Three Decisions That Made Duck Dynasty Possible

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It's master's week. No. The good news is the duck call room is back but we're back with our good friend John Godwin who has went viral. Johnny. Godwin. Have you been on Facebook, Si? No. Somebody runs my Facebook but I haven't. Since you're not on it, I gotta get this full screen. What is John Godwin going viral doing? Hold on. You need to. Kids. I learned the way y'all done y'all's hair this morning. Y'all want some coffee? That's so good. I learned the way y'all done y'all's hair this morning. So good. Y'all want some coffee? I love it. Look at him. So good. I love it. Oh Godwin, that was the highlight of my weekend right there. We kept them all night. Oh man, that's so good. That was the next morning. They're looking healthy. Good job. Before I even turned the volume on, I just started dying out laughing whenever I got on Facebook and it was right there. I was pretty early in the game too to see in it because I didn't listen so I put y'all obviously have the same hairdresser or something like that. Yeah, you put y'all got the same haircut. Lots of laughs in the comments section. Then I turned it on and I was like, well, that's what he said, you idiot. But I just watched the visual of it because I don't ever have sound on on my phone. The visual was, man, that was good, Godwin. I guarantee you, did you post that Saturday morning? Wasn't that what I was? Saturday morning. Yeah, I think Saturday morning. Yeah. So how is Grandpa and Grandma, especially Grandpa? Yeah, we kept them. Well, Johanna was off. Well, she came over at 10.30 Friday. Good Friday. And Paula was wanting to do a bunch of chores. She wasn't expecting. Because we were going to keep them that night. She left at 10.30 that night. Paula was like, are you going to go? Y'all might as well just spend the night. It was the first time she ever been away from them. She just couldn't leave them. And then she finally left and they come back. But they come back late in the day Saturday. So they done good, but we had a good time. I'm here sleeping all night. That process right there gets easier. You'll look up and say, you sure you don't want to get mail? Grandma also? Mom and Dad needs a break. Two of them. Yeah, Mom and Dad needs a break here once more. One day, Cecilia kept one and she kept one. And she came over to the house and they was, you know, and she was like, man, one is so easy. Who is? Yeah. Yeah. Load them in the car. That's why I said, Mom and Dad needs a break with two of them. I ain't two diapers. They ain't two babies. Well, yeah, you load up half the house. That's what I always said. Now it's a breeze because you don't have to. I mean, you take like, now I get to take like a change of clothes. Well, when you look back. Wait till they can buckle themselves. Well, you look back. You ask yourself, how do we get through that? If they could reach the door handle, they could get in and buckle themselves in now. So it's like, I mean, I sit there and watch them and make sure they do it right. Oh yeah, Brittany's, she's had strong about getting them into big kid beds. And I'm like, you sure you don't want to leave them in the prison cells a little bit longer? Why? They ain't got to have them crested. Yeah, don't rush that. Don't rush that and get them out of the van. Oh, it's coming. Oh, it's coming. We'll just wake up and they'll be looking at you. No, no, I'm turning that lock the other way. What? To their bedroom door. You gonna lock them in the room? Uh-huh. Absolutely. Why not? I wouldn't you? Never thought of it. Yeah, I'm going to turn that knob around and that lock going to be facing the hall. Yeah, there you go. And then they go on. They go on. You're getting ripped in the comment section. That's fine. That's fine. Look, we got, we got cameras in there and they got to hatch. So when there's green light, I will have been there to unlock the door. Then you can come out. But other nuts, you stay in there. Stay in the room, boys. You're gonna get some toothpicks and learn how to poke it in that hole. The good news is they've got each other. So like one of their favorite times of day is when they both wake up and you turn the nightlight on on the camera and they sit there and talk about the nights that they had, even though it was right beside each other. They discuss their. Yeah, I think they talk about their dreams. Like I think they're getting to the point now where they're not their dreams for life. Their dreams from the night before. Well, here's you another good email from, I like this name. Okay. Ailey. Ailey? It's like Kaley without the K. I like that. That's a good name. Ailey from upstate New York. Parentheses, not the city exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point. No, no, no, I know why he does that. I'm assuming Ailey's is the one. The city sucks. Upper state New York don't. Yeah, a thousand Island region. Hey, you talking about wildlife. You go