This is “Dispatches from Myrtle Beach” with Charles Neal and my son Link from Good Mythical Morning. How you doing Link? Doing good, Dad. How you doing, Mr. Dispatcher? I’m still dispatching, we still getting with it. So- Every single week now. I’m doing pretty good. We’re definitely- Yeah. We’ve re-hit our stride, you know, getting back into every week. Oh yeah. I think, Hey, and I’ve had a couple people that told me they was glad it was coming out every week. So it was a good thing for me. Mm hm. Yeah. I love to hear it. Now- Yeah. And I got a question for you, ’cause it’s on my mind and if there’s anybody who would know maybe, I think it would be you. When it comes to napping, what’s the latest hour of the day that it’s still okay to take a nap? Any later it becomes a bad idea. It’d probably be a bad idea, you know, three o’clock, or a little after that. But I mean, most of the time when I take one, it’s between one and three o’clock. Okay. If I come home- So if it’s 3:01, you might be like, oh, I’m not gonna take a nap. No, because most time you take a nap, hey, sometimes my naps last about an hour or so. So- Well, yeah. I mean- I mean, what do you think we’re talking about a power nap? That’s not even technically… A power nap is not a nap in my book. That’s a different thing. That’s… A 20 minute nap is like torture. I mean, it’s very mild torture. It’s like if you stay at like a three star hotel and the mattress is just slightly uncomfortable. Yeah. That’s what it’s like. Yeah, it’s funny, you asked me this question, when I was talking to Lily a couple of weeks ago, and I don’t know how we got on the subject, I said, it was because we had to come in from what we were doing, me and Nancy was so tired. We’d been on that trip. We were taking a nap and Lily said, “Oh, it’s good to take naps. It’s good to take naps.” Hey, there’s no shame in naps in the Neal household. I mean, I’ll take a nap. But Dad, I’m gonna tell you right now, it’s not three o’clock for me. I think it might be five o’clock for me. Oh Lord. Yeah. As long as long as it doesn’t say five. If it’s 4:59, I can still take a nap, I feel like. But it has to be a night that I’m gonna stay up late. Oh yeah. And then get up later the next day. So if it’s Sunday, and the next day’s a work day, well, I actually talk myself out of the 4:59 nap yesterday. That’s why it’s on my mind. I talked myself out of it. Because I was like, I wanna be able to go to sleep at a normal time and wake up at a normal time for work. But- Oh yeah. I still miss it. Part of me still wishes I would’ve had that nap. But if it’s on a Saturday or a Friday, mostly Saturday and I’m taking a nap, I’ll take a nap at 4:59, 5 to 6, and then I’ll get up and do something by eight. You know, there you go. Does Jade still take a nap with you? Oh yeah. Jade and Jasper are always hoping that I’m gonna take a nap. Like, that’s the other thing is that, they are so… It’s like validation. It’s like you’ve made a good choice, master, to lay down and take a nap. Oh, you’ve made a good choice, master, to lay down and take a second nap. I’ll do that. That’s what Gypsy tells me. Because when I lay down and take a nap, Gypsy, and it’s like when they even go to bed at night, she’s laying right between my legs. I mean, she says, I am so glad you are in here taking a nap with me. Yes. It’s what you need to do. Yeah. Our dogs speak to us and do you know what they say to us? Please take more naps. Please take a nap, you deserve it. I wanna be here, right with you. We both deserve a nap. And then it’s just like, there’s nothing better than a guilt-free nap, you know? Oh, I’m telling you. Especially the fact that we can just fall asleep, is such a gift. Like, there’s people who can’t do it. Rhett can’t do it. Rhett can’t do it. Christy has a hard time doing it sometimes. Yep. She’ll go to sleep and then something will wake her up and then I’ll look at her again, she’s on her phone. She’s like, I got woke up. I’m never going back to sleep. So it’s like, if I get woken up during a nap, I just go back to sleep. In some ways it excites me, because then it’s like, Ooh, that was a nap and now I can take another one and it counts as a new nap. So on that count, I’ve probably taken five naps in a day before. No shame, no shame. And I’m just doing what my dogs are telling me to do. Well, you know, you had a question for me and since we talked about Lahaina, over in Hawaii. Yeah. Before. I’ve got a lot of emails and different stuff back for them and just- Really? I wanted to tell them thank you for listening to how I felt about what had happened to them over there and everything. And just giving all of y’all a shout out in Lahaina and hope things keep going and work out for you good over there. Because me and Link might come back and the families might come back over there for another trip one of these years. Might have to do it, yeah. Hope things is built back up for us. So is that why you’re wearing your Hawaiian shirt today? Yep, that’s why I’m wearing it. Okay. So you’re giving them an apparel shout out, holler out as well. Yep. So are they trying to elect you governor? Because that’s what you were saying when you brought it up. You said you wanted to be governor for a day. Well, I don’t know if they’re trying to elect me. Are they trying to write you on the ballot? But