This is Dispatches from Myrtle Beach with Charles Neal and my son Link from Good Mythical Morning. How you doing Link? Doing good, dad, doing goooooood. How about you? Doing, doing good. Doing good. Yeah. Been uh, just pedaling right along and — Pedaling on a bike? Pedaling. Yeah. No, I ain’t been. You don’t even have a bike? I, no. Nancy’s got a bike, but. I don’t have a bike. What kind of bike has she got? Just a bicycle that you ride. Does she ride it? Uh, I’m not even, I’m not even opening up that can of worms. Mm hmm. That would be a no. Oh, well, okay. I’ll leave, I’ll leave that. It’s in, it’s in our golf cart room propped up against the wall where it’s been for probably a year. Oh. Since somebody stole the one that was outside. Oh. There used to be two or she got a replacement bike? She got a replacement because somebody stole the one outside. Oh, because she, the one that was stolen, she rode that one a lot? Uh, you trying to get me in trouble and I ain’t going there. She likes that. She likes to have a bike just in case. Yeah. She likes to have a bike. Like she takes a notion that would be correct. Okay. All right. You gotta be, you gotta be ready if you have that bike notion. You gotta have a bike. Yeah. Wow. So. I just got rid of Lando’s bike. We had, he, I bought him a bike during the pandemic. And, uh, it was way too nice for him to never ride it. And then it is hung there on the wall by my bikes. And yes, I have two bikes. And I really only need one. I might sell that one, that one too, but I finally got rid of his bike. He didn’t, he didn’t even know it happened. He don’t. That’s how little, that’s how little he cared about his bike. So I’m not, I’m not suggesting that you sell her bike, but I am suggesting that if you did, she might not know about it. No, she’d know it because it’s right outside the door. So that will not happen. She likes to look at it. So, I don’t know, you know, the way she’s been getting rid of stuff around here, she might one day sell it, too. Well, you need to watch out for yourself. You need to make sure that you’re, that you’re leading. Well, I keep asking her that. I keep, I said, am I next? She said, I ain’t selling you, so. That was a nice answer. There’s a price for everything though. What if she said that? Well, there’s a price for everything. I did, I said, what are you, I did ask her that question, Link. I said, I asked her, what do you think you could get for me? And she said, you ain’t for sale. You ask her, how much could she get? Yeah. I mean, she’s selling everything else. All right. What you got for us today? Well, we got, we got something, we got something from Bella. Okay. And said, what do you think of this, Charles? What is it? Oh, another one of them paint things. Oh, Lord have mercy. It’s time for Alright, Mr. Neal, Whatcha Think Of This Reel? So he’s wrapping around the door frame. He’s taping the door frame to paint around it. Oh. And the baseball. It’s, it’s quite a noisy video, I will say that. It’s like an ASMR video for putting tape down. And this, this apparatus, it lays down tape in a, in a crease. But then it also cuts the tape. Yes it does. Have you seen one of these? Uh, I hadn’t exactly seen one of these, but, uh, I have a machine that puts tape out like that, but we always just used it to, when we were spraying for windows and spraying in a house, we taped the windows up with it cause it would run down, but it had plastic on it. So the plastic went down, you folded it out, covered the windows up and everything. Uh, I don’t, I don’t tape around door jams and baseboards. And why is that, Dad? Because I’m a professional painter. That’s right. Everybody’s so concerned about putting all this tape down, because they don’t want to learn any technique. It’s a pretty cool machine, though. But it’s a pretty good thing, except for that noise that it makes. That might drive me to drink. Yeah, and that, how does that do for your, for your painting technique if you’re drinking? Well, that ain’t probably good either, but I’ve known some, I’ve known some painters that when they drank, they painted a lot better. Oh, really? Yeah. It calmed the hand down. It won’t shake it so much. Okay. Yeah. As long as they don’t drive to and from the site, I guess, uh, let them have a steady hand. I was picking them up and carrying them to work, but no. I mean. For an amateur, and you see people on TV and on them commercials all the time, and they taping stuff up, and where they don’t get paint on this and on that, and, uh, that’s a pretty neat little gadget, but it ain’t a gadget that Charles Neal is gonna use, you just think. Charles Neal, not in the gadgets, he’s not in the gimmicks, he’s into results and he’s into craftsmanship and he’s– As long as it took to tape all that up. I’d have had, I’d have had everything around all that probably cut out and ready to roll. And by the way, how long does it take you to learn how to use that tool? Yeah, I bet you, I bet you that wasn’t that guy’s first attempt. I bet you he had tape all over the place. Well, I don’t know. I’m not going. Say that he did, but I’m not going to say that he didn’t, but it was pretty neat the way that stuff just come out, and then you had to push that little button down to cut it, so. Sounds like you got a little respect for the machine itself. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I mean, for people that.. Like if you were a toddler. Don’t wanna paint on something. If a toddler wanted to paint her own room, it’d be good to have that. Ah, hell, I just, if I had a toddler and she, if it was you and you would, I’d have just let you painted a room, done what you wanted to, and then after that, I’d have let it dry, and then I’d have just fixed it and painted it again. Yeah, you gonna let a toddler go on a ladder though? I think if not all of the painting is gonna be like only to a certain height, you know what I’m saying? No, that’s right. It would be kind of dangerous. Well, a toddler couldn’t run that up. You have to get on a ladder to put it around. I mean the door jams at least but close to seven foot, so. What’s the youngest you think you can teach somebody to paint? I, if they were really interested, probably between 10 and 12. I think you can teach a seven year old to paint. I don’t know. I’m not saying as good as you can or anything. No. I’m trying to insult you. No, but it just takes, I don’t know if a seven year old’s. attention spans. Yeah. Quite enough yet. Okay. You’re getting about 10 going on to 12. You, you want to learn something you might, you might would learn how to do it. So it’s not that you’re opposed to child labor. It’s more that you, you got to make sure. Oh, now, now you’re going to start bringing up that I worked you like child and all the child labor that you did. Is that what you’re trying to get at? Trying to make sure. Trying to make sure that you got an education and got a job like you guys. So I think it worked out pretty good. It worked out fine. Okay. All right, we can move on then. We can move on. What else you got? Well, I got one from Alicia and it says, you guys, talking about refrigerators and ice reminded me of a smart refrigerator I saw recently. What were we talking about refrigerators and ice? We’re talking about the different types of ice. I think we bought a new refrigerator. How’s that ice working for you? You still loving it? Well, I like the one up above. I don’t never, I don’t never bother the one down at the bottom. I don’t even know if I’ve ever even got any out from it. So what is this one? This is, she’s calling this an AI refrigerator? Talking about ice reminded me of a smart refrigerator I saw recently. It’s too smart for me, but wanted to hear your opinion on this crazy AI refrigerator. Okay. Okay. Yeah, let’s see it. This fridge actually shook me to the core the first time I saw it, and on a– Shook you to the core. Discovering new things about it that I love, besides it being just beautifully aesthetically pleasing in my kitchen, the newly added AI functionality has made keeping track of groceries way easier. The AI vision inside feature automatically recognizes what’s in my fridge and takes count of what you add or remove so you always know what you have inside. It’s like magic. So cool. It also has the Samsung food app, which has so many good recipes that you can discover based on what ingredients you have in your fridge or you can search based off of what you’re craving. You can also use the SmartThings app to send the exact baking instructions needed for whatever recipe you pick. So it sends them directly to my oven and all I do is press start. You can even get a live view into your oven with the SmartThings camera monitoring feature. Check it out on discount during the Discover Samsung winter sale now through December 15th. Okay, well that was an ad. That was a, at the very end, you could tell it was an ad. So what do you think about this? Well, uh, I hate to, uh, well, I don’t like, I don’t need all that paraphernalia and I’m too old to learn and how to press this and make this go beyond that and all that work and, and my wife, and I do some cooking, but she wouldn’t even want to have the thing on it to tell her how to get a recipe or how to get this cause she, she’s got a recipe book, got a thousand of them. But I think what it does is. It looks at what’s in your fridge and then it tells you what you can make based on what you have. That’s interesting. Well, I usually, we usually know what’s in our refrigerator. How on earth, dad, do you know what’s in your refrigerator if it’s not AI and it doesn’t keep a database? How on earth would you know what’s in your refrigerator? Because we buy and put it in there. And then, and then, hold on. And I bet you’re about to tell me then after that. You open the door and you look in there and you can see what’s in there. That would be correct. Oh my gosh, Dad. You’re so full of it. You know what’s in your fridge because you can open it and look in there? Ha! Uh, yeah, I know what, hey, I know what’s in our refrigerator. Now, things can go to the back there. And if, and, and like, takeout or leftovers. But that AI is not gonna know what’s inside of the leftovers anyway. He just had, he just put one lemon in an empty fridge and it was like, you have one lemon. Well, you can make lemonade, right? I mean, but think about nobody’s fridge looks like that. Everybody’s fridge is full of crap. What are you, are you supposed to have a spot where you’d like put a little something in