Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 222 | Phil & Jase’s Run-In with Texas Feds & Duck Hunting Advice for a Listener

Episode Date: February 8, 2021

Phil and Jase answer a listener’s question about hunting public land, then tell their own public land story, where they learned some of the more peculiar Texas hunting laws. Phil gives a duck identification lesson to a Texas wildlife agent. The guys talk about the danger in looking for self-worth in social media and using reconciliation over condemnation. -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? You know, we read this Acts 5, and I deemed it as the scariest passage in the New Testament. But when you think about it practically, you know, here's a couple who were doing a good thing, but they were dishonest. And it led to their death. Their demise. Their main problem is that they can't. what other people thought about them to a degree that they would literally risk their life. They would lose their morals just to be impressive.

And I just think it's the ironic part of that is that Phil, my dad, doesn't have that quality. That's what I think. Would you say that's a true statement, Dad? You really don't care what people, how they view you. You don't get up and say, you know, I want to project an image where people will think something about me. It's the fuel, in my opinion. It's the fuel behind on the little black box. I agree.

The fuel that keeps it going is what you just said. Yeah. They want to present themselves and they want to be somebody. They want to be appreciated. They try to make a comment and the hoard gets on them. Then another one comes along and they heat one. Another one bites at us and another one bites the dust. But all these social media...

They want to be known for something and they struggle on the black box for somebody to say, you know what? I really appreciate what you did there. they're trying to impress enough people to where they can go. I think they love me a little bit. I love Dad bringing in the Queen reference there too on that. That's pretty good, Dad. That's a good little.

I love me some queen. Yeah, Queen. That's one of my favorite band. Well, all these social media sucks. Would you agree with that? Yeah, because when I talk to young people who are struggling, they have this fear of missing out. and so social media

they've designed it where people like it they like you people when they look whoever had that idea probably really got a lot of money right now because you can say something

and then they have a way to say I like you and it just did something to people and people people try to project an image to where they are at least have some importance

while they're living on this earth. Yeah, but then it becomes a race to how many likes. Because then it's never enough. But on the flip side, it's also created this super toxic negative environment. Well, because you can dislike something. Exactly. And you've got to go like harsh just so the comments are just so hateful and mean. I mean, it's awful, you know.

I think the way Jesus took up for people, you know, I think about John 8, the woman caught in adultery. I mean, Jesus in every act of that scene was the opposite of caring what people thought. Right. I mean, the last person you wanted to take up for is a woman who was caught in the act of adultery, and he's out there drawing a line in the sand or a circle. I simply look at the big picture. The big picture is if you turn against, and they did, the epitome of perfection and love, Jesus Christ,

if you could turn on him and reject him and heap insults on that person, why would I ever expect for someone to treat me fairly for speaking about that person? That's true. I mean, there's no escape. It's a culture that has become woke in their minds. Yep.

They rule. They make a rule. They have their truth. They're the ones that they say, this is the way to go. This right here. We can do it without loving one another. Right. Because loving God and loving neighbor, loving your neighbor, no.

Right. Nope. Well, you know, to Jason's point, I've never thought about it before. They don't love their neighbor, and they, prove it by what they say about them every little tweet that comes out and it's bad especially if they're on your case but i had never thought about it with anonized and safari but it was remember back when we were going through john in john nine when jesus heals the blind guy he'd been blind since birth and the parents you know that they call in the parents and it said they were afraid

to speak about this because they would afraid they would get kicked out of the synagogue and so it's the same thing you're talking about. I mean, their son had been healed. It's blinded his old life. You can't even celebrate it or talk about it in their world because, you know, they were going to get, they were going to... Especially, you know, in our world, I think this

is one of the pillars of how it revolves. That's why people, it's so politically correct. You have to say everything right, because you don't want people to get the wrong idea. There's,

we're so worried about what everybody thinks about us. Now, whether it was the social media craze or just we all got lazy and sensitive, but it is what we, this is where we're at, especially as far as the nice little suburbia, you know, I give my ties. I want to be viewed as somebody, in society who has it together. And I'm just, I'm telling you that there's a lot of people who are fighting like cats

and dogs on the way of the church building. And as soon as they walk in, oh, they're warm and fluffy. And then right when they leave, you know, give a big check. Everything's great. We're, you know, changing the world, making a better place, and then they leave. But as long as people think you got it together, we're okay with it. Well, if the human race could give them a dose of what this is all about, watch, we must, Hebrews too, pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard so that we do not drift away. This is the message of Jesus.

