Because EVERYONE Needs a Taxidermy Squirrel... Right?!

Summary

The Dale Jr. Download — Episode Summary

Podcast: The Dale Jr. Download
Episode Title: Because EVERYONE Needs a Taxidermy Squirrel... Right?!
Date: June 4, 2026
Host: Dale Earnhardt Jr. with Amy and Travis
Producer: Dirty Mo Media, SiriusXM

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Main Theme / Purpose

In this lively episode, Dale Earnhardt Jr., his wife Amy, and producer Travis riff with their characteristic warmth and humor about summer family activities, memorable NASCAR moments, quirky household habits, upcoming travel, and, most iconically, a surprise taxidermy squirrel gift. The episode meanders through everyday hilarities, sports talk, and listener questions, offering authentic behind-the-scenes glimpses into the Earnhardt home and Dale’s circle.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Family Summer Activities: Golf Camp Adventures

[03:38–09:06]

• Amy describes enrolling their daughters in a local golf camp; they enjoy the sport, bonding over cute outfits and learning basics like chipping games with tic-tac-toe.
  • “They decided it's like their favorite sport. They had a great all time.” —Amy [04:34]
• Observations about outfitting the girls with just enough clubs without overwhelming or over-buying.
• Discussing the merits of golf as a skill for life and potential family lessons—Dale is notably less enthusiastic than Amy about the idea.
  • “I don't mind getting a golf lesson. They got a long way to go before they're going to play around of golf.” —Dale [06:42]
• The group debates the state of TopGolf and the idea of reactivating their home golf simulator.
• Reflections on why their daughters prefer golf over team sports like soccer or softball; Dale admits they’re happiest as homebodies, just like him.

2. Family & Sleep Habits: The Couch Chronicles

[10:24–13:20]

• Amy colorfully paints Dale’s nap “ritual” of pointing at the couch for cuddle support.
  • “He just wants me to be his pillow.” —Amy [11:18]
• Dale details his disrupted sleep after the Nashville race, trying to reset his body clock; both he and Travis share post-race exhaustion stories.

3. NASCAR & Inside Jokes: “Denny Bros” and Racing Bets

[13:44–16:58]

• Travis and Dale recount inside jokes about “Denny Bros”—a moniker from group texts and a bet involving Denny Hamlin and Tyler Reddick.
  • “Here's the old Denny Bros. Are excited today.” —Dale [15:10]
  • “Bet with Reddick that if Denny beat him at Nashville, that they would put Denny Bros. On the roof of Reddick's car.” —Dale [15:23]
• Amusing banter on naming fan groups (from “Junior Nation” to “Dirty Mo Posse”).

4. Upcoming Travel: Race Weekends and Kid Activities

[19:01–24:38]

• Juggling Dale’s racing broadcast schedule with Amy managing dance recitals and summer recitals.
• Plans to take the kids to Pocono and Hershey Park—a highlight being Isla and Nicole aiming to ride “real” roller coasters this year.
  • “So we're going back and apparently she's tall enough…There's one called the Super Duper Looper…and all she wanted to do was go upside down.” —Amy [24:06, 24:29]
• Classic family negotiation about who must endure the slow, crowded custom chocolate bar experience at Hershey (Dale’s grumpy protest is met with playful ribbing).

5. Wendell Jr’s Ride: Packing The Prize Tahoe

[20:53–23:32]

• Funny behind-the-scenes details about what gets loaded into the Dale Jr. Foundation’s giveaway Tahoe: from tiny Bluetooth speakers Dale collects to patch hats he’s been squirreling away.
  • “The funniest part is he bought them in bulk because he knew he was going to want to gift them to friends … so he has new ones ready.” —Amy [21:23]
  • “My favorite thing … are all of the custom patch hats that I've had made over the last couple of years.” —Dale [22:45]

6. The Infamous Taxidermy Squirrel Surprise

[33:30–36:56]

• Amy gifts Dale a taxidermy squirrel on a pole, sparking laughter and confusion.
  • “What is this?… Why?… It could be your new Wilson.“ —Amy [34:27, 34:30]
  • “I'm gonna tote that around everywhere.” —Amy [37:34]
• Lighthearted teasing about naming the squirrel (suggestions included Blanche and Mercedes) and where it should live—beach house, home bar, or on set.
  • “We need a name for our squirrel. This was a present for Dale, and he's not very special.” —Amy [70:04]
  • “Amy got me a stripper squirrel.” —Dale [70:08]

7. Rapid-Fire Listener Questions with “Ask Amy”

[45:18–62:53]

• Lively session fielding audience questions:
  • “See cashier” at the gas station: Amy would rather walk in than move the car. Dale tries to reset the pump or ignore prompts.
  • Grocery etiquette: They debate sampling produce before buying, picking up and putting back fruit, and whether they'd eat food left in a rental house (Dale: “If I find a good bag of grapes, I give an audible hell, yeah.” [61:47]).
  • Restaurant waits: The family will not wait more than five minutes for a table without a reservation, especially with kids in tow.
  • Favorite George Strait songs: “Run” (Dale), “Easy Come, Easy Go” (Amy), with several honorable mentions.
  • Socializing in public: Dale confesses to enjoying breaking through with people who don’t want to talk, even delivering finger guns.
    • “The people that don't want to communicate back are the best because then you gotta try harder.” —Dale [60:39]

8. House Projects, Beach House Woes, and Neighborhood Diplomacy

[65:26–69:45]

• Major construction around their beach home leads to inventive parking solutions and neighborly chats with the work crew to avoid property damage.
• Amy’s ongoing, breezy criminality: “I'm just freewheeling it all over the street now.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “He just wants me to be his pillow.” —Amy [11:18]
• “Bet with Reddick that if Denny beat him at Nashville, that they would put Denny Bros. On the roof of Reddick's car.” —Dale [15:23]
• “If we're gonna do this, I'm gonna go to the bathroom, I'm gonna get a… glass of wine or something so at least I'm entertained.” —Amy [11:31]
• “You have dead animals in the house. What do you mean?” —Amy re: Dale finding the squirrel creepy [37:13]
• “If I find a good bag of grapes, I give an audible hell, yeah. Loud enough for the people within earshot can hear me.” —Dale [61:47]
• “Amy got me a stripper squirrel.” —Dale [70:08]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Time | Segment | |---------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 03:38–09:06 | Golf camp, parenting and future golf lessons | | 10:24–13:20 | Couch naps, sleep routines, and post-Nashville fatigue| | 13:44–16:58 | NASCAR inside jokes, Denny Bros and fan names | | 19:01–24:38 | Family travel, Hershey Park, dance recital talk | | 20:53–23:32 | Packing prize Tahoe, custom hats & gadgets | | 33:30–36:56 | The taxidermy squirrel reveal and naming debate | | 45:18–62:53 | “Ask Amy” listener Q&A lightning round | | 65:26–69:45 | Beach house construction/parking woes | | 70:04–70:17 | Squirrel naming, episode closeout |

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Episode Tone & Style

• Unfiltered, conversational, and lighthearted
• Balanced between playful jabs (“Amy got me a stripper squirrel”), genuine family observations, and behind-the-scenes motorsports camaraderie
• Authentic banter with a touch of southern charm and self-deprecating humor

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In Closing

This episode is a quintessential slice of Dale Jr.’s world: family stories, NASCAR anecdotes, running jokes, and oddball surprises (yes, taxidermy squirrel included). Listeners will feel like honorary guests at the Earnhardt dinner table, with plenty of laughs, relatable moments, and NASCAR insider schtick.

Listener Call-to-Action:
Submit your best “stripper squirrel” names for next week’s show!

Transcript

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[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

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[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?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm working.

[Amy]

Working that mouth. All

[Bank of America Announcer]

right.

[Amy]

He's matching today but it's. It's all very neutral. Trying to non bright clothes.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I have a shoot. I can't wear whatever I want today.

[Amy]

I thought they were going to dress you anyway. Don't they usually?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They probably put a shirt on me but I'm gonna try to stay in this one if they'll let me.

[Amy]

Oh really? Yeah. You're just gonna like. I'M doing a new me today.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I. I'm gonna. Just a suggestion.

[Amy]

Whatever I want.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, that I would have wore whatever I wanted. It wouldn't be this.

[Amy]

What would it be?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You know, what I wear, like T shirts.

[Amy]

What would your first choice have been? Gray sweatpants.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Just a T shirt. Different shirt.

[Amy]

Just a T shirt. Hell, yeah. Why didn't we rock that look?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Just a T shirt. I would change my T shirt only. And my shoes.

[Amy]

And your shoes.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

These pants are fine.

[Amy]

So we're happy with our pants.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What's up?

[Amy]

Well, you look nice.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, thanks.

[Amy]

Okay. Welcome to Bless yous Heart. Dale and I are in the Dirty Mo Media Studios for another round of our favorite podcast.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That was a great.

[Amy]

Was it Intro.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, we chopped it up a little bit. And then you just rolled right into it.

[Amy]

You're trying to give Travis more work.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, no. Like, less work. Yeah. That's like how he'll start. The show was just sitting there. Bull. And you went right into the intro.

[Amy]

Let's get started.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Perfect.

