Duck Call Room - Willie Robertson Totally Embarrassed Bella's Husband at Their Wedding

Episode Date: November 7, 2023

Uncle Si and Martin explain a famous southern saying that John-David has apparently misunderstood his entire life. Stone and Martin relive their merciless initiations into the Duckmen inner circle. Jo...hn-David gets a chance to poke fun at Godwin's irrational fear of icy water and the boys lose it over the nickname Godwin tried to give himself. The boys realize that the Robertsons are kings of embarrassing nicknames and explain what “home field advantage” means when it comes to unexpected bowel movements. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I'm sure Johnny D will make a grand entrance here in a minute. But, Stone, you on the mend? Oh, yeah. That's good. That old, that old idis got me. Ius. Some kind of idis. Nowadays, you don't want to go find out what kind of idas it is.
Starting point is 00:00:26 Yeah. Oh, I know. We've been sick for over a month. It was one of them idices, man. I was down for about a week. Yeah. Yep. I'm back now, though.
Starting point is 00:00:35 So it's in the wind, boys. If you go out in the woods and it's in the air, then you're going to get it. You're going to get it. That's why you just stay at home and sleep. Well, no. That's why you still active. Hey, no. Copmanston was on a deer stand last night.
Starting point is 00:00:48 Was you? Oh, yeah. It was a very enjoyable hunt. We've seen about 30, maybe more, but 10 of them was bucks. Because the deer were the moms and the yearlings were acting weird. They're spooky. They're jumping around all the time and looking up. and I was wondering what was going on.
Starting point is 00:01:06 I said, well, maybe a bobcat, a coyote slipping in the woods. Or a panther. Yeah, or a panther even. You never know. What it was, it was 10 bucks coming from every direction. Ah. And, I mean, you thought it pretty.
Starting point is 00:01:21 Oh, yeah. Three-year-old eight point come out of town. I mean, he was a beautiful deer, you know. He was bright red. Really? Yeah. That wasn't red. I don't guess that was red.
Starting point is 00:01:31 Did you all, did we kill red? No. Okay. No, he's... Okay. No, he's still... Well, no, he's still... What?
Starting point is 00:01:39 I said, he come by here and got a check this morning. Well, hey, did I get one? Oh, no. Oh, you're talking about a deer. I thought you were talking about Jimmy Reed. Oh, he had a deer called Big Red. Oh, never mind. My baby.
Starting point is 00:01:50 Yeah. And he was a pretty deer. Okay. Well, he's still out there. Okay. He was big and he was red. There you go. Well, good.
Starting point is 00:01:56 How quick? Did you take a heater? No. He's a little frost on a pumpkin yesterday. Oh, no. Oh, no. When I woke up, you know, that morning, And it had false on my truck.
Starting point is 00:02:05 I didn't have near enough clothes. I can tell you that. Yeah, this morning it was cold. Yeah. Well, I got up to coming to the podcast yesterday. Yeah. I had to, you know, had to thaw my windshield off. It was 37.
Starting point is 00:02:17 It was, uh, and that was 8.30 when I was. 29 this morning. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got them bill you're going to take to the, uh, 80s? No, it's the low is 60 over there. Oh, it ain't got cold yet?
Starting point is 00:02:32 No. Y'all about to leave and go. hunting in the desert. It's going to be high. It's going to be 85. I don't know. I don't know. We probably go over without them and just freeze their tail off.
Starting point is 00:02:40 It's going to be 85 in the evenings and 60 in the mornings. But we had an enjoyable hunt seen 10 bucks. We didn't turn into deer watchers. Oh, I enjoy it. I had to be fair. That's most of the time when I go deer hunting, I'm a deer watcher. I don't, I don't shoot many of them. Well, I'd tell people, look, if all it was was boom, I'd say never go again.
Starting point is 00:03:03 Yeah. If that's all it was to it. I said, because, hey, when you do this, boom, then the work starts. I guarantee you. That's what I always. And with me, it used to be the work would start. Now, he's there. Okay, so no, he takes care of all the work.
Starting point is 00:03:19 That's what I'm thinking. When a sheeter buck comes out right at dark, I'm thinking. Nope. I ain't doing it. I ain't doing it. No, no. Because, hey, look, he's got the green light. If I don't get it, I don't shoot.
Starting point is 00:03:30 Yeah. No. He's managing it. Okay. He's in charge of it. and said, hey, you say, you say, girl, or leave him alone. But them to come out at dark means you ain't getting home for another two, oh, no, maybe three hours.
Starting point is 00:03:43 Well, that's like his one. He could have killed an old one. He just said, hey, I don't feel like foolwood. Yeah. And that's taken into consideration that side makes a good shot. That's what I'm talking. That's why I said, make it, hold it, hold it. Hey, I mean, I told you, I was brain that devil that dope.
Starting point is 00:04:01 No, I give you, I give side. this. He's generally a really good shot. He don't cripple many deer. He'll shoot seven foot over his back. I would rather do that. He ain't much of a center
Starting point is 00:04:17 mass kind of guy. I would rather do that. That's that bunch on top of the hill. Well, he's after his surgery, he's having trouble seeing the crosshairs of a real fine reticle. No, no. No. He needs a
Starting point is 00:04:32 You need a heavy reticle? Yeah, a heavy reticle. That's worried I was looking for. Yeah, heavy. Heavy. Maybe even one that illuminate. I won't tell you, the best one I've ever had was a
Starting point is 00:04:43 redfield scope. It was six power. And it had, it had them, they come out wide. The wide field, the red field wide. Oh, no,
Starting point is 00:04:54 yeah, it had them wide and looked. The crosshairs were like a quarter of an inch. but it comes to the center and then it had the little bitty ones so you didn't even have to look at the little bitty ones I know what you're talking about you didn't even have to look at the little bitty ones
Starting point is 00:05:11 and look hey that was on my squirrel 22 okay going hey you know what I'm I shot them running that squirrels and hit them in the head but I just want to throw this at you I was actually in Academy the other day and the Redfield brand is back
Starting point is 00:05:28 okay so they're back building Redfield. You go look at Redfield Scopes. Well, hey, well, I'll have to go look now. Some kids stole that off of my 22 rifle. Good, no. Yeah. Welcome, Johnny D.
