Amy Has Been Waiting for This Moment

Summary

The Dale Jr. Download

Episode: Amy Has Been Waiting for This Moment

Date: April 23, 2026
Host(s): Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Amy Earnhardt
Podcast by: Dirty Mo Media, SiriusXM

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Episode Overview

This episode is a lively, candid, and often hilarious look into the personal lives of Dale Earnhardt Jr., Amy Earnhardt, and their family and friends as they return from a memorable St. Martin vacation. The group dives deep into stories about lost items, vacation mishaps, family traditions, hygiene debates, and the persistent balancing act between racing commitments and family. With their signature mix of teasing, vulnerability, and frank talk, Dale and Amy share insights on family, racing, travel, and life’s little absurdities—delivering one of the most engaging, down-to-earth episodes yet.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Family Shenanigans: Missing Rings, Jewelry, and House Critters

[01:24 - 05:48]

• The show opens with funny stories of lost wedding rings and jewelry, mostly attributed to their kids’ sneakiness.
• Dale and Ralph (co-host) discover their rings are being relocated by their daughter, Nicole, who’s taken a wooden wedding band out of its box.
• The group reminisces about creative ring alternatives—wood, silicone, carbon fiber—and recounts past stories of theft and childhood mischief.
• Notable Quote:
  "It's probably more upsetting because we went on vacation this last week and guess who lost their phone..." – Dale [06:09]

2. Drink of the Week: Freezer Door Strawberry Lemon Drop

[06:19 - 10:01]

• The crew shares a recipe for a batch cocktail featuring High Rock vodka, lemon juice, strawberry syrup, and triple sec, with practical tips for making big-batch drinks for parties.
• Notable Moment:
  "That could be trouble. It's delicious. Speaking of drinking responsibly, Dale lost his phone." – Dale [10:02]

3. The Lost Phone & Vacation Drama

[10:08 - 21:28]

• Dale recounts losing his phone on the first night in St. Martin—having it bounce from his swim trunks while riding a rented “moke” (glorified golf cart).
• The lost device sends automated crash alerts to emergency contacts, causing panic and confusion.
• A play-by-play of the frantic search ensues, with Tim Duggar assisting, arguments over navigation, and eventual discovery of the smashed phone thanks to Apple’s tracking.
• Reflections on the wisdom (or lack thereof) of wallet-phone combos, with Amy advocating for keeping phone and ID separate.
• Memorable Exchange:
  "Lo and behold, it was like another half a mile up the road... it was a show." – Dale [18:04]
• Quote on Tech Dependence:
  "I was, for the rest of the trip, very at peace with the fact that he was so present and didn't have all that communication." – Amy [21:09]

4. Work-Life Balance & Family First Philosophy

[24:24 - 36:02]

• Returning from vacation is described as "draining." The group jokes about Dale’s dreams of living on a catamaran, juxtaposed with Amy’s practicality.
• Dale gets introspective about the pressure of being a racing team owner, feeling guilty for not being at the track when disasters strike (like Carson Kuopo’s early-race flip in Kansas).
• He shares the impact of a mentor’s advice (“family first”) and the ongoing struggle to balance ownership responsibilities and home life.
• Notable Quote:
  "You gotta put family first... it gave me permission to, like, put family over everything." – Dale [34:50]

5. Charity Auction Lifehack & St. Martin Vacation Highlights

[36:10 - 41:02]

• Dale and Amy share their secret to scoring affordable luxury vacations: buying under-market charity auction packages and, if unused, gifting them to employees.
• Details of their St. Martin trip: favorite local bars (Danny’s Beach Bar, Elvis’s Bar in Anguilla), driving the moke, local characters, and a possibly naked beach experience.
• Hilarious Reveal:
  "We get comfortable, we order some beer, and Tara turns and goes, 'Amy, I think this is a naked bar...'" – Dale [41:27]

6. Family Traditions & Emotional Moments

[45:09 - 47:54]

• Amy shares the “Muffins with Mom” preschool event, Nicole practicing winking for a surprise performance, and tears over the “last hurrah” at preschool.
• Nicole’s answers on her “all about my mom” questionnaire bring laughter, especially her observation that Amy's favorite activity is talking on the phone.
• Touching Quote:
  "She says my mom is really great at telling jokes. So she thinks I'm funny, which that's pretty cool." – Dale [48:07]

7. Hygiene, Habits, and Domestic Debates

[67:54 - 77:00]

• A spirited Q&A covers everything from the ethics of 3-in-1 shampoo, towel reuse, deodorant alternatives, and Dale’s transition from being a smoker to cold-turkey quitting.
• Dale, Amy, and Ralph detail their specific shower routines (bar soap vs. body wash) and laugh at each other’s quirks.
• Quote:
  "Do you hit your pits and bits and then get out? Do you wash everything?" – Dale [74:56]
• Philosophical reflection on personal hygiene habits and famous discussions (referencing “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard and their children's bathing routines).

8. Light-Hearted Rapid Fire & Parenting Reflections

[58:10 - 76:00]

• Rapid-fire "Ask Amy" session includes:
  • Most annoying Disney princess (Ariel and Elsa get called out for bad negotiation and being selfish)
  • Amy’s first Talladega experience
  • Jello shots (and how to get them out of the cup)
  • Travel unpacking habits
  • Fun questions about hygiene, towel reuse, and warning labels for their lives
• Notable Humor:
  "Fight fire with fire." – Amy [72:47]

9. Smoking Confession & Quitting Story

[52:13 - 57:21]

• Dale shares, in detail, his days as a secret cigarette smoker, the elaborate steps taken to hide the habit, and finally, the relief and disgust he felt after quitting for good.
• Reflective Quote:
  "Once I quit, the funniest thing happened... the actual smell of it made me disgusted." – Dale [56:24]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “It's a little more serious...we've got some jewelry, and different personal things missing.” – Dale [04:01]
• “We're going to hang out, open a bunch of jars. You got big, strong hands. Are you suffering from high crack?” – Dale, playfully [01:02]
• “Being out there, lost phone, smashed phone—I've been waiting days to say that!” – Ralph (to the delight of Amy) [10:12]
• "All you need's a good nag." – Ralph, about quitting smoking [57:32]
• “His little label: addicted personality. Like, he gets addicted to anything. He goes in hard.” – Amy [73:53]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [01:24] — Family chaos: missing rings and childhood mischief
• [06:19] — Drink of the Week: Strawberry Lemon Drop recipe
• [10:08] — Dale’s lost phone story begins
• [11:12] — The moke ride and discovering the phone is missing
• [14:05] — The crushed phone found, tech lessons learned
• [18:04] — Road trip search drama with Tim Duggar
• [21:09] — Amy’s reflection on phone loss & “being present”
• [24:24] — Returning from vacation, family vs. racing balance
• [28:06] — Carson’s car flip at Kansas, emotional response
• [34:50] — Dale’s “family first” revelation
• [36:10] — Charity auction vacation lifehack
• [38:33] — Trip highlights: Danny's Bar, Elvis's Bar in Anguilla
• [41:27] — The naked bar revelation
• [45:09] — “Fun Facts” segment: Muffins with Mom
• [52:13] — Dale’s secret smoking years & quitting story
• [58:10] — Rapid-fire Ask Amy: Disney princesses, Talladega tales
• [65:00] — Jello shot technique hack
• [67:54] — The 3-in-1 shampoo/body wash debate
• [72:37] — Warning labels for life
• [74:56] — Listener challenge on hygiene habits
• [76:36] — Closing reflections on shower routines

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Episode Tone & Style

• Conversational, playful, sometimes raw
• Frequent teasing and inside jokes
• Real, meaningful talk about family, loss, and personal growth
• Fast-paced and accessible, as if eavesdropping on a family dinner

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Summary for This Episode

“Amy Has Been Waiting for This Moment” delivers an unfiltered, often uproarious window into Dale and Amy Earnhardt’s family life post-vacation. It’s equal parts vacation debrief, lost-and-found drama, confessional, and relationship therapy. Listeners are treated to hilarious stories of bumbling searches and psychic guilt, practical cocktail instructions, passionate hygiene debates, and surprisingly emotional moments about parenthood and the passage of time. Through it all, Dale and Amy’s wit, honesty, and affection shine—making this episode not just entertaining, but deeply relatable.

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"I was, for the rest of the trip, very at peace with the fact that he was so present and didn't have all that communication."
— Amy on Dale losing his phone [21:09]

"All you need's a good nag."
— Ralph, on Dale quitting smoking [57:32]

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Engage with the show: Listeners are invited to weigh in on debates—Are you a bar soap purist? When was the last time you lost your phone? Do you have a towel limit? This episode welcomes you inside the Earnhardt home, unvarnished and as real as ever.

Transcript

[Amy]

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[Ralph]

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[Dale]

Oh, yeah. This is the way it's going to be, girl. We're going to hang out, open a bunch of jars. You got big, strong hands. Are you suffering from high crack?

[Ralph]

I'm working.

[Dale]

Working that mouth.

[Ralph]

You want to know some?

[Dale]

Yes. For me today?

[Ralph]

All right. Well, it just happened this morning. You took Nicole to school. And so I've been missing some things right on this, right at the front door.

[Dale]

It's like a new trend for Dale, losing.

[Ralph]

So I don't like regular rings. And I have these, you know, plastic bad boys that you buy $10, $5, whatever on Amazon. And they come in fun little colors or whatever. So I have a box of those right at the front door. So if I want to match your outfit. Yeah. Change colors.

[Dale]

Your wedding van.

[Ralph]

Yeah, Yeah, I do. Well, I went upstairs to say bye to Isla because I've been trying to show her a little more affection, more attention.

[Dale]

Was she mad at you?

[Ralph]

No, no, no. Sorry. I just had a brain fart.

[Amy]

She kick you in the nuts?

[Dale]

One of my best. One of my favorite phrases. Does she kick you in the nuts? That's a great question. Did she emotionally do that?

[Ralph]

April said, hey, this is yours, I believe. And she held up a ring, and

[Dale]

she thought for sure it'd be yours. Was it one of those?

[Ralph]

It was my wedding ring.

[Dale]

Huh?

[Ralph]

My wooden.

[Dale]

How in the hell did that get out of the safe?

[Ralph]

Who do you think picked it out of that box.

[Dale]

It wasn't in the safe.

[Ralph]

It's in the box downstairs. Nicole, she took it up there into their playroom.

[Dale]

And I got a confession then. I'm missing my push peasant rings. Those the pink ones? Dude, I wore them. I did not take my jewelry on vacation recently. Yes. Because I was wearing them last week, and I didn't take my jewelry on vacation.

[Ralph]

You know where you took them all.

[Dale]

Because I, too, tend to lose things.

[Ralph]

Did you put them on?

[Dale]

They're usually in my little. My jewelry thing.

[Ralph]

So I think Nicole is wandering around. I don't know when she's doing this because we're around her most of the time.

[Dale]

Well, we weren't the last weekend.

