Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Doesn't Look Like THE 'Uncle Si' Anymore

Episode Date: July 2, 2024

Uncle Si’s new look says he’s in his “Godwin Era” and Stone relives an embarrassing Godwin moment on a fishing boat that was caught on camera. John-David helps Si plan his space tourist trip with Dolly Parton and Martin starts up a thought-provoking game of “Would You Rather?” Si feels nostalgic for Vietnamese cuisine and Martin reveals exactly how much it would take to get him into a spacecraft. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So given the opportunity, would you go to space? No. Probably not because I'm not that adventurous. Okay, 20 years. Deep down, I'd like to. 20 years ago. No, I mean, deep down I would like to, but I'm just not that adventurous. I'm more of, I like, you know, I like, I like to stay in my comfort zone.

I'm way too ticking the strap two rockets under my rear. What is your comfort zone? I just, you know, I would love to do it, but. then I ain't got the nerve. Yeah, I'm with Johnny DeW. What is the edge of your comfort zone? I know what the middle of it is. I see it every day.

Well, sometimes I'm surprised myself because like when I did the jump in the stupid monster truck. Yeah. That was dangerous. Yeah, that was dangerous. Well, I mean, that wasn't, you know. It wasn't. It wasn't.

Yeah. Maybe I wasn't thinking properly at the time. Well, that's generally how good stories are might. You shouldn't even drive regular. What? I just never got in the car that had that kind of power. Yeah. So imagine how much power our rockets got. Oh, no.

See, that's the night. You can do that now, though, and you got the money. Like, you could go to space. Oh, I ain't Willie. Willie's got the money. No, you got that money to go to space. They launch you up. You're an astronaut for like 20 minutes, and then you fall back down.

If we could, if we could film it. It's like 250 grand or something. I bet Willie would sponsor you to go to space. Well, I would not that. I wouldn't doubt that at all. I think you have to pass a physical. I would have to make the agreement between me and Willie. We both go.

Uncle Si goes to space. Me and Willie go to space. Oh, you and Willie. Yeah, me and Willie is going to go. Yeah, because, like, Amazon's got so much money. Now they're just giving people tours of 20 minutes of space. Because, look, I know I would have a good time, but if Willie went along, that's your and sure, and I'm going to have a wonderful time.

So they can take you to space for 20 minutes, but can no longer get you an order in two days. Yeah. What's up with that? Well, no, no. Hey, you think about it. When there's trouble at the home and the marriage, everything kind of gets falling, you start focusing on the wrong things, Martin. And Depp Bezos just got.

Y'all just reminded me another one that I saw, okay, for PBS. Okay. Okay. They're in one of these bells that goes to the bottom of the ocean. Yeah. Okay. I didn't work out. You can't see real good, okay, because there is no light.

unless it's man-made and they take it with him. So look, they come up and the guys that have to keep, he said, get closer, I've seen something move over there. Well, for the first five minutes, you can't see nothing. Well, finally, when they literally are against a whale corcus, the bones. I mean, the bell is the windows that are sitting against you. Okay, and you see what looks like a giant, big worm come out of one of them bones.

There's a big worm. Oh, yeah. That was on the bottom of the ocean at a mile deep. So, you know, there's life down there even, you know, and like life down there don't have eyes because they have no reason for it. They ain't no light. Okay, so we know you won't go to space. How deep in the ocean would you go?

No. No, no. No, that's claustophobia there. I'm going to space before I'm going to the ocean. I would freak out, yeah, no. Okay, now, yeah, Johnny, these got me. So if you pick one, are you going to space? Are you going?

Oh, if I had a choice, you know, I'd go to space then. Okay. So you were never going to join the Navy and be in the submarine? Well, I was thinking about it when I ended up in the military. Mm-hmm. You know, because Daddy was in the Navy. Yeah. What kept you from it, the thought of being on my-M-shed?

No, no. What kept me from going, I said, wait a minute. How long did you say, you stayed in on the boat dad these eight months no nothing but water for you know now i love it i like to swim but no no sir not eight months worse now so i'm all i'm gonna keep my feet on dry if you would have been in the navy you think either you or somebody you know would have ended up overboard because you just crazy enough i think you'd have tried something goofy i may Yeah, I may have left.

I may have left the ship. Yeah. I figured you just dumb enough, brave enough to say, let me try that. Hey, I've fed up with this crap. So, yeah, I'm going. Hey, I'm going to take my chances in the water. Side be out there in the ocean looking like a zara spook. Let's go inside to sides.

No, no. That's one thing about when people go swimming in the ocean. They really need to look at some of the film on stuff that's in the ocean. Because look, a guy that's in a sweatsuit and a wetsuit and's got flippers on, guess what he looks just like if you get below him? He looks just like a seal that great whites eat. Unless it's me, I look like a waller. Well, then you would look like, that's right.

You look like a wallers, okay? They eat them too. Yeah. They eat anything. Yeah. Yeah, they're pretty much a dump. So, hey, when you're just one in the old. than them.

