Duck Call Room - Justin Martin & His Wife Are ALMOST Ready for the Twins

Episode Date: September 29, 2022

Martin's wife, Brittany, is ready for her pregnancy to be over but not QUITE ready to have twins living in their unfinished house. Brittany and Martin talk about the new habits they've grown comfortable with, like mint chocolate chip ice cream and Waffle House, why Brittany's not allowed to text Martin updates anymore, and their advice for any soon-to-be parents of twins. Si and John-David want to know what weird, uncomfortable things people have said or done to them. And Martin, Brittany, and the boys answer a letter dropped off in person by newlyweds having a tough time. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Folks of Florida, y'all are, just tell you a little bit about our filming schedule. Y'all getting ready to take it on the chin. Oh, man. And as a state who has dealt with this the last three years, so far we seem to have gotten a year off. Man, our thoughts and prayers are with all you guys, all the first responders, all the people down there, the linemen, everybody coming in to get y'all back to life as normal as soon as that thing gets out of there. And that's where our friends from the W sauce are based out of, too. So I check in on them.

They're doing fine. You know, they used to it. I guess when you live down there, you just kind of expect it, but it still don't. It still don't make it no easier. This is a biggin. Oh, Ian. Ian's a biggin. He ain't playing.

No, he ain't playing. And it's too late to get out of there, they say. Well, they've warned them a couple of days ago. Leave now. Yeah. But you don't. You don't leave. None of them do.

That's hard to do. How are you going to leave everything you got? Yeah. You know, but anyway, so we'd be remiss without mentioning that. We're praying for you all. Absolutely. And everybody up north, too, because it's going to keep rip-roaring and snorting up through there, through the Carolinas and everywhere else.

So batting down the hatches, say a few prayers. Boy, I hope Talladega don't get rained out. You want to go fast? I want to go past. That plays like a vortex too. I need for speed. There you go. My OB's been like, oh, you'll make it to 37 or 38 weeks.

And I'm like, if you don't schedule my section, we're going to have words. I can't take it anymore. How many weeks are you? I'll be 35 weeks Wednesday. Yeah, I mean, there's some tricks, Martin. We can get that sucker out. Or those suckers? Yeah, but see, we're in that little limbo.

Oh, yeah. She's ready to get them out. But we ain't got nowhere to take them. Oh, that's true. Yeah, like houses. I don't care anymore. I don't care. House is not done.

Close. Not done. Welcome to parenthood. This is it. You're never, yeah, you're never ready for it. Well, good. We had Allison jumping on a trampoline. to get one of hers out.

I don't know that we could get Big Mama on a trampoline. You will pee on yourself a little if you jump on a trampoline. Absolutely. I pee on myself just coming down the road. A little bump. That's all it takes. And a sneeze is clean up on hour four. A sneeze.

A lot of things happen during a sneeze. Like not just a lot of things. It freaks them out. It freaks me out. Well, if you haven't guessed, we have a guest. We have a guest. Oh, we have three guests. Yeah, we have seven people in the duck call room today.

I'm a trio as myself. Well, Sa was telling you, you got a glow about you. Well, thank you. What did you say when she walked in? Talking about how we've grown. She's grew up. Grew up. I grew out.

Very much out. I bump into things all the time. The refrigerator doors. countertops. What was the last time you tied your shoes? I remember it was like yesterday. Today and it took every breath that I had left in me. I'd be cold and I'd snuggle up to my wife and the baby would say no way.

Get out of here. Exactly what they do. I'm going to kick out of the bed. If I sit wrong, they kick. Hey, now if I try to snuggle up here, that's what she does. She said, no, you did this. All is your fault. Yeah, all my fault.

Unbelievable. Well, this is probably, no, it's for sure going to be your last time on the podcast before they come. And there's a very real possibility. This will be my last time on here before they come. We might not see you for a minute, Martin. You never know. I finally got my gifts today. I showed up with them. I think the biggest gift you have for is what you're wearing. Well, it is. I knew Brittany was coming on today, so I wore my volunteers' Bill Dance app. But also, I hate food. and everything about it because I'm from Louisiana. So I'm officially asking for permission to join the Tennessee bandwagon. Come on, buddy. Go balls. Oh.

See, you guys are so excited. Sounds so good. I'll sing Rocky Top. It's not my home, but it's my uncles. Hey. Got to count for something. It does. Uncle Sammy, me, you and Brittany,

ball's all the way. That's the good thing about us. We'll let anybody come in. I'm interested. Because I know you like to yell at the TV. Absolutely. Yeah, loud. And often.

And I don't have control over it. I tried to contain myself. You're a volunteer. It just happens. Yeah, it's in there. Well, it is good to have. All those gifts, by the way, registry. That's how Allison does.

Rime. Yeah, you don't want to go off. Do you ever go off registry, Si? When you're buying someone a gift? I don't even know what you're talking about. When you go off registry, you're basically saying, I know you told me what you wanted, but I don't care. I want to give you what I want to give you. So we just click, click, we're done.

registry has needs absolutely and we still haven't gotten size a gift yet because oh it'll probably you'll be cash buddy well she really wants okay well that may be a new me you never know but um but now christine was like the other day she was what do you all i said christine all our stuff's in boxes i don't even know what we got and what we don't have can we unpack and then i'll let you know what we're missing she said well whatever it is it's from us And I said, I love it. Perfect. Much appreciated. I was like, look, you go buy something really nice.

