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

Summary

Duck Call Room | Episode: “YEET! Uncle Si Reacts to a Viral Animal Attack Gone Wrong”

Date: May 14, 2026
Hosts: Si Robertson, Justin Martin, John-David Owen, John Godwin, Jay Stone, Phillip McMillan, Jacob Mayo

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Episode Overview

In this episode, the Duck Call Room crew dive headfirst into a wild viral news story about a beaver attack in New Jersey, sparking a cascade of hilarious Southern storytelling and deep-dive conversation about beavers, rabies, animal encounters, hunting, and good old-fashioned country know-how. The gang swaps tales about animal run-ins, trapping, culinary oddities, and rural ingenuity, blending irreverent humor with genuine expertise in outdoorsmanship.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Viral Beaver Attack: The Heart of the Episode

[00:07–03:55]

• The News Story: The guys react in real time to a viral video showing a rabid beaver attacking a family fishing at Lake Henry, New Jersey.

  • Martin tries to stream the footage: “Ladies and gentlemen…dead Gummit. There's an ad. I only caught like a second of it.” (00:40)
  • The whole crew offers commentary (over the video): body slams, soccer kicks, and analysis of family members’ reactions.

• Humor & disbelief:

  • Stone: "Leave it to city people to get bit by beaver." (00:54)
  • Phil: “If he comes flew him back again, attack him again.” (00:30)

• Biggest laughs: The group cackles at the kid in crocs and critiques attempts at fending off the beaver.

  • Stone: “This is when we need a boomerang. We need to bring boomerang back.” (02:10)

• Life Lesson:

  • Stone: “Kids, I’ll teach you very valuable lessons.” (01:52)

2. Beavers: Trapping, Ecology & War Stories

[03:55–16:35]

• Beaver Problems on the Robertson Land:

  • Johnny D: “We finally hired an expert...annihilating the beaver population. Dan is as giddy as I've ever seen him.” (05:28)
  • They share Dan the butler’s gruesome “Louisiana Wind chimes” (beaver carcasses as warnings).
  • Phil reveals the devastation beavers cause to trees planted years ago: “If you don't get the beavers, your trees are going to die.” (07:03)
  • Phil: “Beavers has killed more timber than the timber industry right now.” (07:21)
  • Stone: “Is it because we destroyed their wetlands?” (07:36)
  • Crew debates how many beavers it takes to build massive dams (answer: 6–8, not 30!). (08:04–08:23)

• Beaver Resilience:

  • Phil tells how relentless beavers repeatedly rebuilt dams even after using dynamite, rifles, and night hunts:
    “A beaver's just like the Navy seals. They work at night...they're bad to the bone.” (09:22–09:49)

3. Fun Facts & Tall Tales: Giant Beavers, Beavers Around the World

[11:17–13:39]

• Trivia: World record beaver (110 lbs, Wisconsin, 1921). (11:55)
• Phil claims he’s seen a 125-pound beaver.
• Stone: “Did you know there’s only two living species of beaver in the world?” (12:39)
• Discussion of extinct “giant beavers” over 6 feet long during the Ice Age. (13:21)

4. Construction Genius: Nature’s Engineers

[13:41–16:35]

• Detailed description of beaver dam building technique, with Phil in awe:
  • “When a beaver puts something together…he’s like Matt Owens the carpenter when he builds something.” (15:04)
  • Stone: "They're way better than the Army Corps of Engineers." (16:28)
• Crew debates if they could use beavers to fix a leaking dam in Columbia.

5. Rabies, Wild Animals & Conspiracy Theories

[17:28–20:01]

• Rabies in Beavers?
  • Phil: “Chance of a beaver having rabies is like one in a million.” (19:35)
  • Stone: “From 2011 to 2020, there were only two confirmed rabies cases in the United States in beavers.” (19:48)
  • Martin jokes: “That kid should have bought a lottery ticket.” (19:44)
• Discussion of how beavers would even catch rabies (must be bitten by rabid animals).

6. Southern Cuisine & Wild Game

[26:44–32:23]

• Possum and sweet potatoes as a Southern food,
  • Phil: "Nope, anything that will do what they do, nope."
  • Cooking beaver—Stone: "People often describe beaver meat as dark and rich, like beef."
• Phil on skinning beavers:
  • “You talking about a pain in the rear end to skin a beaver.” (29:23)
• Long tangent on boiling shrimp vs. crawfish, best cooking techniques, and old family recipes.
• Stone: “Shrimp is fantastic. Crawfish is the bottom.” (32:42)

7. Trapping, Craftsmanship, and Folk Legends

[38:00–41:55]

• Johnny D describes visiting an old Cajun craftsman (Dale Borlau) who makes duck calls by hand, no electricity—all old-world skills.
• Phil reminisces about family members who made handmade fly baits, calls, and hunted everything.

8. Giant Fish & Turtles: More Outdoor Adventures

[41:55–53:50]

• Alligator gar fishing—stories about accidentally snagging monster gar, turtles, and spoonbill paddlefish.
  • "The largest confirmed alligator gar: 327 pounds." (44:05)
• Turtle tales:
  • “Seven different types meats on one...loggerheads.” (51:41)
  • Hilarious story of a 450-pound snapping turtle chained in a yard and "[charged] kids five dollars a ride." (50:36)

9. Closing with Faith and Gratitude

[53:23–53:45]

• Martin shares Revelation 4:11 to tie up a conversation about the diversity of God’s creatures:

  • “You are worthy our Lord and God to receive glory and honor and power. For you created all things and by your will they were created and have their being.” (53:38)

• Phil: “And one of them, the greatest one is a duck-bill platypus!” (53:45)

• Stone: “That’s a different show.” (53:50)

• Johnny D: “Tune in next time for 40 minutes of duck-bill platypus.” (53:58)

• The episode ends with laughter.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Leave it to city people to get bit by beaver.” – Stone (00:54)
• “Beavers has killed more timber than the timber industry right now.” – Phil (07:21)
• “A beaver’s just like the Navy seals. They work at night, okay? Hey, they’re bad to the bone.” – Phil (09:49)
• “Chance of a beaver having rabies is like one in a million.” – Phil (19:35)
• “People often describe beaver meat as dark and rich, like beef, slightly sweet, lean but flavorful.” – Stone (28:22)
• “Shrimp is the top of the line, crawfish is the bottom.” – Phil (32:43)
• "You talking about a pain in the rear end to skin a beaver." – Phil (29:23)
• “That’s a different show.” – Stone, after Phil pivots to the duck-bill platypus (53:50)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [00:07–03:55]: Viral Beaver Attack—Live reactions and breakdown
• [03:55–16:35]: Beaver management, trapping tales, and ecology
• [19:35–20:01]: How rare is rabies in beavers, official stats
• [28:22–32:23]: Wild game cooking (beaver, possum, crawfish)
• [38:00–41:55]: Folk craftsmanship and Louisiana traditions
• [41:55–48:30]: Monster gar and giant turtle stories
• [53:23–53:45]: Bible verse wrap-up and final banter

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Conclusion & Tone

Energetic, irreverent, and loaded with the outdoorsy wisdom and silliness one expects from the Duck Call Room, this episode takes a simple viral animal news story and transforms it into an uproarious, knowledge-packed tour of southern wildlife, family legends, and the unpredictable life of folks who live close to the land and the water. Through outlandish “Did you know?” moments, friendly ribbing, and stories that only get taller, the Duck Commanders make beaver attacks—and much more—hilarious and uniquely their own.

