Rebecca Never Expected to Get Adopted into the Robertson Family

Summary

Duck Call Room: "Rebecca Never Expected to Get Adopted into the Robertson Family"

Podcast Hosts: Si Robertson, Justin Martin, Corey, Brittany, John David, et al.
Special Guest: Rebecca (Robertson) Lowe
Release Date: July 7, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on Rebecca Lowe—formerly Robertson—recounting her journey from Taiwan to becoming an adopted member of the Robertson family. The Duck Call Room crew, alongside Rebecca, delivers a lively and heartfelt conversation packed with memorable stories, cultural exchanges, and plenty of classic Duck Dynasty humor. The episode highlights Rebecca’s unique experience as the family’s "furthest-traveled Robertson," her challenges moving to Louisiana as a teenager, the cultural surprises she encountered, her family's adventurous spirit, and her evolution into entrepreneur and mother.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Rebecca’s Unexpected Path to the Robertson Family

• Origin Story

  • Rebecca shares her beginnings in Taipei, Taiwan, as the youngest in a family of four siblings.
  • She moved to America at age 16 as an exchange student, expecting it to be a one-year adventure.
    • "It was supposed to be like a one-year thing. And somehow ... I end up with [a] match with the Robinson family, which I came from Taipei, which is a super big city. ... It's definitely a God's thing." (06:01)

• First Impressions of Louisiana

  • She was surprised by being matched to a family in Louisiana—a state she had never heard of.
  • The initial family photo was misleading: "Willie didn't have a beard in that picture ... when I met him, he looked like a homeless [person]!" (06:14–06:40)
  • Culture shock about Southern life, hunting, beards, and school dress codes.

2. Settling Into American Life & Family Antics

• Adjustment at School

  • Rebecca discusses struggling with English (she learned British English in Taiwan) and her shock at how much easier American homework was.
    • "I thought I was terrible at math. Turns out I was like, great at math." (10:14)
  • Relatable story about learning pronunciation and idioms from the Robertson kids, feeling at times “like a toddler.”

• Family and Food

  • Gaining 40 pounds because "McDonald's is like a luxury in Asia," and her confusion about portion sizes and the Southern expectation to “clear your plate.”
    • "If you don't finish your food ... before you go to heaven, there's a huge door and all your leftover is going to be all in the pot and you have to finish it before you can go to heaven.” (35:31)
  • Hilarious adventures at American chain restaurants like Outback and McDonald's; the legendary “Filet-O-Fish with barbecue sauce” stories.

3. Family Background & Adventurous Spirit

• Worldly Childhood
  • Rebecca’s siblings live in Australia; her family members were each born on different continents (US, Brazil, Australia).
  • Father was a doctor who traveled extensively for work and training.
  • “Everyone always asks, like, how my mom is okay with me being away ... [but] growing up, that’s the norm.” (25:55)
• Art, Not Medicine
  • Despite parental expectations, she and her siblings went into “artsy, fartsy” fields rather than following in the doctor’s footsteps.
    • “None of us turned out to be a doctor, which ... is kind of disappointment for an Asian family.” (27:15)

4. Business Ventures & Personal Growth

• Entrepreneurial Spirit
  • Rebecca now runs "Me and My," a mommy-and-me clothing boutique in a beautifully renovated historic building.
  • She recounts her previous business, Duck and Dressing, and the new vision for her store.
    • “We developed this ... historic building downtown and now I have a store ... and we're hoping to ... have leasing out different retail spaces and have like Airbnb." (28:22)
• Keeping Up With Rebecca
  • Even as neighbors, the crew notes how hard it is to “keep up” with her many ventures and her kids’ activities.

5. Language, Culture & Identity

• Language Barriers

  • Explains challenges with Chinese (character-based writing) and English (grammar and pronunciation), and jokes about learning both as a teen.
    • “Speaking-wise, English is harder ... but writing and reading, obviously, I think Chinese [is] way harder.” (53:52)

• Names and Identity

  • Reveals her “American” name came from birth in Oregon, and her Asian name ("Lor You") was chosen later—which led to teasing because it means "naked woman" if mispronounced.
  • Teasing from friends for her last name, leading to high school nicknames inspired by pop songs.

• Food and Stereotypes

  • Educates the group on authentic Taiwanese food (like stinky tofu and boba tea), and debunks the myth that local “Asian” restaurants are run by Japanese or Korean owners: “None of the food here are cooked by the authentic [people] ... like Yummy Japan is not Japanese people. They're all Chinese people.” (44:47)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Cultural Surprise:

  • “I’ve never seen anyone with a big beard before in my life.” (06:14)

• On Food:

  • “You pass four [McDonalds] on the way to school.” (18:52)
  • “Filet-O-Fish changed your life.” (17:46)
  • “If you don't finish your food ... before you go to heaven, there's a huge door and all your leftover is going to be all in the pot and you have to finish it before you can go to heaven.” (35:31)

• On Family:

  • "So in Taiwan, I came from family of four siblings. ... Boom, come to America and you're the oldest." (20:42)

• On Parenting:

  • “I remember even with Sadie, ... at night Corey will read books to us and I will like read the same books with them. Like, I mean that's like. Like I'm learning the same way how Sadie's learning." (21:21)

• On Multi-National Siblings:

  • “My sister was born in Brazil, my other sister and brother were born in Australia, so we all were born in different places and all held like different citizenship." (25:40)

• On Her Career:

  • “I sell my own line of clothes called Me and My, which is Mommy and Me kind of matching." (29:44)

• On Stereotypes and Humor:

  • “That’s probably going to be the best line from here: ‘None of us were doctors, that’s kind of disappointment for an Asian family.’” (27:56, Brittany)
  • "Very Asian thing to do. Let's just make our own sauce." (40:08, Brittany)

• On Language:

  • “How many Americans have something that they think [tattooed on them] that actually says something else?” (44:10, Brittany)

• Classic Duck Call Room Moment:

  • The entire crew riffing on poker night, “seven hands dealt out,” when young Rebecca mistook Si for a stranger and nearly called 911. (14:24–15:28)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [05:57] – Rebecca’s story: from Taiwan to Louisiana; meeting the Robertsons
• [07:46] – First encounters: family photos, learning about Southern life
• [09:02] – School challenges; learning English and American school culture
• [13:00] – Quick geography & Taiwan explainer
• [14:08] – Poker night story: Si’s first impression
• [17:01] – Bringing leggings and boba to North Louisiana
• [18:52] – Food and weight gain; McDonald's as luxury in Asia
• [20:42] – Family roles: from youngest in Taiwan to oldest in the Robertsons
• [25:23] – Multinational family history and siblings in Australia
• [28:22] – Rebecca’s business and building renovation project
• [35:31] – Taiwanese food folklore: finish your plate or face leftovers in heaven
• [40:32] – Stinky tofu, street food, and Taiwanese cuisine
• [43:39] – Chinese writing, memorization, and language differences
• [47:31] – John Reed’s awkward attempts at Asian cultural references
• [51:13] – Origins of Rebecca’s English and Chinese names; being teased
• [53:52] – English vs. Chinese: which is harder?
• [54:42] – Closing: Bible verse (Proverbs 3:5–6) fitting Rebecca’s journey

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Final Thoughts: The Heart of Rebecca’s Journey

Memorable Closing Quote:
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, submit to him and he will make your path straight." (55:00, Corey reading Proverbs 3:5-6)

Rebecca’s story is one of courage, adaptability, family, and faith. This episode offers endearing and hilarious glimpses into the challenges of assimilation, the warmth of adopted kin, and the joys (and calories) of finding your way in a new country. With invitations for return appearances, the crew makes it clear: there are many more stories to come.

