WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: 1 Legged Hooker & Michael Jordan 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.440 Kabooms. 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.439 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:28.400 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:35.560 In the air awhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Big 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:41.520 Ben and Danny g Radio on a Saturday, Saturday Saturday, 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:49.000 providing you with weekend pod fun. On this the eleventh 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:53.599 day of the great month of May. It is National 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.360 Eat what you Want Day. But more importantly, Danny, it 0:00:56.440 --> 0:01:00.760 is the day after the Great Southern They Meet and 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:06.040 Greet of twenty twenty four, the first ever in the 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:10.480 South part of the US below the Mason Dixon line. 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.720 As we hung out, we had a great time. 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:18.679 But Danny, I'm sitting in the remote studio here in 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:24.360 a secret location somewhere in the Carolinas in a garage, 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:25.319 and so. 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.400 I with a bear in a cave. 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.640 Yeah exactly, So I want to get back, and I'm 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:36.520 in front of a professional, professional radio microphone with. 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:38.759 Broadcast quality audio. 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:42.520 Then I will be able to tell all the tales 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:44.640 will I will leave nothing out. 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:45.680 It's a podcast. 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.720 I can get into all the glorious details of the good, 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:50.880 the bad, and the ugly. 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.880 Hey, I'm disappointed that you didn't have authentic Southern food. 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.279 I know you're going to get that complaint a lot. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:02.720 Yeah, well, people complain about everything. But no, listen, it's 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.880 been a lot of fun. I've enjoyed my time, and 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:10.239 we're gonna make you wait. It's like a great cliffhanger 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.120 to next week's pod. So not only do we get 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.400 you to listen today and to the mailbag on Sunday, 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:22.200 but then I'm gonna make you wait until the following 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:26.600 Friday for tales from the Road the Mather meet and 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.840 Greet we'll call. In fact, I've already got the name 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:32.720 for next Friday's pod, the Postgame Show, because as you know, 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.600 we have big budget, a big budget on this podcast, 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.160 and so we will have the exclusive post game rights, 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:39.320 which will be. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.200 Massive, very original. 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.760 Yeah we've never done that before, that's so yeah. 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.880 Never had I've never once labeled a podcast postgame special. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.200 No, no, we don't do that. No, all right, So 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:56.799 we have on this podcast. We've got the Carolina Welcome Committee, Sultry, 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:03.040 the forty two dollars shoe, the drive by Stocker, a 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.600 pirate's life for me, and we even have some other 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:08.600 things we may or may not get to depending on 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:13.480 how long we bloviate throughout this podcast on this Saturday, 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:17.919 but we will begin with this more tales from the 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:23.600 Malard travelogue. When last we spoke yesterday on this podcast, 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.960 we told stories about getting to South Carolina and spending 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:32.040 the beginning part of the week in Wilmington, North Carolina, 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.640 where I have some in laws that are living here, 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:40.360 and we continue with that them because part of the 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.520 thing you have to do when you're a tourist in 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.200 a place you haven't been before is to do the 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:52.320 tourist things like visiting the Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.120 Not to be confused with the Quarium of. 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.840 The Pacific, which we're used to Danny in southern California, 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.840 that beautiful aquarium in northern California. 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:06.520 But this is the. 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:10.640 Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher, and I saw some gators, 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:15.080 some other cool critics. By the way, my father in 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:20.440 law his home in North Carolina, there's a lot of 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.760 retention ponds. I was like, why do you have so 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.680 many retention ponds around here? And it's because they have 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:30.080 these massive hurricanes that come through. It's Hurricane Boom through 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.680 the Carolinas, and so they keep a lot of these 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.880 retention ponds that fill up when they get these massive storms. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:38.520 So that's why they have them all over the place. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.680 But in the one across the street from my father 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.200 in law where we were staying this week, they actually 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:48.000 have a family of three gators that live across the 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:52.000 street from their home. But I did not see the 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.640 gators at least at the beginning of the week. They 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:58.320 were out in the woods wandering around. They actually had 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.120 to relocate one of the gators because kept coming onto 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:05.160 the front door of the neighbor of my father in law, 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.360 and they're like, well, this is a problem because the gator. 