May 10, 2024 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Big Ben
and Danny g As. I have ended my audio silence.
We are back at it with the podcast. No radio
this week, but the Fifth Hour podcast continues from a
(00:49):
secret location somewhere in the Carolinas, which is in a garage. Danny,
I'm literally in a garage. Everyone around me is sleeping
right now at the time we are doing this.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It sounds like you're in a cave on a mister microphone.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, yeah, well, I pretty much am at this particular
point in a cave. I mean, I'm not exaggerating. If
you can see where I am, you can't see, thank god,
because it's a podcast. But but here we are, and hey, listen,
Joe Rogan said his podcast started in a garage, so
this could be the beginning of something even bigger for
the fifth hour podcast. What the heck? But it is
(01:34):
the tenth day of may or, as I like to say,
National Shrimp Day today, not a not a shrimp? Are
you a shrimp guy, Danny? Do you like the shrimp?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I do like shrimp, Mang bang chicken and shrimp.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
All right, well, this is a big day for you,
So go out, go out and neat some shrimp today.
Knock yourself out with the shrimp. Didn't shrimp put what
was the seafood restaurant Red Lobster? Was it all you
can eat shrimp? That is going to put them out
of business?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah? Remember Coop told the story on the air that
he went with a buddy to that all you can
eat red lobster shrimp. He ate eighty five of them
by himself. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So people like Coop tearing down an American institution. I
wish I could pull off those suits the people over
at Red Lobster. But it is also more than National
Shrimp Day. It is go time. It is green light, gotime, Danny.
Today is the day in Charleston we have the mallor
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Meat and greet the first one of twenty twenty four.
It'll be this afternoon at three o'clock. Obviously in the location,
we're at three o'clock Eastern till five o'clock, and maybe
even a little bit longer depending on how it goes.
We'll play it by year on that, but a minimum
(03:00):
of two hours of schmoozing and hanging out. And I'm
excited about it, looking forward to it. I've been promoting
it with these cheesy videos on social media, Danny, because
you know I'm going all out. I'm going all out.
I went to a waffle house the other day and
did a video. I had another video up yesterday, all
in an effort to get the Great Unwashed to come together.
(03:24):
And if you somehow have missed it, I don't know
how you could have missed this, considering the amazing amount
of promotion that we've put in. But it is today
at my father's Mustache Day. You love this restaurant, Danny's,
the James Island location, your favorite restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I did some research on this place. When it first opened,
it was called General Lee's.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, well, I mean that's a lie.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Their name got canceled, so they changed it to my
father's mustache because they figured that wouldn't offend anybody.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Well and my father's mustache fine. Establishment, We're gonna have
all kinds of weird English food they have, like normal
bar food and all that. It'll be a good time.
So and as we pointed out in a previous episode
of the podcast, and I said this on the radio
show when we were in Appleton, Wisconsin, we pretty much
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go anywhere we can find someone that will have us.
And my brother knew a guy. My brother lives in Wisconsin,
and he knew a guy that owned a Mexican fusion restaurant,
so we ate. We had a meet and greet at
a Mexican restaurant in Appleton, which is the next level
as well. But you think of Southern food, you don't
(04:44):
normally think of like beef Wellington and stuff like that.
But they have bar food, and so we'll have a
good time. It's not about the food, Danny, It's about
the people. It's about people. I think, I don't know,
I want my chicken.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I mean when it comes to Malord, though you do
think food, think Costco, food clippers. What is still wrong
with the clippers, cheapskate.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
No, no, no, A tight wad more than cheap skate.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
But I haven't been through that. Yeah, that's true. You're
not cheap, you have nice things. You're a tight one.
That's a better way to put it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, I'm a tight What if I have been to Costco?
I have made the pilgrimage to Costco this week, and
so consider this this this weekend, I'm gonna have some
travel stories. We'll have many more next weekend. But I
figured since I've been away from my post in the Watchtower, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I've been seeing listeners complain on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Well, they can play, they can play when I'm there,
and they can play when I'm not there. So it's
just the common theme. There's a thread here complaining, and
certainly whoever fills in for me gets the brunt of it.
I feel bad for them people, very grumpy and whatnot.
But I figured we spent some time this weekend of
going over and stuff. Today being the Friday Pod, We've
(06:03):
got driving Miss Malor, the Feast, Southern Hospitality, and I
got a bunch of other random things that will come out.
We have the Word of a Week as well, and
a bunch of other random stuff. We'll see what we
have time to get to. As you know, even though
this is a podcast, there's a certain window because we
(06:24):
have market research that has determined after a certain amount
of time, it doesn't matter. You can have the greatest
podcast in the world and people are going to tune
out at a certain point. So like, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So, yeah, you know, the last time I talked to
one of our bosses, Dawn, who you know very well,
he told me that we could check out at twenty
minutes if we want to.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, but we usually go about thirty. We do a bit.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I think it was last weekend we had one that
was forty two minutes long.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, which is probably way too long, but we'll try
to keep it shorter. But so the Malor travelogue a
staple of this podcast, the Mallard travelogue. So kind of
setting you back to the beginning of the week. Here,
I did the show Monday Sunday, and the Monday did
the radio show and then got up after just a
(07:16):
couple hours of sleep. Now, we flew from southern California
to get to South Carolina. I get to the Carolina
is not the easiest thing in the world. Not a
lot of direct flights, so we flew out of Ontario.
I've never flown out of the Ontario Airport in the
Inland Empire of southern California. This is the first time
(07:36):
I think I might have done it. That's not actually you.
I think years ago I blocked it out of my memory.
I think it was probably like twenty five years ago.
I flew out of the Ontario airport, but we mostly
used for like Amazon and ups. It's a southern California airport,
but anything to avoid lax the ghost Town Airport, the
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Ontario Airport in southern California. Hardest part of flying out
of that airport is getting to that airport, and so
I was drying. We took an uber to get out there.
