This is Dispatches from Myrtle Beach with Charles Neal and my son, Link. From Good Mythical Morning. Reporting for duty again, son. Yes, sir. I’m, I’m reporting for duty. For you. All right. Yeah. We’re reporting for each other’s duty. That’s nice. That would be correct. Yeah, we, we’re trying to, we, I think we, we’re wrapping up for about the summer, aren’t we? Well, we’re already in August. When does your summer end? Summer ends late here. In L. A. Oh, yeah. You know, I think summer goes into almost September, and it gets, it’s still the hottest of hots. It’s still, it stays pretty warm here most of the time now, uh, uh, all the way through October. Well, let’s keep summer going through October then, Dad. Oh, I’m telling. We can do it. Well, we are. Well, I love to hear it. So you just, so, as of the airing of this, you just got back from the mountains? Mm hmm. Yeah, the last of July. Okay, well maybe next week you can tell me all about it. Okay. Keep me in suspense a little bit. I will. Alright. I don’t want to derail your plans for this episode, you know. Like I’ve said before, I’ll say it again, this is your show. I’m just along for the ride. You know, I’m enjoying it and, and, and, and I like, and I, it’s a worthy ticket and I like the way we ride and ride along too. All you Myrtle beast. Y’all keep riding right along with us too. That’s right. Buckle up. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t know what’s in store today. Let’s see what we got. It’s time for another edition of Myrtle Beach Mailbag. Well, I got a, first email I got is from Blaine and it, Blaine asked an interesting question. Blaine says, I’ve been trying to talk my wife into playing golf with me. I’m reaching out to see what is the best reason to convince my wife to give golf a try. Okay. And then he wants to know, what my, what is your golfing handicap? Okay. I don’t, and I’m not much of a golfer, so If somebody asks what your handicap, is that appropriate? To flat out ask somebody what their golf handicap is? Well, if you’re going to play in different tournaments and stuff, you’re supposed to keep up to it. I, uh, I’ll answer that last question first for you, Blaine. I usually, I usually shoot from, I have, I ain’t done this many times, but in like 88 or something to 92 or 3. So, and whatever what, that makes my handicap, that’s what it is. Uh, so. Well, you just said that you, you don’t do it that often. About once a week. No, but I’m saying when it’s, you don’t shoot that well, that often is what you seem to imply. Well. Is that the best you can do? Or is that the average of what you do? That’s the average of what I do. All right. All right. Eighty eight to ninety five. Because this, yeah. I mean. Okay. Hey. To be good at golf, you have to play a lot of golf, and they play them just once a week or once every two weeks. You won’t never be real good at it, so. And I don’t know how much you play, Blaine, but you’re probably a lot better at it than I am. Uh, but I do try to get better at it, so. Okay. But talking about trying to get your wife to give golf a try, it was kind of ironic that you wrote this question, because Nancy and I and another couple went right down the street down here, and they had redone their backyard, and they put a putting green in the backyard and a little chipping thing in the backyard, because my wife, Nancy, will tell you. That she has not had a good thing. When she went back, when she was working with, for the power company, the men carried her to, uh, play golf. And they sent her up on the tee and she, they just give her a club and told her, and she was turning around and going to hit the ball back towards him. And they were just scattering like a covey of does like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don’t know hit it the other way. Didn’t try to help her. So she didn’t get a good feeling about golf. But the other day when we went to play the eat at these people’s, she went out there and got the chip and thing and chip four or five times. chipping balls about 20 foot or so and chipped every one of them where they almost went in the hole. Really? And so it makes me think that I may get back in the mode and try to get her. Like you, to see if I can get my, cause I would like Nancy, if she would do it, to go and play golf with me. So she, she could have a good sand game or what is it called? She could be your trap queen. I don’t know what you call it. I don’t, yeah, but I mean, you know, and it’s, uh, and maybe I can do her if she, would be receptive to it. I do it like she did me like several years ago. I, the guy that I took left took about, she got me six lessons from them and they really helped. And uh, so I may try to talk to her a little bit and see, but if you’re going to try to get your wife to play golf and do it with you Blaine, the best thing to do is to try to carry her out and, and see if maybe she can hit him. And get interested and do some chipping or putting on the green somewhere. And, and try to do that and see if you’d be interested. If not, do like I’m thinking about doing and go to a professional and, and, and pay for to get some lessons and see if you’d be interested in playing then. I got an idea. What about taking her to Topgolf. And, you know, that’s, and she bought me two things, Link, that I’ve got where we’re supposed to be going with Carl and Candace and them to Topgolf, and they ain’t never been able