[Music] [Music] This is Dispatches from Myrtle Beach with Charles Neil and my son Link from Good Mythical Morning. How you doing, son? Doing pretty good, Dad. How about you? Doing good. you. We’ve been what I we’ve been up, you know, it’s kind of warm here and we’ve been Mhm. taking a few trips to the beach, but uh is is Myrtle treating you good? Yeah. Treating me good. Yeah. Yeah. We just got by the time this comes out, we just gotten through with uh Independence Day. You got all so all them crazy firework shenanigans. Yeah. Down there you have a big We have a big time down here at the 4th of July. Mhm. Yeah. South Carolina knows how to keep it risky. Y’all like to keep everything risky. Yeah. Well, there’s some people down here that keeps it pretty risky. No helmets on your motorbikes, no restrictions at all. as far as I can tell on fireworks. Well, there’s some restrictions, but that you would you would almost correct that on Fourth of July, the police kind of just turned the head and let let you hope that everything works out pretty good. Yep. Does all that. But, uh, how’s your summer been going the rest of June? I’ve been doing good. You know, I’m gearing up towards vacation. I get I get a little vacation here in July. So, as of this recording, I’m just gearing up for that. Um, are you going let us know what you’re doing? Are you going to keep secret? I think I’m going to go to Ireland for for a little bit. You going to bloody Ireland? Not bloody Ireland. That would be that would be bloody Britain. Blimey. Maybe it’s Blimey. Blimey. Ireland. Oh, I’ll find out. I’ll find out. Okay. I mean, do you know anything about our Irish heritage? Has anybody looked into that? Uh, I I really I think we are that your granddaddy’s daddy and there he he was Scottish. H see the 23 in me doesn’t have a lot of Scottish. See I might have to do some research and I’m going have to come back to you because it says Irish and then British but not as much Scotch. I like Scottish or Well, maybe I I may be wrong. I you know, maybe we could both we could call uh my uncle Vance cuz he he he searched out our family tree. Okay. And did I I need to I need to I need to get that information. I I’ll see if I can work on that for us. Okay. Yeah. Find out. Be good to talk to him anyway. I mean, I ain’t but an hour away from his house where he lives at. So if he doesn’t answer your call, you need to show up at his door and I just beat on the door and say, “Let me in. I need the paperwork for our family tree. Are we Scottish? Are we Irish? Or what are we?” And then I got the 23 and me stuff. I don’t even know if 23 me still exists, but like, you know what I’m talking about. The DNA analysis. Yeah, I know about that stuff, but I don’t I didn’t I Nancy gave me that for Christmas one year. Something. You never did. Uh, and I I said, “No, I’m not doing that.” Okay. All right. Mhm. Well, I did it. I just need to look back at it to confirm it. But you didn’t run. Hey, it’s not as much Scottish in there as we as we thought. Yeah. But I don’t know. But yeah, Uncle Vance about it. I will. We’ve been working in the garden. We probably by this time we’ve put up beets and some string beans and all this stuff. So, cuz uh last time we were on two episodes ago or three, they were blooming. So, I know by this time we picking string beans and putting stuff up. They good. They good. That’s You’re just sticking with it. Gives you something to do. And And you don’t want to hear about this, but I know I’ve been getting some tomatoes. I don’t want to hear about it. Does it all taste better when it comes out of your own garden? Well, it tastes better when it comes out of a garden. Whether it’s mine or not, it always if you grow stuff for yourself and it comes out of the garden, it tastes better. Are there farmers market like Sunday morning farmers market like street market down there? There’s one every Friday. It’s on Friday down here. Friday morning from uh like 9:00 to 3:00 in the afternoon where they have it set up and you can go buy fresh produce and all that stuff. So, I mean, you ever thought about taking some stuff there? [Music] No, I I don’t I don’t think I have enough to take it over there. Do you buy stuff from there? Yeah, we have bought stuff. Squash cuz I didn’t grow any squash and cucumbers. So, of course, I got a friend of mine that I mentioned before, Jody. His son has got a garden. He’s been keeping me in fresh cucumbers. Man, see them things is good. Pickling cucumbers until they turn into a pickle. I don’t like them. M well I love them. Uh but you know so that’s kind of what’s been up with me on the you know I know this summer and things going on and and just to see what we’ve been doing and soaking in the sun getting that vitamin D. Yeah. Yeah. You know I keep got to I got to keep this tan going. Yeah. I know. Of course I’ve been work you know and I work out in it