upstate New York. You'll see a black panther. Not gonna look at him. There's a bunch of wildlife up there. Me and this fella drove from Watkins Glen to New York City. Yep. New York City. Yeah. I was a spotter. I drove in New York City. When I got into that. You know that bridge you see in the movie, double decker bridge you always see in the movie? We was on the wrong level. I ain't getting on that. I will get in a blue angel before I get on a double decker bridge going into New York City. Yeah. So she has a question. It ain't good. I think it's funny. All right. Let's go. Especially because I think the four of us can answer it phenomenally. She just wanted to know what convinced us all to join Duck Dynasty, which I would say would be Duck Commander in y'all's three cases. I came after the show. Was it the money? No. No. No. No. I would buy. Raise your hand if you held your paycheck here. Yeah. Raise your hand if you had to hold your paycheck. I never held mine, but I was at the money. I started. It was never the money. I started at $9 an hour and had to go back because they accidentally did $8 an hour and I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. I negotiated nine. Here's how I got aboard with Duck Commander at the end of the show. My brother called me. I was in a miserable job in Alabama. Greenscape. I was doing repair work on houses, cup-n-drill work. And then I had a guy, he owned the company, my next-door neighbor did, and I worked for him. He was the most negative person I've ever run into in my life. He was driving me insane. So Phil called me once right and said, hey, look, you need to come work for me. He said, there ain't no money involved in it. I said, well, I knew. I know that. I've been over there. So, yeah. The pay son. You've seen where you live, brother. He said, hey, there ain't no money involved in it. He said, but here's the thing. He said, the benefits outweigh all that. He said, because, hey, you have to spend 60 days of your life, okay, each year in a duck mine. It is a must. That's part of it. He said, then the food will be excellent. Okay. Whatever, whatever we have available that we're cooking and eating, it will be good. He said, so look, the ban confirmed the friend's benefits outweigh the no money part. Gavin, why'd you come aboard? I just, once I became a Christian and was going to church with them, I got, you know, now I got pretty close and now I'll invite them to duck hunting and I got to go duck hunting a bunch and I would go down there on my days. I just kind of, I don't know. But he was gone one time. The me and Si was hunting down here and they were hunting in Texas. Texas on the pond. Stop them. They told us to get up there. They could finish. They called K. They called K. K called Gavin today. Whatever you're doing, drop it. Get out of the blind. Y'all going to Texas. So we went. No, so how's it going inside there? Okay, we're going to Texas. I was on my five days off at Riverwood and he says, you about ready to quit that plan, ain't you? I said, well, heck yeah. On the inside, I was doing somersaults. But on the outside, I was, you know, new house, new daughter. How did I bond you? I knew it was going to be a cutting face. He said, get Miss K and see what y'all gonna figure out. So we did and it took about, I don't know, two weeks. We prayed about it, prayed about it, prayed about it. I never got the inclination not to do it, even though it was a cutting face. There you go. And so I called Riverwood and told them that I was wanting to retire. They said, you ain't been here long enough. I said, okay, I quit. I said, whatever this terminology needs to be. So you quit at the plant and then ended up down on the Riverwood. Yeah, they said I couldn't. I took my two weeks vacation and I had four weeks vacation. So I told them, give me two weeks vacation pay and take two weeks as my two week notice. Here was the best part of all this. We'd get a big order of duck calls. Okay. Half the people in the church would come help us fill them. Free labor was a thing right here. Yeah. They'd come show up and they'd all get a good steak, good steak dinner. Oh man, we fed them Johnny's people a lot. Look, it is time to trade out the cold weather gear for something more lightweight. Whether you're fishing, working out in the yard, whatever you're doing, comfort matters. That's exactly what shirts from Poncho Outdoors are built for. Poncho search are lightweight, breathable and quick drying. So they are perfect for warmer spring weather. There's built in stretch in the fabric so the shirt moves with you and you stay comfortable all day. Plus UPF 50 plus sun protection means you only need to apply sunscreen to expose skin and long sleeve options offer even more protection. 