Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Gets Sued — But He’s Too Funny to Lose the Case

Episode Date: February 13, 2024

Uncle Si & Korie Robertson relive Si’s lawsuit and how he charmed the entire courtroom, including the judge! Martin discovers the source of several famous catchphrases he and the Robertsons use and John-David is underwhelmed by Si’s abilities as a rapper. Si and the boys are impressed and moved by Korie & Sadie’s mission in Guatemala to translate the Bible for a small community who speak an ancient language. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the podcast, folks. We're probably going to start this off. Okay, someone. Someone sent him something. Sit me some bingo drugs. Oh, no. Okay. So I'm going to have to leave them here.

I leave them out. No, no, but I'm telling you, I'm going to have to leave them here because I take them home. I had some bongo bells, as everybody knows. Okay, and I drove my wife nuts with him. so these will have to stay here. Can I play them real fast? Yeah. I actually not.

Do you know how to bongo? I played the bongos for Jimmy Buffett one time. Did he know? I don't know. He invited Philly on the stage and I just kind of followed. He probably did. And then the second thing of importance, and this is more important.

Well, let me just say this. I feel like that's a good addition to duck car ring because now you can have like drum rolls, like before you make a big announcement or say something important. Kind of like. I like we have a special guest today. Yeah. There we go.

And we can even pass it around. Yeah, I sent that ahead so that y'all could do a drum roll when you announced me. Corey provided it. Then this is the most important one. Mr. Zeth Castle, okay, who is the author of this book, Why is Dad always so mad? Okay. Sir, I pray to God, okay, that he will help you with PTSD.

Okay. And since your children describe you as having a fire in your chest, I pray to God that he will help you turn it down and just have it for heat. Okay. So thank you, sir. Sergeant, First Sergeant Castle. There you go. Thank you for your service.

Thank you for this book. I will, you know, anybody if needs that, you know, get in contact with us, and it's got where you can actually get. one of those. Castlebooks.com, spelled with a cane. There we go. Yeah. That's awesome.

Yeah, y'all just did a veterans hunt, didn't he? Yeah, we just finished out the 3rd of February. The duck hunting wasn't too good. The fellowship was out of this world, as is always is, okay, when veterans get together. And we all tell lies. Well, the dressing that you cooked from the hunt was very good. That was really good. I'm glad I got in on that a little bit.

Well, that is. is cooked to my taste, okay? It was good. Because I like a lot of vegetables, and I, Stone told me he's too many vegetables. I didn't feel that way. I like a lot of. Well, let me say something I never thought I would say.

I'm glad Si and I had the same taste. Yeah. Oh, wow. What a life. I mean, I'm just saying, like, you know, fashion taste or, you know, other things you wouldn't think you'd necessarily say that. But taste for the dressing, we have the same taste because I loved it. Well, because Phil and Kay always, they give me to taste it,

and then they never do what I tell them is what it's lacking. Okay, because they always say, okay, taste it, tell me what it needs. I said, well, first of all, a little more salt pepper, and then, hey, open up the sage ball again. Buddy, you did that. Was it a lot of saves? Buddy, he did that. Was there any leftover? There's a little bit probably still in the refrigerator.

If somebody didn't take it home with them. I might have to sneak me. No, it was very good. It just, it was. Well, you better like sage. It's not like off-putting sage. It's just, it's there. Well, no, no.

At first I said, why didn't Martin say that? I said, because I can't even get a hand of it. Oh. You know, and I mean, hey, I've cooked it before where, but I figured out what was wrong. I bought a bottle, which is about, oh, three or four inches tall and about that back around. Mm-hmm. One time I made, I emptied the whole bottle. Good.

I said, I'm. Wow. No, no. I said, I'm fixing to get a little bit of sage taste there. Keep in bad spirits away. No, no, didn't do it. Okay, and then, no, one time I said, well, let's see. Let me try something else. I said, I know what I'm going to do.

I said, instead of waiting and putting in all the ingredients, when I boil my ducks, I'm going to put it in there. Same thing. Whole bottle. Whole bottle now. The water was dark green. Okay. And when I put it together, this was still one. wasn't old sage taste.

So I said, okay. So my wife said, well, let me just, I look around. Well, she bought a little old bitty. This is called sage rubbed. Oh, you know, I guess you can rub it on the meat and cook it. And it'd be, you know, I didn't put it in the duct. I just added it, you know, and one idea, I put it through a kind of like a screen. You know, where I could put it all over, you know, where it'd be easier to do.

Yeah. Well, I've done that, and yeah, this is the good stuff. This is what I use from now. Yeah. But what gets me is the next day it's even better. Really? It was good. I should have brought some home with me then because I have to tell on myself a little bit because I don't know if you noticed that I didn't eat a whole lot.

I fixed a plate. I liked it. I enjoyed it. But I just got back from a trip to Guatemala. And you know how like sometimes when you go out of the country you come back? It was a little rumble. So like I ate a few bites. and then I was like, I'm in a meeting, so I better not eat anymore because I started to feel it a little bit.