You resemble a lot of the food chain that the things that are in the ocean eat. Yeah. Now you understand why I have such a hard stance about not getting in that ocean. Yeah. I don't get below waste deep in saltwater. I don't even go that deep. I'll swim in it. I'll go waist deep so I can go take a leak out there.

But other than that, I ain't, uh-uh. Yeah. I stay about me deep. Yeah. Well, the good news. Well, the good news, there's me deep, I can look and I can see everything. around me what's coming okay you get wasted if you can't yeah now they got flesh eating bacteria oh no jellyfish no see that's the thing you got all kinds of things that mess you up

the beach is Carter calls the beach vacation one star because seaweed you get a rash one star he ain't going no beach sand well hey sigh just so you know because the conversations I have about TV or with you or eight and ten year old so it's either PBS or dude perfect Blue Origin are the people that will take you to space. I already filled out all your information. We're going to be contacted via email with the price list to see what it's going to cost us to send you to space. Oh, they've got like an al-a-carp menu.

I don't know how it works, but I filled out all. You were born in 1948, right? That's right? You meet the age requirement, so you're good there. Had to be 18. Okay. No, no, because look, it would be a trip worth going if you're the adventures type.

I'm just, I'm not real. But he could opt into like the lobster. Maybe they serve lobster. No, no, no. They put you on top of this little thing and they shoot you off the space and then you parachute down. Yeah, sure you do. Those people did? How happy these people are.

Look at them. They made it. Yeah. Okay. Look, and there's one guy. He got to be your age or older. Yeah, no, I see. My man with a handlebars right there.

Yeah. I tell you, I'm not the adventure. And blue is your color. Yeah, you look good in a blue job. You would technically be qualified as an astronaut if you did it. Who cares? I didn't know if you cared. Well, that'd just be one thing you had over all your brothers and nephews and everything else.

I got a whole. I got enough over all my money. And you could get up there and look back down and tell us if this place is round or flat. We finally have an answer. Oh, I'll tell you there right now. What? It's round. This round.

Yeah, that's round. Look at this. They shoot like six people up into space and put them in a box. and then parachute them back down from. Parachute them down. No, son. No, that ain't. I ain't doing that.

No, that ain't it right there. And people pay to do it. No. How do they know where you coming down? My ain't the wind blowing up there? I think they go out to like the Mojave Desert and just shoot you off. That way you got a pretty big landing pad.

You have to be, in my humble opinion. Crazy? No, no. Stoom. You have to be a loner. Oh, you have to be a loner. better and I'll be you in there with six other folks. It might be a longer to go to space, okay?

You like to be alone. You think so? Yeah. Maybe I should tell my dad about it. No, no, I'm serious. Think about it. You get in a rocket. They get in it, baby, okay?

You're on top of it. Yeah, you're on top of the rocket. Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, but hey, you're in a, you're in a, you're kind of like the Nerf dart of a Nerf God. Yeah, yeah. You know? They literally, look at this thing. They just put them in a T building and send them up to...

That looks like the escape pod on space balls. That's exactly what it is. It looks like the original duck call room. I mean, that's where we worked for years. Yeah. So just... With a TV in a window unit? Oh, yeah.

There's no aisle seats. They're all window seats. Well, that's good. Just sitting in a... No, I'm not into... Hey, I'm going to go where no one has been before. I'd book that thing the day I went. It'd be cloudy or so.

I wouldn't do it. Well, I think they probably, as much as you're paying, right? They would reschedule. If you ever see your boy in that thing, I sure he is blindfolded, handcuffed, and they're against his will. I ain't doing that. How much would, so people pay to do this. Yeah.

How much would it, would you do it if they paid you? Yeah, I would. I mean, but Brittany's next husband would have to get rich. And the man taking care of my two sons is going to have to be loaded. that's how much that's how much money it would take i love i love it boy because i would oh i was wrong i thought it was like 250 grand what is it no it's like a million dollars a meal oh yeah no you got yeah you gotta get up off some cash serious cash yeah yeah i can tell you right now i don't think a million would do it for me no i i can man right that's one a million cash sitting in front of you hard

say no to though. You get taxed on it? Yeah, but hey, that's one time they could bring five million out there and I'll say. Uh-uh. All right, look, springtime is here.

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What if Doddy Parton was going? Uh-oh. I remember what I said about being alone? How many people's on that thing? Six at a time? I guess. Roughly? I think so.

So, Cy, if you're going to space, now, I mean, I'm going down this full of bore here. Okay, so now we're paying $10 million. We're renting out the whole rock. I want to know who's going with you. Who are you taking with you? Like, dream list, anybody in the world. Well, if I went. Anybody that's living today.

Who's going with you? So if I win... And don't say me because I'm going to have to politely decline. How many days in a week? Seven. Seven? Yeah. I take seven beautiful women, men and seven beautiful women to get on a rocket ship.

