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. Good to see you. Yeah. We’re both wearing blue today. Yeah. We look good in blue, don’t we? Yeah. Yeah. Me and you, you know, I have to be careful not wearing blue. Cause you know, every time I go somewhere, you know, them women always say, well, you got the prettiest blue eyes. And when I wear blue with it, you know, it just kind of helps with that. So here we go again. Here we are going again with our blue eyes and our blue. Shirts. Blue shirts. This is actually a, you see, can you read what it says? It says Knights. Yeah. Knights is apparently the mascot of my elementary school now. Buies Creek Elementary. This is actually from Buies Creek Elementary. They sent it to Rhett and I and like made us honorary somethings. But, you know, back when I went to school there. The mascot was a demon, the Buies Creek demons. And I guess something happened along the way. What do you think happened, dad? I reckon it had to something get politically correct. So children in grammar school couldn’t be demons no more. They had to be knights. Might be religiously correct. I don’t know which one it is, but I mean, I mean, the Duke. Blue devils? Deep blue devils are demons. Yeah. It’s like, I mean, I don’t know the story, but it did make me curious when I was like, well, this is from Buies Creek Elementary School, but knights. I don’t know. I mean, and, and the deep blue devils is a Methodist university. That’s a good point. Yeah. So, you know, maybe it was the demons. Themselves saying that they didn’t want to be relegated to being a mascot of, of, uh, of a middle school, you know, the demons themselves. So it was the middle school that wanted the grammar school. It was the middle school. Oh. Well, okay, you’re right. It’s the grammar school, as you call it. Elementary school, but when I went to the elementary school, it went through middle school. So that’s why I said that, but you’re right. It’s just elementary school. So the, but what I’m saying is that I like, maybe the demons themselves got together and said they didn’t want to represent a grammar school. Yeah, they probably can’t reach, they, they want to be able to reach somebody older than demons. They, it’s harder for them to reach. I don’t know if it’s harder for them to reach them now with all this stuff. All of them’s got a phone and all of them knows what to do on the internet and type something in so they could. Is that how demons work? Demons work through a phone? Mmm, I, I think they could work through a phone. Yeah, I think they probably use anything they can get their hands on to try to corrupt somebody. So, that would be my thinking, you know. Okay. I don’t know. I don’t know either. I mean, they might not exist. That’s another way to look at it. But yeah, I don’t know who am I to say it’s a cozy, it’s a cozy sweatshirt. And at least they still kept the colors blue and gold. That made me happy. Yeah, yeah. Cause, uh, when I, when they had, uh, the high school where after you went, then I, you probably, you didn’t go to the high school, but it was a high school there when I went to school and played basketball, Against the boys at, uh, Buist Creek, and they were the, uh, Buist Creek Demons. That’s what they were. So And it was the same school that I went to, but it went all the way through high school back then. Yes, it did. And so, like, Lillington was a high school. Went from the first grade to the twelfth grade. So they never brought y’all together. No, we, we, you know, when you went to school, you went to school when I was going over same, you just went from one graduated from one building to the next. That was it. By the time I was leaving eighth grade and going to high school at Harnett Central, we were the last eighth grade class. The next year they opened Harnett Central middle. And so sixth grade. Uh, Buies Creek Elementary, we were the last 8th grade year, after that it was just 6th grade. But when y’all, y’all should have had a big pumps and circumstance with y’all graduating from the 8th grade that year. Maybe we took demons with us, I really don’t know. But you’re saying when you were coming up, um, like, The rivalry had to be pretty high, right? Cause even in middle school, the rivalry between Buies Creek and Lillington and Anger and Lafayette, Lafayette. Yep. So, all of those were individual high schools when you were growing up? Yes, they were. Anderson Creek, Boone Trail. And then you would, you would see all these, all these kids, not just at the basketball games, but like, just around the county. Oh, yeah. Would fights break out, or were you, were you friends, were you, did you interlope? Sometimes I won’t welcome in other parts of the county, you can believe that. It really, it