Bless Your 'Hardt - Ghost Encounters & Granny Don't Cuss

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dale Jr. Download – "Bless Your 'Hardt - Ghost Encounters & Granny Don't Cuss"

Episode Information:

• Title: Bless Your 'Hardt - Ghost Encounters & Granny Don't Cuss
• Host/Author: Dirty Mo Media, SiriusXM
• Release Date: April 24, 2025

Overview: In this engaging episode of The Dale Jr. Download, NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Jr., alongside his co-hosts Dale and Amy, delves into supernatural experiences, shares personal ghost encounters, discusses family dynamics, and engages in light-hearted games. The episode blends humor, heartfelt stories, and insightful conversations, making it a captivating listen for both fans and newcomers.

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1. Ghost Encounters and Personal Experiences

A. Dale Jr.'s Sleep Paranormal Activity

• Timestamp [04:36]: Dale Jr. recounts a vivid night where he woke up scared after accidentally sensing a false alarm about potential cooking smells. This incident ties back to his sensitivity from past house fires.
  • “I slept till 2, smoking cigarettes and drinking amp energy.” [00:37]
• Timestamp [06:33]: Discusses seeing apparitions and the unsettling feeling of someone watching over him.
  • “It was a little, it was like a jump scare.” [07:34]

B. Dale’s Childhood Ghost Story

• Timestamp [10:43]: Dale shares a childhood experience of seeing a ghostly silhouette by his bedroom door and encountering unexplained noises in the kitchen.
  • “I saw it. I mean I looked at her for felt probably like three seconds.” [13:58]

C. Amy’s Paranormal Experience

• Timestamp [14:10]: Amy describes a terrifying experience of sleep paralysis where she saw dark silhouettes vibrating her bed and felt an overwhelming protective presence.
  • “I saw them, like, leave through the wall.” [15:15]
  • “Now I do [believe in ghosts].” [15:57]

D. The Meaning Behind Smelling Popcorn in Dreams

• Timestamp [08:41]: Dale explores the symbolism of smelling popcorn in dreams, referencing his missing dream book which suggests it could symbolize divine presence.

E. Viewer Engagement on Ghost Stories

• Timestamp [10:02]: Dale Jr. reads a humorous comment from an Instagram post about the lack of ancient or non-period-specific ghosts, sparking laughter and relatable anecdotes.
  • “Why are there never cavemen ghosts?” [10:02]

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2. Listener Questions and Discussions

A. Belief in Ghosts and Afterlife

• Timestamp [14:32]: The hosts discuss their beliefs in ghosts and the afterlife, sharing personal convictions about spiritual connections with deceased loved ones.
  • “I believe I can speak it. I believe I can be sitting in my car... and that they are [hearing it].” [17:20]

B. Deja Vu Experiences

• Timestamp [38:31]: Listener David asks about deja vu, leading Dale Jr. and Amy to share their experiences and interpretations of the phenomenon.
  • “I’ve had some very heavy deja vu moments.” [38:31]
  • “Maybe it's more intuition than deja vu.” [40:00]

C. Parenting Oh Moments

• Timestamp [40:29]: Listener AJ inquires about the hosts' most shocking moments as new parents, prompting tales of messy diaper disasters and the challenges of childproofing.
  • “It's coming everywhere.” [40:46]
  • “We got rid of our cats when Gus came along because we just moved.” [31:56]

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3. Games and Light-Hearted Segments

A. Phonetic Spelling Game

• Timestamp [21:52]: The hosts play a phonetic spelling game where they attempt to decode reversed phrases, leading to humorous misunderstandings.
  • “We knit train sip oars” leads to “When it rains, it pours.” [23:23]

B. "Who Said It?" Game

• Timestamp [28:06]: In another game segment, Tim reads quotes from previous episodes, and the hosts guess who originally said them, resulting in laughter and playful banter.
  • “Stevie Nicks is the equivalent of prune juice.” – Dale [28:33]
  • “Don’t be coming around my house unless you want to sleep forever.” – Amy [28:49]

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4. Personal Anecdotes and Stories

A. Stories About Cats and Pets

• Timestamp [32:00]: Dale Jr. and Dale share stories about their cats, including amusing escapades like Oscar the cat’s adventures and Buddy living on the bus.
  • “He was a cat in the bus kind of guy, too.” [32:46]
  • “Buddy... lived on the bus all year.” [33:00]

B. Ride-Along Experiences

• Timestamp [55:43]: Dale Jr. narrates his nerve-wracking experience during a ride-along with Dale, highlighting the intense moments on the racetrack and the valuable lessons learned.
  • “I was terrified.” [59:11]
  • “It was a big moment in the car.” [59:13]

C. Truck Wreck Story

• Timestamp [47:13]: Dale Jr. recounts a dramatic truck accident during his youth, detailing the fear and aftermath, and how his father reacted with humor instead of anger.
  • “I flipped my truck...” [48:31]
  • “He just laughed.” [53:28]

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5. Family Dynamics and Humor

A. Granny’s Disapproval of Cussing

• Timestamp [27:04]: The hosts discuss a humorous conversation with Granny about their use of profanity on the podcast, leading to the introduction of a swear jar to curb their language.
  • “Granny does not like that I'm using four-letter words on this podcast.” [27:04]
  • “I'm a little paranoid, but I've already got a swear jar.” [27:47]

B. Discussing Their Children

• Timestamp [37:52]: Dale and Dale Jr. talk about their daughters and the various animals they have added to their property, fostering a warm, family-centric atmosphere.
  • “Two swans, four female buffalo, five donkeys...” [37:52]
  • “Butterflies... in 10 days or so we'll have butterflies.” [38:19]

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6. Merchandising and Promotions

A. Watermelon Mule Recipe

• Timestamp [02:07]: Dale Jr. introduces a sponsored drink segment featuring the Watermelon Mule, detailing the ingredients and promotion details.
  • “1.5 ounces of Hyrak vodka... splash of lime juice.” [02:22]
  • “Drink responsibly. You have to be 21.” [03:39]

B. Merchandise and Gear Promo

• Timestamp [60:08]: The episode wraps up with a promotion for Dirty Mo Media merchandise, highlighting new hat designs and encouraging listeners to visit their online store.
  • “Check out Dirty Mo Media, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram.” [60:35]

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Notable Quotes

• Dale Jr.: “I believe I can speak it. I believe I can be sitting in my car or wherever and speak out loud to Dad or to Mom, and that they are [hearing it].” [17:20]
• Amy: “I saw them, like, leave through the wall.” [15:15]
• Dale: “If something happens to me, you're haunting me, I'm coming back to haunt you.” [14:32]
• Dale Jr.: “It was a big moment in the car. That was a legit, almost your ass busting moment.” [59:20]

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Conclusion: "Bless Your 'Hardt - Ghost Encounters & Granny Don't Cuss" offers a blend of eerie ghost stories, relatable family anecdotes, humorous games, and interactive listener engagement. Dale Jr., Dale, and Amy create an inviting atmosphere where they candidly share personal experiences and beliefs, making this episode a memorable addition to The Dale Jr. Download series.

For more engaging content and merchandise, listeners are encouraged to visit shop.dirtymomedia.com and follow Dirty Mo Media on their social platforms.

Transcript

[Amy]

What do you believe?

[Dale Jr.]

What do you believe?

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[Dale Jr.]

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[Dale Jr.]

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[Dale]

Bless your heart. Oh, yeah. This is the way it's going to be, girl. We're going to hang out.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, you look amazing.

[Dale]

I could stare at you all day.

[Dale Jr.]

Are you kidding me?

[Dale]

I couldn't believe it. What's going the world is not your trash can.

