turn that mess off. So he told him. I said, hey, sorry, hit the wrong button, turn the mess off. Oh, well. When the doctor came in and said, Sigh, now you can get up and move around just a little bit, sit in the chair if you'd like you know you can now you can get up he's like okay the doctor walked

out he jumps up like a young fox squirrel i mean cat squirrel he takes off to the bathroom and he still got all this stuff strapped to him he's like whoo-mooh it pulls him back toward the bed he was like hey let me take some of this stuff off side go ahead don't hook me boys i got to go i got t-tie it's two days in the bed he hops up revving to go ready to go that's wild man that's monster man for you. Ain't anybody do that. He's unstoppable. I'm just glad it's all gone as well as it has so far.

We're going to keep on trucking. We're going to keep praying. It's going to keep doing the same thing. That's good. Let's take our last break, and we'll get in that mailbag when we come back. How about that? Johnny D., what's in that mailbag? Well, speaking of, we basically got 1 million emails saying they were praying for Si,

rooting for sye worried about sye asking how he was doing so to everybody that emailed that in is crazy here he is okay we got thank y'all uh he is doing great um like i just got one i'm one of your biggest fans that need to hear an update on sai literally i'm one of your biggest fans that need to hear an update on sai please and thank you hard emoji terry terry there he is watch thursday he's back he's back tune in Thursday. So it was really cool reading all those. And a bunch of people calling me

a loser for not wanting to eat vana sausage. So, silly. I'm not doing it. You ain't doing it. All right, Kaz from Covington, Louisiana. And we've kind of had this question before, but I just think it's kind of important to reiterate. Love's a podcast.

He's a father of three. And he is having an issue with being able to spend time with his kids. He does say there is whole work. but he works he's working to support them and his wife he works 55 to 60 hours a week six to seven days a week which leaves me a little time little time for them i try to be there for my wife and kids but it's hard when i'm always at work any advice on how to balance both welcome to the story of 22 yeah not i think probably just a story of life in general for the most part i mean it's just i don't know i'm trying to get a plan to

I mean, we're staring down a barrel of somewhere between four and seven weeks before two young and show up. I asked today, I said, what are we going to do? We've got to take him things home. Like, it's starting to sink in now. They don't keep them there very long either. They're like, hey, they're good. Get out of here.

You're on your own. But, I mean, I think you just, same deal we've said a hundred times probably. Communicate with your kids, why you're not there, what you're doing, your purpose for being there. If your wife, it's just sounds like she doesn't. work she gets stay at home with the kids or something uh it doesn't say that but but if he's working 55 60 hours to support him i mean that's just probably what has to be done you know something like that so yeah i really i really like what martin said because you know don't don't try to make up the uh

attention that you can't give them because you're don't try to make it up with things that you buy or things that are fade away spend time with them when you can and let them know why you can't be there as much as you'd like to. But once they know that and they understand that, I think it would be more manageable. Yeah, my dad was the same way. He grew up working shift work, construction work my whole life, and I didn't understand why he wasn't there.

But then once I got older and old enough to understand, like, oh, he's doing that so that we got TV, we got air conditioner, we got a vehicle, we got this. You know, then it went from a wonder to a nothing short of respect that he would work his fingers to the bone to provide for all of us. So, I mean, your kids are going to see this at some point, once they get to that point where you're like, oh, that's what he's doing.

It ain't the amount of time that you're able to spend with your kids. It's the quality of the time you spend with your kids. Good point. Hey, he's coming off of a fresh week of rest, guys. That's right. He's got a lot of time with Jesus. He's hitting deep. Now, son.

That's a good point. That is right. But I would also say, too, be intentional to carve out time for them. Like, I know it's not going to be easy, even if it's an hour or two hours, whatever, if it's take them to dinner where it's just you and them, do something. Be intentional about making time for them, even with a 55, 60 hour work week schedule. And that's what I was going to say. Because right now, me and my wife are in this weird, like, we do these retreats.

She does a women's retreat. I do a men's retreat. And it's coming up in October. and I'm gone every Thursday night at a meeting. She's gone every Tuesday night at a meeting. Then we got church on Wednesday sometimes. And then we got this and soccer games. So it's like, whoa, whoa.

So like we've intentionally, I had a buddy the other day. He's like, hey man, I'm doing a little Bible study. It's on Sunday afternoons. And I was like, sounds really good. I can't. Yeah. Because the Bible study is a great thing. But my kids come before my buddies.

So Sunday afternoons, we've just said, like, that's it. Do not plan anything. Nothing comes before. And we go eat at my parents' house with my sister and her kids. And so every Sunday, my kids know, like, hey, when are we going? I'm like, I didn't even tell you we were going. They're like, it's Sunday, bro. And so I'm like, I'm glad they know that because they know on Sundays that one time, very specifically, like, we're spending, this is it.