[Amy]

The girls are at golf camp this week. They've had their first golf experience, and they didn't ask to sign up for golf. But I'm not good usually at doing summer activities because we're kind of traveling here and there. But I heard about golf camp in Mooresville, so I signed them up. And they've never played golf before in their life. And they have their little friend Stella going with them. So first day I take them. It's beautiful weather. They have their cute little outfits on. The best part about it is outfits. Their outfits. Because for them too, like, they love getting in their little skirts and their collared shirts and they have their visors.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And the whole thing, five years, is standing in the mirror, like, just really,

[Amy]

really feeling herself and looking at her, her little.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

She's like, hey, dad, this is called a visor.

[Amy]

Yeah. She's like, isn't it weird there's no top on it?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Weird. Doesn't have a top on it. Hat. It's a visor.

[Amy]

Yeah. She's all about the outfit. She doesn't even care what she's doing, but she's happy about her outfit. So that's crazy. Yeah. But they showed up the first day and some of the kids had their own clubs, and they were the only girls also in their group. It was a bunch of boys of all ages and then these three little girls and they're pink with their cute little stuff on, and they just definitely stuck out. But we pull up and kind of get settled in and Stella, she's like, panicking because they don't have their clubs. And she's like, we don't have sticks. We don't have any sticks. What are we gonna do? I was like, they have golf clubs for you. You don't have to be, you know, have to carry your clubs around. I was like, also, and if you got your own clubs, you got to carry them all the way up there, so let's just use theirs. And she's like, oh, okay. So they have a good time. I pick them up. And they decided it's like their favorite sport. They had a great all time. So I don't know what they did at golf camp, to be honest, because I can't really get it out of them. Every time they try to describe it too, it's like, yeah, you know, we hit the ball, we hit two balls at the same time, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, you hit two balls at the same time. How'd you do that? She goes, well, it was an accident. We were supposed to hit one, and one went this way and one went the other way. But I think. I don't know. I don't really know what it looks like because they're doing the driving range on the other end of the golf course. You can't really see them when you go pick them up, but they're having fun.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, no, thanks. Good.

[Travis]

How long is it?

[Amy]

It's just an hour and a half. It's like basically like a golf lesson would be.

[Travis]

Okay.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So they're. One thing we do know is they play tic tac toe with chipping. So they stand here and chip to a big tic tac toe board to play tic tac toe. So that did. That is one thing we did learn.

[Amy]

We learned that, and then this might even be the same game, but if they get it in a certain box or a certain square, they get a colored ball to play with, and none of them have gotten one. So apparently they're not very good. They were using the driver yesterday, and Isla said it was really hard.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. This is a big deal, because I've tried to find a way to get them into something that has a scoreboard.

[Amy]

Yeah. So this is anything that's not just girly.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I love it. Because they can play their entire life. They learn how to play, and they all seem to like it. So we need to get them in some lessons. But I was kind of thinking, too, maybe we get ourselves some lessons so that we can play play with them. Why is that bothering you? Like the idea of having to have a golf lesson with a pro.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't mind getting a golf lesson. They got a long way to go before they're going to play around of golf.

[Amy]

I know, but here's the thing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So I ain't going to be golfing with your five year old.

[Amy]

No. But we could golf while they're taking a lesson. I saw. I saw some parents doing that. They had their kids signed up with a private lesson. One of the little girls that Isla goes to school with was there, I mean, yesterday, and her parents were like, doing their own thing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Me and you can golf.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

You could also just like go to the driving range with them or you go to like, topgolf.

[Amy]

Yeah, we could do all of those things. It would just open up.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Still going. Is it top golf still around?

[Amy]

Well, that guy did run through it, but I think they fixed it.

[Travis]

Yeah, I think it's still.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I thought the co. I thought the business model tanked and now he's looking it up.

[Amy]

I don't think so.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

All right.

[Amy]

Ours here is still open. All right. Right?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

There it is.

[Amy]

Yeah. It's still a thing. Yes, it's absolutely still a thing is what AI says.

[Travis]

Here's another thing. Maybe get the golf sim out the house.

[Amy]

That was. That was going to be my next point. Travis, thank you for bringing that up. We can knock the dust off the golf simulator and really get that thing going again.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Okay.

[Amy]

And then I feel like.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I mean, it would be fun games too.

[Amy]

Listen, why do we have to take it?

[Travis]

No, no, no. For the girls who play tic tac toe or whatever within.

[Amy]

Oh, I thought you meant, like, just like different types of games, not golf. Like you could do different digital games

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

like you chip tic tac toe or something.

[Amy]

Oh, perfect. Well, let's get that going. I feel like we're there and this golf camp was like the perfect test for golf in general, but definitely the golf sim because you can do that at home. You don't have to go anywhere. And you could have your pro come teach you in the house if you were worried about.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It would be funner to do it on a course.

[Amy]

Okay, I do too, but I'm gonna task us now with doing that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Okay.

[Amy]

Getting a golf lesson.

[Travis]

So golf clubs for the girls. Is that the next step?

[Amy]

I feel like we have one little set for Isla. We did. We got them forever ago when she was small to play at the golf simulator. Oh, they're not metal.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't think so.

[Amy]

Yeah. Golf clubs.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. We're gonna do some real deals. If they're, you know, genuinely gonna F

[Amy]

this, I think that you just give them three. You give them a driver, one iron, and a putter.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Sure.

[Amy]

Like, that's it for a kid.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

I feel like for a kid, like, they're not. They don't need a sand wedge and a pitching wedge.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Like, they're just fun.

[Amy]

All they're gonna care about, too, is whatever cushion, fun cover they get to put on their driver. You know how it's gonna go.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Sure.

[Amy]

But they'll have fun with that. He's not convinced I'm good.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

God, what do I need to do?

[Amy]

I don't know. You just don't seem enthused. And I thought for sure with your outfit, like, golf was at the top of mind or something.

[Travis]

His outfit.

[Amy]

Collared shirt on today.

[Travis]

That's not a golf shirt, though.

[Amy]

I mean, it's as golf shirt as

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

he's got, but I've got real golf clothes.

[Amy]

You do?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Are they hiding back there with your biking clothes?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They're just. I have them.

[Amy]

Okay. But damn, I feel like he's got costumes or something I don't know about.

[Travis]

Amy thinks we're dressed for golf. And it's like, have a quarter. Zipping. You got a polo on. That's not.

[Amy]

Do you see him walking around with a polo on ever?

[Travis]

I saw him on Tuesday with the polo.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Two days in a row.

[Amy]

Not your JRM stuff that you have to wear to the racetrack. That doesn't count.

[Travis]

It's still a polo. I wore a golf shirt.

[Amy]

It is like a golf shirt.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I did two days in a row of polos. It's rare. Probably. It is rare since I've done that.

[Amy]

Are you okay? You're so happy, but you're not saying a whole lot. I'm trying to have a. I'm having a hard time landing on my homies. Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Makes me uncomfortable.

[Travis]

What other sports have you tried to get the girls into?

[Amy]

We really tried heavily to talk them both into soccer. They were like, absolutely not. That's not for me.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You know where my mood is.

[Amy]

A lot of their friends play softball and things like that too, and they're, like, not interested at all.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

My mood is they don't want to

[Amy]

be a part of a team.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Me being. Us being in our sweatpants, laying on the couch.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes.

[Amy]

I couldn't hardly get him off that damn couch yesterday as he comes home for two seconds, there's like, middle of the day. I had sat on the couch also for some Peace and quiet. I didn't even have the TV going. I was eating some lunch. Sunny comes in, the water's off. So now, like, water wasn't working. The fish tank guy had just shown up. I'm like, all right, guys, we can't do anything with the water. He was about to start pumping the water out. It's a whole moment of peace just, like, turned to. And the issue was easily fixable with the water. But anyway, I derailed any piece. And then as soon as I get up and we fix all the water and everything is working again, Dale comes in, and he wants to take a nap. He just points to the couch and grunts at me. He's like. And he used to do this to me when we were in the bus when we first started dating. He wouldn't say anything. He'd just come in, and he'd point to the couch like, caveman sigh. Get over here, woman. And it wasn't because he wanted anything other than me to lay down so he could use me as a pillow.

[Travis]

Yeah, it's the best.

[Amy]

So it took me a minute to figure this out. Cause it became a pattern.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What's the big deal?

[Amy]

And so I'm like, okay, wait. If we're gonna do this, I'm gonna go to the bathroom, I'm gonna get a. Some snackies and a glass of wine or something so that at least I'm entertained. Because the other thing he would do, too, is put something on the TV that you really didn't want to watch, and then, like, put the remote just far enough out of reach. Yeah. So anyway, he tried to pull that yesterday. I was like, I don't think so, man. And Sonny walks in, too, again, to talk about the water. And he sees Dale doing this, and he goes, hey, man, I don't need to be here for this. I'm like, no, no. He just wants me to be his pillow. Yeah, but that flew out the coop pretty fast because the kids came right in, too, after that, so. But he finally got me yesterday afternoon.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

My sleep is all messed up.

[Amy]

Yeah, I know. I've noticed. You went down to take Gus out last night and never came back.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I was so damn tired. I knew if I walk back up the stairs, it's going to wake me up.

[Amy]

Why don't you just.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So I just went right to the couch to continue sleeping.

[Amy]

Is that what you did?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Because I can get him. I can get up, get him downstairs, get him outside, and then get to the couch without actually waking up.

[Amy]

Really?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. Like, I cannot. I Can be like, half asleep and not come all the way out of my.

[Amy]

Do you just have your eyes shut in the elevator? Because the thing about the dog is he's old and he doesn't go down the stairs at all. So we have to take him down through the elevator to get out. And the lights in that thing are bright. And so. Yeah, I usually when I take him down, I do it with my eyes

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

shut without really getting all the way awake.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I hit the couch and went right back to sleep.

