Duck Call Room - 'Duck Dynasty' Stars Lose a Combined Total of 400 lbs

Episode Date: August 27, 2024

Uncle Si is very impressed with his "Duck Dynasty" costars' health journeys since the show ended. 300 American Legion bikers show up at Duck Commander to support military veterans’ mental health awareness, and Uncle Si makes an impassioned plea to his brothers-in-arms who are struggling to seek the help they need. Martin invites 11-year-old Finley to give the lowdown on what school is like these days, and John-David admits that he’s already had a parent-teacher meeting over an amusing misunderstanding with his oldest son. Phillip and Si salute motorcycle police, especially after they saw one shake off a terrifying accident. The boys wonder if kangaroo would taste better or worse than lamb chops. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are we ready to kick his thing off yet? Do you really love New York? No. She's got the teaser. She's got it at the honey hole. Welcome back to the duck call room, ladies and gentlemen. We do have another special guest today. We're just bringing in special guests left and rock.

We're going to call this episode back to school. We'd like to offer you all a warm welcome to Finley. All right, Finley. Welcome. Finley waves. It's a podcast. People can only listen. They can watch it on YouTube.

That's right. but Finley is Lindsay's daughter Lindsay is Corey's assistant and Finley on like the first week of school said no I'm good You're not going I'm not going

I'm not going So I offered her a seat and she was like sure I thought she'd say no because it's us But she's like no I'll do it So Because she's super chatty

She is very talkative Finley do you take off every Friday? It's Thursday So how is the first Well, we got to talk about all things back to school today, but we're back. You're in the middle of school. You're skipping today.

That's no big deal. But how is school going? It's going good. There's a lot of big changes because I have so many classes to go to now instead of just three or four. Oh, what grade are you in now? We should cover all these. Yeah, I wanted to know that. I'm in sixth grade.

Oh, middle school. Middle school. You should skip middle school. Just wait and then go back in high school. How old are you? 11. Man, look at there. What a life.

You're cruising through school. I'm trying to do the half in my head. Well, I'm just, I mean, you were in middle school. Like, middle school used to be seventh and eighth grade. When did six get thrown in? I went to middle school. I didn't go to junior high, but I still called it junior high. Yeah, I went to Westmanoe, Junior High.

You went to Westmore of Junior High? Uh-huh. Because junior high was seventh and eighth grade. Yeah. Sixth grade was still elementary. Yeah. But I went to middle school. So between me and you.

But see, like to me, Finley, you make an answer to this since you're there, there's a lot of difference between a sixth grader and an eighth grader, and they're all in one place. I mean, like, that's just a, that's a big difference. Yes. It's a really big difference. Do you feel, so you're like, you're one of the smallest at the whole campus?

Yeah. Are you nervous? A little bit. That's okay. Nerves are a good thing. It keeps you ready, just in case. so but you're enjoying the first week yes we except for today well what's your favorite subject my favorite subject is math is math all right hey that's good as long as it's not science

wait no she loves science too don't you yes I don't know which brain we are right or left but we're the same whichever I'm I'm a math and science guy but martin's too much science it we're we got to watch out for the moth people now he's really you back off my my moth people. Look, the moth people, after the last one where we talked about, the moths, have really reached out and embraced me as a new member to their community. And we even have one, Rachel, who is sending us a framed bunch of moths. And we're going to have it for decoration in here.

So we can have science class in here. Not that exciting. All right, Fenley, it's been nice having you. No, no, I got a question for Finley. So, Finley, when my children were younger, They dreaded going back to school. So they loved the summer, but I couldn't, they wouldn't even let me say the word school.

They say, Dad, you have to call it squirrel. Because they didn't want to think about school at all. Did you dread going back to school, or is it a good time for you? The only reason I really dread school is because summer is such a fun time, because you don't have things to worry about, like, tests. And, like, it's funner than school because you don't have to do as much work. as in the summer. Sigh lives his whole life

a summer. No, at recess. He lives at recess. What she's really trying to say is she's tired of being a duck commander. If she's not at Camp Chioca, she's a duck commander. She's tired of me harassing her every day

trying to make her talk. She has said more words in this four minutes and six seconds than I've heard her say in three months, by the way. Did you were here all summer? Not all summer. Most of the summer I was at camp. but it has been really fun at camp.

Yeah. But yeah, when I walk by, I'm like, hey, family, how you do it? All you do is give me a high-five. I won't engage me in conversation. Don't never go back to a conversation with him, just high-fiving from hearing out. Well, I know the problem where there's her little brother. Douglas? He doesn't stop talking.

He doesn't. Douglas, the destroyer. We faced Douglas in soccer one time. I said, uh-oh, Douglas is, he scored like 18 goals on Ben's. I was like, whoa. The destroyer. That was rude, Douglas. Could have stopped.

Yeah, so she can't get a word in edgewise around the house. I get it. She's a quiet one. That's fine. I was that way too. All good. All things are good. Quiet people actually probably end up running the world.

Because they're just listening, figuring everybody out. Is that what you do? Most of the time. Most of the time. I like it. Sott, do you remember going back to school? No. I don't remember going to school.

