Duck Call Room - Uncle Si's Wife Discovers His Kryptonite

Episode Date: June 9, 2022

Si is still recovering from his wife's podcast debut, and Phillip shares his favorite Christine story — the time he first saw her perform a simple maneuver to instantly drain Si's battery. Si is not a fan of the beach coming anywhere near his orifices. John-David's family runs into the sorriest rhinos ever — because they're goats. Si's kidneys may just be the eighth wonder of the world, and the scientist in Martin has questions. And the boys serve up advice on how to handle an in-law who overstays her welcome and how to quit a job. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now, let me put my years on, boys. Let's put the... I say we start with an update. What's the update? The guy. Who's guy? Oh, the picture you sent us. The picture you sent.

Oh, I was saving that for the email. Oh, no, we need to start there. Okay. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. We have some great news. So this podcast is apparently around for a reason. And that's what we learned. Si, Si doesn't know this.

side do you remember last time when phil was on like a week ago no you don't remember a guy a guy emailed in asking how to propose and he was going to do it in duck season and we said do it in a yard now i remember and i kind of i was like man duck season is a long way away you might want to boom they're already engaged now did it with a dummy in the yard was it all zoom in john davin we yeah right there ma'am if you're listening you're listening you're Welcome. Bethany and Zach. Congratulations.

That's awesome. All right. Zach, get a different hat. What a hat does he have? Oh, okay. Yeah, we won't even say that. Zach, we'll send you a new hat. Send us an address.

Send us an address. We're going to send you a new hat. As long as you throw that one away, we'll send you a new hat. We're going to send you a new hat. But how cool is that? Because some people do email back when we answer their questions and say, oh, thanks for the advice. But that one was, he was going to wait until duck season.

Well, congratulations. Congratulations, both of you. And now they're engaged. I mean, I was sitting at my kitchen table this morning, and I said, pop the big questions. I don't wonder what this one is. And he said, thank you guys for the advice. And I was like, he took our advice, actually, which is hysterical to me. And then now they're engaged.

Are we liable? It may be hysterical, but we do have an uncanny track record of marriages across the board. Across the board, we're pretty good at it so far. Yeah, so far. I don't know if that means we're good. That just means we ain't a bunch of quills. Well, no, no, but I told y'all I was shocked, really, even more than that. I was totally amazed that sometimes we give out some very good information.

It is a weird thing that we do. And sometimes not so much. Yeah. Well, you know, but I mean, hey, look, you can't always be right. And speaking of marriages, you know, we did find out that you're a big liar and all your stories aren't necessarily true. No, now hold it. From your beautiful wife. In defense of me, okay, by the shocked expression on my face when I heard her version.

You know, I just, that's why I tell you all the time, eyewitness reports are no good. The law will agree with me on that. But you're the witness. There's two stories. There's always two sides to a story. One's 95% true. No, there's three.

There's a truth. Because you forgot about the truth. I'm going to say Christine's word true. How did you get Christine on the show? We have no idea. Cy, what happened? Hey, Martin called, I guess, and said, hey, would you come on the show? I guess.

My man over here called. I don't know. The producer man called. I just lobbed up the idea why don't we have Christine. Well, it was 100 then. Yeah. Because we were, everybody decided to go on vacation. And it was like, well, let's ask some of the wives and mine.

She runs from all of them when the show was going out. Well, yeah. Nobody ever saw her. Okay. Well, no, no. She's a lady's mystery. That's me, and I said, hey, look, what she told me was, hey, look, I live with the idiot. I don't need to be around him on a stupid show.

But see, on this one, she got to sit across and stare at me the whole time. Well, I tried to get y'all to put her over where Philip and Stone sit, because, hey, I'll tell you she's mean. I didn't want her to hurting me. Hey, he wanted you all over there. She's not mean. She's so sweet. She's honest. Oh, you just don't know.

Just because you think meanness has heard debunking some of your myths from the past. So my best Christine story is we're out, we go out to eat somewhere at the Olive Garden or something. And so she's trying to tell a story. Well, Saib bust in on her like he does on Olive Garden. No, you don't. No, no, hey. No, hey, no, hey, no, hey. And she just grabs his hands, holds them together and puts them on the table.

And he's like, br-z. So your hands are your power source? No, no. I'm bound to have it. It's Italian in me. See, he can't talk anymore. That's it. It's working.

It's working. No, no, let go of them, and here he goes. The first time she's done that on me, I did, I actually blew a fuse. I really did, and I said, what in the double H-E-L is going on? That's the double H-E-L-L-O. Hello. I said, what is going on? All she did was with her hand on mine.

But then she does it a lot whenever she wants to get her words in, you know. I just learned the trick that I'm going to have to. And you know it's time to stop. Hey, I don't know. Fantastic. Yeah, you missed out, Phil. You got to watch that one. Oh, I'm going to watch it.

What is that there? Tuesday, it's six. Well, for those listening, it already did. I was just fixing. Run it back one episode. Right, right, right, right, right. It was, it was just wonderful to see that all of size crazy stories actually make sense whenever you get the true version of them. Hey.

Philip, I leave you with this. I asked her, I said, now, Christine, you got a. You got to let me know something. When you saw Si, was it that jacket that got you? She said, no, it was his strut. Our man's got a strut about him. Oh, yeah. He said he's always going to be ladies.

I told you, hey, I looked so good in a silk black jacket with a fire-breathing dragon on the back. But it wasn't even that. Especially, look, you got to set the stage for this. They come around a curve in the highway. And you're a hitchhike, and I would have just left you. She's got it on brights. There ain't no cars. She's got it on bright.

