Duck Call Room - What Phil Did When Jep Nearly Drowned

Episode Date: August 10, 2021

Jep Robertson talks about what happened when he almost drowned, meeting Si's biggest fan, how Jase is like John Wick, and the time he broke all of his golf clubs in half. Jay Stone proves he can throw a golf club farther than anyone. Godwin tells the story of a fan who mistook him for Jep and refused to believe otherwise. Stone shares his wisdom on how to get the gamey flavor out of venison and other wild game. And Si and Stone weigh in on what makes an effective military leader. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, Zai, we're back. Hey, that's it. Welcome back to the Duck Call Room podcast, guys. And we have another guest, okay, one Jules Jepsa, Robertson. Jephyg. Almost got my name right. Known, yeah, known is Jepato. All right, Jeff, what is Miss Jessica and the girls and then Riverman been up to these days?

They're good. They're having a good summer, yeah. I guess they've grown like bitter weeds, too. Gus Literally is in college now. Well, she just graduated high. She's going to college in the fall.

Her mom, she's going at them like three weeks. Marrott is 17. Is she 17? She just turned 17. That's crazy. Three days ago. She was just born another day.

No, no. Good grief. They grew up fast, boys. Everybody get long in the tooth. So everybody's doing good? They are. Yep. You haven't ever been hunting here lately?

Well, we did When the season was old. It ain't a hunting season was open. Look, I can't wait, y'all. We have a club, me, River, and my buddy, Nick, also known as Nicky Tight Pants. Mickey Tite Pants. It's called the Headshots Only Gammers Club.

The Headshots Only Gamers Club. So we stayed, Nick has this little old, what's that thing called the Shambler or something. It's a tiny little camper. and we stay in it out at his in-laws land. It's awesome deer hunt. I mean, they're deer everywhere. This is in central Texas. And we'll play games at night, like kind of mostly all into the night.

And then we'll deer hunt kind of in the mornings and evenings. And then during the middle of the day, we game more. So it's just the men and the kids having a good time. Lots of work. Lots of work to be done in Texas. Yeah. That's right. Okay.

And don't mess with Texas. boys. That's the thing. Okay. Well, Jet, we've been missing you, man.

I know. You've been M. A. Yeah. I miss, a lot of people say,

do you miss home? I'm like, not necessarily the town as much. I miss the people. Yeah. That's the way I was with the military

since I spent 24 and a half years that, you know, they asked me, well, what's the biggest adjustments you had to make? I said,

well, I missed the people that I actually served with. Okay. So it was, you know, a lot of fun and a lot of trouble

mainly because I couldn't keep my mouth shut but that's you know shocker that's a shocker of all the time I can remember when we was filming the duck hunts the cameraman had to put the camera in his lap to make you say anything

I don't know what it was about that you were shy of the camera you wouldn't even say now you won't shut up well hey no that's like people you know when I tell them I said to do what tell us something about Uncle Sy that we don't know. And I said, well, you really, you won't believe what I tell you?

And they said, what are you talking about? And I said, I'm really a shy person. Yeah. And they said, yeah, you're really shy. He was. Because I was like Phil. He said, hey, we used to have to hide the camera to get you on film and talking, telling your stories.

Because as soon as you seen the camera, you know, during the headline. You are. I've seen that down because we had a girl with his family one day. And the restaurant, you know, we was in a restaurant feminine, and we, you know, needed just a girl. She had one line, may I help you, sir. That was it. And, you know, if you're not used to it, you know,

when you say action, you know, and you're supposed to say your line, that then seven people shove cameras in your face. Well, if you're not used to it, it's kind of a scary experience, you know, when it's action and then it's, you know, you're looking at all these, stank stuck in your face.

You know, we tried it for about 30 minutes. You know, we tried everybody in the restaurant, and everybody was the same way. It was just a complete failure. So finally they just said, hey, forget saying, may I help you, sir? Just walk up and handing the menu. So I've been meaning to tell you this.

Well, it was pretty recent. I met, like, your biggest fan. It was the funniest thing I've ever heard anybody say. This girl, and she was, like, newly married. She was like 22 or three. She said, you know, it was nice to meet you. Me and Jace were metal detecting at her in-laws land. And she said, I just want to meet Sai.

I'm the biggest fan. I love him. She said, I love him. I said, really, you love him? She said, I mean, if he was 100 years younger, I mean, I'd like to. He said 100 years younger, I'd marry him. Well, hey, that's the story of my life. Okay.

