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Si Robertson
Did you have poison ivy?
Martin
I had something
Emily
they say use bleach for poison oak.
Si Robertson
Oh, good gravy.
Martin
What are you talking about? That's a delight now.
Emily
Oh, that's right now.
Si Robertson
Did your boys get it, too? Well, that's good because that would be
Martin
measurable in 40 years. I've never gotten it till right now.
Si Robertson
Do you know where you got it?
Martin
No clue. I mean, I'm assuming I got it when I went turkey hunting in Texas the first time, but now you're gonna get more. I was a little more cautious.
Si Robertson
What did the doctor say?
Martin
He said poison something.
Si Robertson
Okay.
Martin
I don't know if it's ivy oak or sumac, he said, but, you know, it's just a reaction away from.
Johnny D
What are you talking about?
Martin
I don't know. We ready.
Johnny D
But we're welcome back.
Martin
Welcome back to the duck call room. Ladies and gentlemen, we are back here on a beautiful Tuesday. It is Tuesday, so you'll probably be listening this on Thursday, which is fine.
Johnny D
There's no on Thursday. When's this air? Let's just. Let's just tear down the fourth wall.
Hunter
It airs Thursday.
Martin
Yeah.
Johnny D
Happy Cinco de Mayo. I hope it was grand.
Martin
Yeah. I hope y' all had a fun one. Hope you recovered. Hope the headache has stopped from tacos and tequila.
Johnny D
So I was going with the I hope your bowels have recovered again. That mind does not mania.
Martin
Yeah, I. I mean, Cinco de Mayo is fun, man. Mexican food's good.
Johnny D
It's very American of us to just celebrate another country's independence.
Martin
Well, you need something, right?
Johnny D
Is that what that is?
Martin
Yeah, I think, right?
Si Robertson
Everybody loves Mexican food.
Martin
I mean, who doesn't love chips and salsa?
Johnny D
If you don't like Mexican restaurants. I got an eye on you.
Martin
Yeah. Yeah. I got some serious trust issues, but no, we're back. It's good to be back. I'm finally home for a little bit, so I'm. I'm excited about it.
Si Robertson
Where you been, Martin?
Martin
Where haven't I been? This past weekend I was at Texas Motor Speedway seeing some old friends. I ever. I'll say this for Texas Motor Speedway, not a lot of employee turnover because they were the same folks walking around there from when we sponsored The Duck Commander 500 and Duck Commander 500. Yeah, we. We took a walk down memory lane but got to. I was hanging out with pit Boston Academy folks over there. They had a car running in the. Running in the race. So it was fun. Man, it's good to be back. You forget just how loud that place is, man. Those cars are loud. You forget to you. And we. I bumped into a friend of the podcast, John Chris. So it was kind of fun seeing we.
Johnny D
I got a lot of questions for
Martin
him about what is he redneck?
Johnny D
What is he?
Martin
He is something. He's like.
Johnny D
He's an Amish Christian redneck.
Martin
Yeah.
Johnny D
Who wears nice shoes.
Martin
He does wear nice shoes. And was wearing. Walking around with a duck on his hat. So, you know, I don't know. I was like, man, yeah, he.
Johnny D
He wears that five dollar bass pro hat. That hurts my feelings a lot.
Martin
Yeah, he didn't have that one on. This was a very nice hat with a duck on it. So I don't know what it is,
Si Robertson
but you need to send more hats to him.
Martin
Who? No.
Johnny D
Johnny D. 34.99 Sucker.
Martin
I can. All you gotta do, get on website. Order. Yeah. Straight out to him.
Johnny D
We need to have him back on sometime and ask him questions about him. Because I'm confused.
Martin
Here's what I'll say. What I've what I learned about NASCAR drivers. They've gotten a lot younger since we were there. I didn't know anybody like.
Johnny D
Oh really?
Martin
Yeah. The people that I knew were like working on the like on the teams and stuff now like they're like. They're like. They're like owning the teams and doing the booth and all that stuff. So it was kind of a weird. There's been like a turnover. That's them. Them. They all look like children driving those cars now.
Johnny D
So we're getting very old.
Martin
Yeah. Yeah. Apparently.
Johnny D
I like when people call me Mr. John David now. I'm like, that is correct.
Martin
There you go.
Johnny D
Or you can just go with Mr. Owen. I do not care yeah, but we
Martin
left for Mary and then went turkey hunting again because we still had some tags in our pocket. And so, yeah, it was fun. Brittany killed her turkey. I killed a turkey. Like, life is good. We're gonna be eating turkey nugs.
Si Robertson
Turkey, was it just you and Brittany or the boys go with you?
Martin
No, the boys stayed here. I didn't wanna. I didn't want to. I knew I had to do a bunch of stuff on pit road, and I didn't want to be wrangling the boys at three, running around taking lug nuts off people's tires or something. You know, like doing what boys do. I didn't want to have to worry about somebody's wheel falling off because my kid went over there and took a lug nut off of it.
Johnny D
That'd be kind of cool story to tell, though. You guys remember on Texas Motor Speedway when that tire was flying into the stands but nobody was hurt and everybody remained safe? Yeah.
Martin
Yeah. I found two lug notes in Jackson's pocket, so that'd be crazy.
Johnny D
Zach, did you watch the race now that you're back home?
Emily
Nope.
Johnny D
How's life back home?
Emily
Life?
Si Robertson
No. Johnny. Dude. So I moved back into his house.
Johnny D
I know.
Si Robertson
Okay.
Martin
That's what we were asking.
Si Robertson
Okay. Everything is a lot better for him. When I went to go visit him,
Johnny D
I would be so excited if I'd been out of my house for, what, four months?
Si Robertson
Yeah, I went to go visit him. Me and Alicia went to go visit them, and he was back in the back sleeping. And so I went and woke him up, and he was like, hey, I'm trying to sleep all day back here. What are you doing waking me up?
Johnny D
Like, hey, thinking of sleeping all day.
Martin
Oh, yeah, I have.
Johnny D
Can you. Can we look at your socks a little closer? Because we had an argument earlier. Yeah, that's what it says.
Si Robertson
What's this say?
Johnny D
I'm amazing in bed. I can sleep all day.
Martin
Yeah, but let's get rid of that bottom part.
Johnny D
There you go.
Si Robertson
So you can sleep now.
Martin
You need the pan back to his face, though. It needs to be a video. That's where we need it. We need this. This is going to be on Instagram. Look right there. Yes, yes, Send me that. I will post it. I do not mind. Oh, no, no.
Johnny D
I'm claiming that one. Well, then let's collab done deal right after this.
Martin
Oh, man, that is so good.
Si Robertson
Sally, got. Did they get you ready? Everything's good at your place now?
Emily
Nope. They still got to put all the doors on.
Johnny D
You don't have any doors?
Emily
I got some doors like.
Martin
Well, your extra. You're talking about internal, right?
Emily
Yeah.
Martin
Oh, okay. Yeah.
Si Robertson
Cabinet doors.
Emily
Hey, here's what happened. They come in and they gutted the house.
Martin
Yep.
Emily
That means tear the floors up, tear the walls up, all of the cabinets. And we had a bunch of them. All the cabinets had mold. So. Hey, rip out Gone.
Johnny D
They gone.
Emily
Okay. So that's a replacement for all the cabinet I got. And I didn't realize how many cabinets you got in your house.
Martin
A bunch of them.
