Duck Call Room - Uncle Si Feels Like the 'Duck Dynasty Beaver Commander' Again After This

Episode Date: May 14, 2026

Uncle Si jumps the gun to make everybody watch a viral attack video he caught on the news, sending the boys down one of the wildest rabbit trails. Martin isn’t totally buying the “official” story surrounding the attack, and Jay Stone shares what it was like meeting a bona fide Cajun outdoor legend who still hand-builds duck calls the old-school way. John-David is dead-set on fact checking today, and Si digs his heels in and decides there are certain Louisiana delicacies that just aren’t for him. Duck Call Room episode #552 is sponsored by: https://drinkag1.com/duck — Get a FREE AG1 Flavor Sampler and Vitamin D3+K2 in your AG1 Welcome Kit with your first AG1 subscription order! http://ponchooutdoors.com/DUCK — Get $10 off your first order and free shipping! https://nutrafol.com — Get $10 off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you use promo code DUCK! https://preborn.com/duck — Visit the PreBorn! website or dial #250 and use keyword BABY to donate today. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Well, time out. What? Time out. Welcome back to the duck call room. We've got to welcome everybody. We can't lose our manners. Where did a beaver attack a kid? Yeah, I saw that.

Hey, I've seen it on television. Do what? He bit him on the leg. A beaver? Yeah. Bid a kid? Yeah. Then the guy, hey, he grabbed him and threw him back in the water.

Well, why would you throw him back? All right. And then, hey, he's come flue him back again and attack him again. Really? You got to find out of that, Johnny. I'm already on it. Oh, my goodness. Yeah.

A beaver? Ladies and gentlemen, if you have not, oh, dead gummit, there's an ad. I only caught like a second of it. I need you to throw this on a big screen, by the way. Rabid Beaver attacks family fishing at Lake Henry in New Jersey. Yep, there you go. See, Jersey?

Oh. Leave it to city people to get bit by a beaver. Leave it to beaver. Hey. Leave it to the be. How do I? Hey, watch you. Watch here.

Here we go. He got him by leg. Look, look, he pulled the ball for him. Hey, hey, look at him, look at him. Hey, look, he's after him, boys. I like the one in the crocs trying to do. Hey, hey, yeah. That's how Jackson throws a fish back.

Just like, what's the dog doing? Hey, dog, you're supposed to be hitting the beaver, son. What? Here he coming back. He's coming back from a little world. Ever say that? When beavers attacked. Sigh, you saw this on the news?

Yeah. I got to go back to the beginning. I thought it was hilarious. So that's the kid. I thought it was hilarious. Getting bit by the beaver. They body slam the beaver and then this kid's falling trying to get away. Soccer kid.

I love that the big kid, look at, look how much bigger the kid that got bit is and he's running. And then you got little man just saying, douche. Also, by the way, kids, I'm going to teach you a very valuable list. I could watch this over and over. This is when we need a boomerang. This is when we need to bring boomerang back. Oh, man. I like the kickerad of him, body slammed it into water.

He just said, no, get up out. And look at my big fellow over there. This kick is awful, though. I feel like calling that big fella a kid is a serious misrepresentation. Oh, yeah. What's she going to do that little stick? Yeah, I get you. Got the mighty.

What news channel do you watch to get this news? It was just, I was watching it. just come on. According to that, you need to watch Storyful, whatever that is. That's crazy. However, kids, I will say, you go messing with a beaver's house, you better be ready to get to smoke. I saw that big lodge right there.

Yeah. That's what he happened. He's messing with the lodge. Yeah. Now, I've never seen one attack, but you go kicking in something's house. I mean, when we go tear out a dam and stuff, you're ready for a fight. They just generally go the other way because we shoot them. That's why Phil Robertson, when he wants to do that.

he had he had some kind of weapon on him that's what i'm talking about okay either the m16 or 22 well beavers are relentless i know that sucker was going back for more oh yeah i would have thrown him against that tree that was one of the greatest things i've ever seen i have a question though who the heck was filming that and how did they not just die laughing does it make i would have dropped that's a good one right there you got it on does it make you question every video you see on social media about now? Like, I mean, I do. Is this a, uh, is this,

does somebody make this in a lab or? What's the odds of somebody with a phone at the ready? Wow. All that was going on. Yeah. I'm standing there catching a big boy. Oh, man. Nalled on by a beaver.

That beaver had a, oh my goodness. It had rabies, but now I found an interview of the kid that got bit and he's wearing a t-shirt that has a beaver on it and it's like jaws, but it's gnawed. What if your job was to be a news reporter and you got sent out to the lake where a kid got bit by a rabid beaver? He wasn't a rabid beaver. The beaver just bit him.

It had rabies. How does they say it has rabies? Look, hey, we're duck hunting, okay? Blue Wing-Till. And hey, blue-wing till comes in lights, okay, and they, the guy filming, here comes a big codmouth for, hey, the blue winged Till just attacked that cotmouth. I remember that, yeah.