You don't know. What I remember about is it didn't start in mid-August. Like, we were right at the tail end to August all the time. Like, these kids are going back now, like August 8th, 9th, 10th, earlier and earlier. But that's because now you don't start until September. Y'all get out because the wind blows 20 miles an hour now. I mean, back in the day, they're like, no, tough it out. You go.

Like, and if there was a potential tornado, you just learned how to get in the hall and cover your head with a book. Like, now they're like, now stay at home. Well, but the thing is, so it's blown my mind. We came home from orientation with a couple of computers. They gave them to you? Yeah. Google Suite, Google Chrome. Chrome books.

And you got to sign in and everything they do goes straight to that. So you miss a day, you're just sitting at home doing it. Yeah. You don't even get to watch the prices right and have an icy. You got to like sit there and do all your homework because it's right there. Carter carries a computer with him everywhere he goes. Oh. Yeah.

So you have to do school works today even though you're not there. You know what it is. Okay. Oh, yeah. But since it's the beginning of school, I don't have as much to do because I, some of the teachers don't really post a lot on Google classroom as much as they do, like in the middle of the school year and at the end. Okay.

All right, I got you. Oh, yeah, they like record everything. Brown. Technology is taking us to where we can go to school in the bathroom. You can always be at school if you want to. I'm actually so glad I don't live in this time then. Like those days off. Very fortunate.

Of course, I'd have been the kid doing it from the deer stand, I guess. I mean, if we're doing it that way. I'd be in the duck blind on my Chromebook. Out there, like, no, I ain't going. I'll see y'all tomorrow, boys. Yeah, oh, yeah, you don't get absences now. You just get remote work. What about homework?

Y'all still do that? Yeah, we still do that. But some classes don't because sometimes they have the first class and then a class enrichment, like math. math doesn't unless we don't have time to do it in class they'll send home homework but we most of the time

have time to do homework in class I think I'm against homework I know I am I don't like it I think you should be able to get done what you get done during the day yeah if we can't get it done from eight to three or whatever it is I don't bring worms home and try and sell them to my neighbors I got to do that at work you shouldn't do math homework at home you should be

schoolwork not homework well generally like when we had to take duck calls home to build them because we didn't have enough, that's because we had goofed off. We had slacked off to some point, whether it was fishing, basketball, or playing golf or something. Now, Duck Dynasty, take that out the window. Like, that was just a phenomenon where we had to build them at the house. It didn't matter. But I'm saying any other time when you're working outside of the normal nine to five,

that's because you took a little liberty with some time in there between nine to five. So, you know, you pay the taxes. then like and that's fine and i would be fine with that if that was the school works case you got time to do it during the day be done with it yeah unbelievable i'm i'm really these days are coming for me so you're in them phillips passed them size been gone from them like i mean school wild yeah and and i changes every year i ain't there yet so like it's just i'm actually enjoying learning about the the process here of the battles i'm going to have to fight with those two little ones coming up.

I've already been to the school this morning, Mark. Did you? Oh, yeah. What happened? Oh, yeah, there you go. It's kind of a long story. Johnny has got a visitor's pass badge on his shirt. I've already been to the school.

What? Yeah. What is that little one, wouldn't it? No. Oh, really? She don't talk at school. Really? Yeah, you know which one.

Oh, oh, well. If you, if you are of the impression that you are going to rule the free world one day, you probably are of the impression you already ruled the fourth grade is the problem. Did he wear his jacket like day one or something? No suits at school. No president's suit at school. But you know, Carter, he's had some struggles in life. He's a very literal kid.

Do you know any super literal kids? You tell him a joke and they're like, it's raining cats and dogs, we better get inside because that's going to hurt. It's like, no, no, no, that's an expression. Yeah. So Carter, once he learns an expression, he's good. But the first time, he's like, so he goes to science class in the fourth grade. and there is a skeleton.

That's a normal thing to have. Finley, do you all have skeletons in your science class? No, but we do have models of different types. So this is a full-on skeleton sitting in a chair. Yeah. So you learn about the human body. That's a fun. Tibia, fibia, all the things.

All the things. Well, Carter's season is like, huh, moves on from it, doesn't think about it. And then the teacher makes a joke that that was one of the students that didn't listen last year. Oh, wow. And Carter, you know, the first time it hears a joke, it doesn't compute that it's a joke. And then she says, oh, and there's more skeletons in the closet. Oh, no. Yeah.

Oh, no. So I'm super proud of him, though. Used to, that would have been, we're done. He's running down. I'm out. I see y'all. He's out. It's over.

And we've had many of those moments. But he's grown so much and I'm so proud of him. Because this time, he just sat there and thought the whole time. this lady has killed. And she will kill again. He's sitting there building his case again. And I must alert the authorities. So my sister is a track coach and PE coach out there.

And so he finds her, he's like, I need your phone. She's like, I must call the police. I must call the police. My science teacher is a murderer. No, he's not. So then he gets in the car. He's been sitting there all done. worried to death. He gets in the car.

Mom, give me your phone. We have to call the police. The teacher's a murderer. First thing he says on the first day of school when he gets in the car. So we're like, no, buddy, that's not it. And so we've had a lot of meetings with teachers throughout the years. And, you know, I was like, we thought we might not need one this year. We learned we need one. And so we went and talked to all of his teachers and the principal and the guidance counselor and everybody. And we all laughed at a good time.