And so, yeah, as soon as that meeting was over, I was like, yeah. The Guatemalans and Cy Robertson start cooking a little different, so it does different things. That's a little different thing. That's what I told them when I brought it in. I said, hey, look, this is made to fit my taste. I said, it may not be yours. No, it was good. I mean, I had two plates.

I told Sy, I was like, because he kept saying, I think he thought I was being dishonest with him. I said, I don't go back for something. I don't like. I'm just telling you. But I'm just, you got your goal.

The sage is there, buddy. Because I made two batches, okay, and I have actually three, three containers, the casserole containerers. And two of them were 13 by nine.

Okay. And the other one was like eight by eight. And that's the other thing. I liked how then you did it too, because like the bottom was done. Well, The top was done in the middle was still very soft. You did it.

No, no, because that's why. That was good. If you watch the film when I'm telling how to cook it, I melted some butter and I just pour just a thin layer in all three pans. And then I took a spatula, okay, and rubbed it all around the side. Because what that does is when you heat it, it locks in the flavor. It's crusty on the bottom, the side, and the top. Yeah.

Okay. That's the bottom of you up. But you don't want to. a cooking show. You don't want to overdo it. Listen to Bobby Fleece. No, because it actually,

he's more of a guy Fiery type. If dressing is dry, throw it out. No good. It's got to be moisture inside it. You know what?

With a little crushed all the way around it. What's the super rude guy that does the cooking shows? Oh, Gordon Ramsey. Yeah, he's like British or something so it makes it okay to be rude. That's who he would be

because if he tastes it, he just like, oh, that ain't much. You just throw it out. Who's the guy from South of Louisiana? Emerald? Not an emerald. It's another one.

He used to have a cooking show. Jeff Foles? John Foles? No, not Foles. Bam! The old man? Yeah, old one. Justin Wilson?

Yeah, yeah. Because he would say, okay, a little son. Let's put a little line of wine in there. And he said, it's okay for the chef to have a little. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he drink, every cooking show, he drink a full Budweiser. Oh, yeah. Yeah, oh, yeah.

And he was from south of I 10? Hey, if he put beer in whatever they was cooking or wine, okay, he said, and folks, it's okay, just you have to have a little bit of, and he, you know, down about half a bottle. Yeah, he wore like a denim shirt and red suspenders. You didn't watch Justin Wilson growing up? No. Yeah, okay. I was curious. I have a little memory.

He's hilarious. Okay. Exactly. He's an actor shelf. I think he may have been like public broadcasting. You have like a really Cajun accent? Oh, yeah. It's pretty thick.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did he wear a red bow tie? He showed it. Boom. There he is. There he is.

There he is. He's in the same class as Jerry Clowers and all them guys. Great storyteller. Yeah. All his cooking would have like a five-minute story something. So, size is correct. That probably would be him.

Oh, there it is. That's true. The best one. Without the Budweiser. You know, I got so involved with the veterans, okay, that I didn't even, we've got to guess, folks, that we've already have noticed.

Wait, where's my drum roll? I need my drum roll now. There we go. Thank you. There we go. You tell me I ain't a bomb-go player. Okay. I think you are a bono.

But anyway, what has Ms. Corey Robertson been up to? Well, Sa, before we get too far involved down that road, let's take a break. Well, let's go. Because we're 10 minutes in. We're over time. Let's take a little breather. Let's reset, and 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 tritels beef makes such a good product baby ain't it good it's so good it's our friend sall 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 grab whatever was left in case you were late in the day and you never really know where that beef comes from but with tritails beef we skip the grocery

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We invited Corey just to talk about weird stuff. Apparently, do you know what his catchphrase was? No. I mean, I don't remember it. It's your catchphrase. What? Guarantee. That's him.

That's where you got it. Yeah. You didn't even know. As a child, yeah. I garonte. That's him. And that's what you say. He says it a lot different than I do.

Okay. I didn't know. I'm just reading it. He does like five syllables in it. I garon. Me, I'm just like guaranteed. Nothing against you, but hey, he said it better. Oh, hey, look, he was the original, Justin.

I'm just a, I'm something 50 years later. Yeah, y'all had the same name. You have the same word? Wow. I guess I better start drinking boatwiser. You didn't even know. And wearing me a little red bowtie. Wait, what's the phrase that Phil says that Emerald said too?

Bam. Bam? Or happy, happy, happy, happy. Happy, happy. Yes. Yeah. So, like, there's like, who said it first? I don't know.

