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Well, are we ready?
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Yeah, let's go.
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Well, hey, welcome back to the podcast, ladies and gentlemen.
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Happy New Year.
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Okay, today's topic is going to be what is your motivation? What or what standard are you trying? What standard do you you use and then that you try to achieve?
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I wish you would have like texted me this.
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Well, no, no, because here's the deal. I'm bad.
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He's got low standards.
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I'm not going to get off of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
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Okay, okay, okay.
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So look, what motivates you and I. I'll give you a little biblical James tells you what motivates the human race. Your desires of the human flesh leads you astray. Okay? That's what the Bible says.
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That was in Yamez.
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Or as rednecks call it, the book of Jimmy.
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Oh, Jimmy.
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But anyway, I want to know what motivates you to get up every morning, okay. And what motivates you to actually go to work, get dressed and go to work in this wicked world we live in?
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What? I want to know your answer first. What causes you to get up and go to work?
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Well, no, no, because see, hey, it's all about perspective, right?
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Whether they're deep or shallow.
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Because look, this life, okay, living on this wicked planet, it sucks.
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Oh, it is.
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Okay.
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I hadn't seen you like a week and a half and you still on this one.
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But you can fight it with the right perspective.
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He got that Sundowners thing.
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Yeah.
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With the right perspective.
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It gets dark too early right now. So side just up all night watching.
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Cause he's starting to get daylight later.
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There's your choices. You can go positive or you can go negative. Most people, okay, because of it. Suck. It sucked. So they are hung up in the negative.
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They're in a negative sales controversy. Sales positive.
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Well, I know, but. I know, I'm just saying, I'm saying you got two choices Negative or positive? I would argue people have always said, okay, why are you always positive? Well, I'm not going to the negative side.
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I'm not.
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I watch Star wars too. I. I ain't going to the dark side. Yeah, you think it sucks now? Well, hey, wait. Go to the dark side and then, then look back and say, I shouldn't have, I shouldn't have chose that.
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Yeah, he got his arms and legs choice to make melted on Mustafar when he did that.
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According to Carter, though, his face didn't.
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It's how you look at it, folks. Positive.
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Very in depth conversation about that last night where you're so.
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I'm with you though. I'm positive.
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Well, no, no, because why would you go negative? Your life already sucks, okay? So hey, don't go. Don't make it worse. Hey, change direction and let's go positive.
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Charge on my life doesn't suck.
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Oh, I don't need.
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Well, hey, you got a positive attitude.
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So we know Jesus. So that's the difference.
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Well, I'll fix say, okay, that's a positive thing.
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Oh, you know what? I say that life doesn't suck, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't have sucky, period.
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Oh, yeah, life. And I'm just saying, generally there'll be a time in your life when you go have some trials and tribulations that are not good.
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That's good because I was thinking of them.
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But in the long run. Okay, that's the wrong answer because they are good. Because the trials and tribulations you go through is what makes you. When you come out on the other side of them, that's what makes you the person you are.
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That's in that book of Jimmy too.
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And perseverance.
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Yeah, perseverance.
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Perseverance.
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But I will do this. You need to go to the book of Galatians.
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Uh, oh, okay.
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And I started this with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Well, you need to look in Galatians and you'll find all three of them in there. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And hey, and I'll give you a hint. One of the first words that come in there is in Christ. That would be liberties. The liberties or freedom we have in Jesus.
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There you go.
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Yeah, but.
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So you'll look into it. I'm not going to tell you the rest of it.
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Well, God, when you got some new motivation making you get up and go catch a fish now don't you?
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Two of them. Who?
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Tell us, Papa.
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Well, okay. They have arrived.
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They're Here too early.
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Okay. Oh, they. But they're still in the hospital.
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Still in nic.
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Okay, well, that's a good thing. Let them get fully healthy before mom and dad take them home.
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Yeah.
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Okay. Because, hey, they're awful anxious to go home. Well, I know they're in the best place they could be right now.
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Yeah, tell them give me a call.
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Yeah. Oh, she's down there.
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There's no book that's been written to really tell you what to expect. Okay, so you're right. You're going to be. This is one of them things you'll be. It's going to be fly by your pants.
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Yeah, well, we had all this stuff planned out when they was going take them on the 29th. Yep. And so that's when we was ready. Yeah, but a week before that.
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But, but, but the kids are on God's time.
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That's right. Well, she went in the hospital. Her blood, she called Paula, she said, mom, my blood pressure is 160 over 105. What do I do?
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Go to the hospital?
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And they told her come up here. Well, they was going to put her on a 24 hour.
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Watch for.
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They was going to test her urine and all that for preeclampsia.
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Eclampsia.
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Yeah, I said that. Right?
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And may have left the E out.
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But yeah, it sounded good to me.
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So everybody goes home. We're coming back tomorrow and get her and take her home because they're just going to observe her. Well, she calls at 5:30 next morning and said, y' all need to get up here. They fixing to have y' all fishing to have grandkids. We said, okay, how fast do you.
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Make it from Calhoun?
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Here we go. I was like, I just fro. Well, Paula called, she called her mama.
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That's a good look.
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And her mama called me and I'm like thinking, what do I need to throw in the. Throw in. Hey, you know, if you just get a clothes basket, it's way easier than a suitcase you just throw.
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You did not take a laundry basket.
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I did.
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Yeah.
