Speaker 1: Kabooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air awhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Big
Speaker 3: Ben and Danny g Radio on a Saturday, Saturday Saturday,
Speaker 3: providing you with weekend pod fun. On this the eleventh
Speaker 3: day of the great month of May. It is National
Speaker 3: Eat what you Want Day. But more importantly, Danny, it
Speaker 3: is the day after the Great Southern They Meet and
Speaker 3: Greet of twenty twenty four, the first ever in the
Speaker 3: South part of the US below the Mason Dixon line.
Speaker 1: As we hung out, we had a great time.
Speaker 3: But Danny, I'm sitting in the remote studio here in
Speaker 3: a secret location somewhere in the Carolinas in a garage,
Speaker 3: and so.
Speaker 4: I with a bear in a cave.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, So I want to get back, and I'm
Speaker 3: in front of a professional, professional radio microphone with.
Speaker 1: Broadcast quality audio.
Speaker 3: Then I will be able to tell all the tales
Speaker 3: will I will leave nothing out.
Speaker 1: It's a podcast.
Speaker 3: I can get into all the glorious details of the good,
Speaker 3: the bad, and the ugly.
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm disappointed that you didn't have authentic Southern food.
Speaker 4: I know you're going to get that complaint a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, people complain about everything. But no, listen, it's
Speaker 3: been a lot of fun. I've enjoyed my time, and
Speaker 3: we're gonna make you wait. It's like a great cliffhanger
Speaker 3: to next week's pod. So not only do we get
Speaker 3: you to listen today and to the mailbag on Sunday,
Speaker 3: but then I'm gonna make you wait until the following
Speaker 3: Friday for tales from the Road the Mather meet and
Speaker 3: Greet we'll call. In fact, I've already got the name
Speaker 3: for next Friday's pod, the Postgame Show, because as you know,
Speaker 3: we have big budget, a big budget on this podcast,
Speaker 3: and so we will have the exclusive post game rights,
Speaker 3: which will be.
Speaker 4: Massive, very original.
Speaker 1: Yeah we've never done that before, that's so yeah.
Speaker 4: Never had I've never once labeled a podcast postgame special.
Speaker 3: No, no, we don't do that. No, all right, So
Speaker 3: we have on this podcast. We've got the Carolina Welcome Committee, Sultry,
Speaker 3: the forty two dollars shoe, the drive by Stocker, a
Speaker 3: pirate's life for me, and we even have some other
Speaker 3: things we may or may not get to depending on
Speaker 3: how long we bloviate throughout this podcast on this Saturday,
Speaker 3: but we will begin with this more tales from the
Speaker 3: Malard travelogue. When last we spoke yesterday on this podcast,
Speaker 3: we told stories about getting to South Carolina and spending
Speaker 3: the beginning part of the week in Wilmington, North Carolina,
Speaker 3: where I have some in laws that are living here,
Speaker 3: and we continue with that them because part of the
Speaker 3: thing you have to do when you're a tourist in
Speaker 3: a place you haven't been before is to do the
Speaker 3: tourist things like visiting the Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher.
Speaker 1: Not to be confused with the Quarium of.
Speaker 3: The Pacific, which we're used to Danny in southern California,
Speaker 3: that beautiful aquarium in northern California.
Speaker 1: But this is the.
Speaker 3: Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher, and I saw some gators,
Speaker 3: some other cool critics. By the way, my father in
Speaker 3: law his home in North Carolina, there's a lot of
Speaker 3: retention ponds. I was like, why do you have so
Speaker 3: many retention ponds around here? And it's because they have
Speaker 3: these massive hurricanes that come through. It's Hurricane Boom through
Speaker 3: the Carolinas, and so they keep a lot of these
Speaker 3: retention ponds that fill up when they get these massive storms.
Speaker 3: So that's why they have them all over the place.
Speaker 3: But in the one across the street from my father
Speaker 3: in law where we were staying this week, they actually
Speaker 3: have a family of three gators that live across the
Speaker 3: street from their home. But I did not see the
Speaker 3: gators at least at the beginning of the week. They
Speaker 3: were out in the woods wandering around. They actually had
Speaker 3: to relocate one of the gators because kept coming onto
Speaker 3: the front door of the neighbor of my father in law,
Speaker 3: and they're like, well, this is a problem because the gator.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's looking for food or what.