Starting point is 00:05:42 Was barely around there? Huh? No, no, this was, I was in the Army at Fort Bragg. Oh, I was going to. My next door neighbor's kids, okay, look. I was going to say we should have checked Tommy's estate sale. No. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:05:56 That's the first thing I had done. I went to Tommy's house and said, okay, let me check. Yeah, where about going? Yeah, where's the guns at, buddy? That's fantastic. But, hey, that Redfield with the wide, you know, cross-airs. Yeah. And then the small ones in the center.
Starting point is 00:06:15 And, I mean, you know, when it comes together, I mean, so, yeah, you just throw it up with the big ones. Get it between them. Hey, kill it. And whack him. Cat squirrel running full speed. Hey, I kill 66 of them. Okay. Now, you got to think about it.
Starting point is 00:06:28 66 of them I shot and shot them running half up in the head in the head I hit three in the neck out of 66 I hit only three in the neck none behind the shoulder nope nope nothing past the neck nobody shot okay this was head or neck running you know that's why it became mad because you know if I hit them in the head ain't no use cooking it yeah I ain't no use for her to find bloody yeah she don't get to get her squirrel oh yeah yeah so she said, hey, next time shoot him in the body. Yeah, behind, 12, rink. Yeah, shoot him like you would have deer.
Starting point is 00:07:05 Yeah, put it behind the shoulder. Body, shoulder shots. I want that. I want that. You know what's funny, Martin? He's told that to so many people he actually believes it's true now. That's what Phil. Isn't that like all of them?
Starting point is 00:07:19 That's what Phil told Jason one time. Hey, that's your uncle. He said, did you actually been believing him all these years? Well, everybody says he's lying, but if he's. If you believe it to be true, you're not lying. If that's the truth as you know it, if you believe it. If you go with me, okay, and then you watch me when I shoot stuff and it all falls, okay? Well, it ain't, it ain't a lie.
Starting point is 00:07:43 Yeah, I don't disagree. I support your message. I know that you truly believe in black people. Oh, no, according to the Robertson, my brothers and nephews, I've never killed anything. Mm-mm. Okay. No. But hey, you know, they blow a bunch of smoke, too.
Starting point is 00:08:01 Okay. I ain't the only smoke blower in the Robertson family. Yeah, but you're the best. Jace can hold his own. I'll give you that. And you're the kindest one. Oh, yeah. Most entertaining for sure.
Starting point is 00:08:14 Amen to that. And hey, you know, truth be known. If I wasn't with them, when they're duck hunting, every time I'm not there, they don't say, okay, how many we get out of that bunch? No. The only five of them coming in, we didn't kill but one. Everybody shot five times.
Starting point is 00:08:32 They say things like getting long in the tooth. Yeah, I said, hey, yeah. The killer ain't there, boy. Killer ain't there. He ain't there. Nothing dies. That's right. Hey.
Starting point is 00:08:41 Well, he's sucking hind tits. We'd never eat, boy, we'd never have any meat to eat if I ain't there. Yeah. Oh, barely says high and tit better than no tit. Marginly. There you go. I mean, it is better. Right.
Starting point is 00:08:54 But it is the last one. It is. You know, everybody else doesn't got on it. What does that even mean for the people listening in Ireland right now? Sucking high and teeth? Yeah. Really? They don't know.
Starting point is 00:09:08 So you have a... Most people, I'm just, I'm getting ahead of the email. It means you get what the little boy is shot at. Right. Yeah, like on a dog or a pig or anything that nurses, there's an order hierarchy of the on a female dog. It's a pecking order. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:24 And so, you know, The higher up. Yeah, the biggest puppy is always going to get the best one. It's going to get the top of them because it's closest to the milk supply, so they get more milk. As you go down, they steadily decrease. So generally the runt is back there on the high and hit. Which is why.
Starting point is 00:09:42 It's done being hit two or three times before he got to. Yeah, because they sampled it on their way up. They don't just go to the first one. They start here and work their way up. That's it. It was like sign them in that bathtub. Oh, yeah. Whenever, you know, they were.
Starting point is 00:09:56 last bath so hey when I got it it was filthy water. Yeah the only reason for warm water in the bath when he got there was urine. That's right. That's it. That's a problem. That was a very aggressive last. It's like when you wear a black suit. Yeah. I wear a black suit and you pee on yourself. Nobody knows, but you get the warm feeling.
Starting point is 00:10:13 Wear black suit. Hey. Okay. Hey, that's a pro tip. Well, hey, there you go, boy. That's good. But no, that's what's second hind tip. That's what it means. I'm just laughing at people now. But that's the reason I always request.
Starting point is 00:10:26 the rite of the litter when I get a dog because he's a fighter. This whole time I thought it was high antit. And he ain't expected. No hind. Yeah, I just got it. My whole life I've been curious. I tried to blame it on the listeners. Are you the one that's on Chester's drawers or chest of drawers?
Starting point is 00:10:43 You don't even want to go there? But I thought it was high and tit and then I just found out it's hind tit. Okay. Yeah, way back here in the back. Learn something new every day. High end. Yeah. No, high end.
Starting point is 00:10:56 I thought that's what people would have been saying my whole life. Sucking a high end to you? Well, I'm sure there's somebody else. I don't know what it means either. I just said it. You just learned,
Starting point is 00:11:04 I learned something. I didn't know that you choose to run of the dogs because he is a fighter. Fighter, yeah. Because he's had to fight all his life. He's had to fight his whole life. Yep.
Starting point is 00:11:13 Yep. And I don't need to be carrying another man duck hunting with me. I want the smallest lab I can get my hands. Underdog. I always for the underdog. 50 pounds or less. Pocket dog.
Starting point is 00:11:23 That's what I like to call. But let's take it. a break now that Johnny Dee's here and joined us. We'll come back right after this. Bad time. All right, look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means.
Starting point is 00:11:36 That means more outside cooking. And y'all know, we love to eat beef around here. And that's what because of our friends over at Triedales beef makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sao Robertson would say, buy on the grill! Look, before we got Triedales, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the
Starting point is 00:11:56 grocery store, do all the things, grab whatever. was left in case you were late in the day. And you never really know where that beef comes from, but with Tritails beef, we skip the grocery store and do it a different way. Tritels comes from a family ranch out in Texas. They're a fifth generation American ranch.