Pecking him, just chasing him and pecking him and picking him. And I mean, that, that's codbouse was, hey, how big is that right there? I think that was about five foot, five foot long. Johnny Dee, speaking of Beaver Commander, I met the Beaver Commander. Last week, we hired a guy. We finally hired an expert. you know there's only one man that i don't know hates a beaver worse than phil robertson and that's dan the butler because he's the one with the rake and the pick

so he's doing that now oh yeah okay yeah that's either him or me though he's doing it well and the photo you sent me so i sent johnny d a pitcher so we we hired this expert and he has been i'm talking about annihilating the beaver population and Dan is as giddy as I've ever seen him. Oh, he'll make you happy. So he said me a picture. Hey, well, you're a fool of a baby. They'll make you happy to get to pop up.

Dan said to a picture. The only thing I can describe that picture as is Louisiana wind chimes. Ready for it, sir? Here it comes. Let's see what we're going to have. Old Dan's got to look about him, honey. Well, that one's a big. Do you see what's hanging from the tree?

Yeah. I see it. That one is a big. Right. Dan the Butler has gone full Lord of the Rings and putting his enemies heads on stakes outside the city. That's a pretty good size of a beer. Oh, yeah.

That one is a big one. Oh, yeah. So he, is that like a warning to all the other papers? That's what in his mind. No, I ain't, that's your trophy. Discouraging. Right. From being on the premise.

He doesn't messed around and got the whole famed family. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's mighty. And put them up to warn the rest. of the world. You come down here, this is what happened. Hey, all I think about this is,

to the trees, to the trees. Hey, they went wrong direction. You know, what aggravated me the most, you know, Phil planted a bunch of cypress trees down there about what,

17 years ago? Yeah. And boy, they were looking good too. And I went down there last month and the beavers had done cut at least a dozen of them. Oh, no.

Right around the lake. Yeah. And it was building a dam in the creek. Oh, yeah. That's when I started, you know, I got to find somebody to help out. Because we're not good trappers. So that's what made me the most agger. Because if you don't get the beavers, your trees are going to die.

Hey, they're a scourge. Oh, they're a scourge. Look, beavers has killed more timber than the timber industry. Right. Now, you've got to think about that. Beaver have killed more trees. than the stupid timber industry. Mm-hmm.

Now to play devil's advocate, is it because we destroyed their wetland? Well, it may be. Well, it's always been a war. I'm not a fan of the beaver, mind you. Did you see mine and my kids saga with Crunchy last year? Yeah, I remember trying to flood. That's the same problem they always have. You try to put water somewhere, they stop it.

You try to pull water from somewhere they stop it. Oh, they had. Why can't we just work together, guys? Like, all we got to do is work together. Well, yeah, that's crazy. You were talking about two beavers built that huge down. I asked the beaver commander. I asked him, I said, how many beavers you think is doing all this?

Because they didn't cut down 12 trees, two giant dams within a few days. And how many beavers? I was thinking 30 beavers. He said, I was about six to eight total. No. You got five. Hey, look, a guy lost 10 acres of hardwood on Red River or farmer. The farmer blew the dam with dynamite.

Well, hey, he had 10 acres of hardwood timber up on a hill. Well, hey, the beaver started just gnawing them trees down, building the dam back. And he just woke up there one day after he blew it, blew it through four times. Y'all and his foreman, he said, hey, boss, you lost all that timber. And he said, what do you mean, lost it? He said, hey, you're blowing their dam. Well, they're there cutting your trees down and rebuilding the dam with it. So the boss, you know, he goes by and look,

10 acres is hardwood timber gone. Then he started saying, hey, piss on the dynamite to kill these suckers, long, you know, high-pride rifles at night. It was, what's the, what's the night stuff? Thermal. Oh, that is all out warm. Hey, guess what? He finally gave it up.

He blew it, shot him at night. out of that knob, they come back. Hey, you're talking resilience, okay? A beaver? He ain't got no quilt. A beaver's just like the Navy SEALs. They work at night, okay?

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Is that why the Bucky's mascot is a beaver? Because you know you're going to stop. Is it like creating a dam? You say, I got to stop here. It does create a log jam for sure. A jam. I don't know about a damn. Yeah.

We need to ask Mr. Bucky. Is that why we went with Beaver? Because that's pretty clever. I ain't never really thought of it like it. No, no, hey, they, you know, they do some amazing stuff. Hey, Google it and see what the biggest beaver on record is. Hold on. Google the world record.

Yeah, say, what's the biggest beaver that's known? Better be careful, buddy. I seen one that was, hey, about 125 pounds. The heaviest North American beaver on record weighed 110 pounds caught in Iron County, Wisconsin in 1921. 110. 10 that's pretty good typical but you saw one that was 125 oh no i saw one well you know his story's always got at least a time and a half oh yeah oh no hey that was biggest paper i've been filled with it

we didn't have to and hey that was when we was dragging logs in high water from cheney lake and taking it's fields property down to oh shenny's back oh yeah looks good Took two years, took two years. I'm serious. High water. Did you know there's only two living species of beaver in the world? I didn't know that. The North American beaver and the Eurasian beaver.