He missed it, Sa. You missed it. You missed it. I missed it, boys. Hey, it's a good thing. Metal detecting. Tell us about you, metal detect. it's fun you know i mean i thought it was something like old men did when they were bored

it's not a hobby it was just something to get them out of the house that's exactly right that's what old men do when they're bored that that's what you do it well and i granted i'm sure that happens but i didn't realize how fun it is i mean because you're fishing and i know y'all y'all love to fish it's like you're going to catch a lot of gar which is aluminum cans and pool tabs but when you get that bass, and you know beforehand, it's like, oh, this is something good. It's that, it's like when you've got a fish on

and you're like, oh, no, like, this could be something awesome. It's that split second that's like so much fun. The not knowing. The anticipation. But when it comes right to it, you're looking to hit the lottery. You're wanting to find something

that'll be worth some serious. I would like to find bars of gold, but I don't think that happens very often. I have found four silver ring, four or five, two with diamonds on them. One with like a pretty good size diamond. I just give it to my daughters. I don't sell nothing. I bet you they do.

They might. That's the anticipation of it. I could like to catch up coming out of the ketchup bottle. Especially if it's Heinz. Free advertisement, boys. for hunts, catch it. So y'all are actually making a TV show about hunting treasure?

Well, yeah. We're trying. We're trying. I can see the premise. I mean, I can see where, you know, the anticipation where you don't know what's underneath there. And for some reason, you got to see, because there'll be some suspenseful music playing.

and you're, da-d-d-da-da. Good night, do you hear that? Like y'all. Then they're cut to commercial. Yeah. You know. The last shovel, the last shovel. Oh, I hit something.

He's brushing that dirt off of it and the camera zooms in and go to commercial. Go to commercial. Like, good night. On next week's episode. Yeah. There you go. Then they show the open scene next week is a curious crushed beer can. Yeah.

There you go. Another free advertisement. I'm definitely the rookie of the group. I'm going to take. Like Murray and Jace find a lot. They're a lot better. And Jace just does it all that. That's all he does.

That played a round of golfer was like. Yeah, but I mean, really he detects about it. And then go out and turn it and play poker at night. And that's like anything else to get good at it, you have to just do it a ton. Well, Murray's good at it because, hey, some of the stuff he's got at his house is amazing. Well, what's crazy about Murray is I look, so your machine gives you a tone and it gives you numbers.

I look more at the numbers and Murray's like never looks at. He only, what he hears, the numbers could be terrible. It's like saying it's iron. But what he hears, if he hears something, the way it breaks over or something, he'll dig it. Man's found more stuff. What is it? What is about Jays, no matter what he decides to do? he's going to end up doing it

way better than you. Jace is John Wick. Yeah. So I just watched that movie again the other day. He's, that, you know, that Russian guy,

the bad guy, he said, John Wick is a man of determination. Oh, that's right. He just gets her done. And that's Jason. He finds a way to get it done.

Yeah, if you're going to be a bear, you might as well be a grizzly. That's right. Hey, hey, well, let's take a quick commercial break,

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Jeppitha Jeppithub in the house So every year for the last what 25 years we all get together

in summertime and we go to Gulf Shores Alabama Okay The Redneck A.k.a. The Redneck Riviera.

So back in the day back when everybody was still in decent shape, the golf matches were pretty intense. And I remember when me and Anna got married, that's the first thing I noticed about y'all. When y'all got together, you, Willie, J. Snail and played golf, it was some pretty intense situations that happened there, which I felt a little uncomfortable. I thought, are they fixing

to throw hands? I mean, I don't know. It came very close at times to outright blows. But nobody's done that, but it's been close. Oh, so the one that stands out. Oh, the one that stands out to me is, I'm sure you remember this, so Willie was teeing off and Jace made a noise, intentional or unintentional. It was a noise right before contact. And it was all the skins where it was,

the last hole. You remember what I'm talking about? That's like a pressed. It was a press. It was all the skills. We play for money, but not a ton. I mean, it's like, you know, he's like 20 bucks, you know. Right, right. But it gives you something to play for it. That's right. And money was involved in this? Yeah. Oh, no. Not a lot. Well, do you rule it out? It was not unintentional. No, no. It was intentional. Well, well, Jason Robertson is looking for an edge. This was, this was 15 years ago, probably. So the noise was made. The ball was shanked.

Willie's out of the hole. Well, it got. Temperors begin to flare. I was thinking, boy, these boys are fixing a row down. Fifth City. Right here. So that right there told me that there is a point that there is a place that you do not go with Willie. Yeah, a line had been drawn in the sand, boys.

