WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Straight Outta the Carolinas 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 0:00:05.400 --> 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 --> 0:00:29.280 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:36.680 The air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Big Ben 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:42.440 and Danny g As. I have ended my audio silence. 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.600 We are back at it with the podcast. No radio 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:49.760 this week, but the Fifth Hour podcast continues from a 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:56.200 secret location somewhere in the Carolinas, which is in a garage. Danny, 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:02.440 I'm literally in a garage. Everyone around me is sleeping 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:04.920 right now at the time we are doing this. 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.800 It sounds like you're in a cave on a mister microphone. 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:10.520 Oh my gosh. 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.160 Yeah, yeah, well, I pretty much am at this particular 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:17.040 point in a cave. I mean, I'm not exaggerating. If 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.200 you can see where I am, you can't see, thank god, 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:23.880 because it's a podcast. But but here we are, and hey, listen, 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.160 Joe Rogan said his podcast started in a garage, so 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.319 this could be the beginning of something even bigger for 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:34.160 the fifth hour podcast. What the heck? But it is 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.800 the tenth day of may or, as I like to say, 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:43.560 National Shrimp Day today, not a not a shrimp? Are 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:45.520 you a shrimp guy, Danny? Do you like the shrimp? 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:49.480 I do like shrimp, Mang bang chicken and shrimp. 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:51.640 All right, well, this is a big day for you, 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:53.680 So go out, go out and neat some shrimp today. 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.800 Knock yourself out with the shrimp. Didn't shrimp put what 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.240 was the seafood restaurant Red Lobster? Was it all you 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.040 can eat shrimp? That is going to put them out 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:02.760 of business? 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.240 Yeah? Remember Coop told the story on the air that 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.000 he went with a buddy to that all you can 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:11.440 eat red lobster shrimp. He ate eighty five of them 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.440 by himself. Yeah. 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:19.160 So people like Coop tearing down an American institution. I 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:24.720 wish I could pull off those suits the people over 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.720 at Red Lobster. But it is also more than National 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:32.560 Shrimp Day. It is go time. It is green light, gotime, Danny. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:38.240 Today is the day in Charleston we have the mallor 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.600 Meat and greet the first one of twenty twenty four. 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:51.040 It'll be this afternoon at three o'clock. Obviously in the location, 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.200 we're at three o'clock Eastern till five o'clock, and maybe 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.000 even a little bit longer depending on how it goes. 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.440 We'll play it by year on that, but a minimum 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:05.760 of two hours of schmoozing and hanging out. And I'm 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.800 excited about it, looking forward to it. I've been promoting 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.160 it with these cheesy videos on social media, Danny, because 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:13.960 you know I'm going all out. I'm going all out. 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.320 I went to a waffle house the other day and 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:20.120 did a video. I had another video up yesterday, all 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:24.800 in an effort to get the Great Unwashed to come together. 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:26.880 And if you somehow have missed it, I don't know 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.400 how you could have missed this, considering the amazing amount 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.480 of promotion that we've put in. But it is today 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:39.000 at my father's Mustache Day. You love this restaurant, Danny's, 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:43.480 the James Island location, your favorite restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina. 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.000 I did some research on this place. When it first opened, 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:48.480 it was called General Lee's. 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.400 Yeah, well, I mean that's a lie. 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.640 Their name got canceled, so they changed it to my 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.960 father's mustache because they figured that wouldn't offend anybody. 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:05.720 Well and my father's mustache fine. Establishment, We're gonna have 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.680 all kinds of weird English food they have, like normal 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:10.840 bar food and all that. It'll be a good time. 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:15.119 So and as we pointed out in a previous episode 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.960 of the podcast, and I said this on the radio 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:22.640 show when we were in Appleton, Wisconsin, we pretty much 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.880 go anywhere we can find someone that will have us. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:30.080 And my brother knew a guy. My brother lives in Wisconsin, 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:34.680 and he knew a guy that owned a Mexican fusion restaurant, 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.120 so we ate. We had a meet and greet at 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.520 a Mexican restaurant in Appleton, which is the next level 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.720 as well. But you think of Southern food, you don't 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.840 normally think of like beef Wellington and stuff like that. 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.880 But they have bar food, and so we'll have a 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.240 good time. It's not about the food, Danny, It's about 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.760 the people. It's about people. I think, I don't know, 0:04:58.520 --> 0:04:59.599 I want my chicken. 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:02.440 I mean when it comes to Malord, though you do 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:07.920 think food, think Costco, food clippers. What is still wrong 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.000 with the clippers, cheapskate. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.520 No, no, no, A tight wad more than cheap skate. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.760 But I haven't been through that. Yeah, that's true. You're 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:17.960 not cheap, you have nice things. You're a tight one. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:19.120 That's a better way to put it. 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.160 Yeah, I'm a tight What if I have been to Costco? 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.560 I have made the pilgrimage to Costco this week, and 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:28.360 so consider this this this weekend, I'm gonna have some 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:33.400 travel stories. We'll have many more next weekend. But I 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:40.360 figured since I've been away from my post in the Watchtower, yeah. 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.560 I've been seeing listeners complain on Twitter. 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.000 Well, they can play, they can play when I'm there, 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:45.920 and they can play when I'm not there. So it's 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:50.920 just the common theme. There's a thread here complaining, and 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.240 certainly whoever fills in for me gets the brunt of it. 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:57.159 I feel bad for them people, very grumpy and whatnot. 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.240 But I figured we spent some time this weekend of 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.240 going over and stuff. Today being the Friday Pod, We've 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:10.680 got driving Miss Malor, the Feast, Southern Hospitality, and I 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:12.520 got a bunch of other random things that will come out. 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:14.880 We have the Word of a Week as well, and 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.800 a bunch of other random stuff. We'll see what we 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.000 have time to get to. As you know, even though 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:24.400 this is a podcast, there's a certain window because we 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:28.240 have market research that has determined after a certain amount 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.839 of time, it doesn't matter. You can have the greatest 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.480 podcast in the world and people are going to tune 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.200 out at a certain point. So like, what are you doing? 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.279 So, yeah, you know, the last time I talked to 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.679 one of our bosses, Dawn, who you know very well, 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.440 he told me that we could check out at twenty 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:45.560 minutes if we want to. 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.920 Yeah, but we usually go about thirty. We do a bit. 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.279 I think it was last weekend we had one that 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:52.679 was forty two minutes long. 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.160 Yeah, which is probably way too long, but we'll try 0:06:56.200 --> 0:07:00.240 to keep it shorter. But so the Malor travelogue a 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:04.440 staple of this podcast, the Mallard travelogue. So kind of 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:06.839 setting you back to the beginning of the week. Here, 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:11.440 I did the show Monday Sunday, and the Monday did 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:16.080 the radio show and then got up after just a 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:20.760 couple hours of sleep. Now, we flew from southern California 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.400 to get to South Carolina. I get to the Carolina 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.720 is not the easiest thing in the world. Not a 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.200 lot of direct flights, so we flew out of Ontario. 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.640 I've never flown out of the Ontario Airport in the 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.600 Inland Empire of southern California. This is the first time 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:38.640 I think I might have done it. That's not actually you. 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.760 I think years ago I blocked it out of my memory. 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:43.720 I think it was probably like twenty five years ago. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.840 I flew out of the Ontario airport, but we mostly 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:52.280 used for like Amazon and ups. It's a southern California airport, 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:57.480 but anything to avoid lax the ghost Town Airport, the 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:02.440 Ontario Airport in southern California. Hardest part of flying out 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:07.560 of that airport is getting to that airport, and so 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.520 I was drying. We took an uber to get out there. 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.280 I was just I wasn't driving anyone. We took an 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:18.160 uber to get out there. And the wife she wanted 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:22.119 to have have breakfast. But my main goal in life 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:27.080 is to avoid the powder room on a plane that 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.800 she wanted to meet to eat breakfast. And you know, 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:33.160 you got a cross country flight if you need breakfast, 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:37.840 and I'm I'm a faster anyway. Plus, the airport food 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:42.760 is often terrible and ridiculously overpriced. And so I try 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.000 to avoid try to avoid that. 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.680 In general, I would guess also that you don't even 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.080 fit in the airplane stall. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.199 Yeah, it's a tough situation. It's a lot of being 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.439 a contortionist and trying to bend certain ways and all that, 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.800 and so that that's bad. But we flew from there 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.320 to Atlanta, and I gotta tell you, I had one 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:09.600 of the greatest flights I've ever had in my life. 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.720 And I've flown a fair amount over the year. It's 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.480 not as much in recent years as I did back 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.200 in the day. But I had a tremendous trip. And 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.800 the reason I was flying Delta, it's not because of Delta, 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:27.160 it's because of location, location, location. So I sat in 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.840 row twenty seven. I sat in an exit row, which 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:32.840 by itself is great because you get an extra leg 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.240 room in the exit row. But the way the plane 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:40.480 was set up, the row in front of me, I 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:41.760 want to make sure I pink the picture of the 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.640 proper way. So I'm in twenty seven, row twenty six. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:50.680 It had two seats, not three seats. So I'm in 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.760 a row with three seats, and then in front of 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.720 me there's a row with two seats, and I happened 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.760 to be in position where there was no seat in 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.760 front of me. I got to stretch my legs out 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.760 like I was like I was flying on Tom Cruise's 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.360 Gulf Stream. It was awesome. I mean, I loved it. 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:14.560 I could have flown to Australia or New Zealand or wherever, 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.760 Tim Shanghai, I could have gone anywhere with that setup. 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.439 It was the greatest thing. I'm like, this is the 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.439 way to fly. I don't have to worry about anyone 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.960 leaning back into me. I can stretch my legs as 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.560 far as I want, I can lay down basically, And 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.480 so it was. It was awesome. It was absolutely awesome. 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.679 I loved it, and so I wish the flight had 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:40.760 actually been longer. I was upset that it wasn't longer 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.000 because I was like, this is great. So then we 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:47.120 had to change planes in Atlanta because there's no no 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.280 direct flight. So we got to Atlanta, the beautiful Atlanta 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:54.360 Hartsfield or Hartsfield Atlanta Airport, whatever they call it. And 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.400 at that point I was like, well, I probably should 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.599 eat because I don't eat here. I'm not going to 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:03.480 eat at all, and so ended up breaking my my fast. 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.199 I had fasted since I think it was like Saturday, 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:11.599 so it was a fair amount of time. Got to Atlanta, 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.439 and what I did, I don't know how you handle this. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.520 I don't like to eat at airports, but when you 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.280 have a stopover and you're in a long travel day, 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.839 I'm like, all right, you gotta eat something. So I scouted. 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:28.119 I did a recon mission on the food court in Atlanta, 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:30.960 and I went around and I observed there like a 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:35.760 southern restaurant. They had a Windy's, there was a TGI Fridays. 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.000 They were like a couple of other places, and I 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.040 I was what I was doing was I was like, well, 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:46.199 would this be airport quality food? And then like I 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.200 did a cost benefit analysis, But then I was also 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:53.120 looking to see like what was what was busy because 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.760 I figured if it's busy people, probably that's a good 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:57.880 sign as normally people aren't going to, you know, go 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.040 gravitate towards eating dog food. 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.160 Yeah, like they've been to this airport before, they know 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:04.880 where to go. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.240 Yeah. There were a lot of middle aged dudes who 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.280 travel all the time. You know, you know that look 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.520 of that guy that's in a plane all the time, 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.560 like a couple of times a week flying, so I 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:18.160 ended up eating Chinese food at the It was like 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:23.160 a ripoff Panda Express at the Atlanta airport, and because 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.720 that was the busiest spot, it was the most bang 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:29.680 for your buck. And I gotta tell you, it was 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.640 pretty pretty good, Danny. It was pretty good. However, it 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.480 could have been the fact that hunger is the best 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.520 sauce in the world. It might not have had anything 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.000 to do with the orange chicken and just that I 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.120 was hungry. Oh you fat fuck you got head roll, 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:48.520 you got the breezeparem, you everything. It tasted about as 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.920 good as Chinese food that you could possibly have out 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.959 of a fast food type of restaurant. So it was great. 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:56.760 And we had. 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.920 About a ninety minute eighty ninety minute layover in Atlanta, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:01.720 and then we had another flight, which was like a 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:06.040 really short flight forty five minutes or so to beautiful 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.199 Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.920 And our flight was a few minutes to late, so 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:13.440 we actually had to rush. And this is where the 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:17.360 Southern hospitality comes in. We had to rush to get 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.320 to the rental car because we were told the rental 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:23.360 car place closed at eleven forty five pm. We were 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:28.880 in the plane waiting to dboard at eleven thirty one, 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.600 and fortunately we were able to make it. It was right 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:35.240 across from the baggage plane, very small airport in Myrtle Beach, 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:39.080 no shuttle needed, and we were able to get the 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.600 rental car. But one of the dudes helping us give 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.160 us the car and filling out all the paperwork and 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:49.839 