And the first thing that hit is me struck them with my silk black jacket with a fire-breathing dragon on. To be fair, I don't think you can walk normal when wearing a jacket. Oh, no. I look so good. You had to strut on this and boys. That's what I'm saying. I would even strut. When you got it, you've flown it.

I got nothing. It's in a rap song somewhere. Hey, y'all need to write a song about that. I think it already exists. When you got it, you've flown it. I don't have one of those jackets, but...

The Sugar Hill gang, I have to sing it, so. I literally wore it out. We know. I mean, he literally went to thread. Phil, you want to know one of my favorite parts? We're in here. He hits that bell. She goes, oh, no.

And I saw it on her face. She goes, oh. And she looked at it. So she said, she said, one in, I said, hey, I ain't going to ring it, but one time. I did it and got it over it. She goes, what is that? Yeah.

Get rid of it. He did honor her request at not ringing the bells. He didn't ring it. One time. For that sake, let's bring her back. That's right. One time. One time, baby.

He got this bell ringing. But it was probably the best episode ever. I just sat over there and laughed the whole time. I never really talked. But it was. You know what else is really cool about it, though, for people. And I've known Christine now for 12 years or however long I've been around here, 12, 13 years, however long it's been.

But to see those two side by side together, it never gets old because you are looking at 51 years of devotion. I'm not going to go so far as say love because apparently Christine tried to run a few times. But she apparently was a flight risk for a little while. She tried for quite a while. But it was devotion. And when you see that in action beside you, because you can just see it in both of them. of them like and the walks now memory lane and like the looks in their face it was like

no no that and that is really cool that was worth it okay being for her having her own here yeah because when i got home i said you know i said it was great doing this for one reason to see that god has always been there and to see both of you to sit across from both of you and watch both of you recognize that fact is a really Cool thing. So if you are listening to this and you're a podcast listener, I highly recommend to go back and watch that YouTube episode of Cy and Christine because you see it in them. There's no way to not see it when you watch them side by side. So it's really, I don't know, I guess I just hope in 40 years if somebody's sitting across from me and Brittany that they see that same thing. You know what I mean? It's just a really cool deal. That's why people have asked me, you know, as long as you're you always talking about. You always talk. about, you know, and I said, look, don't worry about it.

I said, God's already got her picked out for you or he's already got a picked out, you know, for the man. Yeah. I said, it's already done. You just don't know it yet. Yeah. You just, and you got to be willing. And you got to be willing to go with the flow.

Yeah. I'm serious. And like old girl from a few weeks ago, sometimes you got to get rid of the subtle and just get straight down to it. Get to that. Actually, I want to update on that. now. I want updates on our advice. I don't know. We'll read the good ones.

Yeah. I won't inform y'all whenever it goes south. Well, hey, if you're talking about the couple that were just on now, I was fixing to leave me with this word of advice. Put a ring on the woman's finger now. He did. Oh, he did already. Oh, yeah, he did. Yeah, but I'm talking about, hey, go ahead, carry it through all the weight. Oh, get it over. Why wait?

Bink. Well, they could go get a cigar wrapper or a $16 ring and go. Oh, that's also false. cigar wrapper's not true he didn't marry her with a cigar wrapper okay a $16 wedding band from the jewelry store across the street it's not what I heard okay hey that was her version it's not the way she tells you I put a cigar ban on her finger well let me tell you I replaced it was a big one though later on I've been hanging out with a sign Christine me and my wife Alicia for a long long time and she she's awesome I mean we

ride on when we'd go places and ride big Ferris wheel she gets on She wants to do zip lining. She goes to see the Mayan ruins with us. She went to Bahamas, remember we all that I meant? Uh-huh. She will do everything. She's a lot of fun. She's very smart.

And she's as funny as sigh, really, when you get down to it. They are funny toward each other. Oh, absolutely. But she's not like slapstick funny like, like Si. She's like very matter of fact, just funny. Tocco. Cotto. Serious funny.

Duh. But it is funny. Did y'all argue about spaghetti and tacos when you got on them? when you got home? Oh yeah, I said, hey, I can't believe

your version. I said, it's got some truth to it because I remember the tacos, but... You think you all had spaghetti and tacos on the same night? The timing was wrong,

okay? And the houses were wrong. Here's what I'm going to tell you right now. I'm going to side with the one who got sick. Because I think that memory's a little more real to them than the observer. But now it makes a lot

since why she got sick because apparently there was spaghetti and tacos at the same meat. That's a lot of meat, a lot of red sauce, a lot of chili powder. She got sick. She got two times. In fact, I think I'm going to go eat atums and let's take our first break. We'll be back right after. Here we go. All right. Look, springtime is here.

It's warming up. You know what that means? That means more outside cooking. And y'all know. We love to eat beef around here. And that's what because of our friends over at Triedale's beef makes such a good product, ain't it good? It's so. good. Our friend, Sao 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 skip the grocery store and do

it a different way. Tritales 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 race. 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 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 Tritale's beef. I know in size case Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat. She isn't a big meat, folks. Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's trybeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. Okay. So you know when you go to the zoo, the animals are all sad and boring because they're locked up in cages. Well, we drove over to Tyler, Texas, to go to that.

We heard it's a really good small town zoo. Didn't have anything better to do on Saturday. So I said, let's just go. Take the kids to the zoo in Tyler. In Texas. Tyler, Texas. We were all fired up about it And

I watched elephants fight In a zoo for like 30 minutes Really? They were just They were like Dunking each other One of them did One of them, okay

And the other one I think they cut the tusk off Because he's mean He's a bully Oh he was dunking it And I said I'm about to watch an elephant die And I thought about jumping in to save him But I was like that's a bad idea

That's a bad idea But like you would see the elephant He's holding him underwater And then all of a sudden Here comes the trunk just gasping for air. Are they fighting in the water? Oh, the big one without Tusk wouldn't let the one back on dry land.

