Duck Call Room - Why You NEVER Get in a Rig With Phil Robertson

Episode Date: November 2, 2021

Phil Robertson is NOT someone you want to get in a boat with, and Jay Stone and some corporate bigwigs have the near-drowning story to prove it. Martin and Stone talk about the perils of navigating the floodwaters during duck season. Si sports his new hat, and John-David can’t tell if we're seeing a raccoon tail or Si’s ponytail. The boys tip their hats to a group of dads who went ALL IN on getting local high school kids back on track. Stone rants about litter and road signs getting shot up. And when John-David leads the boys into a conversation about how to handle the death of a loved one, Martin and Si drop a whole lot of wisdom. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I've got three days. Well, have you looked at the new duck hole? Oh, yeah. I looked at it. It looked good? It's as pretty as a fine woman. Call me your hair on the end of your bed. That's the trick to it.

Wait. Hello, folks. I'm Daniel Boone, and I'm going to make America great again. What's your happened? I don't know. We went through about three American ice. That's it, boy, hey. Can we start over that first part again?

As pretty as a what? As pretty as a woman combing her hair sitting on the end of your bed. If she's sitting on somebody else's bed, it don't be nothing. But if she's sitting on the end of your bed comb her beautiful hair, it means you're married. Then, hey, you got something going on in. That's what the duck hole looks like? You reckon Chris Dane's ever looked at the end of her bed and watched you combing your hair and thought the same thing?

No. No. I may have a lot of the last time he's running a comb through his hair. Hey, I've run a comb through my hair every morning's time. Oh, do you? Yeah. But it ain't on the end of the bed. It's in the kitchen.

That's where my comb's at. Oh, good. I'm serious. Very sanitary. You keep your comb in the kitchen? I'll keep it. Well, I'll keep it on the bar. so anybody can use it.

Well, right, it's just there. That's where it's handy. All right, we'll see y'all next week. That's it, boy, that's it for this podcast. Daniel Boone. What? Look, hey, that's what we grew up on, okay, was catching coons, mink, beaver. You know, we run a trap line for crying out loud on his kids.

That's how we grew up, boys. That's what made America great. Okay, that's fine. That's why they sell the West. Why the hat? Why the hat? It's not cold outside. Because, hey, we just, Philip showed me a picture of it, and I said, hey, order me four of them.

Okay. I bought one for me, Philip, and then for the pipeline people, Mr. Randy Byer and his lovely wife, Sharon. Okay. And we had them on. So you're reinvesting in the pipeline, people? I can appreciate that. Well, hey, you know. That's good.

They're good friends. Okay, so I bought them a Daniel Boone hat. The only thing. The only thing. I got to get in the inner circle that gets in on the Coonskin. No, you ain't getting into inner circle. I want in the hat circle. The only, the only thing that mildly disturbs me is I didn't realize.

Oh, it just mildly disturbed you? Well, I, myself, that I haven't made this observation. It's just how close the color of your hair is to a raccoon. Well, hey. There you go. You cannot tell the ponytail from the coon-tail. That's the raccoon. And that one just wants a little bit I got.

I mean, it's unbelievable. You have got to wear that hat, duck cutting this year. Oh, I am. Every day. I'm going to wear it before when I go deer hunting. Maybe it'll help me out with my aims since I shot eight foot over that dough the other day. You kind of look like Vladimir, the Russian poker player that retired from the KGB.

Speaking of that, hey, I just won second place over there in Houston. What did it pay? It paid two beautiful necklaces for my beautiful red-headed woman. So no cash? No cash. But she got two nice necklars. One of them was the, I can't even think of it's green. Emerald?

Yeah, Emerald. Real pretty emerald deal, hanging on the end of it. There you go. But it was beautiful. She enjoyed it. It was a charity tournament, wasn't it? Yeah. Okay.

It was charity, poker tournament, 100 people in it, okay, and then also the golf. How did you play golf? How did you play golf? No, I didn't play golf. But I did give up the all out there on the golf course. They got about a five and a half, six hour free concert. From you? For me.

Yeah. Do you give them any tips on a putting green like that time you made that golf video for it? I was screaming while they were swinging and everything else. I was there to harass them and have a good time. And you did it, didn't you? And I did it. That's exactly right. Everyone concerned had a blast.

Well, good. And raised a lot of money for the kids. That's what it was about. That's all. Matter of fact, that bear sitting right there is be an angel. Okay. And that whole thing was for the kids. Oh, is that what it was, the Be an Angel Foundation?

Yep. That's cool. That's one of them. Okay, one of the deal. That's cool. But Pastorini, he's in a lot of that stuff, okay. Because he was the Houston Oilers quarterback for quite a while. Really? Wait, who?

What was his name? Dan Pastorini. I didn't keep up with the Oilers. That was, they went to Nashville, what, in 99 or something, I guess. Oh, all the thing I remember about the Oilers, wasn't it? Warren Moon was our quarterback? Earl Campbell. Earl Campbell.

was running back. Yep. Bum Phillips. Yep. Dan Pastorini was the third pick. He was actually there. He was actually there. You met?

Yeah. Bum Phillips. Oh, yeah. Matter of fact, he was sitting at the table that we've played. I don't think Bum Phillips is alive. Well, his son is. Wade Phillips. Okay.

