Uncle Si Loses it Over Why John Luke’s Good Aim Ended a Relationship

Summary

Duck Call Room: Uncle Si Loses it Over Why John Luke’s Good Aim Ended a Relationship

Podcast: Duck Call Room
Hosts: Si Robertson & Justin Martin
Episode Date: January 6, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode of the Duck Call Room, the Duck Commander crew gathers to share their signature mix of hilarious stories, hunting adventures, reflections on tradition, and family tales. The conversation weaves through poker night antics, favorite holiday foods, hunting mishaps, and the trials and triumphs of teaching loved ones about shooting and the outdoors. An underlying theme is the bonds of family, tradition, and a good laugh, mixed with memorable moments and classic Southern wisdom, especially from Uncle Si.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Poker Night Philosophy & Antics

• The episode kicks off with an inside look at their regular Texas Hold 'Em games, with Uncle Si laying down his "keys" to winning poker and why he never sticks to them.
  • “I know how to win, okay? But I don’t ever do it.” (Si, 00:21)
• The group cracks up over how much money circulates at the table and how discipline is required to play well.
• Si emphasizes the camaraderie: “It ain’t about the money with me. I said, I love the guys I’m playing with.” (Si, 04:07)
• Dealer’s choice games are out – “Hold ‘em only, two cards, no spit pots.” (Si, 02:50)
• Timestamp: 00:07 – 04:50

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2. Shirts, Mending, and Family Banter

• The guys realize John Luke and Si are wearing matching shirts, sparking jokes about free swag, Buck Commander, and being fashion-forward without knowing.
• Discussion turns to mending clothes, with stories about who patches their own pants and sentimental jabs on holes and home repairs.
• Timestamp: 05:00 – 07:30

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3. Squirrel Hunting Tales

• Si and Martin reminisce about squirrel hunting, black squirrels, and legendary shots, including debates about mounting versus eating their quarry.
• The tradition of teaching kids to hunt and stories of squirrel forts brings laughs and nostalgia.
• Si: “All I did was skin that sucker out, fried him up, jerk the britches off of him, and eat him.” (Si, 08:26)
• Timestamp: 07:43 – 08:36

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4. Word of the Year & Personal Growth

• Each contribute their "word of the year." Jacob picks “evolve”—explaining the importance of not getting stagnant and always learning new things.
  • “I want to do the things I’m doing already, but make them keep going… and evolve into other things while having those go their own way, too.” (Jacob, 09:40)
• Discussion is peppered with gaming analogies (Pokémon, Minecraft, D&D).
• Martin connects this to evolving their business and podcast, highlighting the importance of communication.
• Timestamp: 08:55 – 12:18

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5. Holiday Foods, Traditions, and Superstitions

• The crew swaps stories about their favorite Christmas foods: banana caramel pie, cherry pie, and famous "Jersey’s" wood duck meatballs.
  • “Jersey, that’s some good red sauce. He said, that’s gravy.” (Justin, 13:25)
• New Year’s superstitions (black-eyed peas for luck, cabbage for wealth) are debated.
  • “I lost out on the wealth. They already ate all that cabbage!” (Jacob, 15:28)
• Timestamp: 12:22 – 16:14

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6. Duck & Deer Hunting Adventures

• Plenty of hunting stories: Bella’s success at the shooting range, Martin’s mishaps throwing decoys ("That weight hit me right between the teeth..." (Justin, 27:16)).
• Teaching spouses and kids to hunt and shoot, both for bonding and practical sustenance.
  • “She shoots that one and hits it… she goes, ‘I’m a gunslinger.’” (Jacob, 31:53)
• Headshots on squirrels are a point of pride – “Headshots only, boy.” (Si, 35:25)
• Timestamp: 16:14 – 35:01

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7. Why Good Aim Ends Relationships – John Luke’s Epic Squirrel Tale

• John shares how his good aim ended a relationship: using a crossbow to shoot a squirrel in the backyard, his then-girlfriend was so mortified she broke up with him the next week.
  • “Girlfriend crying the whole time. She broke up with me the next week... I’ve never squirrel hunted again.” (John, 41:46)
• Si counters with his daughter’s willingness to gut and fry squirrels—true love in the Robertson household!
• Timestamp: 41:21 – 42:51

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8. Love, Marriage, and Cigar Band Rings

• Si retells his unconventional proposal and wedding story (slipping a cigar band on Christine’s finger rather than a ring).
  • “When I married that woman… I slipped a cigar band on that finger.” (Si, 46:31)
  • “Really, I think that’s why we’re still married today, wasn’t no money involved in this.” (Si, 47:00)
• Hilarious April Fool’s story about pranking Christine’s friend about their wedding.
  • “If looks could kill, I’d have had about 20 daggers in my chest!” (Si, 49:16)
• Timestamp: 43:00 – 50:33

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9. College Football & Betting

• Analysis of recent football games, upsets, and a lively rundown of coach Lane Kiffin’s contract incentives and big paydays.
  • “The best thing the whole time is Lane Kiffin made 250 grand for sitting at his house last night.” (Justin, 53:36)
• Good-natured bets and ribbing about SEC football and bowl games.
• Timestamp: 50:41 – 54:45

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10. Uncle Si’s Closing Wisdom

• Uncle Si closes the episode with a heartfelt reflection on Jeremiah 29:11:
  • “God talking – you don’t know the plans I have for you. Not to harm you, but to give you hope and a future.” (Si, 54:58)
  • “Don’t hurt yourself. God has a plan for your life.” (Si, 55:57)
• Timestamp: 54:56 – 56:11

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I know how to win, okay? But I don’t ever do it.” – Si (00:21)
• “It ain’t about the money with me… I love the guys I’m playing with.” – Si (04:07)
• “I want to do the things I’m doing already, but... evolve into other things.” – Jacob (09:40)
• “She shoots that one and hits it… she goes, ‘I’m a gunslinger.’” – Jacob (31:53)
• “Girlfriend crying the whole time. She broke up with me the next week.” – John (41:46)
• “When I married that woman… I slipped a cigar band on that finger.” – Si (46:31)
• “God talking – you don’t know the plans I have for you...” – Si (54:58)

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Structure & Flow

The conversation moves fast, bouncing between poker and wild game meals, to family and faith, filled with rich stories and laughter. The tone is casual, authentic, and distinctively Southern. Listeners are welcomed straight into the Duck Call Room community—a place where stories are bigger than life, but genuine relationships and wisdom are the heart of every episode.

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For First-Time Listeners

This episode blends humor, tradition, outdoor tales, and a heartfelt look at faith and family. Whether you’re a seasoned hunter or just enjoy good storytelling, you'll appreciate the camaraderie and life lessons—sometimes learned the funny way—shared by Uncle Si, Martin, and crew.

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Transcript

[A]

Foreign.

[B]

Know this.

[C]

What is your strategy to poker? Like, when you're going into the poker night, like, what do you. What do you think?

[A]

I know.

[B]

That's half.

[A]

That's the problem.

[C]

I want to know the mind behind the mastermind.

[B]

No, let's just have fun.

[A]

I know how to win, okay? Okay. But I don't ever do it.

[D]

That's what I say, too.

[A]

I don't.