He's like, no, this is my land. So it was definitely a fight. It was definitely a fight. Because ducks do something very similar. Well, I'm not a biologist. With one that just barely gets their head above water, but they're having fun. So, I was just making sure. I thought that.

I said, this is either a fight or foreplay, and I'm not sure which. But they were both dudes, so checks out. But it was, the Tyler Texas Zoo is legit. Is it? We had a good time. Well, what else is there? Except, okay, so my son, he has a stuffed animal that's a rhinoceros. He named it Rhinolicious.

Rhinolicious? So his favorite animal is a rhino. So I, you know, I'm pretty small. Are they edible? Rhinos? Yeah. Well, they're made of meat. Well, hey, I get you.

Yeah, they're edible. Okay. If it's made of meat, it's. It looked like it'd be tough to me. Oh, yeah. I'm not going to say you don't need to simmer it for a while, but I mean, you could eat it. I'm going to say a cow tastes better. But, okay.

So I noticed the map. I'm like, we're going to go counterclockwise and we're going to finish with the rhinos. That way you go home on a high note. Yeah. So we get to the rhinos, and there's no rhinos in the rhino pen. Uh-oh. Rinalicious. And I'm like, oh, man.

That might be the reason. And there's just a bunch of goats. There's a bunch of goats in the rhino pen? Yeah, and Carter goes, Dad, where is the rhino? I'm like, I don't know. I start Googling like, where's Tyler, Texas Zoo, Rino? Unfortunately, the Rino was 36 and passed away. Does what rhinos do when they get 36.

Oh, okay, 36, boys. But they replaced it with goats. And Carter's got just a major issue. What a bummer. I'd be the same way. What a bummer. Yeah, I'm not sure what the... You don't replace a rhino with a stupid goat.

And how do you just have a same? determine... It says closed. Yeah, how do you determine the exchange rate? Like, how many goats does it take to equal one rhino? It had to be standing in there. It ain't enough. They had about 20 in there.

That ain't it. He didn't enough. And so then we go... He's just bummed. He goes, Dad, those are farm animals. They're not even zoo animals. I'm like, man, something happened to rhino. It's going to be okay.

Did they have any... Giraffes? Oh, yeah, I fed a giraffe. That was fun. And this is legit, except for the goats. And then, so we're about to leave, and Carter's like, Dad, can we go back and just see if the rhino's going to come out? I'm like, he's gone, bro. It's over.

He's like, let's just go check. There might be another one. He was hopefully the rhino's name. He was hoping the rhino's name was Lazarus. So look, we're sitting there looking at the goats, and there's the big barn where the rhino used to live, which they don't need that anymore because all he gets goats. And Carter goes, I hope a rhino comes out there and stomps on all those goats. And I was like, to be fair, that would be fun to watch. That would be good.

One rhino versus 20 goats in a fight. But no rhinos came out. But other than that, Tyler, Texas Zoo, if you live anywhere in that area, it's worth the day trip. Well, did they have the king of the jungle? The lions, hell yeah. Okay. Oh, they had, I mean, you ain't. For a small, I mean, I guess Tyler is not a big.

Did they have any strange colored caps? No, there was no black panthers. I did look. Oh, he did look. Most assuredly they have a spotted leopard? They had a white tiger. White tiger. But no, the big cats were all very...

Big cats and zoos are kind of sad to me too because they just lay there in the shade. Yeah, they just like sweet peeve. Yeah, or Dublin. It's just the old dog or cat. But it was a great zoo. But if you're looking for rhinos, don't... Don't go.

If you're a rhino fan, they ain't got them. If you're a rhino, stay away. That's right. You may end up living there. But we were super happy. Like, we left half. We just had to have a very long discussion about rhinoceros death. It's always fun with the eight-year-old.

Well, he's in heaven. I mean, all rhinos go to heaven. There's a movie about that. Yeah, that's what I'm... Oh, I ain't seen that movie. All rhinos go to heaven? Ben said that rhino goofed. Hey, even...

Hey, this podcast is very informative, okay? Tell me about this rhino movie, boys. It starts off with 24 goats. and at the end of it the rhinosthal stonfts all 24 rhinoceruses I've talked more about rhinoceruses in the past two days

we've prayed for rhinoceruses every night to go back to the Tyler's so if you work at the Tyler Zoo you've got an eight-year-old boy praying every night you'll find y'all a new one to replace us that there's a rogue one that needs a new home go to Africa and Darcya rhino

and bring him back away I don't think that's okay anymore either I don't know how it works It's the way to save them. You got to get like a baby rindler. Yeah, you got to start with a baby. Well, hey, go find a baby rhino in Africa. Start a baby.

Kidnap him. Yeah, kidnap him and bring him back to the United States and put him in an Italian zoo. Rino napping. In Texas. In Texas. Hey, there's a lot of exotic animals in Texas. Does Monroe have a rhino? They got a hippopotamus.

Oh. Hey, that's the most. I was going to say because our zoo could definitely donate the rhino. Hey, easy animal. It's a better call. It's getting bad. better over there. They got a black panther.

That's all you need to know. And alligators. Albinos. Have you ever fed a giraffe? No. Them things got tongues that are the size of your arm. Yeah. Well, yeah, look at that neck.

You got to have somewhere to put it. How is she going to get it down that throat? That was fun. Got to have a cheek cone. Did you feed them lettuce? Mm-hmm. I'd like to ride a giraffe. Oh, here we go.

I really would. Hey, do you have long leg is, does that sucker is? Hey, that boy can move now. I guarantee you I could beat a racehorse on a giraffe. Speaking of zoos, one of Brittany's friends went to the Nashville Zoo because they just opened like a dinosaur exhibit thing. Dinosaurs at the zoo, this is a bad idea. There's movies that show while you should do.