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:09.800 I don't know if he's looking for food or what. 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:12.640 But we went to the Carolina McQuary and we saw 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.080 some gators behind glass, which is how I like to 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.920 see my gators. Danny is behind glass, and they had 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:22.400 an albino gator which must be picked on by the 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.320 other gators, and then they had like the they had 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.240 the normal you know, regular fifteen foot gator, you know, 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.200 twelve foot whatever it was. It was a massive, massive 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.880 human you know, it's like a dinosaur these things. 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.680 It's oh yeah, that's enough. I like to see my 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:44.279 gators on my feet. Lame jokes are actually crocodile dundee. 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.000 Yeah, lame jokes are on Friday. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:47.520 How dare you so? 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.320 Listen? That was That was cool. That was that was 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:50.960 pretty neat. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.440 I saw some different critters and creatures that are local 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:59.840 to the ecosystem here in the Carolinas. Then we went 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.880 I had we had lunch at a local restaurant and 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.880 I had the worst Ruben sandwich I have ever had. 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.000 My My my theory has been broken. 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.280 I always thought, if you go to a restaurant, Uh, well, 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:12.919 I guess my my theory is actually still intact. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.680 Because it was. It was chicken fingers, and uh. 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.160 It was also the other the other thing that I 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:22.440 think you can't screw up is a Paddy Milt. But 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.320 for some reason in my head, I thought, Ruben, you know, Ruben, 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.039 it's you just got the cheese, you got the meat, 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:29.919 and it's not hard, you know, sauer kraut. 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.040 But the meat they served here was. 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:34.080 Like bubble gum. 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:36.159 It was. It was like chrue. 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:41.680 I felt like I needed to blow a bubble with it. 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.880 Not good, not good at all. It was disgusting. So 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:50.160 I didn't eat that. Uh yeah, it was pretty bad. 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:51.160 But I picked up. 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.520 I went to bow Jangles, because when when you're in 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:55.560 the South, you got to go to boat Jangles, which 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:56.280 is coming to. 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.200 L A at some point, which will be be good. 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.719 Of course, by the time it gus to la you know, 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.919 four chicken strips will cost you seventy dollars by the 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.839 time it gets DELI but anyway, we picked up some Bojangles. 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.680 Thought well, we're in Carolina Beach, right near of the 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.400 Carolina Aquarium down the road, so we will just stop 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:17.520 at the beach and we'll go and we'll have I'll eat. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.200 My wife had already eaten, so at. 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:25.440 This point, danny A family tradition continued, a Malord family 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.840 tradition continue. So we parked the car, I go out, 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.840 We put the towels down. My wife was like feeling tired, 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.120 so she immediately falls asleep, right, she immediately falls asleep, 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.720 and we went back. I went back to throw in 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.440 my trash because I don't pollute on the beach. And 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:48.840 we got back to the car and sure enough, there 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:53.480 was an envelope on the windshield. Wipers of the car 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:58.240 got dinged for a parking ticket. Welcome to Carolina, a 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:02.720 nice Carolina. Welcome there not a speeding ticket, but the 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:08.000 old parking ticket. There parking violation because the wife who 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.680 usually does you know, she's the one that pays the parking, 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.840 and she fell asleep and they were we were not. 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.280 There very long at all. I mean, they just nailed 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:17.360 us real quick. 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.760 So once they had given us the ticket, I was like, 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:22.680 all right, well we're good. We can stay as long 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.800 as we want. Now we're paying full price. We're paying 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.040 a premium park here, so we don't have to worry 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.200 about paying for them, but we're paying for the park. 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.839 We're going to pay, you know, eight times what the 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.160 cost of the parking is here with the ticket. 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.520 So that was how much was the ticket? 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:43.040 Well, it's it's funny that because there were three different 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:47.320 penalties and we were we got out okay. Because if 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:51.199 you wait a day and if you don't pay it 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:55.000 right away, it's sixty's three dollars. If you wait like 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.480 two days, it's one hundred and thirty two dollars. But 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.440 I know, all right, but if you pay that day, 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:02.760 it's forty eight dollars. 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:03.880 So we paid. 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.360 So that's how they get their money immediately. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:08.400 Exactly exactly. 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.800 So we ended up paying forty eight dollars for what 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.040 should have cost like six dollars to park. 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.280 We paid forty eight dollars to park. 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.319 But we you know, it's a small it's a lot 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.720 cheaper than the ticket I got in Minnesota for speeding 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.800 by the state trooper, who's, oh, yeah, that's like a 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.560 forty or fifty dollars ticket. Then they add on all 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.520 the fees. It's like, you know, two hundred and fifty 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.000 dollars or whatever. So but that's Carolina welcome. You know, 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:33.920 We've got that out of the way. Got the ticket, 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:35.760 so that's that's good to go. 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.079 I am such a radio loser. 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.920 And then we went We didn't really stop at this, 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.720 but we drove by Fort Fisher, which is a Civil 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:52.480 War site, the Battle of Fort Fisher, a two part 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.680 naval siege during the Civil War. And there's not a 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.319 lot there now because it's been a couple hundred years 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:04.880 since the Civil War. But the Union fighting in the 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:08.840 fort guarding Wilmington, North Carolina. They have a museum there 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:16.000 in a historical the place the last major Atlantic port 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.720 the South, last major Atlantic port there and they had 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:23.280 all kinds of plaques up. And this happened in eighteen 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:31.200 sixty four and ended with the Union retreating and there 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:34.840 was a massive naval bombardment for the time there and 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.199 the people that had written about that, and there was 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:42.360 another battle in eighteen sixty five and that was by 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:47.680 land and water and the North able to cut off 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:52.120 the supply line the General Leese Army, and that was 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.480 said to be one of for those that studied the 0:10:55.480 --> 0:11:01.880 Civil War, a devastation situation. That was a crushing situation 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.360 for the Confederacy. So a major turning point in the 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:09.280 Civil War, which worked out. And now we have people 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:13.640 wearing weird costumes at college universities protesting and all that 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.120 good stuff. But yeah, so that was interesting. I'm into 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:18.880 that kind of stuff, like I wish I could have 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.040 experienced more of it when we were in Wilmington, but 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.440 we had a lot of stuff going on, and you know, 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.400 the first first part of the trip, a lot of 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:31.640 family with my wife's family, my aunt, my wife's aunt, 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.480 which is now my aunt, was a very nice woman. 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:38.240 She lives in Knoxville, which is a few hours away, 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:39.160 and she drove over. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:43.120 So we hung out and kind of explored spot a 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.640 little bit. It was very sultry. It was very sultry here. 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.480 Danny, as Tony Bruno used to say, it's not the heat, 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.040 it's the stupidity, not the humidity. 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:56.199 It's the stupidity. It's it's no joke, man, it's craziness. Man. 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.840 I feel like you're always feel like you're you need 0:11:58.880 --> 0:11:59.760 to take a shower. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:00.520 It just. 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:02.679 Nastiness. 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.400 I don't like. I don't like that kind of weather. 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.000 Not a fan. I mean, I guess who is right. 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.679 But the pros outweigh the cons as far as living 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.440 in a region that has weather like that. 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:19.120 Yeah, but it is so much cheaper than California. And 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.640 my wife was getting annoyed because every time we drove 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:22.600 by a gas station, I. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:27.280 Said, see two dollars cheaper. We're getting bent over in California. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.600 We go to buy food, you know, it's reasonably priced. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.320 You go to a fast food restaurant, you know, it's like, 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.320 look at that. We can you know, we ate where 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:37.960 we the other I think at waffle House. 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.200 It was like the cheapest meal we've ever had, you know, 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.400 since going back to like twenty seventeen or something like that. 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:48.120 It's ben yesterday that mobile gas station right across the 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:53.960 street from our studios. Yes, six dollars and forty nine cents. 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.680 There was gas. We drove by out in you know 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:01.319 sticks of South Carolina. That was like, who's sixty three 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:03.720 a gain? It's like, what are we doing here? You know, 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.160 you're telling me that we have special gas in California. 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.240 No, they're just they're taking advantage. 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:13.439 The politicians and the oil industry are taking advantage of 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:14.880 the people of California. 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:16.360 And it drives me insane. 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.520 What's special about it is they stick the gas nozzle 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:20.319 up our asses. 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:25.320 That's pretty much right. But it's everything. I'm such a lose. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.520 I go to the grocery store, I'm like, man, look how. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:28.320 Much she is? 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:32.240 Like crazy, It's like, this is the same product that 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.680 we can get in California, but we you know here 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.280 it's you know, seventy cents cheaper or two dollars cheap 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:38.880 or whatever. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.080 It's like it's like buying shoes. 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.040 Dan, It's like just some ridiculous thing like that that 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.720 you get, but in Carolina it would probably be about, 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:46.880 you know, twenty bucks. 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.720 You know, I can take some solace in the fact 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.560 that you and your wife paid forty eight dollars for 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:57.840 that parking bass Lake last Friday after work. Make it 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:02.920 to Fresno late at night. The outside of the hotel, 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.200 I won't say the name of the hotel, but it 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:11.960 rhymes with quality in And it looked fine on the outside. 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.040 And one of my younger brothers works for the company 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.760 that owns that chain of hotels. Okay, so he gives 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.000 me a family and friends discount. It's like half off. 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.080 But even paying half price was way too much for 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.640 this piece of crap. Hotel looked fine on the outside. 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.840 Once I got inside, the carpet was warped. There was 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.640 a ceiling fan that was rocking back and forth in 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.400 the hallway. I could hear people having a party in 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.880 the room next door, but it sounded like kids, like teenagers. 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.640 I'm like, where the am I I get to the 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.680 door and it looked like somebody had used a crowbar 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.280 on the wooden door, like trying to break in. Yeah, 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.080 so I felt safe right away, and by the way, 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:57.040 when I parked there was a one legged hooker outside 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.600 the hotel, a bunch of hookers and cocaine. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:01.480 Now is that half off or. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:11.200 Well? Surprisingly, she was a really good dancer, so I'm like, 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.280 I felt like I needed a shower, like it was 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.440 sultry because I'm like, we're what dirty place am I 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:21.360 in right now? I was dead tired though really long 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:25.560 workday and then the travel, so I collapse. I fall asleep, 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.640 wake up early, do the Saturday podcast with you, and 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.760 then I head off to the lake. Get to Bass Lake. 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.520 I get on my phone and I go to the website, 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.800 same one I had visited two weekends prior. I punch 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.640 in the info for my card and I buy another 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.960 stupid one day fishing pass because I figure, I just 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:45.400 want to relax out there. I don't want to have 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.640 to worry about one of those warden boats. 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:48.480 Oh boy. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.680 I get on the boat and we get out to 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.120 the middle of the lake, and ye know, we're having fun. 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.600 We're putting a different bait on our hooks. We're you know, 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.560 catching up and everything as our fishing poles are we're 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:05.280 hoping are gonna be you know. You see the poles 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.680 starting to move up and down, and you're like, oh, 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.960 I got a bite. I got a bite. I did 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.880 it the first time this happens. My older brother is 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:16.280 all excited. He's got two lines in the water because 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.320 he really wants to win some money at this fishing 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:22.840 Derby pulls the line. He got his line tangled with 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:27.640 my dad's line. Oh no, so that was the first catch. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.320 Second time we see one of the poles moving, it's mine. 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.720 I'm just assuming somebody snagged on my line, Like, who 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:39.160 the f got snagged on me? But nobody was twisted 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.080 up on my line. So I'm now I'm I'm reeling 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.520 it in and I'm thinking, man, maybe I actually have 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:50.000 a bass. This is awesome. I got something here. Pull 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.920 it up. I see the shiny scales, the sun is 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:57.040 sparkling on what looks like a nice fish. I get 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:58.920 it up out of the water and it is a 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:04.399 big sized hen shoe. Which shoe is evil? 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:06.080 You know? Shoe? 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:10.760 I swear on my mom's life, I caught the damn shoe. 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.160 What kind of shoe was it? I got somebody's dress shoe. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.200 Now I thought catching a shoe, I thought that was bullshit, 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.919 Like from a cartoon or a movie. Yeah, but no, 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.760 I actually caught a damn shoe that was at the 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:26.880 bottom of Bass Lake. 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.240 Now did you keep it or did you throw it? 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:30.520 Did you throw it back? 