Justin Martin’s Game Warden Encounter Nearly Cost Him His License

Summary

Podcast Summary

Podcast: Duck Call Room
Hosts: Si Robertson, Justin Martin, Philip McMillan, Hunter, John-David Owen, John Godwin, Jay Stone, Jacob Mayo
Episode: Justin Martin’s Game Warden Encounter Nearly Cost Him His License
Date: February 3, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this lively, storytelling-heavy episode, the Duck Call Room crew recounts their survival experiences during a brutal ice storm that swept through their part of Louisiana and Mississippi. The hosts swap stories of power outages, freezing homes, the struggle to keep families safe, sharing resources with neighbors, and the ways the community came together in adversity. Amidst the cold, they offer practical advice, laugh about their misadventures (including Justin Martin's run-in with a game warden), reflect on blessings, and highlight the importance of hospitality and kindness.

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Main Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Ice Storm: Survival & Community

• Unpreparedness and Resourcefulness: The group debates who was best prepared for the storm (00:22–01:15). Most admit they underestimated its severity, leading to unique survival tactics like using 19 quilts in bed (03:39, Si).
• Freezing Houses: Temperatures inside homes plummeted. Hunter reports 34°F inside (04:29). Martin shares relief at having a generator and fireplace blower, keeping one house at a livable 60°F (04:21).
• Shout-out to Utility Workers: The crew gives heartfelt thanks to linemen, DOT, and first responders for their tireless work restoring power (05:18–06:09). However, Martin criticizes local energy leadership for overpromising return of electricity:

  "Your boots on the ground, covered your rear end." (06:02, Martin)

• Navigating Dangerous Roads: Martin recounts traversing icy roads in his side-by-side, delivering supplies and checking on relatives (08:02–08:24). Philip describes a treacherous two-hour trip to deliver gas and firewood to his mother (15:37).
• The Weirdness of the Storm: The group jokes about the odd combination of lightning, thunder and ice—a true weather anomaly (12:25–14:04).

2. Family Dynamics Amid Crisis

• Moved in Together: Family members gathered in the warmest corners, blocking off rooms to conserve heat, sleeping in living rooms, and relying on fireplaces (04:45–05:01).
• Making Do with What You Have: Food supplies were rationed, with humorous tales of pizza, pizza rolls, and using porches as makeshift refrigerators (09:36–10:18).
• Generator and Power Lessons: Several discuss the importance of generators, learning to wire houses, and the relief of hot water and showers (16:51–19:24).

3. The Importance of Neighbors and Kindness

• Acts of Hospitality: Sadie Robertson is commended for her open-door generosity (23:14–23:53), and Martin describes delivering sausage biscuits across town (24:48). The warmth of neighbors sharing showers, food, and Wi-Fi is a recurring theme (25:34–26:11).
• Old-School Resilience: Si reminisces about his childhood, noting that hardship just meant eating hickory nuts and going hunting regardless of the weather (26:37–26:54).

4. Wild Encounters and Memorable Moments

a. Justin Martin's "Slip and Slide"

• Martin recalls an epic slip on his icy driveway, sliding under his truck in the dark:

  "Both my feet left out from... I was there and I was gone. Landed on my right hip, then slid the rest of the way down my driveway out of control." (29:22–30:07, Martin)

  • The neighbors searched for surveillance camera footage to catch this fall, turning Martin's misfortune into a comedic highlight (30:08–30:42).

b. The Game Warden Encounter

• Martin bumps into a game warden doing welfare checks (48:13–49:10). Later, the same game warden sees Martin returning from duck hunting:

  "I have got 12 ducks in my truck, and I do not know where the tags are." (49:11–50:48, Martin)

  • After panicking, Martin realizes the ducks (which must be tagged when transported over state lines) are not in his vehicle, narrowly avoiding a violation, and jokes:

    "Look at God, man. Look at God." (50:48, Martin)

• The conversation turns to the grim reality for poachers:

  "Four of them had killed 74 ducks. ... When you start doubling over the limit, that's a problem." (50:59–51:42, Martin/Sigh)

c. Duck Hunt Misadventures

• Si and Martin remember hunting on Dog Bow, accidentally downing all three canvasbacks flying by at once.

  "We shot him in front of us. They bounced and hit the levee down 150 yards away." (52:08–53:02, Sigh/Martin)

• Si gripes about missing teal:

  "I'm killing it all except the teal. And I said, that's where I usually shine the best. ... 10 and ain't cut a feather." (54:27–55:13, Sigh)

  • It turns out he was using a full choke, not his usual open bore—cue more laughter and self-deprecation.

5. Spiritual Reflections and Community Spirit

• Si observes:

  "God smiled during this ice storm for one reason. Because he’s seen his children turn and actually love each other and help each other out in a bind." (46:36, Sigh)

• Neighbors shared hot meals and encouragement (47:05, Hunter).
• The episode closes with a reading of 1 Peter 4:7-11, emphasizing love, hospitality, and serving one another (56:29–57:12).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Time | Speaker | Quote / Memorable Moment | |---------------|--------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------| | 03:39 | Si | “Because I lived for about three days... in the bed.” | | 04:29 | Hunter | “Inside my house, the thermostat. I looked at it, it said 34.” | | 06:02 | Martin | “Your boots on the ground covered your rear end.” | | 14:04 | Martin | “No, it ain’t scary. It’s terrifying.” | | 15:37 | Philip | “It took me two hours to get there. … Nobody except me on a four wheeler with a box full of firewood and gas.” | | 23:14 | Hunter | “Sadie Robertson, right? … She texted my wife. … We have a generator.”| | 24:48 | Martin | “I was delivering sausage biscuits to people. … It’s just money, man. … I’m about to try to be a good freaking human.”| | 29:22 | Martin | “And both of my feet left out from... I was there and I was gone.” | | 46:36 | Sigh | “God smiled during this ice storm for one reason. Because he’s seen his children turn and actually love each other and help each other out in a bind.”| | 50:48 | Martin | “Look at God, man. Look at God.” | | 54:27 | Sigh | “I'm killing it all except the teal. ... 10 and ain't cut a feather.”| | 56:29 | Hunter | “[reads 1 Peter 4:7-11 about hospitality and serving one another]” |

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Opening Banter & Storm Introduction: 00:22–03:15
• Who Was Prepared? (Funny Stories): 01:00–04:15
• Thanking Utility Workers: 05:18–06:09
• Road Adventures & Getting Supplies: 08:02–12:00
• The Strangeness of the Ice Storm: 12:25–14:04
• Martin's Driveway Slip & Neighbor Help: 29:22–31:43
• Duck Hunting, Game Warden Story: 48:13–52:02
• Si & Martin's Canvasback Story: 52:08–53:11
• Reflections on Community & Blessings: 46:15–48:13, 56:29–57:12

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Tone and Style

The hosts’ banter is colloquial, playful, and self-deprecating, imbued with Southern warmth. They honor their roots, their faith, and their community through humor and practical wisdom. The episode is a blend of comedic hunting tales, disaster survival, and thoughtful reflection.

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Closing Reflection

Ultimately, this episode provides both comedic relief and heartfelt lessons from a tough winter. The Duck Call Room crew demonstrates that, in the face of natural disasters, laughter, resourcefulness, and acts of service define a community’s resilience.

Transcript

[Philip]

We heard you.

[Sigh]

Nine years of bring back the snack wrap and you've won. But maybe you should have asked for more. Say hello to the hot honey snack wrap.

[Martin]

Now you've really won. Go to McDonald's and get it while you can. Hey.

[Philip]

No, I prepared.

[Hunter]

No, you didn't.

[Philip]

Yes, I did.

[Hunter]

Not for that.

[Philip]

I prepared for. No one was storm.

[Hunter]

No one was prepared.

[Philip]

I was prepared.

[Martin]

You weren't prepared.

