Bless Your 'Hardt - Boat Fails, Nicole's Old Soul, & Dale's Peach

Summary

The Dale Jr. Download – Bless Your 'Hardt: Boat Fails, Nicole's Old Soul, & Dale's Peach

Podcast: The Dale Jr. Download
Episode: Bless Your 'Hardt - Boat Fails, Nicole's Old Soul, & Dale's Peach
Air Date: August 21, 2025
Host(s): Dale Earnhardt Jr., Amy Earnhardt
Produced by: Dirty Mo Media, SiriusXM

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Episode Overview

This episode of the “Bless Your 'Hardt” series features Dale Jr. and Amy Earnhardt trading laughs and stories from their family life, recent adventures, and mishaps. Major themes include family parenting moments, boat adventures (and boat failures), viral internet moments involving Dale's “peach,” reflections on Amy’s “old soul” daughter, and listener questions ranging from fantasy football to favorite logos and home decorating drama. The episode is filled with candid, lighthearted banter that entertains while giving a glimpse into the Earnhardts’ day-to-day.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Dale's "Peach" Goes Viral

Timestamps: [01:31] – [03:28]

• Amy and Dale open with banter about Dale’s “bottom” becoming a topic on TikTok and social media after his recent races.
• The viral post stemmed from a tight-fitting race suit leading to commentary about Dale's “firm” backside.
  • Amy: “…The comments were hilarious. Travis, of course, sent me the TikTok.” [02:41]
• Discussion of slang like "gyat" and the current popularity of “peach” emojis.
  • Dale Jr.: “So I guess there was some people that appreciated the... firm. The firm.” [02:21]
  • Amy: “Well, the peaches. The cut, you got a peach emoji.” [02:34]

2. Parenting Stories: Nicole's Hard Head & Amy’s Texas Trip

Timestamps: [04:32] – [11:17]

• Amy shares her experience visiting her 90-year-old grandfather in Texas with the girls.
• Nicole (their daughter) injured her foot in a scooter accident, reinforcing lessons about wearing shoes outdoors.
  • Amy: “…she decided just she wanted off, but she didn’t say anything, so she just bailed and screwed her foot up so bad.” [05:45]
  • Dale Jr.: “She’s learning by experience by that Earnhardt hard head of hers.” [06:30]
• More about Dale accidentally pulling a band-aid off Nicole’s foot, creating a new injury—parenting fail!
  • Dale Jr.: “I just rip it off. And it took some skin with it. Oh, my. Now she’s got a boo boo on top of her foot.” [08:11]

3. The Boat Saga: "She Said No" and a Day on the Lake

Timestamps: [12:48] – [24:20]

• Dale details the saga of buying his houseboat, “She Said No,” a 2002 Gibson model, after eyeing it online for over a year.
  • Amy: “It was at least a year. We had discussed it. I talked you out of it. And Then all of a sudden, it’s in the driveway.” [13:23]
• The couple recounts their first real day out on the lake without kids, which quickly devolved into a boat breakdown when the generator died, causing frustration and some heat-induced tension.
  • Amy: “We get on the boat and we get out of the slip, no problem. We cruise. Dale throws the anchors out, and then all of a sudden, the boat dies.” [17:35]
  • Dale Jr.: “I try not to do this, but I had thought about that...for the last 24 hours...We get out there and I’m like, well, I guess we got to go back to the dock. I mean, I can’t run the generator.” [21:09]
• Ultimately, Dale fixes the generator himself, and the rest of the day is saved.
  • Amy: “I wasn’t nervous...He’s always good at fixing things.” [22:16]
• They note that owning a classic boat is a constant project, which is both a source of pride and occasional frustration.

4. Restaurant Adventures & Nicole's "Old Soul"

Timestamps: [25:22] – [31:12]

• Amy recounts a hibachi lunch with the kids, humorous in part for discovering Mike Davis used to be a hibachi chef and for experiencing a giant cockroach in the restaurant.
  • Amy: “We wait a few minutes. They’re all cold, complaining...and I scoot my chair back and I see a gigantic cockroach on the floor.” [27:02]
• Nicole, stoic amidst the chaos, reacts to the hibachi fire with cool detachment, making Amy reflect on Nicole’s “old soul” and possible past lives.
  • Amy: “She didn’t know what was about to happen...She’s like, like a 70 year old lady, like, blue hair. She’s like, oh, look at that fire.” [28:14]
  • Dale Jr.: “Are you from...Have you been here before?” [28:34]

5. Sleep Styles & Outlander Bingeing

Timestamps: [31:28] – [34:56]

• Dale and Amy laugh about their evolving sleep habits—from hand-holding newlyweds to fighting for their own blankets, and Amy’s “twitching” keeping Dale awake.
  • Dale Jr.: “We would sleep holding hands...Now it’s like, don’t you wake me. Don’t you touch me. You stay over there. And also, don’t steal all the covers...” [32:11]
• Amy discusses staying up (or dozing off) to the new Outlander season.

6. Whisper Challenge Game

Timestamps: [36:29] – [39:59]

• The hosts and crew play the “Whisper Challenge,” a fun game of reading lips while music plays over headphones.
  • Amy tries to get Dale to guess “the sun shines and people forget” (from The Who’s "Eminence Front"), but he hilariously fails.
  • Dale throws in “Foxtrot, Uniform, Kilo, Charlie, Kilo” (F-U-C-K), which Amy eventually deciphers.
  • Laughter ensues, showcasing their playful family vibe.

7. Q&A: Listeners' Questions and Parenting Realness

Timestamps: [40:02] – [58:11]

Fantasy Football:

• Amy drafts her team from a hibachi restaurant, gets an "A" grade, and the couple discusses the quirks of their “Sugar and Spice” all-girls league. [40:22]

On Judging Playlists at Parties:

• Both hosts admit to judging background music at gatherings and even at the grocery store.
  • Dale Jr.: “I judge music everywhere I go.” [43:27]

Logo Changes & Brand Loyalty:

• Strong opinions on companies changing logos unexpectedly, especially Cracker Barrel, and stories about protecting the Junior Motorsports flaming wheel logo.
  • Dale Jr.: “You can’t change the flaming wheel. You can try to spice it up…but I was like, no, we can’t change our logo.” [46:08]

Home-Building & Decorating Marital Advice:

• Amy and Dale recount decision-making stress while building or decorating a home, advising listeners to pick battles and be clear about who cares most about which features.
  • Amy: “…if you don’t want an opinion on something, don’t ask. Because if you’ve already picked out the tile…if you are like, you’ve got your heart set on it and you ask an opinion and someone doesn’t like it…then you’re frustrated.” [48:41]

Kids & Animals:

• Favorite family moments involve letting the girls feed the donkeys and swans. Discussion on the challenge of keeping swans safe from local predators.
  • Amy: “Nicole makes me a little nervous because she just doesn’t hold the carrot perfect…and it makes me feel like she’s gonna get her finger bit off.” [53:20]
  • Dale Jr.: “We have some coyotes and foxes roaming around…so I think I’m going to have to send the swans off to another place that’s better protected.” [55:01]

Parenting Win & Fail:

• Parenting fail: Dale accidentally causing a new wound on Nicole’s foot.
• Parenting win: Nicole becomes proficient at brushing her teeth thanks to a gamified toothbrush app.
  • Amy: “Nicole would not brush her teeth by herself. She hates toothpaste. Till four months ago.” [57:40]
  • Dale Jr.: “It was traumatic.” [58:04]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Social Media Fame:
  • Dale Jr.: “I’ve always had an ass. Not a flat ass here on the Earnhardt camp.” [03:28]
• Boat Realities:
  • Dale Jr.: “Fun part about the boat is it’s always a project, and there’s always something to work. But sometimes, like, when a generator won’t run…like, I’m not a generator guy.” [23:58]
  • Amy: “I can’t believe you got so mad. He’s like, you’re just telling me that to make me feel better. I’m like, no, I’m not blowing smoke up your ass. But is it working?” [22:16]
• On Nicole’s “Old Soul”:
  • Amy: “I’ve always contemplated that she might be Dale’s mom…She just gives me Mimi vibes.” [29:15]
  • Dale Jr.: “Even though he knows things from the past that this other person experienced, he doesn’t think that he’s reincarnated, right?…So because Nicole’s telling me all these things…she’s like, no. Of course not. You know? Yeah. I’m four. What are you talking about?” [29:33]
• Home Building Wisdom:
  • Amy: “Collaborate on things that are important. And then if he’s going to let you just kind of do the pretty stuff…don’t worry about asking him.” [48:41]
• Perfect Parenting Summation:
  • Dale Jr.: “Nicole would not brush her teeth by herself. She hates toothpaste. Till four months ago.” [57:40]
• Listener Q&A Zingers:
  • Dale Jr. on logos: “Nobody else has a flaming wheel, so we don’t look like everybody else.” [46:08]
  • Amy: “The worst is when you have to give up on a tile you love because your husband doesn’t see the vision!” [49:44]

