Uncle Si Takes a Power Nap Mid-Episode & the Boys Keep Rolling

Summary

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Duck Call Room Podcast

Episode: “Uncle Si Takes a Power Nap Mid-Episode & the Boys Keep Rolling”
Hosts: Si Robertson, Justin Martin
Guests: Mike Rowe, Carter Owen, others
Date: December 9, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this lively and laughter-filled episode, the Duck Commander crew dives into tales about wildlife encounters, hunting mishaps, rural driving adventures, and family performances. Uncle Si, true to form, nods off mid-episode, but the rest carry on seamlessly—sharing stories full of Southern wit and wisdom. Special guest, Justin Martin’s son Carter, joins to recount his starring turn as Zazu in a school production of The Lion King, providing heartfelt and hilarious highlights. The episode captures the unfiltered camaraderie, storytelling, and good-natured ribbing that fans have come to love.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Wildlife Encounters and Tall Tales

• The crew swaps stories about pet reptiles (bearded dragons), snake antics, alligator run-ins, and what happens when you hit various wildlife with your vehicle.
  • Snakes and Bearded Dragons:
    • Discussion opens with John Luke’s bearded dragon, feeding habits, and escape attempts.
    • “He was under it…dug up…they get warm then that's when they dig in…they're cold-blooded.” – Martin (02:26)
  • Snakes in the South:
    • Martin recalls running through a snake pit as a kid:
      • “You can see his coils…the outline…the whole family. I was so lucky I didn’t get bit.” – Martin (03:10)
  • Alligator Anecdotes:
    • Stories about finding gators with noses through river ice – an unusual Louisiana sight.
  • Deer and Cars:
    • Hilarious stories of wrecked vehicles and failed attempts to eat roadkill:
      • “I run over and he dented my right fender. I said, he ain't getting away with that. I'm fixing to eat this sucker.” – Martin (08:14)
      • General conclusion: Bloodshot meat makes run-over deer mostly inedible.

2. Rural Road Hazards

• The conversation veers into what to do (or not do) when encountering animals or obstacles on back roads.
  • What Not to Hit:
    • Cows, alligators, and blown-out truck tires (“alligators”) are all big no-nos.
    • “You never swerve for any animal except a cow…Never swerve. Dangerous. Except for cows.” – Cy Robertson (14:00)
  • Buzzards and Windshields:
    • Advice to new drivers on the hazards of accidentally picking up a live vulture through the windshield.

3. Martin’s Epic Road Stories

• Martin regales with tales of misidentified bodies in the road (turned out to be a man in his underwear at 4:30am), vehicles blocking highways, and the general unpredictability of backroads.
  • “It's about 18 degrees out. Okay. It's cold. It's a yeti, yo. And I come by...a young man in his underwear.” – Martin (24:17)

4. Special Segment: Carter’s Theatrical Debut

• Carter Owen’s Lion King Adventure (begins ~27:35)

  • Young Carter, fresh off performing as Zazu, talks about the audition process, favorite songs, and memorable moments on stage.
  • Breaks the “fourth wall” both literally in the play and figuratively on the podcast.
    • “I just wanted to show you that I was doing good. Not to brag.” – Carter (29:20)
  • Describes giving a pep talk to his classmates:
    • “The only thing we fear is fear itself. Says Franklin Roosevelt.” – Carter (36:06)

• Family Pride and Praise

  • The hosts beam with pride over Carter and his cousin Lindley’s roles.
    • “I’ve never been probably more proud of you than when you walked out on that stage with all the confidence in the world and sang a song.” – Cy Robertson (43:11)

5. Memorable Quotes & Moments

• Uncle Si's legendary storytelling, occasional confusion, and his mid-show nap:
  • “He’s right here. And then I looked and I was like, oh, that boy don’t…that boy don’t fell asleep.” – Mike Rowe (46:44)
• Carter’s presidential ambitions and trivia prowess:
  • “I’m just smart. I’m an expert about president.” – Carter (36:23)
• Disagreement over Lion King versions:
  • “Jaden's like 10 times better than Jonathan Taylor Thomas. No, Jaden.” – Carter (39:25)

6. Lighthearted Chaos & Family Energy

• Martin and Cy rib Carter for his stage enthusiasm, jokes about subtitled movie-watching, and Carter’s not-so-bashful attitude.
• The episode ends with Carter humorously lobbying for Zazu to have a bigger role in future performances:
  • “Lion God, please make him be in the show more…And Exazu guys and Mr. Bean keep doing awesome.” – Carter (47:50)

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• Bearded Dragon Parenting:
  “He eats mostly lettuce and some crickets.” – Uncle Si (02:22)

• Snake Encounter:
  “I ran through there and then just jumped out of the water…There was five more coils in that little old pool.” – Martin (03:10)

• Driving Wisdom:
  “You never swerve for any animal except a cow…never swerve. Dangerous. Except for cows.” – Cy Robertson (14:00)

• Unexpected RoadScape:
  “It's about 18 degrees out...young man in his underwear.” – Martin (24:17)

• Theatrical Confidence:
  “I just wanted to show you that I was doing good. Not to brag.” – Carter (29:20)

• Presidential Pep Talk:
  “The only thing we fear is fear itself. Says Franklin Roosevelt.” – Carter (36:06)

• Uncle Si’s Power Nap:
  “He’s right here. And then I looked and I was like, oh, that boy don’t…that boy don’t fell asleep.” – Mike Rowe (46:44)

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Segment Timestamps

• 00:58 – 10:00: Open banter, stories of pets, snakes, and deer car crashes
• 11:33 – 17:00: Cow vs. car stories, buzzard mishaps, and rural driving advice
• 24:00 – 27:35: Martin’s wild tales of strange roadside encounters
• 27:35 – 47:50: Carter Owen joins—school play stories, family pride, Carter’s personality and ambitions
• 46:44: Uncle Si’s infamous mid-episode nap is called out

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Tone and Language

Laid-back, rambling, and irreverently funny—packed with inside jokes, classic Southern phrasing, and a palpable sense of family togetherness. The banter is unfiltered but always warm, particularly as Carter’s youthful energy plays off the grown-ups’ storytelling. The main language is conversational Southern English with plenty of self-deprecating humor and affectionate teasing.

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Summary

This episode is pure Duck Call Room: woods wisdom, outrageous rural mishaps, and a new generation of storytellers in young Carter. Listeners are treated to hilarious wildlife run-ins, hard-learned lessons about country roads, and the highlight of Carter’s shining moment on the elementary school stage. Uncle Si may sleep through some of it, but the laughter keeps rolling—making this a quintessential, must-listen episode for fans who crave genuine moments and down-home hilarity.

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Transcript

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[Martin]

Foreign.