[Hunter]

If you. You'll tell me on this podcast and I'll say not prepared enough. You could not have possibly have been prepared for that. You were prepared for a week without power.

[Philip]

Yeah, we had just enough firewood. I mean, we ran all the way out and we had to go get gas several times. So. I mean, I thought you were prepared. We were semi prepared.

[Hunter]

Welcome back to the duck call room. Apparently, Hunter just started while me and Philip were arguing on how prepared we.

[Sigh]

Were about what was going on.

[Martin]

Right.

[Philip]

We are in the midst rough around this joint.

[Hunter]

Well, no, no, no. It's 65 degrees outside. Almost, Martin.

[Martin]

And I still got ice on my house.

[Hunter]

Can you declare the ice apocalypse over?

[Martin]

I mean, I guess it's over. I don't. I mean, it's still around, which is what's crazy. This crap's taking forever to melt.

[Hunter]

I gotta have ice for the next week. I've in the shade.

[Martin]

Clearly there's something that I missed in chemistry or physics or meteorology. Well, forget that. I'm talking about just once it gets there. I hate like it. Why is it still here?

[Hunter]

Go back to where you came from.

[Martin]

Why is it still around?

[Sigh]

Well, do you know that you can start a fire with ice? Hunter.

[Hunter]

Hunter just audibly gasped. And I wish. I wish Hunter had a microphone because Hunter, when you said that.

[Sigh]

Well, I'm just saying. Hey, you know. You know, there's a silver lining in every dark cloud.

[Hunter]

How do you start a fire with ice?

[Sigh]

You take the ice and you mold it into a lens with your hand and then let the sun set fire to grass. Or what?

[Hunter]

My hands would have frozen off. Dear people of that listen to this. I've been confirmed a weenie when it comes to the cold, and I am not well.

[Martin]

Yeah, this sucks.

[Sigh]

Yeah, I actually watched a movie where I learned things this weekend.

[Martin]

You had a lot of free time on your hands, huh? Even more than normal.

[Sigh]

Here's what you do. You. You take a leaf off of a tree.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Sigh]

You put it in water. If you want to know what is.

[Martin]

I've been watching that too.

[Sigh]

East and west.

[Martin]

Oh, it's called blippi I thought she was gonna find out. The leaf loaded the boys like that.

[Sigh]

And you put a little. What they call. I can't think of them. It's a little piece of wire. Lay a piece of wire on that leaf and it will automatically turn north.

[Martin]

Really?

[Philip]

Yeah, yeah. You rub it with silk. That's what we saw.

[Martin]

So in case you've. You're caught in the wild with silk, a piece of wire and a leaf, you can figure out which way is north.

[Philip]

You ain't lost no more.

[Sigh]

If you got eyes, you might get.

[Hunter]

Bear Gryllis on the phone. We've got all his problems.

[Martin]

Heaven forbid we look at the sun and figure out which way north is.

[Hunter]

Or that big star up there. I believe it has a name.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Philip]

You know, when the cold weather started coming in, I went over to sign Christine's, who've been out of their house temporarily while they're getting some work done, and I said, hey, you boys ready? I said, sigh, you ready, Christine? She was like, oh, no, we'll just stay here and ride it out. And sigh was like, whatever. He went and got in the bed. He's got the covers all on him. I said, no, let's go. Come with me.

[Sigh]

Because I lived for about three days. Yeah, it's in the bed.

[Hunter]

I don't blame it.

[Sigh]

No, no, look, I'm serious. I only got up to eat and use the restroom.

[Hunter]

I would have done otherwise.

[Sigh]

I was in the bed with 19 quilts on top of it.

[Hunter]

That's the smart. You're the smartest person I've heard so far.

[Philip]

But it got cold. Too cold.

[Sigh]

It even got where it got cold.

[Philip]

So the next morning, Christine called me. She was like, philip, we. Come get us.

[Sigh]

Yeah, we're ready.

[Hunter]

What was the coldest you ever saw it in your houses?

[Philip]

In my house?

[Hunter]

No, on the thermostat.

[Martin]

54 was.

[Hunter]

I'm a win.

[Martin]

This was my house.

[Philip]

Yeah. Ours is like 60.

[Sigh]

Well, that's what got me.

[Hunter]

House stayed 60 without power.

[Philip]

Yeah, because we had a generator and we had a fireplace with a blower.

[Sigh]

You were nine degrees the other day.

[Hunter]

And one chill inside my house, the thermostat. I looked at it, it said 34.

[Martin]

Ooh.

[Sigh]

Yeah.

[Martin]

That's your house off.

[Sigh]

That's two degrees above freezing.

[Martin]

Wow.

[Hunter]

No, I can confirm that's cold as crap. I was freezing my butt off.

[Martin]

That's good. Yeah. You're. You're.

[Hunter]

We blocked off everything in the living room.

[Martin]

Your house can get that air up under it.

[Sigh]

Oh, yeah.

[Hunter]

So, yeah, we blocked off Everything had. Had blankets in the air, trying to close off doors, and had a fire for about five, four days.

[Martin]

So your preparedness program fell through.

[Hunter]

Yeah, my preparedness program was go to Big Dave's house. And then he lost power. And I said, oh, yeah, yeah.

[Martin]

He could see the power grid, and it's gone.

[Hunter]

Yeah. So we live right next to the substation.

[Sigh]

Close.

[Hunter]

My dad lives right next to it. And we heard it go down. And I said, that ain't good.

[Sigh]

While on this subject, I think we're getting. I would like to personally thank all the people.

[Martin]

Amen.

[Sigh]

Okay. That was involved in anything to do with getting everything. Poles, replaced, wires.

[Martin]

Amen.

[Philip]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Linemen, DOTD workers, whoever was clearing the roads, first responders, ambulance men, paramedics, firemen. All you people. Great.

[Sigh]

That's right.

[Martin]

All the leadership of our local power cooperative. Energy.

[Sigh]

Yeah. Know this, you are.

[Hunter]

Don't try. I don't want them to try again.

[Sigh]

Know this, you are.

[Martin]

Y' all failed, and I appreciate you. The leadership of energy failed.

[Hunter]

I didn't know we were going there.

[Martin]

Well, I don't care. They failed. Your boots on the ground, covered your rear end.

[Sigh]

That's right.

[Martin]

Is all I'm gonna.

[Sigh]

They did a fabulous job.

[Martin]

The people that I've met around here, from Missouri, that came to work, from south Louisiana, from Arkansas, from everywhere. Mississippi, from Mississippi. Thank y' all for coming, and I'm sorry that the leaders were inadequate for y'.

[Philip]

All.

[Martin]

I will apologize.

[Hunter]

We were in a bad spot.

[Sigh]

Apologize for.

[Hunter]

And to be fair, nobody could have ever seen.

[Martin]

Which is why you keep your mouth shut. You don't tell people two days in that in three days, they'll have power. 90% of them will have power. Don't say that. That's dumb.

[Hunter]

Because we didn't say, hey.

[Sigh]

We're addressing the problem and working on the situation.

[Martin]

Just say, hey, we're doing the best we can with what we got.

[Hunter]

There was a boy. They working on that high line. I never want that job. He was up in the air. It was probably 28 degrees at night, and they were just shining spotlights up on them. And my dad was just watching them from his porch. And I was like. Which I used to. Couldn't see him. But now that all the trees are gone, I can.

[Martin]

Yeah, like a rice field. Now, I'll tell you what.

[Hunter]

I checked the map, and we got an Oxford, Mississippi. We're brethren now. Because y' all took it. It was West Monroe and Oxford.

[Martin]

Yeah, pretty much. If you drew a straight line and up to Nashville, there's parts of Nashville still ain't got power.

[Hunter]

We, we all took it on the chin.