[C]

What game are we talking about? We're talking about Texas hold.

[A]

Well, yeah.

[C]

Okay, so you know how to win.

[A]

I know how to win. And hey, look, all you got to do that.

[C]

I'm recording this for your poker.

[A]

Now, you play by the rules of the game, right?

[B]

None of y'. All.

[A]

I'm serious. You play ball. Rules, game. And then if you do that and you hold it, hold yourself to it, and discipline enough to play it.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Like that, you'll win every time.

[C]

Okay?

[A]

Because all is okay. Look, there's a pair on the board. You're. You're going to hit a flush. You're an idiot. Fold. Because it's par on the board. It's a boat coming. Yeah, same thing. If you're. You're on a straight draw and there's a flush on the board, don't get in the hand. Get. Fold.

[B]

Yeah, then why don't you.

[C]

Then why don't you just think of the same thing? I was like, okay, I'm talking about.

[A]

I'll tell you. Yo, everybody that plays, everybody that plays with us, we're sick. And I mean, I ain't talking. We're gone sick. I know. Every one of us.

[C]

I've watched.

[B]

Oh, y' all are. Y' all are demented.

[A]

Oh, no, I'm sad. We are.

[B]

Y' all all make way too much money somehow.

[A]

Well, no, no, that's the thing. One thing that gets me, and I.

[B]

Don'T know where all this cash.

[A]

These guys, I mean, they. They work for a living, right?

[D]

And then you say.

[B]

Give me 200 more.

[A]

Yeah. Tell me. Hey, I just bought back in for this, boys.

[B]

Give me 200 more.

[C]

On that note, it's only one more.

[D]

Hand away to one more hand. If you bet on the river every time.

[A]

I did learn. Me and Philip did. Okay. We did finally just say no to Three Card Pete. And all this just junk. Yeah, the Five card Omaha, Vegas. The pros play it pot limit. The first time we had a pro come down here, play with us, we played some of that. And he looked, he said, you people are insane. He said, why do you think the gambling joints play that Pot limit so that nobody dies. Yeah, the game is broke. We finally realized that, man. Philip just got out of that. We don't play that anymore. Hold them. Only.

[B]

No more dealer's choice.

[C]

I know when I hold them.

[A]

No, ain't no choice. No, screw that, too. Ain't no dealer's choice. It's, hey, hold them. Only two cars. Ain't no spit pots. None of this junk.

[C]

So since you're sick, what would you say to someone trying to get into poker? What would be your advice?

[A]

Don't. Don't. Don't go that route. Don't even start, okay?

[C]

What if they're, like, a little sick? You know what I mean? They're not contagious yet.

[A]

Well, no, no, because here's the thing.

[B]

Get van duoling.

[A]

But number one. Number one, you got to be very mature. And by that, I mean, okay, you got to be disciplined enough to play by the rules of the game, right? Okay. That's what. What's wrong with most of the guys that play at my house, okay?

[C]

It's my dad included.

[A]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, he's worse, okay? He's sick just like the rest of us.

[C]

He's sick.

[A]

Yeah, because it's just, you know, we do it, okay? And look, you'd never find a better bunch of guys, because if anybody needs help, they'll be there, right? Okay. A great bunch of guys. That's one. One reason we all play. It's fellowship. I'd always told him when I said, boys, you got to realize it ain't about the money with me. I said, I don't show up. I said, I love the guys that I'm playing with, okay? That's like your dad. Your dad would rather warn $5, okay? Bluffing than 500 with a good hand.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Okay. I'm serious.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And, you know, I'm kind of the same way. It's good to bluff a guy. And then when the guy said, he said, I knew I should have called.

[B]

Works every time but once.

[A]

Yeah. And I said, well, what did you have? And he said, a set. I said, wait a minute. You had a set of what? He said, nines. And I said, and you let me bluff you out just by talking about five? Make it 500.

[B]

I'm out. Are y' all wearing the same shirt?

[A]

Huh?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Are you and John Luke wearing the same shirt?

[A]

It looks.

[B]

Yeah, we are. Dang, Jacob. We didn't get the memo, and I didn't know it.

[A]

That tells you it's a good shirt.

[C]

Is your shirt winking too. What's the deal on that?

[B]

Oh, that's where he got his teeth.

[A]

So this is the teeth. The dentistry?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay. What's that called?

[A]

I can't even. I can't even say it. F R E E. And what is innovative. Innovative, yeah. Innovative dentistry.

[C]

Nice.

[D]

This was free, too, because this is Buck Commander.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

Oh, was that where they come from?

[D]

Yeah, these are the Buck Commander, like, legendary whitetails. Legendary whitetails.

[A]

Y' all stood that to the house? My wife's been lying to me. She said she bought this for me.

[D]

Hey, maybe she bought it, but they gave me mine for free.

[A]

Oh, okay. Goodbye.

[D]

Yes, I brought the. I was already wearing this, and I saw you walk in, and I thought I might change. But then I thought, no, no, I.

[B]

Was wondering, I'll be a legend.

[A]

Walking out of the building empty. And he goes to his truck, and then he comes walking back out. He's got like 18 shirts, yo. A bunch of them on. On hangers.

[C]

Really?

[B]

And I said, cleaning out from.

[A]

Well, I was thinking. I said, either he's got a lot of feminine to do and they told him bring extra clothes, I said. Or something's going on.

[D]

Some of it is for filming. I just have my rack out there for stuff. But then the most of it is stuff that I'm fixing, like my pants. I've got holes in it or stuff.

[B]

Are you a mending? Yeah, you can. Oh, I got something I need to give to you.

[A]

Well, I don't.

[D]

I'm not very good.

[A]

I don't have to worry about you.

[B]

I. As it sits, it's useless.

[D]

No, no, I'll let.

[B]

I'll take.

[A]

I'll let you take a free swing that. It won't happen around my house.

[C]

What?

[A]

I can't. I won't have any holes in my pants.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Because if I walk by that redhead, she expects to rip them off of me.

[B]

Oh, what do you mean he's got holes?

[C]

Oh, they got holes.

[A]

Hey, I didn't know.

[C]

I didn't know we were.

[A]

Holes in shirt. Look. Holes in underwear. They're coming up.

[C]

I think if you get holes in your underwear.

[A]

Well, I do, but, hey, when that happens, well, they fix to go to the garbage because she's picking rip off of.

[D]

No, Mary Kay is a better seamstress than I am, but she's just too busy with the kids. So I've taken on myself to fix all my own clothes.

[B]

And she's pregnant with twins. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. I don't want. Yeah. No, I wasn't there.

[D]

I'm not asking her. Yeah, I'm not putting more on her. I gotta pull my pants. I'm like, now. I'll figure it out.

[B]

No, my old squirrel vest has developed a couple of holes.

[C]

I saw you were asking for a new one.

[B]

I got a new one too. Yeah? Yeah. Fans are awesome, man. They. They hooked it up. I got two of them. There you go, the backups. It's still the old one.

[A]

Well, have you got a good place to go? Squirrel, huh?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Well, pitiful. You need to take me, squirrel.

[B]

Hey, I got a black squirrel on camera one in black one.

