Speaker 1: Kabooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 1: The air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Big Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny g As. I have ended my audio silence.
Speaker 1: We are back at it with the podcast. No radio
Speaker 1: this week, but the Fifth Hour podcast continues from a
Speaker 1: secret location somewhere in the Carolinas, which is in a garage. Danny,
Speaker 1: I'm literally in a garage. Everyone around me is sleeping
Speaker 1: right now at the time we are doing this.
Speaker 3: It sounds like you're in a cave on a mister microphone.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, I pretty much am at this particular
Speaker 1: point in a cave. I mean, I'm not exaggerating. If
Speaker 1: you can see where I am, you can't see, thank god,
Speaker 1: because it's a podcast. But but here we are, and hey, listen,
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan said his podcast started in a garage, so
Speaker 1: this could be the beginning of something even bigger for
Speaker 1: the fifth hour podcast. What the heck? But it is
Speaker 1: the tenth day of may or, as I like to say,
Speaker 1: National Shrimp Day today, not a not a shrimp? Are
Speaker 1: you a shrimp guy, Danny? Do you like the shrimp?
Speaker 3: I do like shrimp, Mang bang chicken and shrimp.
Speaker 1: All right, well, this is a big day for you,
Speaker 1: So go out, go out and neat some shrimp today.
Speaker 1: Knock yourself out with the shrimp. Didn't shrimp put what
Speaker 1: was the seafood restaurant Red Lobster? Was it all you
Speaker 1: can eat shrimp? That is going to put them out
Speaker 1: of business?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Remember Coop told the story on the air that
Speaker 3: he went with a buddy to that all you can
Speaker 3: eat red lobster shrimp. He ate eighty five of them
Speaker 3: by himself. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So people like Coop tearing down an American institution. I
Speaker 1: wish I could pull off those suits the people over
Speaker 1: at Red Lobster. But it is also more than National
Speaker 1: Shrimp Day. It is go time. It is green light, gotime, Danny.
Speaker 1: Today is the day in Charleston we have the mallor
Speaker 1: Meat and greet the first one of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: It'll be this afternoon at three o'clock. Obviously in the location,
Speaker 1: we're at three o'clock Eastern till five o'clock, and maybe
Speaker 1: even a little bit longer depending on how it goes.
Speaker 1: We'll play it by year on that, but a minimum
Speaker 1: of two hours of schmoozing and hanging out. And I'm
Speaker 1: excited about it, looking forward to it. I've been promoting
Speaker 1: it with these cheesy videos on social media, Danny, because
Speaker 1: you know I'm going all out. I'm going all out.
Speaker 1: I went to a waffle house the other day and
Speaker 1: did a video. I had another video up yesterday, all
Speaker 1: in an effort to get the Great Unwashed to come together.
Speaker 1: And if you somehow have missed it, I don't know
Speaker 1: how you could have missed this, considering the amazing amount
Speaker 1: of promotion that we've put in. But it is today
Speaker 1: at my father's Mustache Day. You love this restaurant, Danny's,
Speaker 1: the James Island location, your favorite restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina.
Speaker 3: I did some research on this place. When it first opened,
Speaker 3: it was called General Lee's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean that's a lie.
Speaker 3: Their name got canceled, so they changed it to my
Speaker 3: father's mustache because they figured that wouldn't offend anybody.
Speaker 1: Well and my father's mustache fine. Establishment, We're gonna have
Speaker 1: all kinds of weird English food they have, like normal
Speaker 1: bar food and all that. It'll be a good time.
Speaker 1: So and as we pointed out in a previous episode
Speaker 1: of the podcast, and I said this on the radio
Speaker 1: show when we were in Appleton, Wisconsin, we pretty much
Speaker 1: go anywhere we can find someone that will have us.
Speaker 1: And my brother knew a guy. My brother lives in Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: and he knew a guy that owned a Mexican fusion restaurant,
Speaker 1: so we ate. We had a meet and greet at
Speaker 1: a Mexican restaurant in Appleton, which is the next level
Speaker 1: as well. But you think of Southern food, you don't
Speaker 1: normally think of like beef Wellington and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But they have bar food, and so we'll have a
Speaker 1: good time. It's not about the food, Danny, It's about
Speaker 1: the people. It's about people. I think, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I want my chicken.
