1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:01,440 Speaker 1: Kabooms. 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 7 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: Wow. 8 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 9 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in. 10 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: The air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Big Ben 11 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: and Danny g As. I have ended my audio silence. 12 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: We are back at it with the podcast. No radio 13 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: this week, but the Fifth Hour podcast continues from a 14 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: secret location somewhere in the Carolinas, which is in a garage. Danny, 15 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: I'm literally in a garage. Everyone around me is sleeping 16 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: right now at the time we are doing this. 17 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 3: It sounds like you're in a cave on a mister microphone. 18 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. 19 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, I pretty much am at this particular 20 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 1: point in a cave. I mean, I'm not exaggerating. If 21 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: you can see where I am, you can't see, thank god, 22 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: because it's a podcast. But but here we are, and hey, listen, 23 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: Joe Rogan said his podcast started in a garage, so 24 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,319 Speaker 1: this could be the beginning of something even bigger for 25 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: the fifth hour podcast. What the heck? But it is 26 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: the tenth day of may or, as I like to say, 27 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: National Shrimp Day today, not a not a shrimp? Are 28 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: you a shrimp guy, Danny? Do you like the shrimp? 29 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 3: I do like shrimp, Mang bang chicken and shrimp. 30 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: All right, well, this is a big day for you, 31 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: So go out, go out and neat some shrimp today. 32 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: Knock yourself out with the shrimp. Didn't shrimp put what 33 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: was the seafood restaurant Red Lobster? Was it all you 34 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: can eat shrimp? That is going to put them out 35 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: of business? 36 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 3: Yeah? Remember Coop told the story on the air that 37 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 3: he went with a buddy to that all you can 38 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 3: eat red lobster shrimp. He ate eighty five of them 39 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 3: by himself. Yeah. 40 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: So people like Coop tearing down an American institution. I 41 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: wish I could pull off those suits the people over 42 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: at Red Lobster. But it is also more than National 43 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: Shrimp Day. It is go time. It is green light, gotime, Danny. 44 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: Today is the day in Charleston we have the mallor 45 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: Meat and greet the first one of twenty twenty four. 46 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: It'll be this afternoon at three o'clock. Obviously in the location, 47 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: we're at three o'clock Eastern till five o'clock, and maybe 48 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: even a little bit longer depending on how it goes. 49 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: We'll play it by year on that, but a minimum 50 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: of two hours of schmoozing and hanging out. And I'm 51 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 1: excited about it, looking forward to it. I've been promoting 52 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: it with these cheesy videos on social media, Danny, because 53 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 1: you know I'm going all out. I'm going all out. 54 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: I went to a waffle house the other day and 55 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: did a video. I had another video up yesterday, all 56 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 1: in an effort to get the Great Unwashed to come together. 57 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: And if you somehow have missed it, I don't know 58 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: how you could have missed this, considering the amazing amount 59 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: of promotion that we've put in. But it is today 60 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: at my father's Mustache Day. You love this restaurant, Danny's, 61 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: the James Island location, your favorite restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina. 62 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 3: I did some research on this place. When it first opened, 63 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 3: it was called General Lee's. 64 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean that's a lie. 65 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 3: Their name got canceled, so they changed it to my 66 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 3: father's mustache because they figured that wouldn't offend anybody. 