- You ever hear of the,
I've been dying to do it,
go noodling.
- Oh, bro.
- With the catfish.
- Do you know,
- Yeah.
- That--
- Hey guys, today on It's Alive,
we're down here in Oklahoma.
We're teamed up with Skipper--
- We're going noodling!
[whooping and yelling]
We're going noodling!
[upbeat music]
- Bluetooth connected,
all right we're in babe.
Oh wait hold on, we need
[bleep] Marty, dude.
- Who's Marty?
- Marty Robbins, dude.
- You know Convoy, Convoy Tweety?
- No.
Oh Marty, take it easy.
We're gonna go do a little
noodling, all right Hunzi?
Just get in the van,
or the
SUV.
We got old Matty Matheson himself here,
we're gonna have a good old time.
Let's go, giddy up.
Fish wait for no one, bud.
- Noodle.
- Noodling.
[happy banjo music]
All right so we got the car all loaded up,
got me and Matty here
and we're gonna go meet up
with a man named Skipper
and we're gonna be doing
a little bit of noodling
for catfish.
Had to, had to do it.
You know, once we planted that seed
during the fish taco episode,
there was no turning back, man.
Put up a video about just about anything,
and people are like, "Yeah that's great.
"How about you go noodling?"
- Why couldn't we have done like,
why don't we make a really nice cake?
In like an air conditioned bakery.
- No man, I don't like cake.
- No.
Now we gotta go on a
crispy, muddy little crick.
- Hit me in the dirt, baby.
I love this [beep]
- It's Alive!
- Yeah, we'll see.
- Why don't we fly down to Oklahoma
and go in a crick with Skipper?
- That's it, you nailed it man.
Biggest fears about noodling?
Well, only I grew up
around snapping turtles,
and I've seen the devastation
of that dinosaur beak they have,
and I hope, I would love not
to do an encounter with them.
I don't know if they bite underwater,
maybe that's not a thing.
Crick.
- [Matty] Crick.
- Oh yeah, that's what we're doing.
- [Matty] That's a good crick.
Dude, this is so crazy.
- [Brad] At least there's
no gators down here,
you know, they scare me.
- They should.
- You know, they'll actually eat you.
- They'll take you, death roll.
- You know, snapping
turtle, worst case Ontario,
you lose a couple fingers.
- Yeah noodling scares me, top to bottom.
Going into a crick,
you can't see the bottom.
- You don't wanna.
- I wanna see the bottom!
- It ruins it, it's just mud down there.
- I wanna see it.
Do you know how many
fears I have to overcome?
All of them.
- Yeah good.
- Fear about noodling is in my mind.
- This is big.
- And then you talking about the snakes
and the snapping turtles,
I didn't even think of snapping
turtles 'til you said it.
You said that they can
just chop your fingers off.
- I don't think they're down here.
- They're down here.
[happy banjo music]
- All right we're here, boys.
How's it going?
Good, good, thanks for having us.
- [Brad] Brad.
- [Skipper] I'm Skipper.
- [Brad] Skipper, nice to meet you.
- [Skipper] Nice to meet you.
- Oh Matty, you ready bud?
- I was born ready.
- You ready to go
snapping turtling or what?
- I don't wanna see any snapping turtles.
If I see a snapping turtle, or--
- [Brad] Water moccasin?
- Yeah, a water moccasin,
if I see a snake dude,
I'm like leaving.
This is not worth, I don't care.
Every person in the world can boo me.
I'm not here to noodle, I'm
here for Brad, Brad's my buddy.
And now we're here
noodling, we're in Oklahoma,
and we're about to go into a crick.
And it's just, it's not a good
situation for me, mentally.
Mentally fragile right now and I'm scared
and I just don't know
what is gonna be happening
because you can't see.
So it's like, imagine
going into the crick,
the crick is brown, okay?
It's brown, it's not like
crystal clear beautiful,
it's not a pool.
He told us to wear socks so that--
- Tube socks, Matty.
- Tube socks, tube socks.
You gotta feel what
you're doing bud, finesse.
- And we feel the holes,
and you feel the holes.
Hopefully pull out a
giant water slug catfish.
- It's called faith, Matty.
- It's called noodling,
it's called noodling.
- [Matty] What are you doing?
He's just opening up the gate.
- [Brad] Sorry, no trespassing?
Oh god there's buzzards.
- [Matty] "Posted, no
trespassing, hunting, fishing."
- [Brad] Make sure you get
that long corn there, Hunzi.
- [Matty] Hunzi, that's the ticket.
- That's the shot man.
- That's the Emmy.
