Amy Was Not Ready for Brooks Nader’s Vacation Photos

Summary

The Dale Jr. Download

Episode: "Amy Was Not Ready for Brooks Nader’s Vacation Photos"
Date: August 13, 2026
Host: Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Amy Earnhardt
Produced by: Dirty Mo Media, SiriusXM

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Episode Overview

This lively episode of The Dale Jr. Download features Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his wife, Amy Earnhardt, reflecting on back-to-school season, chaotic family life, viral internet moments, and their own quirks and insecurities. With their signature candor and playful banter, they dive into personal anecdotes, discuss parenting dilemmas, recount social discomforts, and touch on trending topics—most notably the viral Brooke Nader vacation photo that left Amy shocked. The episode is filled with humor, relatability, and honest vulnerability about the pressures of public life.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Studio Antics: The Return of “Destiny” the Stripper Squirrel

• Time: 01:10 – 07:38
  • The “stripper squirrel”—a quirky studio mascot—is back, sparking a debate about her name. They decide on “Destiny” after a round of joking about stripper names (Mercedes, Charity, Destiny).
  • Dale shares that fans have asked about the squirrel’s whereabouts.
  • “A lot more people listen to this show than you realize.” (Ralph/Dale, 02:04)

2. Drink of the Week: High Rock Creamsicle

• Time: 02:16 – 06:12
  • Introduction of the weekly cocktail, the High Rock Creamsicle—complete with discussion on the word “extract” and associated gross imagery.
  • “We need to extract the word extract from the recipe.” (Ralph/Dale, 04:02)

3. Dale’s Lingering Stomach Bug

• Time: 04:13 – 05:55
  • Dale recounts suffering from a nine-day stomach bug and his decision to avoid antibiotics, contrasting his experience with a friend’s quicker recovery.
  • “My tough ass body will just kick its ass. But no, nine days. It was touch and go.” (Ralph/Dale, 05:09)

4. Back-to-School Jitters and Social Awkwardness

• Time: 07:47 – 14:14
  • The Earnhardts attend school orientation for their daughters, feeling the pressure of living in the community and being recognized from their podcast.
  • Dale reflects on the anxiety of interacting with other parents and teachers, who likely know personal details from the show.
  • Notable moment when a teacher references podcasts in her speech, causing further self-consciousness.
    • “I got real self-conscious because...they've seen all the clips of this show...I'm a fraud. Why can't I just be myself all the time?” (Ralph/Dale, 09:13 – 10:51)
  • Amy notes Dale’s growth in social comfort over the years.

5. Parenting: Morning Chaos and Milestones

• Time: 17:44 – 24:09
  • Amy recounts the first full school day, dress-related battles with their daughters, and a classic water spill catastrophe before heading out the door.
  • Nicole, the younger daughter, is thrilled to finally be at “big kid” school—and adamantly drops her family nickname “Coley."
    • “She said, I don’t want to be called Coley anymore. You can call me Nicole, or you can call me Ms. Nicole.” (Amy, 22:53)
  • Dale shares pride in Isla, their elder daughter, for caring for her little sister during orientation and drop-off.

6. Viral Moment: Brooke Nader’s Vacation Photos

• Time: 24:48 – 27:51
  • Amy brings up the viral topless vacation photos of Brooke Nader, expressing disbelief and discomfort over family members being nude together on a yacht.
    • “You don't take your titties out in front of your dad when you're 25 years old. Can you imagine me doing that in front of my dad?” (Amy, 25:23)
    • “I'm feeling weird now.” (Ralph/Dale, 25:37)
  • Discussion expands to naked restaurants (steakhouse with clothing-optional nights) and societal oddities, leading to general group discomfort and humor.

7. Tanning Bed Nostalgia & Hygiene

• Time: 27:51 – 32:16
  • Anecdotes about tanning bed culture, including Dale inheriting an “OG” tanning bed once advertised by his dad, Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Teresa.
  • They joke about the questionable cleanliness and imagined buildup of “sweaty butt juice.”
  • “That's freaking disgusting.” (Ralph/Dale, 30:59)

8. Public Restroom Etiquette

• Time: 32:21 – 34:12
  • Amy and Dale reveal their compulsive habit of cleaning vanities in public bathrooms to avoid being blamed for past messes.
    • “If I'm in an airport, I'm not cleaning vanity, of course...but I'm just...someone's going to go in there and think that I left it this way.” (Ralph/Dale, 33:00)

9. Good Deeds, Faith, and Self-Improvement

• Time: 34:40 – 36:26
  • Discussion about the motivation for good deeds, faith, and Dale’s gradual self-improvement from “punk” days to conscientious adulthood.
    • “I've learned that doing good and good deeds aren't the key to going to heaven... I’m still going to do the good deeds, because it makes me feel good.” (Ralph/Dale, 35:17 – 35:36)

10. TikTok Trend: "Why We're Unfit for War"

• Time: 37:29 – 40:27
  • Amy and Dale play a viral TikTok challenge—listing reasons why the other wouldn’t make it in the military, poking fun at each other's quirks.
    • “Instagram scrolling would bog down her unit's communication ability.” (Ralph/Dale, 37:57)
    • “Someone didn’t wake him up to get to battle, so he missed it. Then he had to poop, so he missed the next one...” (Amy, 39:05)

11. Family Plans and Domestic Tranquility

• Time: 47:16 – 50:32
  • The Earnhardts share plans for a quiet family weekend—grilling at home, swimming with the kids, and potentially some dancing (Dale insists he “just got lucky” with his rhythm).
  • “He wants to grill some wings...and then toss them again.” (Amy, 47:56)

12. Dreams, Fears, and Love

• Time: 50:52 – 52:59
  • Amy opens up about recurring dreams of Dale dying, attributing them to anxiety about losing him and recent therapy work.
    • “My therapist said that she's dreaming about me dying because she's afraid of losing me.” (Ralph/Dale, 51:35)
  • Dale playfully reassures listeners of his survival; Amy jokes about her “premonitions.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Podcast Overexposure:
  “Here I am...going, oh, hey, nice to meet you. Hey, yeah, good, see you. Meanwhile, last week he talked about how much diarrhea he had.”
  — Amy, 10:03

• On Parenting Milestones:
  “Nicole has been waiting for this day forever...I ain’t never seen a kid so excited about the first day of school in my life.”
  — Ralph/Dale, 19:06

• On Internet Virality:
  “You don’t take your titties out in front of your dad when you’re 25 years old...”
  — Amy, 25:23

• On Household Habits:
  “It’s second nature to do that...Anytime I go into a public restroom...if there’s paper towels, I just wipe the sink down...”
  — Amy, 32:21

• On Self-Awareness & Good Deeds:
  “I’m not, like, walking around doing good deeds all the time...I probably walk past a lot of that I ought to clean up or pick up or do.”
  — Ralph/Dale, 35:45

• On Marriage and Vulnerability:
  “I’ve gotten to such a good place after all these years...that, like, I’m actually maybe scared of losing him.”
  — Amy, 52:48