Well, these aren't real. These aren't real. Scared me. But it was funny because they sent a picture of their little boy that said, so apparently he's only a fan of dinosaurs in movies and books. He is not a fan in real life. Didn't like it in real life? No, he was gonzo.

He was terrified? He was like the rhino. He was oofed. He said, I'm out. He said, I got to get out of here, boy, these things, they don't come to life now. They're scary. Yeah, I wouldn't want to go to Jurassic Park. There's a lot of documentaries.

I would. Even Spielberg on why you shouldn't. Well, as long as they kept a T-Rex and velociraptors out, I'd go see all them herbivores. Isn't that he's cool? It's like a, it's like a big ron. Yeah. And it's where it looks like a gyraff, too. You get on them big brannosaurus.

Jira. And here goes side. Jirapes are cool. They might be my favorite. One day I'm going on a safari. I'm going to save up money. Yeah, I don't want to shoot a zoo. I would like to just go over there and not, you know, I'd like to watch them all.

Yeah. All that. I think we need to do that. Let's take our podcast on the road. I'd like to sit up there on one of them river crossings. Oh, yeah. Watch them out. Oh, no, no, no, no.

And watch the crocodiles versus the wilder beast. That's right. I'm into big hands. You know, I feel bad because some of them wildebeest gonna get got, but a few up front. But them boys that sit there

with them cameras for like planting earth and all that stuff, that's a pretty good idea. Oh, no, no, no. One of the best ones I ever seen was is a guy has found a,

I think it was a humpback wheel, a piece of what was left. Okay, and it's about if you shove these two tables together, it'd be about that size. And the sharks, the great white sharks are eating it. And a guy got

one of them big cameras, look, and a great white comes up and just, and the guy is literally sticking the camera in his face. Yeah, and look, the shark's like this, and he says, hey, that bite you just seen that shark take of this piece of whale, that's about 200 pounds worth. That's a lot of sushi. Ooh. Yeah. Yeah, and I mean, he's just got the camera in his show. The face that the shark is turning loose and backing up. Unreal.

And I said, hey, you ain't got a lick of sense, boy. Camermen are crazy, people. They are. Well, let's take our next break. I'm going to show you videos of these elephants fighting. Hey, do you know what you get? Uh-oh. John Davin?

In the break. Let's take a break. We'll be back around. All the Robertson except Phil and Salas Merritt went down to the beach. And Willie and Corey, they were here. Oh, that's right. William and Corey didn't go either. Yeah.

I saw some pictures with all the Robertsons. Yep, I did not. That's here. Yep, and I did not see a smile on Stone's face in any of them. Nope. Well, he was around. He won't even like his family. Humans.

They haven't made the list. There's only 10 people he likes. Yeah. There's 10? 10 that he likes. I wonder if I'm on it. You're definitely on the strong acquaintance list, much like me. Strong acquaintance.

Yeah, you've only, we're waiting for somebody to get off of the top list to have a chance. He's got two lists, though. You don't want to be on the other list. I'm not on the other list. I keep asking him, hey, I'm not on that list. Not right now. No, it's, I know, yeah, I kind of wish Stone was here today because I think his oldest just turned 16,

which means she has the freedom of driving. I want to know what that does for it. Another juvenile delinquent behind the wheel. I hope you don't take after you, Sa. Si is a decent driver. Negative. He said negative. Hey, he knows he's not.

I thought you were, I'm a very safe driver. I am going to get to stop at the happiest place on earth this weekend. Where? Buckees. Buckees. So I was an hour from Buckees out of the way and I almost just went. Oh, you should have went. And you had Dairy Palace in between you and there.

That had been a win-win. Stop, got to get some ice cream, went on to Buckees, and then turned her on around. Come back home. We thought about it. It was a strong positive. A strong bad. Once some rhinos got replaced by goats, though, it was like, we just got to go home. You needed to then change his focus to a beaver.

Son, let me tell you something cooler than a rhino. A beaver. We do get a lot of emails with people like, y'all right, just plays amazing. Well, yeah, of course it is. You're welcome. We only tell you about the best on here, folks. I don't know if y'all figured that out yet or not. We're not halfway selling anything.

No. Well, and that's because a lot like, Si, when we get on something. If I take the time to discuss something with you, here's what I can assure you. I'm sure you. No. I'm not even going to say that. It is either really, really good or really, really bad. If it's just somewhere in the middle, it's not worth our time to sit here and discuss.

But if I think everybody needs to know about it, then I'll tell people. Yeah, like Black Panthers. Yeah, well, whatever. Agree to disagree on that. Gellip, you had anything else go up your shorts lately? No, no. I hope I never do again. That was rough.

That would break me a mowing. Well, you've been. broke of mowing for that was about 20 years. I didn't too much don't one of the kids. But you did used to mow the golf course, right? Yeah. So yeah, you know what I'm talking about. When is the last time you mowed grass?

That's the golf course. How long ago was that? So 30 years? Long time ago. Long, 90, 93. 93 to 93 to 98. The 30 years. Yep.

Yeah. Who mows the grass at your house? You just let it go. No. No, he's got a. He's got 20. He's got 20. We got a lawn person that does that.

He's got a rhinoceros exhibit in his front row. He traded a rhino for them. No, hey, if, you know, I could use some of them goats over at Tyler, Texas. Let them eat my grave. They got plenty of them. Yeah. But you got to put a fence up, and I ain't got about three-quarters of a fence. That will you pay for.

It was coming. That's one of the greatest things. That was one of the greatest things that ever happened. I think Willie told it when he did. Okay. Because Willie offered to buy you a fence because fans just kept showing up your house. Willie drove by and saw a lot. He came by the house.