[Amy]

I don't have a problem falling back asleep. I just.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And the guest runs over and jumps on the couch.

[Amy]

Yeah. And does that help? Now you're symbiotico. You're hanging me and my buddy.

[Travis]

Just two boys hanging out my buddy.

[Amy]

Okay. Well. Yeah. Well, I.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I've gotten in this little loop in the past couple of days. I don't. I think it was. You know what it was?

[Travis]

This is come back from Nashville.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yep. The Nashville race. We got done. We got home at 3:45.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah. That kind of threw you off.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I've been sleeping five hours at night and about one hour in the afternoon for the last several days. I can't break it.

[Travis]

Last night was the first night that I had good sleep because I got back Monday at 4:30 in the morning. And so I've just been off too, like. It's just.

[Amy]

You ripped pretty hard in Nashville.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

All the games and everything y' all played were pretty fun to watch. I don't, like, know the whole gist about all of the. The, like, was it Beer Olympics? What were you guys doing at the racetrack?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Huh?

[Travis]

I didn't do any.

[Amy]

Wait, what? Yes, you did. I saw some squats.

[Travis]

Oh, no, that was the. That was. That was a navy thing at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

[Amy]

Oh, that wasn't in Nashville.

[Travis]

No.

[Amy]

Oh, man. I do live under a rock. Sorry. I thought that was in Nashville.

[Travis]

I could see why you.

[Amy]

The clips came out this week.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Travis]

Nashville was just for play.

[Amy]

Is that the first time you've ever done squats?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No,

[Travis]

this competition, I was just trying to get him done fast.

[Amy]

I could tell squats fast is a really funny thing. I don't care who you are.

[Travis]

Yeah, no, it looks funny.

[Amy]

That's just ridiculous. I was like, go. Look at him go. Did you win?

[Travis]

We won, though.

[Amy]

Sweet.

[Travis]

We beat Freddie and Dalton.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So Denny won Nashville. They had some bet with Reddick, and now Denny Bros. Is on. Denny Bros. Denny Bros. So when. So is that part of their long. Nope. Long story short, we give him a hard Time about his friendship with Denny. And so me and TJ Started calling him. Mainly me. Started calling him Denny Bros. Oh, hell.

[Amy]

Gave him a team name.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Here's the old Denny Bros. Are excited today.

[Amy]

What does Denny think about this?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Loves it.

[Travis]

Our group, Texas, called the Denny Bros. Oh, my God.

[Amy]

Denny's, like, finally somebody did it for me. Now I don't have to do it myself and be that guy.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Bet with Reddick that if Denny beat him at Nashville, that they would put Denny Bros. On the roof of Reddick's car.

[Amy]

I saw that after name rail.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So that's.

[Amy]

The font is very like Mario.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm surprised that Mr. Hamlin doesn't have this registered.

[Amy]

Well, he might be working on it.

[Travis]

He needs to. But, yeah. So they originally said Steve Valletta said, we'll put your name on it. I was like, I don't mind. That's not funny.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Like, this could be his. You know, instead of, like, everybody having, like, nation. Like Hamlin Nation.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

This Junior Nation. Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Danny Bros is his.

[Amy]

It's way more fun to say, especially

[Travis]

the way Dale says it.

[Amy]

Then he.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, he needs the damn trademark.

[Travis]

He does.

[Amy]

Well, if he needs a jingle, too, we need Dale to do that as well. But then he rose.

[Travis]

But yeah. So, like, now I, like, I want Denny to win this weekend, but Reddick winning would be cool because then the. The Lionel Win Diecast.

[Jerome Davis]

Oh.

[Amy]

Will have the Denny Bro on it.

[Travis]

Yes. Because they take pictures of the car.

[Amy]

Wow. They don't leave anything out. Not even.

[Travis]

It's where. Yeah, it's the passenger. Where the. Reddick's name is on the passenger side now.

[Amy]

Okay. Yeah. I mean, that's a reason to root for him. That's pretty funny.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

But I do agree. Do I need to, like, go with that? It's pretty funny.

[Travis]

Yep.

[Amy]

I mean, it's not a posse.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. We had the dmp. The Dirty Mo. Posse.

[Amy]

Yeah. I've always thought that was so funny. Like, especially landing on posse. The word posse say it over and over again. It, like, loses its. It's one of those words that, like, loses its meaning.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Okay.

[Amy]

You know what I mean?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, I didn't choose it. It just happened. Posse chose us.

[Amy]

Posse. Posse. Posse.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Kenny bro.

[Amy]

It's not. I mean, it is what it is.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It is fine.

[Amy]

It's fine. It's fine.

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[Amy]

Are you excited about Pocono this weekend? Next weekend? Taking the kids to Pocono next weekend. This weekend you're going where?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

This weekend we go to Michigan.

[Amy]

That's right.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Jerry's Pub.

[Amy]

Yeah. Every time I get to the calendar to see what day he's leaving, I usually just check to see when he's flying out. There's always like a pub visit on Friday night. I'm like, so you're pub crawling? It's like your summer pub crawl.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's a bar on the side of a lake. Every weekend with Amazon, they have a dinner and that's where the dinner is.

[Amy]

Yeah, I'm just Jealous.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I want you to go.

[Amy]

I got dance recital this weekend. Oh, tiny girls have their Ballet Ballalet recital on Saturday.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes.

[Amy]

So Dad's name.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I would call that Ballale.

[Amy]

Ballalet.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I wear my Ballale shoes.

[Amy]

Yeah. She knows it's wrong and just keeps going with it, too now. Yeah, she's old enough to know better.

[Travis]

How many dances do they have?

[Amy]

Isla has two and Nicole just has one. She just has a. I think it's ballet. Isla does tap and jazz.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm gonna miss them.

[Amy]

Yeah, you're gonna miss seeing that. So, since Dad's not gonna be there, I have a fleet of girls coming. I think I have, like, 12 time. It's 12 to 1 on Saturday.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, Saturday.

[Amy]

Yeah. No, it's not bad. Last year, I think you were in Nashville. Is that right? And you just flew out late and went. You stayed for it. But, yeah, this year doesn't really work out that way. You can't do that. But yeah. So Ballilet is Saturday. That's why we're not going to Michigan. Not, you know, or the beach or anywhere else. I'll send you videos.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They have.

[Amy]

You know what you should do, though, is have flowers to send with me for them. You know how, like, you go to a show and you give the kids flowers?

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Okay. Put that in my notes.

[Amy]

Yeah. Or maybe just write them a letter or something. Like, knock them dead.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Which is it?

[Amy]

I don't know.

[Travis]

A letter in the flowers.

[Amy]

In the flowers. Yeah. Maybe we could get some of those.

[Travis]

Don't say break a lake, because they won't get the.

[Amy]

They won't get it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Adam Alexander text me just now that. About how funny it is. All the. He says, I'm following all. I'm monitoring all of the things that are going in the Tahoe for Wendell Jr's ride. So if you go to the Dale junior Foundation on Instagram, you can see these little clips of me and Amy filling up the back of this Tahoe with all the. We want to put in it. And it's just stuff we f. With, you know, what's some.

[Travis]

What's some of the latest.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, like, one's like the tiniest Bluetooth speaker I could find.

[Amy]

It's the size of a quarter.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It was like this big. But it's perfect.

[Amy]

It's. It's got great sound. We had. He bought about 20 of them. So the funny part about that is he bought them in bulk because he knew he was going to want to gift them to friends and things. So he. He has New ones ready to, like, give out the clips. He always talks about what he pulls out of his closet. And so I think that people are going to misconstrue that it's used, but it is this cute, tiny little. It looks like a little pillow, almost

[Travis]

like it's probably perfect for traveling.

[Amy]

And, yeah, you can throw it in any backpack.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yep.

[Amy]

It charges up super fast, too, because it's so small.

[Travis]

Well, what else has gone in it?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, you have to go to the Instagram to take a look.

[Amy]

We can't remember, Travis.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We're old.

[Amy]

My favorite thing that's in there. There's two favorite things besides all of the high rock and other fun beverages we suck in. There is you get this gigantic wagon that I found at Costco. It's called the Gorilla, and it's huge, and it's heavy duty, but it's also a dump truck. So if you've got, like, any type of outdoor yard work or any type of activity outside where you need something like that. It is Adam. It is the wagon.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Adam said it's outstanding.

[Amy]

It's outstanding.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Because I give him about saying the word outstanding all the time. He says outstanding all the time.

[Amy]

Does he?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

It's like Steve's. What is it that Steve says to your point?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

To your point?

[Amy]

To your point?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yep. My favorite thing that we put in the back of the Tahoe are all of the custom patch hats that I've had made over the last couple of years.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So I'll get, like, a patch made, and I'll do 20 hats, and then I take them home, and I don't give them out to anybody. I would, but I, like, keep them. And they're, like, piling up in my closet, and I'm like, man, I really need to share these.

[Amy]

It's a good way to share them without having to.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So there's all these hats that I've had custom patches made of, like, Junior Motorsports jerky boys. All these fun.

[Amy]

There's some Dale Earnhardt hats in there.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And so I put a big sleeve of them together. I think whoever would win the Tahoe will love the patch hats. Yep.

[Amy]

Pat chats.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Are you excited about Pocono next week, though?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So Pocono weekend's awesome. The kids were going to Hershey Park. We went last year. And Isla made me so proud. She got on the. The big coasters.

