‘Average Andy’ Takes On the Great Outdoors

[music playing]
[theme song]
(SINGING) He's an executive producer on the "Ellen Show."
He works hard every day.
He's super duper awesome at what he does,
but he's average in every other way.
Hi I'm Erin LaVoie.
I'm a lumberjack world champion, and these are some my friends
who also love the outdoors.
And I'm Andy, and I'm very outdoorsy.
And what are we going to learn today?
We all have our own talents that we brought to the game.
I'm going to chop some wood.
The kids are going to shoot some bows and arrows.
I have bird calls and some tent setting up.
[inaudible]
That's great.
I brought some talents to the game too,
so that's going to be good.
OK.
So this is your bow.
Right.
And right now-- oh, OK we're not going to do that.
What?
You don't want to do that?
No.
That is dry firing the bow.
We don't want to dry fire.
No.
No.
I want you to tuck your hips under.
Can you do that?
A little bit.
It's going to be like you're holding a grape
in between your butt cheeks.
So I want you to relax.
Draw it towards your face.
Perfect.
Perfect.
Perfect.
OK, and then what?
Nice.
Nice.
Nice.
And release when you're ready.
Nice.
Cool.
Good.
We do have a bit to work on.
How am I not in competitions if that's my first one?
It's beautiful.
OK, nice.
I was aiming for lower left.
Where did hit?
Lower left.
OK, good.
Relax.
You look really tense when you're pulling the arrow back.
Yeah.
That's unusual--
I want you to relax.
--because I'm not usually a tense person so
that seems not right.
Nice.
Are you kidding me?
Nice.
That was actually really good.
This, honestly, is the least Jewish activity
I have ever participated in, and yet pretty natural.
OK.
I'm glad you were part of it.
Yeah.
You're not agreeing with the part
where I said I was a natural.
You have some work to do, but you're off to a great start.
You have some work to do.
Safety first, Andy.
Yes.
These are chopping guards for your legs.
I don't really need this, but I'm sure there's kids watching
and I want them to be safe.
Yup.
Up and down.
Yup.
Easy.
OK?
Mm hm.
Like that?
Up, and then as hard as you can.
Ah.
It works better if you--
I didn't hit the axe, yeah.
Yeah.
And what you want to do there--
I'm just resting the axe.
I wasn't looking to break that.
Yeah, that was a warm up?
Yeah.
No.
Just a place to keep the axe now.
I'm going to go like that.
Oh.
Yeah.
Do you want me to get it for you?
Mm hm.
Ah.
That's good.
Yeah, because sometimes you just want
to get a sliver as opposed--
you see, here's the honest truth,
and I'll tell you why I'm hesitant.
If I miss the wood, the axe follows through,
comes down here.
Ready?
Here we go.
Mm.
Are you kidding me?
Yeah.
[inaudible] down.
How am I not in competition?
Right.
Let's see what you do.
It just keeps--
I worry about your feet but you know how to do this.
Yeah.
OK.
Oh, god.
That's what I'm talking about.
Yeah.
You want to finish?
Yeah.
Yup.
And chip.
You want to come into it at an angle.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, straight in is not gonna move any wood.
That's what she said.
Well obviously-- you know, I don't want to show up a lady,
you know.
Hey, so we're going to set up some tents, all right?
OK.
Great.
I'm setting up this one.
Yup.
And you're going to set up that one.
OK.
Great.
All right?
Have you always loved the outdoors?
Oh yeah.
It's a lifestyle.
Same.
Same.
What's the coldest weather you ever been in Robert?
You know, I spent a couple of weeks in the Himalayas--
Yeah.
--up at 17,000 feet.
That was a cold cold week.
Yeah.
Cold week.
Here's the honest truth.
Yeah.
I feel like we could share a tent--
two guys out in the woods.
So are we going to stake this out?
Right.
Stake it out, because of the wind, right?
Yeah.
This is an L.L. Bean tent, and it's just--
this is really what you want to use,
and looks like you did a good job with it.
That's uh-- that's going to--
nailed that.
Eh?
What you want is-- because when a wind comes
you want to be able to move with it.
If it's staked down-- this is important--
if it's staked down, the tent is going to hurt you.
This way you move with the wind.
Would you like to learn to some bird calls today?
There's literally nothing I would want more than to,
because it's important--
it is.
--out here in the outdoors, and yeah.
Yeah.
We got to connect with nature.
I thought I'd start by doing the acorn woodpecker.
Hit it.
(BIRD CALL) Would you like to try?
(INCOHERENT YELLING) What did you say?
OK, make this noise first-- (HONKING)
(HONKING)
Very good.
Now you are going to say "yeah er,
yeah her, yeah her, yeah her."
Yeah her, yeah her, yeah her
(BIRD CALL)
(POOR BIRD CALL)
(BIRD CALL)
(POOR BIRD CALL)
(BIRD CALL)
(EMPHATIC POOR BIRD CALL)
That's very good.
There's a bird called the Kagu.
Sure.
(DIFFICULT BIRD CALL)
(INCOHERENT CAWING)
How about a crow?
OK.
(CAWING CALL)
(CAWING CALL)
Very good.
You did great.
That's awesome.
You want to come back to camp with me?
Yeah.
Let's go.
[banjo music playing]
We learned a lot today, right kids?
Smores?
Yeah!
I showed you guys--
I showed you guys how to shoot arrows.
We did some bird mating stuff together.
[laughter]
Chopped some wood together.
Pitched a great tent.
I've met people here today who actually
can make a living doing that, which is great.
You're out in nature, instead of in a TV studio
with a blonde woman who makes you do things you don't always
want to do.
Are you talking about Ellen?
I'm not using names.
I'm just saying there's other jobs that people
can have that are enjoyable, where you don't get scared
all the time or made fun of.
You know?
What song do you guys know?
"Row, Row, Row Your Boat."
Ready?
At the count of three.
1, 2, 3.
(SINGING) Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
Well done.
--eam.
Thank you guys.
Caw!
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‘Average Andy’ Takes On the Great Outdoors

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