I was just I wasn't driving anyone. We took an
uber to get out there. And the wife she wanted
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to have have breakfast. But my main goal in life
is to avoid the powder room on a plane that
she wanted to meet to eat breakfast. And you know,
you got a cross country flight if you need breakfast,
and I'm I'm a faster anyway. Plus, the airport food
is often terrible and ridiculously overpriced. And so I try
(08:42):
to avoid try to avoid that.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
In general, I would guess also that you don't even
fit in the airplane stall.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, it's a tough situation. It's a lot of being
a contortionist and trying to bend certain ways and all that,
and so that that's bad. But we flew from there
to Atlanta, and I gotta tell you, I had one
of the greatest flights I've ever had in my life.
And I've flown a fair amount over the year. It's
not as much in recent years as I did back
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in the day. But I had a tremendous trip. And
the reason I was flying Delta, it's not because of Delta,
it's because of location, location, location. So I sat in
row twenty seven. I sat in an exit row, which
by itself is great because you get an extra leg
room in the exit row. But the way the plane
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was set up, the row in front of me, I
want to make sure I pink the picture of the
proper way. So I'm in twenty seven, row twenty six.
It had two seats, not three seats. So I'm in
a row with three seats, and then in front of
me there's a row with two seats, and I happened
to be in position where there was no seat in
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front of me. I got to stretch my legs out
like I was like I was flying on Tom Cruise's
Gulf Stream. It was awesome. I mean, I loved it.
I could have flown to Australia or New Zealand or wherever,
Tim Shanghai, I could have gone anywhere with that setup.
It was the greatest thing. I'm like, this is the
(10:20):
way to fly. I don't have to worry about anyone
leaning back into me. I can stretch my legs as
far as I want, I can lay down basically, And
so it was. It was awesome. It was absolutely awesome.
I loved it, and so I wish the flight had
actually been longer. I was upset that it wasn't longer
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because I was like, this is great. So then we
had to change planes in Atlanta because there's no no
direct flight. So we got to Atlanta, the beautiful Atlanta
Hartsfield or Hartsfield Atlanta Airport, whatever they call it. And
at that point I was like, well, I probably should
eat because I don't eat here. I'm not going to
eat at all, and so ended up breaking my my fast.
(11:03):
I had fasted since I think it was like Saturday,
so it was a fair amount of time. Got to Atlanta,
and what I did, I don't know how you handle this.
I don't like to eat at airports, but when you
have a stopover and you're in a long travel day,
I'm like, all right, you gotta eat something. So I scouted.
(11:23):
I did a recon mission on the food court in Atlanta,
and I went around and I observed there like a
southern restaurant. They had a Windy's, there was a TGI Fridays.
They were like a couple of other places, and I
I was what I was doing was I was like, well,
would this be airport quality food? And then like I
(11:46):
did a cost benefit analysis, But then I was also
looking to see like what was what was busy because
I figured if it's busy people, probably that's a good
sign as normally people aren't going to, you know, go
gravitate towards eating dog food.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Yeah, like they've been to this airport before, they know
where to go.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah. There were a lot of middle aged dudes who
travel all the time. You know, you know that look
of that guy that's in a plane all the time,
like a couple of times a week flying, so I
ended up eating Chinese food at the It was like
a ripoff Panda Express at the Atlanta airport, and because
that was the busiest spot, it was the most bang
(12:25):
for your buck. And I gotta tell you, it was
pretty pretty good, Danny. It was pretty good. However, it
could have been the fact that hunger is the best
sauce in the world. It might not have had anything
to do with the orange chicken and just that I
was hungry. Oh you fat fuck you got head roll,
you got the breezeparem, you everything. It tasted about as
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good as Chinese food that you could possibly have out
of a fast food type of restaurant. So it was great.
And we had.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
About a ninety minute eighty ninety minute layover in Atlanta,
and then we had another flight, which was like a
really short flight forty five minutes or so to beautiful
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
And our flight was a few minutes to late, so
we actually had to rush. And this is where the
Southern hospitality comes in. We had to rush to get
to the rental car because we were told the rental
car place closed at eleven forty five pm. We were
in the plane waiting to dboard at eleven thirty one,
and fortunately we were able to make it. It was right
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across from the baggage plane, very small airport in Myrtle Beach,
no shuttle needed, and we were able to get the
rental car. But one of the dudes helping us give
us the car and filling out all the paperwork and
all that adult crap that you have to do, he
happened to be a listener to the show. He's listened
(13:53):
to the show going back twenty years, big sports radio guy,
and so that was a really cool prize. He's like, yeah,
are you And he's like you are you? The Ben
Mallett from the radio who as you know, as you
know da. It ended up happened very often, but he
made my day. Made my day. And this guy a
(14:13):
long time connoisseur of sports talk radio. He brought up
a couple of legends back in the day. Papa Joe Chevalier,
who did the one on one sports thing back in
the day, brought up John Renshaw, Johnny Renshaw, who actually
worked at Fox Sports Radio briefly among allthers. So that
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was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
He made you look cool in front of your wife too.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, exactly, because my wife was like she was telling me,
She's like, I was gonna yell at you because I
was on my phone. I was like looking at my phone.
You know, I wasn't I wasn't being social. And then
the guy was like, hey, yeah, you know so and so.
So that that got me a pass on that. So
that was that was pretty neat. So I was like,
well that now the trip's off to a good story.
I had a great seat to Atlanta, had good Chinese food,
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go to the airport, got the rental car. The guy
recognized me, so that was unexpected.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Was it awkward though, when after a couple minutes of
silence he just said, so, how about weed man hippie?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Eh? It was no, it was it was cool. I
was like I was. He did not know we were coming,
so I did not announce what airport I was flying into.