I think they appreciated what I had to say. Okay, all right. I probably have to move before they could elect me governor. Right. But- Well, I love that. Holler out. It’s time for another edition of Myrtle Beach Mailbag. We got an email from Emma. Okay. I just found your podcast in the last month and it’s been such a source of comfort for me in my difficult period of my life. My fiance says, I smile more often when I’m listening to your podcast. I lost my Papa, Marlon, to Parkinson’s dementia a few months ago, and I haven’t heard him talk in at least five years. He was a funny, charming, and amazing storyteller. He worked on a farm and did amazing work as a handyman and a mechanic. I have missed hearing his voice. I should also mention he talks just like you, Charles. Anyway, my papa would often share funny stories about the strange people he had met while working as a handyman and mechanic. One lady asked him to vacuum off her front lawn because too much sawdust fell when they cut down some tree branches. What would you say is your weirdest story on the job? Oh, ended with a good question too. Yep. Wow, thanks for sharing all that, Emma. How do you feel about that dad? Well, the thing that you told me about the sawdust falling to the ground, I have had that happen to me too. Where I’d been working in somebody’s yard. Really? They didn’t make me get the vacuum cleaner out, but I had to get the rakes and everything and get it all raked up where there weren’t any of that stuff left in the yard too. I’ve had that happen. But probably the weirdest story… Probably the weirdest story that I’ve had happen to me on the job, is when I was, probably 20 years ago. Okay. And we were painting in a subdivision, and I had three other guys or four working around us. And I had a 40 foot ladder up on a wall and it had rained a lot and it weren’t real level. And the bottom of it, I propped the cinder block up on one side of it and one side of it was on the dirt. Mm hm. And I was up on top of the ladder painting them, and the block fell out from under the ladder. And here I was. And when the paint bucket come loose, it went through the window. Oh wow. And they was painting. And of course I was lucky there weren’t any carpet yet on the inside of this house. We’d already painted the inside. We had to fix all of that. But here I am, I’ve got hold of a 40 foot ladder on one side and I’m holding onto the ladder over here. In the window? Holding onto the window, inside the window and the ladder here and had it held up straight. And I was trying to figure out, well, I don’t think I can get through the window. You were Jean-Claude Van Damme-ing this thing like the trucks. And I mean I had it all the way out. I was about 40 foot in the air. And I reckoned I was lucky. And the good Lord was just looking after me. And I just finally said, well to heck with this, I’ve got to turn loose and I got to get down. And I couldn’t ever get the boys that was working for me, they was around the other side of the house and they couldn’t hear me hollering. So I just slung the ladder to the right and jumped off and landed in the mud and just tucked and rolled and rolled down. Seriously. I didn’t get hurt, didn’t break nothing or nothing. But the funny thing about this, Emma, is, it kind of made me mad, because I was so dumb about propping the ladder up. Mm hm. And I was going to finish what I was going to do and then Link will understand this, ’cause he worked with me a time or two. Yeah. So I had them boys help me and we stood the ladder back up on the side of the house. I didn’t prop the cinder block up under it, but we got it propped up where I knew it wouldn’t fall off. I went in the house, got my paint bucket and them boys went in there and cleaned all that paint up. And I went back up and was going to finish painting the top of this house. And when I got to the top of that ladder and I’d made about three swipes, painting, my legs got to shaking so bad. Yeah, they did. I mean, and I thought to myself, you might have to get down. And you threw the paint bucket back through the window on the guys cleaning up. No, I didn’t do that. I took the bucket of paint down with me, got down on the ground and called them boys while we was all working. And it was still about 10 o’clock in the morning. I said, boys, that’s it for the day. Get the ladders up, stack ’em up, we’re going to the house. I went to the house, Emma. And I was all right the next day. But that’s about as weirdest and craziest thing I had happen to me working in 40 some years. So I can understand- That’s wild, Dad. What your papa was going through, working with people. And I had to call the guy that I was working for and tell him, I said, I just broke a window out the house. You gonna need to get a new one. Oh wow. That’s tough. So he got a new sash and put it in. Well, were you sore the next day? You know, typically if you fall 40 feet, even if you’re gonna tuck and roll, if you’re not a stunt man, you’re probably going to feel it the next day. You don’t remember that? I was probably sore some, but I went back to work the next day. And I probably, let’s see, I probably was 40. Might have been about your age, 40 or 45, when that happened. Okay. Well I wouldn’t want to do it. At my age age I would not want to fall off a 40 foot ladder. I thought you were