That's it. I don't know if I remember that particular, but I remember you. So Jay is known, and I don't think so anymore. He was known for his. So the Olympics is on right now. Jay could be in the Olympics for golf club toss. Oh, yeah. He could throw a club 100 yards.

Oh, yeah. Like perfect spinning. Okay. You like them pay for that throw the desk. I know, I know about that because when I worked at the golf course in Hunts of Alabama, okay, We had a guy on doctor's orders, okay? He said, you're too stressful, okay? So you got to go find you a hobby to relieve the stress.

Well, golf is the last thing. No, no, no, no. That's what I'm talking about because, hey, he'd come out there, and the first time he made a bad swing and it shanked, hey, the golf clubs go up in the tree. The whole bag, okay? He'd come driving back with an empty club or a bag. We'll have to, somebody that has to go.

down there and climb up the big oak tree and get all this clubs back. We'll give it back to him every time he comes to play golf. Oh, no, look. I'll look. Why would you throw the club? I fix to tell you because I had an anger issue. So I told myself, I got to quit this stupid game. So, and that will save me a lot of stress.

Not to mention a lot of money. Oh, yeah. You play golf. You just fix spending some jack. Oh, no. And you get zero return out of it. I mean, zero. What does three golf balls call?

in the little package. Right now? I don't know. I bought four years. I think it's about 30 bucks. No. There are about six bucks a pop though. Really?

$6 a pop. $5 a ball. I'm saying like a ball. Yeah, that's $18. That's an $20. So that's what I did six years ago. That's the last one of crank, mate. Yeah, six years ago, I quit golf side.

I had to quit because I would get too upset. I was paying them a bunch of money and then I'd go play a game and get upset about it. my blood pressure would go up. So I quit the game six years and the best move I ever made. Yeah. Not only did it raise your blood pressure, it just made the wallet go the other way. That's right. So, that's it.

You had to buy the club. Yeah, your cash is going down. I said, you're paying, you're paying them money to get frustrating and get your blood pressure up. So, yeah, it was right. I had a bad, I would get it mad and I would, it'd be like a helicopter. But you could throw a golf club. Oh, I'll never. Oh, yeah.

Oh, the best one ever. You remember this. I knocked it up there about a, that's about $1.75 out. Hit, like a six iron up there about two feet. But it was on the crest of a hill. Willie was there. And all the skins were on the line. Willie was talking about it.

So I get up there. It's this far. Most of the time it's a gimmie. But when there's skins on the line, no gimmie. You got to make it. to make it. So I get up there, I shank it. Didn't even hit the hole.

It gets on that hill that it rolls down, by and I be past it. Well, guess what? I'm still putting for skins because that was a birdie putt. This is par. Everybody else got bogey. So, comebacker, Willie's like, hey, stone, he got the comebacker to see if he can make it.

Miss that one, it goes to rest. I put it back the other way. You ever heard of a four putt? It was a four put for double bogey. So I turned and look at Willie. He had his head over his face. I grabbed that putter. There was a pond there.

I went, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, splash. I remember that. Putter in the pond. He's gone. Willie, he was laughing so hard. He was rolling on the green, just rolling around. Oh, yeah, it's still there. So I'm glad I quit that stupid game.

Well, and the problem is now, so on vacation we played this year, but you didn't come. And Willie didn't come, but me, Jace, Reed, Cole, and Owl, that was our, our green. but reading cold they're good they're young they can hit the ball of them all so they whipped up one day though I whipped them that made it all worth it made it all worth it but the rest time I got

yeah I'm not stoned I don't see how that game called on me neither no I go to the driving range hey give me a bucket of balls and I didn't sit up but don't worry about where they go yeah knock on me go sideways

put you another one up to you another one up I went to eye cast this year we went to top golf I ain't never played golf. So there's one. It's fun. I played that pair of us. And I tried to hit that thing.

There was one big green deal out there. It was about 100 yards. And I had that, it had a number eight on it. If it had a number eight on it, I could hit it. All the others went crooked. And I could hit it and get in there. And I scored pretty good because I was hitting it in the same place every time. But I tried that and with the big knot on it.

Yeah. The driver? Tried to hit him. Well, with the size 12, boot on the end of it? Yeah, it's a big old thing. It'd go the same distance. The one with a nod on it.

It's right. Well. So I got the one with the number eight. I just kept hitting it. We've said this before, but what impresses me about it is is the guys that do it that are pros. It's amazing what they can do

with a little stick in a little old biddy bag. Oh, it is. It is amazing. It really is. I've gotten to be friends with a guy down there. There's several pro golfers that live down there in Austin, and this guy's name's Andrew Landry. He's awesome.