Odds are, we may already have it. So I said, don't let us get unpacked and settled in and we'll let you know where to go from there. Someone said, I was thinking about getting them a stroller. And then it said, no, someone's already done that. Yeah. It's a Cadillac. Yeah, it was a big. Her dad went rogue about a month after finding out and showed up with a stroller coming nine boxes.

He did. How many seats are on that? straw there. Two? That's good. Actually, it came with six seats. He's thanking for the football team. I mean, dogs y'all got.

Hey, no. Paul Paul is thinking about the future. He's thinking about a football team here. Oh. Hey. It's a grow with me. Keep it to a golf team, y'all. You don't want a football team.

No. I almost got a basketball team. I'm tired. Just thinking about it. I'm done. I'm done. We're knocking this out at like a team fishing tournament. That's where we're at.

Hey, one day. Two fishermen and a boat captain, we're good. Sponsored by everybody. Duk commander, honeyhole. Them old Martin boys going to tear them up. Yeah, good. Monster five. Oh, that's good stuff.

My goodness. Hey, it's funny, though, when Brittany walked in, she looked aside, she said, can I bar your oxygen? It looks real good. You're welcome. It is. And if you're full spirit of the man, he has said, give me about two minutes. It's all yours. Right, you can have it.

Run it. Run it. I haven't been able to expand my lungs completely in probably three months. Why not? Don't talk to me. She's a very small person. Yeah, she is. I'm trying to keep it light and entertaining and laughing and fully expecting to grab my backpack this afternoon at about 3.45 and see people in 72 to whatever 96 hours.

We'll see. I'm excited. Me too. What are they weighing now? Five. Two weeks ago, they weighed five, three, and four, ten. Them kids all bigger than all my kids all ready. And that's just baby.

That's not counting everything else that is in there. I don't even know where my organs are anymore. They're just pushed all the way to the back. That's why you can't get that breath. Them lungs are like, there's too much stuff in here. Exactly. It's like an operation. You'd be struggling blow a duck call right about now.

Oh, the thought of, no, there's no way. I don't think she's had a job. to the blind. You got to think about the logistics of this. Oh, it's insane. It is. It really is. I look at my belly all the time and I'm like...

Ten pounds of children. And that was two weeks ago. That was two weeks ago. Yeah. Ten. Yeah, now when they move, you can see like their arm go across her belly. Oh, no. Because there is no more room.

Like, it's not, it's like, oh, there's the pinky. There's his ring finger. Oh, no, no, no. It's wild. The first time it did it, it freaked me out. Yeah. It is weird. The baby kicked his foot up and look, it's like coming out of her stomach.

Like, y'all like the predator in that movie. They are straight of aliens. Yeah. Is that okay? What's going on here? When they, when both of them move now, you can look in her belly button or go. It does. It goes out.

It's like a little signal. I'm ready. Hey. Hey. My kids never got that big. You got too big old bass. a couple nice croppy when my kids

started flowing yeah they were like hey five pounds time to go yeah this time in their defense I cannot stop eating it doesn't matter

how much room I have I'm forcing well you're feeding three humans I'm so hungry all the time what you have for breakfast what Martin making oh my gosh

well I had the leftovers for dinner at like 10 already yeah I made her a bowl of cereal well that's nice that's all she wanted to store and two cookies I thought yeah this is

And this is not one of your normal balls. This is the mixing bowl. The mixing bowl. It was a pretty good one. I said, look, I don't eat cereal, so I don't know if my proportions are right or not. I just poured stuff until the milk. There's no portion control going on. You don't have to.

You got like another couple days where you can eat a chocolate covered grilled cheese and nobody's judging you. That actually sounds really good. That is disturbing. Actually so. She on that pint of mint chocolate tip ice cream about every other night right now. Now. 700 calories. Girl, me too.

Part of the problem. I lost like 30 pounds and now we're back up to go back up. I'm glad Stone's not here. I see it now. Popping the lid off the top of it, 700 calories.

Yay, me. Yeah, no bowl needed. Yeah, she's done adopted my philosophy on them pipes of ice cream. First thing you do throw that lid in the garbage. There ain't no going back. I ain't going to put it on. No,

I ain't no lid going back. Allison bought some new fancy one with a screw top lid. I said, Yeah, don't pay extra for that. It's just going into garbage, too. Go on. Oh, man. Well, that's fun.

But we're at the witching hour, so to speak. We're crowding it now. Well, Brittany's mom's here. Yeah, Britney's mom. She's off camera. Yeah. But it's like, it's go time. Yeah.

It's all hands on deck. She's coming to the appointment with me, and she. I've always wanted to go because crazy stuff happens every time. There's either girls, there's twins. It's a black. This is the championship game we're talking about here, people. Now it's on. That's wild.

It's hard to think about. I guess I'll need to give you some context if I text you, though, because I'm bad about that. Yeah, that's a. I did it again not too long ago. Yeah, let's talk about that after the next. Let's take our first break. How do my word this? We'll go into that.

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I ain't eating that. Now, yeah, she got me in the other day with another good text message. I don't know how comfortable you are with discussing this. It's fine. Oh, okay. It is what it is. Yeah, because I was going to discuss it whether you were here or not. So I get a text.

I look down. You know, everybody, you understand where we're at in pregnancy. Nervous? Yes. No, not nervous, but at any moment. At any time when I see a notification on my phone from her, I'm like, oh, boy. Stop everything. Yeah, here we go.

Where do I go? And it said, I'm leaking. And I just went. I'm sorry. I replied back, I'm going to need more. More context. I mean, like. A little more information.