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:57 Studio banter and return of Destiny the Stripper Squirrel
• 02:16 Drink of the Week (High Rock Creamsicle recipe/discussion)
• 04:13 Dale’s nine-day stomach bug story
• 07:47 Back-to-school, orientation, social anxiety among parents
• 17:44 First day of school wardrobe drama, Nicole’s big debut
• 24:48 Brooke Nader viral vacation photo and naked etiquette discussion
• 27:51 Tanning bed tales and family nostalgia
• 32:21 The Earnhardts’ public restroom cleaning neurosis
• 34:40 Conversation about faith, good deeds, and personal growth
• 37:29 TikTok “Unfit for War” couple’s challenge
• 47:16 Plans for a laid-back family weekend and grilling
• 50:52 Amy’s dreams about losing Dale and what they mean

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Episode Highlights in Context

This episode is a classic window into the Earnhardt family’s intimacy and humor, blending the mundane and the outrageous—from cleaning public sinks to weighing in on viral internet oddities. Underneath the laughs is an ongoing dialogue about identity, vulnerability, and togetherness, whether applied to parenting in the public eye, facing one’s insecurities, or celebrating small victories at home. The “war challenge” is a playful touch illustrating the balance of love and exasperation at the heart of their marriage.

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Final Thoughts

Listeners both new and longtime will find this installment rich with anecdotes, laughter, and candid self-reflection—perfect for anyone interested in the real life behind racing’s most well-known names. Amy and Dale’s chemistry is on full display, making for a heartwarming, relatable, and at times, wonderfully ridiculous ride.

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Transcript

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[Ralph]

The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media.

[Amy]

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.

[Amy]

Working that mouth. Hey, y'. All, Dale and I are back in the Dirty Mo Media studio for another round of Bless yous Heart. We've got lots of fun stuff to talk about. Talk to you about today. First up, our stripper scroll's back. She made it back into the studio and this is where she's going to live. And she's doing her job pretty well, don't you think?

[Ralph]

It's not sitting on top of the speaker evenly and that's driving me crazy.

[Amy]

We'll fix it, but don't you mess up my high rock now.

[Ralph]

There.

[Amy]

Now she's even.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

That's better.

[Amy]

She's doing good. She's been at our house now next to the fish tank and it didn't seem to make sense. So she's back.

[Ralph]

Fans are asking, where is a squirrel? Yeah, I mean, I had people ask me that while I was out broadcasting.

[Amy]

Really?

[Ralph]

Yeah. Where's a squirrel?

[Amy]

Why aren't you carrying her around, showing her off?

[Ralph]

I'm like, man, this a lot more people listening to this show than you realize. Well, me and Amy,

[Amy]

that's a good thing, right?

[Ralph]

So me and Amy are in the process of. Before I start this bit, we want to do the drink of the week. It's time for the drink of the week. And that's presented to all of us by High Rock Vodka. It is. Is the High Rock Cream Sickle basically

[Amy]

one of our favorites.

[Ralph]

Yeah, I mean Creamsicle anything is pretty good. It's 1.5 ounces of orange dream Sipping Cream. That's your sugar lands moonshine and 1.5 ounces of high rock vodka. And then one ounce of half and half. And that's important. Oh, that's good. That half and half is an important part. Splash of vanilla extract. I don't think I want anything to do with an extract of anything.

[Amy]

Does that remind you of a tincture? Is that why?

[Ralph]

I just don't like the word extract and it doesn't sound like it belongs in food or drink. Extract sounds like something that has been expelled, something that is not necessary, something that should be removed.

[Amy]

It does have a connotation for negative.

[Ralph]

Sort of like I have extracted this out of my life.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Extracted some fluid from your body.

[Amy]

It might be.

[Ralph]

Yeah, like I extracted that, that virus, that stomach virus or.

[Amy]

Good.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Have you extracted it?

[Amy]

I think he's finally working on it. Oh really?

[Ralph]

We'll get to that. Oh, I think we should just put vanilla flavor in there. Like why can't we just have a splash of vanilla?

[Amy]

I don't even think it needs the vanilla.

[Ralph]

Why it doesn't. The word extract. We need to extract the word extract from the, from the recipe.

[Amy]

Can we call it a tincture?

[Ralph]

No.

[Amy]

Well, I'm glad you're over your stomach bug. I feel like you've. I mean we haven't talked about it in a few days. Usually I am up to. Up to the knowledge. You know what I mean?

[Ralph]

To the.

[Amy]

To the what? Usually if you've got something going on, an ailment of any sort you've been well aware of. I am well aware, exactly. But I feel like it's past. So it's not, but. Oh, so just stop talking about it, I guess.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Well,

[Ralph]

I didn't want to share this but I had a stomach bug for nine days. Like usually you get like a 24 hour bug. And I don't know if this is the lettuce thing or whatever. I know a friend of mine had the lettuce bug and he was Good in like 36 hours, 20, you know, couple days.

[Amy]

He also went to the doctor and got medicine.

[Ralph]

He did get a nap. He did get medicine. I refuse medicine.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

He did get medicine. Did you just say.

[Ralph]

Yeah, he got an antibiotic. Yeah, which I was like, ah, my old, my tough ass body will just kick its ass. But no, nine days. It was Touch and go.

[Amy]

The food touched his mouth and then he would go, yeah, it's bad.

[Ralph]

And I think it's gotten better. So last couple of trips to the restroom have been more what you would expect.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Less pace when you're going to get

[Amy]

there frantically running anymore, clenching your butt cheeks.

[Ralph]

No. No. So all that was good. But what I was going to say is,

[Amy]

well, back to the creamsicle. So tomorrow is National Creamsicle Day, which is why we're enjoying this today. I got you to remind everyone, tomorrow is National Creamsicle Day. So this is a perfect cocktail for you to make.

[Ralph]

I like creamsicles flavors. What were we talking about right before that? Because I was going to tell a story.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Well, don't forget to drink responsibly.

[Amy]

I don't know. Don't Forget to hit highrockbotica.com to find a bottle near you. You can find all of the locations for any of the sugar lens products in your area. And then also, please drink responsibly. You must be 21 years or over.

[Ralph]

Yeah. So.

[Amy]

So what's your story, Ralph?

[Ralph]

What were you. What did you say right before the drink of the week?

[Amy]

I don't know. We're talking about the stripper squirrel.

[Ralph]

Yes.

[Amy]

So we're talking about. And we have flirted with games. I feel like we landed on Brenda, but we haven't called her anything really.

[Ralph]

Or Lorraine.

[Amy]

Oh, it has to be.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

What about Luann?

[Amy]

Luann.

[Ralph]

No, Brenda and Lorraine are my mother's names.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Well, wait, we're gonna name.

[Amy]

See, this is where it gets weird for me. I mean.

[Ralph]

Well, then name it something. It has to have some. I don't know, I just think it feels like it needs to have a name that would be connected to our.

[Amy]

I feel like your mom all would think that's funny for like a minute. And then she'd be like, all right, if I'm the stripper squirrel. Okay, I'm going to get you back. You know what I mean?

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I'm kind of nervous that she's all right. I don't know. I feel like she knew the stripper name.

[Ralph]

Okay. Mercedes.

[Amy]

Mercedes.

[Ralph]

That's like the top stripper name.

[Amy]

Mercedes.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Is it Charity.