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Yeah, it's kind of, well, I volunteered to help for free. He's asking. Because I was in school. I was in graduate school writing my thesis. And I needed like some time away from my research. Like, is that crap? I'll just scramble your brain. So I asked for some mind-numbing labor for free. And you walked into this room? No, I didn't even walk into this room. No, I was in the sales department. No, and when I say in the sales department, I was the sales department. He was the sales department. It was me. It was me. And you were just cold-collin people. Walmart. Not people. Walmart. Individual Walbarts. And he become Willie's personal babysitter. For a little while. Yeah, I was. Go for it. I got tabbed. I think I may have been the second in line as assistant. Like, because I think it was Bo Dotley first, which is a wild story, like way back when. I think that's when. And then he tabbed me with it. And then I was like, well, what? I mean, like, you need a book of flyers? And I already booked it. I was like, well, it don't sound like you need an assistant, bro. I already booked it. And I don't. Yeah, he's like, no, I've already done everything. I got you. I'm like, well, what am I supposed to do to get back to calling Walmart? And then I ended up with an email and he said, well, if you got email, you got a choice to make. You going back to school or you going to work here? And I was like, well, I kind of like got them went thought, prayed, all the stuff and signed on for $20,500 a year salary. There you go. Me and Willie were making that. You know how he sold me on it? He said, you're going to make the same thing I make. I'm duck commander. I'm pretty good. Hey, I'm from. Duck commander mind you. He didn't talk about what he made from Buck commander or DC products. They're owning the building. But he had me. He said, you're going to make the same thing. That's a pretty good salesman. Well, if we're making the same money, let's roll, baby. $20,500 is what I signed on here for Willie called me at my old job. I was selling a North face jackets to rich women in Monroe and while I was in college and said, Hey, I need you to come over to duck commander and talk to me. And I was like, what the heck? I walked in there and he was like, here's the deal. We got this store. Nobody here knows how to do retail or anything. We're just shoving people in, checking them out, shoving them out. I pretty much it. And I was like, well, okay. I said, but I like my current job, so I'm going to need a raise. That $9, he said, how much do you make right now? I said $8 an hour. Did you? Did you actually make a. Oh, yeah. I wouldn't lie. I would. And then I said, I mean, I guess I'll take this job for nine. And so, you know, at that time, that's like, I was working like 20 hours a week. So it was over 20 bucks. And I was like firm on it. Then I got here and saw all these people showing up. I was like, why did I not ask for 10? Yeah. Yeah. That's, I just started just at that point. We were still, when you got here, we were still like caged animals in this room. Because Linda would just walk people back here while we were building duck calls. Oh, yeah. It was just like, I mean, we're sitting here building duck calls. We look over our shoulder. There's a family of 10. We're like, what's up guys? I showed up. I mean, we're just right back to building that gum duck calls. The end of season one. And then it went berserk. Well, I ended up in a duck call room because I was so good at sales. Because I sold 6,000 duck calls. We didn't have. And then I ended up down there. I was like, look, I can help put them together. And that's when Jayce was like, would you even blow a duck call? I was like, I'm pretty good at it. I'm not sure, but I've killed a bunch of them. I've done a kill by a child. He threw me one. He said, well, blow that. And I blew it. And he was like, yep, sit down. You're not going back up there. You're in here from now on. I was like, well, you're going to need to take that up with your brother. So, yeah. And you're going to say so. Oh, then I was about to graduate and I was going to go work in a bank or something. And I looked at the fool. And Willie called me back there and was like, here's the deal. Here's what you're going to do. And I was like, might as well. Yeah. See what happens. I'm young. It's fine. Let's go. But the best quote of all time was from a professor when I was like two months until graduating, I was already working full time for Willie. He said, John David, I need to talk to you. And I said, what's that? He said, if you don't shave your face and start dressing better, you are never going to get a job. I don't know. That was part of the deal. Not a part of the gig. Yeah. I literally, I started laughing. He looked at me funny. I said, have you heard of Duck Dynasty? And he goes, I said, I'm working there already. We're good. Yeah, we're good. This is, this is the wardrobe. What were, but she said, was it for the money? What were the other things? What else? To share the gospel. So that kind of, that God went allude to that. Yeah. Uh, and then, oh shoot, I lost it. Ailey, I'm sorry. Yeah. Where did it go? Well, you're the only person in here named