[Ralph]

Well, yeah, A whole week, right? Yeah. So she got in the box and got your stuff.

[Dale]

Is it broken?

[Ralph]

No, it's not. But I now need to reevaluate where things are in the house.

[Dale]

I mean, I feel like that one should have been put away more. You know, I have a little bit space. Since you literally never wear it, I

[Ralph]

have a little bit of an understanding of why dad and Teresa put locks on all the doors in the house. Now, when I was a child and I sold $80 out of my dad's

[Dale]

chains, Lived with critters. Ye. I mean. Yeah, I feel you.

[Ralph]

I went in my dad's bedroom and stole 80 bucks out of the big change water jug.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

And to buy a game Boy. And now I know how that felt.

[Dale]

Yeah. This is a little more serious. We got some jewelry. We've got some jewelry. Well, and different personal things missing.

[Ralph]

I'm actually thinking I might put the wooden one, which is. Amy got me a wooden wedding ring.

[Dale]

It's made out of walnut.

[Ralph]

It is. At the time it is badass that

[Dale]

we got married, he refused to wear a metal band. I don't even want you putting one on my hand when we get married. And Kalo had not really come out with the silicone rings. I think they were the first brand to really come out with those. And so I was looking all over the Internet to try and figure out what to do. I think carbon fiber rings weren't anything yet either. We since figured those. Those are a new thing. And so he got a walnut wooden

[Ralph]

wedding band, gloss painted. It's beautiful.

[Dale]

But also very fragile. Yeah, I'm not gonna wear it all

[Ralph]

the time because it's fragile. I wore it during the ceremony and all that because it's serum. It's a ceremony. Right. It's a signal identifier.

[Dale]

Yeah. He took it off Immediately after.

[Amy]

I would too. Yeah, if I ever get married, like, I won't wear like.

[Dale]

Well, the silicone ones are. You can't even feel them.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's what I would do.

[Dale]

Yeah, I like to silver. I wear those too. When I'm like doing other things and don't want to mess up my jewelry. But man, that sinks that.

[Ralph]

I'm so glad that that wasn't like lost forever.

[Dale]

Well, you wouldn't have known forever.

[Ralph]

Yes, I would have. And I would have thought, how did I misplace it? Where did I do it?

[Dale]

Exactly. The feeling I've had about my rings

[Ralph]

ripping through my brain trying to find the files where the information exists on where this thing is at. And now I don't. And I'm learning that it isn't actually my fault.

[Amy]

So you hate jewelry, but does the wooden one make you less or is it still is wooden and regular jewelry all the same?

[Dale]

It's really just the metal.

[Amy]

The metal.

[Dale]

So like, even if I were jewelry and it's like shells or beads or like a leather bracelet or something, he could care less. It's just the metal stuff.

[Ralph]

Gotcha. Get off this topic. Well, the conversation is around.

[Amy]

You started this whole thing.

[Ralph]

No, but you're changing the narrative.

[Amy]

Take it back.

[Dale]

We have a house critter stealing things in the house. Our own critter stealing our things.

[Ralph]

A little hot. Grab your hands and moving things around.

[Dale]

This is probably more upsetting because we went on vacation this last week and guess who lost their phone before we

[Ralph]

get into the lost phone episode.

[Dale]

Wait a second.

[Ralph]

Why don't we do a drink of the week?

[Dale]

Okay. Come on, man. You're going to.

[Ralph]

They sponsor the show. They're probably sitting here wondering when the. Are they going to talk about the vodka?

[Dale]

That's not what they're thinking. Yes, they too want to know what happened with your phone.

[Ralph]

Well, we'll tell them just a moment after we talk about.

[Amy]

It was sponsored by alcohol of the

[Ralph]

Week, presented by High Rock Vodka. This is the freezer door. Strawberry lemon drop.

[Dale]

Strawberry.

[Ralph]

The freezer door. Strawberry lemon drop. I mean, that's not long and hard to remember.

[Dale]

Listen, you can. You can make this in advance in a batch, which makes it very nice for parties.

[Ralph]

What the hell's the freezer door got to do with this?

[Dale]

You put it in the freezer.

[Ralph]

That's where you store it and store it there.

[Dale]

Oh, and it's ready to rip.

[Ralph]

A little tart.

[Dale]

It's tart, but it's grapefruit juice. Let's see you can put ice on it if you wanted and kind of dumb it down.

[Ralph]

There's 4C of High Rock vodka. What's that mean?

[Dale]

Four cups of High Rock vodka.

[Ralph]

Four cups of High rock vodka.

[Dale]

So you can take the big boy, pour three and a half out and then add the rest to your drink.

[Ralph]

One cup of fresh lemon juice. It's okay if your lemon juice is five hours old or 10, but fresh is what you want.

[Dale]

Five hours?

[Ralph]

Well, I don't know. It said fresh, and I was just gonna make a joke because who's really got this? Is that joke lemon juice laying around?

[Dale]

Well, it's jarred. Like, you buy it or you squeeze it from your own lemons.

[Ralph]

Buying it from the jars. Not fresh?

[Dale]

No, that's what, that's what they're saying. Fresh means you squeeze it.

[Ralph]

What if they only got the kind you get in a jar still? Okay.

[Dale]

It'll be all right?

[Amy]

Yes, you're fine.

[Ralph]

One cup of strawberry syrup. It doesn't signify whether that needs to be fresh. Three quarters of a cup of triple sec, one half of a cup of water for dilution.

[Dale]

For what?

[Ralph]

Dilution. For dilution.

[Dale]

To dilute it?

[Ralph]

Yep.

[Dale]

Dilution.

[Ralph]

You combine all the ingredients in a newly released 1.75 liter High Rock vodka bottle right here. This bad boy, you chill it in a freezer for four to six hours. That's a big range. Four to six. Like, why not just four? Why not? Why not six?

[Dale]

I, I. This is the beginning of the show,

[Ralph]

and I feel like after four to six hours, you're allowed to serve it. Visit highrockvodka.com to find a bottle near you. Remember to drink responsibly, and you must be 21 years or over, and you can get our new 1.75 liter bottles in stores in May. In May?

[Dale]

We're not sure of the exact date, but it's coming out.

[Ralph]

This is good. It's kind of tart. I thought it had grapefruit juice in it, but it doesn't.

[Dale]

It does not. So here's the thing about batch drinks, Ralph. You can put this in the freezer, and if you want, like you're out by the pool or whatever, you grab the bottle, fill the glasses up with ice, and just pour. So it'll dilute it a little bit more as well.

[Ralph]

But I used to do this with orange juice jugs.

[Dale]

What do you mean?

[Ralph]

I'd buy a gallon of orange juice. I'd pour half of it out and put vodka in there and shake it up, put it in the refrigerator. And that was my. That was my drink for the night at the whole. You know, that was my drink for the party.

[Dale]

The whole. You drink. The whole thing.

[Ralph]

I'd walk around carrying something responsibly, but getting my mixed up. I mean, it's so easy.

[Dale]

It is easy. And have to pour.

[Ralph]

And you'd have to chase a cup, wonder who's who. You know, you got 50 red Solo cups sitting around. You wonder which one's yours.

[Dale]

Yeah. And you don't have to bartend.

[Ralph]

Nope.

[Dale]

It's just.

[Ralph]

I just put my freezer, refrigerator and go grab it when I want a couple of drinks, Carry it around a little while, put it back in the refrigerator, let it cool off.

[Dale]

Yeah. So this is for you.

[Ralph]

I like it.

[Dale]

Great.

[Ralph]

That could be trouble.

[Dale]

Yeah, it could be trouble. It's delicious. Speaking of drinking responsibly, Dale lost his phone.

[Ralph]

Why are.

[Dale]

We all.

[Ralph]

Did it, too.

[Dale]

Dale lost his phone. Dale lost his phone, and it was smashed. I've been waiting days to say that.

[Ralph]

Oh, my gosh.

[Dale]

Days. And you didn't bring it with you, did you?

[Ralph]

Oh, it is here.

[Dale]

Go get it.

[Ralph]

It's upstairs.

[Dale]

Stefan, we need it.

[Ralph]

Yep.

[Dale]

He smashed the. Out of it.

[Ralph]

Yeah, I did.

[Dale]

All right, so we're in St. Martin on this great trip. We have had a day, and it's the first day. It's this. I thought it was the second day.

[Ralph]

Maybe it was. It was early.

[Dale]

It was early on in the trip. Yeah, we had. We had had a. Oh, it was

[Ralph]

definitely the first night.

[Dale]

It was.

[Ralph]

It was.

[Dale]

No, it wasn't. After.

[Ralph]

Yeah. St. Bart's oh, there was a sporting event on, and I. It was the night the Hornets lost to Orlando.

[Dale]

I got nothing.

[Ralph]

I know. That was. Yeah, Robbie probably has it.

[Amy]

I'll go up and get it. You know, Steven's at lunch.

[Ralph]

Well, all right.

[Dale]

We are having a day.

[Ralph]

You know how you are. First day, you're excited to be wherever you are, having a great time.

[Dale]

And we have rented what they call a moke or a moki. At one point, when we were going through stuff, I wanted to buy one of these, and Dale was against it. And we had never even driven one. They used to rent them in Sullivan's Islands, and they stopped, so we didn't get the chance to do that. So I saw that they were renting them on this island. I'm like, joey, we have to get one of these. And. And so it's basically like a glorified golf cart. And so we're taking this thing back and forth on these rough roads down to the little town center. And it was a rough ride. There's no doors on this thing and the sides of it scoop super low. So you know, hang on, buckle up the whole thing, back and forth, go down to this little bar, come back home. Dale can't find his phone.

[Ralph]

Yep.

[Dale]

And meanwhile we're getting text messages from both our pilot Joey, from Kelly to my phone to Tara and Tim because I wasn't answering my phone. I was trying to be responsible for once and I kept it in my purse. Anyway, Dale had run over his phone. He had to have.

[Ralph]

We don't know that for sure.

[Dale]

Listen, the thing was completely annihilated and it was sending out code red alerts to all of his emergency contacts. Like he has been in a crash. So this phone flew out of his pocket. Cause he just had a swim trunks on. Fell out of his pocket when we hit a bump and like flew in the road. So he could have very well ran over the mope.

[Ralph]

Doesn't have doors.

[Dale]

No doors.

[Ralph]

So the phone just flew. You know, we're bouncing along these little rough old roads. Yeah, it's we, our house is like half a mile less than that. Less than that. From this, this bar that we'd been hanging out. We had dinner and all that. So we're bouncing on the way home and the thing just kind of hopped out of my pocket. Right.

[Dale]

Well, it, it said adios.

[Ralph]

It's so smart because either when it hit the ground or when a car ran over. Sends an alert to my two emergency contacts, Amy and Kelly. Well, Amy's phone is in her purse and Kelly's texting us going, are y' all okay? Texting the Duggars.

[Dale]

It says that he has been into a crash.

