[Music] thank you [Music] this is dispatches from Myrtle Beach with Charles Neal and my son link from good mythical morning how you doing link I’m doing good Dad how you doing today well I’m doing good I got some for you said happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dearly happy birthday to you and me too yeah I know I was I was well first of all thank you for that yeah for that great rendition and I would just like to respond with Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday to you happy Birthday Dad happy birthday to [Music] you oh man and many more yeah cause if you’re gonna give me a happy birthday well June 1st is preceded by May 27th which is your birthday so um and you know this is kind of like time travel because yeah I didn’t really have straightened my mind like you did that like this comes out right around right after your birthday right before our birthday video comes out on my birthday on your birthday that’s the great thing about this is that you know we get to celebrate here and then we get to celebrate in the normal world too it’s like two steps yeah because I still expect my phone call that’s what we we always uh sing Happy Birthday like we brought up in the uh that’s the tradition yes Patsy from Myrtle Beach dude we are we always call and sing one another happy birthday and everything each individual person so I I was just giving you one on dispatches from Myrtle Beach because in advance that was that was for all y’all Myrtle beasts to uh to enjoy along with me and I get a twofer like that’s that’s an added benefit of doing this show that I didn’t even know about of course now we got this we got more of a gap in between the release schedule you see we feeling okay about that yeah I think everything’s been going pretty good with it right you got the emails pour it in still people waiting having to skip a week but hopefully everyone will keep it keep it straight in their heads that okay if it’s not out this week it’ll be out next week and you know if if you have a hankering for a dispatch just go back and listen to uh to a previous one yeah and it’s kind of like I told them if they have a hanker and don’t want to watch me all I gotta do is just flip on over there and watch you in red on Good Mythical Morning of oh this content all the stuff that’s going on so that’s right pretty neat thing I think it’s worked out pretty good yeah so as we’re doing I agree so as of this recording you have not entered into full birthday celebration mode so how are you you got any birthday celebration plans with Nancy and I are going like I think we get back on my birthday but we’re going to Connecticut for a week and going up our sightseeing why Connecticut no offense Connecticut I drove through it once didn’t take long well it just you just see pictures of it and different things up there and it’s they yeah I’ve had people tell me and Nathan that it’s a beautiful state and you can get to because you know they’re not big States so you can get in the car and drive from one place to the next and still get back to where you’re staying at night so okay uh take in several States up where Massachusetts and all the might even get up to Maine I don’t know we we hey we got seven days so oh well really you take a day to get up but we’ve got five days to travel around and do what we want to do so so this was your birthday wish if I had one wish for my birthday it would be to go to Connecticut and you’re now you’re gonna do it that’s well I mean it was a wish that me and Nancy wanted to go up there and see that part of the country so you know we’ve been taking a lot of different places in so uh we’re just going to add some more on to our list you know sometime soon when you get old uh you might run out where you can’t like like Nana tells and said do stuff when you’re able to do it don’t don’t put it off go ahead and get it done so that’s what we’re doing get her done that’s what Nana says that’s her that’s her catchphrase she uses all all the all the time get her done I know I do I do love that mentality for you and Nana to hey if you want to go up to Connecticut go up to Connecticut it’s your birthday get busy and then come back and give us a dispatch about it take some pictures for us now yeah yeah we’re gonna take some pictures I don’t have any major birthday plans because we’ve been you know we’ve been setting the plans in motion uh for months now for our Christmas trip to New Zealand as a family oh yeah and that has been so ambitious that like we gotta get we gotta slow our roll a little bit on them on the summer trip I don’t know I I don’t know what I’m gonna do I kind of have a I have a hankering for I don’t know more of a road trip type thing I don’t know maybe I’ll do that maybe I’ll do that okay I don’t think I’ll make it to Connecticut but I don’t know I got I got to do kind of a solo thing two I usually do a solo trip like just just me and me in a van I got to put some thought into this I don’t know you know it’s I got to take advantage of my birthday to do something I want to do like my what’s my version of Connecticut I got nothing yeah yeah you might out there I I know you talk about doing something but maybe if you involve your wife just a little bit in your birthday yeah