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Transcript

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[Corey]

Why do you look so surprised, Rebecca?

[Rebecca Lowe]

I don't understand.

[Corey]

So, like, it's up to you.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Oh, yeah.

[Corey]

Can you hear better like that or are you fine like this? It's up to you. 1, 2, 3. Like, you can hear us better. You don't have to wear it. Allison doesn't wear it when she comes.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Really?

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I don't know.

[Brittany]

Brittany doesn't either. But we're all. We've all. We've all shot too many shotguns. We can't hear anything.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Oh, okay.

[Brittany]

Yeah, we just.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Okay. I won't wear that.

[Brittany]

I'm not going to speak.

[Corey]

Your hair look better without.

[Brittany]

I'm not going to speak for Johnny D side. And I wear them because we're deaf.

[John David]

Yeah, like two minutes. Shotguns, too.

[Corey]

You didn't know this was on video?

[Rebecca Lowe]

No, no.

[Corey]

We better get rolling.

[Brittany]

All right, are we ready? I have no idea.

[Corey]

I'm ready.

[Brittany]

I have no idea what we're going to talk about, by the way. Okay, never mind.

[John David]

I got that.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I know. Just. John David.

[Corey]

I want to know what it's like coming to America. I've only seen the movie.

[John David]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Oh, we started.

[Brittany]

Oh, are we. Welcome back to the duck call room, ladies and gentlemen. I almost said podcast. Like we don't have a name. We have a very special guest with us today. If you're not watching on YouTube, if you are, you've already. It's spoiler.

[Corey]

The most Special guest.

[Brittany]

You see the furthest traveled. Robertson is with us. And who's now last name is Laughlin. Right? Yeah, I got all those. Right. Yeah. Okay. I was making sure I didn't go out of order. Rebecca is here and it's like so cool you finally joined us.

[John David]

No, no. And we're going this. Look back when I was like, oh, 12, 13, 14, 15, and at age they. They had a show on TV named. You know, they would find somebody, a celebrity or somebody, and then they would call it. They would say, this is your life. And then that person would come on TV and say, okay, I was born wherever and their whole life. So guess what, Rebecca?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Is this a.

[Brittany]

This is your life?

[John David]

This is your life.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Okay. This is my life.

[John David]

Yeah. So we want to know because I see, you know, Willie adopted you. You what? What Was an exchange student.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I was.

[Corey]

She's my foreign exchange cousin.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I know.

[John David]

Well, no, no, but I'm just saying I'm trying to set this up.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes.

[Corey]

Okay.

[Rebecca Lowe]

He's trying to explain to me what. In case they don't know, in case

[Corey]

they didn't see the greatest night of television history.

[Rebecca Lowe]

What was the greatest night of television, Rebecca?

[John David]

Well, no, no. Cause see, that's why I won't heard her tell her story. Because I really. I really don't know this young lady.

[Corey]

Rebecca, do you not remember it was 2014 and season five of Duck Dynasty premiered me and you with two episodes.

[Brittany]

Yeah, this was the peak. It really tells. It really telled off after we started with y'. All.

[Corey]

I know it went.

[Brittany]

So you're aware when it had all. When it had all of us in there, it was climbing showed y'.

[John David]

All.

[Brittany]

There we go.

[Corey]

We were the highest two episodes ever.

[Brittany]

Yeah, I know.

[Corey]

Or like number two and three.

[Brittany]

Yeah, there was just.

[Rebecca Lowe]

We were.

[Corey]

Yes.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Okay, I did not know that.

[Brittany]

Have you ever been through the tour? There's a list of episodes over there that show the ratings out beside.

[Corey]

So season five, episode one was named Boomerang Becca.

[Brittany]

That's her.

[Corey]

Which was all about you.

[John David]

Which is you.

[Corey]

Did you not know?

[Rebecca Lowe]

I don't. I don't think I've ever seen it.

[Brittany]

She saw no side would have seen that one because it was a season premiere.

[Corey]

Yes, I would have been there for that one. There was a party.

[John David]

Why don't I remember?

[Rebecca Lowe]

I do not like to watch myself on TV or hear myself. This is why.

[Brittany]

Boy, podcasts are really bad for you.

[Rebecca Lowe]

This is like this. This is why I don't rarely do this.

[Brittany]

But are you going to let Your kids watch this podcast?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Of course not.

[Corey]

Yes. Why not?

[Brittany]

Of course I'm going to let mine watch it.

[John David]

Of course not.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Well, it is on YouTube, so they'll probably found it somewhere.

[Corey]

They'll find it. Oh, have they ever seen the original episode of Duck Dynasty of you?

[Brittany]

No.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Are you kidding me?

[John David]

If she had, you need to let them see that.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I don't know.

[John David]

You're their mom.

[Brittany]

Yeah. You're already their superhero.

[John David]

That's right. Yeah.

[Rebecca Lowe]

We do watch the new episode of the revival, so.

[John David]

Okay.

[Corey]

Oh, so they'll watch themselves.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah, they watch themselves, but I don't want to show them myself.

[Corey]

Why not?

[Rebecca Lowe]

I don't know.

[John David]

Okay, start from anyways. Start from the beginning.

[Corey]

Anyways, those were the two episodes both of us. Eight and a half million people watched

[Rebecca Lowe]

us and then booted Dave. I didn't know we're that such a big deal.

[Corey]

We're not. I was notice they didn't invite us back.

[John David]

Well, look, all right, these fixes to start from the beginning of where she's from.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Okay.

[John David]

And how she ended up here.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Okay. So originally from Taiwan.

[John David]

Okay.

[Rebecca Lowe]

And moved here as an exchange student. It was supposed to be like a one year thing. And somehow the craziest thing, it's like, yeah, you got.

[John David]

You met Willie Robertson.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes. I end up with match with the Robinson family, which I came from Taipei, which is a super big city. And when I first saw that match with the family in Louisiana. I have never even heard of Louisiana in my life before. Like, I obviously know America, but we've only known like New York or California. And so anyway, it's a crazy story how I end up being matched with the family. And it's definitely a God's thing. But then I came over here and, you know, I've never seen anyone. Actually, I don't know if I've ever seen anyone with a big beard before in my life. And I remember they telling me like, you know, when I first got matched with the family, they sent a little information of the family, which the paper they sent was very deceiving because Willie didn't have a beer in that picture. And it was like clean cut with like.

[Brittany]

Oh, they sent them to the old picture. Yeah, it was like a beach picture

[Rebecca Lowe]

in their backyard at the old house, you know, and like on the little, like a little. What's it called?

[Corey]

What year was this? You came like the little swing thing.

[Rebecca Lowe]

What is called like a swing? No, but like a hammock.

[Brittany]

A hammock.

[John David]

A hammock.

[Corey]

A hammock.

[Brittany]

Okay.

[Paula]

A Hammock.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Like, there was, like, the hammock in the backyard. And he was like. Had long hair. Like, longish hair, but no beer. And, you know, all the kids. Sweetest little kid. And I've never seen. Actually, this is like.

