This is Dispatches from Myrtle Beach with Charles Neal and my son Link from Good Mythical Morning. How you doing, son? Doing good, dad. How about you? I’m doing good. Yeah, we Yeah, just, uh, getting back to normal a little bit. Yeah. You working? You doing your day job? Well, I was doing my day job, but before that, we, uh, we took a little trip to Savannah with some friends of ours. Oh, Savannah, Georgia. What is Savannah, Georgia known for? Do they have a motto? Uh, well, Savannah’s known for being on the water, The waterway down there and where, uh, General Sherman came through and during the civil war and, you know, tore some stuff up, but kept some of it. And it’s just a historical town. How long does it take you to get down there? Four hours. That’s basically the limit of what I’ll drive in a day. So y’all went down there with some friends. Yeah. Graham and Jackie Parker. Graham and Jackie. So how many nights did y’all stay? We went Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and came home Wednesday. Whoa! Is there that much to do in Savannah? Well, Graham and I played golf one day, so Okay. Had to have a day for that, and then, uh You know, the first thing when we go to Savannah, though, we have found a place to eat, and it’s a bar, too. And the name of it is Fiddler’s. And boy, they got the best Bloody Marys in the world. I mean, they’re some kind of good, some kind of good. But that’s just a brunch drink, isn’t it? Well, you know, you drink it in the morning, but we always, hey, that’s our, that’s our thing to break in when we go to Savannah, whether it’s you get there in the morning or night, we go to Fiddler’s and get us a Bloody Mary. So no matter what time of day or night it is, you get a Bloody Mary. Don’t make no, yeah. Yeah. Cause they don’t open till like, I don’t think till like four o’clock. Oh, okay. Alright. They got some good food, too. It’s five AM somewhere, you know. Yeah. That’s what they say. But, but, I, I would, the, one of the guys that, uh, was waiting on me, he, he kept kinda looking at me and I pulled out one of my cards and give it to him and he said, oh my god, I knew you were Link’s dad. Ha! And, uh. So, uh, turns out he, he had watched Good Mythical Morning, and then his name’s Hunter. Holler out, Hunter! And he said, well, and he took his phone, queued right up and pulled up, dispatched it from Myrtle Beach. And we went back by there the next day, and I wanted to try something else, and uh, it was called Savannah Sweet Tea. What is that? It’s a, sweet tea bourbon. Oh, they like to drink down there in Savannah, apparently. Apparently. But, uh, how was that? I, I don’t really like bourbon, but it was all right. Bourbon in a iced tea was not to your liking, huh? Well, you don’t like tea anyway. Well, I’m asking you. Was it, it wasn’t to your liking? No, it wasn’t to my liking, but I drank it. Well, let me tell you this. I don’t like celery and I don’t like tomatoes. But if you get me on a plane at the right time, I will enjoy a bloody Mary. I like tomato, uh, juice on a plane. I don’t know what it is. And then if I want to, if I want to get a little kick in it, a little kick in it, you know, I might get a bloody Mary, but, um, They make their Bloody Marys down there with zing zang, so it is, you know, and put a little other stuff in it, so. All right. But, uh, but it was the second night they, we went in there to, uh, uh, um, the guy that was waiting on me that day, he said, boy, you sure do look familiar, and I pulled a card out and give it to him, and he said, good God, you’re Charles from Dispatches from Myrtle Beach. Two days in a row, two for two. Yeah, so. Giving him a little zing zang. Fiddlers is quite a fan cadre for dispatches. Yeah, cause there was a girl that’s a waitress there, and I didn’t ever get to meet her, but Hunter told her that, uh, The next day, because we didn’t go in the next day, he handed her the card. I give him an extra card. He wanted an extra one to give to her, which is good. And she had a fit. She said, I always picked the wrong days to work. I could have met Charles Neal from Dispatches from Myrtle Beach. You’ll be back down there. Yeah, I’ll be back. Telling her not to worry. So how, um, is this the first time you’ve vacationed with, uh, Graham and Jackie. Graham and Jackie. Graham and Jackie. We’ve been to Savannah together before. Okay, yeah. And, uh, we’ve been. They’re not tired of you yet. To the mountain though, and they’re trying to get us a trip to go with them, and we’re