Speaker 3: I mean when it comes to Malord, though you do
Speaker 3: think food, think Costco, food clippers. What is still wrong
Speaker 3: with the clippers, cheapskate.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, A tight wad more than cheap skate.
Speaker 3: But I haven't been through that. Yeah, that's true. You're
Speaker 3: not cheap, you have nice things. You're a tight one.
Speaker 3: That's a better way to put it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a tight What if I have been to Costco?
Speaker 1: I have made the pilgrimage to Costco this week, and
Speaker 1: so consider this this this weekend, I'm gonna have some
Speaker 1: travel stories. We'll have many more next weekend. But I
Speaker 1: figured since I've been away from my post in the Watchtower, yeah.
Speaker 3: I've been seeing listeners complain on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Well, they can play, they can play when I'm there,
Speaker 1: and they can play when I'm not there. So it's
Speaker 1: just the common theme. There's a thread here complaining, and
Speaker 1: certainly whoever fills in for me gets the brunt of it.
Speaker 1: I feel bad for them people, very grumpy and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But I figured we spent some time this weekend of
Speaker 1: going over and stuff. Today being the Friday Pod, We've
Speaker 1: got driving Miss Malor, the Feast, Southern Hospitality, and I
Speaker 1: got a bunch of other random things that will come out.
Speaker 1: We have the Word of a Week as well, and
Speaker 1: a bunch of other random stuff. We'll see what we
Speaker 1: have time to get to. As you know, even though
Speaker 1: this is a podcast, there's a certain window because we
Speaker 1: have market research that has determined after a certain amount
Speaker 1: of time, it doesn't matter. You can have the greatest
Speaker 1: podcast in the world and people are going to tune
Speaker 1: out at a certain point. So like, what are you doing?
Speaker 3: So, yeah, you know, the last time I talked to
Speaker 3: one of our bosses, Dawn, who you know very well,
Speaker 3: he told me that we could check out at twenty
Speaker 3: minutes if we want to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we usually go about thirty. We do a bit.
Speaker 3: I think it was last weekend we had one that
Speaker 3: was forty two minutes long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is probably way too long, but we'll try
Speaker 1: to keep it shorter. But so the Malor travelogue a
Speaker 1: staple of this podcast, the Mallard travelogue. So kind of
Speaker 1: setting you back to the beginning of the week. Here,
Speaker 1: I did the show Monday Sunday, and the Monday did
Speaker 1: the radio show and then got up after just a
Speaker 1: couple hours of sleep. Now, we flew from southern California
Speaker 1: to get to South Carolina. I get to the Carolina
Speaker 1: is not the easiest thing in the world. Not a
Speaker 1: lot of direct flights, so we flew out of Ontario.
Speaker 1: I've never flown out of the Ontario Airport in the
Speaker 1: Inland Empire of southern California. This is the first time
Speaker 1: I think I might have done it. That's not actually you.
Speaker 1: I think years ago I blocked it out of my memory.
Speaker 1: I think it was probably like twenty five years ago.
Speaker 1: I flew out of the Ontario airport, but we mostly
Speaker 1: used for like Amazon and ups. It's a southern California airport,
Speaker 1: but anything to avoid lax the ghost Town Airport, the
Speaker 1: Ontario Airport in southern California. Hardest part of flying out
Speaker 1: of that airport is getting to that airport, and so
Speaker 1: I was drying. We took an uber to get out there.
Speaker 1: I was just I wasn't driving anyone. We took an
Speaker 1: uber to get out there. And the wife she wanted
Speaker 1: to have have breakfast. But my main goal in life
Speaker 1: is to avoid the powder room on a plane that
Speaker 1: she wanted to meet to eat breakfast. And you know,
Speaker 1: you got a cross country flight if you need breakfast,
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm a faster anyway. Plus, the airport food
Speaker 1: is often terrible and ridiculously overpriced. And so I try
Speaker 1: to avoid try to avoid that.
Speaker 3: In general, I would guess also that you don't even
Speaker 3: fit in the airplane stall.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a tough situation. It's a lot of being
Speaker 1: a contortionist and trying to bend certain ways and all that,
Speaker 1: and so that that's bad. But we flew from there
Speaker 1: to Atlanta, and I gotta tell you, I had one
Speaker 1: of the greatest flights I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 1: And I've flown a fair amount over the year. It's
Speaker 1: not as much in recent years as I did back
Speaker 1: in the day. But I had a tremendous trip. And
Speaker 1: the reason I was flying Delta, it's not because of Delta,
Speaker 1: it's because of location, location, location. So I sat in
Speaker 1: row twenty seven. I sat in an exit row, which
Speaker 1: by itself is great because you get an extra leg
Speaker 1: room in the exit row. But the way the plane
Speaker 1: was set up, the row in front of me, I
Speaker 1: want to make sure I pink the picture of the
Speaker 1: proper way. So I'm in twenty seven, row twenty six.