[Brittany]

Go ahead, run this. Oh, no, we can edit it. Don't worry. Hey, we have a whole. We got, like, seven episodes.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I've ever seen a mixed race, like, person before. Like, so when I saw Will, okay, I was like, oh, my gosh. This is the cutest little thing ever. You know, like, with the curly.

[Brittany]

He's like a chubby little doll.

[John David]

I love it.

[Rebecca Lowe]

He wasn't even chubby. Like, he was like.

[Paula]

It was.

[Rebecca Lowe]

He was two.

[Brittany]

He was already on his way to chubby.

[Rebecca Lowe]

But I just was like, this is such a cool, interesting family. Family. Anyway, so when I.

[Brittany]

You know what? They need somebody from Asia.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes. That's the only thing they're missing is,

[Brittany]

you know, they just need one more continent on here, and we're good. Oh, man.

[Rebecca Lowe]

So when I came, you know, Willie had beer then, but it still wasn't, like, super big. But I was, like, shocked because I was like, you know, he looked like a homeless.

[John David]

So how. What age was you?

[Rebecca Lowe]

When I was 16.

[John David]

16. Okay.

[Brittany]

Was it our sophomore year?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Okay, so I went straight into junior year and. But yeah, so that was.

[Corey]

She did a whole presentation. Yeah. Do you not remember you had to get up and tell our whole class about how much harder homework was in Taiwan?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Oh, yeah.

[Corey]

Than it was.

[Rebecca Lowe]

It was so funny because I went into school and, you know, obviously I wasn't. I couldn't speak English barely.

[Corey]

They told me she did, which I was very.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Like, I was, like, the top of my class in Taiwan. It just. I mean, when we. It's different. Like, we learn British English, I think.

[Corey]

Is that what it was?

[Rebecca Lowe]

I think. And it's the accent I couldn't understand. I could never understand Mike Kelly as Church Kellett.

[Corey]

He's a little nasally.

[Rebecca Lowe]

No. But, like, I could not understand.

[Brittany]

He get in them nostrils. I get it.

[Rebecca Lowe]

And any, like, church service, I could not understand him.

[Corey]

That's.

[Paula]

Wow.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah. And, like, I have to, like, read the lips.

[Brittany]

You were really.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Also, everyone has big beers. I couldn't see their lips. I feel like that was one of the problems that really was.

[John David]

I never thought about that.

[Brittany]

Okay, we're only seven minutes in, I gotta tell you. You said this was your second podcast. You're coming back?

[Corey]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. This is phenomenal.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Well, I just hope you may be

[Brittany]

our new fourth Chair because they're irregular.

[Corey]

So you move here.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I moved here.

[Corey]

You thought you knew English.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes.

[Corey]

You don't know English.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Turns out I thought I was terrible at math. Turns out I was like, great at math.

[Corey]

That was part of the presentation. We're all sitting there and she's like, oh, yeah, we do nine hours of math.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes. I mean, I was like the best of the math class. And I went straight to like, AP and do all the thing. And I was like, wow, this is crazy because I was terrible at that.

[Brittany]

All of a sudden, these stories y' all said about McDonald's.

[Rebecca Lowe]

So I think that really is a stereotype. Like, it's actually proving that right. Like, Asian people are, like, just better at math. Yes.

[Brittany]

Like, well, of course, if you do it for nine hours and we don't.

[Rebecca Lowe]

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[John David]

Oh, are you a Taiwan or are you Chinese?

[Brittany]

No, no, he don't understand the geography of it all.

[John David]

Here you go.

[Corey]

I'll show you.

[Brittany]

Yeah, he needs a geography.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Taiwan, which is an island off China, and Japan in between.

[Brittany]

It used to be called the People's Republic of China. Is that right? Is that proc. Is that what it used to be?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah. Well, they try to call it Republican of China, but it really, like, that's what they wanted to call it.

[Brittany]

I'm not trying to get bogged down. I just feel like I remember now.

[John David]

You got me. Ridiculous.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Here you go.

[Brittany]

Sigh.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Look here. Here, I got you right here.

[Corey]

Look, a tattoo of all of Taiwan.

[Brittany]

Look, big dog. Right?

[Corey]

Here we go. So this is China. This is Japan. Where's Vietnam? You've been there.

[Brittany]

That's Vietnam down there.

[Corey]

That's Taiwan.

[John David]

Wait, where's Taiwan on that? Yeah.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Sweet potato right here. We call it the sweet potato.

[Corey]

We call it the boot.

[Brittany]

We're fine.

[John David]

I'm fine. Okay. But again, I'm still confused. Okay. Are you a Taiwan Taiwanese?

[Brittany]

She's Taiwanese.

[John David]

Taiwanese.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Taiwanese. Yeah.

[Brittany]

She's not Taiwan account.

[John David]

Okay. She's not either China or. Or.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I don't wanna get political. And like. No, we got a time limit. That could really.

[Corey]

The Taiwanese politics.

[John David]

Oh, look, I got that. What was you thinking? You're 16 years old and you're coming from Taiwan, a. A spot in the ocean, and this cat's your uncle. No, no, to America. To the Robertson family. And you run into this crazy idiot

[Rebecca Lowe]

story with me and Uncle Psy when

[Brittany]

I first and this cat sitting on his porch smoking cigarettes, saying, I'm your uncle.

[Rebecca Lowe]

You remember Uncle Psy?

[Corey]

Oh, I'm so excited.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Do you want to know our first encounter? I don't know if you remember this.

[Brittany]

No chance.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Oh, when we were. You know, when I first moved here. And we were at the old house down in Cahoon by Chioka.

[Brittany]

Poker night.

[Rebecca Lowe]

And poker night. That was Wednesday night. Every Wednesday night, y' all will have boys. Poker night, huh? And I was there, and one night you came in and I guess, like, you didn't get a memo that it was canceled or whatever. And you just was sitting in there in the kitchen on the table and just kind of, like, waiting on everybody, but nobody was coming. And it was just me and Sadie at the house. I don't know why. I can't remember what happened, but we just started hearing somebody yelling and doing, like, all the shouts, like, Owen, like, Jack. All the things. And I was like, sadie, what is that? And she was like, I don't know. And so we were, like, peeking through like, we were, like, trying to see. And then we, like, saw you sitting there. And I was like, see, Sadie? Who is that? And she was like, I don't know. We should call 91 1. And it was you. And I cannot believe Sadie. Like, she was like, I don't. I don't know who that is. We need to call 91 1. Sadie was young, and we were hiding in the room. We were so scared.

[Brittany]

Oh, praise God.

[Corey]

Cause you were playing poker by yourself,

[John David]

yelling, oh, I had seven hands dealt out.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I know. You were, like, playing all by yourself,

[John David]

talking to different people, hands dealt out. And I'd look at him and say, are you going to bet? Are you going to fold? Or what are you going to do?

[Rebecca Lowe]

You were yelling at air, like, yeah, he didn't.

[John David]

I was getting up. I was getting up out of every chair, going around the whole table the whole time I was doing that.

[Rebecca Lowe]

So you remember that time?

[Brittany]

Oh, yeah.

[John David]

No, I remember the first time I met you and saw you.

[Rebecca Lowe]

When. He remembers when, like, always.

