[Music] [Applause] [Music] This is Dispatches from Myrtle Beach with Charles Neil and my son Link. And as you can see, we are still live and in person together. >> That’s right. Unless they’re just listening. >> And then we just have to expl We have to explain. >> Yeah. how close we are that we’re we’re doing some sort of thumb wrestle right now cuz our hands are both here in this space. What What are you doing? >> One of them new handshake. >> We’re doing a new handshake. >> Your knuckles are so big. >> Your knuckles so big. >> Look at your hand. Look at your hand. Look at Hold up. Hold up your hand. How big is your hand? Our hands are the same size, but I’ve discovered We discovered the other night >> that your arms >> are longer than my arms. >> Yes, that would make >> shorter than me, but your arms are like >> two inches longer than mine. >> Yeah. >> Like, put the put the elbow up. Look at that. >> Well, now it looks shorter. >> Well, I’m I’m looking at this part here. Like your wrist is there and my wrist is like >> I got like monkey arms. >> Well, I >> like an orangutan. >> Yeah, I got I got long arms then. >> You always have. >> Yeah. Yeah, they always been long. >> Are they getting longer as you’re getting older? >> I wouldn’t think so. I mean, I I have probably >> I mean, does anything get longer as you get older? >> No. >> Okay. But what about skin? The skin starts to get longer. >> Well, if you don’t try to look after yourself and do stuff, yeah, it probably does get longer. I mean, I do for somebody 73, I’m >> Yeah. >> I’m not uh >> You’re not get Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you’re not getting that much short. >> I ain’t got much. Yeah. I just just sag down a little bit, but that’s maybe because my back still hurt a little bit. >> That’s right. But it’s it’s just a lot of fun that when you and I get to do this and when I’m at home and you’re here, but when we get to do it in person, it’s uh it’s just got a whole different kind of vibe to it. >> Yeah, I agree. And we get to ride in here together. >> Yeah. I mean, um we Yeah, that that would be correct. I get I I have got to ride with Link on Lincoln’s car, >> which is a sports car. >> This is a sports car, >> right? >> And uh he he he >> cuz Lincoln’s out of town. Lincoln’s studying abroad. Yeah. >> This semester. So his car is parked at the house and so somebody needs to drive it. >> So his dad’s and his dad’s driving it and keeping the carbon bloated out of it. I’m telling you, >> keeping the carbon blowed out of it. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Which >> which means that you uh uh press the pedal to the metal and once in a while and go on down the road with it. Yeah. >> It’s And it’s loud, too. >> Oh, yeah. It’s Yes. >> What do you think? What do you think of it? >> Oh, yeah. Hey, Lincoln, you got a nice fast car that you’ve let your uh dad take care of while you’re overseas. So, uh, maybe it’ll still be in one piece when you get back. >> Well, you didn’t say anything. You know, when we’re like driving around, it’s not if Christy were in your seat. I mean, she would be saying a lot. There’ll be a lot of vocalizations, not all in English and not all appropriate. >> Yeah. >> For young years. >> Blink, slow down. Oh my god, there’s a car. Why? Stop changing lanes. Don’t pass on the right. What? Yeah. Well, you you’re going to have to drop me off. I’m walking home. Oh, no. I ain’t going to do that out here in LA. I’m going to ride with you whether we make it there or not, cuz I don’t want to get dropped off. I wouldn’t know where I was at. >> But how do I interpret the silence? >> Uh well, um uh my heart rate has probably gone up some. >> Okay. you know, and uh while I’m riding with you here, but I mean, you drive out here every day to Hey, a lot of times, listen, I don’t know if it’s the car or not, cuz even when I rode with you with your other cars, it’s about the same thing. So, I mean, I’m pretty much used to it. And >> I I think I mean, I give it a a little bit more gusto with Lincoln’s car. >> Well, it’s got a little more gusto. >> Yeah. So, I mean >> I I do having ridden with him um before he left. We did one last like Sunday afternoon joy ride for like a couple hours and we like we went up into the mountains and I just I was like you. I didn’t say anything. I just let him do his thing cuz if I’m not in the car, he’s going to do his thing. So, I just kind of wanted to see what he was capable of. I was