Justin Martin Came Face-to-Face With a Home Intruder

Summary

Duck Call Room – Episode Summary

Episode: Justin Martin Came Face-to-Face With a Home Intruder
Date: January 20, 2026
Hosts: Si Robertson (“Phil”), Justin Martin (“Martin”), John Godwin (“Goblin”), John-David Owen, Jay Stone, Phillip McMillan, Jacob Mayo
Main Theme: Hilarious and suspenseful tales from the Duck Call Room gang, centered around Martin’s recent confrontation with a home intruder, with plenty of detours into duck hunting, Southern food traditions, and childhood memories.

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Overview

In this episode, the Duck Call Room crew recounts Justin Martin's harrowing experience encountering an intruder at his family's property. Packed with humor, wisdom, and the unmistakable, easy-going Southern banter the group is known for, the episode also covers changing duck migration patterns, fish cleaning mishaps, and the quirks of classic Louisiana dining.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Justin Martin’s Home Intruder Story

[03:13–08:12, 11:44–13:02]

• Martin discovers, via a trail cam app, that someone is trespassing at his grandparents' house (which doubles as a storage and gardening spot). After a long duck hunting day, he gets dressed and heads over with his shotgun, staying on the phone with the sheriff’s office.
• The story escalates with Martin confronting the hooded trespasser, shotgun drawn. He describes the adrenaline and his self-control when facing the unknown.
• The sheriff's department commends Martin for not pulling the trigger and handling the tense situation without violence. The trespasser ran, and nothing was stolen.
• Memorable Quote:
  • Martin: “I just looked at him and I had that shotgun on his forehead and I said, buddy, make the right decision. And he took off running the other way. I said, you made the right decision.” [06:29]
• The event sparks reflection on self-defense, adrenaline response (“my heart rate got up to 172”), and the value of restraint.

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2. Reflections on Self-Defense and Heritage

[08:43–16:42]

• Martin and the team discuss the emotional weight of defending family property and the old-fashioned, uncompromising values learned from grandparents. There's pride in resolving things without violence, but also an understanding of the danger involved.
• Notable Quote:
  • Phil: “Hey, you’re going in my grandmother's house. I will shoot you. It ain't no doubt about that.” [15:53]
• The crew jokes about their ancestors’ toughness and how people today might not appreciate the deep roots attached to such places.

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3. Duck Hunting, Land Stewardship, and Changing Environments

[23:02–32:23]

• Shifts in duck migration: The hosts compare old and modern duck hunting. Phil reminisces about the 70’s, when ducks were abundant—describing “tornadoes” of ducks in the sky due to plentiful agriculture, open land, and less concrete.
• Discussion about how land use changes (urbanization, intensive ag practices) have reshaped wildlife habitats, with strong opinions about “stewarding land.”
• Heated social media debates about modern duck hunting methods (e.g., “flooded corn is the forward-facing sonar of duck hunting” [23:50]) and internet controversies.

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4. Southern Food Traditions and Fish Cleaning Mishaps

[34:13–44:53]

• The crew lightheartedly discusses the differences between left and right-handed fish cleaning, passing down this “art” to the next generation.
• Jokey exchanges about eating odd parts of fish (“Next time you get to taste tungsten!” [08:02]), frying crappie eggs, and the revelation that the caviar on deviled eggs is, indeed, fish eggs—this leaves some in shock.
• Memorable Quote:
  • Goblin: “That little pop of salt is so good. That's a fish egg.” [50:34]
• Phil and others recall growing up eating every part of the catch, and how hard times once demanded “using it all.”

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5. On Different Opinions and Social Media Fights

[20:30–21:05]

• Reflection on why internet culture has become so polarized in the hunting community and beyond.
• Goblin: “I don't get that we live in a society now where if you have a different opinion, you're the devil.” [20:35]
• The team laughs about how everyone wants to “pick a side,” but the truth is often somewhere in the middle.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Restraint During Crisis:
  • Goblin: “I wanted a peaceful resolution. And him running away is peaceful. Like, that's fine.” [08:37]
• On Facing Adrenaline:
  • Martin: “How fast is your heart beating?”
    Goblin: “172. I had to know.” [11:47]
• On Respecting Heritage:
  • Phil: “Hey, you're going in my grandmother's house. I will shoot you. It ain't no doubt about that.” [15:53]
• On Changing Times:
  • Phil: “As humans, we suck at stewarding land. …Now we're paying the price for that way of thinking.” [31:00]
• On Middle-Ground Opinions:
  • Goblin: “To have a common sense opinion and be middle of the road on all this … Nope. You gotta choose a stance. I'm like, why?” [32:23]
• Culinary Surprise:
  • Goblin: “That's caviar. That little salty bite of the deviled egg at Parish is caviar.” [50:10]
• Classic Southern Humor:
  • Hunter: “Just think about the shoes that frogs wear. What, open toed?” [44:20]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 03:13 – 08:12: Martin’s Home Intruder Story
• 11:44 – 13:02: Heart Rate & Handling Stress
• 15:43 – 16:42: Heritage and Family Property Sentiment
• 23:02 – 32:23: Duck Migration, Land Use, and Social Media “Controversy”
• 34:13 – 44:53: Fish Cleaning, Traditions, and Caviar Discovery
• 52:04 – 52:28: Closing Verses, Luke 11:11-13

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Tone & Atmosphere

• Laid-back, conversational, and peppered with classic Duck Commander humor
• Candid reflections on adrenaline, self-control, and responsibility
• Strong sense of reverence for family, tradition, and the outdoors
• Gentle ribbing between friends, with real wisdom about country living and human nature

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Closing

The episode wraps with Martin reading a Bible verse (Luke 11:11-13) that directly ties into their theme—fathers, gifts, and protection—perfectly echoing the day’s stories.

Martin: “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead…?” [52:04]
Goblin: “Yeah. There you go.” [52:28]
Phil: “Well, we'll see y’ all next time right here in the duck call room. We're out.” [52:30]

Transcript

[Martin]

Did you know that I listened to this podcast the other night? I don't. I was.

[Hunter]

How could you listen to it when.

[Goblin]

We ain't done it yet?

[Martin]

Not this exact one. I listened to the one without size to see if I was like, even if I enjoyed it. I mean, I thought I was hilarious. Oh, Hunter don't. I was. Hunter started. I was. I did not.

[Goblin]

Let it roll, Hunter. That's great.

[Martin]

No, I wasn't terrible. I was like, I get why may listen to this, but I tried it out podcasts for the first time in my life.

[Goblin]

Well, the good news is we did one yesterday or day before, I don't know. That is 98% Silas. So I sat here like this side, you get excited?

[Phil]

Just got up, said, piss on this.

[Hunter]

I ain't making no more coffee.

[Phil]

He said, I just kicked him in.

[Goblin]

If Goblin makes his coffee, I'm. I'll say, welcome to the duck call room. And then I'm out of here because there ain't no sense in even trying, buddy.

[Martin]

Yesterday with Yalls guests, huh? Okay.

[Goblin]

But he never. I mean I ain't ever. I ain't seen that man have that much energy. I said, golly, you fired up?

[Phil]

Oh yeah.