Emily
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's cabinets from the kitchen all the way to the bedroom.
Martin
Yeah.
Emily
And the bedroom closet.
Martin
Oh, yeah. Because your back wall was kind of like a cabinet wall.
Emily
Yeah.
Martin
You had all your stuff, your. Your memorabilia and then all the stuff.
Emily
There was cabinets in the living room everywhere. Well, them had all go cabinet bill.
Martin
Good news is, cabinets are cheap.
Emily
Oh, no, they ain't cheap.
Martin
No, they ain't cheap. I found that out when we remodeled that house. And that was three years ago.
Emily
They're real proud of them little things.
Martin
Yeah.
Si Robertson
And you got new floors all through the house. This looks great.
Emily
You know, and that's another thing. Put new floors down.
Martin
Yeah.
Emily
So.
Martin
So you can boot, scoot, and boogie.
Emily
Hey, that's it.
Si Robertson
New cabinet tops, new appliances, couches out
Emily
of the way and get down.
Johnny D
You could have built the whole house.
Emily
Well, hey, that's what Martin says. Hey, you should just bulldoze that. Circle off and start it over. Your new one in building.
Johnny D
The house was taking a little longer,
Martin
but not the way he built.
Emily
But that was not what my wife wanted. He enjoys her home.
Johnny D
So, like, them seven bruise I did,
Martin
I pulled up at. That's what was funny is you go, like, going back to Texas Motor Speedway. That's the first time since we've been there. And when I pulled up, like, to the concourse deal, I just visually went straight back to where we were. Like, we had the duck Commander trailer. Right. I was like, the duck command trailer is right there. Clayton Holmes had this iPad right here and the Ms. K dog washing station. And that's where we hung out. Like, because it had air conditioning. Like, that was our time away from everything. And I. I mean, I just went back to, like, 2014 in my mind and was like, I have a picture. Wow.
Si Robertson
We all have pictures.
Martin
I mean, it's just crazy. Like, and I just remember the line, people. Like, it was insane. Especially that first year we did it. Like, it was. But it was cool to see all that stuff. And I mean, again, most of those People that we worked with were still there. So, I mean, apparently it's a great place to work because those people love their job and they're still. Still hanging around, you know, however many years later that. That it was there. And I talked to the owner, Marcus Smith, like, I mean, it was. I remember him. I mean, yeah, it was just a walk down freaking memory lane, man. Except this one was sponsored by Andy's Frozen Custard, and they were giving away custard everywhere. I may have divulged in that a little bit.
Johnny D
I do love custard.
Martin
I do, too.
Johnny D
Why is it better than ice cream?
Martin
And they came in, like, these perfect little cups where you never were like, man, that's too much. It was just enough. And then you just went and tried another flavor because. Why not? Let's make sure I'm not missing something on my normal order here at Andy's Frozen Custard. So I really gravitated towards the peanut butter, which should be no surprise to anybody that knows me, but I do love peanut butter.
Johnny D
I've got. I've trained my children. The boys always want to go to that place where they put it on the cold marble slab or whatever. Oh, yeah, we're gonna call that average at best. But it's ice cream, so it's good. Yeah, but I've got Lottie trained. She's like, nah, we're going to Eskimos. And my. That's my girl.
Si Robertson
I mean, I like Eskimos too.
Johnny D
That's good custard, boys. It always goes back to food.
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Johnny D
You ate 52 ribs?
Martin
I don't know that I ate all 52 of them, but I ate way too many single ribs from people that did not make the cut. And I did not have a bad one. I was like, how do you pick. How do you pick a winner in there? I don't understand.
Si Robertson
Hard to beat ribs, Martin.
Johnny D
I mean, I. Competitions are weird.
Martin
Yeah. Other than just, like, personal taste, they were all not, like Phil says, they were not too tender. Like, you didn't just take a bite and it all come off there. You. You bit it, and, boy. But when you. You took one chew of it and it was gone. It was like butter. I was like, holy cow, man. It was so good. I could do that.
Si Robertson
It sounds good.
Martin
It was.
Johnny D
It is getting that time of year, though. It's barbecue time.
Martin
Well, May is barbecue month. I didn't realize that. And that happened on May 1st. So that was part of the deal was the kickoff to barbecue month was a barbecue competition at Texas Motor Speedway. Oh, I was so glad to be there, man. Turns out I just really love.
Johnny D
Well, me and Philip also had an adventure that pertains to food.
Si Robertson
Yeah. We.
Johnny D
We went to Mississippi.
Si Robertson
Yeah. And we ate good.
Johnny D
We ate good. But Philip was fired up. Sigh. Have you ever been right south of Jackson where that giant restaurant is? It's just. And they got the giant cross, and it's like berry seafood.
Emily
Oh, nope.
Johnny D
You've never been.
Martin
Nope.
Johnny D
Well, Philip gets all fired up about it. He's like, when we're on our way
Si Robertson
home, we're gonna stop here to the all you can eat seafood buffet.
Johnny D
But then there's another smaller one. And then Philip was like, that's the one we're going to. And I was like, Are we really about to eat a forty dollar seafood buffet? And Philip was like, 100.
Martin
Wait, what time of day was this?
Si Robertson
Well, we were.
Johnny D
See, that's where. That's what we got off. We were proud of Philip.
Si Robertson
We were going to.
Martin
Because you all were in transit.
Si Robertson
The homes of hope. We were going to a fundraiser, Me and Johnny D. Yeah. And so we got down and has
Johnny D
alligators, by the way.
Si Robertson
Yeah, they do have alligators at the place where they shoot all the ski. Inside was the 11th annual Uncle Size skeet shoot. And everybody asked about you and. But it went great. And they raised a lot of money. It was really good. So on the way back, I said, Johnny D, we got to stop at that place and get to go for the all you can eat buffet.
Johnny D
And I was like, dude, I don't
Martin
know that I. Oh, so this is on the way home.
Si Robertson
Yeah. I was planning.
Martin
I knew y' all were leaving it like daylight.
Si Robertson
I was planning for. But. But when we drove by, I said, on the way back, we're hitting this.
Johnny D
We've been talking about the seafood buffet all day. And then. Then we had some great catfish while we were there.
Si Robertson
Oh, my goodness.
Johnny D
I was good at that point. I was like, I'm solid. I don't.
Si Robertson
I didn't want to fill up on the catfish because I knew what we were going to do afterward.
Johnny D
And Millen was like, I got to get to that buffet.
Martin
So y' all hit a. Y' all hit a full.
Emily
Back in high school, he was banned from ever going to buffets. Buffets. Yeah.
Si Robertson
He ate too much.
Emily
Yeah, too much.
Martin
So did y' all drop it before? I'm very interested in this story. Did y'.
Emily
All.
Martin
Please don't tell me y' all dropped in on a buffet at like 3pm
Johnny D
they were close that until 4. Otherwise, Philip was dragging me in there. I was like. He was like, what are we gonna do? I said, it's closed. I was like, and I'm not sitting in. And I don't even know what town that's in. Let me look.
Si Robertson
No. I said, can we just sit and wait for him to open back up? You know? And Johnny D was like, are you kidding me? Because he can't sit still.
Johnny D
Yeah. He's like, no.
Martin
Oh, man. I really wanted to know what was on the buffet at 3pm that was actually sad.
Johnny D
The giant one was still open. But then we were so close to home. It was like, let's just roll home.
