Duck Call Room - Why 'Duck Dynasty' Really Stopped Filming

Episode Date: December 29, 2022

Uncle Si puts his lungs to the test as he is full of stories this episode and can never stay seated. Si talks about how badly he wants to ride a giraffe — and watch a giraffe race! — which gets Jordan Summit & Phillip laughing hysterically. Si has John-David on the edge of his seat when he recalls how he almost fainted from fright at the Anchorage, Alaska, airport on his way to Vietnam. Si introduces Jordan to his old pet, Eagle the Pigeon, and sends the room into a laughing fit. And Si tells the boys he never saw his dad laugh, but he did see him convulse with joy at certain TV shows. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to the duck call room. Phil's with us and he didn't know that size been... I think we got a special gift. Yeah, Sy's been... Jordan. Go in Monaco for a month. One eyeglass. We got Jordan Summit in the house.

Thank you for having me. For a special time because Martin... He's on the road. No, he's not. Yes, he is. Martin was supposed to be here and he was like, ah... Am I going to have to go for it? He's on the road.

He just texts me. He's on the road. He's on the dog hunting this morning. Yeah, and he could have been here on time, but too many ducks. He was open in Arkansas. I don't know. Because I know it's closed in Louisiana. Yeah, he drove...

Martin drove to Arkansas this morning. Okay. Killed some ducks. Yeah, I didn't want to make sure I didn't... I was thinking, wait a minute. Is it even open? Because then it'd be illegal. He's...

Martin is by the... I don't know. I don't know who keeps putting my mic down. I don't either, but... They always do. It's always sitting on the thing. I have like this, boys. All right, now.

We're back. We're ready. All right. Now we're ready to go. Did you go hunting? morning? No, I went hunting yesterday. And you're just still wearing the same clothes? Yeah, well, I just got it this morning.

That's what I, yeah. You've kind of turned into a deer hunter. No, I know. I heard. Oh, it was great. It was great. You like the transition. Has it been good to you?

Yeah, we messed up because we're sitting there, you know, and it's about all quarter to five, and a buck comes walking out of the, just out of the edges of the woods. We're on the pipeline. Is this yesterday? Yeah, you know, so he comes walking out. And at first I said, oh, that's a good one, you know,

because all I see is big quiet antlers coming out. Then when I look at him with binoculars close, you know, it's a full point. He's got the brow tines and then he's a spike. But it actually comes way out, okay, and Mottner comes back and touches. Really? Yeah, about three-year-old, you know.

He was a cold buck. We should have shot him. But we're watching. Hey, who knows what he'll look like next year. Yeah, but we're watching him, and then he's in the woods. Stone said, yeah, that was a coal buck. We should have shot him.

It was a coal buck. And I said, well, wait a minute. I said, maybe he'll be bigger next year. Phil, you see any good coal bucks this year? No. But Jordan knows what he's talking about. Yeah. Well, you got to stand to hurt.

You don't want, you know, you don't want a bad antler deer. Oh, that's right. Breeding the dog. No. You want, you want like a 10 point, 8 points or 10 point. Yeah. Okay. And that's when he was a full point.

That's just Deer Hunter Talk. We can talk. We can talk Deer Hunter Talk. I mean, I do have like 252 questions. Well, hey, start asking one now. Yeah, let's see it. I did forget my computer this morning because I was in a rush. But I did remember my drink.

But I have this fancy pin. Thanks for bringing that to us. Why are you drinking? Coke, zero. I'm trying not to be fat, but I am anyway. It's falling apart here. All right. Well, Mickey says, hope you can get to my question.

You were going to last time. Mickey Mouse? Before Cy punched John David. Nicky. Mickey, I don't have your question anymore. Mickey or Mickey? Oh, I thought Mickey Mouse had wrote it. Well, I guess it's...

I was getting excited. What? Yeah, Mickey and Minnie. You're excited to be alive this morning. That's right. He can finally see. He can see. He can see.

It's a new life here. He's the bionic man. He got a new lung. He's got new eyes and some other new stuff. Okay. So now that you have all this new stuff. Yeah. This person's name is weird, so I don't know.

It's not pronounceable. If you can experience anything in the world, this is a very broad question. Any experience in the world, what would it be, Zai? No, no, very simple. Flying. No. Falling. That's going to happen because, hey, here's the best thing for you to have.

You need to have a close. relationship with Jesus. You have that, though. I know. And I love it. Okay, so that's the thing. Hey, that's it. Hey, I don't need nothing.

I was going to go with some far east and I. I feel like a loser. You know, it's always a given that you want a relationship with Jesus. So now you can say what else. Yeah. And what else? And what else? Okay, whatever.

Be superficial for a line. Well, hey, look, I'm so, you know, if you've got a close relationship with Jesus, what else could you possibly need? He came to give life abundant. Hey, I'm telling you. You're right, you're right. No, no, because I got to throw this in there. I'll preach a great lesson on it.