For if the message spoken by angels, the law of Moses, was binding, and every violation and disobedience received it just punished, but keep it all or die. how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation of grace and mercy now watch this salvation which was first announced by the lord said jesus is the one who announced uh you can now be set free from satan sin guilt law and the grave you can be you can be escaped it was confirmed us by those who heard him, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John wrote it down. God also testified to it by signs, wonders, various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will that you see beginning in the book of Acts, all these powerful miracles that surrounded the coming of the kingdom. Now watch. You say, well, when did Jesus officially announce that he was the way, the truth,

the life, and all the other things the apostles said? Luke 417, the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Jesus. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written. The spirit of the Lord is on me. Now, they're all sitting there listening to him and he said, I have an announcement to make, ladies and gentlemen, I'm paraphrasing here. Here's why I'm here. Because He, God, has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor, the gospel. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners. Their sins can be removed. And recovery of sight for the blind, he can do anything to release the oppressed and to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. He rolled it back up. He rolled the scroll back up out and he sat down

and it said their eyes was fastened on him. They're like, what did he just say? Well, when he announced that and the Hebrew writer picks up on it. What happened to the United States of America and all the other earthy empires that have ever come up is because they forgot what they had heard because it was announced to all of them, Colossians 123 following that. The gospel was preached to the whole bunch. Now we find ourselves 2,000 years since he showed up and very few people love one another. We don't know who does who will love God. So we point them to Jesus and we see people every week come to Jesus. You say, well, are y'all

making any impact? You are correct. Because about one out of four, according to the parable of the sower, gets it, and they begin to produce a crop. And then one after the other, write us letters, and they say, it changed my life. I remember Willie in one of his speeches, when

he gives his speech, he tells a story about a baseball player that he met, because, you know, he runs in those circles. And And he A professional baseball player Yeah

But he was friends with a guy on the team That wound up moving here You know and has faith in the Lord But there was another player on the team that Willie thought Because it was one of Willie's favorite players And he's like, I'm going to try to reach that guy Well when he tried It just didn't go over well

And so Willie was talking to the guy That didn't want to pursue anything to do with Christianity. He was talking to his wife one time at a game. And because Willie was trying and trying. I was getting frustrated. And she said, you got to remember that the only Christian people he knows

have been a few ballplayers, but they came across as mean and judgmental and, like, said, don't hang around that guy. He'll, they would warn other young players to stay away from this guy. Well, all this deal was burn his bacon. He thought, I don't like Christian people. You know, they're sectarian. I mean, he didn't use that word, but.

And so she said, but he did say this. He said, but you know, the way Willie operates as a Christian, I might could do that. So somehow, I guess just the fun loving side and the non-judgmental part was coming across. Because he had saw, had seen for the first time, I might, I might could do this. And that's kind of my point is that how you act with people really ultimately should be geared toward trying to have a conversation about who can save them. And if you want to change somebody's life, you don't give them a rule list or a protest. You give them Jesus, and then that'll change their heart. You give them faith, hope, and love through Jesus.

Let's take a break. So, Corinthians 5 says that, you know, the only thing that counts is a new creation. The old is gone, and we know that comes from being in Christ. And then it says in 18, all this is from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, which is a big fancy word for bringing people together to God. And in essence, bring people together in life.

That God was reconciling the world to himself, in Christ not counting men's sins against them, and he is committed to us the message of reconciliation. We're therefore God's ambassadors. So that's my point. But we all have to remember

when Peter said, if God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, we didn't write this. He did. by burning them to ashes, made them an example of what's going to happen to the ungodly. There was a lot of sexual mischievous things going on. Correct. It is written marriage between a man and a woman.