Transcript

[Martin]

Foreign.

[Phil]

Did y' all see where that beaver attacked that kid?

[Stone]

Well, time out. I'm out.

[Martin]

Welcome back.

[Stone]

Welcome back to the duck call room. We gotta welcome everybody lose our manners. Where did a beaver attack a kid?

[Johnny D]

I saw that.

[Phil]

Hey, I've seen it on television.

[Stone]

Do what?

[Phil]

He bit him on the leg.

[Stone]

A beaver?

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Stone]

Bit a kid?

[Phil]

Yeah, the guy. Hey, he grabbed him and threw him back in the water.

[Stone]

Well, why would you throw him back?

[Phil]

If he comes flew him back again, attack him again.

[Martin]

I'm already on it. Oh, my goodness.

[Stone]

Yeah, a beaver.

[Martin]

Ladies and gentlemen, if you have not. Oh, dead Gummet. There's an ad. I only caught like a second of it.

[Stone]

I need you to throw this on a big screen. By the way.

[Martin]

Rabid beaver attacks family fishing at Lake Henry in New Jersey.

[Phil]

Yep. There you go.

[Stone]

See? Jersey.

[Phil]

Oh, leave it. Leave it to city people to get bit by beaver.

[Martin]

Leave it to beaver.

[Stone]

Hey, leave it to the beaver.

[Martin]

How do I.

[Phil]

Hey, watch out. Watch out.

[Johnny D]

Here we go.

[Phil]

You got him by the leg. Look, he pulled him off of him. Hey, hey, look at him. Look at him. Hey, look, look. He's after him, boys.

[Stone]

I like the one in the crocs trying to.

[Phil]

Hey, yeah.

[Stone]

Hey, that's how Jackson throws a fish back. Just like. What's the dog doing?

[Phil]

Hey, dog, you supposed to be hitting the beaver. Sip, son. What?

[Stone]

Here he come back. He coming back.

[Phil]

He's coming back in the world.

[Johnny D]

Ever say that?

[Stone]

When beavers attack.

[Martin]

Sigh. You saw this on the news?

[Phil]

Yeah,

[Martin]

I gotta go back to the beginning.

[Phil]

Hey, I thought it was.

[Martin]

That's the kid.

[Phil]

Hey, I thought it was hilarious.

[Martin]

Getting bit by the beaver. They. They. Yeah, Body slam the beaver. And then this kid's fallen trying to get away.

[Johnny D]

Soccer kick.

[Stone]

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 teach you very valuable lessons.

[Martin]

I could watch this over and over.

[Stone]

This is when we need a boomerang. This is what we need to bring boomerang back.

[Phil]

Oh, man, I like the kid. Grabbed him, body slammed him in the water.

[Stone]

He just said, no. Get up out and look at my. Look at my big fella over there.

[Martin]

This kick is awful though.

[Stone]

I feel like calling that big fella a kid is a serious misrepresentation.

[Johnny D]

Oh, yeah. What's she gonna do? That little stick.

[Stone]

Yeah, I get you got the mighty.

[Martin]

What news channel do you watch to get this news?

[Phil]

It was just. I Was watching it just come on.

[Stone]

According to that, you need to watch storyful, whatever that is.

[Martin]

That's.

[Stone]

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?

[Phil]

Yeah, that's what he had. He's messing with a lot.

[Stone]

Yeah. Now, I've never seen one attack, but you go kick it in something's house. I mean, when we go tear out a dam and stuff, you're ready for a fight. They just go the other way because we shoot them.

[Phil]

That's why Phil Robertson, when he wants to do that, he has. He had some kind of weapon on him.

[Stone]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Phil]

Okay. Either the M16 or 22 was.

[Johnny D]

Beavers are relentless.

[Phil]

Oh, no.

[Martin]

That sucker was going back for more.

[Johnny D]

Oh, yeah.

[Martin]

I would have thrown him against that tree.

[Johnny D]

It was one of the greatest things I've ever seen.

[Martin]

I have a question, though. Who the heck was filming that and how did they not just die laughing? I would have dropped.

[Phil]

That's a good one right there. You got it on.

[Stone]

Does it make you question every video you see on social media by now? Like, I mean, I do. Is this a. Is this. Does somebody make this in a lab

[Johnny D]

or what's the odds of somebody with a phone at the ready while all that was going on?

[Stone]

Yeah. Standing there, catching a big boy. Get.

[Martin]

Oh, man.

[Stone]

That hauled on by a beaver.

[Martin]

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 gnaws. What if your job was to be a news reporter and you got sent out to the lake where a kid got bit by rabid beaver?

[Johnny D]

A rabid beaver.

[Phil]

He wasn't a rabid beater. The beaver just bit him.

[Martin]

It had rabies. They tested.

[Phil]

How did I say it had rabies? Look. Hey, we're duck hunting, okay? Blue winged teal. And hey, blue winged teal comes in lights, okay? And they. The film. The guy filming. Here comes a big cottonmouth. Well, hey, the blue winged teal just attacked that cottonmouth.

[Johnny D]

I remember that. Yeah.

[Phil]

Pecking him. Just chasing him and pecking him. And I mean, that cottonmouth was. Hey, it's about big. Is that right there? I think that was about five foot. Five foot long.

[Johnny D]

Johnny D. 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 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.

[Phil]

Oh, he's doing that now.

[Johnny D]

Oh yeah, okay. Yeah, that's either him or me though. He's doing it well.

[Martin]

And the photo you sent me?

[Johnny D]

Oh, I sent Johnny D a picture. 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.

[Phil]

Oh, he'll make you happy.

[Johnny D]

So he, he said, well you're fooling

[Phil]

with beavers, they'll make you happy. You get to pop.

[Johnny D]

Dan sent me a picture. The only thing I can describe that picture as is Louisiana Wind chimes.

[Phil]

Louisiana.

[Martin]

Ready for it?

[Johnny D]

S Here it comes.

[Phil]

Let's see what we got. Old Dan's got a look about him, ain't he?

[Stone]

Well, that one's a big.

[Martin]

Do you see what's hanging from the tree?

[Phil]

Yeah, I see it.

[Stone]

That one is a big.

