1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: the Old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the rich 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:20,240 Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of Hot takes 6 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 7 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, and a 8 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 1: very good Saturday to you. Another fresh edition of The 9 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny Gee back in 10 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 1: the podcast do Joe all weekend long. And this is 11 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: Danny a special edition of the podcast because it is 12 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 1: part two of our Mallard Travelog mini series, as we 13 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: take a look back at the Big Globe Old Tour 14 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: around the United States from last week. And so we 15 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: left off I had left Chicago, right, Danny, we were 16 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: leaving Chicago. I believe that was the point we left 17 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 1: off at. Yeah, you had another good food experience right 18 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: before you left, a couple of good restaurants. Visit my 19 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: family and my my cousin who lives in Chicago. And 20 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: so Part two, The Whirlwinds Circus, the Trip Heard around 21 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: the World actually not heard around the world, but at 22 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 1: least on the podcast. And uh, this part of the miniseries, 23 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: we transition to the airport. Back to the airport because 24 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:41,759 Speaker 1: I had to get out of Chicago and head to Virginia. 25 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: I mean violence that you were reading about, you know, 26 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: I did not. I saw a lot of shady guys 27 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: that look like they could be up to no good, 28 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: but I did not actually witness any kind of actual violence. 29 00:01:55,120 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: I saw a very high police presence that I heard 30 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: that that that was not really the case that much 31 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: in that part of Chicago, but there were there were 32 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: a lot of police on guard because, as I understand it, 33 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: there were actually some problems that happened in that area 34 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:14,920 Speaker 1: where we were staying in the weeks prior, so they 35 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: made sure to have a lot of police there to 36 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 1: make make that a little safer for the out of 37 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,399 Speaker 1: towners like us. But I didn't. I didn't witness any 38 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: violence or anything like that. And I didn't really feel 39 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: threatened at any point in Chicago. And I'm going to 40 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 1: decapitate a goat. It's a good city, and you know 41 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: it's it's nice when you don't need your glock on vacation. Yeah, yeah, 42 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: you try to try to keep that on the down low. 43 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: So destination North Carolina. But to get to the Outer Banks, 44 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: we had to go to Virginia and got to a 45 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: hare two hours early for the flight, rental car return, 46 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: gave over my family gold all of that gone. Yeah, 47 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 1: I guess I got some money here. The flight to 48 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: Virginia is only one hour and thirty four minutes, but 49 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: you get to the airport two hours early, and then 50 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: with the time change, the flight was delayed, and by 51 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,839 Speaker 1: the time we we got our bags in the rental car, 52 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: it was almost sunset in in Chicago. But I did 53 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: have a great radio geek moment that you can appreciate, Danny, 54 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: when I got to Virginia from from Chicago. So we 55 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: get into the rental car in Norfolk, turn on the radio, 56 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: and whoever had been in the car before us was 57 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: listening to w t a R Sports Radio nineties six 58 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: point five on the FM dial, which happens to be 59 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: the Fox Sports radio affiliate. Yeah, and so I heard 60 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: Steve de Sager's voice booming out doing one of his 61 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 1: signature twenty minute updates with Harmon and Smith. But it 62 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: was cool. I actually text Harmon, I said Hey, I 63 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: hear you on the car radio. That was pretty neat. 64 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: There's no question that is cool, because two weekends ago 65 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: I mentioned that we pick your brain about any podcasts 66 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: that you may have listened to or local radio that 67 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 1: you might have heard. Yeah, so I heard our affiliate 68 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: that the rental car had on the station which you 69 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: always loved. You love to see that. If you're a 70 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: fan of Fox Sports Radio, wherever you are, whatever the 71 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: affiliate is, when you turn the car in, just turn 72 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 1: it on that station. The rental cars everywhere, that's right, 73 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 1: we dominate the overpriced rental cars. We headed to Virginia 74 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: Beach on the way to North Carolina. Figured well, we're 75 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 1: in Virginia, we have a few hours. We don't have 76 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: to get to North Carolina until late in the night, 77 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: and so why not why don't we enjoy the Atlantic 78 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 1: and famous Virginia Beach. It's it's always odd to me 79 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,280 Speaker 1: and you probably have the same experienced any growing up 80 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: in California, and I've always flocked to the beach to 81 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 1: see the sun set over the ocean. But when you 82 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: go to the East Coast, it doesn't set over the ocean. 