Duck Call Room - Uncle Si's Theory About Gyms & the Government Is ... Accurate?

Episode Date: January 5, 2023

Si and the boys discuss the horrific moments on the football field after Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest — and Si marvels at how many people lifted Hamlin and his family in prayer. A fan sends in some AI-generated art of Si riding a giraffe. Or was it hand-drawn? Martin asks everyone about their New Year's resolutions, and John-David tells the story of what happened when he tried to trick his son into watching the 2022 ball drop so they could go to bed before midnight. Si realizes that people in the gym and government workers have a lot in common. Martin pokes fun at Phil Robertson for begrudgingly making a change and then realizing it's for the better. And Phillip and Si give great advice to a fan who's currently going through struggle after struggle in her life. --- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I saw the video, you and Martin and a couple of guys y'all were hunting. You know what? You and Martin and a couple other guys were hunting. Yeah, with the sequel matter? Oh, y'all filmed that? Yeah, it was filmed all morning. I never know. I'm a blablivious.

He's not blablivious. Cameras. Blublivia. Blublivious. But you shot good. I mean, from the video. Yeah. Unless it was trick camera work.

Hey, that wasn't even my good eye. I was using my bad eye. Just think one of them will do when I get my other eye fixed my shooting eye. He dough popped that decor. Hey, that's it. I did see that. He shook it with BBs in. Oh, yeah.

Now, what do we got here? Somebody drew a picture of Eagle the Pigeon. It's basically a pigeon with a backwards head. Hey, they did it. They actually did a good job. I like that. He likes it. I like the American.

Eagle was cold now. Hey. We know. He was the first long survivor. It's my favorite pigeon I've ever heard a story about. Eagle, though. Anyway, that was from Caleb. Caleb's dad sent that.

He painted the eagle the pigeon. Oh, size 2023 now. What's your New Year's resolution? What's you doing this year? I'm going to try to be a better person than I was last year. There it is. That's my only resolution. Do you have something that's obtainable?

Because you're a pretty good fella. I don't know how you're going to get much better than you was last year. No, but that's all I won't. He's not going to threaten me with him. Make me better than I was last year. Does that mean you're not going to punch John David no more? No, I can't say that. Other areas.

We're working on other areas. That's asking too much. Not everybody's perfect. I love it. Philip, you got anything interesting? The New Year is here? I mean, me and my wife are, you know, on the athletic green. And that's it.

We're exercising and taking the athletic green. And how's that's working out? It's great. We love it. Really? Yeah. Yeah, you should try it, side. It's awesome.

I thought when they first come up with, I thought they were talking about actually, you know, the meal greens. Yeah, no, no, no, no, nothing like that. Turnip green. Well, it kind of is. Must. Yeah. Well, it must. That's not what he's thinking.

Yeah. Well, y'all read the commercial, it's a pretty good. It is. No, no. Because it says, hey, you know, 75 different kinds of, you know. We're not doing an ad right now, though. Well, hey, well, I'm just saying, hey, if you listen to the duck call room, we believe in our products that we tell you about.

Well, hey, here's the thing. We didn't believe in them. We'd throw them out the way. My favorite thing, a sign knows the ad, and he's never read it. Not once. No, no. Well, I, yeah, but that's, no, I'm speaking to the fact of pure memory. I mean, it is me too, Martin.

So crazy. I was impressive when the JD read it that, hey, you know, most people go to the grocery store and they buy this vitamin in. They go ask the pharmacy, yo, what else do I need, y'all? Well, you need iron. And then you got the TV telling you, hey, no, you need to buy beach. Beech is for your blood pressure and all this. Beach? Yeah.

Beats. Yeah, beets. Reds. Reds and green. Beach does my blood pressure good. But anyway, but if you, in green, if you get all set. 75 minerals and all of them. All of it.

Hey, all of it. Hey, if you want. And one little scoop, too. That's what I give me. Oh, I love it. Let me just say this. If you're a marketer out there looking for somebody who's going to hawk your product and remember it well, he's sitting right next to him.

Please email it. Okay, I'm impressed. The fee is not much. Hey, I'm not like you and how to twain. Hey, that don't impress me much. Hey, I'm impressed. Now the guy's quoting a country song from 1919. Hey, that's his good memory.

That don't impress me. That's that. That's a good time. I agree with Martin. Hey, you heard it here on the podcast first, for it. You know, me and Sae watch a lot of TV together when we go to events.

And Sae has all the commercials memorized. He's a commercial, man. He finishes the commercial. That's why this podcast is so successful. Hey, I love it. Even our commercials are entertaining, and they become the podcast. No, no, but the thing about it is, you got to think about it.

They're paying somebody. okay he makes big bucks and hey sometimes they really come up with what size is really saying is he's their target audience yeah like that you want to know who you're marketing to that's right there he is this guy right he don't forget anything that's so to answer your question martin me and my wife are working out and trying to get and fit and in shape i can appreciate that that's a good thing yeah that's good so don't ask mine is just to keep my kids alive I don't know that that's really a resolution, but right now we're still in survival mode. How are you making it?

Are you doing good? Yeah, we're doing all right. Are you war down? Well, kind of. He's actually looking healthier. He does. He looks good. I ought to.

I've gained 15 pounds. I ought to look healthy. I'm right there with you, sir. He's back to his fighting weight. No, I'm past the fighting weight. Normally, normally when this happens to a couple, okay, yeah. When this happens. A woman has a glow or about her when you.

she's pregnant. Okay. Martin, Martin, after they were born, he started. And he got the glow. He got the glow.