[Martin]

So you draw a line that connects Monroe, Oxford and Nashv and it's surprisingly straighter line than you think because I've looked at it, it's like, okay, that's the swath that, that took it on the chin. Everybody in that little swath right there. Just. Yeah, but it's fine, man. It was whatever memory. It's always cool to see community come together. I said that on my social stuff. It's always fun to watch people help each other, you know, I wish. And there are people as we're talking still right now, nine days later, that still don't have power.

[Hunter]

Had people in the store this morning. They're just hanging out in town because they're like, house sucks. Yeah, I get it.

[Martin]

I've never been more thankful to have a four wheel drive side by side with heat and a cab.

[Philip]

I texted Martin, I said, hey, we got signed Christine over here. We may need, we may need some stuff from time to time. He said, I'll bring it to you on my side by side.

[Martin]

Let me know. I was running all over this dad gum town.

[Sigh]

A whole bunch of people were.

[Martin]

I drove to this office in the.

[Hunter]

That way but there were people on the interstate stuck for like a day.

[Martin]

Yeah. Yeah, apparently.

[Philip]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Martin]

Over to Ruston and that area were trashed. I don't know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't dare go and get on it.

[Philip]

No. That was rough.

[Martin]

I didn't even like getting on Highway 80 because the problem is is even though I had a rig, I'm still the smallest thing on the road like I was.

[Hunter]

There wasn't much on the road the first couple days.

[Martin]

There was more than there should have been that weren't in four wheel drive vehicles and out there acting like idiots.

[Hunter]

People kept telling me, well, the roads are fine. And then I went. We, we ventured out a few things and a Chevy Malibu came flying past me with a 75 pound block of ice hanging off the roof. I said, no, I'm going to go back home.

[Martin]

Yeah, that was the other annoying thing. People wouldn't clear their cars before they, they took off.

[Hunter]

We don't know any better. We are swamp creatures.

[Martin]

Yeah, we're lizards.

[Hunter]

We do not belong in ice.

[Martin]

Well, I just wish we had iguanas here like them people in Florida yesterday just went around picking up iguanas that fell out of trees that looked fun.

[Hunter]

We were about to have to start eating them.

[Martin]

Oh, we would Have.

[Hunter]

But yeah, we would have.

[Martin]

I didn't need to because I had plenty in the freezer that we, we ate. We ate. Well, I was just tired of cooking.

[Hunter]

I had that.

[Martin]

Which is why when I got the text that said Johnny's has a limited menu, I said, I'm going to get me a pizza.

[Sigh]

Everybody's running out of, out of everything.

[Philip]

We did go to Johnny's and get some pizza.

[Martin]

When they had the little four pizza menu. Yeah, that was awesome, man. Just to have one meal that somebody else cooked. During that I was like, oh, thank God.

[Hunter]

I think that was the night I cooked 150 pizza rolls on a flat top. They were starting to thaw. I said, who wants pizza rolls? And the kids said yes.

[Martin]

Nobody's ever said no to pizza.

[Hunter]

Watch this. My whole back porch was just a refrigerator slash freezer. Yeah, I just had to move all the food out there and we just go out there, look around, pick something up, heat it up and eat it. Insurance, baby. Has it ever been more important than right now?

[Philip]

Mark? Has it been more important?

[Hunter]

And you should be thinking about life insurance.

[Martin]

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[Hunter]

You got to protect your family, man. You, you never know when a runaway beach umbrella is going to stab you right in the heart. And then your kids are looking up and you didn't take care of them with insurance.

[Martin]

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[Philip]

Well, sign. Did you ever fall?

[Sigh]

Nope.

[Philip]

Not at all?

[Martin]

Nope. I Did I?

[Hunter]

Did not. Allison bit the dust this morning and I felt terrible about it.

[Sigh]

Hey. The reason is I didn't go out in it.

[Martin]

There you go.

[Hunter]

Wise.

[Sigh]

They said, hey, look, y', all, if you don't have a four wheel drive, you ought not be out in the road.

[Martin]

Yeah, I saw. Sterlington police department said they were going to start writing tickets for people that were out.

[Hunter]

Amen.

[Philip]

Without four wheel drive.

[Sigh]

I got a four wheel.

[Philip]

I told you that.

[Sigh]

But I just still says no.

[Hunter]

It's crazy. We don't know what we're doing. I wonder though, there's places this happens which we didn't get. Snow we got.

[Martin]

What we had is an anomaly. The ice doesn't happen much. Like you got to be in a bad spot for the.

[Hunter]

On Saturday morning when the lightning started. And.

[Martin]

Which, by the way, is not fair.

[Sigh]

Hey, here's what was so screwy about that.

[Hunter]

It was screwy.

[Sigh]

I'm from the west southwest.

[Martin]

What, the lightning?

[Sigh]

The stupid ice?

[Hunter]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Well.

[Hunter]

And then.

[Martin]

Well, the thunder. The thunderstorm in the middle of an ice storm. Lord, we're going to have to talk about that one.

[Hunter]

Yeah, I got questions.

[Martin]

Both of those are equally as terrifying. Why'd you put them together?

[Hunter]

Well, in my house, surrounded by.

[Philip]

That was bad.

[Hunter]

Super tall pine trees, so the branches are just snapping left and right and you just. It's all. Every 30 seconds you hear. And then you hear it fall. And then the ice shattering makes it even.

[Sigh]

That's what got Christine.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Sigh]

She's out on the porch.

[Martin]

Yeah, she was out on.

[Sigh]

You wouldn't believe. She said, you wouldn't believe. I would have like fireworks crashing off of these streets. I said, oh, yes, I would. I said, because most people. There's two things that most people don't know is real, real dangerous. Ice is one of them and water is another one. During flood stage. I don't. Okay, water.

[Martin]

Soft and hard water.

[Hunter]

I don't even like steaming water anymore. Never will see it again. No, but. But I woke up at 4am to the loudest thunder I think I've ever heard. And then all I could. I'm looking at my back window and I just see limbs falling and then thunder and then lightning. And I was like, this is it. We had our couch over in the corner. And I'm just.

[Martin]

Yeah. Who done pissed Elsa off, right?

[Philip]

Yeah.

[Sigh]

And I'm.

[Hunter]

I'm just shaking. I've never been. I've legitimately. I'm not trying to joke like I've.

[Martin]

Been through what I text. You said, this is so scary. I said, no, it ain't scary. It's terrifying.

[Sigh]

Before the power went out, I was watching the news.

[Philip]

Shocker.

[Sigh]

No, no. And they was warning about exploding trees.

[Martin]

And that was up north.

[Hunter]

I don't think I. Well, I got one branch that some things about.

[Sigh]

Hey. Something about when it gets below freezing with ice. Okay.

[Philip]

Yeah.

[Sigh]

The tree actually shrinks from the bark, you know, from the barking and it shrinks and then just blows up.

[Hunter]

Are you around a bunch of pine trees?

[Philip]

I used to be.

[Hunter]

Were you around a lunch pipe?

[Sigh]

I was looking at it today when I left. Yeah, he's got one. It's got about two little limbs at the top. Oh, I got stuff broke off.

[Hunter]

I got a 75 foot stump at my house now. I don't even know what I'm supposed to do.

[Martin]

That looks way more like a five point.

[Sigh]

Phil's got. He's got a little. Two little limbs.

[Hunter]

I've just never experienced that much noise. And you. It was dark. I'd been without power.

[Sigh]

But you make noise. Yeah, because they always ask that, hey, if there's anybody there not listen. Does a tree make noise when it falls?

[Hunter]

If it's got ice all over it, it makes way.

[Sigh]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

I'm telling you, I. That is the scaredest of weather I've ever been in my entire life. Because I was like, trees about to come on top of me, gang.

[Martin]

Hey, and let me tell you something. Y' all know these ads we read in here. One of your generator companies needs somebody holl at your boys.

