Memphis, TN - Mud Island - The Pyramid - Cotton Museum - Burger Cooked in 100 year old Grease

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[@melanagrey]

The best burger I ever had was at Dyers. It was summer, and the fans were going, door opened, the sound of jazz floating in from across the street. Wonderful memory.

[@TheCarpetbagger]

I need to get back here when it’s warmer

[@rocdocs]

Burger cooked in 100 year old grease. Making the important choices so we don’t have to. Love the road trip, Jacob! It’s so fun to vote on your next destination.

[@OldMovieRob]

Oh, just looking at that ancient grease made my stomach uneasy. Thanks Jacob for the sacrifices you make.

[@TheCarpetbagger]

Ancient Grease! Nice

[@firefighter494]

@@TheCarpetbagger I see what you did there.

[@stiguybob793]

The guy at the machine in the cotton exchange was doing what’s called “reading the tape”. Essentially it was a telegram that relayed the large buy and sell orders from market makers, so that he could tell the board man, which would update the board for the floor traders. It’s crazy how any of that was done before computers lol. Love your videos man!!! Just subbed 😁👍

[@grandmatarah]

This voting is fun. The burger look so delicious. Great volgs. My husband is now watching. He picked New Orleans too.

[@Amanda-kw1vi]

The scale model of the Mississippi river was super cool! I think it was nice for it to be dry so you could see the dips.... Also shows how huge and long it actually is even though it's only to scale!

[@TheJustinRothShow]

Looks like you're having fun walking in Memphis! Such a cool place to visit and slightly warmer than where you were. Great video! 👍

[@larryepling]

But was his feet 10 foot off of Beale?

[@TheJustinRothShow]

@@larryepling 🤣 maybe they were

[@christopherlucas4620]

I just wanted to say that I (if not anyone else..) appreciated the song reference in this comment. 😂

[@TheJustinRothShow]

@@christopherlucas4620 I'm glad someone did lol.

[@davidchance534]

i watch a lot of adam the woo , and tim tracker ... but the carpet bagger is my # 1 go to guy !! thank you jacob.

[@alexgeorge501]

14:10 "Oh...things were rotten in the land O' Cotton until Whitney made the cotton gin, now old times they will soon be forgotten cause it gave the work of a hundred men" -School House rock: Mother Necessity

[@heididorr2684]

The bowling alley is awesome! I wish that all bowling alleys had theme's. I think kids and adults would love it

[@lk3309]

I live in Sikeston Missouri halfway between St Louis and Memphis so I've visited most of the places you visited lately. I've been a Carpetbagger fan for a year or so now. I always enjoyed talking my family to Mud Island. In the summer water flows through the outside model of the Mississippi. I always enjoyed looking at the cities on the map Also, locals pronounce Cairo different than the Egyptian city. It's pronounced k row. You have to go to the museum at Mud Island. It's very creepy. Use your ghost hunting apps inside. Was down in Tunica January 6 with the wife and basically had the casino to our selves. Try the BBQ spaghetti in Memphis sometime.

[@DarkWireFilms]

We’ve had similar uploading issues on some of our videos. Took 3 days and numerous tries to get our carowinds Winterfest video to upload. Be safe on the road. Can’t wait for the next videos.

[@markwallace8605]

The museum is very cool, a hidden gem.

[@billlewis1829]

YES!!! Jacob finally went to Dyer's! Most excellent Sir Carpetbagger!

[@bg199083]

I’m actually going to New Orleans next month and in November. What you should do and eat there is: do a cemetery tour, eat at Cafe Du Monde, WW2/D-Day Museum, Garden District, Audubon Zoo, Mardi Gras World, and eat a po’boy at Acme Oyster House. Have a fun time Jake!

[@applevalleyhillbillygarden1093]

Cool vlog. That is a ticker tape machine the one guy is using in that diorama in the cotton exchange building you was asking about. Oh, the National Quilt Museum has a new person running it. Maybe he will let you vlog it. The dude that you kept dealing with, has left the quilt museum.

[@TheCarpetbagger]

What does a ticker tape machine do?

[@MrDailywealth]

@@TheCarpetbagger Ticker tape is how the current price was shared before the fully electronic exchanges. The tape had printed prices of the different exchanges. It was a teletype printer. stopped using it in the 1960's

[@reidhcooper]

@@MrDailywealth Unless you're old men who built the Stock Market such as in Trading Places, then it was used all the way till the 80s. Thanks for explaining this one to all, because it was what I planned to and didn't want to repeat if someone already explained it.