pretty impressed with his driving ability. I mean, it was like borderline stunt driver type thing, but like it’s it’s good to have command of your vehicle. >> Yep. >> Uh and I and I don’t think he made any decisions that I um secondgued. Did you Did I >> You can tell me. No. Is there is there anything that you you know food for thought like constructive criticism? >> I you know you y’all have to drive a little bit different out here than we do back home cuz uh there’s not as many as many lanes to get in and out of and >> there’s so many lanes out here, Dad. >> So, isn’t it awesome? And so, but you do, you know, sometimes when you you’re in that far left lane and you you’re not but about a half a mile where you got to be all the way in that right lane. Sometimes I wonder if you’re going to make it or not, but I don’t say nothing. You made it. You got you got us in here. >> Yeah. Coming home last night, it it snuck up on me. >> But but I made it. >> You made it. >> And you did a good job. You >> I didn’t see any white knuckles. And your knuckles are so big that I would have seen them. No, >> if they were if they were whited whited out, you know, gripping gripping hard. >> You probably got my pulse rate up to get to come in and do the show. So >> that’s good. That’s what I That that was my intention. >> That was your intention. >> Just a nice little warm up this morning. >> Yeah. So we were warmed up when we got here. >> Yes, sir. >> Well, we’ve been having a good I I’ve been having a good time with when I was while I’ve been here. But um we got a holler out we’re going to do and we got we got a couple of holler outs. Okay. >> One one is from Brandy >> who lives in uh Myrtle Beach since 2015. She says, “I met my fiance Houston Pierce almost four years ago. We now live in Little River on his grandpa George’s property. Grandpa George was a brother of Fat Harold Harold Besset, the co-owner of Fat Harold’s Beach Club in North Myrtle Beach. As I’m sure you’re aware of, he did a lot for shag dancing and the local beach music scene. Harold passed away in 2015 and I never got to meet him, but I was very curious if if you if I ever have. And then I got one from Eric and Briana and I’m just going to read both of these and then I’ll go over this. >> Okay. >> My wife and I are in our mid50s and we were told about dispatches by our 33year-old son and we love the podcast several of your episodes mentioned Fat Harolds. We visit North Myrtle Beach monthly during the summer months. We purposely found and visited Fat Harolds in hopes of learning to shag and to spot the elusive Charles Neil. >> Oh, >> we were so impressed with Fat Harolds, the history displayed at Harolds and the fabulous hamburgers, we plan to attend the shagging instruction se sessions on our next visit. Keep up the good work and try not to freak out when we start fan grilling when we finally get to meet you. >> Fan grilling. Yeah. Fan grilling. >> Okay. >> I read that’s getting excited cuz I’ve had several people that seen me in Fat Harolds and >> came up to me and talked to me and it was and I don’t know if it was these same people but they told me that their son watched Dispatches from Myrtle Beach and Good Mythical Morning Too. >> Okay. and that u they so they took a picture with me and was carrying it back home cuz their son was going to be upset that he wasn’t there when he got to meet me. >> So you’re not always elusive. >> Sometimes people see you and they get the fan grill. >> Yeah. Then I do. But uh Brandy, to answer your question, it’s it was probably I probably met Fat Harold or Harold Besset in 2010. >> Okay. >> And uh when uh I was down there dancing and some of the people that I was with knew him better than I did and then I they introduced me to him and I got to get to know him. And >> well, is he I’m I’m trying to picture is he like sitting in the back in like a cordoned off area with bottle service, smoking a cigar with like ladies draped all over him. >> No. Uh >> feeding him hamburgers. Harold was pretty much when stuff was going on at Harold’s uh at night he he was making his rounds and kind of making sure things were running smooth and the music and the bar was people were getting their drinks and everything that they wanted and he just kind of >> but he he was he >> was playing host. >> Yeah. And he was more like a uh you’d see him but then you wouldn’t see him. He was kind of like he he he didn’t want to be the big center of attention with