Duck Call Room - What You DIDN'T See on 'Duck Dynasty'

Episode Date: December 27, 2022

You asked, the boys answered — and revealed never-before-heard details. Godwin is brutally honest about his favorite thing about everyone — including how his love for John-David is tied directly to his Honey Hole discounts. Would Uncle Si survive a zombie apocalypse? Martin and Godwin share funny stories about their favorite unaired "Duck Dynasty" moments. Martin finally reveals why he calls people "Hammer." And what if he hadn't worked at Duck Commander? Finally, a fan from Ireland asks what a Christmas Tree Cake is. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, ladies gentlemen, welcome back to the duck call room. Look, we asked you on our Instagram a couple. Welcome back. A couple of weeks ago to submit your questions. We haven't done a fan-only episode in a while. And today, that's what you got, because honestly, we're trying to pre-record for the holiday season

so that we don't have to work through the holidays. Amen. Amen. So there we go. We depended on you guys for the content of this one. Johnny D. has all of the questions. I hope you were kind to him, but without further ado, Johnny D, let's get into our fan questions.

If they weren't kind to me, Beth cut all those out. Oh, okay. Hey, say hey, Beth. Beth didn't want to say hey. But yeah, I got a ton of questions, and I'm just going to start going through all of them. It's almost like she's not here. Some very serious, some very lighthearted and silly.

All right, let's start with silly. What's our? favorite thing about each other. This is like a bonding therapy session. Really? That is from K. Kay? Okay.

Well, no, sorry. The thing I like about Johnny D is he works at a bait store, so I ain't got to pay full price for my bait. There you go, boy. Five. He's like a good woman. You can't hunt with him and can't hunt without him. That's it.

Martin's just like a big old teddy bear. You just love it to hug him. I like the son, God, never had but we also best friend huh you y'all hug a lot we hug a lot we tell each other we love each other about every time we on the phone with each other right oh hey what's wrong with that no i mean these these two men right here for sure been a huge impact on my life i i like them because and i love them for this actually because everybody knows what we stand for right but ain't neither one of them when i worked with them try to beat me over the head with the bible

they just lived it and made me curious about what they were living. And for that, I am forever grateful. And they still do the same thing to the day. Like, I know right now I call John Gobbin at 1 a.m. in the morning. He may not answer, but he's going to call me back pretty quick. He'll call you back. And whatever I need, he's in. It doesn't matter what it is.

Like if I'm like, hey, I'm in a ditch, I'm stuck. He's coming. First thing I say, did you get out? No. All right, I'm on my way. Like, same thing with size. So I'm going to make a couple calls and make sure that that happens if he'll answer, if he don't hang up on me.

Now, that's a 50-50 chance anymore. He's got too many telemarketers calling him now. But I found persistence is key. You just keep calling. Eventually. Eventually, say, wait a minute, hold it. You got to let it. I can't hear.

You're going to let it. Something about that number is familiar, better answer. And Johnny D. crap. I mean, we shared a wall for seven, eight years. I mean, we've heard everybody's, we've heard each other's best and worst conversations with partners, our wives, our family. It doesn't matter. We've heard it all. We're like, ooh, that sucks. We've walked into each other's office and said, oh. You're good?

You'll have a fun night tonight? You're all right? What'd you do this morning, man? You're all right? Talked it out. Yeah, Johnny Dee. Johnny Dee's walked in there and say, hey, you want to come over and play PlayStation eat pizza tonight? Like, absolutely, you know what I do? I do. I do. I'm kidding. coming, I'm coming to your garage. That's what we're doing. The whole days of the garage. You know, it is, I mean, we're at a very fortunate place that we work, even though JID didn't hear anymore, but we truly are a family around here. Like, we take care of each other, and it's cool to not be coworkers, but to be friends, be brothers, be sisters in Christ and all that. So, blood can through Jesus. Amen to that. So, which is, you know, another quality to admire.

I want to know what Si likes about Gobwin. I'm interested. He's like me. He's always good for a good laugh. I'm serious. He's serious, y'all. Hey.

You know? Look, there's not enough laughter. Amen. You know, laughter covers a multitude of sin. Void on it. Oh, I'm telling you. That's what the only thing has kept me and my wife together. There's laughter.

She'd have left you years ago, but every time she wanted to, she started laughing. And low-key, Christine's way funnier than anybody gives her credit for being, too. Tacos. She's a dry wit. Well, that's the osmosis. She's being around me. Yeah. She catches it from me, so, hey, it works out, though.

Oh, I love it. I know what side likes about me. I ain't worried about it. I'm a chauffeur. He's like a big brother. A big... A big brother. A big brother.

A goblin's son. and sigh's big brother yeah you're an ageless wonder martin i'll tote sye anywhere and he knows it and you like you like a first cousin you're a family somebody somebody you can beat the tar out of instead of love him yeah and he'll still love me hey that's one thing about life is you got to know where you're at i like being a first cousin of sye my goodness that's funny that is good i'm size big brother think about that i guess it's just because i'm big i'm sigh's first cousin it's because he picks on me but he still loves it. You know what that means?

But he's not sure why. But you know what I just heard? We're both in the will. Yeah, boy. Woo, whoa. It's called the Duck Call Room podcast because nobody'd listen if he wasn't with us. Ain't that the truth. Oh, man.

I know I wouldn't. No, I'm kidding. I digress. Yeah. All right. We got what's... I keep going. Yeah, let's keep rolling.