That's just the new lights, bro. No, what he's telling you is you look pregnant. Well, thanks. Well, no,

and also, I agree. Also, I agree. Well, Martin, I'm right there with you. I'm just trying to keep two kids alive. I'll figure out how to take care of myself later. Well,

no, Because you look healthy. No, I'm not. I'm actually the most unhealthy I've been in probably 12 months since I recovered from the last day. See, that's what happens, though. Looks do not die. But you can't do nothing. Like, you sit there.

Like, you can't, it's cold. Well, now we got tornadoes thunderstorms. That's it. Yeah. We were unfreezing pipes last week. So. Yeah. The weather's got us down.

The weather's wild. But you can't, like, it gets so cold. You can't take them outside, so you can't do nothing. And then if it ain't cold, when it doesn't, does warm up, it pours down rain. So it's like... It's been weird. Please, I just want to go outside.

It's all I want to do. Well, my New Year's resolutions right there because you remember I lost all that weight and then I gained some of it back. And then this December I said, you know what, why don't I just finish the job and gain it all back in a month? Well, you're just trying to start heavy.

Then first 10 pounds come off quick. I mean, I stepped on the scale and I was so like, I mean, all that work with stone. It gone. Not all of it. I'm actually stunned. I've only gained 15. through this process since they got here.

Like, because I have ate like trash. Well, it's because when you get busy and you ain't got time. You're chasing cheap caffeine highs. Like, yeah, give me that Dr. Pepper. Well, that one wasn't enough. Give me another one. And the easiest thing to do sometimes hit that drive-through and get, oh, yeah.

You know, three orders of French fries. It is what it is. Praise B. Yeah. I mean, yeah. On dogs and French fries, just a bunch of crap. So I'm on, I'm going with the gobble. plan for a minute to try and get back down.

The problem is a duck hunter, though, your resolution really can't start until February 1st because we still got to survive this month of January. So my days have drive through Kalachi's and gas station Dr. Pepper's at 10 o'clock in morning just stay alive. Ain't over yet. We've only just begun.

Colosses are awesome. They are good. They're just good. They're so good. We can talk about that. The Goblin's not here. Look, and then over Christmas, our fan Miss Vicky walks into the store

and she's like, hey, I love all y'all. I saw that. Yeah. Yeah, you sent me that. I saved them for you. Yeah. I hadn't seen you in a minute. Yeah.

She brings in 10 little tubs of ice cream. Eight little Debbie Christmas ice creams. Ooh. So good. And then, but she thought of Godwin. She got him to keto ice cream, so I got to get those to him. Whoa. Yeah, our fans are just great.

Yeah. They think of us. They have had some of that keto ice cream. It tastes suspiciously like ice. Not so much cream. Don't tell Godwin. She was thinking of the man. It's suspiciously like a snow cone.

A snow cone. Oh, look. So then yesterday, right? So I'm trying to lose weight because I've done, I'm ashamed of myself. Yeah, that's fine. Just the roller. You can start in February with me. The roller coaster that is my weight.

February is a good time to start. And so yesterday I'm like lunchtime. I am not buying. I got to go quick, but I'm going to go to the smoothie place. and that's it. I'm just going to drink some fruit. And every other dummy like me was there was 400 people in that line. Wrapped around the building.

There's two places you avoid right now. The gym? Health stores and gyms because they are crowded. You give them two weeks. Yeah. Planet Fitness hits their whole budget in January. And that's like, okay, if they ain't got rocket money, they're going to forget about it. And then next thing you know.

We're hitting them all, boys. I know. Why not? Right. Man, I could go for some W sauce right. Hey, look, this is good for you. Hey, that's on the plan. Look, we get everybody right now.

But then last night, the thunder is crazy weather. They're like, everybody's leaving. Get home early. They're canceling stuff. And I leave work and I drive past the gym. Whole parking lot's full. So at least they're sticking to it. They're like, hey, we're going no matter what.

They just didn't want to walk outside in the rain. That's probably true, too. Just keep working out. I'll go back in February and see what it looks like. I'll let you know. A gym is kind of like the government. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

I know. Very interesting. Anytime you go by a government project, there's 20 people standing there. One guy is working. Gym's the same way. You're going to a gym. One guy's on the treadmill, and there's 14 watching this guy run on the treadmill. Just so we're clear.

Just so we're clear, I don't disagree with that. But I'm also extremely curious how you know what the inside of a gym. I'm supposed to say, I hadn't been to a gym. in his life. I drive by and I look at the... Oh, there you go. I drive by only and look at no one. That's the same.

Man, look at all those people there. Very accurate. Look at the 14 people walking the one clown on the treadmill. Yeah, and won't even spot him. Yeah. And when he switches to wait, nobody helps him. Nobody helps him. You're on your own.

Yeah, if he drives it, we might have to pick it up. We don't want to do that. Hey, will somebody help that poor guy? Oh, man. Funny. Well, let's just work our way right into this first commercial. I don't even know what it is, but... Hey, we're going to make it fun.

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We tried. Didn't work? I showed Carter was, he's eight now. He was like, I'm making it to midnight. I said, probably not. I'll make a deal with you. New York, because he's obsessed with New York City. He thinks it's really cool.

He hasn't been there. No, it's New York City. He thinks big buildings are cool. So I was like, I'll make a deal with you. 11 o'clock, New York City, the ball drop, and you can go to bed after that. And he's like, okay. So he's all fired up with this ball drop. Well, 10, 15, boys fading fast.