Because Phil's been saying it for a long time, too. But Emerald says it too, or is that like a Louisiana thing? We just didn't know. I don't know. I think Phil got it from Emerald. I think Phil subliminally got it from Emerald. So one time we went by. But Phil made it way.

bigger than Emerald. Of course we've all said Bam before nobody cared and they got Emerald. He's got Bam all over everything. So Phil watched you know he's into a Cajun food. Uh-huh. So he may have watched it. I think we went back and found Phil saying happy, happy

happy like on an old Duckman DVD but I don't know if it was still before that or not but you know. Well somebody had said something negatives about one of the videos that we made. Uh-huh. And Phil said said hey, hey killing a big mallard drake makes me happy happy happy that's that's right that's one of the

duckman videos yeah who knows which one that anybody knows any of the listeners know which dutman DVD that's on let us know my favorite version of that afield is blowing a mallard drake's head smooth off at 20 yards makes me happy is that life liberty in the pursuit of hey as you know what makes me happy taking a mallor drake's head smooth off at 20 yards that's that at 20 yards. Corey, what makes you happy these days? We invited you so we might as well talk about you at some point. Yeah.

Well, we almost had Honey on. So you know my grandkids make me happy these days. We do have, honey was in the house. And I said, do you want to be on the Duck Call Room podcast? She sat there? And she said yes. And then we got in the chair and something intimidated or I don't know, like three bearded men looking at her maybe.

I don't know. I try to be honey. I try to be Honey's friend every time. And all she wants to see are videos of my kids. Well, you know, honey. And I see the babies. Honey loves Dubs. She is like, she loves to sit beside Dubs.

Willie, we call Willie Dubs. She loves him. So she isn't scared of bearded men. No. She's only obsessed with my children. Their dad cannot say he was not involved. They look just like him. She does look a lot like her daddy.

As a woman, how does that make you feel when the child comes out? looking like the father, considering we did very little. Oh, I don't ask Sadie that. Yeah, I didn't want to be a little too new for her. Corey's had time to deal with this over. Well, you know, of course, you know, it's fine except for when thousands of comments whenever you're like known and you post a picture of your daughter and the only comments are like, she looks just like her dad.

She looks just like her dad. Whoa, did you even contribute at all to this child? She looks just like her dad. I mean, it is. Somebody said that? Yes. No, you would not believe. You should have said.

You should have been like, well, Will looks just like me. And Rebecca. Yeah. The other three do look just like Willie, you know. That's what I was, my question is. Sadie looks just like her daddy. That is true. So honey looks like her daddy.

Say he looks like her daddy. So it's all right. Strong jeans. I would say Bella and Corey. I would say Bella and Corey favor to me the most. Really? No. I mean, yeah, I don't know.

I mean. Yeah. I just felt so bad. I feel so bad. Ella does. Aw. Yeah. It's good.

Yeah. And my question to you is, what's it like being married to Willie Robertson? Uh-oh. Oh, my goodness. Here we go. Here we go. I will say this. You know, Phil asked me that question, like, for the past 32 years.

We just hit 32 years of marriage. We just had an anniversary trip. Congratulations. Yes. He's asked me that question, and I think my standard answer is it's never boring because that's true. It is never boring. And I love that. So we're good. It's never boring. You never know. Whatever I used to say, if I don't like what he's doing, just wait because he'll change it. Oh yeah, because it's going to change anything. Yeah, exactly. He gets into something new.

He gets all into a hobby and then it's something else. So I just kind of, what died? I noticed. I noticed about my nephew. I don't get to hang out with him as much as I used to. He is having the time of his life with his kid, grandkids. He is. I'm serious. And look, you can tell it, and it's actually good for his health. That's true. Oh, I'm serious.

Because I've watched him. Uh-huh. And he's always been, he's like ow in a way, an instigator, especially with the kids. Oh, no, he'll wind him. Oh, no, he'll wind him, you know. Yeah. I'll say, when our kids were little, I would be like, let's just not end in tears. Because it'd be all fun, playing, and then he'd go just a little too far.

too far. Someone ends up crying. Yeah, he's got a bad habit about pushing it too. I once saw John Luke take an exercise ball to a different room. Willie threw it so hard at him. And John Luke was like four. And I was like probably 10 or 12. So I thought it was the funniest thing ever. But I was like, looking back, I'm like, man, Willie was rough on that.

He's, yeah. He was rough on me when I first met him. Oh, no. Somebody. And I was 25 years old. He's always been rough on everybody. He gave me a black eye one time. And he's a thrower.

He's a chunker. He throws stuff at you. And then where you're not in arms reach of him. I think he knows in hand-to-hand combat is not the strongest, but from distance, he got you. Hey, and he's pretty accurate. Yeah, just like when he's hitting golf balls at you on the bridge. Yeah. I mean, you don't go fish his pond, folks.

Not unless you're on. Not without a helmet. Like, because he's going to take a pitching wedge to you. That's like the fun he gets out of life, just things that are like, just almost dangerous, almost. Oh, that is dangerous. Oh, it's kind of having a little danger involved or it ain't no fun. Yeah, well, yeah.

That's the thing. But he is loving granddad life. No, no. He's really sweet. That's one thing I've noticed, and it's actually shows in his health. Yeah. Because when he's with him, it's a glow. It's true.

He has a glow to him. Oh, that's so nice. Who never thought the old man so observant? Well, no, no. Because he looks pregnant most of the time. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow.

