Duck Call Room - What Really Happened When Si's Posse Got Sucker-Punched by COVID

Episode Date: August 12, 2021

Uncle Si and the boys are finally back together after the Duck Call Room gang got dough-popped by COVID. Martin and John-David tell the story of how the virus blindsided them, and they offer heartfelt shout-outs to everyone who helped, including Godwin's wife. After five days in the hospital, John-David has a bone to pick with the meal schedule. Meanwhile, Si goes fishing at a place where you can catch a couple hundred trout. Martin's mom practices radical honesty about Al's weight. Martin has an underwear recommendation for the Olympic racewalkers, and Godwin is impressed by how long Olympians go without dessert. And Si has a biblical challenge for fans. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, could put that camera back on me. I want to see how white I am. Oh, you got to adjust the exposure. Good, Gary. This shirt probably doesn't help. You ain't got no rhythm, white boy. Banding into the computer there. That's why I asked you while ago if you was all right.

I feel great. Yeah, you walked around the corner. I said, hmm. Pale. I said, I think that's what Willie was talking about when he said, I didn't look good Sunday. Pale face, boys. I was, well, I mean, hey. Willie made, he tried to make me laugh and he couldn't do it.

But, I mean, looking back on it, it was funny. Well, welcome there, paleface. Uh-oh, pale face. Welcome, pal face. We're back, baby. We're back, boys. Hey, that's it. We're back.

The car room is full staffed again. How did I get so dirty? Okay. That's all them, M&M's you've been eating. I lost my tan. I didn't get on them M&M and M. He did. He finally just had to put some ways that I said here and eat the whole bag.

I said, I wonder if these are melted. I looked in there. Yeah, they're melting. But, hey, I opened it. They taste the same. I'm not eating any more snacks or goodies ever again. Lord, have mercy. Well, we've been having, here's what we've been doing since y'all been gone.

All right. Yeah, I'm curious. I didn't watch. Yeah. I went through it, and so I didn't really have joy in my heart, so I never watched anything. Yeah, we had Al Robertson. Joy, joy, joy, joy, okay. Yeah, I got.

On the set. Can I, can I tell you what, what my mom said? about that one. Oh, what you say? So my mom was, during this whole thing, ended up kind of being my caretaker, her and my wife. Well, mom was watching a podcast.

She said, who in the world is that on the podcast? And I said, I don't know. I mean, I ain't looked at it. I said, I think they were supposed to have owl on that. We pulled people on the street. And she said, man, house gained a little weight. I said, oh, okay. All right, mom spitting that truth.

Yeah, yeah. She ain't seen him in a while. Mom, spitting that truth. I said, well, I think it may be the beard that's got his face looking a little. No, no. No. I said, no, no. Maybe he should have wore his vest.

No, no, yeah. She was right. Al picked up a few pounds. Al picked up all the weight I lost in the hospital. Yeah. But I thought that was a good one because we went back to Al's childhood. Oh, Al's childhood. Yeah.

Yeah. That's a winding road there. I guess not to his. child when he went back to his teenage years. That's even more wine. Yeah. When he got in trouble with the spirits. Yeah.

Drinking spirits, okay. Not the ghost and all that. Oh, okay. But anyway, and I had told him, I said, well, I learned one thing about your friends, a young man. I said, you had some good ones. I said, because if I looked at your dad said, hey, you get to the house. And if you boys won't ever show up here again, he can get his tail tore up.

You're going to kill him to get yours too. And I said, and to the man, I said, one of them was just, it was just bad. It was like the song that old doc sings about wrong place, wrong time. You know, because he got his butt, please. Yeah, he got his butt, boy. He said, I don't know. He said, I don't know who you are, but you tell your mama that Phil Robertson and Toro your butt up, y'all. Yeah.

So it was just whipping everybody in the neighborhood. Oh, no, yeah, because alcohol was involved. And, you know, and the reason, Al said the whipping wasn't what really got him. It was what his dad said. He said, you've seen me what I've put your mama through. And then you're going to pull the same stuff? No. No.

That ain't going to ride around here, son. I'll beat it out of it. Yeah, that dog would not hunt around here. There you go. Hey. But it was good. Al was here. And Kay was, what, and Kaye come back in?

Kay, I was here for Kay. Oh, were you? I went down the next day. He went down the next day. So you were sitting there with COVID. Technically. Alleged. Allegedly.

Allegedly is out. I'm pretty sure the last episode I was on. I wasn't feeling a Honda. And then the next day I was feeling, you know, 75, then 50, then about 40. Then I spent a week in the hospital. There you go. And now I'm back. Yeah.

Well, quit being so right there. And Miss Paula was here. So that's good. Yep. That was a good one. Paula? Yeah. I haven't got to listen to it.

Well, look, it was so nice to look at something that was pretty. Boy, ain't it? Okay. Yeah. It was so much. What about now? Well, hey, there you go. Not so much.

We're back to the ugly. I forgot you trimmed up. I will say, God, when you're a woman. checked on me as much, if not more than anybody throughout the whole process. I know, I was getting information from her. I said, you talked to Martin today? Well, I was asking about both of you.

Oh, I believe it. Oh, Miss Paula, the first time I went to the emergency room, I was just sitting there by myself freaking out, and then Miss Paula just comes through from a random door. And I was like, thank you, God. She was bad. And I was like, why are you here? She was helping a friend and she said, do you need anything?