Speaker 1: It had two seats, not three seats. So I'm in
Speaker 1: a row with three seats, and then in front of
Speaker 1: me there's a row with two seats, and I happened
Speaker 1: to be in position where there was no seat in
Speaker 1: front of me. I got to stretch my legs out
Speaker 1: like I was like I was flying on Tom Cruise's
Speaker 1: Gulf Stream. It was awesome. I mean, I loved it.
Speaker 1: I could have flown to Australia or New Zealand or wherever,
Speaker 1: Tim Shanghai, I could have gone anywhere with that setup.
Speaker 1: It was the greatest thing. I'm like, this is the
Speaker 1: way to fly. I don't have to worry about anyone
Speaker 1: leaning back into me. I can stretch my legs as
Speaker 1: far as I want, I can lay down basically, And
Speaker 1: so it was. It was awesome. It was absolutely awesome.
Speaker 1: I loved it, and so I wish the flight had
Speaker 1: actually been longer. I was upset that it wasn't longer
Speaker 1: because I was like, this is great. So then we
Speaker 1: had to change planes in Atlanta because there's no no
Speaker 1: direct flight. So we got to Atlanta, the beautiful Atlanta
Speaker 1: Hartsfield or Hartsfield Atlanta Airport, whatever they call it. And
Speaker 1: at that point I was like, well, I probably should
Speaker 1: eat because I don't eat here. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: eat at all, and so ended up breaking my my fast.
Speaker 1: I had fasted since I think it was like Saturday,
Speaker 1: so it was a fair amount of time. Got to Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and what I did, I don't know how you handle this.
Speaker 1: I don't like to eat at airports, but when you
Speaker 1: have a stopover and you're in a long travel day,
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, you gotta eat something. So I scouted.
Speaker 1: I did a recon mission on the food court in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and I went around and I observed there like a
Speaker 1: southern restaurant. They had a Windy's, there was a TGI Fridays.
Speaker 1: They were like a couple of other places, and I
Speaker 1: I was what I was doing was I was like, well,
Speaker 1: would this be airport quality food? And then like I
Speaker 1: did a cost benefit analysis, But then I was also
Speaker 1: looking to see like what was what was busy because
Speaker 1: I figured if it's busy people, probably that's a good
Speaker 1: sign as normally people aren't going to, you know, go
Speaker 1: gravitate towards eating dog food.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like they've been to this airport before, they know
Speaker 3: where to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There were a lot of middle aged dudes who
Speaker 1: travel all the time. You know, you know that look
Speaker 1: of that guy that's in a plane all the time,
Speaker 1: like a couple of times a week flying, so I
Speaker 1: ended up eating Chinese food at the It was like
Speaker 1: a ripoff Panda Express at the Atlanta airport, and because
Speaker 1: that was the busiest spot, it was the most bang
Speaker 1: for your buck. And I gotta tell you, it was
Speaker 1: pretty pretty good, Danny. It was pretty good. However, it
Speaker 1: could have been the fact that hunger is the best
Speaker 1: sauce in the world. It might not have had anything
Speaker 1: to do with the orange chicken and just that I
Speaker 1: was hungry. Oh you fat fuck you got head roll,
Speaker 1: you got the breezeparem, you everything. It tasted about as
Speaker 1: good as Chinese food that you could possibly have out
Speaker 1: of a fast food type of restaurant. So it was great.
Speaker 1: And we had.
