Duck Call Room - Willie Robertson Gave Himself a Concussion & Uncle Si Loved Every Minute of It

Episode Date: October 5, 2023

Uncle Si and Big Dave, John–David’s dad, compare stories from their military experiences, which prompts Si to fondly relive his time at basic training. Big Dave reveals that he used to work with Willie and expected that he wouldn’t amount to much, though Big Dave is happy he was proven wrong! Nothing fires Martin and John–David up like talking about fried food and Big Dave holds the title of master fryer and outdoor cooking guru. The boys give advice to a fan who coincidentally asks for advice about running his own fishing and tackle shop.  - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. How long have we been rolling? I don't know. We've been hanging out for a minute. We were talking about the Wild West and what happened at Jimmy Red's house. It's always something that happened in there. I guarantee you. And generally, police are involved and it's always the same story.

But I didn't do it. The best one I like was, hey, the energy people show up. And they stopped outside his joint there. And they're looking at a telephone pole. with a transform on. And there are some jumper cables running from the transformer down to the trailer. Red and figured out how to steal electricity. Now, imagine the set it takes to hook jumper cables up to a transformer.

Oh, no. Yeah. Like that's one move and you look like that squirrel. Yeah. If you do it wrong, it's... And you're gone. But he figured it's cheaper than paying for it. The craziest thing.

our special guest today who hadn't been introduced yet. Oh, yeah. He will chainsaw and flip-flops, but that's his crazy. That's as wild as he gets. That's why I see it. But you want to introduce a special guest? No, it's your dad. Hey, big Dave's in the house, everybody.

Hey, dad. Hey. Hey. Most everything in flip-flops. That is true. He's a flip-flop man. Well, you've got to be comfortable. Right.

If you go out of work, you might as well be comfortable doing it. I got a pair of them, um, what? What kind of shorts of those? Honeyhole? Yeah. Well, they're honeyho shorts, but they're kind of that slinky material. Oh, yeah. Athletic shorts.

Yeah. Okay. You can't get the muffler of a chainsaw too close to those. Oh. They're flammable? Yeah. Yeah, it'll burn. It just kind of disappeared.

They melt. And then the next thing you know, you go, ah. Yeah. And you can't, you know, this is stuff that sticks to you. So you don't want to try to tear it off. We got a pair of drawers built into them. Yeah. It protected everything important.

Yeah. Okay. I'm so much. Well, at least that's good. Yeah. Everybody's finding out my dad's way manlier than me. He chainsawed something down in shorts and then melted the shorts off of his person. Well, let me tell you something.

Oh, they melted onto the chainsaw. Oh. There you go. Ooh. Well, your dad, sigh, my dad, they all from that same generation. My dad used to weld shirtless. shirtless. Welding shirtless.

Little hot beads of melted metal. All and all of him. He never said a word. He just kept that hood on the... You won't talk about tough, but... And I, you know, her chest. Yeah.

And I'm watching just... I mean, he's still just... Just welding shirtless. Welding shirtless. I'll tell you. This generation here way tougher than us. Oh. We were raised by the greatest generation.

Absolutely. And it's pretty watered down by time it got to us, unfortunately. I was raised by Hill to, so I'm a little time. You're the weak one there, boy. Yeah, we're pretty much watered down. We're going to have to have another great generation come through, which maybe as parents, maybe we'll be that. But, you know, like, it's a wild deal.

But you know what's cool about my dad? He's a world Vietnam traveler like Sai. Because you were born in Germany probably while Sai was there. May have been. It may have been. Sevent or two. This was my first tour over. No, 72.

No, you ain't that? I'm a little older than that. But your dad was in Vietnam. Yeah. And so there's all the connections here. What's wild about that? Vietnam is a gorgeous country. The countryside is beautiful.

Oh, when my dad came back from Vietnam, he had the best tan I ever seen. Best tan. Oh, no, no. He was stationed right there on the South China Sea, on the beach. No, no. My mom, I sent her a picture. And I ain't got a shirt on because it's like 110 degrees.

And she said, what's the last time you took a bath? You look like you got mud on. Because I was about to color the mountainers on that deer. It's a good place to get a tan. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's good for tan. But, hey, what amazed me about it.

People said they don't believe in the flood. You need to go to Vietnam. during the monsoon season. Okay, and once it rains, okay, and you see how hard it can rain, oh, you'll believe in the flood. Because, hey, we got a company. They're standing, and we can see the black clouds coming.

And everybody's saying, man, I hope he hurries up the long-winded sucker or we fix it to get just drowned it. And, hey, about that time it hits. And look, I'm standing. in about, oh, maybe 30 yards from them in the, you know, bleachers, sitting. And when it starts, the whole company disappears because there's just a wall of water. How fast do you get out of there?

Oh, no, it didn't. No, yeah, you figure it wet. I just got it. No, no. You know, I was telling it in two seconds. Okay, I'm soaked. So it didn't matter, too seconds. Okay.