[Philip]

Yeah, that's right.

[Hunter]

Because I need one.

[Philip]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Holla at you boys.

[Philip]

So the scared is that. That I have been is when my mom called me and said, where. You know our generator's out of gas. It's fixing to be out. I need you. So I had gas, but I couldn't get it to her. She only lives three miles from me. It took me two hours to get there. And the roads were ice. I mean, there's nobody on the road. Nobody except me on a four wheeler with a box full of firewood and gas.

[Martin]

And you went on a regulation four wheeler and yeah. Oh, you was cold.

[Philip]

And a saw.

[Martin]

You were cold.

[Sigh]

Yeah, he was.

[Hunter]

Hey, the windshield was Sunday after it all hit.

[Philip]

After it hit Sunday was ice. And you couldn't drive on the road.

[Hunter]

Oh, you couldn't get nowhere.

[Philip]

So. Yeah, so there was trees down everywhere. I was cutting my way to our house.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Philip]

Just like. And praying, Lord help me, you know, because there's limbs falling all around me.

[Hunter]

My dad lives A half a mile from me.

[Philip]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

By road, it took him three hours on a tractor to get to pushing stuff out of the way just to make a path to get to my house, which cleared up a lot of the neighborhood. Shout out, Big Dave. But, yeah, it was the. And that was on. I don't even know what day it is.

[Philip]

Yeah. Now that's how it gets.

[Hunter]

Okay. It was the weirdest, but wildest.

[Martin]

Yeah, it kind of caught in, like, a weird funk. Like, we got power back. After five days at my house or going into the city, I don't know what. I lost count in there. I don't remember what day of the week it was, but I remember thinking, like, when I got the text from my neighbor that said we got power because we all bailed and went to my mom's house because she's got. It's not quite a whole home generator, but it's easy. Like, you plug. She had her house wired for a transfer switch. So you plug a big dummy cord from the generator into a. Into an outlet on the outside of the house. You turn off everything and you turn on the generator breaker. So that's. It feeds the house pretty much the. The whole house. But. So that's where. When it started coming down, I said, we're out of here. Like, we'd have. We've never lost it in our neighborhood. But I just saw that stuff and I was like, babe, we gotta go. We gotta go while we can. Go.

[Hunter]

Let's.

[Martin]

And let's go.

[Hunter]

Willie and Big David haven't lost it since Willie built his house. Yeah, because it's right there. It comes from behind. It's underground.

[Sigh]

And they.

[Hunter]

They've lived there for 10 years. Hadn't lost power. They were. They went out because that's where I was headed. And then Dad's like, oh, we're out of power. Said, well, stinks.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

Willie said he'd never been so cold in his entire life.

[Martin]

But the problem with that was what got us in there was the. Then the lines fail. And the one connected my mom's to the main was like, windshield level with your truck. So you couldn't go in a vehicle out of there. So that's why. Thank God I had that Kawasaki. But when we got that text, the neighbor said, we got power. I said, okay, I'm getting rid of that line. I don't know how, but I'm getting my truck out of here.

[Hunter]

You're brave now.

[Philip]

The line is hanging down.

[Martin]

It's caught up in some tree limbs. Like it's Completely. It's. It's flat on one end, and it's still hanging in some tree limbs in front of my mom's house.

[Philip]

Wait a minute.

[Martin]

And I just.

[Philip]

Did you go up and touch it?

[Martin]

No, I wouldn't dare go and touch it.

[Philip]

What'd you do?

[Martin]

I. I took a saw to the limbs and just prayed. And the first time that it. It kind of fell a little bit because it's on three of them. So I cut the first limb and it dropped a little bit. And I didn't see no sparks or didn't hear nothing. I said, oh, we good now. So then I really got brave and cut the rest of them down. You're braver. And got it on the ground and then drove my truck over it and was like, okay, here we go. Let's go. We're getting out of here. We are going to my house.

[Hunter]

Then he texted me. He's like, hey, man, I got power if you need a shower. At that point, I was about 20 minutes from my house because I had abandoned ship.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

I was out. I was going to friend's house with power.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

I'm gonna sleep in a guest bed somewhere tonight.

[Martin]

That first hot shower back in my house was. That's a good feeling.

[Philip]

Bingo.

[Martin]

Man. It was such a good feeling. Like, it was like, oh, my God.

[Philip]

Well, we never lost hot water because we got gas, so we had hot water. Yeah, we had. I lost tv, the Internet. We had our freezer and refrigerator and the fireplace blower.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Philip]

So. But that was. But I was just up all night filling up the gas, checking.

[Martin]

Well, that was the same thing. While I was there, I was every. I started because I didn't know how big the tank on her generator was. And I would start every two hours. I would just get up and put gas in the generator and put logs on the fireplace because the generator wasn't quite enough to run her big heating unit. So to run it full speed, it would run half of it. So that was a but with that, she's got one of them old school buck stove inserts.

[Philip]

Oh, yeah.

[Martin]

Is that what you got? Is that.

[Philip]

Oh, no, but it's kind of like that.

[Martin]

Yeah, but it's got a fan on it. So when it kicks on. I looked up one time, thermostat said 80. I said, oh, praise God.

[Philip]

Yeah, that was nice.

[Martin]

I was in there sweating, thinking, yes, thank you.

[Hunter]

I ain't seen 80.

[Martin]

First two nights were so cold. Yeah. Before we got all that stuff figured out, I was like, oh, my goodness gracious. I mean I built a roaring fire in the.

[Hunter]

I had a roaring fire. Got the house up to a nice 46. Yeah, you got to get that open fireplace. It don't do much I don't know about. There were some birds happy on my roof, I guess.

[Martin]

I don't know about this endorsement, but there whatever she and I don't know if they still make it, but it's called Buck stove.

[Hunter]

My parents had one growing up.

[Philip]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Yeah. When it reaches a certain temperature, it turns a fan on and blows that hot air out into the house.

[Philip]

Yep.

[Martin]

That's what it kept her whole house more. We were able to turn her heat off and then we ran the rest of the house like ran. Washer, dryer, everything. All right, look, it's a new year. Look, income tax stuff's about to start coming back. Maybe you want to get that new car smell. Maybe you're looking to refinance your house, rent an apartment for the first time, whatever it is. You want your credit score to be as strong as possible so that you can save some money. So you need smart Credit. Your credit score may have taken a big hit over the holidays and you may not even know it. Sure, a late payment hurts, but so does opening a store credit card just to get a discount and transferring a balance from one card to another that can drop it just as fast.

[Hunter]

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[Philip]

So how cold did it get where you and Christine were before y' all came over.

[Sigh]

Cold. I didn't look at no temperatures.

[Hunter]

I lost what I had to turn my water off because it was like my attic was 31 degrees at some point and all the pipes up there, I said, we're out. So. So then it was. Then it got colder because we didn't have no water.

[Martin]

Well, last summer, for some reason. Oh, I know why. Because I was tired of paying them stupid electric bills in the summer for my air condition conditioner. I had them re. Blow the insulation in the top of my house. I was like, no, y' all come back and do that again, whatever that was. So our house only got. There was nobody in it, but it never got below 54 degrees, even in all that stuff. So it was like.

[Hunter]

But my. Oh, hey, all I gotta say is we raise Sadie Robertson, right? Sadie Robert. She texted my wife and said, hey, we have a generator. It's running the house, so if y' all need a shower or anything, y' all come over. And we're like, ah, we don't want to intrude, you know? And then they changed the day back to three more days. I said, we're headed over, Sadie.

[Martin]

Yeah, we'll see you in a minute.

[Hunter]

I took a shower. One of her kids showers. I was like, this is the best.

[Martin]

It's amazing. Out of all them, that Sadie's the only one that said, I need a generator.