[Dale Jr.]

I slept till 2, smoking cigarettes and drinking amp energy.

[Dale]

Lord have mercy. Hey, guys, this is Dale and Amy, and we're in the Dirty Mo Media Studios for another funny episode of Bless yous Heart. For this week we have another drink sponsored by High Rock. What are we drinking today, Ralph?

[Dale Jr.]

All right. The drink of the week. All right. Not the drink of the day or the hour or the minute.

[Dale]

Sorry, excuse me. The drink of the week.

[Dale Jr.]

No, you didn't say anything wrong.

[Dale]

Did I?

[Dale Jr.]

I was just.

[Dale]

Did I say that?

[Dale Jr.]

No, you didn't say anything wrong. I was just writing. I was just reading. Right here I thought it was drink of the day, but just drink of the week. It's called the Watermelon Mule. Yes, I'm gonna tell you how to make it.

[Dale]

Cocktail.

[Dale Jr.]

1.5 ounces of Hyrak vodka. A half ounce of Sugarlands Shine sour watermelon moonshine. 2 ounces of watermelon juice, 1 ounce of ginger beer, splash of lime juice, and that's it. I'm gonna try it. Let's see.

[Dale]

Very nice little manly black cup we have.

[Dale Jr.]

Is that what's in there? What's that? Mint? Is that mint?

[Dale]

It's mint.

[Dale Jr.]

Okay. Got a little mint on top Mint.

[Dale]

And there's ginger beer.

[Dale Jr.]

So you can visit highrockvodka.com and on this website. This is important, people. Everywhere I go, people ask me, oh, I want some. I can't find it. Where is it? Help visit highrock vodka.com and there's a. There's a way on that website to find the bottle near you. The website will literally say there's bottles at this store down the street or in the next town. And I think in some states that you can actually order direct from the website. So give that a shot, and if it's not in your area, we'll try to get it there.

[Dale]

It's coming soon.

[Dale Jr.]

It's coming soon. But it's funny kind of how. Where it's kind of like. It's like cell service, you know, it's kind of in certain spots of the country, and some spots are just tough to get into. It's not like we can just take them to the store and the store can accept them. Got to go through the government, all the proper channels. Yeah. But remember to drink responsibly. And you have to be 21. All right, to do any of this. All right. You understand? 21.

[Amy]

Or over.

[Dale]

Or over.

[Dale Jr.]

You can be older than 21. I thought that was a given. I won't lift. I won't let that happen again. You must be 21 or older to do all of this stuff with alcohol. Okay. Okay.

[Dale]

Okay. You ready? Okay.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. All right, so what are we going to do? We're going to flip it around, I think.

[Dale]

Well, first off, can I tell you I'm sorry for waking you up in the middle of the night?

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Dale]

I.

[Dale Jr.]

It's paranoid.

[Dale]

I wasn't sleeping well, anyway. I forgot to take my hormones, so I got up to take those about 12:30, went to sleep, woke up at 3:30, literally sat straight up. Cause I thought I smelled something cooking, like popcorn was cooking. And I know Dale's very, like, sensitive to anything, you know, surrounding or involving a house fire. So instead of waking him up to make him go look, I darted. Why am I.

[Dale Jr.]

But why just. Don't you. I'm not just a normally sensitive guy.

[Dale]

No. 2 house fires. 2 fires.

[Dale Jr.]

Yep. I had one. Did I have two?

[Dale]

One?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

I mean, you've been in plenty of car fires. But anyway, so instead of alarming him.

[Dale Jr.]

And waking him up, that's why I'm triggered.

[Dale]

Yes. It's very triggering. I went downstairs, and as soon as I walk out of our bedroom, I don't smell anything. But I walked Downstairs and checked the kitchen anyway to make sure the gas isn't on.

[Dale Jr.]

Turned out it was me. I, for whatever reason, at three in the morning, smelled like popcorn.

[Dale]

Well, he could have farted. Who knows? That's very possible. But I didn't hear anything. Like I said, I wasn't sleeping that well. I don't know what that is, but I was dreaming. And I sat straight up because I thought I had smelled something. So anyway, it was false alarm. But he woke up anyway when I got back in bed because both of the dogs were alert. Everybody's like, why is mom up moving around so fast in the middle of the night?

[Dale Jr.]

I was.

[Dale]

And I was gonna look it up in my dream book. Do you remember the dream book that I used to have?

[Dale Jr.]

Yes.

[Dale]

I don't know where it is now. It used to sit on what is now Dale's side of the bed. That's where I used to sleep. 2020, I think is when I bought it. And I had babies then, so that was, like, easier to get in and out to the. To Nicole on that side of the room. But we since switched back and all my books have gone missing. But I did Google it, and it means stop it, June bug.

[Dale Jr.]

Let him up there.

[Dale]

Hang tight.

[Dale Jr.]

Let him up here. And I. Can I say my experience was quite jarring.

[Dale]

What, last night?

[Dale Jr.]

Yes. So I'm into bed sleep.

[Dale]

I'm not.

[Dale Jr.]

It's not dramatic. I'm in the bed asleep. So probably, I don't know, about two months ago, we had a smell, a strong smell of something burning.

[Dale]

I smelled it. I don't know how you had been in the house, sitting right next to it and not smelled it, but it was the Coke machine downstairs.

[Dale Jr.]

That's right. The Coke machine downstairs was burning up inside the solenoid. Something inside this Coke machine. It's an old Dale Earnhardt Coke machine. The interior guts of this thing had fried, and the. The air conditioner was sucking it up from the basement all into the top of the house. And so we couldn't figure out where it was coming from. We finally understood, and I was like, get that damn Coke machine out of here. So it's now fixed, but it's at the farm shop. And so I was like, get. Get it out of here. I've been in that house fire when I was a little kid, and I just ain't. I don't want anything to do with that. But.

[Dale]

So it's hard to track down too, you know?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

It's a piece of machinery like that.

[Dale Jr.]

She gets out of bed. I could. I was laying there, and I thought I heard footsteps of somebody walking away from the bed or walking toward the bed. And sometimes it's like, little Nicole or I'm unsure. And so I was laying there, and I was like, is Amy there or not there? Other. I look over, and there's a pile, a little silhouette of darkness. I'm like, is she in the bed? Maybe not in bed. I don't know. And then all of a sudden, I. You know. But two minutes later, I hear her walking back into the bedroom. I'm like, oh, she was out. And I just. She hadn't been feeling well. There's a little, you know, just a little sinus thing going through the house. So I just was like, you okay? She goes, I smelled something burning, something cooking, Pop. I was like, what? What? I don't smell. What do you smell? What are you. Where you. You know? And in my mind, I'm like, you know, got to check this out. You know, I'm the guy I've got to figure out and find and solve, and. And she's like, I might have dreamed it. And I'm like, oh. So at first, it was a little. It was like a jump scare.

[Dale]

I was trying to not jump scare you by. By handling it myself. If there was somebody in the house, if I heard a noise, I ain't going, he's going, right? But this was something I felt like I could handle, so I figured I'd try. But anyway, so I looked it up since I couldn't find my book. And it's basically means. I said, what does it mean when you smell popcorn in your sleep? And it says. It refers to detecting smells that aren't really there. But it's also a symptom of common conditions, including allergies, a cold, or, like, a respiratory infection, which, yes, I'm going through right now. But it also says it could be a symbolization of God's presence.

[Dale Jr.]

Damn.

[Dale]

Which I think is pretty neat.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, sure.

[Dale]

I think so. The dream book, I'm going to find it. It is fascinating, and it's full of fun things.

[Dale Jr.]

A dream book?