Martin
Oh, where is this at?
Johnny D
I don't even know what town this is. On Google Maps, they don't even have a name.
Si Robertson
Oh, you know why SAI hasn't been there? Because he flies every time he goes.
Johnny D
McGee, Mississippi.
Guest (possibly Paula or another caller)
McGee.
Martin
Yeah. I spent the night in McGee before.
Johnny D
Why?
Martin
Because I. I legit could not make it home. I was so tired, like, coming back. I tried to do one of those, Drive down, do the event, and then turn around and come back home. And I got to there and I was like, I'm gonna die. And there's a Holiday inn Express in McGee, Mississippi. And I stopped and spent the night there. I remember because I was like, I just. I can't. I can't make it. These last two hours. I cannot do it.
Johnny D
Now. I will say if. If it had been 4 o', clock, I would not. I would have been like, all right, let's do this, Philip. Let's.
Si Robertson
He'd have probably watched me. You know what I mean? He'd have been like, okay.
Martin
I guess the good news about stopping when a buffet opens is it's fresh.
Johnny D
The thing about me and buffets is the reason I avoid them is because I know what I'm going to do. Do?
Martin
Yeah.
Johnny D
I'm gonna set records, I'm gonna have my picture on the wall, and they're gonna talk about me. Months later.
Martin
I'm a. I'm a grazer until I find what I like, and then I just kind of camp out right there. I'm just like, yeah, let's run that.
Johnny D
Do we want to get off food? I do have an email.
Martin
Yeah, let's do an email. We ain't done one in a minute. It's been. It's been a minute. Let's go.
Johnny D
Ben from Glenn Daniels, West Virginia.
Emily
West Virginia. Biden.
Martin
I think it's west, by God, Virginia.
Emily
Well, hey, that is.
Johnny D
You ready to feel old, Martin?
Martin
Yeah, let's do it.
Johnny D
A good 10 or so years ago, I got this duck call in a mystery box from the Duck Commander website.
Martin
It's a mystery box, Glenn.
Johnny D
I know you're from Glenn. Ben from Glenn. Thank you for buying one of those. It will be chapter three or four in my book, the Duck Commander mystery Box. Shout out to Stephanie out there for. It was probably her idea, but I really kind of stole it from her.
Martin
What?
Johnny D
The mystery box?
Martin
Well, it come from Woot.
Johnny D
I bought a mystery box.
Martin
I sent you the link for the Saints mystery box, and I got a
Johnny D
bunch of crap in it. And I was so proud of all of it. And Stephanie, that worked. Here goes. We should do that. And I was like, stephanie, we shouldn't do that. I said, but what if we did that?
Martin
Yeah. And Kyle Tingwall, man, I signed a bunch of duck calls.
Johnny D
I was. And I put on there, one out of every 10 would have an autographed duck call in it. And the guy in charge at the time was from Minnesota. He's like, I mean we might sell like many or so. I just don't think people are going to buy anything if you don't tell them what it is. We sold like 500 mystery boxes day one.
Martin
Yeah, it was crazy.
Johnny D
Didn't say. We said there might be a duck call in it. No, there would be a duck call
Martin
in it and it might be autographed.
Johnny D
And it. One out of every ten would be autographed. It's always that. And the people went wild. Anyways, Ben from Glenn Daniels, West Virginia bought one and he got an autograph.
Martin
Which one of us did he get?
Johnny D
He can't read it.
Martin
Did he send a picture?
Johnny D
He did send a photo. Would you learn how to sign your name, sir? Well, that's me.
Martin
Yeah.
Johnny D
Yeah, that seems kind of obvious. Glenn from Ben from Glenn.
Martin
Yeah. Who else would it be? Like, it's clearly not Robertson. So where we. Where are we?
Johnny D
I will say the only people whose names I can ever read are yours. In size.
Martin
Yeah.
Emily
I say it ain't mine.
Martin
No, that's me. That's 100% me.
Emily
Justin, my.
Martin
On a sarge. Yeah. Because we had a bunch of.
Emily
On a sarge.
Martin
Yeah.
Johnny D
If you got one of those. If you got one of those mystery boxes, please email it and tell me also sorry, that was just stuff we had too much of.
Martin
Yeah.
Johnny D
But also sorry, Ben for it was. You got the value.
Martin
Yeah, it was a great deal.
Johnny D
You just probably would have never bought all that separate to spend that much.
Martin
Yeah. And I'm sure you kept like two things and threw the rest of it away.
Johnny D
But you know there's a sock up in there.
Martin
There was a sack up in there at the time.
Johnny D
It's all on the revival. How many of those we still had left?
Martin
Yeah.
Johnny D
All right. But he does have a important question.
Martin
Okay.
Johnny D
Any advice for a 21 year old guy moving out to start his own life? He's fresh out the parents door. Apparently. He's from Glenn Daniels, W.V. what's the advice we give him? Si?
Si Robertson
Surround yourself with godly people.
Martin
Yep.
Emily
And have fun.
Si Robertson
And don't take yourself too serious. That's what Si's saying. Have fun or don't do it.
Hunter
Get a plant.
Emily
Hey, look.
Johnny D
What? Hold on.
Emily
The reason I'm telling you that.
Si Robertson
Hold on. Stuff. Si, fix your mic. Si.
Emily
How old are you, sir?
Johnny D
21.
Emily
21. You'll blink and you'll be my age. 78. So, hey, enjoy yourself and have fun.
Martin
And. And Hunter.
Johnny D
Yeah. Did anybody hear Hunter?
Si Robertson
No. What did Hunter say?
Johnny D
Size? Like important. Great wisdom.
Martin
You're important.
Johnny D
Great wisdom, Hunter. Fresh young Hunter, who's 25 said, Get a plant.
Emily
A plan, get a plan, get a plan.
Si Robertson
A plant.
Johnny D
Not a plant.
Si Robertson
Like a potted plant.
Emily
Fast growing trees, baby.
Martin
What about a plant? Does that make it feel like a home? Yeah.
Johnny D
You can't get a flower.
Hunter
You can't get a dog or a cat. Most likely.
Emily
Yeah, get a flower.
Johnny D
Why can't you get a dog or a cat?
Emily
No, we don't want a dog or a cat. I don't want a fast growing plant.
Hunter
Most departments are kind of weird about that. Unless it's a service animal. I also think you should get a bunch of posters or pictures around your wall so it doesn't feel like a jail sale.
Johnny D
That. That'll help.
Emily
Oh, you get you a good looking woman and marry her.
Martin
Interesting. There is that.
Johnny D
Hold on. Do you have a plant?
Hunter
Yeah, I have a pothos.
Johnny D
A what?
Hunter
A pothos. Yeah, pothos.
Martin
I'm gonna guess something non native. You're gonna throw out and probably spread like wildfire.
Si Robertson
One day Martin gets like.
Johnny D
It'll take over a yard.
Emily
Get one in big old huge down.
Hunter
You don't have to water it.
Johnny D
We're gonna have to go down this road. You don't have to water it.
Emily
You don't have to water it. They live in Arizona, have it.
Hunter
Orlando Bloom,
Si Robertson
Hunter. I like it. It's funny.
Hunter
That was my co worker, Madison.
Si Robertson
She.
Hunter
She told me to name it that.
Emily
That's it.
Hunter
It's actually two vines. So one of them. One of them I named Orlando Bloom. And the other one's Jonathan.