But that was pretty neat. And so then we we
got the car and had a ninety minute drive because
we the beginning of the trip we were in Wilmington,
North Carolina, so we we went to Wilmington. There's a
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long story, I'll get into it. A little bit later.
But but by the way, I must point out when
I got to Myrtle Beach, the first sign I saw
getting off the plane was something that I've talked about
on the radio. This goes back many, many years, and
it's one of the all time great Well, let mean
(15:59):
there is let me say it, and they said this.
I want to see if you can recognize this. Danny,
I'm gonna put you on the spot here. So Myrtle
Beach is close to Coastal Carolina University. Why do you
think that university resonated? And a light bulb immediately went
off in my hair? What about Coastal Carolina University do
(16:21):
you think made me smile? There's only one thing that
they're famous for, as far as I know.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Their mascot.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
No, I mean, they do have a unique mascot, the
chant Chanta clears, I believe.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Yeah, that's the first thing I think of.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
No, no, no, no, I mean it's a cool mascot.
But let's go back. Okay, go back thirteen years and
there was a football coach named David Bennett at Coastal
Carolina and he had a random news conference where he
starts talking about cats and dogs, oh yeah, I remember that. Yeah,
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and he said, we don't need a bunch of cats,
and hear me, Now, yeah, he's the guy. And so
I'm like, lo, more like dogs, Yeah, be a dog.
We need more dogs. Ruf ruf. And yeah, this was
his university. He's you know, he's like an athletic director
at some high school or something like that around South Carolina.
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But I was like, wow, that's great. You know, we
we got to play that here on the podcast because
this is one of the all time great grants. David Bennett,
the coach at Coastal Carolina, So that that was pretty cool.
I guess it's right in Erere's a few miles away
from Myrtle Beach, and so they had a big sign
up in the airport and so so that was kind
of cool.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Trying to get our two boys ready to carry to
the golf tournament. Four printice right, twelve cats live cross
the road. Our door's open, screens broke. We need to
get a new screen door, but the screens broke. So
you come in through the screen, but you can't get
back out. I turn to look, there's a little kiddy
cat in our in our kitchen, So I said what
are you doing in here?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
A little kid cat.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
By that time the cat turns, tries to get back out,
that scream won't go that way. Cats starts going all crazy,
and I told our players we need more dogs. Bows
barking in the back after go shut bow up, mels like,
what's going on? It says the cat and house cat
in the house. I said, it is a cat in
the house. So I told our players. I tried to
let it out the front door. Weird cat's still going
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crazy in there. And I told our players, you needy
bit more like a dog. We don't need a bunch
of cats in here. Looking in the mirror, I look good.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I got my extra bands on, I got my other shoes.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Be a dog. We don't need no miwns. We don't
need no cats.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
We need more dogs.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
There you go, all right? I love that for a
guy that doesn't have any name value. David Benny not bad.
I mean, that's right up there with you. Think of
the legends of the ran in football, Jim Mora. We
couldn't do Diddley Pooh or the late Dennis Green. And
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you want to crown them, crown them, but they are
who we thought they were, you know, and we let
them got them off the hook exactly exactly. Moving on
and the travel log here on the fifth hour, Pacast.
Don't forget Today's Today, Today's day. Somehow you didn't listen
to the beginning of this with Charleston Today three o'clock Friday, Friday,
(19:29):
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Speaker 3 (19:35):
English chicken fingers with Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, beating pretzels and whatever else. But so we were
in Wilmington. That was the first stop, and that was
the wife's family. The in laws, my father in law
and his wife along with a sister in law, live
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in North Carolina. My father in law splits half the
time between southern California and here in North Carolina. Just
moved down here recently. A sister in law also has
been living here with her husband and daughter briefly a
couple of years now. Actually went to their wedding a
couple of years ago. First time I ever went to
North Carolina. So that's why we kind of extended the
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trip because they're like, we spent half the week there
and then the rest of the time in South Carolina.
So even though we flew into South Carolina, we had
to drive you know, eighty ninety miles up to eighty
ninety minutes, I should say, up to Wilmington, North Carolina.
On the drive, the wife was hungry and there's not
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much open in small town North Carolina in the middle
of the night except waffle house. So we made a
stop at a very small town in South Carolina that
has a popular of about four thousand people, which is
one half of one block of like in North Hollywood
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or West Hollywood. It's just insane. But but anyways, it
was a very small, small rural town, but they did
have a waffle house. My wife was skeptical. She's like, oh,
it's gonna be terrible. It was not terrible, but I
told us that when you're in the South, you have
to eat at waffle house. It's required.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, well people go to like, let's go to California.
You got to have in and out Burger, you know,
it's like that kind of thing. But anyway, so we went.
We went back on the road after that very steamy night,
very human night, and driving in the middle of nowhere.
It was the twilight zone. Do do you know what
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it reminded me of It reminded me of COVID when
we would drive during COVID at night. Yeah, there was
no one on the road except you, and you thought
for a little bit, You're like, what if if everyone
else is dead and I'm the only one alive.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah, and upper management gave us FEMA cards like we
were really important essential workers.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yes, Yes, that was my favorite part of COVID is
that we all got You're very essential, my man. My man,
people need their sports takes. It's a government wants you
to break the curfew.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
My man. Uh to hear about the Marvel Championships, my man.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yeah, that was the shirt? Was it the Sherman Act?
Was that what it was? The Sherman Act? I believe
it was. I think that was it that allowed us
to have access, But not podcasts. I don't think podcasters
had access. I think only the radio people.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, the live broadcasters. We were there in case of
any emergency, so we could play the FCC alarms.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, doing God's work, you Jesus. Driving on the Twilight
Zone type theme there, small dark country roads. But I
was so paranoid after my experience in Minnesota getting a
speeding ticket that I was like, I'm not I'm gonna
drive the freaking speed limit. So I set auto pilot
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whatever the speed limit was top, like thirty five miles
an hour.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Unlearned your tourist staff learned I did.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
And we have out of state plates on the rental car,
which is I hate that every time I travel, Every
freaking time I travel, these people give me a car
with plates from a different state and it's on it. Well,
I've got Virginia plates on the on the car now.