I said, I need a water. I'm straight. And she showed up with a bottle of water. Dusty, boy. Then they sent me home that day and then I went back to the emergency room the next day and checked in for five days. But Ms. Paula was key. Key day one to getting me through day one for sure or whatever day that was. What day is it?

Monday. Is it? I don't know. I'm like JD. I never can't keep it. It's a week. I'll tell you this, it's one week from when your boy here crashed and burned. So it is one week. He means that literally.

Yeah, he means that literally. I mean, are we going to tell the stories? I mean, we can, I guess. I don't know. Here's the deal. Hey. I can tell the short version of it. Yeah.

You passed out twice, didn't you? I did. I passed out. So I was diagnosed with COVID two Mondays ago, right? Yeah, two Mondays ago is when I had my positive test. I technically had it Saturday, like the 24th of July, something like that. But so last Monday, I was due to rejoin society. I had done my quarantine, done my isolation, hadn't had fever, no problem.

I mean, like, I obviously had a little bit of problem, but nothing major. Was you a good thing to come back to work? Oh, yeah. I was, look, I had done everything that was. that week, like in the isolation. I mean, I power washed my dadgum patio. I mowed my yard. Like, I shot my bow.

Yeah. I mean, I was doing all kinds of stuff. He thought he was feeling good. And then Monday morning happened. So Monday morning, the first time in the whole process, I got fever. I got the chills. And I'm like, now hold on now.

Yeah, I thought, I thought, I thought we was done. Yeah. So after I got done with the chills, That was like 7.30 in the morning. After I got done with the chills, I was like, you know how you feel. I feel kind of clammy and just like nasty. So I was like, well, I'm going to get a shower. So I went in there, turned on the shower, we're letting the water get hot,

and walked in the kitchen to get me something to drink. And on my way back to the shower, the lights went out. That was about 7. About 7.30, 7. 7.30, 745, somewhere around there. But the lights went out, like, gone. I remember getting lightheaded, and I remember, like, having time to, like, put my arms out. And then I woke up in a puddle on the floor, and there was a shattered mirror beside me.

Brittany's freestanding mirror in our bedroom. Well, he gone. If you want to, if you want to know what he looks like, he's standing outside the dumpster at the L&M building. I just know this. You tripped in the duck line one day. Okay. And he's like a big giant. The whole front end fell out from under.

This man is like a giant oak tree. Oh, I can clear a path. When he falls, something is fixing to bust. Yeah. Something's busting. He tore the whole front end of the blind out when he went down. Okay. And that's the same thing that happened when he passed out.

It's a big thing. I clear a path now. Yeah. So I wake up and my dogs just, looking at me. I know my dog's thinking, what in the world just happened? Because she was up in... You got down here.

Why didn't you pick me? Well, no, she was up on the bed. She hadn't got out of bed yet. She's still laying on the bed. She's watching her all the pain. She's coming down there to edge of the bed and just looking at me. Like, you all right? Hold it down.

Hold it down. You good, Hammond. And so I get up and I got enough sense about me. I get on the phone and I call my doctor. And I get about three words with him. him gone. Like to go out again. And I am in that doctor's office getting checked out because at this point I have pneumonia

and I can't breathe and the doctor's looking at me like, you might need to go to the hospital. Then his phone rings. He goes, hold on. And he gets on the phone and his face goes scary. And I'm like, oh no, something's happening. And he goes, where does Justin Martin live? And I'm like, not Martin. I go, I know where he lives?

And he was like, where's he at? I said, I guess at his house. He goes, he just passed out. And then he looked at me and goes, go to the hospital. And I was like, what is happening? Was you standing up again? Uh-huh. Yeah.

I went to get my phone so I could call him. Yeah. And be like, what do I need to do? But then you call me. And then lights out. So I wake up this time to him yelling on the phone. Oh, yeah. In my ear, like I somehow.

When you failed, it just right there. It stayed right there beside my head. And I fell this time like. halfway into our kitchen little area in the bedroom. So like half tile, half carpet. And this fall I put a pretty fair size hole in our wall. Apparently, whenever I fell, I hit the door, which tore the door stop off. That's how hard I hit.

And the door handle went into the wall with a fair amount of force. is probably about 260 pounds times negative 9.8 meters per second squared. He was moving, boys. I don't think there was a lot of resistance on my fall. I think it was full gravity. Their neighbors are thinking, what are they doing? Yeah, they're awful fighting a lot over there.

You're like kids when you're holding them and they go to sleep. When you're holding them and they're awake, they're not that heavy. Once they pass out. John. Oh, no. It's, golly. Dead weight. Then he called me and told me the whole story.

Yeah. I said, well, where are you at now? He said, well, I'm outside. I'm on the grass in case I fall. I won't hurt nothing. Yeah, I had to get a ride. Hey, I'm tearing up the house. I got out of the house, boy.

I had to get a ride. So I was waiting on my mom come get me and get me to the doctor. And I said, you know what? I probably ought to go get in the grass, in case this happens again, at least. Yeah, get off the concrete. Get off the glass mirrors. Yeah, get away. from anything it can hurt me. If I pass out here,

I'm in a yard. Somebody to see me and come get me. Well, one thing good about it, boys, I'm glad you're back and healthy. Amen. Both of you? Amen. Okay, because I would like... The provert is nothing to play with. No, he ain't. He don't play fair. He's

playing chess while we're all playing checkers. And, but I would like to, on my end, extend a large amount of gratitude to the fine people. at Sanson's Family Medicine and also at the Reeves Memorial Medical Center

in Bernice, Louisiana, who took great care of me and did it with a smile on their face and when I was at my worst, they were at their best. Yeah, yeah. They are the unsung heroes, all the nurses and doctors that put up with this thing on the daily basis. Amen.