[Hunter]

She's. I've been saying she's the smartest one, all of it. Hey, but she, for real, she had everybody in the neighborhood, everybody related to her.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

Like, y' all, come on, warm up. Get you a cup of coffee.

[Martin]

Oh, yeah. Once we got power back, I was like, come on, anybody that wants to get it? And then I started duck hunting. So I was like, look, the house is going to be empty from like 11 because I was hunting in the middle of the day. Forget that early cold stuff. I don't have enough of that. I was just hunting midday. I was like, look, house will be empty from like 11 to 5. Go. It is your house. Go do whatever you so desire in that house. And just know that I'll be back about five or six o'. Clock.

[Philip]

And this was a great time to. To. For people to be servants and to offer hospitality without grumbling. Like, first Peter 4 says, Because I've struggled with that, I've offered hospitality. I've even told Zion in the past, I can offer hospitality. I'm great at it. But then I get to grumbling because something goes the wrong way. But not this time. I did really good. I helped everybody I could. And without. Without grumbling but look, it's just right there, you know, you're ready to grumble about something.

[Martin]

But, yeah, I just looked at it like. And I got fuel for everybody multiple times. Once stuff opened, I was delivering sausage biscuits to people. Like, I didn't care. Whatever, you know, it's just money, man. At this point, it's like, that's like, I'll. I'll recoup it somewhere else down the road, but I'm about to try to be a good freaking human. And, you know, the smile on somebody's face from just a warm sausage biscuit that they didn't have to cook is like, warm food.

[Hunter]

Went a long way in this.

[Martin]

It did, man. And so just like, little acts of kindness, doing stuff like that. I was at the. I was at the gas pumps taking pictures with people. Like, you know, because, I mean, then I guess word got. Well, of course, social media was still a thing, so I guess everybody saw me driving around town, so when they'd see it, they'd flag me down.

[Hunter]

I was like, somehow our neighborhood lost cell service, too.

[Martin]

Oh, it took out a tower.

[Hunter]

I mean, remember?

[Martin]

Oh, yeah. You were texting me.

[Hunter]

I could barely text you. And then my. My. One of my neighbors said, well, we got the generator running, the WI fi. I said, well, that still works if you can get it turned on. He said, yeah, I said.

[Martin]

And I.

[Hunter]

It hit me that Allison's car has a little 110 plugin in it. So I had a hundred foot of extension cords by then. Then we had a tv. We had WI fi and we could communicate. It was great. That's all it could run. But it was running that. Yeah.

[Martin]

I had to run mom's TV from the hotspot of my phone. Xfinity went down and all that.

[Hunter]

My mom's still doing that.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Philip]

Our TV would work. The WI fi would work. And then it'd go out and it'd sit there just spending. Sigh would say, spinning. Spinning.

[Hunter]

But I got a question for Sigh because I feel. I know I'm soft, but, like, we all panicking because we don't have WI fi and coffee at the touch of a button. What. What would have happened back in your childhood had this happened?

[Sigh]

Nothing.

[Martin]

They'd have killed everything inside.

[Sigh]

And we'd break out. We'd break out the hickory nuts.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Sigh]

Cheese.

[Martin]

But you'd have went hunting.

[Sigh]

And fresh fruit.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Sigh]

And like Martin says, and like, you know, it didn't make any difference what the weather was.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Sigh]

It crossed Thanksgiving Day. Hey, we're going Duck hunting.

[Martin]

Yeah. Yeah, it was. Which it was a good time to be a duck hunter, if you could get there. There's a lot of ducks that come down here on it.

[Philip]

So what I want to know the best thing that happened. Tell me the best story that happened during this ice storm. Oh, I like the story about Martin falling down.

[Martin]

Oh, that. Yeah. That was not a good thing. I mean, looking back on it, it was hilarious. And I'm convinced that cold concrete is harder than regular concrete.

[Philip]

Tell Cy what happened.

[Martin]

So you ain't been to my house? I don't think, but Philip has. Johnny Diaz. So my driveway is steep. Big hit. It's pretty much straight up. Like, to back a trailer up it, you got to have a tire in the grass side of it to get up the deal. So it's pretty steep. So at 4 o', clock, we finally got power back. I finally had to beg, bar, and steal to get my mom to leave her house to get away from the noise of that generator and putting a log on a fire every two hours to just come have a night, Right? Like, just come spend the night, take a hot shower, do all the things, Stay with your grandkid, like, you know, But I get it. She didn't want to leave her stuff. Like, it's. That's mine. I want to make sure everything's fine because my aunt wasn't so fortunate. My aunt had a waterline bust and completely flooded their house. And, I mean, I'm sure by the time insurance gets done with it, they're gonna probably tear down the house and start over. If I had to guess, because they were staying outside in a camper beside their house because it had generator and power, heat, everything. So. So mom hears that story, so she's paranoid, as she should be, right? Like, I mean, you hear that kind of stuff when it hits that close to them. But she finally came, so I said, what I'll do before I go duck hunting, as I'll go fill up your generator. That way you can keep sleeping and you don't have to worry about it. Like, it'll still be running by the time you wake up and get back to your house. No problem. Well, so I woke up early, earlier than normal, to go duck hunting, to go. So I had plenty of time to do that. Well, walking down my driveway, I'm still about half asleep. And the nightlight that I got right there is just right, you know, like, on the, you know, neighborhood lights or whatever. I got a nightlight in front of my house for one of them. Is right in my eyes. So I'm kind of like half asleep. Got my eyes closed. Well, apparently that snow and ice and crap had been melting and seeping out from under one of the seams in my driveway. One of the seams in the concrete. And I'm walking down and I never see it. And, you know, it was 22 degrees or whatever it was. 20 degrees. So that was no longer water. Yeah, it was ice.

[Sigh]

Yeah.

[Martin]

And both of my feet left out from. I didn't even have a chance to stumble. Like, both.

[Sigh]

I know. It was just one gone.

[Martin]

I was there and I was gone. And I landed and I did. I told Brittany this, and it was crazy because I have fallen a lot. I'm a professional faller. I'm pretty clumsy in the grand scheme of things. So the only thing I could think about was, don't put your arm down, because I did that one time and broke my wrist and so trying to catch. So I just tucked my arms in real tight as I'm falling, and I landed right on my right hip. Well, I land on the ice. I slid the rest of the way down my driveway out of control until I ended up with my legs under my truck in the cul de sac.

[Philip]

Did anybody see it?

[Martin]

I asked the neighbors if they got it on their camera, and they never sent it back to you. I said, if that thing catches the corner of my driveway, buddy, you need to watch it about 4:20am because there's pretty good. Pretty good thing that happens about the end. And he text me back, he said, oh, no, did you eat it? I said, buddy, did I eat it? Like I fallen. So I'm just laying there under my truck, half under my truck, and I'm like, what just happened? I mean, I felt like I got hit with a baseball bat. Just somebody come up and hit me and. But I look back, and then when I look back this way with the nightlight behind me, I can see the shine of the ice.

[Sigh]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Like, it was very obvious what had just happened. Yeah. Dang.

[Sigh]

But that, you know, that driveway was not slick. Was not ice free, buddy, was it?

[Hunter]

Oh, ain't nothing ice free yet. No, I don't trust any.

[Martin]

Hey, be a Brittany. It's been half a day shoveling that thing, getting ready for power, you know, hoping that power would come back.

[Sigh]

Oh, somebody said something about that. Somebody. I thought I'd never see it. And I said, what's that? He said, somebody hit with a snow shovel. Sliver and I trying to get ice off of our driveway.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

In West Monroe, which our neighbor.

[Martin]

My neighbor that just moved and we just got a new neighbor not long ago, Mr. Clint. He. He moved down here from Colorado. So he let me in on a juice of that. I know next time not to leave. He said, as soon as it stops, you get out there with your shovel. He said, the minute it stops, get out there with your shovel. He said, it'll all come right up because his driveway was free and clear. I said, how'd you do that? He said, the moment it stopped, I got out there with a shovel. And so he said, if you let it stick, it's going to stick. And then you're going to fight.