But I'm going to say this. It's, you know, you know, Finley, if you're parents had to go talk to your teachers ever? Yes. They're super nervous when they do that. Like I'm like, I feel like I'm, I've got to show them like a good dad and like, and then I don't want to be like mad at the teacher. I like, I wasn't mad at all. I thought was hilarious. But that lady is fantastic. She's like hilarious. She had me cracking up in the meeting. I'm like, you know what? I said, we've had this little hiccup here. But I think you're who Carter needs to teach him about some stuff that hadn't quite computed in his little brain

yet and he also thinks you murdered people but that's okay we're going to get past yeah well i'll explain that at some point no it is fun like when you run in like because that age and finley's right there with it where you're transitioning and learning the actual english language like what people mean with metaphor and stuff like that but when you see those kids that are still at the age of like super literal like because then you know it's kind of a jokester you can have some fun with them now maybe the class, you know, mass murder, like Netflix, like Netflix documentary style, maybe not. There's the reason Carter's not allowed on a lot of different things. Send him back to school with some caution tape.

Oh, he's, he, but then I saw him there. He walked in her class. He's, he's excited. He's doing great this year, but yeah, I already got called in. Week one. Week one. Well, you can't go every week if you don't go the first week. It's been proven. Hey, let me, I did get a call from the school, and it was my, of course, my kids are grown now, but when they were younger. And Amber had told the teacher, my brother shot my grandfather in the back with a gun. And so they came, they went to Blake, you know,

and they said, Blake, did your brother shoot your grandfather with a gun? He was like, I don't know. I don't know. He wasn't going to sell anybody out. Ad boy. Bryson to get him later. Yeah, that's boy. And so they called me up there and I was like, what?

I said, oh, no. Bryson had one of those little Nerf type gun. Herf gun. Yeah. And he got a new one. And so as grandpa said, let's see how strong it is. He said, take 10 paces and shoot me in the back. And Amber's like, yeah, he's coming down.

So child protection called me. I was like, yeah, it's all good. Nobody got hurt. That's fantastic. It's always, it's the first weeks of school are always fun like that. The family, what's the one thing you're looking forward to this year? Sixth grade, first year, new school, big school, big kids. Is there one thing like you're extremely looking forward?

forward to what's that. I can't wait. I'm doing choir and start singing. She said not for free. Good girl. And our choir teacher she said that

there's like an Allstate that you can audition for. And we're learning the Allstate's one so I'm really excited to see if I get in or not. Okay, can your mom see? Awesome. You don't have to look at her. We know she's going to answer.

Answer on. On a scale to 1 to 10, 10 being the best. There we go. Lindsay, it's okay. 1 to 10 being the best. She said, no. No. Well, that's great.

My favorite part is the most nervous person in this room behind Hunter because he never knows. He's just always walking around nervous. Is Lindsay. Lindsay's nervous. Finley's not even nervous. But Lindsay's over there like, oh my goodness. What are we going to say?

What is she going to do? Lindsay, I have to say I would be much more nervous if it were Douglas in that chair. Who knows what Douglas would say? Are you on cross-country, Finley? No, sir. What sports are you playing? I'm doing PEP squad. Pep Squad?

All right. You know a cheer yet? Yes. Can you do one? No. Well, you do one? She wouldn't sing. Come on.

She may do one. Cheer us into our first commercial break here on the duck call room. Let's see it. G. Let's go. Ducks. G. let's go. G.O. Let's go. Ducks.O. Let's go. Let's go. Dux. G. O. Let's go. That's a good battle cry.

Oh, let's go. And let's go to our first commercial. We'll be back right after this. All right. Look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means. That means more outside cooking. And y'all know. We love to eat beef around here. And that's what because of our friends over at Triedale's beef makes such a good product, baby. Ain't it good? It's so good. Our friend, Sao Robertson, would say, buy on the grill! Look, before we got Tritels, getting ready for a cookout, man, somebody had to run the grocery store, do all the things,

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She doesn't eat meat. She ain't a big meat easier, folks. Yeah. Just go to trybeef.com slash. That's trybeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. Well, that was fun having Finley in. That was just something, I don't know, it just kind of happened. That certainly wasn't playing.

She walked in. I said, hey, you want a chair? And she was like, yeah. Why not? She did good. I just knew she would bail because she's generally so shy. She was ready. And Sai was ready to talk about school, too.

who side did his best science school impression. Look, he still is. I'm out. He's yawning right now. He said that ain't. I get bored. I'll tell you what, he's been wild around this place last couple of weeks.

Like the other day, I want to take a minute to talk about these folks. They come by here. The American Legion, I guess there's no other way to say it other than like biker gang. But it was 500 individuals with almost 300 motorcycles pulled into the parking lot here and I didn't really know I mean you know you think you hear American Legion you kind of have somewhat of an understanding of what it is it's a veteran

veteran organization everybody that we talked to were actually veterans and I don't know some of them may just be volunteers and all the things that are in there but super cool they come by and told us all about their slogan to be the one so if you all are interested in that. Be the one.org is the email address, but it's what they do and their calls to help end veteran suicide, like the mental health awareness and all the things for the veterans. And I thought it was super cool.