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Important Timestamps

• [01:31] – Dale’s backside goes viral: Social media commentary on his race suit
• [04:32] – Family visit to Texas & Nicole’s foot injury
• [12:48] – Boat saga begins: “She Said No” story and first major fail
• [17:35] – The generator fails; Dale’s frustrations and fix
• [25:22] – Hibachi restaurant story & Amy’s parenting in public
• [28:14] – Nicole’s “old soul” moment at hibachi
• [31:28] – Bedtime routines and spoilers about sleeping habits
• [36:29] – Whisper Challenge game
• [40:22] – Fantasy football draft chaos
• [43:27] – Judging playlists everywhere
• [46:08] – The logo debate: Don’t mess with the flaming wheel
• [48:41] – How to avoid home-building drama as a couple
• [53:20] – Kids and animals: The danger of feeding swans and donkeys
• [55:01] – Swans’ safety and the realities of country living
• [57:40] – Parenting win: Overcoming a toothbrush battle

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Tone & Language

The episode is rich with southern warmth, humor, self-deprecation, and loving marital ribbing. Both Dale and Amy alternate between teasing each other and reflecting honestly about parenting and couplehood, all while keeping the conversation light and relatable for listeners.

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Summary Takeaway

This episode is a classic slice-of-life look at the Earnhardt household—racing fame meets real-world marriage, messy family moments, outdoor misadventures, and actual solutions for practical living. Whether you’re looking for laughs, down-home advice, or a behind-the-scenes peek at NASCAR’s first family, “Bless Your 'Hardt” delivers the goods with charm, honesty, and plenty of personality.

Transcript

[Amy]

Hey guys. Dale Jr. The man with the Booty and I are back. What the Dirty my media studio for another episode of Bless yous Heart. The man with the Booty. I hear you got a lot of booty lovers out there.

[Dale Jr.]

What?

[Amy]

We got a great show for you today, guys. We're gonna talk about Texas taking the boat out and of course, Dale's bottom.

[Dale Jr.]

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[Dale Jr.]

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[Amy]

Bless your heart. Oh yeah. This is what it's going to girl, we're gonna hang out.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh you look amazing.

[Amy]

I could stare at you today. Are you kidding? I couldn't believe it. What's going on? The world is not your trash can.

[Dale Jr.]

I slept till two smoking cigarettes and drinking amp energy.

[Amy]

Lord have mercy.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm leaving.

[Amy]

Don't leave. Can we talk about that?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

What's it feel like to have your your butt talked about on the Internet?

[Dale Jr.]

Well, I didn't know what they were meaning by it, but I wasn't up on the slang. Wasn't know if that was good or bad.

[Amy]

Well, there was a tik tok put out by a race fan from Anderson.

[Dale Jr.]

So I had my my driver suit for this past weekend was a little tighter than normal. I don't think I've gotten bigger. I really think the suit got a little tighter. Least in my ass. Yeah. So I guess there was some people that appreciated the the firm. The firm.

[Amy]

The firm.

[Dale Jr.]

The cut. Sorry, Firm. I don't know where firm came from but.

[Amy]

Well, the peaches. The cut you got a peach emoji.

[Dale Jr.]

I did, yeah. Still got it years old.

[Amy]

Yeah. The comments were hilarious. Travis, of course, sent me the TikTok.

[Dale Jr.]

And you didn't like it?

[Amy]

Well, I got. I don't. I don't. I don't know. It's a little weird.

[Dale Jr.]

It's.

[Amy]

It just seems weird for the comments of, you know, women gawking to be just right there for me to read. Yeah, it's fine.

[Dale Jr.]

It is.

[Amy]

But I don't know what the term gyat is.

[Dale]

Oh, yeah.

[Amy]

To me, that sounds like a. Sound like it is, kind of.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, it's exactly.

[Dale]

But like.

[Amy]

Yeah. Damn, look at that. Is that what that is?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

They got a good peach.

[Dale Jr.]

No, no. Is it like.

[Dale]

Something like that?

[Amy]

I'm gonna start saying that to you as walking behind you up the stairs. Yeah. Damn. Look at that butt.

[Dale Jr.]

Exactly. Perfect.

[Amy]

He's always had a bubble butt, though.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

I've always had an ass.

[Amy]

Well, booties are in.

[Dale Jr.]

Not a flat ass here on the Earnhardt in the Earnhardt camp.

[Amy]

Booty, booty, booty, booty. Now I've got him flesh in it. You can't think. Oh, man, I love that.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Before we get any further, I want to tell everybody about the drink of the week here. We got these nice drinks sitting here beside us. It's the high Rock dirty Shirley.

[Amy]

Nice.

[Dale Jr.]

2 ounces of high rock vodka, 1 ounce of grenadine, 6 to 8 ounces of lime lemon soda, and 2 to 3. How do you say that?

[Amy]

Maraschino cherries.

[Dale Jr.]

Maraschino cherries?

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale Jr.]

A little bit ice. Sounds awesome. I'll give it a shot.

[Amy]

Yeah, I'm gonna let you have it. I'm feeling our boat trip a little bit today.

[Dale Jr.]

Amy's feeling our boat trip. Visit highrockvodka.com to find a bottle near you. There's a locator on the website to be able to tell you, hey, okay, there's a store over here that's got a couple bottles, so you can know where to go to get them. And you might also be able to get shipped direct, depending on the state. So must be 21 or over.

[Amy]

So last weekend, Dale went to Anderson and raced and had a good time. I went to Texas. My grandfather turned 90, and so I went to take the girls to hang out with him, and that was fun. It was. It was. It's always cool to, like, get the grandparents and the great grandparents around the kids, and he was a little overwhelmed, I think, with all of the noise and action. They just moved and so they're in their new house and you know, they like it quiet. They're used to it being quiet and having.

[Dale Jr.]

I bet he was ready for everybody to go home.

[Amy]

Eight to 10 young kids running around. And it was a lot, but it was cool. It was really cool. And Lynn, my niece and he actually share a birthday. She turned nine. And so on Sunday too, we after. After having a granddaddy's party, we went and stayed at Katie's house. So we had a couple nights there and the girls just like. So my sister has two kids that are kind of split in age, so Nicole's four, Eva's five. And then Isla and Adeline are a year apart. So they play together like non stop. And sometimes they switch. Like the Adeline and Nicole pair off when they get tired of each other, you know what I mean? It's always like a battle of the bosses. And so it was a lot of fun just watching them play and they always get sad when they have to leave. But they were outside at one point, Katie and I had taken a walk and the Littles were on. Do you know what those little scooters are that Coby had out in the grass at the lake house? Do you remember, like, you used the handles on the sides to make it go. So Eva's scooting around on that thing. It's pretty fast. And Nicole's on the back of it and doesn't have any shoes on. She's in her swimsuit with no shoes. And apparently she decided just she wanted off, but she didn't say anything, so she just bailed and screwed her foot up so bad. Like she still has chunks of flesh out of her foot.

[Dale Jr.]

Pretty, Pretty gruesome.

[Amy]

Yeah, it was. It was bad. So we kind of had to deal with that for the rest of the weekend. They couldn't get in the pool or anything because she screwed her foot up. And we're constantly telling those kids when they go outside to put their shoes on. Even here.

[Dale Jr.]

She's learning by experience by that Earnhardt.