[Martin]

Dan the butler has gone full Lord of the Rings and putting his enemies heads outside.

[Phil]

That's a pretty good sized beaver.

[Stone]

Oh yeah, that one is a big.

[Johnny D]

Oh yeah.

[Martin]

So he is that like a warning

[Johnny D]

to all the other beavers? That's what in his mind he.

[Phil]

Oh hey, that's a trophy.

[Johnny D]

Discouraging beavers from, from being on the

[Stone]

premise he done messed around and got the whole fam family.

[Johnny D]

Oh yeah.

[Martin]

And put them up to warn the rest of the world. You come down here, this is what happened.

[Phil]

Hey, all I think about this. To the trees. To the trees. They went wrong direction.

[Johnny D]

You know what, what aggravated me the most? You know, Phil planted a bunch of cypress trees down there about what, 17 years ago? Yeah, boy, they're looking good too. And I went down there last month and the beavers had done cut at least a dozen of them.

[Phil]

Oh no, I don't.

[Johnny D]

Right around the lake.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Johnny D]

And was building a dam in the creek and 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 angry. Because if you don't get the beavers, your trees are going to die.

[Phil]

They're a scourge.

[Johnny D]

Oh, they're a scourge.

[Phil]

Look, beavers has killed more timber than the timber industry right now. You got to think about that. Beavers have have killed more trees than the stupid timber industry.

[Stone]

Now to play devil's advocate, is it because we Destroyed their wetlands.

[Phil]

Well, it may be. Yeah, well, it's always been a war.

[Stone]

Now, I'm not a fan of the beaver, mind you. Did you see mine and my kids saga with Crunchy last year?

[Johnny D]

Yeah.

[Stone]

I remember trying to flood this. That's the same problem they always have. You try to put some water somewhere, they stop it. You try to pull water from somewhere, they stop it.

[Phil]

Oh, they had.

[Stone]

Why can't we just work together, guys? Like all we got to do is work together.

[Johnny D]

Well, that's crazy. You talk about two beavers built that huge deal. Well, I asked the beaver commander, I asked him, I said, how many beavers you think is doing all this? Because they don't cut down 12 trees, two giant dams within a few days. And how many beavers? I was thinking 30 beavers. He said about six to eight total.

[Phil]

No, hey, look, our guy lost 10 acres of hardwood on Red River. A 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 a down back. And he just woke up there one day after he blew it, blew it three or four times, you know, and his foreman, he said, hey, boss, you, you lost all that timber? He said, what do you mean lost it? He said, hey, you're blowing their dam. Well, they're cutting your trees down and rebuilding the dam with it, you know. So boss, you know, he goes by, look, 10 acres of hardwood timber gone. Then he started saying, hey, piss on the dynamite, kill these suckers long, you know, high powered rifles at night. What's the result? See, at night stuff.

[Stone]

Thermal.

[Phil]

Thermal. Oh, that is all out war. Guess what? He finally gave it up. He blew it. Shot him at night. Nope. They come back. Hey, you talking about resilience, okay? A beaver, he ain't got no quilt. A beaver's just like the Navy seals. They work at night, okay? Hey, they're bad to the bone.

[Johnny D]

They are.

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[Stone]

Is that why the Buc ee's mascot is a beaver? Because you know you're gonna stop? Is it like creating a dam? You say I gotta stop here.

[Martin]

It does create a.

[Stone]

A log jam for sure.

[Martin]

A jam I don't know about a dam.

[Stone]

Yeah. We need to ask Mr. Bucky. Is that why we went with beaver? Because that's pretty clever. If so, I never really thought of it. Like it don't.

[Phil]

Okay. They, you know, they, they do some amazing stuff. I google it, see what the biggest beaver on record is.

[Martin]

Hold on. Google the world record.

[Phil]

Yeah. Say what the biggest beaver. Better be careful, buddy. I see one that was hey about 125 pounds.

[Martin]

The heaviest North American beaver on record weighed 110 pounds. Cotton Iron County, Wisconsin in 1921.

[Phil]

That's pretty good.

[Martin]

Typical. But you saw one that was 125.

[Phil]

Oh no. I saw one.

[Stone]

Well you know his story's always got at least a time and a half.

[Johnny D]

Oh yeah.

[Phil]

Hey, I was biggest people being Phil was with it. We didn't have dragging logs in high water from Cheney Lake and take it. It's Phil's property down through.

[Martin]

Oh, Shiny Shiny's back.

[Phil]

Shiny creek.

[Johnny D]

Oh yeah. Looks good.

[Phil]

Took two years. Took two years. I'm serious. High water.

[Stone]

Did you know there's only two living species of beaver in the world?

[Phil]

I didn't know that.

[Stone]

The North American beaver and the Eurasian beaver.

[Johnny D]

Huh.

[Stone]

And there's a. I bet them Russian

[Phil]

beavers are Eurasian beavers. Little he's. He's a he's a miniature.

[Martin]

Wait, what?

[Phil]

He's a miniature beaver.

[Stone]

You think so, huh?

[Phil]

I'm serious. Who the Eurasian Eurasian beaver is? He's a small.

[Stone]

Oh, I don't know.

[Phil]

That is like you got a Canadian honker. He's large. But look, you got the lesser, lesser Canadian. He's about, oh, a little bit bigger than a mallard, right?

[Stone]

Hey, I got one for you though. There's a much older extinct giant beaver.

[Martin]

Oh yeah.

[Stone]

Live during the ice age and could grow over six foot long.

[Johnny D]

Six foot.

[Phil]

I believe that because, hey, I seen one about 125lbs. He was an ancestor of that one.

[Stone]

What you, what you do if you run into a six foot beaver though?

[Phil]

You better have some kind of firearm.

[Stone]

Imagine if old boy. Imagine if old boy in Jersey would have been.

[Phil]

Unless you like story you're good with a knife.

[Martin]

Yeah, If I say, yeah, it was

[Johnny D]

me about you pull that trigger till it clicks.

[Phil]

Look, you, hey, you ever heard him slap him tails?

[Martin]

Yeah.

[Phil]

You ever looked at a beaver down tore it apart. Hey, this thing is well put together and I that tail. Hey, look, in that movie I was telling you about it, that video when they was at full bore, it was about 25 beavers. Half of them 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 rams the brush in the thing. Then the guy, the other one slams mud in there. And then you hear bow, pow, pow, pow.

[Stone]

Knock the mucus loose. Oh no, you need one to slap you on the back right now. Get that out of there.

[Phil]

Hey, well, they put that stuff in there. It's made, buddy.

[Johnny D]

So they're like a bunch of bricklayers.

[Phil]

Oh no, I'm serious.