to come down here yet and go, so. That’s exactly what I’m thinking about doing. Taking me and her to go down there, cause they’ll give you the clubs and everything down there. Right. Where you can try it. Let me explain it and you tell me if this is an accurate explanation for those who don’t know what Topgolf is. It’s like if you took the golf course. And you made it well, if it was just a driving range, but instead of it just being a bunch of teas where you just hit it in the, into oblivion to see how far you can go, it’s like if you combined a driving range with not pinball, that would be cool though, that might be what it takes to get me to go again, but it’s. It makes it more of a target game where you’re trying to tee off and, and hit it in different places, different lengths and everything, and you’re, there’s levels to it, there’s like floors. So like there’s three floors and then you can, um, So there’s people below you and above you if you’re in the middle aiming for these targets in it and you can drink beer and you can watch television and you can order food food. Yep. And you can listen to music, I think, and it’s all it’s all right. It’s like it’s like a sports bar meets a driving range. Yeah. And you can. And as long as you don’t get out of control and. Go off the front of the thing. Well, all you’ll do is land in a net. Yeah. I think that’s a, that’s a fun way to kind of get into the driving part of it, but there’s no putting and there’s no chipping, but sounds like she’s the, she’s the chipper. You, you give me a good idea of bringing, I had forgot about that thing. You know, so Blaine, uh, we’ll be going to Myrtle beach to talk golf. I don’t know where you, if you got one around where you live in, but that’d be a good place to, uh, And the, and the convince her to do it is just like what I said was because you’d like to have her companionship on the golf course and, and, uh, where you can be together and do things together. Yeah, because a lot of people use golf or something like that to get away from their wives. So the fact that. Blaine is wanting to bring his wife. I think that should make her feel good. Oh yeah. So you can get some brownie points in the process, Blaine. Well, that’s kind of funny, Link. I had a thing on my phone the other day. This guy was going to play golf and he had a note on his golf bag. And he said his wife had left it on his bag and said, when you cut the grass and, and take all the trash out. and do these chores you supposed to be doing and everything. When you get through doing all them things, take a picture that you’ve cut the grass and done all of them, and I’ll tell you where your six, seven, eight, and nine irons hid at. Oh! Because he couldn’t go play golf. Because he hadn’t been doing his chores, so, you know, so, uh. That sounds like a healthy interaction. I thought that was, I thought it was hysterical. I read that thing on there. Okay. Because I do my chores and keep my grass cut. That’s right. I do my chores too. This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. What are your self care non negotiables? Maybe you never skip, Lord, I better read this. 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Well, we got another Email from Lisa, and he says, and I’ve been looking forward to this, Lisa. He says, Hey Charles, my son Raleigh is terrified that there’s a monster under his bed. I tried to tell him that there’s no such thing, but he’s very scared. Can you help me tell him he has nothing to be scared of and that there’s no monsters under his bed? Well, you know, when you. Raising children and they have things that happen with them when they’re growing up and they see things on TV or something and they get a little scared of things. Uh, Lisa, it sounds like, you know, this is kind of maybe that’s what. Happened when Riley, but you know, you just need to kind of reiterate and giving him positive things to think about and showing him that there’s not anything that is under the bed. And I know it’s hard to get him to believe that, but. My, my thing that I’ve come up with is to tell Riley that the only thing that he needs to worry about that’s under, under the bed at that is Santa Claus under there. Okay. Well, listen, why don’t you talk to Riley directly right now and tell him whatever you need to tell him. So, Riley, you need to know that there’s not any monsters under your bed and if there’s anything under there. It’s probably just Santa Claus keeping a check on you and seeing if you’re good or bad and things is going on with you. and wanted to know that it’s just good old Saint Nick up under there. It ain’t no monster. And he’s just checking on you once in a while and making sure that you’re being a good kid and you can ask and get whatever you want to for Christmas. So I wouldn’t worry about being no monsters and that’s probably just Santa Claus under there trying to look out for you. Yeah, that’s right, Riley. It’s just a it’s just an old man with a beard underneath your bed like Judging your every action to determine if you can get anything you want Out of life. That’s better. I knew you were gonna do that cause you didn’t, uh, you didn’t ever tell, uh, uh, Lily and Lincoln and Lando that there was ever a Santa Claus. They didn’t never have to worry about that. Yeah, they weren’t afraid either. No, that’s right. Yeah, and I got all the credit for the presence. Yeah. But, I mean, he is