Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Arm Wrestles the Monster

Episode Date: July 22, 2021

Si compares biceps with 21-time world arm-wrestling champion “Monster” Michael Todd, who stops by to talk about professional arm wrestling and crazy arm injuries. The conversation turns to ocean adventures when Phillip brings up swimming with sharks and Si tells the unusual story of the giant sea turtle he ran into in Hawaii. John-David gets into some weird news with one of the best headlines ever written. Si and Martin try to help a guy resolve his mullet-related dispute with his dad. And Phillip coins the phrase "secret mullet." - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

They're pretty melted. Hey, what are we doing? You've been coming in late here to late, sir. Uh-oh. I was not, I went home to lunch. I wasn't late today. Yeah, you were. I was later than you, but that's because you're 45 minutes early to everything you do.

Hey, tiny, would you please coming in here? Who's tiny? Oh, boy. That's tiny. Oh, boy. He's not tiny. Hey, man. You want some candy?

I don't want to put it in a chair. You want, yeah. This chair? I want to put up with you. Nice watch you got there too. Uh-oh. This man's arms are the size of my legs. Yeah, I'd just leave it.

Yep, I'm out. I'd leave it. It ain't going to fit him. That's the good way. Yeah, he can't take it. He's going to have to put it on his finger. But he can look at it. You can, sir, just don't eat me.

Hey, you tell Willie, he can talk to me later about it. What are you talking about? Why are you? Well, I'm just saying, if you want to, you know. Look at the man's arm. Hey, if you want to whine to look me up later. Look, you got to defend your chair, son. No, and negative.

Good call, John, David. You got to defend your chair. You can't, you fight or flight, you're flying. That's where we're at, okay. All right. I got you. No, I'm kidding. I wouldn't mess with him either.

Look at that big old rascal. Negative. Hey, can we take Tiny down to the truck stop and spit on somebody, figure out what he's made of? Hey, look, y'all can take him anywhere. Yeah. Y'all can take him anywhere he wants to go. What if he don't want to go there?

Don't take him. I wouldn't take him. I wouldn't even try it. I don't even know if he fit in my truck. I had to put him in the bed. He had to ride back there in the back back. Golly. But he's harmless as a hill ham.

No, he ain't. Yes, he is. No, he ain't harmless. His shirt says monster. He ain't harmless. Well, I mean, hey, that's just for publicity. Oh, that's just a bluff. Hey, yeah, this is a real gentle giant, okay?

He's a giant. I gave him that. If you haven't guessed it, folks, we have a guest today, okay? And he's what, been world champion, arm wrestler for, oh, what? How many times? 121 world titles and 36 national titles. Oh, good grief. Wow.

Look, and he's married to a very sweet little woman over there. Don't mess with mama because she'll pin you too. She's a seven-time champion. Don't you worry. I ain't messing with either one of them. Well, I was just giving you a warning. Mama don't play. Just a heads-up.

My mama raised me to be smarter. I can't hear you. This is one I'm glad I'm smarter than I look because Monster. Yeah, that's fitting. Monster. Yeah, Michael Monster. Michael Monster. Is our guest today.

A.k.a. Tiny. AKA Tiny. He's my new bodyguard, by the way. Is he? Yeah. Are you doing pretty good then? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm doing fine now.

Do you feel safe? He's leveled up, huh? He's leveled up. Oh, do I feel safe? Yeah. Do you tell him about Ms. Christine mistreating y'all in time? Well, no, no, no. No.

No. You know, Miss Christine don't even want to get involved in this, okay. So 21 world titles? Yes, sir. Yeah, so I started arm wrestling in 1990. I'm from Arkansas. It's funny because we just went out there and saw that, you guys are on the Washington

and I actually grew up on Lake Catherine, which flows into the Washington River. Yeah, all heck yeah. So I was really just surprising about that. But yeah, I started 1990. Saline County Fair messed around. And now I've been to Europe 30 plus times, traveled all over the world,

had amazing life experiences, met a lot of cool people. 21 world titles between heavyweight and super heavyweight divisions and 36 national titles over six different weight classes. Good, great. Michael, when you started,

how big were you compared to right now? All right. So I graduated high school at 6-3-2-15. And so I messed around my first ever tournament. I think I ended up pulling the 200-pound weight class. I cut some weight or I didn't eat for a day or something like that. And my first national championships, I ended up pulling the 176 weight class. McLean, Virginia, 1992.

And I came in at 178. I had to make the 176. I made a sauna out of the bathroom. End up getting down on 174. But I was always a foodie back then. So my first nationals was 176. The next year I was 20. The next year I was 187.

The next year I was 22. I always bounced around. I've been as heavy. I'm about 275, 280 right now. I've been 3.30. So my weight just, it depends on what I'm eating, you know. I can't see you at 187. It's been a while.

It's been a minute. It's been a minute. Yeah, so. His scale fluctuates like mine. No, it's been. Hey, look at size, muscle. Basically the same one. Look at this.

It looked like a finger. I can pat his arm. Good grief. Man, a lot. Well, that, that is. That's so you grew up on Lake Catherine in Arkansas. So the water on that Washetal River looks a lot different up there and it does down here. Yeah, yeah.

A little clearer up there. Way it's a way cleaner. Yeah, it's a little bit clearer. We regularly float the Washhton like I grew up on right there on Lake Catherine. So we'd go float the Washaw River all the time. And my wife and I did that last year. So it's, it's pretty clear up there. It's nice.