And if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, here was Lot's reaction to what he was seeing at Sodom and Gamar. Lot was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men. for that righteous man living among them day after day was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard. If this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment or continuing that is their punishment. This is especially true to those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature

and they despise authority. You have to remember, look at a big picture. We point them to Jesus because we love them. We've converted a number of them who are into all kinds of sexual promiscuity, unnatural thing. 101 different ways. Yeah, and I'm not picking on just one particular thing.

That's anything. There's plenty of them around that. My point is I would lean always toward being friendly, being non-judgmental and introducing Jesus to people because that's what changes people in heart and try to be worried about what God is thinking instead of what people are thinking about me. To me, that was the fault in Anonais and Saviariah.

He said, you haven't lied to men but to God. They weren't thinking, what does God think about this? that was the single bombshell issue of this story it wasn't crossed in their minds what does god think about what i'm doing the material covering sin the written material covers the entire gamut of sin anyone you can think of you say god entered god made a comment about it he said here's what's right and here's what's wrong with no equivocation whatsoever it's up to us just to do that and let them know we love them you know i've had them look at me and say all my life i didn't know why i was behaving like i was but now that i know but i think as christians

when they when people say no matter what you do when they say so what do you think about me so you're saying you know that i'm going to hell or that you don't approve you know the the things they say and my point is just give them what's written it doesn't matter what you think. You, as a Christian, you should take that out of the equation. You're trying to get them to see what God thinks about this.

You're just a messenger of reconciliation. I think as Christians, where they cross the line, it's all of a sudden, they start telling them what they think about it. We don't care. Stay in your lane. Here's who Jesus is,

here's what he did, and once you fall in love with that, we know that that can change the heart. And when they're thinking, what does God think about me, which I think is the way, you know, we were designed to wake up every day, we may not feel good. Things may not be going our way. But you wake up and think, well, I'm made the image of God. They all know what.

For a purpose. They all know what this is. So you can have. The conscience tells them. Right. They know what's right and what's wrong. Well, there's two conversations that are had here because you bring up a good point. The thing that makes the story so remarkable for the first century church is that up until now,

it's just singing and sharing and talking about Jesus. But this is the first time they've had to deal with somebody who was more concerned about the way they look and the way they were like than they were about Christianity. But what's going to happen going forward, we'll see it a little bit in Acts, but way more in the epistles when we read them, you know, the different things that Paul wrote, is that the deeper you go into the church, the conversation, there are two conversations. There's one to people who don't know Jesus at all. Yep. But then there's another conversation of people who are in Christ that aren't living the way he wants them to live.

So it really is two conversations that you have. Yeah, I mean, I think to get back to them. But a non-Christian is not going to get it because they don't know anything about it. That's why you introduce Jesus and you stay away from making these, to me, these are just silly decisions that all you're going to do is make people mad. I just err on the side of loving grace. to try to get the opportunity to share Jesus, maybe they'll start thinking,

what does God think about this? Because you've got to think, in the social media world, I have millions of followers. You know, I got into that for about two weeks. I was like, boy, this is cool. Look at all these people who are liking me and following me. I never tried that.

Well, I know. But trust me, you've got a lot of followers, too. You have a lot of people that like it now. You know, I had one thought that changed my life on this. I thought, where is it going to end? Oh, you get a million, you're like, oh, I want two. And you get two, you know, I want three. I think Missy was telling me the rock.

He has like millions of followers, and he follows zero. And she told me that, and I thought, you know what? I would trade tens of millions of likes and follows. for one acknowledgement for a real living God that says, I like you. I'll just take one. That's it. You only need one light. That could be a whole thing right there.

Write a book on it. All I need is one like. All I need is one like. We know him who said it is mine to avenge I will repay. And again, the Lord will judge his people. And again, it is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. it motivates me not to try to get too worried about it. Well, what do you do when you get down?