Si Robertson
Jonathan Devine.
Martin
I love you, you little weirdo.
Hunter
I live alone.
Martin
Okay. I love you.
Johnny D
We're gonna bring Emily back next, Dad.
Martin
I love you. My favorite of the. I mean, one of these days we'll just uncork all of our group text. It'll be great. Hunter was texting us last night, asked us about some stuff and we'll do it. But then he was like in the middle of all the text, like, I'm gonna have to get back to you. I'm eating crawfish with my parents.
Emily
I mean crawfish.
Si Robertson
Good call.
Martin
If you ever want to know what Hunter's thinking, he'll send it in a text. I love it.
Hunter
Chronic overshare.
Johnny D
One of my favorite things on earth is texting with other When Allison's ignoring me or I'm in the. I'm in the, you know, doghouse. I'm like, well, I can go text Hunter in your face.
Martin
And I'm gonna know everything that happened from right now to, oh, 1800 today. It'll be great, man. It is. I mean, it is so good. The interesting, interesting, interesting, interesting.
Emily
Yeah.
Johnny D
I can't give Ben from Glenn any more advice. Have fun. Get a plant.
Martin
There you go.
Emily
Get a plant.
Martin
Have fun. Get a plant. Stay on budget. Create a budget. Stay on. If you don't let finances be the
Johnny D
stress, if you get a plant, they have to be named the plan.
Martin
That'd be my biggest deal. When you're young like that finances, just get a budget, stick to it, you're fine.
Johnny D
You can make mistakes and fix them later. Yeah, that's terrible advice. You're not. You're not listening that Dave Ramsey would have them.
Emily
How.
Martin
I'm not even get a credit card. Yeah, well, whatever.
Johnny D
Today's problems aren't future use problems.
Martin
Remove the stressors that you can reasonably control. And finances is one of them.
Johnny D
That's a future you problem. Have fun. Cut all that out, please. That's actually the best advice.
Emily
I want to keep Jesus with you.
Johnny D
The best advice you can get is to keep Jesus with you and don't. Don't go into crazy debt because that is future you will hate.
Martin
There's going to be plenty of stress of living alone. Just do the. The ones that you can control. Do
Si Robertson
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Emily
Good.
Martin
Oh, my cherry trees are thriving. Man, my. Now that we finally got rain, my
Johnny D
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Emily
And that means that, hey, the true one I got, which is a fig tree, is doing good.
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Si Robertson
Oh, man.
Martin
Johnny's where? Yeah, I missed the bacon.
Johnny D
And Johnny's had a great song on your birthday too.
Si Robertson
Yeah.
Johnny D
Happy, happy birthday.
Martin
Happy birthday. Yeah.
Johnny D
Happy, happy birthday. From the Shoney's crew.
Emily
Hey.
Martin
Yeah. Yeah. Is Shawnee still in business? Is there like a random Shoney somewhere?
Johnny D
There's a western sizzling in Cersei, Arkansas. Because they're so far behind. They're also ahead.
Martin
Run it back. Okay. Yeah.
Johnny D
Is it the end?
Martin
Oh, that was the hotel, right? Like, didn't Shoney's used to have like a hotel right there not far from the Shawnee somewhere?
Johnny D
Shoney's is still around, y'.
Hunter
All.
Martin
Oh, man, we gotta go find one. I gotta find one. On my travels in a sea. Now that. Now that checks out so far behind.
Johnny D
Their ahead. They got the most that Shoney's. My sister won't go into Shoney's.
Martin
Why not?
Johnny D
Because she made the childhood mistake of making a pile of food and wasting on a buffet. And my dad ain't so much about that wasteful life.
Martin
She had to eat it all.
Johnny D
And he said it's. We still talk about it to this day. How many chicken nuggets my sister had to eat.
Si Robertson
That'll show her bad call.
Johnny D
Ah, yeah, there's one. There's two in Pigeon Forge.
Martin
Of course there is, y'.
Johnny D
All.
Martin
I bet they're the busiest ones in the world too.
Johnny D
Couple in Gatlinburg.
Martin
Does Pigeon Forge have a Lambert? It should. Huh?
Johnny D
Lambert's only the two places.
Martin
The two places. Springfield and Gulf Shore or that was our almost golf shore.
Johnny D
Yeah, there's more Shoney's in Tennessee than there Is anywhere else in the world, man, I do.
Martin
Did they have. What was their. Their logo or their little mascot? Wasn't he like a squirrel or something? Was he a squirrel or a beaver or.
Si Robertson
Yeah, something.
Martin
Didn't they have a little. Little rodent guy or something that I just remember as a kid, like color and all the things. It was, it was some kind of little. Little rodent looking creature.
Johnny D
Man.
Martin
We taking a walk down memory lane now? Good grief.
Johnny D
I'm going to find a western sister.
Martin
A guy who was.
Johnny D
Oh, it's a bear.
Martin
A bear. Is that what it was? Man, I would have said America's favorite breakfast bar. I would have said it was a squirrel.
Emily
Oh, I thought it was a chipmunk.
Si Robertson
It could have been s. I thought
Martin
it was some kind of rodent. Yeah, but I think it's a bear.
Emily
It was a chip.
Martin
It could be a bear. I mean, I don't. Again, we're.
Emily
We're favorite is chipmunk.
Johnny D
Yeah, but they said it's a bear.
Emily
Well, hey, they don't know bear the chipmunk.
Si Robertson
They can't.
Johnny D
That's just because the difference between whenever you shrink a bear into a handheld size, it becomes a chipmunk.
Martin
When is Shoney's here? Close.
Si Robertson
When they figured out it was a bear.
Martin
I'm just trying to figure. Oh, yeah, that was him and. Oh, they're calling that a bear.
Johnny D
Okay, that is a bear.
Si Robertson
Donnie. Bear.
Johnny D
But if you make it hand sized for children to have as the pleasure.
Martin
Yeah, well, that's what I'm saying is it was a problem because they didn't really say that for a kid. I. I never. I remembered him as another animal.
Si Robertson
So they do.
Martin
But that's fine. If they call him a bear. I just want. When did ours close?
Johnny D
Long time ago.
Martin
It's been a minute.
Emily
I think that one day was in.
Martin
It was a chip because now what's. Where Shoney's was. Where was Shoney's? Which side of the road was it on?
Johnny D
The right.
Martin
It was on the.
Johnny D
It's where at T is.
Si Robertson
Yeah, that's right.
Emily
Okay.
Johnny D
To Chick Fil a. Dear folks, if you're not from Monroe, West Monroe, I'm about to take you down a trip.
Martin
Which one was Chick Fil A?
Johnny D
Bonanza.
Martin
Bonanza. That's what was Chick.
Johnny D
There was nothing better than getting out of church and headed to Bonanza and trying to beat the Baptist there. Yeah, that was a good time.
Martin
Yes. Bonanza. That's what that. Remember was where Chick fil a was. Yeah.
Johnny D
Bonanza Steakhouse is the nostalgic American chain of buffet style steakhouses founded by the actor from Bonanza.
Martin
Really?
Si Robertson
Wow, I did not know.
Emily
And hey, you can hit the gar deal on that.
Si Robertson
Oh, you don't like his eye?
Emily
No.
Johnny D
You don't like the show or the Bonanza?
Emily
Ain't no good.
Johnny D
The food.
Martin
The restaurant or the Show?
Emily
Restaurant.