That's the Webby award, that's the Webby.
- [Brad] These trees, man?
- [Matty] You can smell 'em?
- No, when they hang over into the crick.
- [Matty] Yeah, they
[bleep] get you itchy.
- No dude, that's [bleep] water moccasins,
so you stay away from trees.
They hang out and then
you can't even see 'em
and then they,
- Oh my god, dude this is so stupid.
[dramatic Old Western music]
- Ma'am.
Oh cute bag, bud.
- Yeah, I brought it.
- Did ya?
- I brought it.
- I should turn the car off, huh?
- Oh come on.
Get him outta here bro,
really, what is that?
It's rubber.
- [Brad] What the hell, Skip?
Little my ass.
I told you.
Excellent.
[foghorn]
Hey Skip, we got snapping
turtles down here?
- Where's my tube socks?
- Matty, you look great.
I got my lucky fishing shirt on.
- That's your lucky fishing shirt.
- Yeah it's got a sloth
because they know patience
and focus.
- Fishing is patience.
- And hard work Matty and
getting over fears, bud.
- It's not fears, literally they just said
that there's five different snakes.
- When you pop open a cold one,
you're gonna have a story to tell.
It's not gonna be, "Hey
remember this one time,
"I was cooking this shrimp,
oh he was bad to the bone."
No it's gonna be like,
"This fish was thumping
"and thumping me."
- Breaking my nose.
And you just put your arm
down and you grab him?
- What, biting the foot?
[laughing]
All right guys, hey,
we're down here in beautiful Oklahoma
and I brought my buddy Matty with me
and we're gonna be doing a little bit of,
little bit of noodling for catfish
with old Skipper Bivins here.
- That's what I'm talking about.
You boys are here, it's fixing to happen.
This is the real deal right here.
There ain't no stunt
man, it's gonna be you.
It's gonna be one on one, mano e mano.
- [Brad] That's right.
- I know you guys are chefs or cooks,
would you call yourself a chef
or a cook?
- I don't know what I am
anymore.
- Human being, man of the world.
- Fragile man.
- The thing about it is,
before you can cook a fish,
you actually gotta catch it.
We're not going to the deep
freeze to get one, boys.
We're gonna get him right out here.
And they make 'em 100,
120 pounds right here.
- You're kidding.
- That's like me, same size.
- He's gonna run up and
he's gonna thump you, whoo!
He's gonna put the
smack daddy bite on you.
He'll bite and shake like a Pit bull.
- But they don't have teeth, right?
- He can make you bleed
through two pairs of socks.
- Why are they biting the feet?
I thought you do the
noodling with the hand.
- Well, it's gonna be a
little bit deeper water.
- [Brad] We go under?
- So you're gonna go under with your feet.
Now if he's back in a
hole, seven or eight foot
and he bites you, you need your
hands to pull yourself out.
You're gonna be doing some clawing.
- Okay,
you fishing with your
feet and they drag you?
- You're gonna be fishing with your feet,
[talking over each other]
It's a beaver hole,
so imagine yourself going
into a cave under the water.
You slide yourself back in there
and the fish is gonna run up and bite you.
Hopefully it's a fish and not a beaver.
All of these holes are dug by beaver.
We have beavers, snapping turtle,
we've got six foot alligator gar.
- [Matty] What's a alligator gar?
- Sea monster.
- It's a gar,
and his head looks like an alligator.
When he rises to the top,
he looks like an alligator.
He's got really, really sharp teeth.
- Ripping razors.
- If he hits you, you're gonna
- What the fuck is all this?
- He's got a built in tenderizer.
If he hits you, whoom.
- Why is everything whoom and boom and--
- I had a buddy [talking over each other]
That's why you like it around here man,
this is Oklahoma.
- He said one stupid joke.
We made this video,
a really nice video inside
a safe little Bon Appetit
test kitchen,
- Overrated,
the whole safety thing.
- Making fish tacos,
it was very nice and he made
a joke about going noodling,
and then now we're here and this is like,
there's alligator gars
and there's cottonmouths.
- What the hell, I just saw a beaver.
There's all kinds of stuff
breaking in the water.
- Fish taco?
Dude if you're gonna do
fish, you gotta do it right.
You're gonna have to deep fry it.
- This is insane.
- Grasshoppers, crawdads,
everything we eat, deep fry it.
- Caught a little flack from
some boys out in North Carolina
or no South Carolina.
They're like, "Oh yeah,
you're probably going out,
"they dig boxes and make their own holes."
and I don't think Skip's that kinda guy.
- No, no, no, no, no.