Well, you ain't up there but for 20 minutes. Who cares? It ain't going to take long. It ain't going to take long. Who are you taking with you to space? You get six people. I'm taking seven beautiful women with me. That's right.

I ain't going to be lonely. So you wouldn't even throw McMillard? Millen be stuck. This ain't for friends. He's out. This ain't for friends. Philip looked like a left filter out there trying to catch a thing as it's coming down. McMillan have to drive all the way through the desert just to watch the

take off. Just gone. Sack will end up on another article in England. Before it's too long. Yeah. Gosh, money. He's taking seven beautiful women for a 20-minute trip to outer space. For a million.

I'm taking my whole family I guess that way if it does blow up they don't miss me and trust me I would have all seven women in 20 minutes oh Lord yeah yeah you'd have them all right you'd have them all laughing yeah

they're about the only thing because your stomach would be in the back of your your stomach be up there in the back of your throat they would be thoroughly entertained yeah yeah He's taking off his headset His ears are on fire

And he cannot stop laughing So Johnny D, you're taking your whole crew Yeah Yeah If I'm going down I'm taking everybody going together You know Y'all all go

If we're going to shoot a rocket to heaven might as well You're taking Janice and Big Dave too or not No somebody got runs shop Somebody got a hole down the fort In case we do get back What was that family there Joe Vos of the cliff Old Doyle

What was that movie? I don't know. Billy Madison. Billy Madison. O'Dill, I got a feeling something bad's going to happen to your whole family. O'Doyle rules. They hit a banana pill. That's right.

It's a bad deal. Just as Mario. This is, yeah, for all the weird podcasts in the leisure section, we got to be the weirdest. Oh, my gosh, this is. Especially right now. Dickless. I just can't believe. I have nothing.

answer. I don't have anything that I can remotely add to this I'm trying conversation. Well look then who are you taking with you stone would you ever do it? No no no what about the ocean no ocean cruising well now that I would be more you're more interested in going in the ocean yeah I'm a water man yeah yeah I don't mind it I just like being on top of it I ain't a big fan of being under yeah I don't know but but I don't I don't A, I'm not going, so B. Who cloths the phobic to go under? No.

Did you not see the tiny room on the spaceship? Did you not see the TP that they're firing you up in the space? Yeah, but he got seven women. I got seven women. I ain't worried about where I'm at. Close quarters are better. Hey. Hunter, what's you choosing?

Space or ocean? No. Space all the way. Okay. I was just curious. Star Wars isn't real, Hunter. It's kind of like when people ask you. I just want to experience seven or zero gravity.

Hunter, what do you like better? Star Wars? Did you hear where he started, though? He said, I just want to experience seven, I mean zero gravity. Did y'all hear the misstep on our man? That ain't slide by me, son. Uh-uh. Uh-uh.

That ain't get past me, big dog. Hunter's been over there being like, man, size of genius all these years. I got a brother, didn't even know it, boy. Oh. But it is like playing that game that would you rather game. So it's like, you know, would you rather have a third nipple or an extra toe? Any thought? Yeah.

Really? Yeah, which one? That's a weird question. I guess an extra toe could be useful, but for a man, a third nipple would serve no purpose. No purpose. I have a friend with a third nipple. That is you. Do you really?

I do. His name's Landon. Well, way to just outlanding right here right now. Did he grow up in Texarkana? No, he grew up next to Phil's house, actually. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah, same thing. nothing nuclear there but still is volatile um i and i have to ask do you have a picture

i can i can probably get one in 15 minutes have you have you seen it yeah i've seen it is it like middle or is it like adjacent to another i'm like adjacent to another oh okay i was wondering where it existed and thing oh okay i was wondering where it existed and thing now i'm like yeah i mean i kind of want to see it i have a weird friend group well yeah you don't say all seven of y'all that you were trying to get one of the guys hunter who you take it on the spaceship how many I got six crap

shoot it's a lot oh man I mean there are that that is he should definitely pierce all three of them that was a thing back in the day I've got too many friends that I found out like in the 90s they're like oh yeah

I got my nipples pierced and I'm like really I can't say names Wow Yeah They all work at churches now too So apparently Redemption is a weird thing No past only a future

Yeah For some reason I got a mental picture Of Bobby Bouchet's Football Coach You know the one That Oh yo y'all yo

Oh Oh Oh Oh Hey right I'm good I just said at Joe Dirt Oh yeah

I want to know Si, third nipple or extra toe? Where are you going? I take third nipple. Third nipple. I don't want to extra toe. That seems weird. Third nipple.

Toes useless. Do people still play this? What are you going to do with a nipple? I'm talking about your own, mind you. You little freak. Stop it. This is derailed. He said, I know.