Huh. And there's a... I bet them Russian beavers are scary. No, no, he's a miniature. Wait, what? He's a miniature beaver. You think so? Huh?

I'm serious. Who? The Eurasian beaver is the... He's the small. Oh, I don't know. That's like you got a Canadian hunker. He's large. But look, you got the lesser Canadian.

He's about, oh, a little bit bigger than a milder drake. Hey, I got one for you, though. There's a much older extinct, giant bea. Oh, yeah. They lived during the ice age and could grow over six foot long. Six foot. I believe that. I believe that because, hey, I've seen one about about 125 pounds.

He was an ancestor of a day. that one. What you do if you run into a six-foot beaver, though? You better have some kind of fire on. Imagine if old boy, imagine a old boy in Jersey. Unless you like that. That'd be a different news story.

You're good with a knife. Yeah. If I say, yeah. Hey, it was me a battle. You pull that trigger until it clicks. Hey, look. Hey, you ever heard him flap him tails? Yeah.

You ever looked at a beaver down and tore it apart? Hey, this thing is well put together. And, hey, that tail, hey, look, in that movie I was telling you about that video, when they was at full four, it's about 25 beavers, half of a, had brush, and the other half had mud on the back of their tail. And when I'm talking about mud, hey, it's a pile. I mean, a big pile. And they come up there and, hey, the beaver,

it rams the brush in or anything, then the guy, the other one slams mud in there, and then you hear, pow, pow, pow, bow, bow, bow. I'm serious. Knocked the mucus loose. No, no. You need one to slap you on the back right now.

Get that out of there. Hey, well, they put that stuff in there. It's made, buddy. They're like a bunch of bricklayers. Oh, no, I'm serious. You got a mud band. you got a stick man you i mean you if you never did it you would not believe how you know because i had to well feel a iron four-prong uh tried it oh rake right yeah i had to well it

because he kept breaking shovels you know so he said hey well me up something they won't break so i that's what i did out a two-inch pipe and then had a four-prong rake on the end of and hey when the beaver put something together done this hard he's like they're like Matt Owens the carpenter when he builds something

oh Maca Mac Owens yeah hey buddy Matt Maddie Owens and Mac Owen different characters there's two Owens I know no no there's no ass on that don't you combine us with them ass folk but hey you start

there ain't no Owens you start tearing something apart a beaver put together hey you can Hey, you have a workout. All those sticks and branches, they put them in at different angles, make it stronger. Oh, man. They're layered on the way. They're one of the best builders.

I'm telling you, we need to see them down to the Ard River. No, no, it's an art form. A beaver, when he puts a dam together, he can keep the water level exactly where he wants it to be. Well, I'm talking about way better an Army Corps of Engineers. Oh, no. Oh, hey. Hey, they put the Corps of Engineers a shame. you think we could do that?

Did you know? We could go trap like 20 beavers and put them down there in Columbia and see if they can fix the dam? They would fix it. There's at least 20 beavers already. They were there. Well, I need them to fix it. How do we get them to fix it?

I don't think they do a lot of underwater construction. Yeah. Because the problem there is. Oh, you're be surprised. I'm saying up under the dam. They're going to have to get up underneath. Oh, no, you'd be surprised. Because, hey, they got, they drill hummles.

Okay. The problem is there's already a hole. No, no, no, but no, they're real tunnels, though, N-A-N-A-Dam. Yeah. You are a man-made down. This hole's about 40 foot below the surface. It's going to be a toughie.

We're going to have to get them some oxygen. We're going to get them some tanks or something. I will fund the research. Beaver attacks are a little more common than I ever even thought they might be, though. You know, I had to look online after that. that what you've been doing over there? Yeah, I had to look it up.

Looking up, Beaver attack. Oh, you got to figure it. Hey, there's been more than one. We're imposing. Just one. On their territory. Oh, yeah.

Well, the deal is like, I guarantee you what happened as they went up there and that beaver sat there and you're a kid, right? Yeah. I won't go look at it. I mean, I know.

Me too, right? I'm going to go check it out. And then they just got too close because it probably had baby beaver. And rabies. I was just excited. That will cause that. That would have bring an attack.

Get the narrative however you need it to dispose of the bea. That would bring an attack if they had young. Are you claiming the government is not telling us the truth about this beaver's attack? I'm just saying. You're saying it might not have had rabies? I don't think that beaver woke up that morning and said, you let the neck sucker come up here because I got rabies. I'm going to go over and bite him.