[Amy]

Hard head of hers. Yes. She screwed her foot up a couple of times doing that outside, even just at our house. But their house is like in the middle of the hill country of Texas. It is treacherous outside there. It's hilly, super hilly. Rocky, rocky. There's cactus everywhere.

[Dale Jr.]

Just nice manicured grass.

[Amy]

It's just like it's the woods.

[Dale Jr.]

Like you're walked out into the Texas wilderness and just started building houses.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale Jr.]

Jeez.

[Amy]

So it's just dangerous. But she, she definitely learned her Lesson, I guess.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. All good. She's fine now. She came home and she was. This was. I felt so terrible. And this will happen to you if you're a parent, if it hasn't happened already. But Nicole is my tough one, you know, I think Amy agree. Isla's our sensitive, you know, gotta go easy. Gotta be easy. Nicole's like, you know, just ripped a band aid off. And so Nicole is home. I'm home. Nicole's home. They've been on this trip. They come back, and Nicole's had these band aids on her foot for a couple days. And she's playing in the. The front of the house. The foyer comes over and she goes, dad, I need a new band aid. So she shows me and her band aid, it wrapped from top around to the bottom. The ball of her foot, it had come loose on the bottom. And she's like, need new band aid. And it's. And so I get to see this.

[Amy]

Scratch her gnarly wound.

[Dale Jr.]

And it's like. You just sliced the dang corner. Like the little.

[Amy]

The patches can. Right there.

[Dale Jr.]

Right Knob. Right of her big toe. Yeah, right. Right where the ball of her big toe is right on the side of her foot. It just, like, scratched it right off, which is a typical kid. Like a knee. Just like a knee. Right? And it was. I was like, honey, you need to let that dry out. It's not to put a band aid on there. But. But before she comes over and says, I need a new band aid. And it's still connected at the top. Band aid is. So I just rip it off. And it took some skin with it. Oh, my. Now she's got a boo boo on top of her foot. Bleeding.

[Amy]

Yeah. Now we've got another. She's like, wound.

[Dale Jr.]

I got a new boo boo. And I was like, what? No, that's not. And I rubbed it. And she's like, ouch, stop. And I was like, oh, man.

[Amy]

He believes in what people are telling him. He's got to prove it to himself. So, like, just like, Nicole's got to do it herself. She gets it honest from you. Yeah, of course. He sticks his finger in.

[Dale Jr.]

Did I just do that? Did I just make that happen? And she's like, yes, you pulled the band aid off. She's four, right? She's like, yeah, you pulled the band aid off and did that. And I'm like, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I just didn't think the band aid would pull skin. Right.

[Amy]

It's definitely not supposed to do that.

[Dale Jr.]

And so I go get a new band aid and I. She's like, I want to do it. I want to do it. I want to do it. And I can do it. I can do it. And I'm thinking she's going to put the band aid on the other direction. Big Boo Boo. Oh, she puts it on the little new boo. Yeah. I'm like, oh, man, I feel really. But I was like, let's let the. Let's let the Texas Boo Boo air out. Yeah, let's let that thing scab up, you know, and. And do what it's supposed to do. And she's like, all right. So she didn't want to put a band aid on it, and it's got scabbed up to where. Now she doesn't mind getting the bath, you know, putting it in water and stuff, because when they're. Before they scab up, you know, you put them in water, they hurt sting and all that. So, you know, it was.

[Amy]

Now every time she gets in the bathtub with it and it gets. You know how scabs get when they get them wet. Then she starts poking at it. I'm like, don't, dude. She. Don't make it worse.

[Dale Jr.]

She's tough. She'll. She'll walk up to me. We'll be sitting on the couch and watching TV or something, and she'll look at me and look. She'll look at my face and then she starts.

[Amy]

She's looking for something.

[Dale Jr.]

She's like, start scratching on something, like, I got a little scratch or something. She'll be like, what is that? Start trying to pick at it.

[Amy]

I'm like, hey, she does that to me, too.

[Dale Jr.]

And you. She'll. She'll. You'll be watching tv. Everybody's focused on the tv. And she'll grab your. She'll start holding your hand. And then next thing you know, she's like picking on a. Picking on a scab. I got like, you know, working. Working on cars and stuff. You scratch your. Scratch your hands up. You'll be sitting there and she. All of a sudden she starts picking on a scab and you're like, oh.

[Amy]

She just comes in, like, real sweet, though, to cuddle with you, like, hey, yeah. And then she's got a plan all along. She's coming for blood is what she's coming for.

[Dale Jr.]

She's like, she loves to look at your boo boos on your hands. Love to.

[Amy]

She wants to watch you patch up boo boos, too. So if Isla gets one, she's like, got her face right in the middle. Oh, yeah, she did that when we took. I took her to the dentist, too. When Isla's getting her teeth clean, she had her face right in the middle of the action. She wanted to see what was going on.

[Dale Jr.]

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[Andrew]

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[Travis]

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[Andrew]

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[Dale Jr.]

So we had a boat trip yesterday. We haven't. We've got the. She Said no. It's a. For those that don't know she said no is a fiberglass hull houseboat, 2002 Gibson. And it is in really good shape and so pretty cool interior, top deck, all that. And I was looking at this thing on the Internet. We were sitting on it yesterday on the lake, and I said, man, I cannot believe we're sitting on this boat after staring at it on the Internet for like six months. She goes, more like a year.

[Amy]

It was. It was at least a year. We had discussed it. I talked you out of it. And Then all of a sudden, it's in the driveway.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Lo and behold, it found you again.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, it was weird how that happened. So I was just. I just. I'm a. I'm one of those kind of people that like to just look on car trader and just, just. I'm not looking for anything. I'm just kind of curious as what's out there. And boat trader, rv, four wheeler, whatever, atv. I'm trying to see what everybody's got and selling and all that stuff and what things are worth. I do that with houses, Zillow, all that stuff. So I saw this. I missed my old houseboat and. But I didn't love it. I didn't love the interior of it, certain things about it, but I did miss having it. And we had a pontoon. Had a lot of fun with that. But, you know, I wanted to. Something to spend a night out on the boat, on the. On the lake and stuff. So I thought one day maybe I might get a boat that we could sleep in. So I started looking at all kinds of boats and different things, and they're very expensive. But I saw this. I saw this Gibson and looked at the other Gibsons and saw the price and thought it was good. I showed Amy. And I'm looking at this thing and looking at this thing and looking at it. Every couple of days I look at it and I'm like, oh, man, that thing does look good. I wonder what it smells like, you know, I wonder, what is it? Does it smell okay? Does it smell bad?

[Amy]

So it didn't smell good. That's. Just say that.

[Dale Jr.]

Anyways, I'm good. The boat's out of my life. I actually went back on the Internet. It's gone. Must have sold somebody.

[Amy]

Listing was gone.

[Dale Jr.]

Somebody must have bought it, right? All right, that's probably better, you know, somebody else buy it. I'm glad it's disappeared. I didn't need that. I didn't need to do that. That's my. You know, it's okay. And months go by, and my niece Carson says, hey, boat you're looking at. I talked about it on. On our podcast. She says, the guy that has that boat still has it for sale. I was like, man, you can't be talking about the same boat. I mean, of all the boats out there, how do you know? How did you. How did this guy get back to you? And I was like, send me a picture of the damn boat you're talking about. And I'm expecting to get a photo and not be the boat. And Go, hey, it's not the boat. This guy don't know what he's talking about. Sure enough, sends a picture, and it's the picture. Wow. It's the boat. I'm like, all right, this is the universe. This is. This is fate.

[Dale]

It's a sign.

[Dale Jr.]

It's a sign. It's calling me. The boat needs to be in my life, and so the boat needs me.

[Amy]

The boat needs me to fix it.

[Dale Jr.]

So I made a long list. I made a long list of that. I needed to know about this boat. Does it stink? Does. Does this work? Does this work? Does this work? I don't want to buy a boat. I gotta fix a couple certain things that were gonna be really tough to fix.

[Amy]

Yeah, major things.

[Dale Jr.]