Johnny D
In 1989, there were almost 700 Bonanza locations. So people. Okay, I thought. I didn't know Bonanza was that spread out so people know what I'm talking about.
Martin
Look at there. Man, what a life.
Johnny D
They still got them in Pennsylvania. That's the best part. Some of the places in America stuck with the places like the Western Sizzling in Conway, Arkansas.
Si Robertson
That's always good.
Martin
Man, what a time to be alive. The 1900s were awesome.
Johnny D
The 1900s, 1989-2000 was peak.
Martin
And it sounds like now we're just repeating a pattern except now it's fried chicken. It used to be a buffet on every corner because I guess you had to. You had to provide value. Now it's just a different form of fried cheese.
Johnny D
Remember the Western Sizzling?
Martin
Yeah, I remember him. He was right down here. He wasn't far from his office.
Johnny D
We had 17 buffets in this town for what we did after church. And now there's not a one.
Martin
No Granny's Dilly.
Si Robertson
Did y' all used to go to the Piccadilly?
Martin
No. That's where the rich folks went.
Johnny D
Hit that button. He's still there. Still a gar.
Emily
Still there.
Si Robertson
I did love Shawnee's, but it was so packed. And one time I went with one of size friends, Sal Melitella, when we were younger. And it was so many people that he was like, I got something we're going to do. We're going to have the buffet to ourselves. I said, what are you going to do? He had a little. A little glass thing about this big. He said, when I step on this, it's going to smell like skunk. Everybody's going to start leaving. He stepped on his side. We had to fight our way out of there. When they found out it was him.
Martin
Oh, no.
Si Robertson
And it was so bad.
Johnny D
Y' all ate by yourself?
Si Robertson
No, I couldn't eat.
Emily
It was.
Si Robertson
It smelled so bad. I couldn't. But it was a good idea. I mean, in theory, that's a terrible. No, it was. It was awful. And we all had to leave.
Emily
He must have hung around with Mark a lot.
Si Robertson
Yes. Yeah. Yeah, he did.
Johnny D
I actually need people to email me restaurants like that. What's like the old 1990s bonanza. Shoney's Western sizzling. Are they still in your town or.
Martin
Buffets were the model.
Johnny D
Yeah, I need to know more about it.
Martin
I'm still very interested in us potentially getting a Popeyes buffet like they have in the great city of Lafayette. It's gone.
Johnny D
Hold on.
Martin
Oh, no. Rest in peace.
Si Robertson
Really? I didn't know there was a Popeyes.
Martin
Oh, man.
Johnny D
Me and. Me and my buddy Drew almost drove to Lafayette one day just to. Just to hurt ourselves. Yeah, I think it's gone.
Martin
Yeah, that was right there.
Johnny D
Covid killed it.
Martin
Dad. Go, man.
Johnny D
Look. Everything, you know. Yeah. Gone for good.
Martin
Gone for good. No more Popeyes Buffett.
Johnny D
There was one left in Lafayette. Remember the Wendy's buffet that had spaghetti?
Martin
Yep, yep, yep. I do.
Johnny D
They had that little weird sunroom and a spaghetti buffet.
Si Robertson
Oh, yeah, I do. After the glass coming off the side of the building.
Martin
Yeah.
Johnny D
We're so weird, guy.
Si Robertson
Is there any food that you could just, like, eat all, like, on a big buffet that you really like? Fried shrimp, crab legs, or that you used to like?
Johnny D
Chinese people still got buffets?
Emily
Can't think of one.
Si Robertson
Yeah, you like Phil's burgers? You could eat.
Emily
Yeah,
Johnny D
I try not to laugh at my own joke.
Martin
Yeah, that was a good one. I mean, I'm sitting here thinking all buffets are dead, and the only reason they're dead is because I don't go eat Chinese buffets.
Johnny D
That place is huge.
Martin
But it's clean. Very clean, very large.
Si Robertson
I like a clean place.
Johnny D
You love the place by Big Lots.
Martin
Yeah, the big place up there.
Johnny D
Very big.
Si Robertson
Is it good? Is it?
Emily
Yeah, it's huge.
Si Robertson
Have y' all eaten there?
Martin
It's clean. Very big, very clean.
Si Robertson
But the food, it's very large, very clean.
Johnny D
That's how I told you.
Emily
That food must not be much.
Johnny D
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Si Robertson
now, and this is the berry look. It's a good one.
Johnny D
And if you're wondering what that is, AG1 is a daily health drink with a multivitamin pre and probiotics, superfoods and antioxidants. 1 Scoop 8 ounces of water, and you're getting all that. And Philip just did it in less than like 30 seconds.
Martin
And he's got 75 ingredients.
Johnny D
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Si Robertson
And I like it. It's good. We try to drink it every morning.
Johnny D
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Emily
That's like Dairy Queen. If you're ever going through Monticello, Arkansas,
Martin
stop at that one.
Emily
You need to stop at that one
Si Robertson
because I'm saying it's true.
Emily
That makes the best shake ever.
Johnny D
Is it a Dairy Queen or is it the dq? Whatever they call it now.
Martin
Grill and chill.
Johnny D
Dq. Grill and chill is different.
Si Robertson
It does say dq, grill and Chill. But isn't that Dairy Queen?
Emily
That's the.
Martin
Yeah, in theory.
Si Robertson
Okay.
Johnny D
Something different about them.
Si Robertson
The manager came out and sat with us because we told, we told her, you know how much we love this place. We drove out of the way to go.
Emily
Yeah. We took that route.
Martin
Yeah.
Emily
So we could stop there.
Si Robertson
Yeah.
Emily
Because I had what, two car loads?
Johnny D
That's a grill.
Emily
Everybody, everybody ordered it. And when they come out, they said you were right. Because what they do is that he loves it. Whatever one you order. Like a peach ball. Okay. Well, they have, you know, a fruit bar. Yeah. Fresh pieces. Well, they, you know, cut them up then like strawberries. One hour. Yeah, well, they cut it up and then mash it where they'll actually go through the straw. So you're, you're, you're just. Every time you, you know, take a suck on the stall. Hey, it's strawberries coming.
Martin
There you go.
Johnny D
Hold on.
Martin
What did you. So have you done it at ours is ours. Trash.
Emily
Oh, no, I tried.
Martin
No good.
Emily
Yeah, it's some. I don't know what the deal is, but. Because when I actually was sitting in the car. He's mine.
Martin
Yeah.
Emily
Some People walk up to go in and get one and said it's really good in it. Yeah. And I said, yeah, yeah, it is.
Martin
Yeah.
Emily
He said, oh, this. This serves the best ice cream around.
Si Robertson
What'd you find, Johnny D?
Johnny D
I am leaving a Google review from the hello duck call room.com for the Dairy Queen Grill and Chill and Monticello, Arkansas. Uncle Psy says all Dairy Queens.
Martin
Are they like this one?
Emily
Oh, no.
Johnny D
Created. What was the manager's name?
Si Robertson
We don't know.
Johnny D
Oh, man. Because this one is far greater.
Emily
All that I've tried.
Martin
That's crazy. I go through Monticello all the time. No, I mean because that's how you stop.
Emily
Because, hey, they have the best ice cream malt area.
Martin
Well, that's how you get to central Arkansas from here. Going duck hunt.
Si Robertson
Yeah.
Martin
You got to go through Mont Cello.