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Hey, that's what it's all about. Throw it in there and then let's go.
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Yeah, it's all in one place.
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When you said that, what do I. I said, all I'm gonna say. All I'm gonna hear is crawling tires.
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Plus I don't know where the suitcase is.
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It wasn't ready, Martin.
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We wasn't ready. Wasn't supposed to happen yet.
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But he said, you know what's better than a suitcase?
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Laundry basket.
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Laundry basket.
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Oh, Just a box.
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Hey, that is my. That's my. I like it when I go places. Laundry basket.
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Laundry basket.
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Boy, just throw it all in. It all fits.
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It all fits.
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You ain't got to worry about sitting on it and closing it.
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Oh.
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Anyway, I gotta admit, you know, I've been traveling duck hunting a couple of times, and I used to keep all that stuff on my back seat. It's. It's similar to a laundry basket. I just started using a Yeti cooler as dry storage for all of my big stuff in the back end. I just. I put everything in the cooler.
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You don't have to pack.
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You don't have to fold. It'll hold it at all. And it's like, he ain't got a.
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So.
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Yeah.
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Redneck, like.
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Anyway, it's right here.
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Yeah, man. Quick.
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No, they have. What? What did they weigh?
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They weigh there yet?
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He ain't even to the hospital.
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Yeah, we just got the lot of the store. We just got the laundry basket loaded.
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We just. Look, we're driving and I'm driving, you know, Enough. I'm over the speed limit a little bit for you.
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That's normal.
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I mean, I wouldn't. Don't think I'd have got a ticket where I was at. And so then Johanna calls Paula again. They're fixing to do a tap or something. Something. Something.
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Yeah, Epidermo.
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They're fixing to take me back there. And Paula says, no, they're not. We're not there yet. She said, they're getting ready. I said. And Paula looked at me and she.
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Said, that's what she done. She done the point down the road. Yeah. The next thing that happened was the foot got heavier.
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She hit the flasher button and I mashed on it.
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And he stomped it.
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And we got there in the tundra. No, we was in her car.
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Y' all hit the flasher.
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She hit flasher in the left lane.
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She hit the flashers and we took off.
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That's right.
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Get out.
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We got an emergency.
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We got there in 40 minutes.
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From your house?
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Yeah. Wow.
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Folks at home, that should take an hour.
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Look, it was. But here's. It was going to take longer than that because they got all that stinking construction going on. But they have opened it and they told nobody.
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No, they told.
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I mean, they just opened.
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They just.
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Because I just took her to the doctor. But we got there and she was gone five minutes. They done took her back there. But what's cool. It's a shumpert.
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Krista Shumpert. Yeah.
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That place Is awesome.
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There you go.
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All the nurses are. Got compassion for you. The doctors, I mean, they act like they don't mind doing what they're doing.
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My sister used to run that.
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Well, they. All them people love their job because they're taking care of you. Look, nicu, you can have four people and you just go back there when you want to. I know. Visiting time. That place is awesome. Anyway, so because she couldn't, she had to have magnesium. She was pale for a couple of days. She didn't even get to hold them for a day and a half.
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But that was tough.
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We was going and taking pictures of them and bringing them back to her.
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Yeah.
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You know, but. Yeah, it was tough, but I like to watch. She's back there all the time.
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I mean, she's as Paula up there cleaning it for.
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Yeah, she's up there. Up there now that's.
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That's what I like.
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I know Paula Galva. She up there. She cleaning up, nursing.
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If you went in my house, it would look like we was having a baby.
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You're gonna need a bigger clothes basket.
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Yeah, I'm gonna need.
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I love it, but.
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Oh, I was looking. We got this gal stand with us, one of Paula's friends. She's going to school and she's staying with us till she graduates, which is not long. Anyway, she said, where's some wrapping paper at? And I opened the closet door in one of them bedrooms and it's like wipes and this and I don't know, it's baby stuff. Hey, there's a thing of bottles there.
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Spoiler alert them. Wipes ain't just for babies.
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Yeah, they work on.
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Any grown man can use them.
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I know, but anyway. Or whatever, now there is. They're gonna come home in a day or two.
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There we go.
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There it is.
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The Lord.
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That's one. Real life sets in.
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There's no tubes. They just got the heart monitored on their foot and no tubes, no end. They're taking a bottle, which I didn't realize. They got to learn how to drink milk and breathe at the same time. I never even.
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Yeah, that's pretty much Carter's whole problem.
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They were saying, well, we gotta. We gotta try to. You know, so they gotta pass that test. And then they had to pass the test of keeping their core temperature with an open, you know, without being in the cocoon or whatever. And. Well, I don't know what that thing's called.
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I took that live scope and transducer on it.
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I love Godwin's medical terminology. We Went from live scope to cook. I know what you do.
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I had that glass cape. That thing's like a spaceship.
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Yeah, yeah.
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The top come up, the sides fall down. Anyway.
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Yeah.
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So my question before I got ahead of us, how much did they weigh when they was.
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One of them was right at five and nothing. Right at six, four, seven.
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Yeah.
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And five. Eleven.
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That's a big crappie.
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Biggins.
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Yeah. Joanna said. Oh they was 17 and something. Inches long. Joanna said and they're both girls. How's that? I said that's like a three pound crappie. But anyway. Yeah, both identical twins. One but one of them is a little bit smaller than now. So you can tell them apart.