I got a whole list of nurses that I need to. So I was in the hospital, which we ain't got, where you've got to take a break. I was in the hospital for five days, so I got a lot of nurses to think. Jenny, my girl at snack time at night, you're the best. If you're listening. We'll be right back.

I didn't know there was the snack time in the hospital. They nearly killed me. Oh, Lord. All right, we'll be back. Snack time got him, boys. 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 Triedells beef makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sall Robertson would say, buy on the grill. Look, before we got Triedells, 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 Triedales beef, we skip the

grocery store and do it a different way. Triedales comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth American ranch. So they've been at it for a while. Now look, the beef comes straight from their ranch and other ranchers they work with who raise cattle the same way. Their steaks are properly aged and shipped straight from the ranch to your door. We threw a couple of ribbys on the grill. Look, salt, pepper, garlic, hot fire, that's all you need. Look, because I'll tell you what, when the beef comes from people who raise cattle for a living, you can taste the difference. The tenderness and the flavor are fantastic. So if you're stocking the freezer for grilling season, and go check out try tails beef.

I know in size case Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat. She isn't a big meat easier, folks. Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's trybeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak.

But then people, then folks, frontline workers dealing with this crap. Oh, my goodness. My hat's off to you. There's no way that we as a society, are giving you near enough credit for what you're doing right now. And just so you know, we all thank you and appreciate you. From the little experience I've had in a hospital room.

So my son's been through a lot of stuff. That's a whole other podcast and a long story. But I've spent a lot of time as somebody in a hospital room, but not the patient. And then last week, Monday through Friday, I was patient. I was in a hospital room, didn't see a hallway. and for them to go through that every day. Yeah. Seeing different people coming in there.

And, you know, they called me one of the good ones by Thursday. They liked coming in my room because I'm joking. I'm laughing. I'm feeling better. But, like, coming in my room on Monday, that had to be a miserable experience because I was in a bad spot, as you could call it. Preach. Yeah, they racked me up in warm towels up there. I was freezing a death.

You got warm towels? Oh, absolutely. I'm telling you now. My son. Jenny, I didn't get any warm towels. Bernice, you got snacks. Bernie's got it going on. No, I will say that's snack bag.

So what's in a snack bag? Here's my problem with the hospital. Broccoli. We appreciate you. Now I'm going to tell you the thing. Now I'm going negative on your food. So they feed you at 8, 12, and 5. But I'm hungry.

If I eat dinner at 5, I'm a big boy. They told me I need to lose weight. So by the way, thanks for the M&Ms and their heads. I ain't eating any more of them. I'm on Stone's fitness plan. But about, you know, eight or nine, I'm starving. Well, night two or three, it's all one big conglomerate now in my head. My new nurse's aide comes in, Jenny, and she's like, hey, do you want your snack bag?

And I said, Jenny, don't play with me. I said, is there a snack bag? Do not torture me. And she comes in. She's like, oh, yeah, you go snack bag every night. She showed back up the next night. I was like, Jenny, where's that snack bag at? and she brought three of them.

It was just like graham crackers and peanut butter. But once you eat dinner at five, you're hungry. Like, what is this? A cruise ship? And so. They give you that so you can't talk to them. Yeah. They give you them slobber stopper, so they ain't got to hear from you in a minute.

Oh, they do. Because they don't want to come in your room because you've got COVID. So they're like, hey, you're doing all right? I'm like, yeah, I'm okay. Yeah. Long distance. Can you come change the channel? I watched a lot of TV.

That was boring. Yeah. Without fast forward in commercials. That's tough. I'm still scared. I got some stress to work through. I need to go see somebody. You got some PTSD to work here.

And talk to them about what I went through last week. But no, I'm feeling great. Breathing good, going on walks every morning, every evening. I'm feeling solid. I ain't quite back to normal. I can tell I'll lose my breath every once in a while. but Si still got his oxygen. They didn't give me oxygen.

So if I go down, just hook that thing up to me. Put some sanitizers. We'll call on. We'll call on amulps. Cy said, we're going to have to get you yon, too. This is an oxygen machine with two straws. But what is funny. Me and Sai basically went through the exact same thing.

Yeah, y'all did the same treatment. A week of COVID, then double pneumonia, and then the same five-day treatment in the hospital. See, I didn't even know why. I had pneumonia. Nobody told you? No, no. Because I never did have the chills and everything. I had the-

You know, I just went to the hospital and they said, yep, you got it. They done the test. They said, yeah, you got it. They put me in there and said, okay, the doctor came in and said, okay, we're going to put you on a five-day, what we call it a five-day plan.

Mm-hmm. You know, and the first thing they did was hooked the IV to me. Yeah. And I, you know, they would come in and say, how you do it? And I said, I feel great. Yeah. And then I want to see Dr. Hamlet,

after a month after and he said somebody said something and I said well I didn't have I didn't have pneumonia he said yeah you did yeah I said what I didn't have no chills

and he said well you had pneumonia trust me it's on your chart I felt hey you know I figured if I had pneumonia I'd have been cold and say hey give me some blanket yeah pretty much what I figured out what I discovered during this whole thing is if you get

COVID. You get pneumonia. Everybody's degree of it is very different. Yeah. Because I have it. I guess I still have it. I'm still on antibiotics. But it was extremely light and spotty.