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.480 They were joking on the boat. They're like, Dad, get 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:35.560 the net, and I'm like, this is the only time 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.840 you're going to use the net today. He didn't get 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.520 it out quick enough because as I was trying to 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.359 reel it up all the way, the line snapped. It 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.720 was too heavy, the shoe to the shoe was too 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.760 water logged and heavy. So not only did I catch 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.679 a stupid shoe, I lost one of the best hooks 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.280 I had, which is why that hook, by the way, 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.320 was a double hook, and it looked like a little fish. 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:02.879 That's why it caught that shoe at the bottom of 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:04.240 the lake because it was so sharp. 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.600 Yeah, you could have framed shoe. 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.160 You could have runs the shoe and framed it as 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.280 your big catch, and that could have been a fun, 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:13.000 fun thing. 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:14.000 You know, you can show. 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:17.280 Forty two dollars in fees, forty two instead of twenty one. 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.959 I paid forty two dollars a double fee, and let 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.160 me tell you, it was well worth it to catch 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.720 a stupid shoe. Wrong With a sock and a shoe 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.040 on one foot, I could hop around and stay dry. 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.040 At two o'clock it started pouring. It was in the forecast. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.880 We knew it was coming, but the forecast said three 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.639 three point thirty. Nope, it got there early two pm. 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.720 It started hailing. It's now getting really cold. There's a 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.000 nice crisp wind to go with it. So we're standing 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:51.120 there getting drenched. We called it quits. We got back 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:54.240 to my dad's cabin there and we're in front of 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.399 the fire. We're drying off. My step mom takes our clothes, 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.520 throws them all in the dryer. We get a hot 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.280 cup of ca and she looks at us and she says, 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.119 I think you boys should find a new fishing hole. 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.240 Because she said that, like is bullshit. Nobody ever catches 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:11.960 anything there. 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.840 That's great. And you know what, I bet you next 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.480 year you'll be gung hole though. You'll be back. 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:21.440 You guys are going to be back next year, because 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:23.800 this is what you do, this is a film tradition. 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:26.760 You'll be back. You'll forget about this and you'll be like, 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:27.320 this is going to. 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:27.760 Be the year. 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:30.720 Well BYGANI keep trying. That's the most important thing. 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.960 So this week, Danny, it's very odd for me not 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:41.040 to have the I'm very formatic creature of habits, so 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:44.840 it's been weird having nothing to do for work. 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.280 You like your routine, yeah. 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:48.720 Exactly, and I'm used to it, and I like doing 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:49.760 the show. I have a good time. 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:53.119 It's my life's work, and so it's weird not doing 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:53.959 it this week. 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:54.720 But it's cool. 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:56.280 You know, it's nice to get a break and you 0:19:56.320 --> 0:20:00.520 feel refreshed and recharged when you get behind the micro again. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:04.080 And so this week the family did a lot of 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:06.040 family things. At the beginning of the week, I'm going 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:08.480 to save a lot of the South Carolina stuff to 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:11.879 next week's podcast in a blatant attempt to stretch this 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:16.080 content out as long as possible, but the North Carolina 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:18.159 portion of it to kind of continue on with that. 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:20.320 From the beginning of the week. 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:25.920 I did something that was very stalker ish drive by 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:31.359 stalker ish Dan, so uh it was we went out, 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:35.119 had a pizza dinner, very good pizza place in Wilmington. 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:38.920 It was a you know, it's kind of a rainy night, 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:44.879 a very humid, rainy night, typical Southern night, and before 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:46.960 we went back to the house we've been staying at, 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.600 I said, hey, I want to I want to drive 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:50.320 by somewhere. 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:52.919 I want to see something. I just I'm here. I 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:54.280 got to do this. I don't know if I'm going 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:56.320 to be back here, when I'm going to be back here. 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:57.960 I want to do it. 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.200 And my wife's like, yeah, it's the weather's not great, 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:05.440 but okay, we'll be in the car. Oh fine, so whatever. 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:12.080 So we stopped by Laney High School. Do you know 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:16.200 why take a guess why Laney High School is somewhere 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:17.120 I wanted to stop by. 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:19.840 What do you think it's famous about Laney High School? 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:24.080 It's where that big booty country music star Lane Wilson 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:24.520 is from. 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:28.119 Well that might be true, but that is not the 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:32.280