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There you go.
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Cassandra and Isabella.
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Cassandra.
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So now they got to pass a car seat.
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A car seat test.
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And they just took their infant CPR classes.
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Yeah.
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Well, they can go home. So that's where we're at. We're here in a couple of days they'll be at their own place. There you go. And then Johanna and Cecilio is going to have to let reality setting it.
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Happened that first night.
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He said this will be. Well, let me tell you. He goes up there, they got the feeding times. They're there at every feed and touch time. They're there at every feeding and touch time, feeding them their self. And Cecilio goes up there and reads them a story in the book. I love you like no otter. Johanna had a. She had a stuffed honor when she was. I mean that was her stuff told.
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That's awesome.
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That's awesome.
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That's where we're at with them. They coming home.
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That's good.
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That's great news.
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Yeah, fantastic. What name did you settle on?
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What name did I settle on?
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What are they calling you?
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Oh, well, they caught Carly. Couldn't say Paula, so she called her Paco. So that's what all the kids calls Paco. And they call me Duck. Colin called me Duck when he was my nephew and ain't your nephew no more. Yeah, I said it and I say. What did I say?
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You said when he was my nephew.
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Oh, I thought. Well, I meant I'm thinking when he was little.
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Yeah, I know.
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Anyway.
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Yeah, when he was my nephew.
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Yeah, he's just my. Yeah, he's just my friend now.
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But anyway, that's him. Are we good to throw a photo up?
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Yeah.
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For the world to see. I didn't want to.
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Paco and duck.
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There you go.
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There we go.
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There they are.
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Holy cow.
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There they are right there.
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Ladies that will say many a prayer.
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To the Almighty for you And Johanna made them hat.
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Oh, that's awesome.
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Night for last.
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That's smart to make them different hats.
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Yeah.
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Who do they look like?
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They look like babies, man.
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We've been always like this. I always like to hear everybody.
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I think one of them, when you look at her straight on, she does kind of look like Cecilia. One of them does.
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Okay, but look at them little girls.
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The little one is the spunky one. Yep, that checks out easy.
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Sounds like Waylon.
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And the big one is. I just think she's pulling stuff over their eyes.
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She's. She's. She's 10 days old.
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She's smarter than that.
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Oh, she's eight days old.
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Yeah.
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She's smarter than that. You do remember you just said they had to learn how to suck and breathe, right?
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Yeah.
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Which for some kids take some effort.
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Well, that done. I mean that was good.
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Done in seven.
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Hey, I agree with. I agree with papa. They're smarter than you think.
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Oh, they. She.
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Okay, okay.
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They just kind of laid back. Yeah, the big one, Cassandra.
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Yeah.
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Can't call her that for long.
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The big one. Yeah, that's fine. I still call Jackson a big one.
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There you go.
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Look at Paco.
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Look at Paco.
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Look at her smile. She's got little.
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That foot is.
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Golly, look at how long the toes are.
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It looks like my thumb.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Unbelievable.
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That's crazy.
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Look at Paco.
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Oh yeah, she's good looking woman.
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I guarantee you.
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I just tangle when I see her.
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That is wonderful.
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I gotta get the tree pork.
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No, we got 40 more minutes. You're stuck with me, Martin and S. Oh boy. Oh, that's awesome.
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Yeah, Paco, she something. Oh, she's. You know, we ain't been to the camp in a while, but before we left that last time we went hunting, she. She's. Oh, she's been all been out of shape because we be up in a lock on. She got a harness on. She got to use the bathroom. She got to pull a harness off. All her clothes, two or three layers, pull her pants down. You know, she said y' all. Paul. Oh, she said y' all just got it easy. So she has come up with some ESU emergency sports underwear.
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Extreme sport underwear.
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I'm not allowed to Google that.
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And there's a couple of girls at the camp up there she's talked about. So she's got her approach staff and she doesn't got some samples of underwear.
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For women to pee in a deer stand.
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Yeah. So we. That last time we went to feed, we Was feeding. And she come back and we got in there, she went in the bathroom.
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Got way more questions.
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And she come out of the bathroom and she went, ha. And she. She said, I paid my pants twice while we was out there. And you didn't even know it.
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Well, they've been making them for years.
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What?
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Diapers?
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Yeah, it depends.
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Is that what.
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Well, she gotta camouflage them and all that and get another name for them. We'll probably license it.
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Hey, I know a podcast you can advertise on.
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That's it. That's it.
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Head to esu.com promo code Duck Check for your free women.
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She got a pro staff up there in Arkansas. Oh, yeah. They're like, yeah, he's talking about shopping and all kinds. Hey, you could do it when you're on the boat fishing. That's right, Godwin guys dot com. Don't worry about it. Women, you got to take a leap.
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That's right. I'll never let her fire.
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I never know.
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Oh, man.
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So they thinking they'll be home this week.
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This. Yeah.
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Well, that's awesome.
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Grandpa Godwin is here, ladies and gentlemen.
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Yeah, I got to find them some. Get some. Design some little rod and reels. Get some infant life. Best I told Johanna I got some.
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Infant ones you can have.
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Yeah, I said, just ruined the same big old millennium seat. I can't fall out of them. You know, I can stick him up there, but one on each side of me.
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I'm fish all day every car seats working in boats. Yeah.