Well, Wade Phillips is hilarious. Well, no, no. He was one. Okay, when you said Phillips. I just. Son of Bum. Yeah. Okay.

That's what it was. Okay. I never get all that. Mr. Eni played 13 seasons in the NFL and won a Super Bowl. Oh, yeah. You were hanging. You're big time. No, no.

Hey, he was legit now. Don't get run. You know, I had to make a fake quarterback. But it was a real good event. Pack off of it. Raised a lot of money for the children, okay, which that's what was it about. Yeah. So it was a good all the way around.

Good opportunity. Well, look. Hey, we're glad to have you back. Well, I'm glad for you back. We did miss you. We had Willie take your place. Well, no, no, because, hey, how did that go? It was great.

I quit. We got some news for you. I quit my job because Willie's sat by me for that one. Uh-oh. Johnny D's gone. See you. He's gone. Well, hey.

Well, I got one question. What are you going to do now? I'm going to go sell fishing bait, but I'm still going to sit by you. Okay. I'm going to sell some crickets. Selling crickets. They're going to go sell crickets. Yeah.

I go down there visiting me once. They did have the greatest sign of all times that I've ever seen at a bait shop. What about those men's? Are crickets catch fish or die trying? That's it. That's what we do, people. I like the attitude. Go, team, go.

That's what we do over there at the old. I was there this morning, just filling up soft plastics. Well, you can find out a lot of good information at the honey hole. You really can. Because the man that runs it, he actually goes out in fishes so he can give you some good advice. He used to. Now he don't have no time to fish. Which is why I'm going back to let him go fish.

If the businesses got so good that you have to hire help, yep. People are secretive about their fishing spots. You can't tell nobody. I've known one man who was telling everybody where it was. Ken Bunn had no problem telling anybody. He was like, no, this is where they caught him. Let me tell you how my brother. About three weeks after.

That's right. All right. Let me tell you how my brother operates on that. Tell us. He took Terry Bradshaw fishing with it one time on Darbonne. And the first thing he did when he got in. Blind vote. Tell me, hey, here you go.

Put this blindfold. No, he didn't. Yes, he did. Oh, yeah. No, no. He made him put it on. I was at. And Bradshaw said, hold it.

You're joking, right? And Phil said, no, son, I'm not joking. If you want to go fishing with me, put the blindfold on. Well, hey, they go up there and they fill a cooler up, bass. Okay. And then Phil got cranked the boat and he sat there for a minute with an island. He said, what are you doing, Bradshaw? And Bradshaw said, what are you talking about?

I'm ready. He said, no, you ain't. Put the blindfold over. You know, they had it, they had a, they inducted Phil into the Louisiana Tech Hall of Fame a few years ago. I went to that game with him. Bradshaw was there. I love it. And they talked for two hours, two hours before that game.

And that story, that specific story came up. Bradshaw brought it up. He said, hey, Phil, remember that time you put that sack over my head? And they laughed about that. First time Bradshaw was ever sacked. That's right. Phil Robertson did. That's right.

Phil Robertson sacked you. Put a blindfold on the man. True story. Put a potato sack over his head. Potato sack over his head. Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah, you can't let nobody know where to fish up.

Look, here's what I say for Bradshaw. Good on him. Because back in them days, the field would have said, I'm put this sack over your head. Uh-uh. I'm out. Nope.

Nope. I wouldn't have went. He was a little on the unscrupulous side. Oh, no, yeah. He was one of them, what did you, Kay said? Kay said he was a rascal. The rascal, he was one of them scrupulous. But back in them days, next thing you know, there's a cinder block tied to your foot.

You ain't the starter no more, you know, that kind of deal. Good grief. But I'm still not letting Phil put a bag over my head and just take me in the woods. Oh, you can now. No, I got a rule. I don't ever get in any kind of. a rig that he's driving. No.

You just don't do it. Him or his dog. Well, I missed that one. The morning that they might have sunk both boats. What? The boat wreck? Oh, yeah. You're talking about the boat wreck?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I wasn't there that morning. With our friends from Yamaha Motors. Yeah. Yeah, and the motor people were there. Yeah. And they liked to drown everybody. Oh, they did.

Yeah. That's a good one. I hadn't heard that story. No, I told, uh, I told them. I was there in a flow. flood. Flood stage. The Yamaha Big Wig

showed up down there and it went big backwater. I said, look, when y'all boys go hunting bar about that.

I said, you got about a 50% chance of surviving. Man, trying to tell a story to talk about eyes. I'll fix a sling

this thing to that end. As hard as I can throw it. Whatever. this is. Hey, well, look, let's tell that story when we get back from break. We're going to take a break. Don't go anywhere.

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Stone, get back to your story before. Boat rack. Before Tweedled Dian, Twitter, I'm trying to interrupt you. All right. Are y'all done? It was him.

No, it was you. I was laughing at him. I'm not going to blame anything on him. It was you. It was me. So these big wigs, they show up down there and the backwater.

I was just kidding with them. I said, look, boys, it's just dangerous. It's 20 foot deep. You got about a, you got a pretty good chance of not coming back. And this was the day before the hunt, you know, they laughed, ha, ha, whatever.