[Johnny D]

You got a mudman, you got a

[Phil]

stick man, You, I mean you, if you never did it, you would not believe how you know. Because I had to weld feel a iron four prong trident, rake, rake, rake. Yeah, I had to weld it because he kept breaking shovels, you know. So he said, hey, weld me up something that won't break. So that's what I did. I had a 2 inch pipe and then had a 4 prong rakle in it. And hey, when a beaver puts something together during this heart, he's like. And they're like Matt Owens, the carpenter when he builds something.

[Martin]

Oh, Mac. Hey, buddy. Matty Owens and Mac Owen.

[Phil]

Different characters. There's two Owens.

[Martin]

No, no, no, there's no s. Don't you combine us with them s folk.

[Phil]

But hey you start ain't no o n's. You start tearing something apart. A beaver put together. You got us a work all those

[Johnny D]

sticks and branches there they put them in at different angles. Make it stronger.

[Phil]

No, no man. Oh hey.

[Johnny D]

They're layered on.

[Phil]

They're one of the best builders.

[Martin]

I'm telling you. We need to come down to the art river.

[Phil]

Oh 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.

[Stone]

Well, I'm talking about way better than army corps of engineers.

[Phil]

Oh hey hey. That puts all whole visitors a shame.

[Martin]

Hey you think we could do that?

[Stone]

Did you know that we could go

[Martin]

trap like 20 beavers and put them down there in Columbia and see if they can fix the dam.

[Phil]

They would fix.

[Stone]

There's at least 20 beavers already.

[Johnny D]

They would they're there.

[Martin]

Well I need them to fix it. How do we get them to fix it?

[Stone]

I don't think they do a lot of underwater construction. Yeah because the problem there is I'm saying up under the dam they're going

[Phil]

to have to underneath because hey they got. They got they drilled tunnels.

[Stone]

Okay. The problem is there's already a hole.

[Phil]

I know but. No, no, they build tunnels though in a. In a dam. Yeah. You are man made dam.

[Johnny D]

This hole is about 40 foot below the surface.

[Stone]

That's going to be a toughie. We're going to have to get them some. Some oxygen. We're going to have to get them some tanks or something.

[Martin]

I'll get them. I will fund the research.

[Stone]

Beaver attacks are a little more common than I ever even thought they might be though. You know I had to. I had to look online after.

[Martin]

Is that what you've been doing over there?

[Stone]

Yeah, I had to look it up.

[Martin]

Look it up Beaver attack.

[Phil]

Why? You gotta figure it out. There's been more imposing just one on their territory.

[Stone]

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?

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Stone]

I won't go look at it. I mean I know, me too right. I'm go check it out and then I just got too close because it probably had baby beaver and rabies.

[Phil]

I was just fixating that will cause that would bring an attack at the

[Stone]

narrative however you need it to dispose

[Phil]

of the that would bring an attack if they had young.

[Martin]

Are you claiming the government is not telling us the Truth about this beaver's attack.

[Stone]

I am. I'm just saying.

[Martin]

You're saying it might not have had rabies.

[Stone]

I don't think that beaver woke up that morning and said, you let the deck 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.

[Phil]

It's. It's that guy. I will say. I will say this, okay? Yo, he would have had to got bit by a rabbit, a coyote or wolf.

[Johnny D]

The beaver got bit by that.

[Phil]

That's the only way they're going to have it because, hey, look, all they do is knock trees down. So to have rabies, not. You would have to have a wolf or a coyote had it and bit him. Fight.

[Martin]

Yeah, that's. But that's how you get rabies. You get bit by something with.

[Phil]

Well, no, no, but I'm just saying

[Martin]

that's what happened to old Yellow.

[Phil]

That would be odd.

[Stone]

Rabies in wild beavers is very rare.

[Martin]

Oh, here we go.

[Phil]

I told you. I told you the conspiracy. I was trying to tell you that.

[Martin]

Look, if Old Yeller can get rabies, so can this. This beaver that attacked.

[Stone]

Look, beavers typically only get rabies spillover infection after being bitten by another rabid animal, right?

[Martin]

Yeah, animals bite each other.

[Stone]

It's a real spider man situation here.

[Phil]

Oh, your head. If I tell you about it, it's true.

[Martin]

I. But I know that's true. That's how you get rabies.

[Phil]

Well, hey, a beaver. A chance of a beaver having rabies is like one in a million.

[Martin]

That kid should have bought a lottery ticket.

[Phil]

Okay, maybe even higher than that.

[Stone]

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.

[Phil]

I'm telling you, because this thing. Only thing he does is he gnaws trees down and builds dams.

[Martin]

And the other thing he does is he gets yeeted back into this lake.

[Stone]

But that does not.

[Martin]

It gets me every time.

[Stone]

That kid up there does not look like that kid in that photo in that other one. I'm sorry, you.

[Martin]

Oh, you're going full conspiracy. You think they got a child?

[Stone]

I think they get. No, I think the kid that they interviewed is the one that chunked him

[Phil]

back in the water most of the time. When you seen Phil shoot a beaver, how big was he? Just average.

[Johnny D]

60, 70, 80 pounds.

[Martin]

How many of them rabies?

[Phil]

Well, no, no, But I'm just telling you, none.

[Stone]

They all died from average.

[Phil]

Average. Okay. He's saying like 75 pounds on average. That's pretty good size. Little animal.

[Johnny D]

They're big.

[Phil]

You know, if you get one okay, that is healthy and has, you know, all everything's going right for him. Oh, he'll get up there 150.

[Stone]

Even though the biggest one's only 110.

[Phil]

I'm seriously, he'll get up there at £150.

[Stone]

What you got? Sigh.

[Phil]

It looks like clothes of some sort.

[Martin]

Oh, he got that poncho stuff. Martin.

[Stone]

Yeah, Poncho, you're gonna look good initially.

[Phil]

Actually pretty good stuff too.

[Stone]

I guarantee you.

[Martin]

You need to pearl snaps and everything.

[Phil]

Sigh.

[Stone]

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[Phil]

Man, Poncho are looking pretty good here, boys.

[Stone]

Pro tip. I got the denim one. Wear it all the time when I'm working outside because it's a little bit thicker. I love it.

[Phil]

These things are really comfortable.

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[Johnny D]

Who's going around checking beavers for abs though? I mean it's a good point.

[Martin]

I've never hey had one test.

[Phil]

Even if they checked them, you think

[Martin]

it flick the test. They're that smart.

[Phil]

Hey, I will challenge the wildlife people. Hey, they're getting Their other buddies to

[Martin]

pee in the cub.

[Phil]

I guarantee you, hey, it'll be like, hey, one out of 30 million.

[Martin]

There's not even 30 million beavers.

[Phil]

Oh, yes, there is.

[Martin]

No, there's 15 million beavers.

[Phil]

You go up north, son, there's 15

[Martin]

million North American beavers.

[Phil]

There's what, 15 million.

[Martin]

So only half of one has rabies.

[Phil]

Hey, 15 millions in Canada, son.

[Stone]

The world. Have we talked about beavers for 30 minutes?

