WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Finger Lickin' Good 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.479 of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:22.320 It's the clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:30.720 The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:36.280 In the air everywhere, the extra crispy Fifth Hour with Me, 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:39.720 Big Ben and Danny g Radio. 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:45.400 A Happy eighteenth Day of May. As we slide into 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:50.479 the Saturday. On a Saturday morning, it is National No 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.559 Dirty Dishes Day today, which I support. That's a holiday 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.960 I get behind. And I'm the head dishwasher in the 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.560 Malor Mansion, and I've talked about this on this podcast 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.840 in the past. I believe you cannot go to bed 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.679 with a sink filled with dirty dishes. That is a taboo. 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.720 You cannot do it all dish no dishes left behind 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.440 that are dirty. All dishes must be washed. That's the 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:15.559 way that it works. 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.880 Yeah. I mean, I'm a clean person, but I can 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:21.080 say you have a little touch of OCD. Same as 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.880 my wifey. I think there's two cups in the sink. 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.200 They're not going to kill anybody, and no home inspector 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:29.240 is gonna come over in the middle of the night 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.080 to look at our sink and be like, yeah, that's 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.840 five hundred points that I'm gonna have to deduct off 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:36.360 your score. Yeah. 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:36.480 Now. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.440 The thing that does annoy me, though, Danny, is when 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.120 I get the dishes done and then somebody gets the 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.280 late night munchies and then they put a dish in 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:43.920 late at night. 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.440 That bothers me, but great part of getting a snack, 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.440 though You do a dish in the middle of the 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:50.520 night when you have the munch. 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.200 That's rude to do a dish, right, it's not. It's taboo. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:53.920 You shouldn't do a dish. 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.360 Oh, dish can wait for the morning, have someone else 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:57.040 clean it for you. 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:03.520 In honor of National No Dirty Dishes Day, they sent 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:05.680 a big board, not a list because I don't do 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.160 list podcast, but they sent a big board of the 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:13.119 top ten foods Americans order to avoid dishes that there's 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.680 there's literally a big board for everything. So the number 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:18.840 one should be obvious, right, what do you think the 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.200 number one food is to avoid having to do dishes. 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:25.839 Chinese, No, no, because people eat okay, but I would 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.160 think Chinese too, because we'll eat right out of the 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.239 cartons and throw the cartons into the fridge. 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.360 Yeah, they have egg rolls on here, just a little 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:38.400 lower down. Number two was French fries and then chicken wings. 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:42.160 But chicken wings are pretty messy. They're covering sauce, right. 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.360 Am I the only person who feels like a fat 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:47.400 blob after I eat French fries? 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.399 Well, I don't eat much, so when I eat, I 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.840 like to enjoy fries. I do like I do like 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.120 to I do. I feel bloated out, Yeah, I feel blurred. 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:55.640 I just I do. 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:57.639 I feel bloated. But I'm okay with that because I 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.200 know I won't eat for a while, so I'm kind 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.960 of okay being blow I'm like, okay, we're fell like. 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.840 Twenty pounds heavier after eating a serving of fries. 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:10.440 Yeah, you know, I you know, I didn't really notice 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.000 this when I was really really big back in the day. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.399 But you do instantaneously, like you just gain a few 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.480 pounds by you eat a big meal. You're gaining a 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.040 couple of pounds. But the good thing is you can 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:27.040 drop it a lot of it within a couple of days. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.080 Yeah, so that's ice cube. In one of his classic songs, 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.120 he had a famous line where he says he had 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.640 to go in to use the restroom and he said 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.040 coming out feeling about ten pounds lighter. 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:45.960 Now today is also the Preakness, which is not as 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:50.760 famous as the Kentucky Derby, but is a wonderful, wonderful 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:54.920 freeloaders event. My friend sports with Coleman during the week 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:59.119 sent me some photos as he attends every media junket 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:03.839 at Pimlical Racecourse there in Baltimore as all week. There's 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.720 there's buzz and all that stuff. The smell of horse 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:08.840 craft from the barn at the Preakness, and they have 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.720 all kinds of crab. 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.560 Dinners, sweet aroma. 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:16.279 Yeah, that's it's a big it's a big horsepoop and 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:20.760 crab and people wondering will we get another triple c 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:22.839 I remember for years there was no triple Crown winner. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.600 Like the last ten years or so, we've seen a 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.640 couple two or three. 