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Uncle Si Preps to Be a Helicopter Door Gunner

58 min
Mar 5, 2026about 1 month ago
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Summary

Uncle Si and Hunter discuss preparations for a helicopter door gunner experience to hunt feral hogs, reflect on childhood adventures and dangerous activities, and share commentary on current events, technology trends, and personal fitness journeys.

Insights
  • Misinformation spreads rapidly on social media with AI-generated content making it difficult for audiences to distinguish fact from fiction
  • Nostalgia for unstructured outdoor childhood experiences contrasts sharply with modern parenting and safety standards
  • Renewable energy infrastructure (windmills) faces skepticism from rural audiences regarding efficiency, environmental impact, and landscape preservation
  • Personal discipline and motivation are primary drivers of sustainable weight loss rather than diet trends or products
  • Helicopter operations carry significant risk despite recreational appeal, as evidenced by historical incidents
Trends
AI-generated deepfakes and misinformation on social media platforms creating verification challengesSkepticism toward renewable energy infrastructure expansion in rural communitiesGrowing interest in personal fitness and lifestyle changes among content creators and public figuresHumanoid robotics development raising concerns about automation, job displacement, and safetyIncreased monetization of social media content through engagement-based revenue sharingNostalgia-driven content and storytelling as engagement driver in podcastingConcerns about technology surveillance and data collection through smart devicesElectric tools gaining acceptance in specific use cases despite initial resistance
Topics
Helicopter door gunner training and feral hog huntingSocial media misinformation and AI-generated content verificationRenewable energy infrastructure (wind turbines) efficiency and environmental impactHumanoid robotics development and automation concernsWeight loss and personal fitness disciplineChildhood outdoor activities and risk tolerance evolutionMilitary experience and combat operationsFishing and outdoor recreationTechnology adoption and digital literacy among older generationsContent monetization on social media platformsNuclear weapons and geopolitical tensionsElectric chainsaws and battery-powered toolsBird migration and wildlife impact of wind turbinesFrog gigging and traditional hunting practicesCollege football and regional sports loyalty
Companies
Duck Commander
The family business headquarters where the podcast is recorded; currently undergoing roof repairs from ice storm damage
Unitree Robotics
Manufacturer of humanoid robot (GI model) discussed for potential home defense applications at $18,000 price point
Facebook
Platform discussed for misinformation spread, AI-generated content, and monetization of false celebrity death posts
People
Uncle Si Robertson
Co-host preparing for helicopter door gunner experience; shares childhood frog gigging and dangerous activity stories
Hunter Robertson
Co-host discussing upcoming movie project and personal fitness journey; jogging regularly
Willie Robertson
Family member mentioned regarding fishing pond and family activities; subject of false social media death posts
Lane Kiffin
Football coach mentioned as controversial figure generating fan engagement across Mississippi and Tennessee fanbases
Kobe Bryant
Referenced as example of helicopter-related fatality to illustrate aviation risks
Will Smith
Actor in iRobot film referenced when discussing humanoid robot takeover scenarios
Snoop Dogg
Suggested as potential narrator for hypothetical Uncle Si biographical film
Quotes
"don't believe everything you see yeah yeah don't repost something that's not true"
Hunter RobertsonEarly in episode
"it's hard for me to distinguish between real and ai it's so good"
Si RobertsonMisinformation discussion
"God's going to use the computer to annihilate the human being"
Si RobertsonTechnology discussion
"discipline the other thing that works is called discipline discipline"
Hunter RobertsonWeight loss discussion
"when i turned around i was looking at it and it's like two glowing charcoal"
Si RobertsonChildhood sasquatch story
Full Transcript
i got a timer starting right about now welcome back to the duck call room ladies and gentlemen we're in an alarmingly empty room hunter yes it may have a little echo you may hear some noise behind us because they uh they're putting new sunroofs in here at duck commander apparently um they have ripped the roof off yeah the roof is gone i went to park and there's a roof in the back parking lot yeah so if you hear something sorry we're doing our best the ice storm shockingly destroyed a building from 1960 so uh it's getting fixed it's built on a swamp yeah it's getting fixed and it's sinking so what's the sale man not much you have a good weekend yeah well good i'm getting my beauty rest you getting your beauty rest yeah what is anything going on in the news Oh, I don't know. Have you heard anything? I don't know what could have happened. I ain't watched it in a long time. That's probably a good thing. I mean, I ran all weekend. What's happening in Iran? A flock of seagulls. A flock of seagulls? He said I ran. I ran so far away. I ran so far away. No, on a serious note. I had to get away. To all of our people that are involved in this, we're praying for you. amen buddy we were kind of we kind of were diving deep before we started the podcast and well it's one of those things we don't go political yeah for the most part just because who cares there's enough of that out there but you can't really ignore this one yeah so folks that are involved actively passively our thoughts and prayers are with you guys we have two people sitting here with us today that have both been involved involved uh with stuff like this don't believe everything you see yeah yeah don't repost something that's not true it's