[Goblin]

It's just sitting here is actually harder when you have nothing to say.

[Phil]

It was. It got stupid.

[Martin]

I feel like you probably had plenty to say.

[Goblin]

I didn't have nothing to say.

[Martin]

You were just that tired.

[Goblin]

I was tired. I still am tired.

[Phil]

We got the bottomless pond going and then after that.

[Hunter]

That's bottomless pond.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Martin]

You ever thought about it?

[Phil]

A pond with no bottom.

[Martin]

How deep would the crappie be in that?

[Phil]

Right?

[Hunter]

I'd be 12 foot deep right above the thermocline.

[Phil]

Bottomless pond.

[Goblin]

Oh man.

[Martin]

But Martin, Martin, can we talk about it?

[Goblin]

Yeah, I don't care.

[Martin]

I have many questions for you.

[Goblin]

About what?

[Martin]

About what in the world happened. You put it up on Instagram.

[Goblin]

I did.

[Martin]

And that's when I decided not to add. Me and Martin probably talk every day.

[Goblin]

Sigh.

[Martin]

And he. He told me something and I had so many more questions. Then I was like, well, I guess I'll save it for the world. Martin got broke into, sir.

[Phil]

Oh yeah, your house.

[Goblin]

No, not my house, but my grandparents house that we still own and have our garden there. And like I have all my decoys there in the shop and you know, just another place to store stuff kind of. I got into it the other night, you know, we were out at Pin Oak with our guest till what, 10 o' clock or so or 9 o' clock. Anyway, I got home at 10 o' clock from being out there and I'm getting undressed to go to bed because it was a long day. That day started at 4:00am yeah. And I never got a break.

[Martin]

It's not on Instagram.

[Phil]

And you walked about 1.6 miles.

[Goblin]

I walked 1.6 miles. Duck hunting.

[Phil]

Picking up.

[Goblin]

Picking up.

[Martin]

Picking up ducks at about 1.6.

[Goblin]

No, I just said, I just told him, I said, how far you think I walked this morning? He said, I don't know. He said, you walked a lot.

[Phil]

I said, I said, two miles. I have two miles.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

And he said 1.6.

[Goblin]

1.6 miles.

[Phil]

I said, well, you got your cardiac 10,000 this morning.

[Hunter]

Yeah, cardiac.

[Martin]

Cardiac's done, boys.

[Goblin]

So anyway, I get home, get undressed, and my phone vibrates and it's my Spy Point app. And I mean, I've got no less than 30 trail cameras out right now. So I'm not. I don't really think nothing of it, right? I'm like, all right, whatever, Spy Point, great. If it's ducks, cool. Deer, what? I don't care. But something made me check that stupid thing. And I looked over and there's a guy because I got him on my grandparents house because we're not there. And there's a guy standing there.

[Martin]

A hooded figure, if you will.

[Goblin]

Yeah, hooded figure. And I'm like, man. And so I'm just sitting there thinking. I took like a minute sit there and think, no, man, they ain't gonna do nothing. Then I get another picture and it's him still there. And I say, gosh dang it. Okay, I'm getting dressed, I'm getting dressed. And so I got back dressed and I got in my truck and then I called the washtag Parish Sheriff's office and I told him, said, look, I got this guy over here, he's trespassing. I'm on my way there. I just want y' all to know this, right? Like in case something. And they were like. I said, y' all don't have to come. I'm sure he's gonna be gone by the time I get there. No. And they were like, no, we'll send a unit out there or whatever. And so they said, but let's stay on the phone if you're almost there. And I was like, okay, no problem. So I get there and I'm still on the phone with the sheriff's department. I pull in and I say, oh, crap. And the lady on the phone dispatcher is like, what? Is it? I said, he's still here. There's somebody in the house.

[Phil]

Yeah, he's still here.

[Goblin]

I heard her voice pick up in excitement as she's radioing this to the people, the fine folks washed out parish sheriff's department. And she heard me load my shotgun and she said, sir, what are you doing? I said, I blow it protecting myself. And she said, yeah, that is fine. That's totally legal. That yalls property or whatever. And so she's staying on the phone.

[Martin]

Was it an automatic shotgun or a pump shotgun?

[Goblin]

It was a Benelli Super Black Eagle. 328 gauge.

[Martin]

Because nothing would be scarier if I was in somebody else's house.

[Phil]

I will tell you, this man knows how to really use that gun. We go. We go hunting together. And, you know, we, we, we. 28 gauge is one of our favorites.

[Goblin]

Yeah. And so. Oh, boy. I guess. Well, turn. There were two of them on the second picture of the camera. So I guess somebody was in the bushes watching, you know, like a lookout or something. And probably told him, oh, crap.

[Phil]

Yeah, yeah. You got trouble.

[Goblin]

You got company.

[Phil]

You got trouble.

[Goblin]

This ain't good.

[Martin]

Headlights have turned into the driveway.

[Goblin]

And so I'm stand and I hear the rustling. Of course, the lady's still on phone, or I got Bluetooth on my truck, but I got the door open with that shotgun pointed at that door. Because I'm like, if this gets. But I'm smart enough to keep the door in between me and him. Like, I'm not a cop. I ain't got no vest. I don't know if this guy's got a gun. I don't know. I'm just. I'm just doing what I can. You don't know if he's on sale. Yeah, I'm just protecting myself and my property. And he gets to the door, and I just looked at him and I had that shotgun on his forehead and I said, buddy, make the right decision. And he took off running the other way. I said, you made the right decision.

[Phil]

Yeah. Don't get shit.

[Goblin]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, he was probably. His heart was probably beating out of his ears. Because I imagine 28 gauges, a small shotgun, but when it is pointed at you with ill intentions. I bet it looks big.

[Phil]

Oh, no, no, no. I will give you.

[Goblin]

Oh, man.

[Phil]

I will give you a firsthand experience about that. Yeah, Cops pull me over, okay. I'm used to Louisiana cops. They tell you to get out of the car and come back to them. Yeah, well, this was in Texas, son. I Got out of the car and they pulled them.38 on me behind the door. Hey, that looked like a 105. That thing looked that big around. And I went, whoa.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Hi, Sam. And let's just say you were somewhere you weren't supposed to be in that of night and you saw this figure looking at you. Because you're not small either, Mark. I'd have been scared. But then when I saw.

[Phil]

No, no, that barrel. That would remind me when we went to New Mexico and was hunting on the Rio Grande and we stayed in a motel room.

[Hunter]

Oh, yeah.

[Phil]

Hey, look, Phil is sitting up in his long Johns with a 12 gauge Browning loaded and a guy's backing in his room. And when he turns around and sees Phil, he said, wrong room. And Phil said, you think I left.

[Goblin]

Him with the parting words of, next time you get to taste tungsten. So hopefully there is no next time and he doesn't have to worry about what 3 inch number 6 is taste like.

[Phil]

No, no, see, that's what I just, you know.

[Goblin]

You know, the cops got there and they commended me for not shooting him, running away. I said, man, I'm not.

[Martin]

Look, you didn't want to hurt nobody.

[Goblin]

I'm not. I didn't want to do.

[Martin]

I didn't want him there.