Y'all should watch him. He's won a couple tournaments. He's from Beaumont, good old boy. Big fisherman. But the first time I played with him, after nine holes, I said, look, man, I don't want to mess you up here, but what's your score? I was just watching him, he hit it up here about this far and make every putt.

He said, he looked at a scorecard. He said, I'm eight under. He was eight under after nine hundred. holes. There was, Andy Morgan? Andrew Landry. Andrew Landry. Andy Morgan.

I thought you said Andy Morgan. Isn't Andy Morgan a professional fisherman? He said he fish. My favorite one, you know, me and Jeff used to ride together in the carts because we like to have fun. There's other people I'm not going to mention their name that don't like to have fun. Yeah. So we would make sure that we were parents.

it up in the same golf cart just so we could have fun and laugh and you know just have a good time so i remember jeep was playing good one day and i was riding with him and uh whole jace knocked one up there still there's a bunch of skins on the line all these good stories uh happened when there's a bunch of skins on the line so jace knocks one up there step and jep steps up there and then just shanks he's he's only got like 90 yards a little sand wedge in his hand. He shanks it out in the woods, out of bounds. I'll never forget it.

He walked up to the car and he looked at me. He put his arms on all of his drivers, his three wood and his driver. And he goes, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap. Snap everything with a head. Everything. I did do that. Everything that had a head on it or not on it, as you say, was snapped in half. Yeah.

That's called. It's called immediate relief. Okay? You know what's funny is? I just got to do it. I don't think I've done that since. That was my last fit of rage on the golf course. Now I'm just like, you know, I want you start paying for that.

Them shafts are expensive. Oh, yeah. I was like, I'm not going to do that anymore. That's one of them deal that it hits you, okay, and it's just total rage inside your body. And you said, I've got to break something. Oh, yeah. I felt it immediately a time. That's why I quit the game.

Now, now I do things that are therapeutic. Golf is not therapeutic. Therapeutic. Getting your butt whoop, that is therapeutic. It is. It's very therapeutic. Tearing the muscle off your back. Oh, you know, I have my tail whipped on a weekly basis in this very therapeutic.

Hey, Tail, he's facing to go to, what's out you go to Jiu-Jitsu? You just to. He says, well, I got to get my mind right to get my buck whoop. That's it. It goes up there and gets the butt. Well, now you do that. He's got a good point there. Yeah.

Just not anybody can go up there and let somebody whoop them. That's right. Well, let's get in some of that right after the break. I did something pretty cool in Texas. I'd never done before. Kind of down South Texas off the coast. We caught redfish and trout, but what we did was we waited. which kind of, now you're talking about freaky.

That freaked me out. It's because you kind of weighed a good ways away from the boat. You kind of start catching them. And then you got a stringer, like a buoy thing on it. And you just got these fish. And then look, like second day, I'm like, you know, as a shark ever came? He said, yeah, that's happened before.

I'm like, I don't like that. The music starts in you. And then you look behind you. And all you can see is a fan about this. One of the guys stepped on a stingray, and it freaked him out, you know, and I was like, oh, man, it's kind of scary because you can't see in the water. You don't know what's around your, you know, because you're at waist deep. That would remind me when we were down there, what on the, I can't even think of it. Venice?

No. The whole guy that let the island down there, I think, we had to fly into it, and we're bone fishing. Oh, Belize. Yeah, Belize, okay. The guys push pole in us, you know, you'd look over there and there'd be a big circle in the sand, you know, and you're talking to see, good, great, look at that big old stingray. Yeah.

You know, and everywhere you look, there'd be a big circle, or a little circle, you know. They're just from like the size of a car down to a pie plate. Good, great. And then we'd get up or close to them, and that big sand go everywhere. What was that last part? Be sand, like a sandstorm.

You would think you'd go to Belize. Nobody would know who Uncle Si is, but it was, we'd walk by to hear somebody say, Uncle C, Uncle C, Uncle C, they got him, Uncle C, they knew who he was. I went to the Disney World, and this was when we were doing the show still, I think,

and there was a lot of people from Brazil, and they come up to me and Jess, We're like, want my picture of stuff. But I was like, I guess it was a big deal in Brazil. Yeah, and they're speaking Spanish. It's what all got me in. You know, we went on to learn in it. Hey, we landed.