afraid of something, so I’m trying to put something better there than a monster up under there. Okay, yeah. I guess it is an improvement. You know say you Lisa it’s up to you whether you want to share that little clip with him Yeah, yeah, that’s up to you. But I that’s the best I could use your discretion Yeah, you use your parental discretion on whether you want to cut out what link told you or what I told you We’ll just have to wait and see, but send us another email back and see how it goes with it. I would kind of like to know kind of how old Raleigh is, but you know, that might be to help a little bit. Yeah. If he’s 45, that’s going to be interesting. I mean, when you were a kid, were you ever afraid of monsters or anything? Like what? I don’t, I don’t think I’ve ever been. Really? You’ve never been afraid of anything? As a kid, you were never afraid of anything? I don’t know what I was afraid of. I, I know that Lily was afraid of owls when she was very young. She would say, she would call us in there and say, there’s that. She was afraid of them. I don’t know. Lincoln was afraid of a, of some, of an alligator coming out of the toilet. And I think, I don’t know, I don’t remember what Lando, if he was afraid of anything in particular. Oh, mascots, of all shapes and forms, still is. Like the Chick fil A cow, he was deathly afraid of that. But I don’t remember being afraid of anything either, but I’m sure I was. Yeah, probably. But I mean, but not a monster under the bed. I mean, I definitely think if I was in bed and there was a, that is a closet was cracked open, I would get up and shut it all the way. I didn’t want to have that little, like the, like the dark slit with something’s kind of peeking through at me, like, man, I don’t know. I feel like Santa Claus might be back there. I’m gonna lock him in before I go to sleep. Well, can I ask you, can I ask you one question about Santa Claus? Yes, Dad. Did you ever send your Aunt Tacey a Santa Claus? Well, it’s, you know, it’s, I gotta wait for the season. No, don’t. It’s not the right time of year. Okay. But yeah. All right. Yeah, I mean, They’re not in, they’re not out of storage. You know, you can’t just buy one on Amazon, right? I’ll send it when the time is right, but thanks for the reminder. Logan, make a note. I just did. We gotta, we gotta. Cause I, she, she did bring it up to me the other day. The other day again? Oh, she just asked me. She asked me if Lincoln said anything about sending me my Santa Claus. What, really? Yeah. Because, did she know that we had talked about it? You Yeah, I know, but did, did she know that we had talked about it here? Yes! Oh, damn. Okay, well. Well, she knows about Dispatches from Myrtle Beach. I know. She’ll watch it once in a while. Okay. Well, yeah, I’ve already, I’ve ordered it, but it’s one of those where it’s like, you can order it for the future. Okay. All right. Well, we got another thing. People want to know, can I pronounce these words? They love this segment. It’s time for, can I pronounce these words? Let’s see if I follow, fail. We put some words in there for you and let’s, let’s go through them. So these are fresh, new ones. All right. You see the first one. Yeah, epitome. There you go. You nailed the first one. I mean, I know, I, yeah. Y’all must be making things easier for me. Well, we can’t tell. We don’t know. We don’t know where the line is, honestly. But, that was good. Sorry, I’m sorry. Was that insulting? No. Okay, good. Yeah. All right. Do you see the next one? Gyro? Well, that’s, that’s acceptable. It could also do, you know, an, an alternate pronunciation for that? Gyro. Gyro. Gyro. I thought that was one of them. Make the sandwiches. Make the g and h gyro. Yes, but now make the YAE hero. There you go. That’s also, I think that might be even more accurate than gyro, but then some people say, Giro. I’ve heard of that. Yeah. Gyro, Gero, or Hero. All are acceptable. All right, what about this next one? Are you gonna be three for three today, Dad? Mimi. No, he’s not. I knew we would get you in there. That’s not it. This is an internet term. This is, uh, basically these are, I mean, what this has become now is something that you can look at that’s passed around on the internet, like a picture that’s passed around on the internet. The second E is silent, but it impacts the first E. First E is a long E. M me. Well, I know it still starts mem me, me, me. The second E is silent. Me, me. You’re still saying the second E. There’s pretend the second E’s not there. Mem mem me. But you’re still saying this. But pretend No, I, I just say the second E, take your thumb mem me. Take your thumb. Take your thumb and put it over the second E. And then read it. I won’t do no good. Just do it. Put your thumb over the second E and say it. My thumb’s so big it covered the whole thing. M uh. M uh. Alright, and now make that first E, keep your thumb over the second E, it doesn’t exist, but make that first E a long E. Meme y! You still say the second E? Say what you said, but not the second E. The first everything else is right. Let’s see. M mem me. No . There’s no second E. Your thumb’s over it. , why don’t we do this? Take that second E and move it beside the first E. Mema MEEM. What’s that? Spell meme? Yes, you got it. Meme. Meme. Say it again. Meme. Yes, you got it. All right. And we got one more there. Can you get this? Can it be three out of four? Bruchetta. There he