[Goblin]

I didn't want him to be in there. I wanted to tell y' all, it's all good. He was just snooping around. That's what I hoped had gone.

[Phil]

He got inside the house.

[Goblin]

Yeah. And I wanted a peaceful resolution. And him running away is peaceful. Like, that's fine.

[Martin]

Like, come back.

[Goblin]

No, no, I said that too. And those cops said you would shockingly be surprised.

[Phil]

Well, no, no, you know, you saw it, that fire. So had him.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

Yo, yo. My sister runs in and says, hey, somebody's peeping in my window. No, I'm sitting there and was cleaning my pistol.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

Nine hollow points in that nine shot busted model. And I went looking for him. And hey, if I'd have seen him, yeah, I would have shot the sucker, man.

[Goblin]

I'm totally prepared.

[Phil]

Okay.

[Goblin]

But, yeah, and you always wonder, like, in that situation, could you do it? Like, I mean, I've always wondered and I've never been put in that situation. Thank God.

[Phil]

Well.

[Goblin]

But let me tell you what I learned about myself. When he come out that door, my finger got heavy. I can do it if I have to.

[Martin]

If it got.

[Goblin]

My finger got heavy on that trigger. Well, I mean, it goes.

[Phil]

Here's the thing. You're up against an unknown.

[Goblin]

Yeah. I mean, I I just.

[Phil]

Okay. You know, I'm glad he didn't raise me. Would be okay. Is this guy high on meth? Okay, because hey, if he's, if he makes the wrong move with me, yeah, he's fixed to die.

[Goblin]

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[Martin]

That's scary, man.

[Goblin]

Yeah, it sucked. I mean I, I, I'm serious.

[Martin]

How fast is your heart beating?

[Goblin]

172. I had to know.

[Martin]

I love the exacts we now.

[Goblin]

I had to know. Yeah, no, I had to know. I went back while the cops were doing all their stuff, reports and fingerprints and all that stuff. And the cop come over, he said, what are you doing? I said, I'm checking to see what my heart rate got up to. He said, I bet it was north of 160. And I looked and I said 172. He said, yeah, that's about right when you have to make that decision. No, no, I mean, because, you know, they have to make that decision more than they should ever have to. Right? And I mean, he was just very matter of fact, he said, yeah, that's right.

[Phil]

Well, see, I've had a lot of.

[Goblin]

He said, he. But he told me, he said, he said that's a good thing. He said, because you're not used to it. He said, the ones you got to worry about are the ones whose heart rate goes to like 105. He said, those people, stone cold killers. That's probably. It doesn't even raise their heart rate.

[Martin]

But that's probably like you with a duck. Yeah, but if we took Hunter out there, his heart would be going, you.

[Goblin]

Know what's crazy though? So I've been checking it to see if I still get excited with a duck. And every time I shoot, it still gets up to like 110. I still. It still excites me. Like, that's good to raise up and kill. Like to hunt ducks. It's actually kind of cool.

[Martin]

I love how much you know about your heart rate.

[Goblin]

There's a lot of downtime and duck hunting. So now I. So much data at my fingertips. You know, I'm a nerd. Like, I sit there, I'm just scrubbing data all morning.

[Phil]

Oh, no, because. Because is like all military people, I would figure have always wondered if it hadn't gone into combat. You always question yourself about, okay, would I be man enough to take care of my buddies?

[Goblin]

Yeah, okay. What I learned is I got you back, buddy.

[Martin]

Well, no, no, I'm with you fellas.

[Phil]

A few times that it was got Harry and with me. Okay, hey, if. If they had a messed up now, hey, that. That M14 would have been automatic.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

And hey, I was a. 30 rounds would have went down range.

[Goblin]

But I do value human life. I don't want to. I am so glad he did and that I don't have to live with whatever that visual would have been.

[Phil]

Oh, no.

[Goblin]

Like, I just. I am so thankful that the dumbest thing he did was knock that window out and went inside that house. And. And I'm sure he was shocked at my response.

[Phil]

Well, I Would just from the time.

[Goblin]

He got in there to the time I got there.

[Phil]

I look at that because I just. That when was that thing? And Phil had that guy back in his room, you know, and like, you know, you're. You're back in a room and turn around and see my brother, bearded brother in long John with a 12 gauge shotgun, loaded, laying across your lap.

[Martin]

He didn't need a gun to scare that person.

[Phil]

Yeah. He's Phil Robertson. Yeah. Yeah.

[Goblin]

Now I wonder if I'm wondering how this guy's telling this story.

[Martin]

I don't. I. I reckon he's not.

[Goblin]

Y' all ain't gonna believe what I did.

[Hunter]

Not some people brag.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Martin]

It's crazy, Martin.

[Hunter]

But there ain't nothing in there.

[Goblin]

There's nothing in there. Like, there's nothing of value. You know who would find value in there? Jacob Mayo. Because there's like all their. All their clothes. Yeah. All their old. Like, there's nothing. There's nothing of any value in there. Which I told the cops that they're like, is anything missing? I said, no, he didn't have nothing in his hands. I said, he wasn't in there very long. And because they were like, well, how quick did you get here? I was like, as fast as you can. Like, I can be there. I now know the shortest amount of time I can get from my house to their house. Like, and I wasn't in a hurry, but, like, it was. You know, it was 10 o' clock at night, so, like, no red lights weren't an issue. Traffic wasn't.

[Phil]

I don't know. See, that's like, me. That would present a problem with me since I. I didn't get to know my grandfathers.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

But I knew my grandmother.

[Goblin]

Just don't go in there and disrespect her.

[Phil]

Hey, you're going in my grandmother's house.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

I will shoot you. It ain't no doubt about that. I will shoot you.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

You're in my. Someone's house that loved me and raised me.

[Goblin]

Well, that was my whole childhood. Right. I mean, that was. That was kind of where I.

[Phil]

You're. You're on really dangerous ground with.

[Goblin]

Yeah, they were my. They were my daycare.

[Phil]

Oh, no.

[Goblin]

Because they were freshly retired. I was the baby of the family. So, like. Yeah, they were my daycare. So that, you know, all of my core fishing memories reside there. Like, all those things.

[Phil]

So it's like, if there's too much. There's too much emotional feelings involved with. With those people.

[Goblin]

That sucker better Be glad my granddaddy ain't still alive, because he wasn't. Ever had the opportunity?

[Phil]

Well, no, no.

[Goblin]

Like, I'm just telling you right now, no opportunity.

[Phil]

Well, see that. You know, the people don't realize that about your grandfathers and grandmothers.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

They didn't play.

[Goblin]

They didn't play that thievery.

[Phil]

No, no. Yeah.

[Goblin]

Theft was not.

[Phil]

My mama. My mama. There was two things you didn't do with Mama. Lie to her. Okay. Or steal something.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

You was. You was in a murder class if you done either one of them. Yeah, the murder class. No, this is. This was a woman that, you know that hitchhiked from Louisiana to LA to be with her husband when he joined the Navy to go to war.

[Martin]

Whoa, timeout. Rewind. That your mom hitchhiked from law from Shreveport to Los Angeles.

[Phil]

Yeah. And look, all she would do is anybody in uniform, she would put her arm under his arm and say, hey, till we get off of this bus, I'm your wife.