gonna probably go to Destin, Florida, and go down to the, uh, Well, that’s that down there, so we, no, they, we get along really well and like to get up about the same time in the morning and like, like you’re on vacation, so. Y’all vibe well. You don’t want to be vacationing with somebody who is like, if you like to take it easy and they like to always plan stuff or vice versa, so yeah, y’all get up at the same time, which is what, by the way. Eight 30. Hey, that’s pretty good for you. ’cause I know back home you probably getting up earlier than that. Oh yeah. Yeah. Usually about seven o’clock. Oh, that’s still later than I thought. That’s, I’m, I’m glad to hear that. Seven o’clock quarter after seven. I usually, if I’m, when I’m going to work, I just get up and get ready and try to be before I’m going about eight o’clock. What, how does Savannah compare to Charleston? Uh. They’re both on the coast. They both seem to have good food. It’s, it’s pretty similar. I mean, I, uh. Who has better food though? I’m going to say Charleston. That’s what I was, that’s what I was going to guess. I don’t know. I, if I wouldn’t want to go when it’s too hot, but I would, I would spend a couple of days in Charleston just to, just to get my grub on. Yeah. I’ve only been there maybe twice ever, but I keep hearing good things. I gotta go back. But it’s um, yeah we, well you can come stay with us and we can be there in two hours. Really? Yes. That’s not bad. That’s not bad at all. Mm hmm. Hey, you’re still making ice cream with that, uh, what did you call it, um? Cousinart. Cousinart. Are y’all done with that? No. Yeah. Cause that’s the thing. You’re gonna put that thing away and you’re gonna forget about it. Oh, no. That. But, uh, let’s see, uh, four days ago, you won’t want any of it, but Nancy made some strawberry. Yeah. Did she make any more of that peanut butter? Cause she made any of that, but I think she told me that she may be going to make some vanilla tonight. She’s still going strong. Well listen, whenever, whenever y’all get tired of it, do you still have the box? I don’t think she’s got the box. Well, maybe you find a new box. Oh, okay. Well, you know what, I can, yeah, I told you, I told you, I think I already reneged on that. I thought, I told you I might be going to send Lando one of them, so I may have to look into that. Hey, that might be a good Christmas present from me. Okay. Then who’s going to make the ice cream? Good question. Yeah, give it to Lando. Yeah. That’s good. Well. We know it’ll be from me, but it’ll be his. Yeah. He can make the ice cream, and then somebody’s gonna have to eat it. And that’s gonna be me. Yeah. So, you give him the gift of the Cushion Art, and then he gives me the gift of the ice cream. That would be correct. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Never got a plan with that. Uh huh. Well, besides Savannah Link, I got one other thing. Nancy’s got another jewelry show coming up. Okay. It’s on, uh, September the 28th and it’s called the Iris Italian Festival. Iris Italian Festival. Okay. So she’s going to be there in full force under the tent selling her homemade jewelry. That would be correct. And all her paraphernalia. You going to be there? I’m gonna be right there with her. Okay? Yeah. Alright. So you know if you photo op don’t want, if you don’t want some jewelry, you can come by and see Charles Neil from dispatching from Myrtle Beach. Can’t get a picture unless you buy some jewelry. Yeah, you gotta help Nancy out. Got a little jewelry. She’s trying to get rid of it. Okay. Now, Link, I’m trying to figure it, it says, painting hack video to show Charles. Yes, I asked Logan to, I, I, this rarely happens to me, that I, that I’m on, I think it was probably an Instagram reel, it could have been a TikTok. I think it was Instagram, it was Instagram. Okay, but I got, they, they’ve got a hold of me a little bit, they kind of know that I’ve got a painting connection, so now I’m getting, Painting hacks sent to me and this one I found myself watching. I was very intrigued I was like, well, I gotta see what dad thinks about this. This may be one of the coolest Amazon finds I’ve ever seen All right, so take a look at this about it I’m painting our bedroom right now, which has a lot of windows and I really hate masking off windows So I found this stuff called masking liquid h2o on Amazon. It’s like 25 25 bucks masking liquid I’ve been using this gallon for see this You just use a standard paint roller and roll it onto your glass, you