Starting point is 00:12:12 So they've been at it for a while. Now, look, the beef comes straight from their ranch and other ranchers they work with who raise cattle the same way. Their steaks are properly aged and shipped straight from the ranch to your door. We threw a couple of ribbys on the grill. Look, salt, pepper, garlic, hot fire. That's
Starting point is 00:12:28 all you need. Look, because I'll tell you what, when the beef comes from people who raise cattle for a living, you can taste the difference. The tenderness and the flavor are fantastic. So if you're stocking the freezer for grilling season, go check out Tritails Beef. I know in size case, Christine loves it, which is just a, she doesn't eat meat. She isn't a big meat easier, folks. Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's trybeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. Yeah, Phil's coming here tomorrow, I think, to record for Sadies or something. So y'all listening, go check that out on that one drops. Yeah, that'll be good.
Starting point is 00:13:05 But, hey, the podcast team requested, can Phil come hang out in your office that way and get some, you got some stuff for him at that way? He doesn't feel like the trip to town's a wasted time. I was like, y'all don't understand. He going to make you think as a waste of time anyway. He ain't ever just going to say yes. Whether he enjoyed coming to do it or not. He going to get up and say, got what you need.
Starting point is 00:13:25 Yeah. He plays the same game. him and Jay's play that same game. They make it as miserable on you as you can stand it. So you won't ever ask them to do anything. You ask them to do something? It's all for sport. That's it.
Starting point is 00:13:41 It really is. I mean, I know on the inside when they're doing that, they're smirking. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, watch yes. Yeah, I'm about to fleece these suckers. They ain't going to ask me to do that again. So just out of spite, I ask them to do it again. It's always been a attempt.
Starting point is 00:13:57 and I just learned that. Yeah. Going with them. They all want to, well, they always test you. Yeah. Because they don't want to have any fun.
Starting point is 00:14:05 No. No. Make it as miserable you can. Why don't you bring a heater? Oh, no, we don't want to do that. Who's a man?
Starting point is 00:14:12 It's just like my first year here. They hatched the idea to move the decoys at midnight every night. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. Wait. I remember that. You don't think that wouldn't initiate?
Starting point is 00:14:20 Oh, yeah. Questions. Yeah. Why? So you didn't disturb the ducks. And I was better enough to do it. You don't. You don't want to get there.
Starting point is 00:14:28 I don't want to get there early in the morning to do it. You got to do it at midnight where if any is there flying around in the early morning, you want it already ready. So y'all would go down there at midnight, move to Coys. My first season here, I pretty much lived on Phil and Kay's couch or the lot, which every one I could get to first. Yeah, and not on that, if we saw a duck light over there and we did not have a blind. Yeah, chainsaw.
Starting point is 00:14:57 Okay, hey, chainsaws, cut the bus. Two by fours. Yeah, two befores. And, hey, go over tonight. And I want a blind there in the morning where eight people can sit in it. Now, what? Gobble walked off one night. Just walked off.
Starting point is 00:15:10 He got a text from Miss Paula that said, get home. Yeah, yeah. And Gobin, all you saw was his little headlight walking through the wood. Gone. Looked up, he gone. What year was this? 2010. Oh, when we saw?
Starting point is 00:15:26 Nine, 2010. Hey, when Phil sunk the boat and we were, we was breaking ice is how he sunk it. Guy went, okay, they all got wet, okay. Well, the next time, Guy was wading through the woods and told me, I'll see y'all tomorrow, maybe. Yeah, going home, boys. I'm going home. Well, he's got that ice phobia anyway.
Starting point is 00:15:46 Oh, well, yeah. Cold water and Godwin don't mix. That's why I got a hot tub. Yeah. But I'm serious. You know, I'm surprised that the people of. we hunt with the ones that have stayed. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:01 Yeah. Some of us found a better mouse trap. Going with them. Okay. First rule is, hey, don't come out here laughing and having fun. No, can't do that. Okay. And hey, look, you're used to.
Starting point is 00:16:12 Now we have a heater. Used to, though. Oh, no, don't bring a heater. Oh, well, wait a minute. It's below freezing tomorrow. Let's get a heater. No, we ain't taking a heater. Well, the only part is...
Starting point is 00:16:23 You'll be warm if you've got a heater. I want you miserable. Now since 2010, I know for a fact, Phil has had a heater since 2008. Oh, no. That's the same. But it was the only one allowed. They changed on that. Oh, yeah. Oh, they just changed on.
Starting point is 00:16:36 Hey, Burley. Grab that propane bottle. Yeah. Okay. Hey, I know. I know. I got to get some small ones. That was the 30-pound one.
Starting point is 00:16:45 I do have a question for you. As a man who used to unload the boat all the time, you old farts go sit down when you get there, which is fine. Yeah. Why are yours and Phil, Robertson's bag so heavy. Look, what do you take? No, no, I know what I feel is there. I go with a pocket full of shells and two
Starting point is 00:17:04 bottles of water. Hey, mine is very light. Except for, except for. Okay. You know, I spent 24 and a half years of military. This kid right here isn't going to run out of ammunition. So when I pick your bag up, it's that heavy, that's
Starting point is 00:17:20 all ammo? Hi, it's full box of the shotgun shells. Technically, he don't go now. Yeah, he don't go ducking anymore. Like, he's retired from ducking. That's not true. Okay, I have a man on the inside, okay, and when he alerts me, you want to come today? Yeah, you go when it's sunny.
Starting point is 00:17:41 Then I go. You go when it's sunny 75 and a strong south wind. That's it. A big comfortable blast. Yeah, that's all he's doing. Roger that. Leave the kid at home. I'm going to be in my bed on my pillow.
Starting point is 00:17:59 Ice hole. Oh. I'm going to be in my bed with my pillow and checking my eyelids. For penthouse. My man can kill six ducks. He takes 100 shells. Oh, 100. I will say, there was the one day, and it's in our swamp room in the tour,
Starting point is 00:18:17 where we shot two Mallard Drake's, and we proceeded to shoot two boxes of shells trying to kill them. Yeah, y'all didn't stop shooting. No, we all kept shooting to the point where we were just laughing. Like, because they hit the, we were hunting the wrong wind for the wrong blind, so we shot them in the butt, and they landed out there about 50, and they're just cruising, we ain't got a dog, and we just, boom, boom. And this is like seven people in the blind.