[Martin]

And she made it all the way.

[Phil]

To Los Angeles and went all the way to Los Angeles and just showed up on the naval base. Okay. Who are you? Hey, I'm Merritt Robertson. My husband is here, and I've come to be with him before he goes off to war.

[Goblin]

That's wild. You know, my favorite thing that happened that night, though, Me and the cops, other than the ones doing the scene, all sat there and compared trail cam pictures.

[Phil]

All right?

[Goblin]

We sat out.

[Phil]

Parish, baby.

[Goblin]

We sat out there in the driveway. And what's funny is, apparently one of them listens because he said, well, I can't wait to get this podcast. I said, no, no, listen. And you live.

[Phil]

But they stole something for the honey. Oh, I got a picture of him. Here it is, boys. Yeah, run him down.

[Martin]

You would actually be surprised how many people from Washtar Parish listen to this.

[Goblin]

Well, and he told me. He said, ma', am, because he works nights all the time, he said, you'd be amazed at how long these nights are, he said. Some of them very short, he said, but most of them are very long, he said, so you got to find something to do to keep you entertained.

[Phil]

Oh, no, I'm telling you, you have no idea what the cops see at night around. Around Monroe and West Monroe.

[Martin]

It's a wild.

[Phil]

It's crazy.

[Martin]

I'm going to assume it's like that everywhere, though.

[Goblin]

Oh, it is. You know it is.

[Martin]

There's wild people all over.

[Goblin]

I don't know if the fine folks of Washto Parish Sheriff's Department. Listen, I'M sure there are some of y' all out there from other police departments that. Listen, y' all mind dropping us some of them crazy stories?

[Phil]

Hello@duck call room.com.

[Goblin]

[e-mail] or. Or call us, man.

[Martin]

Oh, the guy that works for me, he's got a great one about a naked person in front of the Sonic.

[Phil]

Well, I've had tackle. The law officers have told me when I've been. They said, because of your age, if you're afraid for your life, he said, go ahead and kill him.

[Goblin]

Yeah, we discussed the. We discussed the proper etiquette of that the other night, too. I didn't know there was an etiquette.

[Hunter]

An etiquette.

[Martin]

I know it.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

Kind of like fishing etiquette.

[Goblin]

Yeah. No, not really. Kind of like, it's kind of like the exact opposite, almost.

[Martin]

Is it. Is it like etiquette of, like, how duck hunters treat each other on Facebook?

[Goblin]

Yeah, kind of. Yeah. They're all real nice right now.

[Martin]

Just fire shots everywhere.

[Goblin]

Nothing bad going on in that world either. Why is everybody.

[Hunter]

Corn grower, but.

[Goblin]

Yeah, I just don't understand why everybody.

[Martin]

So in the news. Y' all in the news.

[Goblin]

I don't understand why everybody's so mad at each other.

[Hunter]

Each other.

[Goblin]

Like, that's what I don't understand. I don't get it. And I don't get that we live in a society now where if you have a different opinion, you're the devil.

[Phil]

What does that.

[Goblin]

What does that matter? Like, aren't. Aren't differences in opinions good things? Like, I. I thought that's how we get.

[Hunter]

If you're right.

[Goblin]

I thought that's how we got to. Resolutions is like, you hear. You hear two people side of the story. Where again, which is what I am. I'm very much down the middle on this issue.

[Hunter]

It's always right.

[Goblin]

And I think that. I think that's what makes them mad, is because I am down the middle. Like, I'm very bipartisan on that.

[Phil]

Why would they get mad?

[Martin]

But. But most of, hey, I'm going to.

[Phil]

Listen to both sides of the story.

[Goblin]

Yeah. I don't.

[Phil]

Or I make my judgment on which one of you needs to apologize to the other one.

[Goblin]

Yeah, I was fired up.

[Martin]

I am, too.

[Goblin]

It's.

[Phil]

I'm.

[Goblin]

Well, who can't be fired up about beef, man? Sometimes, like, you, you know, you just take a bite of something. You're like, all right, this is the one right here. This is it.

[Martin]

And it doesn't get any better than trails.

[Goblin]

Beef There you go. Look. Because trails is prime and upper choice beef from American cowboys right out of the great state of Texas. And you will taste the difference. The first time that you cook.

[Phil]

You couldn't get no better beef than what they got.

[Martin]

Then when it comes in, you open the box and you can immediately tell.

[Phil]

Looks you like, you can look at it. You like marvel in your meat. They got it, they got it. They're age. You like it. Where you could eat with a spoon.

[Martin]

That'S like just like if you like.

[Phil]

Good beef they got.

[Goblin]

But you know what's even cooler about that? They are a family business. They are fifth generation cowboys. Same family still running a ranch, still packing the order, still butchering the meat. All the things try tails puts their money where their mouth is. They're still out there raising cattle, chasing cattle.

[Martin]

I like that because I need a cowboy and a rancher that knows what they're doing to get me the best beef possible.

[Goblin]

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[Martin]

There anything better than free meat? For those that don't know, there's a big controversy in the duck hunting world.

[Hunter]

What's that? What's that?

[Martin]

That's how British people say controversy, controversy, controversy. Major controversy.

[Hunter]

How you spell it?

[Martin]

Same way.

[Goblin]

That's like controversy but they just say it funny.

[Phil]

Controversy, controversy.

[Martin]

But there's. They're getting laws or something. I don't really understand.

[Goblin]

Flooded corn.

[Martin]

It's all about corn in Missouri is what it feels like. I did a short dive because Martin posted about it and it went wild. And I was like, I might as well educate myself.

[Goblin]

And I should be ashamed from being from Louisiana and saying that.

[Martin]

And just so we're all clear.

[Phil]

Well, that's like people that don't.

[Hunter]

Well, I use forward facing sonar.

[Goblin]

It is, it is the forward facing sonar of duck hunting. And that's what I said in one of the comments. I was like that this is the forward facing sonar. Well, the people that have it love it. The daddy. And I'm like, yeah, but hey, that's right.

[Hunter]

Daddy Told me, don't talk with your mouth. Pass a ketchup or corn out.

[Phil]

And for. To lure deer and for deer hunting or chum. For deer. Yeah, look, it's the management too. Chum the deer. Okay. That's all it is. It's a management tool to manage your deer herd.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

Okay. Cause, hey, I take the time. If they're going up to a corn pile or a chum pile, they sit there and eat it. And I can say, well, okay, now that's an eight point. Let's see, how old is he? He's three. Well, nope, I don't want to shoot him. I want to let him get him another two years. Breeding. Breeding the dove.

[Hunter]

I just want to say how long the back straps is. The one with the longest back strap. Yeah, that's the ones I'm mostly.

[Goblin]

But I just don't.

[Hunter]

I don't like eating.

[Goblin]

It's. It's a wild world on the interwebs right now.

[Phil]

That's why this.

[Goblin]

Because apparently in the, in the making of it, I got a new job. Apparently I'm a full time guide at Habitat Flats in Sumner, Missouri. Now that you are unequivocally not true.

[Martin]

Yeah, I got excited. I don't know, do I get a discount?