hard though because i'm not posting how do you know this day and age if it's real or not it comes on your screen if you're looking at social media or whatever and it's hard what's it called ai it's hard for me to distinguish between real and ai it's so good how do you know well and then last night i was looking at stuff and they were like one of our boats got taken out and i was like oh no like that's a bunch of guys on there in our navy and then scroll down oh this this video is actually very old it's eight news 2020 or something but you were in afghanistan yeah i was afghanistan I was in NAMM that's not quite the Middle East but NAPOM boy he just said he looked at me and raised his eyebrows but speaking of NAMM we'll transition to something else this is exciting speaking of NAMM me and Si are headed over to I wouldn't call it West Texas just west of Dallas and we're going to board a helicopter oh no and we are gonna that is it has been turned into a gunship we are gonna declare war on the on the piglets oh population not in west texas the feral hog population let me know how that helicopter goes i don't get in helicopter but i oh no you need to get yeah i don't get on anything put on your harness hey put on your harness and get on the m60 and get after it that's right you're Getting on an M60 and shooting pigs. He's a door gunner. Yeah. Right. Is this going to be like those guys that were shooting them fish? Oh, what are you talking about? They scared the living you-know-what out of me. I was over, what is it, Cameron Bay getting an engine. A truck engine. And we're going in the double blades, the workhorse of the army. The Chinook. Yeah. Going, hey, they opened up both 60s on each side, and then the guy in the back jumps and pulls his .45 out, and I'm over there going, I'll fix it, get killed, and drown. And I finally looked, and I said, yeah. I said, y'all don't need to do that. What was the first thing you did when they started all that? Huh? What was the first thing you did when they started all that? Stop breathing. Stop breathing. It was. I didn't know if it was like on the movies, you know, when you feel like it's the end, you reach for that. Oh, no. Then you just. No, I didn't have it. I didn't reach for nothing. You just start smoking. My heart probably skipped a beat. Because I opened up together, both 60s. And then the guy jumped, pulled his .45 out, emptied it. You know, and I finally got enough courage to look and see what they're shooting at. Asian carp, baby. Shooting up what you're doing. They knew back then Asian carport a problem. Look at there. They was trying to get rid of them then. They're taking the Washtenaw River now, boys. They were floating everywhere. That's good shooting. Yeah. I said, boys, y'all need to give a little warning here. Good grief. But we got us a Kevlar helmet, and we're going to recreate that scene. Oh, it's wild riding on an A-Huey. I've never done it. Okay. Especially when they turn the thing like this. Oh, yeah. yeah when i you're you're sitting on the with your feet on the skids and they turn it sideways yep yeah that's good and just y'all you're just looking straight out you're looking straight down yeah facebook may finally be right what i may be right with wind with wind in your hair you died again yesterday by the way a good way to go out yeah you died again yesterday oh no look yeah so what happened to him this that we're talking about is this is hey well there he is but he looks like anigo montoya in that one he got his glasses back yeah that one's from a while ago i can't find the one i saw yesterday but willie robertson has announced the one with jace been over in the big tears running down yeah this is real for sure yeah oh yeah is that tears no he's jace is crying that oh no this is a new one that oh from february 28th that's jace crying while holding on to sigh and why is he why is jace hugging mountain man that does that looks way more like yeah it does look more like mountain man what do people gain from doing stuff like that they're trying to knock me off oh i guarantee you No, they're all signed up for Facebook content monetization and are making money off of it. Yeah, but. Every time you share it, you make them about seven cents or something like that. But to be fair, I'm also signed up for that. And a post of about this size has gained this person a whole like 22 cents. Yeah. Because that's about what I make. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And so I'm like, why waste your time? Mm-hmm. What's really worrisome is the amount of people that buy it. Oh, yeah. i'll get a text i'll call every time something like that happens somebody calls me is okay okay well no no my daughter called christine and said is dad all right christine said all that's them idiots that oh you can't social media you can't believe nothing and look you i don't i don't i don't like to talk around my phone anymore because they're they're listening don't ever doubt it Oh, no. They know what we're doing. If you got one of these, they're listening. If one of them will cuss you out, that ain't worth having. I'd love for Si to have a phone, though, and just see what kind of ads he would get. Oh, you wouldn't believe the things that would happen. I'm serious. Because, hey, when I was in the military, the computer, they would just run amok. You had computers in none? That was like the other day. Yeah, them all green and black screen. I wanted to listen to music, so Christine's got her tablet. Yeah. So she put it in on the music channel, and it had the deals going up and down. She said, when you get tired of that, it won't turn the TV on. Just touch the junk going up and down, and it'll turn it off. So she was watching me. The pause button? Yeah. No, no. Not the pause button. It's actually turning it off. Okay. God, I love old people. So look. So look. Hey, I touched it. I've just done like that. I helped this for a second and lift it up. It's still going. So I said, well, let me put a little, I'll do it a little