Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Meets the Newest Members of Willie and Korie Robertson's Family

Episode Date: July 11, 2024

Uncle Si is excited to meet the newest members of Willie and Korie's "West Monroe Family." Martin is shocked by their new friends unique habits and John-David gushes about an old school viral video that he still can’t get enough of. The boys are interested to try all the crazy Dominican dishes Luis raves about. Si and his wife, Christine, have their own predictions about the end of the world, though Si’s works out particularly poorly for everyone in California. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It looked like oil. It looked like oil oozing on top of the desert. There's fish on top of the sun? But it's actually fish to each trout, millions of them. Coming, and they're chasing people? Coming down the desert. Isn't that that Kevin Bacon movie? No, no, this was real.

I just were flipping through the channel and they come up on it. No, that is not tremors. No, no, it was coming up under the name of the thing is Weird World. this weird world of ours. I'm, you know, my computer may die in the middle of this one, but I'm got to, I need to know about this. The thar desert. We'll, weird world.

Weird world. Weird desert. Trout. And that is the most population-wise in a desert is the thar desert. It's thousands of people live in it. Oh. And they said to lake, I can't remember the name of it. And apparently millions of trout.

Yeah. Hold on. Hey, but it was just wild that, hey, they're just oozing through on the top of the sand. Look. No water. No water. None. It actually looked like oil oozing on top of the ground, except you would see it.

The whole thing was moving because they fish were flipping. The fish don't require water? Hey, evidently these don't because it was on top of the desert moving. Never going to that desert. That sounds like the start of the camera. Oh, no, it was the craziest looking time you didn't want to see in your life. Also, it was a easy way to catch a bunch of fish. Yeah, no, no.

It would have been great bait. Just walk out there and scoop them up. Two tachers. Yeah, imagine if you had bait you didn't have to put in like a minibut. Yeah. That'd be cool. Far desert. Did you find it?

Has he been asleep dreaming again? No, this was, I was looking at it. I was watching a western. What? There's a fish in there's another fish in a day. Look at it. Look at it. That's a catfish.

He ain't making stuff up. What is happening here? You're on TikTok? I'm not on TikTok. That's where that came from. I don't have a TikTok. This is a weird place. TikTok, you don't stop, huh?

Oh, man. I'm an adult. I don't have a TikTok. You got to draw a line somewhere when you're growing up. You didn't look up weird world? I'm trying to. TikTok is right to line. Okay.

Weird world. As a fact, I'm going to be watching it Sunday night because they said they had a special coming. What channel? No, no, I'm serious. What channel? Huh? 214 on my TV. So what happened?

On my dish. Weird World Channel 214-dish. I mean, the internet's all. What happened? I find this. How did you end up from a western? That's the weather channel. Well, no, I know.

I was looking and look. Because with the hurricane, Barrel, I think is the name of it? Yeah, Barrel. This went through. I was checking on that. But I was actually, I changed channels to see what the stupid movie's name was. Well, when I changed channels, I went to the weather channel. And then you got sucked through.

And then when I'll come back, I couldn't find my western channel. And I got into that, into the fish. So I'm going to get these. Weird Earth. Weird Earth. Weird Earth on the Weather Channel. Yeah. I thought they only covered the weather.

I've never watched. Oh, no. This was the craziest thing you didn't ever look at. Millions of fish. out in the middle of a desert, okay. That's about sand. It sounded like the weather channel headed towards the MTV route. You know, music television.

Oh, what's crazy you don't want to look at? There's no more music. Well, to be fair, a bunch of fish in the desert, way more entertaining than the chance of precipitation. Oh, no, it got my attention immediately. I said, wait a precipitate. And they're on top of the desert. And they're just walking across the sand.

And they're flipping, flopping, you know, coming toward the camera. This is a brand new show. Where are they going? I just like how Si has a date with the weather channel Sunday at 9. Oh no. I want to watch you because look

the next thing they ain't going to be at 9. They said, okay, this plane is at 30,000 feet and they're looking at a giant cloud. I found it. I 100% found it. Look at it. Look at them.

Put this up wrong. Look, I just want to say congratulations to the people that created the internet because you just allowed Sai to tell me channel 214 and all the wrong information because of channel 214 we found this are you ready that's fish that's fish look at this what that's in the middle of the desert on top of it had 110 degrees what a weird

earth and we would have never known about this if sye knew how to hit info on his commercial remote no my life told me think of the things that have to happen for us to find out about this. Well, the man wants to know the name of a western and rather than

hit info I know our back or died he changed the western's so good he changes the channel

and gets sucked into fish walking across the desert oh yeah and I look I'm sitting you are

you are at 9 o'clock hey that channel will be on my TV you are a child did you did you like write it on a post-it note

Sunday 9 o'clock no no I've got it around here I won't miss it, son. Think of what Sondon could do with Adderall. Because look, it shows this gigantic cloud. She threw walls.

Look, look, no, it shows this gigantic cloud at 30,000 feet. And the only thing I can say, you remember when Helen blew up? The volcano? Well, I mean, I learned about it in history. Yeah, my St. Helen. Okay. That one blew up. That's what it looked like.

It went off. It went off. Ash cloud. Yeah, ash cloud. Yeah. Because you couldn't see to it. And it was just, this thing was humongous. okay so now this is like PBS this is going to give you stuff that you had never seen before

what a weird earth what a weird it's even weirder that it's on the weather have you ever watched the weather channel for more than two minutes it's boring they needed something like this to boost the radio I was checking on the hurricane in the Gulf well the hurricane it already moved over it was up north yeah go wait so you know it was already it was already in Arkansas and moving north. You just, there's the weather. It's going to rain up. But hey, thousands of the fish on top of a desert.