We had people that rode their motorcycles all in that big group, but they were from all over. Like, I mean, I'm just naming ones I remember seeing Indiana, Maryland, Virginia, Missouri, like everywhere. And it was really cool to have that many of them come in here, stop by. We gave them some bottled water. They went through the tour, got a duck call, all the things.

But it's just something really cool, man. When you see that many veterans in one place getting together for one cause where you really get to see the brotherhood that Si often refers to, you know, when you get to see it in action, it was a really cool thing. So American Legion folks, thank you all for stopping by. That was a fun thing. when they tell you some of those statistics about our people that come back home, man, and the, you know, the captain, I think he called himself captain, the lead,

I don't know, I don't know how the leadership works in there, but he pulled Corey and I aside and said, you know, the part that really hung with me or stuck with me was, he said, you know, when they do that, their pain is over when a lot of times the pain for the family is just beginning. And, you know, I was like, I've never really thought of it in those terms. Obviously, I mean, guess you have. But to think about that from our veterans, from people that serve us that allow us to sit here and run our mouths and allow y'all to sit there and listen to this, come home,

and that they feel like that's the only option they have. We need to do better. As a country, as a community, as an individual, just need to do better if taking care of those people that take care of us. So that's my charge that I, that I gathered from it. So, side, do you remember when, uh, was, where was it? What camp did we go to? Camp LeGis.

Shelby? Yeah, in Mississippi. So, so, so Sae was speaking to all the soldiers and they just love Sae. Oh, that was at Fort Pope. Oh, Fort Pope. Yeah, okay. Because we've been to both of them. We've been to several.

Yeah. But anyway, when Cy starts talking to these guys, I mean, it's a different language. I mean, when, when you're in the military and, They just love Sai, and Sye loved them, and he spoke to them. And one thing that you said, Sai, that I thought was really important was you told them, don't hurt yourself. You don't know what God has in store for you. Do not hurt yourself, you know, and you got a good response from that because that's what, I mean, these guys need to hear that. You know, they've got a tough life right now and even afterward.

But I thought that was pretty awesome when we went down there and you did that. And then what did, I don't know what it's called, but when you place the back, badge on them. They took one off and you put another one on. You did that for a lot of those guys. Remember what? Remember that? The tag came out and then you put the other one on. Oh, that's just a promotion. A promotion? Or a medal, either one. Yeah. But most people, if you, if you haven't known somebody that was involved with the military, you have no idea what they go through, especially those that actually have served, and did time in combat.

So how was it for you when you got out of active duty? Like, I mean, when you left the streets of Vietnam and all the things. I miss the biggest thing I missed the people. Miss the people. Okay. You know, because I had a major that was retiring and he couldn't talk at his farewell party. So his wife did it. Y'all, and I got to laugh at it.

him. And he said, oh, it's going to be like that for you. He said, you won't be able either. He said, because you care too much. But, you know, the people is what it's about because the military is its own family. That's the only way I can describe it. The military is a family, a large one. Yeah. So, yeah, it's just, you know, and if you, if you're never been a part of it,

it's a big deal. So we kind of, everybody tries to take care of each other. So that's why they say, we never leave nobody behind. So, and it's the thing about, hey, you know, that guy

your right or left, you know, may save your life one day. Yeah. And that's one of things like that we can do better as a people that aren't in, that aren't in the service, just to make sure that none of them are left behind. And that's what this be the one mission is all about with the American Legion.

So, you know, if you folks will learn more about it, this isn't a sponsor deal for them. I just thought it was really cool. Like, I mean, it was a cool kind of awe-inspiring moment. You know, you hear like 300 motorcycles and you're like, I mean, you're like, I guess that would be cool. But when you saw them, like, because we threw the drone up to get them. There's a lot. And so when you throw the drone up in our parking lot, you can see all the way to interstate and you see what 300 motorcycles actually looks like.

I mean, you know, there's some in our parking lot and there's still some out there on the interstate, you know, which is, you know, a half mile from here. So, like, it's a, it was a cool sight to behold. Well, none of that, and it's nice to listen to. Oh, yeah, you heard them. Especially with the Harleys, all the Harleys. And so some of their crew showed up here before. or like to get everything set up for them and all that.

So they drive just like bands and stuff like that. And they got a bunch of stuff for their writers and for the calls and all that. And they showed up and we're like, well, you know, what can we expect and all that? And they said, well, you will hear them well before you see them. And I was like, I don't know that Interstate's a long way. No, you put 300 of them together. They're right. You hear them way before you see them.

The funny, you know, I work on the other side of the interstate, but I was watching the Facebook went wild for minute there. There's a police escort and there's, yeah, I saw like five. I was like, Thomas Rhodes shut down. There's, there's, there's bikers everywhere. What's happening? Yeah. What's hilarious about the police escort? I had no idea, like, we got state troopers on motorcycles here. Obviously, I knew that. I just didn't know that I went to high school with most of them. Oh, no. Oh. Like, they come pulling in the parking lot and I'm like, one of them was actually, I mean, me and him played right beside each other on offensive lines. So I was like, Cole, what's you doing?

He's like, I'm part of this. I said, you ride that motorcycle every day. He said, every day. I said, well, you still look all in one piece of my hats off to you. You know, if you're riding on the streets of Louisiana on a motorcycle every day, good, 9-11. But, yeah, Cole and the rest of those guys, man, thank you all for your service too, working for the state police. I know, obviously, everybody's got their own opinions on that, but I appreciate what they do. On the police?