Speaker 3: But we went to the Carolina McQuary and we saw
Speaker 3: some gators behind glass, which is how I like to
Speaker 3: see my gators. Danny is behind glass, and they had
Speaker 3: an albino gator which must be picked on by the
Speaker 3: other gators, and then they had like the they had
Speaker 3: the normal you know, regular fifteen foot gator, you know,
Speaker 3: twelve foot whatever it was. It was a massive, massive
Speaker 3: human you know, it's like a dinosaur these things.
Speaker 4: It's oh yeah, that's enough. I like to see my
Speaker 4: gators on my feet. Lame jokes are actually crocodile dundee.
Speaker 1: Yeah, lame jokes are on Friday.
Speaker 4: How dare you so?
Speaker 1: Listen? That was That was cool. That was that was
Speaker 1: pretty neat.
Speaker 3: I saw some different critters and creatures that are local
Speaker 3: to the ecosystem here in the Carolinas. Then we went
Speaker 3: I had we had lunch at a local restaurant and
Speaker 3: I had the worst Ruben sandwich I have ever had.
Speaker 1: My My my theory has been broken.
Speaker 3: I always thought, if you go to a restaurant, Uh, well,
Speaker 3: I guess my my theory is actually still intact.
Speaker 1: Because it was. It was chicken fingers, and uh.
Speaker 3: It was also the other the other thing that I
Speaker 3: think you can't screw up is a Paddy Milt. But
Speaker 3: for some reason in my head, I thought, Ruben, you know, Ruben,
Speaker 3: it's you just got the cheese, you got the meat,
Speaker 3: and it's not hard, you know, sauer kraut.
Speaker 1: But the meat they served here was.
Speaker 4: Like bubble gum.
Speaker 1: It was. It was like chrue.
Speaker 3: I felt like I needed to blow a bubble with it.
Speaker 1: Not good, not good at all. It was disgusting. So
Speaker 1: I didn't eat that. Uh yeah, it was pretty bad.
Speaker 1: But I picked up.
Speaker 3: I went to bow Jangles, because when when you're in
Speaker 3: the South, you got to go to boat Jangles, which
Speaker 3: is coming to.
Speaker 1: L A at some point, which will be be good.
Speaker 3: Of course, by the time it gus to la you know,
Speaker 3: four chicken strips will cost you seventy dollars by the
Speaker 3: time it gets DELI but anyway, we picked up some Bojangles.
Speaker 3: Thought well, we're in Carolina Beach, right near of the
Speaker 3: Carolina Aquarium down the road, so we will just stop
Speaker 3: at the beach and we'll go and we'll have I'll eat.
Speaker 1: My wife had already eaten, so at.
Speaker 3: This point, danny A family tradition continued, a Malord family
Speaker 3: tradition continue. So we parked the car, I go out,
Speaker 3: We put the towels down. My wife was like feeling tired,
Speaker 3: so she immediately falls asleep, right, she immediately falls asleep,
Speaker 3: and we went back. I went back to throw in
Speaker 3: my trash because I don't pollute on the beach. And
Speaker 3: we got back to the car and sure enough, there
Speaker 3: was an envelope on the windshield. Wipers of the car
Speaker 3: got dinged for a parking ticket. Welcome to Carolina, a
Speaker 3: nice Carolina. Welcome there not a speeding ticket, but the
Speaker 3: old parking ticket. There parking violation because the wife who
Speaker 3: usually does you know, she's the one that pays the parking,
Speaker 3: and she fell asleep and they were we were not.
Speaker 1: There very long at all. I mean, they just nailed
Speaker 1: us real quick.
Speaker 3: So once they had given us the ticket, I was like,
Speaker 3: all right, well we're good. We can stay as long
Speaker 3: as we want. Now we're paying full price. We're paying
Speaker 3: a premium park here, so we don't have to worry
Speaker 3: about paying for them, but we're paying for the park.
Speaker 3: We're going to pay, you know, eight times what the
Speaker 3: cost of the parking is here with the ticket.
Speaker 4: So that was how much was the ticket?
Speaker 3: Well, it's it's funny that because there were three different
Speaker 3: penalties and we were we got out okay. Because if
Speaker 3: you wait a day and if you don't pay it
Speaker 3: right away, it's sixty's three dollars. If you wait like
Speaker 3: two days, it's one hundred and thirty two dollars. But
Speaker 3: I know, all right, but if you pay that day,
Speaker 3: it's forty eight dollars.