I give him such. Tires. Yeah, like, what, where have we sprung a leak? Because, you know, the obvious thought is, oh, boy. Yeah. Here we go. Water broke. Yeah, like, but that was not the case.

It was coming from the. From the top end, not the bottom end. Food had already started to come. Oh. Yeah. They decided to fire one of the miracle of life. Yeah. I'm pretty sure it means that's time.

Yeah. You might want to head to hospital. I called my nurse, like, EB, afterwards. I was like, is this normal? Yeah. Of course, first thing I did was found the first person who had given birth at this office and say, here, I need you to talk to Brittany, which was Angela. Thank God. Because I'm like, man, I don't know. Is that normal? I don't, I have no idea.

Next thing, I know she's sending me articles and like all the, make it be feel better. I look down and said, well, I'm not. So that's a good thing. That's positive. But, you know, but here we are. Yeah, it's, wow. So today I need to give you more. context is what you're saying. Just type out of full sentence. Okay. Yeah.

Well, today I'm going to ask that your mom actually be the one to communicate. Okay. So I've lost the job. Yeah, you're out. Okay. We're, we're, this is like 2 a.m. We're taking your cell phone. Not enough details.

This is, yeah. No, we're going to let your mom do the communication. I'm going to be sitting here ready to go, I suppose. And, yeah, we'll find out. Your bag's packed, right? It's as packed as this going to get. The name of this song is Freak Out. Yeah.

Yes. So hopefully they say let's schedule it for about Friday or so. But I mean, I'm not. Says you. Yeah, I mean, I'm not. Hey, you do whatever you need to do. You do whatever happens. I'm just talking about from the state of our house.

I broke out in a sweat brushing my teeth today. I've been there. Have you, though? I am. I have. I mean, it was about eight, nine, ten years ago, but I was there. But, you know, we share some very similar characteristics. during that time.

You know what I eat every day during that time? Ice cream. Waffle House. Waffle House. What do you eat every morning? At Waffle House. You go to Waffle House every morning? They know me.

They know my order. Yeah. When I walk in to pick it up, they're like, oh, you're here to pick up for your wife? Yep. I can say them to their party. They're like, how are the boys? Go, go, go. Yeah.

They want to see them when they're born. The fine folks at Well Road Waffle House have contributed to this a lot. Those are going to be two strong young men. I guarantee. That's what they're growing up on. Eggs, hash browns, and a waffle. It's just like Tuesday nights for you. And I eat all of it.

Me too. Just wait until you have them. You can eat theirs. I order extra for my kids. I'm like, yeah, you want the full thall? Okay, yeah. Double hash browns, of course, man. I'm on it.

You know you want cheese on those or do that. That's fine. That's good. Scattered, smothered, and covered. Yes. Yes, please. So, I mean, it's, I'm just excited. I'm scared to death.

Are you? Are you scared? Well, yes, he's scared. It's tricky because I'm so, I'm too uncomfortable right now to be scared. I'm way too uncomfortable. It's just the Lord right there. She just wants this nightmare to you. I am just tired.

She's ready for these kids to appear. But if I sat and thought about it yet, I'm a little. scared, too, just because it's two babies at one time. They don't make you take no test or nothing before you leave her with them. They just slap you on the butt and say, get in there. Yeah, and then when they're,

then they turn 10 and you're like, yeah, I wouldn't have passed that test anyway. What's the point? Yeah. I don't know. They all say, you know, we probably got a week or, even if it happened today, we'd have a week or a week and a half probably before we brought them home

because they're technically premature or whatever and in high risk but I'm like you know what as big as these rascals are I don't know that we're not overachieving and in 48 hours they're gonna say good look and I'm like oh boy no not not not there yeah I'm not mentally there and I don't know that I can get there in 48 hours but I can get a lot closer than I am right now because my main concern right now hey painters y'all need to get out my house y'all need to go yeah you'll get the job done quite literally Literally get the job done and mo-

Yeah, well, I enjoy listening to your music. They jam. They jam hard. I told one day he said, you mind if we listen to music? I said, mm-mm. And then he turned it up. I said, I have no idea what they're saying,

but they sound like they're having a good time. Because it's all in Spanish. I love it. And I struggle with Spanish anyway. I really struggle when you add music and go fast. Oh, yeah. So. And there's one that listens to like rock.

Yeah, apparently there's like nickel back in Spanish or something because that's what it reminded me. Yeah, it was bizarre. He likes that Spanish metal. That's what he like. What's even weirders? He's the one that's got a very good understanding of the English language. That's why he's. I guess that's why he likes the alternative rock, but in Spanish, I don't know.

It's a wild ride. It really is. Can he come in? My favorite. I got a question. Look, here's my favorite part is there's like, it's like a crew of six or seven of them. And they're listening to like three different stations. At the same time.

I got, I got issues. Yeah, it's wild, man. It's very overstimulating. It's wild. Because you go room to room and you're like, you go from like Mexican restaurant to punk rock concert to beach time, like Jimmy Buffett. Hey, they need to have that bunch in the delivery room with all the music going. A little mariachi band. Yeah, that's what I thought, man.

Hey. Them boys wouldn't know what to do. Oh, they'd come out dancing. Hey, and the doctor raised his hand, don't you slap me. I'll knock you out. I'm grooving, son. I'm in a groove. Don't mess with the groove, boys.

Don't you slap me. I don't think they do that anymore, by the way. Yeah, they do. Okay. They don't. Yeah, they do. They do. No questions asked, yes, sir.