Just walking, chilling. Yeah. Where do they go? Did it tell you where they were going? They was trying to get to water source. Oh. Look, they came from an underground river. Them fish ain't no dunnies.

Look, they come from an underground river under the desert. Yeah. And then they got on top somehow. That said that ain't good. Hey, they're looking for better water. Somebody got to tell them the grass ain't always green over. Yeah, you should have stayed where you was at, dude. Yeah, yeah, y'all about to become a fish.

Yeah, you're about to become extinct. Them thing's cooking on top of that zan for show. Oh, the first one out. 110 degrees in the shade. Yeah, the first one out that was like the bridge for everybody else. Yeah. He's still right there. Yeah.

He didn't make it far up. Well, hey, what amazed me is they just kept flopping coming toward you. Millions up. Okay, and they're flopping, so well, they're still alive. Yeah. It's the craziest thing I ever seen.

That's wild. It is wild. Oh, man. That's fun. Well, they didn't have none of them at the Nashville Zoo, I can guarantee you. They named another fish that they thought it was, puff or something

like that? A puffed fish? What? A puffer fish? Yeah. He in the ocean. Oh, well, hey. I just think so.

I know what this is anything? It looks like a puff. It was talking about it. It looked like a puff. And then they said, no, we actually looked at them now. It's trout. And then they went to the time that, well, we, we imported them into Pakistan from England in the 50s. From England.

So they're just trying to go back to England. Well, they're trying. They don't like Pakistan. If I've learned anything, it's if you get out of England, you ain't trying to go back. Wow. I mean, if you leave it out. Yeah, you've been there. It gets 78 degrees there.

Can you imagine how hot there? Burn it up. We're melting. Yeah, so you're shipped from 78 degree England to 120 degree Pakistan. You might want to go back to England. I wish I'd remember the name of the lake because they were said during flood stage. I thought it was a desert river. Well, I'm underground desert.

I'm so confused. The biggest lake in Pakistan when it floods during flood states, it floods over 200 miles of desert. That's because they ain't got no lead. The RCD lake? Yeah. Yeah. But, hey, when you're talking about flooding the desert, yeah.

And then people say, when they read about it, the flood in the Bible, they don't believe it. You people ain't lived around water. Okay, if you had, you'd believe. You'd believe. Yeah. Hey, there's no stopping water. You can't stop water. Well, now we have a hundred-year flood every other year, so I don't know how that average is out.

I'll tell you what the fish were looking for. What? They were looking for the flood. They're looking for the flood. They's trying to go somewhere else. That's right. Did you imagine how confusing it had to be for the fish? When he got a pair and was like, oh, rut robe.

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That's tribeef.com slash support ranch families and eat some dang good steak. Oh, another thing, just remind me and my wife are talking this weekend. Okay. I love this guy. Religious. Religious coming in. Because she was saying, she said, you know, I figured out how God's going to in time. when he gets sick of it.

And I said, well, it enlightened me, baby. She said, first the sun, moon, and stars are going to fall out of the sky. And guess what happens when that happens? Everything goes dark. The trumpet sound? Yeah, yeah. And then the trumpet blows. Yes, she said that, you know, Gabriel blows the trumpet.

Okay. And here he comes. Then I thought, I said, hey, you just gave me, I know, what's the fault on the, California coast. San Andreas. Yeah. San Jose. I know what caused that.

What? When God stopped time and the Bible and Jose. Because when he stopped time, you got to think about this. This thing is going $6,000. Miles a minute. Well, he stopped time. Hey. In California.

Yeah. That abrupt. Hey, it made that thing buckle. And then the. Oh, first started slats. Don't stop each other So I said Not all is the earth

Not flat It's like an egg That's right Buddy Done it'll crack It'll crack If you stop something Yeah

A decent point has been made If you spun an egg That fast And then stopped it And stopped it What would happen Nothing good Something in California's

Having trouble Oh no Utah I know what it's done It buckle First it buckle Crack Okay

And then it's flit On top of each other Yeah I'll say this I can't argue with it I've heard heck of a lot worse theories. Well, no, I was fixed a thing.

That is a good theory. What if side has figured it all out? Hey, I would believe that and, hey, I will go to my grave believing I'm right. I'm a firm believer in the life. I'll ask Jesus when I get faith in faith. Look, I'm a firm believer that every human being that's ever lived knows something for a fact. And when they get to heaven, they're going to learn that they were so wrong it's not even

funny. Oh, like way off on that one, bro. Yeah. But that one's going to be right. That's the kind of stuff he's about. You're the one guy that figured it out, Sa, you did it. No, no, but here's the time.

Now, most people don't think about it. I have some weird, weird thoughts at times. You don't really do. For a man that's never dabbled in recreational narcotics, it is strange how your brain works. Well, no, no, because look, you got to think about this. God created all this stuff, and look, God don't create nothing unless it has a purpose.

Agreed. Agreed. Okay. So, hey, there's stuff out there. I don't know what the purpose is. A mosquito. A mosquito. A mosquito.

Is his only purpose just sucking blood off out of human beings? A tick. Yeah. Or ticks. Yeah. Or flies. Yeah. Flies help break down stuff.