[Phil]

Oh, they're resilient little suckers.

[Johnny D]

Oh, we want to move on to something else.

[Stone]

Not really.

[Martin]

I kind of. I kind of want to go down the rabies rabbit hole. What is rabies virus?

[Phil]

Right.

[Martin]

But like, it just makes you bite. Does it make you bite people? Like, if I got rabies, I don't think it.

[Stone]

I don't think.

[Martin]

But I want to bite.

[Stone]

I don't think it makes you. You just go. You go mad. You get like. Yeah. You get a high fever and it does something to your brain.

[Johnny D]

Oh, I'm at the mouth, I think

[Stone]

is the way rabies works.

[Johnny D]

They all had. They always have the white foam coming out of their mouth.

[Stone]

Yeah, yeah. Especially in them cartoons. Yeah, they really exaggerate.

[Phil]

That is one of them that. That Skunks gets it and so do. What's the little armadillo? Armadillo get rabies.

[Stone]

Thought he was a leper. I thought the armadillo was.

[Martin]

Armadillos get leprosy.

[Phil]

Yeah, they carry, but they. They're subject to that.

[Stone]

Rabies. Yep. That makes sense.

[Phil]

Skunks, definitely. Big time.

[Stone]

I saw.

[Phil]

I mean, I. I've run up on skunks in the woods, had that.

[Stone]

He run up and bite you?

[Phil]

He tried to.

[Johnny D]

I think he's. I think possums get rabies.

[Phil]

Skunks get it. I know skunks get it because I've shot, I've killed skunk. Oh, you know how he attacked me?

[Martin]

They. You get afraid of water too, if

[Stone]

you get that doesn't really fit for a beaver.

[Martin]

Can you imagine how scared he was

[Phil]

when you walk in the air flying. That will be one reason that the beaver don't get it.

[Martin]

Because he don't prefer the water flu like symptoms. But without, you know, you pretty much.

[Phil]

You gone pretty quick.

[Martin]

If you don't get medical attention.

[Phil]

Literally drives you insane.

[Stone]

The leading source of human rabies cases in the United States. Bats number one.

[Johnny D]

Oh.

[Stone]

Raccoons number two.

[Johnny D]

Yep.

[Stone]

The skunk weighing in at number three.

[Phil]

Oh, yeah. I tell you.

[Stone]

And the fox at number four.

[Martin]

Coyote ain't on there yet.

[Stone]

He Is listed under others. Those are your top four. Coyote, bobcat, beaver, cat, dog, cow, horse. Anything with fur pretty much after that.

[Phil]

And I knew about the raccoons that had.

[Stone]

Yeah, rats, mice, rabbits, squirrels.

[Martin]

You know how scary it would be to come across a cow with rabies that was trying to bite you?

[Stone]

Small rodents rarely survive attacks from predators long enough.

[Phil]

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.

[Stone]

I've seen that.

[Martin]

That's just.

[Stone]

Okay, I've seen that on Bath River.

[Johnny D]

Yeah, yeah.

[Stone]

Crash.

[Phil]

That's like. If you lay down with dogs, you're going to get fleas.

[Stone]

If a wild animal bites or scratches somebody. Yeah. Saliva is how it spreads all through saliva.

[Phil]

That's why they have foam. Oh, they rough down because that skunk. It was. It was self defense. I had to kill him or get killed myself.

[Johnny D]

Did y' all ever try to eat a possum?

[Phil]

Well, oh, daddy and mom and them used to cook them all the time. I didn't ever eat them.

[Stone]

Is that the one you eat with sweet potatoes or is that a raccoon?

[Phil]

No, sweet potato, possum and sweet potatoes.

[Stone]

Why'd them two get tied together, you think?

[Phil]

Who knows?

[Stone]

The chicken wins. He got waffles.

[Phil]

Yeah. Hey, I feel.

[Stone]

Shrimp got grits. Possum got a sweet tater.

[Johnny D]

Remember that scene on Lonesome Dove? An old boy skinning that possum out? Yeah. Look about it. Did you ever try the possum?

[Phil]

Nope.

[Stone]

No ever.

[Phil]

Anything that will do what they do

[Stone]

now you've ate a possum. You took a bite when he was a kid. You didn't know nobody. Come on.

[Phil]

No.

[Martin]

Possum and sweet potatoes is a traditional southern United States.

[Phil]

Oh, it's not. Hey, look, my parents and kin folks, they. They all like.

[Martin]

You roast it with the till. Both are tender. And sweet potatoes absorb the rich rendered fat of the piece.

[Phil]

They say that. They say that barbecued raccoon is real good.

[Johnny D]

That's what they say.

[Phil]

Typically, I ain't ate one now.

[Martin]

Baking at 350 degrees for two plus hours, you gotta cook it that long for. Ugh.

[Phil]

There's just. There's just certain things I wouldn't eat. That'd be like a, you know, a cat. I wouldn't eat a cat. They say that what? Cheetah is real good.

[Martin]

Who says that?

[Phil]

Who.

[Martin]

Who says that? Cheetah takes.

[Phil]

Google it and see who says it.

[Johnny D]

Who's they?

[Phil]

Just today, you know, said my Life is good.

[Stone]

People often describe beaver meat as dark and rich like beef, slightly sweet, lean but flavorful.

[Phil]

But it's got a little woodsy flavor.

[Stone]

The tail very fatty and considered a delicacy.

[Phil]

Oh, yeah.

[Martin]

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.

[Phil]

There you go.

[Stone]

This is my favorite part. In places like Louisiana and other parts of the south, some trappers still harvest and eat them today, often cooked in stews, chili, or a slow barbecue.

[Martin]

Barbecue beaver.

[Stone]

We should have. That's. We should have cooked one. Sigh.

[Phil]

What?

[Stone]

Let's get a beaver and cook. Let's make a YouTube video. Uncle Saeed's beaver.

[Phil]

No. Hey, here. No. I tell you why they ain't no good. Why if you skin one.

[Stone]

Yeah. Have you done that? Have you skin him?

[Phil]

Oh, yeah, I've skinned them.

[Stone]

What'd you skin him for? You sell the hide?

[Phil]

Well, yeah, yeah. But anyway, they've. They've got what I call just thousands of fingers of. Of like your belly skin, barely skin abdominal on their body. A beaver does. You talking about a pain in the rear end to skin a beaver. Is it really? Now I understand why that used to let the Indian squalls do it. No, no, I'm serious. I'm serious.

[Stone]

What else did they have to do?

[Phil]

No, no, no, no, I'm serious. Hey, you talking about a pain in the butt. And hey, here's the thing. You got to have a good sharpened wood rock on hand. Cause after you hit that beaver hide about, oh, six or seven times, you gotta sharpen the knife again. Oh, that sucker is tough and will dull a knife blade.

[Stone]

He said, I see why they let them squalls do it now.