67 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: Well and my father's mustache fine. Establishment, We're gonna have 68 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: all kinds of weird English food they have, like normal 69 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: bar food and all that. It'll be a good time. 70 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,119 Speaker 1: So and as we pointed out in a previous episode 71 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: of the podcast, and I said this on the radio 72 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: show when we were in Appleton, Wisconsin, we pretty much 73 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: go anywhere we can find someone that will have us. 74 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: And my brother knew a guy. My brother lives in Wisconsin, 75 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 1: and he knew a guy that owned a Mexican fusion restaurant, 76 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: so we ate. We had a meet and greet at 77 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: a Mexican restaurant in Appleton, which is the next level 78 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 1: as well. But you think of Southern food, you don't 79 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 1: normally think of like beef Wellington and stuff like that. 80 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: But they have bar food, and so we'll have a 81 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: good time. It's not about the food, Danny, It's about 82 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: the people. It's about people. I think, I don't know, 83 00:04:58,520 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 1: I want my chicken. 84 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 3: I mean when it comes to Malord, though you do 85 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 3: think food, think Costco, food clippers. What is still wrong 86 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 3: with the clippers, cheapskate. 87 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: No, no, no, A tight wad more than cheap skate. 88 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 3: But I haven't been through that. Yeah, that's true. You're 89 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 3: not cheap, you have nice things. You're a tight one. 90 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 3: That's a better way to put it. 91 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a tight What if I have been to Costco? 92 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: I have made the pilgrimage to Costco this week, and 93 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: so consider this this this weekend, I'm gonna have some 94 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: travel stories. We'll have many more next weekend. But I 95 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 1: figured since I've been away from my post in the Watchtower, yeah. 96 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 3: I've been seeing listeners complain on Twitter. 97 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 1: Well, they can play, they can play when I'm there, 98 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 1: and they can play when I'm not there. So it's 99 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 1: just the common theme. There's a thread here complaining, and 100 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: certainly whoever fills in for me gets the brunt of it. 101 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 1: I feel bad for them people, very grumpy and whatnot. 102 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: But I figured we spent some time this weekend of 103 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: going over and stuff. Today being the Friday Pod, We've 104 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: got driving Miss Malor, the Feast, Southern Hospitality, and I 105 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: got a bunch of other random things that will come out. 106 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: We have the Word of a Week as well, and 107 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: a bunch of other random stuff. We'll see what we 108 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: have time to get to. As you know, even though 109 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: this is a podcast, there's a certain window because we 110 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: have market research that has determined after a certain amount 111 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 1: of time, it doesn't matter. You can have the greatest 112 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 1: podcast in the world and people are going to tune 113 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: out at a certain point. So like, what are you doing? 114 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 3: So, yeah, you know, the last time I talked to 115 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:41,679 Speaker 3: one of our bosses, Dawn, who you know very well, 116 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 3: he told me that we could check out at twenty 117 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 3: minutes if we want to. 118 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, but we usually go about thirty. We do a bit. 119 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 3: I think it was last weekend we had one that 120 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:52,679 Speaker 3: was forty two minutes long. 121 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, which is probably way too long, but we'll try 122 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 1: to keep it shorter. But so the Malor travelogue a 123 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: staple of this podcast, the Mallard travelogue. So kind of 124 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 1: setting you back to the beginning of the week. Here, 125 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: I did the show Monday Sunday, and the Monday did 126 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 1: the radio show and then got up after just a 127 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: couple hours of sleep. Now, we flew from southern California 128 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: to get to South Carolina. I get to the Carolina 129 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 1: is not the easiest thing in the world. Not a 130 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: lot of direct flights, so we flew out of Ontario. 131 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: I've never flown out of the Ontario Airport in the 132 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: Inland Empire of southern California. This is the first time 133 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: I think I might have done it. That's not actually you. 134 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: I think years ago I blocked it out of my memory. 135 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: I think it was probably like twenty five years ago. 136 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: I flew out of the Ontario airport, but we mostly 137 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: used for like Amazon and ups. It's a southern California airport, 138 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: but anything to avoid lax the ghost Town Airport, the 139 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: Ontario Airport in southern California. Hardest part of flying out 140 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: of that airport is getting to that airport, and so 141 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: I was drying. We took an uber to get out there. 