I'm going to say there was a little tomfoolery at foot. It's, I would say this, okay. So he would have Have to got bit By a rabbit A coyote or a wolf The beaver got bit by it That's the only way they're going to have it

Because hey look All they do is no trees down So to have rabies You would have to have a wolf or a coyote Had it and bid him That's what Yeah that's how you get rabies You get bit by something with rabies

But I'm just saying That's what happened to old yellow That would be odd. Rabies and wild beavers is very rare. Oh, here we go. Oh, I told you. The conspiracy. I was trying to tell you that.

Look, if old Yeller can get rabies, so can this beaver that attack this kid. Oh, look. Bevers typically only get rabies as a spillover infection after being bitten by another rabid animal. All right. Yeah. Animals bite each other. It's a real Spider-Man situation here. What are you going to get?

Your head? If I tell you about it, it's true. But I know that's true. That's how you get rabies. Well, hey, a beaver, a change of a beaver having rabies is like one in a million. That kid should have bought a lottery ticket. Okay. Maybe even higher than that.

One source says from 2011 to 2020, there were only two confirmed rabies cases in the United States in beavers. I'm telling you. Well, we just added one in New Jersey, boys. I tell you, because this thing, the only thing he does is he gnaws trees down and builds dams. And the other thing he does is he gets yeated back into this lake. I'm sorry.

But that does not. It gets me every time. That kid up there does not look like that kid in that photo. In that other one. I'm sorry. Oh, you're going full conspiracy. You think they got a child actor. No, I think the kid,

No, I think the kid that they interviewed is the one that chunked him back in the water. Most of the time on field, when you've seen Phil shoot a beaver, how big was he? Just average. 60, 70, 80 pounds. How many of them had rabies?

Well, no, no, but I'm just telling you. None, they all died from Lerbord. Hey, average, okay? He's saying like 75 pounds on average. That's a pretty good side of a little animal. They're big. And then if you get one, okay, that is healthy

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Even if they checked them. You think they'd slick it? You think they slick the test? They're that smart? Hey, I will challenge the wild out people. Hey. They're getting their other buddies to be in the cup. They're not getting it to you.

Hey, it'll be like, hey, one out of 30 million. There's not even 30 million beavers in the world. Oh, yes, there is. Oh, no. There's 15 million beavers. You go up north, son. There's 15 million North American beavers. That's what?

15 million. So only half of one has rabies? If 15 millions, it's counted, son. The world, have we talked about beavers for 30 minutes. Oh, they're a million little suckers. Oh, okay. And we want to move over to something else? Not really.

I kind of want to go down the rabies rabbit hole. What is rabies? Virus, right? But like, it just makes you bite. Does it make you bite people? Like, if I got rabies, I don't think it. I don't think it. But I want to bite it.

I don't think it makes you. You go mad. You get it like a super high fever. Yeah, you get a high fever and it does something to your brain. Oh, me at the mouth. I think is the way rabies works. They always have the white foam coming out of their mouth. Yeah, especially in them cartoons.

Yeah. They really exaggerate that. Scots is one of them that skunks gets it and so do what's the little armadillo. Armadillo gets. Ravis? I thought he was a leopard. I thought the armadillo was... Armadillas get leprosy.

Yeah, they carry lepros. But they're subject to that... To rabies? Yep. That makes sense. Scunks definitely big time. I saw a skunk. I mean, I've run up on skunks in the woods and had it.

Did he run up there and bite you? He tried to. I think he said, I think possums get rabies. Skunks get it. I know skunks get it because I, I've killed a skunk. All right. had it. Oh, you know how...

He attacked me. They, you get afraid of water, too, if you get raided. That doesn't really fit for a beaver. Well, can you imagine how scared he was when he was up in the air flying? That was one reason that the beaver don't get it. Because he ain't gonna be afraid of water. Flu-like symptoms. But without, you know, you pretty much, you've gone.

No, no, it literally. If you get it, it literally drives you insane. The leading source of human race. rabies cases in the United States. Bats number one. Raccoons number two. The skunk weighing in at number three. I tell you.

And the fox at number four. Coyote ain't on there yet? He is listed under others. Those are your top four. Coyote, bobcat, beaver, cat, dog, cow, horse, anything with fur pretty much after that. And I knew about the raccoons that had it. Rats, mice, rabbit, squirrels.

Do you know how scary it would be to come across a cow with rabies that was trying to bite you? Small rodents rarely survive attacks from rabbit. There's long enough. Think about what a possum does. He finds a dead carcass like a cow. And then crawls up in his rear end and lives there. I've seen that. That's just cool.

I've seen that on Beth River. Yeah. Crash. That's like if you lay down with dogs, you're going to get fleas. If a wild animal bites or scratches somebody. Saliva is how it spreads. All through saliva. That's why they have the foam.

Oh, they rough, they're out of, because that skunk. It was self-defense. I had to kill him or get killed myself. Did y'all ever try to eat a possum? Well, all day and mom and them used to cook them all the time. I didn't ever eat nothing. Is that the one you eat with sweet taters or is that a wreck? Yeah, no.