I'm like, he ain't going to make it. He ain't going to make it. So YouTube, 22. Uh-huh. Ball drops. I'd do the happy new year. And he goes, dad, that said 2022. I said, yeah, buddy, that was last year.

Is that good enough? Busted. He goes, cut. Nope. Put it back. I just told him budget was a little tight. Well, he wasn't having it. And so he made it to a level.

11 o'clock said happy new year right when the ohio state guy missed the kick yep i didn't see that because i was having to watch the ball drop we were flipping back and forth and then he was asleep by 1102 out but he made it i was proud of them i didn't tell you the only reason i was up at 1101 is because that football game yeah i can't tell you last time me and brittany saw midnight on new years like this duck season man like i don't see it a lot we go to bed we're going hunting in the morning it's a weird holiday it's a weird holiday it's like How late did you stay up, Sire? About 9, 15.

No, I think I wouldn't have been at 9 o'clock. Yeah. He was ringing in that Brazilian new year. Si, I don't even care. We don't stay up late. And I can appreciate that. No, we ain't, no. We didn't stay up late before, kids.

We certainly don't now. Yeah. Like, as soon as they're down, out, gone. If I'm up past midnight, I'm at a poker game. And you're doing good. Fireworks. And I am not busted yet. Because if he's doing bad, he's still in bed by 9-15.

You know him, don't you? No, no, that's more. That's what my wife said. Didn't go good tonight, huh? Why are you home so early? No, no. She don't have to say that. It didn't go good tonight, huh?

You're right. Well, she's full of compassion. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hey, long as I say, hey, you got the checkbook. She says, They're still good Thumbs up

Funny Oh man But that is Yeah this is It's also I mean like football's almost over That's sad Is anything in the news

Newsworthy really? No I don't know I'd have to watch it To find out I don't know I never can't watch it It's too depressing

Hey our thoughts and prayers though Speaking of football That guy played for Buffalo last night That's a bad deal Whatever happened there I'm not a doctor I'm not going to pretend I am one on social media. Well, a young man just know this.

There was a lot of prayers that left this earth going toward heaven for you. But did you see, so this guy, be fair, I never heard of him. Because he's Buffalo, not in our footprint. We don't get to watch a lot of bills games here. How would you have? But the man had a toy drive. Yeah, that went from $60,000, I think. I think is the...

It started out like $10,000. that he was trying to raise for toys in Buffalo area. Yeah, for kids. For kids. In 30 minutes. Three million? In 30 minutes, it went to 300,000. And in this morning, when I looked at it, it was $4 million.

Okay. Is that $4 million now? Christine reported to me $3 million. Yeah. The last I looked at was $4 million. I had not heard that. So the Lord works in mysterious ways for whatever reason. DeMail, a lot of prayer that went up to you personally asked.

God to heal your body. Yeah. That was one of the craziest things. As a sports guy, I've watched it all. That was one of the wildest things I've ever seen. So, Mr. Hamlin, you are in our thoughts and prayers as well, along with your family. And just people in general, man. You don't like to see that.

So that was bizarre. But hey, kudos to the announcers for an unenviable job of something that ain't ever happened before. And I'm well on record saying I cannot stay in listening to Joe Buck. He drives me crazy whenever he's calling a game. But the man, my hat's off to you for what you did last night. And booger from Winsborough, Louisiana. Bugger?

A heck of a job, son. He did great too. That was just, it's always tough to watch something play out that shouldn't be played out in in front of a stadium. I mean, in fairness to them, they don't know. Yeah. They're covering it. And then all of a sudden, you see the chest compression.

and you're like, oh. And people go down in football all the time. It's a bad deal. It's a dangerous sport. And look, back in the day, if something happened, they would just, all of a sudden, the screen goes out, they've got a sign, something at the bottom rolling across saying, you know, it's on a delay.

Yeah. And then they're showing old clips of highlights from Super Bowl 10 or whatever. And nowadays, you got everybody tweeting every opinion about everything. And it's just, it's hard to know what's true. Yeah. The good thing, though, is like, you know, we all got our differences. But last night for just a little bit in America, it was all. Everybody that watched that football game came together.

Everybody didn't care who you were rooting for. It was like football is so secondary. And kudos to the guys for stopping the game, like canceling the game, postponing it, whatever you want to call it. I agree. Thank you all for treating him like a human. And that this was a human problem and not just. Not a bad man.

Art him off. A football game. Yep. Yeah. For a little bit, it wasn't about football. And that's important to remember, especially going into a new year, man. There's a lot that can be said for that. That I think a broadcast that's arguably worth, I don't know how many millions of dollars, a lot.

Because there were two really good football teams that, that game matters a lot. So there were a lot of people looking at it. Yeah, that's important. And to just say, now, we're done. Bravo. Yeah. Bravo. I agree.

Because that dude's life is more important than any Advertising, any And what a better time, too. First responders, y'all did it last night. Like, there's the reminder that people needed. So when we thank first responders, you got to see firsthand last night why we do that.

They're called first for a reason. They are the ones there. So, yeah, it was just a cool, it was a sad moment, but a really cool moment to see everybody come together. and to see some people that generally go thankless get some credit that they deserve too. So that was an unfortunate deal that can end up being fortunate and do a lot of good at of it at the same time.

But Mr. Hamlin, yep, our thoughts and prayers are with you. Let's take another break. We'll be back right after this. Cy, you've been ducking? No. No? No. You're off of it.