83 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: The sunset, as we all know, it sets in the 84 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: west smoke. So we were hanging out and the weather 85 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 1: was not particularly great in Virginia Beach, but it reminded 86 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: me more of like kind of like a poor man's 87 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: Venice Beach. Then I love you like a lot of 88 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: bums in Virginia Beach, some shady looking guys walking around. 89 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,159 Speaker 1: It is a great military town though we had a 90 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 1: free air show. We were walking up and down the 91 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: beach there, and there's so so many military people in 92 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: that area. Uh, that's like a hub of military activity. 93 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 1: And so it reminded me of when I was a 94 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: kid and I was growing up near the El Toro 95 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 1: Marine Base in Orange County, which no longer exists, in 96 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: the Tustan Marine Base which no longer exists, And when 97 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: I was a little kid, every morning and afternoon there 98 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: would be planes doing helicopters doing exercises. So that was 99 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,599 Speaker 1: just kind of what I grew up with. And I 100 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: hadn't seen that in a long time, so it was 101 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: it was neat. They were like military fighter jets flying 102 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: over the ocean doing exercises right in front of us. 103 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 1: It was pretty cool. So then we decided to go 104 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: on a fried chicken eating tour, all right, I want 105 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:24,840 Speaker 1: my chicken around Norfolk Hampton's in Virginia Beach. And we 106 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: spent about five hours altogether in Virginia, maybe a little 107 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: more than that, and sampled three different fried chicken places, Danny, 108 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: three of them in five hours. Yeah. I saw all 109 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,840 Speaker 1: the listeners tweeting you with their recommendations. Yeah, I did 110 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 1: ask for places to eat at and got to take 111 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: Chesapeake Babe Bridge Tunnel, a modern engineering marvel. Uh. That 112 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: thing has been around since the nineteen sixties. And so 113 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 1: we were driving to get food, but we crossed over 114 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 1: and under the open waters where the Chesapeake Bay meets 115 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: the Atlantic Ocean. And I don't know if you've ever 116 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 1: seen this thing, Danny, it is crazy. It cuts off 117 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 1: like almost a hundred miles if you're driving from Wilmington, Delaware, 118 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 1: to Virginia Beach and anything beyond Delaware. But it reminded 119 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: me a little bit like the Lincoln Tunnel in New York, 120 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 1: if you've been in that, but bigger, longer. He's long 121 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: everywhere all that. And and then I found out after 122 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: we had gone in the tunnel, listener pointed out that 123 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: it's very unsafe when there's high winds that trucks have 124 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: been blown off the Chesapeake Babe Bridge Tunnel and people 125 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: have died in their truck from from that, and that 126 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: freaked me out a little bit. But we first stop, 127 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: we went to Bobo's Fine Chicken Restaurant. I never heard 128 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: of Bobo's Fine Chicken Restaurant, Danny, but it's a it's 129 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: a local establishment in the Virginia Beach. It was pretty good. 130 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: It wasn't the greatest. It was pretty good. But then 131 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: we were like, wait a minute. Much like in Wisconsin 132 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: when I had gone to Culver's, I wanted to eat 133 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: a Culver's a lot because I heard good things about it. 134 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: I heard a ton of good things about Zaxby's and 135 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: bow Jangles. Yeah. I've heard about Zaxby's for years. Yeah, 136 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: so people are like, hey, you gotta go to Zaxby's 137 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: and Jangles. Surprisingly, I was actually more of a fan 138 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: of bow Jangles than I was of Zaxby's. I did 139 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: not see that on the horizon when I showed up. 140 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: And I'm happy to report, Danny, after doing a thorough 141 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: taste test of these establishments, the king of the chicken 142 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 1: finger continues to be raising kings. Wow. They did not 143 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,959 Speaker 1: lose their status is a number one king of the 144 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: Chicken Finger Hill. Why did you like Bojangles better? I 145 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: just thought the chicken tasted better. They gave you bigger 146 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 1: portions of food, and uh, I just thought it was 147 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: a better meal. Uh man Zaxtually, it wasn't bad. I 148 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 1: wouldn't like pass up Zaxby's, but I just I felt 149 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 1: like Keynes is a lot better and and bo Jangles 150 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: was a little bit closer to the Keynes. So so 151 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: then about eleven o'clock at night, we stopped, stopped eating, 152 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: We hit Walmart for supplies why not, and then headed 153 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: the Nag's Head, North Carolina. Now this is my first 154 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 1: time driving in the South. I had not spent a 155 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: lot of time in the South over the years, and so, 156 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: just like in the movies Pitch Black, Danny Country, empty Roads. 