[A]

Yeah. I've sit there and couldn't figure out what was going on. Late evening and it's getting dark. I was looking and had a.22 rifle with a scope on it, y'. All. I see something move, I throw it up. Couldn't see it. Yeah, it move again. I said, wait. I said, I know that's a squirrel. Yeah. And finally come out on limp, good stomach. Oh, that's why I couldn't see the sucker. It's a black one.

[C]

Did you get them?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Did you mount them?

[A]

Nope.

[D]

Did you eat them?

[A]

Oh, all I did was skin that sucker out, fried him up, jerk the.

[B]

Britches off of him and eat him. He was young, Jacob, last time we had John Lucas on here. He's our holiday specialist, by the way.

[D]

I know what holiday for.

[B]

I don't. What. What is this? Hunters. This just.

[A]

This is after.

[C]

This is the second.

[B]

When does this air?

[A]

Tuesday.

[B]

Tuesday. Okay. So there. Yeah. No holiday. We missed you. Yeah, we missed you. But no, this is. John Luke challenged us to a word for the year. You got one, Jacob.

[C]

Oh, like, what's your word for the year?

[B]

Yeah, what's your word for the year?

[C]

Yeah, we do this. His mom and Willie always do this word for the year. I don't know. Let me think on that.

[B]

Oh, boy. Podcasts don't need silence. I don't know.

[C]

I don't know.

[D]

I guess.

[C]

I guess evolve. Evolve.

[B]

Evolution.

[C]

Yeah. Not evolution as in I came from an ape. I just mean, like, evolve as in, like, continue to evolve instead of stay stagnant and learn new things and also continue to grow.

[B]

There you go.

[D]

That's a great word because you could have said, like, learn or. Which was my word from last year. But evolve is such a better version of that because bigger.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Like the next version of yourself.

[C]

I just kept thinking of, like, what I want to do in 2026, and I just was thinking, like, I Want to, like, do the things that I'm doing, like, already, but only get them, like. Yeah. Make them keep going and doing that. Learn new things and evolve into other things while having those go their own way too, as well.

[B]

What's something new you're interested in?

[D]

I was thinking, like, yeah, like Pokemon. You're gonna, like, have an evolution.

[C]

Yeah. Like, right now I'm like, level one. Maybe I'll get to, like, level three.

[B]

Dungeons and Dragons. Yeah, we're getting some dnd.

[C]

Or I'll have, like, an enchanted pickaxe by the end of the year or something. Talking about Minecraft.

[B]

Oh, this is hitting you right where it hurts, ain't it, Hunter? This is my dream.

[A]

I like this.

[C]

You know, I don't know. Just getting deeper into the things I already love and just learning new things.

[B]

Oh. Size, new year, new systems. And look, as guys who run businesses have been in charge of things, this is a time of year when everybody looks at all the things. What could we do better? Where could we. Where could we make up? And streamlining your communications is one of the quickest and easiest upgrades you can make. Because communication in today's world is. Is. It is vital. Right? And that's why today's episode is brought to you by Quo spelled Quo, the smarter way to run your business. Communications. Quo is the number one rated business phone system on G2 with over 3,000 reviews. And that's why more than 90,000 businesses rely on Quo. It's easy. Call, text, voicemails, transcripts, and contact details all live in one clean view. And your entire team can handle calls and texts from one shared number. Everyone sees the full thread, making replies faster and customers feel genuinely cared for. So you got to think back in the day when Duck Dynasty hit. These phones up here, man rang non stop. People were getting mad because they had orders that were late and they had this and they had that, and we were just a small business trying to grow. Give Quo a try. Make this the year where no opportunity and no customer slips away. Try quo for free. Plus get 20% off your first six months when you go to quo.com duck. That's quo.com, quo. No missed calls, no missed customers.

[A]

That's what we need to do with this podcast.

[B]

Oh, evolve.

[C]

Evolve into what?

[A]

Into whatever. Let's get better at all of it.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

Hey, we managed to weave a pretty fair course from what we did last time. I don't even remember, but somehow we ended up at Frito Pies.

[A]

Well, we always end up with food. Food yeah.

[D]

What was your.

[C]

Oh, I got one. What was your favorite food at Christmas? Like dessert or like, food that you had, like, at your family, you know, holiday?

[A]

Well, I don't even know what the dessert was, but it was strawberries and whipped cream and a bunch of stuff mixed together.

[C]

My favorite thing at Christmas is Mary Lou Kirby, which is Joneel and Randy Kirby's. I mean, Randy Kirby's mom. So Jenny's mother in law makes a banana caramel pie. Is the thing I look forward to every year. I eat like three slices of it.

[D]

She's still making that.

[C]

She told Bella she made them for me this year because I was saying I wanted one.

[B]

94.

[D]

Yeah, 94.

[C]

Cranking them out, slang them out.

[A]

That and Al's Cherry. Cherry pies.

[C]

Oh, yeah. Well, what did Jersey bring? Everybody was like, that food.

[A]

He brought some kind of.

[D]

The meatballs.

[B]

He always.

[A]

Meatballs with the tomato sauce.

[C]

He's got his own, like, sauce, right?

[B]

Gravy.

[A]

Gravy.

[B]

I don't call it sauce, that boy. Yeah, I made that mistake. I was like, man, Jersey, that's some good red sauce. He said, that's gravy. I said, okay, Jersey, because he made them wood duck meatballs that time. That were fantastic.

[C]

Jersey's gravy.

[A]

Meatballs are hard to make.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Easy to eat.

[A]

Yeah, I know. But one bite, I love him. Things my mama made, you know, made the best, of course. And I bought her a recipe, but.

[B]

You ain't done it. You need more sage.

[A]

Something's wrong.

[D]

Jay saved me on that one. I wasn't going to get the meatballs because I was like, that's a weird Christmas meal, you know, with like the duck and everything. And Jay's like, hey, you don't want to miss that meatball.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Get all that meat. Knows.

[B]

He knows that meatballs are good.

[C]

He's reaping that.

[B]

He cooked them up here one day and just walked in the podcast room with him and I was like, yeah, okay, Jersey, you're in, like, whatever this thing is. I don't care what kind of duck you say is in there. That thing was so good.

[A]

Oh, plus, they're. They're very time consuming. Yeah. To do them right, if you make them, whether.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. To not just go buy a bag of them and throw up.

[C]

Does he grind up the duck breast and then.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

To soak them in anything or what does he do?

[A]

Oh, no, that.

[B]

That wood duck, he grinds them. It's like fennel and I don't know what All I asked him one time, he went through a way more extensive list than I thought.

[A]

It's a lot of work.

[C]

Oh, yeah, like, yeah, you know, he's calculated. Jersey's calculated.

[B]

Oh, yeah. He ain't got nothing else.

[C]

Very calculated.

[B]

Oh, old Jersey Joe.

[D]

For New Year's, did you end up eating blackout peas and cabbage?

[B]

You bet you. I did. I ate mine.

[C]

I tried to. I got there late, only had.

[A]

Oh, I did eat cabbage. I had no black eyed peach. Man, Christine makes a real good soup.

[B]

Black eyed peas, cabbage and Mexican.

[C]

What is the peas and the cabbage stand for? Don't they stand for Certain cabbage is wealth. Yeah, well, I ain't getting no wealth.