No, what diet is he on that? What a life. That was my favorite thing about Willie is we'd always be on a new diet together that didn't work. That never. It never took because he never did follow it. I thought you said a nude diet. I was like, a new diet. He's on a new diet every time every three months.

It's like one day's vegan, next day he's only meat. And it's like, it's just fun to me. Well, I have asked me which one is the favorite? I said, hey, look, me and Willie have got. I don't even how to describe it, but we're bonded. That's true. You're entertaining. And when we're together and we get on a row, it's going to be hilarious.

Okay. The most we laughed on film in Duck Dynasty, you're going to remember this. I'll never forget. We were crying laughing so hard. Remember, we were in Nashville, and we're filming the thing about, it was a storyline about that you were going to become a country music singer. And so we had you rap, like you were going to, rap or something and you and willie riffing off a wrap you started you started rapping and you it was

basically just a story about poker night with like chicken and and and whatever and we were crying like oh no coat forward is that your name okay that's right that's right no that's when we went up there because you know hilarious wasn't a word okay because we got to go and they just when they They just said, hey, go ahead and start rapping. Yeah. We didn't have nothing going on. Nothing was said about what. Nothing was pre-planned on what you were going to say.

You didn't pre-write your rap. It was improv, and it was good. I had the mic, and I just started, and I said, hey, look, I made a bet. Some idiot raised me. He said, but what he didn't know, I said, I had the stone called nuts. And I said, so I said, I'm all in. He called and then I turned my cards over and said, hey, take that. That was the rap.

That was the rap. That was the rap. That was right. That's back when I could talk faster. Oh, no. Yeah. Hey, I'll run out of breath now. He wraps now.

He's got to call it up. I got to put my oxen on the rap now, boys. Oh, my goodness. You may have to cut this when I'm going to start it anyway. These are my favorite. No, no, no. The funniest thing is when we got sued. Hey, I take the stand.

Okay, it's worn in on the Bible and everything. And the prosecuting attorney starts asking me questions. But every time I give my answer, I look at Corey and Willie and they're both just... We are shaking. They're shaking all over. They're laughing inside, but they ain't nothing. bang out. Because like most people on the stand, like to ask a question, you just give just a simple

answer just like yes, no, whatever. When I'm in those situations, I don't offer any extra. And Willie, Willie is like nothing extra. Yeah. Sae just goes into the story about poker, poker night. And how, that's where he met. That's where this came about. And he starts telling, but it's detailed about who sat here beside him.

It was chicken beside him and squirrel and squirrel. and squirrel there, and then in this chair, in this chair. I was across the way. Oh, no, look, this goes on for like 30 minutes, okay? Yeah. You know, the Corey Williams are about to get up and just go out. It's just so they can bust out life. So then finally, you know, I said, hey, look, you know, I started one of them off.

You know, they asked me a question about, well, Mr. Robinson. I said, wait a minute, let me ask you a question. I said, I want to, I don't know. I said, what do these people charge me with? And I said, well, you didn't do what you were supposed to do by contract. I said, wait a minute. I said, hold it. I said, look, everybody thinks I'm stupid.

I said, I'm not. The judge and the prosecution, I said, I'm not stupid. I said, look, these idiots, because the lawyer had told me, he said, Mr. Robson, anytime you get asked the question, you need to end it with, hey, this idiot's cost me a lot of money. So I start and I said, hey, everybody thinks I'm stupid. I said, I'm not. I said, I'm funny as what I am. And I said, hey, you know, I said, look.

I love it. True. So I go off for about 30 minutes on this and I said, look, here's the deal. They're saying I didn't do what I was supposed to be. I said, hey, look, every time they said, hey, show up here and we want to do a little commercial. I said, I was there. I said, because, hey, look, I said, here's what got me in this deal to begin with. I said, here's what they told me.

Mr. Robinson. your great, great grandchildren will not be able to spend the money we're going to make for you. Yep. And I said, so, hey, I said. And that's gone. I said, hey, I'm not stupid. I said, because I did everything I was supposed to because I was waiting on all this mailbox money to be coming in that my great, great, great, great, great, grandchildren can't spend. Yeah.

Yo, well, when I got through, you know, I said, you know, and the prosecutor's attorney says, Your Honor, that's all our, all on questions I got from Mr. Robertson. Well, the judge and the prosecutor attorney said, Mr. Robinson, you're done, and you can go ahead and leave the courtroom. We really appreciate you. He said, I enjoyed having you in my court. And the prosecutor attorney says, hey, you're the best person I've ever interviewed in on court. Yeah. And I said, well, hey, appreciate that.

Well, I'm out here. Okay. Okay, yes. I got to take a leak. The other thing, Willie and I couldn't start laughing out is just imagine that court reporter trying to type up everything that I said. Like, can you imagine her trying to keep up and transcribe what Sai is saying in the moment? It was great.