[@MrDailywealth]

@@reidhcooper LOL I was being too technically correct :) Ticker Tape machines were replaced by computer networks in the 60's. (various types of terminals were used) Of course even today the term "Ticker" is used to describe the scroll at the bottle of TV screens on business and news networks.

[@filipohman7277]

Awesome Job Brother!!!👍👍👍😎 Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸

[@deniseconaway701]

The cotton museum was really interesting, pleased you enjoyed your glistening greasy burger Jacob, just watching that grease dripping from within that bun 😳, it’s really good just getting to visit places I’ll most likely never get to, Thankyou

[@roadwolf2]

Take a ride on that trolley car that drove past you. It’s one of 11 W class trams that were sold to Memphis from Melbourne Australia

[@scottfelton2435]

Wish I could be awesome like The Carpetbagger.

[@CrabRagoon117]

I live 30 mins outside of Memphis and have been looking for this burger place, definitely keeping this video in my playlist for places to visit so I remember ❤️

[@Caderic]

Mark it on Google maps

[@HeavyMetalCrone]

Another great road trip! .....btw, love the yellow crocs 👍

[@ciwwaf2012]

Thanks for checking on my fish too!! It's the Memphis one at 26:57 😄

[@alianningson3829]

So cool that yours also made an appearance!

[@brandyrose9997]

Oh my gosh Jacob, I was well into being a Carpethead when I saw your vlog about donating your bass! Amazing. Lots of love from California. 💞🐻👍

[@reese9030]

You never disappoint with your adventures Jacob. It was all wonderful but The Bass Pro Shop was amazing. I can’t wait to see where we’re headed tomorrow and I can’t wait to see what you can do about your mutton chops. Happy travels and stay safe.

[@michelewhiting7022]

Wish it was that fast to get down the river. Fun to play in the water when warmer and ride the tram. If you haven't been to their Rock Soul museum and the Gibson guitar factory tour they are worth the trip. BB King statue in the visitor center too. Always good to leave a reason to travel there again

[@GPFlljk]

We eat at Dyers every single time we go to Memphis. There and Rendezvous for ribs.

[@PerfectStorm1986]

I live in Memphis, Tn. Born and raised here. I wish I could have met you when you were here !!!! 😟😢

[@johnny85er]

Niiiice!!! So glad you hit up Dyers 🥰🥰 When you are in CT, get a steamed burger at Ted’s. One of the best burgers I’ve ever had!

[@toddglantz2499]

Those burgers are fricking awesome! I loved them!

[@mousetreehouse6833]

Never thought about Memphis as a place to be, but thanks to you, Jacob, it is now on my bucket list 🎺🎷🎸🎶 Thank you, Jacob!🎹

[@themanwithnoname1681]

"The dark side of cotton" Literally.😆

[@kimberlyshalaby1134]

I liked seeing the Cotton Museum & hearing about it's history. You come up with the neatest places. Just wandering how your stomach feels hours later after eating a burger fried in 100 year old grease?

[@kyleshiflet9952]

Fun Fact: Memphis was at one point the center of wrestling thanks to Jerry "The King" Lawler

[@TheCarpetbagger]

Truth

[@katgirl476]

What are you talking about? Everyone knows Memphis is Andy Kaufman territory!

[@kyleshiflet9952]

@@katgirl476 lol

[@jamesisaacson6379]

@@TheCarpetbagger just wondering how do you travel so much do you have main house/ HQ?

[@adamhebb01]

This road trip should just be called the Mississippi River road trip lol

[@Frankenberry]

"This sounds to be the thing that dreams are made of".... No @The Carpetbagger ... That sounds to be the things that Heart attacks are made of! 🤣

[@markwallace8605]

You are right behind the amphitheater at this point, I've seen Stone Temple pilots there four times and walked away with a set list from the dressing rooms to your left

[@simonvanderwerf]

You are Awesome! So you film all day and edit and upload all night, who needs sleep when you're a machine fueled by hot dogs.

