This is Dispatches from Myrtle Beach with Charles Neil and my son Link from Good Mythical Morning. How you doing, son? I’m doing good. I’m doing good. Doing pretty good. What about you? What about you? Well, it, we’ve, we’ve been doing, doing pretty good. The, It’s been cold here. Cold. Cold. We didn’t get quite the, uh. Sleet or snow. No more snow like we did the last time, but just rain and stuff. Uhhuh. Yeah. Your mama and your nana and all them, they, they got some, but I mean, it’s. Yeah. I, I hope it’s not long before spring time. It’s just a, it’s a wild world of weather. Yeah. Y’all been dealing with rain and mudslide. Go from fires to rain and mudslide. Mm-hmm. Slow recovery over here. You know, I just, I, I, uh. Christie and I actually drove through, uh, Altadena, which is, you know, the Eaton fire just kind of, it decimated that whole area. And, um, you know, we were, we hadn’t been over there ’cause you just feeling like, well, you don’t want to drive through there and like, you don’t want rubberneck. Um, but, you know, with a little time we decided, well, And, um, we rode through there. I mean, it’s, it’s one thing to see pictures or videos. It’s another thing just to drive through. Even now see something live. Just, just a, just a level of decimation and, um, like how far down, um, from the, from like the mountain range, like where the fire originated, how far down into the actual neighborhoods. I mean, like you’ve, you’ve seen it all in the news, but like. Yeah, it was, uh, yeah, it was, it, it was, it was a lot. And, um, you know, they’re doing a lot of cleanup and, you know, everything just takes time. So, oh yeah. It’s taking a lot of time. But yeah, so we, you know, it’s, I did and I just having seen that, I just think about, I think about the threat of fires a little bit, a lot differently now that we’ve experienced everything we have, but, um. Yeah, it’s a, you know, I, it’s, it’s encouraging to see the signs that like, we will rebuild, build, like Altadena can’t be bought that all these signs are up. It’s like, you know, the, just the level of resilience and um, you know, people are getting to work and people are stepping up to help and donate and all types of stuff. And, you know, it’s just one of those things. You know what, I remember we were talking about the, um, the fires in Maui. Yeah. And, um, you know, how moved we were about that and like, we never knew that it was gonna come back here or roost, but I, I actually saw a recent footage of the, um, that famous tree, that famous tree there, uh, in Maui, right on the, uh, Laina. Yeah. And, and how the tree survived and like, it’s like this hugest historic tree that’s grown back. Do you remember that? Do you remember seeing that when we Yeah. Uhhuh, but everything, it, like the aerial footage of it, like everything around it is still like, there’s nothing rebuilt, still nothing there. Nothing, yeah, nothing. And I was like, what is going on? The fact that it’s, it’s just like, it’s still everything, as far as I could tell in that whole area was still just leveled. Cleaned up, but nothing doesn’t seem like anything’s being rebuilt. So I know it’s not easy. I know there’s a lot of challenges with it, but that I was, I was encouraged that the tree survived and that they can always rebuild eventually. But I, I was scratching my head a little bit that like doesn’t seem like they want anything. There’s any recovery. I mean, wasn’t anything going on? I spend two at. Two and a half, three years. Yeah, I think so. So yeah, that’s what I mean. There’s some of this red tape stuff is. Hmm. Hard to get by with. Yep. I mean, we just, the Kentucky and up through the, it didn’t quite get to the North Carolina Mountains, but they had 13 people to die up there from all the flooding and everything that was going through and. Towns covered in water in Kentucky up there. So unbelievable. It’s going on in a lot of places. It’s scary. Life goes on and yeah, you have to learn how to deal with it and see what you can do and everything. But well, on, on that note, you know, I know that, um, you know, personally, we’ve been talking off mic and I didn’t know if there was, I said, whenever you want to talk about it publicly. Or if you ever do, we can talk about it. So, uh, I know you said that maybe you want to, you wanna bring it up and share with the Myrtle Beast what’s, what’s been going on with you and since, since we already started on a somber note, I guess. Yeah. We might as well just continue with it if, if you’re still up for it. Yeah, I’m a, yeah. Just to let you know, Lincoln and I always, a lot of times we bring our little dogs. In and I’ll hold Gypsy and let y’all see her and everything. Well, about three weeks ago she got sick and we had to put her down. Mm-hmm. And, uh, it’s been for me and Nancy both, boy, just to let I, and I know all you