gonna say that, like, you were like stretch like this and you like- You like pulled the ladder in the window back together and then- Well it was- Or when you said you threw the ladder, I thought you were gonna say that you then grabbed onto the window and then climbed in the window. No. But you just threw the ladder one way so you wouldn’t fall on it and then you jumped. Yeah. Jumped the other way. Another way. And you tucked and rolled. When I hit the ground, I just tucked and rolled. Yeah, that’s it right there. That’s it, if you don’t learn anything else today, Myrtle Beasts, tuck and roll. Tuck and roll. If you’re on fire, actually, tuck and roll. That’s a good, yeah, that’s a good thing to do. If you fall off a 40 foot ladder, tuck and roll. If you’re making sushi, tuck and roll. Mm. I was trying to think what’s the weirdest thing that happened to me on the job. But first of all, my job now is so weird that the weirdest things that happen on my job are when nothing weird happens. Well I can understand that, by some of the things you and Rhett do. Dad, we did this episode, I mean it’s been weeks now that’s been out, but I don’t think you’ve seen it. We did this episode where we tested this vest that has an airbag in it. And I’m thinking about getting Nana one. It’s designed for elderly people so that they wear it at all times and when they fall it senses that you’re falling and it deploys an airbag around your hips and around your head. Oh Lord. And Rhett and I, we have two of ’em, they cost almost $1,200 each. And they’re just like a fisherman’s vest. And then they have like canisters that go in the pockets around your waist. And it has a gyrometer or a gyroscope or something that can tell if it starts to fall. It’s off-kilter. Yeah. Yeah. And… Well good luck with that. Well, lemme tell you how this thing works. So Rhett puts it on, we were both kind of scared. So I ended up talking him into going first. And we put out crash pads that you can fall on, like pads- Mm hm. That a gymnast would jump on at a gym, or a stuntman would fall on off camera, so you don’t get hurt. And then he said, we counted to three and he like fell backwards. Boom. And he hit a mat, nothing, did not deploy. And then he stood up. And he was like, well I guess I’m gonna have to get a running start. And then he starts running around the mat. And he’s halfway around the circle to get back to the beginning of the mat where he is gonna jump and he’s just running around the mat. And then all of a sudden- The whole thing just like explodes around him as he’s running. And it scared the shit out of me, as well as him and everybody else. ‘Cause it sounded like a gunshot going off. I mean this thing is like, and then he just looks like, Stevie said he looked like a popped kernel of popcorn. And he did. And then after that I was like, well now I’m supposed to do it. But I’m too scared. Like it scared me so bad when it happened to him, that I’m too scared to do it. But then I did it and I’m like, okay, I’m gonna stand here on the edge of the mat. And instead of falling over, since that didn’t work for Rhett, I jumped in the air so that I would land hard and it would pop when I hit the mat. Well when I jumped, when I went like this to like spring load for my jump, I blew up. I totally popped like a popcorn. And it scared the crap out of me. Anyway, I’m getting one of these for Nana. Well that sounds like it don’t… I don’t think that’s a good idea. ‘Cause if it don’t work when it’s supposed to work, who’s going to get her out of it when it deploys? Maybe we’ll just leave it deployed at all times. I can see her getting up in the morning, getting outta bed- Putting on her popcorn costume. That thing, yeah. And walking around with that. We reloaded them and then we both fell at the same time and they both exploded when we hit the mat, when we fell the most normally. Okay. I don’t know. So I tend to believe it might still work. But maybe we put ’em outta business. I don’t know. But we have two of them here, so maybe I’ll give one of ’em to Nana. Well just go ahead. That’ll be all right. But my job is so weird. That’s my point. It’s like if something like that doesn’t happen, that’s what’s weird. Hashtag blessed. International Darts fans rejoice, Mythical just dropped an all new International Darts League hoodie and tee. Check out the new retro space age inspired merch, available now at mythical.com. Exclamation point. Let’s leave it in. Let’s leave it, let’s leave it. Why do you want to learn a new language? Maybe you have an upcoming international trip. 