[Sigh]

You don't get it.

[Martin]

He said, you're going to fight. What y' all did all day today?

[Sigh]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Out there doing that and then.

[Sigh]

Yeah. I should have seen this picture of a guy standing there with a propane bottle with a flame, thrown a torch.

[Philip]

I saw that.

[Sigh]

Yeah. I need melt in his driveway.

[Martin]

Yeah, well, I could have used that. If I'd have had that that morning, I'd have blown up my whole driveway.

[Philip]

After a week of no electricity and kind of being cooped up, we were able to get out a little bit. Alicia grabbed me and she pulled me to the side. She said, I need some normalcy. Take me to Academy. I took her to Academy. She was shopping and buying some shoes or whatever and we got a phone call. Hey, the electricity's back on. And that was like the happiest little moment for me. I was like, sweet. Thank you, Lord.

[Martin]

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[Hunter]

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[Philip]

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[Martin]

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[Hunter]

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[Hunter]

I wish Carter was more afraid of things. Yeah, he kept wanting to go look at the way, oh look, they had a limbs falling. I said get away from the window.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

He was fired up about it. I was like, I'm scared to death.

[Martin]

Yeah. The boys were just. They won't. They could make it outside in that crap for about 15 minutes and then they're like, let's go inside. It's too cold.

[Hunter]

I felt that our kids are. I mean our yard's just a disaster and there's still limbs to this moment hanging up there that you can tell they, they coming down one day. So it's like, hey, y' all know them snow days y' all have heard about? Yeah, today ain't it?

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

But we're just hanging out inside.

[Martin]

There's a big pasture right by mom's house. So I put the rig in two wheel drive and we may or may not have went and cut some donuts. Well, you got to done. We may or may not have done some redneck stuff, you know.

[Philip]

Well, I loved watching sai watch movies, you know. And he sold the whole book of David. What's it called on Amazon Prime.

[Martin]

Yeah, David.

[Philip]

Yeah. So anyway, and cartoon.

[Hunter]

No, no, the real one. The real one, the cartoon just came out.

[Philip]

And so when Goliath was out there yelling, you know, and talking about smash, I was sick of it. He was like, that's it. Somebody needs to shut him up. And here comes David and I mean it was like he was calling a ringside fight sign. His commentary.

[Martin]

That's good.

[Sigh]

Worth.

[Philip]

I wish I had a camera.

[Sigh]

I was, I was tired of hearing Goliath the philistine.

[Philip]

Yeah.

[Sigh]

Running his mouth.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Sigh]

Well, had you read the light? I said, David, you need to get hit that donkey a couple times. Make him speed up before you get over here and kill this sucker.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Sigh]

I'm tired of him running his mouth and whop.

[Martin]

That was good. That's a good show. I really. They did a good job on that show. Good. No, but I don't know the best thing. I don't.

[Hunter]

I mean when the power came back on.

[Martin]

Yeah. I mean that was a good one.

[Hunter]

That was probably the best feel when I, when Allison. Allison went home, it was, you know, probably 40 in the house at that point. And she. Our house was. I mean we'd all been living in the living room. Nothing work. And so our house was a disaster.

[Martin]

Yeah. And that first morning duck hunting back once we got power was pretty good because I wasn't going to leave. I knew we had ducks. I got trail cameras out watching them and I knew they were everywhere. But I'm not. I just wasn't going to bail on my family with no power. No. You know, none of that stuff like. And not a for sure way. But I knew as soon as we got power back at either my house or my mom's, I was going.

[Hunter]

He was gone.

[Martin]

And so that happened and I was able to just sit there and enjoy the sunrise. I was like, okay, this is all right here. Yeah. Because there's a lot to be thankful for. I mean it was terrible. It was an inconvenience. But for us.

[Hunter]

Yeah. And there's a lot.

[Martin]

None of our stuff got damaged. Like my house is fine. Do I have a mess? Absolutely. Does mom have a mess? Absolutely. But nothing was on a roof, nothing flooded, nothing broke.

[Hunter]

Like when there's. There's some hurt. There's legitimately been a lot of injuries in our town. There's two linemen I think got electrocuted.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

There was a little kid named Wesson. If you're listening to this, throw a prayer up for him. He's doing better.

[Martin]

There's a young man cleaning up his yard who, who touches duck commander because his mom is the one of the camp caretakers. Pretty much Yoka care limb fell on him, broke his back. He had to have emergency surgery. Not I haven't but been looking for an update.

[Hunter]

The two year old. I was driving home and all of a sudden here. You know those. Not a fire truck but they work for the fire department.

[Martin]

F250s yeah.

[Hunter]

Come flying and they're. They got an ambulance in between them and I was like oh no, what could that be? And unfortunately they were cleaning up their yard and the down wire that had been dead for two or three days was back and that little two year old got too close to it and. But we're praying for a full recovery. But I mean there's a lot of. There's been a lot of scary, scary situations because like we're not. Our energy people aren't prepared, our lines aren't prepared, our trees aren't prepared and.

[Martin]

We ain't prepared no matter how prepared we are.

[Philip]

Yeah, that's right.

[Martin]

And I was one of the few in my little group that thought this was going to Be pretty bad. Like, most time we get.

[Hunter]

You had convinced me.

[Martin]

Yeah. Most time we get these forecasts and it's like, man, you know, whatever. It's not going to be that bad. Like, you know, because that crap kind of dodges.

[Philip]

A lot of people thought that.

[Martin]

But I'll say this. I follow a lot of online people, and there's a couple of them that they're really good at. The meteorology game. And it's. Ryan hall is. If you need to know about weather. That. That. That fella right there, our local guy that's on. Jared Floyd.

[Philip]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

And he was up all night updating.

[Martin]

Us digital weather Dash. That's his deal.

[Hunter]

He kept telling you what you needed to do. I. I was. He'd be like, I'll be back at one. I was like, let me. I'm gonna come back at one.

[Martin]

But that Ryan.

[Philip]

Juice up something and watch it again.

[Martin]

That Ryan hall guy called it earlier than anybody.

[Philip]

Right.

[Martin]

For our area of major damage.

[Hunter]

But what's crazy is you go, you know, 20 miles away, you ain't even.

[Martin]

Got to get 20.

[Hunter]

And they're like. They came in the store the other day like, man, y' all got nailed. And I was like, yeah, we.

[Philip]

We got nailed.

[Hunter]

And they're like, no, but everybody lives right around us is like, shell shock still.

[Martin]

Yeah. I mean, there gonna be some PTSD from this one.

[Philip]

Oh, yeah. And one. One thing that really helped me, and I don't even know this, but, you know, with all this going on, you start feeling sorry for yourself a little bit because you're having to do some things and, you know, everything's uncomfortable. And you. And sigh was like, telling me a story about his mom. And she told him, when things get bad, you really need to stop and think about all your blessings, you know, which really helped me through it. Sigh.

[Martin]

Yeah, well, that's. That's what I would say. I mean, I just looked around and I was like, yeah, even just on my mom's road, like, art again, major mess, lying down, whatever. But towards the end of the road, a live oak split in half and ended up on the people's houses. A pine tree fell on another guy's truck.

[Philip]

Yeah, I saw a lot of that.

[Martin]

Like, our temporary inconvenience. Theirs is going to be a lot longer. It's not going to be permanent, but it will also. It's a longer temporary. So, like, in the grand scheme of things, we were fine. It just. Man, you. But it's human nature, right? There was so much then that's out of your control. You just kind of feel like you're spinning.

[Hunter]

Did y' all walk outside Sunday morning?

[Philip]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Oh yeah.