But hey, good thing. is, hey, right it's over, hey, you're dry in 10 minutes. Drying 10 minutes. Yo, here comes the sun, you're dry. You're, yeah, you ain't wet anymore. Boy, that man, Boudreau could have made a lot of money if he was around back in. But, hey, I'm telling you, when it rains there, oh, you're talking about rain. Okay.

How long was your dad in Vietnam, dad? Is there for a year? Yeah. No, it's 12 months. Yeah. 12 months is how long you were there? Oh, no. But Ray Day's way older than you.

Oh, no. Look. I met a guy that was over there for 11 years. He done 11 tours. And I said, dude, you've done your share and 40 more people's share. So, hey, go home. He said, oh, no. He said, I was here the first day it started.

He said, I'm going to stay with it until we finish it. That's crazy to think about it. I think I'd have got out of there if I could have. That's what most people don't realize about our movement. military, okay, and I couldn't give you the years. You know, if you was in the military during the Iraq, Afghanistan period, okay, and that's what, been 15 years probably, well, you may have done 15 tours in a combat zone. Because, hey, they take you out of Iraq.

Well, hey, Afghanistan's hot. 10 years to Afghanistan, and vice versa. So we had guys that, you know, hey, they spent their 15 years out of their career. If they'd done 20 years, they'd been 15 of it in a combat zone. That's crazy. That's crazy.

No, and then it's on, oh, what's your problem? Well, hey, you try 15 years of combat, dude, and then it's come to see me. Yeah, you try to live in where you didn't know who's shooting that here, if they shoot that year. And back then, some of the time, I'm talking about, you know, I'm glad I never was involved in it because, hey, if somebody shoots at me, I ain't calling nobody. I fixed the MP a 30-round clip in his direction.

Okay, I ain't getting permission. Yeah, I ain't getting permission. When he shot at me, yeah, when he shot at me, I had my permission. Rules of engagement. Yeah, rules of engagement. That's standard procedure. Oh, no, no. You're just idiotic.

You know. But, yeah, the military life is a wild one, and you were a. kid for that, right? How many places did you live growing up? A bunch. I've had... Yeah. More than two?

Not ever two years. Yeah, you got them. Three at the most, okay. What was your favorite place? Lived in Fort Bend in Georgia, that was pretty cool place. Hey, that's why I took basics. They had paratroopers there. Yeah, jumping out of the sky.

Oh, no. Hey, there was one rule at Fort Bend, Georgia. You didn't walk anywhere. It was... You were... You run out. Look, my drill sergeant, I could have took a bath in his smoking the bear hat. It was his dad.

Oh, no. Hey, look, this dude was 456-8. Big Oaf. Big Oaf, baby. Okay, and look, you had to respect the guy because, hey, we ran it. Hey, I'm weighing in like 125 if they wet me down. Okay. And we run everywhere we went, and I said, hey, big post.

We would run out to the rifle range. That's like five miles. We'd run to the rifle range. Yeah. I was trying to shoot and hit something after you've been running for five miles. I can't run five miles, sir. Yeah. So, hey, he ran with us.

So, hey. Big Oafton? Yeah. He ran every step we ran. Scary man. I said we had to leave. Hey, look, when he showed up, we're looking at here. comes a cab and look it's this way and there's metal sparks flying off of this thing coming

toward us okay you would think the car had a grinder on it coming in i'm just glad i'm not the only one that does that to small cars no no i'm serious look when he got out this thing rose like two foot when he stepped out of it it bounced two foot up in the air yeah And we looked and we said, surely that's not our new drill sergeant. And everybody said, oh, yeah. That's him. Yikes. And hey, guess what?

He liked me. Bad move. He didn't like you? No, no. He liked me. Okay. So, hey, he would get in my face and put his nose on my nose. Okay, and start talking, mate, get out of it.

Give me 25. Well, I get tickled. I couldn't have it. I was laughing. The last day, I'm graduating. I'm in a dress green. He put his nose on me. I busted out laughing.

350 push-ups later. I finally got the smile off of my face. I couldn't laugh no more. I said, I can't have it no more. Do not laugh, you idiot, because he's going to keep doing it to you. Oh, that's good stuff. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up.

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350. I'm talking about all the way down, all the way up. Do you spill you, too? Oh, that was the best shape I've ever been in baseball racetrally. Meanwhile, Big Day was just running around the fort playground while you were getting... Watching people jump out of air.

Y'all might have been there. Every afternoon, people fall in the sky. Oh, no, no. We went to men and the buddies. We got bored. Tell me, hey, let's go airborne. So we went to a demonstration. Hey, Chopper goes up and sees it up there

and looks like a mosquito. It's so high. Well, the first guy out, his shoot opens, then collapses and is doing this. Well, he cuts it loose, okay, opens his cigarette shoot. Huh? It pops open, closes, and hey, right in where in front of our stands. You saw that?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, and so did it in a bunch of high school seniors. And I looked at him, he looked at me, and I said, I ain't going. Hey, forget about going on that one, dude. Let's go back to the unit. Yeah. Yeah. You know, sis jumping out of a perfect year.