[@TheCarpetbagger]

Hot dogs fuel my adventure

[@marybmccormick]

So cool like the cotton museum and all the billy bass had one back in the day the prymid was so cool 😎😎😎 love all those beautiful 🐟🐠🐟🐠

[@FlamingoKicker]

Whenever ducks check in here at the Pyramid, they dont worry about the cost. They just say. "Put it on my bill."

[@jessiwats27]

Lol! I was just downtown the other day!! We just missed eachother. This place is great, ive been here for yearsn

[@InLightPictures2000]

Hi, love your channel. Curious, what’s the story behind your bolllweevile beetle tattoo?

[@timmcnulty1531]

Hope you enjoyed Lamberts Cafe. We always enjoy it. Be careful

[@patbowman6723]

You do a great job on these road trips. thanks

[@Analyticalinadream]

Old man river. He must know something, but don't say nothing, He just keeps on rolling along. I love traveling along the Mississippi River.

[@JBilder89]

You're keeping me alive.

[@micmagellan5689]

Oh my goodness civil engineering art work! Amazing i want one!

[@simianresistance]

I haven't been there in a long time, but Enterprise, AL has a Boll Weevil statue. They credit the insect with forcing them to diversify their crops.

[@TheCarpetbagger]

That is the reason I have the Boll Weevil tattoo

[@alianningson3829]

@@TheCarpetbagger There we go. I was curious.

[@KarenRose70]

I went to Mud Island on a band trip in HS. I have a picture if me standing on Mud Island on Mud Island.

[@lilrosey4728]

love seeing your travels jacob! i'm headed on a 14 hr trip soon and i hate long car rides.. but your enthusiasm for travel and roadside attractions are what keep me optimistic! best channel ever🖤!

[@sandramcglinchey7712]

It’s a sun fish! My son has had one of those pillows for 19 years!!!!

[@mrbrent62]

That guy with the fish is Bill Dance, a famous fisherman in these parts. If you search KZbin for Bill Dance you can see his videos.

[@Swahealeyman24]

Jacob! Enjoyed your "boot scoot" in front of the Memphis sign 😆

[@alianningson3829]

That was such a lovely little ditty.

[@samuelludke1420]

Bass pro is always amazing!

[@leeroyhoots6116]

Thanks for the video! My family is headed to Memphis soon. We're going to check out some of your spots. The sideburns (pork chops!) look great and will always grow back. Cheers Brother!

[@kmeadows]

I don’t have any plans this weekend so I think I’m going to grind up some jeans and shove them in the wall.

[@bpjbp]

32:10 uh oh. Get some glue

[@vincentschmitt7597]

Joe Jackson had a nice song called Memphis. Look for the live version specifically. How many "Memphis"titled tunes are there? Many.

[@alianningson3829]

I made a playlist of all the songs that reference Memphis. So far, it has 300+ songs.

[@kimberlyshalaby1134]

The Bass Pro shop was awesome! Loved it!

[@MattsMovieMadness]

Nice to see some warmer places for you to discover!

[@cristywyndham-shaw5111]

Good grief! 😳 Hope you're on Lipitor!

[@williambrowning4395]

Nice!

[@markwallace8605]

If you're still around, you're not far from Sam Phillips recording studio, I'm a former tour guide of Sun studio and if you wanted to go I can make a call it's, never been filmed for a vlog. I used to play on that island as a little boy, my parents had a yacht on the island. I also know a guy who's got a indoor airstream trailer park.

[@alianningson3829]

Absolutely loved my tour of Sun Studio. A highlight of my life.

[@petecast3372]

If it wasn’t winter I’m guessing it would be full of water that’s pretty cool I’d love to go check that out

[@darksnake223]

I’m from Mississippi. Where I live, the town has and old cotton mill. Also just a mile where I live, there is this house. We call it “The brick house,” used to be a hospital for confederate soldiers.

[@RazorRoman]

I believe the place you meant to say at the beginning of the Mississippi is pronounced “cape Jer-arrdo”. (:

[@brucesumter4327]

wow so cool basepro the Pyramid i been one in springfiled,mo branson also the one in jenks is real close one to bartlesville,okhoma also my dad mom when they was very young they used go out diffen place pick cotton ty for showing this video the old cotton ppicker they used call that

[@ryannodal9309]

I like when you visit Memphis. You and Jordan the Lion are synonymous with that place. That burger just looks so mouthwatering

[@SamsTrains]

Great to see Rupert at 25:39

[@avablack1761]

Thanks for my first postcard. Another excellent vlog.