got that intense? Like, it sounds like a Bloods and Crips kind of thing. Like you couldn’t go over to Buies Creek and date any of the girls? Well I could go to Buies Creek, it wasn’t too bad over there, but it wasn’t good for me to go to Anger. And I could go to Boontrail cause, I knew all them boys cause of, Working on the farm up there in the summertime, so I could go up there and hang out, but, uh, it won’t good for me to go to Angie, because, uh, if they caught me over there trying to date a girl from over there, there was probably gonna be some fisticuffs going on. I mean, so, you had to be careful. I had to slip around and get over there. And I did, too. And you’d have to slip around, and I’m reading between the lines, but I think that meant that you drove quickly. Yes, that would be, that would be correct. Okay, I gotcha. Enough of a hot rod that I could get in and out quickly. See, but you could, if you, if you were really good at slipping around, you might could have a Lafayette girlfriend, an Andrew girlfriend, a Lillington girlfriend. You can have one in every little part of the county. The county was much bigger back then before the internet. I didn’t say I didn’t have one in all them places. I didn’t have one at, I don’t think I ever had a girlfriend over in Lafayette. I had one in, uh, Andrew and had one in Dunn. Then I had your mama in Lillington. Oh, God. Had one in, uh, Boontrail up there at Mamers and we’re all up there, so you know. I had one kind of stuck around different places. Okay. Stash like Papa’s, uh, liquor bottles. Yeah. Out in that back building out there. He didn’t get to have them in the house. Don’t keep, now don’t keep your dates in a back building, people. If you’re listening, we do not condone that. But yeah, when I, when I went to high school, that was the culmination of that. Because then all of those same towns that we’re talking about that remained rivals for you as a freshman, we were all there together, all there together, and it was still the factions, but then I made a good friend with a guy from Andrew. Andrew had the reputation. You know, uh, being, oh, you know, you know, you never know what they could be up to over there in Anger, but I made a Anger friend and that helped grease the skids for me to be all right. Anyway. So what you’ve been up to? Well, I’ve, uh, been working some, you know, like I always do. But in between all that, uh, we took a trip to St. Augustine with, uh, Jody Patterson and Kathy and went down there for four days. And it was really pretty neat because Jody has been a truck driver for probably 33 years. What’s his, what’s his route? How far did he go? Well, he used to drive trucks all over the country. Okay. And then about 25 years ago or something, he got into, uh, into the gasoline business where you see all these trucks driving down the road, uh, hauling gas and diesel fuel and stuff to where you can pull into the gas stations and make sure you can still get filled up and everything. So that’s what he did for a long time. And he ought, he had. But when he was doing it, he always worked nights. He has, all his other boys that worked, worked in the, like from 7 o’clock in the morning to 7 o’clock at night, and then he’d work from 7 o’clock. And he hardly, he didn’t have, he, He’s as hard working a man as I am, and he’s good retired, and he sold his business, sold his business, and uh, so he really had never been off and been anywhere much, and he had done a few things in them, 25 or 30 years, but so Nancy and I carried them to St. Augustine and you can drive, besides being nice and getting on the trolley and carrying them to the fort down there and letting them see the fort at St. Augustine where, uh, the French used to own it and then the British owned it and then the Americans owned it. But, uh, you can drive on the beach at St. Augustine with your truck. if you got a four wheel drive truck. And we was on my pickup. So you drove on the beach? One time we, uh, I carried me and Nancy some chairs, but instead of buying some chairs, we just bought some towels. But it was neat seeing Jody, because I just sat up and watched. And he had his bathing suit on and went down there and took his shoes off and got in the water. And it was just like, Uh, you know, this is, this is pretty neat. He was saying, you know, I, I hadn’t done, Something like this probably in my whole lifetime or at least 25 or 30 years and he Wow him and Kathy had a great time But the wind got to blowing so bad And it was it it was about sand blasting this and I finally said, you know we could go back to where we’re staying beside the World Golf Hall of Fame and Go to the swimming pool And sit there in the sun, let y’all get a suntan. We can get up under an umbrella