[Dale]

Yeah. Makes sense of, like, why you see snakes or whatever in your dreams. I think that was the last thing I looked up.

[Dale Jr.]

But, yeah, this is not a bad time to kind of transition into the ghosts. I'll have to read this. I've got a screenshot of this thing. I saw this Instagram post of a family that was filming in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, at the battlefields, the Civil War battlefields there. And they Were filming and it's. There's some movement in the tree line and it looks like paranormal. Paranormal activity, right? Yeah. Bigfoot at the Civil War battlefields in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

So there's this, you know, there's just some stuff in the movement in the tree line and it looks like could be apparitions or ghosts or whatever. And this person in the comments. So I was reading the comments and this one got 400 likes. Why are there never cavemen ghosts? Why are there ghosts that are always just 200 years old?

[Dale]

They're always period in period.

[Dale Jr.]

Why can't we have some Neanderthal hurling appliances around in your living room? Because they're scared of electricity. I thought that was so funny. I love that I screenshotted that. It's so true. All of our, all of our ghosts are, you know, from like Civil War.

[Dale]

Era, usually in period clothing of some sort.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, the 1700s, 1600s is never like, man, there's a, you know, a 2000 year old ghost.

[Dale]

I used to see a ghost in my room in Beechwood.

[Dale Jr.]

You used to see one? Yes.

[Dale]

It was, it always just was like by my bedroom door and it was like a silhouette and it looked like it was a woman just because of the shape of it, but I could never really make it out. And there was this one night I was playing Super Mario Brothers with one of my girlfriends. We were 10, 11. And it was after my mom and dad had gone to sleep. She was having a sleepover and so there's nobody else awake. And we kept hearing this chop, like something was chopping a vegetable or something in the kitchen. And we eventually got brave enough to go in there and the cutting board and the knife was sitting out, but there was no food around. And we got scared to death. We never stayed up playing video games ever again after that. But yeah, every once in a while I would see something in my room. I feel like a lot of people have encounters like that.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, I had a really. The one that I can remember that I was like, oh, I was sure something happened. I was at my house when I lived across the street from dei. I had built that club downstairs, Club E or whatever that you saw on MTV Cribs. It was black and purple, dark, had a big screen television and sometimes I'd go down there and turn on a movie or something and sit down there on the couch. And I went down there and sat down and was just. The light of the television was all that was kind of, you know, in the room every. It was really dark. Otherwise And I look over my right shoulder and over my right shoulder is the dance floor of the club. And there's mirrors and stuff. I swear that I saw a girl, probably a late teens, early 20s, in a white dress, you know, like a Sunday dress. Nothing, Nothing fancy like 1800s, 1700s and just standing pillar, still not like looking at me but looking in my direction. She had dark hair and she had a hair color. Yeah. And she was.

[Dale]

Had color.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. And so it was. Well, it wasn't blonde. I know that. It wasn't a light colored hair. It was dark colored hair. And she was sort of transparent to about a degree of 30. Like she was almost. Almost solid. Couldn't see through her. But then. But it was just kind of faint. I mean it was as real as day. I freaked out.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

And did you close your eyes and.

[Dale]

Hope for it to go away?

[Dale Jr.]

I was scared to move.

[Dale]

Yeah. And it was. That's kind of how I had.

[Dale Jr.]

I was scared to move and. And I mean I don't have any. I had nothing else ever since then or before that that even was connected to that house. I don't know what that was about, but it was. I saw it. I saw her. I mean I looked at her for felt probably like three seconds. Felt like a half, like a minute. You know, I felt. I looked at her and I saw her. Wasn't like a. Oh, was that something out of the corner of my eye? No, I looked directly at it.

[Dale]

That's scary.

[Dale Jr.]

It was freaky.

[Dale]

I used to freeze and like sit there and shake in my bed. Like if I close my eyes, maybe it'll just go away and I open my eyes and still be there. It was weird. Maybe it was some girl you just actually forgot to kick out of your house.

[Dale Jr.]

No. So it makes. So I've always kind of thought that. I don't know. I mean, do I believe in ghosts? I don't know. I think that they're. We're. I feel like that our. I think that's a question we're going to ask. I'll answer right. Is do we believe in ghosts? What's our. What's our. What's our particular stance on that.

[Dale]

But I know this too. If something happens to me, you're haunting me, I'm coming back to haunt you. Hopefully you're being mess with you so much friendly ghost. I'm going to write you notes. If you start dating again, I'm going to that girl. It's going to be on.

[Dale Jr.]

I. Yeah, I would definitely not want to leave you either.

[Dale]

Tim's. Do you have any counter stories?

[Amy]

I do. I had to have one this weekend.

[Dale]

You did this weekend?

[Amy]

Very, yes. Very similar to yours, where I just kind of saw, like, a dark silhouette and they were, like, vibrating my bed and it woke me up. So I was up. But you know, like, you have sleep. Sleep paralysis sometimes. I was up, fully knew what was going on, but I couldn't move. And then I, like, saw them. It was like two of them, and I saw them, like, leave through the wall.

[Dale]

Do you think since it was dark, it was a demon versus a ghost?

[Amy]

I know, but I googled it, and it's like someone was watching and protecting you. And now I'm freaked out. What's gonna happen? That I need protection.

[Dale Jr.]

Why are you being protected?

[Amy]

Yeah, exactly. That's freaked me out even more. And, like, my room's pretty dark. Like, there's nothing really to like. But it was like. It's kind of like illuminated around their shadow, if you will. And then I was like. It was gone. I'm like. And I was up for like an hour and a half after that.

[Dale]

Chills all over my body. That's nuts. Your bed was shaking.

[Amy]

Yeah, I was like. I felt the vibration. So it's like someone. You felt that feeling that someone was watching over you, too, the energy? Yeah, it was like. Like pushing you further down into the bed a little bit.

[Dale]

Oh, my gosh.

[Amy]

Is this. Never had that before.

[Dale Jr.]

That is serious.

[Amy]

Yeah. Didn't believe in ghosts before that.

[Dale Jr.]

I was like, do you believe in ghosts now?

[Amy]

Now I do.

[Dale Jr.]

After that one thing.

[Amy]

Yeah. Yeah, I do.

[Dale]

So do you think it's because we've been talking about it, Somebody's like, almost show him.

[Amy]

I thought it was an alien at first. So I was like, if I get abducted, that's pretty sweet. And then I was like, no, this is not sweet.

[Dale]

So you're going to get abducted. You would think, like, absolutely. It's the coolest thing that's happened to me.

[Amy]

Yeah, 100%.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm afraid that they're going to poke you with a bunch of needles and stuff.

[Dale]

I don't know.

[Dale Jr.]

I wouldn't. I would not be excited about being abducted because I would assume they're going to try to, you know, dissect me.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

It's like, good luck.

[Dale]

So that happened in your room here?

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale]

And you've slept in the bed since and nothing happened.

[Amy]

Nothing happened. I've been waiting for them to come back, though.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm so excited.

[Amy]

Yeah. I need to see this.

[Dale]

We've had our house saged before, and they left little tiny bowls of salt in each room.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm still throwing them damn things away.

[Dale]

Yeah, we find them everywhere.

[Dale Jr.]

Hide them in corners.

[Dale]

Tiny little shot glasses full of salt. And it's supposed to help to sterilize and keep the spirits out, really. So maybe you need some salts.

[Dale Jr.]

I also feel like that if you believe that you're, you know, if, you know, this is. This will make sense to people that have lost someone, they. That they're very close to them. But for, like, I think sometimes I could. I could. You know, Like, I think sometimes I can talk to God or I can talk to dad or I can talk to Mom. I can. You know, if I'm in a tough spot, I can just say. I can just say it out loud, man. What do I do? Dad, you know? Or what do you think about this? Or, mom, give me a hand.