So the next morning before daylight, well, if you ever drove around in the backwater when the river's coming up, everything looks different day by day. That's the truth. Nothing looks the same. So you'll lose a road, a trail. I don't care how many times you've been down it. When that water level changes, it's totally different. Yeah. So they had it backwards.

Phil was in the front with the outboard with about three men in it. Jace was behind them with a mud motor boat. It should have been the opposite. Yeah. Because that mud motor, you know, he don't got no reverse. And the only way to stop is to take the propeller out of the water. Or a tree. Or run it.

Or an immovable object. Or running up on the bank. So what happened was before daylight, Phil got turned around. He slammed his boat in reverse. turned it sideways Jace couldn't stop and he teaboned Phil's boat

with the Yamaha bigwigs in there and when Phil made an instinctive move and hammered down on that throttle and come out underneath Jason's boat and wheeled out right beside him and everybody lived

to tell the tail so once again do not get in a rig with Phil. Needless to say, we didn't get the Yamaha deal done. No. Well, he ain't seen them since. We're not with Yamaha. Yeah.

No, Jason's boat was under on top of field? Yes. Uh-huh. Yep. Because it's a flat-bottom mudboat. That's right up. We went right up on it. 20 foot of water. Yeah. I'm glad there was too many to there that morning and I got left out.

That's right. Your boy, Evil Eye was there. Yeah. Yeah. Old Phillips still tells that story from Yamaha. I talked to him this morning. It was good. The morning I like that. They still talk to us, you know, just, yeah. Nah, we're good.

But no business. They don't want to come back. Ain't no business. He did say this morning. He said, I think I'm about ready to come back. You know, I was like, you sure? Yeah. Good luck.

But I remember one morning it was just me and Jace. We passed his deer staying four times. In the dark. He's like, yeah, I look back. Now the deer stands on this side of me. Tell me what that is, and it's what? It's my deer stand. Yeah, we did.

We circled that deer stand four times. The problem is we're supposed to be on the other end of the property hunting. Oh, it's tough to navigate. Oh, it's terrible. Because everything looks identical then. The duck hunting's terrible. Yeah. The best one was, I was in field boat.

I said, where are these giant zippers trees? Yeah. I said, could greet the things, you know, big rounds of pickup at the bottom. We ain't got nothing like that out here toward the duck hole. We was in that slew right behind the lodge. We had got turned around two miles above where you're back at the lair. Oh, yeah, we're back at the lair. Oh, that's funny.

Flood waters ain't nothing to be trifled with them. Especially if it's foggy. And we still go duck hunting like we're going to kill something. We don't kill squat. No, you're going to kill nothing. If you're lucky, you get to shoot a handful of jacks and, you know, that's about it. Storn what's your snacking on that, that's one. Oh, I got, uh-oh.

So finally, finally, somebody sent in some healthy snacks. Oh, a healthy snack. There it is. And I must say, this is the best beef turkey I ever put in my mouth. Oh, okay. Well, there I go. I ain't a beef jerky. Bougoir, Cajun beef jerky.

Anything that starts with bourgeois. Buzwa, I'm in on. From Tibidol, Louisiana. Oh, I wish I knew some good people. You got a tip of those. You got aibodeau boys. Yeah. Your boy, Terry Poole sent that in.

Yep. All right. I can appreciate that. Is it good? Oh, it's fine. I don't want none of it. I just want it. He don't want to.

Hey, go ahead. Go ahead and try it. A product of Louisiana. A product of Louisiana. Just thub me one piece. It smells like Louisiana. Beef jerky is the greatest thing that ever happened. No, you better not give him.

I don't know how jerky you have called on. Oh, it is. It's going to break us. It's going to break us. is happening. I guess it's easy and you, you know, carry in your pocket or putting in a salad bag. You don't get about beef jerky ever caught on.

Yeah. It's delicious. Hey, Josie Wales ate beef turkey. Thank you. Josie Wales ate beef jerky. Yeah, they eat what to live back in. Well, good for Josie Wales. Johnny Dee, we'd give you a piece of that. But you don't work here anymore.

So you're out. Well, let's take our next break. We'll be back right after. He had enough of them on him. Well, so did you see the new decoration in the podcast room? look behind my head oh yeah

and what's what is that the deer's yeah that was our deer hunt during the veterans week so I had a big the pitcher turned out so good I had a big what do you call that canvas blown up

and I asked bullfrog I said where are you on where you want me to put it you'll put it up in the house or in the call shop she said put it in a podcast room so I can's Uncle Syke can see it all the time. And I thought, you know, she wanted to do that so Uncle Si can remember that good memory. And she said, no, I want him to see it.

So he can remember that day I scrapped him. No, I knew what she wanted. I wanted him to be reminded. Well, Sa, we were going to put a picture of your deer up back there. Well, we saw that. Yeah, y'all did put it up. There it is. Yeah, there it goes running off.

Yeah, there she goes that way. There it goes. Yeah, that deer's fine. I've got pictures of that doughy shot at it. Every picture I got over, she's doing this. Her eyes are real big, and she's staring at that deer's day. She's staring at that distance. Where did that come from?