Si Robertson
Every time we go to Searcy, we go through there. But look, the place is clean, the parking lot is clean when you know they're doing it right.
Martin
Yeah.
Emily
And I ordered a hamburger because he had ate it last time.
Martin
Yeah.
Emily
Well, tried it in. The hamburger was excellent.
Martin
There you go.
Emily
Hamburger they served like the old days. It ain't nothing's changed.
Johnny D
Excellent.
Emily
It's like you're going back in the
Johnny D
70s just like the old days.
Emily
Yeah.
Si Robertson
Which tells you that. I mean it does work. If you care about what you're doing and you're. And it's clean and the food's good. People are going to come to it.
Johnny D
I just realized that the Duck call room can now review things publicly on Google.
Emily
Well, here's.
Johnny D
And I've never been more excited.
Emily
Here's the thing.
Johnny D
But we're not going to be negative.
Emily
That place is always packed.
Si Robertson
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's why I've never stopped in it.
Emily
And it wasn't that. Hey. Nope. All the parking lot.
Si Robertson
Everybody knows.
Emily
Yo, yo. And the people in line. I'm serious.
Johnny D
What else do you want to Google review? You have anywhere else on earth that you want to just tell them they're doing a good job and you want
Emily
the world Dairy Queen Grill and Chill, Arkansas.
Martin
Yeah, we've already done that one for you. They got. They got.
Johnny D
Just tell me who.
Martin
Thumbs up.
Johnny D
No, I got five stars.
Martin
Five stars.
Emily
Oh, no. That's five stars.
Johnny D
I even wrote it, baby.
Emily
Right there is five stars.
Johnny D
Can you believe there's people that left this place a one star review, huh?
Emily
Has gave it a one star. I don't know what they're doing.
Johnny D
I don't.
Martin
I ordered chicken strips. I Ordered chicken strips and they forgot my barbecue sauce. One star.
Si Robertson
Yeah, there you go.
Johnny D
Can we talk about, like, who takes the time to go be negative and review things? Yeah, one star. Like, who's, like, I'm gonna show them.
Si Robertson
Yeah, I'll, I'll put the one star on them.
Johnny D
You do.
Si Robertson
No, I'm saying. That's what they're saying. I'll put them on one star. No, I don't.
Martin
Yeah, you had to have a truly bad experience to take time out of your day to do that.
Johnny D
Okay, but hold on. Listen to this. Here, here's, here's an example of a one star review from Mariah to the Dairy Queen Grill and chill in Monticello,
Si Robertson
which is our favorite.
Johnny D
Mariah, I'm coming for you.
Martin
Hey, you better be careful, son, because if she's eating it to Monticello, Arkansas, there's chance she's plugged us in.
Johnny D
So I don't care. I'm just saying to know why the listener.
Martin
Worst review.
Si Robertson
We're going to get one star after this.
Johnny D
One star. Ordered two side salads with cheese and no tomatoes.
Martin
Well, there's your problem.
Johnny D
And I received a small plastic container barely half filled with tomatoes. I will be getting my refund once. And I say something. If you go to Dairy Queen and want cheese and lettuce as a meal, that's on you. Get a burger, get a milkshake. If you want to be healthy. Carry your butt to Subway. Don't you come in size Dairy Queen like this.
Emily
Whoa. Not only that, her name Mariah. Hey, Mariah Carey is a five star baby.
Johnny D
She ordered a side salad and they were like, I guess we get the hamburger toppings and throw them like they didn't know what to do.
Si Robertson
A side salad.
Emily
That's why, like, if you go to a fish place and you don't order
Si Robertson
fish, that's your fault.
Emily
That's your fault.
Martin
Yeah. If you go to a fish place
Emily
and you order a burger joint, you order a burger, you idiots.
Johnny D
It was a side salad with cheese.
Martin
Yeah. Why did you stop at Dairy Queen for a side salad with cheese? I've been and canceled.
Johnny D
The point of the salad. You're eating the cheese.
Emily
You need to stop in a little mini mart and get you some cheese.
Martin
Well, I've been in Monticello. There's a grocery store right over there. Just go make you a salad.
Emily
Yeah. Hey, yeah.
Martin
Like, it's like right across the street. It's on that main bag.
Si Robertson
You can't, you can't depend on Dairy Queen for the side Salad. I'm gonna tell you right now.
Martin
Well, the fact that that even has to be a PSA is.
Johnny D
That was two years ago. And that's the worst part. Somebody ordered something silly at a Dairy Queen two years ago, and it's just there, stuck on Dairy Queen and Monticello for years.
Martin
I mean, that's incredible.
Si Robertson
Oh, maybe we'll. Maybe we'll straighten them out with that.
Martin
Incredible. I don't. I don't get it. I don't. I don't know.
Johnny D
That's an aggressive fish place.
Emily
You eat here?
Johnny D
That's great.
Emily
Little like all the Captain D so much. Hey, give me a steak.
Johnny D
Yeah, I think they used to have pizza.
Emily
Oh, hey, it's a fish. It's a fish restaurant, you idiot.
Si Robertson
Look around.
Emily
Yeah, yeah.
Si Robertson
Figure it out.
Johnny D
To be fair, Captain D's is really a matt.
Martin
Yeah, they are good.
Johnny D
They're so good.
Martin
They are good.
Johnny D
See what? Captain Decent Captain D's in Westboro has a bunch of reviews, gang.
Martin
That place is always bouncing.
Si Robertson
Yeah, it is packed.
Johnny D
I went there after church one time. It was like an early service ordeal, and I had to wait 15 minutes, and when I tell you, I was like, fifth in line. Yeah, so for when they open.
Emily
No, that's.
Martin
It's always popular.
Emily
Well, listen, I think it must have changed.
Martin
Popular.
Emily
Yeah.
Si Robertson
Yeah, that's pretty good. Pretty good food.
Martin
I mean, Britney had that good hush puppies. Yeah, that's what Britney likes there. The times I saw you there, I was going for postpartum hush puppy runs for Britney.
Emily
All she orders is the hush puppies,
Martin
but she gets, like, a piece of fish and, like, eight hush puppies.
Emily
Puppies.
Martin
He loves the hush puppies. It's crazy.
Si Robertson
Martin pulls up to the window, and I'm in order, and he's like, it
Martin
was so funny because there were two white camouflage trucks there at the same time. I was like, look, I pull in. I'm like, there's old fear.
Si Robertson
He's got a go box with him.
Martin
I'm sitting there. I'm sitting there waiting on the hush pipes here. Like, can you pull forward? We got to cook some more hush puppies for Brittany. And here come walking out come Phil and Alicia. I'm like, well, I heard old Phil put her down. Oh, man. It's a great little seafood place.
Johnny D
But like this, guys. Like, I'm gonna bash Captain these. The food is too expensive, and it takes 20 minutes to get your order. It's not worth it. They there that their prices are advertised, that you could look that up before you Got there. Like when you get surprised by Captain D's prices, that's on you, bro.
Si Robertson
I'm gonna go to the line off of Let it Ride.
Emily
Who cares?
Martin
I don't personally ever mind waiting at fast food esque places because it's fresh. I got one having to.
Si Robertson
Yeah, they're cooking it for you.
Johnny D
I have one that drives me insane.
Martin
What?
Johnny D
And it's a great place, but I don't understand how I have to wait for raising canes because it's just chicken.
Martin
They only have chicken strips. Yeah, that's it.