what was going on. He wanted it to be the music being played and the people having a good time and everything that’s going on cuz he he did uh he he he probably did as much for beach music as anybody ever will >> really >> getting it cuz I mean Fed Harold has been there a long I mean I know it’s been there and he ran the I I think this is correct and y’all can write in and tell me but he ran the pad had before they moved across the street where they tore it down where it was right on Main Street and went to and built the place and built built Fat Harolds across. >> So the pad was a was a earlier venue. >> Yeah, it was in the uh 50s and the 60s and uh which I went to when I weren’t supposed to be able to get into but I had been in it dancing >> back then. But uh he he was uh he was just a good guy and tried to be in the the uh where we have the music on Main Street >> downtown where it’s all built. It’s it is uh named it’s built and it’s got his memorial thing on him. >> So Harold doesn’t look too big. He’s not he’s not as large as I thought he might be. That that picture there is probably might have been cuz Harold got pretty sick with uh cancer I think and uh >> okay >> and and lost he >> started out pretty big >> but he but he you know I mean years ago he was kind of like a lot of people he he was still pretty thin and then as he got older and eating he got a little bigger but he he was a >> but he was always called fat herald. Well, I mean, since they moved to named the club after him and people got to know him, that’s what they called it, you know, was was Fat Harold. If everybody didn’t really knew him after you got to meet him, they called him just called him Harold. >> Okay. >> Nobody called him fat. >> No, no, no, they didn’t do that. But, uh, >> and so the second question is more of a an announcement and an intention to meet you next time they go. But they’ve said in here, Eric and Brena, that um they want to attend the shagging instruction sessions. >> Well, that would be uh on the and they’ve been on the show Charlie and Jackie. >> Yeah. >> Where they teach shag lessons on Monday night starting at 6:00 for beginners and 7:00 for intermediate and then 8:00 for the advanced. >> Okay. >> So, you know, you got >> on a Monday night >> on a Monday night. Okay. cost $10, which is pretty cheap for having. >> So if you’re like vacationing down there early in the week, you get the lesson, then you practice the rest of the week. So by the time the weekend rolls around, you’re sitting there, you’re shagging with the best of them. >> That that Yeah, you can do that. You can do that. But uh >> we got to get your back better so you can get back in shagging shape. Dad, >> I’ll get it better. >> Okay. >> Yeah. where I live at down there, Wednesday night is locals night and all of us go down there and it’s just probably from 6 the and uh 94.9 the DJs come over there and it’s on the surf >> from uh 6:00 to 9:00. >> Oh, so they’re broadcasting. >> They’re broadcasting from there and that’s cool. you can hear it and uh go out there and go dance with you. >> You go most every week or >> I probably go every week, but I probably we go at least twice a month. >> And then Friday nights, a lot of the locals go and a lot of other people go to it. So, it’s still a it’s still a hot spot to go shagging and go dancing. >> And if it wasn’t for that venue and Fat Herald, you’re saying that shagging the community might not have a focal point. It might have been something that would have faded >> in a way. >> It might be like kind of some of the things that we’ve tried to do with >> promote shagging and different people that it might have died and went away, but there still young people involved in it because they have a junior SOS at Fat Harolds and uh at a couple other places once a year and you get to go watch them young people dance and man they can dance. There you go. >> So, just if you ever down at North Myrtle Beach and go to Fat Harolds, you might come in there and might you might get to see me >> and do it. So, just just come on down and uh learn how to Charles Neil. >> I mean, I get recognized I’ve had it on I get I don’t get people looking for me at Fat Harolds. I’ve had them recognize me just driving down the street on the golf cart, >> even before you get there. >> Yep. Planning a trip this fall or over the holidays? 