Duck Call Room - What Uncle Si Did After the Drive-By Shooting at Willie's Place

Episode Date: February 22, 2022

Uncle Si's protective instincts kicked into high gear after a man fired his gun at Willie's property with people inside the house. Willie bought a competitor's duck call, and it did NOT go well. John-David has been known to use Google to help him remember Korie's birthday. The boys talk about how they were punished as kids. Martin remembers the time he and Godwin had a VERY close call with a motorcycle. Si recalls being stalked at night by a mysterious driver. And the boys tackle how to handle lack of interest in religion and the right reasons to get engaged. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What? What do you call a small white cat in the woods? Smack and sma cat? I don't know. It says a kitten. I don't get it. I went on my head. A white patch in the woods?

I think that went under my feet. Yeah, that's some low-hanging fruit. I don't know, man. Have we started? Welcome back. We are. We're here in the duck call room. I got to just, I'm going to go ahead and say how disappointed I am.

And what? What? A beautiful woman was in this room, and I asked her to take myself. seat and she wouldn't do it. Oh, you're talking about Brittany. Martin's wife was just in this room. I don't blame her. We should have had her sit down with us. She had to sit by and sit down. No, I'm out here. Every time she sits by size, she gets nervous. She's got a good reason to. I'm nervous. Okay, I don't said I love her. I told her. I've loved her since I first met her. She

knows he's a lady's man. I told her to her face. I know. She don't want lust living in her heart. She don't want to leave me for size, so I can appreciate that. So, Martin, do you remember when we were at Willys and we were watching one of the first shows that came out and I saw you and Brittany and I was like, oh, is this your fiancé? And you were like, not yet. Here we are. Here we are now. Here we are. We crowding, we crowd in seven years of marriage, been together for 10. There you go. Congratulations. Long time. I still ain't ready for none of I still ain't got over there. We did confirm Martin's story that he told on the last podcast.

About what? About the toddler scaring you from having a baby, but her giving you those eyes. Oh, she, she, that wouldn't just poppycock, as they would say, across the ball. That was the truth. That happened. Yeah, yeah, Mark, I wouldn't bluff it. I'm not saying.

I tell the truth. The whole truth and nothing but the truth. Now, sigh, he'll embellish a little. That was a Look, here's I got, from our boss, our fearless leader yesterday, I got a text

of a picture of a competitor's duck call. Uh-oh. In his hand. I can tell it's his hand, you know, because he got a tattoo on his fingers. What's he doing?

So he, Willie went to speak at a deal last night. And so my game. And forgot his duck calls. Apparently that's part of his speech. I don't know. Oh, man. So he had to boy.

I had a deal. You bought a duck call from somebody? No, he didn't borrow it. He went and bought it. Oh, he went and bought him one. Oh, okay. He bought one of our competitors' duck calls. Hey, it's good to have competition?

No, I agree. And I said, well, the good news for us and me in particular, since I'm the GM of this place, they were sold out of ours. I said, we're doing our job. I said, ain't nothing you can do if we sell them all. I mean, what you're supposed to do? That's a good refund. And then I also said, low-key, that's a really good duck call. Yeah, but after they heard Willie blow on it, they were like, ah, that thing ain't

That's probably the best thing we could have done. That's right. That's right. Let Willie blow the duck down. I apologize to the guys over at Primo. Someone else is duck call. That's false advertising. Will and all you boys over at Primos?

Willie didn't do you no favors last night blowing you duckball. I'm sorry. But, you know, thank you for having one on the shelf at Academy. There you go, boys. They were so loud about it. It's not every day you get that text from your boss about a competitor's product. He just purchased. So to the fine folks of an academy, look, we still shop there.

There you go. There's what happens. Not everything's freely given to us. Sometimes you get in a bind and you have to go buy it yourself. But that is funny. His new assistant is lacking on a job. You'd never let that happen. Oh, I let that happen all the time.

Yeah, I know. Well, because he'd be like, oh, where's the duck call? I'm like, this is, like, it's really random when he wants a duck call. Yeah. You should probably just, new guy, if you're listening, just put like seven of them in your backpack at all. all the times. Keep them with you. Keep a Sharpie.

Everything will be good. Well, Philip, I ain't saying you in a Coons A son. What are you been up to? Y'all are best friends. I've been working. I know. I don't know. Just working working.

Well, what's going on in the children's home? Same old thing? Getting a lot of kids in, having a lot of discharters. There's a, you know, the wave of COVID hit, and then it calmed down, and then another wave hit, you know. So now we're just getting through with that, and we're able to get some kids in. We're offering a lot of great services. We do individual family counseling, group counseling, and we started, of course, we got an equine program with horses and animals, and we've been doing that. I know Godwin's been out there helping some of our kids learn how to shoot bow and eras, and it's just a lot of cool stuff.

But carpentry welding and barbering school, the kids are some of the older kids. I didn't even know y'all had all that. Plus horse riding? Sir? Plus horse riding? Yep. Yeah, I didn't know you all for that. Yeah, we offer all that stuff.

And that's why I asked you a while back if you could ride a horse and then you told me yes but I didn't know if I believed you or not. Hey. Speaking about being a good assistant, what have you been missing about being with Willie

and doing your assistant work with him? Don't lie. You can say nothing. I legitimately, I miss hanging out, I do miss hanging out with Willie. I don't miss some of the job per se. I can believe that. And I miss it.