is. You’re not, what is bruschetta? Type of, it’s a type of, type of meat. It’s like a Italian appetizer. With bread, and then cheese and olive oil and stuff. Tomatoes. Oh. No meat. No meat. Alright, and then the last one. Hit me with that last one. Crepes. Crepes. Look at that. Dad, I think we’re getting to, you’re like, of those five, There was only one of them that you didn’t get. I’m telling you, I didn’t get it for ever. And now, so, so give, so take me through all of them again. Let’s see if you remember all of them. Epitome, gyro, gyro. There you go, yes. Here we are again. Meme! Yes! Bruschetta and crepes. There you go! You did it, Dad. How do you feel? You feeling good? Now, um, can you use them all in one sentence? I mean, I gotta up the ante somehow. Yeah, and you can say them, you gotta be able to use them in a sentence. It would be the epitome of me to eat a gyro mimi meme with a bruschetta crepes. When you put them in a sentence, you started saying more of them wrong, which I loved. Okay, that’s great. It would be the epitome of me to eat a gyro mimi meme. Gyro, yeah. It would be the epitome of me to eat a Guy Rowe meme me it with a bruschetta on a crepes. There you go. And you’re putting an S on crepe every time. So I do have crepe. I mean, hell, who just eats one crepe? Okay. Good point. Good point, dad. You got it. It’s time for another edition of y’all need to look at this paint. I got one from Christie and it says many of the top paint companies in the Pick a color of the year every year. I bet one of them started doing it and then all the other ones followed suit in order to sell more paint. Well, yeah, but they’ve been doing this for years. Okay. Christy wants to know what is Charles Neal’s color of 2024? And can you take us through what the store colors of the year are before you give us your pick? Well, Sherwin-Williams color is Upward. Okay, so that’s like a grayish blue. And Valspar is Renew Blue. But that looks green to me. Well, a lot of times blues have a green tint with it. Renew Blue is green. Okay, whatever. And Bear is Cracked pepper. Oh, I like the name of that one. So they just picked like a, that is a dark gray. Well, I guess it just looked like, it’s not as dark as I expected it to be. And Benjamin Moore is Blue Nova. That’s a pretty dark blue too. I like that one. Is that, that could be a car, you know? Are you driving a blue Nova? Yeah, used to have one of them. Is that right? And it was, and it was blue. Wow, look at that. Maybe that, that, that could be your color of the year too, dad. Yeah, 66 Chevy 2 Supersport. Okay. And then the last one is Glidden Limitless. Limitless. So that’s like khaki to me. Yeah, that’s a tannish color. Limitless. I don’t love the name. All right. Well, you’ve kept us in suspense long enough, Dad. I mean, did any of these come into running to be your color of 2024, or did you end up going elsewhere? Oh, I went elsewhere, absolutely, because living at the beach and as much paint as I have put on in the last Several years, and you can walk in the Sherwin-Williams store and ask them, what’s the most favorite color that people pick down here at the beach? Mm-Hmm. . And it, and I have talked about this color before, and the name of it is Sea Salt. Sea Salt, ladies and gentlemen. Is Charles Neal’s color of 2024. And which brand is that? Sherwin Williams? Sherwin Williams. Sherwin Rams. Sea Salt. It’s SW6204. There you go. It’s a gray color, but it’s got. When the sunlight hits it, it’ll have a green tint to it, and the different shades in the room. Okay. And it’ll leave, and it’ll leave them even changing, have like a blue tint to it. I love it. It’s a wonderful color, because anything, you can put stuff on the walls, pictures, all kind of stuff. It’s a wonderful color. There you have it, murder beast. Nancy has told me when I repaint in our house, um, we got a couple of rooms that I’m going to put it in. Well, there you have it guys. And you know what, is that not the first y’all need to look at this paint color you ever picked? Yes, it is. Oh, so see, it’s been around for a few years, but. It’s coming into its own. You can, this is, this is like party conversation. Now people now know, you know, if they’re talking about like paint colors, like, well, if you go to the Sherwin Williams and get yourself a little sea salt, it’ll come to life with whatever you hang on the wall. Just tell somebody that at a party, you know, that’s the service we’re providing. Getting, getting pretty good at it too, aren’t we? Yep. So all you Myrtle Beasts, if you want to paint something, you ought to try Charles Neal’s color sea salt. You know, that’s the color I like the most to put in houses and everything. So go look at it and see how you like it. Well, Link, it was fun having you all here with us today, and we’ll be back next week for another one. And don’t forget to follow and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts on YouTube. And while you’re at it, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts. And if you’ve got a question, comment, or a story, And you’d like to share with me, email me at ratherbshaggin53 at aol. com and y’all have a great rest of the week and we can’t wait to meddle with your monsters again next time. Ho, ho, ho. Turning them into Santa Claus. Well Link, it’s good seeing you again this week and I love you. You too. I love you too. Love to Nancy. I’ll tell her. All right.