there and then it reads it and says, Oh, now you’ve got this additional piece of food scrap. And then like, and you have to scan it. I don’t know. It’s like. When you put stuff in a normal fridge, and like, you got sauces in your door, and then you got another sauce you want to add, and that ketchup’s not quite finished, so you’re just gonna have to shove one more sauce in there. You think it’s gonna see that? Mmm, no. It ain’t gonna see that. And then, it, once it gives you a recipe, it sends a message to your oven to what? To preheat? Even I know how to preheat an oven. Me too. It ain’t that hard to preheat an oven. Now what you do after that is your problem. Not mine. But I have preheated an oven in my day. I mean, you just put 350. And then it just starts heating at 350. I don’t need to. You gotta hit, you gotta hit start. You gotta hit start. That’s fair. Yeah. I mean, I don’t need to If I’m gonna go to my fridge and push buttons about a recipe, just so a oven can preheat, that is just, that’s too much. Because you still gotta get that stuff out and mix it all up to make it, then. I don’t think it’s going to make it itself in the refrigerator. I don’t think, I don’t think the fridge makes anything. I think the fridge has a screen that connects to a camera in the oven. So that as something in the oven is cooking, if you want to see how something in your oven is cooking, you know what you do. Look in your fridge. Doesn’t that make sense? It does to me. What? It does make sense to you? If you want to know if your food in your oven is done, what do you do? Well, you know how long you’re supposed to. When you read the recipe, it tells you how long to cook it. She’s got a timer. Yeah. Yeah, and if you want to peek at it, what do you do? If you want a what? Peek at it. Just kind of peek at what’s in the oven. I just turn the light on up there. Oh my God. And look in the door. Are you serious? You’re telling me that your oven has a light and a window? And if you turn the light on you can see what’s cooking in the oven? Yes I can. But wouldn’t you rather go over to your fridge to see what’s cooking in your oven? I mean, it’s just, people try. People are trying to make things worth buying. They’re trying to make you want a new fridge with dumb stuff. Well, we did want a new fridge, but I didn’t, we didn’t want one like that. You got more ice than you even know what to do with. That would be correct. I mean, Lord knows we don’t need it connected to your oven. No. That’s ridiculous. But what I was gonna tell you is, and I hate to say this, and I probably. I’m listening. Um, I’m going to be a little more delicate about this, but I’m not buying a Samsung refrigerator. Oh, okay. All right. You’re anti Samsung. We’ll knock them off of the sponsor list. 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I think you’ve just read spam is all that you’ve done. Okay. Don’t feel. Well, don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t get in your head about it. Just delete it. Well, I’ll do that next time. I need to be more careful. But I got one better than that. Dad’s reading some, some, some spam emails and taking them personally. Don’t, don’t Don’t let your, don’t let your feelings get hurt by spam dad. Okay. It’s not personal. By definition, it is impersonal. Oh, it is. And whatever you do, don’t reply to it. Okay. Well, I got, I got another email, and it’s really interesting, and it’s from Owen. Okay. And Owen has got himself in a predicament. Oh. Well, let’s hear it. And Owen’s subject line that he’s sending to me was about cheating. Okay. And it says, please don’t read my email name aloud. Well, I ain’t giving out his email a name. I just told him who it was. So I’m sorry, Owen, but, but he’s got on there. But my name is Owen. I’m 25 years old. I’ve been in a relationship with my girlfriend for five years, and for further context, she is the first girlfriend I’ve ever had. Okay. Relatively recently, I had to travel across the country to be there for my family for an emergency. While I’ve been here, I’ve become attracted to someone else. I have no plans on staying with this person, as I love my girlfriend very deeply, and she is my first love, so we only hang out platonically, and, and we only hang out platonically. platonically and have sexual encounters. Wait a minute. What? This is, I got to get this straight. Did you? Did you combine two emails just then yeah, I think so. Read it again While I’ve been, okay this is the second person he’s talking about since while I’ve been here I’ve been attracted to someone else and I have no plans on staying with this person as I love my girlfriend very deeply and she is my first love. Yeah, so we only hang out platonically. Mm hmm And have sexual encounters. Now how in the hell you have, hang out platonically and have sexual encounters? That dog don’t hunt somewhere or something. This is a. But I thought, because it says she is a lot older and has expressed that she has no plans on being in a relationship. I think he’s. He’s still talking about the woman he’s cheating with. She’s an older woman. They’re just, they’re just friends that have benefits. That’s what he’s saying. Okay. Okay. She is a lot older and has expressed that she has no plans on being in a