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. It’s good to see you. Good to see you. Yeah, we ain’t in person, but it’s always good to see you. That would be correct. Yes, it would. Now we’re back. You can give me a proper dispatch because it wouldn’t be a dispatch from my house. Over the past three episodes, we’ve been spoiling the Myrtle Beasts, spoiling them, being in the same room. And I think, I don’t know, I think I got spoiled a little bit too. I just, I want to start this episode with an apology. Oh Lord. Okay. Uh, and I tried to apologize before, but when I thought about it, I just didn’t know if it landed. So I’m gonna give it another shot here, dad. Okay. Well, you know, um, when we were hanging out. At my house that let’s see after you had worked. I mean, I got to hand it to you. You worked your ass off around here at mythical. You came through and everybody had something for you to do. I mean, I’ve people seeing tiktoks like good mythical evening stuff being on ear biscuits in addition to us doing three of these. I mean, what else did you do? I’m probably missing stuff that you did, but I’m cooking show you. Yeah, you were on mythical kitchen too. That’s right. And after all that, I mean, you came home and, and I said, we’re going to, we’re going to grill, we’re going to grill out some chicken wings. And, um, right when we started, I don’t have to tell you this. I’m just for the benefit of everybody listening, you know, give a complete. Sorry. And, you know, a good apology here, you know, where I’m going with this. Yeah. Okay. So, I’m like, all right, but I think I got home a little bit later than you. You were already out there. You already had the grill fired up. It was warming up and then we were chilling out. We were talking. We, we, we had some good, good time. Just me and you, no microphones, just me, you, and a nice view of a grill. And then. Um, I don’t know if we were talking about Lincoln or not, but I decided to call Lincoln. And I am sorry that, uh, I talked to Lincoln for the entire time that you had to grill the wings all by yourself. I ghosted you. While you were doing the wings so that I could have a talk with my son. And I’m, you know, I, I’m sorry that I, I, I just left you out there to do all the hard work after you worked so hard all week long, uh, well, I accept your apology, but listen, I have, cause I saw a little look in your eye when I went over there, well, I’ll tell you what happened. I was still on the phone with Christie. Christie comes out there and first of all, she’s jealous that I’m talking to Lincoln. Without her because I’m getting good college information and, um, she wasn’t getting it. Now, you were getting it because I put it on speaker. Yep. But after she got over that, she went back, she went back in to do something and then she came back out and she was like, Link, you are not doing anything to help with the grill. You need to get off the phone. I’m like, I don’t know. I don’t know. I’m, I was like, Lincoln, I gotta go. And then I walk over there to the grill and I can see a little look in your eye like, Oh, now that I’m taking these chicken wings up off the grill, you’re gonna walk over like you’ve been a part of this. Yeah, yeah you are. I had not been a part of it. I was, I was, I was in view of it. That’s correct. But, but I, I’m all kind of, I accept. I really ain’t, you don’t need to apologize, but I accept, but I text Lincoln one day last week and asked him which one he chose. Right. He had, you know, I heard that he had a big choice to make. And, uh, we were going over the pros and cons, and, um, We’ll leave it, I don’t want to, you know, I don’t want to tell his business too much, but we’ll just say he had a choice to make in terms of, like, Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. what he was doing in school. So, I asked him, Yeah. Cause I asked him which choice he made, I just was wondering if he took A or B. Mm hmm. And I know, I thought I knew which way he was leaning. Me too. And I was hoping, I was hoping he was leaning towards B. Right. But. He sure made it seem that way, didn’t he? Yeah. But I think. What did he come back and tell you? But, and I still ain’t sure what he told me if I understood it, but I think he chose A. I’m telling you right now, he chose A. Well. He flipped the script on us, dad. I’m telling you. Just like you over there, you over there flipping them wings, then he’s flipping the script. So yeah. He went with A. Here’s, here’s what I’m saying, you know, what comes around goes around. Well, I’m going to tell him one of these days he’ll have a son or maybe a daughter and he, his dad, he’s going to be talking to him about this A or B situation and they’re going to just screw him all up with it too because he didn’t make the right decision with us. So you told him, we thought, well we, did you tell him I thought you should have taken B? No, I didn’t tell him that. I didn’t