[Johnny D]

Yeah, we don't want to mess with them beavers giving them squalls.

[Phil]

Hey, you gotta realize. Hey, here's the thing you gotta realize. All of my uncles, okay, back in the day, run a strap line. All of them trying to make money, and they made a good living at it.

[Stone]

Y' all have a couple of squalls.

[Phil]

Oh, hey, well, they have their wife probably helped them skin that crap out. Because I'm telling you, all of my uncles. Jace run a trap line in high school.

[Martin]

Jase was catching beavers in high school.

[Phil]

Hey, Jase, run a trip line in high school and would, you know, sell the fur. Oh, my goodness.

[Martin]

So you wouldn't eat it if we brought some?

[Phil]

No, you should. There's just some things I'm not going to eat. I'm not an adventurous

[Stone]

connoisseur of perfume made from beaver. What? Beaver.

[Martin]

Oh, yeah. We looked that up one time at that, right?

[Stone]

Yeah.

[Martin]

All I'm saying is, like, you eat crawfish. That's weird.

[Phil]

No, it ain't weird.

[Martin]

It's pretty weird. No, as someone who cooked the sack yesterday, even better. Feels all sweaty.

[Phil]

And shrimp.

[Johnny D]

What about a crawfish pie?

[Phil]

No, anal pie. Forget the pie.

[Martin]

My man hates it.

[Phil]

I'm not into chicken pie. Crawfish pie, all that stuff can feel used to cook.

[Martin]

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.

[Phil]

No, mud buggies are good eating.

[Martin]

They do taste good.

[Stone]

I'm just saying.

[Martin]

I can see where somebody would think we were weird.

[Phil]

The connoisseur. The shrimp is actually good, Yo.

[Martin]

What? Shrimp.

[Stone]

Connoisseur of the shrimp is actually.

[Phil]

Yeah, yeah. Hey,

[Martin]

I was worried.

[Stone]

Y' all wonder why we go through mental gymnastics in here.

[Martin]

I thought I had a stroke for a second. I was like, what did he say?

[Stone]

I'm used to it. It's like talking to my three year old. No, they don't quite finish the full thought.

[Phil]

Shrimp is the next one.

[Martin]

You're saying shrimp's better than crawfish?

[Stone]

Oh, shrimp is fantastic.

[Phil]

Shrimp is the top of the line, crawfish is the bottom.

[Stone]

I'm very thankful I don't have a shellfish alley because I love shellfish.

[Johnny D]

Boiled shrimp, about the best thing.

[Martin]

Well, that's. See, that was what I ran into. All the mothers for Mother's Day wanted me to boil crawfish.

[Stone]

Oh.

[Martin]

And so I was like, okay.

[Phil]

Oh, they're good.

[Martin]

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.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Stone]

No, shrimp are good.

[Phil]

Shrimp. Shrimp is your. Higher, higher.

[Johnny D]

Did your shrimp peel easy?

[Martin]

Oh, I. I threw them in there. Already peeled?

[Stone]

Yeah,

[Phil]

just straightened across.

[Stone]

You just warmed them up?

[Martin]

Spiced them up and warmed them up.

[Phil]

Hey, that's Philip McMillan. Cooks great crawfish.

[Johnny D]

Does he?

[Phil]

Yeah. I was shocked. MacMillan.

[Stone]

That checks out. He's a goulash man.

[Martin]

He cooks great coffee. I was shocked.

[Phil]

Hey, there were tender. And the reason is, is he puts a lot of butter and then they're easier to peel.

[Martin]

I tried that yesterday. I didn't feel like it was any different than normal.

[Phil]

Oh, no, it's a difference.

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[Stone]

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[Martin]

I just still feel swollen from all the salt.

[Phil]

I use it because I'm not a big crawfish eater and I ate like five pounds when Philip cooked it.

[Johnny D]

Look, that bowl and the shrimp is an art form. I, I use the old stale cracker method.

[Martin]

What's the stale cracker?

[Johnny D]

You know. You seen that guy? The stale cracker?

[Martin]

No.

[Stone]

Oh, yeah. He.

[Johnny D]

Wow, man, he's something else. We need to get him on here.

[Stone]

Former. Wasn't he a state trooper?

[Martin]

Oh, that guy's phenomenal.

[Johnny D]

Yeah, he's hilarious.

[Phil]

People can't cook shrimp. Fried shrimp. They can't cook it. They weren't eating.

[Johnny D]

Oh, yeah. Cook it too long. Cook it too long, it gets chewy. No, no, he. When he boils his shrimp, he, he don't use the, the seasoning. He bowls in a clean water for one minute, then he kills the bowl as the seasoning and that makes it where they. The peeling just falls off of them.

[Martin]

Oh, that's interesting.

[Phil]

There's a lot of tricks to that about.

[Johnny D]

You can't.

[Phil]

You can't boil.

[Johnny D]

You can't boil shrimp in salt. Yeah, that makes it stick. Makes the peel sticks.

[Phil]

The one only one that I could really enjoy eating fried shrimp because he had it down. Hey, they hit. They hit hot grease in less than a minute.

[Johnny D]

Oh, Johnny, do you need to do yourself a favor. Watch that guy. He is highly entertaining.

[Stone]

Problem with Phil is you didn't want to be there on fried shrimp day before because then you got the knife and had to sit there and devein. You had to devein a butterfly on for him.

[Johnny D]

We would. We would peel and devein for at least three hours.

[Stone]

Forever. And there is nothing in this world that smells worse. The shrimp heads.

[Johnny D]

That is true.

[Stone]

Shrimp heads make a stank like.

[Phil]

What are you talking about? Especially if you leave them in a yeti cooler on a day or two and then come back. Bad move. Oh, that cooler away. You can't clean it.

[Martin]

You can clean it.

[Phil]

You cannot clean it.

[Stone]

You clean it.

[Phil]

Leave it in there. If you leave shrimp heads in it, you might well burn it.

[Stone]

Oh, ammonia. Ammonia. Get it out of there. I've left worse than that in there. Well, I've left worse than that in a year.

[Johnny D]

Look, I had a pretty cool week last week. I went on somewhat of an adventure and caught me at giant Gar Big. I literally got gar holed. But then on the way back I stopped at in Vols Parish, this old guy named Dale Borlau, O Cajun. He makes his duck calls by hand. And when I say by hand, he uses no electric tool.

[Martin]

Oh goodness.

[Johnny D]

Little pocket knife. Got a three year wait list. But I'd seen him on your way to social media. He's got a thick accent. He carves decoys with hatchets, cuts down the trees with a handsaw. It was pretty awesome. I could have stayed there all day long, but I had to leave. But that guy say you would enjoy his company old timey. He made about a cane. He'd go the woods. He'd cut down cane for his barrels insert. And he used a little cedar for the loser. You know that lose your style inserts in them cane calls. Yeah, man, it was awesome.