He came by the house and my whole yard is full of pickup truck and vans and stuff. And he said, why don't you get a gate like that? And I said, Willie, I said, you see the fence around the other house I've got that I own? I said, I've got a round driveway in mine. And I said, I was going to have to put two $30,000 gates up. And I said, no. He just didn't have it. I said, no.

He said, well, I'll pay for it then. And I said, well, I wish you had told me that before I told them quit building the fence. But then they built a fence and then you moved. No, it didn't. Yes, he did. Yes, he did. Well, hey, that's right.

Scott needed a house to stay in. Willie built a fence for Scott. He didn't know it. He didn't know it. He said, you didn't even live in it. Scott. I said, well, hey, look, it needs. That's a good cousin right there.

That's a good man. He's a good man. Who? Scott or Willey? He said, he ain't too bright. He ain't too bright, but he's a good man. Too bright. No, we love each other.

And we have the fondest, funniest times all together when we have to get. Why don't you go to the beach trip? Show him your legs, huh? No. No, I don't show these bird legs. You can wear pants to the beach. It looked like a sick chicken. Why don't you just go to the beach and wear like fishing pants?

No, it don't make any difference. Why would you go to a place where you can't drink the water and then burn up in the sun and get sand in every, orifice you got. No, no thinking. Side does not love the beach. It's a pretty thing to see, but don't go there. It's not on top of my list either.

Yeah. And I'm going there. No, no, Phil said, hey, if you want to, you know, if you want to see hell when you're here on this earth, go to the beach. You know, you got an ocean out there. You can't drink it, okay. Half-making women running around everywhere.

That's Phil's lying. Feels like you're surrounded by water you can't drink. What's that? He said, it's 110. You have to tote your own shade. That's right. There's half-naked women running everywhere. You can't not get sand on you.

He said, sounds pretty much like this side of hell to me. That's right. That's it. That's it. That's it. You're talking about put a hurt on a man. And we also talking about a man who's a river rat. That'll have grit and grime on him for three days for his showers.

But heaven forbid we get sand. No sand. Hold the sand. And you can't drink water out to Washthaw River either. So he got some flaws in his argument. He should go to Fort Laugh. Just say I don't like the beach. Say you don't like the beach.

Say you don't like the beach. It ain't for everybody. I don't care for the beach either. It ain't my favorite place to go. If I want to sweat, I can stay at home. Well, let's take another break. We'll be back. We'll be right back.

No, no, that's why when I was over at fishing or hunting, deer hunting with Eddie. he's a big game hunter in southwest okay at the uh gosh can't remember southwest uh diamonds ranch i think is named three diamonds range were you with evil eye yeah yeah but anyway he's a big game hunter so he shot a hippo out in the river so all the all his gun toters and the people that work with him okay was doing everything on the hunt guiding him well they start taking off their clothes get down to their underwear,

and then they go get a stick from a tree, a limb. And they all are going out there where that hippo sunk. The hippo? Yeah. In Texas? No, no. This was in Africa. He just worked in Texas.

Yeah, he just worked in. He went hunting in Africa. Africa. Look, so they're out there beating the water. They get the hippo, one of them dives under, ties the rope to him, and then they all put him back to land where he can have him mounted, you know. A hippo? Yeah.

Oh, he's got a 20-foot crocodile in his attic. And I'm serious. Hey, is he beat it? No, no, I'm serious. It may be, hey, it may be him along with that because I'm telling you, look, the attic was about the size of this room square. And that crocodile was from one end to the other. I got to check the links on now, crocodile. Oh, no, no.

Hey. I'm just, now I'm just legitimately curious. Look, and I'm telling you, he was probably about three. quarters the size of this table this way with the size. So he was... Yeah, because I'm looking to this thing up there and I said, what in the world? And he said,

that big crock I shot. They had to go get him too. Out there beating the water to keep all the rest of them away from them. Which I don't think it worked too good. He would have been about 14 foot. Is that about right? Well, I figured he was 20.

The record's 21 too. I'm just saying... Nile crocodile? On a Nile crocodile? I'm just saying, hey, it looked 20 foot to me, okay, because it was a gigantic attic. But here's the thing. Why was it in that? They can be 1,800 pounds.

That's a big old lizard now. Think about your little lizards you grab on. Well, no, no, no, but I tell you, there are about three quarters of the width of this table. Yeah, 1,800 pounds worth of lizard. Hey, anything that can hit a wheelerbees? At full speed. And bring him down. Come down and eat him?

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I don't know of that. Because the Willa Beach is probably, you're like a buffalo, you know, big old thing. He's like a huge now. Yeah, it makes an alligator look like a gecko. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, because we just seen a bunch of alligators down there in Venice.

I saw like a 15-foot alligator. Not, it was dead. 12-foot. No, I said 12-foot. I saw a 15-and-old. And I was like, this thing is a dinosaur. Yeah, live. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. That 12-foot was alive. And he was about here to Martin to me. And well. And Stone was. Look at it. Yeah. Look, and I mean, you jump, okay, because I said,

hey, I ain't worried about you. I'm looking at what I'm worried about over on the ground. Yeah. I just got tickled looking at my Google search history. What? I was looking up that the kid's hat from Stranger Things. I ain't, oh, we don't. No, just the hat.

The one he wears. What's it say? Thinking cap. Oh, yeah, thinking cap. I was going to buy one. I thought it was cool. Cancalf a kathunkin cap. Yeah.

And then, of course, the Camp Nowhere 85 had come up, too. So it's like, yeah, probably. No, where 85. No spoilers. No, that's no. I'm officially old because we got, I got a kid that works for me that's 18. He, like, watched the whole show in one day, which I don't like. I miss the old days when you had to wait until Wednesday at 8 to watch television.