We're doing the real deal,
these are beaver holes.
Fish takes it over.
He's ready to take that hole.
- We're fishing for--
- You got him stuttering.
- What's going on with this right here?
- That, that is,
I knew I was coming to
Oklahoma about a year ago.
- I used to go rodeoing
and you grab a hunk of mane
and ride, boy.
- That's it.
Yeah, you just ride me like a little pony.
- [Brad] That's alligator gar bait.
- You just grab onto me
and you hold me, Skip.
- [Brad] Let's get you guys
in the water first, all right?
Couple freaks.
- [Skipper] Our camera man
was talking, toward the end
they all wore life jackets.
That way if they fell,
you could hold your arm up
and keep your camera,
you could still float and
keep it out of the water.
- [Crew Member] Didn't get that note.
- [Brad] Look at that, what was that dude?
- [Skipper] That was a gar.
- [Brad] That was gar.
Looks like a [bleep] bull shark.
- [Skipper] There's one over there,
- [Crew Member] Directly
where we're going?
- [Brad] I've seen a bunch of them,
that's what I was seeing.
- [Skipper] Yeah, you're gonna see them,
you're gonna feel them.
They're gonna be brushing up against you.
- [Brad] Look at it!
- [Skipper] Don't flip out, man.
Look at those big old turtle
heads over there, see them?
- [Brad] Got a turtle head, snapper?
- [Skipper] We've been
doing this a long time,
we've only lost a couple people.
- All right, not bad.
- To get out, when you're getting out?
- They're always grabbing up here.
Anytime, keep your hands under the water.
- You're gonna wanna hold onto something.
- [Crew Member] If something
yanks you down there,
you're gonna wanna grab up, don't do that.
- And if you do, maybe
it won't be a snake.
Yeah we're ready man, Huck Finning it.
- [Skipper] All right.
- I'm overreacting for
camera too, I'm cool.
- [Skipper] Sure you are.
[laughing]
- [Skipper] Let 'er rip.
- Matty down.
- [Matty] What do you do?
- Just get in that water.
- [Skipper] Just come on in,
become one with the water.
- [Matty] Oh my god.
- [Skipper] Come on in, you're all right.
You're all right.
[splashing]
- [Matty] Get in quiet, he said.
- Oh yeah, I'm going
full river otter, Matty.
I don't know, I ain't touching.
- Dude, your toes.
You're gonna fall in.
- [Matty] I don't think so, dude.
- You're shooting like this.
Hey, what're you doing over there?
Come on, we gotta keep up with Skip.
- I don't like this.
- Sound guy.
- [Crew Member] Yo.
- I don't like this one bit.
- [Crew Member] But we can't walk that.
Can we walk around to go down there?
- [Crew Member] Get one
of those garbage bags.
[bag rustling]
- Oh my god, it's gonna bite me.
- Dude, this is so mental.
Just gotta watch for
the current, come close.
[talking over each other]
- [Crew Member] Bye Janice.
- This is the greatest show
that Bon Appetit has ever
made ever, you're welcome.
It's because of Brad.
Brad's just drinking the river water.
Everything is [shouts in surprise]
Skipper just grabbed my thigh.
It's go time.
Oh my god, Skipper.
Oh my god, what is that?
There's literally, all of the
things are touching me at once
- They like you.
- Skip, what do you got
going on over here, bud?
- I'll tell ya, I've got a hole found man.
I don't know if he's in here or not
but I want you to feel the hole.
I mean, I thought I felt something,
could have been a beaver, I don't know.
Go in slow, point your toe.
- Could be a beaver?
- Well they can always
be a beaver.
- Point your toe?
- They chew trees down, I'll
stick my foot in, great.
- You'll be fine.
If you touch something,
you don't know what it is,
that's why you go slow man.
- All right, finesse.
That's why I wore my sloth shirt.
- Hey, you can trust me and
I ain't lying this time.
[foghorn]
- [Skipper] Come right over
here, I want you to step over me
- [Matty] What's he doing,
sticking his foot in that?
- [Brad] Oh god, that's your foot?
- That's my foot, now feel the bottom.
- You playing footsie?
- Feel the bottom, feel the sand.
- All right, I'm in.
- Now go in between my legs.
[talking over each other]
Get both feet in there now.
- Both feet?
All right, I'm in the hole man.
- Both feet, both feet.
- Both feet in the hole?
- Straighten 'em.
[talking over each other]
- Oh you want me to go in the hole?
No [bleep] way.
- He'll get out now if
you don't set on bottom,
if he's in there.
Oh I gotta put my both
legs in, I only got one in.