142 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: I was just I wasn't driving anyone. We took an 143 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: uber to get out there. And the wife she wanted 144 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:22,119 Speaker 1: to have have breakfast. But my main goal in life 145 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: is to avoid the powder room on a plane that 146 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: she wanted to meet to eat breakfast. And you know, 147 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 1: you got a cross country flight if you need breakfast, 148 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 1: and I'm I'm a faster anyway. Plus, the airport food 149 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: is often terrible and ridiculously overpriced. And so I try 150 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: to avoid try to avoid that. 151 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 3: In general, I would guess also that you don't even 152 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 3: fit in the airplane stall. 153 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a tough situation. It's a lot of being 154 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,439 Speaker 1: a contortionist and trying to bend certain ways and all that, 155 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: and so that that's bad. But we flew from there 156 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 1: to Atlanta, and I gotta tell you, I had one 157 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: of the greatest flights I've ever had in my life. 158 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: And I've flown a fair amount over the year. It's 159 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: not as much in recent years as I did back 160 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 1: in the day. But I had a tremendous trip. And 161 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: the reason I was flying Delta, it's not because of Delta, 162 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: it's because of location, location, location. So I sat in 163 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: row twenty seven. I sat in an exit row, which 164 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 1: by itself is great because you get an extra leg 165 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: room in the exit row. But the way the plane 166 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 1: was set up, the row in front of me, I 167 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: want to make sure I pink the picture of the 168 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: proper way. So I'm in twenty seven, row twenty six. 169 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 1: It had two seats, not three seats. So I'm in 170 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: a row with three seats, and then in front of 171 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 1: me there's a row with two seats, and I happened 172 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: to be in position where there was no seat in 173 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: front of me. I got to stretch my legs out 174 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: like I was like I was flying on Tom Cruise's 175 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: Gulf Stream. It was awesome. I mean, I loved it. 176 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 1: I could have flown to Australia or New Zealand or wherever, 177 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: Tim Shanghai, I could have gone anywhere with that setup. 178 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:20,439 Speaker 1: It was the greatest thing. I'm like, this is the 179 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:22,439 Speaker 1: way to fly. I don't have to worry about anyone 180 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 1: leaning back into me. I can stretch my legs as 181 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 1: far as I want, I can lay down basically, And 182 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: so it was. It was awesome. It was absolutely awesome. 183 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:36,679 Speaker 1: I loved it, and so I wish the flight had 184 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: actually been longer. I was upset that it wasn't longer 185 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: because I was like, this is great. So then we 186 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: had to change planes in Atlanta because there's no no 187 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 1: direct flight. So we got to Atlanta, the beautiful Atlanta 188 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: Hartsfield or Hartsfield Atlanta Airport, whatever they call it. And 189 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: at that point I was like, well, I probably should 190 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,599 Speaker 1: eat because I don't eat here. I'm not going to 191 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: eat at all, and so ended up breaking my my fast. 192 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:07,199 Speaker 1: I had fasted since I think it was like Saturday, 193 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:11,599 Speaker 1: so it was a fair amount of time. Got to Atlanta, 194 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,439 Speaker 1: and what I did, I don't know how you handle this. 195 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: I don't like to eat at airports, but when you 196 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: have a stopover and you're in a long travel day, 197 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,839 Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, you gotta eat something. So I scouted. 198 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:28,119 Speaker 1: I did a recon mission on the food court in Atlanta, 199 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: and I went around and I observed there like a 200 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: southern restaurant. They had a Windy's, there was a TGI Fridays. 