Yeah, absolutely. Everybody got their own opinions on that, but I appreciate everything they do. You have the right one if that means. Yeah, that's what I know. Well, I mean, I think I do, but I'm not going to limit somebody else's either, so they can believe what they want to believe. But when it's your buddy that you went to high school with and like in that case played football with like shoulder to shoulder right next to me, I'm like,

that's pretty tight that that guy's out there helping, you know, helping to make sure that my family's safe and your family and everybody's family. I mean, because Cole is a great dude, and I just never dreamed he would be a motorcycle policeman. I wouldn't have picked that one. Like, he made me go down the career board of our,

our football team. I wouldn't have pegged him for motorcycle, because the offensive line. I mean, I tell you, hey, you know,

we weren't necessarily the most athletic. But look, or the smallest. Or the smallest. Or the most nimble. Those guys have, they must have

exceptional training, you know, to escort people in and out of town and things like that. Because y'all know how many times you've done

than we've done it. And, I mean, they are flying down the road, cutting off the intersections, and sometimes they go too fast, Tonti, Zai. Yeah. That's all one of them wrecked. I still under a big limo. Oh, Lord.

All they do is yank it out from one of, crank it back up, here we go. Back on the road again. And get back to rolling, huh? Yep, yep. Oh, man. I don't ride motorcycles, though. No.

I did when I was. was young, like in high school. I have a hard rule of three or more wheels. See, I didn't at least four. I tried that two-wheel. I used to be a video somewhere. I tried that two-wheel thing down there in Key West one time on them scooters. I said, buddy, if I ever get this thing back to that rental place, I'll never sit

foot on one again. And I've kept to my word on that. I owned a scooter for a minute. Nope. When I was in, when I worked at Super One, I rode a scooter to work. That scooter could go 55 miles per hour. Dang. And you're just sitting on it?

Mm-hmm. Uh-oh. We got a guest. We have another guest. Oh, lucky here. This guest is bringing gifts. Welcome. Bella.

Holy cow. Bella just brought in biscuits. Oh, and look where she said it. Oh, good. She knows which table to come to. Hey, ho. Hey, yo boss is your daddy, girl, but I appreciate the friendship. Hi, I don't know where I'm looking.

Yeah, anywhere. It doesn't matter. Bella just brought in biscuits and jelly. Oh. I just brought in biscuits and jelly. Test him out. and tell me how they are whenever you want. Si, would you like a biscuit with some mayhow jelly?

Yep. Yeah, let's start with the old man. Should we take a break? I'm going to respect my elders. Well, yeah, let's just do it now. And we'll come back with biscuits and jelly. Yeah, absolutely. Biscuit break is over.

Wow. Those were good. Very good. So in case you are wondering about that, we are testing a new line of biscuit mix. As long as it were to stay in line with Ms. Kay's recipe, and, man, they were good. So you may see that. size the ultimate taste tester so that is a new biscuit mix potentially yeah yeah yeah we get yeah a thumbs up from sigh yeah yeah that's something we're working with a partner of ours on to

to get to get done so we've tested some of those they're gonna make us some fish fry too so we're so one of these days they're gonna be some fried fish walk through that door oh or one of the I just hope y'all are here hope who's catching them I hope you go get on we go get on We'll go get on that Godwin's stag. I was about to say that seems where I would go. Yeah, we're going to go to Johnny Gobwin's freezer for that one. Since he's the only one of us that actually still gets to fish a little bit. No, yeah, things, we're moving, shaking, trying to, I always say,

I say, we're trying to cracker barrel that store up. Faces on jellies and candied jalapinos. Cracker barrel. Yeah, we go in full of cracker barrel up in there. And now biscuit mix and seasonings. So, yeah, that'll be available for sale. Hopefully before Christmas time, that's the goal. That's to, for us to be able to make like a food basket for a Christmas gift.

Oh, that's first down on those was it. It was butter. Oh, yeah. There was butter milk. That was Kay's full recipe just with that mix. So if you have the cookbook and you've seen Kay's biscuit recipe, Bella has got that recipe down. Yes.

For somebody that does not partake in gluten, such as Bella. She sure knows how to make it. Hold out. Reverse that. Strike that. Blip it and reverse it. Bella doesn't participate in gluten? Yeah, she won them.

It's got that deal, makes her belly hurt and all the things. But she's a baker. Yeah. I know. Wild, right? I just learned that. Bacon. Apparently she can touch it.

She just can't consume it. So, which I fully support because I can't bake, but I definitely can consume. So we make a pretty good team. And if she calls me her boss one more time, I'm going to continue to get uncomfortable because I am not her boss. Aren't you, though?

No. No, I am not. Technically? No. It's not in his job description. No, it is not. I boss no children of Willie Robertson. Willie Robertson is their boss.

Oh, that's a good point. Yeah, no, I boss no children of Willie Robertson. I don't oversee nothing. Y'all do whatever. So Corey Robertson is their boss. Yes. Absolutely. Not Justin Martin.

You know, there's a major problem with that. Yeah, no. But I appreciate the respect because I've been here for forever, but, like, no, I'm not too. How long have you been at Duck Commander? 15 years. Whoa. I didn't have kids when I started Duck Commander. That's weird.