Back up Skip.
- Don't let him out, now.
- I ain't letting him out, I'm in here.
- Now sit down.
- Holy [bleep].
- Sit down.
- I'm up to my waist
in the hole here, Skip.
- Yeah, feel up, down, left and right.
- Get the [bleep] outta here.
I don't feel no fish, Skip.
- Oh he's gonna be in
there, I'm telling you.
- [Matty] Don't go under
the water though, Brad.
Be careful.
- Lift your foot up high.
[talking over each other]
- Oh my god [bleep]
just a piece of wood, don't worry.
- Keep looking.
[yelling]
[bleep]
Find him?
- Yeah it bit the [bleep] outta me, Skip.
What the--
- Hey, don't worry about it.
This is what you've been trained to do.
- Trained?
- Yes, go down just a little bit.
- Yeah, all right.
- I've had to pee for a long time.
- Oh my god.
- I pee a lot when I'm in the water.
- Are you okay, Brad?
- I think so.
- Now if he bites your
foot, let him hang on.
- I didn't pull out, he let go.
- Okay now, look.
When he bites, put your
other foot in his mouth
- And rip him up?
- Pry his mouth open
with the top lip like that,
and then we can pull him
to the edge of the hole.
- The initial bite, I'm
past the initial bite.
- Hey he's not real bad
or we'd have heard him.
- Is that your foot?
- That's my foot.
- How is your foot at the
same place as Brad's foot?
How is his--
- [Brad] It's a big hole, Matty.
- [Skipper] Feel up high as you can,
I think he's floating high up on you.
- Oh yeah, oh I feel the son of a bitch.
- Find his mouth with your foot.
- It bit my knee.
- Oh he found you.
- It bit my knee.
- "He bit my knee" [laughing]
- He's trying to get out of the hole.
- Don't let him out.
- No you get a hand in the
mouth if he gets up there close,
you can get your hand in the mouth.
- He's gonna bite the balls.
- "He's gonna bite the balls." [laughing]
- You guys can cook anything, right?
- I've cooked a lot of testicles.
- Could you make me some
chocolate covered grasshoppers?
- Absolutely, whatever you need.
- I like the yellow ones.
- Is this a creek, this
seems like a river.
- That hole goes way in there,
it's tight going in, but--
[yelling]
- You find him?
- [bleep] you.
I got you Skip, ow.
- Skip is literally messing
with us, the whole time.
- No this fish is in here.
- Is it?
- He's probably staying high on me.
- Yeah he's in there,
this is a tough hole.
I got to give it to you,
this is a tough hole.
- I wanna get in there with my,
stick my head in there.
This guy's pissing me off.
Oh my god, I can't believe
I'm trying to get him to bite my feet.
- [Skipper] Wedge in
there, find his mouth.
- This is crazy [wheeze]
- Holy [bleep].
- Do not let him--
- Oh my god, he's big.
- [Skipper] Don't let
him outta that hole now.
Oh there he is, right there, right there.
Get your hand in his mouth.
- [Brad] I got him.
- [Skipper] Get your hand in his mouth.
In his mouth, are you sure?
- Yep, I'm lipped.
- All right, hold on.
- [Matty] "Lipped"?
- [Brad] I got him.
- Hold him right there.
I was worried about these boys.
I could just see them getting skunked.
- Oh no, I got this son of a bitch.
- All right, stay right there tight.
- Don't drink the water,
don't drink the water!
Oh my god, and then you just
put the needles in his lip?
- Yeah, [bleep] 'em.
- "[bleep] 'em."
- Oh that's my hand you're
putting the string into.
Just push it through,
anything for the fish.
- [Skipper] That's all right.
- Oh, he's a big boy.
- He's not a starfish.
- What do we do, and then we
just tie it to like a raft?
- Tie it to you.
- What do we do with this
fish now that we have it?
We're in a crick.
[talking over each other]
- Your hand, it's attached to your hand.
- Like a pet, you walk it.
- Yes, yes.
- Oh my god.
So they got the fish, they
put the stringer through,
the string, and then you just
carry it to the next hole?
You just have a catfish attached to you.
- [Brad] I'm in the hole, I'm in the hole.
- This is insane.
- What did you think about that bite
when he bit you on the
foot, that initial bite?
- That initial bite, it was freaky.
- It's a blast.
- Ow!
Stop pulling.
- Get your hand out of his mouth.
- Jesus, Skip.
My hand's out of his mouth, tell me first.
- Look, he's bleeding.
- Give me just enough room,
give me just enough room to bring him out,
but you stay in the
hole, there might be two.