201 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 1: They were like a couple of other places, and I 202 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: I was what I was doing was I was like, well, 203 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:46,199 Speaker 1: would this be airport quality food? And then like I 204 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: did a cost benefit analysis, But then I was also 205 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 1: looking to see like what was what was busy because 206 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: I figured if it's busy people, probably that's a good 207 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: sign as normally people aren't going to, you know, go 208 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: gravitate towards eating dog food. 209 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, like they've been to this airport before, they know 210 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 3: where to go. 211 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: Yeah. There were a lot of middle aged dudes who 212 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: travel all the time. You know, you know that look 213 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: of that guy that's in a plane all the time, 214 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 1: like a couple of times a week flying, so I 215 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: ended up eating Chinese food at the It was like 216 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 1: a ripoff Panda Express at the Atlanta airport, and because 217 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: that was the busiest spot, it was the most bang 218 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:29,680 Speaker 1: for your buck. And I gotta tell you, it was 219 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 1: pretty pretty good, Danny. It was pretty good. However, it 220 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 1: could have been the fact that hunger is the best 221 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 1: sauce in the world. It might not have had anything 222 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: to do with the orange chicken and just that I 223 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 1: was hungry. Oh you fat fuck you got head roll, 224 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: you got the breezeparem, you everything. It tasted about as 225 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: good as Chinese food that you could possibly have out 226 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,959 Speaker 1: of a fast food type of restaurant. So it was great. 227 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: And we had. 228 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 4: About a ninety minute eighty ninety minute layover in Atlanta, 229 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 4: and then we had another flight, which was like a 230 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 4: really short flight forty five minutes or so to beautiful 231 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,199 Speaker 4: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. 232 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: And our flight was a few minutes to late, so 233 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 1: we actually had to rush. And this is where the 234 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 1: Southern hospitality comes in. We had to rush to get 235 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 1: to the rental car because we were told the rental 236 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: car place closed at eleven forty five pm. We were 237 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 1: in the plane waiting to dboard at eleven thirty one, 238 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: and fortunately we were able to make it. It was right 239 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: across from the baggage plane, very small airport in Myrtle Beach, 240 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 1: no shuttle needed, and we were able to get the 241 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: rental car. But one of the dudes helping us give 242 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: us the car and filling out all the paperwork and 243 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:49,839 Speaker 1: all that adult crap that you have to do, he 244 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 1: happened to be a listener to the show. He's listened 245 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: to the show going back twenty years, big sports radio guy, 246 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: and so that was a really cool prize. He's like, yeah, 247 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: are you And he's like you are you? The Ben 248 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 1: Mallett from the radio who as you know, as you 249 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 1: know da. It ended up happened very often, but he 250 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 1: made my day. Made my day. And this guy a 251 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:18,559 Speaker 1: long time connoisseur of sports talk radio. He brought up 252 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: a couple of legends back in the day. Papa Joe Chevalier, 253 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: who did the one on one sports thing back in 254 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 1: the day, brought up John Renshaw, Johnny Renshaw, who actually 255 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: worked at Fox Sports Radio briefly among allthers. So that 256 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 1: was pretty cool. 257 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 3: He made you look cool in front of your wife too. 258 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, because my wife was like she was telling me, 259 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: She's like, I was gonna yell at you because I 260 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: was on my phone. I was like looking at my phone. 261 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: You know, I wasn't I wasn't being social. And then 262 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 1: the guy was like, hey, yeah, you know so and so. 263 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: So that that got me a pass on that. So 264 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: that was that was pretty neat. So I was like, 265 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: well that now the trip's off to a good story. 266 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: I had a great seat to Atlanta, had good Chinese food, 267 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 1: go to the airport, got the rental car. The guy 268 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 1: recognized me, so that was unexpected. 269 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 3: Was it awkward though, when after a couple minutes of 270 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 3: silence he just said, so, how about weed man hippie? 271 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 1: Eh? It was no, it was it was cool. I 272 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: was like I was. He did not know we were coming, 273 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: so I did not announce what airport I was flying into. 274 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 1: But that was pretty neat. And so then we we 275 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 1: got the car and had a ninety minute drive because 276 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 1: we the beginning of the trip we were in Wilmington, 277 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: North Carolina, so we we went to Wilmington. There's a 278 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: long story, I'll get into it. A little bit later. 