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Well, with two big dogs, I would recommend four coats of polyurethane. >> Four? >> Mhm. >> Oh, that’s funny. Small dogs. >> These women are trouble, aren’t they? >> The bright colors work like magic to cover up the scratches on the floor. >> And we made a simple diamond stencil out of paper to make the decoration around the border. >> Have you ever? >> And to protect it, we painted polyurethane over the dried paint. Doggies, beware. This rug isn’t going. >> They’re calling it a rug. Dad, let him have it. Uh, >> he’s speechless. >> I’m kind of like what I read up in there at the top said that they ruined every room they went into. >> They’re like this. These two women are from the 90s. >> I They >> with their jumper jumper overalls. Are they they are they Gen Z or what are they? Gen X or but I mean they’re they’re good at screwing up a floor, a nice hardwood floor. >> Why would you do that? I mean >> I mean and they even told on the start of it said, you know, you could just go buy a nice rug and put it down there. When it wears out, just pick it up and go get another and still have a nice floor up under it. I mean, uh, no, this ain’t going to work with me. I’m telling you, you going >> I have not seen this in anybody’s house ever, though. So, I don’t know. I’ve not seen it work for anybody, >> but Logan told us that it was some kind of hot trend going on and >> Well, I think the hot trend is people posting these women >> and and they’re suspicious ideas. >> Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Now, that would be they and they’re probably going to keep posting them, too, >> cuz then how would you get rid of that? Like, if if you bought that house and somebody had painted a a fake rug and put four coats of polyurethane over it, they >> Is it removable? Well, I mean that yeah, you can remove it, but it I mean it really it’d be hard after you uh put stripper on it and to get it off and get it down to make the rest of the floor that was beside of it look the same color. So, it it’d be Hey, I’m just telling you this ain’t a Hey, all you my beast out there, this ain’t a good idea. this ain’t a good idea. >> Uh so I mean >> cuz this is the type of thing that could come back. You know, people try to bring stuff back all the time. >> Well, I don’t know uh how how you bringing something like bringing something back that I had never heard before. They just started to start something. >> I mean, >> yeah. >> See how it worked, man. >> Well, you got another one. >> Yeah, I got another one. I got one from Rachel. says, “I found a video of a blind creator painting a wall for the first time that I’d love to see you react to.” >> Okay. >> Blind person tries painting a wall. >> Okay. >> Well, as a blind person, I’ve always kind of thought I could maybe I could do some painting. I could cover a wall with paint. I mean, how hard could it be? We’ve sectioned off an 8t by 8 ft wall to go. How hard could it be? And that’s what I’m going to be painting today. Okay. So, just like that. This is something I always wanted to try. And I feel like I >> Good for him. >> Probably about 3/4 of it covered. >> Yeah. I’m too. >> So, with the sound I’m hearing, I can tell whether or not the roller is flush with the wall, right? That I’m making full contact. >> Okay. >> Let’s see right there. Okay. Right now, I’m having to look to see how much I’ve done. >> Look, >> nerve-wracking. I think some places might be a little thicker than others. What am I doing? But I think I have the whole wall fairly covered. Confidently, I can say that. >> Did he though? So, he made a wall a smaller section of the wall. >> Yeah. So, for my first time, what what kind of a grade would you give me if you’re a teacher? What would you say? >> Well, Dad, you are the paint teacher. So, >> I’m trying to figure out if this guy is really blind or not. And that’s just me saying that. Ain’t nobody else. But if he is >> Yeah, I didn’t say it, but I mean, I did hear you say it. But if he is and he with what he did he you know for painting and giving it an all American try I think that I think it’s a pretty outstanding thing but somebody where he got on the other side of the wall and painted that red on the other side now somebody’s going to come in kind of go behind him and fix everything but uh and cut back in. But if if he’d hired just he might could paint and get somebody to cut out and cut the walls and up the top and the edges and him do the roller and he might could do the rolling and do that. >> I think he might have