Ailey. I bet you if I just typed, yep, there you go. Or something else. So those are kind of how we all got here. Yeah. Then we just held on for the ride. Yeah. What are you talking about? I was getting paid $20,000 a year to go hunt ducks. I was living the redneck dreams. That's what we all aspired to be. We all showed up for the fringe benefits. Perfect. Got the Anders. Yeah. I was making more from you. L.M. is a graduate assistant than I signed on to make here. And they don't pay graduate assistants anything, mind you. Like, I mean, next to nothing, but they do. They paid you more than $20,500 a year. But here we are. And here we are. And here we are. So there it is. That's a wrap. That's how we all got to this room. Blip, blip, blip, blip, blip. Eventually. I had a good old mighty. Yeah. They had a good Lord, man. He's the one that drove all this. It didn't have nothing to do with us. The only thing we had to do was be obedient. I had a terrifying dream the other night. Uh-oh. It was so scary. Really? I woke up in a hot sweat and couldn't go back to sleep. Really? I was dropping the kids off from school. Motorcycle crashed behind us. That was freaky. I was like, why would that happen? Pull into the school. Kids get out of the car. Giant black panther. I'm not joking. Comes running into the school building. Wow. And that's when I woke up right there. Right on cue. And I said, oh, no. Did I watch the Jungle Book? I don't know what I watched, but I did not like it. I mean, I was terrified. And I woke up. I really thought there was a black panther on the loose in the children's school. I should stop hanging out with you, Si. There you go. I ain't shot at one over the top of her house. Over the black band? Yeah. When she was pregnant. She heard noise and went outside with 30, 30 in her hand. Hey, John Wayne, John Wayne. She don't know when she walked out there. All she heard was, wow. She bowed. And there was a black panther on a roof. Oh, and it was not. The house. There's so many layers to that story that I feel like we just glanced over. My aunt walked outside, shot over up in the air while she was pregnant. He was running along with Liam. She missed him. I only think she was missing was the Sagrat. Probably had one. That black panther in my dream was. Or a Dipper Snow. Well, I, you know, as a child, I heard one that sounded like a woman being tortured. And then also then I said, and she's got a baby with her. Was a baby cry. They cried just like a baby. Could have been a baby. They sound like a woman being tortured. Wow, baby. So much done back there. I am serious. I don't think I always sound like a woman screaming. You know, I don't like to help. The best line about that. Well, no, no, helps got the best line about that. He said, well, every time I've come up, I went and investigated it. It was a woman screaming. Yeah. It's screaming. I remember when he done that, everybody in the duck line just died later. He says, every time I was investigated, it was a woman being tortured. Yeah. In fact, it was one. Oh my goodness gracious. That is. Anyways. My dreams are always I'm either falling, I just jumped off a mountain. I wake up, I'm just out of breath. Cause I've been running and doing all this. But you can't run fast. It's like running in my life. It's like running in my life. So when you trying to run in a dream, I was running fast, but I was scared I was going to catch you. Hey, I probably run 10 miles while I'm dreaming. That's more than that. Yeah, that's right. No. Martin's got things to say. No, I just a little bit jealous because I don't really dream. I don't like you. Well, or at least I don't remember. I mean, I'm not saying I don't. I don't remember them. I don't remember last time. A lot of, a lot of nights I wake up. I mean, mornings I wake up. I know I've dreamed, but I just don't remember what they are. But you got to be in REM sleep, right? For dreaming. He's checking it. Yeah. I have. I am. Well, it says I had an hour and seven minutes of that. So somewhere in there, no, I've had a dream. Maybe you just got to be dreaming right at the very end. Oh, you might not dream. Oh, is that why I always wake up scared? Yeah. That's the only reason you're the only ones you remember is at the very end of your sleep, not the beginning. Josh is full of such. Oh, that's like the best one. K K is pale. Interesting. He's got K. He's got K in the head. I had luck. Good night. I don't like dreams. I don't even, I've never had a good one, though. I've never woke up and said that was fun. I almost texted you at 2 30, Martin, because I didn't want to forget it. About a Black Panther journey. Mm hmm. That was good one there, though. No, it wasn't. It was amazing. My children. I would have responded to you sometime between six and six thirty a.m. I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have been there to hold your hand at 2 30. I'm sorry. I was messed up. You got the wrong fella on that one. I just didn't want to forget it because that's the worst. Whenever you wake up and you're like, man, that was a wild dream. And then you're like, but what was it? There were dead gum termites everywhere. Oh, I saw that. It was a swarm. And the only thing I could think about was, please don't get in my house. I got pasty with my rechargeable wand. I got my bags. I got all my stuff right here that lets me take care of any bug problems at home and just a couple of minutes and for a lot less than you might think with pasties. Do it yourself pest control. 