[Amy]

Charity.

[Ralph]

Charity is probably number two.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Destiny.

[Amy]

Destiny.

[Ralph]

That might be number one. Destiny. Charity. Mercedes, kind of. That's a good top three. Destiny.

[Amy]

Destiny. Destiny it is. So Destiny has made it back to the studio. She's holding some high rock. She's got a mini bottle, and she's got some Red Bull also.

[Ralph]

So. So yesterday, kids going back to School.

[Amy]

We.

[Ralph]

What do you call that thing? What do you call that when you.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Orientation.

[Amy]

Orientation.

[Ralph]

Orientation.

[Amy]

So it wasn't a full day. They're just going to meet their teachers and.

[Ralph]

All right, so we go back to school and I'm, we're, you know, we're sitting there and we're seeing all these parents and you know, you're seeing there's a lot of women, right? Because there's teachers. It's just ratio man, women to man is probably 70% women, 30% men in this room, in this gymnasium. And you're, you're saying you're seeing people. You're like, oh, yeah, hey, how you doing? You know, and, and just, it's nice, you know, kind of seeing people. You hadn't seen everybody during the summer and everybody's like, hey, how's the beach? You know, whatever. Oh, you got, you know, you got two. You got your girls coming to school here now. You know, everybody's just talking. It's fun. And midway through this, this experience, I just had a, I just had a realization.

[Amy]

Which is what?

[Ralph]

That a lot. I bet a lot of these people inadvertently, unwillingly, or maybe willingly see a lot of clips from this show.

[Amy]

And what made you think that?

[Ralph]

I don't know, we were standing because

[Amy]

of the comments about the beach. Like, we don't talk to all these people all summer.

[Ralph]

Something triggered, man, they've seen all, they've seen the clips of the stuff we talk about on this show. And I got real self conscious because teachers are like, oh no, there's a lot of teachers.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Parents, we got their good.

[Amy]

We don't know that. We do know that some of the teachers think bigger.

[Ralph]

Parents, friends of. And you know, our kids, parents, our kids are friends with this folks. And these parents over here and they're like, they let their kids come over to our house or something and have a sleepover.

[Amy]

Now they know how crazy we are.

[Ralph]

And I'm like, here I am in this room going, oh, hey, nice to meet you. Hey, yeah, good, see you.

[Amy]

Meanwhile, last week he talked about how much diarrhea he had.

[Ralph]

Yeah. And we're gonna run, we're gonna cut a six minute clip, me talking about how I had a damn stomach bug for nine days and. Or something other crazy mess going on. And we just give our, you know, matter of fact opinions on just life and, and we're crude and rude at times and obnoxious and we call ourselves. And so I'm standing there and I'm like, man, these people know I ain't like this. They know I ain't all bubbly and hey, yeah, how y' all doing? And I'm thinking, wait a second. And so I'm standing there going, man, I'm a fraud. Like, why can't I just be myself all the time?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

I mean, you do turn up the charm, right? And you're in. Right. When you're in certain, you know, certain situations.

[Amy]

It's called manners, Rob.

[Ralph]

Yes, yes.

[Amy]

You have manners, right? In certain. But I'm standing there and I'm like, environments. It's like, better to not be your full self.

[Ralph]

I know, but I'm sitting there trying to be super, super charming, like a meet and greet. And I'm like, yeah. And I'm like, they know this is. They, you know, they see these clips and how we act. And then we sit down and there's this lady giving a speech in front of all of us.

[Amy]

She's giving us a lesson. Like a chapel lesson.

[Ralph]

She's giving us a lesson. Yeah, and it's great, great lesson. But in the middle of the lesson, she says, we need. We need to put down the podcasts.

[Amy]

She says, I listened to a lot of podcasts. She was, she was being self defecating. She was talking about being focused and more present in her own life and how she loves a podcast. Y loves to listen to podcasts. And she's like, and I won't say which ones. Yes, unless you want to come talk to me one on one, and then I'll give you my list. And Dale and I were sitting straight in the center of the gymnasium.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

I would have sunk into my chair

[Amy]

right in the middle. And if we had a seat back, I would have.

[Ralph]

I was, I had just had this realization like five minutes before about the podcast. And then we sit down and she

[Amy]

says that and like, almost line of sight.

[Ralph]

When we're done, I had three or four parents come up to me and go, oh, man, when she talked about podcast, I was thinking about you. And I was like, boy, Dale, I bet he's loving this. And I'm like, no, not really.

[Amy]

Quite the opposite, actually.

[Ralph]

And so, man, now I. Now I sit down here today with you guys with a very heavy complex.

[Amy]

And well, we've already covered poop, alcohol, and the stripper squirrel, so we're set for success. You know, I thought you were drinking

[Narrator/Advertiser]

at 9:30 in the morning too.

[Ralph]

I did have the time of my life.

[Amy]

Listen, Dale usually goes to environments like that and stays close to me, doesn't talk to a whole bunch of people, keeps to himself, speaks when spoken to. Just because he feels like, you know, most of the time when he goes into a crowd of people, it's for nascar, it's for performance, basically. Like, he's doing the meet and greet. He's there to work, and so he doesn't know how to act otherwise. You know what I mean? And so we go and he's gotten so comfortable with all these parents because we've been with the same kids since Isla was in kindergarten. She's now in the third grade. And we've all become friends and half of them are racing people, any way that we know. So, like, we get into the gym and he looks around, he's like, I know half these people now. When we first got here, I didn't know anybody.

[Ralph]

We went there three years ago. I didn't know but about two or three people in the entire gym. All the parents are sitting in the bleachers.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

And we sit down there yesterday, and I'm like.

[Amy]

Felt like a reunion, man.

[Ralph]

I know half people in here now.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

And I'll be honest, Amy's right. There are a lot of race and industry folks, but there's a lot of average, everyday folks in there that ain't got nothing, no connection. And those are actually the real fun ones because, like, when I'm talking to this dad and he's just going to go back and do his regular and work his ass off, I feel really better and normal than, oh, man, this is. Got this guy works on this race team. This guy.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

This guy's.

[Ralph]

As crew chief for this. We, you know, it has given you

[Amy]

the opportunity to have friends in that type of space. Yes.

[Ralph]

Yeah. I'll see this season. I'll see the dads that are just like, you know, dad and like, hell. And they got their job and they got their vacation house they go to and. And they got, you know, their family, and they're just rocking and rolling.

[Amy]

And I'm like, Dale's talking about baseball cards with all these guys to the point where, like, they're blocking the entrance to the doorway here and there. There's people trying to get around them with the stroller. I'm like, sorry. They're. They're tell, you know, talking about baseball cards.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Boys being boys.

[Amy]

Yeah, boys. That's exactly what the gentleman who was pushing the baby stroller around them said. Boys will be boys. Next we're gonna talk about football. You just wait till we get into the gym. I'm like, oh, okay. So they're all on the same team. You know, it doesn't take much for

[Narrator/Advertiser]

a guy to talk to another random dude.

[Amy]

No. Well, they've actually gone shopping together, this other, this man that he's talking about. So it's. They have real friendships made. And so it was like a reunion. I like walking around, getting the car passes, going to the IT department to like get login information for the homeschool teacher. Like, I'm doing work, Dad's playing. He's having like his own little meet and greet reunion with his buddies.