I really like this one. All right. And these are from Instagram, so I don't have your... Wait a minute, you didn't, ain't you? Oh. Well, I like you because you spend a lot of money on fishing bait. That makes my will higher. And you think you're saving money so we both win.

We both win. When somebody fish as much as God when you can give them a discount and you still coming out all right. Yeah. You're playing the law of averages. No, I think it's the thing with all of it. We're all friends and I know when I come in here, I'm going to laugh. And I know when I worked here, it was like, oh, got to go to work today.

At least I'm going to laugh and have fun while I do it because life's too short. And I think that's what, that's the legacy sigh left on this place. Like, you can go to work every day. And shockingly enough, you can have a good time. Yeah, you can not hate your job. Yeah.

And it exists. The opportunity for that exists. And there's going to be some stuff. Like, I don't think Sai was necessarily just loving, punching reeds all day for a long time. Yeah. But he did it with a smile on his face. And then he had a,

fun time whenever the opportunity arose to cut up and have fun well in fairness he only did it four or five hours a day he got at least three hours a nap in here's the thing nobody else could do hey i didn't have but one job as well to make sure that jason gowwin and all of y'all had reads to put in the duck hall and we never didn't have that's right y'all never did i have to say hey look we're out of reed job well done and if we did we'd never do we'd never have to be we never said anything we just went and made them ourselves. That's right. That's right.

Because he had them pre-cut. He had the hard part done. Actually, the hardest part was cutting them, knowing which way that plastic was bent. That was the hardest part. And if Si did his job on marking that and cutting them, anybody could sit there and make them after that. But the hardest part was actually looking at that piece of plastic

and determining which way it was bent. And we've had several try it since, and wouldn't none of them as consistent as that meant? No, no, because I actually brought consistency, okay, to the reed system. Yeah. Okay, and then stone up me one by go ahead and bring it into the 20th century. Even the 21st, so, man. Oh, he only first.

He automated it, okay, where it was just, then all you had to do, the reeds were cut, they were put together, and they were right, they were the right length. You didn't have to trim them. So he upgraded it where it was just how you put him in there And you really didn't even have to blow him See that's what I love about these questions You never think we get talk about making reads But here we are

We can meander with the best It's what I think about what I think about What I think about boy that job sounds kind of boring Oh it is And stop See? Trust me But he was a perfect tender

Look you there We got we messed around and got to the first break One question down 49 to got. We'll be back right out. I'll see what we can do. 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

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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, go check out Triedails 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. I got another good one that it pertains to all of us, and we have to rank ourselves. And what? 1, 2, 3, 4. Of what?

Of who would be the last one standing in the zombie apocalypse? That'd be me. You're going to make it the longest. Guy one's done right. He's saying he's going to be the one last man standing. You're not running is not going to be your strong suit. I'm going to give sigh. Running.

I ain't going to run. I'm going to say sigh is the last one standing because they're going to look at him and think he is one. I was going to go with the decoy technique. You're going to get punished. You may be right there. I was just going to say there, eh. I can fool them, J.D.

I can fool him there on one of them. Yeah. They're going to say, ain't no way he's human. I retract my prediction. Yeah. So. That's a good point. He retracted more.

And then I think me, you and Gobbin, all get snuffed out at the same time. So they probably catch us at a buffet somewhere. And we're just like, Gobwin's at this point like, well, the apocalypse's coming. Let's go eat. He's giving up on the incredible shrinking man. And then we just get guy while eating TSO chicken somewhere.

No. And rice. Plenty of rice. Y'all are at Johnny's pizza house. There you go. Galwyn said Apocalypse is here, boys. Johnny's on Warren buffet lunch. There we go.

And if they're smart, they'll let us get done and walk out the door because then you can't move. I mean, you feel like the Michelin man. I don't think I have any ability. to survive the zombie apocalypse except for I have an uncanny ability to be the man beside the man in charge. Well, yeah. So I feel like I would identify like a stone

and be like, yes, sir, what do you need me to do? How can I help you? How can I help you, sir? And that's my only chance of surviving. If I'm by myself, me, done. Eventually, what kills zombies? I don't even know, the bullets work? You got a shit.

In the head. Bullets in the head. We'll see. Yeah. I'm good for like 11,000. of them right now apparently yeah i can head shoot with the best of them yeah but problem is i'm eventually going to run out of bullets now you're going to have an endless supply of bullets why's that well it's just a fig fiction email so we got a big tish and there's some amount of bullet and i just

became a way better shot too yeah i pah pal pal i still say sire outlast us all because they think yeah i like that that's my real prediction I think you're right. All right. What else he got? All right. This one from M.G. Or maybe a Q.

I don't know. What is your go-to chick-fil-A order? I think that's an important question that the whole world needs to hear. Oh. For everybody? Yeah. Oh, well, I don't order from there no more. But what was it in the day?

I did get a grilled chicken. That deluxe. That thing's good. That's spicy. That's what I have. That's what I have for dinner. Yeah. The grilled spice, I don't forget the Chick-fil-A sauce.

I wasn't ready for it. That's like a good. Hey, when I bid it, it bid me back. Yeah, that cilantro, lime, whatever it is. That thing is good. Like, when that's available, that's my go-to with extra pickles. I love pickles. Oh, yeah.