When I was in Virginia we had plates. When I
(23:38):
was in North Carolina, we had like Texas plates. Last
time we flew into Virginia. When I was in Minnesota,
we had Kansas plates. It's like it's always. When I
was in Boston we had I don't even remember what
we didn't have the state. We never get the state
we're in.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Just eight I could just see a small town pop
behind you, like this Virginia city slicker. I'm gonna pull
this cracker over right now.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Oh exactly. Yeah. So I'm like, screw that. I'm not
getting another ticket. So I'm like, I don't care how
long it takes, but it really it drove me nuts.
Dandy because you know, living in LA when it's at
night and you can drive, you're going seventy five eighty
miles And I usually go seventy nine because I know
that's where I don't get tickets. But still seventy nine.
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Go from seventy nine to thirty seven, you know, it's like,
that's a big that's a big drop in.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Oh, yeah, you might as well be rolling in a tractor.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, I might as well be on an e bike
making my way my way around, I mean, and so whatever,
it was fine, and we got there. I didn't get
a ticket, and that's great, and that's wonderful and all that.
And so that was the first, the first leg, and
I guess, I guess I'll leave some stuff for the weekend.
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The company. We do have the word of the week.
Are you ready for the word of the week?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Danny? The word of the week straight out of the Carolinas.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah, and so it is a theme. It was an
emailer who lives here in the Carolina and said, Hey,
since you're in Carolina, I was curious where did the
tar heel thing come from? And I thought it would
be appropriate because I spent the first part of the
week in North Carolina, and so I thought, you know,
what the hell, why not, let's.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Do it north ca Calaca.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah. So the term tar heel, which is the mascot
for the University of North Carolina. Where are they still
lunatic protesters at North Carolina? I haven't kept track of that.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I've tuned that out this week, thank god. But the
term tar heel dates back to the very early days
in the history of North Carolina, and the state of
North Carolina was a leading producer in supplies for the
naval industry, the early navy, and the people who distilled
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the turpentine from sticky sap of the pine trees. They
burned pine, the big things of pine, to produce tar
and pitch, and they often did this well barefoot during
the ridiculously hot, steamy summer months here in the Carolinas.
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And so what do you think happened? They're doing barefoot
and they're they're making sap. So they collected tar on
the heels of their feet, and so put two and
two together. Toda. North Carolina was associated with tar from
the seventeen hundreds onward. And originally they were the people
(26:50):
that did this were called tar boilers. That was a
term that was not endearing to the locals since at
least they say, roughly the eighteen forties. Tar heel is
a tested I guess in eighteen sixty three by some
of the Confederate soldiers, and it had become common at
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that time. But it's the gummy resin of the pine
barrens the lowland part of the state. So literally tar.
You literally have tar on your heels as a barefoot worker,
going back to the seventeen hundreds in North Carolina, So
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that is the word of the week.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
That's crazy because I don't know about you, but I
don't like anything on my feet like that. We were
kids and sometimes we'd be walking around bare feet and
if I'd get anything on my feet, it would bug me.
So I can't imagine having tar stuck to your feet.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, especially at least now you can get stuff like
that off your feet, but it was a lot harder
in the seventeen and eighteen and early nineteen hundreds to
get that stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Oh you were on a beach and you got some
on your feet, remember I.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Did, Yes, I did. That was in southern California. Actually,
I think it was sunset beach that was covered in oil.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yeah, what did you have to use to get it off?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
We went on the internet. I forget what it was,
but yeah it was. It was a little bit. We
had a google it. That's a lot of work to google.
That's not easy to google, but yeah it was. It
was a bit of a pain. It was on there
for a fair amount of time, and that was with
modern modern technology. But I think we'll get out on that.
I have many more stories to tell, but I'm really
(28:38):
excited to meet you. If you can come down today,
hopefully you'll be able to make it three o'clock till
five o'clock over at my father's mustache, remember the James
Island location, and that is today right here Charleston, South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I feel like there's going to be a pretty good
sized crowd there at my wife's Sideburns.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah. Is that lady Sideburns that that emails the show
or sends messages on tour? Yeah, I don't know who's
going to show up by These things are always hit
and miss. Sometimes we get a great turnout like in Minnesota,
sometimes a little smaller, but it doesn't matter. It was
big or small. Yeah, ever shows up We've done these
in Maine and Boston and Syracuse and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
And then the rapper mentality. They always say back in
the day, the greatest MC's they tear up the stage.
Whether there's ten people or ten thousand people.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, exactly. It's like politician going around and you know,
meeting with the electorate. Just whoever's there. It's great if
it's a big crowd, find if it's small crowd, we'll
have a good time. Whoever shows up. We'll tell stories.
You can ask me whatever you want. I'll trash Eddie,
I'll trash Coop. I'll trash you whatever you want, you know, Lorrain, Yeah,
Lorraine of course, Ripper, Roberta, Roberto by the bus driver come.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
On, yeah, Iowa, Sam, Jake Warner.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I'll go way back if you want. I don't care
how how far back you want to go. But anyway,
I have a great day today. Thank you for listening here. Obviously,
we'll have new pods all weekend. You guys have been great.
I did not promote this at all that we would
have new pods. And the email, a lot of email
people were asking we'll get to that on Sunday, but
a lot of sporty questions mixed in, so we'll do
(30:18):
some of those, and anyway, we'll just have a good
time today and new pods all weekend, so.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
We'll catch you when we catch you later. Skater gotta murder,
I gotta go.
Kabooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Big Ben
and Danny g As. I have ended my audio silence.