[Dale]

You told me that you used to have dreams where you felt like you and your dad were together, and you felt like it was him coming to.

[Dale Jr.]

You to give me some help.

[Dale]

Just to, like, give you comfort.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. And so I believe that. I believe I can speak it. I believe I can be sitting in my car or wherever and speak out loud to dad or to mom, and that they are. They're hearing it. Right. I just have to believe that. And so if you believe that, you got to believe some. Some form of the afterlife.

[Dale]

Right.

[Dale Jr.]

Or spirit.

[Dale]

Speaking of afterlife and your dad.

[Dale Jr.]

But I did. I had dreams. Sorry. I have not had a dad dream in a long time.

[Dale]

I know you used to get so sad when you woke up. But I love them and wanted to go back to sleep just in case he would come back. Speaking of your dad and the afterlife, he has race magazines in every bathroom. I'm talking about stacks and stacks of old racing magazines in every bathroom. So every time you sit down and go potty, you see his dad staring back at you or like, Buddy Baker or somebody else, but for the most part, it's his dad. And so I asked Dale one day, I was like, do you think that when you die, you can come back through the pictures that people have of you? Like, do you think it's possible to, like, port through these little spaces and just, like, watch?

[Dale Jr.]

I don't think so.

[Dale]

Not that you would need that, but this is, like, how your brain works sometimes, you know? Or mine. I'm like, if that's the case, your dad's gonna see a lot of unfortunate things in our house. Because every time I go to the bathroom, he's looking at you. He's staring at me. I thought that was kind of an odd thing. I was like, how would you feel if, like, one of my parents was staring at you every time you went to the bathroom? Be a little odd.

[Dale Jr.]

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[Dale Jr.]

Well, let's play the game.

[Amy]

Let's do it.

[Dale]

What game are we playing?

[Amy]

Say it again.

[Dale]

Say it again.

[Amy]

That is the yes. You guys have notepads of the phonetic spelling of these phrases?

[Dale Jr.]

I might be able to help you here. Tim's. I do this to you all the time. You'll say something and then I'll not quite understand it and I'll repeat exactly what I think I heard. And it's obviously not the phrase.

[Dale]

It's obvious to me, but yeah, I hear you.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. You'll say, hey, you want to go to the store? And I'll be like, what, do I want some more? Or I love you to the core. What did you say? You know, and you'll get so. Yeah. You'll get so mad at me. You heard me.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

So this is the backwards version of that.

[Dale]

Okay? So, but we're gonna say. We're gonna do these together.

[Dale Jr.]

We gotta say these words and try.

[Dale]

To figure out Fastest.

[Dale Jr.]

Figure out what the name fastest is.

[Dale]

Okay.

[Amy]

It's the point. Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

All right. So the first one you want to say it.

[Dale]

We knit train, sip oars.

[Dale Jr.]

We knit train. Sip oars.

[Dale]

We knit train. We knit train. We knit. We.

[Dale Jr.]

This is tough.

[Dale]

Knit train sippers. Train sippers.

[Amy]

It's so funny when you know the answer.

[Dale Jr.]

He's laughing his ass off.

[Dale]

When it rains. Sip. When it rains.

[Dale Jr.]

When it rains, it pours.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale]

I gave that to you.

[Dale Jr.]

You did well, gave it to you. Think inside your head. But that wouldn't be very good for the listeners. All right, that was that one.

[Dale]

This one.

[Dale Jr.]

This is the next one. Get in there. Tan, needy. Fee toe. Tan, needy. Feto.

[Dale]

Finito. Taniti. Feedo. Taniti Fido. Taniti fido.

[Dale Jr.]

Gosh, it's in the back of my head. This is bad. I know, right?

[Amy]

I thought you guys would be a little better at that.

[Dale Jr.]

Huh?

[Amy]

I thought you'd be a little better at it.

[Dale]

Let's see here. I want to say finito, but that's backwards. It ends in the wrong spot.

[Amy]

Do you want a hint?

[Dale]

Kind of.

[Amy]

It's not necessarily a phrase. It's a.

[Dale]

Is it a thing?

[Amy]

It's a person.

[Dale]

Oh, it's a person.

[Dale Jr.]

Whoa. It's a person.

[Amy]

It's a person.

[Dale Jr.]

It's a person's name.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale Jr.]

Or it's a. Oh.

[Dale]

Tanied. Tenny.

[Dale Jr.]

Tanny DeVito.

[Dale]

Tanita. Vito. Nothing.

[Amy]

You guys give up?

[Dale Jr.]

What is it?

[Amy]

Danny DeVito.

[Dale Jr.]

What?

[Amy]

Danny DeVito.

[Dale]

Danny DeVito.

[Dale Jr.]

DeVito. No way.

[Dale]

So the letters aren't exactly the same.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, my God.

[Dale]

All right, good.

[Dale Jr.]

That was not good.

[Amy]

You guys should be able to get.

[Dale Jr.]

All right, let's get that off the Internet. Yeah. Bad job.

[Dale]

This is the next one. Barbie.

[Dale Jr.]

Cute.

[Dale]

Barbecue ribs.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale Jr.]

Barbecue rips.

[Dale]

Barbecued rips is Barbecue ribs. All right, the next one is Fell edge. Eddie hit. Fellow fellow. Jetty hit.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm laughing at him. Laughing at us. That's the best part.

[Dale]

Village idiot. Oh, got it.

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[Dale Jr.]

Two, one.

[Dale]

Amy. All right, the next one is Chattanooga. NEC. Chattanooga, Tennessee.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Okay. Amy's on it.

[Dale]

All right. Ho, moth. Herb Rave.

[Dale Jr.]

Herb Rove or rave?

[Dale]

Rave. Mine says a. Yeah, it's rave. Ho, moth. Herb rave.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm not. This is one thing I'm not very good at.

[Dale]

Ho. Math.

[Dale Jr.]

Home of the brave. Yeah, that's it.

[Dale]

Good job. You just talked yourself out of it and just got it right off the bat.

[Amy]

All right, I got two more.

[Dale Jr.]

Reverse.

[Dale]

All right, it's three.

[Amy]

Two. Amy right now, too.

[Dale]

This is the next one. A taco thinks loans. A taco thinks loans.

[Dale Jr.]

A taco think loans.

[Dale]

A taco thinks loans.

[Dale Jr.]

Mine says S. Oh, mine says think Loans.

[Dale]

I don't know. Attack a. Think loans. Dun, dun, dun. Feels like a jingle. Attack of Think Clones.

[Dale Jr.]

Attack of the Clones.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Wow. Attack of the Clones. That's your age group, right?

[Dale Jr.]

Okay.

[Dale]

Is that an old movie?

[Amy]

It's the last one, and it's tied three. Three.

[Dale]

Oh, really?

[Dale Jr.]

Yep.

[Dale]

The last one is Aid I must. Excuse me. Aid. I mud. Us. Sin. Medicine. First aid. First aid.

[Dale Jr.]

First aid. Medicine. Nope. Oh, damn it.

[Amy]

The first word is a eight.

[Dale]

Eye medicine. A di. A dime Medicine.

[Dale Jr.]

I think it's like a dime.

[Dale]

A dime a dozen.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale Jr.]

Yes.

[Dale]

I win. I win.

[Dale Jr.]

I helped you.

[Dale]

I helped you with one.

[Dale Jr.]

Damn it.