firmer. So this time I pushed on it pretty, that's how I touched it. That's how you get technology to work. That's hard. Wouldn't do it. Okay, wouldn't do it. She just walked over and done this and it went off. She said, if I hadn't been watching you do it, I wouldn't believe it. She said, what is it with you and computers? I said, hey, I told you, God's going to use the computer to annihilate the human being. Oh, yeah. They made a movie about it. A bunch of them. What's going to happen is, hey, all of them have got a red button. Okay. And then someday, all these idiots that have got the red button are going to push them. And it's just going to be nuclear weapons going both ways. Hunter, you look excited. And then this little bitty ball we call earth is going to become a charcoal, a piece of charcoal. That quick. Yep. He raised his eyebrows. And then, hey, one of us that believe in the Almighty is going to go to the new earth and heaven. And forget this. And forget all this. The rest of them are going to wish us back here on this charcoal. That's right. the rest of them is this gonna be a lot easier to black coal yeah oh man yikes well there's your pick me up for the beginning of spring everybody i something to look forward to boys bring this prong if you're on the right side of the almighty hey thumbs up you know sometimes you take a bite of something and you're like okay that's legit this gonna be a regular thing around here for me you know what that is for us guys that's tritails beef because tritails is prime and upper choice beef from american cowboys and ranchers straight from their ranch to your door and their steaks are aged to perfection to rival any steakhouse right and si hey filet mignon there you go new york strip yeah all of it i made burgers out of it the other night and they were delicious well alison made burgers i had burgers the other night out of it Put them things on a flat top. There you go. Two of them. And I just, he gone. You know what I love about it is even when you look at it in the package. 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My youngest one, just in case she had to deal with an attacker. I've been training her to be able to kill an untrained man with her bare hands. Oh, no, I would love to see some fool attack your daughter. well no i wouldn't oh i would no you'd choke him out not at this point maybe 10 years from now but now i think i need to get her some robotics robotic defense well they keep making me antibiotics robotics no a robot because we're getting to the point now where they have lifelike robots over in uh oh look at this back easy look at that look at that thing oh no no i I see one just like that right there. Japan had it, and it went a buck. Time out. It was trying to kill the ones that were working in the plant. That's right. $1,600 a month you can pay for this thing? Yep. How much? With the shop plate paper. People, we have a few ads. If you're using the- Humanoid robot. The monthly payment for humanoid robots, you need to listen. Hey, that's what I look. The next thing you need to check out probably is done with that. That's a bad thing that's going on right now is our kids are talking to robots. They're on sale. And committing suicide because of it. Should we get one? It's not in our budget, Martin. It's $18,000. That's a slow weekend for a time. And have you not seen iRobot? Unitree, GI. Well, what if we had? Can that thing talk? But see, this is what freaks me out. The whole movie that Will Smith was in is robots that look just like that. And then all of a sudden they're like, all right, now we're going to start shooting people. We're going to take over the world. I mean, he seems like a pretty easy thing to disable. What does it say down there? You just take out the joints, man. It ain't no different than a real human. You cut them off at the knees, man, and they ain't going nowhere. What are they going to do? Got your factory down, boy. He weighs 35 kilograms. How much is that? I don't know. 2 times 35 He on sale He used to be 22 Yeah They got a new model coming New battery coming out Hand type Dummy hands Yeah Okay. Knee. That's what I'm saying. I mean, you better have some kind of plan when they decide they're going to take over. I'm with you. It's coming. That thing can run four and a half miles an hour. Good for it. I'm going to send it on a rabbit chase. But does it ever get tired? Because I only got four and a half in me for so long. It's got a battery. It's got a battery. And it ain't got an alternator. But is it charging its battery on top of its head? With what? Solar? We see how well that crap works. Put a windmill on it, too. You know, save the earth. Bunch of bull crap. That was a scam. Hey. Was a scam. Still is a scam. Well, I know. But I just. You realize how much money's been made? No, no, no. That's what got me. When I, you know. Windmill? Look, I got in a plane. Went somewhere. Okay. And I've said it for two hours. Flying over Texas. I bet you I saw 50 million of them things. Oh, yeah. And, hey, they're five mil a pop. And ain't none of them turning. That always blows my mind. You go by, the wind's blowing 30, and they're just sitting there still. You know how hard it is to turn one of them big things? I mean, then let's find something more efficient. Supposedly, they was going to build them and then run all the cables and lines to the cities so that they would have power and light and all this other good stuff. Yeah. Ain't no line been run for none of them. No. They're not even good. What good are they? They're scammed. You know, all they're doing is screwing up the landscape. escape i was just like that yeah i hate it man we got them out here in the delta now like in the river delta there's freaking windmills there's windmills in louisiana yeah right up there on the state line the government was paying farmers in a beautiful area that houses a lot of wintering ducks windmills solar farms and a data center that's good for the ducks that's good oh yeah good thing we