We are back at it with the podcast. No radio
this week, but the Fifth Hour podcast continues from a
(00:49):
secret location somewhere in the Carolinas, which is in a garage. Danny,
I'm literally in a garage. Everyone around me is sleeping
right now at the time we are doing this.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It sounds like you're in a cave on a mister microphone.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, yeah, well, I pretty much am at this particular
point in a cave. I mean, I'm not exaggerating. If
you can see where I am, you can't see, thank god,
because it's a podcast. But but here we are, and hey, listen,
Joe Rogan said his podcast started in a garage, so
this could be the beginning of something even bigger for
the fifth hour podcast. What the heck? But it is
(01:34):
the tenth day of may or, as I like to say,
National Shrimp Day today, not a not a shrimp? Are
you a shrimp guy, Danny? Do you like the shrimp?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I do like shrimp, Mang bang chicken and shrimp.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
All right, well, this is a big day for you,
So go out, go out and neat some shrimp today.
Knock yourself out with the shrimp. Didn't shrimp put what
was the seafood restaurant Red Lobster? Was it all you
can eat shrimp? That is going to put them out
of business?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah? Remember Coop told the story on the air that
he went with a buddy to that all you can
eat red lobster shrimp. He ate eighty five of them
by himself. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So people like Coop tearing down an American institution. I
wish I could pull off those suits the people over
at Red Lobster. But it is also more than National
Shrimp Day. It is go time. It is green light, gotime, Danny.
Today is the day in Charleston we have the mallor
(02:38):
Meat and greet the first one of twenty twenty four.
It'll be this afternoon at three o'clock. Obviously in the location,
we're at three o'clock Eastern till five o'clock, and maybe
even a little bit longer depending on how it goes.
We'll play it by year on that, but a minimum
(03:00):
of two hours of schmoozing and hanging out. And I'm
excited about it, looking forward to it. I've been promoting
it with these cheesy videos on social media, Danny, because
you know I'm going all out. I'm going all out.
I went to a waffle house the other day and
did a video. I had another video up yesterday, all
in an effort to get the Great Unwashed to come together.
(03:24):
And if you somehow have missed it, I don't know
how you could have missed this, considering the amazing amount
of promotion that we've put in. But it is today
at my father's Mustache Day. You love this restaurant, Danny's,
the James Island location, your favorite restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I did some research on this place. When it first opened,
it was called General Lee's.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, well, I mean that's a lie.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Their name got canceled, so they changed it to my
father's mustache because they figured that wouldn't offend anybody.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Well and my father's mustache fine. Establishment, We're gonna have
all kinds of weird English food they have, like normal
bar food and all that. It'll be a good time.
So and as we pointed out in a previous episode
of the podcast, and I said this on the radio
show when we were in Appleton, Wisconsin, we pretty much
(04:22):
go anywhere we can find someone that will have us.
And my brother knew a guy. My brother lives in Wisconsin,
and he knew a guy that owned a Mexican fusion restaurant,
so we ate. We had a meet and greet at
a Mexican restaurant in Appleton, which is the next level
as well. But you think of Southern food, you don't
(04:44):
normally think of like beef Wellington and stuff like that.
But they have bar food, and so we'll have a
good time. It's not about the food, Danny, It's about
the people. It's about people. I think, I don't know,
I want my chicken.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I mean when it comes to Malord, though you do
think food, think Costco, food clippers. What is still wrong
with the clippers, cheapskate.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
No, no, no, A tight wad more than cheap skate.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
But I haven't been through that. Yeah, that's true. You're
not cheap, you have nice things. You're a tight one.
That's a better way to put it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, I'm a tight What if I have been to Costco?
I have made the pilgrimage to Costco this week, and
so consider this this this weekend, I'm gonna have some
travel stories. We'll have many more next weekend. But I
figured since I've been away from my post in the Watchtower, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I've been seeing listeners complain on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Well, they can play, they can play when I'm there,
and they can play when I'm not there. So it's
just the common theme. There's a thread here complaining, and
certainly whoever fills in for me gets the brunt of it.
I feel bad for them people, very grumpy and whatnot.
But I figured we spent some time this weekend of
going over and stuff. Today being the Friday Pod, We've
(06:03):
got driving Miss Malor, the Feast, Southern Hospitality, and I
got a bunch of other random things that will come out.
We have the Word of a Week as well, and
a bunch of other random stuff. We'll see what we
have time to get to. As you know, even though
this is a podcast, there's a certain window because we
(06:24):
have market research that has determined after a certain amount
of time, it doesn't matter. You can have the greatest
podcast in the world and people are going to tune
out at a certain point. So like, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So, yeah, you know, the last time I talked to
one of our bosses, Dawn, who you know very well,
he told me that we could check out at twenty
minutes if we want to.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, but we usually go about thirty. We do a bit.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I think it was last weekend we had one that
was forty two minutes long.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, which is probably way too long, but we'll try
to keep it shorter. But so the Malor travelogue a
staple of this podcast, the Mallard travelogue. So kind of
setting you back to the beginning of the week. Here,
I did the show Monday Sunday, and the Monday did
the radio show and then got up after just a
(07:16):
couple hours of sleep. Now, we flew from southern California
to get to South Carolina. I get to the Carolina
is not the easiest thing in the world. Not a
lot of direct flights, so we flew out of Ontario.
I've never flown out of the Ontario Airport in the
Inland Empire of southern California. This is the first time
(07:36):
I think I might have done it. That's not actually you.
I think years ago I blocked it out of my memory.
I think it was probably like twenty five years ago.
I flew out of the Ontario airport, but we mostly
used for like Amazon and ups. It's a southern California airport,
but anything to avoid lax the ghost Town Airport, the
(07:57):
Ontario Airport in southern California. Hardest part of flying out
of that airport is getting to that airport, and so
I was drying. We took an uber to get out there.