[John David]

You've always impressed me with what you wear, the clothes you wear.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Thank you.

[John David]

You're kind of like a. You're kind of like a mom.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I don't know. I feel like. I don't know. I mean, John David can probably recall some of the fashion choices I had,

[Corey]

and when you first showed up, they were a little different than the rest of the uppity white kid Christian school

[John David]

that you were attending.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I do remember I brought the leggings.

[Corey]

She brought leggings.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Leggings In Louisiana. Like, that was. Nobody was wearing leggings at a time, like. And remember, we have a dress code. But I was able to kind of get away with the dress code because you can wear leggings, and then you can wear, like, a skirt or something over it, you know? But then Abercrombie started carrying all the leggings, and then that's whenever, like, you know. But I was the. Well, I was before abroad. Leggings.

[Brittany]

What was that stuff you used to make in the microwave that was like, some kind of tea or something. Had the little balls. You always.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Boba.

[Brittany]

Is that what that was?

[Corey]

That's. Now that. Wait, that's cool now here.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah, they're everywhere.

[Brittany]

She was. She was making it on Brownlee road back in 2000.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes, yes. Oh, yeah. I was making, like, fried rice. I remember cutting, like, hot dogs, like, little.

[Brittany]

But watching her eat was one of my favorite things of poker night. Like, once she showed up here because she. She made herself some bizarre snacks.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Do y' all remember I gained 40 pounds.

[Corey]

We were waiting that minute to bring that up.

[Rebecca Lowe]

That's actually John Davis. I know there's a few stories you like to tell about my eating habits.

[Corey]

I'm just saying the filet o fish changed your life.

[Rebecca Lowe]

It did, it did. I mean it changed a lot of people's lives. But I mean, I would just have to say like coming here, like I. I don't know if y' all understand. Like McDonald's is like a, like a luxury in Asia. Like because it's like American and like people, you know, it's like you. We go to McDonald's after church. It's like a cool thing. And we have like the McDonald's there are super nice. It's two story. You have like the playhouse and like

[Corey]

this is the McDonald's in Taiwan?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes.

[Corey]

Like I gotta go Taiwan.

[Rebecca Lowe]

No, it's like. Yeah, no, it's like super cool. Like you know, and it has like the playground, like the actual really cool playground. And like the toys are amazing. Like we used to collect all the toys and they're all like oh good.

[Brittany]

I thought you were gonna say you built them.

[Corey]

Can't say that. Just did.

[Rebecca Lowe]

But so, you know, coming here, I was, you know, wow, there's McDonald's everywhere.

[Corey]

So you pass four on the way to school.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I do, yeah. And there's one right by school and we get to check out early at on Friday or something for senior.

[Corey]

And she went straight to McDonald's every day.

[Brittany]

The filet o fish was your poison? Yep.

[Corey]

Did you gain 40 pounds?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes, 40 pounds.

[Corey]

Well you weighed 80.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I was little and I was shorter too. So like think about like, I mean I wouldn't say I was huge, but I was like probably five, two at a time. And then I was like 140 pound. So that's like big for me.

[John David]

Like what's, what size shoe you wear?

[Rebecca Lowe]

What is that?

[Brittany]

Shoes that got a what from everybody

[Rebecca Lowe]

I wear like except for me. I said, oh, I wear six. Like six, six and a half. So I do have small feet.

[John David]

And it's a, it's a small six.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah, like I have like small feet. But you know, I did gain a lot of weight after moving here and cuz all the food and I eat like donuts. Cinnamon toast.

[Corey]

Cinnamon toast crunch is good.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Oh, and like Corey used to make those like you know, just like the toast actually toast and she'll make like a whole platter of it and then like that's what we eat for breakfast.

[Brittany]

Yeah. Corey was really good at almost burning

[Rebecca Lowe]

Something that was her specialty.

[Corey]

Not to mention, you moved in with the unhealthiest people in the world.

[John David]

She's the only woman I know that burns water.

[Rebecca Lowe]

But hey, you know, but look where we are now. I mean, everyone seems healthy now, but, you know, but when I first moved here, we did not eat healthy.

[John David]

So I.

[Corey]

That everyone seems healthy now.

[Brittany]

That tends to happen as the income increases.

[John David]

How many is in your family, Rebecca?

[Rebecca Lowe]

So in Taiwan, I came from family of four siblings. So I was the youngest. I was the baby in the family. I have a brother, two sisters and me.

[Brittany]

And then boom, come to America and you're the oldest.

[Rebecca Lowe]

The oldest. And I feel like John Re always said this is like kind of a good thing because I'm glad I was in the baby just like my whole life because, you know, I had to learn a lot being the oldest and kind of learn, you know, to kind of, you know, how to take care

[Corey]

of Willie's children because he got a foreign exchange cousin and he said, perfect.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Well, you know, it's funny because, you know, it feel like I was. But then I felt like I was I coming. Coming in. Even though I was older, I felt like I was almost like a toddler coming in because everything was so new to me. So like it wasn't like they had to race me over again. Like, I remember even with Sadie, she was in second grade when I first came. And you know, at night Corey will read books to us and I will like read the same books with them. Like, I mean that's like. Like I'm learning the same way how Sadie's learning. And Bella taught me a bunch of words and she was 2 and like I remember I would say panties for underwear because that's how I talk. It's like that's how I learned from like little kids, you know, I still say panties. Yeah, but you know, just like stuff like I talk. I kind of learned from the same way, you know how like kind of went back to a toddler again. Or not taller, but like maybe like

[Brittany]

interesting to think about. I mean, yeah, I would be lived

[Rebecca Lowe]

my life again because I didn't know I have to learn everything. I didn't know anything.

[Brittany]

You dropped me in the middle of Taipei, buddy. And I'm to be. I'm about to be a 2 year old. I don't know how to get anywhere. I don't know how to do anything.

[Corey]

You drop me in the middle of Taipei, I'm in trouble.

[Brittany]

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[Corey]

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[Rebecca Lowe]

Well, Willie went and he wasn't the biggest.

[Brittany]

He wasn't the biggest man there. Oh, okay. All right. Well, there you go.

[Rebecca Lowe]

By the hairiest. Yeah,

[John David]

well, I'm getting very personal here.

[Brittany]

Oh boy.

[John David]

But, but I.

[Brittany]

Well, you started with a shoe size. How much more personal we gonna get?

[John David]

Because I'm really interested financially in Taiwan. How was your family so good?

[Rebecca Lowe]

I mean, like, we're regular, I guess, like I would say middle to higher class.

[John David]

Okay, there you go.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Well, I came from the city. My dad actually was a doctor.

[John David]

Okay.

[Rebecca Lowe]

But he passed away when I was little, so like when I was 12. So that was actually one of my decision to come as an exchange student. So then my mom kind of had, you know, had to raise all her kids, you know. But at the time I was 12 and my dad passed away. My siblings were older too, you know, and so, you know, so she didn't have a lot like, you know, my brother and sister were already like graduating college and all the thing, you know, but they were. It's crazy, but they were in Australia, so my family lived in a lot of different places.

[Corey]

Did you say Australia?

[Rebecca Lowe]

My. My brother and sister both live in Australia. Did you not know this about me?

[John David]

When you think about that, that's so wild. She came to America. Your brother, sister went to Australia.

[Rebecca Lowe]

It's about to get crazy.