Okay, look, there is, you know, Jesus came down. He left heaven and came down and became flesh, okay, for one reason, to bring us life and not only just to bring us life, but to bring it to the fullest. More abundantly. Yes, abundantly. New KJV. All to the fullest.

But look, you can't even use the word, you know, because, you know, if you're with Jesus, you have a full life. Okay. Without Jesus, I'm not even going to use the word life because, look, without him, all there is is darkness and evil. I had to say that. I'll preach a great lesson on it the other day at church. Okay, so what now?

I'll stop preaching Well, you don't have stuff. For now. For now. We'll be back next second. Now, what was I? The question. Any experience?

Any experience. In the world. Like, do you want to go to the Super Bowl? Do you want to go riding an elephant? Do you want to go scuba diving? No, I brought this up on the earlier podcast way, way back there. I want to ride a giraffe. Oh, yeah.

Okay. No, I'm serious. There are no wrong answers. To be fair. No, no, they got them two knobs on the side of their head on the top of their head. Is that one of them, though? No, no. Yeah, I want to ride him right there right behind his ears, and I'll hold on to the two knobs.

Jordan. That might be kind of cool. Where would you ride a giraffe? Look, that will give me a bird's eye view now that I can see. Didn't a kid, like, draw a picture of that? That's right. Yeah, they did. It's somewhere in here.

But anyway. Somewhere in here. A kid did draw a picture of me on some. top of a draft head. Ah. Well, I bet you would if you could. It's like on a big ride, like riding a big crane. You like?

Yeah, yeah. And hey, that sucker, hey, with that sucker, he's got them long legs. Hey. He can get it. Oh, he and I run a racehorse. To be fair, now my experience is to watch Cy ride a jog. Yeah. That's right.

I'd like to see how that turns out for you. That's probably to be the happiest moment of my life. How much fun that would be? Watching you ride a giraffe? No, no. Especially if I can. do it in Africa. Well, you can.

Anything you want. I mean, very hypothetical situation. Whatever you want. Oh, he did put that in there, whatever. Yeah, whatever you want. Anything in the world. Hey, that's the place I want to do it. I want to drive.

I want to ride the tallest giraffe in the world in Africa. If I had my computer right now, I would go to the tallest giraffe in the world. Oh, he's up there. He's up there. Real? 25 feet or? I fed one. Yeah.

No, they ain't no 25. I've never seen one. Oh, they're huge. I would say they're, yeah. They're out there about 25 feet. How tall is a giraffe? That's right. Google it, baby.

Google it. Hey, Google it. I wrote a camel one time. 19 feet. You've ridden a camel? Oh, yeah. I wrote a camel. Double hump or single hump.

That's an important question. Hey, that is a head. I'm serious. It was a single. Single? Not as cool. Oh, no, I'm going to ride a double. Still a camel.

Hey, because hey, you got a backrest. two of the double. The built-in saddle, Jordan. That's it. I'm with him on this. And look, these suckers can run. A camel. They can spit.

Oh, they have races in the desert all the time. They stay. A-Rab. A-Rab. Man, I would like to watch that right now. Hey, A-Rab, A-Rab. His camel is named Clyde. A-Raeb.

That's ride, Clyde. With a camel named Clyde. That's right. With a camel named Clyde. And on that note, we're going to ride right into a break and probably not Let's ride clad into a break, baby. And then we'll be back. All right, look, springtime is here.

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Oh, hey, no. Oh, that's what. Hold on. No, no. We're not rolling. Oh, well, roll it. Roll it. That's on him.

Not on me. You better be rolling when this man says funny stuff. You just remind me, we need to have a giraffe race. Oh, my goodness. I thought we were. First step. Find a couple giraffes. That's right.

Oh, no, not a couple. No, we won't have a real deal. Like 10? They're going to have to make special gates for them, though. He has thought about this a lot. Oh, no. We'll get Bruce to call it. You got to have a giraffe gate.

And on giraffe number one, it's Uncle Sy. It's Uncle Sy. I can just see him right now with him long, stretch to do that for a little. Yeah. And he won by a ear. No, by neck. Oh, by ear. That's a long row.

Oh, no, because I'd be pushing his head forward. By ear. All right. So, our experiences involved giraffes. That's my experience. Right, a giraffe in Africa, in a giraffe race. In a giraffe race. Not just.

Being chased by crocodiles. If somebody made a cartoon of all the words you said, it would be the greatest Saturday morning television show on Earth. Painting. I like that. Let's get your nephew to paint that. Somebody paint us that and send it. Really?

I need to say. Ralph race and hey. Well, you look, you got to have incentive. The crocodile's chasing your incentive. You can do anything when alligator is chasing. That is true. Hey. All right, Sa.