[Stone]

Yeah, say if they hate else.

[Phil]

Uncle Wade Charles, one of my uncles.

[Johnny D]

Yeah, that's right.

[Phil]

Look here. He killed every kind of animal there is and birds. And he made baits. Fly, fly rod baits. People told him hey that he should do it and sell them because that just you talking about. You talking about beautiful.

[Stone]

Oh, one of the buddies that we hunt with now has us pick all them feathers for time flies.

[Phil]

Man, there's stone and there he is.

[Johnny D]

Look at that.

[Martin]

He's in overalls in every picture on here. I like my ass.

[Phil]

Yep.

[Johnny D]

I'll tell you, I could have wild

[Stone]

man hey my ancestors.

[Phil]

I don't sit down with him. Just talk to him.

[Johnny D]

Well, guess what? We're going to do it in the morning.

[Martin]

Are y' all going fishing together?

[Johnny D]

He's coming fishing with us in the morning. Oh, he's amazing. He does everything the old way. I mean everything.

[Martin]

He hand cars.

[Phil]

Look, he's got more knowledge in his little finger that we'll do it if we. We spent 100 years.

[Johnny D]

Oh I know it. I could have stayed there all day.

[Phil]

Oh no, I'm serious.

[Johnny D]

He built him a shop out back. Got. Got dirt floors. Got him a little breeze burns brought through it. He got a three year wait list on them duck calls. That's amazing.

[Phil]

You got to think about this. Think about a man in a. Oh, let's just say six foot Piero. Most of them nine. But some of them have six foot and hey. And he goes gator hunting okay. And comes back okay. With them tied to that 6 foot P roll. Some of them 20 foot long. Let's take. I'm serious. Think about that. And hey, all he shot him was was his 22 rifle.

[Johnny D]

Yeah, that's right.

[Martin]

Oh, that's crazy.

[Phil]

How much of men son that was back when that man was a man

[Stone]

and alligators were double the size.

[Phil]

Hey, I'm telling you. Oh hey. They used. They used to grown them so you got some of them when they put her.

[Martin]

I. I just went back on this guy by you beast calls on Instagram. Watch out. I had no idea I was coming.

[Phil]

I saw that coming.

[Stone]

Boy, I wanted to tell you where

[Phil]

there was still no time for you to one time.

[Johnny D]

Is that.

[Phil]

Is that him?

[Martin]

Johnny D. Yeah. Is that. I was. I was enthralled that I found this man with a picture of Phil with Phil from. Oh, I'm shook up. Really got me good. Anyway, look, he posted this about a year ago, but that's from way back in the day. Oh, he posted this. Yeah, right after Phil passed. But he had met Phil called up the Michael Jordan of the duck hunting community.

[Johnny D]

You know another cool story Dale. My dad's family is from Bucky right down the road from where Dale lives. And he, 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. It was my uncle running the dozer. So small world, Louisiana.

[Martin]

It gets even smaller.

[Stone]

Guaranteed.

[Martin]

What's this other picture you sent me, Stone?

[Johnny D]

Oh, there's the gar. Yeah, that you talking about? A gar snagged it in the tail.

[Stone]

I got him there.

[Johnny D]

Old Calca Shoe.

[Phil]

All right, here's the question. How big do they get?

[Johnny D]

That one there was about a five footer.

[Phil]

Well, no, no, but how big did he get?

[Stone]

A gator gar.

[Johnny D]

Oh, big, huge.

[Stone]

We shot. I made me stone. We shot one bigger than him.

[Johnny D]

Yeah, that one we shot with cap Goat.

[Phil]

I actually seen a commercial fisherman pull up and I didn't shoot him. 16 foot boat. He had 3 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.

[Stone]

20 foot and 20 footer.

[Phil]

I don't know about that.

[Martin]

I got a friend who claims he knows fact, I got a friend who claims he knows where a 300 pound one is. And he I've.

[Stone]

He waiting for the rodeo. Yeah, yeah, he.

[Martin]

I've seen him with a 200 pounder.

[Phil]

I, I can. You can go to Red River Dixie, Louisiana and get on a rip rap. All it is is telephone poles drove in the bank.

[Stone]

You ain't got to anymore.

[Phil]

Well, I know, but there's over there

[Stone]

now you can lie.

[Phil]

Do it in the summertime and get on the rift out there in the river and watch. Wait and see what comes up. You'll see some of them. Well, that's 18 foot long. Guards come up top of water.

[Stone]

That's what's cool about them gar man. They're very susceptible to live scope now.

[Phil]

Oh no, you can pan over there

[Stone]

and look at him and you're like, oh, that's a big one.

[Phil]

Hey, they get huge. Yeah, I couldn't believe it. Yeah, 16 foot boat. And hey, head hanging out the front, tail hanging out the back. And they had it tied down in three different places. It was about all a little bigger, about double the size of this round. Huge thing big.

[Stone]

The large dinosaur, the largest confirmed alligator gar. 327 pounds.

[Phil]

That's a grown one.

[Johnny D]

That's a gar.

[Phil]

That's a grown son that my Friend hit the button. Hey, that's a fish. Yeah, that's a garbage.

[Johnny D]

Yeah.

[Stone]

I got Garhold 8 foot long, but it takes them 50 to 100 years to get to 8 foot long.

[Phil]

Who years old?

[Johnny D]

100 year old

[Phil]

Mississippi full of.

[Johnny D]

How old was full of river?

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Johnny D]

Wash. 30 years old.

[Stone]

Yeah. I mean, by the math, they're older than me.

[Johnny D]

Yeah.

[Martin]

That's weird.

[Johnny D]

Crazy. That gar I got probably 30 years old.

[Phil]

Oh, yeah, at least. Maybe 50.

[Stone]

There are stories of even larger gar, but most aren't verified.

[Phil]

Oh, I don't know because I don't know what it was. When we fished 12 mile, 12 mile bow over by Dixie. There was something that was silver that would jump. Jump. When it got dark, they start jumping and typing. It looked like a tarpon all the way up. I'm serious. That's what it looked like.

[Martin]

Fresh water.

[Johnny D]

I saw one of those one day on the washta. It wasn't a gar. It shined like new money come out of the water.

[Martin]

It's just a shiner that finally made it.

[Johnny D]

It had giant scales.

[Phil]

No, no. That's what we saw when we was high school and we said troll line.

[Johnny D]

I saw it one time.

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[Martin]

My computer has froze up. Strange.

[Phil]

I. I like to watch somebody Southern guy, Southern Mars fuel. You talking about move a P roll?

[Johnny D]

Oh, yeah.

[Stone]

You Go.

[Phil]

Oh, that sucker can yell. Stick y' all like a piece of cane.

[Johnny D]

Stand up in it.

[Phil]

Yeah, stand up and hey. And he'll go. Be out of sight for you. Believe it.