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Skywalker. And who’s his dad? Darth Vader. Okay. Alright, so you know, you’re a student of pop culture from the seventies, so… I know Harrison Ford. I know Harrison Ford was in it. What was his character’s name? Erm… Han Han. Yeah, there’s another part. Han. Hmm. Okay. We could be here all day doing this. Han Solo. I’m not gonna push you like I did last- Han Solo. Okay. Last episode, last week I pushed you real hard on pronunciation. I know, Obi… Obi Kenobi, or… Anyway, my proposal is to take an iconic scene from Star Wars, and I thought it was appropriate, you know, we’re father and son, to act out this iconic scene. And I would like for you to read the updated script that I’ve sent to you. Okay? Okay. So this is not the… I’ve updated it to be more in a southern vernacular, for your character, Charth Vader, by the way. Charth Vader. Okay. Your name is Charth Vader. I got you. All right. And I’m I’m Link Skywalker. Yeah. So… And I have the script here. Do you have your script? Got it right in front of me. Okay, so when I read the screen direction, I want you to do the Foley. Remember what that is? The what? The Foley. We’ve done this before. You do the sound effects, remember? Oh, okay. Okay. Foley. So you’re doing all the sound effects, you can do it with anything you can find without getting up, most notably your mouth. But you could beat your chest. Okay. Or you could… Alright. Okay. Gantry, outside control room, reactor shaft. Link Skywalker moves along the railing. What? He’s not walking on water bottles. And up to the control room. Okay. Charth Vader, lunges at him. And link immediately raises his lit sword. I’ll help you out a little bit. To meet Char Vader’s. This is me and you we’re fighting, Charth. Why am I doing the sound effect? That’s your job. Because you’re good at it. Chart Vader gradually forcing Link backward toward the gantry. Your line. You’ve done being beat, boy. There ain’t no use in resisting. Don’t let yourself be destroyed like, O Wabby One. Link answers by rolling sideways. Tuck and roll. And thrusting his sword at Charth Vader, so viciously that he nicks Charth Vader on the shoulder. Oh, Roger. Oh, did you just call me Roger? Oh- Don’t call me Roger. I’m Luke. Oh. The black armor sparks and smokes and Charth Vader seems to be hurt. That’s not just smoke, that’s very incendiary. But immediately recovers. Link backs off the long, narrow end of the gantry as Charth Vader comes at him. Slashing. Yes, yes, yes. Slashing at the young Jedi with his sword. Link makes a quick move around the instrument complex. Instrument complex. Instrument complex. Attached to the end of the gantry. Charth Vader sword comes slashing down. Cutting the complex loose. It begins to fall, then is caught by the rising wind and blown upward. Link glances at the instrument complex floating away, at that instant Charth Vader’s sword comes down across Link’s right forearm, cutting off his hand. Cutting off his hand and sending his sword flying. In great pain, Link squeezes his forearm, underneath his left armpit. Is that what he did? His left armpit. Where am I? Oh. It moves back along the gantry to its extreme end. Charth Vader follows. The wind subsides. Link holds on. There is nowhere else to go. There ain’t no escape, Son. Don’t go making me kick you to high heaven. Bless your heart, you’re learning your powers. I reckon with us working together, we can put an end to this mess and bring some order to the whole dang galaxy. I’ll never join you. Yes, you will. Hold on. Just read the script. If only you knew the power of the dark side over yonder. Obi-Wan never ruins his mouth about what happened to your daddy. He told me enough. It was you who killed him. No, I’m your daddy. No, no, that’s not true. That’s impossible. Quit going around your ass to get to your elbow, I reckon you oughta reckon with them feelings of yours, because deep down is clear as day. No, no, No. Son, you got what it takes to take down the emperor. He may think he’s got it all figured out, but your destiny is as plain as day. Join your daddy and we’ll rule this galaxy together, like a father and son oughta. Come on with me. There ain’t no other path for us. Charth Vader puts away his sword and holds his hand out to Link. Hold your hand out. Higher. Higher. Lower. Lower. Hold your hand out. Okay. A calm comes over Link. He makes a decision. In the next instant, he steps off the gantry platform onto space. The dark Lord looks over the platform and sees Link falling far below. I hit my elbow. I hit my elbow. Now you definitely don’t need to see the movie, dad. Okay. That was pretty much it. Oh no, you did such a great job. I might have busted my elbow. That’s like a lot. That quite a lot for the… Is my elbow red? I hit my funny bone. Oh, you’ll live. That was excellent. You’re an excellent thespian. I don’t know about that. Everybody knows I love thespians. Okay. Well Link, I reckon we finished up the Star Wars and you- Yep. We did it. I don’t know if you joined your dad or not, but- No, I didn’t. I fell off the platform. Fell off the end and went floating down. But- That’s right. I think there’s another episode of Star Wars too, so we’ll have to pick it up from there. Oh, okay. You really wanna figure out what happens in Star Wars? Is that what you’re saying? Don’t spoil it for him guys. If you email him. Got me interested now. Yeah. But all you Myrtle Beasts out there, it was fun having you all here with us today. We’ll be back next week for another one. And don’t forget to follow, subscribe, wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube. And while you’re at it, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts. You got a question, comment or story you’d like to share with me, email me at ratherbshaggin53@aol.com. Y’all have a great rest of the week and we can’t wait to juggle your jello again next time. Dad, juggle the jello? Okay, all right. Keep ’em guessing. Yep. Well hope you have a good week. And I enjoyed- You too. Seeing you again. Yep, good work. Love you. Alright, love you.