- All right, so I'm gonna let him out
and I'm gonna plug after?
- Now hold on, I gotta
get him out [mumbles]
- I got him in between my legs.
- Raise up and let him
out, back up a little bit.
Here he comes, here he
comes, stay in the hole.
- [Brad] I'm in the hole.
[yelling]
- [Skipper] Yeah baby, look at her.
Hey, you're not gonna get skunked.
- All right, give me a kiss.
Yeah, you big ugly son of a bitch.
- Hey, lose your hat.
- What?
Skip.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
- [bleep] spider, nope out of the hole.
- [Skipper] Stay in there, stay in there.
- No man, [bleep] that, I'll
do anything but spiders.
[bleep] that thing, it's
the size of a baseball.
- [Matty] Wimp.
- No Matty.
No dude, it's a [bleep]
tarantula, it's right in my face.
Hey, I caught a fish, I'm good, I'm out.
- [Matty] Oh my god.
[talking over each other]
- Look at that thing.
- Oh my god.
- Yeah, buddy.
That's my first noodle, good eating size.
- [Skipper] Yeah, that's a
good eating size, right there.
- What'd you say, it's blue cat?
- [Skipper] Blue cat.
- Yeah.
- Ba-bam.
- Ba-bam.
- Yesterday you couldn't spell noodling,
now you are one.
- The death roll.
[laughing]
We came, we conquered.
Yeah Matty, give him a kiss.
[laughing]
Skip had me sticking my foot
in there, feeling around,
and once you get in the hole,
you said it's a beaver hole,
so it's like a big cavern.
The fish was actually up
above where my feet were
and the first time he
snapped at me, he bit my foot
and let go, scared the hell outta me.
- Now what we're gonna do
is we're gonna look for his great grandpa.
We can get him about a 50, 60, 70 pounder.
- I couldn't even imagine.
- It's unbelievable, if we
can get one on your foot
that's that size--
- It'd swallow your leg.
- It's a fight.
Oh it's a fight.
- Look at that thing.
- Just another day here in Oklahoma.
- Thanks Skip.
- [Skipper] You bet, ba-bam.
- Swim fish.
Tow me.
- We're floating, me and catty.
I gotta say man, this
noodling is pretty cool.
I know we caught,
I named her Catherine,
guess that's kind of weird.
But I named her Catherine
and Matty's up next.
I think we're gonna link into a big one.
This is, if I had to guess,
20 pounds?
Solid muscle.
Yeah, hopefully I think
Matty's gonna hook up
on a nice 50 pounder.
Gonna [bleep] turn him out.
- Yeah so,
nabbed yourself a, got my
first noodling catfish.
Now what are we gonna do, we're gonna,
- Well, we're gonna do
some running and gunning.
We're gonna look for a big guy.
We got this guy, we got it outta the way,
we're not gonna get skunked.
Now we're gonna run and gun
and we're gonna check
some really big holes
and if we catch one, it
should be a big fish.
- Couple big boys?
- We've gotta get him on one.
- Whoo buddy.
- I wanna small one, I wanna small one.
- Hey man, don't this river feel good?
- Oh it feels great man.
- Get in the water,
let the water take you where you wanna go.
- That's it, it's a tool.
- It's a beautiful thing.
- It is beautiful.
- I mean, there's unknown things
that you can't know about this river.
Like for instance, I'm peeing right now.
- All right, I'm downstream, yeah baby.
- Perfect, Skipper.
[upbeat banjo music]
- Yeah, you guys [bleep] us.
Oh you just need tube socks, they said.
One of those, what do they call them?
Big ones, like on a circuit board.
Transistor.
Found a transistor, Kev.
[tragic music]
- Okay, let's go catch a fish.
- Skipper's nodding.
50 pounder, no doubt.
No we ain't used to the rocks.
- Where we come from, we
got shoes and streets.
- Was that your leg, whose leg is that?
- What do you mean, open water?
[talking over each other]
- We're corralling him.
- Just a human net.
Don't drink this water.
[bleep] you,
oh my god.
- Where you going?
- Man, he just kicked my neck.
He just kicked me.
For [bleep] sake, Skipper.
I think I broke my jaw.
- [Brad] Jesus Christ.
- [Skipper] They're pretty sneaky.
We might have to drive time
or two, we're gonna get him.
- I'm bowing up the elbows.
- All right, somebody let him through.
- Definitely Matty.
- Somebody let him through?
- All right, turn around, let's go back.
They're still upstream, bud.
Stay right here, get in here tight.
- Yeah, I'd say so.