care about wildlife uh-oh i just it's so stupid martin about to get to preaching No, it's just dumb, man. And a waste of money. We're going to save the world, but we're going to go fry this 200 acres where nothing will ever be here again, even if we take it out of here. Not to mention, if I was a duck, I'd be terrified of those windmills. Think of all the junk you're making to put in a junk pile. Yeah, that took what? To build oil and gas? Okay. Where's the trade-off here? Wouldn't it be a lot easier to just dig up them dead dinosaurs and keep pumping it in your car? i mean i don't i don't get it but you know here we are i don't know i don't get it i you know i just don't get it i think the top thing that you can use a battery for is a weed eater but after that that's a good one i a battery chainsaw i've come to really appreciate that chainsaw is money is it yes it's handy uh big dave's really been making fun of his neighbor and his electric chainsaw a lot lately look an electric chainsaw should not be your only chainsaw all right that should not be your main chainsaw you need both but to throw in the back of your buggy because you you know windstorm comes through or something and you may not know if there's a limb or a tree down or something it's very handy for that you know energy exclusively is using electric chainsaw i almost bought one that's incredible that tree company used all hydraulic chainsaws they didn't use it they didn't use any gas or nothing so someone invents something for good and what do we do we take it turn it back what do we turn back oh everything the electric chainsaw no he's good wait till texas chainsaw massacre 2030 when it's you can't even hear him coming oh i'd be bad none of that no more two strokes baby he just presses a button and he looks at you oh no yeah the next thing you know is you hear it right before it touches your throat you're like oh man oh you just hear a light buzz in the distance are there bees here just a crazy person with a ego chainsaw yeah yeah i made movies about that electric chainsaw yeah i i saw the electric chainsaw massacre yeah i'm telling you right now i'm not in hollywood but if you're listening i will go see that the electric chainsaw man or when the windmill start fighting back they just start sending their propellers off of there you ever see one of them blow up no it's it but i'd love to i'd love to see them all blow up in sync and just end up on the ground if them things get going too fast they like a helicopter they move oh they probably got a jesus nut on them just like him helicopters there's probably one piece that holds all that crap together no thank you i'm out i need more than one safety net i'm out man i'm out y'all have fun on them helicopters hey they are fun hey they took out kobe bryant man they are all fun they took out the mamba they can take out anybody man i'm just i'm not getting on a helicopter watch this thing watch this thing it's going too fast we're watching a windmill got a good windstorm boy look how fast that sucker is going there it goes uh yep uh that feels like a that's what that's what they all need to do that was posted 13 years ago was that a homemade windmill yeah because that ain't one of them big rascals out there in texas it wouldn't fit in that frame or in mississippi or louisiana where they all are now it's martin there's people listening that work on the windmills and i'm glad they have a job and i'm glad they're getting well paid to do that i mean hey i would too right but make a killing go do it man do what you got to do for your family i just hope they pay you more to take them down i don't that's all i'm saying i don't know anything about windmills what why why do we hate them have you seen them i've seen them they're ugly they're a they're a scab on the landscape and do yourself a favor look up just how efficient they are at producing power they don't work for the power grid they don't do anything in the grand scheme of things like it it does not offset it i finally it takes so many of them but they're so big that you can't put enough of them in one place to offset it like it's a wild oh they tried it oh they're trying and they're they're actively trying it and i've got buddies that work in that stuff and i say hey man make it while you can here's again here's the thing i hope they pay you double to take it down they don't have a purpose now there's there's got to be something better yeah yeah and they kill a lot of birds not just ducks like bird flying through the night fly straight into the prop he did at the bottom of There's no coming back from that. There's a lot of bird migrations happen at night. Yep. So like, you know, a little songbird just done. I mean, they're dumb enough to fly into your house window. You think they're going to miss a windmill? It's just not, I don't know. I hate them, but it is what it is. Hey, and if you're coming out of a winter slump, now's a good time to hit that reset button. Taking care of your health doesn't have to be complicated. and that's why we love AG1. Si, how simple is it? One scoop. One scoop will do you. AG1 is a daily health drink that keeps it simple. One scoop and you've got vitamins, pre and probiotics, superfoods and antioxidants. No mixing and matching a bunch of pills and powders because one simple scoop, it's got you covered. Every morning I start it with AG1 so that way I know I've already done something good for my body. Plus the steady energy support I get from AG1 is better than a cup of coffee. 