Is there anything anywhere? What? You ready for the next question? Do you want a Sy medical question? Or do you want a Symedical question? A Duck Dynasty question. I'd rather have the medical question. Okay, well, Kristen

Simply asked Does I have hemorrhoids? Hey, can we Let's vote on it But my namesake Silas Jason Robertson does It was a bad deal Hold on, hold on

Take that, Jason I just told the whole world You have hemorrhoids I remember a story From a long time ago About Vick's vaporub being a cure for hemorrhoids. No, no.

Look. Is that true, you told? No, look. I'm serious. We're in a duck blad. He would eat it. And we hear this, oh,

is it the dog blue? No, it's Jace. He's whining. He said, oh, my goodness. He said, my hemorrhoys are acting up. You told you all that? Yeah, yeah. Because we ask you, hey, what's all the moaning?

What is wrong with you? He said, hey, my hemorrhoires are acting up. It happens. And I said, well, hey, I have the cure. He said, what? He said, you don't have a cure? You know nothing about medicine. I said, hey, look.

Yes, I do. I said, I have the cure. Yes, I do. I said, yes, I do. I said, because, hey, I've had them before. I said, but I've got the cure, and I cured mine. There you go, Kristen. So, hey, Phil says, well, I want to cure.

And I said, Vic Faberup. and a lighter. No, no, you don't need a lighter. Hey, Vicks Vipar Rub is like gasoline. It has fumes. A lighter, Vix Viparub, seven ice cubes. So look, they said, wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Vix vapor rub is like gasoline. It has fumes. He said, no, you don't want, no. You want to do it because they said, I said, hey, look, I'm telling you. I said, you put Vix Viporub on the hemorrhoids. Okay. And, yeah. And then throw the can away.

That's right. Throw it all away. That's right. Throw it all away. But, you know, Jason said, you know, and he was still over at the morning and the rest of day. I said, hey, just sit over and suffer, idiot. Now is this? I said, I gave you the cure.

You won't use it. Hey, suffer. Is this something that y'all used growing up in your family? Hey, my mama used it as a cure all. I would put on anything. She would make him eat it out of a spoon. Spooned. Like a headache.

Look, hey, sword throat. Hey. There's a list of things that it takes care of. Hey, look. Sore throat ain't on there. Well, yeah, it is. Not to swallow it. It may not be in the medical book, but hey, bomb used it.

Look, hey, a cold. Put it on your chest. Yep, that works. Okay. Use as a record. If the fumes, you're smelling it. Okay. Coal's gone.

Done it. Soil throat. Take a little bit, a teaspoon, swallow it. Don't take a big bunch of it. That'd be weird. I only do that once. Just enough to coat you coat. You put it like on a biscuit or something like that?

No, no. She just doesn't put it in a spoon. Right out of the spoon. That and casserole. She put it on toast. No, no, that's casserole. Eat your breakfast, son. You put Vicks vapor up in a casserole?

No, no, not a casserole. Castor oil. Caster oil. Okay. That was the two cure-old. They'll cure anything. Okay. To be fair,

go, I'm serious. Sounds like he knows what he's talking about. No, no, Mama, you get, I'm telling him. It was old, you know, this was, you know, old remedies. I think we need to put a disclaimer out there. Before using Vicks vapor rub, please read the bottle and use as directed. No, no, no, Phil was right. Only use as directed.

No, no, Phil was right. You don't put it around your eyes. Did not know where that. He wouldn't put it around the eye. I wouldn't put it in any orifice. Well, no, no, no. Hey, look, I'm telling you, look. Unless you got it.

Here's the deal. Okay, boy. Here's the deal. Proven. If your hemorrhoids reacting up, they're hurting, okay, or itching, okay, or any of that. Vick's vapor rub will make it stop itching. It will make it stop hurting, okay, and it will, they have no pain. Now, there's a little burning at first.

At first. First. So visit vipaporup.com and use code duck for 20%. Go to flamethrower.com. Well, no, no, here's the deal. Okay, here's my take on it. Let's use a little common sense. Oh, we've lost common sense.

No, no. You've got an ailment. You've got an ailment. This is true. Amputated leg. Okay. No, no. You've got an ailment.

Broken bone. It's hurting. Like a wasp thing. Yeah, like a was sting. Yeah. Okay. Because, hey, look, what is it? Where are we got off this?

Get dough pot by a waltz. Purple tail a wall. Okay. A person that's huge tobacco or a difference enough, take it, put it on the wall, sting, and it'll take the pain. I'd rather hurt. That's just one of the old remedies. Hey, can you spit that into my hand so that I can put that? No, no.

Hey. Spit on my arm. Hurry, hurry, it's stinging. No, I won't do that, but hey, here, here. Let me take my pocket knife out and cut you off at y'all, and you chew it and then spit you on it. you go. Okay. Yeah.

But it's the old remedies. You know, modern guy. Did that answer the medical question? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Kristen was just very curious. Oh, bird. Hey, boy, go.