That's just part of the tradition. Okay. You got to pop that butt to get them used to it. Oh, yeah. Can you ask him to do it twice? Well, he's going to have to do it twice in your case. Twins. Twins.

But you have it. I mean, we're at the end, basically. Oh, yeah. But you haven't been on bed rest, have you? No. She hasn't put me, which is so weird. You're one of those, like, really good pregnant people. I guess so.

It must be the hype. Might as well do it again. Absolutely not. That's the vole in her, boys. I've always wanted to. I didn't think I was going to have them at the same time. Two for one sale. We got a bogo, so I'm not going to push it.

I'm not going to push it. Literally. Well, Martin, I got a guy. Yeah, me too. I went to high school with him. You didn't go to high school with my guy. He looked like Santa Claus. I talked to him the other day, asking if he made house calls.

That would be awesome. I know, right? I would pay extra for that. I was willing to. Yeah. That's great. Surely they can do it in the house, right? I don't know, but he...

I don't know that you want to. Yeah, he preferred me to come to his office. Yeah, it's not a great memory. Yeah. So you don't want to think about it every time you go in the kitchen. But it's okay. I mean, the aftermath was the best part. I mean, that's the most fun weekend I've ever had.

I'm just going to say that compared to pregnancy and childbirth. I know, they're equal. Brittany, I'm on your side, though. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. That's just a joke. That's just a joke he said I just like to do it to get a reaction

I don't know I've tried to keep this loose He has And fun And it has helped The whole time Like you know Obviously I know

I've watched you I can tell we're at the wheelbarra stage Like Like you'd rather be rolled around And walk anywhere And I completely understand it Like I need my own stroller

I get it You know You got one with six seats Yeah But she said Unless she said Two nights ago She said

I need my pillow I said, well, you know where it is. No, and full well, I was going to get up and get it, but I just did it to see how fast her head looks like. No, and not to mention, he has told me countless times, let me know if you need your pillow, because it's a giant body pillow, like pregnancy pillow. It's kind of heavy.

Is it a pregnant pillow or a regular person-sized pillow? No, it's a pregnancy pillow. It's huge. It takes up my whole body. I have to carry it on my shoulder and, like. As soon as she gets done with it, it's coming to this side. Oh. Absolutely not.

I will forever use that pillow. Forever. He told me thousands of times, stop going to get the pillow. And then the one time I get the courage to tell him, hey, we go get. He smarts off. He smarts off. Trust gone. Martin.

There ain't no trust gone. You knew full well when you asked what I was going to say. Quit playing. I should have seen it coming over. Yeah. I mean, that's just part of the fun of it. I've tried to keep this as fun as we can because this situation that we're in, aside from twins, I don't wish upon anybody of remodeling your house and going through all this at one time.

And so I've tried to keep it as light and entertaining as I can with such a heavy circumstance. Yeah. Pregnancy is beautiful. We're very happy about the twins, but the remodel is what made that tricky. Yeah, it's time to get back in our house. Yeah, I'm looking at the rude model right now. Yeah. I said, you add it on, all right.

Hey, this is an addition. Yeah, yeah. A couple thousand square feet. All right, we're going to take a break and we'll be back right after this. But yeah, no, she's trying to say, she asked me, she said, they put two sheets up, one you can see, one you can't. I'm thinking about taking that blue one down, just having a clear one. I said, so you can see. Yeah, because with a C-section, you don't get the opportunity.

you to see your children be born. As someone who has seen his children be born, it's not something I really enjoyed seeing. I mean, I liked it, like, once they were like, here they are, well, it's Ever Carter, because that was a whole different story. That was like, we're running him out. But the other two was like, hey, isn't this amazing?

And I was like, hose that thing off a quick. Yeah, I was just, she asked me, my thoughts. I said, no, I'd rather not see that. And she said, why? I said, well, look, I've gutted a lot of animals. Yeah. But my understanding of how this works, I don't need to see the innards that lay below. Like, you know, small intestine, large intestine.

Will you see that? I've never been part of a seaset. Let's leave it. I don't know how you can't. It's a lot different when you're a human. Well, I would think. And this is totally guessing, because remember I only filled out half the application of nursing school, so I don't have a clue. I would think all that's back behind all them kids, right?

I would, but once they're removed, is it a window into the, see, I can't stop looking. It's tunnel vision. Because I'm a nerd and I'm curious. So then I'm be like, now hold on now. Is that her spleen? Look at that thing, would you?

Hmm. That's the pancreas? Oh, man, that's tight. I'd Google it, but I'm terrified. Yeah, no, don't do that. I did that after one of my surgeries, and I'd have never win if I'd have seen that. That's a bad deal.

have often thought about, like, looking up how a C-section works. And then I was like, mm, better not. Well, the doctor, when my son and my wife, son's wife, had a C-section. Yeah. He said, well, you about ready to go and let me just open you up like a cow. That's what they do. No, I'm serious. Yeah.

You know, but y'all got to talk in there, and I'm saying, wait. What hospital were you in? Y'all just brought out the curiosity to me. Why does all this stuff still work? I know. It's crazy. I mean, your intestines are, you stretch them out, they go for miles. Mm-hmm.

And inside, they're all just in a big ball. Well, guess what? There's two big balls kicking them things all the time. That have those parts, too. Yeah. And those. Yeah, and I'm looking at all this. Wait a minute.

How does all this work with all this? the changes that are going on. That's wild, man. This is insane. Ain't it? It's insane. Which is why I kind of want to see it. Wait till after if you're going to Google it. Okay.