I get that. Flies, I see their purpose because they're okay. Martin's in on the flies. Stuff has got a degraded on them. I hate them. But, I mean, I get it. Yeah. There's nothing worse than a fly.

Because when something like on the road dies, The flies had to show up, then to grade it, and then the flies start in the maggot, and then the maggots take care of all the dead junk. Yeah, and then maggots start in the fish. Yeah, they're clean up. It's clean. And then the fish get in the underground river,

and then the underground river goes to the surface, and then the fish are like, where do we go? And they go to the river. It's almost like a circle. Right, yeah. Like things around. I thought we were going circle of life there. Oh, no.

Well, that, I've had a really interesting. weekend. I really have. Okay. Do you ever not? Hey, and look, and I got another one coming up because, hey, guess what? Sunday night?

Sunday night, 9 o'clock? 2.14, baby. I'll tell you what. Weird world. If you folks question my pillows and he looks at y'all need to go somewhere. Look at what this man coming up with. Oh.

It's because. It's improvised. He ain't doing none of it away. I'm just always in wonder and all of how great this life is. You are a child and I love it. It's never boring.

Amen. Okay. Think about that. Fish in the middle of a desert. Think about what you just said. This is only coming from Cy Robertson. You are watching the weather channel and now you're saying how life is never boring. Hey, I'm telling you.

Hey, well, you can find millions of fish in the middle of a desert and there's no water and they're on top of the sand. I didn't make any sense. And I ain't looking. The best part it was, and baby, they're on the move. They're rolling. They're not just fooling around. They're rolling. Looking for water.

I'd be looking for water. That's pretty wild. I wonder if that's like some of them shows, though, where my man is standing right in front of the puddle of water and you just don't see it. And, like, as soon as they get to the end of his lens, like they're in the water. No, that'd be. Sorry. That would be.

It would be like finding out. Do not ruin nature shows for that. Hey, sir. That would be just like. like a human being. It would, it's almost like if they gave you lines

to say in reality television. Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. Click what? Look at it. Look at it. I love it.

Breaking down the fifth wall. How many walls are there? I don't know. A bunch of them. Welcome to this weird world. It is a weird world. It is. We may need to change our podcast.

What are we going to change it to? Weird world. Weird world. First off, Weird Earth is the name of it. Oh, Weird Earth, yeah. But I do feel like... They didn't do a very good job of branding. We don't even ruin it.

The good folks at the Weather Channel should have called Zah and said, Weird Earth or Weird World? Because you want alliteration. And to be fair, I mean, I think a pretty cool goal for Sae would be to narrate a nature special. Do you know, I would pay so much money

to have that happen? Yeah. I would need rocket money to cancel my subscription because I would love it so much. that I would subscribe to it. I would watch one a day. Sigh on PBS or any channel.

Not all, hey, they're looking for water. No, no. No, no. No, no, hey. And there's millions of them. Jack. Here's what's crazy about all this. I can see myself in the future with Jesus.

And me and Jesus, I'm talking to him about creation. Yeah. He's going to have to, He's going to have to put up a sign that says, like 10 minutes at a time. How did you come up with this? Rhinoceroses. Right.

Yeah. Hey, that's wild. That's what I was had in my mind. There's a rhino. Weird. I'm serious. I'm serious. I was asking Jesus, how does you come up with a rhino?

And you said it's, I can't believe this. This is too much. It's a wild day. You know, it's even wild. about this day that the fact that the rhino was there is because we watched the trailer for gladiator two before we got started i just watched it and we just watched it on gladiators me i told you that's why it was in we may have started this morning watching the gladiator two trailer all this is insane hey did you notice when they went by he had blood all over the horn yeah you don't want to mount i ain't get in front of a rhino

i'm not getting a fight with rhino well rhino's what up rino is one of them yeah we were at up you think you know how big they are and then we went to the Nashville Zoo with the boys and they got like six rhinos yeah we haven't got to talk about your trip well I am worried about that but we got plenty of other podcast I'm assuming this thing's going on until next week sometimes well I hope so I've made plans but via rocket

still got paper Disney world no no since you said how it was look look when they were all laid out there in a shade you know it's hot I mean Tennessee's still hot but when they stood up I said Yeah. Yeah, that thing's hurt you. He big. No, no.

Hey, when we fed that one, I was like, Hey, didn't really shoot a bison? I think so. And he got a bison head in his house. Yeah, I think he did. He bought that on eBay. No, I thought they was only 2,000 pounds. A bison?

Yeah, I was looking at a show the other day where got shot one with a bow. Hey, double that. Four? They're four thousand pounds. Two tons is what you. Yeah. I don't know. I bet.

Hey. But try. Hey, chah. Big. They're big. These suckers are huge. You don't want to wrestle one. No.

No, you don't want to ride one either. That YouTube video is a farce. The guy on a buffalo. You don't want to do that. Yeah, you do. Yeah, you would all be among them. I would never ride a horse. If you gave me the opportunity to ride a buffalo.

Oh, I'd ride a... You'd be a guy on a buffalo? The guy on the buffalo... Single greatest YouTube series of all time. If you haven't seen it, just a YouTube guy on a buffalo, thank me. Break your gun on a stump. Guy on a buffalo It's awesome

One of the original viral clips Bongo Boy I don't even know if that was viral It should have been Or if I just watched it that many times I mean how many views Does the guy on a Buffalo have See where we go

I told you Weird world That's where we're at The Possum Posse was the band That made this Oh it's got 16 million views That's pretty solid 12 years ago

I was at least 500,000 of them It is my favorite YouTube series of all time. And there's only four episodes. Well, if you want to know just how weird this world, earth can be, you know,

a lady from Maine can marry a guy from the Dominican Republic and then they can end up working at Duck Commander, which is exactly what we have coming in here now. You know the whole time I've been smiling because I was like, this is just a softball because the perfect segue.