that’s true you might you might figure out I want to celebrate yeah I see what you’re saying for me oh I want to celebrate my birthday all alone yeah that might not go over I ain’t too crazy but hey I don’t want to spend my birthday all along but you hey that that’s you I mean if you want to spend your birthday all alone just get with it go home no I want to do a solo trip but I don’t want that to be my birthday I’ll I’ll celebrate with friends I’m I can’t yeah I’ll I’ll find a way to cut loose don’t you oh yeah don’t you worry you’re right you’re right Dad I got I got friends I got a wife that loves me and wants to be with me usually so uh yeah that’s what we’re gonna do we’re gonna plan we’re gonna we’re gonna pull something together like that we’re gonna cut loose it’s time for another edition of Myrtle Beach mailbag and I got an email from Matthew hanshaw and I’m gonna do the best I can do with this but he says why did the Irishman put only 239 beans in his chili only 239 that’s why yeah why did the Irishman put only 239 being um it is chilly Irish chili not something I’ve heard of is that a thing because if you put one more in it would be 240. [Music] yes um if it puts one more Bean in it’d be 240. the chili would be 240. you’d be farting too much you’ve been bloated and farting Matthew if you’re gonna have 239 beans in it you’re gonna be 40 anyway so 240 is really good I guess push you over the edge no but thank you for that Matty uh you know it’s a really good joke when afterwards I was like no no [Music] thank you thank you for that you know that’s just me I mean that is yeah I got one from Hannah it says what do a penis in a Rubik’s Cube have in common now we’re getting to it now I’ve also I’ve always wanted this and I didn’t I just didn’t have the guts to ask what does a penis and a Rubik’s Cube have in common yep let me start with I’m just going to list out things about a Rubik’s Cube you tell me if they relate to any penis it doesn’t have to be yours Square no uh multi-colored it might change colors once in a while a little bit yeah I’ve never seen a Rubik’s Cube turn purple laughs if you squeeze that Rubik’s cube hard enough boy it ain’t gonna turn purple oh so that ain’t it um you can twist it what oh did that okay [Laughter] well you can’t you can you can’t rearrange it hmm what about this Dad they were both and this is you I’m talking about they were both at their best in the 80s did I get you uh were you at your best in the 80s when was your sexual peak done I’m asking you directly hey until about I’m gonna go I’m gonna have to go on on longer into the 90s but you know my Peak was probably in the 70s so but you got in the industry when of when um like when you upload a video and then it gets a lot of views but then over time it continues to get views that’s called it’s got a long tail so does your does your penis have a long tail hey back in the 70s and 80s it had a long tail well that means now I mean now it still has a long tail oh well you still got a tail good good opinion but that ain’t what Hannah’s was my dad’s penis has a tail did you know that yeah does your dad’s penis have a tail my dad’s does he’s got a long tail he told me on our podcast [Laughter] but Hannah said she just kept it kind of simple she said The more you play with it the harder it gets for real for real you know one of my proudest moments as a father was when my son Lincoln where am I going with this learned how to solve a Rubik’s Cube that’s where I was going with that that’s where I was going at he’s a smart boy because his granddad he’s your keep solving some people are so good at it they can do it one-handed and blindfolded that’s another thing to have in common yeah and sometimes you get so frustrated with it because you can’t complete it that you just rip it apart thinking you’re gonna put it back together and it don’t happen sorry Dad I’m like my dad’s cringing my dad is cringing I don’t want I don’t want to get it where I can’t put it back together right where you don’t get plagued we didn’t get hard again so right right yep don’t want to go though yeah but you did yeah yeah my son Link’s birthday is June the first and we’re celebrating over at the mythical store shop Link’s favorite merch items for up to 20 off now through June the 5th head to mythical.com to get yours now okay I got I got another email from Corin Spurlock and he’s just he’s asking me a question do you have any good stories from your time in the Army oh love it well it’s according to kind of what time you’re talking about coin but I I got a really special story that when I was in basic training and we were and uh uh had a good friend that was from Rocky Mount his name was Kermit and me and him got to be good buddies and he slept on the top and I slept on the bottom and we were uh everywhere you go in basic training you’re supposed to run it don’t make no difference where it’s at when they fall you out and then they send you somewhere you supposed to run well somebody next door that was taking basic training told us that after the sixth week you don’t have to run no more so me and Kermit went up to the mess hall and we run up there and we got something to eat and we we just come out the door and we were just strolling down to just like