[D]

Cabbage for cabbage.

[C]

What's the peas like?

[B]

Wisdom.

[C]

Hey, I'm getting wisdom.

[D]

Yeah, general luck.

[B]

Yeah, general luck.

[C]

I lost out on the wealth. They already ate all that cabbage.

[D]

I put a hurting on my cabbage.

[B]

Yeah, you got two more.

[D]

Now that I know he has wins.

[C]

Yeah, now that I know his wealth. I saw that big cast iron was empty by the time I got there. Everybody got their, their servants.

[B]

I just like the super traditional stuff. Like that's a, that's a fun one right there. Even though I remember as a kid my parents forced me to eat that stuff. And I was like, this sucks. I hated New Year's Day, really, as a kid, because I was like, this is terrible. This is. No. And, but now I'm like, please, please, can we make double. Make a double batch?

[C]

I always like black eyed peas growing.

[B]

Up, and my kids are the same way. I tried to get. Put them on their plate and force them to do it. Too yucky.

[D]

Too yucky.

[B]

Too yucky. That's yucky. Cheetos. I'm like, okay, all right.

[C]

Cheetos.

[B]

Yeah, Cheetos. Yeah. So, yeah, our New Year's Day consisted of not doing a whole lot, cuz Britney loaded up and went over to Passion.

[C]

So I guess I think I saw that.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, she'll be getting back tonight. She's only doing two days of it. But I was like, I gotta go duck hunting now. We, we got, we got stuff to kill.

[C]

Yeah, Bella, Bella went to the beach this weekend. She like, are you gonna go? Yeah, with my sister. And she was like, you want to go? And I was like, I don't know. And then I was like, yeah, I'm not going. I gotta go hunting. In the last two days, we killed those bandit wood ducks. And I was like, see, that's why I have fomo. If I would have went, I wouldn't have Been able to be a part of that.

[B]

Yeah. There you go. Did you kill either one of them?

[C]

Yeah, I killed the second one.

[B]

There you go.

[C]

Reeves killed the first one, but my dog got to pick up both of them, so I was still tickled when I picked it up, because I didn't know.

[B]

Yeah, well, that's when the band goes to the dog, right?

[C]

Yes.

[B]

Sorry, boys.

[C]

Put it on her collar.

[B]

Yep. Get her a grill made out of it. She just come walking back smiling. Oh, man. So Bella's at the beach in January.

[C]

In January, y'.

[A]

All.

[B]

To have it to herself, probably.

[C]

So.

[B]

Yeah, I would think.

[D]

Well, Jake, I thought you were going. I thought Bella said. You said yes.

[C]

Yeah, they called me today, and they were like, I think the whole time you were never gonna come. And I said, yeah, maybe that might be the truth.

[A]

I don't know.

[C]

Keep your hopes up. You know, Cliffhanger.

[D]

Well, when I knew you didn't. When we got the text about being on the podcast, Hunter said, y' all want to be on the podcast? Jacob Immediately. Yes. I guess he didn't go to the beach.

[B]

Now I can't go. Sorry. I told him I'd do the podcast.

[C]

Yeah. That's the thing. Bell's like, are you enjoying it? I'm like, yeah, I'm hunting. But, like, other than hunting, I'm like, I don't know what I'm doing. I just. You're not here. I need somebody to cook my food or something. Well, she cooks, like, every night, so, like, we hang out all the time, so it's like, when I'm not hunting, it's not. It's not like I'm doing a lot other than that.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Like, I go to work. I'm just saying when I go home, I'm sitting at the house. It's like. It's kind of boring.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Well, if you get too bored, slide over at my house.

[C]

But it's exciting.

[B]

We're putting some toys. Yeah. They got a drill for Christmas.

[C]

The toys you get are pretty cool for your kids.

[B]

Yeah. We got drills. We're working on, putting screws and stuff.

[C]

You have, like, electric tractors? Like. Yeah, that's cool.

[B]

Yeah. They still did not possess the skill set to drive them yet. They do not look all function on.

[C]

The, like, kid tractor.

[B]

Like, the buckets. You can use both buckets. The trailer. Yeah.

[C]

That's pretty cool.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Once a kid figures out how to use that.

[B]

Took me a day to put the thing together.

[A]

Jeffy would Riff would love that.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

You show Me what that is.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Tough truck.

[C]

It's like a real tractor for a little.

[D]

Oh, is that like the remote control? Like, small.

[B]

You can't. You can do use a remote control, which is what I have to do with them because they. They look at you the whole time they're on it.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Whatever's in their path is destroyed if they're driving it in.

[C]

Chevy used to have that trailer.

[B]

And we got my forklift, too.

[D]

Yeah, he does have a little tractor, but it's like you can't. It's just like. You can't work the stuff, but. Yeah, the trailer on it.

[B]

That's what I'm saying.

[C]

He used to pick up.

[D]

And he'd pick up sticks. He'd load stuff on there, drive it around.

[B]

Oh, yeah. That trailer stay full of pine cone.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Love picking up pine cone. Yeah, we got forklift, too. It'll pick up like, 20 pounds.

[D]

That's awesome.

[B]

I put a bag of corn on it, and it's like. I was trying to get them feed the house deer.

[D]

I gave John Shepherd. I found this at the hardware store. I was looking for this, and I found it. And it's a. It's like a sawzall blade with, like a. But you put the sawzall blade on the plastic, like a little plastic handle. And it's perfect for him because I found one like that has, like, a rounded top and like a. It's for plastic. So it's got really small teeth.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

And so he can't really hurt himself, but with enough time, he can cut. He can whittle just about anything. And he's been. He's been building out there.

[B]

Chef gonna have forearms as big.

[D]

Oh, he's out.

[C]

He's a worker.

[D]

He just about cut down the tree just within an hour.

[C]

Just chiseling away.

[B]

Yeah. Well, if he ever ends up in a castaway situation, he'll be all right. He's got the time and the patience.

[C]

He'll figure it out.

[D]

He does.

[C]

He'll figure it out. Oh, one of those kids. He'll figure it out.

[D]

Yeah, he was cutting. He was cutting, like, pine boughs, like little. The little pine straw, but when they're stuck to the stick.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

So he was cutting those, and he tied a little twine on them and hanging them around his, like, little hideout.

[C]

Little fort.

[D]

Christmas decorations.

[C]

That's funny.

[D]

He had, like, a full decorating. He cut a little stick that. He has a Christmas tree. He decorated his whole.

[C]

That's cool.

[D]

Secret hideout I had in the woods.

[C]

When I was a kid, like all my friends, I think everybody did.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, we'd put out bird seed and shoot the songbirds out of it, too.

[D]

Yeah, we had. We had our four.

[A]

Always killing something. Yeah.

[B]

Red Riders, man, we were. We were. We were rough. We just had rules on what we. We had rules of engagement from the.

[A]

Parents times of my life. We'd go along with a flashlight on the people's house. It's got the yawns over. Birds would come out there at night and sleep. We'd go for a baby. Go Daisy.

[C]

Oh, yeah, take them out.

[B]

You know, it's that time when you get them little young Ryan's right now that like live up under your porch and stuff.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

I get up. I had one hit me in the chest last night in the dark, taking the dog outside. And I know I pooped a little. Like, I just. He wasn't supposed to be there. And that's hit me in the chest.