Well, no, I did go. I did go. You went with me. I went with you. Okay. And that was a blast. because we shot to him big speck about it. And then I went with Stone called me

when it was iced over. Uh-huh. And he said, old man, get out of bed. We're going to make an ice hole and kill the duck. Come on, get out of bed. Y'all said, Stone, I don't want to go, you know. He said, old man, get your butt out of bed and get your ass and get down here.

So I went and we did. We killed. I don't remember how many of it were killed. We had a good hunt. That's good. They was young. I always, always that, tickled me, you know, we learned that from the people in Kansas.

Mm-hmm. From Barrett. You know, and they had to, it gets cold up there, so it's like two inches thick. Yeah, a chainsaw. Yeah, the chainsaw. Crank a chainsaw up and cut it a round circle and then push it on to the ice. You know, and I said, how do the ducks know that you just did this ice hole? Yeah.

Got you heard from the polar bear. Well, no, no, no. Hey, I guess. Go up. It's the craziest thing you on you. You do it. Hey, there's come.

Yeah, that was cold. Johnny Dee, what did you think about that? Do you like that cold? I know you didn't. No, I did my best to stay indoors for an extended period of time.

Do you entertains stay unfrozen? The only reason I told us on. I said, okay, I'll get dressed come on. I said, you make sure there's heat. Make sure there's heat. I'll say, make sure he said, hey, you know, Phil. He's got a heater.

Hey, I ain't going to lie. The first day. I told it a heater with me. Now, I never turned it on, but I had it. Well, no, no, that day I went with you. Okay, y'all had a brand new heater in the box. Yeah. You know, Mark kept asking me.

You call, and I said, no, I'm having enough. You know, I ain't cold. I'm having fun. Yeah. Now, you look like you were warm. Oh, no, no, it was, you know, I had a pair of wages that weighed 50 pounds. Yeah. A long, yeah, he looked like a Michel man sitting beside me.

We look the same size. Yeah, I look like your old Willie does. Yeah, he'll be there. boy. I was pudgy. I was pudgy all over. You ain't got to worry about Willie till for another 100 episode. You shoot however you want.

Yeah, Willie only shows up on anniversary. Yeah, what the heck? Man, show up. We do 200 of these things. He show up to take the credit for 200. Well, he did say he didn't think we'd make it this far. He's proud of us for making it. That shows you he is smarter than he looks.

Okay. Well, that's a good thing. Also not that tough to pull off. You know, what size of bread the butter's on? Hey, what do you think about your brother switching to a 20 gauge? Who switched to a 20? Well, how many brothers

say I got alive? Oh, wait. I am. I ain't but one. I was thinking nephews and I'd like to apologize. It's also a JD's IQ. No, no.

The other day when I hunted with him, okay? Some wood ducks coming in, y'all, and we crippled one. He's shooting that 20 gauge and he shot above him. Because I was thinking he was shooting blank, because there was no pellets hit the water. Shooting over him.

Yeah. Yeah. And that's why I knew he shot the brush above him. Yeah. You know, and he said, good grief, that shell must not have any pellets in it. You know? Is that aim lower? Yeah.

I said, hey, you shot high. Yeah. You know, I said, he'll kill him, you know. But that's what took him about it. I said, you finally wired up on. He said, well, I got tired. I said, hey, when Bonelli said that their shotguns don't kick, I said, they told a little white lie.

I said, hey, they don't think they've ever said they don't kick. Well, hey. I think they said they reduced it. Yeah, but that 12 gauge will still stomp you. Okay, so, hey. I wouldn't know. That's why I gave up the 12-gauge shotgun. Plus, it's too heavy.

20-gauge is light. Preaches. Okay, and hey, I can kill them as far as you can. I thought you were shooting a 28-gauge. Phil called me and told me. He said, I need a 20-gauge, and I just started dying laughing. No, no, yeah. He said, what?

I said, welcome to the dark side. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. He told me. I said, is it better? He said, what are you talking about? Yeah, is it better? Yeah, of course it is. What are you talking about?

Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. So, So, Sa, did you get off the 28? No, no, I use that for quail. Yeah. Only for quail. Yeah, that's only quill. I can kill ducks with it, too.

Reach, I shoot it a lot. No, no, yeah. I like shooting it for one reason, okay. you know with the 12 gauge just boom and then you got to find him and get back on them with that 20 gauge it's just pop pop pop pop

inspect it with a 28 gauge then it's really just poof bam bam boom boom that's what it sounds like to me it sounds like the guns go it ain't much of this either it's just

boom boom boom boom poof and they die are you sure it's not boom boom boom boom boom boom boom no we ain't got that many no we might want to make sure we limit the on amount of P is the three Yeah, they won't hold that name.

Ooh, onomatopoeia. Word of the day. I had to, you know, raise my... Please, that went into conversation today. I like it. Thank you. Hey, this is directed at the federal agents. Uh-oh.

And the government. Hey, one came in the store the other day. He wanted me to tell you that they're not all bad people. Well, here's the deal. You want me to tell you specifically that. What, if I go in the whole five shotgun shells, I cannot kill but six ducks legally. What did you care if I shoot one time out of?

them or five times at them. Okay? That's the question. I'm not getting involved. Hey, if I shoot over my limb and you catch me, I deserve to catch you right. And you catch me? You know? He's an outlaw.

Well, I'm just saying, no, no, I'm just telling the truth. Just a good old boy. I'm just telling the truth. Oh, he bought a book. Never meaning no home. He just wants to rewrite the book. Hey, if the thing holds five shells, let me shoot five times. It's the same.

I got a better idea. But then, you mean, you could put like a drama on. Why not just, make them, why not make the shotgun manufacturers make it hold three? Why do we need the ability to hold five if we can't shoot five? They're all in cahoots, boys. Well, hey.