So he was like, you're good. Just keep breathing. Deep breaths. Get up, move. And it'll kill itself out. That's where I'm at now. Yeah. After a week of pneumonia.

That's why this thing's so bad. though it hits people differently. Yeah, and that's what happened to me. So what got me to my spot, we think, is I just drank water the whole time. I love water. If y'all know me, if you

know me, you know I drink more water. The one thing we were not afraid of with Martin was dehydration. I was like, he's fine with that. But what I did is I forgot my basic biology training. Overhydration. And knowing that water has to

follow sodium into a cell. It's just the way it gets there. Well, I didn't have any sodium because I was barely eating. I mean, I thought I was eating enough, but I was not eating. I mean, looking back on it, I was not eating anything. How much weight did you lose? I lost like 14 pounds.

Yeah. I was talking to him one night and he says, boy, there's some ice cream in the freezer, but I just don't want to burn it. I was scared it wasn't going to taste good. You didn't taste it. Yeah, I scared, man. You needed that ice cream. I ate it.

Oh, good. I ended up eating it. But, yeah, so what I did was got my body depleted of all electrolytes, like no sodium, no potassium, no magnesium, nothing. Because I was drinking like 10 bottles of water day and two power aids. That's it. When I should have been drinking 10 power aids and two bottles of water. And I'd have probably never got in the situation I got into had I done that. But, I mean, you think hydration, drink water, you'll be fine, you know.

and I was not fine. But when I did that, it allowed weakness in my body, and the virus took one more swing at me. Like, all right, buddy, we got one more shot at you now that you're down. And it took that shot, and then I gave it a shot right back, or the medical professionals did. And then after I had that infusion, man, about eight hours after that, I've been getting better ever since.

The scary part with you was passing out. Yeah, I mean, the good Lord, he ain't done with me yet. Because otherwise, I should have, I should have hit my head on something. That glass from that mirror should have cut me to pieces. And somebody would have should have found me dead in my bedroom from bleeding out on something. You know, and that would have, that's, and all I have is this tiny scratch on my elbow. So he took me and just said, laid me down right where I could, right where I could be. laid down so you know i i'd like to just make the one point before we go on to like fun stuff

yeah i would love to do yeah um i think the most important thing is be proactive and talk to people smarter than you yeah because i i where i think i got messed up i went and got tested i'm 32 years old never been sick in my life i'll be fine get give me them vitamins people are talking about we'll be all right well about seven days later and lost 12 pounds and had a 102 fever, couldn't shake it. That's when the pneumonia hit me. Then two days after that, get your butt to the hospital. I didn't have the twist and turns Martin had.

I just got beat down for two weeks. Yeah, mine was pretty much just a pretty level. And then somebody pulled the rug out from under me. And then we got lifted back up. It was just, like I said, it was craziest thing. It was no problem until there was a problem. There was no, like, slow build. They just went,

Mine was beat you down until you are nothing, and then we will hit you in the hospital and build you back up. And I feel great now. Yeah. But I do think it's important for everybody to know, like, go get treatment. It ain't, it ain't, I'm just going to be honest. 32 years old, I was like, I'll be fine. I've had friends that had it, no symptoms, nothing.

This ain't going to be a big deal. Well, night three of that hospital visit when I've been alone and hadn't seen a hallway, for three days, I was thinking differently. Yeah. So whatever you do, take care of yourself 100% and don't just assume anything. Amen. There's my medical advice from a guy who filled out half the application to nursing school. For all of y'all that are listening to this, that have reached out during this process, thank you guys for checking on us and all of that.

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So, take a break. So since you, since you boys ain't been in quarantine slash isolation. Tell us what's been happening. What the heck's going on in the world? Me and Stone and BK and Hunter headed north. across the state line, boys. And when we crossed the state line, we went to Circee, Arkansas.

Sercy, Arkansas. I've spent a little time there. And then we went to a little town called Pangburn. Pang, burn. Population 601. Okay, and we went to the little red river. Okay, this water is about, it's close to that color right there on that package.

That's hot, too. It's kind of, it is. You ball-faced liar. Look, it'll be 100 degrees up on top of the cliff. When you go down to the boat ramp to launch your boat, it's about a cool 70. Smoke on the water. Yeah, on the river, not smoke.

It's fog from the cold. I was thinking of a deep. Hey, the water in that river is a cool 47 degrees all year round. And look. Did you get in it? Oh, did not. I just stuck my hand and I said, oh, that's nice. but it'd be actually cold.

They had clowns. They were, fishing. Okay, they're fishing, waiting. Oh, yeah. There's fishing, waiters, okay, overall. Oh, that feels great. Oh, no. It was, I said, I said, it's a cold, and they said, oh, no, it feels wonderful.

Wade fishing is one of the greatest things a human being can do. No, I'm sticking a boat. Here's what I tell you, we did that trip with our wives. Mm-hmm. Probably, what, five, six years ago now? It's been a minute. And, uh. You still here?

I got another. I got nothing. But look, the women beat us. And part of the deal was if you lost, you had to jump in the river. That's cold. Well, we all, we didn't make that rule in our boat. We have discussed at length what happens to Johnny Galvin when cold water hits him. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. So. Johnny Coldwin don't like ice. Yeah. Anytime. Johnny Cold. Johnny Cold, boys. But any, so Garvin didn't cash in on the bet.

Nope. But I did. I told you. for the whole crew. You made a bat and you just backed out of it? It was like when the water was rolling, so it was as cold as it was going to be coming out of that dam.