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I was dreaming right now about something and then my dog started barking at a deer. I could see the day my dog was barking and I woke up and my dog was really barking. See, it's weird. But in my dream, but how's that? But he wasn't barking at a deer. He was in the house, but he woke me up barking. But he was in my dream. He was barking at a deer out in the front yard eating the makings under that tree. I would like me. I'd like me in school. I was daydreaming and I was slipping up on a big buck deer with a bow and arrow. The other had been skimms was calling my name and I went, I'm slipping up on a deer. Oh boy. I probably didn't go over very well for you. Got a teacher to side school. No, no, no, no. We'll be up out. I'll grow me out of his own. The kids busted out. Life is talking in your sleep. He was one hundred. And he was dreaming. Oh, I was out. I was out. I was a lot, a lot of land. Oh man. So in my recent happenings, I've now become a NASA fan boy and I just read about NASA all the time. A lot of. So I took the time to read the comments of our good personal friend, Butch. Close person. The Navy, the Navy pilot turned astronaut. We got a lot of people in there that don't like space or believe in it. They just think it's not there. They just, yeah, it's just, it's a weird. I was once one of those. It's a weird. I've been converted. He's converted boys. We landed on the moon, Martin. He said it. Look, I told you, I believe that because it was a fabric of my childhood. And tonight I was going to be really mad about all them hours. I spent memorizing that stuff for history class. So anyway, so here's my new favorite part. I found out why I'm such a big fan of astronauts. So have you seen the pilots or anybody? The astronauts now? Have you seen them? No, they keep showing them. Well, there's a pilot named Victor Glover. Victor. Yeah. OK. And apparently, because now that we know an astronaut, they're all that smart. Oh, well, I mean, I think you'd want the smartest people in the world. Yeah. You would hope so. But so they're talking back and forth some and they're interviewing them while they're on the way to the moon. And they were like, hey, you're about to spend Easter up there. What's that like? And I can't play the clip because NASA probably owns it. I don't want to get in trouble. But I want to read this to you. Read the transcript. I'm going to read his quote. OK. From space. And I think you're going to be fired up about it. He said, I don't have anything prepared. I don't. This feels prepared. Sorry. This is off the cuff. This is off the cuff. Yeah. But I'm glad you brought it up, though. I think these observances are important. He's talking about going and taking all the pictures. As we are so far from Earth and looking at the beauty of creation. Boom. Thank you. I think for me, one of the really important personal perspectives that I have up here is that I can really see the Earth as one thing. When I read the Bible, I love this guy. And I look at all the amazing things that were done for us. You guys are talking to us because we're in a spaceship really far from Earth. But you're on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe and the cosmos. As a head on Victor, Victor just dropping bars. Go ahead on, Victor. That would be kind of a humbling place to spend Easter. Yeah. Oh, no. And he kept going. He's like, hey, y'all think we're doing something special, but I'm just trying to tell you you are special. And all the emptiness, it's a whole bunch of nothing. And he's there. This thing we call the universe. You have the oasis and the beautiful place that we get to exist together. Yeah, he just ripped that off. See, people don't look at that. Now, I say, they didn't believe in space. What is you dummy? How can you look up at the sun, the moon, the stars and not believe in space? They've been watching too much of that show, Paradise on Hoonlut. That's you're so stupid. Paradise. Oh, goodness. I watched it. Because see, that's what got me when Butch was here talking about all this. That man has had a unique experience of actually we look up at the stars. That man was up a month of stars looking down through them. Saw the whole earth. And looking at it like he said. For 265 days. He's looking at God's creation, a little bitty ball that we call earth. That was made for us to inhabit that has everything we need on it. Water, food, all. You know, and that just happened. Yeah, that's