Oh, yeah. All right. So you watched the man. I watched the man. Hey, didn't open. I both used folded on him and hey, he hit the ground. Well, thank you to our military family. Oh, no, no, no.

I didn't either. Look. It really rang home as hard as he hit that table right here beside me. You get used to it sitting over there. Hey, my favorite duty station was Fort Bragg, North Carolina. That's the home of the 82nd Airborne. Uh-huh. Now look, they're crazy as bed books, all of them, okay?

but they are good at what they do. Did you ever look at? Hey, hey, they are ready at a heartbeat. All you ever heard from them when he was on the post was, I wish somebody would start a war somewhere. No, no, I'm serious because, hey, they trained for it and some they were good at what they done. Well, I'm glad we have those people.

Oh, yeah. On our side. Amen. I didn't know we were going here, but. Oh, yeah, well, hey, we just got talking about it. Hey, I love it. It is a good shout out to our military families because it not only affects the people like Si, my granddad who served, but their kids like my dad and all the people moving all over.

So thank you. If you're part of that, you do what you do so we can sit here and be weird. That's why I always talk about the greater generations. You've got to think about this, guys. I was back when, okay, we're no industries. Most of the people that lived on this earth then was farmers, just farm boys. Okay. World War II broke out and, hey, they all went to the, you know, where you're recruiting station, okay, and signed up.

They got on ships, anything that would float and went across the pond to Germany to fight Hitler and his bunch of people, okay? That's why they're the greatest generation. They would give you the shirt off their backs. A person in uniform could hitchhawk the United States and make good. time back then because hey one one they faced car stop and let him out the next car would stop pick him up take him in the rest of the way yeah that that's you know they were the greatest generation because they was they was they was uh number one they was men that was back in the day when men were men son and when i say men they wasn't scared of nothing and they took care of business

I met my granddad He was a man Oh no no no Would you agree dad? Yeah Well no no It was a different time Okay because if

Growing up in the neighborhood You gotta think about this Hey you started cutting up Mac in a fool Well hey the next door neighbor Would take his belt off And blister you're behind And the first thing you do is take you down

To your house And tell your dad Why he did it And then your dad would take his belt off and poop your butt again. Yeah, it came repairs. Yeah. No, no.

I'll say. No, no. Sometimes a trifecta. Yeah, you know, it just, it was a different time and a different perspective. Everything was different. Yeah.

If somebody else's parents told your parents that you did something. Yeah. You did it, whether you did it or not. And you're going to get your book to. You were guilty. Yeah. And it wasn't innocent.

No, no, my family, okay. Something happened, okay, and if you wasn't manned up and admitted you did it, well, then the whole bunch got fooled. I remember that. They was going to get the guilty person. And then it was okay, okay, now you got me a whipping, and I didn't do it. So, hey, we're fixing to jump on you and beat you up again. You know, so it was just, it was really, you know, but I look back on when people say,

If you could go back out of time, see, where do you go? Oh, hey, that's a no-brainer. I'd go back to my childhood. It was the greatest time of my life. Okay. Mom and dad took care of all the trouble, you know. They had all the worries. All I had to do was have fun, yeah.

Yeah, he's outside hot, got thirsty. You just went up to the house and drank out of the water hose. Yeah. Yeah. And it was what we call hard water. You know, it wasn't sweet water. This was hard water. taste like the sulfur from the whale oh yeah no no i like water hose water there's something

it was just great growing up in that time yeah because like all the stupid stuff that you see nowadays uh-oh we got them going no no yeah you get him going too well no no it was just you know we would go people that was was we call rich you know if you had a if you had a was in high school and had a car or a truck. Oh, you was a rich person. Well, they'd drive up with a shotgun in the back because guess what we're going to do once we get out of school?

We're going hunting. Yeah, every truck had a gun racket. Yeah, we're going hunting. What did you do yesterday after noon? I killed 12 squirrels. And they said, wait a minute, eight limit. I said, I know that. I kill four over. But no, no, it was just, it was.

It was, you know, they had gun racks in the truck when you, because you're 14 years young and inside, 13, somewhere in there? I don't know how old size is. 75. 12. 12. Okay. But anyway, it was a different time.

Yeah, and you could leave your gun in the gun rack in the truck and the window down. Yeah, the window's down. It's summer, you know, it's hot. We'll have the windows roll down. There's a 12-gauge shotgun and a rack. They ain't nobody messing with it. They ain't nobody messing with it. No, because everybody had one.

Yeah. Yeah. That's a different. It was just a different time. Everybody had one. Okay. And I look at it, there was more appreciation, okay, and there was more respect. More appreciation than you had less.

But you appreciated what you had more. Well, no, no, because we didn't have nothing. Right. Yeah. We got them going, Martin. Well, no, no. It was just, y'all, and look. When did you start working, Cy?