Speaker 4: About a ninety minute eighty ninety minute layover in Atlanta,
Speaker 4: and then we had another flight, which was like a
Speaker 4: really short flight forty five minutes or so to beautiful
Speaker 4: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Speaker 1: And our flight was a few minutes to late, so
Speaker 1: we actually had to rush. And this is where the
Speaker 1: Southern hospitality comes in. We had to rush to get
Speaker 1: to the rental car because we were told the rental
Speaker 1: car place closed at eleven forty five pm. We were
Speaker 1: in the plane waiting to dboard at eleven thirty one,
Speaker 1: and fortunately we were able to make it. It was right
Speaker 1: across from the baggage plane, very small airport in Myrtle Beach,
Speaker 1: no shuttle needed, and we were able to get the
Speaker 1: rental car. But one of the dudes helping us give
Speaker 1: us the car and filling out all the paperwork and
Speaker 1: all that adult crap that you have to do, he
Speaker 1: happened to be a listener to the show. He's listened
Speaker 1: to the show going back twenty years, big sports radio guy,
Speaker 1: and so that was a really cool prize. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: are you And he's like you are you? The Ben
Speaker 1: Mallett from the radio who as you know, as you
Speaker 1: know da. It ended up happened very often, but he
Speaker 1: made my day. Made my day. And this guy a
Speaker 1: long time connoisseur of sports talk radio. He brought up
Speaker 1: a couple of legends back in the day. Papa Joe Chevalier,
Speaker 1: who did the one on one sports thing back in
Speaker 1: the day, brought up John Renshaw, Johnny Renshaw, who actually
Speaker 1: worked at Fox Sports Radio briefly among allthers. So that
Speaker 1: was pretty cool.
Speaker 3: He made you look cool in front of your wife too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, because my wife was like she was telling me,
Speaker 1: She's like, I was gonna yell at you because I
Speaker 1: was on my phone. I was like looking at my phone.
Speaker 1: You know, I wasn't I wasn't being social. And then
Speaker 1: the guy was like, hey, yeah, you know so and so.
Speaker 1: So that that got me a pass on that. So
Speaker 1: that was that was pretty neat. So I was like,
Speaker 1: well that now the trip's off to a good story.
Speaker 1: I had a great seat to Atlanta, had good Chinese food,
Speaker 1: go to the airport, got the rental car. The guy
Speaker 1: recognized me, so that was unexpected.
Speaker 3: Was it awkward though, when after a couple minutes of
Speaker 3: silence he just said, so, how about weed man hippie?
Speaker 1: Eh? It was no, it was it was cool. I
Speaker 1: was like I was. He did not know we were coming,
Speaker 1: so I did not announce what airport I was flying into.
Speaker 1: But that was pretty neat. And so then we we
Speaker 1: got the car and had a ninety minute drive because
Speaker 1: we the beginning of the trip we were in Wilmington,
Speaker 1: North Carolina, so we we went to Wilmington. There's a
Speaker 1: long story, I'll get into it. A little bit later.
Speaker 1: But but by the way, I must point out when
Speaker 1: I got to Myrtle Beach, the first sign I saw
Speaker 1: getting off the plane was something that I've talked about
Speaker 1: on the radio. This goes back many, many years, and
Speaker 1: it's one of the all time great Well, let mean
Speaker 1: there is let me say it, and they said this.
Speaker 1: I want to see if you can recognize this. Danny,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you on the spot here. So Myrtle
Speaker 1: Beach is close to Coastal Carolina University. Why do you
Speaker 1: think that university resonated? And a light bulb immediately went
Speaker 1: off in my hair? What about Coastal Carolina University do
Speaker 1: you think made me smile? There's only one thing that
Speaker 1: they're famous for, as far as I know.
Speaker 3: Their mascot.
Speaker 1: No, I mean, they do have a unique mascot, the
Speaker 1: chant Chanta clears, I believe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the first thing I think of.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, I mean it's a cool mascot.
Speaker 1: But let's go back. Okay, go back thirteen years and
Speaker 1: there was a football coach named David Bennett at Coastal
Speaker 1: Carolina and he had a random news conference where he
Speaker 1: starts talking about cats and dogs, oh yeah, I remember that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he said, we don't need a bunch of cats,
Speaker 1: and hear me, Now, yeah, he's the guy. And so
Speaker 1: I'm like, lo, more like dogs, Yeah, be a dog.
Speaker 1: We need more dogs. Ruf ruf. And yeah, this was
Speaker 1: his university. He's you know, he's like an athletic director
Speaker 1: at some high school or something like that around South Carolina.
Speaker 1: But I was like, wow, that's great. You know, we
Speaker 1: we got to play that here on the podcast because
Speaker 1: this is one of the all time great grants. David Bennett,
Speaker 1: the coach at Coastal Carolina, So that that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I guess it's right in Erere's a few miles away
Speaker 1: from Myrtle Beach, and so they had a big sign
Speaker 1: up in the airport and so so that was kind
Speaker 1: of cool.