All right, quick one. From Chloe. Chloe. Chloe asked, why did Duck Dynasty stop? Because the people that were spending the money, we had made them enough, I guess. That's my answer. I mean, also it was a hundred and,

30 episodes. So, I mean, we were eventually about to just start filming. Oh, we made them about 500 million. They could have made another 500 million, but hey, we said one word that they didn't like very much. Well, where was that? That was Jesus. But that was in every episode. Well, I'm just saying, hey.

I think everybody was happy when it ended. It wasn't like. Did you want it to keep going? Me, I was having a blast. Okay. But you're going to have a blast anyway. Well, hey, that's my motto. If I can't have fun, guess what?

He'll be at the house. He ain't coming. That's interesting. I didn't know that you were like, hey, let's just keep on rolling. Let's go with it, boys. I thought everybody was kind of tired because, I mean, it was kind of what I thought. Five years of your life. And I don't know if you know this.

Yeah. You were the star of the show. So I just figured you might have been like, okay, yeah, this was a good run. I didn't know that because I don't watch it. Oh yeah, I never do watch it. The episode with you were pretty good. That's the funniest thing is we would record it every Wednesday night and after church we'd get home we'd watch it.

Well, Sa would come over. Okay, boys, what's going on? I said, Sal, we watching Duck Dynasty? Sit down and watch it with. I'm going. I don't want to watch that junk. I have to live it every day. And he walks out.

I'm going. You know what's funny. He wouldn't watch it. As my son, he was like three when all this was going on, he's now 14 and he watched it on YouTube and clips here and there. And the other day he came up to me, he goes, dad, why don't they still do Duck Dynasty? That show was really good.

That was pretty good show. You said that. Look, we done a podcast the other day for treasures hunting, feminine. You know, this lady comes in and she's one of my assistants. I'm trying to find a new assistant. Okay, and she's applying for the job. And she said, hey.

You didn't call me? No. Johnny D. This lady finally tells me she said, hey, do you remember taking a picture with me when I was six? Oh, boy. And I said, no, darling, I don't. I said, you've grown since then. She's probably, what, 18, maybe 21 now?

Been a minute. Yeah, been a few years. It has been a while, but yeah, well, here's the deal. If you like Duck Dynasty, we keep, there's unashamed, there's this podcast, Duck Family Treasure. We're still throwing stuff out there. They're duck commander, buck commander YouTube. And I go out of there once while to the people. The people and tell a few stories from the road.

Tell a few stories and stuff. All right. So I'm still available. I just learned something today, though, because I was like, I thought, you know, it had ran its course with everybody and everybody was tired and thought it was good to go. But sigh would keep doing it. Oh, yeah.

Hey. Hey. You heard it here first, people. Long as they keep. Oh, boy. Man's got a price tag on his time. He's putting the green in his hand. I'm available.

Sal, what are you doing? Getting your tea ready? Lemon packet. He's on lemon packet number three. Well, he got off the juice, John. I don't remember the lady that sent me these. Oh, you've gotten tons of them. Have you ever just popped one of those just straight?

It was a lady that first done it. Hey, give me one. She said, my husband. Oh, here we go. We're going to try this out and cook. You don't know who's handling the lemons when you buy them. It's just lemon powder. This is lemon.

I've never seen this. Yeah. Lemon crystal. Crystal lemons. Do you want to eat one straight? Because it will get you. Anyways. And it's actually good and it's actually, what is the word?

Sanitary. Very sanitary, Jordan. Very sanitary. It's the most sanitary. That's what individual pack. I'm down to just ice. Anyway, I think I have a perfect question for Jordan Summit. Oh, boy.

Okay. It's not a real name on his Instagram account, but he asks, pineapple on pizza. yes or no oh no no i hate pineapple on pizza i hate anything sweet on a pizza everybody got quiet when i said that i'm with you i don't like barbecue pizza i'm a pepperoni like sausage salted meat like salted yeah salted meat cheese bread do you think pineapple and pizza is an okay thing sir pineapple goes on the upside down cake that's right that's right. Wait, does it go

on an upside down cake or underneath an upside-down? Well, I think you cook it underneath. But then, okay. It's upside down. But it's upside down. You don't put it on the top. You put it on the bottle. Upside down. That's why it's

upside-down cake. It doesn't go on a pizza, though. No, it doesn't go on a pizza. I'm not Jordan on that. Now, if you don't throw some jalapinia peppers, pepperoni. all kind of different cheeses. And then a little bit of hamburger meat too makes it go with.

Inside, people don't know it, but you like to brick your pizza. That's right. And what that is, make it crunchy. You don't take a brick and brick it. Okay. No good. No good. You don't, yeah.

Oh, man. You actually put it in the oven. You cook it once. I'm awake now. And then you take it out, and then you put it back in. You cook it another five minutes to give it a little crunch. A little crunch. A little crunch.

A little crunch. We call it well done. Well done. Medium plus. I just ate one of those lemon packets and now I feel like I can see through walls. But here's another question. And this one's actually super interesting to me. And I don't know that you've ever talked about.