You need to work on Spanish. You need to work on that. We fly 8,000 miles to Maui and land. And then they pushed the thing up. You had no inside thing you don't tell you get off of. They pushed the thing up. We walked down. And as soon as I walk out the door, I hear,

Oka, sir. And this is on Maui, 8,000 miles, I said, what in the world? That is the United States. Well, I still, you know, you just wouldn't figure. Cable television. But because part of that was I had a line on that part of the feminine. Mayans. Mayans.

Well, I got a letter after that show because everybody was always telling me, you're so stupid. You know, they don't, they ain't never been on these hours. I had a letter from a guy that lived on born and raised Hawaiian, okay? He said, hey, tell Willie the little fat CEO that you were correct. There was Mayans on the island. There you go. So now we know. That's right.

I thought. I've been wondering about that. I was right. This woman come up to me one time. Oh, my goodness. You're going to. And she said, you're all. You was just on TV.

How are you here? I said, it's a commercial break. That's it. It took a much of the break. I flew over just right after her. Oh, man. But everything's real if you sit on TV. Oh, yeah.

Okay. Because that episode where I was, went to the doctor and they said I was legally blind. I had a lady in church. We was having trunk a treat on Halloween. I was sitting beside her. You know, and somebody come up and said, well, how are you doing? No, with your eyes, eyesight. Now, I said, matter of fact, I just bought a new power.

I said, I see better, you know, 20 than 2020 was corrective lenses, you know. And I, I let me, she patted him on the leg and said, no, no, honey, you're in denial. You're blind. You're legally blind. You know, so I tried to convince her that I wasn't okay for 15 minutes. Finally, it was just, darling, no, you're in denial, honey. Yeah. So I said, okay, I give up.

I'm legally blind. Yeah. This boy walked up to me one time in the airport. said you're jeep i said no i'm godwin no you ain't i said you're jeep buddy yeah me and paula was sitting and paula was sitting there paul was looking at me i said no i'm goblin no you're jeep i said okay paula said too bad for jeep that's not too bad too bad for jeep boys i just go with it you just got they call me jace all time still people do yeah what's up hey how's going but it's awesome i mean it's it's opened a lot of doors for us and pretty awesome people watch us

that was crazy well it's the almighty doing what the almighty does best yeah yeah well y'all definitely taking full advantage of your platform in a positive way so let's get into some of that right after the break we're back we're back all right we're back boys if i ever told you the story about me almost drowning when I was like five years old. I've never heard that story? I've never heard that. So my dad had this dog, man, I used to know his name. I can't remember it now.

It's a big old black lab. Vegas? No, it was a male dog. I mean, this was a long time ago. I was five years old. But me, I was out, I think we were fishing maybe with cane poles, me and my childhood neighbor, Chesley Carl Struban,

Chess, that's what we call him. But I couldn't swim, and I fell in the water. And, I mean, and Chess just ran to get dad. And that dog was down there with us and jumped in. I don't know how long I was flailing. It's kind of one of my earliest memories. and I just remember grabbing onto the dog and then he swam back to the

I kind of fell in and was kind of a ways away from the pier or the boat dock and I'll never forget because the worst part was I think it was in my underwear and dad whipped me like it scared him but he also was like boy I told you not to go down there

you can't swim you know and so he whipped me and my butt was wet oh man it hurt so bad but it scared me and I and because of that, I honestly, I was so scared of the water. Like, when I'd go to, like, Campioga and stuff when I was a kid, I did, I was in the, all my friends were down there in the deep end because you had to swim, but I was just like, I didn't want any, I was scared of the water. I literally had like a phobia of water.

I didn't learn how to swim until I was like 12 years old. That's a pretty traumatic experience. Yeah. I mean, just think about that dog, though. That dog knew that he was in trouble. Family. Well, no, no. Yeah.

That's wild. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. That is. They sense it. You know, a lab, a lab to me is, if you're going to have a dog, a lab, it's going to be hard to beat. You know, you got your little yippy dogs like Jace got over there, you know, the things. What's his name?

What's he called him? But he's got two of them now. Buddy and, and, uh. Biggin or something? Well, big in his lap. Okay. I like it. I like that dog.

He's a good dog. Oh, his little dogs. He's got them little yippy dogs. Every time you come. They're all ways of them kind of dog, they'll bite you. Oh, yeah. The little bitty ones, they'll bite you. I guess it's because, you know, because I dated a girl.

And she had a little old chihuahua. You know, and she, one night we sit on the couch, you know, and she said, the dog come up and grab that dog. I said, hey, grab that dog, throw him out, put him outside. I said, because I ain't feed by the time. I'm going to kill him. Hey, that dog. I'm serious.