Yeah, don't do that prior. So maybe keep the sheet up and then Google it just so I know what happened. I mean, if we want to, I can strap a chestie on the doctor. I'm glad they've never been asking. I got a chest mount GoPro I use for fishing. Well, they let some. No, no, I'm glad my wife or the doctor didn't say, hey, you want to watch this? We didn't ask.

You didn't have to tell them no? Oh, no, I didn't, because I wouldn't have to tell them, I was going to tell them no. Oh, I watched my daughter get a little cut. Oh, boy. I ain't some, you know, another. Yeah. So I would have been up on the neurology floor of recovery from the concussion. Yeah.

Because he'd have just been out cold. Oh, no. That's so weird. As much, many animals that I've got it, clean. I was about to say you're a hunter. No, no. But they're animals. They're food.

Yeah. These are human. You're a human. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Oh, no. When that doctor laid that scaffold to my daughter's leg, and it literally blew open like a firecracker.

Dang, like some Dr. Pimple Popper store? No, no, I'm serious. Because it was infected, and it had a lot of... Oh, she had like an abscess or something? Yeah. Yeah. I love these videos. He didn't cut it.

He didn't cut it. All he did was touch the skin and it. Yeah, just lanced it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have a weird problem of watching those kinds of videos. On second thought, clear sheet, you're going to want to see this.

That's what I'm saying. If that's how you're acting over a pimple. No, my problem with it is this. I know I want to. But then I'm afraid I'm going to go all nerdy and then I'm going to really get to investigate some stuff. You're going to have to be calming me down. You're going to have to be like focused on me.

See, that's what I'm afraid of. I'll fail at that too because I'll be too interested. He probably will. You look at the mirror on the roof. You look like my daughter. Hey, yeah. I don't know about C-Sax. I took my daughter squirrel hunting.

We get back and clean them. And as soon as I open them up, she said, what's that? I said, that would be the kidney. What's that up there? I said, that looks like the heart. Well, what's this? You know, that looks like the digestive system.

What happened when you got that? This was Dr. So-and-so right here. Yeah. Did you have a time with the squirrels and the bees? Oh, hey, I guess. Phil had his, you know, tall those kids was crawfish. Oh, yeah, he did that with cold. Oh.

Yep. I feel you. I feel you. I'm right there with you. I just had surgery to correct that. He's feeling. He looks great. Yeah.

I heard you had surgery and you look really good. Oh, no. And it helped a lot. How was your trip? The trip was, hey, here's one thing you don't ever want to do. God did not create man to retire. You're not supposed to sit on your butt and do nothing. Because I did it for two days.

That's a stupid implant. And it liked to took me out. I thought you'd... I could not move for a few days. Oh, so you just... Okay. I'm not a zombie. Same.

That's what's driving me crazy. No one will let me do anything. No, no. Well, let me do my own laundry. And I'm like, I can't just sit here. But I also can't do things because I can't breathe. It's very tricky contradiction. No.

It's very tricky. Hey, when you can't breathe, you kind of get a little anxious. Yeah. When you're trying to, that's why. Because you can't get a deep breath? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Why can't you get a deep breath? I got two five pounds just crushing my lung. Rushing my lungs. Yeah. She's been going through them breathe right strips, left and right. So I'm trying to keep them nostrils open. Yes. I was borderline going to start wearing them during the day.

Just I don't even care anymore. I don't even. Hey, when they first come out of them. Football players won't. Yeah. I think that help being out of shape, but it didn't work. It didn't work. No.

I love breathe right strips. They're my favorite now. If it helps, use code duck. That's not true. Can we get a sponsor for the... Yeah, whatever gives me oxygen in my lungs? Yeah, I'll take it. Lord of my mercy.

That's good stuff. Well, let's take another break. We'll be back right after this. I hate it when I laugh because I feel like Santa Claus. You're out of big bowl. Because you jiggle, jiggle. Oh. There's a ho.

There's a ho. Oh, ho. Watch yourself. That's fun, man. I don't pee. I know. That's the crazy thing, too, is you can go pee. And then you sneeze or something.

Literally right afterwards. And there's more pee. It just doesn't. It never in. It never ends. Well, dear, look, we're down here to the end of this. I need, what's the one thing? Because we're at the miserable stage.

For sure. And by we, I mean her. Because I'm not going to act like I've done anything. Which is good for twins, though. We made it all the way to almost 35 weeks. Amen. I agree. Before I was miserable.

I have been nothing but shocked. Same. I mean, because you got two of them. It made me realize that one of them, you may have carried that rascal about 40. They'd have come out with a full head of teeth. Yeah. Yeah, they're ready.

Hey, Mom. Yeah. Come out talking, you know. But what's the one thing you're going to miss about this experience? I'm just curious. Feeling them move. Inside? Yeah.

Even though it's weird. It never gets old. Like, it's weird every time it happens. But I love feeling that, especially when they like, are moving to each other. You know, like, I feel like they're kicking each other. I gotta be like, you gotta set down. That's called fighting.

Yeah. You can fight in there, but when you get out this womb, yeah, uh-uh. Oh, they're gonna do that too. We're gonna have to separate them. But that's it. That's the only thing. That's the only thing.

I can't even lie. You do get to, like, just eat ice cream with reckless disregard. True. Okay, two things. Diet plan out the window. And it doesn't even matter. Doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

No, and people are really nice to you when you're pregnant. Are they? Yeah, like people, like out, like people that you don't, of course the people I know. Do people touch your belly that you don't know? Yes, that kind of irritates me. That's fine. I would think. I don't mind.