And we get that transcript. I would love to read. We should have been filming that. Okay, let me say also the other parts that were funny. So also, we had this, they had these two different attorneys. And one had been interviewing us. And he was like, you know, this half a lute and like, you know. Very amazing type.

Yeah, attorney. Then when they put Sae on the sand, they get this other guy. up and he has this like fake southern accent he's trying to be all like oh mr sigh you know trying to be all like chummy and chummy to sigh and sigh's like no let me just tell you what how it is it was good and then i said i ain't stupid i'm funny it was awesome let me just like put a bow on this we won that lawsuit which we thank you we they sued us we did not see them we but we had to fight we had to go for it It costs us a lot of money, but we won the lawsuit, thankfully. Because we did, so I did do everything he said he was going to do.

We fulfilled the contract. You're not going to blame this on me because we're. We fulfilled the contract. They didn't make you look stupid, although you're not stupid. I'm just glad we found our next duck call room coffee mode. I'm not stupid. I'm funny. I don't know if we're rolling or not, but that was the greatest line of all times.

And we may make a trucker hat with that on the front of it. I'm not stupid. I'm just funny. I was going through. The judge even had to turn his way from not looking at me. And the prosecutor attorney. Prosecutte attorney was asking questions, and he'd turn it back because he couldn't stand to, you know, look at me into faith.

Now, how I really want the transfer? Oh, no. I want to read the, I want to read theized testimony. Also, so before we went in for the, like, deposition, before we go on the sand, our attorney tells Willie and I, like, hey, look, the deposition, don't give any extra information. You answer only what they tell you. Hey. And so I'm in there with Willie, and Willie is taking that to the extreme.

He hadn't given them anything. Then Cy comes in and just. Yeah. Well, it all started one rainy night. I was having a steak with a potato. And, you know, I mean, we had this idea. It was great. I think Perry Mason was on the TV.

They said to Willie, they're like, what do you? Can you tell us what you do for a living? And Willie's like, can you rephrase the question? Willie, Willie called me after that and was like, he was like, because I answered everything

with the question or yes or no. Oh, he did. And he was like, how many, do you work with family? Well, depending on what do you mean by family?

I mean, it was like, everybody was family. I was like, yeah, that's the defy family. I was like, Willie,

oh my gosh. Oh, yeah. So they took it a little bit to the extremes, but hey, it worked out. We won,

you know, because we fulfilled our contract, because we fulfill our contract as we do us right that's right as as proven by the court of law yeah thank you i'm just glad the days of like lawsuits for us are kind of behind us for the most i mean we had a while there we were every time you're turning around and they were all the american dream of frivolous lawsuits yeah one was we've never lost one was insane i don't even know that was that was only one we actually went to court on nothing else everything else was one time we got

threat or whatever. Somebody had a duck commander's sticker on the back of their truck and did something on the road. And it was a hit and run. I was like, what you want us? Yeah. I don't even know if we sold the sticker. Yeah, we had to show like a proof of our fleet of vehicles and where they were.

And I'm like, oh, you could buy that sticker any gas station at that point. In 2014, there wasn't a sit go 7-Eleven. You pack it. Chevron. They didn't have something on that had that duck or cut them or, you know, Faith Family Ducks or something on it. And, yeah, that was company vehicle had to be. I remember when you couldn't even go down the highway.

Yeah. If they recognized you, yeah, hey, here we go. We got a convoy, baby. Oh, yeah, that's when we got. And hey, and they stayed with us until we pulled in to take a, you know, leak break. The funniest one. Somebody followed us. We stopped.

They stopped. And we signed their dashboard on their car. Oh, yeah. We were like, are you sure you wanted us to sign your dashboard? We're like, that's there forever. Like, you're going to sell this car. And our name's on your dashboard. Yes.

I should have had Willie do that too. We signed their dashboard. Yeah, you still can. I remember coming home one night after Phimmon. And we fooled around my wife. As soon as I walked in, it was like, you know, dark. She said, oh, we got to go get some groceries. We heard that too.

Okay. Well, we fooled around, I ate, watch TV, and then turn around. And it's 11 o'clock. Christine said, hey, we have got to go get groceries. I'm out of everything. And I said, baby, it's a lot. 11 o'clock at night. She said, oh, it won't take long.

So, hey, we go do the shop, and that takes about an hour. It's 12 o'clock now. Well, we got home at 2 a.m. in the morning after I sign all the people's names that want to be to sign something for them in Walmart. I hate to tell you, but back in that day, that's when our crowd roamed

to Walmart was about 11. Oh, no, no, no, no. You'd have been way better off going at 10 a.m. Oh, yeah. My wife, we got home, and she said, I'm so sorry. She said, when did all this happen? And I said, darling, I said, the show is big.

Yeah. And I said, I can't go out. I said, hey, I can't even drive anywhere. I stop at a red light. I got to get out and find autographs. You were so big that there was Duck Commander T-shirts on Tiger King. Oh, no, yeah, just made a lot of sense. Yeah.