What age? 12 years old. Well, my dad told me. me to get a job when I was 12, but they wouldn't hire you to you, 16. So he gave me a job to do till I got 16. Yeah. No, no. Hey, I'm in bed asleep.

Tommy and Field normally haul hay in the summertime, but that year they was like 16 and 18. Okay. And Daddy worked in the oil field, and he had a job for them. So now they're making big dollars, you know, not 50 cents an hour. You're hauling hay. So I'm in there asleep. You know, knock on the door in this gym, a farmer, you know, and he said, Hey, where's Tommy in the field, you know, and he said, oh, he's working for his dad, you know.

He said, oh, man, I'm in trouble. I got to have somebody to work with me, you know. And she said, you know, and he said, who else you got, you know? She said, sigh, but he ain't 12, y'all. He said, Ms. Robertson, I promise you, I'll take care of him. He won't get hurt and all that, you know. You'll, I'll take care of it, just like he's my own son, yeah. and she said,

come in there, woke me up, said, you want to go to work? I said, yeah. So I got dressed, you know, and hey, we had an old international. He did.

Put it first gear, and it was, uh, uh, he's throwing bells of help on, on the stupid thing. We'd get it full. Get up there and then I'd stack it

and he'd help me, you know, he had handed it to him and I'd put it in a place. And from 12, you know, first time I got my paycheck, guess what?

Bomba took it and said, I went, What are you doing? She said, school clothes. It costs money. You're a man now, so, hey, you're going to learn, hey, you know. And I went, ah, what are you talking about? That's my first check.

Hey, she said, I know it. It's going to be school clothes. Yeah. So it, you know, different times. Different times. I will say, Big Dave charged me to use his tractor. I had to pay and I had to give him part of it. Well, no, no.

Hey, rent's rent. Yeah. That's a good move. His tractor. Yeah. Well, no. Did it hurt you? No.

Did it give you appreciation for what you've got? When that tractor wouldn't start, I would be so nervous because I said, Dad's going to be, I'm going to get in trouble for messing up this tractor. I'm going to get the blame. So I learned to take care of stuff by that too because I was using stuff that wasn't mine. But, yeah, y'all grew up in a different era for sure. And I can appreciate it.

Let's take a break. Let's take a break. And we'll get into some more of them. We'll get into more work store. My dad's got a good work story. Okay, so, you know, my dad is here and my boss used to, did, will he technically work for you or with you? With me?

Without, dang. We worked in the cabinet shop. Mack, my brother, your uncle. He's been on before. Yeah. He was, it was his cabinet shop. We worked together. Well, I worked with Willie.

Willie was there. Hey, you know, I said, I've had to apologize. I told him, I said, man, when you were out there working, I said, that cat ain't ever going to mount to nothing. I can admit what I'm wrong. Well, no, no. He rallied. But given the clues you were given at the time, your assessment was probably correct.

Yeah, the only time I ever felt bad, we were building a boat house on Cady Lake. And I was up in the rafters with a nail gun. And Willie was kind of the gopher. He was going to get the... Yeah, these beretian stuff, man. Yeah. I had that safety pulled back and was like, I didn't think I'd ever hit him,

but when I did, I felt bad for a little bit. You shot Willie with a nail gun? It's a long ways way. It didn't hurt. Hey, long ways. Hey, it was sticking him a little bit. He was out of range. My nail gun ain't got a barrel on it.

Look, hey, Robert, man, trust me when I tell you, Willie was used to that, okay? Because we had BB gun wars, all this stuff. Yeah, okay. And you act like if Willie hadn't had the nail gun, he wouldn't have done a single guy. same thing.

He wasn't allowed to have a duck out of it. We pulled rank on that one. Yeah. But there is a story that you were there for. Well, same place. It's the same place that a lot on Candy Lake. We're building a house and we're setting poles, you know. And we got tractor down there with auger on it.

Yep. Yep. Yeah, old ground was hard. Ronnie Crowe's on the tractor. We're back there keeping it straight. Willie's only job is clean out the hole. The hole's been dug. Just get the loose dirt out.

Easy to. You know how we get that post dough is you kind of throw them? Oh yeah, yeah, where he's a ticket. Yeah. And you bobbing your head? Yeah. Well, apparently Willie throwed, bobbed, root, boom, in a hill.

Yeah. In a head. We didn't know that. So I turned around, Willie's kind of rolling around on the, it's hot, sweaty. He's rolling around on the ground. And I'm thinking, lazy sucker, get up, do something.

Yeah, what are you doing? Yeah, right. So then when we determined that he legitimately was hurt, we were like, there may have been a little moment of sadness, but not long. We said, okay, who wants to go get lunch? I bet he got up in. No, no, really? That's when you knew he was down.

That's when you knew he was down. That a pile of lumber over there. He went over and laid on the pile of lumber. Well, we're at Jackson Parish. we're going to make the day we ain't coming back for a headache. Oh, yeah. It's a long drive for a bit.