They were cool stuff. I was hanging out with Willie It's cool. It's always fun, yeah. Yeah. I miss Willie the person. That's it. A ton.

But, I mean, we still talk a lot. Like, we go church together. Because he's just a flat-out nutcase. He's a... He is a lot of fun to be around. He really is. I think he... I wore off on him a little bit.

So, Phil, I'm going back to this. The business wheels are spinning that. Uh-oh. As y'all got all these programs at the children's home. Mm-hmm. You know, every now and then, them boys, it's hard to get wrangled up to build a duck calls. You think any of them be interested to learn how to build a duck calls? Yes.

Can we get an aggressive raid on the... Yeah, we could do you some good right there, Martin. I bet they show up more than Gobbin. Goblin doesn't got that fishing bug. If y'all haven't been able to tell the last couple times, he's been on his podcast, he ain't red-faced because he drank a lot of whiskey. Well... He red-faced because he don't wear no sunscreen.

And he's been on a boat all morning. All day. He don't blame him. I don't blame him, okay, because I've been whispering in the stones here. Hey, Jay, when we hit the hills of the lake. You ready to go fishing? Oh, what are you talking about? Hey, hunting is over.

It is over. Yeah, it was over. So, hey, let's go get on the white part. That is awesome that y'all have those opportunities for those kids. That's cool. I didn't realize y'all did that. No, no, I didn't. Like when he said the horses, I didn't know they, you know.

That's cool. I don't act in sick. Especially the horse riding. The trade part of it. I think that's really cool. The barber school, welding and all that. And it gives kids a lot of confidence, you know, when you learn a trade like that.

And college ain't for everybody, you know. I would argue that. I am a witness to that. I would argue that it's not for most. Yeah. Maybe so. As a guy who did six, seven years. I mean, I did a lot myself.

Now, I got a six-year degree. There's only count, only four of them counting. You know, that's the. What was your election? What is, what is they called? Elective, elective, elective. Yeah. That major?

What was your elective class? My major or my elective bowling? Elective. Oh, I played, I played volleyball for a semester. Real important to, you know, get out of your parents' house and go learn how to play volleyball. I always like that when I, they were saying, well, what you, what you major in? I majored in business. And I, you know, you run a business?

Yeah. You know, well, what kind of classes did you have when you was getting close to graduate? I think they called them electives. He said, oh, I took ballroom. Ballroom dancing. It was one of them and I said, Ballroom dancing. I guess that would really play into running the business

or maybe basket weaving. Yeah, I could see how that would be paramount. You got to have that class to run a business. Ducks season, keep doing what it's doing. I'm going to take up basket weaving. Crap. Well, just you have a product. You need a hobby.

What were your electives, Justin? I don't, I mean. Building wood duct boxes? No, that was part of. my project, my master, or my undergrad and master's project. But I don't know, I don't know what they classified as electives. I mean, I took Latin. I don't think you had to have a foreign language in college, but I took a lot of Latin and, you had to take the standard stuff that everybody had to take, like music appreciation and first aid and CPR and all that kind of good stuff,

which, you know, whatever. But now my electives were all stuff to do with my major. I went with the smart electives or whatever. I just didn't feel like taking a class on bowling or ballroom dancing. Bowling. Both of which were offered, you know, but I just, I took Latin instead. What's up with art appreciation and stuff like that too? Because knowing about the Medici family from the Renaissance period, made an A in there, that's not helping me run the Honeyhole.

No. No, I did the music appreciation because you could go to, all they really wanted out of music was, you know, the football games and tell them what the band performed at halftime. Like, that was the bulk of our music. It was a way to get the student body involved in the school. In the football games? Yeah. Hey, there's another way to get them involved in football games.

Tailgate? When? Or that. But we got Coach Bowden now. Go un-defeated. Turning around. Go Orhawks back there. Yeah, we got Coach Bowdoin now.

But, yeah, I don't know. Man, whatever. That's why I said. Look, college is not arguably for most. So. I'm for it. Yeah. I'm for what you're saying.

You've got to have your carpenters, your welders, and all those people that do. Yeah. And keep this country. See, that's the one thing I wish I'd have done different while my dad was alive, was get him teach me how to do more of that stuff. I always took it for granted that he was there. And if I needed something fixed, I just took it dad.

I drop it off pick it up. Like, it wasn't no big deal because if we worked on it together, we're going to end up hollering each other anyway. So, you know, that's just the way we work together. Well, that's just way too big men, hell of it. Yeah. I mean, because I knew I could spot the easier way, but the easy way wasn't the way he did thing.

He made that sucker to survive an apocalypse. So I'm like, but we don't need all that. Your dad just scared me half to death. I'm telling you. You don't know, I'm serious because look, I pulled up eccentric. He was doing something out there, okay? Oh, yeah. I know he's done open my door and jumped in, and I didn't know him.

Yeah. He didn't meet a stranger neither. Yeah, no, no. And he said, oh, and he could tell by the way I was. Yeah. Yeah. He said, I'm Martin's dad. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. He was like grounds man at the credit union for his side gig. Okay. When he wasn't working 16 hours at the meal, that's what he would go do to keep himself busy. So, you know, like he had to be doing something all the time. Anyway. All right. Look, springtime is here.

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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 tribeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. What do you see me as, your typical middle child or something, or the typical baby of everybody? No, probably middle child, I'm guessing. Incorrect.