There are two of the most interesting people I've met only because of their story and we haven't really got to dive into it. But we're going to. We are. So let's take a break and we're going to get Luis and Brittany in the hot seat. They're going to share a chair? Yeah, I mean, they're married. We can treat you like Santa Claus.

Ain't a big deal. These armrests go up. All right. We'll be back right after this. And we're back. We're back. I told you all we'd have special guests. And continuing on our theme of adding people that work at Duck Commander to the podcast

So that you see kind of the whole shebang behind the scenes. We have Luis and his lovely wife, Brittany, who Brittany actually doesn't work for Duck Commander. She works for Tread Lively, which is the podcast company that puts this out for you guys to listen to. And so when you get tired of us reading ads, it's her fault because she sells them all. I always get excited with Brittany emails me

because it means we get to talk about something new and fun. Or we get free stuff. Yeah, like body wash. You two are my favorite because you're always on the free stuff. Oh, absolutely. That's why I said. I mean, like, well, I mean, if you're... I used to share an office with Gimber. I come by that naturally. Look, I don't care who you are. You like free stuff. And I emphasis on stuff. Like, it doesn't really matter if it's free because you're like, man, let me try that.

And then sometimes they work great. Sometimes they're not so much. And, you know, but it was free. Sometimes you get dried mango delivered to your house. Yeah, there you go. That's what I'm saying. Or bourbon peacams. Okay, just Mr. Romantic is about here. Who's romantic? Oh, John. Oh, Godwin. I got you.

Okay. Since he's not here, I'll take his place. How did you two meet? That's a hard-hitting question. Also known as I'm bored with your banter, Martin. So there were good. No, I wanted to get to get to the guest. I want to get to the guest.

No, we actually met, I was a missionary in the Dominican Republic, and he was the translator for our group. Okay. Question. What language do they speak in the Dominican Republic? Spanish. Okay.

Yeah. They don't speak Dominican? Some Dominican speak Dominican. It's just like here in Louisiana. Okay. It's Spanish, yeah. It's Spanish-based. Spanish-based.

Yeah. So Patos. That's right. Yeah, Patos. There you go. See? That's duck. That's duck.

That's duck. Pavo, Pavo Grande, big turkey. Hey, all right. Cheers. Cheers. There's things you got to learn how to communicate in the state of Texas if you're a hunter. Because a lot of the ranch managers speak a lot of Spanish. And so, like, if you're out there for something, you need to learn the basic.

I know just enough Spanish to be real dangerous, like, to get myself in a bind. So. Hello, Martin, how you're doing. Good. See, I know just enough to get myself in a lot of trouble. Good. I don't know if I'm going to end up at the casino or the grocery store. But, like, you know, it's fine.

I learned, I just to get my face flat. Oh, okay. So, missionary translator. But missionary from where? I'm originally from Maine. The great state of Maine. Wow. Weird earth.

Weird earth. There's a lot of weird earth up there. So you left a lot of cold and pine trees for sand and palm. I've never been to Dominican. I'm just assuming it's like a lot. of the islands. I've never been to the Dominican, but I have seen it.

Flew over it? Nope. Oh. I was there, but I just didn't get to go there. Oh, really? I was on the border. Was this a whirlwind?

I was in Haiti. And they're like, hey, look, that's the Dominican. And I was like, can we go? They were like, nope. There's a big old wall. I was like, why not? And they were like, we're not even going to get close to that border. And I was like, okay.

Good call. Yeah, we lived pretty close to the border about 45 minutes away from the border to Haiti. Oh, man, we could have like shouted each other across the river or something. We definitely could have. I didn't know you then. But y'all knew Willie then. And I was with Willie. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I heard that he was in Hated sometimes. Yeah, we should have, like, met up and yelled at each other from the distance. Willie travels to the other side, usually. Willie goes to different places. But that is how y'all ended up here. It is how we ended up here. Yeah.

So do you want to tell him? Well, I grew up in an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. Okay. And Will and Corey have been a big supporter of that place for a long time since I was eight years old. And yeah, I grew up in that place and it was my goal to learn English while I was growing up. So every time these American people came into our house, I was like, I need to learn the language, you know. So the place, I mean, this orphanage didn't have the resources to send me to. an English Institute and then I

challenged myself to learn English by myself. That's tight. I fail. And he learned the full gamut of English and I know just enough to talk about killing stuff in Spanish. So that's weird when goals happen. I didn't know that part of it. That's pretty, that's pretty stinking cool.

Yeah, I mean, I'm still learning, but I'm learning the Louisiana English. I'm supposed to say, you seem to have a pretty good grasp on it to still be learning. But I'm getting there. I mean, and yeah, I grew up in this orphanage. And then I started working at the orphanage when I graduated from high school. And yeah, that's when I met Brittany.

Someone just told me, hey, there's this group coming to the Dominican Republic and we don't have someone to translate. We found the only child in all of Naba. who could speak English. Yeah. So they were like, do you think you can do this? And I was like, of course. I mean, there's money. I mean, of course.