279 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: But but by the way, I must point out when 280 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: I got to Myrtle Beach, the first sign I saw 281 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: getting off the plane was something that I've talked about 282 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: on the radio. This goes back many, many years, and 283 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: it's one of the all time great Well, let mean 284 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: there is let me say it, and they said this. 285 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: I want to see if you can recognize this. Danny, 286 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you on the spot here. So Myrtle 287 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 1: Beach is close to Coastal Carolina University. Why do you 288 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: think that university resonated? And a light bulb immediately went 289 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: off in my hair? What about Coastal Carolina University do 290 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 1: you think made me smile? There's only one thing that 291 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: they're famous for, as far as I know. 292 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 3: Their mascot. 293 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: No, I mean, they do have a unique mascot, the 294 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: chant Chanta clears, I believe. 295 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the first thing I think of. 296 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, I mean it's a cool mascot. 297 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 1: But let's go back. Okay, go back thirteen years and 298 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: there was a football coach named David Bennett at Coastal 299 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 1: Carolina and he had a random news conference where he 300 00:16:52,880 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: starts talking about cats and dogs, oh yeah, I remember that. Yeah, 301 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: and he said, we don't need a bunch of cats, 302 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:08,439 Speaker 1: and hear me, Now, yeah, he's the guy. And so 303 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: I'm like, lo, more like dogs, Yeah, be a dog. 304 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: We need more dogs. Ruf ruf. And yeah, this was 305 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:20,439 Speaker 1: his university. He's you know, he's like an athletic director 306 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 1: at some high school or something like that around South Carolina. 307 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: But I was like, wow, that's great. You know, we 308 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: we got to play that here on the podcast because 309 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 1: this is one of the all time great grants. David Bennett, 310 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:35,440 Speaker 1: the coach at Coastal Carolina, So that that was pretty cool. 311 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: I guess it's right in Erere's a few miles away 312 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:40,120 Speaker 1: from Myrtle Beach, and so they had a big sign 313 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,360 Speaker 1: up in the airport and so so that was kind 314 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 1: of cool. 315 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 5: Trying to get our two boys ready to carry to 316 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 5: the golf tournament. Four printice right, twelve cats live cross 317 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 5: the road. Our door's open, screens broke. We need to 318 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 5: get a new screen door, but the screens broke. So 319 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:56,640 Speaker 5: you come in through the screen, but you can't get 320 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 5: back out. I turn to look, there's a little kiddy 321 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 5: cat in our in our kitchen, So I said what 322 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 5: are you doing in here? 323 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 1: A little kid cat. 324 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Speaker 5: By that time the cat turns, tries to get back out, 325 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:11,360 Speaker 5: that scream won't go that way. Cats starts going all crazy, 326 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 5: and I told our players we need more dogs. Bows 327 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,919 Speaker 5: barking in the back after go shut bow up, mels like, 328 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 5: what's going on? It says the cat and house cat 329 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 5: in the house. I said, it is a cat in 330 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 5: the house. So I told our players. I tried to 331 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 5: let it out the front door. Weird cat's still going 332 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:28,120 Speaker 5: crazy in there. And I told our players, you needy 333 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 5: bit more like a dog. We don't need a bunch 334 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 5: of cats in here. Looking in the mirror, I look good. 335 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,479 Speaker 2: I got my extra bands on, I got my other shoes. 336 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 1: Be a dog. We don't need no miwns. We don't 337 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 1: need no cats. 338 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 3: We need more dogs. 339 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:48,679 Speaker 1: There you go, all right? I love that for a 340 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:53,920 Speaker 1: guy that doesn't have any name value. David Benny not bad. 341 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:58,119 Speaker 1: I mean, that's right up there with you. Think of 342 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:01,439 Speaker 1: the legends of the ran in football, Jim Mora. We 343 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 1: couldn't do Diddley Pooh or the late Dennis Green. And 344 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 1: you want to crown them, crown them, but they are 345 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: who we thought they were, you know, and we let 346 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: them got them off the hook exactly exactly. Moving on 347 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: and the travel log here on the fifth hour, Pacast. 