I didn't have a wife. I didn't, to be fair, when I started Duck Commander, I didn't have much of my future. So, I mean, I was on a fast track to quadruple bypass surgery and, you know, a thing in my arm like Godwin. Whoa. I mean, for real, like, I mean, I was 320 pounds. 320. Yeah.

You've slimmed up more than me, haven't you? I'm in the 250s now, so I'm down 70 pounds. From your biggest. From my biggest, yeah. I just, you do it drastically, right? I try to scale it out over time. Like, I'm just trying to continue a downward trend. I'm just trying to step down. Better decisions. I don't want to do anything drastically because at the end of the day, I still love carbs.

I do you. I mean, you saw me with that biscuit. Yeah, that's fine. I chase Bella down and got two more before I walk back in here. You ate the most biscuits. They're so good. But you're in new clothes. Are you in the new clothes face? I need to be, yes. But no, I'm so frugal. I cannot make myself go buy. This is the worst. I either have to steal a shirt off the rack at the honeyhole. because I don't want to buy new clothes. Yeah. Or I have to look around like I'm wearing like my dad's shirt when I was 10. Yeah. Yeah, I just still operate.

The problem of me is like even my belts, like aren't doing much for my britches anymore. So like, you know. It's great. Yeah, it's great. You come to cross country practice tonight if you want. No, sir. No, I've made good on my promise myself not to run. So things hurt when I run.

Like knees, ankles. joints are but they were under significant time and pressure for a little while so I think we still got a little recovery while I'm lighter I still don't need to go jogging anywhere he's jogging I'm a I used to run a little bit when I would hunt in Wyoming

like to get ready for it for the lack of oxygen up there figure out how to catch my breath oh there's no getting ready for that's training yeah yeah people stopped up there and said this is where we should settle it doesn't make it there's no Yeah, but I ain't been to Wyoming in a couple of years. They should get more oxygen. They do need to import it. I highly recommend.

Do you want to hear something crazy, though, about the opposite of Wisconsin? No, that's Wyoming. Wyoming? What's that? Whatever. New Orleans? What's the most opposite of Wyoming you can think of? Hawaii.

Key West. Close. Yeah. Because it's kind of weird, kind of redneck. I'm just going to go with Alabama. Oh. Guess what was spotted in Alabama? Oh, no.

What do you mean? Oh, no. Bigfoot. No. A kangaroo. A kangaroo. A kangaroo? Is in the wild.

Really? We have wild kangaroos in Alabama. Somebody got it, brought it, and he got away. Roll tide, baby. That's like a sucker bouncing. Is that how we end up with like the invasive species of kangaroos? Yeah. Not if it's just one.

That's how somebody ends up with kangaroo for dinner in Alabama. That's what that is. No, you need more than one to get invasive species. Why can't we have kangaroos? Why would you want them? Because they're awesome. Are they? They look mean on TV.

I mean, they seem kind of like a raccoon that like hops around or something. They can run. Yeah. So are you four against letting kangaroos out in the wild? I don't care. How do they taste? I don't know. I'm sure they're good.

You think so? Yeah, I mean, how couldn't they be? They're made out of meat. They can't be bad. You know? side do they? They like the box. Oh, they'll whoop up on you now.

Yeah, that's the problem. Oh, no, they'll whip up on you. You don't want like a lean meat, though. Who doesn't? Everybody? You want a cow. Well, a cow is good, but I mean, a white tail is lean. Elk is lean.

And not as good as a cow. I said it. Bite me. Kangaroo meat is uniquely lean with a rich and robust flavor. Yeah. I'm interested. I mean, I would eat kangaroo.

It has a stronger flavor than lamb. Okay, that's a problem, because lamb is garbage. And it's similar in leanness to chicken or rabbit. Actually, I've never had lamb. I like rabbit. Let me rephrase. I've always had lamb cooked in, like, the traditional spice palette of, like, the of Europe or something.

Yeah, like the Mediterranean, I guess. which to me kind of tastes like a bucket full of armpits. But like, I wonder if you just treated it with salt pepper garlic if it would be better. Like, you know, or is lamb just like, I mean, because a deer ain't that dissimilar from a lamb. Like, I mean, they kind of do the, I mean, they're essentially a goat and he's pretty good. I've had deer I like. I've never had lamb I like. That's what I'm saying.

But it's never been like, I've never chicken fried a lamb backstrap. Right? I don't think you could cook with them. Maybe not. Now I kind of want to go find a lamb backstrap, cut it thin, and fry it up and see if it's any good. I wouldn't even know where to purchase lamb. There's a Greek restaurant in town and they sell lamb. Or you can eat lamb there.

Yeah, but they don't cook it. Yeah. What do you mean? Have you ever seen a chubby Greek from Greece? No. That's because they don't like their food. I went to a Greek restaurant in Baton Rouge and had lamb. I thought it was really good.

You would. I don't know what that means. Me neither. I've never had. Somebody brought something. Can I tell you what that means? Hunter's a lot hungrier than the rest of us. That's what that means.