been painting over the same places a whole lot. >> Yeah, that’s >> the edges are not good. And I did see that, you know, he hadn’t his technique was to feel where the where the paint was wet and where it wasn’t. >> So I I was curious. He probably got just as much pain on his hands as I did when I worked for you. >> You reckon? >> I I admire the fact that this guy I think he’s, you know, he’s like, I’m not taking myself too seriously. I’m setting up a challenge that I don’t, you know, this is not typically the type of thing that blind people aspire to do, >> but I just But he’s like, I just want to know what it would like >> to be able to do it. Yeah. >> So, I like that. I give him a C. >> Yeah. But in terms of attitude, I give him an A. >> Now, I’ll agree with that. Yeah. >> You know, but he didn’t do a great job, >> you know. >> Well, it just in terms of painting the wall. If I walked in and there wasn’t a blind man standing there being really friendly and nice as cuz he is. If he wasn’t there, I’d be like, “Okay, C.” >> Yeah. >> If he’s there, I’d be like, “You know what? >> B+.” >> Yeah. Well, I’d probably I either way I’d probably I’d probably just give him a B. >> I might be holding up a C sign when I’m saying B+, >> but you know, give him a just a regular old B for, you know, trying to paint the wall and do out, but you I’d be like you. I give him a A+ for trying to do something that somebody that can’t see. Um, >> can do attitude and got a great attitude, >> right? wanting to do stuff that, you know, that me, you, and I could do it could see. >> Yeah. >> And everything. Say he’d done it. So, >> yeah. >> He’s got I I do like the can do attitude. >> He couldn’t do it, but he had a can do attitude, and I think that’s what matters. >> Well, we got another >> Oh, we got another one. >> Mhm. And we got one from Lynn and uh I don’t know if she’s from Hornet County or not, but she said, “Charles, is is yours the terrible Hornet County accent?” Uh >> what? Okay, so this is the county that we’re from. >> Yep. >> In the middle of North Carolina. So apparently somebody Oh, this is this is our video. >> Oh, >> okay. So, this is when um Rhett’s mom came out and Rhett submitted her to a lie detector test. I also submitted my mom to it. I don’t know if that’s a part of this clip or not. It is. Okay. >> So, um we should I we should do this with you, Dad. >> Okay. Did you like Link when you first met him? >> Oh, yes. >> Not true. >> Not true. >> Did you like Rhett when you first met him? Yes. Is >> that true? >> It’s not true. >> She says you’re lying. >> I couldn’t understand what he said because he talked that he had a terrible Hornet County accent unlike me who doesn’t have an accent. >> It’s okay. I don’t care if you like him. But what So what was your first impression of it? >> It’s hard to remember that far back, but >> yeah, we’re old, I guess. >> I mean, I felt like I’ve always liked Red. I mean, y’all been like brothers since first grade. Your grandparents would come up from Georgia to hear him speak. >> They listen to Link talk for entertainment purposes. >> Yes. >> Terrible Hornet County accent. Well, I you know, Link, it may be a terrible accent, but there’s people that write in here all the time and say, “We love to hear you talk.” And and I think part of it is and they love to hear me when I have this accent I got try to pronounce all these words that I have and try to do. >> That’s exactly right. >> So u she knows that she of course she was being facicious. She she knows she has a a a southern Georgia accent. >> Oh. >> So she was being facitious about that part of it that she didn’t have an accent. But um >> she did have an opinion of Har County being a little bit different. >> Well, I have, you know, I have had people that say you you sound more like you’re more from Georgia than North Carolina. I have had people tell me that really >> with with my >> I mean this this is just the way I talk and uh that’s probably this is not going to change. It’s I’m too far gone. When do you have people I mean there’s a lot of transplants in Myrtle Beach? >> Oh yeah. >> In North Myrtle Beach. So it’s like do people comment on your accent down there? And what do they say about it? >> I hadn’t had a whole lot of people that uh >> point it out. >> Well, maybe I I might not take that back. I We got a guy that has a house across the street from us that he rents out as a bed and breakfast. Okay. >> And uh or VRBO, not a bed and where