So that goes with what you said on intentional. Just plan one time a week where you're going to do the same. thing every week. Whatever it is, whatever it looks like for your family. Maybe it's going to the Waffle House. Maybe it's... I saw that on your Instagram. I did do that. That was just me. That was so scary. I'd never taken three kids to a restaurant before. I walked in, like, ready to just... I saw you had that little one boxed in. You had her. You had her. She crazy, bro. But yeah, but whatever that is, and that's what I did, because my wife's gone on Tuesdays now, so I'm like, you know what? Tuesday's Waffle House. Nye. I'm going to... Y'all want breakfast for

dinner. Let's go, kids. I ain't going to cook for you because I'm tired after work. I get off at six. She drops them off. I'm like, we're just going to go out to eat. And it's going to be crazy and they're going to make a mess. So I'm going to tip a little better because I feel bad about how crazy we are. But it's just like, I want my kids to remember like, okay, even though it was nuts, like there was just a couple times a week that dad was focused on us. And one of the greatest things that you have that you possess is the ability to choose. So you can choose. You can choose. what you want to do with your kids, how you want to do it. And you can also choose to tell your friends no.

And I appreciate that, John David, more than somebody saying, yeah, maybe, yeah, yeah, and then not being able to do it. Just be a man of your words. Say, no, I can't do it. We've got something playing with my kids. Oh, yeah, I felt terrible because this is one of my really good buddies. He was like, hey, man, it's going to be awesome. And I was like, I have to say no.

And it stinks. But like, that's, and he literally said, hey, bro, family first, man. Yeah. Get it. Yep. So I think intentional. Man, that was one of my favorite things growing up, what y'all are doing, the Sunday dinners with my grandparents.

Oh, yeah. That's what's up. Well, we're eating leftovers tonight. Like fried deer steak, whatever she grew in the garden. Oh, man. Give me those days back. Why did I want to grow up? I don't know.

We did that with my grandparents every month. Every Saturday my dad would catch fish. Every Monday, my papal was cooking them all for us. See, that's what's up. So on Sunday nights, we go to my parents' house, whatever's on sale at Super 1 is what we eat. They're like, what do you want to eat? We're like, y'all pick.

And my dad cooks. I've seen y'all, and look, I've seen these people in this comment bag. There's a lot of grandparents in there. Do this for you grandkids. Do this kind of thing. Really important. I mean, trust me, as a grandchild, that was awesome. It was my favorite day of the week.

Yeah, you're making memories. Yeah. The day you get to go there and just eat. And just eat. And then make a mess and then get yelled at to clean it up for 20 minutes and lose your shoes. And then play outside barefoot at all. afternoon. Why do kids not wear shoes? Why would you? Why every Sunday night we eat and we're all happy and it's like time to go and it takes 45 minutes to find Ben's his shoes. Well that's because he

wants to stay longer. I guess. He never knows where they're at. We have contests. Whoever finds his shoes gets a prize. Yeah, there you go. The prize is always like a hug and then they get sad. Whatever. Don't lose your shoes. You got one more? I do. I got one that's kind of deep and then I got one that's, let's go with this one. I'm going to figure this out later. I forget that was a magnet. There's a magnet and a knife and a file all stuck together over there. We have fidget toys here on the desk in the duck call room because we're all grown children. Zach 33 from Dry Ridge, Kentucky. Zach has a question. He's gotten older. As I've gotten older, I've gotten more into my faith. That's great. I went to church as a kid. Then once high school hit, our family

just didn't go. I believe in God and have accepted him as my Lord and Savior, but I haven't been back to church in a long time. Do you feel like you need to go to church to praise Jesus, or do you feel like church just isn't something that you have to do? Well, God could rise up, raise up rocks to follow him. He wants your heart, all right? And we are the church. We're the members. The church is not a building somewhere. I mean, it's actually the people, the Christ's followers. So no, but communion with your people and with the the church i mean that's that's important because it builds you up yeah you uh have brothers and sisters and christ that you can lean on when you need to so i would say absolutely you need to just so that you can make it i mean i surround myself with guys and and

ladies and and people that are going to help me with my christian walk community yeah absolutely that was that that line was sick though what i can call it rock that don't go to church if he needs to, but he wants your heart. I don't think he can be said better than that. I mean, church is a great thing, and I mean, going to the building and all that. But, you know, if you're just outright not going, I think that's a bad look. I think, you know, that sounds like you're saying, I don't need that. No, we need it.

You need that community to help you. And you need the people you're sitting next to, or maybe even not next, you need the other people in the building probably more than the 45 minutes of whatever the dude is going to say up on the stage 100%. Like you might go to church and he might talk about something that's not a big struggle of yours. You might always be joyful. But you know what? Somebody needs to see you there and being joyful and you need the people around you more than you think. And if you're in a great spot right now and you're like, hey, life's great. I don't know why I need people. But I will say this too and this can be our verse of the day do it go for it first john one seven but if we walk in the

light as he is in the light we have fellowship with one another and the blood of jesus his son purifies us from all sin i don't want to miss out on that purification you know i want to keep meeting with the brothers and build them up let them build me up and rock on it's real day i love it Si, you got anything? Nope. Send us out. You know my favorite part of that verse? It doesn't say from some sin.

Yeah, that's right. From all of it. That's a good point. Every bit of it. All right. Well, hey, one last thing. Go ahead. We've said it before, but what it was, the Houston Methodist.

Yeah. Thank you so much for taking care of our man right here. That's right. We were all praying for you. And thank you to all our fans who've been praying for him. We're glad to have the legend back in the duck call room. Are you glad to be here? Yeah.

Yeah, he is, maybe. I think our man's tired, so let's get on out of here. We'll see y'all next time right here. We're out.