I don't know. I said, I don't know anything bad. I always heard about Axis deer being so good. Fantastic. Well, whoever cooked it for us, it wasn't that great because I killed one

and we ate that night. I didn't know what they were doing. I didn't know what to do it. Yeah. Access is fantastic. Yeah. It is top tier. Them guys didn't know what they did.

I would like to try cooking lamb like I would cook anything else, and then I could give you a firm. You think so? I'm out on the spices that, like when we were in Scotland, they served us at rack of lamb, and we had to do that family dinner, which tearing down the walls of Duck Dynasty. When you did a family dinner,

you ate for like an hour and a half. And every time they'd roll that camera in front of us and say, take a bite of that, when it was at lamb i was like i just i don't want to give me the haggis and the haggis was terrible too but at least like the haggis the haggis was like borderline booed anne so but here's what's crazy mark okay hold on what we can go get lamb here you can't go to the neighborhood market Walmart that one's already seasoned yeah no but there's some lamb chops at the big walmart there's only two left well yeah and they probably ordered it in january

They've been there for a long time. 12.48 a pound. For a lamb? Yeah. We've got to get into raising sheep, man. Lamb breasts. What's different between a sheep and a lamb? Is there a different?

Like, is there a? No. Same thing. Same thing. That ain't no good. Either one of. Lambs are baby sheep. Lambs are baby sheep.

Yeah. Okay. Because the only lamb I'm familiar with is Jesus. Oh, so lamb's like, what's the cow? The calf. Oh, veal. Ville. Lamb's like Ville?

Ville's good, though. In theory? Yeah, Ville is good. Bam ain't like Ville. You're against it, aren't you? Oh, no, hey, you can throw that trash away. Well, since you're talking about it, let's get in there. What's in that email?

Here's the deal, people. We're going to have to get Martin his own email address for bug pictures. We talked about, and I accidentally got in the Facebook group. I told it I had to fill out something. I get there that night, and all of a sudden, I'm scrolling the Facebook, and it's like, Justin Martin. no, can anybody identify this moth? And they did.

Yeah, whatever. They did identify it. But now I'm stuck in some Facebook mothing crew. You're welcome. Yeah, and I'm lost, and I'm not supposed to be there, and I can't get out of it. Then I go to read the emails, and every other email is a picture of a bug. How many of you are there? A lot.

There's a lot of us that are fascinated by nature, Johnny Deke. Well, hey, look at that. Here's a picture of a moth. Oh, yeah. I know that thing is beautiful. You know Valerie? No, I don't know her, but that moth is familiar. That's leopard something because of the spots.

They're not even clever. It just looks like a leopard. Well, I mean, other than even being white. It looks like bad ladies' clothes. Yeah, we got a leopard moth. But we got them here. We got them here. You can walk outside and find you on them. So you're not impressed with Valerie's picture?

No, very impressed with it. I was just familiar with that one. Like some of them, that was the thing. Like, if I'm familiar with it, then at one point I was interested in it, but now I'm not. But like when I'm unfamiliar, I have to know. Like there is a thirst for knowledge there for me. Sarah from Tucson, she's it. The moth people are all over.

And our friend Rachel, who is going to send us a frame thing of moss like we talked about with how cool is that? That's awesome. But she. I will say this. My papal in his house when I was growing up had a frame that was like the size of that wall full of butterflies. I think Corey has it now actually.

See? That was halfway cool. See? No, my sister has it. Well, see, I don't want to be like Hannibal Lecter, you know, like. Framing the moths? Because he had what moths and butterflies and all that stuff back in the silence of the lambs movies, like all the things. I ain't trying to talk about all things bad.

Lambs, Hannibal Lecter, silence, and moths. I don't even know where to go from here. But I did. So, like, I'm a nerd, self-admitted, right? But our friend Rachel, who's going to send us that? Big nerd. She used to be an entomologist at Texas A&M, and she married the head of the entomology department at Texas A&M. So I'm talking about.

She's a bugling. Nerd up. Big. So here's the deal. Big. No. Just don't name your kid Rachel because I think Rachel that e-mails a different Rachel now. Oh, really?

She was in the St. Louis Butterfly House back in the eighth grade, this Rachel. Okay. And now she's at how many entomologists, which I just learned about the other day, listened to this show. And how many are there? I love it, man. There's a bunch of us nerds out there, ma'am. Dozens of us.

That's crazy. But it's really easy to be interested in something that doesn't chase you or hurt you and stuff like this. So they are pretty cool. The one Rachel that reached out to me online has a bunch of caterpillars. She was willing to send them for me and the boys. I just don't have that time to commit to that process right now of us raising our own moths and butterflies to let go. So she's not a missionary from Hungary?

No, she is not. Okay, different Rachel. Lots of rachels that are entomologists, enjoy our program. Thank you all you, Rachel's. Yes. See, you'd never known that had it not been for one moth that I got curious about. See, we've opened a new door. I mean, this Rachel was a missionary in Hungary and also an entomologist.

I bet you saw some cool stuff over there too because, you know, and we ain't got the same stuff they got. So that's kind of cool. I bet you got some cool pictures, man. See, John D. Get outside that tackle shop. Oh, man. I only sell bugs that can get eaten.

Yeah. Well, these can get eaten too. They can't sell them. They're quick. No, they're too fast. Yeah, they get away from them. But people make fake ones all the time. All your fly-tie and stuff you sell.