No, no pickles. Oh, no. Yeah, he's right. I'm off to pick. A large fry and a large unsweet tea. Yep. That's what. But if they don't have that, then I just get the spicy chicken sandwich.

with extra pickles. Oh, I could eat a pie. A spicy chicken sandwich, large fry, large Coke zero. That's what I have for lunch today. It probably will have tomorrow. Yeah. That's how we roll. Spicy, everything.

Everything's spicy. I could eat a five gallon bucket of it right now. What's that? All live above. All of it's all of it. He said, just give me one of everything. Well, then pay no attention to that case of Christmas tree cakes on the back seat of my truck. It's the Lord's...

Your wife's calling. It's the Lord's chicken. It's going to hide the way. All right, here's one. J.D. Owen seven emailed him. why does the United States rule at soccer? Well, buddy, they don't, so I'm sorry. I emailed in to their own thing.

That was dumb. I just happened to run across that. All right, question specifically for Godwin. Oh, here we go. From, y'all need to put y'all's names on Instagram. I have a question for Godwin. What's your favorite book of the Bible and why? The favorite book.

I guess Luke, which does attribute to Luke and the Axe. is because Luke is writing it to his friend Theophilus, and it kind of just makes it, you know, better. I mean, I don't know, it's just touches me so much. Like it's, it's, hey, I can appreciate it. Like it's real book. I mean, it is a real book, but it just. Personal letter.

Yeah, personal letter. Because he wants his buddy to know about it. Yeah, he's, he's, imploring his friend like hey bro remember what i told you i went ahead wrote it down yeah this is what we're saying my bro theophilus yeah so let's we can all answer this well that's a hard one to do but i just i guess i would go with acts acts of the apostles and all the stuff they went to and and the main thing i get out of it is is is the urgency about you know you know hearing the message and then obeying it.

Yeah. Because the acts, they didn't fool around. Paul and Silas was in the jailhouse, you know, and the Lord shook the doors, opened everything, and the guy was fixing to kill himself, the guard. And he said, hey, don't harm yourself. Everybody's still here. We're right.

So it was just, but that's a hard one to say because there's so many other ones that, the information is there throughout the whole Bible. Hebrews. I like Hebrews. I love the book of James. I like Philippians. I like a lot of those smaller books.

Colossians. Yeah, I like a lot of those smaller ones. He likes a quick read. Well, it's not even that. I think a lot of those, and not that the whole Bible is not transferable to today, but I think a lot of those smaller books just show you that they were dealing with a lot of the same things then that we are now. Well, there's nothing, the Bible says it.

I'm an Ephesian. There's nothing new. Love it, Galatians, all of them. Yeah, there's nothing new under the sun. Well, it was Paul right. It's all been said and all been done. Yeah. Okay, yeah.

All those books were Paul writing to people who were like trying to figure things out, which is us. Yeah. And so you can really just be like, oh. Here's what he meant. And then I will say this. Lately I've been on this little Old Testament kick. What?

Yeah. And, you know. First Samuel. Well, I like all them. Israelites, you know, had it so good, then complain about when it just goes a little wrong. And it just reminds me of a certain country that I know and was born in. And like, it's like, oh, man, you didn't do enough for us. And then we get all mad and everything's not perfect anymore.

And then God shows up and puts quail through our noses. And you're like, why is it? Now I'm sick of this. Quail are way better to go in your mouth than your nose. Yeah, well, God went, God, the Lord said it's going to come out your nose. you'll be sick of it. Oh, man. So, hey, that's a great question.

Yeah. All right, we ready for another one? It did sound like, though, we went from the front to the back of it really quick. I mean, I'm just like, yeah, favorite book. Yeah, this, that, then you start thinking about parts of all of them. You're like, yeah. My favorite book of the Bible is the holy one. It's the Bible.

It's the Bible. It's the Bible. Read the whole thing. You'll find some crazy stuff in there, too. Yeah. All right. Here's an interesting one. What was your favorite moment?

from the Duck Dynasty days that never made it on TV. Oh, my pants ripping on the date episode. Your pants ripped on the... When they set up the fake dinner with me and Sai out there in the warehouse, they were having us sitting on like pallets of stuff. And for whatever, they had to sit me lower because I'm so tall. Oh, because you were going on a practice day. Yeah, I was going on practice date with Sai,

but they had to sit me lower because I'm so tall so that we're on like the same eye line. and when I went to sit down, like, my pants just went and ripped from my crotch to my ankle. And I was like, that's a bad deal. But, you know, I was like, hey, I'll wear it. I forgot all about that. That's a funny episode, too.

Nobody knew. Hey, calm down over there, Tiffany. Oh, Tiffany. Yeah, but it did. I mean, my breeches ripped from my crotch all the way to my ankle just from sitting on a pallet. Of course, we're under a lot more pressure then than they are now. But about 40 pounds more pressure.

Guywin, you got anything? I don't recollect nothing that didn't make it. All my stuff was good. Oh, we had the... Hey, there you go, boy. We had the one full episode that didn't make it. There is a lost episode. Is that even on DVD anywhere?