[Corey]

Did you talk trash to him after the soccer game the other night?

[Rebecca Lowe]

I know. I feel bad, but I. Y. Y' all are. I haven't seen it.

[Brittany]

Australia.

[John David]

Adventurous.

[Rebecca Lowe]

America. Australia.

[John David]

Yeah.

[Paula]

Okay.

[Corey]

Text him about it.

[John David]

So your whole family is pretty adventurous?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes. Like, so everyone always asks, like, how my mom is okay with me being away and, like, being, you know, so far away, but growing up, that's, like, the norm. Like, we grew up. Like, I was born in America, in Oregon, Portland. And my sister was born in Brazil, and my other sister and brother were born in Australia, so we all were born in different places and all held, like, different citizenship.

[Brittany]

Oh, was that strategic?

[Rebecca Lowe]

It's not. It just happened, and that was one of the reasons.

[Brittany]

What happened? Well, I thought you said Asians were good at math. Your mom couldn't count to 10. Like, 10 months. And this thing's coming?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Well, because my dad's job, you know,

[Brittany]

he was a doctor. Oh, what kind of doctor was he?

[Rebecca Lowe]

So he was.

[John David]

That's the reason y' all travel?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah. So he would go to different hospital and train and do, like, surgery.

[John David]

Now it makes sense.

[Brittany]

Cardiologist or something. Like, something important. I mean, they're all. They're all important. But when you're. When you're training people, that's your, like, cardiology. Neurology. Yeah, that's what I was about to say. Like, that kind of stuff.

[Rebecca Lowe]

He was very smart. Yeah, very smart. And he came from China. He came from China.

[John David]

He rubbed off. So are you.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Thank you. Thank you. Well, we never. Like, none of us turned out to be a doctor, which, you know, it's kind of disappointment for Asian men.

[John David]

But, hey, look, you're doing all right, Okay?

[Rebecca Lowe]

I know.

[John David]

I don't know about your brothers and sisters. They probably are doing all right.

[Rebecca Lowe]

All went towards the art, like artsy, fartsy people. It's kind of crazy, but that's probably

[Brittany]

gonna be the best line from here.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Like, I was gonna be a doctor or something, but you could have been.

[Corey]

Well, that leads us to our next segue.

[John David]

She is a doctor. A doctor of clothes.

[Corey]

A dog.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. I mix up clothes, and I will

[Brittany]

remember that line for the rest of my life.

[John David]

What's that?

[Brittany]

None of us were doctors. That's kind of disappointing for an Asian family.

[Rebecca Lowe]

It is.

[Brittany]

Holy cow. That was great.

[Corey]

None of us either, but we all knew it.

[Brittany]

Oh, man.

[Corey]

Oh, that's funny.

[Brittany]

What a life.

[Corey]

So what do you do now? Tell everybody what you do now, Rebecca.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Well, so recently I just.

[Corey]

You're doing a lot. You're hard to keep up with, I feel like. And we're neighbors.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes.

[Corey]

And I have no idea what you're doing.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Which y' all still need to come. I just invited Uncle Sa to come. I've been sending Britney invitation to come to my store. But right now our focus is we. Me and my husband just finished developing this building downtown and we. That's kind of our dream to just have like being in development and doing things. And so we developed this. Renovate this historical building downtown and now I have a store that it's inside of that building. And we're hoping to kind of make leasing out different retail spaces and have like Airbnb kind of doing different things. But yeah.

[Brittany]

Oh, yeah, that's the place. I caught the possum.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes, yes, yes. Y' all have been there, but it's. It looks so different now, so. But yeah, that's kind of what I

[John David]

need to come down there again to see it.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah.

[John David]

Because since it's been upgraded.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes.

[Brittany]

My kids. My kids about self destructed on that 99 degree photo shoot.

[John David]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Well, I promise you we do have AC now.

[Corey]

There's air conditioning there.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Air conditioning. There is a bathroom.

[Brittany]

Oh, yeah.

[Rebecca Lowe]

There's no possum. And there's no dead animals anymore.

[Brittany]

Yeah, we got rid of the possum.

[Rebecca Lowe]

No cross eye possum. I don't know about regular possum though,

[Brittany]

but that cross eye one was wild. I don't like cross that paws, man. What a lot.

[Corey]

And then you sell your.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I sell my own line of clothes called Me and My, which is Mommy and Me kind of matching.

[Corey]

Because your children are adorable.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Thank you. Thank you. And I feel like I've been kind of focusing on my kids for the past, you know, now my oldest is seven now. And so that's kind of what, you know, I feel like the past few years we've been kind of. We had. We bought the building eight years ago and then things happen. Kids and Covid and all the things. So finally now we're like back at it. But I used to have another show called Duck and Dressing, if y' all remember, which is featured on the original Duck Dynasty. Yes. Was. And but we closed like right around that time when we bought the building. So now this is like our back business kind of development.

[Brittany]

Fun fact. I've packed orders for duck and dressing.

[John David]

Oh, you did?

[Brittany]

Oh, man. It's all hands on deck around here, man. Like, I've shipped out duck and dressing.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Oh, my God. And then the warehouse. Yeah, I know.

[Brittany]

Oh, yeah.

[Corey]

I only know about duck and dressing bags. They were the biggest deal in all of this town for a while. If you shop there, you got a really good bag.

[Rebecca Lowe]

And it's a recycle, like recycled. Like made out of recycling. Like water bottle.

[Corey]

Yeah. We just got fancy bags at the Honey Hole. And literally to this day, people are like, oh, it's kind of like that old duck and dressing bag.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Are you trying to is a dupe?

[Corey]

Yeah, I'm. Trust me, mine are not as nice. Well, mine are for worms.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I do have really cool bag again. You got to.

[Corey]

Oh, at the new store.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah. It's even cooler. I think people.

[Brittany]

She's in the back in the bag game.

[Corey]

But then after we graduated high school, you went to lsu.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I did. Can you believe it?

[Corey]

Shock that even more.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah.

[Corey]

You came here to Church of Christ school in North Louisiana and then you went to lsu.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I know people always think, like, it's like part. I mean, I think it's like who you hang out with, you know. And I was very much in like, you know, I was in fashion design. So I got into all that. So I stay in the studio all the time. And so, you know, it's kind of like, you know, I don't really do much. Like, I felt like I was kind of like just, you know, into like.

[Corey]

You're a hustler.

[Brittany]

She stayed in the studio, ate her filet o fish.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah.

[Brittany]

Never went to Chimes. Never.

[Corey]

I don't even know what that is.

[Brittany]

I know.

[Rebecca Lowe]

It's not even like chime is right next.

[Corey]

Like, remember I. I still haven't left West Monroe.

[Rebecca Lowe]

You've never been to Chimes?

[Corey]

I don't even know what we're talking about. Like a wind chime?

[Brittany]

No, restaurant.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Restaurant. It's like very. A restaurant Chimes right outside of campus.

[Brittany]

That's good.

[Rebecca Lowe]

They have like, really good Bloody Mary on Sundays.

[Corey]

Oh, I went to Ulm.

[Brittany]

That's generally post.

[John David]

And they got to have Mr. And

[Rebecca Lowe]

Mrs. Peas and have a good cheese fries or something. Yeah.

[Brittany]

You slide in there about 10am After a night in Death Valley and try to shake that off.