Huh? I'm trying to find the video again. What video? Outside missing that deer. They don't seen it. It makes me laugh every year. It is fun. Hey, no thought process there.

It was like, hey, he died because there's no brain wave. I said that to Dr. Deans. He got real tickled. He said, that made his day. Oh, man. He won't know if he was drinking any of that brown water while he was up there. Is that what you was going to talk about? Huh?

What you just had on there? Well, yeah, I just had it ready for. Well, hey, we'll talk about it. Whenever you want to. talk about it. Go ahead. Fire away. Fire away.

Okay. Well, I was looking in the news and Stone actually texted me this one the other night. Oh, yeah. So we need to talk about this on the podcast because it happened in Streetport. Our neighboring town to the west. Took a second. But the article is about Concern Dad's Patrol High School and fights suddenly end. Imagine that.

People started going to class. Did you see this story? So there were 23 kids arrested at school. Southwood, Streetport. Over three days. They were arrested at school? Yeah, for getting them fights. There were just fights left and right.

Okay. And so then Michael Lafitte, that's a Louisiana name, started a group called Dads on Duty, and 40 fathers signed up and took shifts at the high school to maintain a peaceful environment. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. The power of a dad. That's right. That's right. What was the fights about? Does anybody say anything about that? I don't know. I'm sure it was just kids being kids.

I don't know. 23. Yeah. I mean, that's a lot of fight. Yeah. That ain't kids being kids. No. It makes you, well, I don't even want to go down that road.

It's the circumstances. of today's society. Well, even at West Monroe, it was, hey, just go bear crawl till I get tired of watching you. We had to do laxious. If you got caught doing something like that, you're going to bear crawl until I'm tired. Yeah.

You're like, oh. Okay, that sounds like the time when I, you know, a big old said drop, give me 25. Oh, big old. Okay, hey, I'll wipe that out. I'll wipe that smile off your face. Well, he did. 300, bled her.

There you go. Well, so it took 40 dads at the, school. Yeah. To shut her down. Well, they're going on shifts. So there's only a couple of times. But one of the students said, you know, have you ever heard of the look?

So apparently there's just a couple dads. And when things get ratted, they just give them all. That one you used to get in church. Show Martin a picture of the dads. I saw a picture of them. A couple of them are pretty intimidating guys. Intimidating guys. Big, strong men.

Even at that age. I mean, if they give me the look. Oh, yeah. This group of dads tells me. to stop doing something? I'm done. Yeah. That's it.

That's awesome. That is awesome. That was one of the best articles I've seen in a while. Great for the dad. Well, odds are what they're doing by being at school is because the dads at home wouldn't do them what they're supposed to be doing. That's right. The article does.

Those dads showed up there. That's true. And showed that they cared. And, you know, I mean, that's a good deal. That's awesome. And also, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, but they're trying to start. chapters statewide and nationwide and nationwide and i think obviously it's a good thing yeah i would be so nervous if stone showed up to my school and gave me the look like that one right there well no

is he sitting there doing his ear fork out no no i would behave though and that is true and that's what they said uh they told cbs uh not everybody has a father figure at home or a male period in their life So just to be here makes a big difference, which I do think. Yeah, that's cool. I mean, that's awesome. They're taking the time to invest in kids' lives that aren't their own. So that's a cool thing. Yeah, those, yeah, and there were some of them, yeah, you know,

that you could tell to look in their eyes. You didn't want to mess with him. I'm afraid of it. That was like that old Clint Eastwood eyes. How did you know which one going to shoot first? Yeah. Well, he had crazy eyes. Crazy eyes.

You look, you look a man in the eyes. He'll tell you enough about him right there. That's it. You know which dad you make and cross and which one you can't. If he says, I don't want no trouble and he's smiling at the same time, stay away. You about to get in trouble. Somebody about to cloud up and rain on it. But that's good.

It's good that they took ownership of it and didn't expect somebody else to fix the problem. I can appreciate that. That did my heart some good to see that article, you know. So dad's on duty. We salute you. Oh, for sure do. We need more of that. Absolutely.

And it is sad that people don't have, you know, the male figures in their life. Yeah. And that is the devil's doing. Yeah, because it shows how important that is to have that. Like he's the one that attacked the family structure. Yeah. Okay. Oh, the family structure is under attack.

Oh, yeah. Don't ever doubt that. It gets worse every year. Yep. Well, in another case of good news, you've seen the movie radio. right? I haven't. You haven't seen radio?

I have. It's a fantastic movie. He tells a story about a guy working at a high school, does it for free. And finally, the real-life radio on October the 29th is getting the field house named after him at that school in Demopolis, Alabama. Oh, okay. So they are rewarding. You know, the movie is radio. They all call him Ken Good back home.

Don't really know why. but that man has volunteered at that school, washing clothes, doing all that kind of stuff for 50 years. 50 years, volunteer, no pay. No pay. He's seen eight coaches, 386 victories, 78 playoff appearances. Whoa. 22 region titles and two state championships.

And he is now the field house is being named after him. His name's Albert Thomas. Albert, good on you, son. The town of Demopolis, good on you for taking care of one of your own. Look at him. There we go. That's awesome. There's a few pictures.