[Goblin]

That's what I'm saying. Like, I've bought into it and now I'm a guide. And I'm like, how much money do y' all think I got, bro?

[Hunter]

Like, oh, he's on tv.

[Goblin]

I can't buy into that joint. Like, I'd love to. I'd love to have had the success to buy into that place because they would have to kick me out. Like, I would definitely go there and hunt.

[Hunter]

It's good they'd manage him.

[Goblin]

Ducks wouldn't. Yeah, I'd help, but. Yeah, it's just the Internet is a wild place, man.

[Phil]

Oh, hey, look, if it wasn't for Hummers, we wouldn't have the wildlife we've got.

[Goblin]

Yeah. And at this rate. And at this rate, the only ones.

[Phil]

That love it enough to fund to spend money on it.

[Goblin]

To fund it.

[Phil]

Yeah, to fund it. Okay. To buy land.

[Goblin]

But sigh, you're treading down the road where people from Louisiana about to be mad at you. Don't use no common sense.

[Phil]

Get mad.

[Goblin]

Better stop. They don't like that.

[Phil]

Well, hey, they just got to get mad.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

All right, this kid here, look, I served in the military for 24 and a half years. Hey.

[Martin]

Took a nap every day.

[Phil]

I take my freedom seriously.

[Goblin]

There you go.

[Phil]

Amen. Hey, I'm going to say what I want to say because, hey, I got that freedom.

[Goblin]

So I got a question for you. You grew up doing this duck hunting. When was the best duck hunting of your life that you remember?

[Hunter]

70S.

[Martin]

I don't remember that.

[Phil]

Yeah, it would be 70, the 70s. Because back then.

[Goblin]

Yeah, okay.

[Phil]

You know, people don't realize what a big deal, you know, when the migration starts.

[Goblin]

Yeah. And would you say from the 70s, right, the 70s. From the 70s until now, every year that migration has gotten a little less. So starting in 1972.

[Phil]

Okay. They used to. Okay. Somebody would come sliding sideways in your yard and jump out of a pickup or a car and scream out, the.

[Goblin]

Flight is on the 70s, y'. All.

[Phil]

Okay.

[Goblin]

Not 1999.

[Hunter]

It wasn't a flight day.

[Phil]

No, no. Hey, this would be a flight month and a half or two.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

Every day you could not go out at night or during the daytime and not look up and hear and see geese coming over. My little ducks coming over. Okay. Just. It was part of life.

[Hunter]

I remember them days.

[Phil]

Oh, no. It was part of life.

[Goblin]

There you go.

[Phil]

Okay. The most ducks I've ever seen, you know, and I'm talking about even in Moss Lakes heydays, the most ducks I've seen was I saw them on Red River, Dixie, Louisiana. Me and a buddy of mine from high school, he went to another school, but we was good friends. We hunted together. We went to Red River. It started at daylight and we. We left. We left ever after hunting to 2 o' clock, and we killed one mile of the end and we seen. I bet you 5 million. I mean, $5 million those. Hey, from daylight, as far as you could see from east to west was nothing but just duck. Bunches of ducks after bunches of ducks. And they was all going toward the marshes down South Louis.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

Yeah, man.

[Phil]

And I mean, there was anywhere from like 500,000 in a bunch, it'd be a tornado.

[Hunter]

You'd be in the rice field, there'd be a tornado over tornado over here.

[Phil]

And a tornado over tornado. Hey, B break was that way. We'd be up there the last couple of days before season before it opened.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

Russian blinds. And that'd be. The flight would be on and hey, it'd be bunch after bunch. Just a black tornado going around that big cypress tree that we put a blind on top of, you know, I'm talking about from. Hey, the daylight in the morning when we started, the dark. Slam, dark at night.

[Goblin]

Did y' all have a lot of ag back then?

[Phil]

A lot of what?

[Goblin]

Agriculture.

[Phil]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Goblin]

A bunch of. What were y' all growing?

[Phil]

Everything. Cotton, everything. Corn, soybeans. What is. What is the sugar?

[Goblin]

What is bigger?

[Martin]

Cane.

[Phil]

Sweet. Sweet seed plant. Dries. Grows about six foot high. And big old hairs on it, and it's actually sweet.

[Goblin]

Like Milo.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Goblin]

Like. Or sorghum.

[Phil]

Sorghum.

[Goblin]

Grain. Sorghum. Yeah.

[Phil]

Grain, sorghum.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

That was everywhere.

[Goblin]

Yeah. Any cotton? Yep, a lot of cotton.

[Phil]

A lot of cotton. Everything that was plantable. Yeah. You know?

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

Like Dixie, Louisiana, Shreveport all over. All head to the Texas. Everywhere. You know what? Nothing but agriculture.

[Goblin]

Agriculture. Not concrete. Yeah, right.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Goblin]

Not, not. Not unsuitable habitat for ducks. Yeah, Interesting.

[Phil]

Red river had.

[Goblin]

It interesting.

[Phil]

Red river was a major flyway back then. None of the people Mississippi river will know.

[Goblin]

What they're going to do is come in here and cherry pick the parts of size where he said the migration was on. They're going to completely disregard that. He said in the 70s, it got worse. It started getting. Every year from there.

[Phil]

Well, no, no, because here.

[Goblin]

Here's the deal. I'd say as humans, we suck at stewarding land.

[Phil]

Oh, yeah. No, no, we're terrible.

[Goblin]

We put concrete there, we drain it, we ditch it, we mow it, we herbicide it, we pesticide it. All in the nature of better yields and more money. And we don't give 2. Crap in general about what lives there.

[Phil]

Here, here's.

[Goblin]

Or uses it. And now we're paying the price for that way of thinking.

[Phil]

Here's what was happening in the 70s with the farmers. They didn't cut no fence line trimming. Hey. They left, like, 12 rows of corn on the fields.

[Goblin]

Oh, don't want to hear that.

[Phil]

Okay. They left it for the game. Oh, the deer for the quail, for.

[Goblin]

The doves for the ducks. If it got water on it. Was going on in the seventies.

[Hunter]

Farm in practice. Practices now are so more advanced.

[Goblin]

My only point is that the way we have destroyed planet Earth to point at one thing that actually feeds ducks is, to me, ludicrous. Like. And I'm fine with changing it. I am. But you got to fix the problems down here before you change that. Like, if you don't fix it, we're not doing anything. You're just putting a piece of bubble gum where a rivet's missing in an aluminum boat. You ain't gonna get very far. Like, you still gonna get your feet wet. So, like, that's my only deal. Like, I just.

[Martin]

But boy, get one of them green sticks.

[Goblin]

Yeah. To have a. To have a Common sense opinion and be middle of the road on all this and willing to sit down. I volunteered to sit down with both sides and be like a mediator. Nope. You gotta choose a stance. I'm like, why? Why? Because I think the answer to most everything is always somewhere in the middle. Look, it's a new year and that means a big thank you for all your support in 2025 from our friends over at MyPillow. But you know what? They're not stopping there. They want to make 2026 the best year ever. And nothing says thank you like free shipping on your entire order and wholesale pricing. Right? Look, classic MyPillows regularly 49.98 are now only 17.98. But don't stop there. You can get a set of Giza dream sheets for as low as 2998 or Goblin's favorite number one cause of.