Sweet potato, possum and sweet potatoes. Why did them two get tithe? together, you think. Who knows? The chicken wins. He got waffles. Yeah, hey, I'm sure. Tramp got grits.

Possom got a sweet tater. Remember that said on Lonesome Dubb? An old boy skidding that Possom out. Ugh. Yeah, look about it. Did you ever try the Possom? Nope. No.

Ever. Anything that will do what they do, no. You've ate a possum. Possom? You took a bite when he was a kid. You didn't know no, but come on. Possum and sweet potatoes is a traditional southern United States. Oh, Ed and not.

Oh, hey, look, my parents and the skin folks say they always. You roast it with the, uh, till both are tender. And the sweet potatoes absorb the rich, rendered fat of the possum meat. They say that, they say that barbecued raccoon is real good. That's what they say. Typically involved, hey, I ain't ate one. No. Making it 350 degrees for two plus hours.

What you got to cook it that long for? Ugh. There's just certain things I wouldn't eat. That'd be like a cat. I wouldn't eat a cat. They say that what, Cheetah is real good. Who says that?

Who says that Cheetah takes that? They go to Google it and see who says it? Who's they? Say it to the day. You know, said Mount Lyme is good. People often describe beaver meat as dark and rich like beef, slightly sweet, lean but flavorful.

But it's got a little woodsy flavor. The tail, very fatty and considered a delicacy. Oh, no. Yeah. Hey. Would you like to hear about cheetah meat? It is not considered to taste good, with reports describing it as extremely lean, tough, and having an unpleasant aftertaste reminiscent of swimming pool water.

There you go. This is my favorite part. In places like Louisiana. Yeah. And other parts of the South, some trappers still harvest and eat them today. Often cooked in stews, killy, or a slow barbecue. Barbecue beaver. We should have cooked one, Si.

What? Let's get a beaver and cooking. Let's make a YouTube video. Uncle Syed's beaver. No, I tell you why they ain't good. Why? If you skin one. Yeah.

Have you done that? Have you skinned him? Oh, yeah, I've skinned him. What did you skin him for? You said to the hide? Well, yeah. Yeah. But anyway, they've got what I call just thousands of fingers of, like your belly skin.

Belly skin. Abdominal muscles? On their body, a beaver does. You're talking about a pain in the rear end to skin a babyver is it. Really? Now I understand why they let used to let the, Indian squirrels do it. No, no, I'm serious.

I'm serious. What else did they have to do? No, no, no, no, I'm serious. Hey, you're talking about a pain in your blood. And, hey, here's the thing. You've got to have a good sharpening, a woodrock on hand. Because after you hit that beaver hide

about, oh, six or seven times, you got to sharpen the knife of you. Oh. That's, that area is tough. and will deal a knife blade. He said, I see why they let them smalls do it now. Yeah, we don't want to make them them

bavits, give them them little squaws. Hey, you got to realize. Hey, here's the thing you got to realize. All of my uncles, okay, back in the day, run a trap line. All of them. Hey, to make money.

And they made a good living at it. Y'all have a couple of squalls. Oh, hey. Well, they have their ones. wife probably helps him skin that crap out because i'm telling you all of my uncles jace run a trap line in high school jace was catching beavers in high school hey jace run a trap line in high school and and would you know sell the fur oh my goodness so you wouldn't eat it have we brought some no you should there's just some things i'm not going to eat i'm not an

adventurous or a pan of food. Isn't perfume made from Beaver?

What? It's what? Oh yeah we looked that up one time. Hit that right? Yeah. All I'm saying

is like you eat crawfish that's weird. Well, ain't weird. It's pretty weird. Hey, not,

no. As someone who cooked a sack yesterday and feels all sweaty and shrimp. What about a crawfish

pie? No, I ain't a pie. Forget the pie. The man hates a pie. I need a pie. I'm not in the chicken pie. Crawlfish, probably, all that stuff, Cary and feel, you just cook.

Hey. Just give the boy the protein. I'm just saying a crawfish is a weird thing to eat when you really look at it. No, mud buggy's a good eating. They do taste good. I'm just saying, I can see where somebody would think we were weird. Hey, the connoisseur of the shrimp is actually good. What?

Shrimp. Connoisseur of the shrimp is actually. Yeah, hey, that's what he said. Hey, I was worried. Do you wonder why we go through mental gymnastics in here? I thought I had a stroke for a second. I was like, what did he say? No, I'm used to.

It's like talking to my three-year-old. No. They don't quite finish the full thought. Shrimp is. You're saying shrimp's better than crawfish? Oh, shrimp is fantastic. Shrimp is the top of the line. Crawfish is the bottom.