Think about it. Well, I mean, everybody has bad days and things don't go your way. And, you know, I spend half my time looking for something that I have in my hand. I mean, that's just the way I'm wired. I'm constantly, I'm like. A lot of people tend to make some sins the big one, the biggest one, the one. The one that, and they zero in on that. But the bottom line is, guys, it's just real.

simple. Whoever violates the law, God wrote it. Now, not me. And he pretty well is pretty, stringent on what marriage he is. So, he just look at it. But they all know that. All these people were talking to. Yeah. It only took one to divide you. Let's take another great. Well, look, I hang around with some shady characters from time to time. And what's amazing is, because people know, because I tell them, my faith and who I love, I mean, I've said a million time you know i love jesus but what's funny is there'll be some guy just foul mouth and there'll be somebody else who i don't know if they're believe or not they're like trying to tell him to quit doing that for me and i'm like hey you know you know we're good here because i know

especially with guys when you're in junior high we all notice the guys who they could just spew a bunch of filth and everybody would laugh. You know, they were bold enough to do it. Well, a lot of these guys, they never left that because that's how they got people to like them. They were the, I mean, I guarantee you, you can think back when you were junior out there's always a couple of those guys. So then you get 40, 50 years old.

Those guys are still doing it. That's all they got. And so they just think of every dirty, you know, thing that they can think of is trying to make. people out. I can't imagine the life of middle school. But I'm saying that is. The verbiage that the Apostle Paul used, they were slaves to sin. Well, it's just who they are. The sinful nature. And it's how they please people. It's their need. They're worried about what people think. And so then after a while, that just becomes who they are. Well, you go in there and try to change that.

So when somebody looks at me, I'm like, we're good. You're trying to change the power of wokeness Jase. So I'm saying My recommendation is you don't go and say Oh would you not do that in front of me Because I find that highly

I just I just See my woke is limited I woke up this morning And I'm alive on planet earth That's my wokenness I got up I woke up I'm like whoa okay

I'm not sure what you mean by this woke You've mentioned that earlier I'm not familiar with that Well it's the current It's the current mindset that you wake up from all these things you've been missing all this time, like critical race theory, white fragility, white privilege, people who are woke. Our man, Corolla wrote a book on it. I'm your emotional support animal navigating our all-woke, no-joke culture.

By the way, unashamed, we got Carolla coming up on the podcast. So, Phil, you've been actually doing research. Yeah. I said research. It took me five minutes just to look down a little bit and say, okay. Okay. Well, these in your encyclopedias? If it's woke, there's no hope there, and it is a joke.

I saw some nose deprapping. I got that much out of it. I cannot wait for us to talk about this with Carolla. Well, good, because I don't think I'll be here when you'll interview it. Because I have no idea what you are talking about. I just got lost. Somehow I'm not surprised that you wouldn't know Woke when we were talking about AOC, and you said, what is an AOC?

Jay said, what is an AOC? Yeah. Jay says no awareness. Let me give him a little... That's the senator from California, but I didn't know that at the time. No, she's a representative from Queens in New York. Let me give Jay's a little insight. I was close.

She said, to your knowledge, have you ever run up on a woke person? I think that girl, she said she went from the streets of marching, and her and her mother came, and they gave the lives of Jesus. They said, they basically was telling me, we come out of the woke crowd, And we just, we never had read anything about Jesus. And we started studying from one of your books or whatever. We got to look at it in the world. Which is really interesting because you bring up the point,

woke is really good if somebody can wake up out of that life and into Christianity. Wasn't it Paul that said, wake up, old sleeper? But to me, the answer is if you don't care what God thinks, this is the road you go down. True. A lot of these political parties on both sides. Correct. They're only going to believe what everybody else believes.

That's why I got, while ago I told you about being in the minority on issues. I'm trying to look at what God thinks and apply that to my life. That's why the gospel, Jace, is called the mystery, namely Christ in you. It's a mystery to the world. It was a mystery when Jesus showed up. Owl. It's still a mystery. That's right. A lot of people say, what are you talking about?

You said immortality, life and immortality. Life and immortality is yours if you want it. Right. Yeah. But that's why, look, when some of these outskirts members storm the Capitol, I was like, nope, that's not how we win this. When even today, now they're going to try to impeach Trump after he's gone. He's gone.