157 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: The thing that annoyed me was the speed limit fluctuated 158 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: from twenty five miles an hour to like sixty miles 159 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: an hour, but every couple of miles it would go 160 00:09:52,960 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: from higher to lower, and it was really annoying. That's 161 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 1: weird that I don't know, but I'm used to driving 162 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: in California. We drive around here at night. It's like 163 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: the auto bonn yeah, yeah, and and but I was like, 164 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 1: I don't want to get pulled over. I made it 165 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 1: through Wisconsin and Chicago not getting pulled over. I'm not 166 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 1: gonna get pulled over in North Carolina. Now one of 167 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,839 Speaker 1: the positives. I was battling a little bit of a 168 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: bladder infection, t am I and I had to go 169 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,559 Speaker 1: to the bathroom quite a bit during this period of 170 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: the trip. A little too much information. But the great 171 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 1: thing about driving on a country road in the middle 172 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 1: of nowhere, and when you need to take a pit 173 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: you just you pull over and the whole landscape is 174 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: your toilet. Yeah, and you don't have to worry. But 175 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: there's nobody on the roads. Nobody beats the whiz and 176 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: uh so I did stop a few times. We rolled 177 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: into the airbnb at this at this location, Danny, we 178 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 1: were sharing the house with my sister in law, my 179 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: brother in law, uh, some cousins and a bunch of 180 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 1: little kids. Their kids and whatnot were there. We showed 181 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: about one in the morning, just enough time to pass 182 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: out and uh and get ready. But I've never been 183 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 1: to Nack said, I never even heard of Nack said, 184 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: had you ever heard of Nag's Head. Yeah, I've never 185 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: heard it. I'm not from the East Coast, and so 186 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 1: it was cool. It's a really neat little beach town. 187 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: If I lived in that part of the country, I 188 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,960 Speaker 1: was in Maryland and Virginia or somewhere within reasonable driving distance, 189 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: I would go there. Again. It's weird. Surrounded by the 190 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:40,679 Speaker 1: Atlantic on one side and there's a sound on the other, 191 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: so it's this little stretch of land surrounded by water. 192 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 1: There's a lot of like thirsty restaurants with funny names. 193 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: I tweeted out. I think I put it on Facebook. 194 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 1: There was a restaurant my wife wanted to go to 195 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: called Biscuits and Porn. The name of the restaurant Biscuits 196 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: and Porn. And I was very disappointed, Danny when I 197 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: went in there and I didn't see any porn. I 198 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: saw a lot of biscuits, I didn't see any porn. 199 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: It's very disappointing. Across the street from there was a 200 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: crab place called dirty Dicks maybe you can suck on It, 201 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: which I thought was also a fun name. There's a 202 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:28,680 Speaker 1: gourmet roasted nut shop called Try My Nuts Nuts that 203 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: also applied to the bathroom. Yeah, try my nuts. We 204 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: went to this place called Bob's Grill. Their slogan is 205 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 1: eat and get the hell out, which is a good slogan. 206 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: Awful Arthur's Beach Shop, there's a whalebone place, all kinds 207 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 1: of these weird little gift shops and whatnot. It sounds 208 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: like a fun area. Yeah, it's it's cool. You take 209 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: the family for the way they were. There were three 210 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 1: or four miniature golf and gold cart locate on this 211 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 1: one main drag in Nag's Head, and it's like three cities. 212 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: There's Kittie Hawk, Killed, Devil Hills, and Nag's Head. They're 213 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 1: all side by side. And although the beaches of Nag's 214 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: Head were a ghost town compared to what I am 215 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 1: used to in California. The Atlantic is a inferior ocean 216 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: to the Pacific. Would you agree on that day that 217 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 1: I don't want to piss anybody off on the East Coast, 218 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 1: but in my experience, I would have to agree with you. Yeah, 219 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 1: the Pacific is just a better experience at the ocean 220 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: for for many many reasons. But the people in South 221 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: very kind of great hospitality. I did not have time 222 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: to do a meet and greet, but I drove all 223 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 1: over in my short stay in Nag's Head, drove all 224 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: over the outer banks. I love visiting Kitty Hawk, and 225 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 1: I wish it was one of those things. I wish 226 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 1: my dad was still around because he would have been 227 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 1: really impressed by that. Could have could have told him 228 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 1: sis because the Right Brothers, that's where they mostly the 229 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 1: first flight took place, and they had a Right brothers. More. 230 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,319 Speaker 1: I didn't go to it because we didn't have a 231 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 1: lot of time. We're only be there twenty minutes. It 232 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 1: wasn't cost effective, But what a brilliant move by the 233 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 1: Right brothers to pick that patch of land surrounded by water, 234 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: tremendous high winds pretty much all day and all night 235 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: if you're trying to get a plane off the ground. 236 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: I can't think of a better place to go than 237 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: Kittie Hawk. Just brilliant, just absolutely brilliant. H Then there's 238 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: this place called kill Devil Hills, which I did not 239 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: see a single hill or mountain. I don't know why 240 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: it's called kill Devil Hills, but it is. And there 241 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: are all kinds of other weird little stores like they 242 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 1: have North Carolina has these odd liquor laws where you 243 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: can only buy hard liquor at these ABC liquor stores, 244 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: which is the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission, and 245 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: they run the whole thing. So now there was one 246 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: big food error, Danny, that took place. The big food 247 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: error was by my wife. She made a rookie mistake. 