it’s same soup, just all warmed over. But anyway, >> okay. >> I I’ll go over there and especially when if it’s younger people, I’ll go over there and talk to them. And some of them I go over there and they can’t even hardly speak English, much less understand what I’m saying. So, uh >> Okay. >> I I have had them say, “We can’t understand what you’re saying.” >> Really? >> Yeah. But they’re like from They’re not from the US. >> They’re not even from the US. Yeah. So, >> but do they speak English? >> They speak some English. >> They just don’t speak southern. >> They don’t speak southern English. So, >> and when they say, “I don’t understand what you’re saying.” What What do you say? >> I said, “Well, I I’ll just try to speak even speak a little slower so you can understand what I’m saying.” >> Yeah. I don’t think the speed’s the problem. I don’t >> but >> Oh yeah, it happens once. >> I do not understand what you’re saying. >> Yeah. >> And I’m telling you this in English. It’s kind of a funny phenomenon. >> It’s time for another edition of I’ll help you get out of the woods. I got an email from Tanya. He said, “I just found out my boyfriend has been cheating on me.” Oh no. One of my friends found him on Hinge. I don’t know what Hinge is. >> It’s a It’s a dating app. >> Oh, okay. So, I looked >> I don’t know what the What is the um reputation of Hinge Logan? >> It’s good reputation. >> Good reputation, but it is a dating app. It’s not It’s not for married people. >> Okay. >> Or um people who are in a >> in a relationship, right? >> Yeah. Yeah. says, she so I looked at his phone while he was sleeping and saw he had been messaging other girls. Can you tell him I know he’s cheating on me? Break up with him and give him a v a virtual ass whooping for me. I thought, Lord, you asking a whole lot, Tanya. >> But but right into that camera though, you can speak right into his eyes. I I’m uh let’s see. She didn’t give us his name, did she, Logan? >> Mm-m. >> Well, I wish you to give us his name, Tanya. Go. I could have really give it to him, but I’m going to give it to him anyway. >> Just just address him as Tanya’s very future ex-boyfriend. >> Yeah. Uh yeah, I’m talking to Tanya’s now. Now he is her exboyfriend because we found that you’ve been running around carousing dating other women just doing all kind of things behind her back and listen >> on what? >> Uh >> hinge. >> On hinge. Yeah, we found it on heads and and I even slipped in and and found it on your telephone. Well, the the h the hedge that you need to be on is like when you open that door up when you leaving Tanya’s house, don’t let it hit you in the ass and don’t be coming back over here no more cuz you are not invited in this house. And if you’ve got anything left over here that that is yours, it’ll be out in the front yard after a while. So just come back and pick it up at another time and don’t be bothering me no more and hand yourself right on back out into somebody else’s door and see if they’ll let you in. Let you run around. So you just do whatever you want to. But this is Tanya and this is Charles from dispatched from Murb telling you not to be bothering me anymore. I’m going to find me a boyfriend that’s going to be good to me and that I can trust. So I’ll be on down the road and I’ll be talking to you. I’ll see you Tanya’s exboyfriend. >> Hold on. You you became Tanya or >> Well, I was just helping Tanya get rid of him. >> Okay. By becoming T. Okay. All right. I was a little confused, but I do think I understand. >> Yeah. So, >> all right. >> But >> I think that was successful. Wow. The only hinge you need is the one that opens the door that’s going to hit you in the ass. >> That’s pretty good, Dad. That’s really good. That is really good. Well, I reckon we going to have to hand you on out of here again, too, L. It was fun having y’all all here with us today. We’ll be back next week for another uh inperson episode. And uh 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 story sh to share with me, email me at ratherbshagging53aol.com. And y’all have a great rest of your week, and we can’t wait to hand yourself on out the door the next time. We’ll see you next time. Good work, Dad. Love you >> in unison. Good Mythical Evening is blasting off October 23rd at 1000 p.m. Eastern, 7 Pacific. You can join us live from home or with your fellow mythical beast at a participating Alamo Draft House near you. Get your tickets now at good mythical evening.com.