And a problem child. A problem child, definitely. Definitely. Well, that comes along with you. You got a lot of unsolved issues, young man. You probably got a cousin that's like over you that makes you more the middle person, even if it's not the middle child. I'm the youngest.

He's the youngest. I'm confused almost. He's confused. It was a weird break, ladies and gentlemen. Now we're back. Y'all got such a big family. What's the age gap between the oldest and the youngest cousin? You the youngest.

Corey's oldest. And Corey? So, 17 years? Oh. So you just told Corey's age. Good thing you don't work here no more, him. Yeah, we're going to celebrate number. Uh-oh.

Ah. 47 this year, I don't know. October. Lord, have mercy. Look it up. It's on Wikipedia. I used to do that when I had to book her flights. I could never remember her birthday, so I'd just Wikipedia.

It's easy. It's a trick. You ever booking somebody. Her's in October, right? Yep. October. 24th or something? I think so.

Somewhere around there. I think her and my grandmother had something. I'm way closer to this age of John Luke and Sadie. Yeah. Than I am cool. Than your actual cousin. Yeah. Your first cousin.

I used to go spend the night with John Luke. I mean, I was a little bit older than him. We watched the Lion King and stuff. He had all the cool toys. How much older are you than John Luke? Only like six or seven years, five or six years, maybe. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I'm a child.

We already knew that. We're three kids. I'm a giant child. Oh, speaking of three kids. Martin, you might have been right. About what? These kids. Oh, I know I'm right.

So last, you know what I hate? Spanking children. It's the worst. I know you're super into it. That's sigh, do it. Spank him, side. Teach him a lesson. Look, wait a minute.

You got your opinion. No, no. No, no. No. Go, no. A lot of people say you should never spank your children. My daughter's one of them. Boy, I wish somebody told my grandma and my mom.

I wish somebody told my dad. Well, no, the only thing that I, I, I, I've noticed, okay? You know, if you just let them run wild, they're going to run wild. Yeah, well, it's like, you need to set some boundaries. Boundaries, they've got to have boundaries. No matter how you want to do it. I mean, you don't have to think necessarily, but you can set boundaries.

So I'd pull the worst move ever on them. No, they're just, right now they're sitting at school like he's going to get us. So last night, I'm putting them in bed. That's the worst part. Yeah, I'm, I pulled the, we're going to wait on this. I need a think about the punishment. So last night, put them to bed. Also known as I don't want to go to jail.

Well, no, I wasn't that mad. I was more disappointed. I'm kidding. So I put the kids to bed. I told them they got that little Nintendo switch. And the problem with that thing is, you can take it places. Oh, yeah. So I thought my wife had put it up where they couldn't play with it.

And I was like, cool, perfect. They asked me to play with it. I was like, she said, no, deal with it. We're going to play with toys. So they're upstairs playing. I was taking care of some things. Then I put them to bed. Oh, it was good.

It's a great night. and they were being really sweet. Oh, they don't slick you. They felt. They didn't slick you and you knew it. That's right. They knew it. Well, I didn't know it, but I thought.

Oh, but they knew it. And I thought something was up. Little sociopath. And so I just let it all play out. And then Allison went to tell them good night because she got home late and they were probably still awake. I love it. And they're both in the bottom bunk in the same bed playing Nintendo together. Face lit up.

Oh, yeah. And I heard it. And I walked up. and they looked at me, I go, oh, so you lied to me. And then I said, and I didn't want to just start like, we're going to get in bed, like, go to bed in trouble. I didn't like that. I said, here's what we're going to do. You're going to go to bed.

We're going to wait. Then we're going to go to school and we're going to be really happy in the morning. Then you're going to come home. Then I'm going to come home from work and then we're going to talk about it. That's the worst. That's the absolute worst. So that's what I have looking forward to this. That's when you ask them when they get home.

So what do you think I was going to do to you when you got here? Yeah, what did you learn. And when they give you that list, that's exactly what I'm going to do to you. Pick out two things, then I'll do. That's what I'm going to. That's exactly what I was. Let them choose their own punishment. Oh, yeah.

Because soon as the word when I was growing up, if my mother said you lied to me, the severity just increased by 10%. I never heard you lied to me. I just kind of looked at it. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. from looking this way to that way really. Oh, no, my mom wouldn't allow no looking this way and that way. No, I'm talking about her hand.

I ain't talking about it. Then he was going that way. I was looking at this and when she didn't was a lie, I suspiciously was looking like it. I was like old boy in the Super Bowl. I'm looking at the ball and if, no. He dropped it. Yeah, because he was.

He was looking for the guy coming to get him. Yeah, there was never, that was the worst butt-wuppance ever when you got caught in a field. I didn't mind, though. whoippins. I really didn't. Boy, they should cry harder. No, no.

Silent treatment was the worst. She made me go pick my own destruction. Oh, yeah. Get that switch, son. Tell me about it, Zai. No, no, look, and look, and people say, God hasn't got a sense of humor. Oh, yes, he has.

Sometimes when you hear the clouds making a bunch of racket, that may be the Almighty laughing. Okay, because my mother, he grew, he made, God made a bush that all it grew was the perfect switches. There's one in everybody's yard from the years of 1920 to 1980. Oh, I'm telling you. I'm still prime, too. Oh, no.