That's a damn. Yeah. So Willie, Willie's on a trip right now. He's in Florida. And he went quail hunting yesterday, by the way. Did he? Is he bringing any back? I don't know.

I sure. I want a frog. But he loved it and had a great time. But he said he got stuck watching Duck Dynasty episodes. The night he was like, I stayed up to one in the morning watching Duck Dynasty. Really? Yes, he did. He said, I turned the TV on.

It was on. I just got stuck watching it. That's hilarious. It was pretty funny. It was a pretty good show. Yeah, it was funny. He probably didn't watch many of them when we were doing it. No, we watched every Wednesday.

night we'd have everybody over to watch which was super fun but you know everybody's there. There's a bunch of people everybody's there you know we had fun doing that we'd eat together and watch it but yeah you probably didn't like watch watch it yeah well I see all the clips now like Facebook and I'll get I'll get sucked down you get hooked and then it because it's they're two miniters so I didn't even this was I scrolled across one the other day I don't even remember filming that episode oh that was all right and I'm like we did What? Yeah.

Yeah. And it's funny to look back like the kids were kids. I know. Like they were kids. Oh no, no, no. They actually grew up. Yeah. They did.

Well, now most of them work here. Yeah. So like, I'm working with them all that. I'm walking by them and I'm like, but I saw that and I'm like. Even hearing their little voices and their little kid voices. Oh, no. Yeah. Well, I have.

Yeah. I was thinking you might be going to break. Yeah. I do have. I have, I can tell you all about Guatemala. I love that. I love Guatemala. Yeah.

Yeah, so let's take a break. Well, and then we'll go back to Guatemala. We'll be back right after this. You went to Guatemala? This past weekend, yeah. And according to Instagram, we were yesterday. You wouldn't it go away? No.

No, y'all. This was you and Sadie. Uh-huh. And y'all just said, you know where? Guatemala. No, it's a whole story. Tell the story. What's the story?

Okay, I didn't know. We're back. Oh, we're back. We're always. I was waiting on us to get back. All right. The other theme of this show is we're always recording. Oh, good to know.

breaks are pretty good to know i feel like this is just like a whole lesson in improv because you just like before i came in i asked my assistant i was like hey is there something specific we're talking about today nope nope it's just we just come in and talk all right i love that last episode we talked about george w bush this episode guatemala take it away cori see it's what we're i'm excited about that i love that all right this is like basically just like you just forced time to just sit and catch up. Mm-hmm. I like it.

Yeah. I love it. It's a lot of like, it's really, it's called the duck call room, but it's way more similar to being in a duck blind because this is what happens when no ducks are around. Yeah. You don't know where you're getting to, but you're never talking about the thing that's right in front of you. I love it.

Yeah. Well, okay. So this past weekend, I went to Guatemala and literally left on Saturday and was home on Monday night. But we went for a very specific mission. We were able to, we delivered a Bible. to a people group, the Achi people who live in Guatemala, and it's kind of remote and their language is Achi. They don't speak Spanish. They don't speak Spanish. They're some of the kids, a lot of the kids speak Spanish because they teach Spanish in school. And, but the older people in this community don't speak Spanish. And they have never had a Bible in their own language. So the really cool part, we went with Illuminations, which is a group that translates, does Bible translation around the world. Yeah, there was sadiate passion, right?

And their goal is to translate the Bible into every known language on earth. That's right. So Jesus will come back. That's right. Allison bought a lottery ticket just to speed up the process of Jesus coming back by getting everybody a Bible one time. We didn't win, so sorry, but we were going to. There you go. It's a good idea.

So, yeah, so their goal is, I think their goal is to have it done by 23, which would be 2,000 years since Jesus was here, obviously. And so their goal is to have it translated in every language around the entire world by 2033. And it's like the language is nobody's like Achi. Yeah. You've never heard of it unless you're talking to Corey right now. Exactly. And so it's really cool because this is this whole project where a ton of these translation groups are coming together to do it. You know, where a lot of times you have like nonprofit.

Like you're doing this here, you're doing this there, you're doing this there. Well, everyone has come together, Eliminations, another one called. the Seed Company, White Cliff, which does Bible translations. Like, they've all just kind of formed this giant group to say, like, we're all going to come together and we're going to make this happen. So it's really cool. So we got invited to go and help deliver this Bible. And it was just literally, I felt like I was in biblical times, like experiencing what you

read about in the Bible. And it was so beautiful, so powerful. So we land in Guatemala City. We drive like five hours. to this small town. Then we drive another two hours to this community that speaks the Achi language. We got to be a part of this church service in their language. You know, they sing all their worship songs. Several of them. I was like, I recognize this song. I know this song from, you know, childhood or whatever, but they sing all the songs and, you know, all their worship is in Achi,

the preacher, all that's in Achi, the Bible classes. It was just really, really special. And then at the end of it, we gave them the Bible that we had brought. And this was the first time they had held in their hands a Bible in their own language. And so it was just incredibly powerful moment. So that afternoon we got to sit down with the translators, and two of them had started as children. So they had been working on this for over 40 years. Wow. They had started as, or even more than that, because they started as children.