Super interesting. Jake Tyler emails in. I don't know if his name's Jake or Tyler or if it's two friends. Or Jack Taylor. Or it's Jake Tyler or it's Tyler or Jake. Or Tyler or Jake. One of those seven people emailed in. T.J.

And asked, what was it like on the plane ride knowing you're going to Vietnam? Oh, my goodness. That's a little heavy, but I start with the letter, greetings. Huh. Yeah, greetings, Uncle Sam wants you. Yeah, I was in college, and I had three other brothers that was going to college with me. And they was always saying, you're too dumb to pass college. But that's another story.

But anyway, you know, they had told me, well, hey, look, you better start studying. And I said, look, I'm majoring in party and minor and in women. Uh-oh. I don't have time to study, okay, because I'm too many. I'm chasing the women and I'm partying too much. Ladies, man. That's right. I ain't got time for studying.

But anyway, they said, well, hey, yeah, when you flunk out, when you go to Vietnam, you'll wake up. So I didn't. Okay. I quit. Okay. I did one semester. Then I, you know, I took all my finals, you know, didn't care. Okay.

So look, finals are over. And I had told my brothers and their wives, because they had cooked me a bunch of meals while I was in college, that, hey, look, I'm working. So, hey, look, you know, here's $100 to go buy a bunch of ribby steaks and, you know, you grill them. No. So they did. So I come there, you know, knock on the door. Nancy looks through the little people and says, have you checked your grades? And I said, no, I'm not interested in my grades. She worked in the registrar's office, you know.

So she'd change your grades. Yeah, you know, so she had seen my grades, you know. Well, about two weeks prior to that, they had all jumped on me one night. We was overeating at Nancy's house. Tommy and Nancy was feeding me. And all my other brothers was there So they jumped on you're just too dumb You'll never make it in college all that

And I said no it ain't because I'm too dumb Idiots I said I'm not interested in a college degree College ain't for everybody Yeah so anyway they kept on about dumb So you know Nancy said hey have you check your grades I said Nancy I don't care about my grades I'm not coming back

She said yeah but you need to go and I said no I don't you know she's finally opened the door I said are you gonna let me in or not so she finally let me in set me down with just chewing my rear in royally you know and she said well she said you don't really I said no I don't care you know I said hey I'm not coming back yeah she said well you just so you'll know she said you missed a average by two points and I said would you do me a favor and she said what's that. I said, tell my stupid three brothers that it's not because I'm too ignorant to pass since I did pass.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. And never even been in the class. Hey, would you do me a favor? What's that, Si? Can you go to Vietnam for me? No, no. But anyway, you didn't even want to go to college. Your mom made you go. No, no. My mother is the one that convinced me, okay, and I told her, don't waste you money. You and Dad worked too hard for her. She said, nope. She said, and I said, well, give me a reason.

Why should I go? She said, because when you're 45 years old and digging ditches for a living, you can't say, well, mom and dad didn't give me an opportunity to go to college. She said, so, hey, I said, well, all of them are do is party. She said, well, make it a big one. And I said, okay, mom, I will. So for one semester, I partied. And then I said, bye.

but as soon as I said bye I went home guess what the next mail in the mail what came Uncle Sam wants you Robertson So what about the plane ride? Oh no no here's the deal

You got to thank something Okay I take basic training Fort George Fort Benning Georgia Okay I take AIT at Fort Lee Virginia We're graduating

Fort Lee Virginia AIT Okay, so they start naming name from A and they get to R. Okay, Germany, Germany, Korea, Korea. You know, Sae Robertson, Vietnam. Uh-oh. Okay, next man, okay. Germany, Germany, Korea, Korea. And everybody looks at good grief, Uncle Si.

You know, you're good one that got picked to Vietnam. Hey, who did you piss off? Y'all and I said, I don't know, but hey, I always knew I was going to Vietnam because that's all I heard when I was in college. My brother said, you better start studying and get some good grades. Are you going to know them? So look, but what's it like going to nom? Well, guess what?

The night before I'm fixing to get on the plane, me and my buddies, okay, and they're going to nom too. or some of them I'd met. And guess what we do? I got no idea. The movie Green Beret was coming out with John Wayne. So look, we go to the movies, okay, and I am literally watching this movie and about to just, you know,

have a bad time with my bowels. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Okay, watching this movie. movie. Fix vapor rub. Yeah. And then the next morning,

get on the plane, and I'm heading to nigh. Yeah. So it was a little scary, okay? Oh, I bet. Yeah. Yeah. So, but, yeah, once you got there,

then, hey, there you go. Hey, tell them about when you landed and you went in that airport in Alaska. Was it Alaska? No, no. Look, Anchorage, Alaska, you had to fly over the mountains, and then you had to do a deep descent.

coming in because this is in a valley. You know, so it's one in them, you know. Well, we land, they don't have any things that come out to the plane. They roll one out, you walk down the steps and then go inside. Welcome to the Army. Yeah.