Other toe is useless. Oh, my God. Oh. Martin, do you have a list or something? I did. Yeah, I did. You want to know some more of them? I once ended that.

game in high school when I asked if they would rather pee a marble or crap a softball. There's no right answer there. I mean, I'm telling you, I'm probably going to choose a softball. Yeah, I think so. But still. That's a dilemma. I mean, I'm just answering quick off the hip there, and I think I'm going softball. I don't know why, but I just, something about peeing a marble seems.

I think you could recover from the softball quicker. Yeah, I don't know that you ever recover from peeing a marble. No. But, yeah, would you, Si, would you rather be 11 feet tall or 9 inches tall? That's the easiest question. Well, what's the answer to talk? 11 feet.

Really? Why would you want to be 11 feet? If the choices get crushed on accident by something or be humongous, the answer is humongous. He's a huge mongous guy. Right? Giant. There's a lot of stories about giants.

There's not any about the little tiny person. David. He was not nine inches. I mean, comparatively speaking. If we do the, if we do the ratio. I'm out. That's a ridiculous question. Is everyone on earth

after they think about it for 20 seconds is answered? What if? Isn't that the point of this? Isn't that the point of these ridiculous questions? You rather spend a year at war or you're in prison? A war. I've done that. I figured that'd be a pretty easy one.

That's a easy one. Yeah, I figured it'd be easy for you. I'm not cut out for either. Yeah. I don't like that either way. No. My choice was I denied that I ain't doing either one. I ain't doing them.

Lose your sight or lose your memories? Ooh. Now we got deep. Now it's going to get weird. That's easy. Lose your memory. Lose your memory. Lose your memory.

Start over. I'd lose mine about 9 o'clock every night. I can make more memories. No. I can't make more sight. I want my sight. Okay. And he's been losing his mind ever since we've known.

I haven't had a mind to lose. And he was going blind. That's what I've been told. Yeah, how is that, by the way? He was going blind and got his sight back. Is your vision still eagle eyes? Oh, no. That was, I said you, when I told y'all that I felt like I had been to the twilight zone and back.

That's true. That was the weirdest thing I've ever went through. The eye surgery? It's the eye surgery. There you go. Because he had told me, and I called him a liar to his face and had to apologize to it. Because he said, there ain't going to be no parent, Mr. Robson. I said, you're sitting there with a straight face lying to me.

I said, you're talking to someone that has got no tolerance of pain. None. True. And I said, and you're telling me there's nothing going to be. And you're talking about you're going to bust my eye lens. And look, we're talking, just like we're all right now. I'm laying back. And he said, okay, I'll fix the busy you.

lens. You ready? And I said, yeah. And it was pow. And I mean, you literally heard it. Pop. Pow. And then all you see is black stuff rolling, rolling off of your eye going to the sides.

And then he said, well, now I'm going to put the new lens in. And when he did, the only thing I described it as is your wife cooks me the little cakes. I'm looking at three pans I heard with Johnny Teacom I'm very hungry I'm looking at three pans and right now they're out of focus they're blurry and they're not lined up and he moved it one little

touch and he said that should be centered and I said the cake is in the pan that's exactly what I told you the cake's in the pan The eagle has landed. You know, I went home that night, turning the stupid television on, okay, and at the bottom,

okay, if there's a weather alert, it's in real fine print. Yeah. Well, I couldn't even see it with my glasses. I couldn't read it with my glasses. I just mean you need a bigger TV. No, no. And, hey, as soon as it come on,

I said, oh, wait, that's what that stupid thing is on the bottom of the TV. You didn't know what it was? No. You just thought there was just white lines? What they was doing putting it on there. And I said, that's a stupid weather alert. It's in Wauschall Parish right now at five miles of dollars.

I've been dodging Nader's all this year, all this time. I never had any... I literally was going blind and they didn't know it. Okay, but that means you watched more sports events without having a clue what the score was or the time was for you. Oh, half the time, yeah, yeah. But, Sa always got confused anyway, and he'd come in telling us about a game that happened three weeks ago. Well, that's like no. ESB and classic was a buzz kill for side back in the day.

Now it makes sense. I would show up to go duck hunting. Okay? And somebody was saying, which way is the wind blowing today? And I would say, it's coming out of the east. Uh-huh. And everybody's saying, where did you get that? I said, I got it off the stupid television right before I left.

And they said, no, it didn't it? It announced it. And it said north west. And I said, mine said east. Mm-hmm. he never knew. You know what's funny? He don't look like Uncle Syne anymore.

No glasses. No beard. Goatee. Hair cut. He's in his Godwin era. Yeah. You know? Well, I got tired of looking at what I was looking at.

I said, so hey, let me try a little different look. It happens to the best of us. Is a beard going to come back? Maybe, maybe not. Okay. He's keeping it. I may get sick of this. The crazy thing is, he wore.

those glasses for 50 years. He got sick of them. He quit them glasses, and he quit 65. The best era of the glasses was the one lens glass. That's why I was saying it was such a unique experience. You know, the first one they did, I come walking out. And my maid, Liz, it took me to drop me off in a blue car. Well, the blue car pulled up.