[Cy Robertson]

Guys. We shot a Thanksgiving special. John Luke came in here. We played video games with Uncle Sigh. It was wild and wacky and go check that out. It came out on Thanksgiving day on our YouTube channel. But this episode just so happens to be s. So good at telling stories. We had like 20 minutes of basically our podcast start before we started that. So we're going to tune into that, then we're going to cut over. We brought in Carter, my son, who was playing the lion King play as Zazu, and it was wacky and wild and Carter told a lot of crazy stories. So enjoy this episode. It is your typical. Just us sitting in a room talking.

[Martin]

John Luke can be anything.

Huh? That's his. That's his mode of operation. He can be anything or anybody. This true. John Luke.

[Uncle Sigh]

That's.

[Mike Rowe]

This is true. There you go.

[Cy Robertson]

He lives his life.

[Uncle Sigh]

I live my life.

[Martin]

Story of his life.

[Cy Robertson]

Because the other day I was watching unashamed. Not like the whole thing like the clips, you know, the good parts. And John Luke had like a Komodo dragon on there.

[Mike Rowe]

Oh, his bearded dragon.

[Uncle Sigh]

The beard dragon.

[Cy Robertson]

Bearded dragon. Do you feed that thing crickets?

[Uncle Sigh]

Yes.

[Mike Rowe]

You do?

[Uncle Sigh]

Yeah.

[Mike Rowe]

Where do you buy them?

[Martin]

Yeah, he's family man.

[Uncle Sigh]

Oh, I did either the crickets I need. I did think about coming at crickets.

[Cy Robertson]

I sell crickets all day to only thing I've ever.

[Mike Rowe]

Lettuce. Yeah, it's a lot of lettuce.

[Uncle Sigh]

Eats mostly lettuce and some crickets.

[Martin]

Oh, he's a vegetable.

[Uncle Sigh]

Worms. Yeah, mostly. Yeah, he's both. He like. He's squash all kinds of stuff. Yesterday I thought I lost him. He wasn't in there. So I dug around for like 10 minutes.

[Martin]

He was under it.

[Uncle Sigh]

He was dug. Yeah.

[Martin]

Dug up.

[Uncle Sigh]

Yeah.

[Mike Rowe]

Oh, I was hoping he was at John David.

[Martin]

They get. They get what?

They get cold or get warm, then that's when they dig in. They.

[Cy Robertson]

They're cold blooded.

[Mike Rowe]

Well, if it's. If they're in Louisiana right now, it's because they're warm. It's 85 degrees.

[Cy Robertson]

What a great place to live.

[Martin]

That's another thing. A snake does the same thing. A snake will get in shallow water and sit there and quiver his coils until it gets completely covered up with sand. The only Cause. Hey, I was chasing my girlfriend. We're swimming. What? Look, I was chasing him. We ran.

[Mike Rowe]

He got the quivering.

[Martin]

No, no, no, we ran. Hey, we ran through a big mud puddle on sandbar, y'. All. And here's, here's how bad I am about snakes. I ran through there and then just jumped out of the water. And I said, whoa. And she said, what's the matter? I said, I'd just like to step on a snake. She said, where? I said, in that mud puddle. And I went back there, look, you can see his coils. Where the outline. Cause it's something sand sunk down. His coil was like this. My footprint was. I mean, right next to it. And when I stepped there, I felt that sucker. That's how crazy I am about snakes. And when I got to looking, there was five more coals in that little old pool.

[Cy Robertson]

The whole family.

[Martin]

I was so lucky I didn't get bit.

[Mike Rowe]

So what you're saying is you were surrounded by.

[Martin]

Oh, no, no. I mean, I ran through.

Five of them.

[Cy Robertson]

I know we have plans, but how did that snake not drown? Martin. And snake's not drown.

[Mike Rowe]

No, I'm assuming he had his nose up out of the water.

[Martin]

No, snakes can't drown.

[Uncle Sigh]

Can't drown?

[Martin]

No, because they, they hibernate. They. They get in the mud just. And go to sleep.

[Mike Rowe]

Yeah, but in the summertime on Red River. He can't do that.

[Martin]

I'm just saying. Hey, they.

[Mike Rowe]

Hey, he's an ectotherm.

[Uncle Sigh]

It happened.

[Cy Robertson]

But they can drown their body shut.

[Martin]

I don't think.

[Mike Rowe]

I never tried to.

[Martin]

I don't think they drown.

[Mike Rowe]

Seems like if you tied a cinder block to one and put him at the bottom of a pond, he'd be dead there for long.

[Cy Robertson]

So that's what I was thinking.

[Martin]

Well, what alligator said? Alligator does the same thing.

[Mike Rowe]

Yeah, he. Yeah, he slows. He goes into like a hibernation.

[Martin]

Well, snakes do it, but he keeps.

[Cy Robertson]

His nose above water. Alligator, huh?

[Martin]

Next does it too. They go in hibernation.

[Mike Rowe]

I found one one time with his nose stuck through the ice. Scared me to death when it froze over and I went out there. We were duck hunting. I think Walter was with me. Of all people, that's one.

[Martin]

I have Walter on here.

Might have found him. I would have got me a big.

[Mike Rowe]

Knife and just said, what, the alligator?

[Martin]

No, oh, whatever sat his head above water in the ice.

[Mike Rowe]

No, that was alligator. He had. He just had a little nose stuck up through the water, through the ice.

[Martin]

We found one that froze to death. An alligator just laying on the bank. Yeah, alligator, about six foot long. He's just, you know, we thought, we thought, oh, whoa. I thought he was alive and looked at him, said, no, he ain't live.

[Cy Robertson]

Then you put him in the back of your car and about halfway home he woke up and started attacking.

[Martin]

I have heard that though. Guy shooting a deer threw a deer in the back of his trunk. Then next time you hear, you see hoofs coming, coming through the trunk.

[Mike Rowe]

Was his name Chris Fardell?

[Martin]

The back seat, the back seat. Hoofs coming through the back seat. That deer towards that whole rear end of that car slam up. He busted all two windows on each side. Just shredded the seat and the back. And then he punched holes all through the back, back, back of the car. Not the headlights. I mean the back, back.

[Cy Robertson]

Lights out on TBS about 15 years ago.

[Martin]

No, that was a buddy of mine. He was shooting a dough illegally. That he said, well, I'm just saying, hey, he did it.

[Mike Rowe]

Did he sell brake pads?

[Martin]

No, he was.

[Cy Robertson]

That brings me to my next.

[Mike Rowe]

He was a mechanic.

[Martin]

He was a mechanic. No, look, he tried to fix that old beat up car up after that deer got through it. Now couldn't do it.

[Cy Robertson]

What is with the deer of this town right now?

[Martin]

Hey, a deer will tear a car up.

[Cy Robertson]

Well, yeah, what about.

[Martin]

Especially if you put him inside or if he hits it on the outside.

[Cy Robertson]

There's deer everywhere on the side of roads in this town right now.

[Martin]

Oh, no.