[Dale]

Damn it. Speaking of damn it, we get to Texas, and we sit down. We get there before everybody else. We sit down at the round table inside the house. And my granny, who is very, like, put together and sweet and all the things she says to me, as polite as she can, that she does not like, that I'm using four letter words on this podcast. No cussing. And I said, well, I mean, it's a podcast. You're supposed to. And she's like a Southern lady never cusses. And I'm like, okay, yes, ma'am, I hear you loud and clear. And I said, what about the F word? And she goes, oh, no, especially not the F word. So I got to talking to as soon as I got home from my grandmother about all of my cussing on this show.

[Dale Jr.]

She's gonna listen and does listen to every show. And so now Amy's.

[Dale]

I'm a little paranoid, but I've already.

[Dale Jr.]

Got a swear jar. Let's get a swear jar.

[Amy]

Should have a swear jar.

[Dale]

Yeah, like that.

[Dale Jr.]

Let's just get a jar and sit back there and fill it up with cash right next to the boob. Any swear jar?

[Dale]

Okay.

[Dale Jr.]

Wanna play another game?

[Dale]

Yeah, let's play another game.

[Dale Jr.]

All right, so this is another one from Tim's, and I think this will be pretty fun. We're gonna play a game called who Said It? And in this game, Tim's gonna read quotes from previous episodes of Bless yous Heart. And we have to decide, was it you or me that said it?

[Dale]

Oh, okay.

[Amy]

This is gonna be fun.

[Dale]

This should be pretty hilarious. Taking some combing through, this should be pretty funny.

[Amy]

Stevie Nicks is the equivalent of prune juice.

[Dale]

I said that.

[Dale Jr.]

Holy.

[Dale]

Dale made the. You know, the comparison. And I said, put it in that nice little package.

[Dale Jr.]

That was funny.

[Amy]

I hope you other are watching. Don't be coming around my house unless you want to sleep forever.

[Dale]

That's Dale talking about the rats. Oh, man.

[Dale Jr.]

Out of context, this stuff's crazy.

[Amy]

These are so funny. Out of context, we're gonna get a calls from Peter, Me, Ralph.

[Dale]

Yeah, this. This drink kind of has a Jolly Rancher vibe. Now.

[Amy]

If you have a booger in your nose, I come and get it. Don't let it dangle. Help me out, Ralph. No, it was Amy.

[Dale]

Really? Yeah. I am always picking boogers out of his nose. He's never really done that to me, but he is always pointing out if I have something in my mouth.

[Amy]

I think that's why you say, come and get it.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

They don't just tell me, come and get it.

[Dale]

Come and get it.

[Amy]

Yeah. The next one I just want to shout out whoever invented soft close cabinets and toilet seats.

[Dale]

Ralph.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, man.

[Dale]

Dale Jr. What a show. You're a weirdo.

[Amy]

What a show. I'll do any type of cleanse that doesn't involve putting a tube in my ass.

[Dale Jr.]

That's me, Ralph.

[Dale]

I still haven't done that cleanse. By the way, he still has a chance to stick that tube in his ass. He says a lot of weird things. Hey, speaking of that, what he said to me over the weekend, I think it was Saturday night, it wasn't Sunday night. We go inside to play with. My sister and her husband have brought their cats with them to camp. They're kittens. They're mid sized kittens. So we're camping with cats in the middle of a farm, you know what I mean? So if they get out, it's a big deal. And one of the cats got out quite a bit and was hiding under the house. And so it was a whole thing. And the kids were watching a movie in the other bus. And so Dale and I go in to like snuggle and play with these cats because we both like cats and the kids are always like all over them and we're laying on the floor and he's like, you know, I could see you being a cat lady. And I said, what? He goes, well, like, if I died and I wasn't here anymore, I could totally see you having like 15 cats. I'm like, that's not a compliment. Who says that? That's got like a derogatory tone. For sure. You get, you know, coined the cat lady. Yeah, it's usually like a sad thing.

[Amy]

That is negative content.

[Dale]

I'm like, well, what the hell do you mean by that? And he's like, I don't know. I can just see that for you. So can you explain that, please?

[Dale Jr.]

No, I don't think it was me.

[Dale]

It was you. It was just you and me in there.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't think I said that. I don't remember going in there and playing with the cats by ourselves.

[Dale]

We did, man.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't remember.

[Dale]

Holy smokes, you're browned out.

[Dale Jr.]

No, we weren't Drinking that much. I mean, I don't know if I said that. Maybe I didn't mean 15 cats. Maybe I meant, like, three.

[Dale]

Two. You said 15?

[Dale Jr.]

Wow. Yeah. I mean, I don't. Nothing against people that have lots of cats.

[Dale]

You know what my response to him was? I was like, no, if you're gone, I'm gonna have a nice, big, giant barn. I'm gonna have a bunch of horses and all the other things. Like, I'm just gonna be just fine. I might have a cat or two, but not 15.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

How many cats do you have to have to be considered a cat lady, though?

[Dale]

That's a good question. I don't know, like, more than three.

[Dale Jr.]

We both. The thing is, is, like, don't get us wrong. We both like cats.

[Dale]

We love cats.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Like, I've had cats. I've had four cats.

[Dale]

I've had cats.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

You know, we got rid of our cats when Gus came along because we just moved.

[Dale Jr.]

When Amy moved to Florida, she brought her orange cat.

[Dale]

I brought my black cat, too, and.

[Dale Jr.]

The orange one got out and never returned.

[Dale]

Yeah, Oscar, he did. He used the dog door. I would leave him at Dale's house when I started going out on the race circuit with him, and he watched Killer going in and out of the dog door, and he was like, hell, yes. I am never going back in there again. And I tried to catch him. There was a cornfield out in front of my house.

[Dale Jr.]

You saw him like, a week later in the edge of the woods.

[Dale]

I caught him, or I thought I was gonna catch him because our neighbor found him, got him in the car, but they didn't close the door fast enough. He darted out again, and then he was up by the townhouses. He had traveled all the way up there. Tammy saw him. So, yeah, he had a long, great life.

[Dale Jr.]

Wow.

[Amy]

Orange cats are fun. They're kind of, like, chaotic.

[Dale]

He was cool. He would catch those little mice, those little, like, catnip mice and bring them back to me. He would, like, play fetch. He was also kind of crazy. Like, he'd karate chop you, too.

[Dale Jr.]

I bought my first cat from a mall in New Hampshire, and he lived on the bus for years, for most of his life. That was buddy. And then I got three rescues.

[Dale]

So you're a cat in the bus kind of guy, too. I forgot about that.

[Dale Jr.]

Yep. Well, I was on the bus I wanted, and it was nice. The cat had his own little litter box in a little compartment. And he lived on the bus all year. He traveled. Shane was my bus driver, and he traveled with Shane. Now when Shane come home, it would, you know, buddy would come into the house, but it was rare. Do you want to tell people about your hat? I don't know if they can really see what's going on.

[Dale]

Can you see my hat?

[Amy]

No, I can't see from here.

[Dale]

It says jugs. We talked about this last week and how we've gotten the jugs hats going. And this is one of the samples. So we have black on black, navy on navy, and then there's three or four other colors that will go live on the website today. But this is the first one.

[Amy]

I like that.

[Dale]

Just us girls.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. If you got a group of girlfriends, it's perfect.

[Dale]

It is. I think they're gonna start making koozies too.

[Amy]

That'd be nice.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Buy each of your friend, your little girlfriend, one of these just us girls hats.

[Dale]

And if you're a guy and you want to support drugs, you can do that too. It can mean whatever you want it to mean, I guess.

[Dale Jr.]

