This is Dispatches from Myrtle Beach with Charles Neal and my son Link from Gooooood Mythical Morning. Hey Link, how you doing? I’m doing good, can’t you tell by my spirit fingers? Spirit fingers. These are spirit fingers dad, you’ve never heard of spirit fingers? No, I got paint fingers. Try it out, hold ’em up next to your face. Back a little bit, a little further back, close to your face on either side of your face. And then you just twinkle, not don’t, you’re not grabbing, and this looks like you’re grabbing two things that are right next to each other, you don’t wanna do, I don’t know what that would be, but you’re not do, just the fingers, not the thumb. Just waggle the fingers. There you go, that’s spirit fingers. Yeah, I mean. It is. I mean, are you familiar with the- What kind of spirit am I conjuring up? School spirit, it’s like- A school spirit. Yeah, it’s like, have you ever heard of the sport of cheerleading? I know, let me ask that again. Have you ever heard of cheerleading? Yeah, I’ve heard of cheerleading. Yeah, they do spirit fingers. Oh, okay. So, some over the evolution of what would like create- That would be evolution. Oh, I’m sorry, you helping with some pronunciation. Okay, well, I’ll return the favor a little bit later today, how’s that? Yeah, go ahead, I don’t doubt that a bit in this world. But they’ve evolved, these cheerleaders have evolved techniques to procure the most spirit from any onlookers. And apparently the slight shaking of the fingertips when placed vertically really elicits a spirited response from an onlooker. Okay. I mean, you did not cheer when I did that, you didn’t do anything. I don’t know, so it didn’t do it to you. Maybe you’re not susceptible to it. I’m just, hey, when I went to school, they weren’t no spirit fingers with cheerleaders, they would just, probably, and they just like, now they would, they was some good looking cheerleaders, so I’m telling you, yeah. That’s all the spirit that they had. They’re to be watched, you know? I don’t know if they’re to be looked at, but let’s just be real. You look at ’em, you look at ’em in order to know when to be spirited, right? So you do look at- That would be correct. When I was growing up, I was looking at ’em to be spirited, so yeah. Right. Unless you’re setting up in the stands and they’re doing like this. Yep, you are like, oh, I’m gonna look at her, she’s doing that with her fingers. I should be cheering now, see? Oh yeah. And before cheerleaders, I mean, what was it like back then, dad? When sporting events without cheerleaders? Do you remember that? No, when I, hey, what are you talking about before that? When I, the cheerleaders they was, Hey, we had cheerleaders when I went to school. Really, in the forties? Yeah, in the forties. What the hell’s wrong with you? I ain’t that old. Okay, all right. I went to school in the late, let’s see, I was in the first grade in 1959 and I graduated in 1970, so. Okay so you saw a little bit of the fifties in kindergarten, did you go to kindergarten? There weren’t no kindergarten. Oh, what was it like life before kindergarten? See, you are old, kindergarten didn’t exist. Yeah, that would be correct, I don’t know, life was really good because, I mean, we didn’t have all these video games and all this stuff and we played outside and we had a big time, good time, so, and then we worked most of the other time, so. Gotcha. That’s what we did. One year less of school. That would be correct, all I had to- I’m off to a roll. We’re not even five minutes into this episode and I have been correct three times. You’ve given me three that will be corrects. Yep. And you know what? That would be correct. What? That would be correct, I have given you four now. That’s four, he’s given me four that would be corrects. Myrtle Beasts if you’re following along. And I just wanted to add, I was talking to Nana on the phone and she gave me a, that would be correct. And I’ve never heard her say it before. And I was thinking, well, maybe she said it and I just didn’t know it. I just wondered, did you get it from her or did she get it- That’s a good. From you? I don’t know, I think she’s, I think she’s heard it from me several times when I was telling her stuff about the podcast and different things and I’d tell her, say, and she’d ask me a question and I’d say none of that would be correct, yep. Because you haven’t said this your whole life, this is a. Oh no, this is just something come up when we