Come on. Why not? That's awesome. So, yeah, I translated for the whole week. And then, well, I didn't meet you in that trip, right? I met you in the second trip. First trip I wasn't there. Yeah, that was the first trip.

And then when they came back to Maine, they were like, look, we met this awesome guy. I mean, I know I am. We made this awesome guy And we want you guys to hire him again To be your your interpreter for this trip And that's when I met my wife That is an incredible story How long did y'all date?

We dated probably just over a year But it was like a long distance relationship I was in Maine and he was in the DR You know how that goes That's a long distance Yeah, that's real long I went every few months to visit and it was long, but we couldn't stay apart.

So I ended up quitting my job and moving. So you moved to the Dominican. All because a kid taught himself English, because if you didn't do that, you'd never get to be the translator. God's scripture. It's so true. God moves him mysterious way.

It's so true because I actually had been traveling back and forth to the DR. I'd been at least 12 times to the same city where we were working, and I had never met him before. That's amazing. Until we needed a translator. That's amazing. So I got a question I've always wanted to know. I was going to ask the same thing.

No, about translators. I was going to ask the same thing. Do y'all like as translators, do you all like mess with people? Like, do you like really tell a joke in Spanish because people in English can't call you out on it? Like, everybody laughs. They're like. I mean, I heard some people do that, but I don't. I'm a serious guy.

Yeah, see, I wouldn't be able to help myself. I'd be like making fun of one of them. them or something. Just, you know, because I know willy would. Just to get everybody on the same page, let everybody know like, this is low-key fun.

Like this, this doesn't have to be super official. This is just, you know, we're just here to have a good time. So I would tell jokes in both languages. It was such a good translator, though.

They went back to Maine and made announcements about them. They were like, we got this guy. Well, I'm sure. You got to meet him. I'm just guessing here.

The experience of folks from Maine with translators was probably limited. So when you find one that you can trust and it's good, You better, you better stick with him. Like, that's, I'm guessing.

That's exactly how I went. But I do have a question, though, too. Like, so you left Maine, went to the Dominican Republic. Is there a weather that you prefer now that you're older, like the Maine weather, Dominican weather, like. I really do. I love Maine. Yeah.

I love everything about Maine. But the winters are just so long. Yeah. If it wasn't so long, it would be great. But when you're talking winter nine months out of the year, it's just too much. Have you been to Maine and winter? No. And now I'm not going to me.

Like, there it was. I don't want to be like a popsicle. I mean, why? That's what happened to me. He said, he did step off the plane into U.S. territory in the middle of the Louisiana snowstorm though. That's one.

Yeah. Oh, that's a different kind of cold, though. Oh, wow. That's a humid. You were here for our eight days of winter. I mean, but I was freezing. I was like, why did I do? Yeah.

It was back to my car. We have one child, right? We have one son, yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah, we do. Who's obsessed with dinosaurs, and I love him. Oh, no.

Yeah. He's a fiery little child. He's a good time. He's, he's, he is. And, well, all what, you've done a great job. Like, he's not shy or he hasn't been around us. Anybody here, as soon as he walked in, he started giving everybody high fives and showing his dinosaurs.

He ain't shy at all. And all that thing. I can't imagine where he gets that from. I had to listen to both of them speak on this podcast. Sorry, you do speak. You speak better English as I do. I do. Yeah.

That's a low bottom. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that stick can't measure real high. But that is incredible because literally like, so we had to take, Martin, you had to take Spanish in high school, huh? No, I took Latin. Another very useful language.

Yeah. You know why I took it? Well, you're a biologist. Well, that and you didn't have to speak it. Like, it's just straight translation. So, but most of the English language comes from Latin. So I took it to learn why we had to go and screw everything up. More complicated than the more you learn about, like, I don't understand.

Now, now, you know, the metric system is extremely confusing for Americans because we haven't used it. But if we would have started using it, it is so much simpler. Like, you're going to be inflamed in the comments. Well, that's fine. Go back to London. Like, if it's multiples of 10, most people can do it. You can do that on your fingers. Like, it's not hard.

It's a zero. You know, unless you lost a finger. or, you know, like, I mean. So I have failed Italian. I don't know. I might not have failed it. I made a C. And then Spanish I had to take and it was so hard.

And we had teachers and all this. And you taught yourself English? Which is way more difficult to learn. How did you do that? I mean, the thing is we always received books at this orphanage. And any book that had anything in English was for me. Like I would just get the books. And every time I would go to bed, I would be like, all right, let's read this books.

But how do you read in English when the way that you write is not the same way that you pronounce something? And I was like, all right, we can figure this out. So I got a dictionary that taught me how to pronounce every word from a book. So I was like, all right, let's do it that way. And that's why I did it. That's wow. That is unbelievable. But that was like back when we didn't have.

cell phones and internet you know like that makes it even more impressive and I was like I mean there's nothing else to do around here so let me just study that's what I did what did you do for fun in the Dominican like baseball like yeah baseball but I don't like baseball sorry babe I mean I mean good baseball players come from the Dominican Republic okay yeah but I don't like baseball I was just like did y'all fish like You know, right here, obviously you're now thrown into a hunting and fishing. That's what happens here.

So that's why I was curious of what y'all did for fungers. The only thing that we hunted in the Dominican Republic is chicken. And look, here's what I... Pollo. Got it. Nailed it. Pollo. Use it in a sentence, cannot.

But I got the word. And here's what I tell you about Louise and chicken, what I figured out. They eat all of him, buddy. Oh, yeah. He got a recipe for chicken toads. Oh. Beaches. Yeah.