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[Dale]

Hi, guys. We are back at Dirty Mo Media Studios for another section of Ask Amy and Bless yous Heart. Dale and I have a fun show here. So far, we are drinking some Watermelon Mules sponsored by hi Rock. And we're excited for your questions. What do you have?

[Amy]

First question's from Imelda. They want to know how the swans that Cletus gave you are doing.

[Dale]

The swans are good. So they are George and Cleo, and they're down in the pond and they've almost cleaned up the pond. We check on them like once or twice a day at least. Everybody's just fascinated. And they seem to do good. They're cleaning up the pond. The pond used to be covered in green algae, and now it's, like, clean. At least it's clean on the top.

[Dale Jr.]

We've had them, I guess, four days. Two geese have joined them.

[Dale]

Two geese joined them yesterday. So now they have buddies.

[Dale Jr.]

Trip north.

[Dale]

Maybe they're gonna nest. Who knows?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, the geese was still there this morning.

[Dale]

Oh, they were?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

You checked on this morning as you went.

[Dale Jr.]

We just drive by and catch a glimpse on the. On the. On the driveway. We saw them.

[Dale]

I bet the geese are eating the food, too.

[Dale Jr.]

Somebody's eating that food out of the bowl.

[Dale]

The swans hadn't touched it yet. Yeah, that's why the geese.

[Dale Jr.]

It's amazing. I'll be honest with you. You know, Cletus, thank you for bringing the swans. Nobody's ever gonna do that.

[Dale]

Surprise. I don't like surprises, Cletus, and that blew me away.

[Dale Jr.]

And if it continues on the path it's on, it is a cool, neat addition to our. To our property and our girls. It's perfect if you have a daughter to have swans. I mean, it's Pretty insane. Yeah. So thank you very much. It's awesome.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

What's the list of animals you guys have now? I know donkeys are on the list.

[Dale]

And so we have two swans, four female buffalo, five donkeys, one mule, two dogs, a bunch of fish in the.

[Dale Jr.]

Fish tank and some soon to be butterflies.

[Dale]

And some butterflies. Yes. We have a butterfly kit and they have cocooned. They started doing that yesterday and they're all hanging upside down now. So, like in 10 days or so we'll have butterflies.

[Dale Jr.]

Wow.

[Amy]

I was gonna ask what's next, but I think butterflies.

[Dale]

Butterflies, is it?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

That's awesome.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Next question from David. We kind of talked about like ghosts and aliens last couple weeks. He wants to know if you guys have ever experienced deja vu.

[Dale Jr.]

Hell yeah.

[Amy]

If you believe in that.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, man.

[Dale]

I can't recall feeling deja vu. I feel like sometimes I'm thinking maybe I'm in a loop or I've just got a daze and forgotten what I was doing. But not really deja vu.

[Dale Jr.]

I've had some very heavy deja vu moments. Yeah.

[Dale]

And you can recall.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, it's racing things or things in everyday life. It's usually. Well, no, I mean, it's been about everyday life too, but sometimes it's around racing, sometimes it's. I'm at a. You know, maybe it was, you know, 20 years ago or 15 years ago, I'm at a racetrack and I'm like, I swear that this has happened already or I've lived this, I did this already. And. Or I'd be at home and a series of events might happen. Very just non. You know, or completely ordinary. Like somebody walk in a door, somebody say something over in that side of the house and. And then the. Then this noise happens and I'll be like, damn, I feel like that was yesterday. Did that not just all happen yesterday? You know, and very like. Not just like coincidental stuff, like really strong senses of deja vu. And so a lot of times it's.

[Amy]

Like random for me. It's just like I've seen. I've seen this street view I've never really seen in real life before or had it in a dream or something. I'm like, I dreamed that like six months ago. Yeah, it's not. It's nothing that. Of substance that I can remember, but.

[Dale]

That has happened to me. Like I feel like I've thought about something super hard. Like I know people say manifestation, but I almost feel like it's premonition versus a manifestation. Like I thought it was happening or something in my mind knew it was coming. That's not deja vu, right?

[Amy]

No, not by the traditional sense, no. But I feel like if you get this feeling like, oh, I know what's about to happen, there's a. It's a little bit of that. Maybe it's more intuition than deja vu.

[Dale]

Yeah, intuition, yeah.

[Amy]

But it's very interesting.

[Dale]

It's fascinating either way.

[Amy]

Our next question is from aj and he wants to know what was your biggest oh moment as a new parent?

[Dale]

I mean, honestly, mostly when the oh was happening, like those explosive. I need all hands on deck. Somebody come assist me asap. That was the most, like, traumatic. Oh, shit.

[Dale Jr.]

Moments when the poop comes out of the diaper.

[Dale]

It's coming everywhere. Yeah, my gosh. I know. And we had girls, so, I mean, I know that boys, sometimes, if you don't have the proper things, you can get, like, peed in the face and stuff like that, but we had girls, so we didn't deal with that, but we did deal with some weird poop situation.

[Dale Jr.]

One, the little. Their little span of when their. Their guts are changing from eating, feeding inside of you to being out in the real world and eating whatever you feed them.

[Dale]

Massive shift in the poop.

[Dale Jr.]

The poop changes a bunch and colors, consistency and all that. And there's this one little span where it's like a black paint or a tar.

[Dale]

That's right when they're born. Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. And it. It is. You can't get it off. You got. And they're so. You're. You're trying to be so careful. You're, like, so delicate, tiny little baby, and you're, like, trying to wipe her bottle to get this. It's like spackle off. And so that part is like, holy cow. I had. They don't tell you about this. And then the. Yeah.

[Dale]

There's a lot of things they don't tell you about before you have babies, especially your first one, because they don't want to scare you from doing it all together.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. When they. And they. When they spit up, their little white spit up, you're like, oh, yeah.

[Dale]

Getting thrown up on. Like, all those things are shocking at first, and they become pretty normal. But everything you wear, be ready to, like, have it pooped on or thrown up on.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Yeah. That's the, I guess, most shocking part of having babies.

[Dale Jr.]

We had. You'll think people might think this is funny. So when we had Isla, we have. We have. Around the house, we have a lot of sharp marble shelving and features. Yeah, there's features. And they're right around that, you know, that 2 foot, 3 foot height. And they're in the wall and all around the living room and upstairs, they're like kind of the base of a fire pit or fireplace. I'm sorry, inside the house. So it was like a hard edged corner, marble rock sort of feature. And so I order all of this stuff on the Internet. The little rubber balls that you can put on the corners. He foam wrapped everything, wrapped all the hard edges. I found there's this one feature that was going to be up where their bedroom was. And it's a. It's. It's the base of a fireplace, it's.

[Dale]

A hearth, but it's, it's like a foot off the floor. Foot off the floor.

[Dale Jr.]

Got a square hard edge. I'm like, man, if she went into that in any way, shape or form, form, that would be so painful. And so I found this exact perfect foam to put on the corner that colors the same. And it's still there.

[Dale]

Yeah, put it on. I thought the same. I thought that's what was going to happen. I'm like, Dale has redecorated the house now and I'm the one. This foam, because how are you going to get that off? Yeah, I put it off like the schmeg that's going to be there.

[Dale Jr.]

I put locks on every cabinet I got. There's still covers on every outlet.

[Amy]

Do child proof.

[Dale]

The thing is, Isla never messed with any of that stuff anyway, but Nicole did. So we had to put him back out. Once Isla got old enough, we took all the things out and we had to put them back.

[Dale Jr.]

So it's about time to maybe take all that back out. But I was the one like, I was like, trouble spot. Yeah. Amazon Fix.

[Dale]

Do you remember Trouble Sprout?

[Dale Jr.]

Amazon.