Look, you know what I say to that? Bad idea. Because all that is is hateful. You're being built. It's revenge. Hateful. You won, and some people believed by, you know, nefarious ways. And.

Well, I was listening to one of Biden speeches the last week, and I thought, these people are sore winners. You won. Why are you still trashing Trump? Because. No, it's because he ran on two principles. I'm going to attack the coronavirus, which seems like the same thing's going on before he got in.

And he was going to be against Trump. Well, once he got elected, those two things are still going on. Let me clarify for if you're waiting on seeing the fruit of the spirit, it begins with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control coming out of this world with no knowledge of God. If y'all are expecting to see that, I hate to inform you. It's not coming out of them, ever. You're never going to see love, joy, peace, peace, kindness. Instead, you see revenge, hate. Well, they wake up in the morning and they're mad and they don't know why.

But I brought this up. I brought this up because it's ridiculous to say he gave a speech and then people did this and it's his fault. I mean, if we go down this road, can you imagine the preachers who give a bad sermon and some old boy? I mean, to me, we're going back. What's the movie with a Christmas vacation when old Chevy Chase. said, I'll tell you what I'd like. If you're looking for a last-minute gift idea, here it is. I'd like my boss.

You know, he didn't give a bonus. He was going to get the pool, you know. He said, I'd like him in a... tied up in a bow. In a bow. Right here. Well, oh, uh... Eddie.

Eddie, the guy who lives right down the road from you. There's a lot of Eddie's out of here. He says, you know what? That's what the man wants. And the next thing it shows is the old tenement on wheels tearing out to go get the guy. And then he brings him in and he's like, Merry Christmas, Clark. Remember the guy's wife that he kidnapped that?

She said, he was a big bulging man. Beastly. Beastly. So I'm like, you can't try to make that case, but when you're not for these godly principles that we were saying, because you think about it, if you take out what God thinks from your agenda, what vision do you have? Yeah. But that's why it seems so silly.

They're like, what are these people doing? Yeah, when you only rely on the earthly mindset, that's what you're going to get. Let's take another right. So I want to shift gears here a little bit, and we talked about, I brought up to you guys a couple of podcasts ago about two guys that got shot in a duck wine. And the reason a story jumped out to me was I thought, man, as much time as we've all spent in a duck line. you know, I've never heard of anything like that.

We've heard of accidents and accidental shootings, but these guys were basically murdered. And so I was intrigued by the story, but I couldn't find much about a couple of local stations, and then USA Today did a little piece on it. And two out of the three things I read said there was a dispute. So I mentioned that on the podcast, and we talked about that. But since that time, two of our listeners

are actually part, two other young men, are part of the eight people that hunt that blind. So they reached out to me and said, That's not exactly what happened. And so I called one of them up yesterday, and we had a good conversation. And he told me that the older gentleman had dementia and then because of that depression. So they all know that because the guy hunts to the blind pretty close by. And some of his family actually hunted with the guy.

So it was more of a mental health situation, apparently, according to these guys, than it was a dispute. And he just wanted the audience to know that because they're getting a lot of pushback up there because it's like, you bunch of idiots, you're out here hunting. People are getting killed over a stupid duck. Which is what happens in a political world. Well, that's right. And so it became kind of a black eye for them because it's happened, just hunters. I mean, you'll see, you know, the next thing in the study, you know,

duck hunting accidents are up. Oh, yeah. You know, because it just becomes a stat for people to try to get whatever agenda they have. Well, it's just like somebody has, you see one of these shootings. And it's obviously somebody, like you were mentioned, the guy in Vegas, that, shot all these people. Well, obviously there was something seriously wrong with this individual. But, you know, you hear everything else about it. And people attack the gun because the same thing we're talking about. They're trying to please the people that they've surrounded

themselves with. Right. Because that's the agenda. They're not worried about what God is thinking. So then they're making, which in our opinion, because I know y'all agree, some hideous argument that whatever weapon you use to hurt people is somehow the problem, you know. 2,000 years ago, they went up against Jesus, the perfect one, the creator of the cosmos. They went up against him. You say, the devil's not called the Father of Lies for nothing. Jesus said, Father of Lies, Satan. So all of it was based, his death was based on the Father of Lives.

whipping up up to a frenzy, and they crucified him on a cross, not knowing that his crucifixion would save them and the world. They just didn't get it. They didn't get it then. And the Father of Lies, he's still here. He's well. You can see him throughout the little black box or anywhere else on the street or all around us up and down the road, rednecks,

whether they be city dwellers, whoever. The Father of Lies is also the father of murder. I see a lot of both. and you say he's behind it. He is. And so one of the things I told Madison yesterday is. It clarifies it. Is that I wanted us to do today what I should have done the last podcast.