Speaker 1: So we paid.
Speaker 4: So that's how they get their money immediately.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: So we ended up paying forty eight dollars for what
Speaker 3: should have cost like six dollars to park.
Speaker 1: We paid forty eight dollars to park.
Speaker 3: But we you know, it's a small it's a lot
Speaker 3: cheaper than the ticket I got in Minnesota for speeding
Speaker 3: by the state trooper, who's, oh, yeah, that's like a
Speaker 3: forty or fifty dollars ticket. Then they add on all
Speaker 3: the fees. It's like, you know, two hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: dollars or whatever. So but that's Carolina welcome. You know,
Speaker 3: We've got that out of the way. Got the ticket,
Speaker 3: so that's that's good to go.
Speaker 4: I am such a radio loser.
Speaker 3: And then we went We didn't really stop at this,
Speaker 3: but we drove by Fort Fisher, which is a Civil
Speaker 3: War site, the Battle of Fort Fisher, a two part
Speaker 3: naval siege during the Civil War. And there's not a
Speaker 3: lot there now because it's been a couple hundred years
Speaker 3: since the Civil War. But the Union fighting in the
Speaker 3: fort guarding Wilmington, North Carolina. They have a museum there
Speaker 3: in a historical the place the last major Atlantic port
Speaker 3: the South, last major Atlantic port there and they had
Speaker 3: all kinds of plaques up. And this happened in eighteen
Speaker 3: sixty four and ended with the Union retreating and there
Speaker 3: was a massive naval bombardment for the time there and
Speaker 3: the people that had written about that, and there was
Speaker 3: another battle in eighteen sixty five and that was by
Speaker 3: land and water and the North able to cut off
Speaker 3: the supply line the General Leese Army, and that was
Speaker 3: said to be one of for those that studied the
Speaker 3: Civil War, a devastation situation. That was a crushing situation
Speaker 3: for the Confederacy. So a major turning point in the
Speaker 3: Civil War, which worked out. And now we have people
Speaker 3: wearing weird costumes at college universities protesting and all that
Speaker 3: good stuff. But yeah, so that was interesting. I'm into
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff, like I wish I could have
Speaker 3: experienced more of it when we were in Wilmington, but
Speaker 3: we had a lot of stuff going on, and you know,
Speaker 3: the first first part of the trip, a lot of
Speaker 3: family with my wife's family, my aunt, my wife's aunt,
Speaker 3: which is now my aunt, was a very nice woman.
Speaker 3: She lives in Knoxville, which is a few hours away,
Speaker 3: and she drove over.
Speaker 1: So we hung out and kind of explored spot a
Speaker 1: little bit. It was very sultry. It was very sultry here.
Speaker 3: Danny, as Tony Bruno used to say, it's not the heat,
Speaker 3: it's the stupidity, not the humidity.
Speaker 1: It's the stupidity. It's it's no joke, man, it's craziness. Man.
Speaker 3: I feel like you're always feel like you're you need
Speaker 3: to take a shower.
Speaker 2: It just.
Speaker 1: Nastiness.
Speaker 4: I don't like. I don't like that kind of weather.
Speaker 4: Not a fan. I mean, I guess who is right.
Speaker 4: But the pros outweigh the cons as far as living
Speaker 4: in a region that has weather like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it is so much cheaper than California. And
Speaker 3: my wife was getting annoyed because every time we drove
Speaker 3: by a gas station, I.
Speaker 1: Said, see two dollars cheaper. We're getting bent over in California.
Speaker 1: We go to buy food, you know, it's reasonably priced.
Speaker 1: You go to a fast food restaurant, you know, it's like,
Speaker 1: look at that. We can you know, we ate where
Speaker 1: we the other I think at waffle House.
Speaker 3: It was like the cheapest meal we've ever had, you know,
Speaker 3: since going back to like twenty seventeen or something like that.
Speaker 4: It's ben yesterday that mobile gas station right across the
Speaker 4: street from our studios. Yes, six dollars and forty nine cents.
Speaker 3: There was gas. We drove by out in you know
Speaker 3: sticks of South Carolina. That was like, who's sixty three
Speaker 3: a gain? It's like, what are we doing here? You know,
Speaker 3: you're telling me that we have special gas in California.
Speaker 1: No, they're just they're taking advantage.
Speaker 3: The politicians and the oil industry are taking advantage of
Speaker 3: the people of California.