[Dale]

She was sitting with us in Key West. We were outside at the outdoor table. Speaking of her head, she never fell into any of these things at the house. But she's sitting in my lap and just kind of bebopping around. And then she like all of a sudden just jerks and bashes her head against the table. And like now she still has a scar on her forehead from it.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, really?

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

I remember having a little line across there.

[Dale]

Yes, it's still there. She still has a little mark. But, you know, you can foam wrap the whole house, but she's gonna hit it on the table somewhere else.

[Amy]

So there's always a spot that you missed or there's something that you can't control.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Next question's from Cooper. You guys have mentioned you went. You go to Texas in the camper for Easter. So how was all that and how was the camper?

[Dale]

Oh, it was great.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Yeah, it was an awesome time. There were four or five of us camping. Is that right? One, two, three, four, five campers out there and the whole family was there. It was fun.

[Dale Jr.]

We got a Camping World fifth wheel about a year and a half ago. 36 foot and it's got bunks in the back for the girls. They love it. And I take it to the races. I took it to Cordeal. It's very functional. Got a dually to pull it and we end up taking it to Texas. I've got my old bus driver. Kenny still pulls it for me. He's semi retired and I'll take selling.

[Dale]

Dale, I'll quit driving for you when you quit racing. Yeah, I don't think he expected it to go this long.

[Dale Jr.]

I'll take it to four, the probably four of the broadcasts this summer. So I mean it will use it 12 times, 15 times this year. And so it's amazing, man. It's a lot of fun. I'd like to maybe I'd like to get a side by side that we can all ride in and I'd like to get a. A fifth wheel that I could keep the side by side in because like.

[Dale]

The old one Kobe had.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, like a toy hauler that has a bed in the back and all that. But we haven't really looked at another model and we really like this one that we got. But it's fun. I like it. I can fix it and anything that breaks on it I pretty much can figure it out. And it's real convenient to have when we go out to Texas. There's really. We're staying in a hotel. If we don't. If we don't have that, we're gonna have to stay in a hotel and can't. You know, everybody's spending the night on the farm and campfires and just.

[Dale]

And it's safe. Everybody can play and have fun. The kids don't have to worry about what time they get up or go to bed because everybody's just right there and it's neat. Yeah.

[Amy]

Some good memories that get built.

[Dale]

It really is.

[Dale Jr.]

My wish is. And me and Kobe, who is my brother in law, we're trying to coordinate a trip where we meet each other. They're coming from Texas and we'd be coming west and we meet somebody or we meet somewhere maybe in Tennessee or something for a long weekend or something. Camping at a campground. So that's kind of the hope of the next big trip with that deal.

[Amy]

That'd be fun.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Next question is from Shannon, and she wants to know what's the one thing you did as a kid that your family still reminds you of today? That we hid like something that happened, like. Oh, remember when you. So for example, my sister ran over my other sister with a toy shopping cart when they were like 2 and 3. It still gets brought up 30 years later at every family function.

[Dale]

Really?

[Amy]

Yeah. Is there anything like that that gets brought up at your guys family functions?

[Dale]

Um, not really. I mean, we haven't brought it up in a while. We were going to the mall one day. We always had. So there's three of us girls, Amy, Katie, Lacey. Lacey's the youngest. And we always had a friend over at the house, one of us, you know. So there was at least three to four to five kids. Mom needed to run out to the mall to grab something and the mall's like on the other side of town. Well, we get in the car and Lacey was always in the way back. And this is before like the car seat rules were such a thing. And she was probably five or six at the time. We get halfway there and Lacey's not in the car. She had been playing at the next door neighbor's house. And so we just ran off and left her. And that traumatized her for a while. And so she would bring that up for a little bit. But I think she's over it now.

[Dale Jr.]

I think the one thing that might get brought up is something that actually happened on. I think it was a Thanksgiving Earnhardt gathering. Everybody's at Mamaw's house and dad is there and I'm late. Actually, I think this was on Christmas morning, Christmas lunch afternoon. Because I had a new Discman with the tape cassette adapter. And I just gotten it that morning from Kelly for. For Christmas. I'm driving down Highway 3 two mamas. I don't own a cell phone. I'm probably. I don't know, I'm probably 18 or so.

[Dale]

Do they have cell phones?

[Dale Jr.]

No, I'm just telling. I'm just putting it down in time frame. So I don't have a cell phone. I'm around 18 years old. I'm driving my truck that I had just financed. Like I had. I just traded in my old truck that dad got me for graduation. I hated it. It was a two tone brown, no, no carpet. So it was like a farm Truck, straight up, full size Z71. And I wanted my S10 back. My original truck that I had when I was 16, but it was long gone. So I traded this farm truck in on an extended cab S10 pickup truck. And it was a 91. And so it had. It was so cool. I was so proud of it. I financed it for five years, about a hundred dollars a month. And I'm driving this thing down the road, and I can afford that. I'm happy, right? And I was messing with that Walkman, changing CDs. Ran off the road down into a ditch, just a regular ditch. But I hit. Hit a driveway culvert, a pipe, and it threw that truck in the air. And it barrel rolled seven times and it broke. One of the rear tires broke off at the axle. It destroyed this truck. The. The roof of the truck was mashed down to where the mirror was in the. In the tape deck or into the stereo. So the roof was crushed down. The great thing about. About it was having the extended cab is kind of what kept me from getting crushed. But it was weird. Everything, when the truck stopped flipping, everything that I had, everything that I had in the truck was perfectly down in this right corner. Yeah. So it's air. So the truck started flipping so fast, when it rolled onto the roof, I had my hands on the steering wheel and it crushed the windshield down on my knuckles. And so I felt that and I went, ah. And my arms went like this because the truck was spinning so fast. And it was like I couldn't put my arms back in because it was so the force of spinning. Like if you were to spin in a Gravitron. Yeah. I was like. Then I grabbed the bottom of the steering wheel and just kind of pulled myself underneath and down into the seat. And the thing gets done flipping and I'm fine, except for my knuckles were scratched up from the windshield. And get out. And as soon as I get out, there's a car stopped and it's a couple. And they had just got engaged that morning. And they were like, holy moly. I run up to the car and they were like, oh, my gosh, you're. You're flipped so many times. And I was like, do you have a cell phone? And they were like, yeah. And so by this time, there's so many cars, my truck's sitting in the middle of the street, and there's so many cars parked, and everybody stopped. And this lady's like, you need to sit down. You're in shock. And I was like, no, I just Gotta call Dad. And I got on the phone with him, and I was like, man, I flipped my truck, you know. And he, you know, says, all right. So he comes. He drives past me to the farm, which is another mile or two down the road, and gets the rollback. And. And we, you know, had to talk to the police and all that, but then we just put the thing on the rollback and took it back to the farm. And I got some pictures of it when we get back to the farm that. I mean, it's literally, like hours after I flip this thing of the truck up on the rollback, and me looking at the inside of it and everything, how much it twisted up. But we get in that truck, and I was like, man, I'm getting ready to get my ass chewed. He is gonna chew my ass. I've ruined the gathering. He's had to leave Memo's. Everybody's worried, and I've just made a mess out of the day, and I've ruined my truck. But he'll. Even though I'm paying for it, he'll be mad at me, you know, for tearing it up. And he just laughed.

[Amy]

Really.

[Dale Jr.]

We're rolling down the road, and I'm just getting ready. I'm just ready to hear it. Here it comes. And he just starts laughing, and he goes, man, I flipped my. I flipped my car when I was 16 or 18. He's like, I run around this curve. You know that curve over there? Yeah, that curve. I rolled right over, had a girl with me riding down the road, talking BSing, and missed a turn.