I was fixing to get in the wrong car. I'd already open the door and a guy, he's sitting there with black glasses on just like I got on. He said, you had it done too, right? And I said, yeah, I said, sorry about trying to get in your car. He said, ain't a big deal. I tried this the other day. I did.

Yeah, that one lens did. You know, my favorite eye glass era was the post-surgery battle vision. Battle vision. He was wearing them yellow night driving. protective eye wear. They look good. 2495. That's what he was wearing in that news article.

He was. Yeah. Uh-huh. Oh, absolutely. How many people you think saw that? Thousands. Well, maybe he's boring that. Millions, brother.

Probably not many until we sent them there, I would think. Yeah, I bet a lot more found out about it after when they listened to this podcast. Oh, that's good stuff. All right, last one, though. I got one more. Personal maid or personal chef? Which one are you going with? I'm the dirtiest person ever.

Don't need that. Why do I care if it's clean, food? Yeah. I'd like to have my own chef. Yeah, food wins every time. No, I'd like to have my own chef. Well, I'd like to cook, so I'll go with the maid. Oh, because you're going to cook it yourself?

I got two kids. They'll give me the maid, too. Yeah. Nah, we'll just live in a dump. but we will eat good. That's not. I'm like JD. I'm like JD on that.

Hey, we may live in a dump, but hey, we are having filet mignon tonight, baby. And I would make a joke. Plus, Allison's going to clean anyway. Oh,

but I shouldn't do that, but she doesn't listen, so. Now, that girl's a clean freak. It don't matter. Well, no, no. I ain't it was that way. Yeah.

And she finally asked Mama one time because nobody would go visit her. And the reason they didn't, you know, if you smoke, you'll flip an ass in a cigarette, you know, in the as soon as you flipped it, she'll take it and go wash it and bring it back and set it down. And you just lift a cigarette.

That's bad when you're smoking in the house. Yeah, I'm kind of going to agree with your aunt on this one. I'm kind of going to say, why didn't he go to the port? She was a cleanly freak. Why not I just, I don't have them on the porch? I never understood that. Mark can tell you about hiding cigarette. I got in his truck and lit one of them.

Oh. And hey, did it? Not even thinking. No thought involved. Didn't think about it and didn't crack a window. Yeah. As it was cold. I felt like a bum when he said, hey, though, you don't know.

I said, hey, I didn't. Why don't you roll that window down? It'd be all right. I said, hey, I apologize. Oh, I didn't care. I mean, I was still. Yeah, well, I did. Yeah, but that's when the bar still let people smoke in there.

And I was 18. I'd go to bar anyway. It didn't matter. I mean, I didn't really care for my truck to smell like that. But same time. It don't matter. You ate so much waffle house on the right side of it. It was smoking.

Yeah, I mean, it's fine. Look. It hurt me because I didn't have enough sense to even think about it. Well, it didn't bother me because I was hunting with you and I knew we was about to go laugh and have a fun time. Oh, that big time. Back in. We did that. That was before.

We had the best three days over there on that hole that we've ever had. Oh, that's one I had that rice field up in Gallagian, Louisiana. And it was so funny. I told the story going up there about Phil's got this stuff. theory. If you see five feathers, that means, hey, there's 50 duts. So I'm telling the story to Martin, and when we hit the, we get on the four-wheel, unload it, get on it, hit the rice field. And when we hit it, there must have been our 150 feathers.

And I said, Martin, I said, when we left this field, that wasn't here. Yeah, waste me bad. He said, oh, I know it. And he said, about that eyeball we heard, would. Gag, can't, can be a big, whiz- Oh, yeah, we're smart. In tails, ballads, and look, hey, all morning long,

I mean, we're... That's the first time I've ever shot ducks and walked five feet on the other side of the blind and picked the battle of Drake up off the levee. That's fine. That's a fun few days. Because they come in there backpedaling and just, Martin, kill that, boom, you know, kill up in there, boom.

You know, full limits. And we've done it three days in a row. Three days in a row. That same blind. doing the same hole. Oh, no. We hammered them three days. But if you got enough sense to get out of there at decent hour, you can do that.

Well, we get full limits and then left. We didn't hang around. Don't happen down at the mouth of silence. Hey, we're going to shut them to the house. Rived the hole. But it was legitimately overnight. That's what was so weird about it. They weren't there when we left the day before.

And we come back. I was like, what happened? But. He had had it for like five years and he said, hey, this is. The best three days I've ever had on this home. That's a good hole. It wasn't that. Yeah.

Because they moved in, and they moved in, and force. Yeah. Oh, smash. Well, see, I got some good news. Uh-oh. That's great to hear it. I like that news. I can go back watching PBS because they've got some new series coming on.