'Tis the most primitive.
Zero tools,
dragging your bodies across
a rocky bottom creek.
- [Brad] Just using our noodles.
- Is that why it's called noodling,
'cause you use your noodle?
- He was under that
bank, he went that way.
Keep going that way.
- [Brad] Keep going, you found him?
- Yeah, he was under the bank.
[yelling in pain]
- Did he get through?
- Did he get through?
- He got through.
That is like a missile.
I heard it and I fell.
Oh my god, I hurt my neck.
- You gotta get a hold
of it, you gotta want it.
- I want it, I want it, I want it.
- The catfish sense fear.
- [Skipper] Come on, close the gate.
You got to want it.
- I want it, Skipper.
- Show me you want it.
- Was that you?
- No but I heard it.
[yelling]
- Are you serious?
- All right he got away, we gotta go back.
[laughing]
- [Brad] Big, slippery muscles.
- Slicker than snot.
- "Slicker than snot."
What was that, that was your foot damn it.
- Come on, fill the gap.
- All right, fill the gap, fill the gap.
- Skip, where'd you go?
- Skip don't do that, not now.
- [Skipper] Go all the way
up to the grove, Joanne.
Let him go this way,
there's a hole here Joanne.
- Come on, it's the hunting pack.
We got a pair, boys.
- [Matty] I need to be skinnier for this.
- [Joanne] There's
another one hiding there.
- Get down boys, get down.
Get up here Matty, come on.
- [Brad] He's right
there, he's right there.
[dramatic music]
[talking over each other]
- This is noodling.
- Oh what happened?
We're using like a human net,
we're just going back and forth.
There's about a foot and a half of water.
Trying to pounce on a
catfish, this is noodling.
- Matt, hold position, I want
you ready like a Bengal tiger.
Nothing gets past you.
Look at you, babe.
- [Skipper] All right, you gotta want it.
- All right, big push bud, big push.
That was a different one?
Skip, before we put this next drive on,
how long you been noodling for, man?
- I don't remember when I got started.
My dad said I caught my
first one when I was four.
- He was using you as
bait, is what he was doing.
It's pretty neat though
man, I like it a lot.
- Well you'd like it a lot
more if we caught this fish.
You don't like it well
enough to catch this fish,
why don't you catch this fish?
- All right let's put this drive on.
We'll push him right to big boy Matty.
All right, we're coming right for you bud.
All right just imagine, Matt,
you haven't eaten in days.
You're starving, you're sick.
Your family depends on this fish.
This guy's shooting the
calendar over there.
Oh yeah.
I'm spread, too.
You got the Brad in that full swing here.
Did he get past you, Matty?
- Zero, not one fish got past me.
See, Skip, man.
It doesn't get old, like
I know it's gonna happen,
and it still doesn't get old
'cause I'm so petrified.
I'm laying in here just
'cause I'm lazy and I'm tired
and my feet hurt from walking on the rocks
but I'm still afraid.
But I'm not afraid enough
to get out of the water.
Skip's my hero,
look at him.
He's in here?
- [Brad] He's in there.
- Oh my god, okay.
- Here's what I need you to
do, get your feet in here.
- Oh [bleep]
- Yeah, buddy.
- [Skipper] Both feet.
- [Brad] This is gonna rock your world.
- Get in there quicker, he'll get out.
- [Matty] Okay, okay.
- [Skipper] Push in there, push in there.
- Get in there.
- No.
- [Skipper] Come on, big boy.
- Come on, [bleep] sakes.
I don't like this.
- No you gotta.
[yelling and laughing]
- No, no.
What is that, a snake?
[bleep]
I don't like this, this is like [bleep].
- Sometimes, you just have to
break out of your comfort zone
- I'm broke, ow.
[bleep]
What was that?
- [Skipper] It's just skin.
I heard him rumble the
bank, he's in there.
- He's rumbling.
I have sensitive toes.
- "I have sensitive toes."
- Hold on, back up just a little bit,
let me have a little room,
you keep your foot right there.
- Okay.
- [Brad] Yeah work him.
- Oh my god, look at that spider.
Ow, that hurt.
- Bro, that thing is a baby.
- Ow, you hit me with a stick.
Skipper.
- I told you to wear long jeans.
- [Brad] He took 'em off.
- You hit the top of my,
my toes are sensitive,
I've always been sensitive about my toes.
I was never allowed to
touch my mama's feet
and I think it transferred to me
and I don't like when
people touch my feet,
and now I'm putting my
feet in a hole in a bank
in a Oklahoma [bleep] creek,
with my best friend Skipper and Brad.