[Hunter]

It was 26 degrees and just pour in rain.

[Philip]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Hunter]

It's crazy as it was. Just like we're all sitting here, our minds are blown.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Hunter]

So it was, it was hard for me not to be like, this is the worst day of my friggin. This is misery. But then I'm sitting there, I'm like, you know, the closest branch to my. My, my fence is in trouble. But you know, my house, my porch, there's a branch about six inches from it. House is good, kids are good. What more could you ask for? Yeah, we'll get. I got a shovel and my dad about to buy another chainsaw.

[Sigh]

So we're going to have three.

[Martin]

Yeah. My mom's neighbor.

[Philip]

I don't care if I ever see a chainsaw again. Oh well, I'm done.

[Martin]

I'm about to have to use one for the next probably. I bet it'll take us a month if not longer to clean all that junk up.

[Hunter]

So it is, it is a, it is a extreme blessing. Looking back and. Oh yeah, I mean there's guys in the store back in 94, I was like, when I'm your age, I'm going back in 26. My butthole was so tight that night. Well, listen to the lightning and branches falling the worst.

[Martin]

It felt like newborn stage for me again because like it was the every two to three hours deal of building the fire, putting gas in the generator.

[Hunter]

That's what I was.

[Martin]

And for that, for like I don't know, three or four days, I was like, at the end of it, I was back to that zombie.

[Philip]

I'm zombied now.

[Martin]

It's just I've gotten a good night's sleep the last two or three nights and I feel worse when I wake up from these nights sleep just because my body's readjusting to that. And then now it's like, oh, but I need more to make up for whatever happened. My sleep deal on the Garmin was hilarious. Like, because it was like great total sleep completely interrupted. Like you did not get where it says like recharge level. It was like two.

[Hunter]

I never even got great total.

[Sigh]

Oh no, no.

[Hunter]

One day I woke up in the Garmin said, you got less sleep than normal. You might notice you're more tired and irritable today than on normal days. I was like, yeah, no crap man. Thanks scientists.

[Martin]

Yeah, appreciate you.

[Hunter]

I am more tired and irritable as.

[Martin]

My one hour naps in this recliner wasn't enough to tell me that, right?

[Philip]

Well, hey, I saw something coming when sigh ran out of tea, which, you know, you don't ran out of tea. You don't want sad to run out of tea. So at least traumatized Alicia. She was like, my sweet wife. She was like, oh, I'll fix him some tea. I'll take care of it. And I just turn my head. I was like, you're not going to be able to know.

[Sigh]

I had about a half a glass, about this much left in here like that. Like an idiot. When Alicia fixed it, I said, well, let me top it off. And of course poured it in, you know, and filled it up with ice and lemon crystal, all that. And tasted and said so good I rushed his teeth. I said, this crap. At least I cooked. I said, I appreciate it, darling, but I said, that crap ain't worth drinking.

[Philip]

Yeah, look, I had to make a.

[Hunter]

Trip in the ice to go get.

[Philip]

His yalls sweet tea. He was like, yeah, go get it.

[Sigh]

Don't say, hey, we've been without power for five days.

[Martin]

Yeah, I'm amazed you made it that long.

[Sigh]

Y this is the te's been open. Well, hey, that's the best thing about yalls tea. The rest of it, I don't care. Lifting, whatever who it is. That's what she made about two days. You leave it out, it's going to be sour.

[Hunter]

You're supposed to drink it by.

[Sigh]

So hey, yalls tea, hey, it lasts oh, what, seven days? Because I drank the last little bit of mine, you know, put it, put it in, run it with that tea that Alicia.

[Philip]

Sorry, baby, but. But she did, she did order some online.

[Sigh]

And Phillip said, well, I don't even know where to get it. I said, hey, Amazon.

[Philip]

Yeah, we got everything. It's on the way, y'.

[Martin]

All. Sweet tea.com duck that makes it work.

[Sigh]

But it's just got a. Hey, it's got a good flavor.

[Martin]

Darian, come on back, man.

[Philip]

Man, see us.

[Martin]

Yeah, Darian, come on back. Holler at us again, Man. You know what's about to be good this week after that ice storm factor.

[Hunter]

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[Martin]

Hey, man, buddy, they done all the work for you. I'm tired of cooking for myself. I want somebody else to cook for me. And that's what the boys over at Factor do. Ready in two minutes or less. And it tastes good.

[Hunter]

Dietitian approved. Chef made. It's Delicious.

[Martin]

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[Hunter]

Hey, you. We're back on track, though. We're about to start eating healthy again. We were just eating to survive. Now we're going to get on the Factor. We're going to eat healthy, we're going to feel good, and it's going to be super easy.

[Martin]

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[Hunter]

Yeah, just. That's the one. Order that one. Trust us.

[Martin]

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[Hunter]

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[Martin]

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[Sigh]

Y' all asked about what was the best thing that happened.

[Hunter]

I'm curious.

[Sigh]

The best thing happened. It always amazes me when stuff like this happens and then you see the height that the human being can reach.

[Martin]

Yeah. When everybody all of a sudden ends up on the same playing field. Yeah. It's. It's pretty. It's a pretty cool deal.

[Sigh]

Well, it's what God. I know. God smiled during this ice storm for one reason. Because he's seen his children.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Sigh]

Turn and actually love each other and help each other out in a bind.

[Philip]

That's right.

[Hunter]

We had a lady in my neighborhood. I never needed it, so I didn't participate. But she. She was literally putting on our neighborhood Facebook page. I'm coming home. Hot meals. Let me know how many you need. They'll be at my house. Just come pick them up.

[Sigh]

Well, I've seen so many people when Philip was driving around, we was doing stuff that we need to do that will stop and tell them the line when out there freezing their butt off. Hey, dude, thank you. Thank you for your freezing your butt off out here at night. Yeah, okay. By a stupid flashlight trying to get us power back home.

[Hunter]

That one, dude.

[Sigh]

We appreciate it. And hey, you're loved. And. And really thought about.

[Martin]

So.

[Philip]

So we were pulling onto a road and sa says, stop and roll the window down. I said, what are you doing? I want to talk to these linemen and see. Yeah. He said, hey, I appreciate what you are doing. You know, he started telling thank you and stuff, and they waved and we're driving off and they said was that.

[Sigh]

They're telling.

[Philip]

I was talking to each other. Was that uncle sigh, you know, get.

[Hunter]

That power back on. I'm up the road.

[Philip]

I'm just right here.

[Martin]

Yeah, it was. No, it is cool, man. It's. It's cool to watch everybody.

[Hunter]

It was offered me to come to his house.

[Sigh]

It's a good. Just something good to know I was going to. Hey, you know, all the bad things you see on the news and always hearing it, you know, people killing us all. There's still a lot of good people out there that care.

[Martin]

I found out one concerning fact during the whole thing As I pulled into my neighborhood because I was going to check on a house and I. Clay met me there. My buddy Clay, because he brought 15 gallons of gas for us. Because he was like, I'm coming back through. Do you need anything? I said, man, if you want to bring me some gas and save me a trip, I'll show. I'll show. Take it. Yeah. So he met me there, and while we were sitting there talking, a. A game warden pulled up and I was like, oh, boy. So he got out and we're just talking. He had his wife and kids and his truck and everything. They were just going out doing kind of welfare checks on people or whatever. And I say, yeah, man. I just hear check on my trees. And he's like, yeah, man. I stunned to see they made it. And I was like, oh, this punk knows where I live. Like, I'm out now and watching you. Yeah. They come find out. Well, he lives in the neighborhood too. So I keep to my own over here on this side. I don't really.

[Hunter]

Yeah, I'm like, not.