248 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: Bad job by her. We went to a diner for 249 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 1: breakfast with the family and she ordered a breakfast burrito. 250 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 1: Oh bad, move right. I pity the fool. It doesn't 251 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 1: give me my burrito. I tried to warn her. So listen, 252 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: you're in the South, you stay away from Mexican food. 253 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: You're on the East Coast, and that thing was nasty. 254 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: And that's their their spin on the breakfast burrito. But 255 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: I don't even fix some Mexican dish, right, isn't the 256 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: breakfast burrito from California? I think so somebody trying to 257 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: recreate it there on the Atlantic. It doesn't sound like 258 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: a good formula. Now it was bad. It was bad, bad, bad, 259 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 1: And I'm not a big burrito guy in the morning, 260 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 1: but I looked at it as that's pretty bad. You 261 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 1: shouldn't have done that. I tried to tell her. She said, 262 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: I I don't worry how you she said. Her words were, 263 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: you can't really mess up a breakfast burrito. You want 264 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 1: to bet on that she send it backward and she 265 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: powered through. No, No, she did not send it back 266 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: but she didn't know she didn't need it. She just 267 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 1: like left it sitting there. You didn't need it. I'm 268 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: not gonna eat it. But I, on the other hand, 269 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: I got the hotcakes, corn beef, hash and biscuits, so 270 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 1: I should have gotten grits. I made a mistake there, 271 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 1: but it was pretty good. So then we had the 272 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 1: wedding on Saturday night. It was a fun time my 273 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: sister in law. I got married to a kind gentleman 274 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: from Ohio, and we went to a big meet and 275 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 1: greet party on that Friday night. It's always awkward, Danny 276 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: at these social things. I'm an introvert, and then people 277 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: find out what I do for a living, and then 278 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: they want to, uh be a chatterboxer, and so it's 279 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: it's a long comfort. It sounds like you would love 280 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 1: to talk. Yeah, like I do it for a living. 281 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:15,640 Speaker 1: I'm good. Uh here we talk. Download the podcast check 282 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 1: that out. But I bet the new relatives. I guess 283 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: their relatives. I don't know how this all works. But 284 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:26,679 Speaker 1: the father of the gentleman who married into the family 285 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:32,119 Speaker 1: is an Ohio State trooper in Columbus Murder. He's about 286 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: to retire, so he told me his whole story. He's 287 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:36,439 Speaker 1: got an interesting life. And then I met there's a 288 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: stepfather who's a prison warden in Cleveland who the mom 289 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 1: clearly loves law enforcement and married married first state trooper 290 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 1: and then later a prison warden. So law enforcement groupie 291 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 1: and this one. Let me tell you, this wedding barely 292 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:01,119 Speaker 1: got in because it was an outdoor wedding and the 293 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:03,199 Speaker 1: weather had actually been pretty good at Nack's Head. But 294 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: about an hour before the wedding there were ominous dark 295 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 1: storm clouds on the horizon and it started lightly missing 296 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 1: near the middle part of the wedding. And then after 297 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: the wedding ended, we were all running for cover as 298 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 1: it started pouring rain, and we ran in. Everyone's all 299 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: addressed to the nines, dolled up, and all we ran 300 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 1: into this open bar. They had a reception and pretty 301 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 1: solid finger foods. I judge weddings based on the finger foods. 302 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,360 Speaker 1: They had a chicken and waffle finger food. H these 303 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 1: little roast beef, like many slighter things that weren't bad. 304 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,919 Speaker 1: And overall it was a good time. And the wedding 305 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:47,880 Speaker 1: ended around ten o'clock. The cool thing about being at 306 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: the on the East Coast, I said this on the 307 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 1: radio show, is on the on the on the on 308 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: the West coast, versus of these becasse on the West Coast. 309 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: If you get to ald wedding and it ends at 310 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 1: ten o'clock, by the time you come back, pretty much 311 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:03,120 Speaker 1: everything's done sports wise. I can't watch anything East coast 312 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,199 Speaker 1: ten o'clock. You got West Coast baseball games. There was 313 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: a UFC card. I'm not a big UFC guy, but 314 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 1: my brother in law loves the UFC, so I may 315 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: or may not have dialed up a Russian website and 316 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: found a UFC feed. I might, I don't know, Maybe 317 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: I didn't do that, Maybe I was imagining that. Um 318 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,959 Speaker 1: but that's how that went. So And then Sunday real 319 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 1: quick because tons of time. But on Sunday it was 320 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:33,479 Speaker 1: a getaway day. Got up early, the whole thing packed up, 321 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 1: had to drive to Virginia. Tossed the stuff in the 322 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 1: rentals in the suitcase, and and we're on our way. 323 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: We stopped by Bruthrew, which is this chain around that 324 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: part of North Carolina, and got some T shirts. And 325 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 1: it's like this drive through mini mart where they sell booze, 326 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 1: but mostly they just sell T shirts and sod. And 327 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 1: so we were driving back to Norfolk, and on our 328 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 1: way we stopped one more time to bow Jangles for 329 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 1: one more delicious meal at bow Jangles. That yeah, exactly. 