Once a week, yeah. This kid's like, oh, no, it's really good. And I'm like, I've watched one episode. And then last night, we're like, let's watch an episode. And then 30 minutes in, we're gone. So, like, it's hard to watch. It's hard to keep up. Getting old, Johnny D.

Yeah, I recommend remodeling your house where you're stuck to one room. You can get caught up on a lot of things. No, sir. I got two men. I don't have twins, but I have too many children in my house to remodel things. Yeah. No remodeling, boys. No.

They'll just destroy it anyway. So I'm just waiting for them to tear it all down and then I'll... That's right. Then rebuild. Rebuild. One thing I did, I did cook a tri-tip steak this weekend. Did you? Tri-tip roast.

You are making it. good money to be afford beef. I'll clean it out by freezer. Oh, there you go. Because I'm going to have to move it for a little while when I lose power. So I'm just, I'm getting, I'm starting at the premiums. Starting at the premiums. Stuff I don't want to lose.

I cook, I cooked two steaks this weekend and thought I was going to have to run by the bank, take out of a small business loan. It's crazy out there, y'all. It is. That's why, I mean, we've switched to like ground turkey and ground pork. Ground pork. Instead of ground beef. I don't know about no ground turkey.

It's fine. Nothing wrong with it. Ground turkey. It's a little bit of a weird texture when you grab it out of the package. I'll give it that. But once it cooks, it's fine. It's got more protein in it than... Because I'm just here to tell you, when people say, oh, it's turkey bacon, it makes me want to slap it.

No, obviously, that's why I said ground turkey. I didn't call it like turkey hamburger meat. No. No. Turkey bacon is turkey. It's not bacon. Turkey bacon is garbage. It's turkey.

It is swill that was brought by the devil himself. to this planet to fool people and seek kill and destroy yeah i agree because you know the other problem with people that eat turkey bacon weird cook it in the microwave that is not where bacon was intended to be cooked oh jace told me that phil will not use a microwave did you know that for anything he don't like him he won't i ain't ever seen him use one down there my wife won't use a microwave well so i got these pork rinds that you can how they eat popcorn you can throw two throw in a microwave for two minutes and the pork rinds are delicious. She does.

And Jay said he wants to get Phil to eat some, but Phil won't put them in the microwave. Oh, hey, the best pork rounds ever made, okay, is that hoots barbecue in Arkansas. Pork rind. What? Yeah. All right. They make them homemade, and they literally will melt in your mouth. Hey, I tell you another one that was good.

I don't even know the name of it, but we had a fan one time drop off some pork rinds that he made homemade. They were in a zip-lot bag. And those things were good. No, no, look, most of them are real hard, and actually you break your teeth on them. No, these were like air. Wait, when did this happen? Because I didn't get a call.

Johnny D. was still working here. That's the way these are at Hoots, okay, is they're, yeah, they're puffy. Right? You just put in your mouth and you don't even have to chew them. But most I just, you can crunch it with the gums. If you didn't have no taste. Gum them.

You would know. These are gummy pork rinds. I'm serious. That's funny. Oh, they're effort. No, change it. No, no, they're not gummy pork. Oh, yeah.

That sounds terrible. They're so good. I'm telling you, they are not only that, the barbecue is excellent. The only thing that should be gummy is a bear. Or a worm. Or a worm. Not a pork rind. Well, I'm just telling you it's so good, okay?

Oh, lee. He loves a pork rime. He loves a pork rime. That's great. I'm telling you. If you notice things, Si, if you notice things, Sa, it involves a lot of salt. Yeah, you're salty. He's a salty old man.

These are not salty. Okay. Matter of fact, what do you eat every night? What do I eat every night? Interesting. Bacon. What comes out of a jar that you eat every night? Pickles?

No, I don't eat them every night. No. Peppers. Peppers. Allots. And I don't, well, hold it. Hold it. Hold it.

I was fixing the line. Well, yeah. Okay, but I don't eat them every night. No, but if it's pickled, it's got a lot of salt in it. Hey. Look at it. He said, hey. Then the ones that they do are not pickled.

Okay. I'm just saying you like salt. There ain't no problem. Look, your kidneys. Matter of actually got a little sweet taste. Your kidneys are the eighth wonder of the world anyway. With your sodium intake being through the roof and as much tea as you drink every day, the fact that they still function is a miracle of modern science.

Like, when you pass away, I don't know what you want to be done with. But look, we need to send your kidneys to a university hospital. Sell the kidneys. Because they need, no, don't sell them. We need to figure out how they're made. That way we can make fake ones for people or something that run into a problem. Them soccer's been working over time. I mean, them thing's just like an old Chevrolet, son.

They had $350,000 just getting broken. Takes a lickin and keeps on ticking. I'm talking about his kidneys are incredible. That's a good point. And for a man, and you ain't got no kidney stones. No? Your filters are prime. Well, I think so I don't want them because Phil had it one time and no.

Yeah. My dad suffered with him his whole life. Oh, no. It ain't one thing worse than going to hospital for get to get help because you've got a problem. And then they're worried about, let's see your insurance card. Let's see your ID card. Yeah. And you're on your knees because, hey, you know, you're dying.

What? He's just trying to pass a kidney stone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It's a roundabout way to get to him. Look.

Why, no, no. Look. If I've learned anything on this show, we rarely take a straight path. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, no, no. It's, you know. I love it. Well, let's take our last break and get in that inbox.

That's it. I got some good ones. All right. All right. And we're back. And we're back. And we're back. I'm back.