I was just I wasn't driving anyone. We took an
uber to get out there. And the wife she wanted
(08:18):
to have have breakfast. But my main goal in life
is to avoid the powder room on a plane that
she wanted to meet to eat breakfast. And you know,
you got a cross country flight if you need breakfast,
and I'm I'm a faster anyway. Plus, the airport food
is often terrible and ridiculously overpriced. And so I try
(08:42):
to avoid try to avoid that.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
In general, I would guess also that you don't even
fit in the airplane stall.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, it's a tough situation. It's a lot of being
a contortionist and trying to bend certain ways and all that,
and so that that's bad. But we flew from there
to Atlanta, and I gotta tell you, I had one
of the greatest flights I've ever had in my life.
And I've flown a fair amount over the year. It's
not as much in recent years as I did back
(09:14):
in the day. But I had a tremendous trip. And
the reason I was flying Delta, it's not because of Delta,
it's because of location, location, location. So I sat in
row twenty seven. I sat in an exit row, which
by itself is great because you get an extra leg
room in the exit row. But the way the plane
(09:36):
was set up, the row in front of me, I
want to make sure I pink the picture of the
proper way. So I'm in twenty seven, row twenty six.
It had two seats, not three seats. So I'm in
a row with three seats, and then in front of
me there's a row with two seats, and I happened
to be in position where there was no seat in
(09:58):
front of me. I got to stretch my legs out
like I was like I was flying on Tom Cruise's
Gulf Stream. It was awesome. I mean, I loved it.
I could have flown to Australia or New Zealand or wherever,
Tim Shanghai, I could have gone anywhere with that setup.
It was the greatest thing. I'm like, this is the
(10:20):
way to fly. I don't have to worry about anyone
leaning back into me. I can stretch my legs as
far as I want, I can lay down basically, And
so it was. It was awesome. It was absolutely awesome.
I loved it, and so I wish the flight had
actually been longer. I was upset that it wasn't longer
(10:40):
because I was like, this is great. So then we
had to change planes in Atlanta because there's no no
direct flight. So we got to Atlanta, the beautiful Atlanta
Hartsfield or Hartsfield Atlanta Airport, whatever they call it. And
at that point I was like, well, I probably should
eat because I don't eat here. I'm not going to
eat at all, and so ended up breaking my my fast.
(11:03):
I had fasted since I think it was like Saturday,
so it was a fair amount of time. Got to Atlanta,
and what I did, I don't know how you handle this.
I don't like to eat at airports, but when you
have a stopover and you're in a long travel day,
I'm like, all right, you gotta eat something. So I scouted.
(11:23):
I did a recon mission on the food court in Atlanta,
and I went around and I observed there like a
southern restaurant. They had a Windy's, there was a TGI Fridays.
They were like a couple of other places, and I
I was what I was doing was I was like, well,
would this be airport quality food? And then like I
(11:46):
did a cost benefit analysis, But then I was also
looking to see like what was what was busy because
I figured if it's busy people, probably that's a good
sign as normally people aren't going to, you know, go
gravitate towards eating dog food.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Yeah, like they've been to this airport before, they know
where to go.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah. There were a lot of middle aged dudes who
travel all the time. You know, you know that look
of that guy that's in a plane all the time,
like a couple of times a week flying, so I
ended up eating Chinese food at the It was like
a ripoff Panda Express at the Atlanta airport, and because
that was the busiest spot, it was the most bang
(12:25):
for your buck. And I gotta tell you, it was
pretty pretty good, Danny. It was pretty good. However, it
could have been the fact that hunger is the best
sauce in the world. It might not have had anything
to do with the orange chicken and just that I
was hungry. Oh you fat fuck you got head roll,
you got the breezeparem, you everything. It tasted about as
(12:48):
good as Chinese food that you could possibly have out
of a fast food type of restaurant. So it was great.
And we had.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
About a ninety minute eighty ninety minute layover in Atlanta,
and then we had another flight, which was like a
really short flight forty five minutes or so to beautiful
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
And our flight was a few minutes to late, so
we actually had to rush. And this is where the
Southern hospitality comes in. We had to rush to get
to the rental car because we were told the rental
car place closed at eleven forty five pm. We were
in the plane waiting to dboard at eleven thirty one,
and fortunately we were able to make it. It was right
(13:31):
across from the baggage plane, very small airport in Myrtle Beach,
no shuttle needed, and we were able to get the
rental car. But one of the dudes helping us give
us the car and filling out all the paperwork and
all that adult crap that you have to do, he
happened to be a listener to the show. He's listened
(13:53):
to the show going back twenty years, big sports radio guy,
and so that was a really cool prize. He's like, yeah,
are you And he's like you are you? The Ben
Mallett from the radio who as you know, as you
know da. It ended up happened very often, but he
made my day. Made my day. And this guy a
(14:13):
long time connoisseur of sports talk radio. He brought up
a couple of legends back in the day. Papa Joe Chevalier,
who did the one on one sports thing back in
the day, brought up John Renshaw, Johnny Renshaw, who actually
worked at Fox Sports Radio briefly among allthers. So that
(14:34):
was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
He made you look cool in front of your wife too.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, exactly, because my wife was like she was telling me,
She's like, I was gonna yell at you because I
was on my phone. I was like looking at my phone.
You know, I wasn't I wasn't being social. And then
the guy was like, hey, yeah, you know so and so.
So that that got me a pass on that. So
that was that was pretty neat. So I was like,
well that now the trip's off to a good story.
I had a great seat to Atlanta, had good Chinese food,
(15:00):
go to the airport, got the rental car. The guy
recognized me, so that was unexpected.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Was it awkward though, when after a couple minutes of
silence he just said, so, how about weed man hippie?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Eh? It was no, it was it was cool. I
was like I was. He did not know we were coming,
so I did not announce what airport I was flying into.