He lays on the rest of the day. He's laid up on the pile of lumber. I don't remember who ended up cleaning out the holes anyway, so we're set in post. One of y'all. Yeah. So we're getting back home. Yeah, it wasn't him.

Willie's riding with Matt. They're in a truck in front of us, and we're hauling it down and 34 there and Mac pulls off. He said, what are they doing? Well, Mac pulls off in the driveway of that

A-frame church down there on 34th. Well, Willie barrels out. He's got a shirt tied around his head, no shirt on, shorts, and he just starts losing his groceries, you know, all over the place. He's just puking everywhere?

Yeah. Look up. There's a bunch of women having a ladies' day at that church. dinner on the ground dinner on the ground dinner was on the ground there and there and you know i i know they're probably all thinking that pump's drunk he's out of too yeah yeah he had a concussion

yeah we didn't find that out until later so we were we were we were guiltless so we thought he was just being willing no i borrowed i borrowed max truck one time i was moving okay and he i don't even remember what it was one of the big ones so I got once you know after I borrowed it and moved everything I wanted to fill it up you know and I

I had to stop look you know I fill it up this time 50 60 70 dollars I'm going I kept I stopped look till I was looking for a leak I was good grief that's what I guess was a dollar 25 yeah yeah

yeah 50 dollars a good oh no no but hey it was a dual tank and you don't run that's like a drive. Oh, no, and I was running, hey, yeah, and I just, you know, I told Mac, I said, hey, you need to check your gas tanks. And he said, why? I said, I put like $75 in there. And he said, you didn't have to fill both tanks up. And I went, both tanks? But I'm glad you did. I said, hey, no, I borrowed your truck. I said, I don't mind you doing that.

Mac always had a bunch of good stuff. So it was always good to take care of Mac's stuff when you borrowed it. No, no. He had other stuff you wanted to borrow. Oh, no, no, because I look, yeah, yeah. You know, I ain't going to borrow anybody's vehicle and then bring it back to him and ain't no gas in it. I borrowed it. It's going to be full. Back at old backhoe years ago.

Oh, yeah. It had tires on them that you could see the air through them in the front. I borrowed it and why I had it. Both tires blew out. Oh, yeah. I'd buy two. So he could come back, had brand new tires. Yeah.

That's a good move. And you didn't even have to do that because you, you brothered in on that deal. that's something that generally happens to us that outside of it will never use that rubber tire hoe again yeah yeah yeah that's had equipment oh mac mac had stuff he still got stuff he still got stuff he still got stuff scattered from louisiana to colorado now so like if you're getting a bind somewhere you call mac odds are he knows somebody he got something he knows somebody somewhere that's got something you can use to get you out of a bind that's that's just the way and to put it into perspective how much stuff he had You know, his whole shop burned out one time and he lost all this stuff.

Yeah. But now he's got more stuff than that. He's a stuff man. He is a stuff man. Good stuff, too. Biscuit pans. Biscuit pans. He had a deal.

We got the recipe. He's a good carpenter and he's a good cook. Yeah, I could always see him cringe every time he got in a duck blind and it field bill. Speaking of cooks. Because it was not up to his, it was not up to his snuck. I laughed about that because. Matt getting there and get to looking at him.

Owen's got a perfection thing about him. Oh, no, no. That's why I'm saying. Hey, he's a professional cabinet maker, people. Okay, so, hey, it's got to be right. But speaking of cooking, because that's, that's, we all do it, right? My dad is what I would call an expert on the outdoor kitchen area, and he just keeps adding things to it.

but that uh if you were to cook a steak um and somebody asked you to cook it medium plus what would that mean you burn it I knew that one wouldn't go in well for you no no I ain't worried about it okay because I love it okay because look yo yo there's the the people that wait on you in a restaurant. I ask you how you want your steak, sir. Most people say medium rare, okay.

That's when they cut it into it, okay? All it is is it's browned on the outside just a little bit and it's raw. Okay. Because that's what they wanted, okay. I always tell them, okay,

light pink in the center and I don't care if it's three inch of stick or ten inches stick. I want the middle of it light pink. Well, you did you need to get a sousvied steak. Oh, a what?

Big Day fancy. Suvee. Suvee? Yeah. See, everybody's got your own wave of... See, that's what happens to be at every Father's Day, Christmas. My kids all give me something to cook with.

Yeah. So he can eat. And then they're coming over for supper. Yeah. That's just because they're going to be there every Sunday. Yeah. Every Sunday we're going on.

So they get me this suave thing and I look at it. I said, what? It looks kind of like a dribble tool or something. You know, it's, what am I going to do with this? It's a temperature, or temperature gauge is what it? Yeah, you put your, you put it in a big pan of water and you heat the water up, and you put your meat in there so it cooks it all to the, like, if you want it, medium plus,

that'd probably be about 145 degrees. So you cook it all the way through to 145, and then when you take it out, it don't look like it's done. You take it on a grill and you get that grill up to about 700. See, that's what I do. That's what I do right now with the filet mignon, eight-ounce filet mignon. I actually sear it on all sides. I actually do it like it's a round chunk of meat, eight ounces.