Not that I'm aware of. I had one scene that I was in that just... When Willie was trying to make the new sandwich, and I was like, use jalapinas. He said, no, they're too hot. And I was like... And so I just started shoving jalapinos in my mouth to prove a point and it got uncomfortable and then everybody's just dying laughing i was like that's probably

pretty funny tv never seen it never heard from it no i don't know what happened just me eating halapinia so i didn't watch the show yeah he wouldn't know what made it and what didn't so he said i don't sound like that you kids ever heard a nom if that well that was the funniest one of jay said i can't believe that you said all that stuff and from them kids you all and i said jay Bingle Tiger. I said, I said, Jason,

I will have a green screen behind me about 90% of the time. That's not. Tell them. That's telling the secrets, though. I've seen Martin O'Barre winch. Hey,

I don't care. We've been paid. Those kids were in there. That part was for sure. Well, our next question was, is Duck Dynasty's fully stage? Not fully.

Not fully. No. it was a green screen. If I was in it, it wasn't nothing staged. Yeah. Couldn't nobody write for Si. No. Oh, man.

Well, let's take another break. We'll be back right after this. We're back. Johnny D. Let's fire some more questions. What else did the folks of the Graham want to know? Martin. What?

Why do you? Mike has to ask you, why do you call people Hammer? And what does it mean? You know, I'm not real sure. I know where it started. It started from back when my dad was at the paper mill A lot of them

Those folks out there at the paper mill Gobwin can probably attest to this Had nicknames for each other And somehow I ended up with all of his buddies Them calling me Hammerhead So eventually I shorten it to hammer And then also there's a fisherman That is a good buddy of mine, Terry Scroggins

They call him Big Show and he calls everybody hammer. It's all hammer. All hammer. We don't found them crapies over at now, Hammer. And, uh,

yes, I don't know if he got it from a meal deal or if he just started calling everybody hammer. I don't, I don't really know, but generally in my mind, it's short for hammerhead. It generally is used not necessarily as a term of endearment.

Generally like, wait, you call me that all the time. Only when you say some weird stuff. I'll call you hammer. If you'll ever notice when I call you that, it's generally because you just said something like, I don't know about that hammer.

But, you know, it's just that kind of deal. But, yeah, them meal hands were wild, man. Everybody worked out there. Wouldn't they go on? They were. Do you have a nickname out there? The flying flea. Oh, they had, man, all them maintenance boys had nicknames for everybody.

It was. But that's who I grew up duck hunting with. Well, I might have had, but they ain't. They never said it to your face. I didn't know about it. They're worried about you. I see, they're scared of it. But that's, that's, that's, that's, that's kind of the story on Hammer.

All right. That's kind of the story on Hammer, hammer, hammer. All right, well, Big Gee also has a question for all of us. Big Gee. Big Gee. Big G ask, where would you be without Duck Commander today? Bump, pump, boom. Probably in rehab.

I see, yeah. I, I'd say, I'd, say, I'd, I'd, say, I'd, say I'd probably be homeless. I mean, I ain't no doubt. I was headed down a road. I don't know where I'd be prison, rehab, dirt. I'd probably be homeless. You think you'd be homeless?

Yeah. I'd be working at graphic packaging. Yeah. Running an old printing press. Stamping out beer cartons. I'd probably be telling people how to run them by now. Your hearing would be shot, though. It'd be gone.

by now. Yeah. That's what I meant. My dad probably would have fired me by now if I would have went straight there. Yeah, I may be working for your dad at this point. Yeah, you'd be back at Super 1 just stacking apples. The problem, or the good thing for your dad is, though, like, he wouldn't have to pay me. We'd just have to settle up at the end of the week.

I probably wouldn't be throwing jackhammer. I'd be on that original chatter bait. fierce. On that $5 version instead of that $20 version. Collecting lead and pouring them. Yeah. I'd be stealing roofing jacks off people's houses to make jighead. Yeah.

Not that I've done that before. Yes, he had. I didn't steal them. They were in a pile. They were in a pile. They were on the ground. Yeah, they just got through putting on the new roof. I asked them if I had them.

Works good, though. It's good lead for jighead. That's funny. There you go. But, yeah, who... I mean, who... I mean, who... I mean, who...

I mean, I legitimately don't know. I don't know what I'd be doing or where I'd be. It's been a, we were all, I mean, I was here the shortest time, and that was the decade. I mean, I looked at something this morning from Facebook, um, and that little memories deal, and it popped up as like a picture that I took of me, Cy and Gobbin that said 13 years ago. So I've been here 14 years. I'm 37.

We're crowding 50% of my life. life has been spent here at this point. And it's like, yeah, I mean, so to ask where I would, I have no clue. Like, I know this, I was lost when I got here. Yeah. In every which way imaginable. Lost. So.

And size's been here for 30? 30ish, yeah, 32. 301, 31, 32. Guy. I was been here for 20, 22. I bet. Well, I work hard. Time in 99.

I started working in part time. 23 years. I've been here longer than I was at Riverwood. Godwin experienced lots of K here. 21. Yeah, Gowlin was worried if our shipping computers were going to make it overnight.

I was going to get the orders out the next day. That was wild, man. What was it going to do when it rolls to double zero? Just keep going. So it's hard to say where we would be because we were all here so long. Yeah. And really, it kind of key parts of our lives, too.

Like not during the boring stages. I mean, yeah, so it's kind of a, yeah, man, God is good. That's what I say about that. Amen. All right. Ready for a weird one or a tough one? Or actually, it's kind of easy. Oh, boy.

It's all of them. Oh, that went from weird, tough, easy. Well, it's just like. Is that what you call it? Yes, I love the Waffle House. Is that the question? No, that's not weird or tough. That's easy.

Over easy. Thank you. Mark, what is y'all's best advice? Who's Mark? He's the one that asked the question. Mark, we're asking you. No, we're giving you the advice, Mark. What is y'all's best advice for a high school boy?