I'm very thankful I don't have a shellfish alley because I love shellfish. Boil shrimp is about the best thing you eat Well, see, that was what I ran into All the mothers for Mother's Day wanted me to boil Crawfish And so I was like, okay Oh, they're good So I just did one sack of crawfish

And then a whole bunch of shrimp afterwards And I said, we can get full on this. Yeah, no, shrimp are good. Shrimp is your hire, hire. Did your shrimp peel easy? Oh, I threw them in there already peeled. Yeah, I straight cheese. Here's a shock.

Yeah. Hell on, frozen, just straightened their crawlers. You just warmed them up. There you go. Spiced them up and warmed them up. Hey, Philip MacWillan cooks great crawfish. Does he? Yeah.

I was shocked. Macmillan? That checks out. He's a goulash, man. No, no, no. He cooks great coffee. I was shocked. Hey, there were tender.

And the reason is he puts a lot of butter. And then they're easier to peel. I tried that yesterday. I didn't feel like it was any different than normal. Oh, no, it's the difference. Well, we've been turkey hunting, traveling, doing all this, and Brittany went off and forgot to pack her Nutrifol. It's helped her confidence.

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I just still feel swollen from all the salt. I used it. Because I'm not a big crawfish eater and I ate like five pounds when Philip cooked it. I know that bowling of the shrimp is an art form. I use the old stale cracker method. What's the stale crack? You know, you say that guy, the stale cracker? No.

Oh yeah, he's wild, man. He's something else. We need to get him on here. Former, wasn't he a state troopers? Well, both. Oh, that guy's phenomenal. Yeah, I don't know. He's hilarious.

He's hilarious. Fried shrimp, they can't cook it. It ain't worth eating. Oh, yeah. Cook it too long. It gets chewy. No, no, when he boils this shrimp, he don't use the seasoning. He boils in a clean water for one minute.

Then he kills the bowl as the seasoning, and that makes it where the peeling just falls off of them. Oh, that's a, Interesting. They peel is real easy. There's a lot of tricks to that about. You can't boil, you can't boil shrimp and salt.

Yeah. That makes it stick, makes the peel. Phil's the one, the only one that I could really enjoy eating fried shrimp. Because he had it down. Hey, they hit hot grease in less than a minute.

Oh, Johnny, do you need to do yourself favor to watch that guy. He is highly entertaining. The problem with Phil is you didn't want to be there on fried shrimp day before. No. Because then you got the knife and had to sit there and devane all of them. Oh, yeah, devane.

You had to devane and butterfly them for them. We would peel and devane for at least three hours. Forever. And there is nothing in this world that smells worse than shrimp heads. That is true. Shrimp heads make a stank like you. Oh, what are you talking about? Especially if you leave them in a Yenai color.

Ooh, Yates. On a day or two and then come back. Oh, that cooler away. You can't clean it. You can clean it. You can clean it. You can leave it in there. If you leave front pads in it, you might love burn it.

Oh, Monia get it out there. I've left worse than that in there. I've left worse than that in it yet. Look, I had a pretty cool week last week. I went on somewhat of an adventure and caught me a giant gar. Big. I literally got gar hold. But then on the way back, I stopped.

And in a vols parish, this old guy named Dale Borlaugh, old Cajun, he makes his duck calls by hand. And when I say by hand, he uses no electric tool. Oh, goodness. A little pocket knife. Got a three-year waitin list. But I'd seen him on the social media. He's got a thick accent. He carves decoys with hatchets, cuts down the trees with a hand saw.

It was pretty awesome. could have stayed there all day long, but I had to leave. But that guy, Si, you would enjoy his company. No, I would enjoy watching him make one. Old time. He made about a cane. He'd go in the woods and cut down cane for his barrels of insert. And he used a little cedar for the Luzzi-E-Sty style insert,

and his name cane calls. Yeah. Man, it was awesome. Yeah, safe thing, haydells. Uncle Wade Charles, one of my uncles. Yeah, that's right. Look here. He killed all, every kind of animal there is, and birds,

and he made baits, fly rod baits. People told him, hey, that he should do it and sell them because that just, you're talking about beautiful. Oh, one of the buddies that we hunt with, now has us pick all them feathers for tying flies, man. There's stone and just Dale. There he is, Cy. Look at that.

Old Del. He's in overalls in every picture on here. I like him. By asses. You beast. Yep. I'll tell you. Old Dale's wild, man.

My answer is. I just sit down and we'll just talk to. Well, guess what? We're going to do in the morning. Are y'all going to fishing together? He's coming fishing with us in the morning. Oh, he's amazing. He does everything the old way.

Hold on. I mean, everything. He's hand cards. Look, he's got more knowledge in his little finger that we'll do it if we've spent a hundred years. Oh, I know it. I could have stayed there all day. Oh, no.

Offsterish. He built him a shop out back and got, got a, Dirt floors. Got them a little breeze burn through. They got a three-year weight list on them duck calls. That's interesting. But you got to think about this. Think about a man in a, oh, let's just say six-foot pee-row.