You know, I turn it sideways. Okay, like when it's laying on the plate, you know, it's flat. I pick it up, turn it sideways. I do one side, flip it, do the other side, do this, the end. that you didn't do, turn it over to the end and then I do the lay it flat. And the trick to it is you cook it two minutes on a medium. Medium heat.

Medium heat. It's the same everywhere. Yeah. You cook it two minutes. Medium plus. And then, hey, when you eat it, you cut it in the middle, it's light pink, it's juice running everywhere. Medium plus.

Medium plus. Yeah, medium plus is because you stand it up, right? That's the plus. it is. It's just regular beating it would have it. Yeah, yeah. Just on one side. One side or the side.

I cook it. I actually sear it. Here we go. Locking all the juice in. Lock them all in. Okay. And then when you cut it, it's light pink. Y'all, and like these things are usually anywhere from like about four to two and a half inches thick.

And I, when you cut it, it'll melt in your mouth. It's juicy. Okay. For his steak, that's about 50 bucks. Huh? Oh, yeah, yeah. They're expensive. But, hey, it can't hide money.

It's fine. So you can take a whole, you could take the whole filet. Right, don't cut it. No, no, yeah. Put it in a big bag, season it all up, eject it with something. Yeah, yeah. Suvi it for about three hours. And they get that green egg, get it wet, about 700 degrees.

Yeah. A green egg is dangerous. It burned all the hair off you. I was just fixed eight. Because, hey, it's dangerous. I caught a, I caught a rib-eye on fire on it one time. Oh, yeah. He's got two of them.

No, no. That's dangerous. I wouldn't have a green. Yeah, you got to burp them thing. Yeah, because when you open it, if you open it, when it's been sitting there and got hot, you're like you tell me it. It'll burn, it.

That's why your beard's been uneven in all these years. It'll make your cat like quick, though, because it. Oh, no. No, yeah. Hey, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. been there all right well let's take another break we'll be back right after this

so big dave look you're a legend around here a local fishing legend your son always says you deep fry a pork tenderly how how do you do this i'm i'm legitimately curious you just drop the whole thing and a thing of peanut oil or like yeah you know you need one of the cajian cookers yeah maybe i'll get sponsored by r and v works they hey maybe if not we can just come buy one from the Hell. We don't sell them no more. Oh, never mind. They're big.

They're big. They're big time. You've been in a nice. Oh, yeah, he ain't got enough room anymore. You take that, you take that pork loin cut it half. Uh-huh. Just rub it down with whatever he likes, Tony's, whatever kind of season you like, a lot of black pepper. And then you get that thing up to about, that grease up to about 350 degrees.

Just drop both halves. You cut it half because the whole thing won't fit that in the cooker. You ever heard of such? Hey. And then. I think Stone does it that way. He's told me I hadn't ate one yet. Let the grease get down to about 300.

Yeah. And just keep it at about 300, about 10 minutes a pound. Really? Man. It's good. Yeah, I always see pictures. He can deep fry anything. Yeah, that's crazy, man.

I just had to know. I didn't tell you. Well, deep fried, that's like, oh, you're a good cook. I said, no, I just fried it. Yeah. If you fried, it's good. You know, he's the luckiest man alive, too. I always thought Willie was, and then I was second.

Well, you got to be careful with that. though. That's like when you're cooking a whole turkey in hot grease. Because you got to be, you know, you got to be careful when you're food and well. You got to know what you're doing. He just won another friar. On what? At some men's night. He went to a church thing and they were like, hey, thanks for coming.

Here's a double basket deep friar. Oh, yeah. He's living right. That's you just put that out. On his back porch, there's two big green eggs and two deep friars right. Well, hey, look, you got to take care of the cook. That sounds like a flat top. That sounds like a man who...

He got that pit boss flat top one year for... What was that? Father's Day, something where I wanted to do. That sounds like a man with a lot of grandkids. Yeah, you got to take care of the cook. He's the cook. Yeah. He is the cook.

Whatever you cook, you've got to have chicken nuggets to go with it. Yeah. That's a staple. Yeah. Where that many grandkids is. Yeah, that's a... Yeah, kids kills me. So I know my experience, but I'm interested in know yours, Dave.

How is it working with your son? Oh, hey. I thought we were going to go down the What's it like? Outdoor industry. Now, now. Charging forward. Heck, no.

Now that the prodigal son has returned home. That's right. I have returned. Now that you're living out that section of the Bible, how is it? I'm just curious. So I work with the son. It's working with the son's mother that kind of buffers the sun all the time.

Oh, okay. Is he a mama's boy? It's him. Are you a mama's boy? I don't know. I already do that answer. I just wanted to admit. Hey, look, I'm a mama's boy too, so don't hear me like say guilty.