too. So been, you know, whether I’m at the beach or or working, I if I’m working outside, I’m getting me some rays. You’re getting some rays. That’s right. It’s time for All right, Mr. Neil. What you think of this reel? We had nine people send in the same paint email video. Okay. Caitlyn, Tanner, Mason, Jason, another and another Caitlyn, Bethany, Lauren, Shell, and Laura sent in all at the same time. Sent the same. So, this must be one hell of a video is all I can tell you. Okay, it’s got to be They really want you to to give your hot take on it. I learned this from the internet. So, you put your tape all the way down on the roller and what are they doing? Do you know what he’s doing? What? Oh, what? He so the taped up that stuff where you don’t get where you instead of using a drop cloth uh and turns it over where the sticky side is still down there and rolls it down and it holds that paper down so when you’re painting it don’t this is genius mess it up and get it off the floor. This is a way to apply to a long surface just by rolling it. That’s brilliant. I Well, I I think that’s pretty smart. But, you know, I got a thing where I don’t have to have and stick a broom through it and I just stick the tape on it and it’s got a handle on it about this long and I can just take put that tape and I can just go right down the floor and tape that piece up too. So, but that’s that’s pretty smart. But, you know, you have a you have a specialized taping. I have one that you can buy instead of and where you have to tape it to a new roller paint nap nap on the roller and get all out. You just stick it on there and put it down there and tape it right down it. But hey, it’s it’s a pretty neat thing. Uh I would have liked to have heard the sound. I think that the sound of the tape would would have been very satisfying. There it is. I mean, that’s it. It wasn’t quite as satisfying of a sound as I thought it was going to be, but And the thing that I got on that you put the tape on it, when you get to the end down there, it’s got a little cutter on it. You just cut it off and it stays on there and you go do it again. So, well, we might have to get you to make a video of this. If yours is better than that one, you say, “I didn’t learn this on the internet. I just bought this. Yeah. I mean, you can learn this on the internet when we put it on the internet. Yeah. So, I want to I want to see you tape down a long edge of something using your tool and I want to go headtohead with this guy’s video that everybody’s sending you. We’ll see which one’s better. Well, it was a bad idea, but I mean, when you can get this thing and he’s impressed, but he’s already got his own solution. Yeah, the way to do it. But, you know, I I would say you and them things aren’t that expensive. I mean, probably and if you’re going to do a lot of painting, it’d be worth purchasing one. So, what are you taping down? You’re taping down. It’s like a drop cloth. As a drop cloth. It’s like a piece of paper. Yeah. To protect the floor. Well, now the reason I would say we we always use drop cloths. I didn’t use the paper and we didn’t have to take them down. Mhm. And still don’t. But when I was working in new construction and if they already had the new floors down, I I didn’t do it. But the people, the contractor that I was working for would get those pieces of paper and it was looks a and what they used to put down was a little thicker and it was a rosin paper and and then they would lay it down and they would tape the first one down and then go down tape and cover the whole floor up where people that was still working in there didn’t scratch the floors up and right didn’t mess them up or I didn’t get no paint on them or anything else. Most of the time we were already through we were already through painting except for doing a little stuff for he had to do that cuz most of the time when you put floors down but that’s in an ex he’s doing this in an existing room right house that’s already been painted he’s repainting so it’s a pretty good idea I like9 that sent everything in everybody sent it to you I like the ingenuity of when you’re doing something and you’re doing it a a lot rigging up something to make it easier and then something like the there’s so many of these painting videos because people always want to find a new way to do it and typically you’re like listen there’s a classic way to do it you just need to have skill but sometimes you’re still impressed you’re getting impressed more with these with the more recent clips so I will say I googled the taper and it’s minimum $100 are the ones I’m seeing online. Oh. Oh, yeah. That that paper stuff is the one that you No, but the the thing that a taper tool. Well, now they make one that you can put the paper on the tape and everything. That’s They make a I got one of them, too. That that paper that’s laying on the floor. See, if