We talked about this because this is the most important thing, is, Dad, I want you to offer up a prayer for these families from this tragedy. They buried those two guys this last week. And so I just thought about how tragic that is for all them to have to go through something like this. So just as fellow hunters for all you guys up in that region, Real Foot, But I just want you to know we're thinking about you, especially those of you who are close to these families. And I want to have Dad have a prayer for all those families. Okay.

Father, I pray for our brothers, wherever they might be, even up on places like Riofoot Lake. It's a tough world we live in right now. And there's a lot of negative things that happen, including what happened here. So I would just pray, Father, that people understand. that life is short while we're here and full of trouble. And I would pray, Father, that the only one, the only escape hatch I know of is Jesus Christ, His crucifixion for us, and His resurrection from the dead. I pray, Father, that they would, in fact, not hold anything against anybody,

but just go forward with their faith, their hope, and their love for Jesus, the Son of God. He's fixed it so we can be forgiven the guilt of whatever. we do can be removed and Satan himself can be removed and our sins will be forgiven and we'll be raised from the dead life and immortality is riding on how we operate here on planet earth how we view you father and how we view each other help us help them to remember that up there in tennessee in the name of jesus amen amen thank you dan and thank you guys for reaching out so we could clarify that a little bit as well. I had a duck hunting question since we're talking about duck hunting. And Sean, I apologize that this was, you sent me this back during the season, but I'm a little bit late

in getting it. But I wanted y'all to comment on what he said, and I wanted to see what you had to say. He's up in Ohio. He said, living up in Ohio, duck season isn't always that great. We see a lot of ducks passing through early. He mentions that they're in their second split, and he says, the ducks get up literally 10 minutes or so before shooting light, 50 or 60 miles, they get up and they fly away. What can we do to do better with these ducks? So I think I know it's a fairly simple answer,

but I want to at least throw it out there. So if they come in, all the ducks are there, they put out their decoys. He said they're hunting public land. The ducks get up and fly off and they never see anymore. So what would you tell them to do about that day? Well, you got to remember, you know, duck cutting, these ducks were wild.

and a lot of things affect how they act from the moon, whether it's a, you know, if it's a full moon, they tend to eat at night. And that's fair to say with most animals, right? Deer do the same thing. Ducks pat on us because we have a code that when you can fire the first shot at a duck in a day, and when you can fire your last shot,

then you have to stop. After a while, Ducks patterned that and say, we've noticed something. Most of the time they get here right before daylight while we're still sleeping and they throw out their decoys and we're listening to them. Do they think we're that dumb to go in there where they put all them decoys making it look like they're ducks and they're not ducks? They're trying to kill us and eat us. Well, he's right. They pattern us.

So I would tell the guy of Mo'O, he needs to start pattern them. So that's why I was saying. But you can slick them. Hang on, Jess. Let's take her last break. because they do change up their habits based on weather, where the food is. But to tell you the truth,

the best thing to do is to have more than one option when you go. And when you can hunt legally open, you ride the hole. Because that makes up. Because at some point those ducks came in there. And that's when you want to be there, right? A duck's going to do three things. What they do is they're going to eat somewhere.

they're going to rest and they're going to roost. And they're going to do that every day. So if you figure out one of those three components and usually they get up to fly to go do that, every once in a while they'll get in hunker down mode. Small things, Ohio, one, is to always hunt based on the feathers. Look for the feathers. If you get there and you see fresh feathers

and then there's a lot of them, hunt there. If you get there and you look around out there where you're fixed to put your decoys and there's not a feather in sight, don't hunt there. Go to where you see the feathers. For every one feather, there are 10 ducks that visited that spot. Two feathers, 20 ducks, three feathers, 30 ducks. More feathers than you can count. That's where you want to go right there.