Well, no, no. Look, I'm in khakis, short sleeve, okay, light, summertime uniform. It's 40 below. Oh. Okay, so I get off the plane. And by the time I get in, y'all, then when I get inside, it's warm and you know how cold it was really outside. Because you, look, I come walking around a corner of a, you know, the building.

And when I walk around, here's a 14 foot, grantly bad like this. It's not that had a heart attack. Because his claws, I'm telling you, the claws were about that long. Did you run? Did I run? I like to faint it. What did the grizzly bear do? He stuffed.

He stood his ground. He stood his ground. No, no. It's a full-mounted grizzly bear just about 14 feet high. That's almost as tall as a female giraffe. I know that from earlier. He couldn't stand in this building right here. Wow.

That's the biggest. That'd have to knock a hole in it and let him come on up. Oh, he's huge. You know, and I'll tell you, his claws were as long as that, sticking out. And then he had his mouth and his teeth look about that long. Like that a heart attack, boss. I'm glad you didn't. All right.

Well, before Sa has a heart attack. But now I'm a scary riding to it. For sure. The unknown, I mean, yeah. The unknown is scary. And we thank you for doing that. Oh, absolutely. Thank you.

And we thank you. thank all our veterans out there. I think they all know we love them, but can't say it enough. We're going to take a break, and we'll be right back. All of his other pigeons died. No, no, that was the craziest thing. Look, I hit this pigeon with a sailor, flat rock. And look, it hit his head, and it twisted it 180.

And didn't kill him and didn't break his neck. Oh, boy. He's like an owl now. Hey, it twisted his head 180 degrees. And he kept throwing it on the other. No, no, no, yeah. I thought it down and he would just, bang.

It's combobulated. Yeah. Yeah, but now, because I had a bunch of pet pigeons. Sorry, we were in a break. No, no, look, 24. 24 pigeons in the coop. Just tell the whole story, sir. 25.

No, no. I'm going to sit back because this is hilarious. No, no. Here we deal. We lived about, we had three stores in our town, okay? We had, one of them was actually when a store, they'd carried a few things. It was actually the mail.

The post office? The post office. It was actually the postal service. Yeah, but they did. They had a little snacks and stuff and a Coke and all this and they could buy too. The other one was a real full-blown store where you could get groceries and all this junk.

And pigeons. Yeah, but anyway, in between the house and the stores, okay, and we had a tractor. place, just sold tractors. But that was downtown. Two stores, a tractor place. In between

the house and there was a old cotton gin that wasn't in the operation anymore. Well, we would always go in there, okay, and we'd find baby pigeons, you know. They'd lay their eggs, mom, had catch them, you know, and then we'd

take them and raise them. But anyway, also, it was a tin roof on that cotton gin, there would always be a bunch of pigeons on that tin roof. So every time we'd come by there, you know, be pigeon on top of the roof.

Menfield, look around, find us rock. You know, and I found me what we call a sailor. Sailor. It was flat. You know, no wind resistance. Okay. It was wind, how do they? They were like a plain wing.

Okay. No, no wind resistance. It would skip on water real A skipper. Aero dynamic. Arrow dynamic. Arrow dynamic. Yeah. Arrow dynamic. So anyway, I find that and I said, uh-oh, boys.

I said, today's the day. And Phil said, what are you talking about? I said, I found me a sailor. He said, sailor? I said, yeah, flat. I said, this thing is going to no wind resistance. I said, I'm going to get one today. He said, well, hey, you throw first, you know,

and I got my rock ready and I'm going to get me one. I said, oh, no, there ain't no be no throwing first. I fixed to get one with this rock. Ain't but one throw. Oh, hey, I took about three steps and just, there's about 25 pigeons on the roof. Well, hey, look, this thing is just like an incoming round. Well, when it starts the descent, you know, the pigeons are on the roof, you know, about 25 of them is. Yo, well, they're getting, hey, it's starting to descent.

It's picking up speed. Getting nervous. They're getting nervous now if the fidget. Well, about two foot above them, they hit the air. Yo, 25, that's a bunch of them. They hit the air. Well, hey, that thing goes in the middle of them, and I'll see one doing this down the roof. Got him.

Nailed this one. Nailed him. I'm about 100 yards away. but I was just like a bird dog okay he threw a rock 100 yards so he also set a world record traveling that day you go hey he comes falling off rude

and I catch you I catch you ran 100 yards at first hey that fact I catch him and I look at him and I'm talking about whoa whoa something don't look right about this dude he just got hit by rock

no no look I got him at the back I got his wings in my hand his chest is facing forward but he's looking at me so I had to do one of these snuffers here I had to go I said wait a minute

this pigeon I'm looking at his chest now you knocked him sideways no no it hit him in the head and look it twisted his head but it didn't kill him no no it twisted him 180 degrees okay I'm looking at his chest and he's looking the other way.