[Hunter]

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[Phil]

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[Goblin]

Pillow is her pillow. Oh yeah, I had to get her one. Her pillow.

[Phil]

Got to get their own.

[Goblin]

Yeah, they make great gifts for any occasion to like. It doesn't matter. And I. They just. My pillow makes the great indoors better. Doesn't matter what you do. You want to slip around, keep your feet warm with them slippers. He does it every day. Do that. You want to get in a robe, watching some TV like Z. Go ahead. To get the best specials ever, go to MyPillow.com or call 1-800-969-3137 and use the promo code. These offers won't last long, so go to mypillow.com or call 1-800-969-3137 and use the promo code. Don't wait. Shop today.

[Martin]

Godwin, are you left handed?

[Goblin]

Nope.

[Martin]

I need a left handed fisherman.

[Phil]

Why a left handed fisherman?

[Hunter]

Why do you say?

[Martin]

Well, because a customer brought me about 25 crappie the other night. He got in a bind and then had to go somewhere and wasn't going to be able to be home to clean them. He called me, he said, is there anybody up there that would just take these fish off my hands? And I said, oh yes there is, sir. I got you baby. And so then me and the boys, I got home and I was like.

[Goblin]

Oh yeah, now I know you asked me this day.

[Martin]

I got home and I said, boys, let's go. We're going over to where my dad cleans his fish. We're about to have fish cleaning lessons. I forgot. Both of my children are left handed.

[Hunter]

What difference does it make?

[Martin]

Everything's backwards. No, Even Big Dave couldn't figure it out. We kind of figured it out. Here's Carter trying to clean a fish. I mean, we had it going, but it was.

[Goblin]

But the knife still in his right hand, huh?

[Martin]

Well, that was Big Dave's hand. He had two hands on it.

[Goblin]

Oh, yeah. Big Dave said, we ain't gonna lose a finger over this. Yeah.

[Martin]

But it was difficult to try and teach. I'm struggling mightily in my life with trying to teach left handed kids how to do stuff.

[Hunter]

I don't see what the difference is. I could probably do it.

[Goblin]

You could do it with a knife in your left hand. I couldn't do it. I'm just. I'm sitting here. Imagine I can shoot left hand.

[Hunter]

I can't throw a ball left handed. No, I can't write.

[Goblin]

I mean, I can throw it, but it ain't gonna break.

[Phil]

A pain to it. No control.

[Hunter]

Yeah, but it's the same thing. You just do it with your left hand.

[Martin]

We were trying to. It was a. It was kind of a mess, but we did get a good gut bucket out of it. And them boys were fired.

[Hunter]

Oh, yeah.

[Goblin]

Oh, yeah.

[Martin]

I will say it's one of my prouder moments because they both want to learn how to clean fish than they want to learn how to catch fish.

[Phil]

That's with that electric fela knife, right? Oh, yeah.

[Hunter]

You can do it.

[Phil]

Okay. Well, hey, look, Al, Bowler backwards. Hey, Al Boland bet Phil Robertson doing.

[Hunter]

It like this that he could clean.

[Goblin]

Him with your left.

[Hunter]

You hold him with your right hand.

[Goblin]

Yeah. The biggest thing is it would be. I'm just thinking, like when you lay the fish, you got to have the fish pointing the other way.

[Martin]

Yeah, we try.

[Goblin]

And I mean, I could whittle on it. It would by no means be pretty, but I could.

[Martin]

That's kind of.

[Goblin]

Now that I think about it, I could. I could whittle.

[Phil]

Oh, I could do it.

[Goblin]

But actually the hard part would be getting the skin off.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Goblin]

Like, I think the first fillet would be the easy part. No, I'm just saying the. Well, the. Getting the skin off takes a little finesse, like to not to not just cut through the skin and leave it on there, but going down the backbone is easy. I mean, that's just. Your knife does all the work on that one. You're just kind of steering.

[Phil]

Just lay it on the back of the tail.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

Oh, dude. My next one's left hand.

[Martin]

That's what I wanted to hear.

[Phil]

What's that?

[Martin]

Goblin Godwin's going lefty next time. And then I need you to report back to me and Big Dave.

[Hunter]

I got a guide trip tomorrow.

[Goblin]

Hey, go.

[Phil]

Hey. You won't be able to do it. Good. I'll put it y. What?

[Hunter]

I bet you after about five I.

[Goblin]

Can no go to Miss Alla the other day and called me and said or he sent me a picture of him posing with a crappy. He said, you want 12 of these? I said absolutely. I.

[Martin]

Yes, please.

[Goblin]

I showed up, he's like I'm headed your way. I said no buddy, I'm coming to your house. You any man nice enough to do that for me, I will come pick him up. My friend, he offered to clean them for me and I said oh well I know but I tried to do.

[Martin]

It left handed with an 11 year old.

[Goblin]

I'm telling you.

[Phil]

Oh yeah.

[Goblin]

I said God, when. If you, if you go through the trouble of catching them and bringing them to right here, I can take it from there.

[Phil]

The funniest thing I ever watched.

[Goblin]

Oh Biggins.

[Phil]

Al Boland bet Phil that he could clean 20 bass faster with an electric knife than Phil just got a sharp butcher knife.

[Hunter]

No, I don't believe that.

[Phil]

No, Phil's got. No, he tried it. He tried it.

[Goblin]

Yeah. No Phil by 5.

[Phil]

Oh no. That's my look. No half it 10. Yeah, yeah. He's. They each had 20 bass weighing about like a pound pound height.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

You know Field Field done finished his and bowling at 10 left.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

And he said bowling that that knife. He says you got to wait on the knife electricity do it. He said I got a sharp butcher now here this razor sharp. He said it's just wish.

[Goblin]

That there's.

[Hunter]

A lag enough to do it fast. I tried it. I got a good knife. I bought me a good knife. I forget what brand it is but I mean I can't get it sharp enough to.

[Phil]

Here's. Here's the thing you do if you hunt with somebody like for killing ducks and you'll watch a pick duck. Okay. Or watch people that bass fish. If they're real fast at either one of them, that means they've killed a lot of ducks. I'm pretty fast and they've caught a lot of fish.

[Goblin]

Oh yeah.

[Hunter]

Pretty fast cleaning fish. But it'd be faster without electric knife.

[Martin]

I'm pretty slow at it.

[Phil]

Cut that fish.

[Martin]

Wait, we're waiting on the electricity is the wildest sentence of it.

[Phil]

Yeah, flip it Over Swiss, you know.

[Goblin]

You know when you don't have to wait on electricity, when you stick a fork in that socket on Johnny D tweezers. You didn't have to wait, did you? Lit pretty. Pretty instant wouldn't it?

[Martin]

Lit me up.

[Hunter]

I guess. I don't have up stone, I guess.

[Goblin]

What? Sharpening the knife, that was a skill I never acquired. My dad.

[Hunter]

I can get them sharp, but not like they need to be.

[Goblin]

Yeah, my dad had one of them little kits where you put the thing up there on a vise and you go through like four different stones and I. He didn't teach me that. He didn't.

[Phil]

Well, there's a knock to that. Yeah.