Speaker 5: Trying to get our two boys ready to carry to
Speaker 5: the golf tournament. Four printice right, twelve cats live cross
Speaker 5: the road. Our door's open, screens broke. We need to
Speaker 5: get a new screen door, but the screens broke. So
Speaker 5: you come in through the screen, but you can't get
Speaker 5: back out. I turn to look, there's a little kiddy
Speaker 5: cat in our in our kitchen, So I said what
Speaker 5: are you doing in here?
Speaker 1: A little kid cat.
Speaker 5: By that time the cat turns, tries to get back out,
Speaker 5: that scream won't go that way. Cats starts going all crazy,
Speaker 5: and I told our players we need more dogs. Bows
Speaker 5: barking in the back after go shut bow up, mels like,
Speaker 5: what's going on? It says the cat and house cat
Speaker 5: in the house. I said, it is a cat in
Speaker 5: the house. So I told our players. I tried to
Speaker 5: let it out the front door. Weird cat's still going
Speaker 5: crazy in there. And I told our players, you needy
Speaker 5: bit more like a dog. We don't need a bunch
Speaker 5: of cats in here. Looking in the mirror, I look good.
Speaker 2: I got my extra bands on, I got my other shoes.
Speaker 1: Be a dog. We don't need no miwns. We don't
Speaker 1: need no cats.
Speaker 3: We need more dogs.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right? I love that for a
Speaker 1: guy that doesn't have any name value. David Benny not bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's right up there with you. Think of
Speaker 1: the legends of the ran in football, Jim Mora. We
Speaker 1: couldn't do Diddley Pooh or the late Dennis Green. And
Speaker 1: you want to crown them, crown them, but they are
Speaker 1: who we thought they were, you know, and we let
Speaker 1: them got them off the hook exactly exactly. Moving on
Speaker 1: and the travel log here on the fifth hour, Pacast.
Speaker 1: Don't forget Today's Today, Today's day. Somehow you didn't listen
Speaker 1: to the beginning of this with Charleston Today three o'clock Friday, Friday,
Speaker 1: Friday Friday Funday, three o'clock to five o'clock. Check it
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Speaker 3: English chicken fingers with Ben Maller.
Speaker 1: Yeah, beating pretzels and whatever else. But so we were
Speaker 1: in Wilmington. That was the first stop, and that was
Speaker 1: the wife's family. The in laws, my father in law
Speaker 1: and his wife along with a sister in law, live
Speaker 1: in North Carolina. My father in law splits half the
Speaker 1: time between southern California and here in North Carolina. Just
Speaker 1: moved down here recently. A sister in law also has
Speaker 1: been living here with her husband and daughter briefly a
Speaker 1: couple of years now. Actually went to their wedding a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. First time I ever went to
Speaker 1: North Carolina. So that's why we kind of extended the
Speaker 1: trip because they're like, we spent half the week there
Speaker 1: and then the rest of the time in South Carolina.
Speaker 1: So even though we flew into South Carolina, we had
Speaker 1: to drive you know, eighty ninety miles up to eighty
Speaker 1: ninety minutes, I should say, up to Wilmington, North Carolina.
Speaker 1: On the drive, the wife was hungry and there's not
Speaker 1: much open in small town North Carolina in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night except waffle house. So we made a
Speaker 1: stop at a very small town in South Carolina that
Speaker 1: has a popular of about four thousand people, which is
Speaker 1: one half of one block of like in North Hollywood
Speaker 1: or West Hollywood. It's just insane. But but anyways, it
Speaker 1: was a very small, small rural town, but they did
Speaker 1: have a waffle house. My wife was skeptical. She's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be terrible. It was not terrible, but I
Speaker 1: told us that when you're in the South, you have
Speaker 1: to eat at waffle house. It's required.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well people go to like, let's go to California.
Speaker 1: You got to have in and out Burger, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like that kind of thing. But anyway, so we went.