know. I didn’t even text him back and tell him that I was disappointed that he didn’t take B instead of that he took A. You know, it was based on the information that he gave us. Disappointment is a strong word. I think we were a little surprised. Yeah. You know, the way that he was pitching B, it seemed like he had made the, you know, when it seems like you’d made a decision and you’re like, you’re giving all the reasons, like, well, I can tell you’ve already made your decision and it seems like a good one, so I’m just, we’re just going to encourage you. We’re just going to, yeah. So then he comes back and he’s like, well, he made the, he, He made the opposite choice and then it’s like well We didn’t hear as much about the other choice because you were in a different place. So I chalk it up to that but there is something to Navigating winded just like you can’t tell your kid grown kids what to do, you know, no. Well, it’s kind of a And I thought back this kind of reminded me a little bit of you and Rhett Yeah. Okay. Choosing this profession and people with the education that you had, that, that ain’t a really good decision, you know? Mm hmm. Yeah. My nana, your nana, the, uh, Rhett’s mom and all, all those people. Mm hmm. And they, and they backed you some, but I, I think I was probably You were the champion. You were the champion. I was the only one in That’s right. Because I’m a self employed person too, so. I was probably the only one that told y’all do what’s gonna make you happy and don’t worry about these other people. Well, you gotta go, yeah, you gotta go with your heart. And if you’re, you know, if you’re giving advice to anybody, and it’s like, and if it doesn’t really involve them listening to their heart and going after what they feel like they really want to do, I don’t know, you know, it’s It, it, that could come back and that could be difficult for them if they lean too much on the advice, you know, well, what might’ve been, you know, that’s, this is not really what I wanted to do, but, um, and they listen, there’s a lot of people in this world that didn’t make the decision they thought they should have made and went with decisions that parents or somebody else was trying to lead them into and they, cause you don’t ever know until you try. Exactly. Even, even if it’s a clear cut right decision, you think it’s a clear cut right decision, if you, you never really know until you go through with it. I mean, I wanted to go to film school, but I went into engineering, and it turns out that, That following the wisdom that from the people, you know, all the people that we listened to that led to, uh, majoring in engineering, it turns out that was a really good choice. It was the perfect choice for us to get to where we are now, ironically, and it was against where my heart was, but so I’m throwing out different examples in that one. I deferred to wise advice instead of listening to my heart because, well, there was funding involved, so I didn’t really have all the power to do whatever I wanted, and it worked out. And other times it’s like, alright, this is a safe place where it’s like, you gotta start making decisions on your own, and it’s one of those that’s not as clear cut, even though he presented it pretty clear cut, didn’t he? Yeah, I’m telling, when Lincoln was talking, I thought we, I thought it was all done. So I know and then the other, you know, and if it was the other way, if I didn’t agree with his reasoning, I would have hopefully asked some powerful questions to get him thinking and coming to his own conclusion. But I didn’t think we had to go there. And then when we come back and he had made the decision. It’s too late. And you know what? Time will tell. It’ll be all right. It’s still early. It’s still very early, but he’s very, I think he personally is very happy with the decision he made. And that’s what counts. Right. That’s what counts at this point. And then if he needs to change course or something, then hey, we’ll be there for him to support him. And, um, you know what? The chicken wings. Will taste great because you’re going to handle that and I’m going to handle the phone call. That’s correct. Oh So now next time I don’t have to apologize because now we’ve agreed. That’s the plan. That’s that would be correct. All right Yeah, that’s good. All right Alright, I’ll never have to say I’m sorry again. Yeah, well, I don’t know about that, but we’ll see. You know, this episode comes out on Halloween week. Yeah, which we, you know, we’ve done our celebrating apart, I mean together. But now that we’re apart, it’s, yeah, it’s happening this week as it’s coming out. How are you gearing up for it? Well, uh, Nancy asked me the other day, uh, what we were gonna be, you know, cause we Oh, is that how she asked it? Are you sure she didn’t say, what kind of sexy something are you going to be this year, Charles? Cause she’ll, she’ll put you in something sexy. Yes, she will. Yeah. Yeah. Hey. Y’all will too . That’s right. Yeah. We’ll, . Yeah. You’re a natural man. You slide right into those, uh, leotards. I don’t know what it was. Yeah. Whatever it was. Yeah. I had you in for good mythical evening. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-Hmm. . Yeah. We gotta watch it to see. Yeah, that’s, yeah. But, uh, so what is it? What do you, what, what’s your answer? What are you gonna be? Well, I just, I just talked to Logan and I. You know that wig I did with rt? You’re gonna be RT for actual Howie? No. Uhuh, absolutely not. Okay, good. Good. Thank you. No, but I, I am going and I’m not even asking permission. He said absolutely not. I’m giving Logan permission to, to mail me that wig and I’m gonna be a cave man. And next is gonna be a cave woman. Oh. Oh, okay. Alright. You could see, but she’s gonna be a sexy cave woman. Yeah, that’s right. Are you gonna be sexy cave man? I don’t know, but you know, to be a caveman, you ain’t got to wear many clothes. So me and, me and her ought to just drape something around me down at the bottom and just keep getting it. Just drape a little bit down at the bottom. Keep getting it. Um, all right. Let me, let me think about this a second. You cosplayed as Rhett wearing a wig that now you were going to use with, I presume, zero alteration. as your caveman costume. So yeah, I putting two to two together. I kind of like what this implies that you could still be Rhett. You know, yeah, he’s not here to defend himself unless you want to impersonate him. But yeah, I fully Hey, and you’re not asking for permission. Just like you said, but I fully endorse this decision. What are we talking? Like one shoulder thing? Be sure to take pictures now. Yeah. Yeah. I’ll get you. We’ll, we’ll have some pictures. Yeah. I’ll get them to Logan. Yeah. Because I don’t know how. This is going to go over cause in the morning I’m leaving and going, picking up Nana and bringing her to our house. Oh, this is, she’s going to be able to see here and see all of what we do for Halloween and how we dress up and all that stuff. So she’s going to get to enjoy it too. She’s going to be here for a week and a half. That’s great. So I’m trying to think, how do you incorporate an old lady into your Uh, costume. I guess you could have an old cave lady. Let’s see if you can drape something on her, you know? Well, I don’t know if we could get her downtown and all. She, she probably ain’t going in all them clubs we going in downtown. No, but it’s all about the IG, Dan. It’s all about that. A lot of celebrities, they’ll wear these crazy expensive custom made Halloween costumes. Oh yeah, people do that here, Link. But they’ll put it on Instagram, and then you know what they’ll do? They’ll take it off and burn it. They don’t go to a party, they don’t go to nothing. They look on Instagram, and they just, they look at the comments, and they look at the likes, and they That’s it. That’s what Halloween is. We going downtown. Yeah. Alright. We always go downtown. So, when you left here, you went to Key West, am I right? Yes, I did. And tell me about it. Well, I got the shirt on from 94. 9 and I’m gonna let you know. Let’s see if you can. Oh, it’s survivor themed. What’s it say? Hots, Holy Sprickets. What? Holy, Quicknames got a little group called the Holy Spickets. Okay. That plays besides the other thing, but. So it was a survivor themed, um, concert series. Yeah, but it was kind of between Candice and Brandy, Nana’s daughters, yep, and my sister, and your Nana, and you, and not you, but Christy, calling us on the phone, cause there was a hurricane, this shirt had the hurricane on the back of it, and they were calling us, started calling us on, we got there on Saturday night. They started calling on Sunday. Y’all need to change y’all’s airplane tickets and get out of there. Y’all got to go. Y’all got to go get out of there. Just worried to death about it. Well, Sunday, it did rain some and then. Monday it was pretty nice, and we set out on the beach, and then Tuesday the sun was out and laid out on the beach down there and just had a great time, and they was, they was still calling. Y’all got to go, y’all got to go. But, what was the name of this hurricane, and it, and it, it went north of you, across Florida? About 300 miles. Hurricane Milton. So you didn’t have any negative impact of Milton? It just rained Some. Well, good, I’m glad to hear it. And um, yeah, I know Christie, Christie was telling me she was calling you, so I don’t really look at the weather. I don’t, I don’t really believe in it. I don’t believe in it, and it all worked out. This science. Don’t believe in the weather. It’s hard to believe in science, didn’t it, dad? But it worked out perfect. It was all gone when we were supposed to fly out Wednesday, I mean, Thursday morning. We just got in a taxi, went to the airport, got right on the plane, flew back to Charlotte and back to Myrtle