[Cy Robertson]

And then one ran into my brother in law's truck this morning. Just ran into that?

[Martin]

No, no, you sure? Ran in his truck or did he chase it in a deer?

[Cy Robertson]

Oh, I said, you hit a deer? He goes, no, it hit me. And then I was like, well, where is it? But he just left it.

[Martin]

Well, you can't do that with him.

[Mike Rowe]

Why not?

[Martin]

Because it's bloodshot. I tried to save one that I run over one time. Took it, took it in. I worked at a golf course in Huntsville. So I'm going into work. Deer comes out and look, he hits the right side of My car. Well, I just, you know, he starts spinning after I knock him down. He starts spinning. Well, I just. I'm following him. He finally slides in the ditch. I pull up beside him, open the back, deal, Throw the deer in the back, slam the door, go to work back in, y'. All open. Open one of the bay doors, back in. Next thing I do, I got him hung up on a chain still, you know, and they're cleaning him, and the boss comes in and superintendent, you know, he said, what are you doing? I said, what does it look like?

[Cy Robertson]

Had you clocked in?

[Mike Rowe]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Martin]

I said, what are you doing? I said, what does it look like? He said, it looks like you got a deer hung up in a golf course. And I said, well, I run over and he dented my right fender. I said, he ain't getting away with that. I'm fixing to eat this sucker. So I skin him out, try to cut the back straps out. They're all bloodshot bad. Can't do it. I said, well, let me see if I can. A quarter of the hindquarters. No, same thing. Them things are all bloodshot, busted. And I said, I can't believe I can't get no deer. And he done tore my car up.

[Cy Robertson]

Sucker. So you can't eat a deer that you've hit.

[Martin]

Can't do it. Bloodshot.

[Cy Robertson]

I bet we get an email that says to the contrary.

[Martin]

Well, hey, you might. Hey, if you can tell me how you done it. Because one idea. I tried to gut him and cut him up.

[Mike Rowe]

Oh, don't tell him how to do it, because the next episode is going to be Uncle Sigh Hits a Deer. Don't do that.

[Martin]

No, I'm just standing.

[Mike Rowe]

Let him avoid them.

[Martin]

Well, no, no. I just figured out he ought to let me eat him since he tore my car up.

[Mike Rowe]

What did you try to eat that bridge?

[Martin]

Huh?

[Mike Rowe]

Did you try to eat the bridge at Willie's house?

[Martin]

No. It tore your truck out of wood. Well, yeah.

[Cy Robertson]

I mean, beavers eat that. Yeah, but I've never hit a deer. But I've always thought if I do, I'm at least going to throw it in the back.

[Martin]

And I hit one.

[Cy Robertson]

You hit one?

[Martin]

It blood. It bloodshots. The meat makes your horse not edible.

[Mike Rowe]

I hit one going by 60 miles an hour with my boat behind me.

[Cy Robertson]

Did you eat him?

[Mike Rowe]

No, it was like June.

[Martin]

Did you flip him?

[Mike Rowe]

Huh?

[Martin]

Did you flip him?

[Mike Rowe]

No, he had one. He had his nose and the driver's side headlight and his rear end at the passenger's Headlight he got. I'm talking about direct deboned him.

[Cy Robertson]

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[Mike Rowe]

What's that?

[Cy Robertson]

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[Martin]

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[Cy Robertson]

Pure Talk, that's what talking about, hey.

[Martin]

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[Cy Robertson]

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[Mike Rowe]

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[Cy Robertson]

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[Martin]

The best thing I ever seen that's been hit by a car was a big giant Black Angus cow. And hey, no, no, no, no, no, no. And here's the best part about it. What? You know what? He was hit by a Civic. No.

[Mike Rowe]

A Model T. No. I thought a VW bull had a Black Angus calf.

[Martin]

Yeah, My brother was driving his car.

[Mike Rowe]

Which one?

[Martin]

Jim Frank.

[Mike Rowe]

Oh.

[Martin]

What? Look did the come around the curb, there's a Black Angus. You can't see him. He's black.

No, no, it's at night, you know, so. Hey. The next thing that happened is. Hey, he just looked and he finally sees the legs. So he just straddles in between the legs. Look. Hey, he hit this big old black angel's cow. Look. And hit it. Well, it just rolls over the beetle and just crushes it in. He had to crawl out of it because it had just crushed.

The beetle. Oh, it was hilarious.

[Cy Robertson]

If this ends up on the next.

[Martin]

Fast, he comes driving it and had to wonder roll down driving it like this. Cause the whole wood was caved in.

[Mike Rowe]

And the whole thing. The only thing I can think of is he aim. Oh no, George, not the livestock.

[Cy Robertson]

Livestock.

So he aimed for between the legs.

[Martin]

And I and made it okay. And look what happened to the cow.

It just rolled him over. And when he looked back, the cow got up, wandered off into the. In the woods.

[Cy Robertson]

It had to cut something though.

[Martin]

Well, I mean, it may have hurt him, but hey, he messed his day up. He walked away.

[Mike Rowe]

Oh yeah. He got hit in between the legs by a car. Yeah, that. Yeah, yeah. Hurts.

[Martin]

That was the funniest looking thing you'd have seen your life. They're driving up with a window with his head stuck out and the roof, I mean, literally caved it in evenly.

[Mike Rowe]

So in the old story of the cow versus the beetle, the cow wins.

[Martin]

Cowboys.

[Mike Rowe]

Okay?

[Martin]

Never cow actually got up after being rolled and walked up in the woods.

[Cy Robertson]

My uncle Johnny, John Luke's tupapa, actually taught a valuable lesson to my dad one time about cows and cars. You never swerve for any animal except a cow. They were driving one time and a large animal, larger than most, was there. And dad was like, oh no. And Johnny just boom, boom, he goes, never swerve. Dangerous. Except for cows.

[Martin]

Never slow up, never day.

[Cy Robertson]

If you. If sudden movements, you're in trouble.

[Martin]

Well, I'll tell you another thing too, you don't want to do, okay? You got a dead animal in the.

[Cy Robertson]

Middle of the highway, you don't want to eat him.

[Martin]

And no. And there's a couple of buzzards on him.

[Cy Robertson]

Don't want to eat them.

[Mike Rowe]

Don't swerve at the buzzards.

[Martin]

You better slow down. Yeah, because if you think just about driving by now, by the time you drive by, guess what? They flop up birds get up windshield territory. Oh yeah. And then, hey, they're in the front seat with you. Pickup. Because that happened to Phil.

[Cy Robertson]

Phil.

[Martin]

Yeah, he just slowed down. He didn't slow down. Next thing, hey, he's fighting, okay? Not only the caved in windshield, he's got a mad buzzard in the front seat with him and fighting him.

No, no, watch this. Look, that stupid bird pecked him, clawed him, okay? But he finally got him and threw him out. Threw him out the window. But after he, I mean, he had done pecked him and called him.