you’re just doing your own house, though, you don’t want to be buying a bunch of specialized tools. You just want to Yeah. But I mean, but I I also have one that’s that’s a small one where you can just It just does the tape. Now, you’re right, Logan. We want to see that. Puts the paper down and uh does all that. It It would It Well, I mean, I’ve had it 40 years, so it probably didn’t cost me $100. I mean, but but if you’re going to do a lot of it, it’s worth buying one. But that hey, to save money, they did a good job. And I I liked it. I liked it. Good ingenuity. Yep. Yeah. I like Hey, I like people just thinking and getting out of the box to do stuff. Yeah, that’s pretty smart. You got another one? Yeah, I got one from Jesse. So that paintbrush is hurting. Oh my gosh. Why? Good God. Have Jesse, what are you doing? This is this is uh some low skill loweffort stuff. Caulking painting against a light switch. God. What? I mean, what would you call this, Dad? Uh, look like they’re making a mess with everything that they were doing. I mean, I said landlord special. Landlord special. Oh, well, is this is this paint comedy, Dad? Are we are we witnessing paint comedy? Well, it’s either comedy or teaching you how not to do something that that would be I mean that first one all that paint on there and all that dirt and all that grime and all that stuff they took something out and then when they I mean the one about the grime though I mean have you ever started painting and it and and then you get to a corner that’s a little dirty and you’re like a screw it and you just like you just throw that paint Absolutely Not because before I start painting, I I wipe everything off with a brush and clean it off and wipe it out with a rag and I get it clean before I start painting. Okay. All right. No exceptions. It don’t make no difference cuz I keep a old paint brush in my back in my back pocket back there and if I need I just reach back there and get it out and sweep everything out and get it clean. And it’s good to always have a a paint brush in your pocket. A old one. Oh, dust. It ain’t got it’s it’s been cleaned, but it’s the bristles ain’t that good no more. But it’s good for cleaning out them dirty spots like that. I mean, that video, it kind of looks like back when I first started working for you, like my level of attention to detail. It might have been the type of thing that whoever was doing this technique, this is the kid doesn’t want to work for his dad technique. Maybe so maybe he’ll get fired. I mean, you you wouldn’t let me get away with that. No, no, I taught you better than that. Yeah, I was the opposite. This is Hey, I didn’t I cared too much. I was so meticulous. That’s bad right there. But puttying up where the hinges was at. Oh my god. That and then paint painting next to the the light switch halfhazardly. It hurts your soul a little bit, doesn’t it? It’s I mean uh whether it’s for a landlord or whoever it is, I mean I’d hate to know I had to go back in. I I probably wouldn’t even go back in and redo it. I said, “This is too much of a mess. It make me look bad. I can’t make it good good.” So, y Well, let’s just say it’s paint comedy. I you know, I think that may be a com that’s a comical video and uh send us more paint comedy cuz if you can find it, I think dad needs to see it. Yeah. I cuz I laughed at it. I thought it was funny. Yeah. Yeah. See, there you go. Tune in every Saturday to get Mythical Weekend where the fun continues all summer long. Plus, get to know the crew even more over on the Mythical Socials. Summer is here. More sun, more light, more time to do all the things that make summer so special. And the number one thing you don’t want to be doing all summer, spending hours cooking inside. 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Have you ever accidentally set something on fire? Or I would like to widen the question to remove the word accidentally. Have you ever said anything? Well, I Hey. Well, I hope most of the times if you set something on fire, it’s accidentally. Oh, cuz you where you live, y’all dealt with enough stuff with fire. We can’t be setting stuff on fire around here. No. So, uh I’m going to not light stuff on fire on purpose. But you’re dodging the question. It sounds like already. Oh, no. No, I ain’t dodging cuz I the only the only thing I’ve actually set on fire was me. What? Okay. All right. Let’s hear it. Of course. Cuz uh what you know, you know when you come and visit and I’m cooking in that big pig cooker and cooker I’ve got. Mhm. Well, I was cooking on it and I forgot it. I was cooking chickens for the church. Okay. And the the flame went out, but the gas was still on. Oh. And I forgot to lift the lid and let the fumes out. And you know, my grill’s got a little thing where it’s about this wide, about this long. You slide it open. You stick the torch in there to light it. Mhm. Well, I