He's 67 years old and he's still doing it. Wow. There's a Black Panther, Cy. It's a tiger. Cudos, coach. Hey. Oh, man. Can you imagine volunteering for five decades?

And he's missed one game. One game. One. Yeah. 50 years. So Albert. I can't even imagine. imagine being alive that long.

Look, Albert, our man, we salute you on that too, man. Good on you. And so does the Almighty, because, hey, you've done what he said. I got a servant's heart. You love the Almighty, and then you turned around and loved your fellow man. That's awesome. It's good to read that kind of stuff going on in the world, because so many times those articles don't ever make it to the top.

No. It's all. It's something about some guy named Brandon, and, you know, I don't. You know, all that kind of stuff going on. Yeah, gas prices. Gas prices. And the weather. I know, well, I'm glad, look, speaking of weather, we get in the rain finally.

Praise God for that. That's all I'm going to say. I'm going to start bringing my wife's honda hunting. It's ridiculous. Or just staying down there. Good grief. They've been on gas prices for a minute. I didn't even, I quit the other day filling up.

I just stopped. I was like, I can't do this anymore. It's making me sad. Oh, you don't want on that gember bag? I'm going to have to stop again. before I run out of gas. Put $10 in like, yuck you did in high school. No, I got the 50 this time, and I was like, I'd give up.

This is that we're not even close. I have to get gas on my way home now because of that. But I was sad. It was too expensive. People are wondering, I wonder why gas prices are going up. If you wouldn't run it down so low, it wouldn't have to, it wouldn't take so much to fill it up. It's time to fill up when you got three quarters of a time.

It feels better. It feels better. It don't feel as bad. It's like whenever you're driving to the duck hole, If you go really fast when it's cold, when you stop it, it feels warm. You go as fast as you can stand it when you stop, it feels warm. It's all about perception. You've got your perspective of it, boys.

That's deep. That kind of thinking only comes out from under a coon skin cap. I thought you make America great again. That's an expensive Coonskin. Let's reopen that pipeline, boy. All right, well, let's take a break. We'll be back right after this. You know what chaps my rear in?

About more than anything. You know what makes me so angry. Who said? Tell us what real. Emerald Pitts. Native American redneck. What really grinds your gears there, Stone? When I'm driving down a road and all I can see in the ditches is trash.

Trash is what kind of human will throw trash out the window is beyond me. And do it on purpose. Now, I can understand if you got something in the back of your truck and it flies out, okay. Everybody's given a time to forget about something in the back of your truck. You forget the empty boxes there or whatever. You built, you know, you built your child's swing set, and there's an empty box. I give you a free pass.

You forgot on your way to work. It was there. But like drink cups and crap like that, beer cans. Yeah. Why is it always beer cans and a lot? Because we're in North Louisiana. You never see a coat can in the middle of the woods. Well, no, they ain't spending their money on that.

Yeah. What you get from? A mattress. Or you drive and there's a couch in the ditch. I tell you, the worst place in the world is boat ramps. Oh, yeah. People think that the good thing to do is to dump all you trash out at the boat ramp for whatever unknown reason.

Every time I go, I pick up a dang Walmart sack full of trash at the boat ramp. every time whether it's night crawler boxes some kind of discount like domestic beer can yeah it's never even the expensive beer right some some weird colored water bottle that i'm not sure what that is in it like you know i pick it up with a bag yeah i hope you have like the grabbers no but i i i do fish in line for crying out loud like i mean just pick you stuff up people and this time of year deer corn. Yeah, deer corn. Everywhere you go, not to be confused with squirrel corn or turkey corn, it's all deer corn for some

reason. They're the only things that will eat it, I guess. I'll eat it. But, I mean, it's just rice brand bags. Just take care of you stuff. Pick your thing for crying. How easy and pathetic does a person have to be to do something like that? Throw something out the window?

Just throw trash out the window into creation. And they won't dare shoot the target on the back of the deer. corn bag. Yeah, got it. But they'll shoot every street sign between there and a hunting game to make sure that it's cited in. That's a million dollar plus

every year for the state of Louisiana. Street signs? Doing street signs over. Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay. They missed that. Rednecks?

Well, what happens is a... Hey, that's where your taxes are going. What happens is they shot like you on camera and then they got to check it to make sure they can still hit a four by four square because, you know, that's how big a deer's vitals are. No. What is it about a sign that makes a redneck want to shoot it?

I don't know. I've never shot a sign. But there is not a sign. Once you get out of the city limits, there is, I charge you to find one sign. That doesn't have a bullet hole in it. That's right. Within five square miles of Phil's house, that does not have a bullet hole. No, Phil's house.

I'll charge you to find one that has a bullet hole in it. Just one. Yeah. Because most of them got. Yeah, multiples. Eleven. Yeah, multiple. I mean, it's like, what?

And then the people that pattern their shotguns are. They're shooting street signs. Oh, I know it. Okay. Hey, I might be driving down that road. And I guess what? If a bullet whizzers by me, I'm sending one back. That's it.

You get a return. Yeah, you get a return to sender, Jack. Uh, look, on the last one, we, we, we, talked about Johnny D leaving. We didn't get in our... Let's get off that. But we didn't get in our inbox. So we got a few sitting in the inbox. I got extras. What we have in the hello at duck call room.com. Yeah, let's stop talking about me. So our first email, the subject line is Johnny D. The hero I did not know I needed. So we're going to read that one obviously.