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They're about to do a car seat test. They ain't gonna do a millennium seat test at the nicu.
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And you. There are plenty of room.
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I will.
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There's plenty of room in your rig for a pack and play.
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Oh, heck yeah. I'll put that in the middle of the deck there.
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Yeah.
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Oh, my goodness.
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That'll be amazing.
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Yeah. Yeah. Do. Do all that stuff with them before they get mobile. Trust me. Because once they get mobile, there's certain restrictions involved.
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Then ain't gonna be a bunch of rods on the deck.
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Nah.
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Just the ones you're using. Well, yeah.
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And even then cut the hook off. Yeah.
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Well, they'll have to learn somehow.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I just ain't wanted to do the braid trick on my kids yet. Hold it right there. It wasn't too.
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We'll just cut the top of the mountain off.
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No, no.
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That still gives me the heebie jeebies.
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This. We just got rid of pacifiers the other night.
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Oh, yeah.
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That's big. Big time around our House. Even though they only used them for sleep. But they're good. We sent them to Santa. We left them for Santa.
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Well, good deal.
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And he would swap toys. The only problem is Waylon said he don't like toys no more. He said, I don't want. I don't want toys no more. Can I have my pat back? I'm like, no, buddy. This is the art of the deal here. You made a deal.
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You made the deal.
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You made the deal. So the deal sticks. You don't get to backtrack on it.
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Oh, got a lot to be thankful.
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What'd you get him for Christmas?
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He wasn't prepared.
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He didn't think they were going to.
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Make it to this Chris.
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He thought he got to dodge when they did.
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When they didn't come yesterday, it throwed everything off. Yeah, everything. Nobody was ready for nothing. That happened so quick, we couldn't think about what we needed to do next.
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And living out of laundry bag.
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Next thing I know, I'm staying at the Hampton by the hospital. I didn't realize they lost a bunch of weight after they're born, and then they're just now getting back to that weight.
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Getting back to their liverweight.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Well, you got to think they were soaked in fluid for eight and a half.
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Yeah. How does that in your case? And then.
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So you take them out and dry them off and they lose a pound.
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Yeah. I guess when you put them fish in a live. Well, they lose weight.
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Yeah. Take them out, dry them off, and all of a sudden.
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Yeah.
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Then they got to get back in birth weight. Yeah. All the stuff that you never even thought of, like, before.
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That's crazy.
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Before that. Oh, we.
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Well, what's your motivation now?
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Yeah.
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Is that your motivation? We're back on the motivation.
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We gotta bring it back full circle.
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To where we started, figure out how to rig him. Car seats up my boat. That's my motivation.
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Oh, you got time on that? There'd be plenty of time for that.
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Yeah. I'll wait a day or two.
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I have the boys take them on a Kawasaki ride.
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Yeah, there you go.
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There's little hookups in the car seats in the back for them.
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Really, huh?
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Yeah, for the little, you know, where you clip the things. Just not the full. Not the full tether and all that stuff, but just where it'll.
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Just clip them in there.
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Yeah.
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It'll be fun.
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Boat. Get them in a box stand somewhere.
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How many car seats y' all got?
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Four, I think.
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Yeah, you need at least four with twins, I could opt for six right now.
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Really sick. Why would you need six car seats, Martin?
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Two for my mom, two for me, two for Brittany.
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Okay.
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Yeah. That true.
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Well, we got.
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Because none of our vehicles are the same.
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Well, we got bases.
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Yeah, the bases are good. It's just when you outgrow the bases.
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I feel like I'm in a whole new world now. I just realized I haven't changed a diaper in years. We ain't even got car seats no more. Yeah, it's like a whole new world.
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I changed.
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Are you still boosters? Lottie? Booster.
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Yeah, she got something back.
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I changed 960 diapers. 959. Johannes. And I changed Gus on when we was doing Jeff and Jessica's show.
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And you changed Gus.
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Yeah. So that made. 960.
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You kept camp.
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Well, she kept saying, you know, damn. Nothing. I said. All right, So I kept count.
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Is that accurate?
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Yes, sir.
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You know for a fact you've changed 959 diapers of Johanna, which probably ain't.
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As many as I should have, but.
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Can'T say you didn't do nothing.
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Well, so here's what you do when. Bring the wisdom. When it's at night and they cry.
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Them.
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The mama's got supersonic ears, so you got to be quick. But when they cry, you just.
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Your turn.
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And before she even does, she just jumps up and goes, oh, she even thinks about it.
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Your turn. That's one way to do it.
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Your turn.
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I always took the. I must stay up to the first one. And then you can sleep from now until the second one.
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Yeah, I took the night shift.
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Twins probably gonna be different.
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I didn't have no twins.
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Yeah, they gonna have to get a schedule because. How did y' all do that? Because can't both of y' all get it? Well, she had to get up and feed.
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Oh, Brittany. Yeah, she would. She would pump all day and she would. If, like, it got to hurting. But I would use the pump for the night stuff while she slept.
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That's wild.
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And Hunter's freaking out.
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And then, I mean, we. She was only able to keep up with them for like a month. And then the appetites got so voracious.
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Yeah, Martin boy is big now.
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Then you had to supplement formula.
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Yeah. Which if you have to end up that route. Well, that's what highly suggests this little thing called a Baby Breezer. It's a Keurig for formula. You just go in there and push a button and the bottle comes out hot and perfect and mixed.