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But if you send me something. Let's read one of them. Look, here's the deal. You could send something one day and be engaged three days later. And that has been proven fact now. That's it. I don't know how we're going to top Zach and Bethany's email. but we're going to try.

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Listen to every episode. Podcasts helped him renew its faith in Christ. It's great news. All right. There you go. I've recently had a guest in my home that does not seem to want to leave. Can I get some advice on how to encourage you? the Exodus.

It is my sister-in-law, and I do not want to cause an argument with my wife about it. Is there any way y'all can give me some advice? Oh my goodness. So it's time for the sister-in-law to leave. That's better than the mother-in-law, I think. There needs to be some boundaries established

right out of the gate. Well, the gates, the gate, we're past the gate. Yeah, but now you have to establish boundaries. I mean, him running her off, that ain't going to sit well with his wife. No, you got to make her real. run herself off. You could do like you did in junior high and make it her fault, make her leave.

Why is she there? I don't know. I read the entire email. Oh. She's there. Yeah, I hate to go into this too far because like if she comes to stay because she lost a job and ain't got a place to go with them. You know, you don't have to, she doesn't have to live with you for 10 years, but while

she gathers her way back on her feet is a nice thing. If it's because. But he said that she doesn't seem to want. He did say want to leave. So it's like a two and a half men situation. It feels like she could, the email makes it seem like she could go. She could leave if she wanted to. If she was like, I'm done.

So knowledge is power. Right out of the gate, we need to say what's going on? What are the boundaries that you want? And then how do you want to get there? I mean, because you're going to have to sit down and talk to her at some point and say, hey, we're glad you're here. It's been a nice stay. Pack your bags up in two weeks you can leave or something like that.

What's your time table? You gotta know. You just can't guess. Yeah. I think it's a nice way to do it. Say, hey, what are you thinking about? Yeah. What's next for you?

Do we need to pack? Yeah. Like, can we help you? You don't have to say get out. Right. But you can help her move. Yeah. If she's moving.

Yeah. This is a touch of one. Okay. Mainly. I understand what y'all are all saying, but this is a touch one because this is the ladies that he's married to. Well, and it's really touchy because we don't have all the details of what's going on. So what about this, Sa?

But all I would say, I would, you know, I would like you talking about it. You need to find out, hey, what's going on? Clarification. Yeah. What's going on here? Okay. You're welcome any time. You're related, blood related.

Well, he's letting her stay there. Well, no, no, but I'm saying, okay, but you got to understand. Yeah, what's going on? Is there any way we can help you? Yeah. I think a good icebreaker would be to when she's going the next time, slip into that room she's staying, and on the pillow put an invoice for last month's rent. Oh, whoa, whoa, no, no, no, no, that's what I was getting to. And then just see if he gets the conversation.

No, no, no, because that's what I was going to get to. I'm telling me, darling, hi, I don't mind you being here. You're, you're going to stay here, you know, you're going to have to start, you know, establish rules. Helping out. We need Kay's advice because she had a brother. brother-in-law that just kept sleeping on her couch every day. Oh, yeah. But he went home at 5 o'clock.

Yeah, but I left. Yeah. He went home every day at 5 o'clock. So I think what you said is right, but I would make the first conversation be with my wife. Yeah. Yeah, you got to be straight with her. Let's talk to her first and say, look. Well, no, no, the guy's why I said this is a, this is a touch.

But let's touch your situation. Delicately move forward. Yeah, because I, you don't want to, you don't want to cause a big riff in between sisters. okay and then especially in between you and her the woman you're married to yeah i like martin's idea though set her car alarm off and when she goes to turn it off you lock the doors and put a note out sorry let's do on the 15th you're past dude i was just you know that's what i was getting to yeah okay look hey that's a weird you're welcome here but you know hey let's there's got to be a plan yeah what's the plan you just got to be direct and say all right look look at

I get it, you're here, you've been here a minute. What's the plan for next in life? Yeah, you can start now. Let's start our plan now. Let's make a plan together. There's a beginning and an end. Sometimes the end is better than the beginning. The Bible says.

But I would, yeah, I think Phillips on the right track, though. Start with a wife. Start with her. And then go from there. And say, what's a plan? Yeah. Figure out what your wife's expectations are first, because that's an important one. Yeah, yeah.

Amen to that. But before you read the next one, look, I got a, Deal on Instagram, I almost forgot. Tripp, you're turning seven. Your mom wanted us to wish you a happy birthday. Happy birthday trip. Happy birthday trip. There you are.

Seven years old. He's a hunting and fishing fool. Happy birthday trip. All right. All right, Tripp. Hey, hunting and fishing will keep you out a lot of trouble soon. Thank you. And cost you a lot of money.

Or make you a lot of money. All right, hey, my name is Nick. I'm 19 years old from Ohio. listen to every podcast, but he's having trouble making a huge life decision, which is what we're here for. I don't know if you've heard. People got engaged last week. So throughout high school, he worked at his local park district, a seasonal employee, loved it. He graduated from high school.

He decided he needed a full-time job. Yes, you do. To support himself, that's great. He's got a pretty simple blue-collar job that pays decent, and all the guys are awesome. Sounds great. A few weeks ago, my boss gave me a large pay raise. Everything sounds wonderful. This is where things get interesting.

Last week, my old boss from the parks called me and said he has an opening for a full-time position, and it pays more an hour than what he's at his current job. I know that if I leave, it's going to make work pretty tough on my current coworkers, but at the same time, I feel very honored that my old boss thinks I'm worthy of a full-time spot. What do you guys think I should do? And if I do take the new position, what would be the best way to tell my current boss without burning any bridges? I've never had to quit a job before. He just graduated high school?

He's out of high school. He's 19, so probably a year or so. He's been out of high school. So he's not in college, I'm guessing. No. Because he's wanting to work a full-time job. So I'm assuming he graduated last May, not a few days ago, but like last year. And then he got a job.