Myrtle Beast are pet lovers cause light. Two or three weeks before that, I did the polar plunge and raised $1,500 for the animal shelters to build, build, and, and I didn’t know. How much, I mean, that meant a lot to me doing it that day. But then when she got sick and we had to put her down, it was like, well, you know, it was just something I, I’m glad I did that because of I’m, you know, you, I knew, I know how much I loved Gypsy, and we still, I mean up, even today, me and Nancy, I, I walk in the door and I, I still kind of. Look around and that she’s gonna come running up and everything. So I mean, we had her 16 years and wow. That’s a good, she was, 16 years is a good run for a, yeah, for a dog. Like those little, she’s a poo. She’s a poodle. So like a little poodle. They have the things that can go wrong with ’em, but the smaller dogs can, can live longer, I think, than a bigger dog. Yeah, little. Yeah. She was a malty poo. So she was Nancy’s dog before y’all got together, right? Well, she got her right after we started dating. Oh, okay. She was the, uh. The first thing we had an argument over. Oh, really? Yep. Which was, she told Nancy, the lady that had Gypsy, lived right beside of Candace, and that little and gypsy kept running back and forth over there. And the road that we lived on, uh, was extremely busy for. And we right for a two-lane road, pretty busy for a two lane. And she, you know, that thought was going, I mean, she was out all the time. So she asked the lady and Nancy adopted her and to protect her, and I come home. Yep. And I come to the house one night and she had Gypsy with her and she said, well, I got Gypsy. And, and she said. And I said, you did? And he said, yeah, I had to give, uh. Charlotte 200, I give her $250 for her. And I said, you did what? And I thought they was going to just give it to her. I said, hell, you could have bought a calf for that. And, and she looked at me and she said, it won’t none of your money, and don’t you ever worry about what I do with my money. And I said, oh, I have overstepped my bound. Oh Lord. And then, hold on. You said, you said you could buy a cow. That’s what I said. Yeah. So I mean, so you would’ve, okay. Yeah. Your argument’s also a little sus. Yeah. Like, ’cause you didn’t want her to buy a cow, just to be clear. No, I mean it was, I mean, just wanting them strange things that would come outta my mouth back then. I mean, that was. You could have bought a cow. Same. Why didn’t you buy a cow? Now? Now, how are you gonna buy a cow if you blew all the money? You blew the cow money on a dog. In my recollection, she never, she was never in the market for a cow dad. No. Okay. No. Not one for. So you learned, you learned your lesson, but it kind of, it kind of got ironic, you know, after. Several years and then we got Foxy. Mm-hmm. And we had to put her down about three years ago. And Foxy kind of became, because Gypsy was Nancy’s dog. Yeah. And when she got Foxy, oh Lord. I. That gypsy was some kind of, she was pissed. I mean mm-hmm. You, you, it is like you have brought another dog in this house. Uh, have you lost your mind? What is wrong with you? And that, and then till that day, she wouldn’t have nothing to do with Nancy. Nothing. Of course, she had Foxy. So Gypsy then. Became my dog. And that was, yeah, like 10 years ago. Mm-hmm. And I mean, and she and Nancy would tell you, he said he had, uh, Fox’s mind and Gypsy’s, Charles’ Gypsy don’t like me anymore. So, but you know, it, it’s like. Anything, you know, when you lose an animal or you lose a parent or lose somebody, that, and, and dogs are a, if you love ’em like we do mm-hmm. They are family. Oh yeah. They are family. So you and, and I never would’ve understood it. I mean, like, I never would’ve predicted that like I would get a, get my dog tattooed on my arm. But to me, this having Jade on my arm. It’s not just because I love Jay, but it represents how she opened up a new world of understanding for me as my heart dog, as like my first of many dogs that like it’s just to understand the bond that I have and knowing that she’s gonna be gone one day and I’m gonna look down at my arm and that’s the way that I’m gonna see her. And maybe that’ll make me sad, but. It’ll also make me happy because Yeah, but it’s, I’m a different person because of her. And you, you’ve, you, you know, gypsy’s not the first dog you have, but maybe the most special dog that you’ve had. Oh, yeah. But it, you know that. Your, your animals, your dogs, cats, whatever. They don’t ever ask you no questions. Mm-hmm. And ask you if you, if you, if you treat ’em like you’re supposed to. Right. They don’t, they don’t ask you nothing and say, I need, you know, with whatever happens if you get mad at ’em about something and doing something, but, and, but they all, they don’t care. They love you. Now it’s just unconditional. It