The lake Washhtal is actually spectacular. Oh, yeah. If you guys have been up there, that's a beautiful lake. Beautiful full of big old stripers. But when you, when they see, when they see, when they see you floating, do they just go ahead and jump in the boat they just jump on in yeah yeah yeah i wouldn't i wouldn't i wouldn't want you to set the hook on me yeah hey and all the crudders when he floats down there they're head for the hills yeah yeah yeah who's gonna mess with yeah a grizzly bear looks at some take off run

oh man i'm here well i would too like all sports and i guess you would consider arm wrestling a sport oh absolutely of course you would consider arm wrestling a sport oh are you about to she would consider arm up. Are you? I'm just going to. Hey. Tell now. Remember, you're a gentle and child.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. My bad. But anyway, is it a sport? What kind of injuries have you had in this sport? All right. So I've had my share. I've been the guy who's been very stubborn throughout his career.

I would get in positions. No, you stubborn? It's surprising, I'm sure. Bomb, I would get into some compromised positions. Instead of letting the match go, I would just fight until I would just fight until I. until I got the win. And 2010, I was in London in a world championship match left-handed. And I'm telling this story to get to the right-handed story.

And so I drove into the match. A doctor had misdiagnosedly said I had a muscle tear. So I was all black and blue. And it healed up. I'm like, man, I'm fine. I drove into a position. I'm looking at the cameras, kind of putting on a show. This is with a black and blue arm.

No, no, the arm is, it's better now. But I knew it was tender, right? I knew it was tender. And I get in there and pout. Meteor clad aluminum, it rips off the bone, the flexer mass rolls. up the forearm and the elbow dislocate six inches. I just got lightheaded. It was so graphic.

So they put it on Eurosport because Eurosport aired for like 10 years and like 60-something countries. But they wouldn't put the direct angle. They said it's too graphic for TV. So they shot it this way because I'm facing that way and it lands on the table behind me. It was pretty gruesome. And what's really bad is afterwards. So you look like Connor McGregor just on your arm instead of your leg.

Yeah, a little bit different, a little bit different. What really hurt was my buddy was holding my arm like this because it just came apart. and then he took his hand off and it reset, you know, because it dislocated those six, it reset, that was painful. That was brutal.

So then I get home and, time about, time about. Hold on, we got to go slower. Time out. I can't take it. He said his buddy was holding his arm like he is.

Like, like, oh, no, man, no. It was pretty rough. Whoa.

this is what I'm glad you know what I'm hearing here I'm glad the ducks don't have shotguns no no no because that's what Phil said Phil look at me holding his arm like a baby his arm is the size of a baby don't get me wrong but like I mean he said it just he picked it up and then it went back into place and that's what really hurt yeah and Phil said

God Phil looked at me and he says duck hunting is a lot simpler and lot safer amen Look, springtime is here. It's warming up. You know what that means?

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buddy picked my arm up like this. And I'm like, it looked like you was at the nativity scene holding baby Jesus the way you picked it up. That's the image I'm getting right now looking at you. I mean, chills went all the way down my back. That's a pain. I can't even, no. It was kind of rough. It's kind of rough.

When I get home, so at this point, like I said, I did not have health insurance for like 20 years. So I never knew what was wrong in my right arm. I'd ought to have all these injuries and pain and I'd just never get it checked out. Well, when they were going to rebuild my left elbow, I was like, Hey, go ahead and x-ray my right arm. Had over 70 fractures. My right elbow had over 70 fractures. So you can look, and this is the point of my elbow.

You can see right here, all this is extra bone growth. So that's as straight as my arm goes, and this is as far as it comes back. That's my range of. Bone against bone there. That's bone right. Yeah, he, you say what he wants to. He just wanted to see that bicep. Do you see it thing?

He's doing that? Do you see it? Look at it. Don't let him play. Look. Oh, okay. Uh-oh. I can only bring mine to hear.

Oh. And when he does it, when he does it, it always starts switching. My good. That is, so your arm is like a couple inches shorter than the other one. It's significantly. I've lost 19.5 inches range of motion. Like, if I lay flat on my back and lay my arm down, it's 10 inches from touching the ground. If I try to bring my fist to my shoulder, it's nine and a half inches from touching my shoulder.

That's crazy. Yeah, it's just, and I mean, I've just been too stubborn to quickly. I mean, I should have retired. And, you know, on any given day, this right arm is the best arm in the world. So it's fun. So right now, the reason we're here is nine line hooked me up. They're one of our partners. We have a 33-foot rapt RV, and we're traveling in the United States for the next six months.

Just basically taking on all comers. So we just finished up the first legs. So we're doing six separate legs. We just sit 22 states in the last 21 days plus Washington, D.C. I think I've arm wrestled like 15 days out of the last 20 days. My arm is beat up bad. So if you guys are going to take me on after this, this is your shot. This is your chance to beat me today.

No, I ain't got that to prove. I'm smarter. No. I'm going to wrestle that with a finger. Nope. I don't think so. Your wrestling days is long behind you. But I've got to ask you since you said that.

Yes. What is the most people you've wrestled at an event? Like at one time? Yeah. At one time. You know, at one event. One day, yeah. Yeah.

Well, I mean, I've taken on. what several hundred back to back you know um the guinus world record's actually a thousand fifty it was set by a guy named yon and chescu a romanian national champ who actually smoked him six zero back in 2009 so um but he did it in a mall in romania right so he took on a thousand fifty competitors over 24 hours i've been wanting to break that world record for the last couple years i've got nine line is one of the people who're looking to help me do it maybe redcom we're going to set it i need to arm wrestle 1200 people over 24 hours and to break the guinness world record one arm yeah yeah it has to be the right arm. But the thing is, it's going to be like amateurs only. If I was going to arm wrestle a bunch of

legit arm wrestlers, I wouldn't be able to go through that many yet. We were talking earlier, and I've had practices at my house where I'd have 15 or 20 guys over there, and I'd do king of the table. So I'd walk up table and you'd just make a line and just keep going. And I'd go through 15, 20 guys, what, 20, 30 times, about 30, 40 minutes worth, nonstop, and then someone would finally get me. That's insane. That's incredible. That's insane. That's incredible. I've been doing it for 31 years, though, and it's so funny because strength is so subjective.