[Mike Rowe]

How you sit by this guy every week. I can't do this.

[Cy Robertson]

It's a learned process.

[Mike Rowe]

Generally when I sit by side. We got a guest and they're telling the story and he's all into it. I've never had to be like, by the main character.

[Cy Robertson]

This is weird when he's telling you about buzzards and filthy.

[Martin]

Hey, well, hey, I'm telling you. That's why.

[Cy Robertson]

Hey, look, the buzzard would have beat me.

[Martin]

Here's my.

Advice for kids that just learn how to drive. Always drive defensively.

[Mike Rowe]

I had to take that class.

[Martin]

Look, you never know what you're going to run into. It could be a Black Angus cow, a buzzard, a buzzer buzzard. It. Hey, he's knocked the windshield inside with you, y'. All. So you got windshield all over you, and then you got a buzzard under the windshield. Okay, he's mad. So, yeah, this thing.

[Mike Rowe]

Is there anything nastier than a buzzard?

[Martin]

Oh, that. Hey, that. Remind me. We go to go to duck Hunt and we had the.

[Cy Robertson]

We're going to let you use your prop one day.

[Uncle Sigh]

Oh, it's fine.

[Martin]

We had a blind up on stilt pretty high.

[Mike Rowe]

Yeah. Now we got video of this.

[Martin]

Oh, and look, and had. We had theater seats in this duck blind.

[Cy Robertson]

Theater seats?

[Martin]

Yeah. Somebody had went to a theater or had found them in a junkyard, so we put them in the duck blind for seats.

[Cy Robertson]

Oh, I thought you said.

[Martin]

Well, next thing we do, we go duck hunting there. And when we get there, we talk about. Good grief. You know, it's dark. What is that awful smell? You know, it's like that commercial damp.

[Mike Rowe]

Oh, that had a pee on it.

[Uncle Sigh]

Yeah, there's a pee there.

[Martin]

Okay, well, no, that's what I'm talking about. I didn't say damp.

[Mike Rowe]

Okay. But anyway, hey, next time, go with moist.

[Martin]

It was horrible. So finally somebody turned the light on. Well, hey, there's a buzzer nest in there.

[Cy Robertson]

A buzzer.

[Martin]

Guess what's all around the buzzard nest. Oh, bones, Bones, bones, bones with meat and junk all over them. Green slime. Just you talking about. Gross.

[Cy Robertson]

Well, we hope you're having a good Thanksgiving, everybody.

[Mike Rowe]

I hope you're having conversation at dinner and not watching us.

[Martin]

Well, tell you, that's just some of the things that you run into when you. You're out in the. In the wilderness or in a beetle.

[Mike Rowe]

Driving around, driving or just going down the asphalt.

[Martin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Cy Robertson]

Well, didn't know we were going with roadkill.

[Martin]

Hey, and life goes on. Believe it or not.

[Mike Rowe]

I almost had a roadkill alligator yesterday. That's kind of interesting for November. November.

[Martin]

That's one thing you don't want to run over.

[Cy Robertson]

A cow.

[Martin]

No, an alligator.

[Uncle Sigh]

What's worse, a cow or alligator?

[Cy Robertson]

I saw somebody had alligator.

[Martin]

That's why you see all these tires that blow out on 18 wheelers. That's why they call them alligators. Because when one ends curl up in the road, you run over it, you fix them, have a big repair bill on your vehicle.

[Mike Rowe]

I thought it's just because they look like alligators.

[Martin]

No.

[Mike Rowe]

How foolish of me.

[Martin]

No, no. Hey, them things will tear a vehicle up.

[Cy Robertson]

An alligator?

[Martin]

No, a stupid blown out tire off a 18 wheeler. Because once you hit it, then there's a reaction. It gets hit. Well, it hits back.

[Cy Robertson]

It's still planting season, Martin.

[Mike Rowe]

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[Cy Robertson]

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[Mike Rowe]

There you go.

[Cy Robertson]

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[Mike Rowe]

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[Martin]

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[Mike Rowe]

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[Cy Robertson]

But what about hitting an alligator?

[Martin]

Well, that's the same thing. You hit him.

[Cy Robertson]

All right, I see. I'm tracking.

[Martin]

He hits back. Unless you kill him outright.

[Cy Robertson]

I get it.

[Martin]

Kind of. Then you're gonna run over and it's like running over a hog. Same thing.

[Cy Robertson]

How many animals have you hit?

[Martin]

Oh, no. Hey, I'm just telling you, he's hit.

[Uncle Sigh]

Every animal there is.

[Martin]

No, it's. Phil hit a hog, too. And I mean, hey, it wasn't a little one.

[Mike Rowe]

It was a big one about has zero firsthand experience. These are all stories from his brothers. Any of them ever hit a human?

[Martin]

Huh?

[Mike Rowe]

Any of them ever hit a human?

[Martin]

Well, I was accused of it.

[Cy Robertson]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Martin]

No, I was.

[Cy Robertson]

No way.

[Carter Owen]

Look.

[Martin]

Cause I went, look.

[Mike Rowe]

What?

[Martin]

It's 4:30, duck hunting season. Okay. 4:30. I'm heading down to Phil's lair.

[Cy Robertson]

I was laying in the road.

[Martin]

Look. I come around carving the road, and I think it's a garbage bag.

[Cy Robertson]

You never want to hit those either.

[Martin]

Well, no, no. So look, in my lane. It's in my lane. So I slow down, get in the other line and go around it. And.

Just struck me crazy when I went around and looked at it and went on when I got it passed as I was going on and I thought. I said, surely that wasn't a body.

So I go on down to the layer.

[Mike Rowe]

Cue the Netflix music.

[Martin]

Yeah. No. So, hey, then here comes Stone. And he said, oh, man, did you just kill somebody? And I said, what are you talking about? He said, I just stopped while ago for a body lying in the road. And I said, I thought I should have stopped and backed up and checked it. I said, I thought it might be a body. I said, you're not pulling my leg. Then Jay strolled up. Jay said the same thing. Yo, Jason, we thought you had just killed him. He said, that's the first thing Stone when he's seen it. Stone said, oh, the old man's run over somebody.

[Mike Rowe]

He got him one.

[Cy Robertson]

Well, I'm glad that didn't. He ended up all right, huh?

[Martin]

No, no. Yeah. No. James got out with a pistol in his hand.

[Cy Robertson]

Oh, boy.

[Martin]

Okay. Because he didn't. You know, you never know what you're going to run up on down there if you're sleeping.

[Mike Rowe]

That's a true statement.

[Cy Robertson]

In the middle of the street, I would go.

[Mike Rowe]

And he was on a stretch of road where everybody dumps their deer bodies, too.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Cy Robertson]

So, yeah, you always.

[Martin]

You're always finding and seeing, like, deer legs where somebody's chopped a deer leg off.

[Mike Rowe]

Yeah.