348 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: Don't forget Today's Today, Today's day. Somehow you didn't listen 349 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:29,160 Speaker 1: to the beginning of this with Charleston Today three o'clock Friday, Friday, 350 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: Friday Friday Funday, three o'clock to five o'clock. Check it 351 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 1: out my. 352 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 3: English chicken fingers with Ben Maller. 353 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, beating pretzels and whatever else. But so we were 354 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: in Wilmington. That was the first stop, and that was 355 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: the wife's family. The in laws, my father in law 356 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: and his wife along with a sister in law, live 357 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: in North Carolina. My father in law splits half the 358 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: time between southern California and here in North Carolina. Just 359 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,239 Speaker 1: moved down here recently. A sister in law also has 360 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: been living here with her husband and daughter briefly a 361 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: couple of years now. Actually went to their wedding a 362 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:18,879 Speaker 1: couple of years ago. First time I ever went to 363 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:21,919 Speaker 1: North Carolina. So that's why we kind of extended the 364 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: trip because they're like, we spent half the week there 365 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 1: and then the rest of the time in South Carolina. 366 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: So even though we flew into South Carolina, we had 367 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: to drive you know, eighty ninety miles up to eighty 368 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: ninety minutes, I should say, up to Wilmington, North Carolina. 369 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 1: On the drive, the wife was hungry and there's not 370 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:48,639 Speaker 1: much open in small town North Carolina in the middle 371 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: of the night except waffle house. So we made a 372 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:59,199 Speaker 1: stop at a very small town in South Carolina that 373 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 1: has a popular of about four thousand people, which is 374 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 1: one half of one block of like in North Hollywood 375 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,159 Speaker 1: or West Hollywood. It's just insane. But but anyways, it 376 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,880 Speaker 1: was a very small, small rural town, but they did 377 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 1: have a waffle house. My wife was skeptical. She's like, oh, 378 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: it's gonna be terrible. It was not terrible, but I 379 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:24,639 Speaker 1: told us that when you're in the South, you have 380 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,400 Speaker 1: to eat at waffle house. It's required. 381 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 3: Yeah. 382 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, well people go to like, let's go to California. 383 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: You got to have in and out Burger, you know, 384 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,400 Speaker 1: it's like that kind of thing. But anyway, so we went. 385 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: We went back on the road after that very steamy night, 386 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 1: very human night, and driving in the middle of nowhere. 387 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 1: It was the twilight zone. Do do you know what 388 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 1: it reminded me of It reminded me of COVID when 389 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 1: we would drive during COVID at night. Yeah, there was 390 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: no one on the road except you, and you thought 391 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: for a little bit, You're like, what if if everyone 392 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,119 Speaker 1: else is dead and I'm the only one alive. 393 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 3: Yeah, and upper management gave us FEMA cards like we 394 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 3: were really important essential workers. 395 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, that was my favorite part of COVID is 396 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 1: that we all got You're very essential, my man. My man, 397 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 1: people need their sports takes. It's a government wants you 398 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:20,879 Speaker 1: to break the curfew. 399 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 3: My man. Uh to hear about the Marvel Championships, my man. 400 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the shirt? Was it the Sherman Act? 401 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:32,160 Speaker 1: Was that what it was? The Sherman Act? I believe 402 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,880 Speaker 1: it was. I think that was it that allowed us 403 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 1: to have access, But not podcasts. I don't think podcasters 404 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,439 Speaker 1: had access. I think only the radio people. 405 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,399 Speaker 3: Yeah, the live broadcasters. We were there in case of 406 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 3: any emergency, so we could play the FCC alarms. 