330 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:10,879 Speaker 1: And so then we got to the airport. This is 331 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,400 Speaker 1: a normal travel day. We get to the airport Norfolk 332 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 1: and we we check in, we get get the boarding passes. 333 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,639 Speaker 1: We had taken some luggage with all our clothes, packed 334 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: that up, sent that into security. We headed to T 335 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:28,199 Speaker 1: s A. At this point in the story, Danny, we 336 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: have a record scratch moment. Are you ready for the 337 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: record scratch moment? So I show up, like everyone, you 338 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,640 Speaker 1: pull your I d out your boarding pass, they give 339 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,639 Speaker 1: you the evil eye the T s A and you 340 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 1: go on your way. So I show up, I hand 341 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:49,360 Speaker 1: my driver's license, my boarding pass, and I then prepared 342 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,919 Speaker 1: to go through the metal detector. I look back and 343 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 1: my wife, the family there, they were not with me. 344 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:58,920 Speaker 1: I said, what the hell, what do you come on? 345 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 1: They were not being allowed through security, and I was like, 346 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:08,360 Speaker 1: what's the problem. My wife then says, hey, he's with me, 347 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 1: pointing at me right. So next thing I know, I'm 348 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 1: now being escorted away from the metal detector. Now I've 349 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 1: already handed over my driver's license, I've handed over my 350 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 1: boarding past, all of my belongings are in a suitcase, 351 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,680 Speaker 1: and everything else is on the table to go through 352 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 1: the metal detector. I have no idea what's going on? 353 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,640 Speaker 1: This is good Fellas. What do you mean funny? Funny? How? 354 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 1: How am I funny? Exactly? I have no wallet, Danny, 355 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: I have no phone, I have no shoes, I have nothing. 356 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:47,360 Speaker 1: I'm absolutely naked right now. I am at the mercy 357 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,199 Speaker 1: of Big Brother. And we are told by one of 358 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: the people at t s A that our traveling party 359 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:58,399 Speaker 1: was red flagged for advanced screening. And and my wife 360 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: was totally freaked out at this because one of the 361 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 1: t s A agents when we got to the station 362 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,680 Speaker 1: in Virginia said, we were waiting for you. We knew 363 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:13,200 Speaker 1: you were coming, we just didn't know when. What do 364 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 1: do do? Do? Do Do? Do? Do? Do? Yes? Very threatening 365 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 1: overnight radio guy. Yeah, that it is because of your 366 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:26,239 Speaker 1: big ratings. Man, Clearly this isn't not the number one 367 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:29,640 Speaker 1: station anymore, is it. So the T s A Ah 368 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:33,640 Speaker 1: just like listen you you're blah blah blah blah blah 369 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:38,120 Speaker 1: blah blah. You have to go through an intense, intensive 370 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: screening and then you'll be on your way. Like what 371 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,399 Speaker 1: the hell does that mean? So we had to go 372 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: one by one through the metal detector. They then took 373 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:50,919 Speaker 1: us to the back room. You never want to go 374 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 1: to the back room at the T s A at 375 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,680 Speaker 1: the airport, but here we were. So they go through 376 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 1: all our belongings with like a metal thing looking for 377 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:05,679 Speaker 1: explosive devices, like I'm packing some kind of weapon or 378 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,879 Speaker 1: something like that. Uh, they pat us down. I hadn't 379 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 1: been touched like that by someone other than my wife 380 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: in many many years. Uh. And uh even the bare 381 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 1: feet and all this stuff they did somebody take photos 382 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,879 Speaker 1: of you guys earlier on the trip at the fireworks store. 383 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:26,360 Speaker 1: Exactly right. They it's like metal wand thing they were 384 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: testing our hands for in feet and all this stuff 385 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:33,159 Speaker 1: is next level h bull crap. Yeah, I was, I 386 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: was like, what did I do? I was like, I 387 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,080 Speaker 1: didn't do anything. I drove around Wisconsin and eight cheese 388 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,200 Speaker 1: kurds and throw around Virginia and eight chicken. What's the problem? 389 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:45,640 Speaker 1: Chicken and biscuits? But full pat down the whole thing. 390 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: And I am happy to report though, Danny, we did 391 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 1: pass all the tests, since you know, we're not actually 392 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: terrorists and all that anyway, Uh, but it was still 393 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: a waiting game. At this point. We had no explanation, 394 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,239 Speaker 1: There was no reasoning. The people in Virginia claimed they 395 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: didn't know why we were flagged. Keep in mind, we 396 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: flew from California to Chicago, no problems. Who from Chicago 397 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,880 Speaker 1: to Virginia no problems, But it was the last leg 398 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: of the flight that we had had problems. Now, eventually 399 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 1: they did allow us to take our ship back and 400 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: we were able to make the flight. We had a 401 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,199 Speaker 1: stop over in Dallas. By the way, I had a 402 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:32,400 Speaker 1: Dalist celebrity sighting in Dallas dating. I ran into a 403 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: cop hating NBA broadcaster. The person who was talked about 404 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 1: a police escort. Yes, Mark Jones, dope from ESPN was 405 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 1: walking around there, and uh, he must be very uncomfortable. 