[Ralph]

We're just hanging out.

[Amy]

Just hanging out. I forgot to the point where I lost him.

[Ralph]

I forgot I was there for a reason.

[Amy]

Yeah. So at one point when it's all over, I look up and I'm like, I don't see him anywhere. So I just go to get the girls from the classroom and eventually he comes back behind me, pokes me in the butt. I'm like, there he is.

[Ralph]

I walk up there and poke her in the butt because I, I know she's like, it better be Dale.

[Amy]

I really hope that's Dale. How am I gonna, how am I gonna respond if it isn't that fun

[Ralph]

to do to your. To your better half? Like put em in some goose them in public.

[Amy]

Yeah. Awkward, precarious situations. Yeah. You do that quite often.

[Ralph]

I know. I love it.

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[Amy]

Speaking of starting school, this morning, the girls get up. It's their first full day of school. I have these really cute dresses that I had their school logos put on. They wear uniforms, you know, but they have, like, a little leeway with the actual garment. So I got these cute little navy blue dresses. They have collars, they have little puffy sleeves. They're adorable. So I lay it out for Ailey yesterday. She sees it. She doesn't say anything. She gets up this morning, and she is just full of attitude. She puts the dress on. She comes in Nicole's room because I'm already in there trying to get her dressed, and she's got the dress on backwards. She's like, mom, this dress is in my neck and it's got puffy sleeves. And I was like, first of all, you've got it on backwards. Let's spin it around, see how you like it then. Well, it's still gonna have puffy sleeves. I am not wearing this. I'm like, first of all, exit the room. Because I want the other kid who's also not into puffy sleeves, to put the puffy sleeve dress on. So, like, take your attitude elsewhere. I was like, okay, go. Go pick out your stuff then. You've got plenty to choose from. Go get yourself dressed. So she goes, and she comes back. Nicole puts her dress on, fits like a glove. She looks at herself in the mirror. I love it. And she's so excited to go to the same school as Nicole or as Isla that she doesn't care what she's wearing.

[Ralph]

Nicole has been waiting for this day forever. For over a year, she has talked about, when am I going to Isla school, When am I going to Isla school?

[Amy]

As soon as she had preschool graduation.

[Ralph]

And I ain't never seen a kid so excited about the first day of school in my. She was pumped.

[Amy]

She was pumped about her backpack, her lunchbox, her water bottle, which she's seen before.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

It was very important stuff, all the

[Amy]

things, and she didn't care what she had on. She was going to school with Isla. And how did Carla next it go, by the way? Because. So Isla used to get out of the car and, like, cling to the seat to the point where it was, like, embarrassing for the whole crying.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And Nicole's never really been, like, a crier. When you leave her, she just kind of gives you a thumbs up. Peace out. Even at preschool. And so Dale does drop off, because I don't want Isla to throw a fit.

[Ralph]

So we get to drop off.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

And

[Ralph]

first off, it was a high energy in the house this morning.

[Amy]

Well, there was a lot going on. It started off with attitude, and then it ended with me giving Isla a bottle of water. She took some vitamins before she was leaving. I was gonna give her a bottle of water just to swallow it down. It had no top on it. And then she doused herself in water right as she's supposed to walk out the door. And I'm like, we got four change.

[Ralph]

We got 45 minutes before she's supposed to get out of the car. And Amy's like, she's got to change. I'm like, it'll dry.

[Amy]

It wasn't like 45 minutes. It's a cotton shirt, and it wasn't a small drop. She completely doused her white shirt.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

Well, she changes clothes, comes down, everything's fine. We get in the car.

[Amy]

It's really just me. I am nervous. Yeah.

[Ralph]

Amy was super nervous.

[Amy]

It's first day of school. I'm nervous that Nicole's not going to have a good day. It's a long day, having a great day.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

They just want it to go great.

[Amy]

I just want it to go well, and I want them to be in good mood. So I'm trying to stay as little as possible, but, like, there's all these little things that keep happening to, like, test my patience. So it's really just me.

[Ralph]

They're doing great. They're having a great time. So, yeah, drop off was fine. This is the first time we're dropping off. We're both are in the car, and we get. We get ready to get out. The clock strikes a certain time, and Nyla goes, it's time. Open the door. Nicole is the F next to the door. Nicole goes, I don't want to do it. And I'm like, yeah, just open the door and hop out. It's everybody else is doing it in front of us in the cars.

[Amy]

She didn't want to be the one to open the door.

[Ralph]

I don't want to open it. Isla, you open it. And so Nicole and Isa shift past each other so Isla can open the door. And Isla got to give her a lot of credit yesterday at the. What do they call it?

[Amy]

Orientation.

[Ralph]

Orientation. Yesterday at orientation.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

That's the word of the day.

[Amy]

Yeah. Our drinking word of the day is orientation.

[Ralph]

As soon as we get there, Isla holds Nicole's hand, walks her into her classroom, shows her her desk, tells her all she can about this experience. And I'm like, we didn't ask her to do that. And I said to her later in the day, I said, isla, I want to tell you something that really impressed me, how you were trying to make your sister really comfortable with that new classroom and all this new experience. I'm so thankful. You are a great big sister there. No one told you to do that. You did that on your own, and that was a great move. And they're on the same. You know, they're. They're. They're very close together in proximity in classrooms. It's very nice.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

But anyways, we get ready to get out, and Isla's got to open the door now. So Isla opens the door. Coley's like, isla, will you help me with my bag? And I'm like, isla, you just help your sister get the bag out. And I want you, at least today, this first day, to walk with her all the way to her classroom. Don't take off running. Run over, run. See a buddy of yours and go. Go running up and leave her. I was like, walk with your sister all the way to her class, first day. And then, you know, to help her get through that process, because she's going to do that by herself for the rest of the year. But it was great.

[Amy]

Nicole's class is on the way to Isla's, so there's no excuse. It should be really easy for her to do that. The other thing that happened this week, like, I think that it had to do with starting school for Nicole, was she decided that she's not gonna go by Coley anymore. Two days ago, we're sitting on the couch, and she goes, mom, I won't be answering to Nicole. I won't be answering to Coley anymore. Or Nicole. You can call me Nicole, or you can call me Ms. Nicole, if you prefer. And I looked at her, I was like, what? And she said, I don't want to be called Coley anymore. I'm like, okay, is that because you're going to school? Like, I don't know what the deal is. I was laughing so hard, I couldn't really wrap my head around what to ask her, but she was dead serious. And so yesterday, we're at orientation, and we're there with Christy outside. They had a bouncy house. After the whole thing was over, they had, like, a festival happening. And so she's getting ready to take her shoes off and go do the bouncy house. And I was telling Christy about this, and she said, hey, Coley, da, da, da, da. And I was, like, just waiting to see if Nicole was going to turn around. She absolutely held to it until. Until Christy said Nicole. She didn't turn her head to look at her.

[Ralph]

Bang.

[Amy]

Yeah, she's serious. She doesn't want that little nickname to follow her all the way through the rest of her school life, I guess.