Offensive. And I went in there and buddy. If you're standing there too long, it'll probably give you pneumonia. I don't know. It was a lot. You don't want pneumonia. Lots of groaning going on.

Hold on. And a lot of getting out of water and just tightening up. Where's the towel? I couldn't get out of that water fast. But here's the good thing. I put my feet in it. This is one of them deals, okay.

You're not going fishing. Okay, you're going throw your little jig out there with a cork on it. And then the current pulls it around in the eddy, okay, and you pop it. And once you do, the cork's going to go under and you really mean. That's right. Look, and then you do that, depending on how long you want to stay and do it. okay, for the next two hires and catch you a couple of hundred trout. That's right.

It's that easy. It's that easy. I'm saying. Look, the bariff and his crew, they know that river so well, it is that easy. Jeff, I'll tell you, here's the way it went. As soon as we pulled up there, you know, we're watching them splashed. I'm sitting there standing there as he launched in the boat. It's out there about 15 yards, splash, splash, splash, splash, splash, splash,

and Jeff said, we're going to fish right here. That's a good call. And he said, B.K. just throw it right away. Well, B.K. was just dropping it off the back of the boat. Go. I mean, soon as she had dropping it off the back of it, and I'm talking about, hey,

there was about all 12 inches. Every one of hers. She caught the big ones. I'd throw out there 6 to 8 inches. B.K. dropped it off the end of the boat. Oh, yeah, all rainbows. Rainbows? I actually did catch one, though.

The next morning we went, and he gave me a jig. He finally caught one? Oh, no. We was going for big ones. Oh. Okay, so I got a jig, and I'm throwing it, and letting it fall and jerking it, and I caught four or five rainbow, and Jeff was just shocked that I caught the rainbows because we was actually going after the big brown.

Yeah. That's an old brown. Okay, but I didn't catch any brown. Well, you did finally catch one brown. He was about 10 each long. I want to go fly fishing there. The browns are pretty. No, you don't.

Oh, you want to do this. You want to take out. I love fly fishing. Look, when you're fly fishing, whoever's over there was a cork in the little jill is going to catch 50 to your one. That's exactly right. Trust me. Plus Jeff.

I'm about that trout magnet. Yeah. Plus them rainbow trout love it. Jeff don't own no fly company. He owns a trout magnet. Oh, trout magnet. And he had said, well, I said, well, I said, how are the trout magnets, you know? And he said, well, they're really better than the cropy.

And I said, say, what? what? He said, oh, I'm telling you, it's better than the cropy magnet. And I said, you got it. And then it was like, if we can't. Well, that trout magnet's the OG. That was his first bait design or whatever. That sucker catches them, man.

Oh, what are you talking about? Yeah, that's fine. Did you all eat any of them? Oh, yeah. Yeah, the next morning we fished the river for big fish, okay. And then we told me, okay, boys, it's time to call it a day. Okay. Let's go have breakfast.

And he was up there on the bank, you know, with his little setup rig. And we had taco, you know, fish tacos, eggs, whatever. I bet that taste is good. No, no, it was a spread, okay. So, yeah, okay. I got pictures of what I was eating during the time. You don't, it wasn't as good. Well, it wasn't as good.

I tell you. I tell you. Well, there's nothing better than catching fish filet in them and then frown them right there on the river. Oh, preach, buddy. It's something about, it's just, they're better. I believe it's called freshness. It may be, but it's just fine as frog hair. I'm ready to get back on the pond.

I ain't been on the pond. Well, I tell you that when I did, that was the last thing I did before I got sick. I thought I wanted to call somebody come get me from the river. Well, me and BK was going through withdrawals because we hadn't been fishing because it's been too hot. Yeah. Well, hey, we took care of that up there on the little red river. That's good. Okay, and hey, it was bad as having a little red wagon

and running around the neighborhood in it. Hey, right. A little red wagon. Yeah. Hey, so we're on Little Red River, and it was just every cast. Here comes to a little old rain. How many times did you say, boy, I hate it when I'm right? No, well, no.

I said, this is ridiculous. I said, but it's one thing good about it. I said, it's ridiculous fun. I said, because every time you throw it out there, pop it, the court goes on there. Here you go. I know. Defective,

defective corks. They keep sinking. Hey, they keep sinking, boy. Hey, there it is. Was it a cork or a bobber? It was a cork.

Or a float. It was a cork dummy. You have no such thing as a bobber. I've missed you call me a dummy. You big dummy. I've needed somebody to call me a dummy. I love it. Well, that's good.

I'm glad people's been thriving while we was locked up. Oh, we had a blast. The world didn't stand still for y'all. It kept moving. Good. That's good. No. has been busy, okay, on the land.

Well, I noticed I have been at work the last, I was here Friday for a minute and here today, and I ain't seen Stone yet, so I figured he was. Stone been texting me. He's been on the land, him and Dan, and they've been running around in the whole summer and planting rice and Jap Millet in the muck. Good. Okay, because the river's been up this year forever. Yeah.

It finally, you know, got down pretty good. where they could do a little bit of it in about two inches of water. Then they had, okay, we've got to get it dry to let it come up since they plant and rice. Well, they had a problem. The river's silted in. Okay, so now the river is actually higher than Fields Lake so it don't drain. Oh, cut off it? Oh, yeah.