[Rebecca Lowe]

That's why I. I continue to gain weight. When I was in like down in Baton Rouge.

[Corey]

So is our food here just that much more unhealthy or do we just give you way more?

[Rebecca Lowe]

That's another thing I was going to say. So it's the portion. I think there's two things. The portion and people don't walk. Like in Asia. I'm just saying. Okay, when you.

[Corey]

She just called us lazy gang.

[Rebecca Lowe]

No, no, no, no. It's the.

[Brittany]

She called us spread out.

[Rebecca Lowe]

So if you.

[Brittany]

They're all tight.

[Rebecca Lowe]

If you go to cities or any kind of places you don't like, you walk to a restaurant and then afterward you have to, like, walk back or, like, take the subway or do things so you're standing up, you're not just, like, sitting down. So, like, you usually digest better. But then, like here, like, you just get back to eat and get back in the car and then get home so you don't walk. I think that's like, the main reason

[Paula]

I am so excited at the way I've been looking.

[Brittany]

You look good.

[Paula]

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[John David]

I've watched you and Paula in church with the kids.

[Paula]

Yeah. I'm telling you, you got a coach you gotta talk to.

[John David]

A coach you definitely help. I know that.

[Paula]

That'll keep you honest talking to that coach every week, which hell.

[Brittany]

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[Corey]

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[Rebecca Lowe]

One thing I was taught as kids, we, you have to finish like, you know, like my mom said this thing and I believed it as a kid. And now I think it's obviously it's like kind of like a old wives tale, but it says if you don't finish your food and we're. I'm Christian growing up, so she said it like heaven. So if before you go to heaven, there's a huge door and all your leftover is going to be all in the pot and you have to finish it before you can go to heaven.

[Brittany]

Wow. You got to go through fear factor to get to heaven.

[Rebecca Lowe]

And so everything you don't finish, I'm

[Corey]

going to step right in.

[Rebecca Lowe]

You're like, of everything you mix in and it's like rotten and you have to eat it.

[Corey]

Oh. And so it's not even, it doesn't even stay fresh in this mythical land.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Of course not. It's like however long it's not.

[Corey]

You act like this is something I should know.

[Brittany]

I was like, hunter camp all over again.

[Rebecca Lowe]

It obviously doesn't taste good. It's, it's rotten food. And so if you don't finish it, rotten food, you know, they, that's why they tell kids so.

[Corey]

So if you don't finish your food in Taiwan, to get to heaven, you have to eat everything.

[Rebecca Lowe]

So everyone, you always have finished all the food. You can't leave the table unless you finish all the food.

[Brittany]

A much more convincing way than saying, don't waste your food.

[Corey]

We just told about the kids in Africa. Yeah, you're starving. You're like, you're going to.

[Brittany]

And you go to heaven and you move to a country that said, here's a buffet, knock yourself out.

[Rebecca Lowe]

No, it's. And it's, you know, I remember coming here and you know, we used to go to Outback and all this place, the Chili's. And you know, and those portion was so bit and I would try to eat it and they would look at me and be like, Corey would be like, you don't have to finish all the food. But I'm like, I didn't know. I thought I had to finish so I would eat the whole thing.

[John David]

Well, no Wonder you gained £40.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Exactly.

[Brittany]

Yeah.

[John David]

You thought you had to eat it out on the table.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes.

[Corey]

Did you work at Outback?

[Rebecca Lowe]

I did.

[Corey]

I thought I remembered that my crime.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Outback bread, like bags of. At home.

[Brittany]

And you worked it out back when the cheese fries were good, too? Yes, Back in the Gap.

[Rebecca Lowe]

And the blooming onion was good. They had like. Yeah. Outback time.

[Brittany]

That's what Outback was like popping around here like.

[Corey]

Oh, you.

[Brittany]

It was the place.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah.

[Brittany]

Now you can go there any night of the week.

[John David]

Yeah.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Oh, no, it's not the same anymore.

[Brittany]

It's still a very.

[Corey]

You and Christina there used to have

[John David]

to wait in line.

[Brittany]

Yeah. It's still a very long wait, but that's just because they don't have any people working.

[Corey]

That's how small this town is. My foreign exchange cousin worked at Outback, and I immediately recalled everybody she worked with. I was. Oh, yeah.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I know.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Brittany]

Oh, that's so good.

[Corey]

Meanwhile, Allison was at the Red Lobster, just competing.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Did she work at Red Lobster?

[Corey]

Oh, yeah.

[Rebecca Lowe]

That's so funny. I didn't know that.

[Corey]

I hate those biscuits.

[Rebecca Lowe]

You hate it.

[Corey]

Oh, once you do you like going back to Outback?

[Rebecca Lowe]

We went recently was bad.

[Corey]

But see, it's not the same as it used to be.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Oh, my goodness.

[Paula]

Yeah.

[Brittany]

That's crazy. The filet of fish, tartar or no tartar?

[Rebecca Lowe]

I do like the tartar, but I add barbecue sauce. I always get a side of barbecue sauce and dip it.

[Corey]

I've been telling this joke about you.

[John David]

Wait a minute.

[Brittany]

For what have we had this sandwich with barbecue?

[Rebecca Lowe]

So good. You have to try it.

[Corey]

No, I do not.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Barbecue sauce, too.

[Brittany]

I have a pretty hard and fast rule on fish that if I don't catch it, I don't eat it. A filet of fish.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah. That's definitely. I don't know. It's not.

[Corey]

Nobody caught that.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah.

[Brittany]

No. Yeah. No. I don't know where he come from.

[Rebecca Lowe]

So it's probably all my leftover that's mixed into a patty.

[Brittany]

When's the last time you had a filet o fish?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Actually, not that long ago. I still eat it. I mean, hold on.

[Corey]

I've literally been telling the joke about you because, I mean, every day.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Of our senior year, like, Rebecca left school, and I'd pass her because she'd be turning to McDonald's, and. And I was like, man, that girlfriend

[Brittany]

getting one in blue wrappers, man. Blue.

[Corey]

I've been telling this joke for 20

[Rebecca Lowe]

years, and it's true.

[Corey]

And you were dipping it in barbecue sauce.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes. So you didn't know the detail.

[Brittany]

Yeah. That she had or.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I do. Like, another thing is I. I'll dip in ketchup, but I put pepper on my ketchup.

[Brittany]

I've seen folks do that for that.

[Corey]

I can't hate on that.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah.

[Brittany]

Like, just black pepper.

[Rebecca Lowe]

It feels like steak sauce.

[Corey]

Like, making her own A1 at the McDonald's to put on the filet.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Very Asian thing to do.

[Brittany]

I'm like, yeah, very Asian deal to do. Let's just make our own sauce.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Math.

[Brittany]

We'll call it A Hundred Different Things. Oh, man, that's so good, Ollie. So what's the. What's the delicacy in Taiwan? I'm curious about that since we're on food. Like. Like, if you. If I go to Taiwan, what's the one thing I gotta eat?

[John David]

One thing would be fish.

[Brittany]

Obviously not, because she's eating stinky tofu. Tofu.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Stinky tofu.

[Brittany]

It's called stinky, stinky tofu.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes. It's like. It's like a. What are those things called? Like, not marinade, but, like, they're rotten, but fermented. Fermented.