relationship. So I was certain, considering her age, she is confident in knowing her desires. Okay. But I’m afraid she’s falling for me, and I’m a falling tad. Neither of them know about each other. Falling tad. Falling a tad. Oh, okay. Just a tad, yeah. I feel so much guilt and so much regret, but I can’t help but feel happy to enjoy the company of this other woman. And she is a very kind hearted person that I connected with. But keep in mind, I will most likely not see her in person again for a very long time after I leave. I really don’t want to hurt either of them. I’ve never cheated and never thought I would end up in this situation. What do you think I should do? Mm. Well, Owen, first thing I’m gonna tell you is, if you’re having all this trouble and you’re 25, I am not really sure that you know. And you said it yourself, this girl that you are so in love with, that’s your first love that you’ve ever had. And you may not really know what love is, Owen. You just may not know. But you’re experiencing something with an older woman, and sounds like she’s just teaching you a lot of stuff that you are really enjoying. And platonically, of course. Yeah, that ain’t gonna work either, but anyway, you sounds like to me, Owen, you just gonna have to make a decision. This, this one person, you say, and that you’re not going to see probably any more or maybe ever again or, or whatever. Well, can you get her out of your mind? If you go back to where your girlfriend’s at. And the second thing is, can you live with yourself the rest of your life? If you love this girl, that’s your girlfriend and not tell her what’s been happening while you’ve been gone off in your family situation, because. You got a, you got a situation that you’re going to either have to decide. I’m not going to tell either one of them about one another. And if you can live with yourself for that, that’s what you’re going to have to do. But I really don’t think you’re going to be able to do that, and I don’t think it’s fair to the girl that you’re going, that’s young and you’ve been with for five years, that you, if you’re not honest with her, with what’s going on now, you ain’t going to be honest with her in 10 years from now, so. It’s not a good way to start a relationship, a long term relationship. And, and, and I wrote a little thing on this, Owen. I wrote down about something you’re going have to remember. Owen. Sometimes you can’t have your cake and eat it too. And uh, and this is one of those times. And yeah, so you’re gonna probably have to, if you really have deep feelings about this girl, and you go back home and where she’s at, you’re gonna have to sit down and have a long talk with her and tell her about what’s been going on and see, ask for forgiveness. And see where everything goes from there. Uh, but that’s just my feeling about, uh. Yeah, you’re in a big danger zone if you’re building a life together on a, and there’s a big lie as a part of it. Yeah. That’s, uh, that’s problematic. Mm hmm. Yep, you made your bed. Now you gotta lie in it and see, see how, you know. See how she responds. You might have blown it. You might have blown it! Good luck Owen, and uh, you know, you can send, send me another email and let me know what went on. I might can help you with your next relationship. I can tell you. Yeah, yeah, we might be in that situation. If you’re close to somebody, and you’re trying to build a, some kind of relationship with them. It ain’t good to lie to them. It’ll come back and bite you in the [bleep]. I’m telling you. So you better tread lightly and figure out. And I’m going to tell you the other, I meant to tell you this. I want to tell you this and I’ll just get off of it. Sound like this older woman might just be using you as a puppet anyway. So, you know, uh, she’s getting what she wants and whether it’s platonically or sexually or whatever, but she’s getting what she wants and she’s already told you, she didn’t want nothing else from you besides that. So you’ve opened up a whole nother can of worms right there anyway. So yeah. You better take that in consideration too, so. I don’t know. And what, what she wants and what she does doesn’t have any impact on what, who you are and what you do and what you’ve done. So, yeah. Well, Link, it’s been real fun today because of Owen, because he’s in a predicament. We’ve been trying to get him out of it. We’re not trying to get, we’re trying to help him face the music. Yep. Face the music. But he’s, he’s going to have to make that decision. But all you Myrtle Beast, it was fun having y’all here with us all today. And we’ll be back next week and see if we get some more questions we can answer. And don’t forget to follow and subscribe wherever you get your podcast on YouTube. And while you’re at it, rate and review us on the Apple podcast. And if you’ve got a question, comment or story. If you’d like to share with me, email me at ratherbeshaggin53@AOL.com And y’all have a great rest of the week, and as, and as some advice from me, I don’t cheat and I don’t buy one of those gosh darn AI refrigerators. Nope. Don’t do it. Don’t do either one of those. It ain’t a good thing. Well, Link, I hope you have a good rest of the week, and I hope Owen does too. I guess. Love you. Love you too. Bye.