started doing this podcast. Really? Yep. You never said it off of mic? No, I mean, I started saying it when I started meeting people that recognized me and when they’d recognize me from doing the podcast and they’d ask, say, oh God, you’re Link’s dad, and I said, that would be correct. So that’s where it really started from. That’s how it got started, yeah. But you would say it back in the forties. Hell, I wasn’t born in the forties. See, I was trying to get you to say that would be incorrect. That could, you could expand your offerings. Yeah, I could, but hey, you, you gonna have to, you gonna have to do better about being in the forties, I, you know. Well, how incorrect could I be? Well, how would, I bet you did it in the thirties, right? That would be incorrect. There we go, see? It works, there we go, really incorrect. I wonder what other that would be’s you could start adding to your repertoire. I don’t know, while I’m not on doing the podcast, I’ll just, when I’m painting and doing stuff, I’ll see if I can come up with some more. Yeah, that would be spirited, that would be Spirit fingers. I don’t know, you think about it on your own time and bring it back to me. What else is new? I’m gonna give a, right before we came on the podcast, there was a bunch of college students walking down by the house. And I went downstairs and took our cards that we’ve got from Dispatches from Myrtle Beach. And I walked down there and I’m gonna give ’em a holler out there from University of Virginia Ski team are down here skiing this weekend, all of ’em knew who you were and they said, when I walked out there and asked them if you knew who Rhett and Link were, and they said yes, and we’ve seen you on your podcast too. And here they were walking by your house. Were they skiing past your house? No, it’s too hot to ski down here right now. Let me get this straight though. You were in your house, which means you were upstairs in your house and you looked out the window and you saw just young people walking by in the neighborhood and then you clamored to gather business cards and you ran down the steps and what you were, were you yelling at them to stop? No, it didn’t quite happen, that’s pretty close. But I was opening the door and they were coming up the street and I was letting Tristan in that does the stuff here like- Your engineer, your sound engineer. Yeah, my engineer, okay? And so I walked back in the house, I just walked got, I keep cards several different places in the house to make sure I carry ’em out the door with me and go different places. Walked down the steps and they were right beside, little bit up above the corner of the house, and I walked out there and I said, can I have a minute of y’all’s time? And one of the guys stopped and said, well sure. And so they all stopped and I said, that’s when I asked them, said, “Y’all ever heard of Rhett and Link?” And they said, and I said, this is what I said, “Do I look familiar?” Yeah, that’s what you said. And then one of the guys said, oh my God, I’ve seen you on YouTube. And I said that, and then I said, that would be correct! You got it. So I give ’em all a card and they were shaking my hand, of course they didn’t have their must not have had their phones, they didn’t ask to take a picture or anything. They’ll probably be back by the house ’cause they’re staying all week and they’ll be knocking on the door or something later on wanting to get a picture to prove it. Yeah, they do know where you live now. Yes, they do. I mean, that is something to think about. Man, that’s all right. I ain’t as famous as you, I don’t have to worry about that. But I, yeah, I went out there and talked to them for a few minutes. Good job. They shook my hand and they were really pleased to meet me. Of course they were. And but they told me to tell you to say, tell Link we said, Hey. Hey fellas, what’s up? So Link? Yeah. I did what you asked me to do. You talking about after your shower? Yes. You did the body blow dry? I did it, but listen. Start at the beginning, just tell me, tell me all the glorious details. Okay, we did the, I told, Nancy asked me, said, “What’d y’all talk about today?” And I said, well, Link gave me some insight on them, when he takes a shower that after he takes a shower, he rubs the water down off of him where the towel don’t get so wet and Nancy said, I do that too. Oh yes, yes, that’s right Nana. And then, and I do it sometimes, sometimes I don’t, just according to