Yeah, it's higher. Okay, so Phil had to say, well, I've got to get this water off there, so he pumped the Congo. back the Congo pump down on the dump and he pumps it out he closed the gate, pumps it out that way so the rice can come up. Then when it gets about 18 inches high,

he'll pump it back up, boys, and then we get ready for duck season. Yeah, I'd have got a problem now. So Stone's been working his tail off. We're scaring duck season. Oh, no. Yeah. We don't have a month from teal season.

We don't have a report from the boys down south that we go hunting with then in the marsh they're loaded Hey, good. Already? Oh yeah, they're loaded. Is that a good thing? That's a good thing.

For them. Oh, no. That's good for them. It's good for them. It's good for us because being stoned pick up truck and head foul. He can afford a tank of gas. It's all right for him.

All right. Well, let's take a break. We'll be back right after this. Right after this. All right. What are you going to talk about? Do we have any? I guess what did we finish in the Olympics?

Oh, I can talk. about the Olympics, son. I have had nothing but time to talk and watch the Olympics. Who was Lewis that had the record? You mean Alice and Felix has the record? Thank you at 11. Because she won the 4 by 400

last... He had 10. She's got 11 now. She's got 11. She went to 5 Olympics. And this one was so impressive because she had a baby. Can you have met? First off... And she's 35 years old. I think she's older than that. No, no. I I just, hey, trust me, she's 35.

So, I watched it. I watched all the swimming stuff. So are you? But I ain't in no Olympic event. I was fix-A. I was just fixed a. I'm impressed. 35.

She is 35. Look at you. I was saying, I said an event that I could compete in. What was that? Uh-oh. Sandwich? Rolling. The what?

The power walking? Walk racing. Walk racing? Yeah, I've been in that arm slanging. Oh, I get in that arm slinging group. But I don't do my hips like they. do you got to do the hands they get up there they got it going on they had the wall i didn't see that one oh yeah i did because man they needed to work on their camera angle on that really

there's a lot of them boys wouldn't wearing Tommy john oh boy let's just let's just let's just let's just let's just leave it up there aren't I don't need to go no further boys just know they weren't wearing Tommy john I said good night that I said I could probably do that but I said Paula, come here, come here. She said, what do they do? And I said, they're walking fast, walk racing. They're power walking. Oh, my gosh.

I stand by this statement, I think. The most impressive thing in those Olympics to me is that synchronized swimming. How in the world do them people stay afloat by moving their hand two inches? I know. Underneath that water. Like, I ain't ever seen nothing. And they all do it at the same time. That crap.

is impressive. Synchronized swimming. Yes, it's like eight of them. They can't just the day. They're standing on the bottom. So, so, but did you see, because I watched. They jogged them. And in an order in amount of TV over the last five days.

I watched a lot of good. In isolation. Um, did you see the, the women's water polo team? They have a goalie named Ashley Johnson. Did you ever see her? I didn't watch the women's water polo. in the water and then she wouldn't be in the water anymore. And then be back in the goal?

Yeah, she would just, she would just, walking on water. She would just, walking on water. Go up. Yeah. And I'm like, how do you, how do you, how do you do that? That gave me the jet pack on offense. Oh yeah, it was the most, like when she would go to like make a save, which I don't really understand water polo, not going to claim to.

But when she would go to make a save, she'd be like shoulders in the water. And then her hips would be out of the water. Yeah, like a dolphin. It was the most incredible thing. I watched that for hours, and I was like, how to... There's a lot of that stuff that I'm like, whoa. I mean, I don't know how them folks in them Olympics, look, we spend a lot of our life during the winter in a P-Roe.

Did you see the four-man kayak? These boys are in something smaller, narrower than a P-Roe, and they're paddling at a much higher rate than we do. And that thing don't move. On the last day. On the last day... You have that boy chase a cripple. You're on to something there. You get that boy right there now.

On the last day, they had like four-man kayak, and they're all just, like, in unison. That boat was going 50 miles an hour. And it's just big. I mean, it's the most incredible thing. I ain't ever... No, we're too big getting that thing. I looked at it.

No, there's no way. A seat bigger than... Well, you could, you know, you could strad it like a horse. Now... I'd think that'd be too much drag. Well, no, but I'm just saying, that's the only way you wouldn't get in it. You ain't thin enough.

The Olympics is pretty cool to watch all the obscure things that you don't ever. Well, I've said it before. When somebody's that talented, they're fun to watch them. Absolutely. Do what they do. Then boys, I watched the shotgun in two. How was that? I didn't catch that.

Well, we won gold both male and female. United States of America. Men's and women. We're going to win the shotgun. You all have ping pong. America's can. shoot boys. Let me tell you so. I watched that. That was... That thing was moving so fast. The ski? Oh, and they're shooting 12 gauges and I'm like, I don't even know. I mean, you couldn't even

see it on TV. You just see pink dust. It was like that thing going through that ditch. Yeah, but faster. No way faster. You just say pull boom. Yeah. And hope you hit it. Yeah, I think they just had a spot picked out in their mind and this is when I need to pull the trigger right here. Because it ain't no way. Most of them, most of them, they've done it so much. It's automatic. It's unbelievable. What's amazing is your brain is doing that. Yeah.

Chup, chup, chup. And it's just pink dust. Pink dust. And I'm on. Yeah, they don't just one petal it don't. It's a full pattern. Yeah. I watch those.

The ping pong. Yeah. They hold that paddle weird. And they hold that paddle weird. They can smash it too. Well, not on that. Yeah. That's what I got.