Long list. So I send Sunny and a boat guy, a boat expert, marina guy, out to Gatlinburg to look at it. Sonny gets on it, sends me videos. He's on it riding, riding on it. Tells me everything's fine. So we bought the boat and took a while to get it over here. It went to a ship. It went to a marina and set in the yard, jacked up on stilts. And we worked on it and cleaned it and fixed a lot of things and put all the carpet in it. Got it ready. We furnished it, and we called it. She said no, because Amy. Because this is a joke. Yeah. Yeah. And, yeah, until recently, I think Amy just finally. It finally clicked for Amy. I think in the last month or.

[Amy]

So, yeah, I mean, I've been gonna enjoy the boat. It was fun. It was fun going out. Yesterday we decided we were just gonna take Wednesday since there was nothing on the calendar, and go hang out with no kids. They had school.

[Dale Jr.]

It was great.

[Amy]

And it was great. We sat there. It took me. Excuse me. It took me a solid four hours to, like, truly relax. I asked Dale, I'm like, what time is it? Because I actually just stopped thinking about all the things I have to do. And it took about four hours. Took him about an hour and a half. But we get on the boat and we get out of the slip, no problem. We cruise. Dale throws the anchors out, and then all of a sudden, the boat dies.

[Dale]

Oh, no.

[Amy]

The generator goes out. I mean, he had cracked one beer, and we had just sat down upstairs, and he's like. Like, there's no motor. There's nothing's going. The radio stopped. Everything stopped. And he's like, oh, crap. So he goes downstairs, and I stay away just to not get in the business. And he's got the. The deck flap Open. And he's looking around where the engines are and everything, the batteries. And he's tinkering and messing. And I feel like he's gonna figure it out at some point. Cause he just is good at that, you know what I mean? I was not worried whatsoever. It was getting a little hot up there. I'm like, oh crap. I hope he like gets it moving soon. All of a sudden I hear his pitch. Like he's got Sonny on the phone and he's facetiming just trying to work through it together. And I hear his voice get really high pitched. And I didn't hear what he said, but I knew it wasn't probably something nice. And so I like slowly slink down the stairs and get a little closer, like, is there anything I can do to help you? And he's like, not unless you can fix a generator. I'm like, I'll just get my broomstick and go get my wine and I'll be right back. And I went back upstairs and just sipped my wine. It was, you know, texted with Sunny and Katie. I was like, oh gosh, this is bad. This is so bad. He's laying on his belly with his hand in there, just pushing buttons and flying.

[Dale Jr.]

Man, I'm sweating up a storm.

[Amy]

Oh, he's red in the face.

[Dale Jr.]

Cause you gotta get down an inch. Engine compartment, we just ran and things to get out in the water.

[Amy]

Yeah. And it's got, it's got a little water and sludge in the bottom. That's just part of. It's just part of it. So I'm like, oh no, he's gonna have to get down in that.

[Dale Jr.]

The, the generator has an autumn. The generator has the start switches on in a. It has a little starter box mounted at the top of generator and on that starter box is a couple of amps. And you can start the generator there or you can actually go up to the front of boat in the exact same switches and system is up there as well. And one of those amps had kind of came. One of those amps that kind of jarred itself loose. And so when I'm. I was trying. I don't know why the generator quit running, but maybe because the amp with the amp comes out of that starter box. It just shuts the generator down. But I finally figured it out. And that little thing wouldn't stay screwed in there. It's spring loaded. And so I got a couple pair. I got a pair of pliers and finagled it around and got it to where it would Lock in and stay and cranked it up and all was well. But it took me a while to figure out exactly why the generator had zero power. Like it had no. Like it didn't have a battery hooked up to the starter.

[Amy]

It wouldn't turn over at all.

[Dale Jr.]

Starter wouldn't do. So I got really hot and mad about it and sitting down there with Sonny and I was like, it was like nothing ever works. Nothing ever works. And then I got, I got upstairs after we got everything running and I sat down and she goes, she goes, yeah, I heard you getting upset. I said, yeah. I was like, you know what? I asked for this. I bought a 20 year old. I bought a 25 year old boat. I wanted it, I begged for it. You know, I got it and here it is and this is what I get. You know, it's going to have problems. Never going to be perfect. It's going to have. There's going to be things that it doesn't do right or.

[Amy]

I couldn't believe he just got so mad. So I haven't seen him that mad in a really long time. I just, well, we had just, we had just sat down to relax.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't, I try not to do this, but I had thought about that. Go. I had thought about going out on that boat for the last 24 hours.

[Amy]

And built it up in your mind.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. And I'm like, man, this is going to be so much fun. Where the kids are going to be at home, me and Amy by ourselves out on the lake. We're going to have six hours to just sit and man, we get out there and I'm like, well, I guess we got to go back to the dock. I mean, I can't run the generator can't run, air conditioner can't run nothing. This ain't gonna be that comfortable, you know.

[Amy]

But how would we have gotten back to the dock?

[Dale Jr.]

All the motors run fine. Oh, the boat would run.

[Amy]

We could have just swim home.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, we could have, you know, we could have motored around on the lake. But, you know, I don't. It would have been. We could, we would have, we would have been able to be fine out there without the generator. But like. Yeah, like, nothing would. You wouldn't have power to nothing. You wouldn't be able to.

[Amy]

I gotcha.

[Dale Jr.]

You know the refrigerator, right? Would all the refrigerator. All the food and all things would be so. All the beer would be cold in the refrigerator. We had some ice on us, but we'd have figured it out.

[Amy]

Yeah, it would have Been fine. I wasn't nervous. I wasn't worried because he's always good at fixing things. I just knew he was gonna figure it out. He came back upstairs like, I can't believe you got so mad about that. He's like, I just don't wanna have to work on something. Every time we go somewhere, everything's always. There's always something to fix. I was like, I know, but you can fix it. You fixed it. I can't believe you got so mad. He's like, you're just telling me that to make me feel better. I'm like, no, I'm not. I'm blowing smoke up your ass. But is it working? Cause calm down.

[Dale]

Yeah, the heat, too. If it's hot like that, you're working.

[Dale Jr.]

And nothing.

[Amy]

There was no breeze on that boat yesterday.

[Dale Jr.]

It was hot. Yeah. There wasn't any air moving on the lake. N. We had a great time, though, man. By the time we got. We had. I was out there. We had it fixed in 30 minutes, and then we got to sit the rest of the day. But it was kind of funny how it did take us. It did take us. It took me about an hour and a half. Took Amy about four hours to, like, truly get chill. Like, I can't sit still. I gotta get up, stand around, look around, play with everything.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

See how stuff works and see what doesn't work. I'm making a little list. All right. I gotta fix the lights on the dash lights. Like, the gauge lights don't work. You know?

[Amy]

He's like, I'm looking for tube lights for the kitchen.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. There's a little tube light on the floor.

[Amy]

How to do nothing anymore. We just can't do it.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. There's a little tube light that's on the floor that, when turned on, would light the floor in the kitchenette at night.

[Amy]

Yeah, perfect.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, Right. It's just a little rope light. Yeah. And it doesn't work. It's all old as hell. So I'm like, I need to. I need to Google and figure out what that is and buy that and, you know, see if I can fix it. I'm ready to fix it. But, yeah, it's. I, like, that's.

[Amy]

It's a project.

[Dale Jr.]

Fun part about the boat is it's always a project, and there's always something to work. But sometimes, like, when a generator won't run, like, I'm not a generator guy.

[Amy]

You are now.

[Dale Jr.]

So I was like, you know, what are the chances of me really actually getting this fixed and getting it to work. I didn't really have a lot of. A lot of faith in it, but we figured.

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[Amy]

I want to ask you something random. Did you know that Mike knows how to cook hibachi?

[Dale Jr.]

Yes.

[Amy]

You know, he used to be hibachi chef, Mike Davis. Mike Davis used to, like. Yeah. He knows how to know that onion volcano and the heartbeat with the rice. He does the whole thing.

[Dale]

Really?

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale Jr.]

Mike can toss the end of the shrimp into. Into the hat and all that.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

What?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Wow. His pocket.

[Dale]

Do you know that, James?

[Dale Jr.]

I did not. No.

[Dale]

We had no idea back here.

[Amy]

Yeah, he's. He's full of tricks, Mike Davis.

[Dale Jr.]

He has his job in college.

[Amy]

Yeah, he did that in college as like a. Just a side job to make some cash.

[Dale Jr.]

Wow.