Speaker 1: And it drives me insane.
Speaker 4: What's special about it is they stick the gas nozzle
Speaker 4: up our asses.
Speaker 3: That's pretty much right. But it's everything. I'm such a lose.
Speaker 3: I go to the grocery store, I'm like, man, look how.
Speaker 4: Much she is?
Speaker 3: Like crazy, It's like, this is the same product that
Speaker 3: we can get in California, but we you know here
Speaker 3: it's you know, seventy cents cheaper or two dollars cheap
Speaker 3: or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like buying shoes.
Speaker 3: Dan, It's like just some ridiculous thing like that that
Speaker 3: you get, but in Carolina it would probably be about,
Speaker 3: you know, twenty bucks.
Speaker 4: You know, I can take some solace in the fact
Speaker 4: that you and your wife paid forty eight dollars for
Speaker 4: that parking bass Lake last Friday after work. Make it
Speaker 4: to Fresno late at night. The outside of the hotel,
Speaker 4: I won't say the name of the hotel, but it
Speaker 4: rhymes with quality in And it looked fine on the outside.
Speaker 4: And one of my younger brothers works for the company
Speaker 4: that owns that chain of hotels. Okay, so he gives
Speaker 4: me a family and friends discount. It's like half off.
Speaker 4: But even paying half price was way too much for
Speaker 4: this piece of crap. Hotel looked fine on the outside.
Speaker 4: Once I got inside, the carpet was warped. There was
Speaker 4: a ceiling fan that was rocking back and forth in
Speaker 4: the hallway. I could hear people having a party in
Speaker 4: the room next door, but it sounded like kids, like teenagers.
Speaker 4: I'm like, where the am I I get to the
Speaker 4: door and it looked like somebody had used a crowbar
Speaker 4: on the wooden door, like trying to break in. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so I felt safe right away, and by the way,
Speaker 4: when I parked there was a one legged hooker outside
Speaker 4: the hotel, a bunch of hookers and cocaine.
Speaker 1: Now is that half off or.
Speaker 4: Well? Surprisingly, she was a really good dancer, so I'm like,
Speaker 4: I felt like I needed a shower, like it was
Speaker 4: sultry because I'm like, we're what dirty place am I
Speaker 4: in right now? I was dead tired though really long
Speaker 4: workday and then the travel, so I collapse. I fall asleep,
Speaker 4: wake up early, do the Saturday podcast with you, and
Speaker 4: then I head off to the lake. Get to Bass Lake.
Speaker 4: I get on my phone and I go to the website,
Speaker 4: same one I had visited two weekends prior. I punch
Speaker 4: in the info for my card and I buy another
Speaker 4: stupid one day fishing pass because I figure, I just
Speaker 4: want to relax out there. I don't want to have
Speaker 4: to worry about one of those warden boats.
Speaker 1: Oh boy.
Speaker 4: I get on the boat and we get out to
Speaker 4: the middle of the lake, and ye know, we're having fun.
Speaker 4: We're putting a different bait on our hooks. We're you know,
Speaker 4: catching up and everything as our fishing poles are we're
Speaker 4: hoping are gonna be you know. You see the poles
Speaker 4: starting to move up and down, and you're like, oh,
Speaker 4: I got a bite. I got a bite. I did
Speaker 4: it the first time this happens. My older brother is
Speaker 4: all excited. He's got two lines in the water because
Speaker 4: he really wants to win some money at this fishing
Speaker 4: Derby pulls the line. He got his line tangled with
Speaker 4: my dad's line. Oh no, so that was the first catch.
Speaker 4: Second time we see one of the poles moving, it's mine.
Speaker 4: I'm just assuming somebody snagged on my line, Like, who
Speaker 4: the f got snagged on me? But nobody was twisted
Speaker 4: up on my line. So I'm now I'm I'm reeling
Speaker 4: it in and I'm thinking, man, maybe I actually have
Speaker 4: a bass. This is awesome. I got something here. Pull
Speaker 4: it up. I see the shiny scales, the sun is
Speaker 4: sparkling on what looks like a nice fish. I get
Speaker 4: it up out of the water and it is a
Speaker 4: big sized hen shoe. Which shoe is evil?
Speaker 1: You know? Shoe?
Speaker 4: I swear on my mom's life, I caught the damn shoe.
Speaker 1: What kind of shoe was it? I got somebody's dress shoe.