the perfect distance. Yeah, yeah, I have the perfect distance from everything. Because if we're one degree nearer to the sun. We burn up one degree back. Freeze over. But you know, because most people, there's been a lot of people saying, hey, I'm fix to prove once and for all there ain't no God. Well, guess what happened when they went on that little journey? My favorite part about that whole argument, it takes way more faith to believe that. Oh, no, well, and then a man named Jesus. Yeah, but that's what was so cool to me. I don't believe I'm eating my ancestors. No, you come back. Believe it. You know, that's like believing in a child. That's all my cousin, my cousin, my cousin, my cousin, my cousin, my cousin, crappy. If I'd give him enough time, he'd. Oh, I've got to tell you, that's my cousin down there. Monkey. Yeah. I ain't. I ain't gonna read. That's my buddy. So he's talking about evolution. There we go. No, but I just thought it was super cool that that the guy with the microphone and the whole world's watching him as he's headed towards the moon, looks back and says, yeah, that was created gang. Yeah. We ain't here by chance. Yeah. And I had any use word cosmos, so I knew it would fire you up. Yeah, yeah. Creator of the cosmos. Oh, it was so cool though. Oh, that's because I say it all the time. I said, look, we only see a snippet of creation. Oh, I know that. Butch said it. He said, hey, when we're up there, we're looking through telescopes. And I guess what? We've looked and there's another thousand galaxies we just saw. Well, I guess what? God creation. Is still going. It's wild to think about. And they were just they all they went to was the moon. No, and then you're going to tell me you're going to tell me that you you are here on this ball. We call her that at night when you look up and watch the stars and the moon. And then you don't believe in space. Well, what do you what do you think you're looking at? Hey, do you think they played Pink Floyd when they went around it? Oh, yeah, we don't know for 40 minutes. Oh, hey, I was on the edge of my seat. Hey, no, no, hey, they played music. Yeah. Oh, every time we do anything, we got the jam going, buddy. No, I was just we go to war. We're going to play some music. Well, I'm just saying, when you go around to the dark side of the moon, they were there. It seems wish you were there. Wish you were here. They could have played the whole wall out. Well, yeah, that's why. Oh, that would be a fitting song to play as you've gone on the back side of the moon. Yeah. Wish you was here. Yeah. It was cool, though. I mean, I was glued to the TV all day yesterday. Well, they're headed back. They're on their way back home. They're probably taking a nap now. But I love the guy looking at creation. Yeah. And tell them right now when I read the Bible. Oh, he's looking at the whole thing. No, I'm seeing. I'm seeing the big picture. You see that picture of the earth and that over the north pole of green lights, the northern light. Oh, that roar. Yeah, you can see it. It's pretty cool. It's really cool. Yeah. But the thing that finally got me, because you know, the moon landing is just a hot topic. But there was an old astronaut that went to the moon. For sure. 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Okay. And still climbed. Oh, 7000 feet. 7000 feet. I ain't much. I on the on the on the ground. I hadn't. He got. I don't know. I've been real locked in. I don't know if he was. I don't know if he was a zero, but he got to 7000 feet altitude. He got to a 7000 foot. Clarity was. Hello. And I got him back. Activated his beacon. Oh, yeah. And I think they speak and they went and got him, right? Yeah. So I don't know. Hey, look, I don't know if he had to traverse all 7000 feet, but point me, he got over a mile. I look, they just had a little, little help of going over and getting him up, getting him back. There was a hundred and fifty five aircraft involved in it. They're looking for you. And we got him. We got him. Now one of them got one of us. It went well more than one. The A-10 Warthawk. And that bad boy. I'm telling you, I seen one coming in land and numb. That was literally, it looked like Swiss cheese. Oh, can see through it. The bullet holes. Hey, everywhere, it wasn't a fight on it. There wasn't a big hole. But they had, that's one of the things they said is what's so amazing about it. He said, Hey, you shoot that baby to pieces and it'll still do its job and still come home. That's wild. Well, then I want to get in him. But I've seen behind him. Here's another thing. Remember that movie with Owen Wilson? That's a good. Hey, I'm standing on Salt Lake City. What? I'm in California out in the desert. I've been in the desert in California. Very different. No sound. There's a bunch of guys about a company. You have 300 people. We stand out waiting to whatever we're going to do. And the best thing we see is a shadow over about 30 of us. And we look up and there's a 810 Warthog. Oh, maybe 50 feet