A lot of people will think that it's just technique. Like, if you had a twin brother, and I taught your brother had arm wrestling and it didn't teach you, he'd beat you because technique is very important. At a world-class level, we all know the techniques. It comes down to who's stronger. But people, like, that guy's been, he's strong on you because his bench is stronger, his deadlift or squat. No, his bench squat or deadlift muscles are strong in the mind. My arm wrestling muscles are highly developed. So it's just whatever you use.

It's just, you know, your body adapts. You'd probably be a hard. man to spot on bench press that thing on come up like here it does get better you better have that thing locked in on that other side what i was thinking about if hey if i wrestled 15 guys martin would be carrying my body to put it in a casket no hammer you'd never make it to 15 you wouldn't you wouldn't make it to 15 i mean that that's incredible i got i got no words because that's incredible Like, that's, I think it's because it's something that, you know, like for us, duck hunting, people say that about us, too, but when you watch a professional, do what they're good at. Oh, yeah.

There's something different about watching a pro do what they're good at versus, you know, anybody else. So that's, I can, I don't want to arm wrestle you, but I'll watch you. I don't, I mean, oh, I enjoy watching. My elbow's never been broken once, and I'd like to keep it undefeated. I'd like to keep it that way. I'm defeated. That's exactly right. So how many times have you lost?

I've lost 100,000 matches my life. Okay. But I've un-wrestled over a million. I don't lose much anymore. I actually took my first loss in the last, I have not, in Memorial Day weekend in Dubai, I took my first loss in three years. Really? Yeah, it was just, my opponent showed up.

He's, I don't know, he gained like 60-something pounds in three and a half months. He came up really ready. He was the most prepared he'd ever been. And for some reason, I just didn't show up on that day. My preparation, my training was very good. I took a single pulley system with 287 pounds on it attached to a handle and pinned it three times off the ground. So, I mean, the guy weighed 290. I pinned his whole body three times and I was the strongest I'd ever been.

For some reason, that version of me didn't show up that night. But, you know, it happens. The loss actually helped me, in my opinion, because I'm still the reigning world champ because there's a non-title match and all that stuff. But it took some of the pressure off. It's so hard trying to be the champ, and like, especially with social media now. So my YouTube is Monster Michael Todd, so you can follow all of her journey at Monster Michael Todd, all of these arm wrestling, everything I'm doing.

But even in practice, the way social media is if you lose a match, oh, that's the end of the world, right? So the fact that I took that loss now, I mean, I can have fun with you guys or do whatever, and there's not that much pressure. So I'm actually pleased, I'm going to get that, I will avenge that loss. I will get it back. But I'm about saying, well, you look.

I'm having a good time right now. And I have no doubt about that. You can look at all three of us. And John David included over here in the corner, that you won't talk about no pressure. It could be eight arms versus that right one, and there's still like no pressure. You slam all of us. The whole thing we got going for us is weight, collectively, not strength. Because the strength we're out.

I got a question for you, Michael. When you have an event like that, how long does it last? I mean, I know it's preparation leading up to it. But I mean, when you lock arms, how long does it take? I mean, a few minutes. Okay, so most matches are pretty quick. I am the guy who gets into those marathon long matches. So normally in pro format arm wrestling, which is basically all I do now, is one-on-one super matches.

So like you and I would arm wrestle the best of five or best of six or whatever. You know, if we do six rounds, 90 seconds in between each round. In the WAL, my last world title match in 2019, round one was. It was pretty fast. I got, the dude smacked me real quick. Round two, we pulled for almost five minutes, and I beat him. Round three, he got an early pin. Round four, we did it again.

So in five rounds, the second round, I pulled for over five minutes. And the same guy the year before, we pulled over seven minutes in the second round. And I fractured my hand. They had a smaller strap, and it broke my metacarp on my hand in round two. And I had finished that round in three more rounds with a broken head. Yeah, so. I've broke a lot of bones, man, because I'm clumsy. I'm clumsy and I'm kind of done to an extent.

Like, you can't do that. Oh, yeah, I can. He don't. That's stubborn. But he keeps on, he's like, no, let's line them up. No, no, no, no. When I broke it, I said, I'm good. Tiny does not like to lose.

Okay, I figured that out early, okay. This man does not like to. lose and there's no give in him. Well, Michael, look, man, we appreciate you stopping by. Look, if our duck call room fans want to learn more about you, where can they go, man? Go check out Monster Michael Todd.com. I'm also Monster Michael Todd on YouTube, Instagram, all that stuff. We got some cool stuff coming out.

We also run a transformation business back home. So we have the Monster Michael Todd Bachelor Diet coming out real soon, which is a macro plan, get you in great shape, super easy to follow, not a whole lot of food prep. And then a nine-line apparel has been taking really good care of me. this tour so use code monster 20 for 20% off on any nine line apparel oh that's awesome yeah we've worked with the nine line guys too love what they stand for love what they do um they have some stuff for us out so ma'am look we appreciate you good luck slam everybody in all 50 states that's a slam that's a man they're all they don't think i can get the RV over to hawaii but we'll they

ain't finished that bridge yet they have not i hear they're working on it michael you're gonna put me me and a sigh on that diet. I feel like if you guys can stick to it. Stone can stick to it. Stone's on it and he's going to be looking amazing in the next 90 days. I am not that death one, so I'm not going to go on to that. That's just what we need. Stone with a bigger head and he's got now.