Speaker 1: We went back on the road after that very steamy night,
Speaker 1: very human night, and driving in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1: It was the twilight zone. Do do you know what
Speaker 1: it reminded me of It reminded me of COVID when
Speaker 1: we would drive during COVID at night. Yeah, there was
Speaker 1: no one on the road except you, and you thought
Speaker 1: for a little bit, You're like, what if if everyone
Speaker 1: else is dead and I'm the only one alive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and upper management gave us FEMA cards like we
Speaker 3: were really important essential workers.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, that was my favorite part of COVID is
Speaker 1: that we all got You're very essential, my man. My man,
Speaker 1: people need their sports takes. It's a government wants you
Speaker 1: to break the curfew.
Speaker 3: My man. Uh to hear about the Marvel Championships, my man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the shirt? Was it the Sherman Act?
Speaker 1: Was that what it was? The Sherman Act? I believe
Speaker 1: it was. I think that was it that allowed us
Speaker 1: to have access, But not podcasts. I don't think podcasters
Speaker 1: had access. I think only the radio people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the live broadcasters. We were there in case of
Speaker 3: any emergency, so we could play the FCC alarms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, doing God's work, you Jesus. Driving on the Twilight
Speaker 1: Zone type theme there, small dark country roads. But I
Speaker 1: was so paranoid after my experience in Minnesota getting a
Speaker 1: speeding ticket that I was like, I'm not I'm gonna
Speaker 1: drive the freaking speed limit. So I set auto pilot
Speaker 1: whatever the speed limit was top, like thirty five miles
Speaker 1: an hour.
Speaker 3: Unlearned your tourist staff learned I did.
Speaker 1: And we have out of state plates on the rental car,
Speaker 1: which is I hate that every time I travel, Every
Speaker 1: freaking time I travel, these people give me a car
Speaker 1: with plates from a different state and it's on it. Well,
Speaker 1: I've got Virginia plates on the on the car now.
Speaker 1: When I was in Virginia we had plates. When I
Speaker 1: was in North Carolina, we had like Texas plates. Last
Speaker 1: time we flew into Virginia. When I was in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: we had Kansas plates. It's like it's always. When I
Speaker 1: was in Boston we had I don't even remember what
Speaker 1: we didn't have the state. We never get the state
Speaker 1: we're in.
Speaker 3: Just eight I could just see a small town pop
Speaker 3: behind you, like this Virginia city slicker. I'm gonna pull
Speaker 3: this cracker over right now.
Speaker 1: Oh exactly. Yeah. So I'm like, screw that. I'm not
Speaker 1: getting another ticket. So I'm like, I don't care how
Speaker 1: long it takes, but it really it drove me nuts.
Speaker 1: Dandy because you know, living in LA when it's at
Speaker 1: night and you can drive, you're going seventy five eighty
Speaker 1: miles And I usually go seventy nine because I know
Speaker 1: that's where I don't get tickets. But still seventy nine.
Speaker 1: Go from seventy nine to thirty seven, you know, it's like,
Speaker 1: that's a big that's a big drop in.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, you might as well be rolling in a tractor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I might as well be on an e bike
Speaker 1: making my way my way around, I mean, and so whatever,
Speaker 1: it was fine, and we got there. I didn't get
Speaker 1: a ticket, and that's great, and that's wonderful and all that.
Speaker 1: And so that was the first, the first leg, and
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess I'll leave some stuff for the weekend.
Speaker 1: The company. We do have the word of the week.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for the word of the week?
Speaker 3: Danny? The word of the week straight out of the Carolinas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so it is a theme. It was an
Speaker 1: emailer who lives here in the Carolina and said, Hey,
Speaker 1: since you're in Carolina, I was curious where did the
Speaker 1: tar heel thing come from? And I thought it would
Speaker 1: be appropriate because I spent the first part of the
Speaker 1: week in North Carolina, and so I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: what the hell, why not, let's.
Speaker 3: Do it north ca Calaca.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So the term tar heel, which is the mascot
Speaker 1: for the University of North Carolina. Where are they still
Speaker 1: lunatic protesters at North Carolina? I haven't kept track of that.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've tuned that out this week, thank god. But the
Speaker 1: term tar heel dates back to the very early days
Speaker 1: in the history of North Carolina, and the state of
Speaker 1: North Carolina was a leading producer in supplies for the
Speaker 1: naval industry, the early navy, and the people who distilled
Speaker 1: the turpentine from sticky sap of the pine trees. They
Speaker 1: burned pine, the big things of pine, to produce tar
Speaker 1: and pitch, and they often did this well barefoot during
Speaker 1: the ridiculously hot, steamy summer months here in the Carolinas.