That was a good dog because it knew. You had bad intentions. No, no, no. But anyway, you know, we're sitting on the couch, and she said, look, y'all got to make friends, you know. So she just took that crazy little dog. and put him in my left and grab my hand and just put it on him in and he just she was trying to run you all oh no hey he drew blood you know and I said girl I said

so I finally just I said no hey you're out yeah you call yeah you and the little chihuahua she said finally yeah well hey well hey baby she did but hey you know Kay's dogs Bobo and those two little yippy dogs. He's got... Freaking and sneaky. They can sense vibes. Yeah. If you're up to no good,

that's right. Bo-Bos. Well, I'll yell at you all in. Well, yeah, I know. But Phil's, he's been building that dog up for that all his life. Well, right. Yeah. Don't be walking up in there, you know, in the middle of the night.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Phil's line is, they're my first line of defense. He said, I can tell between a growl on people that are up to no good and a growl and a bark. So he's got it down to where he knows by the tone of the dog. If it's a bad person or a good person, he'll say, I'd just get up and spray bullets to the wall.

Well, no, no. Based on that bark. So I'm thinking, I'm never coming over here after dark. Jeff is right there, okay, but I had said about dogs, sent him. stuff. If you're a dog, which is normally real, you know, nobody, everybody that comes in that don't bother him, you know, and he can pet him and he don't get all been out of shape.

Yeah. If someone comes in and a dog starts gladden at him that is normally real pleasant, yeah. The dog knows you can't trust that dude. That's right. That's why that Chihuahua. I'm serious. It may have been, but I'm just saying, hey, that's true.

because we've had dogs all our life and I'm telling you you know our dog will be laying in on the floor or something somebody come in and he start grouting we'd have to grab him because he fixed

he fixed the bite whoever he don't like him and he's got a good reason and then you find out you know it's like when they down there with Jimmy Red's kids Bobo used every time they'd see one of him

he'd be well hey we drove by there one day and they're out there trying to beat him with a stick. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So, hey, they, there's something's going on that you don't know about, okay, with that guy or with them people, so to speak. Bobo's a smart dog.

He knows. Like, with that time he bit, bit your mama. I came over there the next day, he looked at me and just, yeah. I come down there. He knew he messed up. No, no. I come down there two weeks later, and usually he runs up, jumps in my lap. He came in front of

He was You go pet me And I looked at him He just walked away Just don't know Well you know The night after he bit Miss Kay Uh

Phil said Miss Kay was at the hospital And Phil Phil was awakened in the middle of the night By a dog fight Underneath the house Like right underneath his bedroom He said

All night He finally went outside and hollered And they quit Well the next morning I showed up to do some work down there and Bobo come limping in. Head all swole up, you know, he got blood on him, not his blood. I imagine it was a big boar raccoon or something,

but he was tussling with under the house. And Bobo is notorious snake killer. He kills him in the yard all that. Oh, yeah. So he comes hobbling in. He looks at your dad, and your dad looks at him. He said, what goes around comes around. they just lay me down

yeah those dogs I mean that's a that's a cool story that lab knew you were in trouble knew you couldn't swim and it could sense that swam out there you grab a hole to him he swims you back to the bank I mean that's but I also realize

that your dad even though it might have seemed pretty mean at the time to get a whooping over that but he was the same situation I was when my youngest daughter ran away, I knew that I had to do something to deter that in the future. You know, she was five when it, four,

four when it happened. So, you know, so he was at a crossroads there. So he had to do something to keep you from doing that again. But, you know, that's a cool story. Yeah, I've seen, I mean, like, like with people that have seizures, like I know Scott when he was young would have, like epileptic, you know, people. There's dogs now

they can sense that, you know, like they're, you know, service dogs. All the, all the vets that's got them, okay,

you know, because Scott's got one of them. And like, you know, when he's having something coming up with his, what is it? PTSD.

Yeah. When he's had, fixed to have one of them attacks, that dog will go over and immediately lay her head on him. Mm-hmm.

Okay. She knows, okay, because I actually seen him have one of his episodes and we literally, me and Marsha literally had to physically pick him up and take him out of the car because his mind actually shut his body off. And all it was was he, he was going to work. He used to be a recruiter here in Monroe. He was going to work and he seen a homeless

guy and he stopped and tried to help him. And then he told Philip, he wasn't seeing Philip Macmillan and said, hey, you know, I met this guy down. and I want to be able to help him. You do this for a living. You know, how can I help him? You know, and then that evening he had an episode, and what it was, he used to fly out into battlefields, okay, where they just have, you know, and would pick up prisoners.