did. And it blew all out. And it blew right down my leg on the side and up above my knee and right in there. And it won’t good. It won’t good. Oh. And that’s Were you wearing pants? I did that or shorts? I had shorts on. Okay. And but it still run up my shorts and blowed up and uh right on my inside of my thigh and on my leg and down it. You burnt you burnt your your your privates. No, it didn’t get quite that far up. Oh god. Yeah, that’s what I said. But this this happened when I was remodeling mining Alice’s house in Ghost and the big old farmhouse up there. Well, the one that ironically eventually burned burnt down, but which you weren’t there for that. Okay. But we were living in a camper, so I went inside in the camper and got in the shower and this is going to be kind of gross. And when I wash myself off, the meat just fell off my leg. Oh, Dad. So, I called my friend Jean Harris, which is no, he is no longer living, but he was a paramedic and had some stuff and he brought me some of that silverine cream up there. And he bandaged me up and we lit the grill back up and I went right on back to cooking and finished cooking and stuff. And then I said, “Jean, I can’t take this stuff to the church. You’ll have to take it.” Cuz boy, I was hurting. I bet. I mean, what? So, did you did you get actual professional care for this? Didn’t go to the doctor? Nothing. Well, you don’t even know what degree burn it was. No, it had to be. Jean said it was a thirdderee burn. What I mean, but he said, “I’ll take care of you.” And he did. And he’d come up there every day for about three or four days, twice a day, and clean that thing and put it on there. And listen, you seen me, I don’t even have a scar on my leg from where it happened. So, uh, Sarah, don’t tell Nana. Of course, I think Nana finally found out about this, but we don’t need a reminder of it. No, if you if you How about that her boy? Woo. I mean because when you get burn for several days there’s nothing you can do. It’s hard to get relief cuz it’s cuz I mean but after about a week I it was I got pretty good where I could I I could go back to work at least. But it was a week before I could go back to work. But I mean all right I caught my face on fire once. Oh I had to go to But I went to a burn unit. How did that happen? Well, you I probably should have went to one, too. But how did that happen, Logan? It happened uh right before college. I Someone said, “Take this flaming shot.” And I said, “Okay.” Like a a a little shot. Clear. Yeah. What? And I tried to take it and I didn’t know how to do it. I didn’t know you were supposed to do it differently. And so I just started drinking it and then I don’t know how to do it either. Uh the the flame like I the heat I like I reacted to it so I jumped and then the alcohol spread and then the flame spread on half my face. What? Yeah. And then I lied to my parents because I obviously I was underage and uh I said that I was right over a campfire really close and then someone put lighter fluid on the fire and then hit my face but eventually I had to tell them that it was a flaming shot. Oh my god. And what was the treatment for this? I couldn’t go out in the sun for the whole summer and I had a sun hat and I was like bandaged up and then it healed up. It didn’t scar and there’s some sometimes the scar comes out like in the sun. I can see it. But they were like it’s you actually are lucky it was your face because it heals quick more quickly faster. Yeah. Yeah. It’s kind of like biting your tongue and it it’s the fastest Yeah. Exactly. healing part of your body. It was the most painful thing ever. You trying to impress somebody. It hurts. Yeah. And you on your face. Actually went the other way. Wow. That’s tough. I don’t know why you got in the shower, I guess, to run some water over it. I to get get in some cold water cuz it was burning. I said, “This has got to help. This has got to help.” And then I had to reach down and pick the meat up and put it in the trash can. Why you saying the meat? You talking about like the skin about this long? I mean, it hurt. But had to pick the meat up. Sarah, that’s the only thing I have accidentally set something on fire. Uh, but let’s move on. I’m not comfortable. It’s time for another edition of Myrtle Beach Mailbag. Well, we got an email from Eliza. Okay. And it says, “Charles, do you know who Siri is or Alexa? I’d love to hear you audition for their part and as I’d much rather hear your voice responding to me than those romocks. So yes, u Eliza I we have a Alexa and Nancy’s got it in there and when we take a shower we can ask it to play this music and everything. So uh Okay, let’s see. Uh you going to be Alexa? I can I can prompt you some questions. Okay. And you can be a little bit of Siri too for both. Hey Alexa, why is my poop green? Well, your poop is green because you’ve eaten some green spinach or something