[Martin]

A whole bunch of guts. Your buzzers on the side of the road, stuff like that. Well, yo. But they both. So they. They call the law and said, hey, look, come down here. There's someone laying in the middle of the highway. And they said, well, is he dead? And they said, no, he's alive. I don't know what he's on.

[Mike Rowe]

Not yet, no.

[Martin]

Yeah, he's not dead yet, but, hey, I don't know what he's on, but y' all need to come get him. Yeah.

[Mike Rowe]

And here. Here I was thinking we were going to play a video game.

[Cy Robertson]

Yeah.

[Mike Rowe]

I thought we were having a special episode.

[Martin]

Oh, hey.

I'll give you an alert if you go south on 34.

[Cy Robertson]

Okay.

[Martin]

And go down red. Be careful. Be. Be a defensive driver.

[Cy Robertson]

Be a defensive driver.

[Martin]

There's never any telling what you're going to see down there on 34 and red gut Loop. Because, I mean, I think for all.

[Cy Robertson]

The people listening that drive that route, that.

[Martin]

4:30 in the morning. Okay. 4:30 in the morning. See something white up there? Well, It's. It's about 18 degrees out. Okay. It's cold. It's a yeti, yo. And I come. I come by this. What I saw from a distance was white. Well, it's a. It's a young man in his underwear.

[Cy Robertson]

What?

[Martin]

That's all he's got on. Pair of underwear. Been there, you know, this is on that road. This is 4:30am in the morning. It's cold.

[Mike Rowe]

Timing checks out, you know, I'm talking about who.

[Cy Robertson]

Okay, wait, this was you?

[Mike Rowe]

No, it wasn't me. I'm just saying.

[Martin]

I bet it was just somebody and you just.

[Cy Robertson]

Good to see you. Good morning.

[Martin]

Oh, I didn't say good morning to him. I just went around and went on ducking.

[Cy Robertson]

You didn't offer him a ride?

[Martin]

Nope. Probably was another time coming around the corner. Okay, what is this? There's an abandoned vehicle with a trailer on the back of it dead in the middle of the road. Yeah.

[Cy Robertson]

That'S your brakes.

[Martin]

My brakes? Yeah, you know what I'm saying?

And hey, it's just a couple of dudes in a pickup truck that broke down. And, hey, they didn't even push it off the side of the highway. They're just sitting there in the dark.

[Cy Robertson]

That's not as exciting as a man.

[Martin]

So I back up, put it four wheel drive and go in the ditch, go around them and. Hey, wait. Keep going.

[Cy Robertson]

You didn't just get another lane. You went in the ditch.

[Mike Rowe]

We got to stay on your side of the road. Yeah.

[Martin]

Hey, they had the road covered. You had to go in the ditch. Oh, no. The trailer was back knives, whatever.

[Mike Rowe]

Jack knife.

[Cy Robertson]

Back knife trailers.

[Martin]

They covered the whole. They covered the whole road, both lanes.

[Cy Robertson]

That's wild.

[Mike Rowe]

Well, I got a ride with you more often.

[Cy Robertson]

Yeah. Your whole life sounds like a video game.

[Mike Rowe]

I got a pretty boring trail.

[Uncle Sigh]

You can do all of those things in this video game.

[Cy Robertson]

Like what have you brought us today?

[Martin]

What are y' all going to play?

[Cy Robertson]

I have no idea. What's up?

[Uncle Sigh]

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[Cy Robertson]

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[Cy Robertson]

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[Cy Robertson]

Carter, do you want to intro it?

[Carter Owen]

Yep.

[Cy Robertson]

Start, start the show, son.

[Carter Owen]

Hit it.

[Cy Robertson]

Well, he already hit it. Okay, say, welcome back to the duck call room.

[Carter Owen]

Welcome back, my. Welcome back, my peeps.

[Martin]

There you go.

[Cy Robertson]

Our peeps are back in the house, ladies and gentlemen. Size here. Martin's here, and one of our recurring guests is here. And he's still in a tux. He's in his presidential suit, but with.

[Carter Owen]

I say he's by acting shoe of Zazu from the. From the play that happened last week.

[Cy Robertson]

He was in a play last week as the Lion King. We showed it to Sal on YouTube. And Carter, Owen is in the house.

[Carter Owen]

Yeah, we showed it to Psy minutes ago.

[Cy Robertson]

Okay, well, look at psy and Martin instead of the camera.

[Mike Rowe]

No.

[Cy Robertson]

Is that beak in your way?

[Mike Rowe]

Hey, we're not his peeps, bro. He's talking to his people, his peace, and I support that.

[Martin]

That's right. That's right. Talk to your people.

[Mike Rowe]

Break the fourth wall. Look in that camera, man.

[Martin]

That's right.

[Carter Owen]

Yeah. Break the first, third, first, second, third. And hit the fourth wall with a bowling ball.

[Martin]

There you go.

[Carter Owen]

Falls over. Boom. Tear down these walls. Run in for freedom.

[Cy Robertson]

For freedom. Okay, speaking of tearing down the wall, we got to talk about your play, because we've been talking about it, and you were Zazu, right?

[Carter Owen]

Yeah.

[Cy Robertson]

Did you ever tear down the fourth wall in that?

[Carter Owen]

All of them.

[Mike Rowe]

All.

[Martin]

All of them.

[Cy Robertson]

So I was on the second row for two. Two days. Carter looked up, he gave his line, looked back at Simba, then looked at me and gave me a thumbs up in the middle of the play.

[Martin]

Well, there you go.

[Cy Robertson]

What were you thinking?

[Carter Owen]

I just wanted to show you that I was doing good. Not to brag.

[Martin]

Hey, not to brag when you know you're doing it right. Hey, give them thumbs up, boys.

[Mike Rowe]

Oh, man. So Carter was this year big acting debut. Is this the first one?

[Martin]

And hey.

[Cy Robertson]

Hey, it's a podcast, so if you nod your head, the people listening can't.

[Carter Owen]

Well, so the first four I did singing only, and then I went into acting.

[Cy Robertson]

Okay, what were the first four?

[Carter Owen]

So the first one in first grade.

[Cy Robertson]

Oh, first, second, third, and fourth grade just sings as a group. The fifth graders get the major roles. So it was his year, and he had. You had to try out and everything, didn't you?

[Mike Rowe]

Is that because technically they're going to middle school? This is like the big finale of.

[Cy Robertson]

Elementary at our school.

[Mike Rowe]

Okay, that's cool.

[Martin]

Have you got any plans to be on Broadway in New York City?

[Carter Owen]

I'm going to work on the presidential thing.

[Martin]

Well, hey, there you go.

[Cy Robertson]

So you're already done with that. This is just a.

[Martin]

This was just a trial.

[Mike Rowe]

It's just a. Resume builder. Yeah, resume builder. No big, you know, no big deal.