406 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 1: There are a lot of police in the airport. I 407 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 1: don't know how he was able to pull that off, 408 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 1: but the woke NBA broadcaster was parading around the American 409 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,920 Speaker 1: Airlines terminal in Dallas. But and then the other thing 410 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 1: that happened in das m wife almost missed the connecting 411 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: flight back to California because she decided to order a pizza. 412 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,720 Speaker 1: Mm hm oh, I said, what are you doing ordering 413 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: your pizza? I can, I don't need the pizza. Pizza, 414 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,120 Speaker 1: but the pizza takes a while to cook, daddy, and so, 415 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 1: needless to say, it was a long, a long wait 416 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: and uh, but she did make it on the flight 417 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 1: and that we got back and went peace and had 418 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: a late night, last last meal before back to work. 419 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 1: And what better way is to end a trip. We 420 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,879 Speaker 1: didn't go to Raising Kings. They were closed, so in 421 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: and out. That's what a hamburger is all about. Cut that, mate. 422 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: That was the full circle conclusion of the trip. Yeah, 423 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: so yeah, good time. I had a fun time. And 424 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: I don't think I'll be going anywhere exotic the rest 425 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 1: of the year, but you never know, you never know 426 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 1: what's gonna pop up. But I don't like to take 427 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 1: a lot of time off. As you know, Danny and 428 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 1: so pretty much used most of it right here until 429 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 1: the end of the year. So I think we're good. 430 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,880 Speaker 1: Yeah you are, Mr bank the hours. I gotta bank 431 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: those ours. Come on U. Now, did you listen to 432 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 1: any good local radio You didn't talk about that affiliate 433 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 1: that you heard. Did you guys listen in to any 434 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 1: of the local flavors of any of the states you 435 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,679 Speaker 1: drove through. Yeah, we listened a little bit, but it 436 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 1: was mostly we were talking while we were driving. My 437 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 1: wife loves to talk, and I do, like that's one 438 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 1: spot I don't mind talking when I'm driving. When I'm like, 439 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,359 Speaker 1: I can, I can shoot the crapoler there on the plane. 440 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: Right back. I listened our friend Alf the Alien Opiner, 441 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: who recommended to were a bunch of Gilbert Godfrey podcast. 442 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: Gilbert passed away recently and I was a big fan 443 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: of his, and so he recommended a couple of episodes. 444 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: There was one with Penn Galette, one with Bob Costas, 445 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,640 Speaker 1: and so I listened to that and that was kind 446 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,879 Speaker 1: of cool. Um, and then uh, just a lot of 447 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: Like I said, the Virginia sports radio thing was cool 448 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 1: here in the affiliate, and I will admit driving around 449 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 1: at night, I was scanning the dial trying to find 450 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: find the no show that was in for me, Like 451 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,879 Speaker 1: maybe I could hear the what the station sounds like 452 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 1: driving around here? And uh, And I was told by 453 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 1: somebody that Nags had got hit by a big hurricane 454 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: as opposed to a small hurricane a few years ago. 455 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,239 Speaker 1: It was pretty pretty messed up. But they cleaned up. 456 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,119 Speaker 1: They cleaned up pretty nice. There it was. It was 457 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:34,199 Speaker 1: cool and uh, with a little time, I've bow guarded 458 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,600 Speaker 1: the entire weekend. Dan, It's a bad job by me. No, 459 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 1: I mean, you have lived an exciting couple of weeks here. Well, 460 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 1: it was. It was interesting, it was different, it was 461 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: out of the norm. It was I don't know, I'm 462 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:51,120 Speaker 1: sure I'm forgetting lots of stuff. I just I'm trying 463 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:52,920 Speaker 1: to think what else I could could add on to 464 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: this that I'm probably gonna regret down the line, saying, well, 465 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 1: what else happened? Because I went to an alligator They 466 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,160 Speaker 1: have alligators in North Caroline. You know that. I didn't 467 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: know that. Yeah, there's an ali gator farm in Nag's Head. Well, 468 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,160 Speaker 1: it's actually down the street from Nag's Head. I'm still 469 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 1: stuck on you guys, getting flagged like you were part 470 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,920 Speaker 1: of the mob. Ah, yeah, don't get me sorry, And 471 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 1: I felt bad and then I was like I was 472 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 1: getting upset. But then right after us, this very large gentleman, 473 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: uh with no he was in a wheelchair, this black 474 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 1: guy in a wheelchair with no legs. He got pulled 475 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,479 Speaker 1: into the back room. Like what the hell did that 476 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: guy do? He's I mean, he's not gonna