Most of them, nine, but some of them have six-foot. And he goes gator hunting, okay, and comes back, okay, with them tied to that six-foot pee-row, some of them 20-foot long. let's take her off there and hey all he shot him was was his 22 rifle yeah that's right oh that's crazy how much a man son that was back when that man was a man

and alligators were doubled aside hey I'm telling you oh hey they used they grown them so I got some of them I have plenty footer I just went back on this guy by you beast calls on Instagram Watch out! I had no idea how it was coming.

I saw that coming, boy. I wanted to tell you where there was still no time for you to move. Is that him, Johnny D? Yeah. I was enthralled that I found this man with a picture of Phil Rock with Phil from, oh, I'm shook up. Really got me good. Anyway, look, he posted this about a year ago, but that's what. from way back in the day.

Oh, he posted this right after Phil passed, but he had met Phil, called him the Michael Jordan of the duck hunting community. Oh, that's cool. Well, you know, another cool story, Dale, my dad's family is from Bucky, right down the road from where Dale lives. And he knew my grandpa by name,

but my grandpa's brother dug his pond in 1968, and Dale, when he was a little kid, he said that, that man in that dozer waved me over here and I rode in his lap while he built my daddy's pond in 1968 that was my uncle running the dozer so small world Louisiana it gets even smaller yeah what's this other picture you sent me stone oh there's the gar yeah that you talking about a gar nagged in the tail I got him there old calcas shoe I here's question how big do they get that one there was about a five

Five-footer. Well, I know. How big did he get? What, Gator Gar? Oh. I think. Huge. We shot, I mean, me, we shot one bigger than him.

Yeah, that one we shot with Cap Gaut. I actually seen a commercial fisherman pull up in a 16-foot boat. He had three gar in it that he got out of his nets. Their head was hanging off the front of it and their tail was hanging off the back of the boat. 20-footers. I don't know about that. I got a friend who claims he knows I got a friend who claims he knows where a 300 pound one is

He's waiting for the rodeo Yeah I've seen him with a 200 pounder I can tell you you can go to Red River Dixie Louisiana and get on a rip rap It all it is is telephone poles Goving in the bank You ain't got to anymore

Well I know but there's Now you can live in the summertime and get on the riff out right there in the river and watch and wait and see what comes up. You'll see some of them. 16, 18 foot long gar is coming top of water. That's what's cool about them gar, man. They're very susceptible to live scope now. Oh, no.

You can pan over there and look at him and you're like, oh, that's a big. Oh, no. Hey, they get huge. Yeah, I couldn't believe it. 16 foot boat and hey. head hanging out the front, tail hanging out of the back. And they had it tied down in three different places. It was about a little bigger, about double the size of this round.

Huge things. They big. The largest confirmed alligator gar, 327 pounds. That's a grown one. That's a gar. That's a grown-in-son. That, my friends. Hit the button.

Hey, that's a fish. Mark. Yeah, that's a gar. Yeah, but I got gar hold. Eight foot long, but it takes them 50 to 100 years to get to eight foot long. 100 years old. A hundred year old gar.

Gar. That river and Mississippi River full of them. How old is a five footer? Full of them. And the river, yeah, Washington. 30 years old. Yeah, I mean, by the math, yeah. They're older than me.

Yeah. That's weird. Crazy. Is that gar I call from probably 30 years old? Oh, yeah. At least maybe 50. There are stories of even larger gar. But most aren't verified.

Oh, I don't know. No, no, because I don't know what it was. When we fished 12-mile ball, 12-mile ball over by Dixie, there was something that was silver. Now, jump, jump, when it got dark, they started jumping and splash. It looked like a tarpins. All the way up. I'm serious, that's what it looked like.

Fresh water. I saw one of those one day on the wash towel. It wasn't a gar. It shined like new money. Come out of the water. It's just a shinner that they only made it. It had giant scales. No, no.

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My computer has froze up. Oh, it's funny. I like to watch somebody on. Southern guy. Southern. From the Mars. Uh-oh. You know, you're talking about move of P-rope.

Oh, yeah. You go. Oh, that sucker can, you know, stick, go like a piece of cane. Stand up at it. Yeah, stand up. And hey, and he'll be out of sight before you believe it. Wouldn't you catch it? I was a couple years ago.

Wasn't it? That's a long time ago. Yeah, probably. There's Martin's catch. Seven years ago. My computer just froze up. Hey. Oh, they got something bigger than that.

Oh, I know. I caught him on a big old shovel they got on. Caught him on a spinning rod. I was fun to fight, though. That sucker drove me around all over to Bostall River, man. I was trying to figure out a good Bible verse to end it on. I was sitting there on spot lock, and then I finally just took it off spotlock and said, you're going to tow me around.

I ain't going to sit here and fight you. You're going to tow me around. He finally come up. I don't know how big he was. I was like that 18 pound bass I snagged up on the corny lake. No, I don't like that. I got mine. Hey.