Here we go. Golly. No, we're out. We'll be back right after this. But let me tell you, if you're the best in the world at anything, I mean, that's impressive. Yeah. Yeah. No matter what kind of.

It don't make it difference what it is. Look, your boy, Jace, was the best in the world at Yahoo Spades. I was the best in the world almost at Madden, 2010 for the PlayStation 2. Are you being serious? Close. Did you go to the competition? No, I never went. I beat the number three man in the world.

You beat the number three man, no boy. You got to beat the man. You got to beat the man. Hey, I need to be the hype man for a Monster Michael. I'm terrified of that, Sam. Let me tell you, let me tell you something about Monster Michael. I'll start the fight and then let him finish. Master Michael don't need no height, man.

All he's got to do is walk in. And everybody's like, hey, he's a bull. Yeah, he is the height. Here's what I can assure you about Mr. Master Michael. People still say, yes, sir, to hear him. You ain't kidding. It starts with Sir and Inva, sir.

You saw how quick I left. Yeah. He gone. He even lifted you watch off of them. No, I got it back. It didn't fit. He got it over three fingers and said. So am I really going to have to arm wrestle with that man after this?

Well, man, I think you need to. to defend your chair. I mean, I, Hey, watch this though. I can touch my shoulder. He's got to touch my shoulder. Hey, you're going to get hurt for that.

You're going to get hurt for that. Be sure to brag to him about that. I'm not going to make that joke until he's gone. Let me call him back in here. After you arm wrestling him, you won't be able to do it. You won't even be able to lift it. His arm though was crazy that it all moves that far. I knew some people like just got shorter arms

and it's like. Oh, no, no, about four inches. About four inches of difference. Well, but the difference is he legit earned his. Oh, yeah. I mean, that man, Monster Michael. What a, oh, what a delightful human being. Yeah, he was cool.

I guarantee you'll never hear me say a bad word about that man. Good, night. I just wonder, I guess, what did he say he went to the fair? Oh, now what's he doing? He's apparently pretty good at hanging up. Y'all, I'm a little disappointed in all y'all, too. Why? Because nobody mentioned how majestic his beard was.

Well, you ain't got to. But I thought it was. You ain't got to say it. No, that beard right there, his beard and his, he's got the two bees, beard and biceps. And they both don't need any explanation. You just look at them. You're like, uh-huh. Yeah.

So I had beard envy. Yeah. So I was like, well, how could you not? It was fantastic. That's a great beard. It was a solid beard. But, you know, he suffered from saying the thing. I got up top of him.

He's nothing up there. So, look, that makes me feel a little bit better. Oh, God. You know, he ain't been on that keeps bag either. I'm a beat up. That's right. He wasn't on that. He wasn't on none of that.

I got it down now. I got to hit the bailout one. Here's what I say you do, though, because his wife is with him and she's a seven-time champion. No. Yeah. Go after her husband and my wife. Yes. Yes.

Hey. I've never been good at, shockingly, I've never been good at arm wrestling. You've heard the saying, for a big dude, I'm kind of weak. I'm kind of weak. Anytime somebody asks. There ain't no much of there, it's flail, boys. That's marshmallow. Any time somebody asks me like, hey, I'm moving this week, and I'm like, just so you know, get out of there.

My favorite line was one of our employees looked at him one time and said, you look tougher than I know you are. That's what they said about John Davis. Yeah, you look better than you are. I'm kind of tough. I'm just not very strong. Yeah. So, like, when it comes to heavy lifting, I'm out. I'm out, boy.

They got machines for that. Here's the good news. You ain't going to have to lift nothing. You just got to push that man's on. Drag your arm when it's over. I guarantee you if I pulled the old, what's that over there? And he said, huh? And then I went, yeah, and gave it everything I had, his hand wouldn't move.

No, I'm going to. He'd be like, like a mosquito. I'm going to request that our friends. over at Helix, send a pad for that table. That way my wrist has got something soft to land on. You know what I'm saying? Like, I mean. I'm nervous right now.

Like, I don't know. There ain't no reason to be nervous. Johnny D. You got zero expect to. He ain't going to hurt you. No, he's not. You're not strong enough for him to hurt you. To hurt you, you've got to be strong.

He's not going to be going here. You're just going to be going. I would like to see him just go all in. It won't. Then you, then your feet's going to replace where your head was. Johnny. You're going to turn a full flip. Johnny, me and you, we'll tag team him together.

What do you think happens of all four of us? We all four of us. We all four of us. We lose. No, we lose. Oh, yeah. That's crazy. You're right.

No, we just get beat. That's awesome. I like meeting people that are the best at what they do. That's a good time. It's not too often you get to meet a world champion. Of anything. And then, yeah. I'm trying to think of any world champion.

I've ever met. Storyteller. Tim Tebow. That's pretty close. Tim Tebow, world champion, Heisman. Yeah. He's a big man, too.

You got to be big to be a world champion. Jacob Wheeler was a world champion fisherman. He won the world championship. I'm trying to think of... I met Dan Marley once. It was a magical day of my life, but Michael Jordan didn't let him be a world champion. No.

He was always silver medalist. Yeah, he was pretty good. He's pretty good winning silver. Yeah. I'm trying, yeah, I mean, it's cool. I mean, I guess you could say like Bubba Watson. Is there a world champion of golf? We'll find out at the Olympics.