[Ralph]

Okay,

[Amy]

so she's lost her junior, I guess. You know what I mean?

[Ralph]

Well, she won't.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Is it gonna be easy for you guys to adjust?

[Amy]

No, that is caller Coley. So much more than we realized.

[Ralph]

Such a habit.

[Amy]

Well, I hate that she doesn't like it.

[Ralph]

She's never even told us it's a phase.

[Amy]

You think it's a phase?

[Narrator/Advertiser]

I wonder if she thinks it's, like, little and she's, like, a big girl now.

[Amy]

She's a big girl now, and she's not taking Coley anymore.

[Ralph]

It's fine.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

It'll come back around.

[Amy]

I'm sure it will. Somebody around her who has known her for a while will say it, and then the other kids are gonna pick.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

So when she gets older and she drinks, that's gonna be alter egos.

[Amy]

Coley.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Coley comes out.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh. Then she'll, like.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

That'll be her jimmy jam.

[Amy]

Her jimmy jam. Did you see this? This week, Brooke Nader had Ralph.

[Ralph]

Who's Brooke Nader?

[Amy]

Not important. She's hot girl. I forget what her dad's famous for, what their family's famous for. Her sisters are hot. She's dated some athletes. She went on a vacation in Europe with her family, and I think that they're on a boat. Yeah, these people are from Louisiana. They are not Europeans. She is topless on the boat right there next to her daddy, completely nude, and he's looking at her boobs right there.

[Ralph]

So weird.

[Amy]

It's so weird. I mean, I know people do this in Europe, and they have Topless beaches. But, like, you don't take your titties out in front of your dad when you're 25 years old. Can you imagine me doing that in front of my dad?

[Ralph]

I'm feeling weird now.

[Amy]

It's so bizarre.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And she's got sisters. I guess the sister that's crouched down right there is half naked also. But the whole thing is so weird. So this picture has, like, gone viral, and people are, oh, I have the

[Narrator/Advertiser]

same swim trunks that he has. And I feel weird now for even having the swim trucks.

[Amy]

You have those same pranks.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

I'm sure I have those swim trunks.

[Amy]

It could be you, Travis. It could be you.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Like, what? I just don't get it.

[Amy]

I don't either. Like, how? So here's the thing. Like, she did it knowing that she was close enough to photographers so that they would take her picture because she likes attention. Or she had no idea. And then, why are we doing it? The whole thing doesn't make any sense to me. It's just bizarre.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

It's one thing if, like, she was photographed on the top of a boat and, like, her dad's down below.

[Amy]

Yes. And she's just laying on her stomach.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Yeah. Or on her back. But it's, like, just the girls up there.

[Amy]

But, like, I'm telling you right now, my dad's on the same boat. I don't care how big it is. I'm not taking my titties out. Not happening.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Would you ever eat at a restaurant naked? Because that's a new thing.

[Ralph]

What?

[Amy]

No. We don't even like chopsticks that are metal. We don't eat naked.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

There's this restaurant, I think, down in Florida, the first Monday of every month, it's clothing auctions. You can go in there and dine naked.

[Amy]

What kind of food is it?

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Like a steakhouse.

[Amy]

It's a steakhouse.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

You're like a strip steak.

[Amy]

You're eating some meat with your meat out. Your meat's on the seat. Eating meat.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Amy]

That's freaking weird.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Girls, it's like 150 guys. 200, I think. Couples, it's 300.

[Amy]

You have to pay to be naked. They don't pay you well.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

That's part of the dining. Like, the whole, like, eating and everything.

[Amy]

Dale's locked up. He ain't even gonna respond. Now he's done. He's left the building. Please tell me what the name of this restaurant is.

[Ralph]

No, don't.

[Amy]

Have you ever done anything weird like that, Ralph?

[Ralph]

Eat at a restaurant naked?

[Amy]

I mean, anything weird that falls in that category. I couldn't explain it, but I had to try it just once.

[Ralph]

No.

[Amy]

Like, we were in the south of France and I still didn't, like, go topless on the topless beach. There were only a couple of ladies that were topless and they were like the nonas of the group. You know what I mean?

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Amy]

He's too scared to say too much.

[Ralph]

I don't want to insult anybody.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Speaking of vacation, should we talk about the other topic?

[Amy]

What topic?

[Narrator/Advertiser]

I've gone to a tanning bed before, like, before vacation, and I can fall asleep in, like, 30 seconds in a tanning bed, and I'm out cold.

[Amy]

Please. You go to a tanning bed.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

I went to, like, before, like, going, like, Mexico. So, like, you. Then you're not going to get burnt when you go down there.

[Amy]

You go lay in a baked bed.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

You go in like, two or three times and just get, like, a base. Yeah. Like, it's coming off of wintertime base.

[Amy]

Do they still have those beds now? Like, you can go lay in a bed still?

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I didn't know that was still a thing. I mean, I always get spray tans because girls do that, but fun fact, you definitely still get burnt.

[Ralph]

Fun fact about tanning beds. Dad and Teresa did an ad for a tanning bed back in 1984 or 85. I have that tanning bed.

[Amy]

Mm. I have laid in that tanning bed. It's been a while ago, but I

[Ralph]

never once laid a nap.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Oh, it's so relaxing, man.

[Ralph]

I have it, though, because it's like a relic. And I'm like, hey, me and Amy started dating. I mean, this damn tanning bed. Let's count the days.

[Amy]

I mean, it was 20 years old then.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I mean, over that, 25.

[Ralph]

I mean, Tanner beds are dangerous enough as they are.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

Did you climb in, like, an original tanning bed before they knew what they knew?

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

They probably, like, you know, got smarter and we're like, hey, man, let's not use them kind of bulbs. That's killing people. Let's. Let's put these types of bulbs in there.

[Amy]

It had the bulbs in it that got really hot, like, on your skin, you know, the tanning beds, like, as they developed, they would. They were more like lasery then they weren't. So I don't heat hot.

[Ralph]

I always looked at tanning beds as. There's no way. That's not bad for you. Like, oh, it's awful for you. Yeah. Like, and this is, like, one of the first iterations of Tanning beds ever.

[Amy]

Like, it was the OG Tanning.

[Ralph]

It's the OG Tanning bed that's probably got all the bad going on. You know what I mean?

[Amy]

It was so old, the bulbs had to have been weak, right?

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I feel like they were weakened in a weekend to stay.

[Ralph]

Whatever you need to tell yourself.

[Amy]

Well, I never, like, really got tan in that thing. I just. I laid it in a couple times and gave up.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Amy]

It was also, like, where all the gym equipment was, so I would work out and I would just, like, lay in it.

[Ralph]

Used to lay in that damn thing all the time.

[Amy]

Really?

[Ralph]

Yes.

[Amy]

Gross.

[Ralph]

I know.

[Amy]

I mean, no one's gonna clean it. That's what I'm saying. I probably laid in there in Sean's crusty sweat.

[Ralph]

Ew.

[Amy]

I'm sure I did.

[Ralph]

Gross.

[Amy]

Gross. And whoever else you let lay in that thing, Teresa. Oh, my God.

[Ralph]

Dad. I don't know.

[Amy]

Surely you got your own. Was that your dad's tanning bed?