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I didn't know that. You drive by him every day. I could have been cooking you supper. He lives at the gate of your neighborhood. Oh, really? Yeah, he's pointing. I ran past his house the other day. Yeah. It's very close. Well, I didn't know that. Well, I'll get Anna to bring you something to eat. All right. Why don't they want him a banana cake? Oh, banana. What about banana bread? You like banana bread? Banana bread. Hey, one of them small ones. You know, I thought, you know what I thought the other day? Anna made some really good banana bread. I thought, you know what? Banana bread is good. Bread pudding is good. What about banana bread pudding? Uh-oh. Yeah, that sounded like a winner. It's got to work. Oh, my wife would love it. That sounded like something that would make Goblin's arms shoot through the roof, man. That thing would be like those to the moon. It would be like AIDS. moonshot yeah god we can't talk about those kind of things with god women anymore but yeah i'm uh he's looking good i mean got on that diet oh yeah oh he's taking it serious too he ain't fooling around he's he's on it well they finally found one that actually worked because al al's dropped 100 pounds well it's what works is called discipline discipline the other thing that works is motivation motivation discipline well to get discipline you need motivation which is what happened to me i said hey i couldn't get in the door so i had to lose weight well that's what he told me i said now you're looking pretty spiffy there son we all have well when i couldn't get in the door it happens he said i had to yeah drop a little weight it's real simple just don't eat as much where they invest now output output greater than input it's amazing what happens When people ask me how I lost weight, I was like, well, I'm generally hungrier. Yeah. And that's okay. Yeah. Well, most people. You don't have to gorge yourself. They lose it. And then when they start picking it back up, they go overboard and weigh way more what they used to. It's the yo-yo. Oh, I ain't going back. Stop. Actually, I can attest. Stone, ever since he lost all the weight, I don't think you've ever even come close to going back. No. Nope. when i get to a certain number i'll lose 15 pounds lock back in yeah if i when i get up say 190 is my number when i get to 190 i go back down to 175 immediately and then i'll work my way back up to 190 back to 175 that's what i do i spend all summer getting down to a low because i don't come duck season hunting season i'm just eating to survive so i eat a bunch of crap during hunting season yeah it's like late meals and then as soon as you eat you go to bed schedule is out because it's early morning so i just spend february to october getting down as low as possible and then i just gotta let it go during hunting season then do it again do it again because they're in hunt season this is there's nothing really you can do this because when you get hungry yeah you eat you eat whatever's available whatever's there and then hunting season is also combined with the holidays My biggest problem. Holidays. There's cakes and pies and all things good. I got, I hit my number that, uh, on like December 26th. And I said, okay, it's over. Yeah. Let's roll back down to it. Run it back. Hashtag better decisions. Now, now I'm a, now I'm a jogger. A jogger. Okay. Into it. He's jogging. I'm jogging every weekend. It is the worst. Uh, I don't understand it. I don't know why I'm doing it, but I'm looking forward to it next weekend. That's good. I don't think it is. I'm getting back in. I'm just carrying minnows down to the pond every day. Martin's my new best customer. Minnows. I'm bugging them minnows every day. Every day. You boys got to have something to do. I understand that. But that's what they're doing. That's what they're doing. I got to show you the pictures. I'm about to have to get my shiner tank back out at my house. I'm just going to have to start cutting out the middle man for a little bit for the short term. oh you're good i got a shatter tank i can't believe they're but they're my four years old they started here with fake that was me i caught that one no hooks they didn't have hooks then the next day boom the next day boom oh there's way more than that we've been smashing them fish are hungry and they don't say they don't see a whole lot of crickets i'm doing a i'm doing a story they tell me i gotta post more on my stories he's a story man i'm doing i just figured out how to do yeah remember i told you i love old people man i just figured if you hold down that button it'll be a video it makes a little video yeah and you can post you know you can do a story and hey there's a little deal over there you can go hands-free too i don't know how to do you ain't even got to hold the button i don't even know how to do that you can go hands-free flip the screen back and forth you can do all that well that's randy howl randy howl i pulled up my instagram and the first picture was randy howl holding up monsters because also you aren the only one fishing this weekend there a there a for you with a bluegill look at there i a little embarrassed because apparently i the only one on the prettiest weekend of the year that didn take his kids fishing Yeah you were jogging What were you doing? It was like a five mile an hour south wind. It was perfect for fishing. Well, and then me and the boys, I was like, hey, y'all want to go over to mom and dad's house? We'll hang out outside all day. And they were like, yep. And we ended up playing wiffle ball. Oh, there you go. For six hours. Wiffle ball is fun, but you can do that when his fish quit biting. Right now, these fish ain't seen a bait in a couple of months. Oh, they were delicious. That's the good part. We chunk all ours back right now. That's the good part. Hey, Carter's still on the cleaning committee. He said, we need to go catch a fish. Well, what I told Sage, well, the dog had run off, and I was worried she wasn't going to come back, Libby the blue heater. Okay. So the electric fence quit working. Yeah. Anyways, so I thought the dog was gone, so I was trying to distract Sage. I said, well, let's go catch our supper. I said, we're going to catch six big ones. We're going to come back, fry them up. That's where we're going to wait for supper. We go down there fishing, catch the fish, come back. Dog was back, so everything worked out. Perfect. But let me tell you something. Them Bram and Willie's pod have