we was taking a little nice stroll down the street and we got about three quarters of the way down the street and it won’t even my drill sergeant because each platoon has a drill sergeant okay but I drill thought and this guy was six foot six and hey you didn’t give him no grief he he was he was built I mean he was something to be kind of intimidated by and he he looked at us and he said what you boys doing and I said well we just walking down the street and he says y’all know everywhere that y’all go you’re supposed to be running and we went to try to tell him what somebody told us and he didn’t want to hear that [ __ ] I’m telling you he said well I was told that you didn’t have to run after a couple of weeks yeah he said um well I got a remedy for this you know you I I’ll be speaking to your your drill sergeant about it but while I’m looking for him and speaking just drop down give me a hundred push-ups oh I said hmm I said so me and Kermit hit the ground and he sat right there and we had to count him he didn’t leave until you were done no and we counted a hundred and then listen that we were so tired that we just got up and he said who who gave you permission to get up and that he said that’ll be 50 more oh went down we did 50 more before we got up as that time we we kind of looked up and said permission to get up real sergeant and he said permission granted and don’t forget you better be running the next time I see you and boy we got up and we we were doing some kind of running we left her so that’s the story I got but you just walk in like this everywhere like as long as you move your arms doesn’t it look like you’re running like doesn’t it look like I’m running right now thank you you better look like your legs your legs are like this yeah yeah there ain’t none of these arms are like this yeah no yeah y’all better be running yeah but uh and and corn I got one more store that when I got out of basic training and AIT and we were on a summer camp episode where we had to go to two weeks to train and do different stuff and I was on the m88 that it’s a retriever that pulls tanks out of a hole retriever that pulls tanks out of a hole what’s the tank doing in a hole if they get stuck or if the motor blows up we could pull the motor right off them and put a new motor in and in about 20 minutes we could take a motor out of one and put a motor in one in 20 minutes that’s pretty impressive so we were and it it had been we were in Fort Stewart Georgia and it had been raining I mean it has been raining and we pulled up we got I got a call from my captain and there was a tank stuck in a hole and before it was stuck at it had an escape hatch in the bottom of it before they were at they they couldn’t open it and the turret was turned around at the top and they couldn’t open the top of it and where it was at it was a bunch of trees around it so they couldn’t get anything open they were trapped and they were trapped and the water was filling up in this tank where they were at and me and Lanny Clark and another boy pulled up with that 88 and we jumped down and took the cable and I mean the water was already running over the top of the track and already inside and they was up at the top with their heads kind of stuck up and we got it we hooked up to it and pulled it out and got them all out before they didn’t drown how many of them were in there four you saved four people’s lives well pretty close because I mean it could have failed all the way up with water because those things are pretty tight what so this was like pretty intense oh yeah it was intense when you pulled them out were they like oh my God oh my God permission to cry drill sergeant well you didn’t have to worry about me but they hey they got out and they they told us that they was happy to see us and that they was very thankful for what we just did because that’s a hell of a way to die man drowning in a damn tank you know I mean it was crazy look at that dad’s saving lives pulling tanks with bigger tanks that’s pretty awesome I’m glad he asked that question yeah thanks coren I got one from Amber Nicholson he says what are your tips for staying positive when things aren’t going well in life hmm and can I ask you dad would you consider yourself a positive person yeah ninety percent of time I’m a positive person I think everybody has some times where to get down you have to you have to figure some stuff out and like she you know when things aren’t going well for you but right everybody has and mine’s been a lot more than yours I’m a lot older but you have things that go on you in your life that sometimes you just don’t have no control over with what goes on and you know sometimes it’s just small trifling things and sometimes it’s pretty things that can be pretty extreme but my Outlook is that every time something like that has happened with me that I think about the first thing I I try to tell myself and I do it better now than he used to but I think about you know you know there’s somebody that stuff’s going on with them that’s a lot worse than what’s happening to me and I need to pick my boots up and get my head out of the sand because things could be a whole lot worse than what’s going on with me so you give yourself some perspective say you know