This is Dispatches from Myrtle Beach with Charles Neal and my son Link from Good Mythical Morning. How you doing, Link? Pretty good, Dad. How about you? Oh, doing good. Doing good. Yeah. Yeah. Y’all get to go back home? Yep. Yep. We’re, we’re uh, achieving some sense of normalcy. That’s good. Yep. And then supporting, supporting those who are, who are rebuilding their lives. So we’re, uh, we’re doing what we can. So there’s lots of, lots of good opportunity there, but yeah, doing good. Um, you know, it’s nice to have this conversation as, as another sense of normalcy. Are things normal out there? Myrtle Beach? As normal as Myrtle Beach can be. Yeah, things is pretty normal, as normal as it could be, you know, uh, I don’t think you and I have talked about, uh, Your Nana and my mama lately a little bit about kind of what’s going on with her, so, uh. Yeah, what’s the, what’s the update with Nana? How’s she doing? Well, she’s, she’s doing good. You know, I think you do know that she told Aunt Tacey said, I’m going home. Mm hmm. And she carried her home, and that lasted three days. And she called her and told her, said, I need to come back to your house. I can’t live up here by myself. So, that’s kind of what’s going on with Nana. And she’s doing good. We went and seen her last week. It’s good that she made that decision, you know, herself. She made it. Yeah, she figured that out herself. So, uh, looks like we’re probably going to fix her house up and put it on the market and sell it and put the money up for her. So that’s kind of what’s going on. It makes sense. It’s a little sad, but it does make sense. You know, lots of memories wrapped up in the house. Of course, you didn’t grow up in that house. You probably moved there when, I don’t know, you were maybe in, I was a sophomore in high school, sixth or maybe even my freshman, end of my freshman, middle of my freshman year. So I got a lot of memories there. I mean, it’s a lot of memories since then because they’ve always lived there. Yeah. But yeah, I understand that makes sense. And I’m glad that she made that decision that she’s doing good. She did, she did, when we went to see her last week, she tickled me. She told, I asked, I told Teresa, I said, All these jars that Nana’s got that she can with and all that stuff, you need to give them to Ashley before she can have them for a flower. And she said, Oh no, we’re going to have a garden. I thought, I wish I could, I wish I had a picture of Teresa. When she said that, with what she said. She was signing, she was signing up for her to be the gardener. Yeah, that would be correct. So we’re gonna have a garden. Oh, so Teresa made it perfectly clear that she won’t have a garden no more. She might go buy the stuff and they and snap some beans and put them up. We ain’t growing stuff no more. Yeah, there’s only so much you can do. With everything, but yeah, that was kind of, it was kind of funny. She did that, and then she was quiet about it, and everything seemed to be fine, so, um, cause it’s been cold here. Whew! Baby. Now, what’s cold to a North Myrtle Beach man? Some days it didn’t even get to 40 here. Hey, that’s cold to me too. That’s, that’s cold. That’s not to my liking. And then up, uh, it for mom and teach recently of it cold, about 10 degrees difference up brighter than it is here. So it’s cold. You getting out and painting in that? Still been, I’ve been out in it. Well, I don’t know how much I’ve been fixing some stuff for some people and redoing some stuff. And, uh, but yeah, I’ve been out in it working. Okay. Well, don’t work too hard. Don’t get too cold now. No. How’s that? How’s that inbox? You getting any emails these days? I got, I got, I got a holler out. I’m going to give the Lucas McCoy. Lucas McCoy. Lucas says, I live in Baxter, Tennessee, but I’m originally from Spencer, Tennessee. I wonder if that’s like Bundleville and Lillington or something, or Bush Creek and Lillington. Yeah, it sounds like it. Not far