But that was pretty neat. And so then we we
got the car and had a ninety minute drive because
we the beginning of the trip we were in Wilmington,
North Carolina, so we we went to Wilmington. There's a
(15:37):
long story, I'll get into it. A little bit later.
But but by the way, I must point out when
I got to Myrtle Beach, the first sign I saw
getting off the plane was something that I've talked about
on the radio. This goes back many, many years, and
it's one of the all time great Well, let mean
(15:59):
there is let me say it, and they said this.
I want to see if you can recognize this. Danny,
I'm gonna put you on the spot here. So Myrtle
Beach is close to Coastal Carolina University. Why do you
think that university resonated? And a light bulb immediately went
off in my hair? What about Coastal Carolina University do
(16:21):
you think made me smile? There's only one thing that
they're famous for, as far as I know.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Their mascot.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
No, I mean, they do have a unique mascot, the
chant Chanta clears, I believe.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Yeah, that's the first thing I think of.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
No, no, no, no, I mean it's a cool mascot.
But let's go back. Okay, go back thirteen years and
there was a football coach named David Bennett at Coastal
Carolina and he had a random news conference where he
starts talking about cats and dogs, oh yeah, I remember that. Yeah,
(17:00):
and he said, we don't need a bunch of cats,
and hear me, Now, yeah, he's the guy. And so
I'm like, lo, more like dogs, Yeah, be a dog.
We need more dogs. Ruf ruf. And yeah, this was
his university. He's you know, he's like an athletic director
at some high school or something like that around South Carolina.
(17:24):
But I was like, wow, that's great. You know, we
we got to play that here on the podcast because
this is one of the all time great grants. David Bennett,
the coach at Coastal Carolina, So that that was pretty cool.
I guess it's right in Erere's a few miles away
from Myrtle Beach, and so they had a big sign
up in the airport and so so that was kind
of cool.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Trying to get our two boys ready to carry to
the golf tournament. Four printice right, twelve cats live cross
the road. Our door's open, screens broke. We need to
get a new screen door, but the screens broke. So
you come in through the screen, but you can't get
back out. I turn to look, there's a little kiddy
cat in our in our kitchen, So I said what
are you doing in here?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
A little kid cat.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
By that time the cat turns, tries to get back out,
that scream won't go that way. Cats starts going all crazy,
and I told our players we need more dogs. Bows
barking in the back after go shut bow up, mels like,
what's going on? It says the cat and house cat
in the house. I said, it is a cat in
the house. So I told our players. I tried to
let it out the front door. Weird cat's still going
(18:24):
crazy in there. And I told our players, you needy
bit more like a dog. We don't need a bunch
of cats in here. Looking in the mirror, I look good.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I got my extra bands on, I got my other shoes.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Be a dog. We don't need no miwns. We don't
need no cats.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
We need more dogs.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
There you go, all right? I love that for a
guy that doesn't have any name value. David Benny not bad.
I mean, that's right up there with you. Think of
the legends of the ran in football, Jim Mora. We
couldn't do Diddley Pooh or the late Dennis Green. And
(19:06):
you want to crown them, crown them, but they are
who we thought they were, you know, and we let
them got them off the hook exactly exactly. Moving on
and the travel log here on the fifth hour, Pacast.
Don't forget Today's Today, Today's day. Somehow you didn't listen
to the beginning of this with Charleston Today three o'clock Friday, Friday,
(19:29):
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out my.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
English chicken fingers with Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, beating pretzels and whatever else. But so we were
in Wilmington. That was the first stop, and that was
the wife's family. The in laws, my father in law
and his wife along with a sister in law, live
(19:59):
in North Carolina. My father in law splits half the
time between southern California and here in North Carolina. Just
moved down here recently. A sister in law also has
been living here with her husband and daughter briefly a
couple of years now. Actually went to their wedding a
couple of years ago. First time I ever went to
North Carolina. So that's why we kind of extended the
(20:21):
trip because they're like, we spent half the week there
and then the rest of the time in South Carolina.
So even though we flew into South Carolina, we had
to drive you know, eighty ninety miles up to eighty
ninety minutes, I should say, up to Wilmington, North Carolina.
On the drive, the wife was hungry and there's not
(20:44):
much open in small town North Carolina in the middle
of the night except waffle house. So we made a
stop at a very small town in South Carolina that
has a popular of about four thousand people, which is
one half of one block of like in North Hollywood
(21:09):
or West Hollywood. It's just insane. But but anyways, it
was a very small, small rural town, but they did
have a waffle house. My wife was skeptical. She's like, oh,
it's gonna be terrible. It was not terrible, but I
told us that when you're in the South, you have
to eat at waffle house. It's required.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, well people go to like, let's go to California.
You got to have in and out Burger, you know,
it's like that kind of thing. But anyway, so we went.
We went back on the road after that very steamy night,
very human night, and driving in the middle of nowhere.
It was the twilight zone. Do do you know what
(21:50):
it reminded me of It reminded me of COVID when
we would drive during COVID at night. Yeah, there was
no one on the road except you, and you thought
for a little bit, You're like, what if if everyone
else is dead and I'm the only one alive.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah, and upper management gave us FEMA cards like we
were really important essential workers.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yes, Yes, that was my favorite part of COVID is
that we all got You're very essential, my man. My man,
people need their sports takes. It's a government wants you
to break the curfew.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
My man. Uh to hear about the Marvel Championships, my man.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yeah, that was the shirt? Was it the Sherman Act?
Was that what it was? The Sherman Act? I believe
it was. I think that was it that allowed us
to have access, But not podcasts. I don't think podcasters
had access. I think only the radio people.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, the live broadcasters. We were there in case of
any emergency, so we could play the FCC alarms.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, doing God's work, you Jesus. Driving on the Twilight
Zone type theme there, small dark country roads. But I
was so paranoid after my experience in Minnesota getting a
speeding ticket that I was like, I'm not I'm gonna
drive the freaking speed limit. So I set auto pilot
(23:09):
whatever the speed limit was top, like thirty five miles
an hour.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Unlearned your tourist staff learned I did.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
And we have out of state plates on the rental car,
which is I hate that every time I travel, Every
freaking time I travel, these people give me a car
with plates from a different state and it's on it. Well,
I've got Virginia plates on the on the car now.