[Ralph]

Dale's been in a crash. An accident.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

And here's the location of the accident. And so Kelly texts Joey, the pilot. Joey's trying to leave his hotel room to drive to wherever this pen is to find whatever the hell's happened there.

[Dale]

She had been trying to get out of the house.

[Ralph]

He thinks we're in a real accident

[Dale]

and we weren't looking at our phones. And we had at that point didn't even know he had lost his phone.

[Ralph]

Amy didn't even pull her phone out to know. She even got this text message. She has no clue. So I could have been an accident and it wouldn't have. Amy would have been none the wiser.

[Dale]

Exactly. So that's true. If I wasn't with you, I would have lost. Lost here's the phone.

[Ralph]

She's getting smashed.

[Dale]

I'll do my best, Vanna. It is.

[Amy]

It doesn't look terrible.

[Ralph]

Well, look, so.

[Dale]

And this was in a case.

[Ralph]

Oh, it wasn't a case.

[Dale]

So it's still smashed, but the whole back and the whole front are just shattered.

[Ralph]

So we're. We're getting this alert.

[Dale]

Doesn't even turn on.

[Ralph]

Well, I had. I drove to the bar. I ran back to the bar in the car. I'm walking around. I'm. There's. It's a. It's kind of a courtyard with a lot of restaurants, and they're all open air. And so I'm walking to all the places we were and the people that work there, the bartenders, the waiter that saw us, a guy that was playing music. They're all like, yeah, really? Okay, we're looking. And I've got my Garmin watch on. And anytime I get near my phone with the Garmin watch, I'm going to get the text messages and all the alerts. Right. I'm walking around waiting on this Garmin watch to start buzzing so I can know that I'm within 20ft or whatever of this phone. It's not happening. And as much as I want to believe the phone is there, it ain't there. And so we drive back home. When you get home, that's when we get the text messages.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

And that's when we're starting to learn that, oh, the phone is in the street.

[Dale]

And he finally takes my phone so that he can track his phone.

[Amy]

Yeah. Why don't you do it from the beginning?

[Dale]

Well, I don't know.

[Ralph]

This is what happened. So we. I'm not sharing my location with Amy, which I didn't realize that we always have. And so I'm going on her phone, trying to find mine. And it's. It's like giving me a general area. Not necessarily. It's. It's like, you're in this state. You're in the city. Right. It's not like it's not giving me a direct. And then it dawned on me. Get. Get my iPad out. So I get my iPad out. My iPad's like, there it is. There's your phone. And I'm like. And so we take. My iPad's got 1%. It's dead. Right. I can't take my iPad with me to locate the phone. So I get Tim Duggar, our buddy, to take a picture of the iPad screen, and me and him drove down the street, and right where it said it was is the Phone land in the street going, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Raising hell. It is crushed.

[Dale]

It is completely.

[Ralph]

Screen doesn't work. Can't. It doesn't work. You can't use it. You can't call it. But it's going berserk. How. And how cool is that technology that it sent out to my emergency contacts that there was an issue and that it was destroyed by how many. Maybe I ran over it multiple times going back to look for it. Certainly other cars hit it. And it was still good enough, right, To. To be screaming, here I am.

[Dale]

The whole thing is just so ironic because he went postal when I lost mine and he went postal even more when he lost his. And I thought, there's just nothing that's going to send this man more than somebody losing their phone.

[Ralph]

I have an opinion about that. So I lost mine because it bounced out of my pocket.

[Dale]

I didn't lose mine. It was my hotel room.

[Ralph]

I know in my mind, like, I

[Dale]

wasn't even that irresponsible.

[Ralph]

I know in my mind in both cases, my case and yours, I thought you left yours at a bar on a table. And I left mine at the bar somewhere somehow, right? Or in a chair. And so, yeah, I don't like losing.

[Dale]

No, he does not like losing things. He had Tim with him. I stayed at the house with no technology. And he's like, Tim, his lip is curled. He's like, get in this car. We're gonna go down there. We're trying to find this phone. And he's. All he's got is Tim, who had had a few beers and this picture of where the phone might be, right? So Tim's trying to tell him where to go, holding this picture that with the map pins not moving, right? Like he's just looking at a photo. And Dale's driving down the road in this little bumpy mug, trying to find it with his bouncing eyeballs. And Tim's trying to tell him to stop. And lo and behold, it was like another half a mile up the road. So they're arguing with each other like two.

[Ralph]

They're just terribly so. This is.

[Dale]

This is like siblings. Just.

[Ralph]

This is so, so annoying. So I got a picture of the phone. It's in this right hand turn. Right before the right hand turn is a left hand turn. This is a. I'm telling you, this road that we're on is literally a quarter of a mile. It's not a lot of road, but

[Dale]

it's jungle on either sides of it. And the road's wide enough to feel like a sidewalk.

[Ralph]

There is one.

[Dale]

It's not wide.

[Ralph]

There is one area where this phone is going to be. And there's only one little S. Left, right turn. That. That's it. That's where the phone is. And Tim, I'm like, tim, look at this. Look at the picture. Let's find those two turns. There's the phone. And he's like, he's not looking at it. He's like, yeah, let's just get out. It's got to be here somewhere, man. Let's just get out. Pull over, man. It's going to be right here.

[Dale]

He's trying to calm down.

[Ralph]

And I'm like, no. I'm like, no, Tim, look at the picture. We're going to. It's in a right hand turn. Let's get to a right hand turn. That's where it's going to be. Not right here, because this is not where the. It says the phone's. And so if I would have stopped and listened to him, we would have had to walk another, you know, two, three football fields before we actually got to the phone. And I'm like, God dang, just look at the picture.

[Dale]

So then they're arguing about that over and over.

[Ralph]

The picture says it's in a right hand turn. Here we come up on the right hand turn. How about we pull over here and look, you know, it was a show.

[Dale]

It was a show.

[Ralph]

And you know what, though? The phone was destroyed, I got it back on the phone. In the phone, credit cards, driver's license, all that stuff. Because I got the phone, wallet, and

[Dale]

that's the real problem.

[Amy]

Yeah, I don't get why you do that.

[Dale]

I. I would.

[Ralph]

I don't have to.

[Dale]

I would never. Because I know better than my. Like, I would lose.

[Ralph]

I don't have to cut off all that, you know, because you got to cut the cards off. You order the new card, wait for the new card to come, go to the. Get your new driver's license, all that. So I got all this stuff. Don't talk to me about my. My wallet case. I know you about to.

[Amy]

Yeah, I am.

[Ralph]

You want to have your phone and your. You want to carry some separate. Why do you.

[Amy]

Two things. I don't want to keep the lock and the key together.

[Ralph]

Why not?

[Dale]

Just in case it bounces out of your pocket.

[Amy]

If you lose one, you lose all.

[Ralph]

Fine.

[Amy]

If I lose my phone, I still have my wallet and everything. If I lose my wallet, I have

[Ralph]

my phone plan on losing the Son of gun.

[Amy]

I don't plan on doing a lot of things, but I try to be smart.

[Dale]

I'm with you, Travis. So when I was in Vegas and lost mine, that is the. I thought I. Flying home on a commercial jet, and I thought, I can at least get on this airplane because I have my ID and my money and I can get out of here. I can get a phone later. But, you know, in a lot of. A lot of cases, like, you need. You need it to be separate.

[Ralph]

A lot of times when we're on vacation and we're going out like that, I might take the stuff out of it. I mean, I don't always carry it with it. I just saying I do like the wallet cases. That gives you the option if you want to consolidate. It just feels better.

[Dale]

Yeah. Usually he puts this stuff in my purse, to be honest.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Was it fun that it was Dale losing? Just.

[Dale]

It was. It wasn't fun in the moment that

[Ralph]

it was Dale losing it. What are you saying?

[Dale]

Yes.

[Ralph]

She always loses her phone.

[Dale]

If the Lord giveth. If the Lord taketh away, the Lord plays with you all the time. I think it was a good exercise for everyone that Dale lost his phone. I lost my phone on vacation, and I wasn't trying to relish in it in the moment, but I was, for the rest of the trip, very at peace with the fact that he was so present and didn't have all that communication.

[Ralph]

It was fun for me because I'd sit there and go, they're all. We'd be at dinner, sitting at a bar, and they're all like. And I'm like, you guys in your phones? What the hell?

[Amy]

Did he take his iPad everywhere?

[Dale]

No, he didn't. He didn't take his iPad everywhere.

[Ralph]

No. But I didn't carry my iPad.

[Dale]

He did use my phone. If he wanted to talk to anybody

[Ralph]

who would carry their iPad to a beach bar, there was to be able to be connected.

[Dale]

There really wasn't good enough service. So I check my phone every once in a while to check in with the neighbors, the kids, and all the things.

[Ralph]

It was good.

[Dale]

Apologize to Kelly and Joey the next day for everyone. Like, sorry about that.

[Ralph]

I knew what time it was, and I knew how many. I knew what my heart rate was and how many steps I'd taken and

[Dale]

which is all you need on vacation.

[Amy]

What was Dill's heart rate when he lost his phone?

[Dale]

I'm surprised that thing didn't blow up.

[Ralph]

I honestly had a great trip.

[Dale]

Nuts.

[Ralph]

I had a great trip and When I got home, I had a new phone waiting on me and he was

[Dale]

excited because he wanted it anyway. To be fair, he wanted that orange phone anyway.

[Ralph]

Hey, I don't got a case because I'm waiting on my wallet case to show up. It's on the way, poor thing. Yeah,

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[Amy]

how do you do acclimating back from vacation? Because Dale was talking about coming back. It's a struggle to.

[Dale]

It's such a struggle. I'm still drained. I drained myself. It's all self induced. I'm not sad that I'm not on the island anymore because three or four Days is all I can handle, especially hanging out with them. Like, if. Girl, I was not hungover when I came home from my girls trip, and we were there just as long. Hanging out with them, it's hard. It's hard. Y' all got long hours to put in and they don't sleep.

[Amy]

Does Tim's wife get after it too, or she little.

[Dale]

She knows when to fold it and she'll just have a Coca Cola. No, she's just not. I mean, she gets wild here and there, but she's. No, she doesn't lose her couth.

[Ralph]

I miss it the whole time we're on this trip. If we're. If we're riding by, we're on these. We're on a couple boat trips when we're out there. And I'll be like, man, let's live on a boat.

[Dale]

He tried to talk me into living on a catamaran.

[Ralph]

Let's live on a catamaran for a summer. Just a summer. Just give me a month. One month on a catamaran.

[Dale]

And then we started talking to the boat captain.

[Ralph]

And then we're looking out over on. We're looking at these islands and stuff. We're passing. There's all these homes.

[Dale]

Yeah, I can do that. Let's buy a new house.

[Ralph]

I'm like, amy, let's just.

[Dale]

What is easier?

[Ralph]

Just imagine yourself like. Like renting one of those homes and just. Just moving here and living here. Yeah, you know, I'm just a. I'm just a dreamer. I'm not going to do it.