and we can go get in the hot tub. We got back in the truck and loaded all up, went over there and went right on out to the pool and sat there and finally sat there until it was time to. Fixed some supper and we had already went and got some steaks and we cooked them on the grill and had a good time. Had a good time. And it was good carrying somebody with, and we had never been off with him somewhere, but, and this, this Jody Patterson, let me tell you, he’s, he’s a mess. He’s funny. He can come up, he can funny, come up with some sayings and stuff and he keeps Nancy laughing all the time, all the time. So I love this. We had a great time together. I love the fact that you basically are teaching him how to vacation. That was pretty correct. You’re showing him the ropes on how to really let it all hang out. Get your feet in the water. Come on. Let’s drive on the beach. Well, it’s too hot. It’s too dusty. Let’s go to the pool. We got a hot tub. Let’s get some steaks. That’s right, Dad. You’re like, you’re like a concierge. Oh, I hear you. You’re a vacation Sears. We’re, we’re thinking about trying to get them loaded up and go back and take them to Aruba with us again. That’s great. It’s good to have some travel companions. You got somebody who can, who can make you laugh. Yeah, that’s worth the price of admission right there. Well, he can do that. Yeah. He can, he can tell you some stories and make you laugh. So, um, but we had a good time. So he made the cut. He might get invited to. Another trip sounds like, oh yeah, yeah, we going to do that. I like, see, I fancy myself a, a fun connoisseur as well. And I’m remembering that like I gave you a nickname that’s related to this. I can’t remember what it was. We’ll have to look back at that episode. Oh, fun ambassador. Fun ambassador. There it is. Logan. Oh, dad, we are fun ambassadors. Yes, I’m, we usher people into fun and we like to sit back and watch ’em experience it. Yes, we do. Yeah. That’s, that’s really, and I feel like I’m coming, coming more into that, um, that aspect of my personality. Like I’m, I like throwing parties. Yeah, me too. Me and Nancy do too. I like going to parties, but I would rather throw the party than attend the party. And I want to be more of that. I can be a, hey, I can go to a party and pretty much be a fun ambassador there too. Yeah, that’s right. The life of the party, that’s us. 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Yes, it happened. I know it happened cause, uh, you and Nancy called me when you were going in there, but I was too wrapped up in stuff to listen while it was happening. So I need you to tell me and all the Myrtle Beasts how it went. So our question of the day, our Q it two is, and what did, I can’t ask you this because you’ve only been fishing one time your whole life, you know, so what, I’ve been a frog gig and that, don’t you? What’s the biggest frog you ever caught? Uh, probably about three pounds. That is a big frog. You hear me? Well, we, listen, we, me and, me and Jim Quick had a, had a great time and we had people, we had, people were texting Jim on his radio that usually watches his show anyway from in, I, I got there at 10 At 1045, he goes on at 11, and goes off at 3, and he turned me loose about 10 minutes to 3. You were there the whole time. I was there the whole time, and we had a episode where Logan had gave me some words, but we didn’t get to record, we didn’t, we didn’t have, hey, he didn’t have enough sense, and I didn’t have enough sense either to record it, but people got to listen to me pronouncing these words Logan give me. And they was calling Jim on the phone, texting him on his phone, and a guy was riding down the road and called Jim and said, man, I got to stop and pull over because I’m laughing so hard I’m about to pee in my breeches. Okay, so you’re saying, Logan, you sent a list of words with Dad. Yep. And You, you did, or you, you did get to say them on the air, is what it sounds like. Oh, yeah, we said them on the air, but we didn’t think about taking my phone or his, because he didn’t record any of the stuff. Oh, okay. Because Jim, every time I’d come on him, before I’d come on, he’d say, I got my good friend, Charles Neal, with me and, uh, from Dispatches from Myrtle Beach. And, uh, and then I’d say and said, yeah, and you can send me a question, ratherbeatshaggin at 53 at AOL. com. And we did that for four hours, off and on and all kinds of stuff. And he, Uh, but he had a thing queued up for, I’m trying to remember, it was, uh, oh, about when I did the thing where you asked me, you know, how, you know, how smart I was or something, or did I know who Albert Einstein was or something, and I said, well, I know what, and he was playing that clip. Of E equal, me saying