407 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, doing God's work, you Jesus. Driving on the Twilight 408 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: Zone type theme there, small dark country roads. But I 409 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: was so paranoid after my experience in Minnesota getting a 410 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: speeding ticket that I was like, I'm not I'm gonna 411 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 1: drive the freaking speed limit. So I set auto pilot 412 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,679 Speaker 1: whatever the speed limit was top, like thirty five miles 413 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: an hour. 414 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 3: Unlearned your tourist staff learned I did. 415 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: And we have out of state plates on the rental car, 416 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 1: which is I hate that every time I travel, Every 417 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: freaking time I travel, these people give me a car 418 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 1: with plates from a different state and it's on it. Well, 419 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 1: I've got Virginia plates on the on the car now. 420 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: When I was in Virginia we had plates. When I 421 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 1: was in North Carolina, we had like Texas plates. Last 422 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 1: time we flew into Virginia. When I was in Minnesota, 423 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,159 Speaker 1: we had Kansas plates. It's like it's always. When I 424 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:52,199 Speaker 1: was in Boston we had I don't even remember what 425 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 1: we didn't have the state. We never get the state 426 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: we're in. 427 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 3: Just eight I could just see a small town pop 428 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,360 Speaker 3: behind you, like this Virginia city slicker. I'm gonna pull 429 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 3: this cracker over right now. 430 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: Oh exactly. Yeah. So I'm like, screw that. I'm not 431 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 1: getting another ticket. So I'm like, I don't care how 432 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 1: long it takes, but it really it drove me nuts. 433 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,639 Speaker 1: Dandy because you know, living in LA when it's at 434 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:21,920 Speaker 1: night and you can drive, you're going seventy five eighty 435 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,199 Speaker 1: miles And I usually go seventy nine because I know 436 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 1: that's where I don't get tickets. But still seventy nine. 437 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,959 Speaker 1: Go from seventy nine to thirty seven, you know, it's like, 438 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 1: that's a big that's a big drop in. 439 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, you might as well be rolling in a tractor. 440 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:38,639 Speaker 1: Yeah, I might as well be on an e bike 441 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 1: making my way my way around, I mean, and so whatever, 442 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 1: it was fine, and we got there. I didn't get 443 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 1: a ticket, and that's great, and that's wonderful and all that. 444 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 1: And so that was the first, the first leg, and 445 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:57,160 Speaker 1: I guess, I guess I'll leave some stuff for the weekend. 446 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 1: The company. We do have the word of the week. 447 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 1: Are you ready for the word of the week? 448 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 3: Danny? The word of the week straight out of the Carolinas. 449 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, and so it is a theme. It was an 450 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,880 Speaker 1: emailer who lives here in the Carolina and said, Hey, 451 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 1: since you're in Carolina, I was curious where did the 452 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: tar heel thing come from? And I thought it would 453 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: be appropriate because I spent the first part of the 454 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,199 Speaker 1: week in North Carolina, and so I thought, you know, 455 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: what the hell, why not, let's. 456 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 3: Do it north ca Calaca. 457 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,679 Speaker 1: Yeah. So the term tar heel, which is the mascot 458 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 1: for the University of North Carolina. Where are they still 459 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,399 Speaker 1: lunatic protesters at North Carolina? I haven't kept track of that. 460 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:41,879 Speaker 3: I don't know. 461 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 1: I've tuned that out this week, thank god. But the 462 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: term tar heel dates back to the very early days 463 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: in the history of North Carolina, and the state of 464 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 1: North Carolina was a leading producer in supplies for the 465 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 1: naval industry, the early navy, and the people who distilled 466 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: the turpentine from sticky sap of the pine trees. They 467 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 1: burned pine, the big things of pine, to produce tar 468 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: and pitch, and they often did this well barefoot during 469 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 1: the ridiculously hot, steamy summer months here in the Carolinas. 