[Dale]

But we talked about this last week. He doesn't dream. He manifests.

[Ralph]

I know I manifest, but also there's

[Dale]

a lot of things that I. And then the wheels turn about how to actually make that happen. So every time he starts daydreaming, I start getting nervous.

[Ralph]

There's a lot of things I dream about that I know aren't going to happen, and they don't. But, yeah, there are things that I do try to manifest and they do happen, but that's good, too. Amy, what if told me to. You've told me to like you. The one that told me.

[Dale]

I know I should never have told him about the law of attraction. Law of attraction. He's. And he. He didn't really need the law to begin with because I was really about choosing joy. That's what I was trying to give him was like, law of attraction. Choose joy. Let's like, keep. Keep our thoughts positive.

[Ralph]

Amy believes in law.

[Dale]

He's buying houses in reared islands. We are. You know, we've barely been to.

[Amy]

What if he gave up video games and trading cards for a. A house for a month?

[Dale]

I would do that.

[Ralph]

What the.

[Dale]

We almost got into an argument on the plane because notara. She goes, hey, Dale, did you bring your video game? And I look over. I'm like, what? And he's like, no. I'm like, well, good, because that would have sent me into the stratosphere. Like, we don't need to take that thing everywhere.

[Ralph]

Yeah. And now I'm getting my ass chewed for.

[Dale]

Nobody chewed you. You did the chewing. You're the one that got mad.

[Ralph]

I'm getting prodded about a video game console that I didn't bring. I'm glad he didn't bring that. You know what would have happened if he had brought that? Well, let's hear all the things that would have.

[Dale]

He even took it on our honeymoon

[Ralph]

if he would have brought it.

[Dale]

So it's like, it's been going on forever.

[Ralph]

Why are we. What are we doing? Why are we talking about it?

[Dale]

Because it's what you do.

[Ralph]

But I didn't bring it. It's not here.

[Dale]

It was just a good.

[Ralph]

We just go, man. That's cool. Okay.

[Amy]

Well done, Dale. We appreciate you.

[Dale]

It's a good question. It was a valid question.

[Amy]

I was trying to help you out to get a house for a month.

[Ralph]

Yeah, y' all got me worked up.

[Dale]

Oh, my gosh. Speaking of getting worked up for the second time, we're. So. We're sitting at the bar. He doesn't have his phone. I know you guys talked about this on Tuesday, but the race is. The Xfinity race is happening. The guys are running, and Dale would typically have his phone and put it on silent just so he could watch and make sure he's keeping in touch with what's going on, and he couldn't do that. And instead of having my phone up, he just, like, figured out, I'll just check in later and figure out what happened. But then we get a text that Carson flipped, and that was probably more. More mad than the phone situation.

[Ralph]

Oh, the phone wasn't a big deal.

[Dale]

Yeah, he was frustrated.

[Ralph]

We found the phone. We found the phone. I didn't care that I didn't get to use it anymore. I had my iPad if I needed something. Emergency. You were here. Everything.

[Dale]

Car flippin sent him again. I was like, wow, man. This guy just. I don't know if we need to get you, like, a boxing ring or something to get some aggression out because it's bottled up because that would not have typically sent him like it did. But we had a moment where we're like, it's okay, Dale. And anytime you even tried to calm him down, it was, like, made it worse.

[Ralph]

So I hate to sound. Listen, we're talking about a guy. The Carson Kuopo in this case could have been any of our drive. We're talking about our drivers going to Kansas and working their ass off and racing. Right? I'm in. I'm in. I'm. I'm in St. Martin's on vacation, drinking my ties. I'm not, you know, I should not complain at all, but I was like, you know, this is what. What's happening in my head, and I'm just gonna be honest, and if it's not the way I should be thinking, I apologize to everybody. But I'm just sitting there going, you know, I'm just gonna. I don't have my phone, so I can't really.

[Amy]

I would.

[Ralph]

Otherwise, I'd prop it up with the NASCAR app open and just be watching the hell out of the standings and wondering how everybody's doing. But I'm like, you know what? I'm not gonna grab Amy' and. And power, you know, and. And sit here. And we're going to. Oh, bye. There they are.

[Dale]

The babies are here.

[Ralph]

Little girlies. Watch your fingers. And so they're. Laughs. So I'm just. I'm like, you know, I'm. I'm just gonna leave it. I'm just gonna leave it to. Leave it to the Lord.

[Dale]

Yeah. Give it to God.

[Ralph]

Give it to God. They're gonna race good. I'm just gonna sit here, have dinner. I'm not gonna. I'm going to have fun. My family and I'm just going to trust that they have a good day, and we'll look at the standings when it's all said and done, and they'll be in there in the top 10 somewhere, maybe a win. That'd be great. And you said, I just got a text from Kelly. Carson flipped. Does Dale know? And I'm like. In my head, I'm thinking, just destroyed. Parts flying everywhere, car just destroyed. And I'm like, what? You know, is Carson flipped? You know, of course. Is Carson okay? And then I see a. I grab her phone and I see the clip, and I'm like, how in the hell. It's like. Like, lap two. Yeah. And I'm like, you know, we. You can flip it. Daytona, you can flip it. Talladega, we flipping there. I mean, it happens. Okay.

[Dale]

Usually not on Lap two.

[Ralph]

We don't flip at Kansas. We don't flip at these racetracks. What the hell are we doing flipping? And it's just a shit situation that he found himself in. Byron text me the next morning, apologize and felt bad about it. And I know he didn't do that on purpose or wished it would have happened. Right. You know, of course Carson feels terrible about it. I've talked to him since.

[Dale]

But yeah, they flipped and flipped.

[Ralph]

Everybody flipped in the morning. I mean, in the moment we're sitting there, it's the last night, we're having dinner and everybody's wore out. Everybody's had a full weekend. And I'm still trying to get the last, you know, last good night out of the trip. We're not going to leave till about lunch the next morning. And I was like, damn, what a gut punch. But I was angry, you know, I just was mad. Not anybody in particular, but I was just mad about it. But it was fine.

[Dale]

It was just one of those things that was shocking. Your reaction was shocking. But I think it was build up over the phone and whatever.

[Ralph]

I don't know. Yeah, I've noticed like, no, like I've noticed in the last. I've noticed that I've had. I've had some moments like. Like that one where I was. I was even like, why am I so mad? Why am I so angry? You know, But I felt guilty not being there. Right. As an owner, I'm not felt guilty. When those guys go to the racetrack and I don't go with them, I feel bad because I feel like I should go. I should be going. I should want to go. I do want to go, but I should be going. I should be there with them.

[Dale]

Should be an understood thing that you.

[Ralph]

And like this weekend we had the cars tour and caraway and we've got Talladega for the Xfinity and I've got to divide and conquer, try to go to one or the other and you feel like you want to be at both, you want to be value, you know, because you can have a. I can go to both and be an asset to what's happening there. Right. I'm gonna go to the car store because I'm after wake a couple weeks ago. I'm worried about those guys going to a little bull ring and doing well and I want to talk to them and try to be. Be present and hopefully influence a good day or a good night for the tour. But the weather looks bad, so should I be going to Talladega? I don't know. And we gotta. Got. We gotta.

[Dale]

Oh, my God, Dale, just do it.

[Ralph]

We got a slumber party at the house. I feel bad leaving.

[Dale]

Mom also has a birthday. Yeah. Is this coming up? So we have a party to do.

[Amy]

Is birthday.

[Dale]

It's. Her birthday's next Thursday. So we decided to do a party on this Friday.

[Ralph]

Yeah, we got a slumber party having Friday night. But that, you know, and so I gotta. I'm gonna leave that with you at 10 in the morning or sometime in the morning.

[Dale]

That's okay. That's when the kids go home.

[Amy]

How many kids are coming over?

[Dale]

Just three. Oh, it'll be easy. I mean, they're just eight, so it's not, you know, we don't do big parties unless it's.

[Ralph]

I felt bad.

[Dale]

Two hours at the saloon and then everybody takes off. It's just. I would be. I would probably get anxiety too, like Dale, if I had more than that.

[Ralph]

But I struggle with that part of being the car owner. But also, like I before, like, for the longest time, and you know this, in our relationship, racing was number one. Yeah, right. And you, you were, you were not number one. And I, of course, we, we worked on that together. And then I went to work for NBC and my boss, Sam Flood, said to me, family first. And he didn't. I didn't ask him about a birthday or any kind of an off weekend or whatever. He just looked at me and he said, here, it's family first.

[Dale]

He just wanted you to know.

[Ralph]

He's like, whatever needs to happen with your family, that goes first. And so, of course, a year or two later, Amy's like, hey, my dad's having a birthday. I would like you to go. It's on your weekend that you got to work. I call my boss, he's like. I said, hey, Amy wants me to go. I don't. I don't ask for much. But he's like, go, you got to do it. Fan first, man. And I'm like, all right. And that gave me the confidence, honestly, to be able to put them first in anything. Like, it gave me the alrighty.

[Dale]

To say the alrighty.

[Ralph]

I don't know what it is. Like, you. I feel like you had permission. I was always, yeah, gave me permission to, like, put family over everything, racing, everything. And I'm like, you know what? From here on out, I'm putting family first and I'm not going to worry about who has a problem with it. And so when we have these trips or we go do something in Texas or whatever, And I can't. I'm not going to go to the race. I usually tell myself, hey, man, you got to put family first. Hey, it's important for you to be here, and that'll be okay, and that'll be fine, and they'll be all right. And then, you know, your. Your family first on this trip. And there they are flipping down the back straightaway on lap two, and you're like, you know, I should be there.

[Dale]

Yeah, but they would have done that if I was.

[Ralph]

If I was there, it wouldn't have happened.

[Dale]

You know, that's the. Goes back to giving it to God. That was God's intention, which, for whatever

[Ralph]

reason, or, you know, I'm worried about people going, why wasn't he there? Why was he doing this thing, goofing off or. Or, you know, why was he serving himself and not, you know, being an owner or whatever?

[Dale]

Well, we weren't doing this goof off thing because I bought this trip at a charity event three years ago, and it was about to expire. So at the end of last year, I just booked it for whatever dates they had available, and that's why we went.

[Ralph]

I gave that little life hack on our. On our podcast.

[Amy]

I think I might edit it out because I don't want that life hack out to people. I want to hold on to this thing. But we can share it here.

[Ralph]

Well, I mean, it's. Look, we go. We go to all of the charity events for our. For our friends and friends and drivers, and we want the drivers to come to ours. We go to theirs. And everybody supports everybody. We're all friends. You've got friends that they are married to, other drivers and whatnot. So we're supportive. And we went to a charity van a couple years ago and quite a while ago, and there was a. There was a. There was like a. A vacation to Italy or something and Tuscany, and we're like, screw it. Let's. Let's bid on it. And the. The trip was worth, let's say, $8,000. And, man, that thing went way, well, well below what the value was. And you're like, you know what? We bought it. We supported the charity. We supported tonight's fundraising. We can take this event, and even if we don't use it, we could give it away to one of our employees. And that's what we ended up doing that particular year. We gave that trip to our employee of the year, which gets voted on by all our employees. So we're like, in our minds, like, this is a good thing. Bam, bam, bam.