[Martin]

I'm not one to just go kind of gallivant through the neighborhood, meet everybody, but he lives there. And so he got. He. He got me again. He scared me to death. Night I come back from duck hunting, and I had my ducks, Brittany's ducks, and the other person's ducks. I had them tagged and everything. But I stopped to get fuel for mom and generator, and I hear. I hear him come up behind me, and I know his voice at this point now, I'm like, you're friends with.

[Hunter]

The game warden now?

[Martin]

Well, apparently we're. We're close. I like him. I mean, he's fine. But then I thought to myself, while I'm doing this crap, I have got 12 milers. I've got 12 ducks in my truck, and I do not know where the tags are. Now, we do tags because we. We hunt in Arkansas and then bring them. We were hunting in Arkansas and bring them back home. So when I transport them across state lines, bet your bottom dollar, even minor tag, yeah, they're tagged, because I don't even want to know. But I was just like, oh, my goodness, where did I put those tags? As I'm bent over filling up gas cans, not even looking. So I know it's him. And I'm like, well, he just sees that, the ducks. And now I'm about to get one of them technicality tickets I always thought that I always said I'd never get. Because it's a technicality that. And then I look back, I look this way, look at him. I'm like, I'm in my mom's truck. We're good. So I didn't. You know, because I've just been over. I'm not even paying attention. I think that I'm in my truck, and, like, those ducks are back there. And I'm just like, oh, man, how am I going to explain this one? And. And I got to find these tags and everything else. But then I was like, oh, thank God. I don't even have to worry about it. Look at here.

[Hunter]

Look.

[Martin]

Look at God, man. Look at God. But, yeah, so he. Yeah, we said. He said. He. He said he busted some boys earlier that day, that it was four of them. It had killed 74 ducks.

[Philip]

Dang.

[Martin]

And I said, did they say why? And he said, the same reason. Everybody says it's been a tough year. And we finally got them, so we just. We couldn't stop.

[Sigh]

4. 4 was 74.

[Martin]

74.

[Hunter]

That's over the limit.

[Martin]

I said, you know me. You know what I said?

[Sigh]

I said, well, they didn't do bad. 50 over.

[Martin]

You know what I. You know what Isaiah said? Well, what kind were they? Where are they? He said, heavy on the pintails. I said, oh, heavy on the pintail. So not only are they over the limit, they over the limit.

[Sigh]

Yeah. Wrong. Wrong species.

[Martin]

Yeah. Okay. It's bad enough to be over, but when you start doubling over the limit, ticket that's a problem. You. You. Them boys ain't going. They won't have to worry about duck hunting next year.

[Hunter]

Nope, they're out.

[Martin]

Yeah, they may be on a little five year.

[Sigh]

They could have lost their guns, their pickups, their boats.

[Martin]

I didn't ask what all he took.

[Sigh]

Yeah. I'm telling you.

[Hunter]

Hey, Grief.

[Sigh]

That turns into an expensive little adventure.

[Martin]

Yeah, that turns into a big whoopsie.

[Sigh]

Yeah.

[Martin]

There for a minute.

[Sigh]

That's one of them. Don't do this. No. I told me that me and him and Scott was in on Dog Bow.

[Philip]

You and Martin and your son.

[Sigh]

Me and Martin and my son, we got banished. We're in the scaffold on Dog Bow and we hear. Well, you think it was 150? It was three. Three canvas backs. Well, he called them in, and we raised up, killed all three of them. We shot him in front of us. They bounced and hit the levee down 150 yards away.

[Martin]

They're pretty good. They were on a roll when I called the shot. I was like, I don't think they coming back. Let's kill them right here. And everybody killed.

[Hunter]

Well, it was fun.

[Sigh]

We killed the one in front of us.

[Martin]

They were in a line. So, yeah, whoever. I killed the lead one. So I killed the middle one and Scott killed the last one.

[Hunter]

And they skipped all the way.

[Sigh]

He's looking at each other. I said, is that. Was that all of them? Said that was only three of them. He said, I looked all sky. He said, that was only three.

[Philip]

Yeah.

[Martin]

I kept looking for more ducks after hearing all he was saying it should.

[Sigh]

There had to be more.

[Martin]

Yeah, it was wild.

[Sigh]

I said, nope, we only had.

[Martin]

I killed a big bull canvas back.

[Sigh]

In this little idea down at Honey Bright.

[Martin]

Yeah. This little. This little nonsense. Big, big, beautiful.

[Sigh]

And then boys told me how you can't kill over 28 days out there.

[Martin]

About 61 these days. They go, listen to us. One of these days they gonna get tired of getting their brain 12 gauges.

[Sigh]

The morning started off as they was talking about, you know, somebody who stone handed me my gun. I said, what's it? He said, that's a new Gun. He says, it's yours. I said, really? It's. Oh, yeah. And then Jordan told me. He said I was doing a thing on. On 28 gauge. Yeah, he said, so, okay. So I was sitting there, and first duck come by was a jack. He was rolling.

[Philip]

Hey, Jack.

[Sigh]

And I raised up your spam. Yeah, he gone after about eight.

[Martin]

I watched you kill that pintail, that bull sprig with it.

[Sigh]

Oh, yeah.

[Martin]

So with mine.

[Sigh]

Well, no, no, because I. I. Hey, I shot at 10 green wing teal singles. They'd come by, and I. Boom. And I was talking about. I look at that gun. I was talking. What's wrong with you? I'm sure. Well, Martin was back there laughing, and there was no saying that because he owned. That was the only choke he had was the, you know, shooting the full choke when I'm normally shooting open.

[Hunter]

Boy, you're an open boar. Kind of fell.

[Sigh]

Yeah. So I was wondering, because then I. The pentail will come flying by. He's out there about 65, maybe up to 80. Just poop fold him. You know what I'm saying? Why am I killing this pintail?

[Martin]

I wasn't gonna say that because I didn't have nothing to fix the problem with me.

[Sigh]

I said, everything's coming by. I said, I'm killing it all except the teal. And I said, that's where I usually shine the best. It's on teal. And I said, I shot at 10 and ain't cut a feather, you know? So after we got back, Mark said. I started talking. He said, oh. He said, I know why. And I said, why? He said, 28 gauge is mine, and it's got a full choke in it. He said, you're not used to it.

[Martin]

Yeah, it happened.

[Sigh]

So that's why you skilled pintails at about 80. Yeah. Oh, okay.

[Martin]

Oh, well, that was fun. Little. Little ice storm recap.

[Hunter]

Let's go clean up.

[Martin]

Thank y'.

[Sigh]

All.

[Martin]

And look, I know there's a lot of people on social media that follow us and have reached out asking how everybody's doing, side and everything, and offering up your prayers, and some of even told us your kids were here working in alignment, so. And I've. I've tried to reply to all of y', all, but thank you all so much for the prayers you threw up on our behalf and in our community. I know our community appreciates it. And again, just to reiterate what I said to the lineman, thank you all to the DOT people clearing the roads. Thank you all to the. The cops, the ambulance the fire trucks. Anybody who was on the front lines of this that may be in an apartment. I don't know what your letters are. Thank you very much.

[Philip]

You know who you are.

[Sigh]

Appreciate it.

[Martin]

You are very much appreciated, and we thank you. And. And to your family as well. Thank you all for lending them to us during that time so they could have done anything and they chose to come help. So thank y'. All. Thank y'. All. Thank y'. All.

[Sigh]

Yeah. What's the Almighty gonna leave with their J.D.

[Hunter]

Well, Philip sent me what he wanted. You. You wanted.

[Philip]

You want me to take it? No, go ahead.

[Martin]

First.

[Hunter]

Peter 4, 7, 11. The end of all things is near. Therefore, be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray above all, love each other deeply. Because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various form. If anyone speaks, they should do as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power forever and ever.

[Philip]

Amen.

[Martin]

Amen. Ever.

[Hunter]

Amen to that.

[Martin]

Ever. Amen.

[Philip]

Amen, man.

[Sigh]

That's right.