[A]

And it started you all.

[B]

But I. Yeah, I was walking around, I said, boy, that's going to itch when it dries. That's how much. That's what come out of me. It scared me so bad.

[C]

Like, it was on that bidet.

[B]

Oh, man, it did. It got me. I ain't been that scared as a. As an adult in a long time. Like, that thing hit me in the chest, though. And then I was like, oh, hey, buddy. And you know, because then he grabbed my shirt and started trying to climb up me. I'm like, what is going on? Hitch black, no light, no nothing. Just letting a dog tt. And there you go.

[C]

You had to do the number two.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I had changed my britches. That got me.

[C]

Thank God for washing machine.

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What are you talking about, son? They're handmade.

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[D]

We had a fort down at fellow Phil Model K's. And so we're like, Reed's like seven, I'm six. Cole's like four. And Phil gave us just full run of the tools. Hammers, nails, knives, saws.

[B]

Here's his chainsaw.

[D]

Like a hand drill. Like, we didn't have the power tools, but everything else was free game. So we, like. We had this whole. Built this whole platform thing. There's nails sticking out of it. Like, I went back and saw it later, I was like, how are you playing on this at 5 years old?

[B]

How did we not die?

[D]

How did we not have at least a serious injury?

[C]

We didn't. Yeah. Definitely would have had to get a technique shot if you probably got an injury.

[D]

We definitely got stabbed with some nails at times.

[B]

Oh, man, that's funny.

[C]

Yeah, that's funny.

[B]

I've officially reached the age where you start bleeding for no reason. So I looked up the other morning, hunting my hand covering blood, and I thought, I don't know what I did to that thing. Yeah, I have no idea. So how is that when you get older, you just look down and you bleed?

[A]

Oh, no. It happens all the time.

[B]

I don't even know what happened. I mean, you deal with it, huh?

[C]

Yeah, I'm getting to the age where I'm starting to things that never bother me. Starting to bother me. Like, I was never allergic to poison oak. And then, like, three weeks ago, I got poison oak.

[B]

Oh, yeah, that happens. Yeah.

[C]

You know what I'm saying? Just, like, things that.

[B]

New allergies.

[C]

New allergies and stuff. And so I was like, I've never got this in my life. Like, now I have it.

[A]

You would think if it made you.

[B]

Bleed, that you'd have felt it.

[A]

Yeah. You'd have felt it.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, that's a plug of meat taken out of there, too. And I don't felt anything. I don't know.

[A]

Well, I do it all the time. I look around, be bleeding, y'. All. My wife would say, now I'll go in and do something. She said, hey, what's wrong with you? And I said, what do you mean? She said, there's blood on that stupid towel you just used. And I said, what? Walk up and I mean, ain't a little bit. Just. I thought, it's blood. Yeah. You know, when I go, I get to look around and talk about. Like you told me, it's a chunk out.

[B]

Yeah. Hunk of meat.

[A]

I said, how in the world did I do that? That's a hunk of meat, y'. All. And I said, I didn't feel that.

[B]

And this happened when I took Brittany duck hunting the other morning. I don't even know. I got through putting everything out and looked up and I was like, huh.

[A]

Well, why does.

[B]

The piece of meat was just hanging there. I was like, hey, that's gonna hurt a little bit now. Yeah.

[A]

I'm doing something wrong with my Benelli.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

Because when I shoot it right here. Blister.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You just ain't shooting.

[A]

And I said, wait a minute. I pulled the trigger with the index finger. Why is this finger bleeding? And it's got a big blister on it. Every time I use that stupid thing, I gotta wrap, like athletics around it.

[B]

You like your brother now, Phil used to do that, too. To walk out there looking like tiger wood.

[A]

No, no. Oh, I have to, because, hey, duck hunting. Got that one or two times. Boom, boom. I got a big blister right there inside.

[C]

Really, y'.

[A]

All? And then when you. Boom, boom. Oh, it hurts like, I'll get out then. Cause that's sensitive when that skin goes away.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

I don't know what you boys doing. I shoot a lot more than you. I ain't got nothing. That ain't what that was from. That was post decoy placement. So I don't.

[A]

Well, I don't know what.

[B]

Which, by the way, you don't talk about hurt. I went to throw a decoy the other morning and the weight grabbed a hold of my duck call.

[A]

Yeah, I like to choke you to death. No, that slap you upside the head.

[B]

That weight hit me right between the teeth. I said, I'm gonna have to go see size doctor. I just went like this. I was like, are they all still.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. Lucky it didn't knock them out.

[B]

I don't know. It hurt bad enough.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

I mean, I was like, how am I not bleeding? But that. That little four ounce lead weight hit me right between the teeth. I mean.

[A]

Yeah, if you're swinging it too.

[B]

Yeah. Wow. I was doing like, that. I was picking up, and it hit my duck call, and it just went. Just right in my teeth. And I was like, yep, that. That. I don't have all them. Ain't no way. I somehow did. Yeah. I thought it was gonna be Chiclets.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah, that.

[A]

That slingshots would knock them out. Oh, yeah.

[B]

You taking Bella duck hunting yet?

[C]

I haven't found a mess of birds to take her to.

[B]

Oh, it ain't got to be a mess.

[C]

I want to.

[B]

Brittany the other morning on a tuffy. That was. That was fun. She earned her stripes on that one. One like, this ain't gonna be easy, but they. They are there.

[C]

And, yeah, I'm waiting till later season or find something that's kind of easy.

[A]

Hard to kill, boy.

[B]

They hard to kill. Paired up suckers. Ornery, man. Ornery. That's why they've been living in there. And I was tired of watching them, so I took the fight to.

[A]

Gotta break them up.

[B]

I did get 15 gab walls down in there with her.

[C]

She.

[B]

She was shaking on that bunch. I was like, huh? Yes, sir.

[A]

That's the craziest I looked up.

[C]

I said, I like some gal.

[B]

I said, do you want to kill one?

[A]

That's such a crazy duck.

[C]

Why are they so crazy?

[A]

Well, they just. They won't act right.

[D]

Really.

[A]

They won't act right. I've seen one moment you're thinking that you just. Just give them another two seconds.

[B]

Are wild, though. You never know. One day they're the easiest thing in the world.

[A]

Then they just come in and, you know, just. Just mass murder.

[C]

We killed some this year, earlier in the year. And people sleep on them. I think they're pretty.

[A]

Oh, they're pretty.

[C]

Drake's people like, they're crazy. They are, but I like when they got that little brown plumed out on their wing. I think it's. I think it's super.

[B]

Yeah, they good. Well, she said she was supposed to take picture. Me said y' all went home. What y' all do? Go deer hunting?

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. We were trying to kill this deer down at the land. We saw like, 30 deer both evenings. She went to the beach after, but we just didn't see that deer.

[B]

So was she gonna shoot it?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

No, I'm not shooting. If I take her hunting, she's not watching me kill something. That'd be terrible. I go hunting all the time.

[B]

Oh, well, I didn't know. I didn't know. She just wanted to be there. I figured she figured if she was Gonna see you. She may.