Oh, no. Well, I got it what I call the Smartac age. You still there, Hamer. Oh, no, no, I had done figured it all out. So one day I did something wrong, you know, and it had been two or three days, and I'd done something else wrong with that. And mama was saying, I'm going to get you for this. I'm going to get you.

Then finally you had hit her wrong. And then the get you was fixing to happen. Okay. Go get your switch. So I went out there. I sat there playing with the switch for a couple of minutes. I told me, okay, yeah, that'll get about three legs and break. And I'll be all right.

Broke it, one hop a hour. She hit me three legs. It broke. Come here a minute. She turned me around. She said, now go get me another one. And she said, we may. picked that whole bush today.

So go get me another one. Yeah, and I picked a one. And look, she beat me with that switch for about six months. Yeah. Before it broke. And she literally broke down and cried. That's one that they'd wrap around your leg about six times. Oh, no, no, no, no.

All she had to do was this. Yeah. And that thing had done, like a snake, had done, bit me 12, 15, 20 times. Yeah. And she ain't moved her hand about twice. Been there. And it was just, I don't think I have a switch like that. You want one?

No. I don't have it in me. I can bring you one for Mom's Yard. Hey, we had a wooden spoon. I do have one of those. I can get you one from Mom's Yard. I bring you one. I can even write their name on it.

You can have one for each other. So my oldest was, go ahead. You're going to say something? Oh, yeah. No, here's the problem with, I can't do it because I'm, he's so sweet kid. We're getting ready for school this morning, and then Carter looks and he goes, Dad, do you forgive us? And I was like, Dad, gum it.

Aw. And I was like, of course I do. I don't want you to be, but I have to still. So then on the way to school, it was a whole talk of like, I'll always forgive you and I'll always love you. But no matter what you do, there's consequences to every action on earth. You're going to find out about this one. Your children have got you wrapped around the little. You're going to teach him the difference between forgiveness and forgetfulness.

Yeah. I forgive him, but there's always going to be a consequence. At the end of the day, even if you do good, there's a consequence. It's probably a reward. Yeah. If you had a Nintendo Switch in your bed. Yeah, that's a bad deal. I thought about throwing the Switch into the pond, but then I remembered how much I paid for the Switch.

Don't punish yourself. It's got Mario Card on. That's right. Don't punish yourself. Don't punish them. You know, the first thing y'all do is when they get home, you'd be sitting on the couch playing that Switch. And say, boy, don't this look fun. Oh, it's a good time.

Yeah. And then when they try to walk over and look, no. The worst to me, I take a whoop. I mean, it hurt. Don't get me wrong. But I take that whoop. It's when they didn't say nothing. When they were hurt.

It's when they just look at you. And you knew how much you had let them down. Yeah, that's it. Well, that's it. I ain't ever doing that again. Like that, to me, that was the worst to see the disappointment. I mean, you make them some bad days. That's enough punishment because right now your kids are thinking,

dad don't love us no more. He won't forgive us. He's going to take us see Uncle Philip over there and rest of him. We're going to have to learn to weld and ride a horse. We're going to ride that horse. But no, that really was the worst for me was to see, the actual see the disappointment in my parents' face. That's when I knew I had really fouled up.

If I just made them mad, they'd whip me. But if I disappoint them, they'd just sit there stare at me. What's that word? Shacking a head to me. And I'm like, Yeah, no, this ain't going to make the cut. This ain't going to make the cut. What you don't ever want to do.

But we've managed to still disappoint the ones we love every day, don't we? Oh, that's right. Part of being a human. Well, let's take a break. We'll be back right after this. Now, me and Guy, I ought to wait for Gobble and tell that story, because that was crazy that morning. I need the need for speed.

Si has the need for speed. Si has the need for speed. I'm like Tom Cruise. But me and Galvin were headed to the Lakewell morning. Talking about driving. We headed to the lake. We're just cruising down old back road to go spillway.

You know, it's about as wide. It's about a truck and a half wide, really. The grass doesn't crept in on both sides. Oh, yeah. And we were on this curve, and there's this old boy on this motorcycle. And he's in our lane, and I'm like, uh-oh.

This ain't going to be good. But luckily, neither one of them panicked. Godwin nor the motorcycle driver, and they just kind of, and the motorcycle driver stayed in our lane. Godwin just kind of veered into the other. and there we were. No way.

Buddy, if either one of them would have tried to correct what they was doing, over. But I was just sitting there in a passenger seat like, am I really about to watch this? I mean, because there ain't nothing I can do. Nope. But I'm talking about, that's the closest I've ever come. Oh, opposite lane?

Yeah, we went to England for just a brief second. We went. But you've got to be thinking one of them's fixing to try and correct this. Oh, that's why I reached up there and grabbed that far. Did you scream? No, I just, I do not to panic because I figured if I did anything, Gobbin would. I said, well, he got it under control. Better than me.

And when we got past him, Gobin pulled over and kind of stopped, he said, good night. He said, I didn't know what to do, so I just kept going straight. I said, that seemed to be the right thing to do because we both alive. Yeah, if he had done anything else, he'd have killed him. Oh, yeah. Both of them, violent. Do you have to change underwear? No, but I did have to remove them.

They got, there was a little suction in him. involved there buddy i'm telling you and i can only imagine mine was like that with that poor motorcycle driver oh yeah it's sound like that's one goblin drove that big truck at big white truck oh my god and we had that skeeter boat behind us oh yeah a glass boat behind they wouldn't go stop it yeah ain't gonna stop it no we were we were we were we were the freight train coming down the tracks we wouldn't stop it you can see some crazy stuff when you're up at night didn't you get chased out there uh oh yeah i chased you in a vehicle I turned on, what is it, a red-cut loop. Okay, off the main one there, okay.