E equal MC2 on the air and advertising dispatches from Myrtle Beach. And then Link, and I didn’t forget what you asked me. Yeah. The first, the first thing we did when he introduced me and we were talking a little bit, I told him, I said, Uh, well, my son wants to talk, want me to talk a little bit about how to take a shower. Yes, you did it. I did it. Yes. And what you’re, and what you’re supposed to do. How to dry off. Get through. How to dry off. And I, we couldn’t get because it’s a radio station where you can’t get too explicit about it. But we got explicit enough to. They let them know that after you wipe yourself off and dry yourself off with the towel, then you take the blow dryer and blow yourself off and get it out, get you all fresh and clean and dry. And Jim said, well, have you tried this? And I said, oh yeah, I have tried it at least just one time. I said, but when I tried it, it didn’t work. With all this hair I got, Jim, when I got through, I was blowed up like a little fur ball. And he liked to fell out of his chair. Uh, did you tell him that you, that Nancy took it and started hitting you with the blow dryer? No, we didn’t go that far. Okay, you didn’t bring Nancy into it. Okay. No. I respect that. Sounds like it went awesome. Hey, and, and then, uh, I told him about you getting me to pee in the shower. I said, and I said, you know, it’s pretty good about that. But yeah, I think it helps keep the drain cleaned out. They would die laughing. So people were calling in and texting him reacting to it. Loving it. During the whole time, yeah, either calling in or texting on his phone. That’s great. Because what I did, I asked Logan, I asked Jim, I said, Jim said, all right, if I, uh, give a shout out to my sponsors at Sponsored Dispatches for Myrtle Beach. And he said, well, sure. So I give a shout out to everybody. And so. They, they were on 94. 9 too and heard about it, so you know. Look at you, Dad. That, I mean, that, that’s a big moment there and it got a, got a positive reaction. So I might. You might have to get another invitation. Well, hey. Goes both directions. We’ll have them on again. Let, let me, let me tell you one little, little thing I got. We were eating out. Let’s see, it was Saturday night. And this, this past Tuesday when I was on. And a lady from church called me. And she was just dying laughing. And she said, I didn’t know that when I went to Sunday school with somebody that was famous and on the radio. And I said, Oh, and then when I went to Sunday school Sunday, the guy that’s the president of the class, Leon, he was welcoming all the visitors and everything. And then when he got through doing that and he said, Oh yeah, I got one more thing. We got somebody famous in our Sunday school class. And I said, Oh Lord, here we go. And he did. And he said, Charles Neal, I turned the radio on, was listening to it Tuesday. And he was on the radio on 94. 9, talking about his podcast. And he let, give me the microphone and said, tell him what your podcast is. So I told the whole Sunday school class how to listen to this podcast. Hey, wherever does an audience. I mean, so for you then there’s an audience for the show? Yes, sir. Grassroots effort. When I got a holler out to Kendall from Chattanooga, Tennessee says, hi Charles and Link, I had the opportunity to see Red Link on tour in Atlanta with a group of friends. I’ve been planning what I was going to wear for months and decided I had to. Custom make a hat with your email on it to support Dispatches from Myrtle Beach. It was a hit. Love you both very much. Yep, there it is. Oh yeah. Ride the B Shag in 53 at AOL. com. She put the at in the right place. That’s good. That’s pretty good. Good work, Kendall. Kendall, we, I really appreciate that, I, you know, uh, it, if you’d have been in Raleigh, you’d have got to see me in person. That’s right. Yep. I mean, I think that the standing, that, that the ovation. I don’t know if it was standing. It probably was. It was. They stood up. Of course, I might have agged them on to stand up. That’s right. Yeah, you did. You did kind of do the motion to stand. Some of them did. It’s still ringing. The ovation is still ringing. All these weeks later, Dad. Is it still ringing in your, in your own memory? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I still got it on my phone. Cause you know, my, our cousin videotaped it and sent it to me. Wesley. So, uh, that was nice of him. Can you just close your eyes and, and, and relive it sometimes? I mean, no, but we didn’t get nearly the cheers the rest of the night that you got. I’m kind of jealous. Well, well, you’ve been around a lot longer than I have. I’m just something new to them. Okay. All right. But if it weren’t for you, it wouldn’t, there wouldn’t be anything there for me. So, you and Rhett, so, And don’t you forget, don’t you forget it, Dad. When you’re getting those big ovations and I’m left in the dust, don’t you forget who gave you your start. And if, and if you’re going to say, Jim, quick, I’m going to be angry. I’m sorry. That won’t, that won’t ever happen. Kendall. I love the hat. I love that’s, that’s kind of a merch idea right there. That’s just, that would be a, that’s just funny. Rather be shagging 53 might have to put the ad in, in two different places though, like you do when you say it. Well, I’ll see if I can do better, but I probably won’t. Yeah. I’ll see if I’ll do, if I can do better, but I probably won’t. That’s the spirit dad. That’s, that’s, that’s believing in yourself, but not, but then knowing yourself. Yeah. I’ll see if I can do better, but I probably won’t. I’m just setting your expectations. It’s not that I’m not trying. It’s just that I probably won’t succeed. Well I think we, we succeeded pretty good, but that’s from Myrtle Beach. So we just, I know I’m just, I’m just saying the way you put the way that you say your email address. Maybe I need to write it down again, make sure I’m saying it right. No, you’re, you’re fine. Just read it off of Kendall’s hat. You can keep that picture around. Okay. Mm hmm. Now it’s time for a word from our sponsor. And we got a, uh, sponsor’s ad we’re gonna do. He said, My name is Chloe and I live in Brighton, England. I’m marrying my fiancée. We’ll later this year and we’re visiting America, specifically Orlando for our honeymoon. My question is, are there some must try snacks, foods, or restaurants you would recommend to us? Mm hmm. We’re looking forward to trying things we don’t have in the UK. Thanks. Oh, I like this question. Well, uh, I don’t, yeah. Uh, Chloe, I don’t know about, you, you, you kind of just have to be on your own looking up some, uh, finding some restaurants down in Orlando, but if you was in Myrtle Beach or North Myrtle Beach, I could give you some good restaurants. So, if you happen to get up this way. I could give you some, but one of my, uh, a couple of my biggest snack things is honey barbecue twists from Frito Lay. Oh, I know what you’re talking about. They, they some kind of good. Hey, when you pop open a bag of them, most of the time, uh, And it’s just like that thing says about Lay’s potato chips. You don’t just eat one of them because you have to pull two or three out at one time and chomp down on them and get with it. They’re shaped funny, right? Yeah, they’re twist. Yeah. Like a corkscrew. Like a corkscrew. Like a pigtail. That would be correct. Like an auger to dig a, dig a well with these things. Hey, my little dog Gypsy, I just crunch them up and lay them on the, uh, chair when I’m eating them and she, she loves them too. But she doesn’t have any teeth, Dad. Well, she You know, I get them in little bitties, crunch them up in little bitty things, and she laps them up and eats them. She can still taste them. What’s that do to, does that make her vomit? No, I ain’t never seen, not, not from that. I don’t give her that many, but hey, if I eat something, she’ll eat it, so. Uh huh. If that’s not an endorsement, I don’t know what is. You got the, you got the dad and a dog endorsement for that one, Chloe. And then the other thing, if you want to try something good, I’ve sent some to Logan and Link one time too. with some, uh, Little Debbie peanut butter cookies, but they also make a wonderful oatmeal cookie too, so that’s two or three things you could, uh, Little Debbie oatmeal or peanut butter cookies, but make sure you get you some of them honey barbecued twists and, uh, Try some of them and get you a, hey, you can eat those things and drink whatever you, if you like soft drinks. If you come over here and want to have your cold beer with it, you can, they’re pretty good with cold beer too, so. Okay. Just help yourself with whatever you’re doing and what you’re eating with them, so. Did Frito pay for that? No. Oh, well, okay. Well, maybe after, They heard me talking about me and Gypsy eating them. Maybe we can get them on board. All right. Yeah, that could do it, Dad. Well, Link, it’s been fun having all of y’all here with us today, and we’ll be back next week for another one. And don’t forget, don’t forget to follow and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube and while you’re at it. Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts. If you got a question, comment, or story you’d like to share with me, email me at RatherBeShaggin53 at AOL. com. And y’all have a great rest of your week, and we can’t wait to comfort your coconuts again next time. Well, okay. All right, yes, I agree. It’s been fun. Yep. Love you too, Dad.