[Dale]

Right.

[Ralph]

Everybody's happy. But you can go to these charity events and often there's always a trip and they never go for. For the value. And so, like, you can go.

[Dale]

It's rare that they do.

[Ralph]

It's very rare that they go for more than what the value of the trip is. So you can get these really crazy good trips on at a really good discount.

[Amy]

I'm gonna start going to charities more often.

[Ralph]

Yeah. And so we bought this one.

[Dale]

And they also have free drinks. Travis.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Sign me up.

[Ralph]

We got this one below value and we are like, you know, we're either going to use it or we're going to give it away. And it was to a place we

[Dale]

had never been to before. And so dad's like, honestly, let's just book it.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Figure out when you. We can go. And if it makes sense with the kids schedule or whatever, we're going.

[Ralph]

And so it was a house, and it was a great house.

[Dale]

And it was in St. Martin.

[Ralph]

Yeah. We got on the moke one day and we just rode around. That was so much fun. And I know it was boring because we weren't doing much, but we're just driving around, like, just looking at. Looking at other houses, looking at the island and all the lagoons and all the stuff. And I had a great, great trip. It was so much fun.

[Dale]

What was your favorite bar?

[Ralph]

Danny's on the beach. So Danny's is a little. Basically just a carport.

[Dale]

It started out with him just driving around with his truck with giant cooler in the back. And he always had rum punch and beer. And now he parks the truck. And you might drive around every once in a while. It looks like it's ready to go.

[Ralph]

But you drive down this little dirt road to the edge of the beach. It's got a beach. It's got a little parking area. $5 for parking. It's got a beach you can walk to. It's got some rocky, sort of cliffy stuff. You can climb down on top of where the. Where the waves come and crash in. And then up on this little rise just above the beach is a. Literally just a shed, a roof, an open air roof. And he's got a little bar, a couple chairs, couple picnic tables and cold drinks. And you could just sit there. There's some music playing. And Danny's there. He's just hanging out. Super nice guy.

[Dale]

He's the only bartender. Like he. He runs the bar.

[Ralph]

We did go to Anguilla to add to Elvis's bar, which is a Top five bar in the. In the world, in my opinion.

[Dale]

It's got everything.

[Ralph]

It does.

[Amy]

What's like, the one thing you're like, that's what makes it so good.

[Dale]

It's right there in the bay, so the. And the water is super calm. It's got a bar made out of an old boat that they found on the side of the road. And it's so, like, the front part of the bar is literally this old wooden boat. And it's got a great menu.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Dale]

The vibe is chill. They've got great music. The music playing is always like, just like, good old stuff or island music.

[Ralph]

You might hear island music, then Nirvana.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

And then Pearl Jam. Country.

[Dale]

And there's beach chairs laying everywhere, so you can just go lay down. There's no, like, club fee, so you can just roll up and hang out all day long.

[Ralph]

It's a. It's the beach bar that just is. Is just great all around. And you'd get there and you don't. You don't particularly need to leave. You don't need to go bounce to the next place. And so those are the. My favorite ones.

[Dale]

Danny's, though, did you. When none of us knew what Danny's was before, we rolled up there on our moke, which we stalled out on the way up, which made a scene, and we got made fun of.

[Ralph]

The moke would stall if he went down the hill too fast. So there's a lot of heels. And I just let her go. And you get to the bottom of the hill and you mash the gas and it's not doing. Turn it off. Sort of cycle the power to get it going again, putting it in reverse.

[Dale]

Terry.

[Ralph]

The only way to stop from doing that was to go brake slow and keep the pace. Slow down the hill. Yeah, that was interesting.

[Dale]

It had a max speed, even if

[Ralph]

you weren't pushing it. If you shut the motor off and kill power if you got above 30 mile an hour or something.

[Dale]

So we rolled into Danny's with that silly moke doing that and got made fun of. So immediately made friends with some people at the bar. And we get comfortable, we order some beer, and Tara turns, but she goes, amy, I think this is a naked bar. I'm like, why did you say that? A naked beach?

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And then Tim says, I heard that

[Ralph]

before we went there.

[Dale]

I didn't know where the naked were.

[Ralph]

No, no, no. The lady that welcomed us into the house and helped us settle in said that next to Danny's is a nude beach.

[Dale]

Oh, I did not Hear that? I heard that. I did not hear that. No wonder Tim was so excited about going to Danny's.

[Ralph]

Started talking about it. When she mentioned it, Tim was like, oh. And she. He started talking to y' all about it, like, oh, yeah, yeah.

[Dale]

And I didn't know that was by Danish. That makes sense. That makes a lot more sense now. Okay, so we sit down, and we're. We're. We're just relaxing and hanging out. And Tara's like, I think this is the nude beach. And then Tim says, no, I think this is the nude bar. I look up, and it says, get naked. There's, like, a little neon sign that's not lit up, and it says, get naked. I'm like, well, I mean, there's a lot of stuff hanging up. Old. Old relics, license plates, you know, all the typical garb that's at a, you know, dive bar. And none of the people around us are naked. And for reference, none of us got naked. We kept our clothes on. And so this one couple that was right in front of us is our moke stall. They park and they come back to the bar, and she's got a white shirt on that's got one button buttoned and some really giant knockers. And there at any moment, with any twist, with any giggle, any gust of wind right out, and Tim was excited, just.

[Ralph]

You're gonna embarrass the. Out of him. Oh, my God. Well, listen, Amy.

[Dale]

None of us had ever been to a naked bar or a naked beach.

[Amy]

That's not true.

[Dale]

This lady was shopping for someone to get excited about it. And so we're just all talking to each other, making friends, and I don't know, it kind of entertained us. Entertained us.

[Ralph]

It was entertaining.

[Dale]

It entertained us for a very long time because there were a couple more people that came up with very sheer clothes on, but everybody have the clothes on. Nobody took their clothes off. It was just one of those things I didn't expect, but, you know, provided some entertainment for sure. Dale's not touching any of this. He's, like, not talking about it didn't happen. I didn't.

[Amy]

Look, you've been to Garden of Eden, so it's not your first.

[Dale]

Yeah, but. So there's always naked men up there. And it's not like.

[Amy]

It's not the beach.

[Dale]

It's not. Yeah, the whole vibe was totally different. These were like. They've been to the bar before. They knew what the gist was, and they were there to serve.

[Ralph]

Amy went up to. Was it the gardening where you got Your. Your.

[Dale]

Yeah, I got my boobs painted. I was on a girls trip.

[Ralph]

She's on a girls trip. And I get a. She's like, hey, where. You know she's in Key west, right? She's on a girls trip. And I get a picture of her and her friend with. With their boobs painted, and I'm like, where y'? All. Where you think going like that? Like, where are you? So listen, can you put your shirt back on?

[Dale]

Well, I did, and I did.

[Amy]

Thanks for the pic, but put a shirt on.

[Ralph]

I was like, I mean, this is awesome. But now I'm worried where you're going with that.

[Dale]

We put our. It's like a drape. You just, like, do it in private. And then we put our dresses back on. We just wanted to do it. We've never done anything like that before.

[Ralph]

Oh, man.

[Dale]

And he would damn sure not let me do that even if he was there.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And I put my clothes back on, like. Cause there would be another person involved, and he's like, not gonna let that happen. So I knew I had one shot, and I took it.

[Ralph]

Yeah, you did. Hi, I'm Pedro Pascal, and I can't wait for you to see my new movie, the Mandalorian and Grogu, hitting theaters on May 22nd. See you there. What are you waiting for? I like this kid. This summer, Star wars is back.

[Dale]

We have to stop the Empire on the big screen.

[Ralph]

Are you scared? You should be, like, never before. Hang on. Good shot, baby. The Mandalorian and Grogu, rated PG13, may be inappropriate for children under 13. In theaters and IMAX May 22. Get tickets now.

[Amy]

Do you want to get into the fun facts?

[Ralph]

Yeah. What's Fun Facts?

[Dale]

Fun facts about kids.

[Amy]

The fun fact you posted on your Instagram.

[Dale]

Oh, today?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Yeah. So I went to mom tea today with Nicole at the preschool. They call it Muffins with Mom.

[Ralph]

Muffins with Mom.

[Dale]

Speaking of, like, they do donuts with dads, and they.

[Ralph]

Speaking of getting your booze painted. Muffins.

[Dale]

Muffins are the opposite area.

[Ralph]

Muffins with Mom. Jesus.

[Dale]

That's okay, Ralph.

[Ralph]

What?

[Dale]

Drink some of your drink.

[Ralph]

James thought it was funny.

[Amy]

It was funny.

[Dale]

Oh, my gosh. I'm gonna have to put a disclaimer

[Ralph]

for granny on this show. That's what. All right. We've been sitting here talking about knockers, and you want me to not chuckle about muffins getting mentioned?

[Dale]

I was. I was with Nicole doing muffins at the preschool, and it was so cute. They always give you like the list of things. And we eat muffins, of course. And then they color and they sing a song. So she's been. Before we get to the list, she's been practicing winking. And she's like been trying to do it forever. And she's not good at it. And so every once in a while we're in a car.

[Ralph]

I feel like this is such a hard transition for our listeners. Cause I know it was for me. From nude beaches to muffins.

[Amy]

We'll put an ad break in between these two.

[Ralph]

We need a big, long ad break before we start telling the story about going to preschool in Nicole. It's not wrong.

[Dale]

Oh my God.

[Ralph]

Not. Can you shift this around? Put this first.

[Amy]

Put all the ad breaks.

[Dale]

Oh, my God. I don't even know if I can tell it now. She's been trying to wink for weeks and she's always asking me, mom, am I doing it? Am I doing it? And I'll look back and she was like going, eh, I gotta raise her whole face moves, you know? And so the reason that she's been trying to wink is because they had this little song that they were gonna do. And she's like, if you happy or like if you're happy and you know it, but it's if you love your mom and you know it and you have to blow kiss and then you hug yourself and then you do a wink. So she did that this morning and it was amazing. And now I figure like, she's so. So she's like Isla in that way. She wants to keep everything a secret because she's got a surprise and it's a performance.

[Ralph]

Oh, no.

[Dale]

Isla did that with dancing. Yes, yes, she did the same thing. Oh, man.

[Ralph]

Good for her.

[Dale]

And then the teacher said, I know for some of you guys, it's like the last. The last hurrah at preschool. And then I full sent me into like depression mode and I cried the whole way.

[Ralph]

Are you serious?