gotten huge, humongous. I'm going to have to sneak over here pretty soon. Ain't nothing better than having a big brim. I'm going to have to buy a truckload of shad for the home pond there at Mom's. Them fish, they ain't in great shad. Watch this. Watch this. Watch this little fat boy. He get all fired up, son. He got the volume on. He got him. He caught a big bass, Jack. I caught a big one. It's right now. Wait for her. That was nice. Letting your brother reel it in. You want to touch him? Wayla's so mad he caught it on his pole. Watch Jack. He puts them in a choke hold, son. He will not grab it by the mouth. But watch this. He will choke that rascal. this is my favorite part watch him throw it back in you don't want to be a fish in Jack's hand he back in the water ain't nothing better I took her down there at Willie's pod there was a cypress tree she wanted to cast she wants to do everything on her own I cast the first couple times she says the hook reels them in well then she said i want to cast she cast hung up in the tree break the line of retie she's waiting for me to retie i can't see anymore i can't see how to thread the line through the hook can't do it i mean i'm just guessing at this point your eyes are going so it took me longer than normal he was impatient he said i want to cast again well guess what there's a tree right back in the tree so we repeat this three times i said sage we can either do one or two things you can keep casting and i'll keep retying or you can let daddy cast and then you can she said you go ahead yeah we don't need but three more yeah but uh there's a lot of corks in them cypress trees but then uh christian and his crew came came by when he came by with his girls he's like oh y'all caught some fish yeah he looked in the bucket and said good grief those are big i'm like yeah we can't catch anything i'm like huh you can't you can't catch anything in that pond that's a shame man all you gotta do is hit the water with anything yeah just hit the water i'll tell you they are smarter than they used to be but that little green jig that thing works mm-hmm they works real good and mentors work really good on pond fish pond fish love a shiner man they do them oh what do they call uh copperhead copperhead or copper note oh bluegill copper nose bluegill there's some things whoo they fight yeah When you're running a business, you get to the end of the month, you know, you got all the bills, you got all the mess. 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Go to coastpay.com slash duck call room to see how you can earn up to $2,000 credit. terms apply that's coastpay.com slash the coast visa commercial credit card is issued by Celtic bank all card accounts subject to credit approval i'll tell you what i went i would this weekend i was in collierville tennessee and that was an interesting spot uh we had like 550 men at a men's conference thing that was really cool but the funniest part was so i'm right on the border of mississippi and tennessee so like there's a bunch of old miss stuff in there because that's guys you know where their college then there's a bunch of tennessee stuff in there so the first thing i said when i got on stage was let's give it up for lane kiffin because he's done made both them fan bases really mad and i'm wearing a purple and i'm wearing this yeti hat the purple and gold yeti hat and i got booed and i said yeah that's right we in a good spot and then they all started busting out laughing and they were you got to come to knoxville for the game i was like yeah i think it's opening weekend of duck season this year so uh probably not probably not gonna make it about yeah looking at the calendar i'm gonna send britney though i did go ahead and get two tickets just in case for lsu tennessee and knoxville center with her sister yes or somebody it don't matter take whoever you want to up there take an lsu fan up there rocky top's cool place man if interview oh it is cool place to watch a football game it's fun um probably won't be so much fun with them throwing stuff at lane kiffin but it'd be all right they gotta throw stuff at them yeah oh yeah they're hot they're hot tennessee hold a grudge now i mean they ran derrick dooley's pants up the flagpole when he left them orange britches that's just rude yeah yeah those hillbillies is tough now people get emotional over these ball games yeah there was one guy in the crowd that yelled out woo pig i said hmm that's interesting woo pig suey up there yeah talk about loyal to be saying that in public like oh man i didn't know there was arkansas fans left there's one there's one i can confirm one i just realized i was about to ask hunter if he had any voicemails but we don't have a computer this room is weird today what you got hunter they didn't they didn't do what they said they were gonna do i don't know they didn't do what they said they were going to do i like when are they going to do what they said they have no idea because we got a pretty good schedule this week because i'm out all next week it might look like this for a couple days or it might not i have to go talk to someone about it yeah there you go run it run it up the flagpole hunter that doesn't that doesn't riddle you with anxiety does it why are we doing it so early what do y'all have to do today can you talk about it what are y'all doing i don't even know yeah we're here at breakfast time technically i can't give specifics but me and josh have to go work on a movie later oh Okay. Yeah. Who's it about? That's the specifics. I can't get out. That's the specifics. He can't talk. Can you give a hint? Yes. And then we can give them out? No. I don't think I can do that. Is it about Cy? No. Dang. Probably won't watch it then. That would be a good movie. I would watch the Cy Robertson. Life of Cy. Life story. Life of Cy. As told. through sigh would be the most magical movie of all time oh yeah can you imagine a movie about sigh narrated by snoop dogg yeah ding ding that would be cool yeah and you know print