[Goblin]

But then there's this company called Avalon that come out that you can just pop one off when it gets done.

[Hunter]

You put a new one on it. They make a feline.

[Goblin]

They do. They show do with a. With a blade about that.

[Hunter]

It don't break when it hit bone.

[Phil]

That was another thing. Feels good.

[Goblin]

I've used it a little bit.

[Phil]

He had that head. Three sides of wood, rock and all.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

Yeah, I remember that. I wonder if it's still down there on that cook shed.

[Phil]

Well, it's. I wouldn't know. It's at the house down there somewhere.

[Goblin]

I'm sure it is.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Goblin]

Yeah, but they all different grits.

[Phil]

Hey, he'd have a thing. Look, he'd have a thing. I'm telling you. He'd pull his arm out a couple times. Just. Just. It'd be like he had a razor. Yeah, just he'd slide it off and ain't wouldn't be a hair there.

[Goblin]

Yeah, that's the way my dad was too. That's how he checked.

[Hunter]

That's why when I seen Jace cleaned him first time I was down there, them crappie with a butcher knife. I'm thinking he ain't cleaning them with that.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

Hey, I guess the weight of it helps too, if it's got a little weight to it.

[Phil]

Yeah. But hey, look, we.

[Goblin]

Oh, them boys is quick.

[Phil]

We like so much fish down there.

[Goblin]

But I mean, when that was their job. I mean, crap. Yeah, that's your job. You better get. You'll get good at it.

[Hunter]

You don't want to sit there long.

[Goblin]

Yeah, yeah, like me. I actually, I. I don't mind. Well, especially now with the boys taking my time cleaning them because like, it's just a science class though. Daddy. What's that? What's that? What's that? What's that?

[Martin]

Carter's all fired up because he was Asking all the organs.

[Goblin]

And then I said, hey, that's the fish's tally whacker.

[Martin]

Is that the eggs? Can we eat that? Like caviar. My dad goes, well, my. My papa apparently used to fry fish Eggs.

[Goblin]

Egg delicate.

[Hunter]

That.

[Phil]

That was the best duck. DY Hill. Pick pick ducks. Wood ducks. And then gutted them.

[Goblin]

Oh.

[Phil]

Washington.

[Martin]

Yeah, we can relive.

[Phil]

That was hilarious.

[Goblin]

Yeah, I've heard that. Like crappie eggs. Battered and fried.

[Martin]

Well, Carter's gonna try it. None of the rest of us are. On our next batch, we're.

[Goblin]

Oh, no, we all need to do that.

[Martin]

I will throw up.

[Goblin]

No, you won't.

[Martin]

Just the thought of it.

[Goblin]

No, I'll blindfold you.

[Phil]

No, I'd be one.

[Goblin]

And you won't know which one I.

[Hunter]

Put will just like you do the flower.

[Martin]

I. I'm just saying, I ain't caught a lot of fish in my life. I ain't cleaned a lot of fish in my life, but I've eaten my fish. I'll be able to tell as soon as you put a fish in my hand.

[Phil]

I know what it is.

[Goblin]

Well, that may firm up. You never know. It ain't going to keep that.

[Phil]

What do they call him? Eggs when you.

[Goblin]

Caviar.

[Martin]

Yeah. Carter thinks he's having caviar and people.

[Hunter]

Put it on a cracker and ate it.

[Phil]

Right. Look, I used to watch Phil when he would kiss the Amopolis catfishing in him nets when they was full of egg, y'.

[Goblin]

All.

[Phil]

And hey, it's just a gigantic. About size of this. That yeti cut and about, look about that long.

[Goblin]

Oh, yeah, fish egg. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Phil]

Two big rolls of them.

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Phil]

You know, and they used to say, hey, why don't y' all eat that caviar?

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

And I went.

[Goblin]

One of them's toxic. Is it gar. Like, if you eat gar. Eggs, you die or something.

[Hunter]

I don't know.

[Martin]

It could be crappie. So now I ain't trying it.

[Goblin]

No, it ain't.

[Martin]

I know it's.

[Hunter]

He said, no, he ain't.

[Phil]

No, no, no, that ain't doing it. That'd be like a big sturgeon. Think of the eggs on them big rosters.

[Goblin]

Well, sturgeon, that's why they in trouble, right? That's one of the ones they use for cattle.

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Think about like an elephant.

[Hunter]

Just think about the shoes that frogs wear. What, open toed?

[Phil]

Well, no, no, that's like. Hey, that's like frog legs. I mean, not a frog egg.

[Martin]

I'm only eating.

[Phil]

They just lay out There. And look, I'm talking about. It's a ball of them, about the size of that. That bongo drum.

[Goblin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Hunter]

I ain't doing that.

[Phil]

I'm only weird looking weird.

[Goblin]

I see them. Yeah, I knew. I thought it was Gar Gar eggs to kill you. Well, not kill you, but make you really sick.

[Hunter]

You want to die.

[Goblin]

The toxins are not destroyed by cooking and be a very extreme case of food poison. Oh, you're vomiting diarrhea.

[Martin]

That happened to me just eating regular.

[Phil]

Oh, you don't eat gar eggs.

[Goblin]

Gar eggs are talking.

[Hunter]

Oh, don't eat gar egg. Don't eat them. No.

[Phil]

Hey, I wouldn't eat a garlic.

[Martin]

I did threw up.

[Phil]

Oh, no.

[Martin]

Wasn't even the toxic.

[Phil]

The garlic. I like to throw up. When you was eating, them boys was eating.

[Hunter]

I ate it.

[Phil]

Oh, yeah, you liked it.

[Goblin]

Oh, the gar ball.

[Phil]

The owner of that was rough.

[Martin]

It was rough.

[Phil]

I smell watching that kid eating and he went out, threw up.

[Martin]

Very salty. Kids still like them.

[Hunter]

They claim they had a little salt on it.

[Phil]

A little bit of salt.

[Martin]

Martin, what you looking up?

[Phil]

It was tough.

[Martin]

I do have the. I do have good news, though, Martin. I'm going to fix all the problems Louisiana has.

[Goblin]

Go ahead.

[Hunter]

What are you going to do?

[Martin]

I've got the solution.

[Phil]

Oh, you going to fix all the problems, L.A. yeah.

[Martin]

It's going to take me about 40 years.

[Phil]

I'll fix it. What are you going to do with the humidity?

[Martin]

Right now we got Carter at the. At the Capitol.

[Hunter]

He's at the cap.

[Martin]

Look at this picture, Martin.

[Phil]

He's at the Capitol, baby.

[Martin]

My boy is confused on whether he's in heaven or Baton Rouge. And I hope he realizes is they're very different.

[Goblin]

Much different.

[Martin]

He had to go to a doctor's appointment today, and Allison surprised him, went by the state capitol.

[Goblin]

Oh, yeah.

[Martin]

She goes, I don't. I don't know.

[Goblin]

That's a stepping stone to D.C. baby.

[Martin]

He said, I don't know that we'll ever be home. He's gone on a full tour. He's got the tour guide wrapped up.

[Goblin]

And I used to do that in like, elementary school. Do you ever do that?

[Martin]

I've never been.

[Goblin]

Oh, yeah.