Whoa. Yeah. I watched it last night. Did you? Yeah. Well, what did you discover? I learned that they're planting trees in Africa on the desert. what yeah it seems counterproductive no no hey they planted 50,000 so hey oh yeah it's pretty good deal it looks real good

a lot of greenery okay because hey they clear-cut stuff and then the desert dries up you know soil blows away and ain't up but sand left okay yeah so hey a park rangers is one that started so like habitat restoration yep they're going back and fixing what we tore up I said we as humans in a while the humor. Yeah. We didn't. But, hey, they've got a good start on it. 50,000 acres, ain't nothing to sneeze at.

Wait, 50,000 acre or 50,000 trees? Oh, 50,000 acres. Acres. Well, that's a big swath. Yeah, that's, they've done pretty good. And, you know, what I like about it is kind of like a family project. All the women and kids are out there, you know, planting trees and water and stuff.

So it'll work. So what did they cut them down for, do they say? Well, just, they, it's a cattle industry. They cut all the veils. vegetation down to feed the cows. Ah. Yeah. So, hey.

I mean, ribbons. Can't win for losing. Ribbys are good. Let's not get ourselves. Way better in the Saturday. But then we went into shrimp production. Oh. Okay.

Okay. So we've dumped from trees, cows. Now we're to shrimp. Now we're doing shrimp and also the, God, I can't even think of the name of them now, but they're like, clown like. Ah, why can't I? Muscles. Oysters.

No, it ain't oysters. They're just, uh, jack, can't even think of that. Clam. They're round, little round thing.

It's not muscle. A snail? It's just the type of muscle. Oh, okay. But I didn't know that they was such a detailed junk that they go through to do all that.

What? Although they pull them up, they pull them up when they're in a, in a sack, okay, and that's when they're real little, just it looks like a, I can't think of the stuff they make

him sacks out of. Yeah. But anyway, these muscles get on there and have their babies, I guess, because they're a little, little small thing. Well, they take them, put them in a kind of a basket, okay? And when they get big enough, they drill a hole through the shell. Then they put them on a rope. And then they just put the rope in the ocean with a float on top.

And then it will get big enough for they can sell them. Shre? Oh, no. Some kind of clasp. That sounds eerily familiar to those old Omega XL commercial that used to read. Well, no, no, it's in the same type of deal, but they're about this big around when they get, you know, where they're marketable. Uh-huh. You know, and it's like a big clam, it opens up and it's got a big, all it is is a big muscle.

Yeah, big hunk of meat. Yeah, big hunker meat. Yeah. And you eat it. And you eat it. That's just proof that if you give us long enough, we'll figure out how to farm it. Well, no, no, because they farm it everything in the ocean. The name of it, the title of it, was Hopein the Water.

hope in the water. They're doing all this stuff with the shrimp and the muscles. I watched a documentary on shrimp in one time called Forrest Gump. It was awesome. That was a good one. I learned everything I know about that. Well, I did find out that Vietnam, where I spent a year. Oh, yeah.

It was part of that documentary. That is the biggest shrimp industry in the world. That's why Bubba was so excited when he got there. So the Mekong Delta? Mm-hmm. The Mekong River Delta. Before, I'd never heard nothing good about Ho Chi Ben City. Well, hey, they're big in the shrimp market.

They got a bunch of shrimp. There you go. You know, they also have the world's biggest catfish in that river. Well, hey, I've seen proof of that. I'd watch a guy throwing a net every morning. Just a circular net, and probably, you about when it rode it

you got round it was probably 15 foot of circle he was standing on the bank you're like a cowboy

throw it spread out go to the bottom he'd come in and I and then he'd come walking by with just a

load of high fan channel catfish that he'd caught with him that taken it to the market

did you ever get any off of him no no I wanted to go fish in there you didn't have no you didn't have no you didn't have no fish

fries over it I'd like the one down there and fish myself. Johnny Deh, I think there's a catfish called the Mekong giant catfish. I think it's the world's biggest catfish. I think Amazon's got a beat on catfish. I typed in Vietnamese catfish and just a bunch of tasty looking dishes with noodles came up.

Type in Mekong. Yep, that's a thing. Hold on. You probably need to type in largest catfish in the world. I think you're going to go find out Amazon River? I don't know. Because they showed a big yellow one, and three guys would hold it. One of them had his head, one of them had him in the middle, and the other had his tail.

Well, I know they got that. He was probably... The biggest one ever... To me and you, you know, he was at least this long. National Geographic keeps asking me for a bunch of information just to read their information. But it said Mekong is the biggest. It was caught in Thailand, so... Okay.

There you go. But this campus that the Vietnamese are cooking looks delicious. Yeah. That's where I'm getting. Kikoto, Vietnamese caramelized catfish, you want to talk about. Well, put it up there. What's it look? It does look good.

I mean, that looks good. And you slide it up? Yeah. Oh, that does look good. Well, that does look good. I mean, I don't say nothing wrong with that. I think we have a Vietnamese restaurant now, by the way. Do we?