[Ralph]

Yes.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

No, that was that tanning bed that

[Ralph]

came out of their house.

[Amy]

Oh.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I thought maybe it was, like, an extra one.

[Ralph]

No, it's the one that's even more weird.

[Amy]

Did your dad lay in it?

[Ralph]

Maybe.

[Amy]

Did he naked. Get naked in that thing?

[Ralph]

More than likely.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Just a lot of sweaty butt juice.

[Amy]

Man, my head is really having a hard time right now. Oh, man, this has gone too far.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

I can't imagine.

[Ralph]

It's not even in the notes.

[Amy]

I used to get so hot in the tanning bed that, like, I'd sweat and then I'd slide around in that thing.

[Ralph]

Gross.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

That's freaking disgusting.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

But they spray it down afterwards.

[Ralph]

They.

[Amy]

If you go to. Yeah, this one thought, oh, yeah, we

[Ralph]

need to clean it. Nope, you just let it air out, cleaning.

[Amy]

Nothing. Maybe that's why the bulbs were weakened from all the sweat crusted up on the top of the lens.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Gross.

[Ralph]

Pretty gross.

[Amy]

We should go check it out, see if it still even fires up.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Did you add the cleaning of the bathroom vanity?

[Amy]

Yeah. So Dale and I are in at the beach house last weekend. We decided to hop down for a couple days, and we go hang out at one of our favorite little restaurants. And we're sitting outside having a drink, and I go inside, go to the bathroom, and there's this, like, really long vanity, and there's water everywhere. Like, where's this? In Sullivan's. And so I just inadvertently wash my hands. But I start cleaning up the vanity, and because there's, like, so much water, it's going to get on my Clothes. But also, like, I'm just kind of disgusted with whatever pile of women or one person that did this. And so I clean it up, and it's like second nature to do that. And I kind of do that. Anytime I go into a public restroom and I wash my hands, if there's paper towels, I like, I just wipe the sink down before I throw them away, just to make sure there's no extra water anywhere. And so I come out and I tell and Dale about that, and he's like, I do that, too. If I'm in the bathroom and there's a bunch of water, if it's really gross, I wipe it down.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Does anybody. You do that?

[Ralph]

We. Amy, come out. Amy, come out and sit down. And we were waiting on our food, and she goes, man, the bathroom vanity is full of water. I cleaned it up. Sorry. You know, she was kind of explaining her why it took so long her delay. And I was like, no, because I literally just did the same thing. Like, I was in their men's bathroom, and there was water all over the place, and I washed my hands, and now I got this complex.

[Amy]

Like, so I think I did.

[Ralph]

Somebody's going to go in there and think that I left it this way.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

And so I'm like, oh, I'll clean it up, wipe it up. No big deal.

[Amy]

Second nature to do that. I don't leave it.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

If there's multiple sinks, I will try to go to one. That's not. But if. Then I will. And then.

[Ralph]

Yeah. I mean, it just. If I'm in an airport, I'm not cleaning vanity, of course, in the airport. But I'm just. This was a. This was a restaurant. Single bat. You know, single. Single stall, one urinal, one sink.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

And you're the only one in there, and you're gonna leave, and the next person goes in is gonna go, damn, that guy destroyed this place.

[Amy]

You know, the thing is, there were so many people that came in and used it and washed their hands and didn't clean it up. So that's what I was wanting to talk about it for, is like, who else is cleaning up the vanity? And who else is just gonna leave it as is?

[Ralph]

I would say every. You know, every fourth person just uses it and leaves. One out of every five might wipe it.

[Amy]

I feel like it's more like one out of every ten.

[Ralph]

Or one out of ten. Then, fine, one out of ten.

[Amy]

But there's some sloppy people out there. Clean up the sink.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

It's like, give your hands a shake before you go to get the paper towels over.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

In the middle.

[Amy]

And if there's paper towels, there's really no excuse. If it's a hand dryer, I get it. If there's paper towels, wipe your mess up. Just clean it up.

[Ralph]

Yeah. I don't know. It. It's no big deal. I feel good when I do it.

[Amy]

Tidying up.

[Ralph]

I feel like a good Samaritan.

[Amy]

Yeah. You're always doing the things for brownie points.

[Ralph]

And I talk, you know, and you're not. Acts of.

[Amy]

Acts of service.

[Ralph]

Acts of service. And doing good isn't. I've learned that doing good and good deeds aren't the key to going to. To heaven.

[Amy]

That's right. So Dale used to think that if you did a couple of naughty things, if you did a bunch of good things, it would cross it out.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

It does.

[Ralph]

You're gonna get.

[Amy]

It does not.

[Ralph]

If you get to the gates and you're like, I don't want to get into this any further than this. But if you get to the gates and you're like, all right, y', all open up. Y' all remember that thing I did? Y'.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

All.

[Ralph]

Y' all saw what I did. You know, Y' all saw all the good stuff I did. Right? Let. Hit the button. Right.

[Amy]

Let the real roll.

[Ralph]

Open it all up. Y' all know I did all that good stuff. Come on. But that's not what gets you in. And so when I learned faith gets you in.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

I just recently learned that the good

[Amy]

deeds are just extra.

[Ralph]

Yeah. The good days don't really. It's kind of like you're supposed to do the good deeds. It's not really like you get a. You get a reward for it at the end. But I learned that, and I'm like, oh, man, I'm. I'm still going to do the good deeds, you know, because I just. It makes me feel good.

[Amy]

Yeah. So you do it for yourself. That's. And that makes you a good person or makes you feel like a good person. It kind of like, is a cyclical effect of life for being good. Yeah. You know what I mean?

[Ralph]

Now, I don't always do every. I don't. I don't. I'm not, like, walking around doing good deeds all the time. Like, there's probably some I'm not aware of or self aware of, and I probably walk past a lot of that. I ought to clean up or pick up or do. Or help. Help somebody with or whatever.

[Amy]

You're not as naughty as you used to be.

[Ralph]

No. I'm way better. I used to be a real piece of.

[Amy]

Total punk. I don't know if I'd call you a piece of.

[Ralph]

You can all think punk.

[Amy]

I'd give you.

[Ralph]

Golly, man. Especially when I was not, you know, about to have to do something I didn't want to do.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

And I still get that way a

[Amy]

little bit, but not. I still get that near the level.

[Ralph]

If I've got. If I got a job to do, this that day or the next day, I'll get in a bad mood thinking about it, and I'll be like, man, I don't want to do that. Why'd I say I'd do that? Why did I say, you know, months ago I'd go do this thing. I don't want to do it now. I won't be home or whatever. And I'll start treating everybody around me

[Amy]

like start stomping his feet in the house.

[Ralph]

I start, and then I go home and I think about it, and I'm like, man, I was a. I was a. And I'll call him or text on, man, if I was. I'm sorry. I feel bad. I'm just annoyed by this.

[Amy]

Sorry.

[Ralph]

And they're like. And then. Then I'm like, man, I'm just exposing myself. Now they know I'm an. Maybe they didn't even think about it or didn't even.

[Amy]

Now I'm just like, you overthink everything, remember?

[Ralph]

Oh, you don't. I will never forget.