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There you go.
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10 out of 10 recommend especially for twins.
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Yeah, I got a better system, but they frown on it. Well, while they're in the nick, sometimes you get one of them tubes just put right into the guts.
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Oh, yeah.
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Hey, you just plug in the numbers, Carter. You're gonna eat all night.
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You sleep all night.
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And then it would finish at 8am and we'd wake up. He'd wake up.
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I will say I did ask.
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Could put one on bins and they did not get the joke at all over. Flew over them.
D
Yeah. But I will say for us, like when formula got involved and boys started sleeping all night. So apparently it keeps you a little more full than breast milk. They kind of run through breast milk, which I don't consider that good, bad or indifferent.
A
There's some heavy opinions on that situation.
D
Yeah, and I'm sure there's plenty of them in the comments right now. But hey, we did what, we did that to keep our babies fed. The doctor said a fed baby is the best baby baby. So yeah, we kept them full.
B
The thing I noticed about it is formulas, when they poop and all that. It stinks. I haven't breast milk. Nope.
D
Yeah, you didn't change.
B
Totally different.
A
How many did you change? 959.
B
I couldn't change them.
D
Yeah.
B
So he goes, hey, here's the thing.
D
You know what's even worse than both of those? When they start eating real food.
B
Because I could change it because how.
A
Do blueberry skins not.
B
Yeah, you would have. You would have to take them and shower them or bathe them because I would throw up.
C
Take out and hose them off.
A
Throw up. Yeah, I got a deer. But you can't change diaper now, can you gut a deer?
B
Huh?
D
Used to.
B
Used to. But hey, a lot of times I would hate. I hit a bad spot, I'd run over and throw up everything I had. Then go back clean the deer. I'm serious.
A
Yeah, I did almost puke in the cricket cage.
D
Almost puked the other morning.
B
Yeah, I make a bigger mess. Yeah. Yeah. So it just easier for Christine to know.
D
We had that little warm up. I cleaned ducks and I thought I got them all out of the back of my truck. Oh, and I found a couple that had gotten missed.
C
Oh no.
D
In the dark in the morning. And when I uncorked that thing, I was. I mean like, you know, this is 80 degrees for a few days. Yeah, they had. They had gotten ripe.
C
Yeah, I had that one time with a fish.
D
No, he got. He not near live well.
C
No, I could not figure it out.
B
Oh, you couldn't find one that was dead?
C
I could smell him in my shop. It doesn't. Hadn't got bad bad yet, but. And it wasn't real. It was kind of faint. And I just kept walking around. I could not find it. And I was putting my boat in and I said, you smell that fish? This guy, one of my guide trip, he said, you mean that known your jack plate right there? Good grief.
B
It was hung up onto the motor.
A
Yeah.
C
How did he get there? I have no idea. No idea.
D
Oh, that is wild.
C
He got hung up there and that was a first.
B
I just know this. There was a lot of prayers went up for them. Too late.
C
I'm sure appreciate it too.
D
Amen. Now there's gonna be even more of them.
B
Every time I thought about her, I said day or night. And my prayer was, hey, let her carry them things to full term and give birth to them.
C
Well, I was more. I figured after a while I said these things because I, you know, being not at work every day, I wouldn't say retired because I'm doing that gad and stuff crappie gun. But I was able to go to the doctor with her a lot. And the way he talked the high risk doctor is the babies was good. Better than, you know. Oh, they fine. I figured they'd be good. But I was kind of worried about her, you know, but. And she stayed pale for a couple of days or they had to give her iron and magnesium. Yeah. But she's fine now.
D
Lost a little bit of blood.
B
I have had doctors described to me that way. He described a woman giving birth was a deer, a buck deer. Growing his antlers and pushing that bone marrow in leather socks, so to speak.
C
I never thought about that.
B
That's why that doctor described it. He said that's what a woman goes through giving birth just like a big buck.
A
Was that a male doctor or.
B
As a male doctor.
C
Okay, I'm gonna.
B
Oh, I'm serious. It was, you know, I just. I said, well, that would be pretty rough. Yeah, you gotta think about a buck drops them things every year. And then you think one when hey, that that big around at the base and it saves the 18 points, you know. Well, I. To fill that stupid thing up. That would be rough. That's like making sausage, you know, you just keep grinding it and it's pushing it out, you know. That would be tough.
C
Yeah.
A
Just like having a baby.
B
That's what he described it to me as.
C
I'm telling you, I don't know. I can't tell you I wake up.
A
Every morning and my motivation is, thank God I'm just a dude.
D
Well, no, thank God most of my plumbing is external.
B
This is for all of the women that have been blessed with having a child. Okay. You are loved and appreciated by the husband and your kids. We don't say it enough, that's for darn sure. Okay. But you are loved and appreciated for what you go through. Okay. Carrying on us.
D
Okay.
B
And letting your body be just distorted. And then you have to try to get back some kind of decent look from that. Okay. So, yeah, I'm a mama's boy, so I'm definitely. I know. And I used to tell her, okay, that. Yeah, okay.
C
I know one thing. It makes them tougher.
B
Why? I'm just.
C
She. She said she was sore from the incision, but it didn't. She got up and got to walking so she could get down there and see him quick. She walked all the way down there.
B
If it been left up to the man to continue, the species would have been dead. We'd have been extinct like the dodo bird a long time ago. Okay. Because ain't no way I'll do it.