Does anybody really care? Not really. No. Golf, there's, what's up with the Olympics? Why do we care about some sports at the Olympics? And then we don't care about others. Underwater basket weaving? No.

I'm interested. That would be impressive. But like when baseball goes to the Olympics, nobody cares. Yeah. No, because you know that the professionals are still over here playing in the, you know the best of the best are still. Playing major league.

Yeah, playing major league. The Olympics is like, this could be airy while the Olympics is happening. The one that always just boggles my mind in the Olympics is water polo. How do those people do that? How do they sit there and tread water, catch that ball, throw that ball,

and they don't ever look tired? Cy, have you? Water polo? I've never watched it. Oh, it's impressive. It's like soccer in the water. Treadin water the whole time, not waiting, treading. Here, it's incredible.

Water polo to me blows my mind how people can do that. Yeah, but they do it. Okay. There you go. Yeah, I know, but it's still, that's an impressive feat to be able to do that. No, no, yeah. I mean, look that. No, no, yeah.

That guy come that far out of the water, not with nothing to bounce off of. He don't go down there and touch the bottom and come back up. Yeah. Yeah. How deep is water polo? Oh, I'm sure what, it's eight foot probably? Depth. Whatever the Olympic pool is.

That's a cool thing. I don't know. I'm just guessing. I have no basis on that. I got no clue either. Six feet. I can touch. It wouldn't be what you could touch.

Oh, you're not allowed to touch. Yeah, you got a trad water the whole time. You just said you never seen it. Well, no, no. I'm telling you. How long does it last? Long enough. I mean, trad and water for anything.

over in about 30 seconds is tough. Except for Godwin. He's a floater. He's a floater. He's a floater. He's a floater. He put a little salt in the water. He can float. He's a life raft for you.

That's true. If you ever are in a boat and it sinks, you have a whole lot of going to go. Fine goblin. Fine goblin. Marshmanlete go live. After we get done arm wrestling, can we find a water polo team and go take them on?

Because I think that would be fun to watch. You've got just about as good of a chance of succeeding. I actually think we'd, we might have less because there's a chance that a couple of us drown. Yeah. We might break an elbow when we arm wrestle, but there's... No, I ain't play a water. I ain't play a water polo with a life jacket.

I'm not that strong a swimmer. You got to... You're not? I mean, I can swim, but... I'm with you. I can swim good enough to keep me alive, but, like, that's it. I ain't trying to... That's how my son is.

He's five. Yeah. He can't swim, but he's not going to drown. Yeah. So he doesn't wear floaties, Big dog, papal. Yeah. Or go under and...

I can keep myself up to get me to something to get me out of that water. Yeah. Yeah. My wife learned how fast I could swim when I thought the sharks were after us because I left her way behind. That's terrible. It was terrible. Phillips said, hey, I only got out swim her.

That's terrible. I have many questions. That's true. We were in the Bahamas with Martin and Saif. And y'all were swimming in shark-infested water? Well, let me explain. They were cleaning fish on one of the piers. And you jumped in?

Stop. No, I saw all the sharks coming up to eat the food. This is when we first got there, and I said, whatever happens, I'm not getting close to here. So me and Alicia were snorkeling, swimming. We got close to that pier without realizing it. And then I saw all the sharks. And it was like, I turned around, and I just high-tailed it. I mean, I stopped and looked and she wasn't nowhere around.

And he said to his wife, every man for himself. Because she's a better swimmer than me, so I just thought, hey, she'll make it. I need to get out of here. Or she won't. But I was gone. You know who wasn't in that water in the Bahamas? Your boy. Martin.

Somebody's got to drive the boat. Somebody's got to drive the boat. Somebody's got to drive the boat. I do remember Martin, he wouldn't get in the water. Uh-uh. And Godwin couldn't go down. until they put weights all over him. Yeah, Gowan had to have like 50 pounds added to him.

That's true. First time somebody looked at Gowin and said, you need more weight. Yeah, yeah. He literally can't go underwater. He can't go on water. No. No, like, Gowan's like, you couldn't push him underwater. Like, for real.

Yeah. For real. Like, if you wanted to go out there and you're like, man, I better take some bottled waters and I'm get thirsty. Just put it on Gowan's belly. Like, because he's going to be floating up on top. He's like a table. You can just swim over to him.

Get you a drink of water. That's it. We got a bottle back. Go play for more. Oh, I saw. Yeah. Go play. I got pictures and video.

No, he's just up there on top of the, he was. Do we need to take him to get an MRI? I don't know. But he had a shirt on it said like eat fish live and that was all you can see from because he couldn't go down. He looked like a sea turtle out there. He was just on top of the water. Never had to work.

His snorkel was always out of the water. Just a giant albino sea turtle. Yeah. No, no, that reminds me when we went to, done the Duck Dynasty in Hawaii, and we was going out there and go try to surf. Yeah. I'm sitting on my surfboard,

and guess what comes up right beside me? Godwin. No, one of them huge... Shark, shark bait. No, no. Sea turtle. That's what I'm talking about. Shark bait.

Hey, the lady that was my bodyguard and, you know, lifeguard, swimmer. Not tiny. No, not tiny. Yeah. She said, I've lived in this stupid ocean all my life. She said, what are you? She said, I've never seen that happen.

What, a sea turtle come up? A sea turtle come up to somebody on a surfboard. And look, he hung around there until we actually left. He's a real-life Moana. Yeah. There he is. Right there. So, you actually rode that board pretty good.

He rode the sea turtle too. No, hey. Maybe that's why. It was a female. Okay. That's what I told us. That's just a female. They all come to me.