[Cy Robertson]

No big deal. So hold on. But you had. Did you tell them about tryouts? How was that?

You got to tell them. You can't just give them a thumbs up.

[Carter Owen]

It was good.

[Cy Robertson]

So. So you walked in and the tryout wasn't like, hey, you're trying out for a certain part. But you walked in and said, y' all just play the karaoke version of Zazu and I'm gonna sing it.

[Martin]

Right.

[Carter Owen]

Actually, it was always Simba and not Zazu, and I still know the part.

[Cy Robertson]

And you. He just. They were trying out for Simba. He goes, y' all want me to do Zazu real quick and. Just nailed it.

[Carter Owen]

Really nailed it.

[Mike Rowe]

Nailed it.

[Carter Owen]

Hot glue, alien tape, duct tape, normal tape.

[Cy Robertson]

Are you just talking about different adhesives?

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Mike Rowe]

Yeah. That's how bad he stuck it, baby. Stuck it.

[Martin]

That's right.

[Mike Rowe]

Just call him Stucco. I love it. Carter, you gotta look about yourself. So what about. What about Zazu intrigued you? Because you could try out for any character, right? Like, you could have been Scar.

[Carter Owen]

Well, so, I mean, you didn't want to die? No, I just. So, like. Like, this is what I say. So after the third. So after, like, the. The play in fourth grade.

[Martin]

Yep.

[Carter Owen]

I was thinking of in fifth grade. It should be up. So I want to be Kevin the bird.

[Martin]

He wanted to be a bird.

[Carter Owen]

The Lion King. So that. I was like, there's a bird named Zazu in it. I'm just gonna try out for that. Nail it to the wall, glue it, hot glue all those other stuff, and boom. Got to put.

[Mike Rowe]

Okay.

[Cy Robertson]

Nailed it.

[Martin]

I love it when he nailed it. He nailed it.

[Mike Rowe]

Boy, I love it, man. The. What was your favorite Zazu song?

[Carter Owen]

Just Can't Wait to Be King.

[Mike Rowe]

Oh, the big one.

[Cy Robertson]

The big one. He did. I'm gonna.

[Mike Rowe]

I was a big fan of I'm a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.

[Cy Robertson]

Well, that. That part wasn't in it.

[Martin]

Oh, what they had to cut out there?

[Mike Rowe]

Well, you gotta cut. You gotta cut out part of it.

[Cy Robertson]

Yeah.

[Carter Owen]

Because it was, like, only a two hour show.

[Mike Rowe]

Okay.

[Cy Robertson]

It was a long show.

[Mike Rowe]

Only a two hour show.

[Carter Owen]

Two hours. 2 hours and 10 minutes. 230 minutes. Something like that.

[Cy Robertson]

Hold on. Oh, yeah, that's.

[Martin]

Okay.

[Cy Robertson]

Hold on. Yeah, he knew all the light. We ain't doing the parts you didn't do.

[Mike Rowe]

No, I don't know why. That's my Favorite one for Zazu. When I think of Zazu, that's what I think about. Did you get to stand in.

[Carter Owen]

I think of boots.

[Mike Rowe]

Did you get to, like, stand in some rib cages and, like. Because they put you in there for jail. None of that.

[Cy Robertson]

That part. That. That little scene was.

[Carter Owen]

I was. I. I only, like. I was only, like, the Only. My last scene was the stampede scene for some reason.

[Mike Rowe]

Okay.

[Cy Robertson]

You came back after that, though. Well, that's kind of the Lion King. Zazu starts it off with the comedy, then Timon and Pumbaa come in and carry it the rest of the way. Okay, you don't have to. I'm so sick of the Lion King.

[Mike Rowe]

You've had enough.

[Cy Robertson]

At what point are you gonna stop singing the Lion King at the house?

[Carter Owen]

I don't know.

[Mike Rowe]

Until he gets that Emmy.

[Martin]

That's right.

[Cy Robertson]

He gets that.

[Mike Rowe]

Gets that.

[Cy Robertson]

Amy, that's so funny. Well, but your cousin was rafiki, and she absolutely nailed it. Okay.

[Mike Rowe]

Huh?

[Cy Robertson]

But. But so, like, which cousin? Lindley. Jenna's youngest.

[Mike Rowe]

Okay, so there was. Y' all had two iconic part. I mean, we were pretty sure people, like, wanted Simba, and I meant. Nah, nah, man.

[Cy Robertson]

So she walks out on the stage and it is dark, and they put a spotlight on that little fifth grade girl. There's that.

[Carter Owen]

She's not little and she's in fifth grade, so that pretty much means almost in middle school.

[Cy Robertson]

Okay, you preteen?

[Carter Owen]

Almost. A preteen or teenager?

[Mike Rowe]

Give him some credit, man.

[Martin]

All right, all right.

[Carter Owen]

Yeah.

[Cy Robertson]

So this fifth grade girl walks out, it's dark, and they just shine a spotlight on her, and she just has to start the whole thing with a nice.

[Carter Owen]

And she kind of like a Broadway.

[Cy Robertson]

Yeah, she crushed it.

[Mike Rowe]

What do they actually say there? Because I always say jalapeno.

[Cy Robertson]

You'd have to ask Lynn.

[Mike Rowe]

Jalapeno. I mean, that's what it sounds like.

[Carter Owen]

It's not. It's not. It's not.

That's how you nail it.

[Cy Robertson]

Quit talking about nailing it.

[Mike Rowe]

I love this kid.

[Carter Owen]

Sorry.

[Cy Robertson]

Sorry.

[Martin]

He's got it down.

[Cy Robertson]

All right, well, that was. That was our last week. We have the Presidential Kings. Major Domo quarter. Do you have anybody you want to thank or anything you want to say about?

[Carter Owen]

I like to thank Ms. Lindy, Ms. Tara, Ms. Erin.

The guy who. Who inspired us with speeches. The guy. The people who made, like, the sets and special effects. The cameraman.

[Mike Rowe]

You know, you're the reason they started putting a timer on them speeches.

[Cy Robertson]

Hey, I got mom and dad and Jesus and God you got a chance, man. You just nailed your.

[Carter Owen]

It's Paul.

[Cy Robertson]

Who's Paul? You know, the apostle from the Bible.

[Carter Owen]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Okay.

[Cy Robertson]

You're talking about Mr. Billy, right?

[Carter Owen]

Yeah. Mr. Billy.

[Cy Robertson]

Mr. Billy. I. I've got to bring this up because I finally. I saw a video and I was just like, only Carter. So Mr. Billy's got them all there before the last day. He's like, y' all know your part. You're prepared. You've got this. And then, you know how there's always that one kid that's like, all fired up and trying to get everybody else fired up?

[Martin]

This guy.

[Carter Owen]

Hi.

[Cy Robertson]

Yeah. What did you stand up and tell your classmates before y' all got up there?