A
Just a bunch of yellow birds.
D
Yeah.
C
That's all of it.
A
We'd be extinct. It is weird what happens when a woman has a kid.
B
Oh, no, they become. Every time I think about her seal, a pregnant lady. It amazes me that they especially like two.
C
Yeah, it is.
B
Yo. How does the body make room for all that, okay. And not. Not screw anything up? Yeah, well, the holidays when I was.
C
Watching hormones, Mary Kate John and all change.
B
No. I walked up to her mama doing, and she said, oh, I'm. I'm still making it. There you go.
A
Yeah, yeah, we got more twins coming next.
B
Oh, no. You know, and then you. And like when you say, well, wait a minute, wait a minute. I stayed doing it once, but after I went through that crap once, it ain't happening again.
D
Yeah. Okay, look, I said the same thing. Here we are, three years.
B
Five.
D
Yeah.
B
So. Hey, now. My. My hat. I've always said, hey, you know, they. They say they're the weaker sex. That's a bald faced lie.
A
Who's they? I didn't say that.
D
Whoever that is.
C
I think it was Hunter had twins back to back. She was still. She hadn't winged a set of twins and had another set.
A
See, Martin, that could be you.
C
That wasn't planned. She said, I'm thinking. But they. She had eight kids.
B
That's not my mother. My mother.
D
I'm thinking.
C
What wasn't bland.
A
She need to come to my house and get some roller skates, watch what my kids are doing. You won't want eight.
B
Yeah, you got to think about that. My mom had seven kids.
A
That's a lot. I don't even know seven people that I like, really like being around.
D
That's because Netflix.
B
No, no, because a mom. A mom is like eternity or love is. It's always there.
C
Yeah.
B
Even when you don't deserve it.
C
Okay.
A
And it makes him a different human, too. Because I remember when I. When Carter was born, Allison was afraid of, you know, her own shadow, pumping gas, anything. And then she was like, all right, Carter's born. And she went and lived in a hotel in New Orleans. Nope. Scratch that. Motel in New Orleans for three months. And I was like, who's this? Who is this psycho, crazy tough lady I'm all of a sudden married to? When you become a mama bear who.
D
Makes some fantastic lasagna.
C
Yeah. And some good bread. I think that's pretty good.
B
I knew what. Okay. Last night, Mom. Yeah.
D
Nope, I didn't eat it. I ate the lasagna.
A
That was a mistake.
D
And that cookie.
C
The cookie was good. Boy, I could eat a cookie right now.
D
What about one out of a skillet with ice cream on top? Because that's what his wife made last night.
C
Oh, yeah. I could eat 18 pecan pies. I know that.
A
How do you know that? Because you've done it before, haven't you?
C
No, but I want. If it's a challenge, I will.
B
I will give it to you.
C
I love pecan pies.
A
Yeah, I do, too.
B
That's like me when I hadn't had fried pies for a while. I'll make myself sick on them.
C
Boy.
A
That's what I did this week.
B
And I've done that.
C
If I ate one, I told my.
B
And I've done that before.
A
Why do people do that? You gotta get, like, just so fired up.
B
That's like when Phil cooked hamburgers.
A
Hurt yourself, y'.
B
All.
A
How many hamburgers did you eat?
B
Oh, I. I'd eat five. And that's what he ate.
C
One day. I was, hey.
B
And that's.
C
We run out of hamburger meat.
B
Yeah. And that's when I. I mean, that's what everything there is you put on.
C
I hate to eat some lettuce.
D
Lettuce, onions.
A
You did the whole thing?
C
Yeah.
A
Eight times?
C
Yeah.
B
Oh, the most I've ever ate was eight.
C
You better be sitting at the stove. He was sitting there.
B
I ate one day. Because I just said, well, Phil said.
C
Get off the hamburger.
B
I said, hey, that was pretty good. Let's see why not. How many you had? I said, I've already ate six. But hey, hamburgers. A couple.
D
Yeah.
B
And he said, yeah. I said, but hey. I said, does anybody want these two hamburgers? They said, no. I said, well, then I'm waiting. Bill said, you're a pig. And I said, well, I'm sorry, it's your fault. There, that's good.
D
Now they are the little thin hamburgers. I don't eat of them is probably, I'm saying meat wise is probably only equivalent to four patties, like regular regulation patties.
A
But that's still eight buns by the buns.
D
Yes.
B
Now that's bunging everything on them.
D
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A
New year Big goals.
D
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D
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D
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A
You know what I'm a big believer in by the way, when it comes to hamburgers, I need to tell buns no. Oh, the best hamburger bun is the cheapest one you can find. When they start getting all this weird bun is to the bread to meat ratio gets all thrown off because.
D
Oh yeah, when they make like them brioche buns. Yeah.
A
Too much bread. Less bread.
D
Less bread. Yeah. I like to take the inside of them and hollow our mouth. Take a, take a spoon to them. You want just enough tensile strength to hold it.
C
To hold it. Yeah. Hold all the stuff in there.
D
If you can put it in between like a giant saltine cracker, I'd be in like something super Thin and.
A
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Cheap bread.
D
Yeah.
A
Wonder bread.
B
That's why Phil never understand when I make chili.
A
Oh, boy.