run away 477 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 1: from I mean, what are you doing? You know? And 478 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: I was like, well it was ridiculous. I'm sure they 479 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: have their reasoning behind it, but questioning your wife, did 480 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 1: you get to use the famous good Fellows line, don't 481 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 1: look at me, pal, I gotta live with her? That 482 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 1: isn't I should have used that line, But no, I 483 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,440 Speaker 1: mean it was just like the whole thing. And then 484 00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: there was a theory going around. Maybe it's because there 485 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 1: was Mother's Day and they were on high alert or 486 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 1: something like that. I don't know, but the whole thing 487 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 1: was was ridunculous, ridonculus. Anything going on in your world, 488 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: Danny here, any any weird things take place here? And 489 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 1: it all that stands out not weird. But I did 490 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 1: get to go visit my pops while you were away, 491 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: so I went to Bath's Lake. Oh cool, it was 492 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 1: time for that annual fishing derby. Yeah, and of course 493 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 1: for the second year in a row. It was still 494 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 1: nice being out there on the lake. And the following 495 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 1: day got to take the Tinderoni and her kids to 496 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 1: visit Yosemite for the first time ever. They got to 497 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 1: see the great National Park of Yosemite here in California 498 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 1: in a way they could not believe their eyes when 499 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 1: we got to Yosemite Falls and we hiked to the 500 00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:00,080 Speaker 1: lower falls, took pictures right there, but the bottom on 501 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 1: the falls, they absolutely were blown away. Because when we 502 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 1: were first driving into Yosemite, they're like, this is overhyped, 503 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: just windy roads. But once you get into the actual park, 504 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 1: it's like, holy sh it, look at all of this. 505 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 1: Every which way you look there is a crazy big 506 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: waterfall and half dome and everything else around you. But 507 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: the drive in is pretty long, so it's underwhelming. Once 508 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: we are inside the park, they got it. They're like, Okay, 509 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 1: this is better than the hype once you're inside. So yeah, 510 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 1: it was a nice time in Yosemite. Uh. And of 511 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 1: course a long drive back after that, because you basically 512 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 1: have to backtrack your way out of Yosemite and through 513 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 1: beautiful Fresno, California. Yeah, no, I've not. I don't think 514 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: i've been to you. I've been to the Sequoia is 515 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 1: Is that that's different though, right, that's different. Yeah, that's 516 00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: through Vicel you the Sequoias do run up towards Yosemite. 517 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 1: But yeah, you take the forty one through Bass Lake 518 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:10,479 Speaker 1: and into Yosemite. My dad is basically twenty five minutes 519 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 1: right outside of the park entrance. Okay, So, and and 520 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 1: how's your pops doing everything? Good with that? And he's 521 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 1: doing good. He's in his first year of retirement. Yeah, 522 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 1: so he's trying to figure out how to maneuver things 523 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 1: and do add ons to his house and all that 524 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 1: without his regular paycheck coming in. Oh yeah, that is 525 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,600 Speaker 1: a problem. What kind of work did yours? He co 526 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 1: owned a construction business all these years, so he can 527 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 1: probably do a lot of that stuff on his own. 528 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 1: That's what his wife's been leaning on to. My step 529 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 1: mom do that and do this, and he's like, hey, 530 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 1: slow down, I'm retired. Yeah yeah, well with the cost 531 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: of everything though, it's you that's the way to do 532 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,720 Speaker 1: it and save some bucks on that though, you can yourself. Yeah, 533 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 1: he just redid their deck and so now I think 534 00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 1: he wants to take a couple of months off before 535 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,080 Speaker 1: the next big projects. See that's the move, Danny g 536 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 1: You know you're you found the queen Tinderoni now and 537 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:11,480 Speaker 1: have him add on like you could get a fixer upper. Yeah, 538 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,320 Speaker 1: and then have him do a lot of the dirty 539 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,600 Speaker 1: work for you and boom, you got a dream house. 540 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,280 Speaker 1: When he asked, Hey, what do you guys want as 541 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 1: your wedding gift? Like, well, Pops, why don't you bring 542 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 1: your toolbox with you? Pops, I'd like an extra bedroom 543 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 1: and bathroom. That's what I would like in a deck. 544 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: Can you make that happen? Pops? Can you? Can you 545 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 1: put that down? Now? Is your Is your dad excited 546 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 1: about retirement or is he kind of like, oh, man, 547 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 1: I don't I'm I'm gonna be bored out of my mind, 548 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,080 Speaker 1: Like because there's there's all kinds of Some people love retirement, 549 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 1: the idea of retirement. Other people always have to be 550 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 1: busy and can't can't grasp what that means. Yeah, I 551 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 1: don't think he's into it yet because the last couple 552 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,720 Speaker 1: of years he actually was supposed to have retired three 553 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 1: years ago. He stayed on a couple of extra years 554 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,800 Speaker 1: because the business was doing