[Amy]

Never mind. Just kidding. I didn't. I don't even know. I just brought it up. Just kidding.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Should we get into.

[Amy]

There's a TikTok trend we want to try.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Oh, ready?

[Ralph]

I gotta get my phone. I got your phone. I got my phone somewhere. Why do you have it?

[Amy]

You handed it to me.

[Ralph]

Damn. I did.

[Amy]

Dang, dude.

[Ralph]

I was looking for the second gun. I'm like.

[Amy]

I watched the video getting out of this. Out of the truck and walking into school.

[Ralph]

So I don't have 10.

[Amy]

You also need to wash the truck.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

So for the people, it's this trend going that the spouse asks them why they're unfit for war. So Amy would ask Dale why she's unfit for war.

[Ralph]

I only got six, six reasons why Amy would be unfit for war. Instagram scrolling would bog down her unit's communication ability.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

That's so true.

[Amy]

I think it's funny. He thinks I'm on. He's on my. I'm on my phone more than he is.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

But you are on Instagram a Lot.

[Ralph]

All right. She would be often.

[Amy]

That little green dot is not real. You know, Hello. I get. I also get notifications. So, like, when people that I know.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Message me, I can get to it faster.

[Ralph]

Number two, she would often be distracted by any canine units and let any street animals into the camp.

[Amy]

Yes, I would. We'd have a whole zoo.

[Ralph]

Number three, she would misplace the keys to the Hummer or tactical vehicles.

[Amy]

You should sleep in the car.

[Ralph]

Number four, there's no going to bed before 9am every night, so that wouldn't work. 9am, 9pm Sorry. Number five, she would quit after a few days of no plumbing or for showers and poops.

[Amy]

I mean, for sure.

[Ralph]

And number six, she would fall asleep on night watches.

[Amy]

Absolutely. Night watches are for you. All right. Why Dale is a no go for war. Someone didn't wake him up to get to battle, so he missed it.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Where's Mike Davis at?

[Amy]

Then he had to poop, so he missed the next one. TJ Said he had a game to play, so he missed the next one. Then he needed to take a nap, so he missed the next one.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

These are good.

[Amy]

Finally got there. But he had to stop and shake hands and take pics with all the soldiers. So not everybody's dead.

[Ralph]

Everybody's dead.

[Amy]

And then he decided, after all, he would just be friends with the enemies because he actually hates front confrontation.

[Ralph]

That's pretty good.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

Got me.

[Amy]

It got you.

[Ralph]

You got me good.

[Amy]

I feel like that absolutely would happen. Those are, like, real life options.

[Ralph]

You did a chronological Dale's. Dale's experience in battle.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

I think both of yours are very accurate.

[Amy]

Yeah. I kind of wonder what kind of animals I'd find in the forest. Now that you're talking about it, would it be a squirrel?

[Ralph]

If anything came walking up near the gate, you'd be like, come on, little feller. Come on in.

[Amy]

Don't get. Don't get shot. Come on in.

[Ralph]

Yes. Bullets flying everywhere out there. Come on in.

[Amy]

Yeah. I don't want to go to war. I have not made for outside for more than, like, you know, fun times. Yeah.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

I was gonna say outside's not. That means by the pool, by the beach.

[Amy]

Yeah. I mean, I can hang out in the woods and I can camp and I can do outdoorsy things, but I'd prefer to have, you know, picture up there and plumbing.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

I have something to tell you to

[Ralph]

my fart in my chair.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

This was this morning.

[Amy]

Travis took heed on our advice, and he decided to move your stuff one inch.

[Ralph]

That's Hilarious. You're unaware.

[Amy]

I hear there's some moving around going on in Key West. That Hanks is moving.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

What?

[Amy]

That Garbo's is taking over the Hanks spot.

[Ralph]

Oh, and that Bob Pocris texts me and he goes, hey, man, thanks for announcing when the NASCAR banquets are. Because I was on. We're on this show or that show. This show.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Dirty air.

[Ralph]

Dirty air. So I was on Dirty Air, and I was like, it's just rambling. I'd heard that the Xfinity banquet was on Tuesday night after. In Homestead after the race. And so I'm like, you know, we. We got the podcast on Mondays, so now, you know, if we win the championship, we're going to. We're going to go to Homestead, hopefully win the championship. We're going to go down to Key west, we're going to do our show, and then we'd come back up to Homestead to do the thing. And he texts me and he's like, hey, man, good job announcing when NASCAR's banquets are. Because they go. They do them all together now. Cup.

[Amy]

Oh, they do.

[Ralph]

And O'Reilly.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

And he's like, they hadn't announced any of it yet.

[Amy]

You're always doing that.

[Ralph]

And I was like, whoops, don't tell

[Amy]

Dale anything unless it's public knowledge already.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

I assumed it was, like, known because, like, last year was at Phoenix. Like, I just assumed.

[Amy]

Yeah, I mean, it's really not.

[Ralph]

I don't think it was a big.

[Amy]

It's not. Spoiler.

[Ralph]

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[Amy]

Yeah. So I think they're taking over that whole little house and that whole thing is going to be Garbo's restaurant now. I don't know when that shift is starting, but Tim just went down to Key west and told us that there was some whispering about how that's going

[Ralph]

to develop is no more. It's going somewhere else.

[Amy]

It's going to be a larger space closer to the Garden of Eden, closer to the bowl and all that. So I don't know where they. There was a Brazilian restaurant right there on the backside of that. So maybe it's.

[Ralph]

I wonder if they name it Grunts, rename it.

[Amy]

That would be cool.

[Ralph]

Garbo's Grunts.

[Amy]

If you're listening, go back to Grunts Garbo's.

[Ralph]

Consider renaming it Grunts.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Why Grunts?

[Ralph]

Grunts was the original name. Grunts is like.

[Amy]

It was just a bar. There was no food. There's Grunts.

[Ralph]

Well, the. With the military down there. That's a nod to the military.

[Amy]

That's what, you know, the newbies.

[Ralph]

And so it was just a cool name. Grunts, you know, good place to go get a cold beer. Maybe they bring it back.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

I think it might be hard, though, because now they've been, like, featured on shows and stuff.

[Ralph]

They were featured on shows as grunts.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Oh, I've only seen as Garbo when he was on.

[Ralph]

When it was on Triple D, it was Grunt.

[Amy]

Was it that the actual Garbo was

[Ralph]

just the food truck?

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Gotcha. Gotcha.

[Amy]

And it used to park there. It was. It moved around. So eventually it parked. And now it's kind of developed into more, I guess. But yeah, the beers used to be so cold in Grunts. You'd get a frosty mug and the beers were so cold that they'd stick to the bar top. So you had to get an oven mitt. And then it Got so popular, they couldn't keep the things cold, and so they had to.

[Ralph]

Ice would slide down the outside of the mug. That's the best.

[Amy]

It was really good.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

I'm thirsty now.

[Amy]

Yeah, we're always so thirsty.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

One week.

[Ralph]

Hey, I am. Damn. Me and Amy went to the beach this past weekend, and we tore it up. Me and Amy had a good time now. I had my stomach bug, so I was kind of on seven cylinders. But we had some fun.