And as I'm going along, okay, 4.30 in the morning, okay, a.m. No lights anywhere except my headlights on my truck. And then all of a sudden, then there's just bright lights blinding me out of nowhere. From behind you? Yeah. Boom. Yo, and I'm going, God. And he's swinging the car swinging around me like he's going to pull me over.

Well, what he don't know is I got a big engine on that. pickup truck I got? Wrong answer. Wrong answer. Hey, my toe, big toe is in the carburetor pumping gas. Okay, as I squall away from him, okay. Look, so the next morning I get ready to go duck hunting, and I said, well, no, got my fist because that may happen again.

Well, it did. The next morning, same thing. It's like Jace was telling Phil. He said, you know the most comfortable that I was the day that we got shot, at when all of our yards and houses were being shot. Remember the drive-by shooter and the whatever? Who? The definition of a frivolous lawsuit.

Yeah. Well, anyway, after the shooting, you know, or actually during it, Jace called me and said, get over to Size's house and check on him because I don't know what's going on, but we're under attack. I mean, this might be bad. So I drive over to Sides and I'm like, Sime. There's a drunk guy hanging out of a window. Nobody knew that.

Nobody knew that at the time. Later. Your boy was on a bicycle in the yard. No, no, no, I know. Phil's has death threats and all this stuff all the time. So now Jace is like, like, Philip, get over there, check on site. I'm like, okay.

So I'll go in and he's watching the cowboy westerns. I said, so nobody's dead. Nobody's dead. Look at me. He's like, hold on, hold on. All right, what is it? I said. I had to wait until then.

Yeah, nobody's dead, but there's been a shooting, you know, there's blah, blah, blah. He said, okay, boys. And he takes off and goes into a room, you know, into oblivion. He's gone. Okay, boys. Okay, he comes out. He's sitting down pistols all over the table. He's okay, this one here is going to do some damage.

Okay, boy, is that? And Philip, I said, here, I got things to do. I'm still loading. Yeah, he's over there. Si, I looked like the last scene in Josie Wells, where they put all the guns at every window and said, y'all try to come in here. He doesn't got mad dog mean.

Well, hey, Jason, he's talking to Philip. He asked Philip something, and I said, well, hey, tell him what, tell him what, he'll blow his arm off. I said, so hey, we're going to have DNA that they can find him. I said, okay. And so Jay, Jayst tells Phil said, I called the told Philip to go over and check on the sign and then calling him to make sure he was okay. He said, that's the, it'll actually warm my heart.

They talked to my uncle. He said, because, hey, all I hear is click, click, click, click. The man ain't afraid to pull the trigger if he has to, and Jay's was like, that. That kind of warmed my heart. He wasn't scared. He was ready to do it either way. Gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling, boys. That's wild, though.

I think somebody was intending to maybe, you know, do something to you. You never know. Getting up behind you and pulling around. That wasn't an accident. Yeah. Who knows? Crazy world, Martin. Hijacking on Red cut road.

What's that? Red cut loop, boys. I don't know where we go. At 4.30 in the morning. A.m. He had just left Pete's place. Down there at the Balkenville Boatman. Broken memories

We was playing poker one night Okay Hey time out Let's take a break Okay We're going into a poker story I want a fresh segment for this Let's take a break

We'll be right back We're gonna be right back All right side You was playing poker Well no I've already told it I've already told Okay I ain't gonna go there

I've already told it You've told it Yeah I don't think I told it I was playing a poker game With this guy named No legs No no I will say this

about sigh's poker game. When he went through COVID and all of us cared for him and brought him back to life, Sa, his poker game got way better. Way better. It was the oxygen I had. I'm wearing my oxygen. He hit that oxygen.

Fresh oxygen in my brain made it better. For the next three months. I thought you were going to say you learned how to become a pathological liar like he did to Johnny Dee. So I didn't know. Hey, for the next three months, he won, one, one, one. I was a liar. because everybody said so

but sire no you weren't a liar you didn't remember anything your oxygen was so low there's a lot of people sitting in the jailhouse saying that same thing i don't remember it wasn't me I do have a lot of customers at the honey hole now that come in and say yep time getting new riding real i played poker with sire

so i appreciate it not even a job oh you buying them you're buying them stuff i don't believe that i don't believe that that's what all them are liars all poker players are lie, including me. They're bluffing. Let me tell you what, I ain't no lie.

I ain't ever been able to beat that old man. I don't know. I don't either. When I do know what he's got, he sucks out on the river, and when I don't know what he's got, he's got me just stone cold beats. That's the part. That's the best part. And I'll tell you, if you don't know him or haven't played with him,

he's really hard to deal with at the table because he's a crazy person. You don't know. So all the people in Oklahoma, when sigh won second in that tournament, they thought he was one of the best poker players they ever seen. they're like, I mean, the guy's great. And little did they know. I'm not. But you do have fun.

You do have fun. Hey. Well, you've got to figure the odds, okay? One in 52. Well, no, no. I'm serious though. You can bluff your way a lot of times because it's the perfect opportunity if you're paying sense to the game.