So I take him home because I threw him up and he's there, so I pick him up, take him home, put him in the pigeon coop. With the other 25, 24 pidge and rehab. So look, me and my brother

had a deal, me and Phil had a deal. Even better. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, he would feed and water on. Tuesday, Thursday, Thursday and Saturday Okay, I would feed them. Who fed them on Sunday?

So, hey, look. It's Thursday. No feed them. It's Thursday, so it's my day to feed them water. So I wake up, you know, go outside, you know, start getting the water

and put it in there. And when I walk up to the pigeon coop, hey, there's dead pigeon and blood everywhere. There has been a massacre, okay? A massacre. murder has occurred last night. Okay, so

I go in and say, Phil. He's what? I said, you gotta come outside. And he said, no, you sure. I said, I know it's my day, but hey, look, there's something a bloodbath. It happened last night. Come on outside and look, you know, what are we going to do?

So he comes out, and I hadn't noticed it before, okay? I was just overcome by all the blood and just a total massacre that had feathers and blood there's one pigeon left he's sitting on

he's sitting on we had little bars he's sitting there okay his chest is toward us he's looking the other way eagle survive it's a long survivor he never saw him coming he'd pick up behind

no no because midfield are looking at each other he said we got a lone survivor uh uh oh and I looked at him, I said, what do you think happened? I said, they killed 24.

Why would they let him live? And he said, the only thing I can think of, he said, hey, you got to go back to Robert Redford starring in Jeremiah Johnson. Jeremiah Johnson. He said, remember the old lady that lived up in the canyon? Tell me, the Indians were scared of her because, hey, she wasn't right in the head, so evil spirits, you know. You got to admit, hey, pitching, you know, eagle's different.

That's the reason they didn't mess with him, boys. The cats were talking to each other. What about that one up on the, up there? Tell me, we're going to kill him. Tell me, oh, no, evil spirits, boys. No, I think that he just saw him coming from behind. That's right. Plus, you can't sneak up on him.

Well, you know he didn't fly away. They probably tried the old, I will come from the back. Tell me, no, that wasn't sell all. He saw us, boys. Oh, my goodness. Or maybe he never saw anything. Well, hey, maybe so. I laugh at that story.

But, hey, Eagle, oh, Eagle survive, boys. Chuck Myers sent that question in, and we hadn't. Tides told that story on the podcast, but if you knew the podcast, you hadn't heard it, and that is. That was the prettiest pigeon of them. I've never heard that story. Hey, look, he was beautiful, had his beautiful color, dark color, and then he had a white head, just like a ball eagle. That's reason they named him eagle.

He had a ball, he was white. It was backwards, but it was white. Yeah. It was white in the back. You're never going to sneak up. You're never going to sneak up on the back of the eagle. Oh, yeah. We had like 10 people listening this podcast until he told that story,

and then we took off. That is so funny. I don't think we can top that. Oh, Eagle's hard to beat. And hard to kill. Hey, he lived to be a right, I mean, you know, you're talking about elder. He probably lived to be 22 years old. No.

Really? upstairs. I took a chair of it. And the cat wasn't messed with him. They had the same way. If he lived to be 22, you went to Vietnam and came back and he was still alive? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm telling you, long life, boys. You should have mouth.

Long jeopardy. If we had an eagle, the pigeon mount, oh, man. Because, I mean, if you pet pigeonized. I should have, but I couldn't do it. Can I do it? Well, you know. No. are hard to come by.

Oh, the best one was, oh, there's another one. Oh, oh. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. We're going to take a break. Oh, okay.

And the break's going to be this fast. Back, okay. Hey, we're back. No. There was a break there. What were you on tight? We are, we ready? Yeah, we're just, I never stopped.

I just said the word break. Mama, okay, she finally talked to Eddie. Okay, we've got to have a new couch. Yeah. So he finally relented and gave all the cats. Because, hey, my dad was so tight. He squeaked when he walked. But he didn't laugh out loud.

Well, no, no, no, he didn't laugh. But anyway, so he finally, Mama said, hey, we've got to have a new couch this time. I'm sick of it. So we get a brand new couch. We was always bringing home. Hey, big daddy. Hey, big daddy.

Hey, big daddy. Marty, Martin. Y'all started with our one. You missed Eagle, the pigeon retold. Hey. But anyway, let me finish the story. Let me finish your stories. Mom had talked dad in to about.

out of new couch. Okay, so we throw this piece of junk that we'd have for 40 years probably. Throw it out, okay? Bring in a brand new, and I think it was actually pink. I'm pretty sure it was actually pink. But anyway, we bring it, so look,

we've always had some kind of animal as a pet. Pigeons, cat squirrels. Raccoons. Awesome. Okay, but anyway, we had a little cat squirrel as a pet. Well, guess what? the first thing he does. I don't like where this is going.

Oh, no. When he gets, when we get our new couch. He makes it stuff at home. Oh, yes. No, no. And we did, y'all, we was sitting on it and hearing it wasn't paying attention. Every once we hear it, one of the springs.