And, of course, they was malnourished and dirty and all this, you know. And when he, that's where he went as soon as he remembered, you know, seeing this homeless guy. So it's one of them things, it's real, folks, this, you know, disorder. So it's just one of them things. But dogs, okay, like we were talking about before, they sense this stuff, okay, before it's fixing to happen. They can tell it's coming.

Yeah. And that was like when he saw you, that dog saw you fall in the water, he knew, okay? Which is pretty cool when you think about it. That the Almighty puts that in them. And an animal, yeah. Yeah. If you're looking for a dog, go with a lab. Yep.

they're a good pet number one and then they actually do their job which is they love to hunt and retreat they're very loyal and protective they are but there are there are there are a few out there that are oh they'll they'll strain to beat you yeah they'll strain you okay I think he just won't do the old blue just won't do Phil love that old dog he finally retired that sir was fast oh yeah he was the best retrievers he had he had terrible man Yeah. Terrible. Well, he had a lot of issues to, you had to deal with.

Let's talk about some of them right after the break. That'd be a good one. Welcome back to the Duck Call Room. Well, we were just talking about Old Blue. Old Blue Phil's trusty lab for 11 years. Well, when I look at something, I always try to look at the pros and the cons. And this dog was a 50-50 dog. 50-50.

The best retriever we've ever had, but the worst manners I've ever seen on a dog. He would eat the duck blind. He would eat the duck blind. That is correct. I've never seen a dog eat the duck blind. He ate the wood off the duck blind. All the brush.

All you'd hear before they had crunch. Crunch, yeah. You know, dry sticks popping. He's over here. Yeah. He's crazy. And he had terrible. But terrible

manners terrible gas he would he would cut wind and it was the worst dog when dogs when dogs cut wind

it's the worst he was not he was not housebroken okay because he would use the bathroom in the boat he would

that's right he would in the full wheeler yeah okay yes yeah there'd be a little pile in there

Phil scoop it out don't put your grip and feels real yeah that's what you never do do then he'd go run through water and the first thing he was going to do is he's going to jump on you on somebody whoever's in that and just then you know we finally talked him into retiring because the dog got to where he couldn't see and hear no more had a white had a lot of white

hair on his face but uh but i can tell your dad was really attached to that dog jip i mean he was he's never been attached to a dog until that one yeah but that'd be the last thing we would That'd be the last thing we'd discuss when we'd all get in the four-wheels and fix on the lead. They tell me, hey, are we taking the dog or without it? And Stone would say, hey, leave the dog. I don't mind going to get the ducks. That's right. Confested, no, we're going to take him.

Yeah. He was. He'd get him. If you cripple one down, he's going to get him. He's going to get him, Bub. Yep, Cy, you ready to get into some of this hello at duck call room email? The mailbox, boys. All right.

We have a question from Sammy. Sammy says, hello, I have a question for Jay about Benison. With his infinite cooking wisdom, I was wondering how to get the gamey taste out of venison. Now, I have a little bit of cooking wisdom. It's not infinite. But as far as wild game goes, I am proficient with getting gamey flavor out of wild game. Now, if you think venison is gamey, do not eat duck.

Okay. So here's what I do when I prepare my venison. She says I have everything but backstraps in my freezer and would like to start cooking it more. Any recipes will be greatly appreciated. So first off, you need to age your venison. When you harvest your deer, you hang it up. and you let it age with the hide-on. I do it for 21 days.

When you start seeing that mold growing on the inside of that rib cage, it's time to skin the deer. So I'll gut it, cut the head off of it, hang it up. Now, if you don't have access to a walk-in cooler or where you live is not cool enough to do that, you can do what they call wet age. You can go ahead and cut all your pieces off your deer right after you can. right after you kill it, put it in a vacuum seal bag. I'll cut my backstraps in half, put them in vacuum seal, put them in a refrigerator, not freezing. You've got to be 34 to 37 degrees, and you can wet age that venison, you know, seven to 14 days, however long you want to do it.

And what that does is that breaks down all those muscle fibers. Because when you kill an animal, it locks up. and that backstrap's real tight. After you age it, the texture is really mushy. So I would highly just aging venison because there's not a lot of fat in venison, and if you don't age your venison, it's going to be pretty tough from my experience.

Well, it's like when you go to a steakhouse, I mean, when I finally learn, like, all the good steaks were aged beef, I mean, it's way more tender and just better. Tender, G. What do you recommend? She's already got it. She's already got it.