Yeah. You know, because I'd say something like, okay, what was your bet? And the guy says, $50. I said, I'm just going to give you 50. But just to see if I can hit the card I'm wanting. Well, it don't make it in terms of what card comes out. I said, that's what I thought. I knew I was going to hit that card.

Whose bed is? And then when it says yours, I said, I'll make it $2.50. I ain't got nothing. The only problem is that works every time but once. It's like cliff down. But hey, that one time it works, hey, slide the pot over here, boy. It's just about $800 in the pot. 800 in the...

I had the wrong roll on Duck Dynasty. There's $800. Just $800 on a casual poker night? Hey, buddy, you go play with him now. You can't see a flop for less than $300. Hey, I played at your old boss's house a while back. It has got worse. Some nights, you can't see a flop for under a thousand.

If the feds are listening, we're monopoly money. Well, it all goes to charity. It is. Is it? All goes to charity. Who's charity? Uncle Size Dream Foundation. Yep.

LLC.com. Lusdreamfoundation. Dot org slash. I've been watching a lot of crying stuff on Netflix. I love it. I love it. Go to Uncle Tize Dream Foundation. I've got some of my nickname is 401K.

I know. Amineless package. Economy package. Yeah, these all kinds of stuff. It's all kind of stuff that the rest of the liars that I run with are coming up with. They probably need you now. Inflation, man.

Inflation. But we do have fun. I will say that. I guarantee. And look, they're all good guys. Hey, you ate any of that excess deer yet? No, I imagine Stone, him or an owl and them done ate that probably.

Don't polished it all? Yeah, they don't polish that all probably. I don't know. They already ate a whole deer? Last time I saw Al, he don't like he's even eating anymore. That ain't true. He's on what? I think that was a pull your leg deal.

Al Roberts? That ain't. Yeah. I'm jealous of Al. Have you noticed his vest that he's so fine, looked so good in? They're a little tight. But here's the deal about Al.

The boy ain't missing no meals. Sorry, Al. Also, I thought you under the bus. I talked to Missy the other day. She thought I was a homeless person walking through my neighborhood. She gave you any money? No. Well, no, she had been for a while.

She called the cops on him. That's what it was. Yeah. He's lost so much weight. It's cured, Missy. She's done a story. Well, I would argue. argue that now you don't look homeless.

Six months ago, you did. So I waved Jace down because Missy's following him, and she's like, oh, no, a homeless man has entered the neighborhood and is now waving my husband down. And then I get him the car with Jace, and she's got no clue who it is. But I owed Jace $500 from fantasy football because he won. Whoa. Oh, you were the treasured. Yeah.

And so, but Missy thought I was just a homeless person walking through the streets. Well, I guess, well, maybe now technically you do look more homeless since you're thinner. Because a homeless guy wouldn't be chunky. That's true. You know, maybe that's what it is. But, yeah, that happened. But then I saw Al the other day, and I didn't recognize him. He lost a lot of weight?

No, for the officer's just kidding. Oh, Al. I said, Al. Val. But no, I'm jealous of Al because when I gain weight, it is all in a bowling ball shaped right behind my belly button. A belly. gut. That's me.

And I got these chicken Willie Robertson legs no matter what happens. Al looks like somebody just said, and his whole body gets just a little bigger. And that seems like a way better system to me. He gains weight in his toes. It's that vest is what does it. The cheeks hold. If you would wear a vest, if you could do that. I like a way he described it.

That's what it is. It's the vest. He's like that hummingbird on that scene. OPD commercial. He's getting nectar from a flower. Whoop. Oh, boy. He said this.

Hey, when Al comes back, he's going to be after you, John David. That's right, buddy. He's after her name for it. And me. As long as I got you with you. He loves his vest, and hey, I'm bad on his vest, boys.

Oh, man. That vest is about to pop three buttons. He so. He so. He so. He just gains a little bit everywhere. He just, whoo. He looked like he pulled a strap on a life jacket.

That's what it looks like. He looks just like it. I'm here, too. I said it's that best holding it all in, so it goes elsewhere. Lordy B. We're all good friends here, everybody. Yeah. Al, you know that's love from the kids.

I've never done it, pot. podcast with Al. I have. He's a hoot. I kind of want to. He's a hoot. He's a pro. He's a pro.

He's way better to host and deal than I am. Hey, I don't know. He good. Literally, I don't know. I've never. He sat in your seat last time he was here. But yeah, I was in the hospital, though. Yeah.

Well, yeah, but, you know. I didn't watch it. We knew you'd get out. It was a beginning of his weight loss play. It's where Johnny did got started. But let's take our last break. We'll be back right at. Whoa.

Good. Here we are. We're back in our favorite segment. Oh! Hello at duck callroom.com. Look, I do have one thing I got texted about during the middle of us. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

That is not good news. Uh-oh. But apparently, apparently, apparently, our thoughts and prayers are with this community in North Carolina. Apparently these eight duck hunters went duck hunting this past weekend for the last weekend out there. And on their way back, their plane crashed. and four of the travelers on the plane were high school young men. So they've suspended the search for the rest of it. Communities really reeling right now.

So the fine folks, I just want to make sure I get this town right before. It's in Hyde County and they were headed back to Beaufort, North Carolina. So to the folks of Beaufort, your community, us duck hunters are all one small community in the grand scheme of things. Know that our thoughts and prayers are with you guys. And man, those folks are most likely reaping their eternal reward right now. So, you know, why it's sad. Lose all that at one time.