The feet of them. See? Oh. Pretty much the feet of any animal he'll eat. Have you had the thigh? No, no. No. No, that's...

The child's play. It's all about them feet, man. Oh, yeah. That's what, like, when I thought to most of the time here, it's like about culture and things like, because it's truly fascinating to me, like different cultures and all the things. Like... I mean, you guys, you're love. Um, burgers. Anything with a bread, like anything inside of a bread. It's a burger for you.

Yeah, the truth is we love bread. It's a carb deal. I've never worked with Brittany and Louise because I'm not here anymore. But I have noticed one thing in my short times when I come here, Louise's eating healthy. Huh? He's eating what? Healthy. No. Yeah, he's like all grilled chicken and vegetables. Buddy, he is Chick-fil-A's number one customer. Oh, no. It's going to happen to you. Welcome to West Monroe. And I saw him in tears the other day over a spilt milkshake. Oh, no. Not literal tears, but like the frown on his face, there could have been tears.

I mean, chick filet is good, okay? We don't have chic filet in the Dominican Republic. We have Popeyes, yeah, but it's... Are they rude there? Huh? Or is that just our Popeyes? Are the Dominican Popeyes workers, as rude as the American ones.

Oh, no. Oh, that's good. I didn't know if that was just American. Are they rude over here? Go there. Really? Yeah. I didn't know that. Ask for a chicken sandwich. They're out of them. Anyway. So, but that is a thing. You got to be careful of. The Duck Commander 50. That's what he said. Oh, someone told me about that. Jay told me about that. It was like. There's the freshman 15 and there's the Duck Commander 50. I asked him, I asked him what his favorite thing about working here so far was. And he said, man, we eat free.

hear a lot. Have you seen the break room out there? Like, every time I pass by there, there's something on the table. And I'm like, how is this even possible? Like, I've never experienced something like this in any company I work for in the Dominican Republic. Yeah. Like food every time, come on. If you didn't work for us 20 years ago, like about when I started and you down at Phil and K's,

you'd have really thought it was something with the meals that were coming out of there every day. Every day she cooked a full meal. By the time I started, she quit doing that. And she felt bad about it. Roast, potatoes, carrots, rice, gravy. Look at it. Yes, yeah. I'm starving already.

And all of it, all of it was super delicious. Oh, my God. Once I started, there was too many people for her to do that anymore, but Ms. Kay still had a meal catered for the whole company, like, once a week. And sometimes she would cook it. Yeah. And that was always better when she cooked it. Oh, ain't no nice.

We eat a lot. Yeah, Louisa, can y'all film some more of them Commander's Kitchen videos? Oh, yeah. I will say this, he's got a very experimental palate. He's tried everything we've cooked, and he's like, yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah. So he don't care. He got excited about chicken feed, bro.

I mean, chicken fit is good, right? Like, you just try it. I'm trying to get him to cook the chicken feet for one of the Commander's kitchen because I think it'd be cool. If you do that, I would try. I will eat it. Oh. He said them, he said them toes, man. It's got like a tendon in it.

It's just, that's what he does. I eat a banana with the pizza. still on it. I will try chicken feet. It's a weird show. The halibut, the cheeks of the halibut are supposed to be like a saliv. He don't walk on them. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. How about fish eyes? He don't walk on them.

Do you fish eyes? The eyes? Why? That's the main thing? Negative. It's not getting into the mirror. You don't do that here? Eat the eyes of the fish? You don't need the eyes? No, he'd go in a gut bucket.

I guess so boring. I'm telling you. Oh, that was amazing. I mean, come on. You're wasting food. Come on. Yeah. Welcome to America.

Wasting food. Buddy, I don't know if you know this. I go to Popeyes and I don't even ask for the breast, the leg, or the wing. I'm like, just give me all the thighs. You can throw the rest of that chicken away. Nah. Nah. You got it.

Interesting. You eat the eyes? I mean. So is everything? The fish is really good, though. He said we're wasting food. calling fish out. So to you,

is everything that's edible food? Pretty much. Okay, yeah, because to me, that's not the case. There's some stuff. His mom makes a mean

sheep intestine. That's good. She tried the first time. I didn't mean to. He didn't mean. What do you think it was? Oh, no. I said,

here's a bowl of shoes. Because I'm not, I'm not going to try all this wild stuff. I mean. Yeah. You all of them. I just,

I'm not an adventurous either. No, so I was a steak and potato guy. Yeah, I am. And oranges with the peels still on. Yeah. I was strictly vegetarian when I moved to the DR. Really?

And then. Because Maine, people don't know how to season food. That's right. That's right. Because it's winter all the time. They don't know how to season. You were a vegetarian from Maine? I was.

And then I... How do you grow broccoli in Maine? You can grow a lot of things. Well, most of potatoes in Maine. I actually hate that. I hate that about myself. Because, you know, you at least should try it.

Yeah. Yeah. We call it a no, thank you portion at my gosh. Well, no, because I always apologize, because my mother and father raised me. Hey, when you sit down on somebody's table, you eat what they put there.

Yeah. That's what we were taught in the orphanage where I grew up. If someone put something on your table, you eat it all. Like you don't waste. Yeah. So now I'm just walking around. here whenever there's something in the break room?

Yeah. He's been hard. He's been hardwired, boys. Well, no, no. See, I was taught that way, and I apologize. Once they put something, I'm not going to eat it.