So, you know, I would recommend slow cooking. If you're going to cook the shoulders, hams, you know, you can slow cook them things like a roast and in a crock pot or a Dutch oven and they'll turn out good. But if you got something, if you think it tastes gamey, you can do this trick. You can brine that meat in salt water overnight and that'll take a lot of that gamey. of it. Now if you're going to fry it, I would recommend a saltwater brine and then the next night a buttermilk brine. Our milk.

Our milk. Sweet milk could do it too. Buttermil. I've done both. Yeah. It does. So that does help with the gaming flavor and plus they have a lot of marinate. Wild game marinade. You can marinate it in. So there's a lot of ways to get the gamey out of it.

But yeah, that's my advice. Well, marinade usually just covers it up. That's right. Okay. Okay. If you want it tastes like marinade, put a marinade on. Yeah, yeah. Saltwater brine.

Yeah, we'll actually draw it out. We'll draw it out. All right. And here's one for you, Sigh. Now, I don't know if you can answer this question without laughing. But this is from Austin. Austin is a cavalry scout and a fairly fresh promoted E5 in the Army. Okay.

Okay. Just got promoted. Congratulations on that. And I was wondering. if Uncle Si and R.J, I'm not qualified to answer this, has any advice on being an effective leader? Thank you for any and all help. Now, we all know, Si, what did you get up to?

E7. He could have been an E-9. I never got up. I could not, well, I never did see on that, you know, I never did see a job I wanted that was E8 or E9 because when you get to that level you've got to be political. Yeah. Okay, and I'm not political.

Okay, but the real reason, E7 was as I went, I could not keep my mouth shut. Shocker. Okay. Yeah, shocker. But. So would you say you were an effective leader? I always, I'm on that.

I would just put this way. I need improvement on being an effective leader. But one of the things that I got in more trouble for it, because you've got to understand, you've got your rank issues, okay, and they say, okay, the powers to be and the officers and the NCOs higher ranking, okay, I got in more trouble because I always,

I didn't want to ask my men to do something that I wouldn't do myself. You wouldn't do, that's right. Okay. But I got him more trouble because when we were working, I would be in the ditch working with them. That's right. Okay. And then my higher-in COs and officers would say,

hey, that's for the troops to do, not you. Huh. Yeah. But the thing on the leader, all good leaders that I knew, okay, they had the servant attitude. Okay. Yeah. So that would be my best advice to you.

But like I said, you got to watch it because it's going to get you in trouble if you work with the troops because you're higher-ranking NCOs and officers. Well, you know, I had some leaders that would do exactly what you were talking about. And I never was a leader in the military. I was always a grunt. So, but my leaders that I respected the most were the ones that led by example. Yeah.

Yeah. And got out there and got dirty with their guys. So, yeah, that's my advice. I realize it was easier to pull a rope. Yeah, I'll put it this way. Okay, because, you know, you're in the military if you had to go to war and you may end up dying with each other. Okay.

So, you know, here's the thing you got to remember. You've got to count on that man who is leading you and you got to count on that man who is following you to have your back. That's it. And you could tell the guys that. that we're willing to die. Yeah, yeah. For each other.

I mean. Because I, the leader he'll always, okay, you know, he'll have you back and usually, you know, he'll be in front of you when it gets the rough, the going gets rough. So, Austin, our advice to you, lead by example. And, you know, Sa, there are, there are a lot of good humans left on the planet. You don't have to look too far. You look at our, in our nation's military. And you will find servants.

and people that are selfless. That's it. That's it, boys. All right, Godwin, you want to wrap us up with the Bible verse? Oh, yeah. I got a good one. All right, boys. What are we at, Godwin?

I was looking today, and it was 2nd Corinthians 4, 16 through 18. Because all this, you know, COVID going around, this Delta variant, and everybody's scared and the president's going to talk to us and tell us what to do. We haven't had to wear a mask again. That's going to be pitiful, but you just can't lose.

You got a lot of people scared and anxious, I guess you'd say. And rightly so. Rightly so. But this is a good one right here. Second Corinthians 4, 16 through 18. Therefore, we do not lose heart, though outwardly we will. are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. There you. So in other words, here's the summary of all that. Don't get too downhearted when everything around you seems to be going to the dogs. Okay, look to the future, boys.

That's right. Fix your eyes on Jesus and the Almighty. Okay, because he's still in charge of him three. What dad's always told me is just love God and love people and life will be good. That's it. The rest will work itself out. That's right. Just remember.

We win. All right, folks, that's it. We'll see you next time. See you next time. Thanks for watching. Yep.