You know, there is a hope. There is a hope for eternity. And that hope is Jesus. But anyway, so the folks, North Carolina, our thoughts and prayers are with you. And if we can ever do anything for you guys, let us know for sure. Jody D. What's in that inbox? Hello at duck callroom.com is the email address.

All right. Let's just stay heavy then. Because I had a silly one, but I don't even want to follow that with something silly. We'll wrap up with a good laugh. I got a good laugh coming. Hey, Brian from New Jersey. What's up, B? How's it going?

He's a question. He's expected his first child in less than two weeks. Good for him. They were born and raised Roman Catholic. You're going to have a child Christian. I'm not a believer. I'm not a non-believer, not a non-believer, but not active in the church. My problem is that religion is just something that doesn't interest me.

I went to church every Sunday's a kid, all that stuff, but I'm not, I'm just not interested anymore. What would you recommend I do to respark my faith and not be so bored with it? Well, I would say, you know, faith comes through hearing the message. The only way for you to build your faith is to learn more about the message of the Creator, the Christ, and what he's done for you, you know, and realize what's going on the big picture. You know, because without Christ, it's a, let's say, lonesome and, a scary place i don't know what he thinks i well i'd tell you go to the bible and and read matthew mark luke and john and number one find out who jesus is what he's done in the past what he'll do

presently and what he'll do in the future and then you know i think you'll you'll look at it different most people with their religion okay and this is just my opinion their religion is Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday night that's being generous by the that's just

a couple hours of your time a week okay God's religion what he really wants is a relationship with you on a hour a minute, minute by minute relationship. Okay, because mine is from the time I go to bed

to the time I get up. Okay, and all during the week, seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Okay. Is that me and him, we talk. Okay, I actually talk to him on a daily basis. Okay, one way is I read what he's, he sent you a love letter, 66 books of it. Okay. So, you know, and he's telling you what he wants for you.

You know? So that's what I would tell you, okay. Read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, find out who Jesus is, what he's done, okay, what he will do, and what he will do in the future. Yeah. Okay, and I think that will re-energize you, like re-charging a battery.

That'll re-energize you. and to finding out what's true religion, okay, in God's eyes. And you know, Sia, sometimes it's easy, like when I was living in the world, I knew I needed something. I knew I needed. There was a void. Yeah, I was a void, a huge void where I couldn't wait to hear something that would rescue me, and I did.

But if you're not in that situation, you know, then maybe you just need to figure out what. what you're needing and if you are needing and. Because you said it yourself, okay, you're bored, you're missing something. Okay, in my, in my humble opinion, okay, what you're missing is a relationship with Jesus, the Savior and Creator of the universe. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, to add to that, I would just say whatever you've been doing to this point,

forget that. Try something different. Try a different sign on the building. try a different, go to the place where there ain't no sign, go to a place where it just says church, go. Find a new flavor. Yeah, I mean, try something. I get bored with vanilla.

Like, go get some peanut butter. Like, I mean, you know, to put it in a, you know, just to put it in a simple term, like, just go try something different. Odds are you'll find a place where you can grow, but I think it does all go back to size main point, which is what you're, what you are missing is the actual relationship. odds are you know the books.

You know what they say. You can probably quote a bunch of them. You know where you can open the Bible and find it. But none of that makes a hill of beans if you don't have the actual relationship with Jesus and with God. And I mean, that could come from, you know, there's probably a lot of stuff in there to unpack. But I would just say start with a different flavor. Go to a new place. Fresh start.

Like I told my buddy when he was going through some tough time, go somewhere. knows your name. Don't go where it's comfortable. Go somewhere where nobody knows you. What is your name? Josh, from Wisconsin. Wisconsin. Don't make good cheese.

Yeah, but it's really cold. So he's just, he's bored. So he's going to get married. No, that's not the truth. Okay, to begin, he's been dating his girlfriend for the last six months. She's the love of his life. They've grown close.

They were thinking years away, maybe they get married, but you know what? They're digging each other. They have strong affection for one another. They're thinking about go ahead time that not. First question is six months too early? That's hard to answer. I don't know how old you are. Yeah, I don't know how old you are. If you're 16, yes. Yes. You're 20 something? Probably still yes. However, I wasn't six months. I mean, I was, we dated for like a year.

You just got to make sure you're getting married for the right reason. Right. When you know you're You got to make sure that it's love and not lust. And you got to make sure that what you're trying to escape it and just, hey, you know, the good book says we can now because we're married. Because you know what happens then? Two years later, you send back an email that says, the love of my life left me. So just make sure you're doing this thing for the right reason. Like, don't get it confused.

Don't get the, don't get love confused with lust because I think a lot of people do in this world. And then it all falls apart because they didn't build it on any, they built it on sand. instead of a rock. So, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, you know, figure out what that foundation is. And six months in this world does seem a little quick. But, I mean, I know people that have done it for less and are 25 years down the road and are still do it.

So to put a time on it, I don't think there is a time. You can put it. I don't think there's a, you have to do this for a year. You have to do this for, no, that doesn't matter. No, don't. Just make sure that it's the right reason and the foundation that you have is solid and everything else will take care of itself. Good answer.

Martin's got good advice there, okay? If you ask the question, is it too soon or is there a time frame in it? The answer to the time frame is no. But since you ask the question, you need to answer your own question. Am I ready to give this? Because, hey, this is not for a time frame. This is from death. till death do us part.