the windows. It doesn’t matter if it goes over the edge because you paint over it and this is what it looks like when it dries. It dries kind of both. You know you are ready to paint hazy. For me, I like using a paint sprayer just because it’s quicker and I just go to town with it. Who cares if I get it all over the glass, just paint all over here in a second. Comes off as easy as anything. So I quickly paint. I don’t have to worry about the masking or it going through the tape. And then you just grab a utility mask and you cut, cut around the corner, the edge, and this is where the magic happens. And then you just, this liquid masking, literally peel it off, just peel off, which is satisfy. Directly to the edges of the glass and it is extremely satisfying. Yes, you can see here I was filming and taking it off with one hand and look at that one hand. It only takes about 15, maybe 20 He’s wearing his hat backwards. I don’t recommend that you this stuff is so worth it So dad, have you ever seen this stuff? No, never. I wish I had a thing. Well, didn’t you just watch it? Yeah, but I, I’m not spraying and painting like I used to. Oh, you don’t use a sprayer anymore? I got my HVLP, but I just use it to paint the furniture around here. Yeah, but if you had a totally empty room and you got, you can use your sprayer inside. Uh, I, um, Why are you, why are you, Not, not, not with all this furniture that’s still in here. You’d have to cover all that up and spray and, uh, I, I, I, and I might have missed something on that, but it might’ve been for, that looked like it’d be for a new house application where you’re painting and stuff. It certainly would be easier if it was a completely empty room, like a new build. He won’t spray them with HVLP. He was spraying with a sprayer like I used to have and it has a a lot of over spray even if you use the one with a small tip, so It’s uh, messy. Yeah, and then you I don’t you He did it Looked like he was painting a trim with it, like with the HVLP or something. What is a HVLP? I don’t know what you mean by that. High volume, low pressure. So it’s a more professional sprayer. It’s just, it’s just like it’s slick and smooth when you spray it out. That’s what I sprayed all our, before we moved in all our trim work in this house. It’s all sprayed with it. Yeah. But if you, so you’re saying you don’t really paint new builds or empty rooms anymore. That’s not really what you’re doing. No, I don’t do nothing. But if you did, would you be intrigued by Yes, I would. Just sits there and it’s just Look, I’ve opened you up to something. I’m telling you. Yeah. I’m gonna have to call Jose that used to work for me, or he’s got my sprayer now that he got from me and let him Uh, uh, see if he knows about this stuff. Cause you can just, you can just go hog wild with the sprayer. Once you know, all you got to do is just rip, just pull off the, basically plastic off the windows afterward. Yeah. But see what I didn’t, what I, you couldn’t spray cause your ceiling’s usually white and your walls is a color. You can’t paint that stuff on the ceiling and then pull, pull it off. So you have to use a. Shield up like I used to to spray down it and do so, you know, it looks like more is for painting around Trim on windows and all that stuff. But do you think that this is for professional level painters? Or is this just for like do it yourself hacks? Because isn’t there a level of artistry to being able to take that brush and go right down next to something and just like Oh, yeah, perfect Like that’s, that’s what you taught me. The artistry was in not being able to, you don’t have to tape anything. You just go up there and you just, you know where to put that, you know where to put that line. That would be correct. As a matter of fact, I’ve been doing that around here. I’ve been painting the walls and the trim work still like we talked about before. Oh. Uh, I don’t, I don’t, I don’t use no tape. I mean, I just. Paint the walls and then go around and paint the baseboard again and around the trim, cut it out and pull a straight line right down that thing. So you’re, so you’re kind of, I don’t know, I don’t know if you would need this. I, you know, not, when we were spraying houses and I was spraying for windows and stuff, I might would have used it. Yep. I’ll be perfectly honest with you. He just goes to show you, every industry is, technology is infiltrating. Yeah. AI is taking over. Uh huh. That probably wasn’t even a real video. It was just AI generated. It may have been. Watch out. Watch out. But. Everything’s being modernized. There’s always a new trick. There’s always a, yeah, oh you, and it’s like what you do for a living and what I’ve done. You know, if you don’t you don’t If you don’t learn new stuff that’ll help you out and make things better, uh, that’s not a good thing. So you need to keep an open mind about what’s going on. See if you want to try it. I know you’ve been waiting for it. Good Mythical Evening is on its way. Mark your calendar for Friday, October 25th for this year’s Good Mythical Evening. 