[Dale]

Yes. I had to go pick up something for Isla's birthday party and I cried the whole way there. I was like, ooh, are you serious? The last thing. They don't do anything with the moms at the next time school. What they do, dad? The daddy daughter dance. Like a son and mother thing. I forget what it is. But no. So that's it. No more muffins with mom was the last to run.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Dale]

It made me so sad. But she did make me a super cute little list.

[Ralph]

Big girl.

[Dale]

My favorite part about doing these is their answer sheet of who they think you are.

[Ralph]

I like mom, cuz mom likes this. Yeah, Mom's favorite. This is that.

[Dale]

So she says my favorite food is tacos, which she nailed. And she says my mom is really great at telling jokes. So she thinks I'm funny, which that's pretty cool.

[Ralph]

Yes.

[Dale]

And then I thought that was so cool. But she says, mom really likes to talk on her phone or call people on her phone.

[Ralph]

I'm like, yep.

[Dale]

I never call people on my phone. I don't even answer it. It's just funny what they think they see you doing.

[Ralph]

Keep going.

[Dale]

She's really loves me because she lets me watch tv.

[Ralph]

My favorite thing to do with my mom is to watch Wednesday on the Addams Family.

[Dale]

Yes. It's her new favorite show.

[Ralph]

My mom's favorite store is Target. Yes. The one thing that I love Target. Hear my mom say a lot is I love you.

[Dale]

I love you.

[Ralph]

I love my mom because she always hugs me.

[Dale]

She always hugs me.

[Ralph]

Nicole loves hugs.

[Amy]

I think my mom is funny because she covers her eyes and says, peekaboo.

[Dale]

Yeah, I haven't done that in ages. But you know, maybe it's a. Maybe I should go back.

[Ralph]

They must have not been able to think of one. She must have been struggling to think of one. And maybe the teacher helped her with

[Dale]

that one last year. She said, the only thing I hear my mom say is, no, Coley. So we've gone in a good direction. Oh, by the way, I got the other earring out the hell from Coley. She let me do it yesterday morning.

[Ralph]

What about Isla? When's that one happening?

[Dale]

I tried.

[Ralph]

So.

[Dale]

So we. We're down.

[Ralph]

Walks in this morning, and just like the wink, Isla walks in this morning and she's looking for you. She's in the bathroom coming. She's coming closer and closer. I'm here and she's going, mom, Mom. And I'm like, hey, I'm in. I'm in. I'm in our bed. Hadn't got out of bed yet. And I'm like, hey, I'm in here. And she comes in there. She goes, dad, I can whistle.

[Dale]

What?

[Ralph]

And she goes. And it was really before she would go, oh, yeah. You know? And that's how Nicole does too. And I'm like, yeah, okay. And Alice starts whistling. I'm like, you're doing it. You are doing it. And she goes, yep, you curl your tongue up inside your mouth and.

[Dale]

Well, now she's got teeth too. And I was trying to do it

[Ralph]

before you figured it out.

[Amy]

I'm Gonna whistle.

[Dale]

You can't. I suck into whistle. I can't flow out to us.

[Ralph]

I'm like, she's gonna. You're. I told her. I'm like, you're gonna be whistling all the time now.

[Dale]

A new noise that I like.

[Ralph]

She was so proud of herself.

[Dale]

Yeah. She came in this morning with a full.

[Ralph]

I remember, like, being so excited to learn how to, like, I could finally snap my fingers. God. I'm like. You remember being young and not being

[Dale]

able to do it. Yeah.

[Ralph]

And other people being able to do it.

[Dale]

You're like, I'm broken. I'm broken.

[Ralph]

Do it. I kind of have. What. What's the trick? You know?

[Dale]

Yeah, you lick it.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Dale]

You do anything you could to, like, try to get. Get the friction on. Yeah. Nope. She tries that too. She walks around. She's like, yep.

[Ralph]

Dudes used to. I never dipped, but dudes used to walk around with their cans, fingers in them. I'm like, man, I want to be cool. I almost kind of want to start dipping just to be able to figure

[Dale]

out, because that looks so cool.

[Ralph]

I know. You didn't think right. I tried to dip one time. You ever tried it?

[Amy]

I've never done once.

[Dale]

I've tried Copenhagen once, and it made me throw up.

[Ralph]

Oh, my God.

[Dale]

30 seconds.

[Ralph]

You're not. You're.

[Dale]

I'm from Texas, honey. We tried everything.

[Ralph]

Yeah, well, my dumb ass. So there was this guy and buddy of ours, and I was gonna ride to Daytona with him for the races, and he had a. Oh, he had a Buick grand national badass car, which I want to own one, one day, somehow. But

[Dale]

law of attraction might just kick in.

[Ralph]

And that's why I said it. I want. I wanted to. I was. He's. He dipped something, and so I'm like, I'll try that, my dumb ass. Eight hour trip. Oh, no. And I'm talking 30 minutes in, it hit me and I'm like, this ain't for me, man. I spit it out. And I laid in the back of that feeling like I wanted to die.

[Dale]

It ruined you for the whole day.

[Ralph]

Terrible.

[Dale]

Yeah. I just remember throwing up. I don't remember.

[Ralph]

Never again. I ain't never, never messing with that.

[Amy]

Never dipped or smoked a cigarette.

[Dale]

Really? You're super pure.

[Ralph]

I used to smoke ton of cigarettes.

[Dale]

Yeah. Dale used to live. Yeah. This is a funny story I'm going to tell on you.

[Ralph]

And we can.

[Dale]

We can cut this out if y' all want. So Dale, when I met him, I didn't know he smoked either. And we Weren't dating. It was business meetings, whatever. We had met him down at Whiskey River, Charlotte because Gary Allen was opening. Like, the bar was just opening. And he invited the whole group down. And so he was sitting in his booth smoking cigarettes, and I'm like, he smokes? I didn't know that. I'm like, ugh. Like, that's gross. Why would he do.

[Amy]

It's a deal breaker for me.

[Dale]

Same. Like, that's a hard no for me. Not that it was a hard yes for me anyway, but you know what I'm saying? And so for, like, the next several years, I did everything I could to make him feel like it was, like the most most important thing that he did was to quit smoking. He used to sit in his bus and, like, smoke out the window, and he had fans everywhere. Yeah, the house never smelled like smoke, and he really didn't either.

[Ralph]

It was kind of impressive, but I never smoked. Only time I smoked in the house was, like, downstairs in the basement drinking, which is in the house. But I had a. At my computer, we. I play video games more. I played video games all day. And I had a fan cut into the wall, and hose ran to the exterior of the house, Kind of like a vent or vent for a dryer. And so I'd flip that fan on a little light switch, turn that fan on, and I'd set the ashtray right next to the fan. And I had one of them ashtrays where you could. You could flip it, and it would drop everything into the can underneath. And so I'd sit there and have a cigarette. I'd smoke racing online. I mean, I would smoke one after the other over and over, but I would. I would light the cigarette, take a drag or two, run race, and then the cigarette would be burnt out by time I was done. I never, you know, and so I was going through all these cigarettes, not really even smoking them. I would have so many butts in this ash tray that it would catch on fire. And, like, I'd have to put. I'd have to put water in it. Just.

[Dale]

What a hazard.

[Ralph]

It was a hazard. It was crazy. And when we were at the racetrack, I had this little fan. So I had this couch on the interior of the bus, and I'm watching tv, and there's these windows right next to the couch, and I could. I could crank them open, and they were just about. These windows were about 5 inches tall, and they would. They would open up at an angle. I'd lay a little fan, just a little square fan right There and put the ashtray on top of the couch, and it sucked the smoke right out the window. And so that's how I kept the bus from stinking. But, like, Matt Kinseth parked right next to me.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

And he.

[Dale]

He's like, katie's really ready for you to stop smoking.

[Ralph]

Yeah, he would. I hid it from everybody. And Matt comes over to me one day. He goes, you need to quit smoking out of that bus, man. And, I mean, he would know every time I fired one up, because I'd be poured. Smoke be pouring out of the damn side of the bus when he was sitting there, because, I don't know, he's

[Dale]

not cooking stir fry.

[Ralph]

I didn't get. I just hit it from everybody because I thought it was bad for a driver to be thought of as a smoker. But, I mean, Dick Trickle did it, but. And my dad hated smoking. He didn't want me to. He didn't. He wouldn't have approved of it. But eventually I just quit. I tried.

[Dale]

I didn't approve either.

[Ralph]

I tried. I tried to quit a lot of different times, and finally I got it to stick. And once I quit, the funniest thing happened once I quit. Like, I would be around it at a restaurant when I was smoker. When I was a smoker, I'd be around it in a restaurant or, you know, whatever, and not really think that much of it. I didn't think it stunk. I didn't think it smelled strong or bad or anything like that. And if somebody was a block away from me, I couldn't smell it. And as soon as I quit smoking cigarettes, the smell of it instantly became them. Just disgusting. And so it was hard. Once I got over the hump, it took me about two months. And when I finally got over that hump, the actual smell of it made me disgusted, and I didn't want to be near it. And if I saw. If I. I could smell a cigarette from, like, a block away, we'd be in Key West.

[Dale]

And I'm like, his sense of smell changed.

[Ralph]

Smoking.

[Dale]

He, like, his system, like, it feels, like, cleansed out. And then he could. His sense of smell came back.

[Ralph]

I'm like, it feels like it's right here. And it would be somebody walking in front of us, you know, half a block away, and the wind's blowing it toward us. And I'm like, damn, that's strong. Let's change this move. Let's go left on this next street and get away from them. But. And we'd go. I couldn't we had a bar that we love down there, and I had to stop going to it because the inside of it smelled so bad.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

And which, I mean, you know, I was thankful because I. I was afraid that I was always going to be wanting and jonesing for a smoke. And even when I got to drinking, I did. I tried maybe one or once or twice to have a cigarette, and it's just disgusting. And I'm like, well, a lot of people, like, still want to have a cigarette, like, years later. They're still, like, fighting the cravings. And it was opposite for me. For some reason, it just became repulsive. And so I don't like to be anywhere near it now. And that's the way it's kind of always been, so. Took a while to kick that habit, but it was a good one to kick.

[Dale]

Amen.

[Ralph]

All right, that's the show, everybody.

[Dale]

Appreciate y', all brother Ralph here at the podium.

[Ralph]

For all you out there that are trying to. Trying to kick that habit, I wouldn't give up.

[Dale]

All you need's a good nag.

[Ralph]

Yeah. Yeah. That and a couple months and you think you got her kicked.

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[Dale]

Hey, guys. Dale and I are in the studio for another round of Ask Amy. We're excited for you to listen to the show and for your questions. What do you got?

[Amy]

All right, this first question is, what Disney princess is the most annoying?

[Ralph]

Sorry.

[Dale]

What Disney princess is the most annoying?

[Ralph]

Yeah, I can't help you here.

[Amy]

Why not, Dale?

[Ralph]

I don't know any of them.

[Dale]

Yeah, you do.

[Ralph]

Well, I mean, I don't know the annoying one.