Starting point is 00:18:45 Yeah. Well, I know it's what, me, Stone, you, W.E., Phil, Goblin. They're six right there. You know, Jason was there somewhere. So this shit was just constantly just boom boom boom boom boom boom if the neighbors if the neighbors heard that they were trying to figure out what just happened what video was that on I don't know maybe I don't know probably 14 or 15 something I don't know but it was it was funny it was now we did burn through some shells then we's all using everybody's shells on that one that was a good one I mean it plays in that swamp room it's pretty funny to go back and watch but I'll never forget it butt shot two milder Drake's at about 40 because they snuck in there on us. And didn't kill them outright.
Starting point is 00:19:28 So, hey, they were swimming off. And, hey, I don't know what it is about a duck on the water. They're hard to kill. When they're swimming away from you, they are. They're hard to kill. If they're broadside, they're pretty easy. But they're swimming away from you. Them wasn't easy.
Starting point is 00:19:43 Because, hey, I can't tell. We probably shot a box of shells a piece at them. Yeah. We smash. Okay, seven men. Okay, and they shot 25 times a piece. I'd never forget it. We just all got tickled at each other.
Starting point is 00:19:58 Man, that was on that mail. Another one was the day we shot at Jacks. Oh, raining jacks. Yeah, the 300 jacks that come over and lit, and they lit about 60. And Phil started it off with the 10 gates. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:20:14 Boom. Yeah, that one never gets old. That's another one, W.E. got the laughing. Oh, no, no. I couldn't keep shells in my gun. gun. That's all you hear me saying, I can't keep a shell of my stupid gun. Note to self. When W.E. makes his December journey down here to visit his mama, we got to get him in here. Oh, I told it. He slipped out here without doing it last. Is that Jason? Yeah,
Starting point is 00:20:36 I'm trying to find the clip of y'all shooting. I gave him that hat, you know, way back at the First Army hat. Oh, yeah, the bomber hat. Yeah. And he wore it to slam out. Yeah, but he don't like you. No, he don't care on about it. Let's take a break. We'll be back right after this. It was a good time, boys. Amen. Hunter said we need to talk
Starting point is 00:21:04 about Gobbin's ice phobia, which is always way funnier when Goblin's not here. Yeah. Because Gobwin just gets his feelings hurt on the things he's done to avoid ice and says that a lot of them are made up. No, they're not made up. Now, some of them are embellished.
Starting point is 00:21:20 The one where Jay's now says he walked like eight miles around Barrett's place to not cross the now. What was the last time you saw Gallum walk eight miles? Well, he walked a long way because I'm sitting here thinking about when you were talking about it. Yeah, but I mean it's like... Were you there?
Starting point is 00:21:36 Yeah, it was in Kansas. Yeah, it's a 200 by 200 feet. I know, I know, I know, he didn't walk eight miles. The little ditch was like, what, five feet? Yeah, I mean, it was, it was deep on him, but I mean, it wasn't nothing like, it wasn't going to go over his weighters. Everybody else slid across the eyes, right? Yeah, yeah. And then, it was, it was deep on, it. me and Gowman broke through. And so when he broke through, he was like,
Starting point is 00:21:58 I ain't going to first. I ain't going there. And me, I just sat on my butt and got back on top of it. I was like, this isn't bad. He's like, yeah, but it hurts. And I'm like, okay. Whatever. They were on the blind, behind the blind coming in.
Starting point is 00:22:12 Yeah. From the bank, okay. So we hear crash, say, but y'all all right? Yeah. And it's all we busted to it's a little thing here. Yeah, I ain't no problem. Yeah. Well, Gowman is crawling back to the bank.
Starting point is 00:22:24 Yeah. he gone. He walked around the field to come up on the levee. He made the big loot. Yeah. But Jason will say now is like eight miles. It's like a 200 by 200. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:35 Half a mile. Yeah. Half a mile. Now, you know, Gobbans got a shorter stride than most. So he probably got a few extra steps in, especially being in wait. Well,
Starting point is 00:22:44 because I remember that day that no legs got, was wearing Phil's hip boots and how he got water full up. No. You know. And hey, look. Everybody called that guy a no leg. What was his name? I don't remember.
Starting point is 00:22:57 Did he have legs? He was short. He had legs. He had a long... He was one of them guys that had a long torso and tiny legs. Yeah, and short legs. I'm serious. He looked funny.
Starting point is 00:23:09 Okay, I can't help but say it. He looked funny. These boys, if you show up and have some sort of physical abnormality, that's your name. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Handicap. That's it. Okay.
Starting point is 00:23:22 Well, some people would look at having things. 30-inch legs and a 40-inch torso is a handicap. Is he the guy that ran the barbecue twin town? He had a long torso. Well, no, no, because he was known for two things. Okay. That's terrible. Was he?
Starting point is 00:23:36 You know what I'm talking. I know who you told me. That's terrible. How's that terrible? He had a long torso. He did. He did. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:23:45 He never knows that. He made great money. He did do that. But he had a long torso. Hey, normally, normally, how high is his hip boots? about 30 inches or something. Okay. All right.
Starting point is 00:23:58 His legs were shorter than 30 inches. Yeah. Okay. I wish I had a tape measure. You know, two foot is like this. Another foot, you know, this kid, you know, and he had a giant torso. Okay. No leg.
Starting point is 00:24:14 That's why they named him no legs. Oh, yeah. Oh, that feels the best nickname giver. But Martin's right. They'll pick whatever stands out the most. Whatever you don't like about it. out yourself. Whatever you don't like.
Starting point is 00:24:26 Whatever, whatever people have made fun of you for your whole life. Oh, yeah. He called Shelby Thick Legs. Yeah. Old thick legs. Big size. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:36 Nobody ever called it at. Yeah, he did too. Big time. He showed it, but she took it in stride. Well, he had to have thick skin to work around here.