Don't know, it wasn't paying no attention. Anyway, this cat squirrel is in there. He'd done gnawed a hole in the bottom. It was plywood on the bottom. He had gnawed him a hole through it. We could get inside. Then he had been pulling cotton out of the cushion. Okay, and he had him a nice, big, fluffy nest made with that cotton.

Well, Mama sat down in it one time, and, hey, right there where she sat was a spring. On her new couch. On the new couch. And it stuck her in her behind. Oh. Okay. She jumped up yelling. Okay, you know, we finally picked it up because it was one of these that you can make out into a bed.

Yeah. So she lifted it up. We looked. Here's all these bare springs sticking up. Yeah. You know, literally did anyone know my mother, this country girl, she can shoot. Uh-oh. She shot him?

Oh, yeah. Right there in the house? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the squirrel died. That squirrel died, then we skin him and fried him up.

Yeah, I was about to say, y'all know you ate him. Oh, yeah. Okay, that's my favorite wild game. He ain't going to ways, Jack. So, please tell Jordan about your dad not laughing out loud. Can you tell me that? No, no, no, look. We got time, John David?

Yeah. Here's the time. My father, okay, you would say, I love this. I've never heard this. I've never heard this. If you've ever seen anyone have a epileptic fit, Epileptic. They shake.

They shake. Oh, seizures. Yeah, seizure. Yeah. Okay. It was a machine. So anyway, hey, we're watching TV, okay. Two people that we never miss was Red Skeleton, okay, and then Groucho Marx.

They both had a show on TV in the 60s. So we're watching Red Skelton, okay, and it's Christmas time. So Red Skelton, I don't know what their name, whatever his name was in the skit. You know, it's Christmas time. He comes walking out from the right of the stage. Curtains are drawn back. He's walking, and look, he's about to fall down. He's got, his arms are full of presents, you know, wrapped, rep, present.

And he literally is not even walking. He's going toward his knees, and he's laughing. He's about to lose it because he's fixing to do something. Everybody knows something's fixed to go on here. So he comes out when he gets center stage, he goes, starts to go to his knee in the secretary, and she's a good-looking thing. Okay, and got a tight dress on and look,

she's walking and they're playing the stripper beat. She's walking, y'all. And she comes up to him and says, Mr. Cuddlehopper or whatever he was... Cadilla hopper. But anyway, she said, hey, I need the keys to your car. We've got more present.

I've got to go back to the office than get. Well, he has to get up off his knees. Y'all. And he's like this, and he's got the packages. And he said, the keys are in my pocket. You know, where she runs her hand down in his pocket. And she said, oh, I feel so crazy. She's doing this?

And he says, he barely can't even say it. He said, feel a little further, baby. You'll feel nuts. Look, the next, no, no, look, the next thing you hear is, no, no, the next thing you hear is, you hear a big thud.

Mama comes right there and is, dad is on the floor. Okay, he's shaking violently. He's got crook and, dog tears coming out of his eyes. And he ain't making a sound. What's your sound? Okay? He's not making a sound.

He's laughing, but there's no noise coming out. She runs out to James, are you all right? She's bending down on her knee. You're okay? He's lost it, okay? He's gone. He's laughing. He ain't going to quit.

Yeah. That's the seizure story. And that's the seizure story. My father never laughed out loud. You never heard him laugh out loud. No. You think he's having some kind of seizure. He'd literally be, I mean, he lies, his lives would literally be running water.

He'd be shaking just convulsions like y'all. You know. We've lost control in the duck, the doctor lost control. In seizures, like in today's time, we might, like, there might be a diagnosis. Oh, no, you wouldn't, a doctor would have probably gave him a shot

or something, you know. He never laughed out loud. And look, my brothers, Tommy was the same way. Tommy never laughed out loud. You would never hear Tommy go, ah! I was going to say,

I never saw Tommy smile. Hold on. No, I'm serious. That's about all you got at him. You tell them the best joke ever in Tommy, about it. Tell me, If you might get a little grand out of it.

That's it. Oh, well, thanks for joining us. I had a lot of fun. Yeah, that was good. That's hilarious. TV was apparently different back then, is what I learned today. Oh, yeah. Si.

Them was the great TV. You are pure gold, my friend. Well, we hope you're having a happy holiday season. Wherever this finds you, Christmas, New Year's. We're around that time. so hopefully you gather with friends and family and just celebrated the fact that Jesus came. Where are you going to leave us with, J.D? Biblical.

I got you something. He was getting after. He got something real special. Luke 146, Mary said, My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. The Mighty One has done great things for me. Holy is his name. That was the mother of our Lord and Savior.

Amen. Happy New Year, everyone. Thanks for joining us. See y'all next time. See you next year? Next year. Who knows? I'll feel will laughter.

Yeah, well, mine was today. Good gracious. I can go find my hat. See y'all.