Best advice. Keep that thing in your pocket. If Phil Robertson were here, he would say, hey, keep that thing in your pocket, you won't have anything to worry about. Later on. 100% and that was the first thing I thought whenever you read that question, which is why about choked over here when you actually said it. Keep that thing.

That's the number one advice. That's from Phil, not us. I remember you're in high school, man. One of the greatest times of your life. You got a few responsibilities starting to kick in, but overall you got a roof over your head. Your bills are minimal. You got a lot of built-in freedom because you're probably driving. So take advantage of it.

Because trust me, those days are numbered, my friend. Numbered days. So? Well, I was sitting here trying to think of that, you know. And that's a tough one to tell someone young. Yeah. But I wish someone would have told me, you know, think more about what you're going to do when you grow up.

Yeah. Yeah. Because in high school you ain't there yet. Because, you know, scatterbrain ain't the word, okay? No, because, no. Would you go back to high school? I would go back to middle school. Younger?

Yeah, to middle school. Even less responsibility. Oh, yeah. So I was just shaking off all responsibilities, son. Get out of here, so. I was thinking third grade. Let's start over. Wait, when did we have them snacks in class?

Yeah, let's go back to the end. I just remember that girl from New Mexico showed up in the third grade. It's a good year. Well, see, that was my problem. Show him glad Allison don't listen to this because you've held on to that one for a while. What? Oh, no. She was gone a couple years later.

I just remember her. Good year. Third grade, you don't even know. Never mind. Exactly. I'm sorry. No, I think the most important thing for a high school boy to remember besides Phil's advice, That might be the most number one advice.

Yeah, that's a good one. That's solid. I wish I would have. Girls, seriously, don't take anything too seriously because you're dumb. Yeah. And you think you're smart. And you might think you have it all figured out, but you don't. But trust me, that head is still fully submerged in between them cheeks.

You ain't come nowhere near close to pulling it out of there. And you might think you have your whole life planned out, but you don't. And so it goes back to what Martin said. Have fun. Enjoy it. Just enjoy it while you can because. Remember you're in high school. Get a job.

Start learning responsibilities, but don't get so caught up in those responsibilities that you forget you're a kid, man, because you're still a kid. Enjoy it. Live it. Because life is coming. And learn while you're there. Yeah, learn. Enjoy it.

Make mistakes. Make mistakes. Make mistakes. Make friends. Like, find you some friends. Find you some lifelong friends. I've still got several from high school. I do too.

Yeah. So, I mean, there'll be a lot of those people around you will be with you for the rest of your life. That's why I tell people all the time when I'm out speaking, you know, especially the young people, that, hey, this is to me, it's just my opinion, the best time in your life. Because look around you and all the people that you know, they're going to be with you for, like, if you're in the second grade, they're going to be with you 10 more years. Yeah. Up to high school. They're from New Mexico. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And just, you know, I don't even know what happened to it. She did it Matthew Dobbs for a while. But no, you're right, yeah, because you forge those relationships. And it's actually like where you start to learn how to build relationships. And it's a cool time in your life. It's really, but I think that's one of them deals like people ask you all the time. Go back to the glory days. And I feel like every day that we're in,

are the glory days. I just feel like... I feel like I'm in the good old days right now. That's what I'm saying. But I think if you asked me in 10 years, I'm going to say, yeah, we're in the good old days right now. Like,

I think it just stays with you in your stage of life is what changes. Like, and you enjoy a different thing. Your outlook on life, everything in your life means something different. Like at 16, whatever that was, my only concern,

we're not going to go into all of them. I had a few of them, but like one of them, Well, one of the things that consumed me was seeing just how many ducks I could kill. Like, at 16, 17, I had, my eyes were red, son. I had to kill them. Like, in the morning and evening. Like, I mean, I'm talking about I had to be after.

Oh, yeah. These days, I can look out there, like, ooh, clouds, no wind, no thank you. Hello, Brittany. Would you like some breakfast? Like, I mean, but that, and I would consider right now a, section of good old days in my life just like I can look back on those and say man that was a lot of fun and so I think it just wherever you're at in life that that outlook changes and so does the definition of good old days so but it's like kind of like food you change you know you begin to

try and enjoy other things and that's that's the relationships built except for balsamic yeah it's you know it's always changing never never the same same. Stay away from that vinegar. Yeah. My wife ordered that on the south of the day and I thought of you as it gross. Ugh, so bad. All right, let's take another break. We'll be back right after you.

You ready for another one, Martin? I am. I'm ready. Who wants a Martin fatherhood specific, make them judge both of his kids' question? Yeah. I do. Y'all people really need to get bathsmith underscore something, something, something. Which of Martin's sons

would play the baby Jesus and the church nativity play this year. Either one of them. Either one of them. Brittany ain't going to let them out of her sight. Well, Brittany can be married. They're both bad. Like, no, ain't none of them worthy of being holy.

Are you kidding? Could either of them sit there for, let's say, 20 minutes? I would have said up until now, yet Jackson could no doubt do it. But like the last three days, My man is just, he is like the exact opposite of the kid he used to be. He used to just lay there, leave him still about 10 minutes. He's asleep.

He's now on Team no sleep during the day. Team no sleep. And just, you know. Sleep when we're dead. And eat everything that you will throw in front of him, which hasn't really changed. But now he gets this deal where he only like craps once a day. And so by like the whole time he's getting fussyer and fussyer because his belly hurts. And like we're trying all the things like the bicycle kicks, probiotics, which are very expensive.