Ladies man, baby. Hey, ladies. The ladies man, boy. That was a giant sea turtle, though, and beautiful. And his skin is weird. No, no, weird feeling, because I patted him on the head. Because he was right there against my board. She or he?

No, no. That thing could have just took his finger off a one-off bite. No, no, no. Hey, he was friendly or she was friendly. Well, I understand that. I'm just saying it could have. Oh, yeah, it could have. Yeah, but it was.

God, have mercy. A huge thing. Arm wrestling to sea turtles. And it's beautiful. With the Olympics in between. That's right. Welcome to the duck call room. I'm never amazed at where we get to.

But right now, let's get to our third break. We'll be back right after this. Sigh. What bizarre news you got, Sean. I mean, I don't really. Wait, first of all. First of all. Yeah, now you've caught me on guard.

No, we'll get to that. Look. Canadian hunters won a club 10. I can't remember everybody's name, but you know who you all. that sent Eminem? Y'all have sent us a, and the word that a buddy of ours used to screw up, a paraphala. A parapha. A parapha.

A lot of M&M. Anybody like dark chocolate? And we thank you. And airheads. Who was this one? There's a bunch of them, though. So I hate to, I don't. There's a bunch of them.

Karen said, hey, guys, hope y'all enjoy these treats. I was listening to you. Sorry that they're only, not only blue airheads. That's okay. All airheads are good. Good. I'm getting kind of fat. P.S. Go, Tigers. Hey, I like that.

Hey, there we go. And then we had one. Love Karen. We had one drop off some stuff in the store for us. So thank you. I have, your name escapes me, but I still have your card and the two tubs of M&M. Well, right. I got to ask the question.

What was that word you used? Parapha. Perapha. Yeah. He couldn't say plethora. I'll show my ignorance here. I know. I know what for paraphala?

It was a poor excuse for somebody. trying to say plethora. He said we got a paraphera of those things. I can't pronounce either one of them, but what is it? Plethora. Plethora. Would you say you have a plethora of pinaadas? A variety.

A variety. A variety. A variety. A variety is that why? No. A plethora. A variety is kind of variety. Well, why don't you just say it?

It's an overabundance. Yeah, it's an abundance. A variety of eminemnon and air here, too. Mm-hmm. And goodies. There you go. We do appreciate them. A large or excessive amount of something.

Number two, an excess of bodily fluid, particularly blood. Oh, oh, Phil's got that. He does. His body makes too much blood. I can't help it. It just hit me. It does. Where does the blood go?

No, no, no. Look. No, no. I'm asking. No, no. I'm wasting. No, no, I'm right. You're going to his body.

Once a day, he's got a stick his finger. Nope. Nope. Get rid of some of it. What did you happen? Look, he actually goes to the doctor, okay? And they drain. I'm sad, hey, I'll see it.

That's not life share. No, no, look. And please donate blood. There's a shortage. Well, no, he can't use his blood. It's too thick. No. No, no, it's not.

It's too much. Lead. Got lead poison. Nope. He got bit by a tick when he was young. Okay. He cannot, he cannot, use his blood for transfissions?

I wasn't there. Hey, this is, hey, y'all act like I'm over here bleecing. No, this is a truth. Look, I will say this. I know Phil does have a blood disorder. He does. Where he makes, he makes too much blood.

It's what the doctor told him and Phil and all of Phil's wisdom, looked at him and said, how do you know it's too much? Well, I don't know, but hey. There's a way like, he's like, you know, how do you know it's too much? Well, anyway, Phil goes like once a month gets drained. Yeah. Really? Yeah.

I apologize for laughing, but the way he said it. When he was talking to the doctor and the doctor said something about it, Phil said, well, Doc, look, that's the difference between a diesel and a, yeah. Gas engine. And a gas engine. He said, I just got more blood because, yeah, I got a bigger engine. Yeah, Phil said, I just need more oil. Yeah, I need more oil, boys.

But I didn't know that about the tick. I did know Phil's blood. Oh, no, no. He can't use it. They can't use it for transfusion if you've been bit by tick. I wonder why Phil's using it Well no no Yeah but I'm talking about it

Spotted fever Is that what comes from a tick Spotted Fever? Rocky Mountains He grew up in Vivian I know but hey He got bit by tick They found it first in the Rocky Mountain wave

Hey John Dimmer made it a hit I thought the Rocky Mountain That John Dindler's full of crap That John Dindbra I thought the Rocky Mountains would be Rocky. You know what I say?

It's true. What did I say? I thought I said John Demer. You did. Okay. But you're thinking of Rocky Mountain High Colorado. Well, hey, love. Philip made a reference to Joe Walsh's Rocky Mountain Way.

Yes. Okay. But both of them. And I went with Dumb and Dumber. And I think Philip did. Oh, he made that one too. Phil went back to back on the Rocky Mountain references there. This is a weird day.

Oh, it always is. So have we found any bizarre news? I got one. They might edit it out because it's weird as crap. Whatever, it's a weird day. All right, ready? And this is from our local news. Local, boy.

Oh, I saw this one. This is West Monroe news. This is not West Monroe, but this is part of the greater Arclamis area. I just need you, though. You too, because I've already read this because John Davis sent it to me prior. Y'all need to really listen to the headline he's about to read. All right. All right, go.

man with no arms accused of harassing women by asking to touch their feet wait a minute we need to get up there it is this is like a one clubber here a one marker what it's not a punchline by the way oh there is i did catch that all the way read that again all right in conway arkansas shout out to the summit family who works with this man with no arms accused of harassing women by asking to touch their feet. A warrant has been issued in Arkansas for a man with no arms who is accused. Harassment's not cool, everybody. We apologize for laughing.