To get your money. Faded field and trapment. Well, then you get into the freedom part. Let's get a good lawyer. No, no, then you get into a freedom part. And that's why I brought up the question about, hey, legally, I can only kill six. Okay.

So, hey, why? Why do you care if I shoot one time and kill one, or I shoot, it takes me five shots to kill one? Yeah. I think I know the answer to that. Let's hear it. Sporting. Generally by shots four and five, they're a little far, and you're cripple.

Not if you shoot fast like I do. Oh, God. Your cripple percentage goes way. Way. Hey, I will. They can't make different rules for Annie Oakley and size. You're educating me. I would imagine that that has.

something to do with it. Okay, that's a good point. But it should be like the golf course. Once you hit a certain age, you ought to be able to shoot four and then five. By the time you're at 70, you shoot all five any time you want. If we're on that bag, by the time, forget four and five. When you hit 70, lead ought to be back in. Hey.

It gets a discounted price. Y'all are going with just because I'm old, then I'm harmless. No? No, you're harmful. I can guarantee you you're harmful. You've just earned the right to, you know. And you don't shoot enough shells for it to matter anymore. Do what you want.

A young boy shoot a lot of shells, especially at doves. You just carry a lot of shells. Wait a minute here. What? What is old age got to do with shooting that number? Side of hell. Hard up. No.

Everything. That bull. Okay. You ain't got a lens in your glasses right now, and you're going to tell me old age, ain't got nothing to do with it. No, I ain't got nothing to do with it. Side. Why didn't you have that surgery at 30?

Look at his finger's still young he said. Hey, that's finger still young, son. A man wearing one lens and his glass. Hey, he can't got a deal with it. Because I don't need it. And he shot, how many shells have you shot this year? Seven. No, he shot a box with me.

Well, I fixed a day. I shot about a box with him, okay, and I shot about half a box down there the other day. All right, so we're at 30, 40. 35. Martin, how many shells have you shot? When I was going every day. He quit preaching and got to meddling. I'm just asking.

I'm trying to prove your point. Yeah, you don't get an old to you now. That'll get your nose hurt. Yeah, that's a bad deal. More than 30? Yeah, a few. There we got. Yeah, probably 31.

I shoot a lot, though. I shoot a lot. Because I'm generally, with all of us having aged dogs and no new puppies, I'm generally the dog. So anybody's one, I got to run that rascal down. That ain't what I saw on the video. So I was shooting them, and some young guy was going and getting all over. Oh, no.

Hey, he wanted to. And by God, I was going to let him. Well, I was just fixing. But he went out there the first time. Were you hitting them? Were you hitting them? Well, of course I'm hitting them. That's a weird deal, though.

We're blowing like 50. It was easy, not 50, but it was blowing 25 straight out the north. It was easy to hit the duck. It was hard to kill him. But, you know, that's just. We're shooting them, especially the geese. Yeah. We're shooting geese, back about it, about 80.

Oh, they weren't 80. Well, hey, 60. 60. I ain't calling the shot at 80. 60. Hey, 60. to 80. They was 50, yeah.

Right. 50, I was like, as close they're going to get, you might well stand up and get him to the water, and then we'll get him from there. That's right. Then we'll run him down. Yeah. But that's his deal on that.

But that's that young boy, then Flatbelly's son. They'll chase them if you get, if you take them with you. That's why it's good to have one on your crew. Well, no, no. We ain't got any. Hey, it always ends up, the youngest, you know, chase the bird. He went the first time without a shotgun.

I said, boy, he's going to regret that. Yeah. Hey, hey, hey, he was, he's already gone. Had a lot of energy. It's probably when he got back to the next time before he got out there in water. Bart said, hey, take your shotguns. You're chasing. And shells.

And shells. A bunch of them. Yeah, get you a bunch of shells. Because, you go out to shoot him like, you know, 60s. Yeah. Just start walking. Yeah. Start walking and shooting.

Yeah. Apply pressure. Yeah. That's boom bough. Because you'll confuse him. If you don't, you'll confuse him shooting. He'll sit there and swim circles. Yeah.

If you don't kill him, you. you'll confuse him. Yeah. And you go round and round, then you walk out. You can close the distance on him in. Then you can close the distance. That's professional retreating.

He's got that head down, got that head down, and he's booge in? You ain't catching him. No, you ain't going to catch you. He faster than you. Yeah. He can swim better than you can swim. You walk in waiters. Yeah.

Yeah. Pro tips right here. That's what you're getting right now. Yeah. All right. Let's take another break. First time Phil made me pick a dove. I was like, pick him.

Do what? Oh, yeah. I had never done nothing but breasted. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Phil had me sitting out there picking doves. I was like, boy, it's dumb. Now, I've never even.

And then I got done, I got done with them. And then we went and ate them. And then Phil turned them into doves and gravy. And I said. And some rice. Oh, man. I said. So y'all didn't just breast the doves.

No, we picked them. No, we sat out there and picked them. Me and Sa went and killed a mess up on the dog in like late December or something right at the end of season. And we brought them back and Phil said, hey, get out there and pick him things. We'll make a gravy. And I'm like, pick a dove. Like, what in the world? I had never done it.