Johnny D
When I pulled in, you knew what I. I was. You. You had to have an idea of what I was going to order.
Martin
Yeah, there was. Yeah.
Johnny D
Let's go ahead and drop three or four in there and see what happens.
Martin
And if you're looking at me in profiling, you know I'm going to say no slaw. So don't waste your time putting that in a cup.
Johnny D
Extra piece of toast. You know what I'm saying? Have that one ready.
Martin
Don't waste your time putting that cold slide.
Johnny D
Every once in a while, they're like, well, we're waiting on fresh chicken. I'm like, the line's full and we're all probably ordering the same thing.
Martin
Yeah, yeah. It's just. Do you put it between two pieces of toast or do you put the piece of toast in the box?
Si Robertson
What does that communication sound like? Here's somebody else. What do they want? We don't know yet. They haven't ordered.
Johnny D
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Martin
And we. Our Chick Fil a needs to step it up too. We need a line for people that just use the app.
Johnny D
No, go to the other Chick Fil A.
Martin
Why?
Si Robertson
We've got two Chick Fil A's in Westman Road.
Johnny D
Do not complain about our Chick Fil A or I will jump across side by side.
Martin
I'm just.
Johnny D
I'm gonna jump across.
Martin
I'm not complaining about the Chick Fil A as much as I'm. It is 2020. You pull up there and you hold your deal to be scanned so you can get your points. While you were waiting back there five cars deep, you could have ordered it. And then you just go up there and you can tell them your name.
Johnny D
No, no, you can do that.
Martin
I know.
Johnny D
You just pull into a parking spot, click it, say what park? And they bring it to you.
Si Robertson
But not everybody does that. So I see what you're saying. It makes the line long on one side.
Martin
It makes. Somebody's going to get Called up because they didn't use. I'm just saying, if you put all mobile orders through one line.
Si Robertson
Gar. Gar.
Emily
He's the guy.
Si Robertson
I said Chick Fil a was a gar.
Martin
I ain't doing that.
Johnny D
West Monroe hit it.
Si Robertson
He won't hit it.
Johnny D
West Monroe, Louisiana.
Martin
Hey, that new chicken sandwich, I guess. Really good. The jalapeno ranch thing and it comes. Hey, it comes with jalapeno peppers on it. You would like it 100%. You'd like.
Johnny D
Ladies and gentlemen, if you've never been to Westboro, Louisiana. I would like for you to get on Google Maps and zoom in.
Emily
I knew.
Johnny D
I knew I was getting on Chick Fil a.
Guest (possibly Paula or another caller)
Look, I got in that arm slanging club with Paula. We walk. We walk in there. What you laughing at? That's what them women do when they go walking.
Emily
Walk.
Guest (possibly Paula or another caller)
They slang him arms. We was going to do two laps. I said, nah, we're doing three. I got more energy. I ain't taking as much medicine as I used to. I'm 11 weeks in. I've lost £25.
Johnny D
Well, you told me you needed new clothes because the old shit falling off.
Guest (possibly Paula or another caller)
I got that drawstring just pulled all the way. I'd be walking and they'll slide. I'm pulling them up. I'm thinking I have to clean out the stinking cloths. I don't have to take my sugar medicine no more. I quit taking it. I'm off my blood pressure medicine. I don't take it no more. I'm telling you, you get and losing this weight on this PhD and you'll get healthy.
Martin
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Emily
Got one.
Martin
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Si Robertson
I like to shake it up.
Martin
Unlike what I said about like all dominoes are not created equal. Chick Fil a is a model of consistency just about at all the ones you stop at.
Johnny D
Like, I had a chance Chicken biscuit in Mobile, Alabama one time that changed my whole life. I think they dropped it in the butter vat and they just said, ah, he looks like he'll enjoy.
Martin
Yeah, he'll be all right.
Johnny D
It was wild. Yeah, it was juicy.
Martin
But it's just a level of consistency is what they offer. Like, no matter which one you stop at, where it's not.
Johnny D
But I do want.
Martin
Not like your one favorite Johnny Monticello.
Johnny D
I do want the people to go Google map West Monroe and zoom in on the one Chick Fil A. And when you're like, why is there two right beside each other? I want you to realize that. Yeah, that's how we roll.
Guest (possibly Paula or another caller)
Yeah.
Martin
And it's not a mistake.
Si Robertson
Tell us about the Q. T. When we stop in the morning to get gas, Johnny D. Comes out. He's got a pizza.
Johnny D
I got a new thing and some
Si Robertson
kind of chicken sandwich.
Johnny D
Y'. All, there's another gas station in my life.
Martin
Quick Trip.
Johnny D
Quick trips.
Martin
The one here.
Johnny D
Hey. Oh. Easy with how you choose your neck words.
Martin
Oh, I'm just asking, like, is that the first time you've been in it?
Johnny D
The Quick Trip franchise, it's like a Bucky's, but smaller.
Guest (possibly Paula or another caller)
Wow.
Si Robertson
It's really.
Emily
And they don't have a Bucky's and better.
Johnny D
When I tell you that breakfast pizza, five stars. When I tell you their waffle fries that are sitting in really underneath a heat lamp. Better than Chick Fil A's Five stars. The Quick Trip I ain't never will change your life.
Martin
I ain't never got anything from their hot.
Emily
Quick Trip has changed your life.
Johnny D
Chicken biscuit. Press the button, Gar. It was awful. I don't know who planned that terrible idea. So there's some hit and miss, but I'm. I think I'm going to start exclusively eating at gas stations. When we went to Mississippi for the Homes of Hope, we stopped. We exclusively stopped at quick trips. That I'd only tried new things every time. Oh, God, it's phenomenal.
Martin
Well, they're putting them everywhere now. Like, they're. They are going up. I'm wondering if this right here by the office may not end up being a Quick Trip.
Johnny D
You know, I've been looking at it and praying.
Martin
Yeah.
Johnny D
Because I'll never.
Martin
Because it's definitely a gas station.
Johnny D
Yeah. There's a new gas station. And if it's a Quick Trip. Look, I'm gonna tell you the truth. I got a friend who owns a Quick Trip T shirt.
Martin
Oh, Phillip, No.
Johnny D
Oh, and if I. If I could, they bought it online.
Martin
Oh.
Johnny D
You know, those are the people I hang out with.
Martin
I'll say this, the quick trips up north that are spelled with a K are really good.
Johnny D
That's not.
Martin
Yeah, we've been the one we stopped at in Wisconsin, we actually bought some Pisces and cooked them. Well, we did that too. Yeah, the pizzas. But then we stopped this year and got like a biscuit because it was morning time and we weren't gonna cases. Casey.
Johnny D
Casey's is good. We're just. I mean, how blessed.
Emily
Be alive, Casey.
Johnny D
Man who owns a case. Yeah, it's a good one.
Emily
He likes the sauce, you know, upon the burritos, whatever they make.
Martin
Oh, Stone's still a big salve, man.
Johnny D
Everybody got their breakfast.
Martin
That was a six month bender away from being £300. So that's what's always fun about him.
Johnny D
I mean, don't ever like.
Si Robertson
By the way, I want to tell you that J. Stone, when it comes to homes of hope, J. Stone came up with the idea of having a trap shoot. It was his idea, really. We were all together and I met all.
Johnny D
Aside all the enigma people. You've heard about Martin over the years of them doing this. I got to meet him.
Si Robertson
Met them all. He met them all.