apart. Yeah. Which, which is a small town that doesn’t have a red light. In the entire county. Wow. The entire county. I know, that’s a, that’s a desolate county. Okay. Look, Lucas, you do live in the sticks, don’t you? Yeah. Might be poppin in sunshine, I can’t help but tell. But Lucas said, I play, he said, I play in a band, Southern Sunrise, and we’d love for you and Lincoln, everyone, to listen to us. Check us out and give us a plug. Tell the Myrtle Beast about us and help us get some new fans. Here’s our Spotify. Alright, let’s hear it. H T T P S double dot slash slash open dot Spotify dot com. Slash artist slash six M J B J U Z E C two F I V B O S U T Y four I two question mark S I equal P R T four five Q V D R F. All right. There you have it. Well, wait a minute. And there’s something that. G-M-H-V-R-O-M-T-A-O-L-Q. Okay, man, that’s a, that’s a, that’s a long thing there. Lucas. Maybe. Maybe them. Maybe these Myrtle Beast will get it? I hope so. Hey. Yeah, we. We just shared it with everybody, Lucas. Listen on your own time, I guess. You can play it back if you need to write it down. Because I’m not saying it again. I’m sure it’s great, though. I’m sure it’s great. Y’all keep, y’all keep playing music up by where you don’t have a stoplight in a whole county. So, uh, keep traveling around playing music. I’m glad we could share the link with everybody. Yep. Link. Hey, Link’s link. No, it’s not my link. I probably would have used a tiny URL or something. But, uh, yeah, that’s, uh, that’s their link that we just shared. Good work, Dad. Good work. You’re doing, you’re doing the work of the people. I love it. Try to help him out. Yep, I think we did. That was like an eye test. Yeah, my eyes must be pretty good to read that, I’m telling you. Yeah, I mean, you got any other URLs you want to read out to us? No, I’m through. I’m done today. Okay. It’s spelling bee time. That would be correct. Brian, well it looks like Brian has sent me in some pictures and YouTube link. Okay. That we gotta, I gotta spell what they are. All right. You got your whiteboard? I got it, right here. Okay, let’s see these pictures. All right. You tell me what that is and then you, or just show me what you’ve spelled. Well, that would be a zucchini. Oh, see, I, you had me at cucumber, so I would have even spelled the wrong thing. Can he spell zucchini? He’s talking to himself. Z, what? Z U E? No, C C. I’m sorry. Let me do it a bit bigger. No, that’s fine. It’s fine. Just tell me. Just tell me what it is. Z U C. Hold it up. Hold it up when you spell it. Alright. Z U C C I N N A. Two C’s and two N’s? Yeah. Zoos, zoos. Zucchina. Zucchina. Zucchini. Zucchini. But it ends in an A. Why, why would you end it in an A? Not like, let’s just say like maybe an I. Zucchini. Well, it sounds like an a to me, zucchini. Okay. Uh, I mean, I know there’s, there’s a couple of Cs. There might just be one C. I think there’s an H somewhere. Alright, that’s close enough. I’ll accept it. What’s the next picture? At least I knew what it was. Yeah, yeah. I didn’t even know what it was. So what is this? This is a, this is a certain state. Oh, it’s that little state up there. Massachusetts. Yep. Massachusetts. Oh, see dad, I could have told you that was Massachusetts and I can’t even say it. How’d you know that was Massachusetts? Um. We were looking at, uh, I knew it because it had that little dot, what, what’s it, uh. Peninsula? The little, look like a little foot out on the ale of it, that, that’s kind of like, uh, I’m trying to think of the name of that place. Italy? No, up by, in Massachusetts, uh, Cape Cod. Okay. Where the Kennedys live, all those people live, I, that’s what. That’s where that is. Let me see. Well, spell it. Massachusetts. If he gets this one right, I’mma do a backflip. See, I can tell when he spelled it because his lips start moving. Massachetts. Massachetts. Dad, you spelled Massachetts. Massachusetts. Where’s the Chu? There’s no. CH CH Chuchu. Massachusetts. CH