Beach. Damn, did you even have to grease up? No. Didn’t even have to grease up for it. You just slid right on in. Yep. I’m glad to hear it. I met a guy at the airport, Link, then we’ll go to something else. I met a guy at the airport and you know when you do you. Luggage and all that stuff. Mm hmm. And where you have to walk through that thing and put your arms up. Yeah, TSA, Dad. It’s called TSA. Okay, the TSA. And this guy that was telling you when to go in and everything, he, when I got, Nancy went in and I got ready to go in, he said, Just go on. Just go on. You ain’t they trusted. You said, I know who you are. That doesn’t add up dad. That does not add up. They know who you are and they just told you to go through security. That doesn’t add up at all. If anybody listen, Myrtle Beast out there. If you are in a position of keeping the peace. Or order or safety for anything and and you see this man my father in person the last thing you need to do is extend leniency because You are a listener It’s precisely because you are a dedicated Myrtle beefs you need to constrict Any impulse for leniency with this man. He should still be detained. That is not correct. He should still be searched. I’m talking cavity searches. I want, I want, I want you, I want you getting him bent over. And I want, I want, I don’t, I want you to pull out all the stops. From wherever they’re hidden. Alright? That’s what I want. And I know this isn’t my show, dad. This is your show, but that’s what I’m gonna say. And that ain’t what, hey, hey, you, you helped make me, it’s your fault. No, I made a, you know what? I do take credit for that. And that’s, you helped make me, and that’s your fault. So, this is, this is quite a, this is the snake eating its own tail, I bet. You know? Here we are. As long as we’re not eating each other’s tails. It’s a snake, not a centipede. Okay, anyway, Dad, I’m glad you met, are you going to give a shout out to the TSA person? By name, holler him. Uh, I, I didn’t, he wouldn’t tell me his name, wouldn’t tell me nothing, he just. Yeah, cause he wasn’t doing his job. You can, you just go around this way. Whatever, whatever you’re hiding, take on in there. Well, maybe I ought not have told that. Probably just illicit liquids or something. Yeah. Weren’t able to join us for Good Mythical Evening Live? 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Is that how you would do it? That’s a pretty good idea, but no, that ain’t the way I do it. I just hang it up on a piece of wire and I just spray it. I don’t know that it looks more fun. Yeah. Playing. Oh, look at that. Was that a hot knife through a brush? Hot knife to cut a brush. Putting your credit card on it? That credit card must not be no good. So I reckon it lets you, hey, I don’t have to do that. I, I can, I can pull a straight line down something and not get paint on the other wall. So I, I, you know. You got any old credit cards laying around now? Oh, I got some old credit cards. Yeah. Okay. Well, you need to, you need to cut those up, dad. You don’t need to have old credit cards laying around. That’s not good. I, I, I don’t need, I don’t need to cut the brush off at an angle either. Cause I’m cut a line with my straight brush. Hey, as a matter of fact, that’s a Worcester brush. I don’t know why I’d want to mess it up, but who’s messing up a Worcester, you know, not a sponsor, but could be. So you’re, you’re just saying that you would be a lot better than this. This is for, they call it a hack dad. Yeah. They call it a hack because the people who are trying to paint are what? Need some help keeping the paint off of something else. Well, because they are what? Amateurs. Well, yeah. Hacks, dad. They’re hacks. They’re amateurs. They’re hacks. Bush League. This is some Bush League paint bullshit. That would, yeah. That’d be correct. If you, if you knew what you were doing, you wouldn’t have to do that. What about this one, though? Is this Bush League? Well, I kind of like this, but I’m trying to figure out why, how to get that piece of paper to stay and keep moving, but, uh I think they’re pushing down, putting like lateral pressure on the side of the Yeah, it must be. Why not just put a bigger piece of paper down? I guess you don’t have that. Well So you’re gonna do this one. I might try that the next time. Okay, see? See? Old dogs, new tricks. That’s right. Yeah, I’d like, I might, I might try that. Oh, and look at this one’s being modified. Stapling old cloth to a roller. What’d you call that dad? What’s that pattern? That’s like that. Some of that sponge stuff like you do on the wall. Okay. Are you for or against that? Well, they make a, they make a roller that’ll do that, where you don’t have to do that. So you can buy a roller that will do that. Okay, but if you have, if you have some scattered felt pieces, and a stapler though. Then, then you mess, I mean, you could just use the nap you can buy to do that, and then you can wash it