Starting point is 00:24:45 That's right. Yeah. I'll never forget. It said, Hey, there, thick legs. You ain't going to tell me what to do. I mean,
Starting point is 00:24:52 he looked straight as Shelby at that day. I was sitting there. It was deadpan, okay? You ain't going to tell me. You ain't going to tell me what to do. I was like, but yeah, if something stands out like, you know, if you lost a finger, there's a old weight finger, you know, I mean, like, you know.
Starting point is 00:25:09 Oh, no. You got a, if you got a web foot or something, there, here comes old duck foot. You know, I mean, just whatever. Martin had a good one. Horse head. That bunch that showed up was going to clean our duck lines out with a red, Oh, yeah, the exterminator. Billy the exterminator.
Starting point is 00:25:28 One of them had, he was a snake wrangler. Well, his index finger was missing right here, and we said, what happened to that? No, that was Doug Dynasty. Well, yeah. That was old Mike from Doug Dynasty. And I said, what happened to that? And he said, oh, I was handling a rattlesnake, and he bit by my finger. You know, we had to cut it off.
Starting point is 00:25:50 And they said, yeah, remind me not to call you when, you know, you know, if I need a snake handler. Yeah. You don't know what you're doing. He was down to nine and a half. You remember when Galvin tried to give himself a nickname? A Wildcat? He wrote Wildcat on all of his grit. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:04 Oh, Wildcat. He's going to get in, uh. Change his nickname. He's going to change. Not all. This was his first. He didn't have one. Now, he'll tell you that Phil called him Wildcat.
Starting point is 00:26:15 So he's like, oh, I got, I got a nickname Wildcat on everything. Yep. So, uh, I don't know how it happened, but I think he'll, Phil said, I don't know if I can repeat that. Oh, you can. I mean, because it's a common name. He said, wild cat, remind me more of a pussy cat. He said, I'm more like a meow, not wow.
Starting point is 00:26:38 But then I think Phil rethought it in the next day, he kind of started calling him the walrus. Well, that's because the next day he had to get up in that elmhole line, and he just kind of rolled to get in it. It was a good idea you getting in here like a walrus. And then that one stuck, buddy. Yeah, that one stuck with him. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:53 Once Walrus come up across Phil's lips, that one's stuck. Oh, Walrus. Oh, man. So you got barely, so you think of some more nicknames. What's he called Skippy Covionion? Goosledon. Goosledon. I think Lyle will come up with that.
Starting point is 00:27:07 Yeah, but it hung on him. Oh, goosledon. Because he cleans some ducks. He cleaned some woodies. And left the goozles in it. Yeah. Yeah, he didn't get the lungs and everything else. Every one of them.
Starting point is 00:27:20 You had to redo it. Yeah. Yeah. The only thing he got out was like the gizzard. Like he reached there, got the gizzard. The rest of it, yeah, the rest of it was still in. Everything else. I mean, you mess up around these boys.
Starting point is 00:27:33 It's on. Oh, yeah. But Willie hang on you too. Oh, Willie's just as good. There's a guy in town that's a waiter. Oh, that's the jacks. He's two years younger than me. That's the Jacks right there.
Starting point is 00:27:44 And he, if Willie sees him, because whenever he was seven years old, he said he had mud and his butt out at Camp Chioca. Because he slipped and fell in a little. puddle he goes mom i got mud in my butt willie if if he walks in that kid in town he's like oh it's old mud in his butt here working at this place i'm like what are we not gonna let that one go nope and old mud butt butt boy well he called his future son-in-law butt cut oh right i mean like well he did have a part right down the middle of his hair well butt cut from balkhamville he said that it at the rehearsal dinner yeah no at their wedding i'm pretty sure the rehearsal dinner
Starting point is 00:28:21 The rehearsal dinner, because I was there, and I laughed for 10 minutes. Everybody laughs except for him and his dad. No, but then he, then at the wedding, at the wedding. At the wedding. Well, you were there. Yeah. That crap was so funny. I know why his dad did him because they looked like this.
Starting point is 00:28:41 Oh, yeah. At the wedding, Willie told, he was like, all right, yeah, after it was over and they walked out, he said, and all you people from Palmfield, don't keep any of the fish. go down to my car. Yeah. No, the way he said it was, he said,
Starting point is 00:28:57 because Sadie had just got married, and he said, well, I looked up, old Sadie shows up with Christian from Niceville. And then I look up
Starting point is 00:29:06 and here comes Bella with butt cut from Bacomville. Yeah. And look, the whole room just bust out laughing. Oh. Oh, that was so funny.
Starting point is 00:29:18 Oh, well. What about a Benny Do-Doodoo? Benny do do do do Oh, Jimson? Benny Doodoo. Well, Phil named him Jimson. And then Willie hung Benny Doodoo on him because you remember why? I do not.
Starting point is 00:29:31 He was letting, you remember that RV? Oh, yeah, he lived in the RV. He lived in the RV and Willie walked in there and the smell was just atrocious. And from then on, he was known as Benny Doodoo. He is in my phone as Benny the Doodoo. Oh. But he was. He was gymson to everybody here.
Starting point is 00:29:52 Yeah. And I know his parents showed up, and they couldn't find him. Nobody knew his real name. We looking for Benjamin Mongols. And they said, oh, don't know. We don't have anybody by that name. Well, they named Jordan the Hobbit.
Starting point is 00:30:04 Yeah, he went from the Hobbit to Frodo. Frodo. I mean, you just, hey, Hunter, you're laughing over there. You're in this office now. You're close. Just wait. It won't be Hunter long. We've all been very nice to you for 300 episodes.
Starting point is 00:30:20 But too many of these robberses start showing up. If you got something that you don't like about yourself, cover it right now. Don't let them say your car. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. Park in the back. Stay in the back.
Starting point is 00:30:35 I don't know how they can use an orange Ford Focus against you or whatever that thing is. They will. They will. They will. That ain't a Ford Focus. That's one of them things of hamsters. That's one of them cubes. That's one of them.