You ain't get me. I'm one. This is the Mama's Boy podcast. I went to see my mama right before I came. Yeah. Yeah, he actually did. He went in time. Well, no, though, because, hey, that's my favorite person in the world.

Yeah. I was my favorite person in the world. Absolutely. And you were the youngest son. Yep. Yep. Youngest. Youngest.

You are right in the middle. It just kind of fit. Youngest son has a rough, rough life, okay? No, we didn't. Yeah, we did. You may have, but I can speak for me and this guy. I'm not going to say that. My dad is present.

I have six siblings, okay? Yeah, we did not. We both had just an older siblings. Six of them. Because all I ever heard, you know, I didn't, I all asked me on time, okay, I want you to do a lesson for church, you know? perseverance. No, so I was working the lesson up and came from that by doing the lesson

that I had an identity crisis. Because all my life, all I ever heard when I went to school was, well, Harold Jean wouldn't have done it that way. Jimmy Frank wouldn't have done it that way. Judy wasn't have done it that way, and I'm going, hey, look, hey, look over here. I ain't Harold Jean.

I ain't Jimmy Frank. I ain't Judy. it's a sigh. All I ever heard was somebody else's name. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. And then A&E came along and they all found out. I'll tell you what, buddy.

You got the last laugh of. I'll tell you that right now, pal. That may have happened your whole life, but you're the one that's 75 still laughing. Well, no, no. And laughing all the way to back. I guarantee it. I wasn't going to throw that out there.

He already did. He eats four-inch filet menu. yons for another rest of the week he eats more meal hot comali so they all look they all asked what is the biggest change in y'all's life since y'all went from just old country poor country boys to y'all to duck dynasty stars yeah and i said the menu yeah and that's it what you're talking about i said hey it went from bologna to prime rib yeah the grub got better i will say that happened you know we ain't on size level over here at the local tackle shop but we're doing all right we eating better than we were in 2000 we don't have beef stroganoff anymore yeah but we got big

Dave out there just slinging hey look he though beef stroganoff still fire oh gross what you know homemade beef stroganoff man it's just gravy that was my mom's pasta and gravy hey when it comes right down to it my sister used to say this by older sister yeah she's with the lower right now yeah And she would say, I can't wait to get away from home. I'm never going to eat another pinto bean and cornbread in my entire life. Man. Hey, look. I love pinto beans and cornbread.

She would come home from college. Y'all mom would say, what you work? Pinto beans and cornbread. There it is. It feels like home. You know, hey. What you grew up with, you know? I remember used to being a kid, like saying, for New Year's Day, we always ate black

eye peas and cabbage all the traditional stuff i'm here and said man when i grew up i ain't we ain't yeah you walk in my house january at first i you go out of it smells like black eye peas and cabbage and it feels good oh it ain't no it ain't no it ain't nothing better i can do the cabbage i'm a hard pass no no no no that's one of the finest bills there is is cabbage cooked right yeah yeah cabbage that next day in a duck blind oh rude rude a lot of things that send you into some intestinal stress with black ice and cabbage. You got dueling banjos in your belly then, but it's a bad deal. Hey, look, you can prank anybody in there, boys, when you eat cabbage.

You nasty. Well, I'm going to say it, okay. If you eat cabbage, they'd go to work at the honeyhole next day, you just spend a lot of time on the power bait item. Yeah, you sit and stand over there selling steak, mate. What's that? Head over to the catfish aisle. This magic bait is frown. Gosh, golly.

It's one of the SPDs, boys. Solid but deadly. That is the truth, though. I do love. I say, hey, Big Dave took it easy on you. He didn't let out no secrets. No. Other than just outing you as a mama's boy.

That was kind of funny. Everybody kind of knew that. Well, maybe our listeners didn't. Everybody knows you do that. Everybody knows you. Everybody, I mean, we call Big Dave and Big Jam, but Big Jan is like 5-2. five five she's worked as well well five but hey she could hold her on is she she's she's scary

she's so she can hold her own oh every time working for my dad is kind of a breeze working for my mom who got a little johnny in her oh boy now we're getting into now we're getting into cori's family oh wow what a lot man we can tell them stories too we'll be late we still got 10 more minutes so we'll take a break and come back right after this Now you're heavily involved with Celebrate Recovery and helping folks beat the same thing that. Yeah, I lead the anger group. The anger group, I've told a lot of people this over the years, the anger group is kind of like the next step.

It's like a graduate assistant group. Because when they get off drugs and alcohol, they realize the reason they were on drugs and alcohol is because they were so pissed off. Yeah. So that's, now they have a lot of. to deal with anger without anything numbing it. So that's what we've worked through. And it comes to find out it was the best thing ever happened to me

because I found people that were wired the same way I am, which is a little too tight. Yeah. And so they helped me work through a lot of the anger that I had and a lot of the ways I handled things in anger. So, you know, the people that got off drugs helped me deal with my anger. and I helped them

we kind of all just pointed each other to Jesus on hey he's the one can take care of the anger and celebrate recovery is big in the Owen family anyway because Mike yeah he's like the

what is he the universal global director he's the CEO of all eight Grand Poupa Grand Pupac and that's your brother Pope of C.R. Yeah

no no yeah yeah yeah I could have used this dear that's what I I had a lot of anger issues when I was in the military. Did you? Oh, yeah.