When you see so many feathers, you're like, hmm. Well, they get a stout. What's the only thing a duck feather can come from? Oh, that'd be a duck. Well, get in and I start hunting them. But you follow the feathers. Right. Just a thought.

And sometimes I think you're limited, like some guys are limited around the country because he mentioned the guys I was talking to him real foot as well as these guys. Sometimes you got your one spot and it's on public land or there's some kind of public draw. Pretty tough. You don't quite have the opportunity. So you're just going to have to be a lot more patient.

I mean, it's like what we did. We didn't have a good year for three or four years in a row. And so we contacted our neighbor and leased a field from him. and planted rice. And we never hunted it. Well, we said we don't want to hunt it. We just want to, you know, plant it and flood it. Try to draw some dusts.

And guess what? It worked. So, I mean, there's things you can do. And you said, where'd you get that idea? That's what the government does. They got all the best holes, and they go in there and plant it. And then they winter the ducks. And you can't hunt it.

Yeah. And you can't hunt it. So I'm like, you know what? Let's try it. So you got all these ducks sitting in these places, but a few of the dumb ones, they come off of it thinking, well, let's just branch out a little bit here. Well, you're sitting pretty close to that place, and it gives you a few more ducks. You know, we hadn't talked about this since the election,

but, you know, one of the downsides to Trump not getting back in was that probably because of his influence of his kids, Don Jr., especially, he was much more opening up federal lands for the, Americans to be able to enjoy. That the people own. We own that. I mean, look, I've had so many embarrassing moments on these parks and different things from our cameraman. Remember, they had him up against a car because he had picked up a rock. I mean, he's a weird guy.

Why would you want a rock? But he just thought it was a cool rock. He put in his pocket. But they were watching us. And so when they come down there, we saw you pick up a rock and put it. your pocket put that rock down right where it was and there was nothing special it wasn't gold it was just a rock a piece of gravel it was a piece of gravel yeah in a state part and i thought what is wrong with these things we own this part we're visiting we are to be able to take a rock

my weird camera man that was the dude the head of the that owned the lake the state of texas he said he said do you have a permit for that camera? That cameraman right there? And I said, a permit for the camera. Yeah, I was at the same part. Yeah, I said. Because we were filming, honey. I said, what do you mean to permit?

I said, he's just filming us. We're making a DVD. Duck men of Louisiana. We're up in Texas now. We just filming a little deal about us hunting ducks. And he said, do you have a permit for that? I said, no. I said, I got you, Bruce Sher here.

I said, I don't see where we have. to have a permit for the cameraman on your brochure here when we paid you the $5 to hunt this. And he said, it's not in that. It's not in that. Yeah, Bill's not embellishing. This was the exact conversation. Yeah, he said, it's not, he said, it's not in the pamphlet. I said, what, how would I know? We have to have a cameraman with a permit if it's not in that. He said, the reason you can know it is I'm telling you. Yeah, he said, I just told you. He said, I just told you. So I think I said, well, how much does it cost?

And he said, it's free. It's free. I said, well, we're free to do it then. He said, no, no, no, you said, well, give me one. Yeah. And he said, well, I don't have them. You got to drive. And he started telling him where.

And I said, well, if it's free, give me the permit. And he said, no, I can't give it to you because it's up at the office. Oh, my. No, no, it was like. This is government at work right here. I said, how far a drive is it? And it was like 60-something miles. I was like, so you're.

You're telling me, we got a, and I think I said, we got to drive 60-something miles and then back. And then back. And his response made no sense. He said, well, if we don't do stuff like that, you'll have a bunch of hot dog stands out here. Down here on the lake. On the lake and people just hanging out. Well, I looked around, there's not one person within miles. That's it.