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:29.800 I think the fix is in. Yeah. 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.120 But the mystic Dan, I've known guy's named Dan. They 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.839 were not mystic, but like Dan Byer. There's nothing mystic 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.080 about Dan Byer. Right, we know Dan, but there's nothing 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:39.480 but mystic Dan. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:43.119 Right. There one interesting thing about Dan he's never seen 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.480 any of the Rocky films, and he's never had Benny 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.640 Hannah or Hibachi. Cin are always joke that they're going 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.520 to take him on his first date to get Benny 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.839 Hannah and watch the movie Rocky. 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:56.359 He's not. 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.320 He's kind of around our age. How is it he 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:03.279 just doesn't watch Rocky yet? He doesn't watch movies. He's 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:04.640 not a movie guy at all. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.200 I don't watch movies anymore either, But back in those ways, 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.120 he didn't haven't watched movies when we were really watching movies. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.520 But back when movies mattered, you had to see the movies. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.560 That was our entertainment. There was no social media. We 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:16.680 lived in the Stone Age. 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:20.680 Yeah, found out recently too, he has never seen Shawshank Redemption, 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.600 what one of the best films all that classic. I 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.080 know I've seen that several times. So there's something a 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:31.240 little mystic about that, dude. Yeah, well, we'll get into 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:35.320 it today. There's some other dope holidays. Today it's National 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.800 Marvin Marvin Day. So if you know someone named. 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:43.080 Marvin uncle named Marvin, talk to him in a while. 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:48.599 It's great Marvin Gaye National Cheese or so Flay Day, 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:54.120 that's like fancy, Yeah, it's I love Reese's Day, Reese's Cups. 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.839 Who doesn't love those peanut butter cups? What's with parts 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:01.160 of the country saying Rece's Yeah? People odd in some places? 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:02.600 You know, that's it's a recess. 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:03.120 That's it. 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:08.360 Hershey's Company. Holliday was created by the Hershey's Company ten 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.919 years ago, fourteen years ago. So there you go, wonderfully 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:12.960 created their own holiday. 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:13.359 I love that. 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.000 Let's get to it on this podcast. We've got a 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:21.039 Pirate's Life for me, the Mallord Travelogue two point zero, 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:26.480 the twelve pack edition, and we've got some other things 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.320 that will work into the conversation. Also, we'll have a 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.560 we Yesterday we did the phrase of the week, so 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:34.840 we'll do the marketing slogan of the week today. And 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.400 I know, Danny you've got some tales that you'd love 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:38.960 to share as well. We'll get to at some point 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:43.120 here throughout, but we're gonna begin with this and I'll 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.560 go back. I failed to mention this last week. Bad 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.599 job by me, bad job by me, and this was 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:53.560 one of the coolest, most unique things that I was 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.320 blown away by. When I was in the state of 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:01.200 North Carolina, there's a lot of history there, some of 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.719 it very dark history in the South. For example, I 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.760 was in Charleston. They have one of the tourist destinations 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:12.960 they have. I guess it's the I guess the Ellis 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.000 Island for slaves. It's this port where they brought the 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.720 slaves over and they kind of broke them up and 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.480 sent them on their way from this location in Charleston. 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.920 I think I'm describing it right. So that was, you know, 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:29.040 depressing thing about what happened at that point. But there's 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:30.760 a lot of Civil War history, but there's just all 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.880 kinds of random history from the past. For example, we 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:38.160 went out to have a nice walk and have a dinner, 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:43.240 me and my in laws, and we were walking along 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:47.120 this river walk right next to the Cape Fear River 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.200 in Wilmington, North Carolina. We had gelatto. We had a 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.920 nice gelato right next to the Cape Fear River. And 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.880 that is where Edward Teach made a name for himself 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:03.320 in the seventeen hundreds. In seventeen hundreds, he's working for 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:09.920 Britain's North American colonies in the Carolinas, and he was 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:17.320 a pirate. And when my brother in law told me 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.960 about this, I said, ah, that you're you know, that's bullshit. 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:22.800 So he kind of told me the story and I 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.880 was like, wait a minute. And so he had he 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.920 was more known for his as Looney would say, his 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:30.040 gangster name or his. 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:31.960 Nickname, Kirstime Looney. 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.120 All right, So this guy had a very thin beard, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.880 a thin bill, rather, he had a beard kind of 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:43.760 a fearsome appearance, and he he became one of the 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.720 most legendary pirates of all time. When I was a kid, 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.600 I heard about this guy. They made movies featuring him. 