all that adult crap that you have to do, he 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:53.080 happened to be a listener to the show. He's listened 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:57.400 to the show going back twenty years, big sports radio guy, 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.800 and so that was a really cool prize. He's like, yeah, 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.120 are you And he's like you are you? The Ben 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:07.080 Mallett from the radio who as you know, as you 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.960 know da. It ended up happened very often, but he 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.200 made my day. Made my day. And this guy a 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:18.559 long time connoisseur of sports talk radio. He brought up 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.800 a couple of legends back in the day. Papa Joe Chevalier, 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.400 who did the one on one sports thing back in 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:29.720 the day, brought up John Renshaw, Johnny Renshaw, who actually 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:34.760 worked at Fox Sports Radio briefly among allthers. So that 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:35.480 was pretty cool. 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:37.840 He made you look cool in front of your wife too. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.600 Yeah, exactly, because my wife was like she was telling me, 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.400 She's like, I was gonna yell at you because I 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.320 was on my phone. I was like looking at my phone. 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.600 You know, I wasn't I wasn't being social. And then 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.360 the guy was like, hey, yeah, you know so and so. 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.400 So that that got me a pass on that. So 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:53.800 that was that was pretty neat. So I was like, 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.640 well that now the trip's off to a good story. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.160 I had a great seat to Atlanta, had good Chinese food, 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.040 go to the airport, got the rental car. The guy 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.600 recognized me, so that was unexpected. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.320 Was it awkward though, when after a couple minutes of 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:13.400 silence he just said, so, how about weed man hippie? 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:17.360 Eh? It was no, it was it was cool. I 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:19.840 was like I was. He did not know we were coming, 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.320 so I did not announce what airport I was flying into. 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.600 But that was pretty neat. And so then we we 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:30.440 got the car and had a ninety minute drive because 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.960 we the beginning of the trip we were in Wilmington, 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:37.760 North Carolina, so we we went to Wilmington. There's a 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.960 long story, I'll get into it. A little bit later. 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:44.000 But but by the way, I must point out when 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.600 I got to Myrtle Beach, the first sign I saw 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:52.320 getting off the plane was something that I've talked about 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:56.120 on the radio. This goes back many, many years, and 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.720 it's one of the all time great Well, let mean 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.120 there is let me say it, and they said this. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.440 I want to see if you can recognize this. Danny, 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.400 I'm gonna put you on the spot here. So Myrtle 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:12.000 Beach is close to Coastal Carolina University. Why do you 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:17.600 think that university resonated? And a light bulb immediately went 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:21.880 off in my hair? What about Coastal Carolina University do 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:26.560 you think made me smile? There's only one thing that 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.080 they're famous for, as far as I know. 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:29.640 Their mascot. 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:32.920 No, I mean, they do have a unique mascot, the 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:34.880 chant Chanta clears, I believe. 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.040 Yeah, that's the first thing I think of. 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:39.800 No, no, no, no, I mean it's a cool mascot. 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:44.840 But let's go back. Okay, go back thirteen years and 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:48.440 there was a football coach named David Bennett at Coastal 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:52.720 Carolina and he had a random news conference where he 0:16:52.880 --> 0:17:00.800 starts talking about cats and dogs, oh yeah, I remember that. Yeah, 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.680 and he said, we don't need a bunch of cats, 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:08.439 and hear me, Now, yeah, he's the guy. And so 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.520 I'm like, lo, more like dogs, Yeah, be a dog. 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:17.240 We need more dogs. Ruf ruf. And yeah, this was 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.439 his university. He's you know, he's like an athletic director 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.359 at some high school or something like that around South Carolina. 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.639 But I was like, wow, that's great. You know, we 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.720 we got to play that here on the podcast because 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.080 this is one of the all time great grants. David Bennett, 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:35.440 the coach at Coastal Carolina, So that that was pretty cool. 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.240 I guess it's right in Erere's a few miles away 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.120 from Myrtle Beach, and so they had a big sign 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.360 up in the airport and so so that was kind 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:43.720 of cool. 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:46.560 Trying to get our two boys ready to carry to 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.520 the golf tournament. Four printice right, twelve cats live cross 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:52.440 the road. Our door's open, screens broke. We need to 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.760 get a new screen door, but the screens broke. So 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:56.640 you come in through the screen, but you can't get 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.760 back out. I turn to look, there's a little kiddy 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.840 cat in our in our kitchen, So I said what 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:02.760 are you doing in here? 