But, you know, as Phil, he's the boss. Yes, sir. So here I am, picking a dove. I get done with it. He's like that big once you take all the feathers off of him. And I'm like, boy, that seemed like a waste of time. But anyway, I did it. We took it in there and Phil browning things in a skillet

and then took them dripping from that browning and made gravy and then threw them rascals back in it and threw it in that oven. I said, I don't know that I'll ever breast another one. So how many could you eat? Oh, I could eat 20 of them. I think we killed 30 and there were like two left between me, him, and Phil. Oh, yeah, three of them. We ate 28 of them.

Yeah, it was wild. Yeah, we shot our 30. The first time you do is just when you pull them out of, you know, put them on your plate, you pull the legs off. Yeah, they like a little toothpick. Yeah, and then you clean the bone and throw it in the trash can. You know, then you start working on the breasts. Oh, man, they were good.

So I always go. And there's a little, there's a little, it's like a, like a cheek of a fish there's a little spot on their back backstrap yeah just a back strap yeah y'all you eat that yeah sigh i've always heard you talk about wanting to kill more dubs because they don't live long he told me that they live for a year is that accurate that's probably average is probably yeah average is probably a year they ain't a very slick critter no they're terrible nest builder like they throw three twigs together

and put two eggs in it and hope for the best fall out the young fall that's true yeah they're terrible the baby birds fall out yeah they show all good you want to kill them and eat them oh yeah and then hey oh you wouldn't believe the varmits that

once they find them nested in a bunch of trees like we had a place at home that they've throwing trees that's where the duds all nested and hey coons mink Si. Me. That's right.

Sy's down there with a rock. Yeah. Cling shot. Getting old eagle's cousin. That's it. Oh, he's good eating too. You ate eagle? Oh, now we know what happened to Eagle.

No. Oh, hold on. I have had pigeons. Yeah, I have to. Yeah. It's a little tough. It's tougher than a dove. Yeah, it's tougher than the dog.

He's a different animal. He's tougher. He's tougher than a little. We got a place that we hunt at them pigeons to get in their time. Yeah. And A. I'll tell you what, now,

that pigeons can tote some number eight's pretty good. They generally are two-shotter. I know they're hard to hit. I would just fix, hey, we was in Wisconsin on a European hunt. They was turning pheasles loose, chuckers. Well. And they had some pigeons in there.

Guess what was the best survivor? Pigeons. Pigeons. So when they come up. Ducking and diving. When they left, they come out of there. You know, they will get it. They were getting it.

They were moving. I think there may have been, you know, probably if they released like 50 pigeons, we may have killed five. Yeah. Okay, because I didn't see them any fault. If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. They released, look, no, no, hey, they released on that hunt. You reckon I ever took an ambient?

They released 500 pheasant. We killed like, five. 485 of the 500 pheas. That's pretty high clip up there. Oh, no, them boys, that bunch up there? They could shoot. This was military guys at that event. So they really could shoot.

They could shoot. I was surprised because I asked them, you know, you were surprised? Yeah. You know, hey, that's good shooting. 485 out of 500. It's not bad. misses. Yeah, that's pretty

solid. That's solid shooting. Now, in contrast, we went to another place in Oklahoma where they missed so many birds they asked Si, they said, Tsai, you and Philip want to go, clean up whatever wasn't killed? So I said, let's go. Let's ride. We took the dog

and we saw so many birds. And I did learn from that ranch in Oklahoma. You can raise quail and turn them loose and they'll become while. Yeah, as long as there ain't no

predators. Well, no, no. Because, okay, they did it on that ranch. Yeah. We had one covey we jumped up. 100. 100.

Okay. That's a lot of quail. Oh, no, no. Look, I'm going, we're going west, and I'm looking into the sun, it's going down. Them hundred quail got up. I'm blind. I can't think of it.

I'm looking right as sun. Well, I shot. You all try it now. No, no, look. Hey, I shot one time. Philip told me, he said, why didn't shoot the other two? And I said, well, I couldn't see that. He said, well, you kill three with the first shot.

And I said, well, I should have shot the other two shells. Because it was a hundred got up. So that, you can raise them. And here's another time I didn't know. If it rains on pale, pen-raised birds, quail, they won't fly. They can't fly. That's right.

They can't fly. Is that also true? Not that they won't, they can't fly. Yeah. That's why you hunt them in the evening. That's why you don't go put them out in the morning. No, no. Because if they get that dew on them, they can't do that.

No, no. Yeah. So I need to know something. Is that also true for ducks that are pen-raised ducks? Oh, I have no idea about pin-ranged ducks. No. No, because normally a duck, he's in water all the time. He's got an oil gland on the back of his rear-in,

and he just takes his beak and he'll oil his feathers. just learn that that's true those pin-raised ducks that were out front sure didn't make it on that dog that's why don't you're saying hey don't let that upset you let it roll off your back

like duck on a yeah water off a duck's back water off a duck back that's what that saying comes from but they literally oil their feathers a duck dutch otherwise he just

it's soaking up be like a commoneran out there on the side of the tree well you see that comerant doing that on side of tree he's drying he's drying his out because he's been swimming.

Yeah. Catching fish. He's too heavy to fly. Can't fly. Oh, there's all kind of little... Nature wild. No, no. No, no.

I was just trying to think of the show that we need, an Uncle Size Nature documentary. No, no. It's just why it hadn't happened. Sad, really. There's some cool things that people, if you don't hunt a fish,

that you miss in God's creation. I did see on... I did. see on the internet somebody shot a black bobcat he wasn't black but whoa oh wait that's that was melanchistic somebody said he wasn't black he was really dark brown dark yeah it's cool i was like man that's awesome but you know why he still didn't have a tail that's wild you got a question we're watching the game in my wife all right okay ls u yesterday uh-huh i didn't even watch yeah and and i don't even know

yeah that's yesterday she asked a question about well how many people you know when they was running out on the field She's good grief, how many is on the team? And I said, that's a good question. I don't know. I said, Google it, baby. Find out. Yeah, I don't know. Hey, how many college, college team, how many players can they have?