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:56.920 Edward Teach went by his nickname Blackbeard. 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.160 I think he's the most famous pirate, right. 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.440 I can't think of any pirate more famous than black Beard. 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:07.120 But three hundred years ago, Blackbeard the pirate was brought 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.920 to justice off the Carolina coast. I had no idea 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.120 that he was, you know, he died in what is 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.760 now American soil, but I never put it together that 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:21.520 that he you know, he did that for Britain in 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:26.040 the American colonies, and he had sailed across the high 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.960 seeds from you know, from New York to the Caribbean, 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.880 all over the place, and they have all kinds of 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.400 like shops and souvenirs. With black Beard and the Cape 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.040 Fear River, which I was told is the dirtiest river, 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.280 dirtiest waterway in the Carolinas, That's. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.840 What I was told, looked like San Antonio. 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:51.240 Yeah, he resided in the town of Bath and spent 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:55.880 a lot of his years. Obviously he was robbing merchant ships. 0:09:55.880 --> 0:10:00.720 Although I did hear, actually I read this that he 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.480 was not seen as a pirate, as like a bad 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.920 guy for the British government. He was seen as like 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:11.000 a wing of their military. That he was helping the 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.079 British government gain gold and stuff. 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:14.760 The greatness of the raiders. 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.719 So it was it was interesting. So they had a 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:20.960 bunch of stores and stuff. But I was wandering away 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:26.400 eight Gelatto, right next to the famous river where Blackbeard 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:31.000 the pirate made a name for himself. Now, as far 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.800 as the Mallard travelogue, we have the twelve pack Mallard 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:37.920 Travelogue two point zero, and this is the part where 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.680 we went. I went from Wilmington to Charleston for the Malametrie. 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.360 So we left the house, now did We planned to 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:51.079 go to BUCkies, but BUCkies was out of the way 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.120 and out of the way by like one hundred miles 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:58.240 total extra one hundred miles. Yeah, that's too far, not 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:03.120 so fast. But anyway, it's not that bad, Danny, if 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.199 you just go from point A to point B. That's 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.840 not how the mallards roll. That's the crow flies. Yeah, 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:15.840 it's one of those birds going. So we started out. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.000 My wife's like, all right, there's this really good bakery 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:25.400 in Wilmington that my my mother in law's titles. But 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:30.920 the mother in lawge she liked it, and so we 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.760 went there to get some some pastries or whatever. So 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:37.640 we were at the bakery and it's it's a good 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:38.920 you know, it's a nice bakery. Let me have good 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.080 bakeries here. It's a good bakery, good local bakery. And 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.800 so we get a text that back in my father 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.720 in law's house, the gator had shown up across the street. 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.520 So we then had to high tail it back to 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.200 the house because the week, we know, the week we 0:11:56.200 --> 0:12:00.000 were there, the alligator lives in this little retention pond 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.600 to cross the street from the house was not there. 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.560 He was out crawling around in the forest. So this 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.480 is like big. We had to see the alligator. How 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.199 many times you don't see alligators aroun here unless you 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:11.480 go to a zoo. And I did go to a 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.079 zoo by the way, and I saw al get her zoo. 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:17.400 But anyway, we went back to the house and sure enough, 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.920 there's the gator going for a swim. And so I 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.480 asked him, I said, well, is it safe to walk 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.800 around the retention pond? And he's like, yeah, yeah, he said, 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:29.880 they won't bother you. He said, just don't, you know, 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:34.080 don't run at them or don't come too close to them. 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.120 But they'll just they won't worry about you. They'll'll do 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.120 your own thing. They'll do your own thing. And they did. 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.120 They did their own thing all right. So then we 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.000 left there. We then had to go back on the road. 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:45.960 We then went to my sister in law's house to 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:49.480 see her baby. Right, so we still haven't left Wilmington 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:51.880 and she lives on the other side of town, so 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:53.600 we had to go over like a couple of bridges 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.679 and whatever. So then of course we get back on 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:56.719 the road and where do you think we had to 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:01.080 stop Danny Starbucks, right there to start start, I had 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.920 to stop at Starbucks, so you got a refresher. So 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.480 then we drive a little bit and then wait a minute, wifesight, 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.760 we hat to get some food, so we ate what 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.360 I think was the first lunch. We stopped at bo Jangles. 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.840 I stopped number five by the way at bo Jangles. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.040 So then right across the street from bow Jangles, we realized, 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.640 wait a minute, there's a Pigley Wiggly, So I want 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.200 to see the Pickley Wiggly. So then we went to 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:27.280 the Pickley Wiggly and I did a little video in 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.720 the parking lot at the Pickley Wiggly and and you know, 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.720 promoting the Malor Maiden greet. So there we were. I 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:35.960 was at the Pigley Wiggly. Uh. Then we got back 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:37.680 in the car and we drove and we drove and 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.160 we drove. So we've had six stops and we're finally 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:44.439 leaving the Wilmington area. Then, and I mentioned this on 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.479 the Overnight show, had one of the most surreal stops 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:52.880 I've ever had, a place called South of the Border. 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:54.920 Have you ever heard of South of the Border? Danny 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.960 never never? I never heard of it either. I was 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.680 blown away. I was told you got to go check 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.720 this out. It's wild that it still exists, and that's 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.360 not a lie. So South of the Border, how would 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:11.600 I describe this? It is like being in a time 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:15.880 capsule from a time far far ago. It's like a 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.360 roadside attraction that used to have a lot of these. 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.760 It is right on the state line from North Carolina 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:26.360 to South Carolina on I ninety five, the main thoroughfare. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.960 I'm told it is halfway. That point is halfway between 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.000 New York and Miami on I ninety five. So there's 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.600 a lot of people that will stop there because it's 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.400 a halfway point or whatever, and it's you gotta look 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:41.880 it up. Then I could say you this some photos, 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:46.080 but it's it's Nutso it has every stereotype you could 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.920 possibly want right out in front there. It was built today. 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:50.800 As I said nineteen forty nine, I'm going to look 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.400 it up south of the border in South Carolina off 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:55.280 I ninety five. 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:57.880 Oh yeah, I'm looking at it right now. 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.640 Originally we stopped to go to the ath room and 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:01.800 then it was like, wait a. 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:06.920 Minute, here this there's like lots of old, big like statues. 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:11.920 Yeah. I took some photos in front of the the 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:17.200 statues there. It's very very bizarre. Let's see, there's some 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.160 souvenirs here. I don't know which ones I want to 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:23.320 send here, we'll skip over that one. Blah blah blah 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.920 blah blah blah blah blah. All right, I should you 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:31.600 should have fireworks and yeah, and some of some of that. 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.400 But this, this place was I had never seen anything 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.800 like it. I didn't know it existed. I thought, how 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.840 bad could it be? How crazy could it be? But yeah, 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.400 right there, I just sent you a bunch of photos. 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.360 You'll get at a little taste there. Danny should take 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:51.800 a second. But the magic of telecommunications and text messaging. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.200 Oh yeah, yeah, different things there. 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.280 Right, look at that. You're standing next to a racist statue. 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:09.720 It's like Speedy Gonzales Burrito loco. Oh nice, yeah, nice 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:14.320 gift shop. Yeah, there's the big chicken statue. Yeah, very cool. 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.080 A couple of chickens there. Yeah. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:20.040 So it opened originally nineteen forty nine. And check this out. 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:24.240 What I sent you is actually the cleaned up version 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:29.360 because it used to be more racist, more on the 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.680 racist side, I guess, back in the day. But they 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.160 made it more of a cartoonish type thing. After they 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.000 had to take all the Confederate flags down. Oh you 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.000 still see them, You still see them anyways. So that 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.640 was our stop at South of the Border. Then we 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.960 kept going and shortly after that, about forty five minutes 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.840 I think it was, we got the BUCkies in Florence, 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:56.160 South Carolina, Gas and dinner, Gas and dinner, or usually 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.200 dinner and then gas. But we were at BUCkies. Awesome, 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:04.720 live up to the hype recommended. Love my BUCkies. Love 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.800 My BUCkies was everything I thought it would be. And 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.200 then some people were not lying when they talked about Buckies' 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:17.320 biggest gas station I'd seen, and they had unbelievable food options, 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.040 endless amounts of food. I went with the brisket sandwich, 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:26.280 which was just delicious, just wonderful. And then we did 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.600 something Danny by the way, where eight stops in on 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:33.240 the Mallard travelogue two point zero from Wilmington, North Carolina Charleston, 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.199 South Carolina. So I went to BUCkies, got back in 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:41.280 the car, and we we audibled audible, audible audible. Leaving Florence, 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:45.199 South Carolina. We then drove all across South Carolina and 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:51.879 we stopped we were monster hunting. Danny Monster Hunting stopped 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.600 at a small town in the boondocks of South Carolina. 