That is true. They're making moss and butterflies. And like right now, if you go outside and look around. This Rachel is a little bit scary, by the way, because she is super into science and, you know, the science community and the Christian community butt heads a lot. But a direct quote, I enjoy entomology and it comes in handy every now and then, but it's more of a hobby. But if I need to, I can throw down with the science talk. She's smarter than me. That's what we just learned about this, Rachel.

And probably the other Rachel. Well, no, no, no, not on that. The art. Bobbed in all this paint making. I had an uncle that did it. Yeah. His tackle box

it was all homemade out of squirrels, birds, ducks. You're talking about beautiful stuff. This tackle box was a treasure to look at. Yeah. He's made all this stuff. Shot the squirrel, skinned it,

you know, done the hide up, all that. That's what makes like that show on history so cool. That alone show? Because then people are out there doing all that like catching all this stuff primitive ways.

You know me well enough to know. I don't do well alone. I know. So do you watch people that do well with it? No, it's so boring. Now if the show was called Duo, I might do it. I might go.

Try that. Well, they had that. It's called Nicked and Afraid. Yeah, I ain't doing that. But I didn't want to be naked or afraid. At least on a lawn, they let you wear your clothes. If your boy walk out of your, they're naked. I'm all you can eat buffet for them bugs that I'm trying to study.

We also got a lot of requests too because how fantastic was the Malone family? Fantastic. I sat there and talked to him in the warehouse part for another hour after we got done with the podcast. See, I wanted to hang out. We just pulled up a chair. But my wife stole food from a restaurant so I had to go pay for it. You got to you got to look at this. We're just going to leave it that. You got to look at it. He started when he was three. That's crazy. That was 21 years. Yeah. To achieve his goal.

Yeah. Wow. Yes, unbelievable. And he tried it in Tokyo. We didn't really talk about that. And then he got hurt. And the year before, he broke everything on his leg and had to learn to walk again. Yeah.

Yeah. Not only learned to walk again, but he started performing at that high of a level again. That's incredible. Did he win gold? Bronze. Bronze. Team bronze. USA.

We got the whole metal for it. Yeah. I've worn a bronze. That's cool. I even bet him that I could do a handstand longer than I'm in, and he offered the medal if I won. He saw the podcast before where you got right here in China. Yeah, it was not good.

And then he turned around and did one of the push-ups with it, too. And then he turned in a circle. He's better on his hands than I am on my feet. And then I got to thinking about it. I have so many more questions for him, but he's not here. Yeah. But we got a lot of requests for other Olympic athletes. Who?

So Andy wants Cindy McLaughlin? I'm in on her. The 400 runner? I looked up her after Brody spoke so highly up. If anybody knows her, send her our way. Yeah. And I will race her in the 400 meter hurdles. I want to see you clear one hurdle big door.

I ran the hurdles in high school. Have I ever done you the story? Again, I want to see you clear one hurdle big dog. That was in the past, Jay-D. No, no, no. It wasn't even in the past. I was a thrower. And the track coach came over to me because we only had one hurdler and he was like,

hey, there's not enough people competing in hurdles. We need you. you have to do is get from A to B. Doesn't even matter how you do it. Knock every hurdle down if you want and we'll get points for the team. And so I was like, okay. And he said that in the high jump, I said, there's a problem with the high jump. It's the same problem you have with a hurdle.

You don't get off the ground. Okay. I'm about to tell you something. Guess what place that came in? And hurdles? There's eight lanes. Yep. Sixth.

Incorrect. It came in third. Whoa. There was only four of us. Oh. But I did beat that one, dude. But so you came in three out of four, which is six out of eight. So technically I was right. I got the percentage right. You got the percentage right.

The fact, I practiced the hurdles for a day. That girl ran the hurdles so fast, though. But apparently super big, outspoken Christian, unashamed. Yeah. Which goes along with what we kind of do. So if anybody knows her. No, yeah. I had to go look her up after he spoke so highly.

She's like my sister's favorite athlete because my sister's a track coach. Yeah. She's incredible. Yeah. Great story. Great everything. So my hat's off through her. Yeah.

I'm interested. She's welcome. Who else we got? And then a couple of people want like people that you know, like fishing people that are the best in the world. I'm like, We already done that. We done that.

Trey McKinney. I'm like, we know him probably. Do we know him? Yeah. Yeah. I know, I know, I know young Trey.

Well, yeah. But I'm interested in like Drew Brees too. So if anybody knows him. Sorry. That was too easy. No. I mean, any of those people.

He's got time. And I'm sure. we may could do this scotty sheffler i'd love to get him down and hear his store that's no teddy that's what i'm saying the world's greatest caddy the guy you've never heard of that's toaded the bag for scottie shephler and bubba watson and you know it's funny i used to be a caddy and he lives two hours from here does he does yeah i know teddy moved that close yeah i mean he's lafayette you can get there in a little over two hours now drive a fast well not i got all that done you ain't got to slow down to 20 anymore. So you can roll at 65 all the way through there.

I did not know that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Learn something new every day. Yeah. Verse of the day. Yeah, let's do it. Let's get out of here. God promise as long as the earth endure, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease. Genesis 822. He promises an earth we can live on. But one day is going to go away. We'll see y'all next time. We'll see y'all next time.