95. 150. I would guess 70 something. Nope. I don't know that. 85. 85. 85 is normal up to, but they can have 105.

105. 105. I split the difference. There you go, right in the middle. Use a healthy part of the average. No, no, no. But I, you know, when you said that, I said, I don't really know. But NFL is what, like 50?

53. You can all address out 47. Yeah. Because that's, you know, because when you think about it, okay, still. 36? Yeah, the NFL banks on a deal, we ain't getting hurt. Yeah, yeah, and that's what we do, we in a bind. Yeah, yeah, that's when they start, it gets.

That's when you have the wide receiver trying to kick, like, or whatever happened early in the season. Oh, Josinko. Yeah. He did it good at it, though. But I just thought that was cool. 105 total or 85 normal. It's what they play with.

Well, college football is weird because they got seven different cheese at bowls. Yeah, 53 for NFL. But they all getting paid now. You got the regular cheese it bowl? I cheese it spent so much money. I feel like I got to give them a shout out. I woke up feeling cheesy. Cheese it.

I love that. Citrus bowl. But you act like cheeses ain't good. I love that. They're good. Which was that? Especially them extra Toasty ones.

Cheezy. I like it. And then they dump Cheez-It's on the coach. I like that. I've been talking about cheez-its-its for five straight days. I love it. I ate that perfect one. And they're cheez-it-cheez-it.

Here we go. Well, let's age on into this break. We'll be back right after it. Where's my cheese whiz, boy? The other night, giving the boys a bath in the sink because that's what we do still. Yeah. Yeah.

First one up. Oh. That got warm water. That was the first. time that's happened. I'm sure it won't be the last. It was just a real bummer that it was number one. Well, I mean, technically number two, but he was

the first one. He said, then I had to drain the water and start over. And number one, fix the new bath water goes number two. It's never good. But that was wild. I told Brittany, I said, he's trying to poop. She's like, oh, no, it's just gas. About that time. Nope. Nope. I said, we're not gassy no more. Them are not

bubbles. Well, there were a few bubbles. I know, but hey, then there were some matter involved. That just goes to show you when you're young and when you're old, don't trust your farts. Yeah. Oh. Well. Or middle-aged. Yeah, I must say.

I don't know what I... I ain't there ain't much change at 37. All right, J.D., what's it at mailback? Hello at dot callroom.com. That's the email address. You got called a poop head. That's fine. Poop head. Well, he called me a poop smeller or something.

Oh. It's a very mature thing to email, buddy. Yeah. You made your point also. I'm the only one that reads it and I deleted it. There's your fake laugh. Also, you thought so much of it to take the time to send an email. So thanks for your support. Hey, we appreciate you. Guess what?

I'll be sitting right here on the next episode. See you later, bud. Hey, Sharpie. Sharpie emails. Do you remember Sharpie, Martin? Sharpie. It was a long time ago. See if you can jog my memory.

I'm going to try and jog your memory. Sharpie emailed in 10 months ago. Oh, boy. And asked for advice on this girl that him and another dude liked. Okay. Yeah, that sounds familiar. We probably, yeah, that's a normal one for a. And you said, hey, just move on, bro.

Yeah. I ain't worth your time. Yeah, sounds about right. He remembered. That's what he did. And so now he's engaged to somebody else? Basically, yes. No, he's not engaged, but he did.

Like, you called it. He moved on, he's like, whatever. This new girl walks into his life. She's everything he ever dreamed of. See? Look, you could be stuck in that rut of ten months ago. you're welcome, Sharpie. Sharpie.

I like it. We're just doing work. Please don't listen to advice from me. Martin, you are changing people's lives. Good. I just used common sense. I wouldn't really call it at all. Now it's getting good.

Oh, oh. So Luke from North Carolina, emails in. Luke, God bless you, my friend. What did Luke do? Si sees something on your computer. He's laughing. It's great. It is.

So I asked everybody. Did we get to see it? Yes, send us some artwork. He asked an AI program to draw Uncle Si riding a giraffe. And that's basically what it would look like,

although your nose is sketched city in this drawing. Look at that beard. Why did you do this? Why would I not? Did you show the picture that somebody drew of Jason's in here? Oh, no, but that one's awesome. I know.

That's why I was wondering how this comes up. We were talking about how Saul always wants to ride a giraffe. This is his dream. His dream. dream in life on a... Oh, wow. ...is to ride a giraffe, which I guess that's... Yeah, but no, that ain't...

Is that me and you? I don't know. And why is that giraffe's neck so short in that one? Why is Cy riding side saddle? Is he that confident? Well, he's a proper lady. Yeah. One hump.

You're going to get nailed. Hit him, Sao. He's right. Salad. No, you're trying to be nicer. Remember, don't hit him today. Oh, no. He's got one.

It's on the books. All right. Okay. Kenny will be happy. Hey, the only thing about that, they put a saddle on him. And plus, they made his neck short. Yeah, why is that giraffe's next? A giraffe don't have short neck.

Maybe he's sticking it out. That's a dwarf giraffe. Now. I don't know. But we ask people to sit. And I'm hoping one shows up in the mail. Like, I wanted, like, a legit picture. You're talking about, like, the one that's hug up in the store.