[Amy]

He sold us all the whole thing. That's metal spatulas.

[Dale Jr.]

We should walk in here one day with some spatulas and just start.

[Dale]

He'll probably hear from upstairs and come running down.

[Amy]

Well, we took the kids to do hibachi for Adelyn's birthday on Sunday. We're still in Texas, and I'm getting ready to. We're going to go eat lunch and then we're going to get on the plane and come home. So it's like six little girls and then four parents, and Nicole's sitting around on the end next to you.

[Dale Jr.]

Hey, I miss this.

[Amy]

And she likes Japanese food. She loves fried rice and all that mess. So I'm not worried about what she's going to be eating, but her foot was still kind of an issue. So, like, I'm carrying her back and forth to the bathroom and carrying her to the car. Hold me hold me, hold me, hold me. Because she's hobbling around, bless her. And so we sit down and we wait a few minutes. They're all cold, complaining and, you know, dancing around. And she of course, doesn't have her shoes on because her foot hurts. So we're in this rather used restaurant. Is that the right term?

[Dale Jr.]

Sure. Well, polite term.

[Amy]

Well loved restaurant.

[Dale Jr.]

Well loved, yes.

[Amy]

And she's running around without her shoes. So I'm grossed out already. We haven't even started eating. The lady does the whole shebang. Everybody's eat, eaten and has a good time. And I'm getting up to take Isla to the bathroom and I scoot my chair back and I see a gigantic cockroach on the floor.

[Dale Jr.]

Holy, really?

[Amy]

And it was dead.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh my God.

[Amy]

It was right there under my feet. I looked at Kobe and I'm like, hey, Kobe. I point down, he's like, he goes, and of course we've all eaten already. It's just too late, you know what I mean? Like, the food's in the belly and I'm so grossed out. We're still waiting for them to bring out ice cream for the kids, so we have to sit there for a little bit longer. And he made it disappear when I took Isla to the bathroom. But man, that's always the worst thing when you're at a restaurant. You see that?

[Dale Jr.]

I think at the end of cooking they. Or maybe at the end they set the, set this thing on fire to clean it.

[Amy]

To clean it. Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

So at the end.

[Amy]

They did. At the beginning too. They did it's name out in the oil.

[Dale Jr.]

So Amy's filming Nicole from across the table and then Nicole's by herself on the end, by herself. And she's sitting with other kids and when they set the damn table on fire, like Nicole's sitting there and she goes.

[Amy]

She didn't know what was about to happen. So she did.

[Dale Jr.]

She's like, like a 70 year old lady, like, blue hair. She's like, oh, look at that fire. And I'm like, what the hell? It's like somebody else. And I'll, I'll, I'll like, I'll ask her. I'm like, are you, are you somebody else?

[Amy]

I feel like she's been here before.

[Dale Jr.]

Are you from. Have you been here before?

[Amy]

Yeah, the way she just dances like specific genres of music. Yeah. She's like, really?

[Dale Jr.]

The other day she's heard it before.

[Amy]

You know what I mean?

[Dale Jr.]

The other day she said something and I'm like. I was like, how do you Know what that is? She goes, I just do. And I was like, where'd you see it? At school or did somebody tell you about it? She goes, no, I just know.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

And I'm like, no, no, you've seen it somewhere. Like, you see it on tv? Cartoon.

[Amy]

She said something.

[Dale Jr.]

She's like, no. Yeah, this happened again, just me and her. And I was like, are you somebody else? Did you. Were you here before? She's like, no. She's like, no. I'm like, that's wild.

[Amy]

I've always contemplated that she might be Dale's mom.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And we named her after Brenda. Her middle name is Lorraine as well. I'm like, you've got Mimi vibes. Like, she's got that laissez faire, I'm here for one thing kind of attitude, and she wants to do everything herself, and she's so funny and. And I. She just gives me Mimi vibes.

[Dale Jr.]

And so, yeah, there's a video of this kid that. I can't remember what. The name or anything, but there's a video of this kid and he. They were everyone and parents, everyone is convinced that this kid is from the past, Right. He was someone else reincarnated. And the interesting thing about it is, even if it's true, right. Let's just assume, hypothetically, that this is true and this kid was this other person in a past life. The kid, even though he knows. He knows things, he knows all of these things from the past that this other person experienced. He doesn't think that he's reincarnated, right? And so because I was like. Because Nicole's telling me all these things, and I'm like, have you been here before, or were you another person in another life? And she's like, no. Like, that's a dumb question. So stupid. Of course not. You know? Yeah. I'm four. What are you talking about? I know, right? Of course I haven't been here before. And I'm like, I don't know.

[Amy]

I don't know either.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

They say when kids are really little, too, if they. If you ask them the right questions, when they start to regurgitate things that they shouldn't know, or they talk about a dream they had or something that they used to do, and they've never done those things that you should, like, you can kind of unlock some of that. I've seen so many videos. You can really go down a rabbit hole looking at videos like that on the Internet of kids that, like, recall historical things or things that happened, and you can fact check it and prove it. There's so many of those stories.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, I bet.

[Amy]

It's fascinating. But, yeah, I feel like Nicole's. I think she's got something going on that we don't know about.

[Dale]

You gotta test it. Like, just put on some old music that maybe she's never heard before and.

[Amy]

Just watch her dance. She knows it. Or she'll start singing it. Yeah, it's really weird.

[Dale]

That's crazy.

[Amy]

What were we talking about the other day where we ended up with how we sleep?

[Dale Jr.]

We were talking about cuddling or something. The girls were sitting there and we were laughing about something, and you said something like, cuddle. Cuddle with me when we're. Cuddle with me. And my. When. When we're sleeping in the bed. Cuddle.

[Amy]

You trying to cuddle with me in the kitchen?

[Dale Jr.]

I think so.

[Amy]

And I was busy, like, I don't.

[Dale Jr.]

Know, but you were like, cuddle with me. Cuddle with me in the bed. And I'm like, you don't like. You don't like nothing touching you when you're sleeping? You don't want to, like, Amy. Amy sleep. She's like, don't touch. I'm sleeping. Like, if I put a leg or a foot over there, she's like, moves it away.

[Amy]

Well, your feet are cold, and I think that's rude.

[Dale Jr.]

And we were like. And we were like, man, you remember when we first. When we first were living together, we used to sleep holding hands. We used to sleep. We did, yeah.

[Amy]

We would fall asleep holding hands together.

[Dale Jr.]

Really?

[Amy]

That's so weird. Don't get away. I'm gonna hold your hand. It's like, funny we go through these phases because then, like, we'd spoon and he was always on the, you know, behind. And then when he fell asleep, because he falls asleep, like, super fast. I can't sleep like that. I'd roll him over. I'd do the whole rollover thing. And so, like, when we actually slept, we weren't really touching unless he wanted to put his cold feet on me in the middle of the night, which. So rude. But now it's like, don't you wake me. Don't you touch me. You stay over there. And also, don't steal all the covers because he sleeps with a blanket. Separate them. Me now, because that was an issue, too, for a long time.

[Dale Jr.]

We. We would sleep holding hands, and you would. And then, like, Amy twitches. I'm probably sure. I'm sure. I do, too.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Like, we all twitch, right? And you'll be sleeping there holding Hands or. Or even if you're just like spooning or. Or whatever. And, man, when the other person starts to twitch and you're like, I'm not asleep yet. They're twitching like hell and you're like, I'm not going to be able to go to sleep.

[Amy]

Yeah, now the twitch is going to keep up.

[Dale Jr.]

Now the twitching is keeping me up because Amy's hands, like, when you're holding her hand and she goes to sleep, she starts twitching her fingers and stuff and you're like, well, this is gonna keep me up.

[Amy]

You definitely do that.

[Dale Jr.]

And you're like trying to slide out of the hand without waking out of there. Without waking them up.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

I came upstairs last night. You were. You were out. She's got this show. She's back into the Outlanders.

[Amy]

Season of the Outlanders out.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. So she's finished. She didn't. I guess you didn't finish one or two of the original, and now they got a new season. So you're getting your ass called up, getting ready and getting prepped.

[Amy]

I think I'm in the new season.

[Dale Jr.]

For your new season.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

And this is. It's awesome. Yeah, she's into it.