out, and you can use it again. You got to pull all that stuff off, not mess your nap up. So no, I wouldn’t do that. Okay. Well, I’d like to see more evidence of an open mind, but you did say that you would try one of these. So, yeah, but I did. I don’t even believe that you will. You might be right about that. Yep. Something tells me I am old dog. Old tricks. Yep. That’s correct. Yep. I got a trick for you though. I got it. I got a little segment for you. You have. It’s spelling bee time. That would be correct. All right, dad, I’m going to see if you can spell some words. Cause you know, people like to hear you pronounce words that you’re reading, but what about spelling words that you’re not seeing? So I’m going to tell you a word. And, um, of course this is, this is my homage to Cholate. That’s been, that’s been going around the internet. I think we got, We got over a million views on that puppy? Almost a million. Million views on TikTok for you repeatedly being unable to spell chocolate. Well, you ain’t got to tell me because I’ve had three people to come up to me and ask me, Do you know how to spell chocolate? Hey! I said, well, whether I do or not. You must be watching dispatching for Myrtle Beach. Mm-Hmm. . You know, any press is, is good. Press. Mm-Hmm. . Yep. And any spelling is good? Good spelling for me. acceptable. All right. You got a whiteboard there. Spell. Yep. And don’t take long. Just first, just write it down. This is like a race. Armadillo. He’s furrowing his brow. As soon as you got it, hold it up. He is currently writing Armadillo. Oh, that’s too small. Arm, A R M E D I L L O. What? D L I O. Armadillio. Armadillio. Alright, that’s not right. Alright, now give me squirrel. I’m only giving you one chance. That wasn’t correct. That would not be correct. Squirrel. Squirrel. Write it a little bigger this time. Okay, I’m trying. Twice as big. He’s gonna write squirrel and he’s gonna write it bigger. Squ S Sp Say. Say what that is like Spell it out loud. S-Q-U-R-I-L-L. Squirrel. S-Q-U-R-I-L-L. Squirrel. Squirrel. Sc. Squirrel. Screw Real. Squirrel. Squirrel. Squirrel. There’s another I in it and there’s another R in it. All right, let’s try and an E. Yeah. I’m not saying I know how to spell him, but I know I’ll know it when I see it. And I haven’t seen it yet. All right, dad. Next one. I’m not giving you another chance. Hippopotamus. Charles Neal Jr. is currently attempting to write the word hippopotamus on his beloved podcast Dispatches from Myrtle Beach. Let’s see what he comes up with. He’s shaking his head. Hippomotomous. Hippomotomous. Yeah. Hippomotomous. Does that sound right? Because that’s what you wrote. Hippomotomous. Hippomotomous. Hey, I didn’t, I thought, okay. That’s good, Dad. That’s good. All right. One more. Oh, Lord. One more. Giraffe, my wife’s favorite zoo animal. I know that they, they’re not just zoo animals, that they’re actual animals, but you know what I mean. Giraffe. Oh, that is so close, Dad! So, you made capital Fs. It was very emphatic. Well, I mean, I just But the two E’s, I think that’s a little overboard. Why did you add a second E at the end? I, I, I, I knew there was two E’s, so I just put two E’s I written. You were on a roll doubling up letters? Yeah. You started feeling that two for one deal? Was it a bogo or what? Yeah, I just Alright, Dad, um, that concludes this pop quiz. You got a zero. Oh. Haha. You got, you got a zero. I mean, I wish I could give you partial credit, but it’s kind of either right or wrong. You know what? I’ll do it again later. I’ll give you another test. If you want to, I mean, if you want to, if you want to tell people to email you, they can’t email you the stuff though, because Then you’ll see the spelling. Yeah, why don’t all you Myrtle Beasts email me what you want me to spell, and, and just kind of explain to me what it is, but don’t write it down, and then I’ll see if I can spell it. Right, you can’t spell it because then he wouldn’t know how to spell it, but you have to give him the clues. It’s becoming more of a game, so. Yeah, so send it to me at RatherBeastShaggin53 at AOL. com. That was good, Dad. I mean, a zero is. It’s just 10 short of 100 when you put the 10 in front of it. Well, when you get old and It doesn’t matter. It’s great. This is the best. We just got the best outcome and I hope you feel good about it. I feel fine. All right, good. Well, it was fun having you all here with us today. We’ll be back next week for another one. 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. You got a question? Comment. Or a story you’d like to share with me, email me at ratherbeshaggan53 at AOL. com and y’all have a great rest of your week. We can’t wait to get, we, we can’t wait to be hip as hippopotamuses again next time. Or, don’t you mean hippomotomous? Hippomotomous, yeah. Hippomotomous. Alright. All in a day’s work, Dad. We’ve done it again. Well, I love you, and I’ll see you next week. Love you.