[Dale]

Let's see. That's a good question. I want to do a good answer. I kind of feel like it's Ariel because she gave up all that stuff, like her voice and everything for that prince. She didn't have any negotiation skills. You know what I mean? She just went in and gave Ursula everything. I don't know.

[Amy]

You can't just give up.

[Dale]

You can't just give up everything. The rest of them have pretty good songs, though. I don't know. I don't really. I love Disney and I love Disney. I grew up listening or watching all the shows, singing songs and everything.

[Amy]

So what's your favorite then?

[Dale]

My favorite's Aurora, which is Sleeping Beauty.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Dale]

I always thought she was cooler than the rest of them. I don't know. Music's good. And Elsa, We've listened to a lot of Frozen.

[Ralph]

I think Elsa was probably the one annoying for me because she was like, on repeat. No, not because.

[Dale]

Because she's selfish.

[Ralph]

She was selfish and she was like, you know, I can't be around my sister. Like, come on, man, you know, why can't you be like, she wouldn't return. Reciprocate the relationship and love that she had, that Anna had for her. And I'm like, man, she's kind of.

[Dale]

Just be honest.

[Ralph]

She's kind of being rude.

[Dale]

Figure it out. Don't make her sad.

[Ralph]

Yeah. And she couldn't turn off the, you know, forever storm. I mean, you know, she froze everything.

[Dale]

There's a whole lot of I can'ts.

[Ralph]

She just didn't seem like she wanted to try.

[Dale]

Yeah, let's turn off.

[Ralph]

I didn't appreciate how she treated Anna. I really didn't. You know what I mean?

[Amy]

There we go.

[Dale]

See, he did pay attention.

[Ralph]

Well, I was hesitant to say because everyone loves Frozen. Of course. I think Frozen's awesome.

[Dale]

Well, I love A Little Mermaid too, but I just.

[Ralph]

Elsa is like the star. Right. But Anna was actually the better person of the two.

[Dale]

Yeah, well, she gets to be queen.

[Ralph]

She's less flawed, person wise.

[Dale]

Yeah, that's true.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Amy]

There we go. Next question is, with Talladega this weekend. They want to know, Amy, what was your first experience like to go into Talladega?

[Dale]

There was a lot of buildup for Talladega. I got a lot of stories from all of Dale's friends, from Dale himself. But I have. I myself, like, the racing is amazing. I have never been into the infield to Talladega Boulevard.

[Ralph]

Even now, everyone is going to insist you go.

[Dale]

I've never been there. I've heard of the mud wrestling, of the barbecue wrestling of the jello wrestling, of the KY wrestling. I've never seen any of it. I used to sit in the bus with Dale just being bored, waiting for the racing part to happen. Even if we had friends camping, I wasn't going out.

[Amy]

Why not?

[Dale]

Dale did not want me having fun if he wasn't having fun. That's right. So I didn't I didn't party or any of that. At the racetrack, I used to have

[Ralph]

a rule that Amy wasn't allowed to drink if I wasn't. Maybe if I couldn't drink, well, I could. I don't want her to get drunk.

[Dale]

That did happen once in Daytona. Josh Schneider and I, they got. They went on Sharon. Affinity for tequila, shared a few shots. And while Dale was doing the race and he gets back to the bus and he rips Sean or Josh, he's like, how dare you? What the hell are you thinking? Y' all are sitting in here drinking, you're getting her drunk, and I'm out there freaking racing my ass.

[Ralph]

Yeah. Risking my life. Where's the loyalty?

[Dale]

Yeah. And we were both like. Yeah, we were having a great. All the time. We were. We were being fans, you know, And Dale, ever since then, I was like, I better not. That was some part of Dale. I don't want to say that, but, you know, she had a point.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

But I still. I want to ride through. Kenny wouldn't even take me through there. We. So I did go through the infield.

[Amy]

How did he make this happen?

[Dale]

During practice one day, we went and sat at the other opposite end of where we usually park so I could see the car. We should go see the cars go by.

[Ralph]

Unfortunately, Talladega is this weekend, but we could. We could book the next one.

[Amy]

Let's do a bless your heart live from Talladega next year.

[Dale]

Jesus, that would be fun. That would be fun. Yeah.

[Ralph]

Are you sure?

[Dale]

I don't know.

[Ralph]

You want to do it? You want to. You want to call the wrestling matches?

[Dale]

You think I'd be good at that?

[Ralph]

I'm just wondering if you didn't want

[Dale]

to, maybe we could have them. What would we call it?

[Ralph]

Oh, they probably already got the names for it.

[Dale]

Oh, we don't get to host our own.

[Amy]

No, you're doing the play by play.

[Ralph]

Yeah, play. Play at the mud wrestling.

[Dale]

Okay, maybe, but I want to do mud. I want to do, like a condiment.

[Ralph]

Mustard, wrestling. Barbecue.

[Dale]

Barbecue sauce, strawberry jelly, something tasty, you

[Amy]

know, Peanut butter and jelly.

[Dale]

Ooh, peanut butter. That sounds. Was very rough.

[Amy]

Not the chunky.

[Dale]

We did get jello shots thrown at us, though, that day. It was just during practice, Kenny and I. They were closed. They were sharing them. They weren't trying to hit us. This was years ago. You were racing. No. In Talladega.

[Ralph]

So you did go down, but it

[Dale]

was like, during the middle of the day.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, that doesn't count.

[Dale]

It was, you know, Kenny and I. And he's like, holy smokes. They're throwing them at us at the golf cart.

[Ralph]

You went kinda to the. To the Strip when we went and watched Templates at that stage one year

[Dale]

that wasn't at Talladega. I went and watched him. It's a race here in North Carolina.

[Ralph]

All right.

[Dale]

The one y' all reopened. I forget.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Because brain farts. But yeah. Yeah. That was a great concert.

[Ralph]

Look, I mean, you. That's great. That's actually a great trip because the kids can do Halloween.

[Dale]

Yeah. So as raunchy as it gets, it's also very good for the family because

[Ralph]

I feel like we were there last year.

[Dale]

Space for the kids in the infield.

[Ralph]

I feel like we were there last year.

[Dale]

We didn't go last year. We usually go around. Hell, we did not go last year. We went the year before.

[Ralph]

I remember trying to get.

[Dale]

You took the kids.

[Ralph]

Yes, I did.

[Dale]

I didn't go.

[Ralph]

Yes.

[Dale]

And they held. They had reptiles in the.

[Ralph]

That's right.

[Dale]

Mro. Like, I get pictures. The kids are holding pythons.

[Ralph]

Did I have them there just for the day?

[Dale]

Spiders. Yeah.

[Ralph]

Holy crap. What a dad. Dad like that. I remember being such badass dads. I was. Look at me.

[Dale]

Right? Listen, you can do it again this weekend if you're going.

[Ralph]

No, we're gonna go. And we'll go in the fall and take the kids. We'll take the camper. We'll take the kids to the playground

[Dale]

to do the Halloween thing.

[Ralph]

Halloween thing. We'll go out in the boulevard and

[Amy]

then we'll go home, do live show.

[Ralph]

We'll get up Sunday morning.

[Dale]

Listen, there's gonna be a show whether we're doing it or not.

[Ralph]

We'll get up Sunday morning before the race starts and say adios. So you get on tv.

[Dale]

Yeah, that's a great idea. Yeah, thanks for that. Thanks for that question. We just now have a new family of trips.

[Amy]

Speaking of Jello shots, are you a fan of Jello shots?

[Dale]

I am a fan of Jello shots. I just wish there was a less annoying way to get them out of the cup.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Like, I wish there was somebody would invent a cup. Anybody that's got that engineering mind that has a little thing that swirls around, that loosens it so you don't have to use your tongue.

[Amy]

I've got you covered. When you store them, flip them upside

[Dale]

down so it comes out on the lid. Oh, that's genius.

[Ralph]

Yeah, that is.

[Dale]

Damn, where have you been?

[Amy]

Or your pinky.

[Dale]

Yeah, but I don't Want that? My fingers are dirty.

[Amy]

But yeah, just store. Just flip them upside down. After you.

[Dale]

Yeah, that's a good idea.

[Ralph]

We. We had some at the farm for Easter.

[Dale]

Yeah, Aunt Shanna always makes jello shots for the adults and separate ones for the kids, which I don't know if that's raise them up, but you do it. And yeah, they're just Jello cups.

[Amy]

Yeah, Jello.

[Dale]

Yeah. And so, yeah, we always have them. But she. I don't think she even knows that trick. We're have to teach Aunt Shan how to do that.

[Amy]

You're welcome. Speaking of your vacation and how long after getting back do you unpack?

[Ralph]

We're still packed.

[Dale]

They're still packed. Yeah, I'm very bad about that, but I've been telling everybody too how dirty I am in the closet. I have done a lot of work to get that closet cleaned up and so I can open it, clean it out and get it done pretty fast at the moment. So hopefully today I did get in there to get something out.

[Ralph]

I used to do it immediately.

[Dale]

I got my shirt out because I got this on my trip.

[Ralph]

Yeah, it's a great shirt.

[Dale]

It says don't be a little. And we got this at one of the beach clubs we went to.

[Ralph]

What was the beach club called?

[Dale]

Kalatua.

[Ralph]

Kalatua.

[Dale]

Kalatua. And so you sit on the beach and you can hang out and then you can have lunch and there's a little boutique in there. And the lady gave the this to me, so I told her I would wear it.

[Amy]

Do you unpack your clothes when you're on vacation? You just grab out of the suitcase.

[Dale]

I usually like to hang them up, but this time I've just grabbed and then I had too much to hang up. So I just.

[Ralph]

I'm usually unpack as soon as I get home. I don't care if I'm there for two nights. I will take everything out of the bag and put it in a drawer.

[Dale]

He unpacks and like I'm moving in

[Ralph]

this particular trip, I left. I left all the. In the bag. I might have wore some two days in a row. I don't know.

[Dale]

No, he'd no, he didn't.

[Ralph]

He.

[Dale]

He has like a travel bag that he puts all the dirties in. So he takes it as he wears it. Just stuffs it in there.

[Ralph]

Nothing got worn the way I intended it to. You know, you pack your bags like, all right, I'll wear this for day one. Here's day two. Here's this shirt, this, these shorts. And it just All. Yes.

[Dale]

Yeah. If it matched, it matched. If it didn't, it didn't matter. It worked out fine.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Dale]

The next time, we're gonna have shorts with pockets, zipper pockets or something so that phone doesn't move.

[Amy]

The problem is if you're wearing swim trunks, you're just screwed.

[Dale]

Yeah, that's what he was wearing, swim trunks.

[Ralph]

I need to learn a lesson.

[Amy]

Next question. I'm curious if this is a guy or girl. Who you think this question comes from? At what age should guys stop using 3 in 1 shampoo body wash?

[Dale]

I feel like that you should not use that ever. That's a. That's a you question. Well, I have so many products in the damn shower.