[Amy]

Each episode's like an hour long, so it's a commitment.

[Dale Jr.]

But I come up there, it's on our volume, just going. And Amy's just.

[Amy]

I literally woke up going, did I watch the whole thing?

[Dale Jr.]

I knew you were gonna do that. Yeah, I knew you were gonna do that. You're gonna. Don't you hate that? You get up and you're like, the next day when you.

[Amy]

Well, it runs, too, for a while. I'm like, God dang. I don't know where it was.

[Dale Jr.]

Where it was. Yeah, you gotta plug back in. You're like, I gotta investigate. Like, where do I remember? Yeah, do I remember this? Did I see this? Is this. And so, yeah, I had to turn it off and slide into bed without waking you up.

[Amy]

I don't think anything was gonna wake me up if the Outlander didn't even keep me up.

[Dale Jr.]

Not after your day on the boat.

[Amy]

No.

[Dale Jr.]

No. You might want to watch all of it over.

[Amy]

I probably should.

[Dale]

You might have been up. You missed the whole thing.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't think you remember much from seven o'clock on.

[Amy]

No, I'm sure I don't. Listen, I've told you before, I can't hang out with you, dude.

[Dale Jr.]

No, you were a pro. You are doing your thing. We were kind of not even on the same page up there on the boat.

[Amy]

It was hot. And that wine was going down too fast.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Yeah. Amy was laps ahead of me.

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[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. So let's do the. Yeah. Let's do the Whisper Challenge. What is this?

[Dale]

This is the headphone game.

[Amy]

Oh, your favorite.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Dale]

Bring that back. Abigail has the headphones.

[Dale Jr.]

She's. I'll go. I'll. I'll put them on first.

[Amy]

You're going first.

[Dale]

Perfect.

[Amy]

All right. Whisper Challenge.

[Dale Jr.]

Damn.

[Amy]

Ready? What is he listening to?

[Dale]

I don't know. Abigail's getting control of it.

[Amy]

Abby's done it. What's he listening to?

[Dale Jr.]

Taylor Swift. All right.

[Amy]

Okay. The sun shines and people forget.

[Dale Jr.]

Say again?

[Amy]

The sun shines and people forget.

[Dale Jr.]

What?

[Amy]

The sun shines and people forget.

[Dale Jr.]

Slow down.

[Amy]

The sun shines and people forget. This is so hard to do. Over and over again.

[Dale Jr.]

No, you're not. You're doing it. You can't push this. This thick.

[Amy]

This thick.

[Dale Jr.]

Booty thimble.

[Amy]

The sunshines and people forget.

[Dale Jr.]

You're doing a T. The sun. This.

[Amy]

The sun Such shines.

[Dale Jr.]

Sucks.

[Amy]

And people forget.

[Dale Jr.]

Pimple. Yeah.

[Amy]

Do you give up?

[Dale Jr.]

Huh?

[Amy]

Do you give up?

[Dale Jr.]

Can I learn?

[Amy]

The sun shines and people forget.

[Dale Jr.]

What?

[Amy]

The sun shines and people forget.

[Dale Jr.]

What in the.

[Amy]

I don't know, man.

[Dale Jr.]

That's so random.

[Dale]

It's the first lines of eminence front.

[Dale Jr.]

That's why I thought he would get it.

[Amy]

He should know that I know. I'm Will. Get a beer.

[Dale Jr.]

Happy alligator.

[Amy]

No, I'm gonna get a beer.

[Dale Jr.]

What?

[Amy]

I'm gonna get a beer. I'm trying to say it with his accent.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm only gonna get bigger.

[Amy]

I'm all. Get a beer.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm holding on to my beer.

[Amy]

Close. I'm all.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm all.

[Amy]

I'm gonna get a beer.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm gonna drink my beer. Close enough. Yeah, that's good. It is good. Yeah.

[Amy]

I'm gonna get a beer.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, that's close. That's it.

[Dale]

That's it.

[Amy]

That's it.

[Dale]

Switch.

[Dale Jr.]

I did pretty good.

[Dale]

It's pretty good.

[Dale Jr.]

The.

[Dale]

The second one was the first lines of Eminence Front.

[Amy]

Your favorite song. Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

I mean, we're here for the beat. It's such a random.

[Dale]

It's very random. But I figured you might know the.

[Dale Jr.]

First couple of the lyrics to Eminence Front. It's crazy. All right, Amy, hang on.

[Amy]

Let me see if I can get this.

[Dale Jr.]

You'll get caught up in the jam. That's a good song. So it's, like, hard to not. You're like, I like this song. Kind of want to just listen to it. Okay, ready? Can you hear me? Foxtrot, uniform, kilo.

[Amy]

What? Foxtrot, foxtrot, unicorn, unicorn.

[Dale Jr.]

Uniform, uniform, kilo, Kilo.

[Amy]

Oh, Foxtrot, unicorn, unicorn, Kilo. Charlie. Charlie, Kilo, Charlie, Kilo. Yeah. F U C K. Can you hear me? No.

[Dale Jr.]

Okay. Do you want to go day drinking? Do you know what I said?

[Amy]

You're crazy.

[Dale Jr.]

Do you want to go day drinking?

[Amy]

Do you want to go day drinking?

[Dale Jr.]

Wow.

[Amy]

Crazy. No. Is that it?

[Dale Jr.]

Yes. Yeah. That's all I had.

[Dale]

Unless you guys have other ones. That was all I came up with.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Amy did pretty good.

[Dale]

She did good.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Hey, guys. Dale and I are in our Bless yous Heart studio at Dirty One Media. What am I saying? We're in the Dirty One Media studios for another round of Bless yous Heart, and we can't wait for your questions. What you got?

[Dale]

Well, our first question is from David. He saw your Instagram story of how your fantasy football draft went. So how'd that go? And how do you think about your team this year?

[Amy]

So we. We don't auto draft that, like, is a rule, but we've been doing fantasy football. It's all girls. It's a Sugar and Spice league for seven years now.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And so it's a lot of fun. We get really competitive, and we. We. Everybody puts $40 in, so winner takes all. It's just for fun. But I was drafting on my phone as I was in Hibachi on Sunday, so it was kind of chaotic.

[Dale Jr.]

Restaurant with her family in Texas.

[Amy]

And. Yes. And paying attention to my phone, she texts me.

[Dale Jr.]

She's like, all right, I got these guys in My queue. I'm like, I have not done any studying. I have no idea. I can be of no help. I was. I told her, I said, just look at the average drafting position and use that as sort of a starting point. But she drafts her own team by herself and texts me later. She goes, I got an A. Yeah.

[Amy]

So they always give you a grade at the end. And I was at the top of the board.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Wow, that's good.

[Amy]

I did it really well.

[Dale]

I screenshotted your team, and you have some good, good guys here.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Brock Bauer is good.

[Amy]

Yeah. So I drafted. I was in the second position of my draft, too, which is good and bad because I get a good guy, like, right off the bat, but then I have to wait forever to draft my second player.

[Dale Jr.]

You. It's tough to, like, you land a good player out of the gate, but then you. You know, you. You usually got. Usually going to have one position where you tank. Yeah, yeah. Just that because of the situation. But she got a great tight end. She got a great situation going on there.

[Dale]

Yeah, that's pretty good.

[Amy]

We kind of, like, follow a rule about, like, you're not going to take your quarterback first, obviously, but, like, girls just. They're not like guys. Like, they're going to do what they want.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So sometimes you'll have that all of a sudden, like, this awesome. QV went first. You're like, wait, what are.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

This is not part of the program.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And it throws everybody off.

[Dale Jr.]

Whack.

[Amy]

Yeah, it does.

[Dale]

Have you ever won?

[Amy]

I think I've won once. Only once. I was in the final game last year, and Dale's cousin Christy and I are. She's in the lead with me, and she. She's very competitive, and she had a really good quarterback. And so we did, like, one of those not so onboard trades right before the end of the game.

[Dale Jr.]

Dakota says.

[Amy]

Right before the game started.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Dakota says you've been watching Outlander. Has she seen the new prequel series, Blood of My Blood?

[Amy]

No, I haven't.

[Dale Jr.]

Prequel? What does that even mean? Is that like.