It's us and him. That's right. And I said, I don't think you're going to have that problem. And on top of all that, then another one, because you had state park officials, you had Texas state game wardens, you had federal game wardens. And one of the federal game wardens walked up and he looked down at our ducks and he said, I might have to write you up because you can't shoot redheads in the state of Texas. I said, that's not a redhead.

And he said, I said, you're a federal game warden? I said, that, my friend, is a green-wing teal, Drake. It does have a bit of a red head? He said, but he's got a red head. I said, not really. But look, for you, that's a red head on the wall. I said, where's your book? I said, the day y'all had the bird identification when you were going to be a federal

game warden, the day y'all had that clash, you slept in because this is not a red head. And he asked the Texas state game wardens, he said, y'all come over and men, what kind of duck is he is? and the state game warden looked down and said we don't know what the thing is oh my word so the state game wardens didn't know the federal man said he thinks it i said look all i'm saying is if you write me up for that green wing teal which is very legal in the state of texas is louisna anywhere else i said when we go to court i want to make sure in front of these witnesses you have this duck with you trying to pawn him off as a red head i said because he's not a red head red head's a diver and he looks

nothing like this thing. So they argued about her, well, I'll let's go. I guess I can touch some slack. I think this is what happens when you put people in power who are not for hunting. Right. And...

You're right, because he gave himself away. We don't want people in here. I mean, he said hot dog stands and all that, but if you dive into a statement, all this land that the people own, we don't want them in here. I mean, if you're making people empty a rock out of his pocket, you don't want him in the pocket.

That's exactly right. That was one of the worst experiences that we've ever had. None of us got a ticket, but I felt like when we left on. We got a tongue lashing. Oh, I needed a shower. I was like, we're in the middle of nowhere. There's no traffic. There's no people.

There's nothing. One group of hunters, us. That was it. And we were harangued by three different institutes. Harassed and interrogated. And you would have thought we had. drugs in every crevice. Listen, we're coming out of the lake, and I've been watching them.

They were sitting on the hill with binoculars, and I said, I don't know why these officials keep watching this boys, but maybe they're just interested in Eric Duckin. I said, when we get down at that ramp, I said, they're all going to show up when we get to the boat ramp. And they said, ah, they said, you paranoid. I said, oh, believe me. So about a quarter mile from the boat launch, I'm coming one boat, I look up there and I'll see a kind of a glint on a mirror. I saw a little flash. I said, yep. I said, they're backing up

in the bushes. I said, but they're coming. So look, when that boat hit the bank, we looked up, and all of these officials are coming out of the weeds. They're all hidden, had their trucks in. They all come running together. I said, with power and force. And I told Jason, I said, good night. Look at the game wardens. It was a sting. Unfortunately, We didn't break the law, except for the rock and we didn't have the free permit that's not written on any publication.

He stepped over in our boat and he said, in the state of Texas, you're supposed to have a, what they call them, one of these, put out. Fire extinguisher. He said, where's your fire extinguisher? I said, fire extinguisher. I said, somebody is with us.

I said, you got a fire extinguisher, but it's under the seat there. He said, you can't keep it on the seat. You got to keep it out of my own there. He said, don't forget. dad he said i'm not going to write you up on it he said no and then i said well we're surrounded by water he said there's no reason to be smart i just thought it was a valid that's just one of many stories could i've never heard that story i'm glad we no no i was there i live through it

i'm glad to hear that that's so we so look i guess our heart goes out to you hunters out there that have to face it hey i'll tell you one thing about all you game borns out there turn to jesus for crying out loud we didn't have our ducks tag properly either, but they didn't find that out because my crazy Uncle Tommy, who's going on to be with the Lord, he knew that because he had cleaned them. We would have done it correctly. So the first thing he did, he opened a cooler up where we had our drinks because he had the ducks.

We didn't have too many ducks. He just didn't have them tagged properly like you're supposed to leave the wing. So he opened it up, but they were under the drinks. and they looked everywhere but there. I thought that was pretty slick. Don't get too slick, Jays, because I don't know when the statue of limitation run out. If they write me up.

You're confessing your sins. If they write me up for not having a wing on a duck, because I didn't know that rule then. Now we'll do it. You know, come down here and get me and we'll talk.