how big a hurry I’m in, we got some nice towels just like you do. So I did all that and Nancy was in there with me when I came out the shower and I was drying off and she says, let me dry you off with the hair dryer. Are you serious? Yeah, so she got the hair dryer out and was blowing me off and drying me, and I turned around and I said, now Link said that when he blows the back side off, he lays the hairdryer up on the counter where he can get his crack good and dry and all that stuff and everything. Yeah, you told her everything. Yep, so I told her all of it. So she dried me and she said, I said, but Link said we need to get one of them dryers where if it got too hot, it had a cold button on it. She said, that’d probably be a good idea if we’re going do this very often. This is becoming a two man job. It was, I mean, I could do it myself, but I mean, I kind of liked my wife blow drying me off. Yeah, you have taken it up a notch. I mean, it never once crossed my mind for you to ask your wife to blow you off. To dry you off. Oh my gosh, dad, this is amazing. Did you, did she put it on the counter and did you bend over? Oh no, I just, she did it all, I didn’t have to. She did it all. She kind of, I turned around, blow me off. Did you spread the cheeks or did she do that? A little bit, yeah. I mean, I wanted to get the full effect and so it could get dry. Under my arm, my back, neck. With all this hair I got- Exactly! If it flops, lift it. Yep, that’s right. So I have tried the blow drying technique and when I’m not in a hurry, I’m probably going to try it again. Because what, tell me about the results. Because you felt really dry. Yes, no dampness. No dampness. When you’re putting on your underwear, there’s no stickiness, they slide right on up, they slide right on in place. Well see what I take a shower at night after I’ve been working and I just, I don’t put a pair of underwear on, I put my little red or yellow pants on this silky. Your red or yellow silky pants, okay. And, but they slid right on. It’s just shorts, it’s shorts is what they are. They’re shorts, that’s all. I mean we’re talking about short, but they are red or yellow and they are silk. Yeah, they are. It sounds like a little more than shorts, I mean, don’t sell it short. Well I, hey, when we go up to Nana’s and stay with her and I go take a shower with her and come out and got got ’em on that, Nana says, man, where’d you get them red or yellow shorts? They said them things is pretty neat looking. So give you something to talk about. So it takes time, but when you have time, you’re gonna do it again? Yep. Did you, did she burn anything? I’ll probably do it by myself this next time, Nancy probably won’t be around, she’d probably be doing something else. Cooking supper for me or something, but. Yeah, as long as she’s doing something for you. She doesn’t have to, she didn’t have cooking supper for you. She might not be around, she might be doing something else for me besides blow drying my body off with I love the fact she was like, you know what, I could do that for you. That’s great, and you, so you were just pirouetting in your bathroom. And she was just hosing you down with hot air. Yeah, up and down all around, yep. But it, I mean it seems like you loved it. Yeah, I liked it, yeah. I’m proud of you dad. This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. This year has already gone by so quickly. What’s something you’re proud of in 2024 so far? 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The collection features items for the hair on your face, hair on your head, and for everything else. Available now at mythical.com Well, you know what Link, we been talking about these little quirks that we do or you were doing and you got me to do about blow drying. I got a email from Zoe. Okay, Zoe. And she asked me, ’cause I have heard that you have a special one too. And she said, do you have a favorite pillow? Link is very particular about his and I’m curious to see if it runs in the family. I couldn’t find a name on it, but I brought it with me. What? So it looks, yours just looks like a normal pillow though. Oh no, it’s not normal, it’ll, it’s soft. Like father like son, y’all. Yeah, and you can lay your head down on it and go to sleep. Well yeah, that’s what I would expect that you do with a pillow. Well, I mean, what else do you do with it? I don’t, that’s it. Lay your head on it, go to sleep. What’s so special about your pillow? Does