ain’t like children that can talk back to you and say, I don’t want to do that. They just, they, they just right there with you and right beside your side, whatever you do. So, yeah. But she was a special little dog and we miss her. Yeah. I mean, three weeks is not a long time to be on the other side of it, so. Yeah. I know you’re still. You’re still realizing, like you said, when you come home, it’s like having to realize that she’s not there. I mean, I know it still hurts, and I’m so sorry that lost her because, you know, she slept between my legs about every night. Yeah. Right in the bed with me. Yeah. And I, I, I, I don’t even know if I’ve had a good night’s sleep since then, because sometimes I, I said I can’t move. I’m, I’m, I’m move. Move her right away where she can’t keep sleeping and she’s not even Yeah. You know, in the bed with me, so. Well, thanks for sharing that with everybody, dad. And I know it’s, I know how I can only imagine how tough it is and I know that I will, you know, I will be there in the future. Yeah. You know, it’s one day. Mm-hmm. So. Thanks for sharing. Well link. We gonna go on and all you Myrtle Beast. I got a. Holler, I gotta holler out to Chuck and Jill Anderson. It says, hi, Mr. Neil. My name is Chuck and my wife Jill and I, I absolutely love dispatches from Myrtle Beach. It makes her so happy to hear a couple of kind, happy Southerners discuss pretty much anything. She loves your voice so much, Mr. Neil. She say she would like listening to you no matter what. Even reading a grocery list. Anyway. Okay. So I wanted to thank you for all the smiles and all the joy you bring to me and Jill and, and if you e. Darn. And if you would ever would tell her how much I love her on your show, with all my heart to the moon in back, I’d be happy to pay for a shout out to her. Ooh, okay. I know she’d be, I know she, I know she’d be tickled. So yeah. Here’s what’s the price? Here’s what, uh, there ain’t no charge for this. Oh, the first one’s free? Yeah. Mm-hmm. But I, I thought that, um, Chuck, that I’d do this in a way that she would be entertained with how much you love her to the moon and back by giving you a grocery list where you could go get her some groceries and everything. Okay. Yeah. She said she’d like, I mean, she said she’d enjoy you reading the groceries, so, yeah. So Jill, here’s what we want, Chuck to go get you at the Ches. You need to go get some bread, milk, eggs, cereal, detergent, fabric sauce, iner, peanut butter, jelly, mayonnaise, mustard, deli, meat, hot dogs, and a cabbage. So hurry up, Chuck, and go get your wonderful wife, these things that she needs from the grocery store. Uh, and did, did you get that list from her or did I. No, I just made it up for, so what are they gonna do with all these ca? They’re gonna make some slaw. What do you think? You, like you, it seems like you’re setting the menu for ’em. Well, I mean, these are just the staples in your mind. Everybody ought to have peanut butter and jelly. That’s true. And gotta have some bread around the house. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course. I don’t know if you want to be buying eggs right now. Not as much as they cost, but Right. Uh, of course, you know, if I put hot dogs down, I got to have some cabbage to make some slaw with, I’m gonna eat hot. Well, is this list for you though? Uh. 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He is a very special person and it’s just things that he does and uh, but sometimes he just does not do exactly what he’s supposed to do. Like, you know, about two weeks ago on the show, he told me, who are you and who are you? I’m, I’m you. Oh. Charles, I’m you, you’re Charles. I’m Link. I’m Lincoln. Oh, I’m Charles, I’m Link. Hey. Hey Link. Hey, Charles. Well, the way that you’re talking about yourself, I thought you were thought talking about yourself in third person. No, I’m talking about you, son. I’m talking about what you I’m I’m son. You. You’re me. That’s right. I’m your dad. So why? Yeah, why are you talking about yourself in third person Link? Because I, because I, I want you to know that there’s some things that you could probably do better, and who Me? You might. Yeah. Well, I’m too old. I’m too old to learn new things link. No, no. Me, me, me being you quit confusing me. Well, I’m just asking, who are you? I’m linked. That would be correct. Yeah. I’m, I’m linked. So, you know, about two weeks ago I was talking to my dad. Yeah. Me and he, he, he you, and he told me, he says, I’m gonna make sure that I call my nana tomorrow and talk to her because. I told, I told me that I was supposed to call her the week before that and I didn’t do it, and you know, well, hold on. How do you know that you didn’t do it Well, because you told me Who am I? You’re me, you’re Charles. So well, how do you know what link? I link? You’re telling