Starting point is 00:30:47 Yeah. I don't know what that thing is. I was wearing a. my green jacket once and Willie called me Oz because he can never remember my he doesn't even remember meeting me he takes your last name is eyes born I guess no I think he was calling me the wizard of Oz really maybe I don't know that's what he calls Gary Glenn just depends on the day just depends on the day hunter but every time I meet him he never remembers me I'm just saying if there's not personal if there's something that can identify you in your office as being different hide it hide it
Starting point is 00:31:16 Keep it in your desk. If you just want to be Hunter, you just play this school. You'll be all right. Well, one, one, uh, when I, when I gripped beer started turning a little gray, I put a little dye in my beer,
Starting point is 00:31:29 this was about five years ago. And I saw Willie the next day. Uh-oh. There's old black beard. Yeah. Their attention to detail is disturbing. Oh, it's crazy. They'll know if you gained a pound overnight.
Starting point is 00:31:44 Oh, yeah. Like, what's you eating? I'm like, what are we talking about? Yep, it's wild, man. Anyway, let's take another break. We'll be back after this. Well, Si, you're excited about our trip. Where are you going?
Starting point is 00:32:00 To South Texas? Oh, what are you talking about? Yeah, I'm excited. The last time I was there, I got to choose that. Oh, yeah. Okay. And I told telling Martin earlier, you know, I seen 65 deer. The first morning we was there.
Starting point is 00:32:18 And 36 of them was bucks that was bigger. than that. Well, I said, yeah. I fact-checked you on that. I asked Justin, I said, do you all have any deer bigger than the one-sized shot? He said, one. Hey. Well, hey, he's been busy because, hey, I watched them.
Starting point is 00:32:34 Okay, I seen 36. I just kept looking at my binoculars saying, good, great. I said, Justin, when are you going to give me the green light, son? Right now. It was 35, and then one minute later it was 36. Yeah. That's how side stories were. I told him, I said, because he reminded me,
Starting point is 00:32:53 he said, yeah, we go and hunting. I said, well, whatever it is, got to be bigger than that one. That's right. You can't go backwards. Yeah. Well, no, no, because I was telling Eddie, I said, well, that's probably going to be the biggest. I want something behind my head, too. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:03 Biggest buck that I'll ever kill. He said, would not if you hunt next year. And I said, well, you're right. I said, because I don't watch the hit parade go by me yesterday morning. Yeah. So you got, you got, what, red, green, red, yellow. You know, tag. God bless of marriage.
Starting point is 00:33:23 Yellow is three years old. Oh. Red is four years old. I was going to say. I was going to say, yellow is five years old. I was going to say yellow is five grand. Red is ten grand. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:33:34 And orange is. If you got to ask, you shouldn't be here. Yeah. Yeah. If you got to ask what color to shoot, you don't need to be there. Yeah. I got a row out. I don't see you know with a tag in his ear.
Starting point is 00:33:47 Boy, I will. Now, if this one of them axes. Yeah. Now, you're talking about some good. Oh, no. I was going to shoot an axis over at Eddie's. And he was just, and he, hey, he felt the vibes. Well, I put the scope on him because they said it for 470.
Starting point is 00:34:04 That's 470. He felt the facts. Oh, no. Oh, no. He felt the vibe. They said, hey, Justin is one. He said, I said, how far is that axis down there? Because he asked me, you want to shoot him?
Starting point is 00:34:15 I said, I shoot him. you know so hey he he he raised him he said 470 and i said well what we're going to do he said let me set the gun so he set the scope to 470 and hand it to me as soon as i put the crosshairs on that deer he was standing in the broad open hey he felt my vibes i was just fixed squeeze trigger and hey he jumped in in the brush he felt that he felt that icy stare that's right he was fit go down i'm telling you four 70 hey 470 at 400 70 yards. I couldn't even tell you as a deer. Oh, no. Oh, you could know. On this
Starting point is 00:34:51 one, you'd know. You'll look, he had seven foot out or sticking up above his eight. That's like there was a bull, boys. That's coming from the guy. How far was that deer? That one there was about 60. And you couldn't even see his aunt was, so you're
Starting point is 00:35:07 telling me an axe is deer at 470 yards. That was pretty. You were looking at a mesquite bush. No, no, I'm telling you, hey, you were to think when he took the camera and me shooting that deer, you wouldn't think it was 10 o'clock in the daylight. When I shot that there, it was dark. That was pre-cateract surgery.
Starting point is 00:35:28 Yeah. Oh, so it really was hazy. Well, no, I admit it. Okay, I was going blind and didn't know it. Yeah. Okay. Not now, baby. Not anymore.
Starting point is 00:35:38 Not anymore. Not far off. I'd say good for all. How many years did you wear glasses? Oh, good grief. If you'd ask my wife. When did you start wearing glasses? Probably 72 when I got, went to the military.
Starting point is 00:35:53 So you went, 50 years needing a cataract. Oh, yeah. No, no, because, I mean, they, they were so scarred my lenses on my eyes. They were so scarred that, no. Because, you know, you got your chart, and I think there's five lines. And this man built the part that matters on our duck line. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:14 blind you don't think the good Lord didn't have his hand over his coming oh hey I've seen his footprint that's what I'm saying the man that builds the one part that it takes to make a duck all work
Starting point is 00:36:29 was blind doing it and look in wood ducks you had to cut them by hand with scissors at the time yeah there's a whole box of them right there I don't know what that came from I did I gave it to Martin I said I'm done threw them in my lap I threw them in the lap
Starting point is 00:36:43 I said hey enjoy them boys because, hey, that's the last one I'm cutting or making. Yeah, that one right there is vintage. That's actually size handwriting on top of it. Wait, you just found a bunch of reeds you made from, oh, no, I'd cut them up. We didn't use them. They were trash. They were too long.
Starting point is 00:36:59 I did that one coming. He made the last batch long, and we didn't want to have to trim them. It's just too long. We figured out a way you could make them all the same size right after the real. The phone is the one that automated everything. Yeah. Oh, man. We were running so many out of there that ain't nobody got time to be trimming reed.
Starting point is 00:37:18 No. No. Or wedges. Or a filing plastic insert. I used to trim them all the time. Yeah. Madness. The worst one was that white hard wedge.
Starting point is 00:37:29 I have cut so many. Well, not all that. Hey. Yo, my thong, Jason's thumb, before you cut it. Mm-hmm. Did you just have? It's just a callus all the way of crawl. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:42 You know how I fix that. Well, I know you fix it. James would show me. You got to make this cut right here. I said, but you got to go from tip to tip. You're cutting a plastic wedge with a pocket knife. Towards you.