[Ralph]

I think three in one shampoo conditioner. I mean, I don't know.

[Dale]

Is it really cleaning you if it's conditioning you at the same time? How does it do that?

[Ralph]

I don't have a problem with that. The body wash part has never worked for me.

[Dale]

Yeah. He likes a bar of soap.

[Ralph]

Yeah, I will. If I use body wash, it doesn't. It doesn't clean as well.

[Dale]

He doesn't want to get out of the shower feeling slippery.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Like, no, no, that's got too much conditioner.

[Ralph]

I'll just shoot you straight. So, like. Like, I.

[Dale]

You know, we're all gonna learn something.

[Ralph]

You check your pits, right? Buckle it. Like everybody. Everybody checks their own pits, I'm sure. Right. At some point.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

And I can. Every now and then I'm like, all right, a little. Little, you know, not great. You know, I don't. I don't wear cologne. I used to wear cologne. I used to wear deodorant. I don't anymore.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

Did you believe it?

[Amy]

You don't wear deodorant.

[Dale]

I don't either.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Don't straight hippies over here.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Dale]

It's got too many chemicals in it.

[Ralph]

Yeah. So that's a whole nother story. There is a specific type of cologne that I will wear. And I found this in Hawaii, probably 2002, 2003. And it has no. It has none of the aluminums or all that weird or whatever he's talking about.

[Dale]

Deodorant.

[Ralph]

Deodorant. I'm sorry. And so it's a roll on kind of deodorant, and it's Calvin Klein or whatever it is. I forget what it's called, but I'll buy that. And. And I actually took some on this vacation, and I used it a couple days. So I do wear deodorant every now and then, but Usually I don't why.

[Amy]

But how do you stop from, like, the sweat and the smelling?

[Ralph]

I don't.

[Dale]

So here's the thing. But you don't stink as bad. So when you're putting that stuff on your body all the time, you're clogging up your lymphatic system, you're putting heavy metals in when all your body's trying to do anyway is get that stuff out. So like you're, you're creating an issue in your lymphatic system. You do go for like a week or two period, where you felt you smell like the Grinch. When your body's like trying to get it all out, when you stop using it. And then it's not that bad. It really isn't.

[Ralph]

I. I don't have body odor, I guess.

[Dale]

I mean, he's not stinking.

[Ralph]

I don't think every now and then, though, I do.

[Amy]

So you, like, you just make sure, like you get in there when you're showering to make sure they're extra clean.

[Dale]

Scrubs it with a dial bar or dove bar or whatever.

[Amy]

Maybe I'll try this for two weeks.

[Ralph]

It's a good test if you're going to do this. Body washes are off the table because they don't clean and they don't take the smell right. So like, that's my experience. Like a bar soap. Good. Any kind of soap, I don't care what it is, Irish, Spring, Dove, whatever you want to use. That stuff works good for me and I get in the pits real good because it has.

[Dale]

The other stuff has conditioning agents in it and it's not.

[Ralph]

But I can't use like body wash. No. Even in the. You go to hotels, you know, body. That ain't gonna do nothing. It don't. It don't clean me especially.

[Amy]

I do think you go the hotels down, they have the giant ones that are like already in there. Yeah, I feel like those are just like watered down to begin with.

[Dale]

They're just shamp.

[Ralph]

I just have never had. I've never used a body wash and went, you know, that's better than soap. I just never have. And so, yeah, I don't even remember

[Dale]

what the question was.

[Amy]

Three in one.

[Dale]

Three and one.

[Amy]

So here's the.

[Ralph]

But he said body wash. Yeah.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Here's the follow up.

[Ralph]

When does a man need to. When does a man need to stop using body wash?

[Dale]

I think it just depends on who you are. I feel like if it's, if it's cleaning.

[Ralph]

Body wash is not what you need to be using. To clean yourself, you need to use a bar of soap. Soap.

[Dale]

I use body wash. I use the soap, too.

[Amy]

Body wash. Yeah, body wash and aloofa.

[Dale]

Yeah. So that's the thing. He doesn't use any extra fluffy stuff.

[Ralph]

No use rags or anything.

[Amy]

He was taking that dirty bar of soap every day and just.

[Dale]

Yeah. Hitting his bits and bits.

[Ralph]

It's my bar of soap.

[Dale]

Bits and bits.

[Ralph]

It ain't nobody else's. What the.

[Dale]

Because it's my bar. Because it's my. So there's no double dipping.

[Ralph]

Am I some weirdo? What?

[Dale]

No, you're just funny the way you say everything.

[Amy]

Follow up. How many times do you reuse a towel?

[Dale]

Couple.

[Ralph]

Yeah, a couple times.

[Amy]

I think you're allowed to use at least twice.

[Dale]

Yeah, I mean, I'm definitely using them.

[Ralph]

Every time I'm using it. I'm clean. Right. I'm just dry.

[Dale]

So sometimes we're using the same towel. There's just one on the bar and it's too far to get to the new ones.

[Ralph]

I use the damn thing until it ain't there anymore. Then I go get another one. Amy's. Amy's. The one that's the decider of when the towel goes away way. And so I just keep using the same one until it's not there. And then I go get the one. Get one off the shelf. Love it.

[Amy]

Next. Next question. What warning label would you give your life? What warning label do you like? Would you come with.

[Dale]

Oh my God. Ain't as sweet as she looks. I don't know. Fight fire with fire.

[Ralph]

What kind of label is that? What is that even telling me?

[Dale]

I don't know. Caution.

[Ralph]

It's probably a question that you need to have her answer for me. And me.

[Amy]

Okay, so what's Dale's caution label? Warning label.

[Dale]

You just got out of having to do this.

[Ralph]

The hell? I had to do it for you.

[Dale]

No, you didn't.

[Amy]

No. He's gonna have to answer it too.

[Dale]

Oh, man. What is Dale's? Dale's is. Dale's is keep your.

[Ralph]

Amy says keep your distance in the morning.

[Dale]

I used to be a morning person. I don't know why you think I'm out.

[Ralph]

You want to get that hug at 9 o'? Clock? You better be strategic.

[Dale]

Why don't you get up before 9 o'? Clock? Maybe that's why I'm annoying. At 9 o' clock I give you a. Breakfast is done. The kids are put together and ready for school already.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Dale's would be addicted to video Games addicted straight addicted to video games. Refuses for life. Life Gamer for life. Like, is that it? Sure. I don't know. The rest of it seems fluid. That seems like the only thing that's not. Yeah, right. Yep.

[Amy]

His little label. Maybe it's just like addicted personality. Like he gets addicted to anything.

[Dale]

He goes in hard, addictive personality.

[Amy]

Well, I think that's a good place to end this show.

[Dale]

Thank you, guys. Thank you for your questions. We had a really fun show. Please check it out. And also, don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. Check out the merch@shop. I'm gonna forget this.shop.dirtymomedia.com. what do you got, Ralph?

[Ralph]

Yeah, like and subscribe.

[Dale]

Oh, my God.

[Ralph]

Give us a comment on YouTube. Check us out. Hey, share with your friends.

[Dale]

The drink was good today, too. We. We talked about this recipe. It's a batch recipe that Dale is very excited about.

[Ralph]

Yeah. Made a big jug of it.

[Dale]

Yes. So we have a. We have a bigger jug. I want to. Coming out soon.

[Ralph]

I am curious after this show. What are the habits of our listeners? Are you shower cloth, bar soap? Just bar soap? Are you body wash? Are you three in one? Are you. Are you shampoo and conditioner separate?

[Dale]

Do you hit your pits and bits and then get out? Do you wash everything?

[Ralph]

Who was it that we. So this is kind of where I got the. I got the notion to give it this. Give it. Give this the go. I mean, not that I was a whole lot different beforehand, but it's the husband and wife. The girl from saving Sarah Marshall.

[Dale]

Yeah, whatever.

[Ralph]

Yeah, her and her husband were talking. Yeah, they were talking on their show. This was five, six years ago, how they kind of. They kind of did away with deodorants. And they don't even really. I may be misspeaking, but they were talking about how, you know, they were pretty. They were pretty very basic in. In how they use soap in the shower and so forth. And I'm like, all right.

[Dale]

Yeah. I remember stopping when I always thought this shower.

[Ralph]

I always just thought the shower.

[Amy]

They do not bathe their children daily, instead waiting until they can, quote, smell or quote, see dirt to avoid dry skin and conserve water.

[Ralph]

Yeah, that's true. Well, I thought it was for other

[Dale]

reasons, but a little more dynamic than I thought.

[Ralph]

I thought they were talking about themselves and their own habits. But I was like, yeah, okay. I mean, I've never really had a bo Problem. Amy would tell me, obviously, if she was like, hey, dude, your pits are pretty smelly. And So I just get in there with the bar of soap, and that's good enough for me. I don't need a wash rag. Wash rags, to me are just like extra necessary part of the puzzle. That's not necessarily has to be there. I don't know. You know what I mean?

[Dale]

Not necessarily. Sarily. Necessarily.

[Ralph]

I'm just curious what other people's habits are. Am I. Am I different?

[Dale]

I like a washcloth to clean my face. I don't use it on my vod, really. Okay.

[Ralph]

I just. I get in. So I go from head to toe, right? Because you're washing the dirt down, right? You don't wash your. Your feet first and then your hair. So I get in and I go, shampoo. Okay, we got that done now.

[Dale]

Adam Sandler on us now.

[Ralph]

Let's put the. Let's put the conditioner in there.

[Amy]

That goes on first.

[Ralph]

I put the conditioner in, and I'm gonna let it sit for a minute, you know, kind of do its thing. And then get my soap bar soap and get my hands all sudsy and then wash my face. Right? Got my face clean, get my beard good and clean. And then I wash the conditioner out with all the soap and everything, and I'm clean from the chin up. And then I wash my body with the bar soap. I mean, I don't know how else people do it. I go all. I get my feet, everything, like, you know, I wash my whole body. Like, some people might not do all that. Or maybe they do more. Just curious.

[Dale]

I'm scared to respond now. I. I do what I do, and that's all.

[Ralph]

Look at me out here being brave, putting it all out there. You're scared to even tell people, I'm glad you're clean.

[Dale]

I'm thankful I am clean.

[Ralph]

Amy would say, look, man.

[Dale]

No, you don't see, you're good. So grateful. That military school must have taught you well. All right, thanks, guys.

[Ralph]

Check out Dirty Mo Media on Instagram, Facebook, X and Tik Tok. Hi, I'm Pedro Pascal, and I can't wait for you to see my new movie. The Mandalorian and Grogu, hitting theaters on May 22nd. See you there. What are you waiting for? I like this kid. This summer, Star wars is back.

[Dale]

We have to stop the Empire on the big screen.

[Ralph]

Are you scared? You should be like never before. Hang on. Good shot, baby. The Mandalorian and Grogu, rated PG13, may be inappropriate for children under 13 in theaters and IMAX May 22nd. Get tickets now.