[Amy]

It's like the story before. Oh, Bowelander happens.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Interesting, interesting, interesting.

[Dale Jr.]

This is why I look into.

[Amy]

We've got the chat here, and so now Dale's just gonna.

[Dale Jr.]

I'll watch the chat if anything comes up. You guys go ahead.

[Dale]

Pauline wanted to know as well. She was on Facebook. She wanted to know about football, if you had a favorite team.

[Amy]

Amy, a favorite team?

[Dale]

Favorite team?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

NFL team.

[Amy]

I mean, the Commanders.

[Dale]

Commanders.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Did you have a Favorite before?

[Amy]

Not really. I didn't really care. My dad didn't really put football on the tv, and so he didn't, like, the whole family wasn't a fan of the Dallas Cowboys or whoever some of my family members were, but my dad wasn't. So, like, it wasn't a big deal in our house. So team commanders have to be.

[Dale Jr.]

Now.

[Dale]

The next one is from Josie. She wants to know, since you and Dale are so into music, do you ever show up at a party or gathering and secretly judge the playlist?

[Amy]

I mean, yeah, usually I feel like no. Even if you're not into music, I.

[Dale Jr.]

Judge music everywhere I go.

[Amy]

It's a tone, no matter who you are.

[Dale Jr.]

I came into the studio today and was judging whatever the hell. Not really.

[Amy]

What were y' all playing this morning?

[Dale Jr.]

Devo.

[Dale]

Oh, Devo. We were playing.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, Devo.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

What's that?

[Dale Jr.]

It's. Yeah, something Devo. I mean, Devo. I know, like, the. You know, the. The MTV Devo, but y' all were playing, like, some B sides in here. I'm like, what the hell?

[Amy]

I don't even know who that is.

[Dale Jr.]

I bet those songs ain't been played by anyone in a long time.

[Dale]

Judging James's music. Now I judge.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, is it James?

[Dale]

It was. I think it was James.

[Amy]

James.

[Dale]

I'm blaming James.

[Dale Jr.]

We have a Sonos system. Why were you playing it on some random Bluetooth speakers? Just out of convenience. I'll talk to you about that after, though. Okay.

[Dale]

Take this offline.

[Dale Jr.]

Is the Sonos broken? Oh, dang it. Still? Oh, my gosh. Always something.

[Dale]

I always judge. If you go to, like, Target or Walmart, you could tell if there's, like, what generation's playing.

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah. So I'm at the generation, though, where, like, I'm kind of into what they're playing at the grocery store. I find myself dancing because it's usually 80s or something in the 90s, you know, like, it's upbeat.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, yeah.

[Amy]

I mean, girlfriends and I kind of joke about that. Like, you know, you're of age when you want to break out and dance in the grocery store because you're into whatever's playing. Because it's not elevator music. It's not just, like, you know, old elevator music. Yeah, yeah, of course.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Which is, like, the worst to play in a store. It's like getting out of the store. The next question is from Sarah. I don't know if you guys saw Cracker Barrel change its logo after 48 years. She wants to know if. Has there been Ever been like a logo like that that's made you mad? Because it's a huge outroar on social media about this.

[Amy]

I did see the post yesterday about the logo change and I don't understand why they did that. I mean, it's so modern looking.

[Dale Jr.]

What logo? Cracker barrel.

[Amy]

The cracker barrel.

[Dale]

They changed their logo?

[Amy]

Yeah, they took the barrel out, took the dude out that was on the barrel. So it's just like a yellow.

[Dale Jr.]

Been there cracker barrel in a while.

[Amy]

No, no, we haven't been to one in a while, but yeah, I don't understand why companies do that.

[Dale]

Yeah, there's. There's a couple examples. Like old soda cans used to be so cool and now they're just so plain. Yeah, a lot of people were talk about that.

[Amy]

Yeah. I think the old soda cans that were more simple are more appealing.

[Dale]

Really?

[Amy]

Because I get it. Like. Yeah, they get when they redo them, they put like bubbles on the cans and different things and it's just, I don't know, it just takes the vibe away.

[Dale]

Too busy.

[Dale Jr.]

I know when you change like a track logo, Talladega changed their track logo, which I think it's pretty good now. But people will just get so mad when, when you do stuff like that or teams will change your logo.

[Amy]

Yeah, I think people just worry that the product's going to change or the.

[Dale Jr.]

Things I'll call out. We got, we got a really hell of a creative team here. But they wanted to change the Junior Motorsports logo. The flaming wheel that Junior Motorsports has always had. They were like, man, we need to do modern. I'm like, man, there's equity in the, in the identifier. Right. And like when you see, you know, Jumpman or you know, when you see certain logos, you, you know immediately what that is. Right. And you build all that equity up in what I said. So you can't change the flaming wheel. You can try to spice it up and they did some things like clean it up a little bit and get it a little better looking. But I was like, no, we can't change our logo. What flaming wheels. Badass. Nobody else has a flaming wheel, so we don't look like everybody else.

[Dale]

Once somebody said there's been, there'd be more of an outrage of Waffle House changed their logo. And I agree with that. So if Waffle House changed their logo, there'd be more of an outrage. Lisa said that?

[Amy]

Yeah, for sure.

[Dale]

Huge outrage.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Next question's from Beth. Who is your celebrity or TV crush growing up? Zack Morris, like Saved by the bell.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Really?

[Dale]

Really.

[Amy]

I mean, I thought he was cute. I don't remember, like, crushing hard on anybody till, like, in high school. And, like, Ben Affleck was pretty cute, like when he and Matt Damon did their movies together. I thought that was cool. I didn't really. I don't know. So. Celebrity thing's never really been a big deal to me.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Which is, I guess, why I didn't get shy around you. Dale had crushes, but that's probably more interesting to talk about is Dale's crushes. He has a crush on Diane Lane.

[Dale Jr.]

I did not really. Like, I did. I guess I was like. Like, this is 2000, right?

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Different time, but Tyra Banks or Pam Anderson, you know, just right. Yeah.

[Dale]

Pam Anderson's like Sydney Sweeney today. Everyone loves Sydney Sweeney. She's. She's everyone's celebrity crush. Mine, growing up was actually. Who's the girl? Kelly Kapowski. Yeah, she was popular, too.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

So. Yeah, that's a big one. Next question from Barbara. Her and her husband are building a new house, and she wants to know if you guys have any suggestions on how to keep the stress down between the two while building this house.

[Amy]

Well, it sounds like a fun project. Dale and I work really well together and things like that. It's hard to keep the stress down when you're building a house. Like, it doesn't matter what your time frame is or your budget. It's just a stressful process. Right.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I would say decide on what you want to collaborate on, and then if you don't want an opinion on something, don't ask. Because if you've already picked out the tile that you like and it's in your budget and you've already. Or wallpaper or whatever, if you are like, you've got your heart set on it and you ask an opinion and someone doesn't like it, especially your husband, then you're starting over, then you're delayed, then you're frustrated. So, I mean, collaborate on things that are important. And then if he's going to let you just kind of do the pretty stuff and not. You just don't worry about asking him is what I would. Dale's look at me. Like, what if I ask Dale and I am excited about it and he's like, that's terrible. I am crushed. And it is like I don't ever slowed my mental, like my. My path or my. My vibe.

[Dale Jr.]

Amy, that doesn't happen, though.

[Amy]

It does sometimes.

[Dale Jr.]

I've never. You have never shown me anything a Dress a piece of tile wallpaper. And I've said, that's terrible.

[Amy]

Yeah, you have. Or you've made a comment about what you think it looks like, and I'm like, now, I can't unsee that.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, that's true. Like, I'll say, oh. Instead of saying, that's terrible, I'll go, that reminds me of this or that.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

And then that might be not what she likes to hear. Yeah. I mean, I. I don't care. I. I don't. I don't have a preference. I care. I want her to be happy. I want the wallpaper to be cool, but I'm not a wallpaper guy. And so I'm not gonna go, oh, yeah, let me show you. I got some ideas.