Probiotics for babies are unbelievable. But gas drops, you name it. We're trying it all. But he's just like, no, I'm a one time of day or. And I'm like, bro, I'm wondering if you're my child now. I can sit my watch by mine. Is it in the morning after he gets up? It changes every day.

But it's only once. That's why I go. Me too. Yes, very quickly. After my coffee. Yeah, very quickly. I get to walking around a little bit. Doing whatever I'm going to do.

But Whalen, yeah, I mean, if you wanted an interactive baby Jesus, then Whalen's your guy because his eyes are wide open all the time, and he don't miss much, and he'll stare right into your soul. So, like, I mean, but. Whalen would be him. Yep. Wayland would be him. All right.

There's your answer. On the world of Wayland, Jackson, and Martin. And Brittany. And Brittany. All right, we got a question from Ireland. Irish. Guy one, you might want to take your headphones off for this one. Uh-oh.

Uh-oh. Why is that? Because we got to talk about Christmas tree cakes, baby. What in the world is a Christmas tree cake? We don't have them in Ireland. You need to roll, buddy. I got to be honest. I'm not one for relocating, but you might need to think about it.

Hey, but don't fret. We ain't got leprechauns. Oh, shit. All right, there you go. And we don't have a football. team named after us. So, like, the fighting Irish? Oh, they're the Patriots.

Huh? Yeah, whatever. Whatever. So a Christmas tree cake, Martin, do you want to give them a rundown? I got a case of them in my truck. If you want me to get them. That's why I didn't bring them in here. They're for everybody, but I didn't want to tempt you.

Imagine if you were to order the greatest wedding cake in the history of man for your wedding. Individually pack it. Put it individually pack it where you could almost. fit the whole thing in your mouth and covered it in green sugar sparkles and just wonderfulness.

Wonderfulness. And it's only available for like two months a year. It's kind of like the McRib. It's white cake with thick frost. Right smack in the middle. I'm going to eat one today. I'm going to grab a cake. A box from you. They're for everybody. There may be a few boxes. In the shape of a Christmas tree. Yeah, that's

the important part of it. Yeah. Because like you think, you look at it and you're like, man, it's just a zebra cake, but it's not. No. It's really not. It's really not. Zebra cakes are garbage. Yeah.

That's not true. Okay. All right. Amy asked, what did we get our wives for Christmas? Twins. Ah. I like it. I like it.

I like it. What did you get your wife for Christmas? Twins. Okay. A remodeled house. Oh, yeah. You're all on budget this year, huh? Yeah.

Well, we're just like, hey, if you want to get something, get it for the kids, please let it be diapers, wipes, or whatever, formula. I will find out Christmas Eve while I got my wife. Who's doing your shopping, Phillip? My wife, no, my wife. You just tell her to go have fun? Hey, I just tell her, hey, you go buy what you want on. Hey, on Black Friday for Amazon, I did get her one of those little small jump packs

for, like, jumping off your car. Oh. One of the tiny ones, because I've had her one of the big ones, like, that used to, that I got my toolbox, but I saw they had one of the tiny ones on for like $65 and I bought one for. So I already gave it to her, so I don't know if it counts for Christmas. It counts.

So my wife's birthday is December 7th. Our anniversary is December 18th. And then there's Christmas. So I just buy stuff all this. So you're just hemorrhaging money. Yeah, no, I just, I buy stuff and then seventh comes. I pick some out, give it to her then. 18th comes.

But the other night, she was on her phone. She goes, man, I'm getting old. And I said, why? And she said, I said, why you said that? She goes, this car vacuum cleaner that's for sale looks really cool. I just bought it like the day before. Oh, you pre-bought? I bought it before she said it.

And then she found out she really wanted it. And I was like, she's never going to believe it. Well, I went ahead and told her I bought it. That way she would believe it. I said, you're never going to believe this. Look at the Amazon car. I already bought it. Okay, that's a good look.

You know, but I will say, so for our anniversary, and we've already said we're filming this a little ahead. For the anniversary, you got her vacuum cleaning? No. No, I kind of went. That's for Christmas? I kind of went, yeah. She got her house back for Canada.

I did buy her a vacuum cleaner for Christmas one time, and I thought it would be funny, and she kind of didn't like it, but then she really liked it. But, so for, this is a cool gift, and I was a little nervous. So I haven't given it to her yet. We're filming ahead of time. So nobody's say anything if you're in the room. But I found this website, and I got her a necklace from Israel, because my wife's a big Bible studier, and it has the entire Bible engraved on this.

tiny little thing, like some fancy Israeli technology. And you can only see it through a microscope. And I'm like, oh, she's going to dig that. And then I was all nervous because I thought it would just, you know, ship from America and like be insured and stuff. So I had eight days of sweating about a necklace in the mail. It went to Germany, then it went to Cincinnati. So I got it.

Do you have a microscope? I don't have a microscope. So we can't read it. You can't even prove that it's not just a gold chain. You know, I... It's like buying... You can tell there's... stuff on it.

That tastes suspiciously many. You can tell. You can tell it's been engraved. You're like, wow, there's a lot of little bitty things on this tiny piece of... That's what I'd have said.