[Brittany]

Okay, Tofu.

[Rebecca Lowe]

And then it has very weird stinky smell, but it tastes really good.

[Brittany]

Really? So kind of like kimchi? That kind of stuff? Like fermented?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah, but it's like. It's got a certain smell, but it, like.

[Corey]

Is that it?

[John David]

It'd be like. It'd be like Italian pizza.

[Rebecca Lowe]

No, that one is like. Well, some avocado.

[John David]

It'd be like Italian pizza. Homemade. It's. It is delicious.

[Brittany]

That's it.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes.

[Brittany]

It's fried.

[Rebecca Lowe]

It's so good.

[Brittany]

Okay.

[John David]

Are you sure?

[Rebecca Lowe]

I mean, John Reese tried it. At first, he didn't like it, but he likes the fry version of it.

[Brittany]

Okay.

[Rebecca Lowe]

But it smells so bad. And, like, you can sell from miles away.

[John David]

Oh, yeah.

[Rebecca Lowe]

But then, like. But it tastes good, you know, I'm talking about. It's like cheese.

[John David]

Yeah. I dated an Italian girl, and she made me homemade pizza. And when she brought out the cheese.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes, it's so strong.

[John David]

But then, hey, this stunk Good.

[Brittany]

For real.

[John David]

And I didn't think I'd be able to eat it, but it tasted.

[Brittany]

But you rally.

[John David]

Oh, no, no, it was great. Had a great flavor, but, boy, did it stink.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Oh, Uncle Sam. I think we should do a trip for, like. Maybe we should do, like, all the way to Taiwan. Yeah. Should we do a duck call room? Like, trip. Can y'. All.

[Corey]

They'll pay for it.

[John David]

Yeah, I think Say fail, pay for.

[Corey]

Call Zach and get us five tickets to Taiwan.

[Rebecca Lowe]

So Taiwan, it's a lot of, like, street food. And so, like, boba tea is actually from Taiwan. You know, it's more like the street kind of type of food. We have a really good fried chicken and tenza.

[Corey]

Just really good fried chicken.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I mean, fried chicken. Yeah.

[Brittany]

Is it on a stick?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Dab on the stick or a chicken nugget or all different type.

[Brittany]

And, like, it's like, the world's biggest fair.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah, it's. It is literally like a.

[Corey]

Well, when I. When you look up the town she is from, it looks like New York city.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah. So Taipei101 was one of the tallest building in the world for a long time till Dubai built the.

[Corey]

That's. That's the city you're from, right?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Y' all see that guy just climbed the Taipei 101 Fre?

[Corey]

That was your home.

[Brittany]

I got a question.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah.

[Brittany]

So it says Taipei right there on the screen. Them two things under it, does that also say Taipei?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes, that's amend.

[Brittany]

Okay, you can read that.

[Corey]

That's awesome.

[Brittany]

Does it. The way we write it seem a lot easier?

[Rebecca Lowe]

It is, but.

[Brittany]

Okay. I was just curious.

[Rebecca Lowe]

It is.

[Brittany]

There's no way I could draw this.

[Rebecca Lowe]

This is why I think Asian people are really good at math. Math. Because we have to memorize so much. It's not that we're good at math, but we almost just memorize things because you have to memorize how to write each characters.

[Corey]

How many characters are there?

[Brittany]

All of them?

[Rebecca Lowe]

I don't know. Like, billion. I don't know.

[Corey]

Oh, wow. So you only got an Alphabet?

[Rebecca Lowe]

No.

[Brittany]

Are you just.

[Rebecca Lowe]

We do have Alphabet, but that's just to tell you how to say it. But you don't write it, so you can't write an Alphabet. So we have, like, a different layer. Like, there's, like, three layers before you can, like, get to writing.

[Brittany]

Why do you think I just asked her if them two things meant what them seven things above it said, no,

[Rebecca Lowe]

I don't know that you can ask,

[Brittany]

like, but I would love to know how many Americans have something that they think tattooed on them that says one thing that actually says something else?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Because I saw this guy at JMAR one time.

[Corey]

Well, that tracks.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Oh, jmar.

[Brittany]

Yeah.

[Corey]

I didn't even track. More.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I don't think he.

[Corey]

What did it say?

[John David]

He didn't know what it was.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah, it was a bad word.

[Brittany]

But see, that's what I'm talking about. Like, how many people just went in

[Rebecca Lowe]

there and I'M like unless he really want the be war on his slag on his calf buffet.

[Corey]

I'm just kidding. We'll leave it at that.

[Brittany]

Boba Boba. Yeah, yeah.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I'm just telling you from my experience, like none of the food here are cooked by the authentic. Like so like yummy Japan is not Japanese people. They're all Chinese people. And then yes, Rebecca is just blowing

[Corey]

the top off the whole like none of the like Asian cuisine culture of Ouachita Parish.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Because like I just.

[Corey]

Yeah, like said yummy Japan.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Everyone's here thinking that. Oh, because they're Asian, they must be, you know.

[Corey]

Well, to the untrained eye, y' all all do favor each other.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Okay, John, David, but that's a Dave Chappelle joke.

[Brittany]

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[Rebecca Lowe]

John really likes to make guesses. I'm like he think he's really good at it and sometimes like John really stop like like he think he's being like really friendly and talking to people and like, are you from this place? You know, and like, he think he's like part Asian now because he. We're married because he's seen one naked. I'm like, john Reed, please don't embarrass yourself. Because he's like, that tracks with him.

[Corey]

He'd be like, oh, man.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah, yeah.

[Corey]

You from Japan? My wife's from Taiwan. And that person's like, I'm Filipin.

[John David]

Yes.

[Corey]

What's wrong with you? That. Does that happen? Yeah, because I've met your husband many times. That's the super friendly. Going out there and just going for it.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Oh, yeah. I mean, like, my kids, you know, my kids is part Asian, you know, like.

[Corey]

Oh, yeah, that's him.

[Brittany]

Oh, man, that's. Your kids have awesome hair, by the way.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I'm trying to figure out what to do with Xander's hair. Yeah, they're so long.

[Corey]

Can we cut it? I. I'm. I got the buzz. I got the clippers on the front porch.

[Rebecca Lowe]

He's like in a little men bun right now because I'm. He's got curly hair, which.

[Corey]

Buzz it.

[Rebecca Lowe]

No, because that seven dollar summer because I, you know, we don't normally have curly hair and so.

[Corey]

Have you ever driven past my house while I'm buzzing Ben's head on the front porch and then you take a leaf blower? Done.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I'm more sentimental. I still have, like, I save all my kids hair.

[Brittany]

What?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Like, he's seven.

[Corey]

You have all of his hair.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Well, not. Well, I have his first cut.

[Corey]

Okay.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah.

[Brittany]

Oh, first is fine. Yeah. Brittany's got there.

[Corey]

I thought you had like a whole scarecrow in a closet somewhere of your

[Rebecca Lowe]

kid's hair, but Holland still haven't gotten a haircut.

[Corey]

Holland.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I got her bang cut one time, but, you know. But she haven't got.

[Corey]

Holland was criminally underused on Duck Dynasty, the revival, because that's the funniest kid.

[Brittany]

Oh, she looks. Or she. And she still does. But man, she looked like a real human baby doll there for like, like perfectly round face. I mean, she still does. I mean, it's. It's. It's great, but like, had to do

[Rebecca Lowe]

something this week and I mean, she just. She loves it and kills it.