it, is it full of seeds? Let me ask you that way. Is it full of, Is it, what? Is it full of husks? No. Is it shaped like a log like that you put in a fireplace? No, it’s, I mean I just showed it to you, it’s long. I know, I’m just, I’m establishing something. Is it hard and uncomfortable and forces you to lay only on your back and not your side? Because it would smoosh your ear so much that it would wake you up? Oh no, that’s what I like about it. I can turn over any way I want to and it’ll conform right to my side of my head on it and where it don’t hurt my ears or anything. So, no, I got a good pillow. I’m sorry. It come from mattress firm, not a sponsor of the show. That’s right, not a sponsor to the show. I gotta tell you, dad, you’re missing out. You could have the most uncomfortable pillow experience of your life if you just used my pillow. I wish I would’ve brought it, but I’ve already described it to you. It’s a cylindrical husk filled, uncomfortable cylinder, I said cylinder twice. Why in the world would you sleep with something like that? It forces me to sleep on my back and it aligns my neck. I never wake up with a crink and I don’t sleep on my side because my shoulder started hurting too much. And Quavo is also interested. Quavo, what do you mean? The rapper from Migos. Okay, that’s, you gonna have to introduce me to him, I don’t know who Quavo is there. Well, next time I see him, I’ll call you. Okay. We both got, but we both have pillows and that’s all that matters. That’s right. Yep, we both have special pillows. So that’s the answer to our question. Yep, I guess it runs in into family. Yep, pillow quirk boys, that’s us. Yeah, because when me and Nancy go off on a trip or go somewhere, unless it’s flying somewhere, we take our pillows with us. Exactly, ’cause you wanna have that consistency. Oh yeah. Because you don’t wanna wake up with a crink in your neck when you’re traveling ’cause you wanna be able to look left, you wanna be able to look right, you wanna be able to look up, look down and you don’t wanna have any pain. Oh yeah, yeah, do it all. There you go, do it all, do all the looks. There you go, we understand. Well, Zoe, you, me and my son and I, we both have a special pillow, so. Mine’s just better than his. I’m glad to answer that question for you. Because mine’s worse than his, which makes it better anyway. No, mine’s better than yours because it’s soft. All right, let’s agree to disagree. We’re both special pillow boys and that’s good enough. That’s good enough. Okay. It’s time for, can I pronounce these words? Let’s see if I fala-fail! All right, dad, before you learn some new words to pronounce or you know what, that’s presumptuous. Before you correctly pronounce words that are on a list that’s been provided to you, once again, to prove that you know how to pronounce all words correctly, I would like to do a little review. So the first list that I’ve sent you is a handful of words that you’ve already pronounced. I wanna see if you remember how to pronounce them, and then we’ll move to some new ones. So the first one starts with a Q, do you see it? Yeah. All right, let’s go for it. Quinoa. Still got it, yep. And then what’s the next one? The F one. Oh Lord. Do you remember? Falafel. Okay, I think that’s right, yep. All right. Quesadilla. There you go, there you go. Have you had one of those? Have you ordered one since last time you said it on the show? As a matter of fact, that’s probably the reason I knew how to pronounce it ’cause Nancy made some in a pan the other night and fixed them and put ’em in the oven and poured some kind of stuff on them and they were good too. And when you saw ’em, what did you say? Oh, I said honey, well, she told me she said, I’m fixing you some quesadillas tonight. She said it, really? Okay. Yeah. And then so you rubbing off on everybody, you got Nana saying stuff, you got Nancy saying stuff. All right, the P word. Oh, Prosciutto. Good, that’s right, all right, you still got it? You know what? Jalapeno. Oh, there we go, yeah, you know jalapeno. Oh yeah. All right. Yeah, I can’t eat ’em no more, but I like them. You could say jalapeno, you could say that. Jalapeno. You could say that. Yeah. But you didn’t, and that’s fine, it’s better. All right, so now let’s go to the new ones. Okay. And then these new ones didn’t come from me, they came from an email, right? Yeah, these came from Jonah, he says, “Here’s some more words I’d love to hear you