Oh, of course. We'll suffer. We'll suffer to it, Jamie. You read it. You can be self-serving. That is the subject line. The actual thing is about Stone. This man's a 30-year a 38-year-old army vet, and he spent nine years in law enforcement. Alan, we appreciate you for both of those jobs. Amen. But he's been working at a desk, and he was about my size. And Stone getting on top of me and making me work out so much has inspired him. And now he has joined his own House of Pain in South Carolina.

So he sent this email on his way to his first boxing workout. Sir, I hope you made it. I remember my first boxing workout when Stone almost murdered me. But I thought that was a cool email. And, you know. Changing live. I like when people are fired up and doing what we're doing. Changing live.

That's awesome. I mean, he will not regret it. Stick with it, man. Stick with it. I want to go punch something right now. All right. moving on jimmy from tennessee has a couple questions about the bible do you know anything about the bible side well i just a little bit all right let's go he'll have to check it out he used to

attend church but uh when he was a kid grew older stopped going uh and now he's about 25 years old he's always believed in god but uh he wants to he's about to get married he's engaged so he's about to get married he's you know kind of deciding it's time to step up uh and lead his family uh but he says i feel the bible is so vast with knowledge and it seems overwhelming to me at times i was wondering what is a good starting point i got one for you okay because i'm i'm in the process right now of getting some lessons together for a gospel meeting i got coming up ephesians 612. Okay.

And it goes something like this. Our struggles is not against fleshing blood. Okay. But the powers, the rulers, and the authorities,

and something about evil. I can't remember exactly about it. Against the powers of the dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Yeah, in the heavenly realms. So, okay.

That's where you start. Okay. take an inventory of what's going on in your life and what you got what you're up against. Okay. And the first one is how you're up against evil forces. Power, okay, in the heavenly realms. Okay. It's not against flesh and blood.

So we're fighting some powerful stuff here. So guess what? You better have your own. Your power are. someone else's power to fight this with and the power I'm talking about is Jesus

okay he's the ultimate power him the father and the Holy Spirit but my advice was don't don't let because the Bible's got 66 books okay and that is that's a lot of

a lot of territory to cover so my deal is, hey, just pick one of the New Testament books. Okay, one of them would probably be good. Find out who Jesus is. That'd be Matthew.

Yeah. A lot of good parables. That's where I always tell people to start that are confused. It's start in the New Testament. Start at Matthew, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. Work your way through that. And then, because if you're not familiar with that, really,

and truly, the first part, it's not going to make a whole lot of sense to you. Because the first, the Old Testament is all kind of pointing towards Jesus is coming. Yep. In history. You know, and then you got the gospels while Jesus is here. And then you got the rest, which is Jesus is coming back. So it's like you need to know the man Jesus before you can tie the whole thing in.

And if you don't, if you don't start there to me, you can get, you can go back down that road of them names with 27 consonants and you're going to get lost in them genealogy trees back here. That's it. I mean, you start. So you start with the gospel, then you end with the gospel. Yeah. Yeah. That's the thing.

That's the key. Okay. You never get off the Gulf. But like he was talking about, Martin. Okay. Genesis to Malachi, Jesus is coming. Okay. He's being foretoe.

He's on his way. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Jesus is here on this earth. Then the rest of it is, okay. Hey, hey, he's done what he was supposed to do. He's coming back to get us. Yeah. Amen. He's going to.

That's one of my favorite thing, Galvin says, and all of his, whenever he's talking about that, he says, now he said he was going to prepare a place for us. He said, he spoke this world into existence. He said, but now he's preparing a place. He says, so imagine how cool that's going to be that he's preparing us. And he spoke that one in seven days. He's been gone for about 2,000.

Well, no, no. Here's the thing that gets me about that. Okay. And this is just my opinion. Okay. When he created all of this, okay, guess what? It says that in my father's house or many rooms, I go to prepare your place for it. Okay.

Hey, it's already, when he created it, heaven's in the earth. Yeah. Well, guess what? Hey, his house was created his room. My room is reserved. Okay. All I got to do is keep my faith and my eyes on him. Yeah. And one day I will get to go in my room.

Okay. Well, let's take our last break. We'll be back, get back in that mailbag. I got some more good ones. All right. Let's get back in that mail bag, Johnny, D. All right. Hey, we have sent a lot of people to Buckees, by the way.

People keep going. And for all of y'all, you're welcome. This guy sent that pastrami sandwich in. He specifically wanted me to tell you, Martin. That is the Pestrami Rubin. That's Ryan from, he's a Cajun. Laruville.

Loraville. Loraville. Loraville. That is not how you spell Laura. But he said, get off that brisket bag and get on that Rubin bag. Now, see, Brian, here's where me and you got a fundamental disagreement. Ryan, Ryan, sorry. Ryan.