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Mark Zuckin Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg? Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg. Yeah, I’ve heard of him. Mark Zuckerberg recently commissioned a statue of his wife stating that he’s bringing back the Roman tradition of making sculptures of your wife. So first of all, tell me who Mark Zuckerberg is. He’s an actor on, uh, the one with, uh, Tom on the cop show. I like it. Well, with who? Tom Selleck. Tom Selleck and Mark Zuckerberg are in a cop show together? Well, maybe that ain’t the right one. I don’t know. I mean, he makes movies and does stuff. I mean, Not the Mark Zuckerberg that I know. Oh Okay, Mark Zuckerberg I’m thinking of is First of all, he’s he’s very cool But second of all, he is the inventor of Facebook. Oh, okay. See, I learned something again, I got him confused with an actor. Okay. Yeah. He’s not an actor. I, I think he would be horrible at that. Okay. like I, he’s like the last person on earth. I would want to see, like in any form, like it’s just, I don’t know, and I could be wrong, but there’s just something about how he holds himself. Then I’m like, I just don’t wanna see him and not, I, not even. opposite Tom Selleck. I think that would be, I think that would be really bad for everybody involved. So here’s, here’s what Grant is asking us. He says, so would you Neils have statues of your wives if you could? Well, let’s take a closer look at This Mark Zuckerberg’s wife. Oh, there she is in a robe too, huh? Yeah. Well that is a tall sculpture there. That is wild. Is the middle? So that’s reflective. So her, her skin is made out of some sort of um, It says it’s crystal and volcanic ash. Volcanic ash. That’s badass right there. Hell yeah, I would do this. I don’t think, I don’t know what, I don’t know how Christy would feel about it. But like, I mean, that’s like a ten foot tall version of my wife. It’s like, like put the garden gnomes to shame. It’s like, my garden’s not quite big enough for a ten foot tall. Christy back there. That would be cool though. Well, I can’t afford no volcanic ash or whatever Logan said. These things are made out of and uh, but I, but you know what? I, I, I knew this was coming. So I did run this by Nancy. You did? Yes, I did. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let me guess. I think her eyes lit up a little bit. She probably said no, but you could tell she meant yes. Oh no, she meant no. What did she say? To me, she said, no, she said, you can put one out there, you out there, but you ain’t putting one out there on me, you know, but looking at these. Well, let me tell you right now, when I asked Christy about it. The second half of that is something she’s not going to say. She’s not going to say, she will say, I don’t want a sculpture of myself in my yard. Like she will say that, but she will not say, well, you can put a sculpture of yourself out there because she knows. That give it another, I don’t know, give it ever how long it takes to make a sculpture and there will be one of me out there if she, I don’t know, if she, if she suggests it. She, she is too smart to plant that seed to give the green light facetiously on something like that. It’s just like, well, if, if you want to travel the world and so and so, so and so, you be my guest. It’d be like next week, next two weeks later, I’m traveling the world being my own guest. You know, I will have a scope. I mean, I would never have a sculpture myself in my yard unless my wife requested it or for sheet facetiously encourage planted in your brain. Yeah. Oh yeah, cause it would be, or maybe it would just be topiary of me, you know what I’m saying? Yeah. You know, you know what I’m saying? Topiary? Yeah, well, I didn’t really know who Mark Zuckerberg was, uh, and I apologize, but. Don’t apologize. Thanks. You don’t owe him shit. But I don’t, I don’t do Facebook either, so I don’t feel like I owe him