It's never happened to me. Yeah. But it could at any moment. Yeah. Yeah. Most people just avoid me. Yeah. They don't ever come up looking to touch me.

I don't mind it when it's friends and family. Like, touch my belly all day long. I don't care. But if I don't know you, maybe you should ask first. Maybe. Maybe you should just ask. Or maybe you should just admire from afar.

Yeah. And you don't have to say anything because a lot of people will say. Whatever it is, they always say the wrong thing. What's the weirdest thing someone has said to you? They're not listening. Probably. And this was like maybe three or four months ago And I was out walking

And a guy, a random guy walking the other direction Was like, you could pop any day now And I was like, still got a little ways to go But thank you But there's two of them So Maybe you should have just walked on by Maybe you should just kept going chief

I don't ever say anything No Just hello Yes Hey how are you Well the worst one is You look miserable. Hey, hey.

I would have said it after you want to buy. You picked up for a little wait since the last time I saw you. Yeah, you idiot. I'm pregnant. Yes. Well, there's plenty of stuff every day that I see idiots. And I don't, I think, but I don't say. Yeah.

I don't know why people have the... They feel like they can say that to a pregnant lady. No problem. And why do you feel the need to vocalize it? Yeah. Just say, hmm, whatever joke you thought was fun in your head, keep it in there. It'd save me a lot of trouble sometimes. Yeah.

But I generally let it fly because she's my wife. But, you know, in general, in public, I can look and think some. I don't necessarily have to say it. That's wild like that. But then I'll say, oh, well, it's twins. Because I got that comment a lot, not just from that guy. Like, a lot of people have said that to me repeatedly. And it was early on, like, I still had three or four months.

But then I'm like, oh, it's twins. And then they're like, oh, well, you are just carrying those so well. I'm like, okay. Well, you don't switch on them. Yeah, you just carry on, girl. Yeah, and I'm like, well, thank you. Oh, Lord. That sort of scratches out the comment you made before, but.

You were just carrying those so well. Oh, since it's two, well, you're doing real good. I've always wanted her to just look at somebody and said, no, I'm not pregnant. When they say it, just to watch them crawfishing. I should have, yeah, missed opportunity. You still got a chance. Yeah. Technically still pregnant.

That's what my wife said when she was having a little, she said, oh, I've just got a little fever in all this. She was having morning sickness, you know. Yeah. But you got to understand. She had been told by all the experts, you'll never have children you're going on. I would say, oh, it's all the same thing.

No. So anyway, you know, so I kept telling her, it took me 14 hours to convince me to marry her, you know. To convince you to marry her or convince her to marry you? You know what I'm talking about. Yes. Anyway, because she'd seen me with kids. You know, so she was that, and then our next-door neighbor,

who was our best friend at the time, Sharon. Sharon's life, and she said, you're not having morning sickness for nothing, darling. You're pregnant. Yes. And she said, Sarah, I've been told you. I can't have kids. Yeah, I can't have kids. So it kept going and kept going in, finally.

Sharon just fine and says, hey, guess what we're doing tomorrow, Miss Christine? You know, and she said, what? She said, I'm taking you to the doctor. I'm tired of your hearing. No, I ain't pregnant. I just got a little fever. Hey, on her, like, in her defense. That's like the exact opposite of us.

She could have sworn she was pregnant. I said, no, you're crazy. Because nothing made sense. I was like, this is my, you know when your whole body is off. But I was told also through my whole life that if I did get pregnant, it was going to be high risk. It was going to be hard to carry. but most likely I wasn't going to get pregnant.

And then... Here we are 35 weeks later, two, and you're about to go for a run. Yeah, you got to think, Justin and I have been... You're looking at the wrong powers to be. Exactly, though. I know someone up there. I feel almost stupid for putting all my trust in them by saying that because we've been together for close to 10 years

and everybody was about to give up on us. but I had not told people that that was going to be a hard thing for me to do, like, get pregnant. So my mom was like, come on, y'all going to give me some grandbabies, his mom, my dad, everybody. And here we are. Two in one shot. Surprise. It's not the first time Martin's done that. It was babies, it is.

Yeah, babies. Pretty good shot. I was watching a show, and I wish I had recalled exactly what this is. but it's called about, hey, God's never, he's always on time. Yes. Has to be because this is the last thing we ever. You know what he wasn't, a contractor. But, boom.

Hey, they're never on time. And the cost is never what they say it's going to be. It's going to be bigger. Every time. Every time. I told him we'll never do this. God is always on time. You'll never be pregnant with twins and remodels.

house again? Ever. God's got a sense. Zero out of ten. Or the last. Hey, don't ever say never because I did that, because I did a joke about getting married on April Fool's day

and then seven days later. It happened. And if you get pregnant with twins again, Sharon looked at me, said, oh, is God going to get you for that? If I get pregnant with twins again, I'm sweating. That made me sweat.

We get pregnant with twins again. one of them going to have to be named Jesus. Yeah, because my chances of getting twins again is like 80%. One, just because I've already gotten pregnant with twins and then my age. So my sister was kind of a similar story, and she got pregnant again, but it was just one. It was just one? That one's crazy enough for all of them. She's crazier than the two twins put together.

She fits in with my family really well. It's just wild. What's even wilder? Like, I was out messing with the yard and mess the other day while they were there working, and our neighbors come over, and they have twins. They're 19, 18, 19 something, boy girl. And then, but they just found out they're having twin grandchildren. They're firstborn.