the money it would be longer than lord of the rings absolutely but because of the way the stories all go but i mean we'd have eagle the pigeon yeah we'd have the helicopter shooting the poor fish and what cameron bay yeah i mean that would just be it would be the it would be the best movie since forrest gump and there'd be such a cool ai black cat in there man but they would get a real one no not with this budget you're gonna spend all your money on snoop the back end's gonna have to be the baby sasquatch would be in there but then they could do it as a two-parter though That was a real deal. You could have Psy narrated by Snoop and then Snoop narrated by Psy. What kind of mashup would that be? I'm still confused by the whole thing. Psy talking about drama and LBC? Hold on. Did you just say that was a real thing? Yeah. Which one? The baby Sasquatch. I'm serious. Oh, yeah. That's the one when y'all were running. Darko, I. Oh, we had went frog gigging. The skunk deal. He smelt like a skunk. Okay. Run you into a culvert and all that. He said juvenile. Hey, but here's the thing about it. When I turned around, okay, Tommy's in front because he's a little head higher than Phil. Phil's neck, and then I'm bringing him to the rear, so it's stair-stab. You was always a caboose with you. Yeah. So, look, I feel a presence behind me. and when i turned around i was about uh i guess first grade vivid imagination six years old six or seven you were just trouncing through the woods look we had been frog gigging and we had a toe sack i think the definition of them boys growing up would have been feral but anyway that you'd call them when i turned around hey something is eye to eyeball with me i never knew you were six in this story which makes it even better no i'm serious when i turn around i'm looking at it and it's like two glowing charcoal so you're six years old i'm six years old when i turn around all i see is glowing eyeball time is it what time is it dark after dark we haven't been frog gigging all night so this this can you imagine sending one of your kids out at six years old to go for all gigging oh no hey it's getting all night long hey look my mother you were six then phil was eight he was like tommy was uh martin was just talking about another two years son goes down so the oldest one there was 10 years old yeah tommy oh no no hey look mom used to hey would she get sick of us go she'd make us get in the in the falcon hey she'd drive us 15 miles up river drop us off at the levee and said i don't want to see y'all till suppertime drove the chevy to the levee six oh hey out in the woods all night long again frog gigging feral yeah and you saw a juvenile sasquad y'all ever seen that movie the hills have eyes now that you're older and more mature do you really think it was a sasquad no no upstairs what you laughing about he knows it was hey it was hey it was something that walked up right okay and had eyes that glowed in the dark red red because a 10 8 and a six-year-old wouldn't make up nothing now this whole time i thought he was like at least like 19 oh 16 maybe you were i was i was thinking they were the teenagers like i was thinking like 16 14 12 i didn't know we were 10 no no look the oldest was a ripe young fourth grader yeah you can you just got a snippet of what we've done when we was that age because look red river was like two miles away from the house 12 mile by you was about five miles away from the house i was 12 you know and we would go to 12 mile bayou which we had a bridge to go over to go to church wait a minute 12 mile bayou that the one that had the one stick the one stab that the bad no that that gillum that about that we had to drive to that That about 15 miles Yeah But anyway when we would go to 12 bio and set out throw lines there was a silverfish, and I thought it was the, what is the thing? Oh, they get big. A tarpon? Battlefish? Yeah, it's a sea fish. Like a marlin? Yeah, tarpon. Tarpon. Look, hey, we'd sit down in our lines, and we'd be sitting there around the fire, waiting to run them at like 12 o'clock. And, hey, there was a silverfish that would go up in the air, just jump high. And, I mean, big. This sucker was huge. You know, we never did know what he was. How big? Oh, I'm talking about eight feet top long. You know? Eight feet. he'd go up in the air and he was like, he looked like a piece of silver dollar. That color. Shiny silver. Just shiny. He'd go, make a big splash. Phil said, I wish that sucker could get on our trot line. Or our throw line. There was a tarpon. That's what it looked like. That's the only thing, yo. And a bayou in northwest Louisiana. 12 mile bayou. Yeah. which was flamm full of big ops and uh high fin channel catfish hey will you take my kids fishing because i want to hear the stories that come out after y'all get done because i know what they say after we get done and i was there so no hey we all we used to have y'all like tom tommy was clearly they're old enough to go all night tommy was working so he he had money and he bought a a five cell flashlight for froggy at hold on d battery yeah your brother tommy had a job 10 years old at 10 so he could take his little brother frog when tommy was in the uh eighth grade he was he was working for a carpenter and they was building houses you know you can get into buying quick in these trying times you need a quick financial fix you sign up for that credit card. Say, I'm going to pay it off at the end of the month. And guess what you don't do? Pay it off at the end of the month. And sometimes it's stuff like this ice storm. 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And she says, well, that wasn't very smart. Y'all and Tommy said, no, it wasn't. That flashlight cost about $25. How many hours does a 10-year-old have to work to get $25? Oh, hey, Tommy was a carpenter. He got paid good money. Back in 19, what year would that have been? Well, if I was six, that would have been 54. 