a damn thing. So Nancy said she didn’t want one of her, but you could have one of you. And I said, hell no. Uh huh. Now that ain’t gonna happen. That ain’t gonna happen. So what did, after you said no, what did she say? She said, but I couldn’t do a sculpture of her, but I could do one, get one made of my other three wives. No, she didn’t. Yes, she did. No, and that ain’t happening. Y’all got a little, Where are you going to put a statue at all? You know, it’s a cute little retirement garden kind of a thing. What do you think about a topiary idea of yourself? You know what I’m talking about? The what? Topiary. Topiary. I don’t know what, uh, I must have, I, I’ve missed that one. What, what bush sculpture, you know, you know where they make a sculpture out of a bush. Too much work. That’s true. A lot of maintenance. Nancy might get into that. As good as she likes plants and bushes and keeping them pretty. And you could grow it. You, you don’t have to tell her that it’s gonna be her. You could start with just the legs. No, it’s just two bushes growing together. Oh, they’re coming together. That’s not a torso. That’s not boobies. That’s just the top of the bushes. That’s not arms. That’s not your face. It just, that bush just looks just like your face. Well look at how that thing happened to grow. And then before you know it, you got a, you got a, a bush statue of Nancy in your backyard. Lemme tell you once she sees it, I think she’ll like it. She might, would, might be our es in the backyard when nobody else couldn’t, but see it. But, uh, so, uh, grant, that’s a, that, that would be a no from this Neal family, but, but thanks for the question. Well link, we’re going to do a Don’t tell Nana episode. Again, I know how this works. And you can, you can trust me. Anything you say here is safe between me, you, and the Myrtle Beast. No one’s gonna tell Nana. It’s time for another edition of Don’t Tell Nana. Let’s hear it. Well, it’s, this has been years ago when I guess I was I was out of high school. Okay. And mom and daddy live in the house they built and that Nana lives in now and everything. And so Teresa was having a party when she was about, it might have been, I can’t remember, but it, It might have been her birthday party. She had all her girlfriends over there, and there was a bunch of them over there and everything. And I knew about the party, so I said, hmm, ain’t this interesting. So I, we was over across the river with all this guys and all this cars and I said It’s a two year difference, right? Yep, two years. You’re two years older. So I told him, I said, Tracy’s got all them, All our, all our, her girlfriend’s over there at the house. Why don’t we go there? And of course, we was old enough to drink beer. So, we, it ended up, there was cars parked around the block at Papa and Nana’s house. I’m talking about, not just down the side street, but up the other street, back down this street, on both sides of the road. everywhere. And we kind of broke in on TC’s party and trying to see all the girls and all that stuff and have a good time and everything. And, and it was going pretty good, Link, going pretty good. Was, was there beer involved? You made it seem like Oh yeah, yeah, there was a lot of beer involved. Oh, okay. And, uh, so as A little bit of the time went on. This is when Papa was a detective with the sheriff’s department and he was working night shift and Nana was in the house and Teresa’s party going on and it, um, Is she like in the back room or something? Hold on a minute. Wait a minute. And about this time, papa, daddy, my daddy come driving up on his deputy’s car. Okay. And one of the guys looking around said, Your daddy’s looking for you. I said, do what? And I come out and went over there and he said, uh, I thought this was a party for Therese and her girlfriends. I said, it is, but we kind of invited ourselves. And he said, Well, you’re gonna get uninvited. He said, because, and they was beer cans and bottles and stuff all over the, some of them friends of mine. And he said, you got, you got about 15 minutes, maybe even less, but at least 15 to 30 minutes. I’m going to go in and see your mama in a minute. And all these cars and all these beer cans and all this, they better not be a sign that y’all was ever here again. Yeah. Not never. And then daddy went in the house and asked, Teresa said, where’s your mama at? Oh, she’s back there in the back room ironing. And daddy said, do what? Yeah. She’s back there in the back room. And daddy went