How hard could it be to find him? They're all very... That was a pawn on words. You can find him driving around, side. That was a pawn of words. He had no arms. He had to touch him with his feet. No.

So... Yes, he did. No, here we go. I got the rest of the article. Oh, go ahead. So it's super uncomfortable, and obviously the man's kind of cuckoo. But the writer. But the women.

I am with no arms trying to touch feet. There's people. He's hanging out in grocery stores in Conway. And apparently he's sitting there. And then when they walk in the says, he's like, hey, you want me to massage your feet? We ain't got to wrong. But with what? So look.

He doesn't explain that. It's like Lieutenant Dan. You have to do it with his feet, you dummies. But Lieutenant Dan, you ain't got no legs. I mean, that's where we're at. Like, I want to test out my sea legs, Gump. It's weird. I don't know.

Man, that's bizarre. But you don't have the right to harass people and ask them to massage their feet. Let's take a break, see if we can get this thing back on the trail. We'll be back right after this. Johnny D. What's in that hello at duckcallroom.com mailbag this week? Let's hear from our fans. Okay.

Um, first off, I've never got more. emails in my life. So lots of sort through. I was doing it in the airport the other night. We got pictures of more trail camera animals than you can imagine. Hey, and I get animals do what they do in the woods.

I don't need pictures of it. I got bears, raccoons, pigs, all of them. Doing the thing. I don't need doing the thing. We don't need pictures. We don't need that. We don't need that. We need pictures of mountain lines and black panthers and cats and deer.

I've never seen so many pictures. And more people are like asking Sye to tell them what it is. So when Stone's back, because Stone's the trail cameraman, we will. We'll go through a few of them. We will go through a few of them. And also, people are still sending in their sandwiches, which I really enjoy looking at. Got to wait on Johnny G. So we'll have Godwin ring your sandwiches.

I'm not giving up on that. But we got some advice needed. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. I like these. I like these, too. Nothing super important today, although this one to me is very important.

Nathan from Florida. First, he wants to thank Uncle Safe for his service to this great country. Appreciate it. Second, he has a story. And since we've been talking about mullets, he thought he'd shared this. He's been growing out a mullet for the past few months and really love the way it looked. Oh, well, let's have a look at it. He didn't send a picture.

Come on, Nathan. Well, the reason he didn't send a picture is his dad made him cut it off, which stinks. So apparently this is How old is this? That's a good question. I mean the ginger mullet really looks cool. I thought about growing it back

next summer. I don't really have a question. I'd just like to hear y'all's thoughts on the matter. Nathan from Florida, formerly with the ginger mullet. You've got to grow it back in there. Well, let me tell you my thoughts, Nathan.

And dad. Okay. Yeah. Nathan, A, do you still live at home? Does dad, does dad, Does dad still pay the bills? Yep. Well, then if so, if both those answers are yes, then dad is the boss.

You do what dad says. And you don't buck the system. Secret and mullet. That's it. If your hair means that much to you, maybe it's time to get out and get a job. But Nathan, I don't know how old you are. You may be 12. And at 12, just let me tell you something.

There's this little passage in Proverbs. It goes something along the lines of honor your father and your mother. You may want to pay attention to that one. If your dad says, don't do it, don't do it. It's just that simple. But Nathan, I would encourage you to make a full PowerPoint presentation on why mullets are awesome and present it to your dad. You can do that.

And try and talk him into. Because I want to see this. And see if he can grow one with you. And I got a question. If you're a ginger that gene runs in the family somewhere, so there may be a double ginger mullet. What is a ginger mullet? Red.

Red. Red. Red. Red. Red. Yeah. And I want a one page reaction paper to what happens. Yes.

I want you to do. Nathan, here's, you need to do a full PowerPoint slash book report on Mullets. What's that? Why they're awesome, present it to your dad, and hopefully he'll let you. That's right. That may change. Changes my mind. But I got a feeling that's still going to be a hard no from Pons.

Well, what does his dad do? I bet if he pays him bills, you just listen to what he said. Nathan, if you need help, I'm here. We got, we need to bring this mullet back. 1,800, mullets. I just really like mullets. All right, and then Brian sends in, email. Where is he from? New

New Melly, Missouri. Does that sound right? Sure. Show me, the show me stuff. So you need to punch John David more in the face. Now, just more when... What, who's just to say this here? Brian says you should punch me more when I like the camera. Just kidding. Anyways, he has a question about reels.

He usually uses spinning reel because he's intimidated. And after hearing his father's language, come on, dad. while trying to fix his cast. He's scared to use a baitcaster. How do I overcome my fear of backlash besides practice? That's the answer. And when do you know which? Then he put a bunch of words to start with W on purpose to mess me up.

When do you know when to use which? Real. Fishing. A little in-depth fishing advice. I will turn that over to Martin. Yeah, Martin. Well, bait casters are one of those things. Use it in your yard before you take it.

It's just like golf to get it on the driving range before you get out there and the deal with it. You're going to backlash, not a problem. It is what it is. The line companies are built off of it. So, you know. Are you calling a coup on the line companies? No, I'm not saying. That's why they're in business.

It happens. Yeah, it happens. The key to this is, okay, if you're going to use that and learn to fish with it, is setting it to do the way you fish. Lots of YouTube videos out there on how to set up the real, too. And repetition is the mother of mastery. If you got it too loose, you're going to backlash all the time. Yep.

You've got to have it set for you. So practice is the answer. There's got to be tell them made for you, in other words. And you'll know one to use bait casters versus spinning tackle. That's the reason I use spinning reels. And that's the reason I don't ever take mine out of the rod box, spinning reels. Give me a bait caster and let me winch them suckers in. Wins them in, boys.