[Brittany]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, she was. She was fun.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Lily was laughing because, you know, the first episode when we did the, like, Willie had to babysit all the grandkids and she was not like. She was just like so upset because she. She's very attached to me. But then she turned around and through the episode, and she, like, turned around, you know, and it was so cute. But we just did a new thing this week, and she's like, all about it and, like, running to hug him. That girl is a little. She can be a little actress. Yeah,

[John David]

it runs in the family.

[Brittany]

Yeah, I love it, man. Oh, yeah. We didn't really even talk about anything. That's what's great.

[Corey]

I. I was planning on asking you

[Brittany]

all sorts of stuff.

[Corey]

Why are you still in West Monroe? You came for a year and. Yes, that I'm staying two decades later.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yes. And I'm still here.

[Corey]

You're still here.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Love it. I do. You know, I love the food and the culture and the people, you know.

[Brittany]

And in Taiwan, was your name Rebecca?

[Corey]

No. She picked that.

[Rebecca Lowe]

No, no. Actually, this is. Me and Corey just did a thing on recently because she was sharing some of her. All the kids. A baby name. How she picked baby name. And she obviously didn't share my. Because she didn't pick my name.

[Corey]

I was about to say, you get to pick your foreign exchange student's name.

[Rebecca Lowe]

No, so. But apparently people were super upset with her. Not.

[Brittany]

Oh for. About me.

[Rebecca Lowe]

And so she was like, we have to talk about it. So we just had to do a thing because I was like, I can't believe people were like, thinking, yeah, taking up for me. But, you know, that was really nice. But I. Obviously she didn't pick my name, but I was born here.

[Brittany]

Okay.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Remember we talked about this in Oregon?

[Brittany]

Portland. Oregon.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Oregon. Yeah. So I actually was named Rebecca before I had an Asian name.

[Brittany]

Okay. Okay.

[Corey]

What?

[Rebecca Lowe]

I know. It's.

[Corey]

It's so they're like, boom, Rebecca.

[John David]

So do you have an Asian name?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Well, Rebecca is from the Bible, Abraham's wife. So that's what. Like my. My mom picked that name.

[John David]

Okay.

[Brittany]

Yeah, yeah.

[Rebecca Lowe]

But interesting, you know, so Rebecca was from the Bible. But then when I started going to school in Taiwan, that's whenever we came up with Asian name. Which is what? Lor you.

[Brittany]

Lori.

[John David]

Lor.

[Rebecca Lowe]

You. Lor is the thing. Yeah. And it's.

[John David]

I'll stick with Rebecca.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah, I know, I know.

[Brittany]

Everyone's like, that's way easier.

[Rebecca Lowe]

When I was little, my name people used to laugh at me. Well, nicknamed me Naked Woman because Lord. You sound like Lord New. Which is Naked Woman.

[Brittany]

Well, that's cool. At least you were picked on. Then when you moved in, it wasn't that big of a shock.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah. John David, you should.

[John David]

Oh, you know her? She's a naked woman.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Rebecca get low.

[Corey]

Rebecca. Little John was a Very popular song at the time.

[Brittany]

Oh.

[Corey]

Because her name was Rebecca Lowe. So I said, what up, Rebecca Get Low. Yeah, that was her name for me.

[Brittany]

Shorty Got Low.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah.

[Corey]

It wasn't the most mature thing I've ever done.

[Brittany]

You don't say. Oh, man. Oh, this is so good. So was Low your real.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Was that my name? Yeah. So that would be your last name. So you say your last name first.

[Brittany]

Okay. So, yeah, I really got to get a little more culture on that. Not that I plan on spending any lengthy amount of time. There's.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Y' all would love it.

[Corey]

I would love it for a week.

[Brittany]

That's what I'm saying. Like, I gotta come home, though.

[Corey]

If you. If you drop me off there for math class, I toast.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Well, you'd be really good at English.

[Brittany]

I don't know. I'm not sure.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Maybe.

[Brittany]

I'm not sure. With our vernacular.

[Corey]

A in English, and that's it. He does know that part.

[Brittany]

Yeah. Well, that's good.

[Corey]

Oh, yeah. Did you have to take Spanish in high school?

[Rebecca Lowe]

No.

[Corey]

That would have been hilarious.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I wish. Yeah.

[Corey]

I don't know why, but just imagine if you didn't speak English and you had to go to school in America and learn Spanish.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah.

[Brittany]

So what's the harder language to learn? English or what. What did. What did y' all speak? What was y'. All.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Chinese.

[Brittany]

Just Chinese. Okay. Mandarin. Okay.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah.

[Brittany]

Much more difficult. Mandarin. Much more difficult.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Well, I would say speaking wise English is harder to speak because there's more, like, grammar rules and stuff like that. But writing and reading, obviously, I think Chinese way harder. So.

[Brittany]

Okay.

[John David]

Speaking, like, there ain't no Alphabet. It's got all them symbols.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah. And so the way y' all speak and has a lot of different grammar that I. I'm still learning it. I feel like I'm still like, no, him, she. Like all that stuff.

[Brittany]

Yeah. We. We stay away from pronouns on this show. No. I can't wait to see what you pull out of that Bible. Unless Rebecca has one. If Rebecca may have a verse, I'm ready.

[Corey]

I'm locked and loaded on a. We end with a Bible verse. Rebecca, thanks for letting us know you.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I didn't know someone. I would not. I cannot go on a podcast and share good advice and Bible verses.

[Brittany]

Oh, well, I didn't know if, like, on your way out the door, your mom was like, here, no problem. And handed you a Bible with, like,

[Corey]

we just tell stories in here. But I do have a Bible verse that kind of matches Rebecca's life.

[John David]

Okay.

[Rebecca Lowe]

I would love to hear it.

[Corey]

You want to hear it?

[Rebecca Lowe]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Because it's been a weird road. She showed up in West Monroe from Taiwan and moved in with the Robertson family.

[Brittany]

And I'm saying we only scratched the surface. You're coming back. This is going to be like a 10 part series here.

[Corey]

10 part series with Rebecca Lowe's but something I'm assuming you've had to do a lot in life. Proverbs 3, 5, 6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, submit to him and he will make your path straight. Yeah, you've got a wild path, but it led you straight to being niece of.

[John David]

I'm sitting here looking at this young lady and I know that John Reed and your two kids, that's all you got.

[Brittany]

There's three of them.

[Corey]

You got another one, man.

[John David]

And you're three kids.

[Brittany]

Tell that story later.

[John David]

And three kids have more fun.

[Brittany]

Oh, they're the life of the party.

[John David]

I'm telling you. They have more fun than six barrels of monkeys.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Then what?

[John David]

They have more fun than six barrels of monkeys. Yeah.

[Brittany]

He's saying your kids are like the life of the party.

[John David]

That's right.

[Corey]

Barrel Monkeys was a popular children's story back when we were at war with Mom.

[Brittany]

All I know, their leader.

[Corey]

That's awesome.

[Brittany]

Well, thank you, Rebecca. And we'll see y' all next time right here in the ducks.

[John David]

We appreciate you sharing your life with us.

[Rebecca Lowe]

Thank you,

[Brittany]

Sam.