Martin
Dr. Danes there.
Si Robertson
Oh, he was there. He was there. The interesting thing is, you know, Jay came up with this idea and they started using it 11 years ago. And me and John and Lee just went to the 11th annual Uncle Si Ski.
Johnny D
They really do. And they keep growing the thing and they're doing a lot of great stuff.
Si Robertson
Oh, yes.
Johnny D
They're building a fishing pond now for them.
Martin
Oh, really?
Johnny D
Which I support. And when it's stocked, let me know and we'll change it to the Honey Hole Fish tournament for kids. Shoot. But don't get us the alligator. There's a sign that says, do not shoot our alligator.
Si Robertson
But my point was. Oh, Stone's pretty sharp, you know, because when he sat down, he said, look, you got to let people shoot something and eat something and not this crap you're cooking. And we need something to eat that's good. And they brought some people in who started cooking. It was actually good, wasn't it? Zion?
Martin
And so the catfish were good. Y' all had catfish here?
Si Robertson
Well, yeah.
Johnny D
Also, I'm gonna just confess, I ate 14 hush puppies while people weren't looking.
Si Robertson
Oh, I wasn't watching.
Johnny D
Yeah, I know.
Si Robertson
You knew I would tell it.
Johnny D
I hit it. I. The. The fish was good.
Emily
Oh, that's something hard to get off of.
Johnny D
The fries were good. Them hush puppies from Hanks on the river catering be slanging.
Emily
What's that restaurant we go over on the river?
Martin
Warehouse.
Si Robertson
Warehouse.
Martin
Oh, them little hush puppies.
Si Robertson
The warehouse.
Emily
Yes. I like whole baskets.
Martin
Yeah, they're. They're.
Emily
That's about 20 in each basket.
Martin
In your defense, I will say that those husband puppies are a 10 out of 10 when it comes to. Oh, no, no, they are. Yeah.
Emily
Okay.
Johnny D
And then they give you the little butter truck. That was the only saving grace of the homes of hope deal. They didn't have the little butter tubes.
Martin
Because you'd have had.
Johnny D
Because I'd have just been like this dip in butter.
Si Robertson
And I like his confession. He's like, I'm gonna tell you what happened while you weren't watching.
Emily
Those hush puppies are over at the warehouse. Yeah. Is it Christine? I done ate one basket. Did they put another one there? Well, Christine picked it up, moved it, hands it to Blake, said, put that on other end table. Don't let him get them. Yeah. I told Blake, I said, hey, pass me the stupid basket.
Martin
Yeah.
Emily
I said, don't let it want to do that.
Martin
They are good.
Emily
They are good. They are really good. I had a whole basket by myself.
Martin
Yeah, they are good.
Emily
Our hush puppies.
Johnny D
So good.
Martin
Man. Man, look.
Emily
And they're jalapenos. And they're not that. Not over burning. Yeah, they're perfect, y'. All. Some of them, they get in there. It's rough.
Si Robertson
Yeah.
Emily
But these are perfect. They cut them just the right size and mix them good. And. Hey, I. I can't. I. I gave them a bushel basket full.
Johnny D
This was before you even had teeth.
Si Robertson
I'm gonna bring you some. I'm gonna go get some
Johnny D
Mississippi.
Si Robertson
I'm bringing you some tonight
Johnny D
from the warehouse.
Emily
Yeah.
Johnny D
Scott's has good hush puppies, and their butter tubes are the exact same size of their hush puppies. So you can dip them. I should not talk.
Martin
The.
Johnny D
I will eat a whole little. What are those called? The little dollops of butter. What do you call those? Packet. A butter packet?
Martin
Yeah, just the little. You talking about the little roundale?
Johnny D
Yeah. With the thing. You peel it back and there's just beautiful butter sitting in there. And you can. You shouldn't dip stuff in there, but you do.
Martin
How frustrated do you get with that little packet? Like the little tinfoil tears off now that way over.
Guest (possibly Paula or another caller)
And you're like.
Johnny D
Then you just bite into it. Then you just throw shame out the way window and lick the butter out and then throw the hush puppy in your mouth. I don't care how much weight we lose. I don't care how strong I try to be. I will forever go back to the kid that just wants to dip a hush puppy in straight butter and enjoy himself.
Martin
Folks, if you've made it 45 minutes today, I'm sorry. Cause y' all are thinking, what are these frigging idiots doing?
Johnny D
Why is butter so good?
Si Robertson
It all started because me and Johnny D, we drove by and we still ain't got it off our mind.
Johnny D
I've been thinking about it. I bet your hush puppies are gracious. If you've ever been to Barry's in Mississippi, send me an email about it if I missed out or not. I was getting his keys.
Martin
He's ready.
Si Robertson
Bye.
Johnny D
Size Bible verse of the day.
Emily
I think it hits the road, boy.
Si Robertson
Oh, this is gonna be good.
Johnny D
Look, I got a good Bible verse.
Martin
Why are you in such a hurry? You were late. Anyway,
Johnny D
he's looking. I'm gonna go quick. Look, we did get to hang out with the Homes of Hope guys. They are doing awesome jobs for kids that have just fallen through a system or there's just nobody there to take care of them. And when I was there, I kept bringing it up. James 1:27. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. That's what they're doing. So if you want to check them out, we're gonna put a link down there somewhere. Homesofhope.ms. great people and size. Been working with them forever, so, I mean, if I don't work with them, they got to be good people, right?
Si Robertson
That's right.
Martin
Amen.
Johnny D
See y' all next time. Right here in the duck call room.
Martin
We're out,
Emily
Sam.
Duck Call Room
Episode: Justin Martin Remembers One of the Company's Funniest Product Ideas
Date: May 7, 2026
Hosts: Si Robertson, Justin Martin, Johnny D, Emily, Hunter
Guests: Various recurring cast
This episode is a quintessential “Duck Call Room” blend of hilarious storytelling, nostalgia, hunting adventures, and down-home food talk. The crew reflects on old company product gimmicks (especially the mystery box), swap wild buffet and restaurant stories, recount recent hunting and travel escapades, and dispense tongue-in-cheek life advice. There are rich snapshots of small-town Southern life and a deep vein of humor about aging, traditions, and the little joys of food, family, and friendship.
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“I found two lug nuts in Jackson’s pocket—that’d be crazy.” – Martin, 05:02
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“They’re real proud of them little things.” – Emily, 08:23
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“Hard to beat ribs, Martin.” – Si Robertson, 13:11
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“Are we really about to eat a forty-dollar seafood buffet?” – Johnny D, 14:28
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“Didn’t say … there might be a duck call in it; no, there would be a duck call, and it might be autographed.” – Martin, 19:20
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“You’ll blink and you’ll be my age. 78. So, hey, enjoy yourself and have fun.” – Emily, 21:09
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“I can’t … I gave them a bushel basket full [of compliments].” – Emily, 54:43
The episode is marked by boisterous, good-natured ribbing, heavy nostalgia, and vivid, often absurd, details. The hosts maintain their quintessentially Southern, self-effacing humor—never shying away from poking fun at themselves, their eating habits, or aging ("The 1900s were awesome" – Martin). Underneath the laughs are genuine moments of connection, encouragement, and affection for their traditions, family, and faith.
“If I work with [them], they gotta be good people.”
—Si Robertson (58:13), blending simple wisdom, humor, and faith—the heart of the Duck Call Room.