what it could be it could be a lot worse um so I I feel that I I do think that and you know what I’ve I’ve talked about this in therapy you know like I try to keep pretty much every week a schedule of going to my therapist even when um like even when I don’t think I need it like I keep I keep it because I see it as just me time and it’s not like oh I gotta fix this particular problem or I’m going through something right now there’s always it’s just nice to have somebody to bounce things off of in a verbally process that it’s private and that you can just kind of let it out in that environment there are times when I’ve had the conversation of you know I’m so grateful for how my life is going I’m I’m living my dream I mean look at what we’re doing right now this is an amazing thing that a lot of people don’t get to experience I get experience so many things and yet I still get down you know I still have things that kind of eat away at me or eat me up and I’ve found myself seeing bringing that to therapy sometimes and saying I actually no longer not only do I feel down right now but I also feel guilty for feeling down because I guess what I’m saying is sometimes I try to take your advice of just saying compare myself to other people and it’s like well I I there’s a lot of people who got it a lot worse than me and you know one of the things I’ve that I discussed in therapy was that’s a that can be a good point but sometimes it can work against you because I’m I’m the only one who’s me and if I’m going through something even if it’s small compared to other people I’m still going through it and if I’m having feelings about it you know I don’t sometimes a self pep talk is not enough for me I need to say I give myself permission to say all right I’m down about this or I’m upset about this or I’m angry or I’m frustrated about this in my life right now and I give myself permission to say it doesn’t matter how it compares to other people’s hardships it’s the one that I have right now and I have it’s totally healthy and a good thing to kind of face it and work through it and not just say and I don’t think you were saying this don’t get me wrong but like sometimes I feel like I’m telling myself I’ll just just shut up with your complaint and look at your life just get get yourself together man you you don’t have it bad at all and I actually beat myself up for feeling bad and it makes me feel worse versus better so um I think the Counterpoint here is I guess I’m saying is I’ve learned to give myself permission to feel what I’m feeling and engage with it and work through it versus shame myself into ignoring it and saying I should just be better um and then also and I think this is where I’m resonating with your advice is but then at the same time there’s a lot of power in being grateful and counting your blessings so it can be a one-two punch of what I’m feeling may not be the worst thing to ever happen to anybody on Earth but I’m feeling it and I’m not going to ignore it it’s going to be more healthy to engage with it and then to just um also have and also have the Gratitude as part of it how do you take that well there’s there’s a difference between how how you grew up and people my age grew up and look at things okay that’s one of the things where we’ve done an advertisement for the therapy thing that yeah I have I have done therapy before and a lot of people my age and stuff just won’t go do it do you feel like when I’m saying no matter what your emotions are just give it a moment and like listen to it it’s something that maybe wasn’t a part of your uh your approach growing up it’s not like you people were telling you this yeah you you just didn’t have where you were supposed to uh kind of let you feel how you feel you weren’t supposed to stay down there you were supposed to uh jerk yourself on up by the bootstraps just start feeling better and not having a pity party and but you know you don’t want to be negative about it where you know you stay on that downward Trail because that that can lead to some bad situations and that’s what I’m saying is try to right you know to pull yourself up even though it’s you know when you go talk to somebody what whoever it is go talk to them don’t just don’t keep this stuff to yourself if you’re going through something need to talk to somebody right whereas the therapist or a best friend you know you look at things different when whether they tell you anything or not that and and I’ll give these people a piece of uh if somebody comes to talk to you all they want you to do is listen they don’t they don’t want your opinion that they they don’t want your opinion I’m telling you right well that was a uh good question Amber yeah I hope you know Dick’s involved yeah we we got into it pretty well swinging around uh well link we gonna uh get into something a little bit lighter now we’re gonna do the non-dirty Dirty Work of the week okay good good good it’s time for our non-dirty dirty word of the week the word is bum Fiddler bomb feddler oh man it’s so this is not a person that fiddles with bombs because I do think that’s a profession Al and if you fiddling with your own bomb I mean you need to wash it is it itching is she is it itching you need to start fiddling with it and just wash