A missionary couple came to their village when they were children and started this process. And they, there we go. And they started, yeah, I wrote a little story about it on my Instagram. But so they, yeah, this missionary couple came to their village and began teaching them God's word. And both of them from a very young age said they knew that this was God's calling upon their life. and they were going to do this. So they started, I mean, at 18 years old, translating the scripture. And in 2010, they completed the New Testament.

So they have had the New Testament since 2010. So once how these Bible translations work is like once they get the New Testament, they'll go ahead and print that. So they had Bibles that only have the New Testament in it. And since then they've been working on the Old Testament. And it was just so powerful to sit down and hear their stories of, I mean, this has been their life's work, translating God's word into the language of their people.

And so we got to hear their stories. And then we got to give it to them, to the actual translators that had done the work. And to see one of the ladies' names was Esther, which, of course, brings up this whole thought of for such a time as this and her purpose and how God had just placed her in that moment. So Sadie got to hand her the Bible, and she just started bawling, just weeping.

And then raised it up, raised it up to God, and just was said, God be the glory, praise God, and was just weeping and holding up his word. And it was just one of those moments. I'm getting chill bumps talking about it that I will never forget. Just so beautiful to get to be a part of. So we only had one. There's 3,000 Bibles on it on their way to them right now. So everyone in their community will receive.

It's no way to have the word of God. We'll receive the word of God in their own language. Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty opposite. And like years when you were just speaking about it. Uh-huh. Yeah. Because it used to be until it was recorded, okay, it was word of mouth.

Yeah, right. Each individual person sharing it was, okay, here's what I've heard. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what.

Okay, people that still in this day and age are still being handed the Holy Scriptures. Yeah. Don't have it. As much as we. We're in 2024 and there's languages of this world still. There's still people here. That's wild. And I can get on my phone at any.

I can get on my phone at any point and look up 75 different translations. I do that at the end of every episode. It's just right here at the fingertips. I mean like you try to wrap your head around that. That's hard to look. Well, and that's another cool part. So now once this is done, they also partner with like you version. So once this is all complete, it will be on U version.

And so the Aussie people will have it on their, you know, on their phones as well, which, you know, we just so take for granted. Yeah. How many Bibles you have at your house, you know, we don't even. Probably 15. Yeah. You just have Bibles, you know, you have Bibles and you just take that for granted. You don't even think about that people might not actually have this. That's one of the things that I get a lot of gifts is Bibles.

Send you Bibles, yeah. When I'm out. That's cool. Yeah. So it was cool. Was there a big lake close by to where y'all are? or not. Maybe.

I've just heard stories of Guatemala. Oh, no, no. Like the next world record bass could be in this lake and it's like five hours from the airport. I've just, I've just listened. You'd love to go there too, right? I know what's talking about. So the guy that actually, you should go because the guy that was our translator, there's one being translated into his language, his native language, and they're going to do a Bible,

they're going to deliver in April and he lives on a big lake. So I actually Googled that lake. I'll look it up and tell you. I can't remember the name of it. But yes. Guatemala is beautiful, by the way. A titlin? Lake.

A titlin? Can you show me a picture of it? I can tell you if it's. How on earth can you know what a lake looks like? Is there a mountain beside it? Yeah, that's it. Okay. He knew that from the Google Mountain.

No, that's it. Because see the reeds? That's why they're saying it's got like the next world record bass. Yeah. Because it don't get fished. I shouldn't be saying this. Maybe you'll get to go and be a part of that. That would be really cool.

Hey, because what you were talking about is like a rack. some of the soldiers is the reeds in the big lakes there. Yeah. Oh, really? People actually live on them just like you do in South Louisiana. But they put bass in it like back in the 70s. 1958. Oh, yeah.

There you go. Wow. You and Sadie just experienced a, I mean, a unique thing. It was. It was really amazing. Yeah, not many people get to do that. To hand somebody their first Bible and their language. Yeah.

Be there and think you give it a person to just. and doing and now she's got it written. I mean, we've done some cool stuff, but that, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, how amazing. What, what's the language again? Achi. Achi. Yeah, I'm probably, once that becomes available on the U version, I'm going to go see what

the Achi language is. Oh, it's so different. I kind of, I will go just look like, you know, like, so you'll be interested in this, because, you know, I thought, I guess, because it's in Guatemala and they speak Spanish, I guess I just kind of thought, oh, maybe it's going to be similar to Spanish. Well, it's not at all. This predated like Spanish in Guatemala. It predated the Spaniards coming in.

So this is an old, old language. And it's very different. Yeah, it's so interesting. And even to hear them speak it, it's not like Spanish at all. That's crazy. It's not a Latin language, I guess, because it predates that. So it's really cool. What is get me, I watched a show on

PBS. Okay, and it was about the Native Americans. Yeah. Yeah. Most people don't realize how much we owe the Native Americans. Well, you know I'm Choctaw, so. Yeah. I love that.