Yeah. I said, I'm sorry, guys. They just. I'll try it, but you can't get your feelings hurt if I throw up. Well, no, because I will.

That's why I don't even try, because I know what's going to happen. Yeah. I'm not afraid of that thing up. So your mom cooked sheep intestines. And tricked Brittany? Did they trick you? She didn't trick me.

It's just a normal food and she just put it there and I didn't realize. And you liked it? I did not like it. No. I've had lamb. That's not true. That's great. Like lamb is no good to me.

Well, look, I've had pig intestine, you know, chitlins. I don't see how those ever caught on. I mean. It's in the Boudan though. Well. That's like Boudan. Boudan fantastic. I just, I don't.

Can't eat. But him right by himself. Probably better off if you don't tell me. What's in Bodebitt? Yeah. Rice, meat, liver, onions. Yeah. No, it's good.

It's good. But now I know. It's like a hot dog. Now I know. From the rooter to the tutor. That's right. All of it. You can do that with a pig.

I don't know about a chicken. Oh, you sure can. Well, I don't know about it. You sure can. That's so interesting. So I don't even know now. See, now we don't got off on food because that's what we do. That's what we do.

Yeah, but that's the saying, though, you know, one person can cook this and it ain't no good, then the person that knows what he's doing can fix it and it's delicious. And it's still trash. No, exactly good. That's pretty much the difference between Willie's kitchen and my kitchen. Everything that comes out of Willie's is. Your kitchen? What do you mean?

Uh-oh. Yeah. Nothing that comes out of my kitchen is great. Okay, because, I mean, I thought I was the cook. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. We do marriage counsel.

here. There's an office down at the end of the hall, too. How many sessions a week? You may go get an appointment. What do you mean? It's way funnier when side does your marriage counseling. Wow. Hey, size, one tell you said, don't eat crap.

You'll eat it your whole life. Well, if it's bad, say it's bad, you know. That's the thing. If they cook bad and you eat it and you don't say nothing about it, you're going to have that again. Well, you've got that nailed. You're good at that. Hey.

at least you love me well but because the you know the more north you get the less salt and pepper yet apparently there's no salt mines up there or something and then the more south you get you turn into Louisiana

and then Dominican's just a whole other level trust me it's true of seasoning and so that probably is weird you can ask Corey or Willie or anyone about the Dominican beans our beans are like the best The bust. Beans.

Oh, beans. Just regular beans. Oh, yeah. Beans and rice? Well, something I've learned, like, Americans don't like rice and beans. But we do. That's like. Wrong answer.

I mean, you said. You don't like rice and beans. What kind of bean? Black beans are like refried beans? Any color beans? No, not refried. But just any kind of like lima bean, navy bean, maybe. Pinto.

Yeah. I love it. Yeah, you ain't been around the right one. Yeah. Beans rice and cornbread is one of my favorite things. on one of my favorite meals on his plan. Oh, no. You throw that rear end of the pig in there with him too

and let him just simmer down. Yeah. Oh, okay. Now we have got me excited. You buy a big ham and you eat most of it and there's a little meat left all on it. You know, you throw that in the big pot and cook your beans with it.

But you all are talking like baked beans. No. No. Those are just boiled down. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. The best part of the barbecue beans is the bacon. That's a fact. Kay always does it real good. But now, that's one of her deals is her barbecued baked beans. That's excellent. It's a winter dish, really. Willie makes a great pot.

He made some really great baked beans for the fourth of a lot. Willie's a goulash man. Willie starts out with a pan about this big around. And by it gets to where he gets to. Gross. He's got a quark bang of this big. He keeps throwing everything in his house, isn't it? Yeah.

And it is pretty good, though. It is pretty good. That's right. He cooked pretty good. This winter, have him make you a pot of beans with the ham and the sausage and the rice, and it is. And the Mexican cornbreads. He taught Allison how to make. I'm pretty sure Kay taught Willie.

And then he taught Allison. Well, they've been, this is over 50 year period. Yeah, it went Kay, Lisa, Willie. We're bad about experimenting. Oh. Okay, I call my mom and dad. They were mad scientists in the kitchen. Oh.

And once I got, you know, they made some ice cream. Home ate ice cream. It was butcherscotch. Well, they all ate a bowl of it. When I first tasted it, I threw mine away. And they were sick for three weeks afterwards. Oh, my goodness. It was a dogged a bullet.

And daddy and mama both said, we missed it on that one. I said, yeah, I told y'all not to eat it. I said, it wasn't no good, y'all. Well, I knew this would fly by. We're running that type. So, but we're going to have y'all back on because we ain't even got like through the top layer. This has been one of my favorite episode. We ain't even got through the top layer of this onion.

So like much less a full pedal. A dominion. So you end up at Duck Commander slash Tread Lively. You're in Westminster, Louisiana. which is a far cry for Maine or the Dominican Republic and arguably worse. We got to be closer to the Dominican Republic. Definitely. Yeah.

Well, we both get hurricanes. So he's kind of at home, but not really. And it's hot and humid. It's hot. But there's no wind here. So y'all always had a sea breeze. Yeah. You know, that's why island life is bearable is the breeze.

We didn't live the good old island life, sadly. But, I mean, if you go in, you y'all were far enough inland where the wind didn't really. It was like 100 degrees. every day and never rain. Never rain. It's a big island. Big old island. There's two countries on it.