I said, he hit it back. They can hit a curveball better than our pitchers can throw a baseball curve. Yeah. The ones that play ping pong? Oh, yeah. They hit it, and that's why they meant, just, and I watched that one guy playing beach volleyball that served it, where he hit it like 50 feet up in the air.

That was incredible. Them volleyball people are insane. He would just hit it, like, straight up with a bunch of spin on it. And I don't know how them boys were returning it, but it would just come. It was like a pitching wedge. Right over the net. No.

So when it hit stuff, it'd just go off to the side. Oh, man, it was incredible. Ace. Them volleyball folks are. Yeah. That's for real.

Because volleyball. We want a lot of gold in that too. Because volleyball is something we can all play. They had to do. So when you see it, so when you see that, you're like, yeah. How? We don't really play. No, not like they do.

They had to spray the sand down was a 139 degree. Ain't that something? That's great. That's hot. I don't think I could. And they were walking on it like it was. nothing. Oh, yeah. And then they do the gym volleyball, too, and they hit that ball so hard you can't see it,

and then somebody just goes, poop, and it's up in the air. And it ain't ever going straight either. You watch them. They hit it on the corners of the ball, like putting spin on it. Oh, no. You boys are playing a different game. I'm just hoping to make contact and try not to decapitate myself in the net, because that's just about as high as I can get.

I can get just high enough to really hurt myself on that net. And them boys are, but they're over looking over the net, like, take that. Yeah. Now, Olympic athletes are, they're incredible. Yeah, we're watched. There's a lot of people said, I ain't watching that.

They're doing this. They, you know, all that political crap. But the person next to them did. Yeah. And look, their folks couldn't even be there. They was there. You know how stressful that was? Oh, I can't even imagine.

And not having your family there to celebrate something you worked your whole life. Yeah. And not eating sweets for fast. Five years. Can you imagine? Gowd found the tough part. Hey, Gawdwell said, I can't do it. Except for the shot putters, they ain't give up on that.

I know what they say. Did you see them boys throwing that shot put at the end? Oh, I did. They had two Americans that just kept. He said it's like throwing a bowling ball from the free throw line and making it, but the other free throw line. Yeah. That's crazy.

Like throwing it all the way across a basketball. I threw the shot put in high school, not very much. very far. But them boys... The pro basketball players can hit it from... We won that one, too. We won that. Finally, the basketball team made me nervous for a minute there.

Lost that one game. I said, what are y'all doing? Yeah, that was... This ain't the dream. That ain't my dream team. Yeah, we had a pretty good... America had a pretty good Olympics. Oh, yeah.

Do you think that the night, when the athlete got to go, that night did they go out and just splurge on groceries? Probably not. Just eating anything they want? Probably not because most of them was competing in something else, too. You don't go there with one thing. No, let's just say you was done. Dunned, uh.

Yeah. You got three years now. They got pizza, didn't he? Oh. They get it. I hope Allison Feetles and cheese. Stade rolls. Well, they were in Japan.

I would have just, Ida went and pawned it up to the biggest sushi bar they got over there. Yeah, but sushi. She's not that bad for you. The amount I would have ate would have been. It is when you deep fried. This is all you can eat. When we go, it's not that healthy. Yeah, I would have, I'd have been on that rice bag, a haul.

I hope Alice and Felix got her a pizza, though. Oh, yeah. 11 medals in her life and two of these after having a baby. At 35. That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable. I don't think we hung out on the fact that she had a baby between these Olympics. long enough.

35. She had a baby. Yeah, I'm like Martin. 35. She's 35 years old. I've never had a baby, but if I did, that would be the end of me running anywhere. Yeah. Yeah.

I've seen it happen three times. But the fact that she then is the third fastest person in the world to run a lap around a track. Yeah. That's unbelievable. Crazy. The human body. Amazing. It can bounce back.

Yeah. Just like me and Martin's. Listen to me breathing. Yeah. at that. He don't even need oxygen, do you? No, I hadn't had any yet. That's a sound of... Stand by, sir.

That's the sound of P pneumonia leaving the long. Pee, numon. I still can't spell it. Let's take our last break. We'll be back right after this. All right, boy. Let's do it. I got something to say before...

This is all I have. Well, hey, how about you just take off, son? Yeah, start wherever you want to start. Well, hey, I don't know if you... Here's what I have... Here's what I have. Here's what I have for the fans. Hey, look, look, I've always

tell you all, as far as it goes for you this morning when you get up, you need to put this in your mind. I'm going to be good to everybody that comes in contact, and I'm going to do what's right. Now, here's the charge. All of y'all check the Bible and see how many time God talks about being good and being right, and then not only that, and then look at how many rewards you get when you are that way. that's the challenge for you folks okay I like it

yeah I like it because you will be pleasantly surprised at how much it's in there well and look I just want to share this while I was down

not quite out but definitely down a buddy of mine shared a verse with me that helped get him through some tough times in his life.

And if I said this verse one time to myself and out loud while I was, while I was in a bad spot, I said it 5,000. And it is Psalms 91-2. It says, my God, you are my refuge. I trust in you and I am safe. And when you're down and in a bad spot, that one right there, it helped get me through a lot of what I was going through. Because anytime my breathing would kind of suck a little bit,

or, you know, I'd get a little panicky or anything like that, I could say that, and it would immediately calm me down and get everything. Because it's like, the cool thing about it, too, is like it's, um, it's a word I'm looking for. When you say it, it causes,

well, and it causes you to, like, say it slow. and take good deep breath, too, to say, my God, you are my refuge. I trust in you and I am safe. And, man, for me personally, over the past week, that one, that one meant a lot to me. So, Clay, thank you for sharing that with me during what to this point has been arguably the lowest time of my life. So, you know, there we go. Well, I'll get emotional next, I guess.