I love that. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Our great grandmother was a Cherokee. She was full of British. We just had a Tim McGraw moment. Wait, I have never known that. No, no, I'm serious.

We got a Cherokee and a Choktoe? Oh, no. I did not. No, no, no, no. My baby's actually one. No, no. She's a lot of a guy, bo, bough, bough, bough. My friends actually call me Bearclaw.

Well, what Sadie and Corey went through going to Guatemala? That's amazing. It was. And, you know, and I look at it, that would have been an honor. It was. It was. You're handing the word of God to somebody that's never had it written down. That's so far above any of the cool stuff I've done.

Hold on. Like, for me, that's like birth of your children. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. It felt like being, like, this is a moment in time here. Yeah. Yeah, that's a, that's a potentially world changing moment. Oh, no.

And the other part of it is like, that's cool. The translators, you're like, we're looking at like heroes of faith. Like, that would be written down about in the Bible. You know, we're looking at, like, the people who are true heroes of our faith. Oh, no. I was imagine they had to master another language first to then translate that back into that's brought of people. Like that's crazy to think about it. It was amazing.

And also, so originally there wasn't even until, I don't know what year, which maybe you can look this up, what year a written language came into the ACHI people. Like originally the ACHI language wasn't even, they didn't even have a written. So that had to be created as well. So it's just amazing. One thing that one of the translators told us, we kind of got to ask them some questions and ask like what kind of surprise them or what they learned or whatever. And one of the guys said, the thing that he was most struck by was the word mercy. And so, and I don't know Hebrew, but he went back to kind of like the Hebrew word of mercy and how to translate that in the Achi language. It takes, it's like four words to describe mercy in the Achi language, which was just really beautiful.

because mercy is such a deep concept and something that, you know, we don't experience a lot apart from God. You know, God's mercy is. There's a lot of things that the word love. Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah. We don't really, we don't understand how deep that is.

That's right. That's right. When you're talking about God's love, we don't even have enough to comprehend it, what it really means. So true. Okay. And like you're talking about, y'all, you just, you know. Like a concept like mercy, you know, thinking about how do you convey what that means in another language, you know?

No matter what's done to you, you should show mercy. Yeah. And then you go, wait a minute, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you talking about what you mean no matter what's done to you? That's a whole matter. Whatever's done to you, you've got to overlook it and say, hey, I'm going to show you mercy. Mm-hmm. That's what God did for us. You lost your mind?

Huge. Yeah. You know, I'm a flawed human being. No, you can't, you can't, you can't comprehend it. Yep. That's why I said, you was, it was an honor for y'all to even be involved with that. Absolutely. It really was.

Yeah. Yep. And that's why, you know, like Robesha, the veteran. It's an honor just knowing that man. Yeah. Did he come on the podcast when he was here? Oh, we've got to do that. Yeah, we've done.

Oh, we've done. He is. Oh, good, good, good. Yeah. There you go. That's what I was going to go. Yeah, we'd be missed if we didn't mention the work that Corey's involved with. It's if you want to go to Illuminations.

That's where you can learn more about it, give some money if that's what you're inclined to do. And just reach out to everybody. Translate and Bibles is a big work. Yeah, click on Give Monthly. There's a, the cool thing that they've set up is this monthly, and it's called the 12 verse challenge. So it's basically like you commit to a year and it's roughly like one verse a year that you're getting translated by the time, you know, all the costs associated with translating each word of God's words. So yeah, you can donate. I think it's like $35 a month.

And it's basically you're translating, you're committing to, you know, translating these 12 verses of Bible. That's really cool. Yeah. Yeah, that's awesome. Well, I got a Bible verse that fits. You want to do that? Well, let's get out of here, buddy. A man from Nazareth, his name was Jesus said this in Matthew 2414,

and this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations. Today we're specifically talking about the Achi speaking people, and then the end will come. So really cool just to hear that story from you, that you left on Saturday and got back on Monday and did all that? Yes. That's awesome. That's wild. Yeah. That's crazy.

My deal is that you was actually handing the written word of God to somebody that before this time, it was all by word of mouth, just handed down throughout the ages. Unbelievable. Okay. And now, you know, that's why the woman broke down. Yeah. Now I've got it written down where I can read it anytime I want to. That's tough.

Yeah, that's totally. I mean. That's totally That's freaking me out I think the word he was looking for Was flabbergasting No no I'm serious He was really stuck on that

Freaking me out Hey that's so awesome She and Sadie got to Be a part of that Oh I was not Minimizing what I meant by like Birth of Your Children cool That's true

This is above I can't even describe it It's true You know Even a green flag At a NASCAR race really cool. This is way cooler than me. Oh yeah. That's tight. This is tight and that's freaking me out. I mean yeah. It's just

crazy man. We'll see y'all next time. Corey, thanks so much for stopping by. Come by, Annie. Yeah, we'll see y'all next time right here in the duck call room. We're out.