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.240 Most towns are small in South Carolina. Have you heard 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.400 of the lizard Man of scape or swamp? 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:03.280 Negative? 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:09.560 Yeah, neither did I. But one of our close confidants said, hey, 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.280 you got to check this out. There's like their version 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:17.920 of Bigfoot. And so this goes back to the nineteen eighties, 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.600 late nineteen way back in the late nineteen eighties in 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:24.760 Lee County, South Carolina, there's supposedly a creature walking around 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:29.800 a swamp, the lizard Man of Scape or swamp. So 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:34.280 we punched in the GPS where the swamp was. We'll 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:38.680 go there, we'll check it out, and we did. We 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:44.119 went there and we drove off this dirt road, just 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:46.440 like you'd think in all those movies about the South 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.200 dirt Road. We went to the end of a dirt road. 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.720 It had rained a little bit. Everything was all muddy, 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.919 that thick southern mud all over the car. So we 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:59.800 then parked the car. Then the GPS says, we have 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:02.720 to walk about a mile to the swamp. 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:05.840 Yeah, and we did. 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:07.800 Well. 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:11.159 We were wearing we all had like sandals on for 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:15.679 the drive, so we made a last second decision to 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.080 I walked a little bit down the path to the swamp, 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.440 but there were so many beer cans, like a bunch 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.720 of like dudes were hanging out drinking beer all over there, 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:29.160 probably thinking they're going to find the lizardman of the swamp. 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.400 So we didn't actually end up getting all the way 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:36.800 to the swamp, but we were out. We were close enough, 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:40.440 but we were worried the car was gonna get stuck 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:42.280 in the mud, the rental car, and then we. 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:44.560 We totally totally screwed. 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.760 So we we did try to find the swamp monster, 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:52.320 but we didn't. And then on the way out of there, 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:56.159 driving through South Carolina, our tent stop was unexpected. We 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.639 were driving through Sumpter, South Carolina, and right on the 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:03.240 side of road was a historical site. Who were like, oh, 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.840 what could that be? And sure enough that was a 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:10.600 battle from the Civil War right there on the side 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:14.760 of the highway, Battle of Dingles Hall. Now I had 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:16.560 never heard of that. That's not the most famous Civil 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:20.879 War battle, but this was one of the final battles 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:24.880 of the Civil War before it ended, and in fact 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:28.680 it had actually ended. According to the sign there, but 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.960 communication was not good. They didn't have text messaging back 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:36.399 in the eighteen hundreds, and so even though the South 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:41.600 General Lee had given up, the soldiers in Sumter did 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:44.240 not get the message. So they were fighting still, even 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:47.160 though the war had already been decided. That the North 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:51.399 beat the South. That sucks. Yeah, that's pretty bad. But 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:52.320 they had a memorial. 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:55.560 They had some dude, imagine losing your left leg in 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:58.120 a fight that didn't even count anymore, I know. 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:00.240 And there were dudes that had died there and they 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:03.400 had their their they were buried right there on the battlefield. 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:06.880 Now here's where it gets at awkward, Dady. So we're 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:09.119 out in the middle of nowhere, off the side of 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:13.280 this country road, Battle of Jingles Hall. I gotta go 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:18.199 to the bathroom. So I want to be respectful. I 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:22.320 can't go go to the bathroom on a Civil War battlefield, right, 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:24.800 you know that that'd be rude, even though I don't 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:27.640 think the people there will complain because they're not around anyone. 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:30.199 So but I had to go partly. So what I 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:32.439 did is I walked. I made a technical decision. I 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:36.000 walked out into the to the woods behind the battlefield, 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:39.840 and uh, and I took care of business back there, 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:42.600 but it was a pretty decent one. I felt like 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:44.359 it would be rude to do it right out, and 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:46.920 we were the only ones there was. There was no one, 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:50.440 you know, as far as I could see. And then 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:52.520 on the way we got back and we were driving, 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:55.800 that was the ten stop. We did not stop in Darlington, 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:59.000 but I am amazed. I'm not a big NASCAR guy, 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:02.280 but we we drove past Darlington, which is home of 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:06.760 the Lady in Black. The Darlington Raceway, it is nuts. 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:10.800 It reminded me of lambeau Field. That's the comp I 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:13.359 would give the Darlington Raceway because I've been to Green Bay, 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:15.840