[Phil]

Oh, no. I want you to get you some.

[Hunter]

Competitor money up there in the top.

[Phil]

I did.

[Goblin]

I did. But, you know, remember. You want to know my highlight? That I remember.

[Phil]

Well, no, Uncle Sam says, I've got you. I want. I went through D.C. okay, now, this is this Louisiana.

[Goblin]

My one Huey P. No. I mean, yeah. Kingfish. Yeah, I remember him.

[Martin]

Well, the bullet hole is still there.

[Goblin]

Yeah. But once you got done with it, they gave you the little cup of swirled ice cream with a little wooden spoon. And as a. And as a former husky young man, that I remember sitting there on those steps eating that freaking ice cream.

[Martin]

That's.

[Phil]

That's.

[Hunter]

Remember that.

[Goblin]

Like, out of everything that I did at the Capitol, like, I remember sitting on them steps eating that ice cream. You know, having to weigh in that special shed thinking, well, we've made it. Now I'm sitting here. The government just gave me ice cream.

[Hunter]

Baby ice cream.

[Martin]

That's the best thing they ever did.

[Goblin]

For you to this point. Yeah.

[Martin]

Carter's living his best life. He had to drive all the way down to doctor's appointment. I'm getting pictures like he's on a vacation. Well, yeah, he went and he had char. Grilled oysters.

[Goblin]

Oh, boy. Stop at Acme.

[Martin]

No, he's at Drago.

[Goblin]

Drago. I'm so.

[Martin]

I was like, this isn't fair.

[Goblin]

That's good for him.

[Hunter]

You tell him bring. You come back.

[Goblin]

Does he eat them?

[Martin]

Yeah, that boy will eat it. That he legit wants to eat fried fish eggs. You think he's gonna stop at oyster?

[Goblin]

Oh, well, I mean, some different strokes.

[Phil]

Were different Fried fish egg.

[Goblin]

Y' all fried him crappie eggs. I'll eat them. I'll try them. I'm not saying I'm gonna like them, but enough people have talked about them. I'm. I'm. I am quasi.

[Martin]

I. Papa ate them.

[Goblin]

Yeah, he.

[Martin]

He was different, though. He's a different cat.

[Goblin]

Well, I like how hard times make tough men, man.

[Phil]

All you. All, you know, in laws.

[Martin]

He owned a jet, and he was still eating them, though, so that's.

[Goblin]

Yeah, but he didn't start with a jet. He didn't start with a jet. On his way to getting to that level. I mean, as a kid, they probably ate every piece of that fish that was available for. That was. So, you know, that's one of them deals. You don't know if you like it because you've never been forced to try it. So I'm pretty sure I don't like squirrel liver. May be great. I don't know, but I ain't never had to eat it.

[Phil]

Well, I like people eating possum. Sweet potatoes.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

What?

[Hunter]

Sweet potatoes. You don't eat sweet potato.

[Phil]

I ate sweet potato, but not possum.

[Martin]

Is that like a common. Is that like.

[Phil]

No, no.

[Goblin]

They're paired together.

[Phil]

Yeah. Growing up, you know, all kin Folks like that. Yeah.

[Goblin]

Same with a coon. Coon bake. They put sweet taters with him, too. When you. When roast a cone in the oven.

[Martin]

Did you just call it a coon bake?

[Goblin]

That's what they called it. Not me.

[Hunter]

I like salmon bake.

[Martin]

Yeah, that's different. You can get that at the grocery store. Raccoon section.

[Goblin]

I don't mind salmon raw, so I don't mind salmon sashimi.

[Martin]

I'm out on.

[Goblin]

Or nagiri or I'm out on salmon.

[Martin]

Well, then you'll probably like them.

[Phil]

My wife likes it.

[Martin]

Ask the yellow eggs.

[Goblin]

I'll eat them. I'll try. Like, let me know when that goes down. And I will try them now. I do. I will say, as much as I love cold fish, I do love cold fried fish. The next day. I don't want to eat those cold.

[Martin]

Make sure they're hot.

[Goblin]

Like, I want to be the. You know, like, that's one of the things. Like, I want that as hot as I can.

[Martin]

We're on a mission.

[Goblin]

Handle it.

[Phil]

They may be good because everybody talks about how caviar is.

[Goblin]

Well, that caviar they put on them deviled eggs over at Parish is good.

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Beg your pardon?

[Goblin]

It's got caviar on top of it. That's what the little black little balls are.

[Martin]

That's pepper.

[Goblin]

That's caviar.

[Phil]

Oh, that's caviar.

[Goblin]

That's caviar.

[Phil]

That's caviar.

[Goblin]

Yes. I just changed your world. I just ruined your. Your favorite appetizer. That's fish eggs, bro.

[Phil]

Yeah. No, no, seriously. Yeah, it is.

[Goblin]

That's what that little salty thing, the little salty bite of the deviled egg at Parish is caviar.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Goblin.

[Phil]

It is.

[Hunter]

Sorry.

[Phil]

Unfortunately, it is.

[Goblin]

You know when you bite into it and you're like, man, that little pop of salt is so good. That's a fish egg.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Martin]

No, that's like a little season ball.

[Goblin]

No, it's a fish egg. That's what it is. That's fish eggs. That little salty, briny little. Yeah, that's wild.

[Phil]

I love. I love fried eggs. Chicken. Chicken eggs with anything else.

[Martin]

Chicken eggs rule. Yeah, that. I'm done for the day.

[Phil]

He's done.

[Martin]

I've learned something. I'm in shock.

[Goblin]

Can we leave here and go to Parish and get some.

[Phil]

Let's go.

[Martin]

No, now.

[Phil]

I don't know anymore.

[Hunter]

I might go get some sushi somewhere.

[Goblin]

Oh, I do love it. I do love a rooster rocket man. What I call deviled eggs. But, boy, they're good. Oh, anyway. Well, we stole through a whole one.

[Phil]

I don't want to. We covered some ground. I don't want no caviar.

[Martin]

Caviar.

[Goblin]

I mean, it's not great. I'm not a guy.

[Hunter]

I bet you they would like it.

[Phil]

If you.

[Martin]

Look, I'm gonna go ahead and say it. Them deviled eggs are legit. I thought.

[Phil]

Well, I like. Now, don't get me wrong, but I'm not. You know, the ones that's got the fish eggs on them. No.

[Goblin]

I'm just telling you, they're. It's one of the best bites you can have that involves an egg. It is good.

[Martin]

What?

[Phil]

I wouldn't eat the Parish.

[Goblin]

The Parish deviled eggs. Like, they are good.

[Hunter]

Well, now I'm hungry.

[Goblin]

We got a verse to close with. We'll get on out of here.

[Martin]

Yes, I do. Luke 11, 11:13. Do you know that one off the top of your head? Because I seriously doubt it.

[Goblin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

Which.

[Martin]

Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead, or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, though, are you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children? How much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? That's a good one. And it just so happened to cover a lot of stuff we talked about today.

[Goblin]

Yeah. There you go.

[Phil]

There you go.

[Goblin]

Well, we'll see y' all next time right here in the duck call room. We're out.

[Martin]

We gone.

[Goblin]

Sam.