so well. It was like 555 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: my step mom having to tear him away from it. 556 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 1: He's not feeling it yet. I think he's He's like Lebron, 557 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,880 Speaker 1: he still had two good years left in him. She 558 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:15,719 Speaker 1: got want me to turn my brain off because I'm 559 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: gonna have a huge basketby IQO. Yeah, well you you 560 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,080 Speaker 1: would like to leave a year too soon than a 561 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,480 Speaker 1: year too late, right, that's the beligic route. Yeah, the 562 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 1: Patriot way, yes, would be be the way to approach that. Well, 563 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,640 Speaker 1: that's cool. So he got some quality time with the family, huh. Yeah, 564 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 1: it was nice to see him. My older brother met 565 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 1: us there for the fishing derby, so it was good 566 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,160 Speaker 1: to see some some family there in the in the forest. 567 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: Now you're white. Was your wife she was there or 568 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,240 Speaker 1: you're soon to be wife? Now? Yeah, she came. And 569 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 1: it's funny you were talking about your Chicago trip and 570 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 1: where you guys stayed in about hotels, Well, we stayed 571 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,160 Speaker 1: in a chalet by the lake, and the word they 572 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:06,120 Speaker 1: always used is rustic. Where they filmed the uh, the 573 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 1: legendary John Candy movie The Great Outdoors. That movie. Yeah movie. 574 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,640 Speaker 1: It's great to be right there on the lake, but 575 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,680 Speaker 1: it's all made out of wood, and there's some cobwebs 576 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 1: here and there, and it's a little dusty. I'll be 577 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,799 Speaker 1: nice by saying she's a hotel snob, so she had 578 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,319 Speaker 1: to get used to the rustic life a bunch of 579 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:32,279 Speaker 1: city slickers coming in there when the weekend was over. Though, 580 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,719 Speaker 1: she admitted that she really really liked it. It reminded her, 581 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: she said, of camping, but more of like glamping, like 582 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,920 Speaker 1: you know, upscale camping, if you will. She had a 583 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,040 Speaker 1: good time, and it was really nice seeing all those waterfalls. 584 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 1: And we got to rent bikes and ride them to 585 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:52,719 Speaker 1: Mirror Lake inside Yosemite. Now those like regular bikes were 586 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,359 Speaker 1: those like electric bikes, No regular bikes. So when when 587 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,520 Speaker 1: it was uphill you there was some muffing and puffing 588 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,319 Speaker 1: going on, you were feeling in it. It was so 589 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:05,239 Speaker 1: good though, because once the Mirror Lake excursion was over, 590 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:08,080 Speaker 1: then you could go downhill most of the way. Oh well, 591 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,200 Speaker 1: that's that is good. And although that is also scary 592 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,200 Speaker 1: if you have to stop all of a sudden you're 593 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 1: going downhill, I don't believe in momentum sports, but if 594 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:20,120 Speaker 1: you're on a bike going downhill, there is actually momentum. Yeah. 595 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,480 Speaker 1: And it wasn't the brakes on the handlebars. These are 596 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 1: just cruisers. So it was the old pedal backwards for 597 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:31,719 Speaker 1: the break. Oh man, that's not no bayne on that no. No. 598 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,920 Speaker 1: Lots of people on that trail too. It was a 599 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,480 Speaker 1: lot of maneuvering in and out of people hiking the 600 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:41,560 Speaker 1: other direction. Wow. And what kind of food options did 601 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,319 Speaker 1: you have up There's not a lot to eat, right, 602 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:44,920 Speaker 1: You have to bring your own food in? Is that 603 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,759 Speaker 1: kind of no? You got Doucey's by the lake where 604 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 1: we stayed the chalets. They have two restaurants attached. They 605 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,759 Speaker 1: had weddings going on while we were there. And this 606 00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:01,360 Speaker 1: Deucey's has a fancy place downstairs and more casual burger 607 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,960 Speaker 1: place upstairs. There was a long wait downstairs. We went 608 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,880 Speaker 1: upstairs and had the burgers and the and the fries 609 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:11,160 Speaker 1: and hung out. And the last day before we left, 610 00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:13,719 Speaker 1: my dad and brother came there and we all had 611 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 1: a big meal there. And so I think by the 612 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,360 Speaker 1: time we left, my girl had eaten at Doocey's four times, 613 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,840 Speaker 1: there weren't a lot of options. There's like one Mexican 614 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:31,000 Speaker 1: restaurant in town, yeah, that she and my step mom 615 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,799 Speaker 1: drove to. Yeah. But other than that, it was a 616 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:38,359 Speaker 1: lot of you know, really good bar food. I would say, yeah, 617 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:40,640 Speaker 1: which I'm not opposed to, but you do want a 618 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:44,239 Speaker 1: little variety is the spice of life. As somebody said 619 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 1: that all we gotta get out of here. We got 620 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:50,720 Speaker 1: the mail bag on Sunday. Mail Mail Mail, keep those 621 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 1: letters coming in if you obviously can't get it in 622 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,600 Speaker 1: for the Sunday mail bag, but for next week. Real 623 00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,640 Speaker 1: fifth Hour at gmail dot com, Real fifth Hour at 624 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,879 Speaker 1: gmail dot com. There's a a light up ahead that says, 625 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,240 Speaker 1: all right, we will do that. Have a wonderful rest 626 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,600 Speaker 1: of your Saturday. Saturday Saturday, we'll talk to you with 627 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:14,440 Speaker 1: the mail bag on Sunday. Asta pasta Popolician