I said there's something going on in this neighborhood now. The water. That'd be the water, boy. Yeah, don't come drink at. Yeah, don't go on there. No, stay on that bottled water. I don't know. Don't come around there, son, unless you want a pair of them.

West Monroe water will get you. It will get you. I guess it's coming straight out of the paper mill. I don't know. That brown color should have warned us. Now, here we are. We drank it anyway. But bottoms up, you know, I mean, I don't know.

It's all the mercury and the fish in the river, too. Man, when I first moved here and I saw what came out of the foster. Hey, hold on. We're not going to bash our water here. I was like, why is it this color? We can't all be volunteers. Well, that's people that don't understand. I mean, we got to get ours from the ground.

We ain't got no reservoirs around here to fill ours up. Yeah, they told me. And we're at the bottom of the river. Yeah, so that's all y'all stuff. My wife said, go take a bath. I went in there and turned on the bathwater and you put the cork in there and I look and I said, I'm cleaning that. It looks like sweet tea. I said, pull the plug and said, I ain't taking a bath in the house.

I said, I'm cleaner than that. I'm cleaning that. And he wasn't wrong. Yeah. And you Come visit West Monroe. Yeah. You'll love it.

It's great. Hey, I'll love for you to live. You'll love it. Sportsman's Paradise. That's right. Sportsman's Paradise. For two months a year. Easy.

Yeah. Well, let's take our last break. We'll be back right after that. And then we're going to get in that mailbox. What if there's three? Fight your... Johnny D. I'm sorry.

I can just tell you right now, if there is, it's going to be Owen Party of seven or however many that would six whatever that put you y'all moving in with us no i'm dropping one off no i'm prepared for two they're moving in they just go drop one off trying to decide what i prefer and we're gonna skir you're it i don't think me and like a little brittany yelling at our tv about football would be so i need one of the boys come on it would be so much fun just yeah you need a me you need a chill person yeah there's enough high energy at our house oh yelling at james's okay we're not getting on that. Go balls. Yeah. Rocky Top. Anyway, Martin. Here we go. We had a guy come by the other day. We did. His name, Alyssa and Justin from East Tennessee. From East Tennessee. Govals.

What a good place. They live on Watts Gar. I mean, Watts Bar. Now, he actually said watch car. That's how you know he's really from Tennessee. He's obviously heard me reference that lake, because that's about what it is. It's a major gar. But it's beautiful. He dropped off some presents. He bet he did. He dropped me off some presents. Drop us off some presents. some Tennessee onesies for the boys. And in two weeks, them vals play them tigers. Wait. Yes.

I might have prematurely jumped the ship. Well, I'm a ball now. No, trust me. They will beat LSU. You're in now. Go balls. They will beat LSU, 100%. But he handed me a note, or there was a note in the bag.

And, you know, it's just congratulating us on this. But he also said, if you have time, I have one question. My wife and I have been married one year come to 25th, which was yesterday. So happy anniversary. Oh, yeah. That's tight. Yeah, they were going on a cruise. Yeah, they're going on cruise for their anniversary.

So happy anniversary. We both travel for work. She is an ICU nurse, and he is a travel electrician. We both make good money, which is great. But we see each other only two days a week, which is hard for us. And we aren't able to do as much with church and volunteering with different things in the church as we'd like. Now it's just here and there. All of this has gotten me down and I don't feel as close to God as I was.

I feel like I'm just so busy. I'm running everywhere and can't find time to do more. How do I keep growing in Christ and stay on fire for the Lord when I feel so down for not being able to surround myself with the church people? And I'm barely around my wife. Please pray for us. So listen, Justin, first off, we will. pray for you. Thank you so much for the gifts as well. One year of marriage, it gets better. I'll say that. If you'd ask us after a year, we'd probably be like, yeah, okay, all right, cool.

Yeah, that was fun. Neat. Yeah, neat. We learned to live with another human of the opposite sex. It's weird. It's wild. So wild. It's insane. It is that. But here we are. But it's great also. Oh, absolutely. We're approaching year eight. I mean, we're halfway done with seven on our way to eight. And I will say, it's one thing Godwin kept telling us. Godwin and Paula kept telling us it gets better. And it really does. And it does. It gets better. You learn how to deal with each other. And you learn how to handle things and keep things in the right stage. But as far as being busy, man, I don't know what to tell you about that. That is tough. But it's the world in which we live in now. And here's the problem. management time management time management

yeah that's all your that's all your face and that's all we all face okay you it never fails

you never have enough time to do all the things you would like to do yeah so that's where the trouble comes in you've got to make a decision

on what's important and what you're going to spend your time on right yeah And with you wanting to volunteer and figuring out, there are ways to volunteer with church programs and churches that don't involve you being there. Writing curriculum, doing online Bible studies, there's all kinds of things.

And you might volunteer on a Tuesday morning to mow the yard or something like that. Yeah. It doesn't have to be Sunday morning. But I did meet these people. They swam by and they were really nice people. And I think one thing that you're not taking into consideration is like you were on your way to a cruise. So you're doing that right. Like whenever you both have time, take your vacations together and get away and focus on each other while you can and you don't have kids.