[Amy]

It was her first time riding roller coasters ever.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And she was. She made me so. She made me so proud doing it.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And then Nicole watched her do it. And wasn't big enough this year. So Nicole has talked about it all year, every single. Am I gonna be big enough?

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Am I gonna be big enough? So we're going back and apparently she's tall enough.

[Amy]

I have Googled it. I mean, we keep one of the standard, like, kid ruler things in their rooms and measure them and write the dates. And she is technically tall enough now to ride all the things Isla was tall enough to ride last year. Isla's probably tall enough to ride anything now. Really close, anyway. But she is so excited. There's one called the Super Duper Looper, and it was made in the 70s, and it's just got a couple of really simple loops in it. And she couldn't ride that last year, and it broke her heart. All she wanted to do was go upside down.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, we're doing it.

[Amy]

And so this year she gets to go do it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And Hershey park is awesome.

[Amy]

It is a great park. There's a lot of rides, right?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Chocolate, you know, because it's Hershey. The only thing is, is I don't wanna. I hope we don't have to go through the chocolate bar line again.

[Amy]

You're gonna not gonna get out of that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Damn it.

[Travis]

That sucks. What made you think we're gonna go

[Amy]

to Hershey park but we're not making chocolate bars this year? Why would we do that?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It just sucked. It was like a long, slow ass line and this basic ass chocolate bar.

[Jerome Davis]

What?

[Amy]

All right, so Grandpa Grump is gonna sit in the car.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Hey, man, the Hershey clan Hershey crew is coming after me, man.

[Amy]

I feel offended myself. I can't even believe you said that. You can sit in the car.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, look, I like chocolate. I like Hershey chocolate. I can buy the freaking candy bar right off the shelf standing in that line and Because. Have you done it before?

[Travis]

No, but it sounds like I'm never gonna do it.

[Amy]

So you walk up, don't listen to anything he says.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You walk, you go up to this little kiosk, and you punch in the candy bar you want to make. And it's pretty neat. You got a lot of different selections and stuff.

[Amy]

Tell them what the selections are, Ralph.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What are they? I don't remember.

[Amy]

So you get to make your own personalized candy bar. Your name's on it. You get to pick your labels. It comes in a really nice tin, but there's fillings that you can put in, and there's like six or seven options. So you can get nothing and just have this giant chocolate bar. Or you can fill it with heath or sprinkles or Rice Krispies or all kinds of. And so you can pick all of them if you want.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You put on. You put on a little outfit.

[Amy]

You have your.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You put on a little hair net.

[Amy]

You put on a little face mask and a coat. Every coated. Yeah, yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You're doing all this.

[Amy]

It's awful because it's like a clean space. You don't want hair.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Everyone, all the other, you know, Hershey park tourists are there just like you. And you're all in this little line. And everybody is. The bar goes through the machine. The machine is probably.

[Amy]

It's like 40 to 50ft long.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, let's say it's 50ft long. The bar goes like super slow.

[Amy]

What's killing him is it's the speed of the whole thing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

The bar is going like barely moving. And there. There are some people can't find their bar and they're moving back and forth among the lines.

[Amy]

That's not true. Now you're just making things up.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, I'm not.

[Amy]

Your name is on the tv. It tells you what section your in. It tells you exactly when your bar is doing the things. That's why people are going. So they get to watch it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

The bar goes in these little machines and there's a couple little peepholes. You can see your bar cross when

[Amy]

they're covering it with the chocolate or putting the specific things or the people.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

The people stand at the end of the machine waiting on their bar to come out.

[Amy]

Yeah, you don't get to come out.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Wait and wait and wait.

[Amy]

You're uninvited.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Wait and wait. And you're waiting behind them. You're waiting behind their ass. Waiting, waiting, waiting. It just takes forever.

[Amy]

The whole point is watching the process be done. It's fun for little kids. Clearly he has done it before. And we don't need to go back.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We brought it.

[Amy]

Bill can sit in the car or he can go shop in the big store. Because last year after we went through the chocolate bar situation, there's one little ride you can do. And it's great, really. Like old school. Like probably original to the space. So it's fun to see. But clearly you don't need to go do that anymore either.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Home didn't eat them. They laid in the damn fridge.

[Amy]

They didn't eat them because we wouldn't let the kids eat them. They were gonna eat the whole thing at once, but now they're older. The only person that doesn't have control with chocolate, besides Dale Is Nicole Isla. She'll eat a couple bites and be fine.

[Travis]

But I don't get what's. You're not doing anything physically to make the chocolate yourself.

[Amy]

There's too many people. You can go to different chocolate shops and physically just go to the kiosk.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Beep bop, boop boop.

[Travis]

Why can't I just hit the enter

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

button and you just follow this son of a. On the tram. Yeah.

[Travis]

I'm with dale on this one. I could just walk through the checkout line at a gas station or grocery store and pick up a chocolate.

[Amy]

Well, there's a giant market with all the chocolate there. Also, Dale spent more time buying bags and bags of. He then threw away.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It is a candy store the size of junior motor stores.

[Amy]

It is. It's huge.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Awesome.

[Amy]

And everything you can imagine.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Imagine that is entertaining.

[Amy]

So that's what he will do. While we're making chocolate bars, you can get the grocery shopping done and we'll go make chocolate bars.

[Travis]

I'd be with dale on this one.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I went into the.

[Amy]

I think he would enjoy doing it at least once. It was. Just took so long because there were so many people.

[Travis]

Yeah. I don't want to wait and stay. No.

[Amy]

It was going to start to rain. So here's the thing. There were rain clouds coming. Everybody went to do that at the same time. And that's why it took so long. Dale doesn't get to go. No. You are being punished. That was so rude.

[Travis]

Do they at least have a bar there?

[Amy]

Who talks about willy wonka or hershey?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Willy wonka's awesome.

[Amy]

With such disdain.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I just don't enjoy the candy bar making thing.

[Amy]

Got it. What if we start with that this year?

[Travis]

Start the trip off with a bang. Standing in line.

[Amy]

There won't be anybody in line. Everybody's just going to be riding.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I would go do it if there's not a, you know, not a massive rush to it. But I thought that was probably the most popular. Everybody. It's that thing that everybody's like, well, we can't go and not do that because that's the thing that's like the finale. The. That you're making the candy bar. You're at hershey park. You're at a. That's their thing is candy bars. So you're making your own. It's like the finale of the trip. And so I assumed that it would always. It's always going to be this sort of hustle, bustly, busy space.

[Amy]

It might be. But, you know, we do have a guide helping Us, so we could probably plan it out better. We also went right when everybody was trying to get out of the rain.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We go into the Junior Motorsports size candy store. We buy all the candy canes, ridiculous amounts, because you're looking at it and you're like, oh, gotta have some of that.

[Amy]

They also have flavors of things that they don't have in every other store.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I haven't seen these in years, man. I haven't had this in forever. And you come out of there and boy, you. Everybody, everybody. Sacks of freaking candy.

[Amy]

A grocery cart full of.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Take it home.

[Amy]

And we're like, what did we just do?

[Travis]

Bring it in next week.

[Amy]

We should have shared it. We should have. We didn't even bring it home from the Pocono house. Like, we put it all in the freezer to hide it from the kids and left it in there.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, you didn't. I brought it back.

[Amy]

You did?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes.

[Amy]

Have you been eating on it secretly?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, it's gone. Gone.

[Amy]

I mean, that was a year ago.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I know I ate on it a little bit, but then I realized I needed to get rid of it.

[Amy]

Okay. He hoarded the.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You wanna leave candy in the rental house?

[Amy]

Well, I would have. I thought that's what I live in.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

A bam. Two pound bag of chocolate Hershey Kisses in the Airbnb.

[Amy]

Oh, my God.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Who does that?

[Amy]

The same. I figured the same guy that didn't want to make the chocolate to begin with.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We go do the Airbnb. Amy's the kind of person who's like, we got to clean out all the refrigerator.

[Amy]

We got it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They can't leave that.

[Amy]

They tell you to do that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Leave it in there for the next person. Just water?

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I don't take out the water. Ralph. God, he's so dramatic.

[Travis]

But there's.

[Amy]

There's you. He will make some up.

[Travis]

Cleaners come through and you. You don't. You can leave the.

[Amy]

There's usually like a list of things they want you to do.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You can leave that cheese in there. Yeah.

[Amy]

No, I would never eat anybody else's cheese.

[Travis]

Here's some eggs.

[Amy]

Sorry. There's a couple things I might touch, but cheese ain't one of them.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That's your favorite thing.

[Amy]

Would you.

[Travis]

What if there's some cheddar cheese in there?

[Amy]

Oh, fresh bananas.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Showed up to an Airbnb and there was food in there. I'd throw it out, but I wouldn't hate the person that left it. I wouldn't be. I'd be like, yeah, I get it.

[Travis]

There's an Unopened bag of chips. I'm gonna open those puppies up and eat them.

[Amy]

Unopened? Yes. Chips maybe.

[Travis]

What about unopened cheese? Unopened cheese?

[Amy]

What kind of cheese is it?

[Travis]

Cheddar cheese?

[Amy]

Nacho cheese? Like we're not eating somebody else's cheese. Sorry. Gross now. I don't even like cheese. Cheese is gross now. Cheese and posse are in the same little pocket together. You can sit over here in the corner.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh my gosh.

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[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

My community gives me the confidence to

[Amy]

ask myself, what would you like the power to do? So every time I'm on the pitch, I play for more than myself.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, what a tackle from Naomi Girma.