- [Skipper] Back up, need
a little bit more room.
- Oh there's, it's wide, he can come out.
- I hope you didn't let him out.
- I didn't.
- Close the gate.
- [Skipper] Did you let him out?
- What do you mean, did I?
- Did you let him out?
- I did not let him out, Skipper.
- Did you let that fish out?
- No, I blocked it.
I blocked it.
- I don't feel the fish,
I think you let him out.
- I don't know, what do you think?
- [Skipper] I don't know [mumbles]
- I got long legs, want
me to shove 'em in there?
- [Skipper] Come here, [mumbles].
- You got him?
- Come here to the right
side, hurry over here.
Get your hand in his mouth.
- [Matty] Where is it?
- Right here on the bottom.
[yelling]
- Come here, get a hold of him.
- Right there.
- I don't like that.
- Get both hands in his mouth, both hands.
- Okay I got him.
- You got him?
- I got him.
- Don't let go.
- Don't [bleep] let him go.
- I got it.
[bleep]
Jeepers.
- Yeah, buddy
- I got it.
- You got it.
- Oh, mama.
- Stringing him.
- Okay.
[yelling]
Jesus Martha Jones.
- [Brad] You got him now.
- Oh my goodness, okay.
- All right, get your
hand out of his mouth,
let's see what you got.
[yelling and laughing]
- Get him off of me.
- Get a hold of him.
- I got him, he's my baby, he's my baby.
That's how you noodle.
That's how you noodle.
- Yeah, let's see how big this one is.
- Mother Jesus Murphy.
- Matty,
big boy.
Boo yeah, baby.
- Nice fish, nice big boy.
- Oh my goodness.
- Is that the same kind or is that a bull?
- [Skipper] No that's a flathead.
- [Matty] That's mine.
- "That's mine."
Hold that bad boy, name him.
Don't move, don't.
- This is my dog.
- That's your pup, huh?
- Oh my god, dude he just
chews your hand right up.
Look at that, my guy's way bigger.
- Yeah,
big boy.
- Mama Jeepies.
This name?
Ezekiel.
This is Ezekiel.
Yeah, boys.
- How crazy is that feeling
when you put your feet in there?
- Oh I don't like the feet.
I don't like the feet in there.
I'll tell you a secret.
- I thought you let him get out, man.
- No.
- I thought you let him get out.
- Well I didn't, Skipper.
- You look wounded, you look wounded.
- My hand feels like it was cheese grated.
- Look at that.
- Okay,
okay, okay.
- Yeah buddy.
- Oh noodling,
- Noodling.
- Thank you, Brad.
- Thank you, Matty.
- Thank you, Brad.
- Thank you, Skipper.
- Thank you, Skipper.
- Thank you, Lord.
- Thank you, Obama.
- Thank you, Obama.
Oh my god, I can't believe
we just caught a catfish.
- Look it, that's your pet
catfish man, look at that.
- Yeah let's go fry him.
- That's a nice fish.
- Yeah, can we go, can we go eat?
I'm so hungry.
- Okay come on, buddy.
- [Skipper] Walk your puppy,
walk your puppy, take him home.
- Okay.
Me and Ezekiel.
Zekie.
- Oh it don't get any
better than this, huh.
Matty, you walk lunch home,
I'm gonna pick up a little trash
from folks that weren't as cool as us.
I have a hard time with the bugs.
I don't like spiders.
You know, you come out,
we're going noodling in
this beautiful stuff,
hopefully folks can do
this for generations,
you know it's awesome fun.
Stop leaving your garbage
everywhere people, come on.
Just you know.
- First time noodling, it is,
first off, like a 100 degrees out
so it's really hot
- No it's only 95, Matty.
- It's only 95, it's like 100 degrees out.
You take your little feet
and you stick 'em in holes
and you take your little fist,
- Oh there's another fish.
- Where?
[yelling]
Okay.
- Walk it out.
- Noodling's the best.
- Look at this thing, bud.
You caught that with
your bare hands, Matt.
- We did it.
- We did it.
- That never happens.
- No, that was awesome bud.
- Dude.
- Hell yeah, glad you made it.
- Thank you.
[triumphant music]
- Are we getting a little caterpillary?
I get them brows, brother.
- No it's good, you just had one.
Just trying to make you look pretty.
- Thanks, bud.
All right guys, that's noodling part one,
hope you had a blast.
I know me and Matty did, noodling.
- Noodling.
- Hell of a day, man.
I tell you what.
- Big day, big day.
- Skipper, class act.
- Huge, huge, massive human.
Beautiful soul, inside and out.
