Pete Rose and Joe DiMaggio once spent 23 days touring Vietnam together, and to say the trip brought two of baseball’s most acclaimed hitters closer together is an understatement.

On Tuesday’s appearance with Mike Francesa, Rose recounted a rather memorable portion of the trip.

“As you may not know, South Vietnam is a jungle,” Rose said. “It’s so hot, you can’t sleep. All of a sudden, Joe says ‘I can’t sleep.’ I said, ‘Joe, we’re not in downtown Saigon, we’re in the damn middle of the jungle.’ He says, ‘I don’t give a darn, I’m Joe DiMaggio, I gotta take a shower.’

“The only way you can take a shower there is, a guy had to get up on a chair — me — have a bucket of water, pour it into this canvas tank, pull the chain and the guy underneath took a shower. I gave Joe DiMaggio a shower.”

As if this wasn’t already an odd tale, things quickly got weirder as Rose described his Hall of Fame counterpart’s counterpart:

“The best way to describe Joe DiMaggio is he was a penis with a man hanging from it.”