I wish I'd had a picture was the one I had it. I got proof of mine. He took me two miles to the only piece of wood on the bottom of that lake. I give you this. That spoonbell stunk. Hold on. Whenever I had him in my hand. I couldn't get it.

Stink on ice. I wanted my picture with him. And I was like, I got to get this stinking sucker off me. He stunked. Oh. That was about probably three miles up river from fields, a little sandpoint. I've been catching spotted bass, and then them suckers moving in. And there they were.

Well, there's plenty. They're plentiful in Washington, and there's a bunch of them. And you can scope them, too. Like, you can take live scope and look at them. I mean, there will be a school of like 500 of them. It is crazy where they get. That's what surprised. be on playing.

That's wild. It's going snagging this summer together, Martin. Oh, you could do it. I try to avoid them. When I see it, I'm like, nope, I'm going another way. Yeah, normally, but like we should just set a day aside where we just go snagging. You won't know where you could go smash, snagging? Like, and I don't know what all you catch, because there's everything lives there, the mouth of Sheney Creek.

Let's go. There's big Asian carp. There's spoonbills, big gar. Like, you could just throw a three-tail. Watch all river's got some huge, uh, Like buffalo. Yeah. You could throw a couple of three-tailed shrimp there where that creek hits a river.

And just, you'd be there all day. Because in Saper's Creek. They got to get in the river. We can get in the river? I've seen two buffalo that, hey, they probably weighed 100 pounds. Let's do it. It's wild how much biomass is at the mouth of that creek. Let's go crazy.

Yank some of it up and then put it back because I don't. Yeah, what are we going to do with? Smile for the photo. We're taking your boat in because we're getting all that trash in your boat. not mine but I'll go with you I'm gonna have to find somebody with boat we definitely ain't doing it big days boat he'd be proud of we ain't go get a 16 foot gar as he says is down there and don't worry they don't live there in a 14 foot kayak yeah they're there you want talk about scary go snag one in that joker we're we're taking your boat okay I don't

let's do it go snagged I ain't ever done it I ain't ever intentionally snag I know I've only biggest longer had turtles you ever saw what's all Oh, what was that thing? We caught them in college. You're talking about alligator snapping turtle? Yeah. Big, big one. Yeah.

We caught one that was like 110, 120 something. I ain't messing with that. We put a transmitter on him. A guy caught one out of Caddo Lake. Bolted that. He still got. Front praises of New York. At you call ULM.

I don't know if it's still worth or not. 450-something pound. Hey, he hooked a chain to his leg out in his yard. they charge $5 a ride. Made it kill it. Kid, kids will come up there and get on that big old turtle back. Well,

here's what I say about alligator snapping turtles. They're like basically harmless as long, don't touch the point he in. Yeah. But like, I'm like, harmless until they bite your hand off. But he can't move his head.

He's so big. He can't like turn around. As long as you don't go up there and pet him on the nose, you're okay. You can grab him right behind the head and pick him up like this, he can't do nothing to you. All he does, he was trying to get around, but he can't get around. Now, that common snapping turtle can turn that head around and bite himself on a tail.

You don't want to, you don't want a case of mistaken identity because you will get bit. I ain't messing with that turtle. But alligator snapping turtle, no, he can't get you. See that old turtle guy? He's been old, been a while, but. Old turtle man. I think him, I think him. A turtle man, yeah.

I think him and old mountain dogs, good buddies. I think they are. Well, they say there's seven different types. meat on one in big of them's loggerheads. I ain't got worried about none of them. Seven different types. Seven seven. I'm out on that.

I ain't had hunger yet. We snuck into a private lake and put out a trot line. You trespassed. Look, like it looked like somebody had took wire cutters and right at the eye, right below the eye, just cut the hook off. 28 in a row. We thought this was on a private lake. We thought the guy that on the lake had found a trot line and just was being a butthole, cut their trot line up.

Protecting his property. Hey, we found out later when we got, got the where he was hung up, big old, about a hundred pound loggerhead's turtle. And he had, he had cut them hooks off, right,

get them in the corner of us. Every one of them. He, 28 in a row. 28 in a row. 28 in a row. Like a, like he had a pair of pliers on him.

You know what he got it for his trouble? He got, A 22. 18 rounds twice in his head. Hey, look, it took that. The Lord has created the wacky stuff. It took that many rounds for that total to stop. You included.

Hissing at me and 36 bullets. And he was still hissing on number 30. And he was still hissing. Just to him. All we do was loaded up again, put it to his head, and pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow. I said, we're going to stop it hissing. We'll break that hissing up.

I got a weird Bible verse to follow that hissing part up. I was trying to find something about beavers in the Bible, but not a lot of North American beavers over there in the Middle East where most of the Bible takes place. Yeah, not a lot of water. But we have talked about a lot of wild and wacky creatures that the Lord has created. So Revelation 411, you are worthy our Lord and God to receive glory and honor and power for you created all things and by your will.

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