pronounce.” Okay, good. He’s thinking about it. Beglo, I can’t even, Bologa knees. Oh, that’s pretty good. Say it again. Belonga knees. Belonga knees. Well, there’s no N after the O or it’s the, it’s g. Bolognese. But after the G it’s the N. Yeah, that’s what bolognese. Okay, I actually don’t know how to say this one either, but I know you’re not saying it right. Well, thank you. Bolognese. Bolognese. Is that it? Bolognese. Oh, hey, you got me, okay. Bolognese. I thought the G was just like a little bit in there. I can’t say it! Bolognese. Bolognese is how I, Bolognese, what? I don’t know how to say this one Logan. Bolognese. Bolognese, really? Bolognese Bolognese. No G. Oh, I know what this next one, Chipotle. Yeah, I mean, I feel like I can’t make fun of him anymore. I don’t how to say bolognese. There’s a little bit of a g. It’s like there’s an H in the word white. When Logan said it, I didn’t hear no G. Sound like it was silent. I know, dad, I know, we’re in this together though. But have you ever been to the C word? Have you ever been to that place? It’s a restaurant. Yes. Okay, and it’s called what again? Chipotle. Chipotle. Chipotle, oh no, it’s, down here is Chipotle. I mean, that’s better than Chipotle. Chipotle, yeah. All right, what else has Jonah got for you? Huh oh. Briche. Briche. There’s an O in there. Maybe it’s silent. The O is silent, oh yeah, oh yeah, there you go. Brochi. What accent are you trying to do? God damn if I know. These things look like they might be something from Italy, so I don’t know. It is bread. Broche. But there’s an I in it too and it’s not silent. Brioche. Ooh, that’s close. The E is silent. Brioche. Oh, but the C-H is not so hard. Okay, brioche. Yes, that was it, that was perfect! Brioche. Brioche. Brioche, all right. Brioche, okay. Palella. This is a big dish, it’s like a, it’s a big dish of rice and it’s got clams in it and sausage. You never had it? Yeah, I think so, but. Say it again. Paella. Well, there’s a, it really needs an I. So there’s a, it’s not a silent I, it’s an invisible I. So try that, add an invisible I in there. Paella! Add the I earlier. Oh, piella. That’s getting there. Piella, piella, piella! But the Ls are a Y. The Ls are a Y? Why? I don’t know why. Spanish, I guess. Piwella. The Ls, you still said the L sound though, so Y sound. I’m trying, I can’t get the Ls. My brain is looking at Ls and it don’t see a Y. But then put the Ls together and then add a tail on it to make it a Y. Palla! E-Y-A. Paella. Yes, that’s it. Paeela, well it’s more A than E. So the L should be a Y, the E should be an A, the A should also be an, the A should be a Y. Yeah, it should be P-Y-A-Y-A. That’s how it should be spelled. All right, and then he is got one more for you. Hor d’oeuvres. See, bam! You can’t get him, you can’t get him. You can’t pin him down, he’s got a special pillow. That’s good, dad, you’ve done it. Well maybe I’m gonna have to order that thing where Rosetta Stone it makes you learn how to pronounce all these words people sending me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, is that a sponsor? Yes, yes it is. I believe it is, what’s the code? It is Rosetta Stone. Rosettastone.com. Rosetta stone.com/dispatches. And that is a sponsor, so, woo! See, look at this. Yeah, so it’s, that Rosetta Stone’s a pretty neat thing for people, but, I may have to just order it myself and just, and let ’em know that I did, sure am ’cause you can get it 50% off with Dispatched- Oh yeah, you don’t have to advertise to me. We’ll do the ads at a different, I also read these ads, trust me, I know about the Rosetta Stone, yeah, it is a sponsor, it’s good. I don’t think you should do it though, because I don’t want you to change any way that you say anything. Okay, all right, we’ll see. Well, I mean, it was, Jonah, it was fun pronouncing these words 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 wherever get you a podcast and on YouTube and while you’re at it, rate and review us on the Apple Podcast. And if you got a question, comment or a story you’d like to share with me, email me at ratherbeshaggin53@aol.com. And y’all have a great rest of the week and we can’t wait to belly flop in your bolognese again next time. Yep, hard G, like us, we’re two hard Gs. Well, hey, this is fun Link. Yeah, I don’t know what else to say, it was just so much fun. Yeah, all you dispatchers from Myrtle Beach enjoy this week and I’ll see y’all next week. Bye-Bye. Love you son. Love you.