[C]

Oh, she said, so she may want to go hunting. No, she said, oh, she did say that. It was funny. She said, if you can't beat him, you might as well join them.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I said, I'm going hunting.

[B]

Hey, you play your cards right, you get them enough where they get lippy and start telling you to move the decoys and do stuff. That's what I got.

[C]

Yeah. Well, now. Now I think she just wants to go deer hunting with me now. I think she got excited seeing all the deer. She'd. One would come out, and she'd see a little fawn. She said, that one's cute. And then she'd see a. She'd see one of them.

[A]

I told her. I said, yeah, that's nice shooting. That's what we want to eat.

[C]

Oh, that's what's funny. She'd be saying, one's cute or one's this and that. But she's still. She's a killer. She'd shoot them and. Because she knows we're going to eat them, it's not a big deal like that.

[B]

Yeah, the end result. Yeah.

[C]

Like, we went hunting, and then I fried backstrap after. And she was like, yeah, this is great.

[A]

Yeah, I'm happy. Stone. Shoot those now.

[C]

Oh, it's fun. I took Bella. That was a fun thing with me. And Bella went deer hunting. And so I was getting her, as Jay would say, get her trained up on the range. So I took her out there and was like, well, let's just see what this is like. We've shot guns and killed a deer before, but it's probably been a year or two since she's been out there. And I was like, let's get you comfortable. Obviously, we have a silencer. Got her earphones, so it's not loud. Just all the. All the good stuff. Well, she shoots one. She's kind of nervous. She shoots the first target 100 and hits it and just turns at me, and she's grinning. She's like, did I hit it? And I'm like, yeah, you did. I, like, do it again. So she re racks it, shoots the next one. She's like, all right, I want to shoot 200. And I'm like, okay, that's right. Get on 200, dial the gun. And there's that buck still target out there. You know what I'm talking about? And she's like, she shoots that one, hits it. She's grinning. She's like, did I hit it? I'm like, yeah, all right. All Right. This is gonna be a hard one. Shoot the little gopher to right, because it's like, real skinny, small.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So she shoots that one and hits it. She's looking. She's grinning like. Like, this is awesome. It's so funny. She's like, all right, I want to shoot 350. And so to get her dialed in. And she shoots that one and she, like, rips it, hits it. And she looked at me. She goes, I'm a gunslinger. I said, okay. I was like, all right, you are.

[A]

I think Corey. She gets that from Corey.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, I'm a gunslinger.

[C]

She said, I'm a gunslinger.

[B]

That reminds me of the Western. Yeah.

[C]

I was.

[D]

I was.

[C]

I was proud of her.

[B]

I was like, double, double crawl.

[C]

She was tickled. It was funny. And so I felt confident. Then after that, I was like, well, she'll kill whatever comes out then.

[A]

No, no, See, that's why, like, when you go shoot those.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Make it interesting. What. What's. Okay. Yeah, we're gonna shoot them, you know, far pick. Y' all see how far you kill for sure. I'm up to three. Ten now.

[C]

Yeah. Well, we were in a stand, too, and I was telling her, all right, well, get on that one right there and kill them in your head. We'll tell them we killed about 10 by the time we get done here. She was just on every deer. I was like, all right, you on them. You right there behind the shoulder. You on that shoulder.

[B]

Like, yeah.

[C]

I was like, all right, kill him in your head.

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[A]

I shock sometimes what. What the round will do to them.

[C]

Yeah, you just want to see what it'll do.

[A]

Yeah. I've shot yearling, and Phil told me to go check the pump, you know, that's pump going, you know. So I go down there. When I pull up on the four wheel, I leave it running, you know, check the pump, you know, And I look over there, and I said, that looks like a deer, you know, and I've got 30. 30. Because deer sees on. I raise up, put it on the tub. Oh, I said, that's a little young one.

[C]

Those people would put the safety tag on.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. I just. I didn't even have it talk. I looked at it. I said, that's the young one, you know. And look, I put it right here. Well, it hits him on the nose.

[C]

Oh, my.

[A]

Look. And it's just like the Jolly Green Giant took a big machete, and I.

[B]

Don'T think I like it.

[A]

All it was, hey, I went over and picked that thing up by the ears because it wasn't no headshots on. He weighed about 30 pounds. I said, yeah, now we talking. We talking steak tonight, baby.

[C]

Head shots only, boy.

[A]

Hey, but that was just like 150 grain, yo. Yeah, soft nose. 30. 30 round.

[C]

That's 30.

[A]

30.

[C]

Y' all got suits you talking about?

[A]

It's deadly. Oh, no, that. Yo, that stage has done took out your stone. She. When he. He. She killed big Red with it, you know, I was fixed to go again and, you know, say, well, hey, we'd probably, you know, that's on size 30. 30. Say, he's. She lied. She said, no, that's mine. He won't mind.

[B]

Got him.

[C]

Yeah. That's funny. That gun's sick with that silencer on there.

[A]

Oh, no, no, that's. That. Yo, that thing. Sweet.

[C]

Do you shoot 150 grain out of there still?

[A]

160.

[C]

160.

[A]

I used to shoot the one I got Failed from Phil.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

150. Yeah, I don't shoot that. 160. Yeah, that's. That's deadly for sure because it dropped big red right where he was standing.

[C]

Little high shoulder shot.

[A]

And he didn't even move.

[C]

He just said, see ya.

[A]

And that was What? That was two Honda 180, I think. Yeah.

[C]

Dialed up.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

That's where we were hunting. She at the corridor. That's where we were hunting.

[A]

That's where every day on that property. Yeah, it goes through there.

[C]

It's just that thick is on both sides. And that lane through the middle, that's.

[A]

Where Corey shot her. He was way down there. She killed. Yo. So Bella gets to. Gets the long range, Corey.

[C]

Oh, she'll be good.

[D]

Well, she said, my mom was telling me, she said, yeah, it was like, it's pretty far. Like 67.

[C]

This is a different. This is a dough.

[D]

She killed a doe. She's about 67 yards. Pretty far. Yeah, dad was like, it was 210.

[A]

Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah.

[C]

She said that yesterday.

[A]

Yes, she was hunting. Your gauge is off.

[C]

Yeah, she said she was hunting. I was like, how far did you shoot that day? She said, 60 yards. I was like, 60 yards. And I was like. Cuz I was just. I'd hunted the stand 60 yards close in that box. And then William's like, you shot the thing 200 yards?

[A]

And she was like, oh yeah, it looked like 60. It looked like, looked like 60 because.

[C]

She, she dropped it too, she said, right in the lane. So I was like, oh man, you.

[A]

Need to go to the dancing rabbit.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Golf course in Mississippi.

[C]

Where? At like city Pearl. Pearl.

[B]

Pearl.

[A]

Gambling joint.

[B]

Pearl River Casino or something.

[A]

Casino that. They're right there together.

[B]

I've seen signs for Pearl River Casino.

[A]

They've got the ball face, fox, squirrel. He's got a white patch on his forehead. There's literally, there's literally thousands of them on that stupid golf course. That's cool because I asked the guy that run it, I said, hey, would you, would you let me come up here with a.22 rifle?

[C]

What do you say?