But I think she's going to like it. That's what I'm going with. As long as she doesn't have a microscope, I don't know what she's... I don't know. I don't know what it said. The only thing I'm nervous about is they said you had your choice

between King James and, like, it in Hebrew. And I was like, well, I can't really read King James, but I really can't read Hebrew. You can't read it anyway. We're going with King James. So, like, if she ever gets it and then gets a, like, heads up to ULM and gets a microscope and then looks at it. It's going to say doth, hath. But what if it's in Hebrew and I click the wrong one.

You know what it's going to say? Got him. God, name. No, these are good people. I'll let you know if I ever get a microscope. Carter probably has one. Yeah, science. All right, well, let's take our last break.

Wait, what's going to get? Time out. Got one, what's you got? What's you getting, Miss Paula? A deer feeder. A deer feeder. Son, you're winning. You're at the stage of life.

You're winning at Christmas presents. All Miss Paula care about deer hunting. Last year, you got her trail camera. I know, because you asked me what you want to get her. I got them, too. He got them. Man. Yeah.

And some muck, booke. Wow. Yeah, but hey, that's enjoyable. That's good. Hey, if that's what she wanted, little cheese, you know. No, no. Not the boot.

A little shorties. Yeah. That's cool. Well, there you go. All right. Let's take our last break. We'll be back right after this. We're back, and I got tons more questions.

Man, we didn't get through hardly any of these. We may have to do another one of these. Art, do dare me. Maybe like, do another one later this week. So maybe look at Instagram if you're in the future and watching this and can go back in the past. Never mind. Anyway. once again weird Instagram name

it's not really a name but she said her little sister Tara listens to y'all's podcast religiously would you mind would you mind saying hi to Tara hi Tara hi Tara thanks for listening boom I hope you're watching one more question Merry Christmas Tara a couple days ago All right well knock that one out All right if you could only eat

One more one protein the rest of your life what would it be? Rabbi. Whether the handle on it? Got to have a handle. Fish. Channelloin. That stone cooks.

Chicken. Chicken? You can do anything with chicken. That's the same way I feel about fish. Yeah, that was a tough choice. I'm using one that's a lot of avenues to be. But see, does it have to be a certain type of fish? No, he just said what type of protein?

Oh, see, that kind of. could change my mind. I could have crappies, I could have tunas. See, now see, I was just thinking. Yeah. A lot of stuff I can do with him. Fish might be better than chicken in this scenario.

I can eat it raw. Oh, no. You don't like raw? You don't like raw fish? No, I don't like fishy. You ain't never eat tuna? Buddy. I don't like raw fish.

You can eat ribby raw. You wouldn't even think it was raw. That's what I'm saying. No. You wouldn't even think it was raw. I don't want to hear that. I would know it's right. raw. No, you wouldn't. You can look at it. It says it on the package in the gas

station. It says raw. Well, why are you buying your sushi? I'm just kidding. The only thing you buy at the gas station is then boiled eggs. You know, it's real good at gas station, chicken. I'm just saying, chicken rules. Boiled eggs and a meat witch. I've had them a couple of times. Oh, man, how good that? You got a gas station meat pie. Oh, my goodness. You got to cook it. That's why I took a tenderloat. It's light pink. What you're doing there, son? My ears fell off. He just broke his thing. Good grief.

And you could. I know food does. I went tenderloin because you can eat it with a spoon, boys. Ah. I think I'm going to go home and smoke a deer backstrap. Hey, that's what I'm talking about. After talking about this. That's it.

What else you got, Sean? I think we've done this one, but I think it's worth visiting again. Well, the second one, the second time we do, it'll be better. If you could live anywhere in the United States of America other than L.A., lady ain't never moving to Los Angeles. Is it L.A. Do you see what I did there? She meant here.

Where would we live? Arkansas. Arkansas. A lot of critters in Arkansas. That's a good one. Central Arkansas is a good one. You're close to a lot of stuff. I think I'd go west.

I'd go to Arkansas. You're going to west. I'd go west. I'd go westy. Problem with west. Man, it get cold out there. I ain't going to get cold. It depends on how far west you go.

Not in San Diego. No, you start climbing. that hill out there it gets cold man walter sent me a picture a day you know he just moved to idaho falls oh i know that's cold that in idaho yeah shooting shooting mallard ducks on a warm spring and everything around him was frozen oh yeah no way i was yeah yep but i don't i mean crap i don't know sundance wyom would be cool till wintertime got there yeah that's a neat area of the well i was thinking about all the critters and all waterfowl in texas yeah in texas Texas, yeah.

Because they got a bunch of games. They do. Big time. Texas does. Arkansas does. I think I pretty well live anywhere as long as it didn't get above like central Missouri. You can pretty much draw a line, straight line there. At that latitude, I ain't going to higher than that.

Like, that's it. It gets too cold. I'm a lizard. Hey, when it will freeze a cow standing up, no, that's too cold. Yeah. I'm a lizard. Give me some heat. I can deal with the heat.

I'm going to Florida. I like Florida. Make America Florida. They got two different oceans. Except they don't have enough credit down there. They got all the fish. Well, you got to put in the fish now. You've got to leave during the hurricane season.

You ain't got to. You'd be smart to. I got hit by two hurricanes right here west and row. No, we didn't get hit by what they get hit. above what they get hit with. No, that's true. But, hey, they built that sucker back up. They got it going on down there.

Make America, Florida. That's all I'm going to say. All right. Dingus 8,000. He's got a question. Do you think it's serious or silly? Silly. Wrong.