That's Jace. That's half horse and half Jace or whatever here. Naked man holding shotgun. Yeah. And everybody said, why'd y'all hang that up? I said, how could you not? Also, how did you draw that? Yeah.

What were you doing? And what about Jason made you think of a horse? Like, I don't know. It's weird. Well, I couldn't come out there, but I'm going to let that go, baby. Stubborn? I'm glad you did. Stubborn?

That's fake, Jayce. You're welcome. You owe me one. I let it go, boys. Why are you going to say he's a donkey? No, I ain't going there. All right, what else you got shot? All right, so I got a heavy one.

We can end with a heavy one? Yeah, end it with that. Yeah, let's do it. All right, fan from the South. Doesn't want their name used, and I can understand why. Having a rough go. Just back to back to back to back. Lost your aunt in a car accident.

A few months later, her grandpa died, had an early baby, 73 days in the NICU. Grandma died last week. Now her daughter has COVID and pneumonia. A lot of stuff going on. in this poor girl's life. And she said,

I feel like I'm at my breaking point. How much more of this can I take? I don't have anyone close to lean on. She just feels like it's just her and her husband and just cried all the tears she could cry in the last year, right? And it's a new year. Mm-hmm. And that's just that she just went through just a trash year,

let's just call it what it is. This life's tough and went through every year. everything. And she just said, I just want help. And I need some advice. That's tough. And there's no one here saying that you are not going through hell on this earth this year. That was a tough year.

Hey, praise me. I remember that. I had a stretch like that. It's rough. And it sucks. But you get through it eventually. You put your head down. I know you say you don't feel like you got anybody to lean on.

but your husband is there y'all are the team that's what the team is about when you make those vows that's who you're supposed to lean on right there but the cool thing is the ultimate comforter is always right there with you

and that's Jesus and this is a time now what was that when I mean like two three episodes ago you read you know when I'm at my weakest yeah yeah Christ be glorified you know I mean, so, I mean, it's just your response is going to, because everybody around you knows what you've gone through.

Yeah. And they're looking to see how you are going to respond to this. Do you keep trudging through walking by faith, figuring it out? Not saying, walking by faith don't mean you wake up every morning and smile either people. Yeah. Some days you wake up and you cry. You ball your freaking eyes out all day long. Crying is not.

That doesn't mean that you don't have faith in the process. That means today is a bad day. and that's okay. Jesus even wept. Yeah. I mean, bad days are fine. So just lean on your husband, lean in, you know, put a protective shield around you and him, do the best you can. It sounds like your baby is out of the NICU, I'm guessing.

Yeah. So you've got that little bundle of joy. 73 days. Look, we only did like seven. I can't imagine 73. I know y'all did a bunch. So, I mean, I know how emotionally taxing those seven were. So, I mean, just lean on your husband, lean on Jesus, and, you know, figure it out.

Like, because that baby's going to be watching how you respond to this, too. Even at that age, they're going to pick up on it. So, Philip, the counselor, you got anything? You know, it all happens at one time. That's, that's, if it's spread out enough, you know, it's, it is manageable. But when it happens so close, I guess, So close together, it makes it just more of an impact. But the way I would say would be, you know, learn from Christ and his gentleness,

take his yoke and put that on because you'll find rest for your soul. So if you cast your anxieties on him and you look for rest and peace for your soul, you're going to find it through Christ. There is not another way. you can have people support you look for people who will help you but pray about it you know

pray about it think about it and and just put it all on him because he can take it just like you know there's a lot of people in the Bible who went through trials and tribulations you're going to find those things in this world but the only peace is going to come from God Almighty I'm going to tell you about my kids

they was fighting one time and you know and then they backtalked their mother uh-oh okay and I had told them a long time ago you know you can treat dad badly and I'll deal with it but you don't treat the woman that brought you into this world badly or I'll hurt you but the thing about okay I read the start of this your letter it said I feel that the whole world

is against me. Darling, that's a true statement. The whole world is against you. Okay? That's one reason when you're at your lowest, that's when Jesus does his best work.

Because guess what? That's when you turn to him. Because you've done run your gauntlet and you can't face it and can't handle it no more. That's when you ask for help. 100% and I just the last line in this email was I want to know someone cares we care and we haven't all been through all this back to back to back to back to back like you have but everything you've been through one of us has been through and it's tough by itself so what you're going through does seem unimaginable but we want you know we're praying for you I'm going to ask some fans to pray for you and there's a lot of people that are going to be praying for you. you and I'm going to end it with John 1633.

I beat you too, a big boy. Nice. Because size said the world's against you, but I got good news for that. Jesus Christ himself said, I've told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In this world, you will have trouble. That's a guarantee. But take heart, I have overcome the world.

It's a new year. Your last year stunk. Maybe that probably goes for more than one person out. there. Maybe your last year was really good. I'm not a big New Year's guy and everything's going to change, but it is a good time to market and say, you know what? I'm going to go forward this year

knowing who has overcome the world, taking it one day at a time. But we love you. We love all our fans. Amen. That's right. We'll be praying for you specifically and hopefully some of our fans join into that as well. I got a good feeling they will because we have awesome

fans. Martin? And be sure to let us know when it gets better. Yeah. It's going to get better. It will. Just keep your head down, keep trudging. It will. The tides will turn. Yeah. And when those tides turn, don't forget who helped them turn. I'm not talking about us. Yeah. By all means, I'm not talking about us. And then celebrate that and then boast in that and tell people about that. Yeah. That's what you got to look forward to. Absolutely. So thank you all so much. We'll see y'all next time. Right here in the duck call room. We're out.