[Amy]

So we put wallpaper up. This is a perfect example. In this bathroom at the beach house. Yes. But I had bought the wallpaper and was just waiting on the wallpaper installer to put it up. So it sat in the cabinet for a while, and he was finally available. So I get it out, and I've got it sitting on the back of the toilet. And Dale sees it, and he's just like, is that the wallpaper you're gonna put up in this bathroom? I'm like, yeah. He goes, oh, I don't know. You're gonna regret that later. I was like, it's too late. It's happening. And so it went up, and it's awesome.

[Dale Jr.]

It's this. It is awesome. It is awesome.

[Amy]

It's loud and ridiculous on purpose.

[Dale Jr.]

It looks like the wallpaper, if you remember the Love Boat. Yeah. Right back in the day. It's like, this is late 70s.

[Amy]

It's pink, and it's got palm trees.

[Dale Jr.]

It looks like some. It's on the halls of the Love Boat. Okay. And it. But it's awesome. Yeah. Like, it's a g. Is a little strong, but it's. It's. It's out there. Yeah. And it's very, very Palm beach, you know, from the 80s, late early 80s.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

It's cool.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

But I'm like, as much as I love it and I. I could live the rest of my life with it sitting there. I think Amy's going to put it up and go badass. And then five years from now, or maybe 10, she'll go, yeah, that's a little too strong right now. I'm going to pull it down, you know, and. Which she may. And that's totally fine, too. But.

[Amy]

But his initial comment was just what I was saying.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

You know what? I mean.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, I just didn't see that coming because I like. Like that. I like the in your face, you know, kind of not. Not really aggressive, but just, like, I like things that kind of jump off the wall. Yeah. And so it was right up my alley.

[Amy]

But I don't know. Building houses is stressful. I wish you luck.

[Dale]

Well, every decision is so important in the moment.

[Amy]

Yeah. And it drives the next thing, and it drives the whole design, so it's hard. You got to get that stuff kind of.

[Dale Jr.]

I wish I was more involved in the house we live in now. I. I didn't want to be. I let. I was like, yeah, whatever. Y' all do it. Yep. I'm fine. No, I don't care how things look or whatever. They all. They. They would bring the whole room into me on a board and go, here's your carpet. Here's your wall. Here's your ceiling. Here's your this, here's your that. I'm, like, fine, you know? Yeah. Just as long as I can race all night on my SIM rig. That's really.

[Amy]

All he said is, like, either it's orange or I don't care. Just whatever. There are things, like, in our house now, like wallpapers or little details that. Details that didn't turn out like they were supposed to, or, like, papers, like the bathroom right next to the kitchen. I gave him options, and he picked my least favorite option. So that was where I regret this choice. Like, don't give them all the options. Just pick it.

[Dale Jr.]

Just do whatever you want, because now.

[Amy]

It'S boring and brown. It's, like, tan brown. Tired of looking at it.

[Dale Jr.]

Do whatever. Yeah. Like, my advice for the ladies out there is just to pick your choice.

[Amy]

Go for it.

[Dale Jr.]

Go for it. Tell him that's what's happening. No, it's not.

[Dale]

It's good.

[Dale Jr.]

That's good advice.

[Dale]

I think there was one in the chat from Julie earlier. She wanted to know if you guys had, like, a favorite moment with the kids and the animals. You have.

[Amy]

And the animals.

[Dale]

Yes.

[Amy]

I always just like taking the kids to the fence and letting them feed them carrots. They like to stand on the fence line and. And the donkeys come right up to you. The donkeys, too, have a song that the previous owner sang, so Isla will sing you are my Sunshine to them, and it's so cute. Nicole makes me a little nervous because she just doesn't hold the carrot perfect, and it makes me feel like she's gonna get her finger bit off. So I don't take her out there as near as often as Isla. But Isla's good at it.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, that's good.

[Amy]

It makes Dill nervous too. He's like, she's too comfortable. She's gonna get in there and get herself in trouble.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, for sure. Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Have they fed the swans?

[Amy]

The swans?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Have we pet them?

[Dale]

Have you fed, have they fed them?

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, they feed the swans. Yeah, they, they're kind of scared of us. One of them hisses at me. But they really like Dale.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And he's fed them out of his hand a couple times. Okay, so they're Dale swans.

[Dale]

Very nice. Very nice.

[Amy]

It's kind of an ironic thing that the horses like us more and that. That Dale's into the swans.

[Dale Jr.]

We're in a bit of a pickle with swans right now. Oh, no, I think we can. I'll, I'll share so you don't have to worry.

[Amy]

But time to talk about the swans and not tell you all the truth.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, no. So the swan. We have some coyotes and foxes roaming around and we, we, we try to control the population, if you catch my drift. But the, the swans are in danger. So I don't really know how to fix this.

[Amy]

The pond is down kind of in the pond property where nobody is close.

[Dale Jr.]

The pond's on a little six acre spot. I could fence it and I'd need about a six foot fence at minimum with a, with a strand of bob wire on top getting it to about six and a half, maybe seven foot. And you know, that, that probably should keep the coyotes and fox out. They might be able to dig under in some areas. So we'd have to kind of stay after the fence and make sure it's good. But I got the fence priced and it's stupid. So I mean, what am I going to do? I think I'm going to have to send the swans off to another place that's better protected. So we might not be, we just might not be.

[Amy]

We just. The pond isn't in the right spot to have the swans, to be honest.

[Dale Jr.]

It's just too dangerous.

[Amy]

They're not safe.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, they're not. They're not at all safe.

[Amy]

So right now they're in Sunny's backyard.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Because he's got geese and chickens and all kinds of things.

[Dale Jr.]

And the swans are getting out of the pond.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

They're getting curious and wondering and going way off. And I mean way off like, like a half a mile. Wow. And catching them in other people's yards and take them home.

[Dale]

Oh, geez.

[Dale Jr.]

And I'm like, all right. You know, I got to figure out what to do here, because I don't want that on my conscience. Yeah. Something happened to them. So we're might. We found a place in South Carolina that has a couple ponds. It's safe. They would be. They would. They would be well taken care of down there.

[Amy]

So Isla, first thing she said, though, after she finished her breakfast was, let's go.

[Dale Jr.]

We haven't told the kids the scenario. No.

[Dale]

That's sad. But it sounds like this is the better move for.

[Dale Jr.]

They're gonna. They are not gonna survive where they're at. They're not.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Yep. Okay.

[Dale]

I'm team move the swans for safety.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

My last question. Mikey wants to know if you guys have had a recent parenting win or fail you'd like to share.

[Amy]

Parenting fail. I would say Dale removing the band aid off of Nicole's foot the other day was a fail.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

It was actually the band aid's fault.

[Dale Jr.]

That's earlier in the show. You'll hear that story.

[Amy]

The band aid created another new boo boo. I don't know. Parenting wind. Those are harder to see through the midst of all of the chaos. Do we have parenting winds? Nicole's brushing your teeth pretty well. Oh, that's a win. Dale's got an app on his phone, and these toothbrushes, they have a wand on the end. So, like, it sees where the toothbrush is going, and it gives them a grade, and then they get to get a mask and take a picture. The whole thing.

[Dale Jr.]

They're eating at a.

[Amy]

It teaches her how to hold the toothbrush and do her teeth. She's doing really well with that.

[Dale Jr.]

Wow.

[Amy]

We've always had a hard time getting her to.

[Dale Jr.]

Nicole would not brush her teeth by herself. She hates toothpaste. Till four months ago.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

So it's driving me crazy, because, you know, I just want them to have good teeth. Have good teeth. Yeah.

[Dale]

Yeah, of course.

[Amy]

Good manners, good health, good. All the things. And so with Isla, it was way easier. She was just easier to coach. Nicole didn't like the toothpaste, and so just brushing her teeth. Even when she was little and we were brushing him for her, she'd gag like the whole thing was just a hot mess. Or we'd have to hold her down.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

It was traumatic.

[Dale]

I would say it's a huge win, then.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

That's a big one.

[Amy]

That's a big one.

[Dale]

I'll take that. Well, I think it's a good place to stop asking me for today.

[Amy]

All right, guys, thank you for your questions. Dale and I have a fun show today. Hopefully you'll check it out. If you haven't already, please hit the subscribe button on our YouTube channel and we will see you next week.

[Dale Jr.]

Absolutely. Thank you all for tuning in. Check out Dirty Mo media, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram.

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[Dale Jr.]

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