Starting point is 00:37:56 Oh, yeah. He said, Toward you. Yeah. I said, why don't you make a mold of it? He's like, oh, that ain't going to work. That ain't going to work. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:04 Well, that was job security with Joe. Then I said, well, cut me the perfect one, so I have something to go by. So he cut it, handed it to me. I put it in an envelope. He's like, what are you doing? I said, I'm going to mail it in. He's what, here's what. Here's what.
Starting point is 00:38:18 When it comes back? Click. I can roll. No more cutting wet. Oh, yeah. Yeah, job security for Jay. All the problem was, he wasn't cutting them. I come in there'd be a box of them in my chair, say, hey, cut them.
Starting point is 00:38:29 Cut them. Yeah, no. I used to wrap athletics tape around my thumb. I couldn't use the pocket knife. What kind of tape? Athletics? Yeah. Well, they wrap your ankle?
Starting point is 00:38:39 Hey, I'd wrap it so thick, and then it finally comes. cut through it. Yeah. I used a pair of blood. I'd use a pair of scissors. I'd use a pair of scissors. I cheated. I got off that pocket. I could cut it with a scissors. Oh, I could. Them orange-handled scissors? Yeah. I couldn't do it. Man, you could, you could storm through them in.
Starting point is 00:38:57 But the problem is it'd take me eight hours to cut a thousand. No, no. And it would take him four hours to build a thousand. Oh, no. I'm like, what the heck? They didn't talk to me because the most time spent is the, a wooden call. 200. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:16 You're not told Phil? I said, hey, you need to, you're selling them for, I don't know what you're selling for, but hey, you need. I said, hey, triple that. Yeah. Triple it. Hey, guess what happens? That's where all the time spent.
Starting point is 00:39:27 Guess what happened when I became general manager? You tripled it? I two and a half did. Okay. It's $85, no. Yeah, I'll fix it because, hey, that's where all the time has spent. Jace would sit there and file every one of them. Oh, I?
Starting point is 00:39:40 Yeah. Yeah. Trim the reeds. Okay. Still. Yeah. So I got, well,
Starting point is 00:39:46 no, I cut the reeds. The worst part is he but at the end of the day go back behind you. Oh yeah. And check the ones you don't. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:54 And then just berate you. Yeah. For. Yeah. And then, he may, he just hit it a couple of time with the files out.
Starting point is 00:40:01 See, I had to fix yours too. Yeah. But all that was was job security. Yeah. He was the only one that could do it. He was good at it. That old DC,
Starting point is 00:40:09 He was the fastest. I'll give me math. He did it faster and better than anybody on the filing and all that. Well, yeah. That DC 200, not two of them are the same. No, no. Every one of them. Every one of them's custom.
Starting point is 00:40:25 That's right. Hand-filed every last one of them. Hand-filed every last one of them. And today they all are a little higher pitch than they work is the only man doing it. He likes them ringers. He likes them ringers. He likes them ringers. He likes to scream on one, boys.
Starting point is 00:40:38 He likes all. But anyway, let's take our last break, get in that mailbox, and we'll be back right after this. Oh, there he is, baby pencer. Hold on. We're ready. We're going to have to build something. Martin, I need like a divider between me inside because he cheats and looks at all the
Starting point is 00:41:01 things I'm going to show him before. Oh, that doesn't matter. Hello at duckcallroom.com. I like him doing that because his poker face is terrible, so I know like if we got something good coming. So Tom from robbing North Carolina North Calcutack, boy, good country. Good country.
Starting point is 00:41:18 You say that every time we've done? I love it. I love it. Hey, North Carolina is good people and South Carolina. Phil said that before. He's been all over the United States. And hey, best people, North Carolina, South Carolina.
Starting point is 00:41:33 Maybe. They're solid. I like them. The dashers live there. Well, you know, you got your people move in that you can't do nothing about. They're not, they're Floridians. Floridian.
Starting point is 00:41:45 That's even worse. Flaherd. All right, anyway, he sent in, he believes he has a Black Panther on his trail camera. What is that? I told you he's a baby Black Panther. A baby Black Panther. That looks like one of them, what them things called, you play with Hunter, Pikachu's? You say you.
Starting point is 00:42:11 A baby Pikachu, boy. Oh, that was funny. I think I looked like somebody Furby got loose. What's your little pigs? Furby. Hey, what's this little baby pigs
Starting point is 00:42:22 in Arizona and Texas? Avalina. Avilina, yeah. Yeah. That's a weird looking. That poor cat doesn't lost half his tails. Hey, look like sweepie. He's fluffy for sure.
Starting point is 00:42:35 Yeah. That one right there got a flea collar on. Yeah. Ain't no doubt about it. Flea collar? Yeah, somebody's trapped a flea collar. That was next. All right.
Starting point is 00:42:43 Well, he didn't really, he knew it wasn't a Black Panther, but it did come across. Yeah, I got that picture the other day of one at my mom's house again. I put it on Instagram, so that haters will say it's fake. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:53 That one, that is his neighbor's cat. Yeah. He is aware. So we're proud of you, Tim or Tom, for knowing that. For not spreading misinformation. We're not putting that on Facebook.
Starting point is 00:43:05 Steven's got a different one. He's from you. Capua. Apparently, this man's got good questions because we've apparently answered couple of them before. And he says, thanks for that. But his question is this, you know, every once in a bind,
Starting point is 00:43:21 quit reading them. No, I like this. This is going to be good. Every once in a bind. And you like to go number two on your own time at your own house. Home field advantage. Everybody likes a home field advantage. He even says, I'm all about home field advantage.
Starting point is 00:43:35 Where do you think the best place to go when you're in a pinch is and you can't be at home? The side of the road. What? Nope. Nope. Side of the road. Two choices.
Starting point is 00:43:46 Because that ain't ever warm. Two choices. There's no worse feeling than a warm public toilet seat. When you're in a bind and you're like, oh my gosh, I got to get this out. You sit down as warm because you know somebody just defiled that thing. And you're like, I got to get out of here. They didn't defile it. They just used it as it was intended to be used.