is cha, cha. Massachetts. Massachusetts. No, no, dad. You spelled Massachetts. Charles, say that word one more time. Massachusetts. I think there’s some T’s missing at the end there. Massachusetts. Massachusetts. Massachusetts. There’s a U and an S after the H, I think. But other than that, I think you got it. Let’s just shorten it to Massachetts. One less syllable. I think that works. So you’re rewriting history. Next. We’re getting into a new year. I’m not gonna use the big R word. Resolutions. But, you might be thinking about learning a new language. Cause you’re traveling this year. Or, you know, career advancement. You know? Language might be a path to that. Expand your horizons. In comes Rosetta Stone. 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I’m hunting. Oh, Lord. I like the little sounds he makes when you spell it. Gucamoliae. Oh, okay. Guca mo. MOL. What? I? L I E L, gucamoliae, molie, you put. Guacamole. I don’t, why the I and A? Why not just the e? Uhhh. You just started throwing vowels at the end of it. Just like, I mean, what about, sometimes Y? Put a Y on the end. That would have been a good guess. It might have been better with a U, but I don’t know. You left the A out at the beginning. G U A C A M O L E. G U A C A M O L E. I gotta give you a song so you can remember how to spell it. All right. Okay. That one, that one, um, that one wasn’t good, Dad. That was too many, too many vowels at the end. What else, what else has he got for you? Oh my god. Penguins. Penguin. Penguin. Penguin. I don’t know why you say it that way. Penguin. Well, it is a penguin. Penguin. Penguin. Penguin. I don’t know, it might, the way you pronounce it might actually help you spell it correctly. So go with that. Penguin. Oh! Pine guine. Penguin. Well it’s, you, that I needed to be an E. But, P I N G, is that a Q or a G? G, G, I, N, E. That’s pretty good if you, if you took the E that was on the end and you replaced the first I. That would be correct. Oh! Not to use your catchphrase, but E before I. E instead of I. Try that. Pen. P E N. Yeah. Okay. Like a ballpoint pen. Penguin. Penguin. Penguin. Okay. Let’s see what you got. No, but then delete the one, the E on the end. There it is. Does that look right to you? Penguin. Yeah, that looks pretty good. Yep, you did it. Took a little help, but um, well, I think you did pretty good with that. I’ll give you a, I’ll give you a C plus. If, if mama was making me do it, she’d make me do it again then. C pluses weren’t good enough. Not good enough? No. I think that’s good enough, uh, at your age to spell it. But that’s good enough for Brian, ain’t it? That’s good enough for Brian. Now that you’re good at spelling, what about pronouncing? We should give him a two for one. Well, okay. Can I pronounce these words? Let’s see if I falla fail. The tests continue. Now we’re moving into the pronunciation version. So say this first word. Fettuccine. Oh! Ain’t no foolin Charles today. We got him warmed up with the spelling. And now his pronunciation is tip top A+. Fettuccine. If you were gonna say it wrong though, how would you have said it? Uh, I just knew what fettuccine was. You’re telling me you can’t even, you can’t even say it wrong if you wanted to. I don’t think so. Just try. Fetachena. Okay. Yeah, he can’t. Easy fetacheni. All right. All right. What about this next one? How would you say this one? Picka de giao. Say that again. You got what’s? You have an accent. I like it. Picka de giao. Pick de gallo. Picka de gayo. Okay, alright. Well you’re changing it, so you need to make up your mind I didn’t. Well, I said it right to start with, didn’t I? No. Picka de giao. Picka de gallo. Well, I mean, you said it every which away. You have to choose one. Well. Picka De Gallo. Pfft. Is that your final answer? That’s my final answer. It is, because I’m stopping you. Your first answer was correct. That’s what I thought. Then why do you keep changing it? I don’t know. You keep messing