I just found this out. Where? Over by the Chinese restaurant, Eastern. Really? Yeah, like, they both went into the old Blockbuster, basically. but I think it's Vietnamese I think we gotta go there Oh I saw it

Well Mama-son made the meanish soup You never want to have Who? Mama-son Who's that? Mama-son Who's the lady that made soup After our motel Because hey

It was something about, hey You know As much as it gets When it gets it like in 60-50 degrees You get a head cold They can't get rid of Unless you go down Get mom hey

Give me some of your hot soup you have to be a man to eat it because hey it was you sit there with a towel just talking about yeah it'd make you sweat what it'd have in it i don't know but hey chicken noodles it's not hey it will knock a head cold out i know you're a big fan of that campbell's chicken noodles i just wondering i mean was that all she had heard was noodles and and uh some green stuff may have been parsley you know floating in it how many by the peppers look you did not they cut when they cut them up there's little old round peppers

like pepper cut them up they cut them in about four pieces quarter of so speak you didn't let that touch your lip why not because if it touched your lip you got a blister what did you do with you sit it to the side

how you take it throw it out ah okay you hunt you hunt and get the pieces of pepper out I was wondering how you're going to get it in your mouth without it touching your lips that's why I was trying to figure out well that was why you had missed one okay because it was small yeah

hey and then you'd say you'd get more than a big fever bluster there you'd talk oh yep missed one and this is it will knock it will knock any head cold you just it got rid of it I mean immediately when you had like two spoonfuls that's it you're healthy

I'm going that Vietnamese place tonight now it's called Bayou Bubble Vietnamese that's what I'm talking about and it's in an old blockbuster and look for the peppers because hey that may be what I just want to buy you bubbles. That might be why they bubble. Yeah, bubbles.

That means it makes your stomach bubble? I don't know. That's not. I might have to report back. What is Vietnamese food? Is that like faux? Is that where that faux stuff comes? Yeah.

I will give this. They got good flavor. Yeah. Well, I mean. Well, it ain't where you eat it and you ain't saying, well, they didn't put them on salt or no, you know, anything makes it taste good. Yeah.

Oh, no. It's got, you know, Vietnamese food has got good flavor. This place got 4.8 stars on 45 reviews. I'm just not hearing about it. And it looks pretty good. Hold on. I got a question. How many different women were named Mama Sign where you were?

All the elderly ladies. Okay. Okay. Y'all just referred to them collectively as a Mawcine. Yeah. Yeah. And they did. Well, she was always, they always had their head little push cart.

selling their goods out of that. And they didn't care because you're paying the money. You're paying the money. Yeah. They make it a living. But they did make, you know, the soup was good. What was the best, what was the best Vietnamese thing you ate that you can remember? Soup.

The suit? Yeah. Okay. Oh, that Thai suit, I guess it's about the same thing. Well, no, no, because, hey, they make excellent, you know, soup. So they got big into broths. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

They build a good broth. Yeah. A hot broth. Yeah. They would be like the Cajuns on the roof. On a gravy. On the roof. Yeah.

They had that down pat. Interesting. So y'all called the old women, mama, son. What did you call the young boys' boy sign? Boy son, yeah. I've heard you say that before. Yep. You called the young girl's sign?

No. They had another name. They ain't going there. Oh, wow. What a lot. Welcome to Vietnam, everybody. Times were different. And all of a sudden,

the song one night in Bangkok pops in my head. Even though I know that's Thailand. What's in that inbox? Well, Cam from South Carolina has a theory. Cam. All right, Cam. And it has to do with the broken toilet seat. Uh-oh.

He thinks he knows the cause of it because he worked retail for over 11 years, shout out. And a lot of toilet seats got broken at the store. Okay. But they were all in a certain restaurant. room. Which one? Men's or women's?

I would just say from use, women's. Women's. Yeah. I mean, they sit more than... So he asked them about it. Yeah. That's sitting's not the problem. Okay. Apparently, women will go to the bathroom,

stand on the seat, so as not to touch the public seat. Brittany is nodding her head, and that is freaking me out. Y'all perch? She's saying she doesn't. I witnessed this. She lived in the Dominican for my memory.

I witnessed this. Yeah, she ain't a percher. A toilet seat's a luxury. She did live in the Dominican. We still need to have you on because you're the most interesting person I've met recently. I did witness this in Afghanistan. I opened a door to the Porto Pooper. So some people stand.

Suspended. Over the hole. Can we just take a minute and say if you can pull that off without ending up on the floor? That's why the toilet seat broke though. Because they were standing on? Because they were standing. That makes sense. Well, then how did they not fall?

No, now we've got to narrow it down to how many women here are capable. Of perching. Of perching. None come to mind. No. Yeah. Oh, man, that would be tough. Hold on.

Yeah. Let me look at my guy. Yeah. I mean, that's not. And you couldn't have done that four months ago. No way. But I definitely couldn't wipe like this. I use that same technique in the woods, except there's a tree to hold on.