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:03.600 A little kid cat. 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.000 By that time the cat turns, tries to get back out, 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:11.360 that scream won't go that way. Cats starts going all crazy, 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.240 and I told our players we need more dogs. Bows 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.919 barking in the back after go shut bow up, mels like, 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:18.439 what's going on? It says the cat and house cat 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:19.800 in the house. I said, it is a cat in 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:22.280 the house. So I told our players. I tried to 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.920 let it out the front door. Weird cat's still going 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.120 crazy in there. And I told our players, you needy 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.200 bit more like a dog. We don't need a bunch 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:33.480 of cats in here. Looking in the mirror, I look good. 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.479 I got my extra bands on, I got my other shoes. 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:40.680 Be a dog. We don't need no miwns. We don't 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:41.400 need no cats. 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:44.080 We need more dogs. 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:48.679 There you go, all right? I love that for a 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:53.920 guy that doesn't have any name value. David Benny not bad. 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:58.119 I mean, that's right up there with you. Think of 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.439 the legends of the ran in football, Jim Mora. We 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:05.440 couldn't do Diddley Pooh or the late Dennis Green. And 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.879 you want to crown them, crown them, but they are 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:12.280 who we thought they were, you know, and we let 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:16.480 them got them off the hook exactly exactly. Moving on 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.600 and the travel log here on the fifth hour, Pacast. 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:24.080 Don't forget Today's Today, Today's day. Somehow you didn't listen 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:29.160 to the beginning of this with Charleston Today three o'clock Friday, Friday, 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:33.280 Friday Friday Funday, three o'clock to five o'clock. Check it 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:34.320 out my. 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.240 English chicken fingers with Ben Maller. 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:42.480 Yeah, beating pretzels and whatever else. But so we were 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:47.080 in Wilmington. That was the first stop, and that was 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:53.760 the wife's family. The in laws, my father in law 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:59.000 and his wife along with a sister in law, live 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.240 in North Carolina. My father in law splits half the 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:06.560 time between southern California and here in North Carolina. Just 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:09.239 moved down here recently. A sister in law also has 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:14.080 been living here with her husband and daughter briefly a 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:17.320 couple of years now. Actually went to their wedding a 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:18.879 couple of years ago. First time I ever went to 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:21.919 North Carolina. So that's why we kind of extended the 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:24.760 trip because they're like, we spent half the week there 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:28.840 and then the rest of the time in South Carolina. 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:30.600 So even though we flew into South Carolina, we had 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:35.720 to drive you know, eighty ninety miles up to eighty 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.600 ninety minutes, I should say, up to Wilmington, North Carolina. 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:43.760 On the drive, the wife was hungry and there's not 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:48.639 much open in small town North Carolina in the middle 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:55.000 of the night except waffle house. So we made a 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:59.199 stop at a very small town in South Carolina that 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:03.359 has a popular of about four thousand people, which is 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:09.200 one half of one block of like in North Hollywood 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.159 or West Hollywood. It's just insane. But but anyways, it 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:15.880 was a very small, small rural town, but they did 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:19.359 have a waffle house. My wife was skeptical. She's like, oh, 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:21.760 it's gonna be terrible. It was not terrible, but I 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:24.639 told us that when you're in the South, you have 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:26.400 to eat at waffle house. It's required. 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:27.520 Yeah. 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.600 Yeah, well people go to like, let's go to California. 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:32.560 You got to have in and out Burger, you know, 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.400 it's like that kind of thing. But anyway, so we went. 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:38.600 We went back on the road after that very steamy night, 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:44.240 very human night, and driving in the middle of nowhere. 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:50.280 It was the twilight zone. Do do you know what 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:52.280 it reminded me of It reminded me of COVID when 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:56.720 we would drive during COVID at night. Yeah, there was 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:58.760 no one on the road except you, and you thought 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:00.480 for a little bit, You're like, what if if everyone 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:03.119 else is dead and I'm the only one alive. 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:06.359 Yeah, and upper management gave us FEMA cards like we 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:08.280 were really important essential workers. 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:11.320 Yes, Yes, that was my favorite part of COVID is 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:15.240 that we all got You're very essential, my man. My man, 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:19.639 people need their sports takes. It's a government wants you 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:20.879 to break the curfew. 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:25.240 My man. Uh to hear about the Marvel Championships, my man. 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:30.240 Yeah, that was the shirt? Was it the Sherman Act? 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:32.160