Go for it, Jay. Yeah. So, yeah, it was the worst two weeks of my life. I was down. Who, here we go. You good, hammer. But yeah, no, I was scared. There was bad times.

There was good times. I listened to a lot of worship music. I've mentioned the song Promises on this podcast before. If you've never heard that one, go listen to it for sure. But on Sunday night, about 50 people were in my yard praying. for me. And that meant a lot. And a lady named Miss Beth brought this big old pink sign right here. You can probably barely see it. But it says, I'm Yahweh, your mighty God. I grip your right hand and won't let you go. I whisper to you, don't be afraid. I'm here to help you. Isaiah 41.13.

And we left that up in our house. It's still up in my house right now. And yeah, I've been through a few things in life that were scary, but I always felt like I had some sort of control. If it was my kid, I was still the one making decisions with Carter and all his health stuff. But for the first time, probably ever, I had to fully trust God on me. Nothing I could do, nothing I could say. I'm not smart enough. I can't even pronounce it. I for sure can't spell anything they were giving me.

so it was just one of those you know it was a real coming to adulthood moment for me even being as young as I am like this this this this this for sure ain't it right here but it's it's scary whenever you're looking at it and saying am I going to be all right and the only thing you can do is actually do what God asks you to do and just trust in him because that's all we got at the end of the day anyway So that being said, all those people that prayed for me, there's a list of hundreds. I got text from all over the world from people. And it meant so much. And I'm so glad I was so wanting to be back in this chair just to laugh and hang out with you.

And I got to tell you, Si, if this thing would have taken me out and not you, and y'all would have made fun of me in heaven for like the first 10,000. I wouldn't have been able to handle that. So I'll say this. I kept pushing on just so I could sit next to you again, sir. Through the whole thing, here's what I will say. Humility is a heck of a thing. Oh, yeah. When you think, like, look, here's, I'll give you all my last thought process on this whole thing.

I did not get vaccinated. My thought was, I'm 35, I'm young, I'm healthy, my immune system. has always performed flawlessly, I want my body to have the first shot at this virus. Guess what? I got my wish. I got my wish. I realized in that moment how, in my opinion now, after researching and studying,

how narrow-minded that wish was. And look, for those of you that say it's not bad, it's this, it's that, it's the other. I want to remind you all something in this still. My family up until me was 0-1 in the fight against COVID. It got my dad. So I knew how serious it was, but it still, that wasn't me. He was older.

He was at risk. He was the kind that it should have gotten if it were going to get somebody. So it still didn't hit home. home to me until it hit me. A perfectly healthy 35-year-old young male, no underlying health conditions, no nothing. And it took me to the floor. Legit twice took me to the floor. And so with that being said, that's why I said that humility is a heck of a thing. because it humbled me right there before God and made me realize in my life

where I had gotten off track. That's one of the things I tell people all the time. If you don't have a strong relationship with your family, with your mom and dad or with your siblings, okay, then especially when something, and like J.D. said it. Okay. You have no control over what you're facing.

Okay. And what you're facing may take you out. Okay. And then the other part about that, the family is one thing. But then if you don't have a relationship with God Almighty. Okay. When stuff like this hits, like I always used it, first time we did make a wish foundation with kids,

that were stage four cancer, okay, they're on their way out, they're dying, and they come and wanted to see meet Uncle Si. Okay, that's a bone to be chewed right there anyway, but we didn't know how to handle it. Okay, and the part about it is, okay, this is out of your control. Yep.

Okay, there's nothing in and of yourself, that you can do to make it better. You know, I always asked, okay, it's one thing for you to go to the doctor and tell you, like me, going to the doctor, and he said, okay, you've got stage four cancer.

That wouldn't really bother me. But if I had to when my kids were little, go and they tell me my child had stage four cancer, you know, folks, I'm telling you, life is too short, okay, and pandemic, thing covert 19 is nothing to play with that's why i say okay we've martin lost his dad to it for crying

out loud okay people have lost their mom their dad their siblings okay and it's killed over a million i've had to covert myself okay it come close to you've taken me out okay it's not this is nothing to play with for crying out loud. Get serious about it. And don't think, well, size old because I ain't old. I'm 32 and I have a 7, a 5, and a 2-year-old. And I spent one week looking at birds in a hospital window, and that was my only company.

Hey, at least you had the birds. I named them. John the Baptist was a cool bird. Hey, gocks on them. Yeah, that's who I talked to up there in room 483, boys. Godwin, you got anything before we get out of here? No, I'm just glad we was praying for you

and, uh... All right, let me, I'm gonna take that with the verse. Oh, go ahead. Give us another one, baby. It is hard. I was talking about right and being good. Okay, let's see what I want to do, you boys. He's in Proverbs 10 if you're turning with us.

Yep, I'm in Proverbs 10. The wise and heart accepts command, but a chattering fool comes to ruin. The man in tectuary walks securely, but he who takes control crooked paths will be found out. He who winks maliciously causes grief, and a treading fool comes to ruin. The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked. Okay. Look, it'll add life. Being right, the mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life.

so just be good do what's right and god will add years to your life that's what the good book says amen all right we'll see y'all next time right here in the duck call room we're out i'm gonna be breathing even better next time