above us. Hey, we never heard anything. And until the shuttle caught us, we didn't see anything. Hey, by the time if we was in the me, we'll all be dead. Because that bad boy don't make no noise. Fishin' dangerous. It's dangerous. It's fun, but it is dangerous. Look at that. Your hand's kind of looking like leather now, Godwin. Good grief. They got to look about them. That's the one in bass shake. And then the hook gets in your hand. Oh, no, no, no. Why would anyone want that? That's the end. Godwin ain't called a bass in a hot minute. I caught one yesterday. I think I won yesterday. On purpose? And my people did. They were fishing with me. His people did. Largemouth? Yeah. There you go. I said, you want a keep it? They said, yeah. Yeah. Good. Now I said, if I throw this on the bank, the Kings wouldn't even eat it. They walk around. That's come leaves as long. They said, I said, there you go. Godwin ain't eating no bass, y'all. Now when I got crappie, but no, I'm like him. I'd eat them for a bass in the lake. Back in the lake. Spotter bass ain't bad. They ain't got no flavor. Not like that. I'm not flavor like the crappie. I'd eat them for a big old will. Big old. They go blue gill or they go chinky pen. Chicken pen is policies. Yeah. Chicken calls them chicken pen. We always go back to food. I love it. Y'all. No matter what we do, it goes back to how are we going to eat? We're in the sun. Hey, most of the Robertson memories are made around the table. I forgot. Or around the campfire. Well, something can be cooked. Yeah. You cook a lot of stuff just on open fire. Oh, yeah. Oh, I've been doing it since I was a child. When was the last time you did that? Was everything I killed with my baby going? You got it. I'll treat you to that. I just stuck a limb in it and it goes to the fire. That's the only way I knew a brown thresher had white meat. Oh, yeah. Hey, oh, that was a celebration when I killed a brown thresher. I told you. Then I had to. Hey, brown thresher is white. I had to trust but verify. That's the quail species of. That's that first bird you hear in the morning. Yeah. Yeah, he sounds. He's saying. And the last one. I was chasing one. Here's the deal. It's evergreen. In my neighbor's yard, big old thing. You know, and I'm under it chasing a brown thresher. They don't want to kill it. They don't say it's still long. No, they're always on the move. Well, guess what? There was a cubby of 30 quail in that little street too. That I didn't know about that scared the living. You don't want out of me. Because when I stepped on the wrong place. Why does it have to be living? Hey, all 30 of them left. So I watched where they went and then I went home and told Eddie, Hey, I know who a cubby of quail are. Well, he grabbed the 16 gays in a box of shells and said, let's go get them. Yeah. So, hey, we went up there and I took a, uh, the Mamie, our gray dog, the Wimber Rimmer. The what? Wimber Rimmer or a Weedemire. There's two ways to pronounce it. And I'm pronouncing it wrong though. Depending on what side of the bed you get up at morning. There's two ways to pronounce it. We haven't found it yet. Hey, she's, she was pouring them. She would pour them. They'd get up and daddy would kill them. Well, hey, one of them, you know, we kept going to the church, the Presbyterian church and had a fence around it, link fence around it. Well, every time we'd get on this side with his dog, they'd go, they'd go up to the fence and we'd have to go all the way back around, you know, to get back on them on again, on whether they do the same thing back and forth. So they're finally done that. And I said, Hey, I said, what are you going to do? What are we going to do? He said, I'm going to tell you what we're going to do. We're going to stay here. He said, I'm going to stay right here. He said, you take off, run around right quick and, you know, get them up. Go, go past them and then come just be shaking the fence. Come, you know, so I did it. Well, that jumps up and look across the highway and there was some boxcarts on the side. Well, that's a house. Yeah. Well, hey, a couple of them got up and they was going in between the cars. 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Hey, Michael from Max Meadows, Virginia, Virginia, sent an email in. He said, you guys rock and Jace is my favorite. We'll we'll pass that. But he sent Black Panther. Oh boy. And he said he saw it in a zoo. But I'm not going to say the name of the zoo because what? What? What? How is this a zoo? Now, hey, here's the questions. I got a question. Now you don't change it. No, that's the same thing. That's the same. What do you know? Just first of all, when you look at that photo, a big red ball. No, I know what's behind that big red ball? That big black tail going from his. A propane tank that butt all the way down the ground and carly up. OK. What's this a backyard zoo? I don't know. Like Joe got out and moved to this place. Yeah, that's I feel so bad for this cat. We shared. That's not like