down the hallway, opened the door. And sure enough, daddy said, he told this story later, you know, she was back there just ironing, and daddy said, this was the first thing I asked. his wife, my momma, he said, do you know what in the hell is going on around here? And they, and momma said, oh, Teresa and them girls is just I was having a little, having a good time out there, and he said, Theresa and them girls, there’s about 50 cars out yonder, and 50 boys, and they running around here, and they drinking beer, and having a big time, and just in and out of the house and all that, and she said, he said, well, I ain’t really heard nothing, just piss down and run along. You had a lot of ironing to do. That’s some intense ironing. And I thought, and, and, uh, daddy said, I done took care of the rest of the stuff outside out there and I’ll be back in about 30 or 40 minutes and sure enough. Teresa told me, she said, Daddy come by the house and made sure everything was cleaned up like it ought to be, and uh, so. Yeah, it seems like he was doing more to ironing things out, you know what I’m saying? Yeah, yeah, and you know, you know how Papa was. Papa didn’t ever He hardly, he hardly would ever raise your voice, but if he had, if he had something to tell you, you understand, you understood that you had screwed up. You, you knew you, you better not be doing this no more and everything. And you know, but what’s crazy about all this, in all the years, even after that, And the next, but especially the next day or anything, he never said another word to me about it. He didn’t. Never spoke it. Never spoke of it. Never brought it up. It’s hard to blame you. Yeah. I thought you were going to say, and to this day, Nana still doesn’t believe that y’all were there. Because she. She just kept on ironing. Well, the time he went in there and got back there, they was most of us probably gone. Right. Because I stayed, I stayed around to make sure that everything was cleaned up. And then I, I said, when he comes back, I ain’t going to be here. What was the dynamic like with you and TC that like, You know, I mean, even, like, Lily being two years older than Lincoln, there was, there was some, like, she gives him a hard time about, he might have dated a few of her friends. I’ll just, I’ll, I’ll, I’ll leave it at that. Yeah, well, I dated several of Teresa’s friends. How did that work out? Well, I mean, till I got tired of them, I just went on about my business, or they kicked me to the curb one, you know. She didn’t say stop it, TC. I might have to get her side of the story. Of course, I gotta order her that Santa Claus before I do. I keep forgetting to do that. It’s not Christmas yet, but we’re doing alright. We’ll get that. We’ll take care of that. The interesting thing about your story is the fact that you amassed Uh, like this type of numbers at like crashing a party and there, you didn’t have cell phones. I mean, it’s like, I guess it was word of mouth. Well, you know, when I was growing up and we used to meet across the, Um, River at Lasterbird’s Grill, and then the Tasty Freeze was over there, and all of us, and we had our hot rods, and we’d drive across the river, and back across the river, and back and forth, and that was our, you know. So you had, you had a, you had a big following, literally. Well, there was a lot of us that, Run around together and had a big time and, uh, done things that none of the rest of you Myrtle Beasts really ought to know about what I did. I did tell you that one. All right. I’ll probably tell you some more, but yeah, we got to hear some more. We won’t tell Nana even though she was there and she was told. Something tells me that she’s She hasn’t fully, it never fully sunk in. So we’ll, we’ll leave that in the past. Well, ain’t T. C. It’s Link. Call. You said, uh, I hope you, I hope you, uh, listen to this podcast and hear about me breaking in your party cause it was fun having all you here with us today. We’ll be back next week for another one. And don’t forget to follow and subscribe wherever you get your podcast on YouTube. And while you’re at it, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, and if you’ve got a question, comment, or story you’d like to share with me, email me at ratherbshaggin53 at aol. com. And y’all have a great rest of the week. We can’t wait to party our pants off again next time. Oh, you didn’t tell me that. Pants came off. Uh, I don’t, that didn’t happen. All right. Love you, dad. I’ll see you next week. Love you too.