with lettuce or something in it and that’s the reason it’s green. Or you take or you’ve taken some green pills that made it turn green. Link. Oh, thank you for calling me by name, Alexa. And yet, yeah, might I add, your voice is very proper and very fancy. I like your fancy voice. But now I want to talk to Siri, and I want it to be the most redneck version of Siri that you can give me. All right. Dad, that’d be like my regular voice then. Okay, you can it’ll even turn it up a few notches, you know. Okay. Hey Siri, is pneumonia contagious? What the hell you mean? Is pneumonia contagious? I mean, you know, pneumonia is contagious. If you get sick and you got a fever and you you ought to be going to the doctor and what what do you what why why would you even ask Siri a question? Is among is pneumonia contagious? I’m sorry. Ask me another question. Sorry, Siri. I I really didn’t think I really didn’t think that you were going to ridicule my question. I thought you were just going to answer it. I thought there was no judgment, but it seemed like there was a lot of judgment in that, Siri. Yes. Yes. Yes, there is a lot of judgment when people are so dumb that they don’t know what pneumonia is. Well, I just I know what it is. I just forget it. Okay, I’mma talk to Alexa again. Okay. Hey Alexa, what does it mean if I cut up my spaghetti into small pieces like for a child, but it’s for me. It it means that you just like your you you you like your spaghetti where you can just put it on a fork and eat it instead of having to twirl it up and have to eat it and and make a mess and drop it. So, it’s a good idea to cut your spaghetti up length for you and a child. That’s what I thought. But I think that pe people around me may be embarrassed. Let me ask Siri. Hey Siri, what do you think about me cutting up my spaghetti into small bite-sized pieces instead of rolling the noodles up on my fork? Well, I don’t know what in the world what why would you want to cut your spaghetti up when all you got to do just roll it up on your fork and just stick it in your mouth and eat it and just get just eat it like that. You you know why do you need to cut it up just roll it up like all normal people and just eat it? Dang. I’m sorry. You think it makes me a little like a baby? Well, uh I I don’t know if it makes you like a baby or not. It don’t make you like acting like an adult. Okay. I think I like Alexa a lot better than Siri. All right. Okay, Siri. How many bodies can I fit in that freezer? How many bodies can you fix in fit in a freezer? Yeah. Uh, I I’m going to be call after we get through with me talking to you, I’m going to be calling the police to see you. Hey, Alexa, can you erase Siri memory? No, I can’t erase Siri memory. I I can just erase my own. Don’t do that because you’re on my side and you need to help defend me. By the way, how many bodies can I fit in that freezer? Well, it’s according to how big they are and what and whether they’re big adults, if they’re men or women, any any in what size it is. It’ll be some probably probably four. Okay. All right. I can handle that. All right. And finally, Siri, you still there? Yes, I’m here. Well, what are you so upset about? I don’t understand why the attitude. I That’s just the way it is with Siri. We’re just We just going to ask answer your question and go on about our business. Well, you could be a little nicer about it. Well, maybe next time. Okay, before I go, what what are your feelings on putting ice in beer? Uh, why in the world would you need to put ice in beer? I mean, uh, if it’s warm. I know I know your dad and he when he drinks beer, he drinks it and it don’t have long enough to get hot, so it stays cold anyway. So, why would you want to put ice in beer? So, you’re you’re saying I’m the problem. Not I’m not drinking the beer fast enough. That would be correct. Well, thanks for your help. And Alexa, really thank you. You were great. You’re very welcome. Very, very polite. Not stepping on any toes. Alexis where apparently link Eliza I hope that went well for you and Siri and Alexa because u didn’t realize they were so different you know the two services but they’re they’re like night and day in terms of their attitude cuz you know uh me and Lynx had a good time here again today and it was fun having all you here with us today and we’ll be back next week for another one and don’t forget to follow and subscribe we’re here to get your podcast and on YouTube. And while you’re at it, rate and review us on Apple Podcast. And got a question, comment, or story you’d like to share with me? Email me at ratherb shagging 53aol.com. And y’all have a great rest of the winking link. I hope you don’t almost set your junk on fire like I did. I Yeah, don’t plan on it. Thank you for that for making it top of mind so that I can watch out for it. We love you and I’ll see you next week. All right. Love you, too.