[A]

He said, what are you talking about? I said, all them ball face foxroids you got out there on the, on the, on the golf course. I said, close it down for about two days. Let me hunt. Hunt for about two days.

[C]

You think it'd take two days?

[A]

Well, I want to kill a bunch of them.

[B]

He wants to kill all of them.

[A]

I want to get them all. All of them, especially the young ones. Buy me a couple of den trees. Hey, kill about 24, then go home and that night fry them up and I'll eat all 24.

[C]

Sounds like you got a mighty fine plan you need to follow. Did he say that?

[A]

But that's the best game in the world.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Is that young squirrel?

[C]

It's a game.

[A]

Oh yeah.

[B]

Wild.

[A]

That's my favorite. That's my favorite wild guy.

[B]

Trying to figure out what kind of game we were playing.

[C]

Yeah, I didn't know a game.

[A]

Oh, the other part of the game is hunting with a.22 rifle, right?

[C]

Scope or no scope?

[A]

Yeah, no, no scope.

[C]

Scope.

[A]

Headshot only. Headshots don't make any difference to say sit still running or whatever.

[C]

Headshots only.

[A]

Headshots only.

[C]

That would be fun.

[B]

You're an interesting man.

[A]

I don't know. I actually went in and bought me a Redfield six power. I can't run it. No, it's six power period.

[C]

Right, right.

[A]

And I had it on a rifle and hey, I got, I mean excellent with that thing. I could kill them running. Jumping across from one tree to another one in the midair.

[D]

Headshots only.

[B]

Headshot.

[A]

Headshot.

[B]

Just like playing hay every once in a while.

[A]

A little bit late. There we go. Hit him in the neck.

[B]

Get him in the neck.

[A]

Why didn't wait till I got on his head?

[C]

You know that squirrel?

[A]

Yeah, he died. But it just, you know, he had a little vertebrae. Look, I don't think, you know, I ain't like Kay. Kay's always the brains as a squirrel. No. When I claim head goes off and then all I save is the front legs, the back and the behind neck.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And me, I did Christine's brother in law. No, Christine's brother, not a brother in law.

[B]

Say her brother in law be Phil.

[A]

Yeah. But anyway, he was coming in and visited her and she asked if she what do you want to eat? He said, have uncle Si kill, you know, have your husband kill a bunch of squirrel. I said, okay. So I had about 24. Christine had like, you know, one leg and I think, you know, one front leg, one back leg and me and him ate the rest of them. 24.

[C]

When I was about 6, I mean.

[A]

I'm talking about every one of them.

[C]

Licked your finger.

[A]

Yeah. It wasn't nothing but a pile of bones on the table.

[B]

Table.

[A]

But Tim suckers were good.

[D]

When I was about 16, my girlfriend was over at our house and my dad this crossbow and I was sighting it in the backyard. So I'm like, I'm shooting it.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Squirrel.

[D]

Squirrel runs by it's probably like 40 yards. I just track. Just instinct. Track it, shoot, stick it with that crossbow. Oh. I was like, oh, yes. Cleaned it, skinned it. Girlfriend crying the whole time. She broke up with me the next week.

[C]

And they never sprawled.

[D]

I've never squirrel hunted again.

[C]

Last time you ever hit a squirrel.

[A]

I like my daughter thank her boyfriend at the time. Ow.

[C]

She didn't appreciate your marksmanship.

[D]

She did not like that they had.

[A]

A park, you know, sitting in the park in Texas, somewhere over in Dallas, and squirrels running by, just left and right. Tracy said, boy, I Wish I had dads 22. Kyle looked at him and said, why? She said, because the next thing that happened was me and you would clean about eight of these suckers and then I'd fry them up and we'd have them for dinner.

[B]

That when he proposed, he said, hey.

[A]

He said, will you have my kids? I was just lying to her.

[B]

Will you have my kids?

[A]

Yeah, I want you to have my kids.

[B]

Ain't no sense.

[D]

Write that down.

[B]

No sense in beating around the bush.

[A]

And there they are presently, four kids later. Yeah, we're all getting grown now.

[C]

It worked.

[A]

It worked, right? Never know.

[D]

What was your line for. For Christine.

[C]

Yeah, what did you say?

[B]

Oh, y' all ain't heard?

[A]

Hey, y' all don't remember the story?

[B]

No, they ain't heard it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I'll be back in five minutes.

[A]

We went to a Italian restaurant for the night. Okay. And we got there about nine. Okay. It's about 2:00am okay.

[C]

It's a late restaurant.

[A]

Yeah, late. 2:00am in the morning, you're at the restaurant. Me and her were still having the discussion, you know. And I said. I said, what's wrong with you? And she said, I'm not going to marry you. And I said, well, you got to give me a reason. She said, because I've seen you with kids and I can't give you a kid of your own. I said, well, hey, if we're supposed to have kids, we'll have kids. Or maybe we'll adopt, you know. And I said, so look, the owner's coming by every five minutes. Tell me, would y' all please leave? I need to close up and go home. And I said, hey, look, don't bother me. We're in a very important discussion right now.

[C]

In your establishment.

[A]

Oh, yeah. And I mean in your establishment. I'm just, you know, you gotta hold off here. I think she said, yes, Just so that then people could actually close their.

[C]

Store and you took it and run with it.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

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[A]

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[B]

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[A]

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[B]

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[A]

No, no, see, and we had her up here. Okay. On the fact checking.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

When I married that woman, when the. When the justice of the peace said, hey, where's the ring? And I said, ring? I said, wait a minute. Somebody gave me a cigar for getting married. I said, you usually get these when you get a Kid. But anyway, I reached in my pocket, took a band out for cigar.

[C]

Rung it on there.

[A]

Hey.

[D]

Stuck.

[A]

And when I said, I do, you know, I the wed. I slipped a cigar band on that finger.

[C]

Have you got her a new one since?

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Hey. And I told her, I said, don't wear it public. I said, they'll cut your hand off of that ring there.

[C]

It's a rock, huh?

[A]

Yeah, it's a rock. Yeah. Yeah, about two carrots worth. I was told it was going to cost me like, what, $200? And Philip said, no, that ain't what we told you. And I said, hey, you and my wife conspired. And hey, y' all told me it was 200. Well, hey, add three zeros to that.

[C]

Two. 200.

[A]

No, at 3 0, it was 20 grain grand.

[C]

20 grand.

[A]

Okay, okay. That rock she's got on her finger, I said. I said, hey, you don't wear it public. I said, that cut your arm off.

[C]

How long did it take you to get her a rock?

[A]

Well, it took about 20 years. You did finally get her a ring.

[C]

That's good.

[A]

But see, she told it the day we told it on the podcast, she said, that ain't true, folks. He bought me like a 16 cheap ring. And I said, hey, that is the first time I have ever heard about a cheap $16 ring to put on her finger. I said, when I married this woman, I slipped a cigar band on her finger. And I said, and really, I think that's why we're still married today, is because, you know, wasn't no money involved in this.

[C]

You doubled down on the cigar, right?

[A]

Just cigar.

[C]

Did you smoke that cigar?

[A]

Huh?

[C]

Did you smoke that cigar after you got married?

[A]

I threw it away finally. I didn't smoke it.

[C]

I didn't.

[A]

That was back when I wasn't smoking.