the Virginia Humane Society or something. Speaking of that, it looks like it looks like that place Sarah McLaughlin sang. I just got I got just got. I was sad when I was like, oh, zoo, you know, me. Hey, I just got a big envelope from BJ from Virginia. OK, he had a bunch of photos that he wanted to sign us in. Yeah, I thought that was pretty cool. He wrote me a book. I got what, three pages. His letter was three pages long. Did you read it? Yeah, it was really a list of letter. I got it on my couch. God, I love that man. Well, no, hey, how does he know where you live? Huh? Oh, everybody knows where I'm from. So that's a moving target now. Yeah, he everybody knows where I live. He's playing a shale game now. Like, look over here. Now I'm over here. I'm over here. I'm over here. And yeah, that ain't a zoo. That's a but but I look like somebody's backyard. They clearly thought it was a dog cage. But that is a pretty black pencil he's got in there. I mean, that's a ball, right? But is that a baseball size ball? It looks like a house. Hey, that's his toy. He palses on that thing all the time. I'm very confused. I've never felt worse. Pretty animal. I don't know that. Yeah, please let that thing go so that we can now have true sightings of a large black cat. Yeah, that would add now. Let that let that one go. He deserves better. Hey, I'll tell you. Or whatever whatever sex it is. I'm so sad about that. I know we need to let that one go. Seven o'clock. That's my giraffe. Well, now I'm on the website of the place where he said it was. And it seems better than that. Like maybe that was just a maybe they renovate. I think that was a holding tank set the back rooms. That was that was the tailgate. That's a big big roaring lion. All right, bring the website. I can't. I don't want to bash the place. Well, I feel like I'm doing an OK job. I want to see more about it. I want to see what they have a summer camp. OK, where you can apparently. Capturing cage animal where we got to move on. You're a zookeeper. I can't do this to these people. Oh, because I do think that was just a bad angled photo. But. No, the angle wasn't the problem on the photo. Well, maybe there was he was in a dog. What is it? What is it? I don't know what that is. I mean, a kennel like that during hunting season, it got 19 beagles in it waiting to go chase deer. So that's hey, he was in the gym. We're down there by that tree to get by line. Oh, that's Jim around. Jim around his cousin. Oh, yeah, that's him. What's one is that? Is that a taper? I think so. Yeah. Zoos are weird. The world's largest rodent or something. Right. I don't know. But I just got that email and I was just I was like, oh, Black Panther, I'm going to prove it. And then I clicked on the picture and I felt sad. Hey, he's got him. They got him in a zoo. They are turning blue. I mean, if that's what qualifies as a zoo, Jude also lives at a zoo. Just it's my house. Yeah. We all live in a zoo. But she can. My favorite is and I promise you, most of our emails are just Black Panther sightings. Now, maybe that's why I dream the way I do. Eddie emailed in one. Uncle Eddie. They see him often around North Florida and South Georgia. North Florida and South Georgia. Martin, how many times have we seen this exact photo over the last six years? I never get to know that. And it's always in a new location. I wish it was. I wish we got a new one, but we just hadn't got any good Black Panther sightings. I wonder why. I'm surprised that I hadn't brought in a bunch of new ones. Yeah. Same reason we ain't found the missing link. Yeah. That's OK. He's there. He's their party and without ivory built woodpecker, wherever they are. Yeah. It's been a wild ride, too, hasn't it? Oh, yeah. Not as wild as them boys on that rocket. It ain't over yet, either. We still going to the moon. Actually, we're on our way home. Speaking of going to the moon and on the way home, today's verse of the day comes from a little place called Twitter, which is a cesspool of activity. But I was reading about NASA stuff and it gets. Isn't it called X? Whatever. Whatever it's called. Hey, Elon paid a lot of money for that X, man. Sure. But so they were talking. There's a bunch of moon land NASA stuff. And I'm just reading it. And I'm like, I'm enthralled. And someone tweeted, boy, they really slapped with Psalm 14 right now. And I was like, I don't know what Psalm 14 says. There's a bunch of them. So I went to it. Straight. And it brings me back to our friend Victor looking back at the creation. Psalm 14, one and two, one and two. The fool says in his heart, there is no God. They are corrupt. Their deeds are vile. And there is no one who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand and any who seek God. Yeah. Wow. Don't be a fool, y'all. Somebody had to make this old ball. I guarantee you, it didn't. It's too perfect. And it's a ball. It's too perfect. Not a sheet. It's a ball. See y'all next time, right here in the duck call room. We landed on the moon. Oh, what?