[Carter Owen]

Well, I stand up and said, the only thing we fear is fear itself. Says Franklin Roosevelt.

[Cy Robertson]

And they all went, okay, okay.

[Mike Rowe]

None of them kids know who FDR is.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Cy Robertson]

Not many people get fired up about the presidents like you.

[Carter Owen]

I'm just smart. I'm an expert about president.

[Cy Robertson]

You are an expert about.

[Martin]

All right, there you go.

[Mike Rowe]

You're also an expert. Bluebird.

[Martin]

That's it.

[Mike Rowe]

What kind of bird is Azu?

[Carter Owen]

Red built hornbill. He's not a turtle.

[Cy Robertson]

He's a red billed hornbill.

[Martin]

Yeah, a red bill hornbill.

[Cy Robertson]

Oh, yeah, that looks like Zazu.

[Martin]

Yeah, there you go.

[Mike Rowe]

Okay.

[Carter Owen]

John Oliver.

[Mike Rowe]

Because y', all, you know, he got that toucan look about him kinda. And that's why I didn't know what. What bird they were using for inspiration.

[Cy Robertson]

To be fair, this costume was not done by an expert. It was done by me and Allison. So we really toucan the beak up.

[Mike Rowe]

Oh, I'm not even talking about him. I'm talking about in the movie.

[Carter Owen]

And plus, here's the fun fact of the day. Did you know that Zazu that the name Zazu means protector?

[Mike Rowe]

Because I do now.

[Martin]

No, I didn't know that.

[Mike Rowe]

I do now.

[Cy Robertson]

I've been really diving into that.

And I didn't know that. Is that real? Did you make that up?

[Carter Owen]

No.

[Martin]

No. Okay.

[Carter Owen]

I. I looked it up on the Internet.

[Mike Rowe]

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[Cy Robertson]

I spent all weekend in the slippers and the towels. And who doesn't like a good gift?

[Mike Rowe]

Amen.

[Cy Robertson]

It's the easiest gift you can give.

[Martin]

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[Mike Rowe]

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[Martin]

There you go.

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[Cy Robertson]

I do have a good picture, though. Check this out. Look at this dude. That is Carter and his cousin Rafiki holding up Simba. At the beginning, I was mesmerized by what these fifth graders pulled off.

[Mike Rowe]

Oh, that's Rafiki back there.

[Cy Robertson]

Yeah, it's Pride rock, man.

[Mike Rowe]

Okay, you've seen. I was just trying to make sure what I was looking at there.

[Cy Robertson]

Okay. No, no, no.

[Carter Owen]

Okay. Sorry.

[Cy Robertson]

Yeah, we're not. We can't sing. Disney's the Lion King come out.

[Carter Owen]

Jaden's actually better.

[Martin]

What?

[Carter Owen]

The newer Simba is actually better.

[Cy Robertson]

The new Simba is better than the old Simba.

[Carter Owen]

Yeah.

[Cy Robertson]

Okay, that is a great. What's the best?

[Carter Owen]

Jaden's like 10 times better than Jonathan Taylor Thomas. No, Jaden.

[Martin]

No.

[Cy Robertson]

Jonathan Taylor Thomas was the original Simba.

[Mike Rowe]

Really? Jtt, that was him.

[Carter Owen]

Yeah.

[Cy Robertson]

But what's your opinion?

[Carter Owen]

Actually played Simba, John Oliver, he was pretty. He pretty much couldn't see.

John Oliver's.

[Cy Robertson]

News as a Mr. Bean's old zazzu.

[Carter Owen]

Mr. Bean, he was actually really good.

[Cy Robertson]

Yeah, Mr. Bean was the original.

[Mike Rowe]

I really got to start watching the credits on these movies.

[Cy Robertson]

Hang out with Carter. We watch the credits and we watch movies at our house with subtitles, which I always thought was super annoying until I realized he needed to memorize the line. So that kind of helps.

[Mike Rowe]

Oh, yeah.

[Cy Robertson]

Why do you watch movies with subtitles?

[Carter Owen]

Because I like them. It helps me read.

[Mike Rowe]

There you go.

[Cy Robertson]

It's impossible to read it without them, so.

[Mike Rowe]

Yeah, that's cool. So you like the new. Wait, what's. What's your favorite version of the Lion King? The original.

[Cy Robertson]

Please don't yourself.

[Mike Rowe]

Or is it what y' all just did?

[Carter Owen]

What we just did?

[Mike Rowe]

Okay, we'll drop a YouTube link. We'll let the people decide for themselves.

[Cy Robertson]

Yeah.

[Martin]

Hey.

[Cy Robertson]

Yeah, we'll put it in the. In the show links.

[Mike Rowe]

Well, it's going to be OCS's first ever video to monetize on YouTube. Hey, take that off our tuition. By the way, whatever you make off this video, ocs, take it off the two issue.

[Cy Robertson]

Nah, we're good. We'll just keep paying. Alice.

[Carter Owen]

We're good.

[Mike Rowe]

Yeah. Or that.

[Cy Robertson]

Yeah. All right. Well, buddy, you did. You did crush it, but you do you. We had an episode the other night where you were texting me from your iPad and you were. Panic city.

[Mike Rowe]

Yeah.

[Cy Robertson]

Over a situation. I was like, I got nothing.

[Mike Rowe]

And I received a text that said, if your phone rings, just answer it. From your dad. And I was like, okay.

[Cy Robertson]

I mean, I'm cool, but you couldn't get a hold of Martin?

[Mike Rowe]

I was. I guess I was.

[Cy Robertson]

There's a lot of parental that. He could only call and text me. I was trying to fix it so he could call you, but it didn't work. What was the situation? Carter, tell Cy about it.

[Carter Owen]

There was this, like, moth that was, like, this big. And plus, I don't really. I'm not a big fan of bugs, and I.

[Martin]

You're a bird.

[Cy Robertson]

You eat bugs.

[Mike Rowe]

I get tickled every time either way this beak hits that microphone.

[Carter Owen]

But he came up with the Martin idea. I. I typed I could, but I couldn't type in his phone number, and he said. And his dad downloaded it, but I couldn't even find it.

[Cy Robertson]

Okay.

[Mike Rowe]

There you go.

[Cy Robertson]

So is the moth still in the house?

[Carter Owen]

So now I texted Nana, and then after that, I called dad, and then he was here, and then I was like, help, please, mom, destroy the moth.

[Mike Rowe]

Which one's Nana?

[Cy Robertson]

Allison's moth. This moth was this big. And Allison just closed the door and said, good luck, kids, and left them in there. Yeah. Our house is under siege.

[Carter Owen]

No, I actually closed the doors so they wouldn't. So the moth wouldn't get in. But Lottie was just pretty much just ruining.

[Mike Rowe]

What color was it?

[Carter Owen]

Like, it was brown. Yeah. Okay, well, to have been blue.

[Mike Rowe]

Check out a sphinx moth.