Speaker 4: Now I thought catching a shoe, I thought that was bullshit,
Speaker 4: Like from a cartoon or a movie. Yeah, but no,
Speaker 4: I actually caught a damn shoe that was at the
Speaker 4: bottom of Bass Lake.
Speaker 1: Now did you keep it or did you throw it?
Speaker 1: Did you throw it back?
Speaker 4: They were joking on the boat. They're like, Dad, get
Speaker 4: the net, and I'm like, this is the only time
Speaker 4: you're going to use the net today. He didn't get
Speaker 4: it out quick enough because as I was trying to
Speaker 4: reel it up all the way, the line snapped. It
Speaker 4: was too heavy, the shoe to the shoe was too
Speaker 4: water logged and heavy. So not only did I catch
Speaker 4: a stupid shoe, I lost one of the best hooks
Speaker 4: I had, which is why that hook, by the way,
Speaker 4: was a double hook, and it looked like a little fish.
Speaker 4: That's why it caught that shoe at the bottom of
Speaker 4: the lake because it was so sharp.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could have framed shoe.
Speaker 3: You could have runs the shoe and framed it as
Speaker 3: your big catch, and that could have been a fun,
Speaker 3: fun thing.
Speaker 1: You know, you can show.
Speaker 4: Forty two dollars in fees, forty two instead of twenty one.
Speaker 4: I paid forty two dollars a double fee, and let
Speaker 4: me tell you, it was well worth it to catch
Speaker 4: a stupid shoe. Wrong With a sock and a shoe
Speaker 4: on one foot, I could hop around and stay dry.
Speaker 4: At two o'clock it started pouring. It was in the forecast.
Speaker 4: We knew it was coming, but the forecast said three
Speaker 4: three point thirty. Nope, it got there early two pm.
Speaker 4: It started hailing. It's now getting really cold. There's a
Speaker 4: nice crisp wind to go with it. So we're standing
Speaker 4: there getting drenched. We called it quits. We got back
Speaker 4: to my dad's cabin there and we're in front of
Speaker 4: the fire. We're drying off. My step mom takes our clothes,
Speaker 4: throws them all in the dryer. We get a hot
Speaker 4: cup of ca and she looks at us and she says,
Speaker 4: I think you boys should find a new fishing hole.
Speaker 4: Because she said that, like is bullshit. Nobody ever catches
Speaker 4: anything there.
Speaker 1: That's great. And you know what, I bet you next
Speaker 1: year you'll be gung hole though. You'll be back.
Speaker 3: You guys are going to be back next year, because
Speaker 3: this is what you do, this is a film tradition.
Speaker 1: You'll be back. You'll forget about this and you'll be like,
Speaker 1: this is going to.
Speaker 4: Be the year.
Speaker 1: Well BYGANI keep trying. That's the most important thing.
Speaker 3: So this week, Danny, it's very odd for me not
Speaker 3: to have the I'm very formatic creature of habits, so
Speaker 3: it's been weird having nothing to do for work.
Speaker 4: You like your routine, yeah.
Speaker 1: Exactly, and I'm used to it, and I like doing
Speaker 1: the show. I have a good time.
Speaker 3: It's my life's work, and so it's weird not doing
Speaker 3: it this week.
Speaker 1: But it's cool.
Speaker 3: You know, it's nice to get a break and you
Speaker 3: feel refreshed and recharged when you get behind the micro again.
Speaker 3: And so this week the family did a lot of
Speaker 3: family things. At the beginning of the week, I'm going
Speaker 3: to save a lot of the South Carolina stuff to
Speaker 3: next week's podcast in a blatant attempt to stretch this
Speaker 3: content out as long as possible, but the North Carolina
Speaker 3: portion of it to kind of continue on with that.
Speaker 1: From the beginning of the week.
Speaker 3: I did something that was very stalker ish drive by
Speaker 3: stalker ish Dan, so uh it was we went out,
Speaker 3: had a pizza dinner, very good pizza place in Wilmington.
Speaker 3: It was a you know, it's kind of a rainy night,
Speaker 3: a very humid, rainy night, typical Southern night, and before
Speaker 3: we went back to the house we've been staying at,
Speaker 3: I said, hey, I want to I want to drive
Speaker 3: by somewhere.
Speaker 1: I want to see something. I just I'm here. I
Speaker 1: got to do this. I don't know if I'm going
Speaker 1: to be back here, when I'm going to be back here.