When I was in Virginia we had plates. When I
(23:38):
was in North Carolina, we had like Texas plates. Last
time we flew into Virginia. When I was in Minnesota,
we had Kansas plates. It's like it's always. When I
was in Boston we had I don't even remember what
we didn't have the state. We never get the state
we're in.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Just eight I could just see a small town pop
behind you, like this Virginia city slicker. I'm gonna pull
this cracker over right now.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Oh exactly. Yeah. So I'm like, screw that. I'm not
getting another ticket. So I'm like, I don't care how
long it takes, but it really it drove me nuts.
Dandy because you know, living in LA when it's at
night and you can drive, you're going seventy five eighty
miles And I usually go seventy nine because I know
that's where I don't get tickets. But still seventy nine.
(24:27):
Go from seventy nine to thirty seven, you know, it's like,
that's a big that's a big drop in.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Oh, yeah, you might as well be rolling in a tractor.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, I might as well be on an e bike
making my way my way around, I mean, and so whatever,
it was fine, and we got there. I didn't get
a ticket, and that's great, and that's wonderful and all that.
And so that was the first, the first leg, and
I guess, I guess I'll leave some stuff for the weekend.
(24:57):
The company. We do have the word of the week.
Are you ready for the word of the week?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Danny? The word of the week straight out of the Carolinas.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah, and so it is a theme. It was an
emailer who lives here in the Carolina and said, Hey,
since you're in Carolina, I was curious where did the
tar heel thing come from? And I thought it would
be appropriate because I spent the first part of the
week in North Carolina, and so I thought, you know,
what the hell, why not, let's.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Do it north ca Calaca.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah. So the term tar heel, which is the mascot
for the University of North Carolina. Where are they still
lunatic protesters at North Carolina? I haven't kept track of that.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I've tuned that out this week, thank god. But the
term tar heel dates back to the very early days
in the history of North Carolina, and the state of
North Carolina was a leading producer in supplies for the
naval industry, the early navy, and the people who distilled
(26:04):
the turpentine from sticky sap of the pine trees. They
burned pine, the big things of pine, to produce tar
and pitch, and they often did this well barefoot during
the ridiculously hot, steamy summer months here in the Carolinas.
(26:27):
And so what do you think happened? They're doing barefoot
and they're they're making sap. So they collected tar on
the heels of their feet, and so put two and
two together. Toda. North Carolina was associated with tar from
the seventeen hundreds onward. And originally they were the people
(26:50):
that did this were called tar boilers. That was a
term that was not endearing to the locals since at
least they say, roughly the eighteen forties. Tar heel is
a tested I guess in eighteen sixty three by some
of the Confederate soldiers, and it had become common at
(27:14):
that time. But it's the gummy resin of the pine
barrens the lowland part of the state. So literally tar.
You literally have tar on your heels as a barefoot worker,
going back to the seventeen hundreds in North Carolina, So
(27:34):
that is the word of the week.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
That's crazy because I don't know about you, but I
don't like anything on my feet like that. We were
kids and sometimes we'd be walking around bare feet and
if I'd get anything on my feet, it would bug me.
So I can't imagine having tar stuck to your feet.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, especially at least now you can get stuff like
that off your feet, but it was a lot harder
in the seventeen and eighteen and early nineteen hundreds to
get that stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Oh you were on a beach and you got some
on your feet, remember I.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Did, Yes, I did. That was in southern California. Actually,
I think it was sunset beach that was covered in oil.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yeah, what did you have to use to get it off?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
We went on the internet. I forget what it was,
but yeah it was. It was a little bit. We
had a google it. That's a lot of work to google.
That's not easy to google, but yeah it was. It
was a bit of a pain. It was on there
for a fair amount of time, and that was with
modern modern technology. But I think we'll get out on that.
I have many more stories to tell, but I'm really
(28:38):
excited to meet you. If you can come down today,
hopefully you'll be able to make it three o'clock till
five o'clock over at my father's mustache, remember the James
Island location, and that is today right here Charleston, South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I feel like there's going to be a pretty good
sized crowd there at my wife's Sideburns.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah. Is that lady Sideburns that that emails the show
or sends messages on tour? Yeah, I don't know who's
going to show up by These things are always hit
and miss. Sometimes we get a great turnout like in Minnesota,
sometimes a little smaller, but it doesn't matter. It was
big or small. Yeah, ever shows up We've done these
in Maine and Boston and Syracuse and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
And then the rapper mentality. They always say back in
the day, the greatest MC's they tear up the stage.
Whether there's ten people or ten thousand people.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, exactly. It's like politician going around and you know,
meeting with the electorate. Just whoever's there. It's great if
it's a big crowd, find if it's small crowd, we'll
have a good time. Whoever shows up. We'll tell stories.
You can ask me whatever you want. I'll trash Eddie,
I'll trash Coop. I'll trash you whatever you want, you know, Lorrain, Yeah,
Lorraine of course, Ripper, Roberta, Roberto by the bus driver come.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
On, yeah, Iowa, Sam, Jake Warner.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I'll go way back if you want. I don't care
how how far back you want to go. But anyway,
I have a great day today. Thank you for listening here. Obviously,
we'll have new pods all weekend. You guys have been great.
I did not promote this at all that we would
have new pods. And the email, a lot of email
people were asking we'll get to that on Sunday, but
a lot of sporty questions mixed in, so we'll do
(30:18):
some of those, and anyway, we'll just have a good
time today and new pods all weekend, so.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
We'll catch you when we catch you later. Skater gotta murder,
I gotta go.
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