me that you didn’t call your nana, as you would say. Yes, that would be correct. Uh, I did not, I even, you even told, I, I told you that I, I was going to Las Vegas and I thought to myself. I didn’t even know I was in Las Vegas, and, uh, well, you trust me. You were, but yeah, you, most of the time you didn’t know it. What do you reme tell, but I’m trying to tell. I’m trying Tell, tell everybody what you remember about Las Vegas. I don’t remember a thing about Las Vegas. You’d ask. That would be correct. You know that old saying, when, you know, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Uh, said that’s what happened when me in Vegas, it stayed there, but, and you mean to tell me you didn’t take a second to call your nana while you were in Vegas? No, I did not. I, I completely forgot. I just, I just get overwhelmed with things and I just don’t remember that I’m supposed to call her or call you me, uh, or call a lot, call or call my mom or call a lot of people. I mean, it just seems that sometimes my time is just so short that I don’t, I don’t do what I’m supposed to. Well, I’m glad that you’re owning up to it, son, and what are you going to do to fix it? I, I, I, to, when we get through with this podcast tonight, it’ll be too late, but I am gonna promise tomorrow to call my nana. All right. And when you do tell it, you use that voice with those glasses and you tell, and you take care of it for me. Oh, no, you, not me, you. Who are you? As you, as you, not me, but you. Is you and me. Is me and you is you, you, you’re going to be the one that that’s going to talk to you now. Link. This is. I talk to her all the time. I’m Charles, I but Link. Don’t talk to her all the time. That’s right. You need to call her. I do call her. You don’t call her. No, you don’t link. You say you’re gonna do it and you don’t do it. It’s pretty bad when I, when Charles sends you a picture of flowers that you sent her that she loves and you send her a and I send it to you. Me sending to you, to me, to you. Yeah. Then you still don’t call her, so, I mean, I’m amazed at what you do, but, but you sent her flowers, right? You, yes. Yes. You sent her flowers that I’m sending, that I’m saying that you sent. I didn’t, that I didn’t send send, I didn’t send her flowers and say they were from you. In your name link? No. My name is Charles. No. So I, I, you need to call your nano. You need to call your nano, I’m gonna call her. I’m gonna call her so you can call her. So, but I don’t know. So I, now, I, I, now, I don’t even know who I am. I know. I’m trying to fix my hair back so I can remember that I’m not, you took me a while. It does. This is, you know, that’s not, this is, this is not easy for our brains to do this. But you know what I’m telling, I I will take the note. You’re right. Okay. You’re right. I said I was gonna, I told you to tell her that I was gonna call her, and then I was in Vegas and I didn’t, and then it’s been, it’s been, it’s been after that and I haven’t done it. And she reminded me again today when she called me. Why don’t she, I mean, okay. Yep. I don’t know. I don’t know what to, there’s nothing I can say to get out of this, except you need to, you need to go ahead and do what you said you were gonna do for me as me. Ah, as you. All right. Well link. Here we go again. Oh God. It’s spelling me time. That would be correct. Now write big and legible. Alright, so we’re gonna show, all right. So here. Here’s the first picture you write, what you see there. First of all, tell me what, what you see. Well, no, don’t just write it down. Just write it down. This is interesting. We’ll get, we’re starting off with a little geography and he is, I can hear him talking a little bit to himself. You know, it’s one thing when your lips are moving, when you’re thinking it’s another thing when you can actually hear, alright, C, so what you have written is Connect. Connecticut, Connecticut, Connecticut, Connecticut. Is that, is that right? Yeah. Let me look at this. C-O-N-N-E. CTI. CUT. Connecticut. How on Earth, dad. I’m so, I’m sorry if this offends you, but, uh, I can’t believe you spelled Connecticut, right? I can’t either. I was so, I was so dead set on you having it wrong. I’m just like connect to that is how you spell it. It’s connect It cut. I think Connecticut spells it wrong. But you spelled it right, so, man, I really gotta call Nana Al. I feel I’m feeling bad. All right, we’ll go for another one now. Okay, now, this state, this state, you should know this one. ’cause you, you spent a, a, a hot minute living in this state. He’s closing one eye. That’s how he, that’s how he looks at maps. One eye at a time. Maps are too much for both eyes at the same time. Uh, I can’t even read it. No, I think I, I don’t think he can read it, but he’s still going for it. That ain’t right. He, he, he doesn’t, I don’t think he