Speaker 1: I want to do it.
Speaker 3: And my wife's like, yeah, it's the weather's not great,
Speaker 3: but okay, we'll be in the car. Oh fine, so whatever.
Speaker 3: So we stopped by Laney High School. Do you know
Speaker 3: why take a guess why Laney High School is somewhere
Speaker 3: I wanted to stop by.
Speaker 1: What do you think it's famous about Laney High School?
Speaker 4: It's where that big booty country music star Lane Wilson
Speaker 4: is from.
Speaker 3: Well that might be true, but that is not the
Speaker 3: reason I wanted to go there. That high school in sleeping,
Speaker 3: very sleepy Wilmington, North Carolina, is the high school that oh,
Speaker 3: nobody but the greatest basketball player to ever Grace the Court,
Speaker 3: played at and was part of one of the great
Speaker 3: bullshit stories of our life. Michael Jeffrey Jordan went to
Speaker 3: high school in Wilmington, North Carolina, and we're here. It's
Speaker 3: like it was like ten miles away or whatever from
Speaker 3: where I was staying, and I was like, I want
Speaker 3: to see this.
Speaker 1: I'm this close.
Speaker 3: I'm as well see where the greatest basketball player of
Speaker 3: my life went. And also, when I say one of
Speaker 3: the great BS stories of all time, Michael Jordan famously
Speaker 3: tells the story about how he was cut from his
Speaker 3: freshman basketball team that ye was good enough, but there's
Speaker 3: actually some reality that I've learned.
Speaker 4: Only going to be like Joe Montana right now and
Speaker 4: wreck the classic movie Rudy for all of.
Speaker 1: Us pretty much pretty much. But before I do that,
Speaker 1: I'll give you the rest of the story.
Speaker 3: So I went to this high school and it appears
Speaker 3: that Michael Jordan, the people at Nike somebody I'm assuming
Speaker 3: it's Michael Jordan invested a lot of money in the
Speaker 3: high school because it looks really really good. Like it
Speaker 3: looks like within the last twenty years, there was a
Speaker 3: lot of work that was done in the high school.
Speaker 3: But I did you know, it was nighttime and I
Speaker 3: I didn't want to get I didn't want to get arrested.
Speaker 3: So I just walked up to the to the window
Speaker 3: at the front of the school and they had the
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame and then next to it, they had
Speaker 3: another window with the Jordan logo on it, like the
Speaker 3: Nike Jordan brand logo, with a bunch of other plaques
Speaker 3: and stuff. So I assume that Nike invested a lot
Speaker 3: of money to put this thing together. Danny, the building
Speaker 3: looks really new. I'm sure that looked nothing like when
Speaker 3: Michael Jordan went to high school there.
Speaker 4: Probably looked like crap when he attended.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean it was pretty neat still to imagine,
Speaker 3: like this guy would go on become the greatest NBA
Speaker 3: player of all time, much better than Lebron James and
Speaker 3: all that, and so.
Speaker 4: So that was cool than Blake Griffin though, how dare you?
Speaker 3: But but no, I did not. I'm not a total loser.
Speaker 3: I did not go by where Jordan's father was murdered here.
Speaker 3: I did not go by that spot got a murder.
Speaker 3: I just went by the high school and uh, and
Speaker 3: that was that. But as far as the story goes,
Speaker 3: so Jordan has told this story many times, it has
Speaker 3: been repeated. It is when a legend becomes the fact,
Speaker 3: go with the legend.
Speaker 4: And Michael had to respond.
Speaker 3: And the legend of Jordan is that he was cut
Speaker 3: from his high school basketball team. But Jordan played so
Speaker 3: long ago, so long ago, Jordan played that there was
Speaker 3: a rule at Laney High School that no freshman made
Speaker 3: the varsity. You were always you were never going to
Speaker 3: be on the varsity as a freshman. It would you
Speaker 3: know that used to be even when we were in school, Danny,
Speaker 3: I think they still a lot of places still had
Speaker 3: that rule where yeh, yeah and so.
Speaker 1: But Jordan was so offended by that.
Speaker 3: But if you were a freshman, you were going to
Speaker 3: play on the JV team, the JV sophomore whatever they had,
Speaker 3: they had a lower level team and they had a
Speaker 3: varsity team.