[@alianningson3829]

I am so glad you stopped by Rum Boogie. Wouldn't you know it, my friend who usually plays there is put with laringytis! Of all weeks for that to happen. You will definitely have to stop by and see him another time. Thanks for a great video. It really felt like I was back on Beale. You captured it well.

[@Dreamyblue101]

Wow that's amazing dude

[@OgGwuap]

Dude you are living THE life.

[@donniemabry1470]

Love to see you at Camden Park in West Virginia in summer I have not been there in a long time.

[@jasonhadfield1551]

Great video

[@emilyfletcher6060]

Have you been to the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium in Dubuque, Iowa?? It's pretty cool, I think you'd enjoy it :)

[@bonniekaye]

Loved the video! Concerning cotton .. I am surprised that I didn't see the Twist family name. My grandfather worked as an overseer, or Rider, on their plantation in Twist, Arkansas. Some of the Twist family lived in Memphis. My dad was friends with the Twist children. My grandfather was good to the workers, there. I would love to one day write a book featuring stories about his time there. 🌹

[@Lipbuzz]

Is 100 year old grease that has been slowly replaced with new grease due to grease-loss, still 100 year old grease??! #ShipofTheseus

[@TheCarpetbagger]

Ha! Good philosophical question

[@snipe125]

I enjoyed a burger at Dyer's back in 2004 just because! It was good. Need to head back to Memphis

[@barbarah9917]

Nice vid Jacob ty. 🤟

[@alliekuma4234]

You with your chops is me with my bangs lol Awesome vid dude.

[@petecast3372]

Tennessee is fantastic

[@petecast3372]

Very cool

[@mrbrent62]

I've eaten at Dyer's many times... They have the Beale Street location... and in Collierville next to the Town Square. The Memphis bridge was closed for over a month because of crack. I got some great drone footage of the empty bridge.

[@nashscan]

I recently heard that crack had possibly been there for years if not decades. Oof.

[@petecast3372]

I’ve been to Bourbon Street also

[@QuesadillaWizard]

I hope you stop by Corinth MS one day and have yourself a Slugburger! We've also got a Coca Cola Museum and a Civil War Museum!

[@pamelakern2849]

This cross country is the best 👌

[@totalvamp792]

I have been to Beale Street but I missed that restaurant.

[@johnrogers6291]

Good job Jacob.

[@ashleymoore4259]

You should come to Nancy Kentucky and check out mills spring battle field and it’s museum!

[@Banalheart]

now south to huntsville AL!

[@history_leisure]

I thought Monsanto ceased to exist years ago. I know they had a close connection early in Disneyland’s history

[@alianningson3829]

According to Wikipedia, it has been defunct since 2018.

[@history_leisure]

@@alianningson3829 still sooner than i thought, I was thinking late 80’s

[@hackbarthparents6889]

Go to Eureka Springs next please.

[@luciacaballero2019]

Saludos desde México 🇲🇽🙏

[@eddieharris3150]

Hey speakin of the ol miss... At the Dubuque Iowa Kentucky Fried Chickens, on Friday's, they would fry whole catfish in original recipe type coating

[@HJT1]

Trim the other mutton chop down to the same length then use the trimmer with no guard to shave down the rest of your face. That way the shorter mutton chops will look dark again.

[@Bobhbaum]

It's Jir-ard-oh and Kare-o (Ky-ro is in Egypt)....shoulda' learned those in the Valpo schools, Jacob! Talk about glitches!!! And, you forgot your hat leaving that restaurant, as windy and cold as it was????

[@alianningson3829]

I believe you by why do they mispronounce Cairo?

[@dianagallagher3891]

Oh no Jacob !! Your trade mark mutton chop !!! You an say you snezed while trimming...lol but my husband's facial hair grows fast. I wish he still had hair on th top of his head but he stared going bald in his early 20's and I loved him then and married for 20 yrs he is now 44 bald and I love him the same and I bet your wife will do the same even if your chop isn't as thick as the other !!! Well have fun and I love your vlogs keep them comming 😊 sending love from Rhode Island

[@rainaroden2942]

I love the Mississippi on the Memphis side! It's so beautiful.

[@greenranger1727]

Bolivar tn we have a civil war museum the city itself is one big museum. Also the trail of tears went through town.