it keep it clean now that’s not what’s happening with the bum Fiddler the bum Fiddler that sounds like a occupation to me is it an object it’s something that’s probably objective about what they’re doing what objective I don’t know what that means dad speaking in code it means you don’t know either you don’t know what you’re saying oh yeah I don’t know you gotta start start to tell me and then when I say stop I’ll then I’ll finish it the definition is too pollute oh to pollute or spoil something to bum fiddle it is that right I got it all on my own and so what was the rest of the definition to pollute or spoil something in particular by scribbling or drawing on a document to make it invalid a bum filler is someone who does precisely that a bum Fiddler is somebody who scribbles on documents rendering them useless invalid sounds like something hey is that children calling the bump Fiddler this contract I’m not happy with this contract I’m gonna bum fiddle this if you don’t add my stipulation I could be a good bomb Fiddler I can fiddle some bum I mean I could I could scribble some documents well we got another thing that we’ve done before said you’re never too old to learn something in the spirit of our birthdays this is from Emma Gibbons okay I was wondering what is your zodiac sign and how do you think that you match the characteristics associated with your sign oh well and she puts on there that we we are both Gemini so we we fit into the same category yep uh yeah I mean yeah um 27th of May through the June 1st very close together uh I I can only tell you that we’re Geminis but I could I really can’t tell you more than that I don’t really know what it means so you’re gonna have to learn me did you know you were a Gemini oh yeah and do you know what it means are you going to school me well I I I can’t you know years ago I kind of when I pick up the newspaper and they used to have the horoscopes in the newspaper and you I’d look up and see what my sign was and see what it was said saying and then I got and I got and got it looked up and said uh it represents that we have two different personalities in one okay do you think do you think that this is true of us or let’s just talk about you for a second do you feel like there’s there’s two Charles’s uh yeah they could probably you know some days these day is one and some days there’s another one and introduce me to these charges well I mean if if I have uh things that aren’t quite going my way uh uh I can be a pretty obnoxious uh disgruntled ugly person oh yeah okay and then what’s the other Charles that one it kind of goes along this has a good time and just enjoys itself and enjoys what it’s doing like like doing dispatches and stuff so yeah but I thought it was the next thing on when it says they making them expressive and quick quitted quick quitted yep so but for me going back to like the two different links I think everything you said about the Charles is applies to this Charles too so I don’t I really don’t believe in horoscopes at all you and I are Gemini I’m telling you uh so you you sound like a Believer well I mean I’ve read this stuff I mean listen this this is their curiosity about the world knows no bounds and they often feel like there’s not enough time to experience everything they want to see like Connecticut yeah oh man I gotta get to Connecticut before I die and then then this then this next one this fits me and you both with what people’s told us is there’s never a dull moment with a Gemini I’ll take it I’ll take it yeah keep me around spread me on your toes baby that’s right never a dull moment but it also says this is this is kind of the bad part says however their weaknesses are that they’re indecisive impulsive unreliable and nosy I’m definitely impulsive yeah I mean I do something on a whim yeah used to even when I was your age I mean on a whim like quit whim but and the other one is you’re unreliable neither one of us are unreliable yeah I mean you said that your pet peeve is being late like you will not be late so it all doesn’t apply see this is no that’s what I mean it all doesn’t apply only only the good stuff applies right that’s right only the good stuff there is something there’s something to I I don’t know whether it’s Gemini’s or jeans but like what we have a good time together I mean that’s why this podcast works because we both have this mentality it’s like we can we can just have fun we keep things rolling right along and Gemini boys mm-hmm Gemini boys gonna have a party yeah but we learned but I did learn something and I was never too old to do it now you’ve been through the Gemini trainings yep you know drop down and give me 150. well listen I’ve had a good time today in this fun having all y’all here today and y’all come on back in two weeks to see us and we’ll be on the podcast uh on the Tuesdays and it’ll come out on Thursday so the video I’m taking it there you go yep if you got a question or comment you’d like to share with me email me it’d rather be shagging53 aol.com y’all have a great weekend in the next two weeks and we can’t wait to spin your world around again these Gemini boys will be bringing the party to you in two weeks yeah you take care of yourself and I love you I love you too Dad we did it all right