I don't do sire crap. But this is. At all. Oh, you don't like, I would. eat that sandwich. No, I don't like sire Crout, I don't like Sire Patch Kids. If it's got sire in it, I don't like whiskey sire. If it's got sour

in it, I'm out. Yeah. I like sour. I'm with you all now. Your boy's out. So, there you go. Sorry, Brian. All right. Anyway. We're all entitled to opinion. God bless America. And then Jeremy from Lake Alfred Florida sent this email in

with the subject line, very upset at Sigh, exclamation point, about eight of them. How could you be upset at Siamer? What are you upset with me for? He must have been duck out and with him. I'm very upset to hear that sigh like steaks medium plus. Oh, yeah.

But that is not a real temperature. I'm a chef, and when I hear that, I just shake my head. I beg your pardon, Mr. Chef. That is a temperature. Okay, it's a little past medium, okay? Medium is blood, bleeding from the meat. No. I won't mind a little left and a little more cooked than that.

Okay. He literally said... When we hear that, it's like people said, I would like medium rare, but no blood, please. Well, no, no. That's why I said medium plus. Because, hey, if you say well done, you're going to get a piece of boot leather.

He does agree with you there. I've done trying this for, what, 73 years, okay? Medium plus works. They actually bring it to me where the middle of the steak, regardless of what things, sickness it is. It's light pink in the middle. He's been eating steak for 73 years and he still don't know how to hear it.

I don't know how to work. I'm out of the womb eating steak, Jack. So those are some fun ones. And then I got kind of a serious one from Matt out of Sioux City, Iowa. Oh, the Heartland. Oh, the Heartland. This is a heavy question, kind of.

Would you mind posing this to the group of experts? They're not here, so we'll have to do. We'll have to do. He's a father of three adult kids. 23, one passed away, but he would have been 25. Sorry about that. And then 28. They've been to church, their whole lives.

They raise their family in church. Their kids, however, have kind of lost that mentality, I guess is the right word. it's been difficult for them after losing a brother and then you know all of 2020 happened and some churches were closed and online church so he's you know he's trying to get his kids back in church

so he asked this question is it fair to cancel gift exchange this year at Christmas instead of celebrating Christmas with the kids that aren't following Jesus is it being hypercritic to celebrate Christmas with non-believers or people that aren't on the road to salvation? I love them, but I still want to lead a Christian household.

Well, let me say this. If you've planted the seed, one day, that seed will sprout. It might take one year, five years, ten, twenty years. Who knows? Yeah. But if you planted the seed, you did your job. Amen. And don't, don't ever stop celebrating Christmas under no circumstances.

With your kids. Amen. With your kids. So that's what I got. It almost is, to me, sounds like they are forgetting a parable of the 99 and the 1. They're willing to leave the 1 or the 2 because they're not part of the 99. The 1 or the 2 are the ones you should be concerned about and spending the most time with. it. Yeah. And show them

the love of Jesus. That's kind of my part. Through whether it's gift exchange, it's food, it's meals, it's prayers, it's just time together. Like I think, and look, I ain't trying to be mean. I think you're dead wrong on whatever your premise you've proposed here is.

I couldn't personally disagree with it more. Yeah. So my advice was going to be you should do the exact opposite of what you're thinking because you're not going to see these people at church, your kids, you're not going to see them there, you've said. So why not have the best Christmas you've ever had?

Ratcheted up a notch. And they'll be there for that and they'll see, because honestly, I think a lot of people who don't get what we're all about as Christians don't get it because they don't have a loving father. So if you show them a loving earthly father, no matter the circumstance, no matter what they're doing because it's already in the Bible. No matter, we can't screw this up enough for God to say,

nope, canceling my gift to you, Jesus. He already gave it to us. No matter what we do, we can't escape that yet. The price has been paid. So I would say your job as a father, and I've got super young kids, so I'm not an expert. But I would say your job is to show them the love of the, father no matter the circumstance and if they're doing wrong you tell them they're doing wrong

but you still have to show them that love well jesus said this to his to his audiences when he walked this earth okay you will know my disciples by their love for one another okay so so the only thing if your children you think have gone astray You've got what to do what Jesus does for us every day. Come back and get them. Come back and get them. Come back and get them. Okay.

Because, hey, you know, God only gave mankind, in my humble opinion, two major commands. One of them is love him with everything you've got. Okay. And then the other one is turn around and then love those around you. you. Amen. Okay. Because if we would just do them too, this would be a much better place. The rest of them take care of it himself, don't it? Everything else will kind of fall in line with that. Okay. So, so anytime you see a person in trouble, okay, and you don't stop and help him, okay, you're wrong. That's right.

okay and hey look we're all guilty of it at one time or another okay but you know you need to put that in you in the back of your mind anytime you can help another human being that needs help you should do it yeah i'm guilty of myself sometimes we get too busy sometimes we you know other things take priority and not to mention the fact uh that that that He is teenagers, young adults, and these days having to grow up with all this social media, all this peer pressure, the vulgarities and just trash all over the Internet. Like, I cannot imagine being a teenager having to deal with all that and come up living a Christ-like. Yeah, no, no.

Being a Christ-like example. I mean, it's super, super hard for teenagers and young people. It's way different than whenever I was in a teenager. I was a teenager 10 years ago. So if you planted that seed, that seed will sprout one day. That's biblical. It says it right there. Train a child in the way he should go,

and when he is old, he will not depart from it. He might get away for a second, but he'll always come back. That's right. Yep. All right. Well, those were good emails. Do we have time for another? I don't know how much.