[B]

That's before you got started?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So somebody just randomly gave you it before you went in to the courthouse.

[D]

Like, as a gift, like.

[A]

Yeah, well, I think it was.

[B]

It's a boy.

[A]

I think it was her girlfriend's husband that gave it to me.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

Because I was always teasing Sylvia. I was like, we come in there to pick her. I come in there to pick her up one day. I said. I said, sylvia, guess what happened this weekend? She was always telling me, Sylvia was, hey, you need to marry this woman. I said, yeah, I will one day, Sylvia, maybe. So I was always teasing her. So look, April Fool's Day is coming up April 1st. So I come in to pick Christine up, and I said, Sylvia, guess what happened this weekend. You know, she's all here. And she said, what? I said, me and that woman, that redheaded woman, mine, we took a little trip. Yeah. She's all gettery, gettery, jittery now, y'.

[C]

All, gittery, gittery.

[A]

She said, and where did you go? And I said, well, we went, y', all to real pretty place. Yeah. And I said, and we also seen a justice of the peace. Well, she's just beside herself now. She's on cloud nine. And I said, syria. We snuck away and eloped. Got married.

[C]

Eloped.

[A]

Well, she's on cloud nine. Dancing around. I gave her about five minutes, then I started laughing, and she knew the gig was up. I said, sylvia, what day is it? She was looking at. Looking at me. And, hey, if looks could kill, I'd have had about 20 daggers in my chest, okay? Because she was mad and all. She said. She. She just pointed at me. She said, oh, God's gonna get you for this.

[C]

Guy's gonna cut you down.

[A]

Well, hey, about three days later, God got me for it.

[C]

What do you do?

[A]

We got married. For real?

[B]

Been together for 50 years.

[A]

What are y', all, four years?

[C]

You spoke it into existence, huh? You spoke your moment into existence.

[A]

Oh, yeah. So be careful what you clown around with.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

It'll backfire on you.

[C]

It is true. That is true.

[A]

But it was a good thing.

[B]

There you go.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Worked out.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

Z, what you think about them. Them Old Miss Rebels?

[A]

Hey, look, I. I messed up.

[B]

Oh, no, you didn't.

[A]

Okay. They was ahead. Like, you know, at first, I think 12 to nothing for like, a quarter and a half. Yeah, well, I turned around, I. Flipping channels, you know, it's not. It's not keeping my interest because the wide receivers in the tight end of Mississippi keep dropping the stupid ball.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And like, three times it would have been a touchdown.

[C]

Right.

[A]

So I done got distanced to stop watching.

[C]

What were you watching instead?

[A]

I was going over to a stupid.

[B]

Western channel that he say, no, I'm.

[A]

Back and forth checking on it. That was why. And last time I checked, yo. Oh, oh. Georgia's got them 21 to 12.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And I said. I said, I ain't watching that crap no more.

[B]

Well, look, you wake up and the old mess. Rebels.

[A]

Yeah. I wake up and I'm trying to find out who beat yo Georgia Ole Miss, you know? Well, for two days.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So I'm sitting there watching tv, and I watch the ball game. And Christine said, that's what I'm talking about. You know, I said what she says. Ole Miss, Pete, Georgia. And I said what she said. Yeah. Just flashed it on the screen, then it flashed it again. You know, Oklahoma, Miami's done one, so they're in the bracket. Well, the other bracket was on field.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Well, guess who filled it. Oh, Miss.

[C]

They play Oregon.

[B]

No, they play Miami.

[A]

They play Miami and then, and then Miami.

[B]

Yeah, that would be the congratulations to the Ducks, the Rebels, the Hoosiers.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And the Canes.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Oh, you know what I didn't know. Is it Indiana's quarterback, Fernando?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

His brother's the second string quarterback. Oh, and then he wears 16 and his little brother wears 15. QB1 and QB2. The dude that won the heism. That's pretty cool.

[D]

That's cool.

[B]

There you go.

[C]

His brother, when he. They were up so much against Alabama, he was.

[A]

That's gonna be.

[C]

Which is cool. Like his brother got to play too.

[A]

That's gonna be one fastic but fantastic game.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Oregon Ducks against the Hoosier. Indiana. Yeah. He doesn't say he's for the Ducks.

[C]

They Alabama.

[A]

I want, I want Indiana to win it all.

[B]

I don't care.

[C]

It doesn't matter to me. But it was cool to watch them curb stomp Alabama because everybody was like Indiana hasn't played anybody but the guys at poker table.

[A]

We all talked about it.

[C]

They had all 100 bets on.

[A]

Well, no, no, they was. Well, they were saying, you know, talking about, well, when Bama was, you know, Bama and Indiana gonna play.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I said, well, if Indiana plays football, I said they'll whoop, whoop Alabama. Yeah. And they did. They play. They put a strapping on them.

[B]

The best thing for the whole time is lane Kiffin made 250 grand for sitting at his house last night. He ain't do nothing.

[A]

Well, they done him wrong. They've done it wrong.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You make 250 grand sitting at your house. They didn't do you wrong. You did just fine.

[A]

Well, I mean we did all.

[C]

So are you saying he got 250 grand because they won the game? Is that like a thing that was.

[B]

In his contract, but he made LSU match it because of what was coming. If he were to sign early, the LSU wrote him a check last night, 250 GS.

[C]

So if they win the Natty, what.

[B]

Is he, 500 for the next round if they win. And then, and then another smooth Millie.

[C]

Then we get to the little happy new year bonus.

[B]

Yeah. And I kind of. Because of the way everybody in Baton Rouge Handled that. Go Tigers. By the way, I kind of want them to have to pay the man $2 million.

[A]

He'll be sweet.

[B]

I'm rooting for him.

[A]

Yeah, I think they're fine.

[B]

I'm rooting for a trail of bad decisions to lead to $2 million for Lane Kiffin.

[C]

I think they're. They're good for it after Brian Kelly. How much? Yeah, Pay him.

[B]

Yeah. That be all right, right? It's all good.

[C]

It'll buff on that.

[B]

No, that's fun, man. They might got a verse on their mind. We always close with one. Generally leave that up to Johnny D, but. Got one on their mind.

[A]

I've got one.

[B]

Go ahead. What you got?

[A]

Jeremiah 29:11. God talking. Hey, you don't know the plans I have for you. Not to harm you, but to give you hope and a future now. And when I went to Fort Polk, chaplain asked me to speak to the Mountain, Mountain Division because they was having too many suicides. That's the verse I gave to him. You know, I talked for, like, 30 minutes, maybe 35 or 40, and I said, hey, all, I want you to remember one, one thing. Jeremiah 29:11. God talking. You know, I have plans for you. I said, don't. Don't hurt yourself. God has a plan for your life. Not to harm you, but to give you hope and a future.

[B]

There you go.

[A]

Don't mess with the Almighty's plan for you. Yeah. Keep yourself safe.

[B]

Yeah, it's good. It's better than ours, for sure, so. Well, we thank y'. All, Appreciate you boys joining us this. This fine Friday afternoon. And we'll see y' all next time right here in the Duck.

[A]

That's right. I hope you had a merry Christmas and a happy New year.

[B]

Go, ducks.

[A]

20. 26, baby. Sam.