Speaker 1: And so what do you think happened? They're doing barefoot
Speaker 1: and they're they're making sap. So they collected tar on
Speaker 1: the heels of their feet, and so put two and
Speaker 1: two together. Toda. North Carolina was associated with tar from
Speaker 1: the seventeen hundreds onward. And originally they were the people
Speaker 1: that did this were called tar boilers. That was a
Speaker 1: term that was not endearing to the locals since at
Speaker 1: least they say, roughly the eighteen forties. Tar heel is
Speaker 1: a tested I guess in eighteen sixty three by some
Speaker 1: of the Confederate soldiers, and it had become common at
Speaker 1: that time. But it's the gummy resin of the pine
Speaker 1: barrens the lowland part of the state. So literally tar.
Speaker 1: You literally have tar on your heels as a barefoot worker,
Speaker 1: going back to the seventeen hundreds in North Carolina, So
Speaker 1: that is the word of the week.
Speaker 3: That's crazy because I don't know about you, but I
Speaker 3: don't like anything on my feet like that. We were
Speaker 3: kids and sometimes we'd be walking around bare feet and
Speaker 3: if I'd get anything on my feet, it would bug me.
Speaker 3: So I can't imagine having tar stuck to your feet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially at least now you can get stuff like
Speaker 1: that off your feet, but it was a lot harder
Speaker 1: in the seventeen and eighteen and early nineteen hundreds to
Speaker 1: get that stuff.
Speaker 3: Oh you were on a beach and you got some
Speaker 3: on your feet, remember I.
Speaker 1: Did, Yes, I did. That was in southern California. Actually,
Speaker 1: I think it was sunset beach that was covered in oil.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what did you have to use to get it off?
Speaker 1: We went on the internet. I forget what it was,
Speaker 1: but yeah it was. It was a little bit. We
Speaker 1: had a google it. That's a lot of work to google.
Speaker 1: That's not easy to google, but yeah it was. It
Speaker 1: was a bit of a pain. It was on there
Speaker 1: for a fair amount of time, and that was with
Speaker 1: modern modern technology. But I think we'll get out on that.
Speaker 1: I have many more stories to tell, but I'm really
Speaker 1: excited to meet you. If you can come down today,
Speaker 1: hopefully you'll be able to make it three o'clock till
Speaker 1: five o'clock over at my father's mustache, remember the James
Speaker 1: Island location, and that is today right here Charleston, South Carolina.
Speaker 3: I feel like there's going to be a pretty good
Speaker 3: sized crowd there at my wife's Sideburns.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Is that lady Sideburns that that emails the show
Speaker 1: or sends messages on tour? Yeah, I don't know who's
Speaker 1: going to show up by These things are always hit
Speaker 1: and miss. Sometimes we get a great turnout like in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: sometimes a little smaller, but it doesn't matter. It was
Speaker 1: big or small. Yeah, ever shows up We've done these
Speaker 1: in Maine and Boston and Syracuse and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: And then the rapper mentality. They always say back in
Speaker 3: the day, the greatest MC's they tear up the stage.
Speaker 3: Whether there's ten people or ten thousand people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. It's like politician going around and you know,
Speaker 1: meeting with the electorate. Just whoever's there. It's great if
Speaker 1: it's a big crowd, find if it's small crowd, we'll
Speaker 1: have a good time. Whoever shows up. We'll tell stories.
Speaker 1: You can ask me whatever you want. I'll trash Eddie,
Speaker 1: I'll trash Coop. I'll trash you whatever you want, you know, Lorrain, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Lorraine of course, Ripper, Roberta, Roberto by the bus driver come.
Speaker 3: On, yeah, Iowa, Sam, Jake Warner.
Speaker 1: I'll go way back if you want. I don't care
Speaker 1: how how far back you want to go. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I have a great day today. Thank you for listening here. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we'll have new pods all weekend. You guys have been great.
Speaker 1: I did not promote this at all that we would
Speaker 1: have new pods. And the email, a lot of email
Speaker 1: people were asking we'll get to that on Sunday, but
Speaker 1: a lot of sporty questions mixed in, so we'll do
Speaker 1: some of those, and anyway, we'll just have a good
Speaker 1: time today and new pods all weekend, so.
Speaker 3: We'll catch you when we catch you later. Skater gotta murder,
Speaker 3: I gotta go.