[Martin]

When'd you catch it? That was a couple years ago, wasn't it?

[Stone]

A long time ago. Yeah, probably.

[Martin]

There's Martin's.

[Stone]

Seven years ago.

[Martin]

My computer just froze up.

[Phil]

Hey. Oh, they got something bigger than that.

[Stone]

Oh, I know.

[Phil]

I caught him on that old shovel they got on it.

[Stone]

Caught him on a spinning rod.

[Phil]

I was fun.

[Stone]

That's like a drug me around all over the river, man.

[Martin]

I was trying to figure out a good Bible verse to end it on.

[Stone]

I was. I was sitting there on spot lock, and then I finally just took it off spot lock and said, you gonna tow me around? I ain't gonna sit here and fight you. You gonna tow me around. As I finally come up, I don't know how big he was.

[Phil]

I was like that 18 pound bass I snagged up on the corny lake.

[Stone]

No, it ain't like that. I got mine.

[Phil]

I wish I'd had a picture of the one I had.

[Stone]

I got proof of mine.

[Phil]

He took me two miles to the only piece of. But I get on the bottom of

[Stone]

that lake, I give you this. That spoon bill stunk.

[Phil]

Oh, no.

[Stone]

Whenever I had him in my hand,

[Phil]

I could believe how bad they stink on ice.

[Stone]

I wanted my picture with him. And then I was like, I got to get this stinking sucker off me. He stunk. Oh, that was about. Probably three miles upriver from Fields, a little sand point. I've been catching spotted bass. And then them suckers moved in, and there they were.

[Phil]

There's plenty. They're plentiful in Washtag River.

[Stone]

Oh, there's a bunch of them now. That. 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.

[Phil]

That's what surprised me when.

[Martin]

That's wild snagging this summer together, Martin.

[Stone]

Oh, you could do it. I try to avoid them. When I see it, I'm like, nope, I'm going the other way.

[Martin]

Yeah, normally. But, like, we should just set a day aside where we just go snack.

[Stone]

You want to 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 Shinny Creek.

[Martin]

Let's go.

[Stone]

There's big Asian carp. There's spoon bills, big gar. Like you could Just throw a three towel.

[Phil]

River's got some huge, huge like buffalo.

[Stone]

Yeah, you could throw some. You could, you could throw a couple of three tailed shrimp there where that creek hits a river and just. You'd be there all day.

[Phil]

Cause in Cyprus Cypress Creek they got

[Stone]

to get in the river.

[Phil]

Two buffalo that, hey, they probably weighed 100 pounds.

[Stone]

Wow.

[Martin]

Let's do it.

[Stone]

It's wild how much biomass is at the mouth of that creek. Let's go crazy.

[Martin]

Yank some of it up and then put it back because I don't.

[Stone]

Yeah. What are we going to do with it?

[Martin]

Smile for the photo.

[Stone]

We're taking your boat then because we're getting all that trash in your boat, not mine. But I'll go with you.

[Martin]

I'm gonna have to find somebody with a boat. We definitely ain't doing it.

[Stone]

Big Dave's boat, he'd be proud.

[Martin]

We ain't gonna get a 16 foot gar as he says is down there.

[Stone]

And don't worry, they don't live there

[Martin]

in a 14 foot kayak.

[Phil]

Yeah, they're there.

[Martin]

You want to talk about scary, go snag one in that joker. We're taking your boat.

[Stone]

Okay. I don't care.

[Johnny D]

Let's do it.

[Martin]

These people.

[Stone]

I ain't ever done it. I ain't ever intentionally snap. I. No.

[Phil]

I've only the biggest longer head turtle you ever saw.

[Stone]

Oh, what was that thing we caught? We caught them in college. You talking about alligator? Snapping turtle?

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Stone]

Big, big one? Yeah, we caught one. It was like 110, 120something.

[Martin]

I ain't messing with that guy.

[Stone]

We put a transmitter on him.

[Phil]

A guy caught one out of Caddo Lake. Bolted.

[Stone]

I don't know if it still works or not.

[Phil]

450 something pounds. He hooked a chain to his leg out in his yard and charged $5 a ride. Made a killer. Kids will come up there and get on that big old turtle's back.

[Stone]

Well, here's, here's what I'll say about alligator snapping turtles. They're like basically harmless as long don't touch the pointy end.

[Phil]

Yeah.

[Stone]

But like unlike.

[Martin]

Basically harmless until they bite your hand off.

[Stone]

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, pet him on the nose, you're okay. Like you can grab him right behind the head and pick him up like this. He can't do nothing to you.

[Phil]

All he does, he'll try to get around, but he can't get around now

[Stone]

that common snapping turtle can turn that head around and bite himself on the tail. You don't want to do. You don't want a case of mistaken identity cuz you will get bit. I ain't messing with like but alligator, snapping turtle, no, he can't get you.

[Johnny D]

He see that old turtle guy he's been on been a while but old

[Stone]

turtle man, I think him, I think turtle man, yeah, I think him and

[Martin]

old mountain dogs good buddies I think they are.

[Phil]

Well they say there's seven different types meats on one. Ambiguous loggerheads.

[Stone]

I ain't got to worry about none of them.

[Johnny D]

Seven different types.

[Martin]

I'm out on that.

[Stone]

I ain't that hungry.

[Phil]

We snuck into a private lake and put out a trot line.

[Martin]

You trespassed.

[Phil]

Look, 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 owned the lake had found a trot line and was being a butthole cutting our trot

[Martin]

line up, protecting his property.

[Phil]

Hey now we found out later when we got to where we was hung up, big old about 100 pound loggerhead turtle. And he had cut them hooks off, right? Get them in the conovers.

[Martin]

Every one of them.

[Phil]

28 in a row.

[Stone]

28 in a row.

[Phil]

28in a row.

[Martin]

Like yeah, you know what he got

[Phil]

it for his Trouble. He got a 22 rounds twice in his head. The glory of hey look, it took

[Martin]

Lord has created that many rounds for

[Phil]

that total, you included, it's an 36 bullets.

[Martin]

And he was still hissing on number 30.

[Phil]

He was still hissing. Just all we do was load it up again, put it to his head and pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow. I said we're gonna stop at hissing. We'll break that hissing up.

[Martin]

I got a weird Bible verse to follow that hissing part up, but 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.

[Stone]

Yeah, not a lot of water.

[Martin]

But we have talked about a lot of wild and wacky creatures that the Lord has created. So Revelation 4:11. You are worthy our Lord and God to receive glory and honor and power. For you created all things and by your will they were created and have their being.

[Phil]

And one of them, the greatest one is a duck. Bill Platypus.

[Stone]

That's a different show.

[Phil]

Look that through a quaint race in the machinery, boys.

[Johnny D]

Tune in next time for 40 minutes of duck Bill Platypus.

[Phil]

Oh, we're out.