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[Amy]

I got you a surprise. Can I give him a surprise?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Am I ready for this?

[Travis]

Sure, sure, sure.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What are you getting me surprises for?

[Amy]

Well, I thought about you when I saw this. So I really wanted you to have it. Come on, get in there. It won't bite.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It looks like it did.

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[Amy]

Wait. Be careful with her. Her?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

This is some sort of an animal.

[Travis]

A suspense. Put the mic in front of you.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Is this a squirrel?

[Amy]

Put your microphone next to you.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

This looks like a squirrel.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's a squirrel.

[Travis]

What?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

On a pole?

[Amy]

There's tape on the top. Don't break her. She's your new best friend.

[Travis]

Amy.

[Amy]

What? How cute is that?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What is this?

[Amy]

I saw that and I thought Dale needs to have that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Why?

[Amy]

It's. It's like. It could be. It could be like your new Wilson. You could sit and chit chat with it. It chit chat would chat back is

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

going on with you?

[Amy]

I really thought she was cute.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What is the.

[Amy]

Doesn't it look?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't understand.

[Amy]

Listen. You're Wanda decade.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Where did you see this?

[Amy]

I saw it online. I actually really bought this for our neighbor Margo because they were Moving. And she's from West Virginia, and she sent me this forever ago. And she's like, look at this little critter. I'm like. And they were sold out, so they had a new drop, and I bought one immediately. And I was like, dale needs to have this. We can put it in the bar. You can hang out with it when nobody else is there. You can talk to it.

[Travis]

We need a name for the squirrel.

[Amy]

That's what I was thinking. We need a name. She needs a name.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Damn.

[Amy]

I mean, her technique is pretty damn good.

[Travis]

Now I know where your question that you text me comes from.

[Amy]

I told Travis to be thinking of his favorite stripper names. Do you have any that come to mind? He's terrified.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, my gosh.

[Amy]

We could call her Destiny. We could call her. She's from Missouri, by the way. So that's the thing. You get on the. You get on Black Moth, and they have a few of these. And all the squirrels come from different states. So she's from Missouri. I felt like she was the cutest she.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

When she was alive.

[Amy]

When she was alive.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Missouri.

[Amy]

Yeah. Yeah, she was alive. She was in Missouri.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That's.

[Amy]

Is it Missouri or Missoura? Doesn't matter.

[Travis]

It's pronounced Missouri.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Are you okay?

[Amy]

Listen, I'm having a great day.

[Travis]

Is this a call for help?

[Amy]

I haven't even had a cocktail yet. No, this isn't a call for help. I'm so excited about this little critter. She needs a little fluff on her back. She's a little.

[Travis]

Maybe we can put her on the set of djd.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No.

[Amy]

Why not?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We'll put her on this set.

[Amy]

Don't you want to take her to the beach house?

[Travis]

Put her next to the boob vase?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Why do you want to take her to the beach house?

[Amy]

I figured she could sit in the bar and you could like. It's like a bar.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No. This is scary. It's gonna just come alive any minute.

[Amy]

It is a really good, really great squirrel. Yeah. Very well put together. Yeah. So we need a name. She's soft.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Wasn't there squirrel on doorboard clear this week?

[Amy]

Was there?

[Travis]

I think called in because of Cletus

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

being on, but I thought I saw some squirrel emoji. Maybe it was in the artwork or something. I think in the thumbnail.

[Travis]

I don't know. I wasn't on that show, but I think Squirrel did call in or something.

[Amy]

A guy named.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm gonna put it for the time being on top of the.

[Amy]

No, leave it right there.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't like it so close.

[Amy]

Why?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Because it's creepy.

[Amy]

You have dead animals in the house. What do you mean?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

On walls. I'm not like, sitting next to them.

[Amy]

We stare at them all day.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I know, but I'm not next to the deer head.

[Amy]

Well, you were when you killed it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, I wasn't.

[Amy]

Bull.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Why take a picture with it?

[Amy]

That elk you drugged down the mountain, like you've. You've been around.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I carried that down the mountain.

[Amy]

I know it's just a squirrel.

[Travis]

Amy, here's what you do.

[Amy]

Now that I know he's scared of it, I'm gonna tote that around everywhere.

[Travis]

And when you get out of bed early before him one morning, put the squirrel in your squirrel just staring at him.

[Amy]

Just sit on my pillow.

[Travis]

Yes.

[Amy]

I'm gonna put it in his rig. It's gonna be racing his car.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Did you see that Instagram reel I put on my story? Oh, man, so good.

[Amy]

Well, what is it? Don't hold out.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm surprised you didn't see. You don't never look at my Instagram.

[Amy]

I know you try to tell me that I'm on my phone all the time, but I don't ever see Always

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

on Instagram, but you don't ever look at my stuff. You're looking at somebody. You're always looking at everybody else.

[Travis]

My Simrig one.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. So good.

[Amy]

What? Is it it?

[Travis]

Are you gonna watch it if your wife is.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, you gotta play it.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, I've seen this, but it's a girl's talking about buying a handbag. Yeah, if you. If you buy the Chanel bag. If he's angry at you already, he's still gonna be angry if you buy the bag. Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Okay. You had that rig before I even got came around, so I feel like that doesn't even apply.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I got my rig in 2020. Honey, you've had. Didn't have one raced on the disc.

[Amy]

Well, whatever. It's kind of the same thing.

[Travis]

Tomato, tomato.

[Amy]

Yeah. What?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Racing at a desk is not a rig.

[Amy]

It's racing. It's just.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, I understand.

[Amy]

I ain't mad at the rig.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I know it was just funny.

[Amy]

But the squirrel's gonna sit in it, show his like you. What's wrong with him?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's so strange.

[Amy]

Her feelings are hurt.

[Travis]

Mercedes is upset with you.

[Amy]

Mercedes. Mercedes. That's too fancy for Missouri. What?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Nothing.

[Amy]

He does not know who he married right now. He's like, what the hell happened to my wife? Listen, I can't believe you don't like it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You can't believe it. Really?

[Amy]

Do you not have a sense of humor? This is supposed to be fun.

[Travis]

It is funny.

[Amy]

She's trying to give you a hug. She's, like, got a little hand.

[Travis]

You should turn her so she's heard

[Amy]

you like, physical touch.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, man.

[Amy]

Hey, girl.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Hey. Stop it.

[Amy]

Too bad she doesn't slide up and down. That'd be fun. They should make it where it spins. Black moth. Are you listening? Spin. We want a spinning squirrel. Well, we could call her Blanche.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Okay, Blanche.

[Amy]

I don't know. She's got lots of fur.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Like one of the, like, golden girls.

[Amy]

Thank you for being a friend. See, Maybe I should just talk to her. She could be my new best friend.

[Travis]

She'll listen to you.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

All right.

[Amy]

Do we have a game?

[Travis]

Should we do the drink first?

[Amy]

Oh, we should do the drink. Yes. Our drink of the week, presented by. Hi Rock. What is our drinker of the week? What is it called today? The Cherry Vodka Sour. It's a cute little drink. Must be strong. Is it good?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Mmm,

[Amy]

yeah. Super tart.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, not bad.

[Amy]

Very good. So 2 ounces of high rock vodka, 1 ounce of lemon juice, 3 quarters of an ounce of simple syrup, a half an ounce of cherry syrup, and then you garnish it with cherries as well. So you can just pour that right in the glass. Delicious. Visit highrockvodka.com to find a bottle near you. They have a store locator that you can use to find any of the High Rock or sugar lens products. You must be 21 years or over. Please drink responsibly. Dirty Mo Media has a new show coming out called this Cowboy Life. It's featuring Jerome and Tiffany Davis, the royal couple of the pbr. You don't want to miss it. Check this out.

[Tiffany Davis]

Bring the energy.

[Amy]

Wake up.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I can tell that through all these

[Travis]

stories, through all your, you know, your

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

world championship, I know that in your head you've always said, I'm going to be a podcaster one day.

[Jerome Davis]

You know, I hope that at the end of the day that it'll bring some. Somebody that hasn't really been around this life that we live, and it brings them to a whole new world. And somebody will say, dang, maybe them cowboys ain't so bad after all.

[Tiffany Davis]

I think if you can bring some smiles. I love to hear Jerome's stories and just how he carries himself. So I'm all about if people can get a grin out of it, if they can smile a little bit.

[Travis]

What's it gonna be like, Jerome, to have Tiffany as a co host to a podcast.

[Jerome Davis]

Whoa, man.

[Tiffany Davis]

See this gift of gas I have? Maybe it'll come in a little handy on this deal.

[Jerome Davis]

If I keep Tiffany quiet every now and then so she'll let me talk, we'll be in good shape.

[Tiffany Davis]

The only bad thing is I'm going to have to hear your stories that I've heard a hundred million times. I'm going to have to hear them another time.

[Jerome Davis]

And they just get better every time.

[Tiffany Davis]

Yeah, they do get a little more added into them every time.

[Jerome Davis]

I don't know why she puts up with me and why she helps living this life that we go through, but she does, and she's. She's awesome.

[Amy]

It's March 14, 1998, from when they open the gate to when you get hit.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What do you remember from that?

[Jerome Davis]

The bull I had that night was knock him out John. And I'd been on him before, and he had hit me in the face in Vegas one time. So I knew that I had to really stay over the front end and try not to let him hit me in the face as it worked that night, he got me rocked back and hit me in the face and knocked me out. When he did, I dove in the ground, broke my neck. Went from being at the top of my game to the worst part of my life, you know, all happened within a gate opening at a bull riding.