1954. $25 flashlight in 1954. Five cell now. Five battery cells. That's a fancy flashlight. Oh, hey, that thing blinds a frog in a heartbeat. It blinds you, y'all. Five cell, y'all. Is this it? Oh, no, that thing, hey, that flashlight was that long. You're talking about a big mag light. The OG mag light. It took two people to carry them. It doubled as a weapon. yeah you turn around and say that was back in the day when like if you call you know the biggest frog we ever caught 19 inches no oh three foot and hey you weren't even three foot hey no no hey hey you were six man the frog you just named was bigger than you i'm serious that frog was three foot and look his his legs was like a turkey leg it's that big around that sucker was bigger than your current leg let's see yeah we got his legs were big as this cup the top of this cup measure out three foot on that table i wish i had a tape man i just want to see you guess it three foot that's only two hey about hey the table the table that's two foot all right ladies and gentlemen that's about two foot right there if you're driving down the road i implore you to head to youtube.com slash duck call room and see size uh him go home and talk to rich that's yeah that right there is eight inches he got some explaining to do eight inches I say it is. 16. Okay. 24. Is that right? 16. Oh, 22. 22. That's two foot right there. It's about the size of this table. Hold on. Bingo. And if you need a measuring device, be sure to check out Sadie Robertson Huff in the next step. What are we doing? I don't know, but that book's at least 10 inches. No, it's eight. And 16 plus eight is obviously 22. Hey, the fun part of frog gigging back then was, okay. The four-foot frog? Until we learned, look, until we learned that you had to cut the tendons, you throw frog legs in the grease, well, they'd jump out of the grease. Oh, yeah. I'm serious. We had them battered up. One else would have them in the thongs, and the other one would have a lid with the thongs. To keep them in the grease. I'm serious. And you were six. Well, hey. I need people to imagine a six-year-old with 350-degree oil slamming a lid on frogs jumping out of the grease. A six-year-old with legs and thongs. Hey, you know what is the PlayStation for the Army? What? What's some of theirs? Call of Duty? Yeah, Call of Duty. Oh. Well, hey, what we did for Call of Duty, you know the kitchen mattress is about this long? Oh, yeah. Yeah, you actually shot it. We'd take the razor blade out of daddy's shaver, cut four slits in it, put paper in it for the feathers, and then stick a needle, a big one, in the other end of it. And that was our PlayStation. Stabbing each other with kids and matches and needles. You'd run through the... In the back, boys. Why'd y'all hate each other so much? No, that was just what we did for fun. Hey, imagine if they'd have had airsoft guns. They would. Oh, well, we did used to have BB gun wars. Oh, no, he's on that, too. And we also. My brother lost his two front teeth in a hickernut war. Hickernut war. Because he was behind the tree, and he stepped out to look. Phil threw a hickernut, hit the tree, glassed off, and pow, two front teeth gone. And Phil had a cannon. Oh, hey, Phil, that was back when he pitched, you know, in high school and college. look they they went they played in the summer league him and tommy yeah phil phil was right-handed but he batted left-handed yeah there you go there it is but hey you talking about could throw a hard ball and then especially a speed ball and a hickory we had this kid 14 years old play with us one day he said you know he said he told phil he said you can't strike me out right he said oh boy you do you need to go home you're gonna get in trouble yeah but the old boy got smart with it this is what he said hey get up there get up there and get you a bat docks his eye that speedball he had a good curve with a hard ball but speedball oh it'd go from you know across the plate on behind the batter all the way across the plate i feel like we need luke gay right so hey i got up there first ball was fastball the kid didn't see it and I don't remember I think timing was umpire. Track one! No home cooking there. So hey, next one was a slider. Track two! The next one was Phil threw it behind him. Gotta send a message. No, no, no, look. And hey, he jumped and landed on the plate and when he did, that speedball hit him right here. In the temple. On the side. Yeah, right next to the temple. Eyeball. Hanging out. Mama come out. Like Martin Lawrence in Blue Street. Eyeball. Yeah. Hey, it's just hanging there. Mama come out there and put it back in his socket. And we take that on. She's taking it to the merch room. That's a good place to go if your eyeballs ever dangling. Phil told that kid, he'd say, come back when you're about 18 and try again. Life was tougher back then. Hey, it was rough, boys, I'll tell you. Eyeballs popping out. My brother's Jimmy Frank. He was responsible for getting about probably 10, maybe 8 kids, scholarships in football. Oh, there's something redeeming. Because, hey, he would make everybody play. They'd all be crying. He'd say, quit your crying and get down and get ready to block. He must have been quarterback. We had some good football games, though. Well, that was a good trip down memory lane. Let's go home now. My childhood was lit. I don't have a verse for your lit childhood. I had a verse for all the worries and troubles going on in the world today. Are we done? We're done. We're over time. We didn't have a clock today. And look at us. We're fast. Look, Revelation 21.5. He who is seated on the throne said, I am making everything new. Then he said, write this down for these words are trustworthy and true. What's going on in this earth is wild and crazy. but like i said one day this place will be a big ball of charcoal we'll be in heaven so hey look when he created everything you know i knew i knew earth and heaven is already waiting yep i'm fired up it's there boys trust me when i tell you it's there amen i'm in on that we'll see y'all next time deuces we're out Thank you.