with it. People De Gayo. People DeGallo. People DeGallo, people DeGallo. Alright. What about this next one? Now you, I think you might know. This is from New Orleans. Uh huh. B’nai. Nope. It is from New Orleans. Wait a minute, let me, uh, It’s that little. Yeah, what is it? Sweet cookie thing with the frosting all over it. Oh, well, it might, some of them might be savory. B’nai. But you, well, when you get. B’nai. When you get the little bit of the G in there, Yeah, it gives you a, neah. Can you gimme a neuah? Ben gwah? Have you ever heard of a ben gwah? Oh, well, yeah. You have? I might have. Benyay. It’s got a neuyah, neuyah in the middle. Neuyah. Make that noise. Neuyah. Meh. Neuyah. Meh. Nope. Neuyah. Meh. Not meh. No, it’s not an M sound. It’s a n. It’s start with a n sound. Neuyah. Neh, neuyah. Yep. Neuyah. Benyah. Yep. Instead of an ah, go with an A sound at the end. Ben ah. Nyah. Ben yay. Yeah, yeah. No, it’s a ben yay. Yes! That’s it! Ha ha ha. Say it again. You got it. Ben yay. Yeah! Ha ha! Now we’re on a roll, Dad. What’s this next one? Oh, Lord. Uh. Pen ah nor. Do you know what this is? No. It’s wine. It’s a type of wine. Say it again. A pint of no. Now you’re gonna order a pint. It’s not a beer. You can’t be ordering a pint of it. You were closer the first time, I think. Yeah, I know. I just, uh. Penat nore. Pino. Pinor. Well, it is two words. Pinor, pinat nore. Uhh. What about I would like a glass of peeeeeeen. Peenyore. Peenyore. Peeeen. Peeeeen. Penyoooo. Pinot. Pin, pinoon nore. So now you’re doing that thing where you got me saying it wrong. Pinot Noir. Not peenyo. Yeah. Pinot. Newar. You mess me up sometimes Dad. Now I don’t know how to order it. I’m gonna have to order white wine. Pinot Noir. Pinot. Okay. Pinot Noir. Pinot. Pinot. Pinot, Pinot. But stop. Stop with that accent. Stop it. Pinot. Pinot. Well, pinot pin. Pin noir. Pinot Noir. Pinar Pin noir. Oh yeah. There we go. You got it. We’d like a bottle of your best peenyo newar. Okay, you’re not gonna come back with much. I don’t drink wine, no whiskey. That’s good, that’s good. Don’t, don’t go ordering it. All right, we got one more. Say this one. Escargot. What? How did you know this one? Because it’s a snail. How do you know it’s a snail? What’s your familiarity with it? Escargot. You want to eat it? You going to have it? We going to eat some escargot tonight? All right, and you going to chase it down with some what? Pinot Noir. See? That’s almost right. I think you, I think you’ve nailed it. Beignet. Fettuccine. Beignet. Yeah. Yeah. Beignet. Pico de gallo. Gallo. Pico de gallo. All right. There you go. All right. Look at you. You can go out and order more stuff now. Yeah. Gimme some fettuccine to go with it. Yeah, and that can be, that can be what you do with the rest of your day, Dad. Go out and order some Pinot Noir and some snails. You’d be like a, just a, a Frenchman. Grow out a little, grow out a little spindly mustache. Ha, ha, ha! Oh, yeah, give me a little, order me some Pinot Noir. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Glad to have helped today. Mission accomplished. Yeah. Well, Link, it’s always fun for me to try to pronounce these words and do all this stuff. And I hope all you Myrtle Beasts love it. Keep sending them in. I’m going to keep trying because it was fun having you all here with us today and we’ll be back next week for another one. And don’t forget to follow and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts on YouTube. And while you’re at it, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts. And if you got a question, comment, or a story, keep sending me them emails in and share them with me. And email me at ratherbshaggin53@aol.com. And y’all have a great rest of your week. Special shout out to, special shout out to all those in Massachusetts. Massachetts. Is that what you meant to say? No, that’s, that’s Massachusetts. All right. Good work, dad. Love you. Love you. See you next week. Yep.