B
I liked it, you know, running, because, hey, I'd put a pack of. A pack of crushed crackers in it.
D
Yeah.
C
To thicken it up.
B
Oh, yeah.
A
That's what makes.
C
I like mine thick.
B
Yeah. I like it thin. So I fill it full of crackers.
C
And that don't stop you from putting the crackers in it. I'm gonna tell you.
D
Well, yeah, if I'm eating it just chili, I want it thin. But if I'm doing, like chili dogs. Let's stick in that baby up. Chili dogs gotta be Alfredo pies. Let's stick in that baby Y for three.
B
No, pies got to be thick.
A
Do you think we're the only podcast in the world?
B
But I had a lot of crackers.
C
Chili.
D
Yeah.
C
What do you say?
D
Are we the only one that went from the NICU to Frito pies? Probably.
C
Yeah.
D
Most likely. That's what makes us talented. Yeah. You know, we find the good in everything.
B
Well, I was like. I was like. When you first run into. Okay, a BLT with peanut butter on one side.
C
Yeah, that's right. I'd rather mayonnaise on one side and.
B
Peanut butter on that. What? Until you ate one and then you would say, I don't think I will.
C
Yeah, that was the same. Same thing you're thinking about is the same thing I thought about.
A
I don't like tomatoes, though.
D
Oh, yeah. Well, I just had a B with peanut butter.
C
Well, just don't put the tomatoes. Something about the bacon and the peanut butter goes together.
B
Bacon goes with any, like, stomach. You really. Martin said it.
D
I just had.
B
Get all the lettuce, tomato. Just put the bacon and peanut butter.
D
Yeah, I just had to be.
C
Yeah, yeah.
D
On all them. On all them little pro am golf tournaments we played in. Yeah, they had like a little cook shack for the caddies, and you could go in there and kind of order whatever. Well, you know, we friends with Teddy. The Teddy's like, ah, just come with me. We'll grab something to eat. You go in there and I bet. Yeah. Bacon and peanut butter sandwich. And the guy was like, been heavy.
B
Cook is like, heavy on the bacon.
D
I'm here.
B
Yeah. Heavy on the bacon.
A
And that's the guy.
D
Cook is like, I like you. This is going to work. He's like, I don't get to make this. So I'm absolutely.
A
People put vegetables on sandwich.
B
Wouldn't think that Would be good. Peanut butter and bacon.
A
But hey, that sounds great.
B
Oh no, it's very good. Yeah, it's delicious.
D
So you know what I. Yes.
C
No.
D
Day four yesterday.
B
What?
D
Some sandhill crane was good.
C
Was it good?
B
Well, how? Compared to like a real good finite mignon?
D
No, it's not filet.
B
It's got.
D
It's like a sirloin. But you would never know. If I didn't tell somebody that it was a crane, that it was a bird. You would never know that. It was never.
C
No, never.
D
You would think it was a piece of beef. 100 and that 100,000.
B
Oh, that. Did they have a pretty good sized breast?
D
Oh, but yeah. Yeah. Giant.
B
Like it's like a goose.
D
Bigger than that. I mean, bigger than a speck.
C
Long.
D
Okay, it's long. I mean it's a hunk of meat now. It is. It's a big old bird.
C
Yeah.
D
It's probably like a 10 ounce sirloin steak. I mean. Yeah, I just cooked it to 120. Pulled it off there, let it rest and then.
B
Oh, you just cut the whole thing in there? Grilled it?
D
Mm, no, I. I didn't even grill it. I griddled it.
B
You griddled?
D
Yeah, I put it on a griddle with some olive oil, salt, pepper and garlic and let it get to 120 and not poultry.
C
It ain't gonna hurt.
D
Yeah, it was good, man.
C
It was fun.
A
I'm starting.
B
I've heard they are delicious too.
C
Good.
D
Yeah, I got a few more of them.
C
Not many. Yeah, I've been reading a book on gravity.
D
Yeah.
C
Can't put it down.
B
A what?
D
Stop. Johnny D. Johnny D over Just quivering. Trying not to laugh because he hurts grandpa.
A
Hurt myself.
D
Is that the name of the book or is it just that good?
C
Yeah, it's just that good. I was going to tell you one about chemistry, but I knew I wouldn't get no reaction.
D
Oh, you've had a lot of time in hospital. Waiting room.
C
Lots of waiting room.
A
I think that's what got me was here.
C
You know what?
A
What?
C
You know what you need to do? You would become a millionaire.
A
I'm interested.
D
Okay.
A
Don't tell the people.
B
Tell it. Do it.
C
Comfortable beds for visitors at the hospital.
A
Now they don't want you there.
D
Yeah, that's the issue.
C
Well, you got to be there.
B
Yeah, but that's the issue. They know.
D
They're trying to break the train of thought of you have to be there and wanting you to choose why there's.
A
Not enough chairs in airports. They don't Want you sitting down, they.
C
Want you walk as much as they charge you think they want you out of there?
D
Oh, they want you out of there. Absolutely.
C
The more you stay, the more money they get.
D
It's really a great.
A
Not you.
D
Yeah, it's really a great like exercise in selflessness. Like how uncomfortable are you willing to be for the one that you love? If it's hospital bed sore. That's. That's. That's love. Well, that chair sucks. That folds out into a bed.
C
Both of them.
D
Yeah, they also.