[Cy Robertson]

A sphinx, Mom.

[Mike Rowe]

Well, it could have been, like, a luna moth, which is.

[Cy Robertson]

See, that's why I told you to call Martin, because I don't even know what we're talking about.

[Mike Rowe]

Check out, like, I don't know, just look.

[Cy Robertson]

It was big. According.

[Carter Owen]

That's the one in our house right now.

[Cy Robertson]

Is it still in our house?

[Carter Owen]

Yes. The middle, which is brown. It's just dark brown. Bully. And I couldn't make out the wings.

[Martin]

Yeah, okay.

[Cy Robertson]

He was, too. If you would have left that lizard in the house a few weeks ago, then that lizard would have eaten it.

[Mike Rowe]

Which one of the greatest videos I've ever seen. When that lizard come at you, you got out of there.

[Cy Robertson]

We've already shown the lizard video.

[Mike Rowe]

Pull that up, please.

Oh, man, I love it.

[Cy Robertson]

Carter, will you. I'm gonna tell you right here in front of all our peeps. I've never been probably more proud of you than when you walked out on that stage with all the confidence in the world and sang a song.

[Mike Rowe]

Amen, buddy.

[Cy Robertson]

And you've never scared me worse than when you stopped the whole thing at the end. And I didn't know that that was a thing.

[Carter Owen]

Yeah. I went to go get the picture from my locker room.

[Cy Robertson]

So they were thinking.

[Carter Owen]

Newest with the. With older Simba and move pasta.

[Cy Robertson]

They have a locker. They had a green one.

[Carter Owen]

Found my picture and boom, got a feather, stuck it on there, gave it to Ms. Lindsay.

[Cy Robertson]

So they were thanking Ms. Lindy, and one of the adults told him, hey, after the show, go get the. Go get the picture that we all signed to give to Ms. Lindy. Well, the show's over, but technically not, because they're doing the thank yous. And then Carter's like, oh, I'm supposed.

[Martin]

To do this thing?

[Cy Robertson]

Well, 50, 50, 50, whatever. You were not supposed to do it right then. And he goes, hold on. He goes over the microphone, he goes, I actually have something for Ms. Lindy. It's in my locker. I'll go get it real quick.

Whatever. And so then I'm just like, what has he brought from home?

[Mike Rowe]

The thought of Carter knowing him, obviously, me knowing him, not living with him. But the thought of Carter with a hot mic brought me so much joy.

[Cy Robertson]

In front of three times, 2,000 people.

[Mike Rowe]

Three times to sold out shows.

[Cy Robertson]

And I was just like. And we made it all the way to the end before he was like, hold on, got a gift. But then when you came back out, you stood behind her. You didn't interrupt, which we're working on our interrupting, because he gets very excited.

[Mike Rowe]

Yeah.

[Cy Robertson]

And you did a great job presenting her picture.

[Mike Rowe]

That's awesome.

[Carter Owen]

He's okay. But one Problem about Sazu. People said he's. What? He works for Scar. And I like. I like the video and did my research. He didn't even see. Saw what he did say what happened when. When Scar's like, mufas is dead and Simba's also dead. Let me be king and overthrow the land. Like, the reason he did say he got. He got just wiped out. Can we just pull up that clip?

[Cy Robertson]

I'm not.

[Martin]

I'm not.

[Cy Robertson]

We can't pull up Disney clips, man. We don't own that stuff.

[Carter Owen]

Sorry. Like, we'll get. Let me just tell you what happened.

And then scars, like, would you be quiet? And he slaps him, hits the wall, goes to sleep.

[Cy Robertson]

That is true. Oh, have you watched the Lion King recently?

[Martin]

No.

[Mike Rowe]

Have you ever watched it?

[Carter Owen]

And they also.

And people said how they didn't know. How they know where he. Where Simba and Nala exactly were at the right time. But how we knew was that is that they heard the screaming and laughing of the hyena of Simba, Nala and hyenas.

[Cy Robertson]

Hold on.

[Carter Owen]

And like in the weekly war. And then Mufas is like, hey, yo, do not mess with my son or you're gonna get the whole plot.

[Cy Robertson]

Okay, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on.

[Mike Rowe]

I love it now.

[Cy Robertson]

This isn't even the plot. This is, like fan fiction made up from around the plot. Oh, he's trying to disprove that.

[Mike Rowe]

Oh, okay.

[Carter Owen]

Yeah.

[Cy Robertson]

Because there's rumor that Scar ate Mufasa, but that's probably not true.

[Carter Owen]

Oh, it's true.

[Martin]

Carter, you good?

[Carter Owen]

Sigh. Okay, you're good.

[Cy Robertson]

That's what happens when you tell people's stories that they don't know what you're talking about.

[Carter Owen]

And you got into the movie theater in 1976.

[Cy Robertson]

That was.

[Mike Rowe]

God, I love you.

[Cy Robertson]

Oh, that was great.

[Mike Rowe]

Hunter was over here telling me. He said, sigh, sigh. I'm like.

He'S right here. And then I looked and I was like, oh, that boy don't. That boy don't fell asleep. I. I noticed you were, like, dozing.

[Cy Robertson]

Off here and there for a while. I was like, is he falling asleep? That's what happened.

[Mike Rowe]

He was up all night making that dressing, man. They're doing Thanksgiving tonight.

[Carter Owen]

Okay. Sorry.

[Mike Rowe]

No, you're fine.

[Cy Robertson]

Well, he's old. You should. You should probably check, though, when you're telling a story and people are losing interest.

[Carter Owen]

That'll be like 65.

[Cy Robertson]

They. Hey, they fell asleep on Jesus one time too, man. It's all right. That guy fell out a window when you're tired.

[Martin]

You're tired.

[Mike Rowe]

Yeah. Hey.

[Carter Owen]

What the Sleep.

[Mike Rowe]

And when you need a nap, you need a nap. Hey, he did it every day in the military.

[Cy Robertson]

You got a big night at your grandma's house. Me and Martin are going out to dinner.

[Carter Owen]

I'm staying here for an hour.

[Cy Robertson]

Now it's pretty much over. I just checked the watch. I got to get back to work. And size. Got to go take a nap before he eats Thanksgiving dinner.

[Mike Rowe]

He got to finish making a dress.

[Carter Owen]

Good night.

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Cy Robertson]

All right, dude. Well, any last. Any last things to say about your debut as Zazu and your acting career?

[Carter Owen]

Lion God, please make him be in the show more. And Exazu guys and Mr. Bean keep doing awesome.

[Cy Robertson]

And what about John Oliver? See you, peeps.

[Mike Rowe]

See you peep.

[Carter Owen]

Practice, please.

[Mike Rowe]

Thank you.

[Carter Owen]

All you've ever done was vocalizing.

[Mike Rowe]

Oh, thank you for coming. Carter.

[Martin]

Sam.