Yeah. You need, oh, don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is dangerous. Oh, yeah, that's dangerous. That's why the seat broke.

Because, hey, her weight or her or his weight shifted, that's what broke it. So I think Cam might be on to something. No, no, he's, that might be a reasonable. Spilled everything. You got a mess, big dog. I got water. I got energy drinks there everywhere.

I was just trying to keep him from getting your foot in it. He noticed that you said the office is now mostly women. There's more than there are men. Somebody stood on that toilet seat. I feel bad for their ankles. And broke it. And broke it. Wow.

What a lie. Because the weight shifted. I just feel like you'd have heard that. I mean, I'm not. It's hard to say. I don't believe it. I don't believe it. You think, okay.

All right. Carter emails in. Great name, Carter. Bravo to the people that can perch and do that on the toilet. I think I'm going to have to try it now. The reason I know. Here's the deal. I've seen God would do that on the edge of a boat. It gets loose.

It gets loose. loose. What gets loose? The seat. Oh. It gets loose. It's got nuts that tighten. Oh, yeah.

It gets loose. And, hey, I fell off of one of them. It went to the side and actually just went down. I fell against the stupid stall. Yeah, this one was broke on the hinges, though, so I don't know. I mean, like they were still, they were still. If you were standing on it, it had weight. It is, it is plastic.

Yeah. It's plastic. But that is interesting. Hunter's cleaning up my mess. Hunter, you're awesome. No, but you want to see something that's scar you for life. You turn around and see Godwin on the edge of a boat doing that. We finished that tournament in Kentucky, and he had to go, and it was just blowing jumble-eye squirts.

And he got on edge of that boat, and we had a camera boat next to us. And he said, turn that camera off. Turn that camera. And the dude, I forgot who it was. He was filming. He put that camera down, and Gama got crunk up over there, and I saw that camera do this. I've always wondered where that footage went. That's the footage I don't want to know or see.

No. All right, Carter from Southern Illinois. Him and his friends are having a debate. And I wish they would have told us what their ranking was. Best tasting fish. I would say we might be experts in this field. A yellowfin, I mean, tuna. Yolfin, or bluefin.

I've never had bluefin, but I've always wanted to. I would say tuna. Fresh. Fresh from the ocean. Yeah, the problem is, I don't know that, how many are we ranking? I don't know. Not a lot of freshwater ones you're going to make this. No.

That saltwater is way better eating. Well, the fish is supposed to be white. Yeah, tuna's great. Tuna's fantastic. Cobia is phenomenal. Yeah. What's that other thing? Oh, we did that, yeah, we did that deep drop in the towelfish and barrel fish.

Both of them are. Yeah, fantastic. What was that really? ribbon fish I caught. Ribbon fish. Oh, that's Papua. African Papua.

That's the best taste of fish I've ever ate my life. See, like that's what I'm saying. Like this, if he was thinking like Cropi, I mean, they don't even make the top. But let's, let's just go freshwater. Oh, fresh water. Chiquette.

Because we had, we had, we had chingipan. We had Red Snapper. We had Ratsnapper. We had Maui. We had Pompano. And we had about five different species that day.

Freshwater fish. Yeah, I mean, Chinkipin, he's fantastic. Cropi got to be number one. Cropy is... Right. Cropy is white, flaky. Yeah, excellent. But he's going to taste like whatever you cook him with.

A chicky pin has got his own taste. He's got a little sweet. That's true. Blue gill are fantastic. Old fried blue gill are a delicacy. Belly made off a little fiddlers, catfish. Little cats.

If they're sliced right and cooked, they're good. Yeah, I believe it. down there. Yeah, bass is way. He's fine. Spotted bass is better in large mouth, but.

Bass is leave something. And I don't know. I can't speak to small miles. And they say that walleye's good. I ain't ever had him. Wallis really good. Yeah.

What are they eating in Illinois now? Yeah, probably walleye and proppy and probably maybe even some perch. That was Daddy's favorite fish was a walleye. Yeah.

He said that was the best taste of one here. They're like those little yellow perch up there too. Yeah, I've never had them. That's the one of me and side was catching ice fishing. I can't speak

to them being good, bad, or indifferent. What did they, did they send a list? No, that's the problem with it. I was like, I'll give you our list, but I wish you would have given us yours, Carter. Yeah, panfish, mostly. Pan, hey, hand size is pan size. Hand size, shout out to hood fishing entertainment.

Hood fishing entertainment, you know what I'm saying? We ought to have him on here. That would be a trip. That would be a delight. I have a T-shirt. Well, you want to send us out of here? Yep, John 21. And we're just going to stick in that family.

John 21, 10, Jesus said to them, bring some of that fish you just caught. It's the whole verse. Jesus is into fish, so am I. Yeah, amen. So was Carter. That kid named Carter that emailed in. Yeah. So was my son, Carter.

Everybody's into fish. Go eat some fish. Amen. We'll see y'all next time right here in the duck car room. We're out.