Yeah. Unless you got a hurricane. Did you ride out a bunch of hurricanes while you were in? No, I've never seen a hurricane down there. Oh, well, welcome. It rains, but like, hurricane. Yeah. Oh, well, welcome.

You'll find one here soon. You'll find one here for long. We've been about two years without one, so we're due for one to come right up at some point. Well, I'll be gone. And he's finally going to go to Maine. Bye, bye. Should he ride? It's out.

Oh, man. But no, how did y'all end up? Like, what was the process of ending up here, I guess? It's like Will and Corey. Yeah. Yeah. So we, when we got married, we talked about where we wanted to be. He couldn't travel for a long time.

We had to get some paperwork in order. And so we were living in the DR full time and decided when we get the paperwork, where are we going to end up? What does that look like? And I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, he would never survive Maine. It's too cold. It's everything too bland to everything. I wouldn't survive Maine. No.

So we talked about what that would look like and you barely survived one week in Maine. But Corey and Willie were down for a visit and talked to them and they're like, just come to Louisiana. It's perfect. It's hot like this. It's great. I've seen some movies. I've seen some things about Louisiana. Waterborne.

I've seen some things. change some things that she liked them evidently. I was a little nervous about it, but we decided to try it. And we kind of packed up rather quickly and just headed out of there in January. So yeah, there you go. So y'all've been here for six months. About six months. That's awesome.

Yeah. And while you were here, you graduated college. I did. Yeah. Yeah. Well, while I was living in the Dominican Republic, I was studying Liberty University online. and when I got here, I had the opportunity to finish college

and also graduated and went to Virginia, graduated their whole thing. What a story, man. Yeah, what a story, man. Because coming from the country like the Dominican Republic and also growing up in an orphanage, it's a big deal

for someone like me to graduate college, you know? Yeah, you've done very well. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, that's a big deal, period. That is a real deal. Forget the other steps you had to add on to it. You know, that you were forced to add on to it.

It's just a big deal period, especially these days to stick it out and finish what you started. I mean, there's so many people that don't. So, like, that's a cool. That's a cool deal. And in English, and I like Spanish or anything. Did it in English? Oh, yeah. But at Liberty, did you choose?

They offer to take all the classes in Spanish. And I was like, nah. I was wondering if you chose, like, Spanish for your language and made you a hundred a in that. like, give me that, yeah, I'm taking Spanish. He didn't take any of the music classes. What's your degree in? Spanish is a beautiful language. Oh, yeah.

I like, I like, I have a country singer. He's smarter than nice. Seeing stuff in Spanish. Yeah. Here's what I'll say. Louise showed up here and the wardrobe around here. He's the best dressed employee at that come back. That is true.

He also, one thing that you can't see on this podcast or listen to her here, you will now know that he does not on a pair of shoes that aren't solid white. Always. He said nobody's got time for black shoes. I wear all black shoes. So, yeah, I mean, he comes dressed to the nines every day, and I'm like, yeah, I just, no, I can't do it. But it makes you feel good. He always has buttons on his shirt.

Absolutely. Always. I'm going to get some of those. You can try. I mean, you'll look good, too. Like, man. I love it. Oh, it's fantastic.

But no, it's been fun having you guys in. Thank you. Look, appreciate you. Look, and we always, Brittany knows this. I don't know if Louise, Luis, have you ever listened to our podcast before? You can be honest.

I always listen to it all. Like, for real. Like, the moment I turned the car on, our kid in the back is like, quack, quack, quack. He's obsessed with the intro music. Yeah. There you go. Yeah, we got more, man.

I heard all the thing about the toilet in the bathroom. Oh, yeah. That wasn't you, was it? No, it wasn't that me. It wasn't that me. Do you want? I don't You got to take him

Duck on Martin Why I gotta take him No I'm kidding You got a good place to go Yeah No we'll go Hey you know what I'm gonna take him

Teal hunting That way it'll be like back home Yeah He ain't gotta worry about the cold It's gonna be It's gonna be hot Mosquitoes It's gonna be borderline misery

The alligators will not bother you That's fine Alleyators? What do you mean? No nothing I mean where do you think he'd come from You see him right there Is that real?

Yeah It was I mean, it still is real. It was once alive. Until it got shot in the head. Yeah, till he ate a chicken. Till he ate a chicken. Got on a hook.

I think I'm going to buy a ticket back home. I love you. But no, we always close with a Bible verse. I don't know if y'all have a favorite one. I got what? If you have a favorite one, I don't. Okay.

Proverbs 163, I think, encapsulates, especially Louise's story, commit to the Lord whatever you do and he will establish your plans for a kid that was reading a dictionary he didn't know how to read at night and now graduate in college working in west Monroe is a crazy story beautiful wife beautiful kids all because he committed to a goal and committed to the Lord and absolutely I mean there's no other words besides y'all's story it's unbelievable and really cool to have you on and you will be back because we got I've been waiting for this for a while

Yeah, we got way more questions. Brittany showed up and was sitting over there one day. And I was like, who's that? They said, she's from Maine. Her husband's from the Dominican. I was like, can they, I got questions. Yeah. How.

Why? Yeah. And I'm getting some of the answers. Yeah. The who, what, where, when, why how thing. But no, no, thank you all for joining us. Thank you for having us. Thank you for listening.

If you do have any people that want to sponsor that you'd rather hear us read, hit up, Brittany. That's the end of my way. She can help out with if you're tired of hearing those other ones, like hit her up. But no, for real, thank y'all for coming in. We'll see y'all next time right here on the Duck Call Room. We're out.