Starting point is 00:44:05 I know, but I don't want to sit on your rear end. Like, I'm just said, do you want to simplify? on mine. It's a weird way to put it, friend. But that's what you're doing? Well, hey, that's what's happening. Like, why you think it seats warm? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:20 Everybody just got off of it. And not only did they just get off of it, they camped on it a little while. Because it takes a while to transfer heat to a plastic toilet. Oh, that's right. Yeah, I'm with Martin on this. You do. The last place you want to go take a dump is at a gas station or a rest area. But every now and then that mustache gets sweating and you got to do.
Starting point is 00:44:41 got to go. So put it over the side of the road, go in the woods, find you a tree about you big around. That's why I said... Two hands around it just like this. And then you squat. And you squat as deep as you can squat. You take your bridges out first. And when you get to a good, when you get to a good balance point, you let go with your weak arm and you pull your bridges forward. That's why I said eight but two places to go. Okay. And whatever you do, make sure your wallet is in your front pocket. Yeah. And don't ever do it while a duck on Well, wait a don't. You're never going to get them lower enough.
Starting point is 00:45:14 No, I just come all the way out. He said, be sure to pull your bridges down. I would hate to tell you the numbers that wouldn't fit on either one of these hands. How many times I've grabbed my front tire? Oh, yeah. On the side of, like, not out in the woods. No. Yep, that's why I was telling you.
Starting point is 00:45:31 There's two places. When you're in the woods hunting, you find your log, and you get on the end of it. Look, I used to drink cheap dark liquor before going duck hunting. oh this is before crime yeah this is piece of but i'm telling you right now like old crow yeah and then the other one is when you're in a boat you're fishing i just jump in all you got do you jump it take pants off jump in okay let a rip and let a rip make sure you go in with a current here's the only thing there is a you know there's a what alert for jumping in the water because you have to do number two when it comes up it's fixed to come
Starting point is 00:46:09 to you. Okay, it's going to follow you. See, Sa ain't been fishing in a while. Si, I don't realize
Starting point is 00:46:14 power points. You ain't got to get in the water no more. No. You can grab onto your shallow water anchor as it's up
Starting point is 00:46:21 out of the water and get back in? And just lean back? It's just like a tree. You good. Reach in there and he calls hole, grab your dude,
Starting point is 00:46:27 wipes, handle your business, go on. That's it. Go on by your business. Yeah, but when you're doing the water, you already take the care of. But, so, you know,
Starting point is 00:46:34 how I deal with that current situation. You need to be like an old buck. have your nose into the wind. Into the wind. That way, when it comes up, the wind will take it away. That's right. Yeah, because if you get turned around, that's a...
Starting point is 00:46:48 Yeah, I understand. When it comes up, hey, it's fixed to come to, it's coming back to you. Swim! Well, no, because then every time you create current, it keeps it at you. So you can't really... You just kind of got a shimmy and get away. It's a bad deal. I'm most concerned about all this I-20, actually.
Starting point is 00:47:04 I thought this was like deer hunting and stuff. Buddy, between Monroe, we hunted and Waverly. There ain't nowhere on I-20. I ain't stopped between Monroe and Waverly. And number two, not one. No, number one, I'm just pissing a bottle in my truck. Yeah. Like, I don't even have to stop for that.
Starting point is 00:47:25 I mean, I've done that. Yeah, cruise control in your knee. You can take care of everything else. Children don't do that. No, I mean, get some experience under your help. Hey, look, when you got to go. Yeah, do it in a side-by-side. Right, look, if you've got to go, it's either get wet or, hey, take it, put a bottle.
Starting point is 00:47:41 Well, look, when that happens, you're saying woods, I ain't got time to get to the wood. He ain't got time. I barely got time to step out of my truck. Man, it hits you, huh? Yeah. Oh, yeah, because odds are I should have stopped 10 minutes ago when it hit me. I was like, no, it'd be right. I think I should just gas.
Starting point is 00:47:57 No, it wouldn't gas. And it shows up. Yeah, because you got your seat heaters on. That old lower bowel gets nice and warm. Oh, yeah. Next thing you know. Then things start happening? That'll have seed heaters.
Starting point is 00:48:07 Next thing you know you. Oh, I do. I don't. And the air conditioner. I'm in, I'm not. There's things I'll splurge on. I'm tight now. It ain't nothing better to get in a pickup truck,
Starting point is 00:48:16 get to sit down on a warm seat. Now, see, that's the exact opposite of a public toilet. Yeah. You pick up truck seat can be warm. That's nice. Yeah. I'm interested in the air conditioning seat. I don't really need the heated set.
Starting point is 00:48:27 Oh, yeah. I'm tight, but there's a few things I'll splurge on. Well, speaking of having to go number two, Sigh and Stone. Okay. We have a question for veterans here. David from Riverside, California, ask, what was your favorite MRE? His was cheese tortellini.
Starting point is 00:48:46 I feel like this would make me have to go to the side of the road. Mine, I'll go first. Mine was definitely the spaghetti with meat sauce because I had that jalapeno nach cheese spread in there. and I would put that spread and mix it in with that spaghetti. With spaghetti? Yeah. Made you feel like he's back at Johnny's pizza for a brief minute? No, no.
Starting point is 00:49:14 You had a bowel movement about once a week because, and that was planned because the last thing you want to do since we're on the subject is have a bow movement in Afghanistan. 10. If you could get it down to once a week, it was a good thing. Very fair. And those MREs, guess what, buddy? You have a steady diet of MREs. You ain't going to be regular.
Starting point is 00:49:43 No. It's going to be about once a week. Yeah, because they don't want you crapping a lot. Then you get caught with your bitches now. The government did it on purpose. Yeah. Stop you up a little bit. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:53 Cy? Same deal. Really. there wasn't no favorite. It was all garbage. Yeah, that's all bad. But that cheese spread wasn't bad. Yeah, but because of the alipanias, okay, yeah, it helped.
Starting point is 00:50:09 Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I don't know how to go. Okay. That's good. We have that answer. There you go.
Starting point is 00:50:17 Let's end it. I didn't know where we were going with that, but I did not expect nacho cheese jalapeno spread to be involved. Let's go dear. Anytime you get alipinas. What? Anything. It makes it better. Makes it better.
Starting point is 00:50:29 First John 1-9. If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just, and we'll forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. That's just a good verse that's that lived by. Amen. We're out of here. We'll see y'all next time.

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