You're in charge of this, Mark. Yeah, run one more. Let's see what else we got. All right, let's see. I ain't ready to quit. This is fun. No. Hey.

We don't. We don't. This is not only fun. This is important. Yeah. The country needs to. Do you want another heavy one? Sure.

Go for it. Send us out on one. Send us out on a heavy one. This one literally says, I don't want to bring the mood down. So, um. You ain't going to bring our mood down. Greg. from Louisville, Kentucky.

He does what our good friend McMillan does. He takes great pride in that. He takes leftovers on a plane? Yeah. For a living. He works with youth residential services. But he really wants to ask Martin specifically. And anyone else who has lost their dad advice.

It's a dad episode. He lost his dad just over three years ago. and I was wanting to know how you kept the faith. While there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that my dad is up there fishing with Jesus and I know he is no longer in any pain, I still find myself angry sometimes. After a few minutes, I come back down.

I know it's wrong and I know it's something that I want to happen, but it does and I need it to stop. So getting upset. Yeah, I mean, through this whole deal, I don't think I've ever been angry. I mean, I guess you come to the realization, especially as a believer, we're all going to die. Like, that's an inevitable part of life. Maybe I would have been angry had I not felt like my dad did exactly what he wanted to while he was on this earth.

But he did. I mean, he went out with his dang boots on, like, you know, working in the yard essentially up until he couldn't. Like, I mean, he did those things. but I've never I mean I've been sad because like he ain't there but angry that's not one but I don't have really big anger issues anyway so I don't know exactly how to tell you to deal with anger other than it seems like you got a little bit of a trust issue here but but your dad was always going to pass you you yourself what it made me actually do was look at my own mortality like and say if this happened to me to meet a tomorrow would I be happy with what I've done to this point? And so that challenges me to live a better life, to do more things for other people, just like we talked about earlier. So I don't, I mean, I guess the anger probably comes from that place or perhaps some

selfishness that we all deal with. But, man, just trust. And the cool thing is if you do believe that, that he's up there, then you should strive to get to be back together. one day. Like anger should be the last thing in your heart. Like the hope of getting back together and that great reunion should take precedent over anything else, which I'm looking forward to.

I mean, you know, that's, that's, at the end of the day, it's all you got. Well, I'll, let me throw him my deal, okay. I've lost my mom, my dad, me and field of the last two, okay? Mom and Dad had seven kids. Me and Phil the last once, okay. You need to figure out, okay, you said you was angry about something. You need to figure out what you're angry about, okay, because if you're blaming God for taking him or letting him go, okay,

that's an entirely different issue. I loved what you said, though. You said I know where he's at and he's at peace, okay. That's why it doesn't. doesn't bother me. Look, death to me is nothing but a change of address. Okay. I'm here on this earth right now when I die. I wish I could put something like, hey, don't, don't stand here at this stone sitting in this dirt. I'm not here. Okay. I'm in heaven. And guess where I, guess where I, what I'm surrounded by? The fruit of the spirit. Love, joy, peace.

brotherly love. Everything is good, and I've got goosebumps all over me. Everything up there is grand, okay? We have no idea how great it's going to be. But, hey, your father, if you said, okay, he's up there, man, hey, that's the greatest thing, like Martin said, hey, your goal should be, hey, I'm going to get up there and I'm going to be with him. Mm-hmm.

Okay. You're talking about a reunion. Oh, yeah. Okay. You know, look, all the angels in heaven bust out in song when somebody comes home. Okay? They throw a party, okay?

And I can't wait to be up there when all of us get back together. Yeah. I'm excited. No, no, no. I got a question. What do you want us to put on your headstone? Here lies Uncle Si. He ain't here no more.

He ain't here, boy. He ain't here, boys. Well, no, no, because look. I'm putting that hat there. No, no, here's the greatest thing. If you ever go to Virginia, Plymouth Rock up there, okay? Go through the graveyards, okay, and I loved it. When I walked through there and read what was on all of them, don't cry for me.

All I'm doing, I'm waiting for the resurrection. That's what was on a 500 of them headstones. we may get sigh taxidermied anyway yeah that's right we can keep you want a European man or not that y'all get a little too weird now I'll put on your headstone here lie sigh he never flared a duck yeah I'm just going to put he's invisible boy no no no hey and I'll end it with this and then I got a burst for us uh you know all those people that have gone before us I've got a few up there, they wouldn't come back and hang out with me if they could. Absolutely.

They're having a way better time. They're trying to pull on that string to get us up there quickly. I guarantee you. They're like, hey, you ready? It's time. Go. Get them up here. Go.

I'm ready to see them, but I ain't going down to that earth anymore. Forget that. So here's our Bible verse for the day from Grace, 18 years old in Oconto, Wisconsin. She would love it if we could end one of our podcasts with her favorite Bible verse. Guess what, Grace? You're going to love this. Proverbs 3, 5, and 6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.

In all your ways, submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Amen. We'll see y'all next time. Right here. This is not unashamed. Don't let today feel you. Not unashamed, but boys, we kind of brought it.