How do I know when I can be honest with my girlfriend and tell her I love her? Then he just says six months. I don't know if that means they've been dating for six months. I don't know if he's asking six months. But when can he be honest with his girlfriend and say I love you? I don't know because once you fire that shot, you can't put it back in the holster. You might get a thank you back.

Yeah. But you got to be, if you love her. Yeah. Just tell her. Tell her and hope for the best. Hope she does too. I don't understand that because, hey, you always got to be honest. Ding, ding, ding.

There you go. I think it's time, ding. I'm not saying don't be honest. I'm just saying be prepared for what may or may not happen after you fire that shot. That's a four-letter word that's a big one there that escalates things. When did you tell Brittany you loved her? Oh, it was probably, I don't remember, probably not a year, not quite a year. It was less than a year.

But, I mean, I let that one out. I was like, uh-oh, let's find out. Yeah, I mean, that's one of them. It'll let you know your status real quick. Like, is this worth pursuing or is she about to ghost me from here on out? She's about to ghost you. Yeah, is this, is this leaving? Galwyn, do you remember?

I don't remember. Cy, was it that night with the dragon? Pretty sure, I said it. Yeah. It took me 14 hours to convince her to marry me. Well, I would hope you'd said I loved her by then. On night one? No, that was the dragon.

No, he's talking about when the man. the marrying the engagement. Do you want to know? How quick? Three weeks? I mean, you're a hopeless romantic, so I'm cool with it. Less. Less than three weeks? Three hours. Two weeks. Two weeks from everywhere. Really? I went for it. And? She said it back. I don't know if she meant it. I don't know if I meant it. If I'm being honest, I was a child. We got married when we were like 12, 19, but she was 19. Oh yeah. Then we broke up.

That was later. Then we got back together. We were always meant to be. How quick did you say it when you got back together? Did you wait a minute? No, no, I think part of, no, the day. No, because I was mad. I was still mad. And I was like, hey girl, we got to talk. And I said, I don't know why we're not talking.

I like it. Hey, girl. I got to talk. We got to talk, girl. We were at a big gathering. and I said, hey, we got to talk outside. We happened to run in the same circle that day. And I was like, look, here's a deal. I love you. Like, we can figure this out. And we got back together.

But that's a bold strategy, my man. Was there any white claws involved? No, you never mind. I used 19. Couldn't buy them. Couldn't buy them. No, but I'll say, you probably have no idea what love can be, Dingus,

because I said it in two weeks. I said it on the day I got married. And I did love her, but it gets way better over time. Oh. I don't think. Without question. Like you love Brittany way more today than you. And way different.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A completely different. Yes, 100%. Completely different meaning of that word. A lot more likely to have come on. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Way more than. One flashing red at that point. Way more than two weeks in knowing Allison. it's a very different feeling now and it's way better but it took a lot of growth

it does get better so dingus I think I just love that this man's name is like Dingus 8,000 and he that's all I got to call it so Dingus 8,000 so dingus I'm going to say go for it because if you do like search yourself

make sure like you're ready for this and if you do you just go out there and say it and if she says maybe or thank you I always hear that's a popular one thank you oh thank you Um, you're just going to have to roll with it. And she says, thank you.

So you're welcome because you're polite and, um, realize that this probably ain't the time. Yeah. I wouldn't fire a second one. Don't, don't fire two shots back there. Don't, don't. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If she says thank you, you'd be back off of that one for a while. Don't double tap it.

And then you, and then, hey, maybe one day she comes back and she says, I love you. I just wasn't ready then. Yeah, it happens all the time. Love's a tricky thing. Mm-hmm. Tricky thing. Love on the rocks. Ain't no big surprise.

Neil Diamond. I thought it was a splendid thing. Oh, it's tricky and splendid. It's all the things. All right, you got a verse? I just love the fact that you tried to guess three weeks to make me feel silly, and you overshot me. Yeah, I'm going with the first.

He didn't have faith. No, that wouldn't make you feel silly. I knew it was uncomfortably quick. I know you well enough to know that that was uncomfortable. triply quick. Like, I don't know it three weeks that I love a freaking cheeseburger. Like, that's what's weird. Cheeseburgers love at first sight.

You know you don't. Now, pizza, I said it immediately. Oh, pizza. I know that one, too. I know I'm going to love a pizza even if it's gross. All right, John. God one. What is he?

He said, I can taste that every time y'all talk. He said, huh. All right, let's go home. John 10, 7, 9 and 10, Jesus said, I tell you the truth, I'm the gate for the sheep. Whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.

Jesus promised you heaven, but following him also gives you a really good fun time here on this old ball of earth. It's pretty tough to live on. So, I'm just asking you, if you don't know them, follow them. find somebody that does follow them and ask them questions. He's the good shepherd. Amen. That's my last advice for the day. Happy New Year, Merry Christmas.

Whenever this one falls, folks, hope you have a great holiday season. It's the holiday. We appreciate all your support, and we are absolutely crowding 200 episodes. Wow, love you. No, this is past 200. Is it?

Is this 201? See, there, you don't. So look, we're at 201. Oh, my goodness. Golly, that last episode was wild, wouldn't it? I don't know you. yet, but we're going to try. I'm going to go eat a cheeseburger.

They're going to eat a cheeseburger. I got to get to work. Let's have a pizza party. He's going to eat a cheeseburger for that one. Holler at your boy!