- I'm just, I couldn't be more happy man.
We actually,
you know we were back
what, almost a year ago,
making fish tacos, talking
about maybe going noodling.
- Look at this.
- And now we're here
man, we went noodling.
- The magic.
- I'm glad we got to do it.
Noodling was freaking
fantastic, you're fantastic.
Now let's head back,
we're gonna head back to Skipper's house,
and let's cook up them
fish we caught, huh?
- I wanna cook the fish.
- Get a little fish fry going, eh?
- Yeah, eh? That's a Canadian thing.
- I don't know, sometimes
I just do it though.
It's just natural.
- Okay, let's go cook some fish, eh.
- Yeah, eh.
- Well I say it, you don't say it.
- All right, let's go catch some fish.
- Eh?
[laughing]
- To Skipper's.
- Bon Appetit.
- Bon Appetit.
- [Hunzi] We're gonna
take this on the road,
take this on the road.
- Yeah, now we have to,
- Oh let's think.
- We wanna go skydiving.
- I wanna go catch a big old tuna.
Ride and reel,
- Dude we gotta go tuna.
Nova Scotia.
Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia.
- Yeah, they got 'em up there huh?
- With Dean.
- Dean.
- He goes tuna fishing.
- Dean.
Oh that's right he does, he told me.
- We're gonna go tuna fishing.
- Who wants to see old me
and Matty go fishing baby?
- Who wants to see it?
Make, in the comments, you
hit the subscription button,
in the comments, you comment, you DM,
you call me, you email me.
- [Brad] All of it.
- All of it.
- [Brad] Keep your hat.
I wanna go to Antarctica.
- Let's go to Antarctica,
I wanna see a penguin.
- Yeah, man.
- I'd love to go Alaska, you have--
- Oh, we can make,
who wants to see me
and Matty go to Alaska?
- Who wants to see.
- Get some crabs some halibut,
Halibut.
[yelling and laughing]
- Skip is a, he's a troublemaker.
- [Brad] He's a joker.
- [Matty] He's a joker, this guy Skip.
He likes to play around.
He likes to fuddy my duddy.
This is crazy.
[bleep]
- [Crew Member] Can I text you them?
I'll just text you the--
- [Brad] Yeah, that works.
Can you hold on to this actually?
I don't believe that.
- [Matty] I don't understand how the,
the fish fight beavers?
- Little Oklahoma bath,
you go on without me.
- I feel like it's scary, I
feel like noodling's scary.
You literally put your hand in a hole.
- No, Matty this is a
bad idea from the gate.
Like, whoever did this.
- You said this,
and then the internet made us do this.
This is people pleasing,
this is people pleasing.
This is not, I never wanted to do noodling
and you [bleep], you made a joke right?
- Yeah that's how it happened,
"Maybe we'll go noodling."
- "Maybe we'll go noodling",
the most dangerous fishing of all time.
- Maybe we'll go stick our
hands in some murky water holes.
- With cottonmouths.
- Cottonmouths, snapping turtles.
- Snapping turtles?
- Yeah, I don't even know
what else down there.
- Dude, what if you drink the water,
what if you get water in the ears?
I don't wanna get ear ache.
- No, you don't wanna get ear ache.
- You get like listeria.
- You get a serious ear
infection down here, bud.
- We're not from here, we
don't know, our bodies,
I'm like a supple little baby,
from Canada.
- Oh these microorganism's
gonna eat you up man.
- I'm gonna jump in
there, they're just gonna.
I'm gonna get out, maybe I'll be skinny.
- No the catfish are gonna love it, man.
They smell that [bleep], "Oh
we got a couple Northern boys."
- I felt weird, I brought like my Aesop,
my Aesop nice body wash.
- Oh you did, fancy.
- And then I was just like,
do I use this down here?
- Dude, Skipper would tell
you to get the hell out
you show up with some Aesop all over you.
- I know, I smell so nice now
but then we're gonna go get in the [bleep]
- It is lovely.
- The crick.
- What fragrance, is
it that like cedar-y--
- No I have the geranium.
- I like the nice stuff.
- I never did it, I'm new to
it, I'm new to the nice stuff.
Aesop.
- This episode of noodling
brought to you by Aesop.
- Hand creams.
- And Le Beau fragrance.
- [Matty] Body scrubs.
- Is that how you say that
company, La Beau, La Beau?
- I don't know La Beau,
I use it and I don't get so dry anymore
'cause I'm so moisturized
from all the expensive moisturizers.
- Yeah, you gotta stay [bleep] dipped.
[relaxing music]