C
And that thing they call a couch. Yeah, I know it thinks it wants to be a pull out bed, but.
A
That thing ain't even no futon.
C
Don't even know what it wants.
A
Oh man.
C
It's just there for looking at.
D
Yeah, I remember sleeping on that thing for however long.
C
Good grief.
D
Oh, that was a toughie. It's like. It's because it's that it's whatever materials on that thing too, like that vinyl, like whatever that crap is.
B
Whatever it is, you can't get comfortable on one of them.
C
Yeah, no, I don't care what you do.
B
Yeah, usually I can find a comfortable spot on something.
D
I find a way to get even.
C
Cyro and get out.
B
It ain't worth it.
C
Just hide off it. It's like pulling a band aid off.
D
Yeah, yeah.
C
Because you get up out of it.
D
You stick to it.
C
Yeah, it's terrible.
B
Oh boy.
D
Oh man.
B
I never want to go back to that hospital. Never got along. Me neither.
D
Well, anybody got any interesting resolutions to talk about? And we. I mean duck hunters. New Year's resolutions generally are February 1st. February, you get through. You get through January because I gotta.
A
Lose some weight again.
D
Yeah, me too. I've really let myself go these past couple of weeks on this holiday.
B
I need to check my weight, see if I've gained it.
C
What do you don't. I'm just saying I even kill. I gained some during Thanksgiving and it, you know, from where I was. So I'm not too bad to corn down no more.
A
But I'm not a bad torn down anymore.
D
I'm right at one day.
C
But I could lose some. I might try to lose some.
A
I'm going to because I hurt myself and. Well, it was a stressful two months and then it was holidays. So I was like, you know what I'm gonna do? Eat all the feelings I can in the form of crescent rolls, pie, cake, anything that.
B
Well, every once in a while a man needs to be good to himself.
A
And I was.
B
I'm only just Let it go and then I'll worry about it later. What are you going to give us for the motivation there, J.D.
D
What'S our motivating motivation?
A
I really don't know, but I think it is weird on this podcast how size got a NICU story, I've got a NICU story, Martin's got a NICU story, and now Godwin has joined us in the NICU stories. And I talked to a lot of people in the store that come in from out of town. Talk to dude the other day, told me his whole NICU story and it's a wild ride and place. And for parents that have never been there, you're blessed. For parents that have been there, you know, it's a weird spot and you don't know what to do. But in second Corinthians 4, starting in verse 8, I'm just going to read a little bit. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed. Perplexed but not in despair, Persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. So you know what? We're going with motivation today. And so I just think, you know, if you're in a spot, a season of something like the NICU something, maybe it's a grandparent, maybe it's a parent that's in a medical situation and you're sitting in a waiting room listening to us because that's what we've all done. You listen to something to take your mind off of something. Remember that you might be pressed on every side, but you're not going to be crushed because Jesus Christ wins in the end.
D
Amen.
A
No matter what happens.
D
Amen.
B
That's a good one.
Date: January 1, 2026
Hosts: Si Robertson, Justin Martin, John-David Owen, John Godwin, Jay Stone, Phillip McMillan, Jacob Mayo
This heartfelt and often hilarious episode centers around John Godwin’s new twin grandbabies, who have arrived early and are staying in the NICU. The crew reflects on family, parenthood, finding motivation in life’s toughest moments, and shares plenty of hunting camp humor, food talk, and signature redneck wisdom. The episode maintains the laid-back, witty, and genuine spirit fans expect from the Duck Commander crew, offering relatable stories and encouragement for anyone going through a tough season, especially those with loved ones in the hospital.
“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed but not in despair; persecuted but not abandoned; struck down but not destroyed... you might be pressed on every side, but you're not going to be crushed because Jesus Christ wins in the end.”
Si on Perspective:
“You can go positive or you can go negative... I watch Star Wars too. I ain't going to the dark side!” (02:30–02:59)
Godwin’s Redneck Packing Tip:
“If you just get a clothes basket, it's way easier than a suitcase. You just throw it all in there and then let's go.” (07:42)
NICU Gratefulness:
“That place is awesome... the nurses got compassion for you. The doctors, they act like they don't mind doing what they're doing.” (11:02)
Parent Tricks:
“The mama's got supersonic ears... you got to be quick.” (25:59)
Si on Childbirth:
“If it’d been left up to the man to continue, the species would have been dead. We’d have been extinct like the dodo bird.” (34:26)
Johnny D’s Encouragement:
“You might be pressed on every side, but you're not going to be crushed because Jesus Christ wins in the end.” (51:24)
Godwin’s Signature Humor:
“Yeah, I've been reading a book on gravity. Can't put it down… I was going to tell you one about chemistry, but I knew I wouldn't get no reaction.” (47:09, 47:32)
In classic Duck Call Room style, the guys manage to weave humor, heart, and faith through John Godwin’s personal journey as a new granddad to twins in the NICU. Listeners walk away encouraged to find hope and motivation in the hard seasons, reminded that trials shape who we are, and entertained by redneck ingenuity and family tales. The episode closes with a scriptural reminder: no matter how tough the trial, “we are hard pressed but not crushed, because Jesus Christ wins in the end.” (51:24)
If you’re going through a NICU journey, medical crisis, or any tough time, you’ll find heartfelt laughs, honest encouragement, and a reminder you’re not alone—all with a side of Southern wit and wisdom.