[Tiffany Davis]

I was. I was mad at God because I was like, why did you do this. This to Jerome? He's a good guy. You needed him on your team out here.

[Jerome Davis]

We were supposed to be getting married in May. Right after I got hurt. I was at the hospital, and I told Tiff, I said, I don't think this is going to work. You need to. We need to regroup. This is not the trail you need to be going down. And if she would have left that day, I wouldn't have blamed her. You know what I mean? And I never would have said a bad word about her.

[Tiffany Davis]

I never gave thought about leaving. That wasn't an option because I still had Jerome.

[Jerome Davis]

I couldn't talk her into it, so I was kind of glad she hung around. I'll be honest. I lived through it, and it just made me tougher. And I was able to make a pretty good living at sport. It's been good to me. When I look around and see everything that's here today, it all comes from

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

the love of the.

[Jerome Davis]

I mean, everything I wanted to do had to do with being a cowboy.

[Tiffany Davis]

What is going on with the birds over there?

[Jerome Davis]

You Just messed this whole shot keep.

[Tiffany Davis]

I'm gonna redo it, but I could. The birds messed the whole shot up, not me. I thought we was getting ready to get attacked.

[Jerome Davis]

You're like that dog bit.

[Tiffany Davis]

I thought the birds was coming after us. There was so many of them.

[Jerome Davis]

Just stay focused. It's gonna really bring a new light to what this cowboy life's really about.

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[Travis]

I want to grow the game of

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

soccer and give every kid the chance to play.

[Travis]

What would you like the power to do?

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[Amy]

Hey y'.

[Bank of America Announcer]

All.

[Amy]

Dale and I are in the dirty my media studio for another round of Ask Amy. We're excited for your questions. What do you have?

[Travis]

So first question is if you are at the gas station and the pump says see cashier, what do you do?

[Amy]

See cashier means I'm getting frustrated before I've even done anything. Why do they do that? Like I go in, I pay, I see the cashier. Of course.

[Travis]

So you actually go in though.

[Amy]

But what's the. Yeah, I mean because I'm there because I need the gas. I'm not going to go to another station.

[Travis]

But you go to another pump.

[Amy]

No, I'd rather just walk in than move my car to be honest.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Wait, you think the pumps. You don't have to see the cashier.

[Travis]

Yeah. Or I'll try it again.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I just try to. Yeah, I just try to pump the gas anyways.

[Amy]

I always thought it was because sometimes they wanted you to prepay or. Or do whatever with your card before you actually pumped any gas.

[Travis]

I remember prepaying with cash but with credit.

[Amy]

Like that doesn't like a pre approval or something? Yeah, I don't know. It just depends on where you are. I've had that happen. It's usually that I'm not going to re.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I try to mash the reset button to start over.

[Travis]

Keep tapping or keep.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Or like do not move to the next pump.

[Amy]

No, I'm not going to move the car?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No.

[Travis]

Like, if it's a tap, I'd rather

[Amy]

go to a different gas station than just move my car in the same one out of spite. You know what I mean?

[Jerome Davis]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Like, if it's a tap, I'll then try to maybe insert the card and see if that'll work differently.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Like.

[Travis]

But I'm not moving now. Is it appropriate to leave your car at the pump and go in and get stuff?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah, sure. I mean, especially if it's not busy. If it's busy and somebody clearly is waiting to get gas and you've done your business, you should move.

[Travis]

I think you move.

[Amy]

I think you move, period. Really? I wouldn't move unless it was busy

[Travis]

because what happens if it gets busy?

[Amy]

I mean, how long are you in the damn store? What are you buying?

[Travis]

I'm just saying.

[Amy]

I mean, I'm sure it is most courteous to move your car, but what

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

are you buying in this drug? What are you buying in the gas station?

[Amy]

That's a good question. What are you buying?

[Travis]

Candy.

[Amy]

What kind?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What kind? Do you know what you want?

[Travis]

I like to peruse and see what they got. You never know.

[Amy]

That's why you're moving your car. He's perusing.

[Travis]

Because you never know what they're going to get.

[Amy]

I would like, have standards. I always get something to drink and then like M and Ms. Or pretzels or something. Keep it simple.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, Basic, basic trusted items.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Next question is, what is your favorite George Strait song?

[Amy]

Easy Come, Easy Go. I also like, really like the Fireman. Not one of his most popular.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Run.

[Amy]

Run.

[Travis]

Oh, that's a good one.

[Amy]

Across My Heart. It's another good one from Pure Country. I watched the hell out of that movie as a kid. Dusty.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, I also like.

[Amy]

I come to expect it from you.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Is that the name of the song?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That's a great song.

[Amy]

It's a great song. He's got so many good ones.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So, so many.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Wrapped is a good one. Wrapped around your finger.

[Amy]

Yes, that's a good one.

[Travis]

Have you seen the documentary on prime about Dean Dillon, who's the songwriter for basically all of George's stuff?

[Amy]

No. And Tim's been trying to tell us to watch that. He said it's really good.

[Travis]

Really good.

[Amy]

Yeah. No, I haven't watched it. We need to put that on our list. We tried to watch some really ridiculous show last night that popped up on my feed. Ever since we started watching all these random documentaries that we've been talking about. Now my phone's Giving me some even more weird ones. And it was about this. Models in Studio 54. I fell asleep for 10 minutes, and I couldn't. I couldn't.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. Amy's like, hey, Amy hits me up on Instagram and dm, and she goes, let's watch this. She's doing something in the house, and I'm doing. I'm messing with my cards or something. And she's like, let's watch this. I'm like, all right. She's like, let's put the kids to bed. So I get up, put the kids down, we go downstairs, sit down, we turn this thing on, and we're sitting there watching it for, like, 10 minutes. And I look over and Amy's like. Like, arm in the air, suspended.

[Amy]

I was out. Yeah, I was.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And I could tell she wouldn't. She wasn't watching because she was down into the pillows and the blanket and everything. Like, she couldn't even see the TV from her vantage point. I tried, and so I started tickling the palm of her hand. And she woke up. She was like. I was like.

[Amy]

I'm pretty sure I was drooling on myself. My mouth was open. It was bad. But this show was really bad. Too bad. I forget what it was. Something about. I don't remember. If you get an advertisement for something about Studio 54 and male models, don't watch it. It's really strange. It's a series, too. It's not just one episode.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's about a cult.

[Amy]

It's a cult. It's a cult thing. I couldn't really figure the cult part out, though. Like, what are they culting over? Yeah, I couldn't figure that out. It didn't have any real sense.

[Travis]

Are you someone that will give up on. If you don't like a show or a movie, will you instantly give up or you try to, like, see it through?

[Amy]

If it's a series, and I know people that around me have watched it and they say it's good, I'll try. Sometimes it takes an episode or two to get into a series like that. I'll try. But if it's a movie or even a show like that, nope, I'm off. I'm off. I'm either falling asleep or I just turn it off.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

This one was about. There was this guy that wanted to surround himself with beautiful people. And so it was female and male models. It was all types of people, and they were all in the scene of the fashion model scene. And they. He. He had this big building complex in New York City where there's a lot of rooms and apartments and stuff and. I don't know, they were a cult and there's not. We didn't finish it.

[Amy]

There wasn't anything frisky going on, though. There was no, like.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, no, there wasn't. I don't know. I mean, we didn't really finish it.

[Amy]

Well, I did. I did remember hearing him say that

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

there was no, like, at first there was no. Nothing. Nefarious.

[Amy]

Nefarious.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And then I'm assuming that it all went. Went sideways at some point, but we didn't get to that part.

[Amy]

No, we didn't. I definitely didn't.

[Travis]

But yeah, clearly, if Amy's falling asleep,

[Amy]

it's probably not snoozer.

[Travis]

Are you a quick fall asleep person, though?

[Amy]

On the couch? Yes. In the bed? No, I lay in the. I lay in bed, like, trying to think about all the things I'm supposed to be doing. Or I just play on my phone. I'm laying on the couch. And especially if I watch something that's new for whatever reason, it's really easy for me to zone out and fall asleep. I don't know.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Not in the bed.

[Travis]

That's why you're not supposed to get on your phone in your bed. Because.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's what they say.

[Travis]

Your body then thinks it's supposed to be awake.

[Amy]

That's.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't. I'm the opposite. If I go. If I go upstairs to get in bed, like, going up, the act of going upstairs, brushing my teeth and all that stuff, like, wakes me up. Like, I get into bed and if I open my phone, I don't care if I'm looking on at ebay or Instagram or reading anything. Like, it makes me super tired.

[Amy]

It's the reading part. Yeah, but the light is supposed to, like.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, I turned my light on my phone down to zero because I'm trying not to bother her. So I turn my sound off and my. My screen brightness is low as possible.

[Travis]

You need to get, like, those covers that, like, prevent people from seeing your phone.

[Amy]

A shade screen? No, that would cause problems. We're not doing a shade screen.

[Travis]

But then you wouldn't worry about the brightness.

[Amy]

No. Wouldn't you think something was up if I put a shade screen on my phone?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, I would actually, like, be. So I could be.

[Amy]

You would be curious as to what I was looking at, even though if I wasn't.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm really curious as to what you're looking at. I know you're blind as a. I can't even see what you're looking at now, shade screen or not. Like, dude, if I don't have my glasses on, I can't read her screen at all from any distance. So what's the big deal?