470 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,399 Speaker 1: And so what do you think happened? They're doing barefoot 471 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 1: and they're they're making sap. So they collected tar on 472 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: the heels of their feet, and so put two and 473 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: two together. Toda. North Carolina was associated with tar from 474 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: the seventeen hundreds onward. And originally they were the people 475 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: that did this were called tar boilers. That was a 476 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:58,239 Speaker 1: term that was not endearing to the locals since at 477 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:03,719 Speaker 1: least they say, roughly the eighteen forties. Tar heel is 478 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 1: a tested I guess in eighteen sixty three by some 479 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 1: of the Confederate soldiers, and it had become common at 480 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 1: that time. But it's the gummy resin of the pine 481 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 1: barrens the lowland part of the state. So literally tar. 482 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 1: You literally have tar on your heels as a barefoot worker, 483 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 1: going back to the seventeen hundreds in North Carolina, So 484 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 1: that is the word of the week. 485 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 3: That's crazy because I don't know about you, but I 486 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,440 Speaker 3: don't like anything on my feet like that. We were 487 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 3: kids and sometimes we'd be walking around bare feet and 488 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,119 Speaker 3: if I'd get anything on my feet, it would bug me. 489 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,200 Speaker 3: So I can't imagine having tar stuck to your feet. 490 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,879 Speaker 1: Yeah, especially at least now you can get stuff like 491 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:56,679 Speaker 1: that off your feet, but it was a lot harder 492 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:00,199 Speaker 1: in the seventeen and eighteen and early nineteen hundreds to 493 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:00,879 Speaker 1: get that stuff. 494 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 3: Oh you were on a beach and you got some 495 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 3: on your feet, remember I. 496 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 1: Did, Yes, I did. That was in southern California. Actually, 497 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,359 Speaker 1: I think it was sunset beach that was covered in oil. 498 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, what did you have to use to get it off? 499 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,119 Speaker 1: We went on the internet. I forget what it was, 500 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,159 Speaker 1: but yeah it was. It was a little bit. We 501 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,159 Speaker 1: had a google it. That's a lot of work to google. 502 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: That's not easy to google, but yeah it was. It 503 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: was a bit of a pain. It was on there 504 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 1: for a fair amount of time, and that was with 505 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: modern modern technology. But I think we'll get out on that. 506 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 1: I have many more stories to tell, but I'm really 507 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 1: excited to meet you. If you can come down today, 508 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: hopefully you'll be able to make it three o'clock till 509 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 1: five o'clock over at my father's mustache, remember the James 510 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 1: Island location, and that is today right here Charleston, South Carolina. 511 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 3: I feel like there's going to be a pretty good 512 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,480 Speaker 3: sized crowd there at my wife's Sideburns. 513 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 1: Yeah. Is that lady Sideburns that that emails the show 514 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 1: or sends messages on tour? Yeah, I don't know who's 515 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: going to show up by These things are always hit 516 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:11,040 Speaker 1: and miss. Sometimes we get a great turnout like in Minnesota, 517 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 1: sometimes a little smaller, but it doesn't matter. It was 518 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 1: big or small. Yeah, ever shows up We've done these 519 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 1: in Maine and Boston and Syracuse and Pittsburgh. 520 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 3: And then the rapper mentality. They always say back in 521 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 3: the day, the greatest MC's they tear up the stage. 522 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,080 Speaker 3: Whether there's ten people or ten thousand people. 523 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. It's like politician going around and you know, 524 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 1: meeting with the electorate. Just whoever's there. It's great if 525 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: it's a big crowd, find if it's small crowd, we'll 526 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: have a good time. Whoever shows up. We'll tell stories. 527 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: You can ask me whatever you want. I'll trash Eddie, 528 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: I'll trash Coop. I'll trash you whatever you want, you know, Lorrain, Yeah, 529 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 1: Lorraine of course, Ripper, Roberta, Roberto by the bus driver come. 530 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 3: On, yeah, Iowa, Sam, Jake Warner. 531 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,239 Speaker 1: I'll go way back if you want. I don't care 532 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 1: how how far back you want to go. But anyway, 533 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: I have a great day today. Thank you for listening here. Obviously, 534 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 1: we'll have new pods all weekend. You guys have been great. 535 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 1: I did not promote this at all that we would 536 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,600 Speaker 1: have new pods. And the email, a lot of email 537 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:15,840 Speaker 1: people were asking we'll get to that on Sunday, but 538 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: a lot of sporty questions mixed in, so we'll do 539 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 1: some of those, and anyway, we'll just have a good 540 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 1: time today and new pods all weekend, so. 541 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:29,800 Speaker 3: We'll catch you when we catch you later. Skater gotta murder, 542 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 3: I gotta go.