That's the way I like to fish, though. Nathan, what did Nathan? Just keep going fishing. That's the biggest thing. Stay in the outdoors. Practice, Mike, perfect. All right, I got two more that we've got to burn through here. All right, Brad from Conroe, Texas.

Conroe. Brad, I'd appreciate it if you got off our back. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Yeah. No, Brad's upset. Brad's upset. He came here.

He came to visit us. He was in the store. Well, thank you, Brad. He did the tour here. He visited the, he called it the World Headquarters. I guess it is. But nobody was home. And he, no, that's not this problem.

He drove over from Bozer City. He was on an anniversary trip, I guess, to the casinos over there. Okay. And then we gave a suggestion. He said, he ate at Johnny's Pizza and which of us own stock there and which of us owes him his $25 back. Brad, you talk bad about Johnny's pizza. I will come through that camera.

This ain't Conroe, Texas. This is Monroe. I've learned, I've learned thing about Johnny's, though. It's one of them deals like if you. you ain't from here? You don't really appreciate it. You either like it or you don't. Now, probably what happened to Brad is he went in there and said, man, that looks good.

Doe popped it. And then odds are he didn't make it far out the door before. I mean, it's a heavy pizza. It's a heavy, it's rich, very fatty. And they use breakfast sausage instead of Italian sausage. Praise God. Which is for the win. That's how it's the life's supposed to be.

But, I mean, I get it. Brittany doesn't like Johnny. You got to have an old iron stomach. It'll test your gut. It'll test what your guts made on. Monster Michael could probably smash a Johnny's pizza. Let's find out. He eats a lot of salad.

Yeah, I don't know. He's in shit. I don't think that's on his bachelor diet. I'm just saying Johnny's pizza is wonderful. Brad, we're sorry you didn't like it. $25, though, what do he? He should have got it. He must eat at a buffet.

And if you're judging this off of the buffet, Brad, that's a lower grade than a take-on. Yeah, it's a buffet. they got to still make their money. And look, to be fair. We've heard the buffet. And I haven't been to the buffet since post-COVID. And we've got our money's worth on the buffet in life. Oh, they see us walk in.

They're like, crap. We should have charge more. Like, I mean, they thought I have a scale when you walk through the door. And they charge you per pound instead of. So, Brad, next time you're back, come to Duck Commander headquarters. I will order you a pizza myself from Johnny's. And then you're going to go, I wonder what kind of pizza

He got. Yeah, he probably put pineapple on it like a weirdo. Oh, boy. Just kidding, Brad. We appreciate you listening and coming by. Don't talk bad about Johnny's. And then my last email is from a man named Tyler. And this one super interested me

because do you remember a couple weeks ago you were talking about a guy you met named Stephen who was in prison? And you've told me a few times. You've been thinking about him. Yep. Praying about him. And so I'm going to read most of Tyler's email here because this was really cool to me.

he heard you talking about a gentleman named Steve in prison and it was deja vu because he this Tyler guy was sitting four years sentence he did a four year sentence because of drugs and it completely ruined his life he blamed everyone else but me and the sad part is Tyler got out and did the same old stuff because I didn't change and thought everybody else is the problem then he did more jail time and he hit rock bottom and he lost everything he had and then he went to a recovery house and his cousin and invited him to church.

And that was the last time he put drugs or alcohol into his body. And it completely changed his life. Excellent. He was baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit. It was just so crazy because he sent an email on his lunch break before that I didn't read. And then he started the podcast and heard you talking about your friend Stephen. So I just thought that was cool that this guy's been through the same thing. And you would ask people to pray that he ends up like our friend Tyler that listens.

So I thought that was super cool. But what was great about your story you just read, at least he hit rock bottom and turned to the Lord. Yeah. And hey, the Lord's the only one that can help you out of that. Ain't no doubt. Okay. That's right.

Ain't no doubt. Jesus, people need to understand. Jesus is the miracle. Yep. Okay. You could see a miracle all your life for every day of your life. That wouldn't save you. That's true.

You've got to have Jesus Christ. to save you, okay? Because you get the gift of the Holy Spirit when you believe in him and obey what's commanded. Great story, dude, and I'm glad you're clean. Thank you, Tyler, for that email for sure. Tyler, I hate it, took you two strikes, but I'm so glad we didn't get to the third one. That's it. That's what I'm saying.

So, Tyler, thank you for listening, man. That's awesome. That is awesome. And thank you for opening up. Your story is awesome. Because that's probably not easy to tell people, so we appreciate you doing that. And I get on the live chat sometime during our deal. And there's always people in there asking for help.

So Tyler, maybe your story right there will help someone else. So thank you. Thank you for being a vessel. We appreciate you right then. Yeah, I appreciate that for sure. Cool, cool. Well, y'all want to wrap this thing up? Let's wrap it up.

All right. I got a Bible verse of the day comes from my dad. He sent me an email at 535 this morning, which was long before I was awake. but I read it when I got to work. At 10 o'clock. It's good he's thinking about you. Isaiah 43-2, when you pass through the waters, I will be with you. And when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you.

And when you walk through the fire, you will not be burned. The flames will not set you ablaze. That's Isaiah 43-2. And then my dad said, find your comfort in knowing whatever the day brings. You never have to walk through it alone. God is there to protect you. That's a good one for a Monday, so. It's a good one.

It's a good one. All right. Well, let's go arm wrestle. Hey. Here we go. Let's go see what old Michael's got. And the words of Phil Robertson, who's a man? Not me.

I'm going to give up.