[Travis]

Then we keep the brightness down.

[Amy]

I mean, I don't look at my phone in the middle of the night either. I'm not waking you up.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I like this. This privacy screen, because you're in. You know, if you're in the booth with the guys working and somebody texts you or you text me or something, I don't need everybody looking at my phone and seeing what my wife's saying or what anybody's saying.

[Amy]

Well, you got your watch on.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I know, but when I'm doing work, I turn my watch off. So when I'm at the. When I'm. When I'm doing pre race and post race, I turn the alerts on my watch off because I don't want that. The camera catching all my alerts.

[Amy]

Okay, well, that's good.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I don't know. I feel like a shade screen is silly.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's good. It's. It would be really nice with everything but you. Because it's privacy. You know

[Travis]

what they'll.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

People reading your messages.

[Amy]

Who's reading your messages? Like, who's around you reading.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

When you're sitting in an airplane or something? I mean, you know, at the bar. Sitting in the bar.

[Amy]

You're in your own airplane. Nobody's reading your phone.

[Travis]

But if you're at the bar, put

[Amy]

your phone away, talk to your friends. We don't need to have your phone out at the bar. Who are we texting? Put it on do not disturb. So you're not getting, like, there's.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We're in meetings, and we're in these little rental trailers where we have our production meeting and stuff. And it's so little room in there. There's people sitting at the table, and then there's people lined against the wall. And so, I mean, you know, you get a. You've got your phone there, somebody text you or you get an alert. Some. Something. Something got shipped to your house or, you know, your ebay delivery got. Got to the mailbox. It don't matter what it is.

[Amy]

What the hell does it matter if anybody sees that?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Nothing. I just don't want anyone seeing anything happening on my phone. I don't know. I'd prefer it. It's fine, because there is nothing nefarious, but I just prefer that it not be.

[Amy]

You know, I feel like y' all are overthinking it. I think nobody's looking at your phone, and it's not that big of a deal. The only time, really, it's a big deal. Your giant phone or your iPad is making all the light in the middle of the night.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'll give you a good example. Even under the COVID I'll give you a good example. All right. This is a really good example.

[Amy]

I'm ready for it.

[Travis]

It's really good.

[Amy]

It's really good.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

The dumb thing about Twitter is you can't tell it to open up on the follow thread. Like, when you open Twitter, it opens up on the. For you, it doesn't open on the follow. So, like, if I could tell Twitter just to show me only the people that I follow, that's what I would want. And I would have nothing else on there.

[Amy]

I didn't even know that it did that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It opens up on the. For your. So it's all this suggested, and it gets a little out of hand sometimes, and there's ads and stuff. You're like, I don't really want to see this ad.

[Travis]

This isn't, you know, not wrong.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No. And so, you know, you're looking at your Twitter feed and you're going through there, and you got. There's on there that you don't really associate with, but you're like, well, what the f. I'm just going to the next thing. But people might see it and go, oh, wow, does he follow that? Or does he. Does he subscribe to that theory or that idea?

[Amy]

I hear you.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And it's kind of like, all right,

[Amy]

you're not going to. I mean, Twitter sucks. Yeah. Let's just leave that at that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That. That is a sucky thing about Twitter, is it? Used to be they forced the for you part.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You can't pick it and tell it. Just. I want to just see who I'm following.

[Amy]

Only I don't really like that about Instagram now, too, with the threads. Because, like, the threads banner's going through there.

[Travis]

Oh, yeah.

[Amy]

And sometimes it tricks me.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I know you'll see something. I want to watch that.

[Amy]

Don't touch it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Don't touch.

[Amy]

Don't think about touching it. Don't touch it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Don't touch it.

[Travis]

All right, next question is, is it appropriate to pick up fruit and vegetables at the grocery store and then put it back down if you don't like it?

[Amy]

Well, Travis.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What?

[Amy]

I am the kind of chick, is

[Travis]

it appropriate to pick up fruit and vegetables at the grocery store to do this?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Don't admit to what you're doing.

[Amy]

Why?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Okay.

[Amy]

It's too late. I'm pretty sure people have seen me anyway. Dale refuses to have anything but super crunchy grapes. I don't touch the actual fruit. I do it through the bag. So let's just start there. But I do touch the grapes and see which ones are the crunchiest. I'll pick him up, and I'm looking at the bottom to make sure there's. Yeah, through the bag.

[Jerome Davis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Oh, no. Not touching the actual food itself.

[Travis]

Oh, I'll pick up an apple.

[Amy]

I mean, apples are different because you're going to clean the. Out of those anyway or peel them. Grapes are not. You're not going to do that with them. You're going to eat the whole skin and the whole thing, So.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I love green grapes, and the more sour tart, the better. Super hard to find the grapes like that. Most. Most green grapes are kind of pretty. Pretty middle of the road and sweet.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

But, you know, you gotta. You do gotta squeeze the grapes because if they're not super crunchy, they're worthless. Yeah, soft grapes.

[Travis]

The flavor changes, too.

[Amy]

He won't eat them.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

The softer. The more ripe they get. I suppose the more sweet they get, but yeah.

[Amy]

So I will make sure they're crunchy. And then as I'm perusing in the store, I might eat one. I did that the other day, and he's like, you ate one in the store? I was like, yes. It was already in my cart.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Now that's so nasty.

[Jerome Davis]

Nasty.

[Travis]

So you're paying by the weight?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, I used to. Not. I. I regrettably. Trust me.

[Amy]

Damn it, Travis.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I used to not wash grapes. Sometimes I'd just get them and eat them and.

[Travis]

Yeah, I do that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Dude. Dude, they're nasty. Like, I. I get done eating them, and my hands are dirty, and I'm like, holy. This is on the grapes. And I know everybody's going on the other side of the screen telling us all the crap they're spraying, all those grapes and everything.

[Amy]

Well, I. I don't. I get your organic grapes, but I watch the. Out of my grapefruit now. We soak them in baking soda and get all the stuff off. But.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

But I wash the crap out of him.

[Amy]

There was a while where he was they.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Right. You know, they're riding in these. You know, they're riding these trucks or however they're getting transported. And the great bag itself is perforated. So it's like all road grime and everything else. I mean, all the shipping, sneezing, Whatever. Anybody dirty? Yeah, they're nasty as hell.

[Amy]

Yeah. You should wash them. Yeah, I. I do pick up some of the things, like potatoes, whatever. Like you're peeling. I don't feel like that's a big deal, but if it's something you're going to put right in your mouth, I don't touch it.

[Travis]

An apple I'll pick up and I'll put back down.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It picks it up.

[Amy]

I don't think that's that big of a deal.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You list things and you put them down.

[Amy]

I pick things up and put them down.

[Travis]

Make sure it's not bruised.

[Amy]

The next time you go to the grocery store and you pick an apple up, I want you to say, I pick things up. I put things down.

[Travis]

I also. If I put it down, if I put it down, I assume nobody else is going to want that apple.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

When you do, you put it in

[Amy]

the back so that nobody else grabs it.

[Jerome Davis]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Grocery shop. When you grocery shop, do you talk to the other grocery shoppers? Yeah.

[Travis]

Say, hello.

[Amy]

Say, oh. Do you talk to anybody? You do?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, yeah. She's like, why do you do that? It's being nice.

[Travis]

If I make eye contact with someone, I'm gonna say, hello.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes.

[Amy]

Wait, this doesn't align. The last time we had a grocery store conversation, it was about wearing headphones or earbuds while you're grocery shopping. And you said, I don't want to talk to anybody in the grocery store, so I'm going to wear my headphones if I want to. And now we're talking. We're making friends at the grocery store.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. I mean, I don't have a problem. Somebody has their headphones on. I know that was annoying for some people, but I don't mind if you got your headphones on. You're coming at me. I'm just. I'm just going to nod. I'm not going to say anything because you can't hear me. But I'm all.

[Travis]

You giving people finger guns?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't know.

[Travis]

Let's not do finger guns.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I do the.

[Amy]

Do you aim it and do one of these?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Sometimes I will. If I know that they're gonna. If I know that they're trying to resist communication, I go a little bit.

[Travis]

Do you holster them afterwards?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Try to. It's like trying to break a wild horse.

[Amy]

Yeah, I. I'd pay to see that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I like to. To. The people that don't want to communicate back are the best because then you got to try harder.

[Amy]

Yeah, break them.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You gotta break them.

[Amy]

I feel like that was like talking to you back in the day.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Really? Yeah. And now we're grocery shopping and shooting people. It's great.

[Travis]

Let's holster those puppies. Going forward at the grocery store, I

[Amy]

feel like we need to really do that to someone just to see. And I really want you to say, I pick things up, I put things down. Especially if somebody's standing close to you, like, just to wig them out a little bit.

[Travis]

Next time, if someone's by me, I'm like, hey, this apple not good.

[Amy]

Oh, no, that's not. That's not funny.

[Travis]

Just letting them know.

[Amy]

You should just set it on the phone.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You should say something like, the apples are good this. This week. It's just. Even if it's not true and you don't know, just make it up.

[Amy]

Or go to a fruit that's not.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Don't say something bad.

[Amy]

Go to the mangoes. Ask anybody if they want a papaya. Like, just, you know, best apples I've seen all week.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You move away from the apples, and the first person you come in contact with, you go, the apples are good this week.

[Amy]

That's how you make friends at the grocery store.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

You might find your new best friend.

[Travis]

Do you ever peel the corn at the grocery store?