I can't picture you as angry. I've seen you angry. I was raised by Army Sergeant. Well, no, no, because I was like you. Okay. I would look up and say, what was I supposed to learn from just what happened? I've been saying that every day about Teal season this year. No, no.

Why? You're looking up, did see nothing? Yeah, I'm like, why? What has changed? I used to think I knew what I was doing. What are you teaching me here? Yeah. What am I supposed to learn from this, Lord?

Yeah. I got one email. Yeah. You all ready for it? Read it, Tim. And I don't know what the odds of this are. And I promise you, I'm not lying. This is not a setup.

17 minutes ago, Josh emails in. Graduated this past May with a bachelor's degree in business management. And my goal slash dream is to one day own and run my own fishing. store. I really want my business to be Christ-centered and a tool to help further the kingdom. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated. Well, sir, I have just the man that may give you advice on how to own and run a fishing store. Take it away, Big Dave. Any advice? Yeah. Get up early. Stay late and make sure you got what they want. If you ain't got what they won't, get it. If you can't get it, they don't need it. In other words,

Dude, you're fixed to put in some long, hard hours to be successful. Okay? Because, hey, look, you ain't got nobody else to turn to. You know, the buck's going to stop, and it's going to stop on you. Wise man told me once you get into it, just what you get out of it, just what you put into it. What you're going to put into it, that's right. And I will say, as a shopper of honey hole still, even before all of this, every time I went in there once y'all purchased the business,

that man was there. Didn't matter what time of day. It didn't matter if I went first thing in the morning, headed to the river going fishing, or if I was killing time at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on a random Thursday. He was there. A prophet is not what known or respected in his own community.

I try to turn him into a prophet now, so I get out of there a little bit more. Now you'll see one of them. Enjoy what you've got. Well, which is good. But I mean, I saw him, but what I'm saying, even when I would go in there, and this is for everybody, Big Dave owns a business, and I've seen him toting out the trash, I've seen him fixing a rod and reel, I've seen him dipping shiners.

Well, you've got to know the job. He's done every job of his place. You got to know the job to be able to train somebody. That's exactly right. And to know when your employees are full of crap, when they tell you they can't do something. You're like, no, no. It can be done. I did it.

Yeah. It can be done because I sit. turn, don't it. Yeah, that's not, your issue is managed. I did it better and faster than you did. Yeah, there you go. Learn. And back in the day, well, back in the day, though, like, you were, we're open 6 a.m.

to 6 p.m. and there were many days where you showed up at 6 a.m. and you didn't leave until 6 p.m. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's what, that's what takes building business sometimes. You know, the first, after I bought the honeyhole, cash flow wasn't real great around the O in residence. I bought a Ford single cab truck off eBay and drove. bit so you could have by the other truck. That truck was sweet. Thank you for that.

Yeah. That's 1999 Z. Yeah. Once I figured out what he drove, I'd always drive by there to see if he's there. I'd like stop in and talk to him. Oh, he was there. Just in case, I wanted to make sure he wouldn't go on to lunch or nothing. And he put all that time in and now he's got two identical tundress.

Yeah, leaves one hook to the boat and one going to work. Boyd got a lot more bumps in it. It's a little older. Yeah. Well, a man that runs a guy. Hey, somebody wants to buy that. Hey, look, a man that runs a bait shop is got to go fish every once in a where he can talk to his client.

Every Wednesday. Every Wednesday. Hey. Wednesday morning. Hey, you want to talk to a guy that knows what he's doing. On Wednesdays, you'll either find him on a lawnmower or with a fishing pole in his hand. That's the two places you'll see here. Or here. We got him today.

We got him today. He runs smooth out of things to do today. So he ended up here. I got plenty. I never run out of things. He can't. Oh, well, Big Dave, thanks so much for joining us. We always close with a Bible verse.

I got you one ready. Oh, there you go. Well, you know how I always say sometimes. Well, I don't have one, but my dad sent me this one. Amen. At 543 this morning. When the times are good, be happy. When times are bad, consider this.

God has made one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about the future. Ecclesiastes 714. God's in control too much to worry about the future and what may happen is just a waste of energy. That's what my dad sent me this morning. Enjoy. Enjoy. appreciate both.

Ain't that's the truth. That's what I'm learning about TLCS. Because that's what life is, no, that's what life is about, folks. And the fall cropy bite. Okay.

Amen. All right. We'll see y'all next time in the duck call room. We're out. Thanks for joining Big Day. Yeah. Yep.