He's working pretty good. He got a raise. So he's doing all right. And then now his job from high school said, hey, we'll give you a full-time spot. And he gets paid even more. But he doesn't want to burn bridges, but That's not burning a bridge. There's not a boss on this planet that'll be mad at you for bettering yourself.

But what you do is you don't say, you don't text him, you walk in there, you have the conversation, tell him what's in front of you, super simple conversation. It is a little uncomfortable. Oh, yeah. But just walk. Critical conversation. But walk in there and say, hey, man, here's the deal.

Lay out everything you just said. He may decide. he wants to make you an offer to have you full time there. But the ball's in his court, and if he doesn't, you have to have a full-time job to survive in this world. Right. He's not going to blame me for that. There's not a boss.

Maybe there's a boss. There's not a leader that you want to follow that will be upset about you making this decision for yourself. But the biggest thing is, is you've got to tell him and give him ample time to replace you. Mm-hmm. And tell your other guy, give the other. one, a realistic time frame of when you could start. Say, hey, man, I'm not going to bail on my old boss. I'm going to give him a month to replace me if that's what he asked for.

Or, you know, I'm not going to just do the two-week thing. I'm going to give him time, do all that stuff. As a guy who runs a company, I appreciate it when people do that, rather than leaving me holding an envelope and then trying to figure out what to do. Because I, as a leader, wouldn't do that to them. I wouldn't go in there and say, hey, go clean out your desk. We're going to have enough conversations where you know it's coming if you don't make a change. Yeah.

So that's just, and the guy may say, yeah, man, go start immediately. We got, we're proud of you. Congratulations. And you tell the other guy that. And your coworkers, the only thing I'm going to add is your coworkers, they, you can't be responsible for their feelings. No. You let them know, hey, guys, I've enjoyed it. Thank y'all for being here.

we can still be friends. I've got to do what's best for me and my family or soon to be one day family. Yeah. Now, nobody will ever get mad at you for better than yourself, though. Not a person on this earth. Whenever I was super nervous to talk to Willie when I quit. I mean, we've been together for eight years.

And, like, I was literally an assistant. Yeah. So I just worked for him every day. And I was terrified. And he literally started laughing and cheering. Because I was like, brother, I laid out all the details for him. He's like, I ain't paying you that. Get out of here.

Like, what are you doing still here? And so you will be surprised because if your boss is a true leader and somebody you want to work for, they're rooting for you in life, not just stuck in one position. They want you to succeed at that job and in the next. And if you're 19, I'm hoping that boss is looking at you and trying to train you up to grow yourself. And I'm sure he's going to be super excited for you, would be my guess. Absolutely. My thought on this is you must be an exceptional employee, sir.

That's also true. Okay, because you got two people. You just said you got a raise from your boss that you work for now. Then you got a better offer from an old boss. Yeah. But my question to you is, you know, you need to look at what you want out of this. That's a good way to be in it. The pros and cons of both.

Both. You're actually, you sound like to me, you're happy with where you're at. Great point. Okay. So the important thing on this is, okay, what do you see down the road? You know, I'd weigh the pros and cons of both ways. And then Martin and them said it, okay. Give your boss that you're working for now.

Just tell him, hey, look, I've had a better offer. Do you want to put me on full time? Yeah. do I need to look into this more? Well, and, I mean, I don't know either situations ends and outs, but one of them might have more room for growth in the future. So you might even take less money now knowing if I do what you look. It sounds like you're doing.

Like in five years, you got to, I mean, you're welcome to adulthood. When you're 19, you got to say, all right, I might take less now. Because in five years, I know I can get more here or I'll be happier here. I can grow more here than if I go take a small raise somewhere else. So it's one of those things. You pros and cons of both of them. No, no. You look to the future.

Yeah, that's what I would say. Look at all of it, okay, and see what you want out of it, you know, which one of them's got the best future in it? And at 19, work a slew of jobs, man. Do a lot of things. Figure out what you enjoy doing. At 19, I didn't know what I enjoyed doing. I was 19, man. I was enjoying being 19.

I was a student. I mean, yeah, I was a student. I sold guns. I sold shotgun shells. I loaded bags of deer corn. I mowed grass. Like, you name it. I did it.

I was just kind of a journeyman. Like, yeah, hey, you're paying $10 an hour? Yeah, sign me up. Let's do the Layside. I'm your man. Let's go. I change majors like 45 times from 18 to 22. Yeah.

Be 19. It's not, you ain't worried about your. career at 19, my friend. You don't even know what that C word is yet. So figure it out. Work different stuff, do different things, work for different people and have fun. And work whole. You seem to be in a very good place. But you seem to be a good worker. Yeah. You seem to be in a very good place for 19 young man. No, duck, no, duck commander ain't you placed. Duck commander's not a place you come. Hey, he might want to say, hey, you want to sell crickets and worms. Come talk to me. This ain't a place you climb a corporate ladder. This is more of a final resting place. I don't know that there's much of a corporate ladder, but I Oh, we got a stool.

I could use a hand. All right. Well, here's your Bible verse for the day. And remember, hold on, what was his name again? Nick. Nick, I got you a verse to remember for the rest of your life. First Thessalonians 4, 11, and 12. And make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, minding your own business,

and working with your hands just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent. on anybody. Nick, it sounds like you're doing that. And your little story here reminded me of that verse. So that's why I read it. Proud of you, buddy. Keep working hard. And God also says, hey, he'll bless you so you can bless someone else. Amen. Okay. So you're on the right road, my man. Keep it up, Nick. Amen. We're out. Let us know what you do with your job. I like follow-up emails. Bye.