[Dale]

He got a wreck with a chick in the car. Damn. At least you didn't have that going on.

[Dale Jr.]

No.

[Dale]

You had a lot of little wrecks like that.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. And I was like, oh, you're just not upset. So he's like, I got an insurance for that. And got me a 1994 S10 pickup.

[Amy]

Hey, that's awesome. Full circle.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

He still has an S10 pickup.

[Amy]

S10 pickups are nice, dude.

[Dale Jr.]

S10 pickups are great. You remember the Baja S10? Yeah, man. Yeah. I wanted one them so bad. Yeah. I wanted one so bad. I drive by the dealership just to look at it.

[Amy]

Everyone says, what's your dream truck? I'm like, S10 pickup?

[Dale]

Really?

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah. With a bench. I put a bench seater or something in there, like.

[Dale]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he had it a long time to find another one.

[Dale Jr.]

Ray Evernham helped me find an S10 and restore it. Identical to. To what mine was when I was. When I got My first car, it was an 88S10 pickup truck. It was a. It had the Tahoe package, which meant it had a specific type of wheel on it. And it was a four wheel drive. And I had to search high and low just for like the wheel moldings and all kinds of weird that this thing had on it that was unique to that specific S10. Anyways, it was a. I have it. Glad I got it. It was expensive to restore it because it's worth really Nothing as an S10. Like there's not a big, you know, not a. Not a market for S10s out there. But I needed it because it got away from me. I woke up, man, I had this black and silver S10 truck that I loved. I loved everything about it. Got it when I was 16 and I graduated high school and dad thought that I wanted this two tone brown, no carpet Silverado. And I was like, he comes, I come home from school and he's like, here's your graduation presentation. I was like, where the hell's my S10? That's gone. And I knew I found where. I found where my STM was. Is on this used car like Kannapolis. And I would drive by there. And then one day I drove by and it was gone. I'm like, oh, that would break my.

[Dale]

Heart too if I had my.

[Dale Jr.]

I hated that car.

[Dale]

I liked and somebody traded it in while I was at school.

[Dale Jr.]

I treated it.

[Dale]

Really? You treated it like crap.

[Dale Jr.]

I treated the brown truck like crap because I didn't like it. I didn't want it.

[Dale]

Like it was the trust, but I.

[Dale Jr.]

Didn'T have much of a choice. It was, you know, it was. Dad did give it to me. I mean, it was like a. But finally I got. I was like, I can trade this in and I can find. I can pay for this. You know, when I got a job, I was like, well, now I can.

[Dale]

Just do it myself.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Amy]

Let me get one more question for you, Amy. Ashley wants to know if you've ever been able to do a ride along with Dale and how was it?

[Dale]

I have. I've done two ride alongs. The first one was in Charlotte and this was right after we started dating. Rick Hendrick had some friends and I forget who else that he wanted to.

[Dale Jr.]

Talk about this on the show. I feel like. I feel like we talked about it.

[Dale]

We've talked about it a lot because I can't let it go. So Dale and I were. I don't know what we're doing. Nothing. We ended up at the racetrack in Charlotte. And he's given ride arounds to all of Rick's friends. And eventually he thinks it's a good idea for me to get in the race car and drive. He drove me. Did you drive me around?

[Dale Jr.]

I think so.

[Dale]

He must have driven me around at least one lap. And then he wants me to drive, but he's not willing to get in the car with me to ride along. So I'm like, wait a second. I don't even know how to start.

[Dale Jr.]

I know. This is so hard.

[Dale]

Mind you, I am dressed. I am snapped into the Hans device. Can't move my head. Can't see nothing. I feel like you can't move your eyeballs when you're in that thing. And I'm like, mega. Out of my place, out of my element. I have no business doing what I'm doing. I know how to shift a car, but that's as far as that goes. I don't even know how to start this damn car. And so Rick decides to get in the car with me. And so he squeezes in through the passenger window. His car has a suicide door, so he didn't have to do that. But he gets in the car with me and we ride right off. There were no instructions. And I'm driving this thing like a street car. So I slow down and downshift as I'm in the turn. And he's like, no, no, no. Because I was gonna blow up the car.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah.

[Dale]

Like I said, I had no business getting in it. And I get back, and I was so mad at him, and I couldn't show it. Cause all of Rick's friends were there, and he and I had just started dating. But I'm like, I can't believe he did that to me and put me in that situation. I could have been. I could have been really bad.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Good for Rick for getting in the car, though.

[Dale]

Yeah. Especially if I had blown up the car. That would have been really, really bad. But Rick was, like, holding his hand out and like, showing me where to go.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. He saved my marriage that day. He saved the marriage I would eventually have.

[Dale]

Yeah, he couldn't. He couldn't believe it either. He's like, you're not going to get in there.

[Dale Jr.]

I was like, no, hell no.

[Dale]

I get in there like, this is your idea? Yeah. That was Dale back then. He took me around Bristol, too, and that was epic. No, you're not the same person I would ride today. He. He took me around Bristol, and that was insane. I can't Imagine racing at any track with all the other cars around you and having to focus as fast as they go. Your eyes are vibrating. Everything's like. So you have to have, like, tunnel vision almost. But Bristol is like. It's so small, you don't really get to think about anything else. And we got loose.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. And so they treat the bottom of the racetrack with the PJ one. And that stuff's, like, hard as plastic when we were there. And it literally is like, plastic. So when the tire hits it, it just slips immediately. And so I come off a turn four and I was running pretty hard. And I come off turn four and the left rear got on that stuff.

[Dale]

He was trying to scare me a lot.

[Dale Jr.]

And it goes whoop. And we slid out toward the wall and I caught it right at the fence and I was like, holy sh. T. Like, it was a big deal.

[Dale]

And especially when you're not in control of the car and you have no idea what's about to happen. I was scared to die. She's like, I threw my arm out. Like, I want out. Done. I'm done. Don't do any more laps. Get me out of here. And he did another laugh. He was like.

[Dale Jr.]

And I was like, no, we're battling that again.

[Dale]

We're battling through our fears, finishing this.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

The video of your face when that happens, you, like, can kind of tell, like.

[Dale]

Yeah, I was terrified.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, it was a big.

[Dale]

I shook for a long time after I got out.

[Dale Jr.]

It was a big moment in the car. That was a legit, almost your ass busting moment.

[Amy]

That's the best, though. That's what you want.

[Dale Jr.]

And I say that because it gave.

[Dale]

Me a very realistic perspective, like I'm saying, of how they feel when they're in the car. I mean, granted, they do have control over it, but yeah, you get hit or something. You don't.

[Dale Jr.]

Those type of things happen every, you know, handful of laps in the race. And. But it was. But I wanted her to know, like, that, like that what that was. Right there is something that no one will ever get. Like all the other rides we did that day.

[Dale]

I know my dad was there that day and he got jealous. He's like, dang. He couldn't have gotten loose.

[Dale Jr.]

Like, Amy got a. Got like something that you can't really replicate.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

That's authentic on purpose.

[Dale]

That goes back to that, like, do you believe in spirits thing. I feel like maybe sometimes his dad does stuff like that. Don't you feel?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

There's moments in your life. Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Here you go kids.

[Amy]

That's fun.

[Dale]

I think so.

[Amy]

That's a good way to end ask Amy.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Thank you guys. Really appreciate your questions. And if you haven't already, please hit subscribe. Also, don't forget to check out our [e-mail] I'm wearing one of our new hats, the Jug hats, by requesting. This is the black on black version. I like it because it's subtle, but there's a lot of different colors and those are going to go live on the website today. So check those out. And thank you for your questions.

[Dale Jr.]

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