Speaker 4: Did he feel like he was so good that they
Speaker 4: should have bent that rule for him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess Jordan felt he took he took offense
Speaker 3: to it. But it was like they were just punishing
Speaker 3: Jordan nobody. It's kind of like Dean Smith at North
Speaker 3: Carolina when Jordan was playing there. You know, how do
Speaker 3: you remember the joke was, how do you stop Michael
Speaker 3: Jordan have Dean Smith coaching him? Because Jordan was was
Speaker 3: hardly used the way he was in the NBA and
Speaker 3: his talent was not was not on display, and it
Speaker 3: was just a different time in basketball. They didn't showcase
Speaker 3: players the way that they do these days. So while
Speaker 3: it is technically true Jordan was from the varsity, he
Speaker 3: had no chance of making the varsity.
Speaker 4: But wasn't the story that he was cut from the team?
Speaker 1: No, he wasn't, ok, I understand man, the way I
Speaker 1: was told to me.
Speaker 4: I mean I've heard that version of it that he
Speaker 4: was just cut from the team.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, it was that he couldn't play on the varsity.
Speaker 3: So I'm a player, you know he didn't.
Speaker 4: This story is not it's so wonderful.
Speaker 3: Then, well, the story and again I've I've done some
Speaker 3: research on it. It was in imbellish to add to
Speaker 3: the mystique in the legend of Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: And it's like you make it a little bigger.
Speaker 3: You add around the edges, you add a little puffery
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 1: It's like a puffer fish.
Speaker 4: Got it?
Speaker 3: And listen Jordan to me, Like I said, he's the
Speaker 3: greatest player I ever saw in that sport. And I
Speaker 3: was lucky to see him play for the Chicago Bulls
Speaker 3: several times back in the day in his prime with
Speaker 3: with those great Bulls teams.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean I'm I'm obviously biased.
Speaker 3: So I went to his high school and it you know,
Speaker 3: I can check that off the list little Stockers. But
Speaker 3: there's a bunch of people of some celebrity, I guess
Speaker 3: some importance that have have have been from this area,
Speaker 3: which I've never really spent much time thinking about. When
Speaker 3: I think of North Carolina, I think of Charlotte or Raleigh.
Speaker 3: I don't think of Wilmington, North Carolina.
Speaker 1: I don't. But there's like a bunch of celebrities that
Speaker 1: have houses here.
Speaker 3: It's right on the beach, and everyone from John Travall
Speaker 3: to Dustin Hoff been to Vana White people like that.
Speaker 3: And there's a bunch of athletes that have come out
Speaker 3: of this area. Imagine being an athlete from here and
Speaker 3: you're all, you know, you're never going to match Michael Jordan, right,
Speaker 3: you know. And there's been some other people that we've
Speaker 3: heard of that have come out of this area. There
Speaker 3: was a tight End. Remember Algae Crumpler of the tight End.
Speaker 3: He's from around here.
Speaker 4: Of course, one of the best names in all of
Speaker 4: football for years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Roman Gabriel Old, the former MVP in the NFL
Speaker 3: quarterback he was from here. Sonny Jurgensen, another quarterback Hall
Speaker 3: of Famer. Here's another pretty good basketball player, Meadow Lark
Speaker 3: Lemon Harlem Globe Trotter.
Speaker 1: Yeah from here.
Speaker 3: Willie Stargell lived here, died, died around here, I believe,
Speaker 3: I think in this area. Sugar Ray Leonard the boxer
Speaker 3: spent time in this area.
Speaker 1: So there's been a.
Speaker 3: Bunch of random people, some big names, some not so big.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Willie Stargell lived here at the end of
Speaker 3: his life. H Willie Stargell and trot Nixon. If no
Speaker 3: I remember, well, we'll get out on that. We get
Speaker 3: the mail bag tomorrow in It's Mother's Day tomorrow at
Speaker 3: the Fresh Pod.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't forget to get a card for all the
Speaker 4: mamas in your life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to take care of the moms in
Speaker 1: your life.
Speaker 5: And anyway, Dan, we'll do another one tomorrow as we
Speaker 5: continue with more tales from the Mallard travel Log, and
Speaker 5: we'll answer random questions send in to the email by
Speaker 5: you guys, and we'll see what we have.
Speaker 1: Who knows.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're gonna do a show for all you mother efforts.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3: But I having a wonderful rest of your Saturday. And
Speaker 3: we'll catch you on the other side.
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