And this sucker ain't 50-50. Yeah. That sucker is one hindi, one hindi. Trust me. You've both got to be committed to this so far to work. Yeah, let us know what you decide. But I do have a little trepidation

since you're asking us. Yeah. I do. That's a valid. I do. That's valid. Because if you know, then why do you need reassurance from us?

That's the only thing. Like, look, I love people for the most part. I was about to say, huh? But when I make a decision, I'll consult them before I make my said decision a little bit if they have experience in that area. But when I make it, I don't tell nobody. I make it, let's roll. Like, you know, there is no hesitancy.

And maybe that's what he's doing is vetting us and vetting other people before he makes that decision. But, hey, look, I tell you right now, I was nervous up until I got done saying the vows, Jack. When she come walking down that aisle, I said, really? am I doing this? Am I doing this? I'm just looking. I'm like, oh boy. Oh boy.

And I'm looking and I'm like, there ain't nowhere to go now. So I'm in. Like this is it right here. That's so funny. Right, right. But until her hand was in mind, I was thinking, there's still time. I mean, I was just scared to death because I knew with what I was about to say, wasn't just a commitment to her.

It was a commitment to God Almighty to do everything I could to get that woman with me to heaven and whatever family we bring with us. That's why. That commitment is, it's scary. Yeah. You know. Because I was the same way. Our same way.

Scared to death. Wait a minute. I can still get out of this. Yeah. We ain't, we ain't done yet. I can still run. Yeah. I mean, I knew she'd catch me because obviously I'm not very fleet of foot and she is.

She got them long way. I ain't even going to make it out the yard. You know. The doubt, my man, is a. That's a good thing. It's a healthy thing. It's a human thing. We're all fighting time.

Right. Time always wins. But in this case, time is your friend. Yeah, time's your friend. There's nothing that's going to happen. Amen. If you say, you know what, let's give it a few more months. Nothing bad can happen from that.

Yeah. Just make sure you're on the same page and make sure there's open communication. Oh, yeah. Between you and her about where you're thinking. And I'd be honest with you, the best thing for you to do is go sit in front of somebody else that you're paying. Yeah. And just lay out everything. Absolutely.

Because the worst thing you can do is lay out some stuff about year seven. Yeah. Yeah. I love the commitment thing because it's a commitment, you and your wife, and then her commitment to you and y'all's commitment to God. As you grow closer in your marriage to him, you're going to grow closer together as well. Amen. It's a triangle.

It is. Good call. It is. You're trying to get to the point. You're trying to get to the point at the top. You start down there at the bottom. You need her, and then you try to get there. Way out here.

We're not going to go through geometry, but you get how that works. So, you know, no, it's a good thing, man. But there ain't no time on that deal. No time. You know when you know, and, you know, I hope. And hopefully she knows when she knows. Mark said it all. Okay, after you studied it all, okay, it's going to be your decision.

Yeah. Got to love it. And once you make the decision, and like I said, I went through, same thing Martin was describing. Scared to death. Yeah. Scared to death. It's a new experience.

Scared to death. She stepped out of that house and I looked up there. I said, uh-oh. I was boo-huh. So I guess I was scared. Oh, you scared to death? Yeah. What am I doing?

I was crying. I literally, I was like, when she got there, I was like, hold on. And I turned around and I was, all right, now we're good. Let's do this thing. I mean, it was like excitement, fear, paranoia, happy. Yeah. Every range of emotion. And they were playing that cold place on the

D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-T-D-T-T-T-T-T. And I was like, man, this is too intense. I'm telling you. I'm... Woo! I'm going to go home and make out with my wife now. Make out Monday. Whip the kids and then make out with the wife?

Did you make the right decision? Who, me? Yeah. Absolutely. I did. I just saw her. I'd vouch for him. Yeah.

But, I mean, I'm just here to... You got to make the decision, and then my man, you've got to stand behind it. In your life, there's two lifetime commitments. Yep. Yep. Jesus is Lord. Jesus is Lord and your significant other. I want to say one thing real quick, and we're kind of getting long-winded here.

Divorce doesn't end the relationship, by the way. It's still there. Yeah. You still, if you have a kid with them, forever. Some of Allison's grandparents aren't together, and I'm close with a few of them, but there's some weirdness there. For their great grandchildren, they deal with it. Yeah.

On Christmas, whenever it's... So, no matter what marriage, there's no end of a marriage. No, you just ain't living together no more. It's a relationship forever once you do it. No matter what, you know, the world tells you, oh, you can just, yeah, you get divorced and then find some... No, that person, you still had an intimate... The closest relationship you can have on this earth.

Mm-hmm. And you will forever be linked. to each other for all eternity no matter what well let's talk about eternity what oh here we go there we go sorry I got excited there um you know you were talking about the guys uh in North Carolina right amen um and because of my friend who made the website for us we did this Bible verse in episode five and we're going to do it again today because it's just something that we need to remember because earth sucks yep it's been great for me for a lot of it, but there's still tough times. It's been tough on a lot of people, but I got good news. Revelation 21,

3, and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, look, God's dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. Verse 4, he will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain for the old order of things has passed away. As new has came. Amen. Amen. Bye.

Bye, old order. Bye. That's it. Can't wait to tell it. We'll see y'all next time. And we don't see you next time. We'll see you in heaven, baby. Preach on there.