[Amy]

I came back going, I can't hang out with you anymore.

[Ralph]

Now that I'm back to natural, you know, normal. Feeling pretty better. Pretty much better. Pretty better.

[Amy]

Pretty better. Feeling pretty better. Brain doesn't work fully, but.

[Ralph]

And we got a weekend sort of at home.

[Amy]

Dale doesn't know what to do with that anymore.

[Ralph]

I know what to do with that. I'm gonna make some buffalo chicken wings.

[Amy]

He's gonna make some plans is what he's gonna do. Yes. He wants.

[Ralph]

I want to grill some wings.

[Amy]

To grill out? Yeah.

[Ralph]

I want to toss them in a bowl, and then I'm gonna throw them back on the grill, and then I'm gonna toss them again.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

There you go. That's the way to do it.

[Ralph]

Yes, sir. I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna cook Amy and the girls whatever the hell they want. Probably a little. Couple fillets and maybe a chicken.

[Amy]

Yes, the girls. He's like, because we don't eat chicken wings. The girls have never tried them.

[Ralph]

No.

[Amy]

Isla did when she was little, but she might. She's pretty old.

[Ralph]

But I'm gonna cook everything. They won't cooked.

[Amy]

They gave him a list of, like, 10 different meats they wanted him to grill. I'm like, this has gotten out of hand.

[Ralph]

No, it has. We're just having fun. I'm writing it down on this.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

But now he's got options.

[Ralph]

It just. It's just for fun. We're not going to the store to get all this. We're just having fun, guys. Hey, get excited.

[Amy]

And what he doesn't understand is they take everything pretty literally.

[Ralph]

Well, they're going to learn not to. All right?

[Amy]

They're gonna learn not to trust me to learn. They're going to learn that I'm full of it. And I'm just teasing them, you know, we're gonna.

[Ralph]

We're gonna let. We're gonna make a list, then we're gonna pull out the best and go, all right, this is what we're doing.

[Amy]

Gotcha.

[Ralph]

Yeah. But, hey, you. You. You're gonna let me know what you think. I should pick up. We're gonna get this food. We're gonna grill this on Saturday at the house. We're gonna turn on some TVs and some music. The kids are gonna swim, gonna have a good.

[Amy]

It's gonna be awesome. Yeah, it's nice to enjoy our house. We're usually running off to do it.

[Ralph]

We'll turn up some cold brews.

[Amy]

Probably won't get it after last weekend. I feel like I need to like, pump breaks.

[Ralph]

You may feel differently after a couple of drinks.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Dale, you should make it like Amy's house in Texas and do some dancing around the island with the girls.

[Amy]

He should. We should have another like, wedding ceremony or something or, you know.

[Ralph]

I don't know about that.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Why? The girls would love it to be

[Ralph]

a memory in the wedding ceremony when

[Narrator/Advertiser]

they have their own podcast in 20 years. They can talk about.

[Ralph]

They did one.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Just. They're fun dancing around the island with

[Amy]

their poolside weddings that they threw.

[Ralph]

Well, maybe we'll do some karaoke or something.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Yeah. I'm just saying. Put on some Dorchester, dance with the girls.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Amy]

He does know how to two step, by the way. And I have a video of that.

[Ralph]

I just got lucky. I got lucky for like 30 seconds and did it correctly. I don't know how to do it.

[Amy]

Yes, you do. You have rhythm and you know how to do it. He refuses to accept. This is like, if I don't accept it, then it never has to happen when I don't want it to happen. I know who you are. I see you. He knows how to dance, man.

[Ralph]

We're gonna have fun this weekend. Saturday. Woo.

[Amy]

Woo hoo.

[Ralph]

It's gonna be old school.

[Amy]

Rip a dare.

[Ralph]

Woo. We're gonna have a fun family hangout.

[Amy]

Yeah. He goes, we're gonna have a. We've an Earnhardt pool party. And I'm like, who did you invite over?

[Ralph]

No one.

[Amy]

Now I'm thinking we need to get some catering.

[Ralph]

No, it's me.

[Amy]

He's like the four of us and the kids, like, okay, you know, you dodged one.

[Ralph]

That should be plenty. That's enough.

[Amy]

It is. I just wanted to make sure I had enough food is all.

[Ralph]

Yeah. Amy's been dreaming about me a lot.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

More than normal. She dreams a lot about me, but it's really ramped up here lately.

[Amy]

I've had dreams about him dying.

[Ralph]

She dreamed a lot about me dying. Well, I figured I'm in there. She would. She would come downstairs when he was

[Amy]

sick last week or whatever week that was. Yeah.

[Ralph]

I was staying down on the couch so she didn't get the bug. And she comes down there. She's like, hey. Hey. I had another dream, man.

[Amy]

You.

[Ralph]

You.

[Amy]

Are you okay? I came at him with a thermometer to his forehead.

[Ralph]

She's checking my temperature. You're not gonna die, are you?

[Amy]

I was upset, and he's like, get away from me. I'm fine. Now. I'm awake. Thank you.

[Ralph]

Her. Her.

[Amy]

Yeah, my therapist.

[Ralph]

Therapist said that she's dreaming about me dying because she's afraid of losing me. Our love has gotten so strong. She' gotten so comfortable and so dependent on that being the rest, the way it is for the rest of her life. She's finally sort of eclipsed this, crested this sort of milestone.

[Amy]

She didn't say all that.

[Ralph]

Yeah. And, you know, she's just in love with me so much that she's afraid of losing me.

[Amy]

So it's brain spotting. So you're, like, unlocking all these weird memories and traumas. And so we were talking about that dream. I was like.

[Ralph]

I was thankful. That was a relief.

[Amy]

And she's like, well, let's try to figure out what the. What the reason and feel like we've

[Narrator/Advertiser]

done the brain spotting.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Ralph]

No, but I mean, I. When her. She says she comes home and she goes, hey, man, gotta tell you what my therapist said about those dreams about you dying. And I'm like, he blew me off.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Oh, he blew me off.

[Amy]

Call him as soon as I get out. He's like, I can't.

[Ralph]

I'm like. But I'm, like, thinking to myself, I better buckle up, because she might come

[Amy]

in here because I'm a witch and I have premonitions.

[Ralph]

Yeah. Like, she's. It's a prediction, man. She thinks it's going to happen.

[Amy]

You're mental.

[Ralph]

Oh, man. No, man, you just love me a lot.

[Amy]

After the discussion, it comes down to,

[Ralph]

oh, man, what a relief.

[Amy]

I've gotten to such a good place after all these years of living together and, you know, trying to give each other grace and all that. That, like, I'm actually maybe scared. Scared of losing him.

[Ralph]

She just loves me.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Ralph]

I'm not gonna die.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

She's not gonna murder me.

[Ralph]

Yeah.

[Amy]

No. I'm not gonna smother you in.

[Ralph]

Your therapist lady says he's good. He's not gonna die anytime soon.

[Amy]

Phew. Oh, my gosh. I feel like that's a good place to end the show. Thank you, guys, for listening. Hope you enjoyed yourself as much as we did. Check all the merch [e-mail] and hit the subscribe button if you haven't already. We'll see you next week.