[Amy]

No, I don't.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

If. If I find a good bag of grapes, I give an audible. Hell, yeah. Loud enough for the people within earshot can hear me.

[Amy]

Do you really?

[Travis]

No, he doesn't.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I do. I go. I do it like a Not a hell, yeah. It's more like a hell, yeah.

[Travis]

You know, do you have a fist bump?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

The person that's like five or so feet away, I want them to know that I got a great bag of grapes.

[Amy]

I feel like we need a grocery store run.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm psyching myself up as a group. For the rest of us, as a group, I'm psyching myself up for the rest of the grocery shopping trip.

[Travis]

Because that is the first. Like, usually the first time you do.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Grapes are early. Yeah, grapes are real early. Right in the door.

[Travis]

Do you ever put the grapes in the freezer?

[Amy]

We have done that, but I've soaked them in champagne first. That's really good. Soaking them in champagne, freezing them. Then you roll them in sugar. When you take them out, when there's just, like, a little bit of so good.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Of course. Yeah, we do it.

[Travis]

I would put them in the freezer,

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

and we thought we were kicking ass. This one's soaking them in champagne and rolling them in sugar.

[Amy]

You do you. I'll do Me like you.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You took us. You took it a step further.

[Amy]

So good.

[Travis]

Yeah, I was just doing water. I thought I was classing up the joint.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Next question is how willing. How long are you willing to wait at a restaurant for your table?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

None.

[Amy]

Not. Not at all. If it's just us, two, maybe five minutes is max. But there's too many options to wait. If we've not made a reservation, we go in knowing we might be coming right back out, just depending on where we are.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We went one of our favorite places on Sullivan's Island. We went to the longboard. He wanted the corn, we wanted the corn salad. So we got a long board, and they're like, it's gonna be 30 minutes.

[Amy]

We had the kids with us. We're like, man, they were already turning upside down on the bench.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We're like, no, they're already breaking out of here. Yeah.

[Travis]

Wait 30 minutes for a table.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes.

[Amy]

But we didn't have a reservation. We just were winging it.

[Travis]

When would you. When did you go?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Five o'.

[Amy]

Clock. It was Friday night.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Okay, right.

[Amy]

Thursday night. I don't know. Whenever you were there.

[Travis]

So I went on that Saturday.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It was Friday night.

[Travis]

Pretty dead, to be honest. Yeah, they would.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I mean, you can look in there. There's plenty of empty tables. They just.

[Amy]

It's officially summertime now.

[Travis]

And the kitchen's probably backed up or something.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They have a plan. Yeah, I don't know their plan. I don't question it. I just say, all right, we'll go to the next place.

[Amy]

Yeah, we should. What we should have asked before we left is, is there corn in here or do you not have corn in here? We might wait. We might go to the pub for a drink and come back.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Damn. We could have done that.

[Amy]

We could have done that. We weren't thinking. Our kids. You hate kids in public. And it will make you spin out. It'll make you wig out. You just. You don't act like yourself.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

When those moments are happening and there's other people standing there, too, waiting, and there's people watching. If the kids are acting a fool, you just. The first thing you do is abort mission because you get stressed and you're not happy.

[Travis]

So where'd you guys end up going?

[Amy]

Where did we go? Next one.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Next one.

[Amy]

Yeah. Which is what the girls wanted. Anyway, so we won.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We have a couple of projects. Steve Latart likes the. I just got a text. Steve likes the Blackstone that we're putting in the Wendell Jr's ride.

[Amy]

All your friends Are looking through the.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, they're watching the videos on Instagram of the car. The Wendell junior Foundation Instagram. And they're texting me about all the cool stuff that they love that we're putting in the back of the Tahoe for the Wendell Juniors ride.

[Amy]

Maybe we should put one of these in there.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That's a sales pitch.

[Travis]

Yes. Put. Put the squirrel on there.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, please put that in there.

[Amy]

I got this for Dale as a gift, and he doesn't like it.

[Travis]

It's.

[Amy]

She can hear you.

[Travis]

I do think it'd be good at the. At your bar, though.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't want it.

[Travis]

I think it would work there.

[Amy]

We could put it in Whiskey river.

[Travis]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's fine.

[Amy]

Right next to the rattlesnake.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We'll take it to the freaking beach and it can hang out there. But at the beach, we go there. We hadn't seen. We hadn't been there in a while. They are putting in new drainage on the street for the sea water and for the rainwater.

[Amy]

Every time it rains all around our house, side and front floods, and you can't even get over to the beach.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It floods like a foot in the intersection.

[Amy]

Yeah. And it takes forever to go away.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It does.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And so they're putting in new drainage pipes. And these things are gigantic. Five foot in diameter. More maybe. And they have dug up a trench in the street from one block all the way down two blocks. Two blocks. They've dug this giant trench in the street so the. The streets up can't use it.

[Amy]

The trench is wide enough to put a container in it. Yeah, there's a container that moves down. That's how they keep the drive.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They're putting the pipe down the street. And you can't use the road, so

[Amy]

we couldn't even use the driveway. You couldn't get the golf carts out.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You can't get out of the garage.

[Amy]

You're trapped in the house.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. But it's good they're getting along. I've been watching them on my cameras.

[Amy]

Some of our neighbors have had issues with, like, they've raken water mains and, like, toilets coming. Having water coming in their house.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

There's always collateral damage.

[Amy]

So far, we have had none of those issues. But the neighbors have all been really frustrated with the process since they lived there.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I go out there and make friends with them.

[Amy]

He walked straight out there and was like, hey, man.

[Travis]

Oh, let's get buddies. Talk to him off from waters or something.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Go out there and make friends with them. And they're like. And they're, I said there's, there's, you know, they're working their ass. They are working these giant, giant ass pipes and running all this heavy machinery and digging this trench in the middle of the freaking summer. And, and I'm like, man, you know, I'm, I'm glad you guys are doing this work. I'm, I'm sure glad I, I ain't having to do all this hard work trying to compliment them, you know. And they're like, they're like, yeah. I was like, it's going good. Everybody going, Everybody, y', all, Everything going good? And he's like, yeah, everything's good. There's a couple people around here that are upset. You know, the, on the, on the. I'm like, all right, well, you know, just kind of.

[Travis]

You get the information by talking about

[Amy]

they pow wowed and had a discussion over where they all wanted the pavers.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, yeah. They're like, hey, we're gonna take some of your paper. Like you got to do there, man. Just stack them on the brick here. Don't stack them on the yard. Don't put them on the grass, man. We'll be good. Sure. You know, if you don't go down there and ask them or tell them or whatever. Yeah, they're gonna do whatever now.

[Travis]

They're gonna be nicer to you. They're gonna treat your stuff better.

[Amy]

They did, they were, they were great. They did stop working rather early on. Like I guess it was Thursday.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

But I've watched on the camera, they're now down past our house. So they've got this, the, the pipes in the ground, the dirt back on the pipes, and they're hopefully going to be putting some blacktop down here soon.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

You know, you reached peak old status when you're watching them on the Cameron Dale.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I know, I'm sorry.

[Travis]

That's.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, we're enjoying down there in July, so I'm hoping that there's some black top on the. So we can get the golf cart out of the garage.

[Amy]

Yeah. Just being able to use the house and.

[Travis]

Yeah. How will you.

[Amy]

We didn't, we didn't, we didn't get anything.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We drove our Tahoe to dinner.

[Amy]

So the thing is too, like on the front side of the house, it's public parking for the beach. So we could park, we could park there, but anybody else could also park there. So if you left to do anything, you might not have your anywhere to park around the house. So that was A little difficult, but it was fine.

[Travis]

You got to find a way to, like, barricade it off when you drive off so you still have it.

[Amy]

Well, the beach police probably would have got. So I did pull in behind the forklift or whatever. The day we were leaving, there was nowhere to park.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

The beach police got mad.

[Amy]

It was Sunday, so it was a weekend, and the beach is always crowded.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You're like, ma', am.

[Amy]

They stopped, and we're, like, eyeballing my Suburban. And I was like, hey, man, that's mine. This is our house. I can't park. We're getting ready to pull out and leave. But I did, because they would have towed me or giving me a ticket or something. Just because those little beach police run around on the golf cart.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That's wild here lately. So we need to kind of minimize all this.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Pulled over and speeding and all.

[Travis]

Amy's a bit of a criminal.

[Amy]

I mean, somebody's got to have a

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

little fun running red lights.

[Amy]

I will never, ever not U turn and not think about that, too. I did a U turn yesterday. There was no light. I'm like, who's. Who's to tell me what's right and wrong here? Like, I'm just freewheeling it all over the street now, you know?

[Travis]

Can't take her anywhere, Dale. Yeah, well, I think it's a good place to stop.

[Amy]

All right, thank you for your questions. Hope you guys watched the show. We had some fun, interesting topics, and if y' all want to know what

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

this damn squirrel's doing here, so do I. And I don't think you're gonna find any answers watching this show back.

[Amy]

We need a name for our squirrel. This was a present for Dale, and he's not very special.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Amy got me a stripper squirrel.

[Travis]

Finish a sentence there.

[Amy]

So we need a stripper name for our stripper squirrel. If you would oblige us with some ideas, that would be awesome.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

She came in with a big box and said she had a surprise. I'm surprised.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh. Hit subscribe if you haven't already. Don't forget to check out all of the merch atshop dark shop.dirtymomedia.com the Zero to Freedom line is hot and ready for you, and we'll see you next week.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

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