thinks it’s right, but he’s going to go with it anyway. Uh, that ain’t might, but whatever. Okay. Alright. So you have the right to state. I is that, uh, I-L-L-I-A-O-I-A-I-N-O-I-A. Oh, that’s an n. Illinois. Oh, I, oh wait, Illinois. That’s not far off Illinois. Now you live there, right? Yeah. Okay. But it’s been a long time ago though. Yeah. Maybe that’s how they spelled it. When you lived there, what year was that? Uh, early nineties. I tried to forget. I tried to forget that. Okay. Uhhuh. Well, it ends in, uh, 1988. Okay. 1988. They might’ve spelled it that way, but then they changed it. You’re pretty close, Illinois. It’s, it’s got a. It’s got an S somewhere in it. I will say that just where do put the S, wherever you wanna put it. I-L-L-I-A-I-N-O-S-I-A. Iia. Iia. The S is at the end. It’s like noise without the e. Oh. Anoa in in the late eighties I lived in Anoa. Yep. Let’s give up on that one. All right. Let’s go with this next one. This is gonna be interesting. Oh yeah. It makes me hungry. What’s that? Mm-hmm. He’s writing lips are not moving this time. Oh, I can hear. I can hear him talking now. He’s erasing. Don’t, don’t try too hard. Dad. Just first thing that comes to you. All right. What is that? Say it. Spaghetti Spa. Spia Spaghetti. It’s got a IN an A at the end. That’s just a ia. SS spot, but S-P-A-G-G-I-T-T-I-A. Maybe it ain’t got but one T in it. I don’t know. Uh, well, I’m having to cheat a little bit. It’s got two T’s in it, but it doesn’t end in the ia. Like what? What sound does the IA make? Why is there an A on it? Spata tie spaghetti. I don’t know why you put an A on the end. That’s Tia spaghetti. Spaghetti spaghetti. So just spaghetti? Yeah. Yeah. That’s pretty close. But there’s a e instead of the first I. Spaghetti. Now. Spaghetti. Oh, spa spaghetti. Yeah. I like spaghetti. I like it too. Actually, that’s a, that’s a tastier sounding name. SpaghettiO. Yeah. SpaghettiO. I like that. Let’s, let’s go get some SpaghettiO. I, yeah, I’m all for that. Let’s change the name of it, spaghetti. That’s what I’m gonna call it from now on. And lemme tell you, I’m hankering for something after seeing that picture. Whew. I like to put hot sauce on my spaghetti. You do? You like to put hot sauce on your spaghetti? No. Uhuh, you don’t really put hot sauce on stuff. Well, I put it on a hot dog sometimes, and then I put like a Texas Pete. Yeah. Okay. But there’s this, uh, truffle hot sauce called trough, and I, I can’t, I always put, I like to put that on my spaghetti. So Good. I don’t know why you like truffles truffle butter. Truffle truffle flavor. I think I got Nancy, some of them food. Valentine’s truffles. Little chocolate. Yeah. It’s different. I don’t, it’s very, it’s a very pungent mushroom, but it it is the same word. Oh no, I didn’t get her no mushrooms. Okay. Alright. That’s what it is. Alright. She don’t eat mushrooms and I didn’t make that mistake. I got her a piece of something that was chocolate. That was how much did you pay? How much did you pay for that? Bought. I went to the Dollar Tree. You could’ve bought a cow with that. See, I was just trying. I bought a dollar and a quarter. A dollar. I went a dollar tree. Oh my God. All right, one last one. Spell this one. Oh my God. We’re gonna go out in style. You know what this is? We’re in the animal world. We’re in the ocean. Don’t let me down, dad. This better be bad. All right. What is that? Say it. Octopus. Alright. I’m just gonna sound out what you wrote. Octopus, octopus, octopus, octopus. So it don’t have No, yeah, it don’t have no. A pus. Now you’ve got puss. Well, I liked it better with the A in it anyway. So you took the wrong A out pus. How? Octopus. There you go. Almost like it’s the A should be an O, because what does a OCTO mean? Eight. Yep. How many legs does a OC octopus have? Eight. Mm-hmm. That’s why you spell Octo. So O-C-A-T-O-P-U-S. Look at that. So Octo means eight. What does pus mean? Legs? I don’t think so. Octopus got ate of something else too. You know what I’m saying? Yeah. That was just a joke, dad. It got. It’s got, okay. It was just a joke. It’s just a dirty, dirty joke. Well. You wanna throw in the towel? I think we’ve worked hard today. It. It was fun. Yeah. Yes, sir. And 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 podcast and on YouTube. And while you’re at it, rate and review us on Apple Podcast. And if you got a question, comment, or a story you’d like to share with me. Email me at ratherbeshaggin53@aol.com. And y’all have a great rest of your week and we can’t wait, wait to eat some spaghetti and Illinois. Uh, again, next time– in Illinois, next again, next time. Sp, I can’t even spagita, spegcita in Illinois next time. Yeah. Spagiza. All you Myrtle Beasts. Have a great week, Link. I love you. I love you too. It’s been fun again. Oh wow. Oh yeah. Yeah. I, I wouldn’t trade it for the world.