Exactly. And then, you know, in seven years you'll probably look like Brittany and Martin. Who, year one, it was like, ooh. And now year seven, like, look at these smiling faces across from us. And even in year one, I would say, we're incredibly busy now without. kids we're going to be busy with kids but i would say year one we were even busier than we are now duck dynasty was still going yeah we never saw each other it was and i had just moved here yeah we were we were separate living in the same place not even as travel nurses or i mean because very hard

tearing down the fourth wall so i can tell you giant didn't tell you from a couple episodes you worked 60 hours a week to make 22 minutes of television we worked 60 hours a week and and so really and truly it looked like come home eat a quick dinner whatever that was go to bed and then on the weekends the show was so popular we were traveling speaking doing all kinds of things which we still do and i love it it's just not at that pace that it was now so even now when i feel like man i'm so busy i look back and i'm like i ain't near as busy as i was about seven eight years ago yeah it'll be worse and i feel that too because i was i was with willie everywhere so i was i mean at the beginning of me and alison's marriage. I was like, all right, see later. I'm gone for a few days. And so

this is a good time to do that for you guys. Like, you can travel now. You don't have kids. Bank roll that money. Don't spend it. And that was kind of part of one of the reasons I was attracted to leaving Duck Commanders crazy as it sounded was because I was kind of I was tired of getting on airplanes every weekend and telling my kid, hey, have fun. It's your soccer game. I'm going to be in Wyoming with Willie. And so while you have time to travel, do it and work hard and then in a few years when y'all decide to have kids you'll be able to slow down and you'll be able to throw your anchor out yeah especially since you're young absolutely and you both have jobs that can be done anywhere yeah absolutely and so right now you're you're probably making

more money because you're traveling which is a great thing well and you probably i know it says a lot in there too now i know where they're from watsbar there's not a lot of industry around watsby bar lake that's a you're you're you're an hour solid hour yeah from chattanooga which would be a decent size city i mean chattanooga's pretty big city but up there on the lake there ain't a lot going on which is one of the reasons they probably have to travel to find work yeah like but other than that the biggest city around is probably that little city called cleveland or something which is probably smaller in west monroe really and truly i mean it's a it's a lebron james cleveland no i'm just kidding that was so i mean i mean i

opposite of that. Yeah, I get why they travel to work because to find steady good pay, I'm sure they have to. But then in a few years, if you all want to, you know, find you. If you want to go to work in Cleveland, live on the lake, then when you got kids, so they can be little river racks and everything else. I mean, I think it's all in due timing. Don't rush through the season you're in because it's uncomfortable. Yeah.

Because uncomfortability brings growth and change. And so don't rush through it. Now, I admire you for wanting to spend. more time with your wife and with your family and all those things. But that time's coming. Trust me that time is coming. You just have to get through this season of life to where when you do those things, it doesn't hurt you financially, spiritually, physically, whatever.

I always say it, man, work while you're young. I'm a big believer in cash in on the back end. Like, if you want to, you know, what, you wake up, and you're 55 and you're a traveling electrician, And you look out there on that lake, say, boy, I bet them crappies is biting. And you know what you do? You go put your boat in the water and you go crappy fishing.

That's way cooler than doing it right now when you're 25. Absolutely. Because you're going to have nicer stuff. You're going to have nicer stuff. Right now you back don't hurt. If you still got to go crawl on that roof and run them wires at 55, you hurt. You don't bend like you used to and things like that. But Alyssa, Justin, we wish you all the best.

Thank you so much for the gifts. Yes, thank you. Because I love that. and, man, put some fish in Watts Bar. That place would be really fun if it just had some in it. You're so mean to that lake. He is so mean to that way. It's a beautiful lake.

Stock him, boy, stock them. Hey, Brittany's super, by the way, so that I ran into him. I handed Britney the bag and she was so excited. Yeah. I was. She was so excited about Tennessee ones. Hey, if you won't know how excited she was, she sat down her Chick-fil-A bag to open that bag. That ain't happened in months.

No. I can just tell you that. I got Chick-Blau-A-in-a. I should have brought you some. Look at her. Yeah, not much is going to separate me from Chick-fil-A. Yeah, whatever the highest member level on that app is, we got to be like double-star that.

We've got to be like a three-star general. Oh, I have the points that I've accrued are stupid. Yeah. Well, when you have two kids, you're going to start accrue them even more. Yeah. It's the only place my kids eat. Oh, man. All right.

Yeah, I think that's... Is it? Are we going to call this an episode? Yeah, let's wrap it up. I'm super afraid that I did the exact same Bible verse the last time Brittany was here. Hey, let me just tell you something right now. We could all stand to read that book, two, three, four, five, six, seven times. But I'm doing it again.

I'm doing it again. Just because it reminds me of them old Martin boys. Ecclesiastes four, nine through 12, two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. If they stumble, the first will lift up his friend, but woe to anyone who is alone when he falls. and there was no one to help him get up. Again, if two lie close together, they will keep warm. How can only one stay warm? If someone attacks one of them, the two of them together will resist.

Furthermore, the tri-bated cord is not soon broken. I just love it. So right now, it's tough. When I read that to them, I'll probably take out that part about the resisting. They're going to be together forever. I know. They're going to be best friends. And that's what's really cool about twins.

They're going to have each other for life, go through everything together. Even when we're gone, they'll have each other. That took a quick turn. Good grief. We got a long time before that. We're going to have to go eventually. And speaking of, Brittany's ready to go. Yeah, we got to head to the doctor's office.

Mama, let me know what they say. Actually, tell your mama to let me know what they say. She has officially taken over that job. Yeah. She is communications liaison, but we'll see y'all. I'm working on it. We'll see y'all next time right here in a duck call room. With twins!

Who knows? We may have some additions to talk about. Next time Brittany's here, there's going to be twin. Oh, 100%. That's wild. All right, we'll see y'all. We're out.