Bless Your ‘Hardt – Locked Out in Vegas

Summary

Summary of "Bless Your ‘Hardt – Locked Out in Vegas" Episode of The Dale Jr. Download

Released May 1, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this engaging episode of The Dale Jr. Download, hosts Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Amy delve into a mix of personal anecdotes, family life, and entertaining games. Skipping the advertisements and introductory segments, the duo focuses on their recent experiences, parenting challenges, and interactive segments that resonate with listeners.

Vegas Adventure: Locked Out and Casino Fun

Dale and Amy recount their recent trip to Las Vegas, where they attended a High Rock appearance in partnership with Texas Roadhouse. The evening began with dinner at Nobu, enjoying sushi before heading to the event. Dale enthusiastically shared his experience navigating the casino, playing various slot machines, and the thrill of occasional wins.

However, the night took an unexpected turn when Dale lost his room key, leading to a stressful situation of being locked out. Amy described the tension and her efforts to locate him:

"I come downstairs in my robe, bare feet, madder than a hornet trying to find him, and he's nowhere to be found." [09:23]

Despite the chaos, the couple managed to reconcile, albeit after a sleepless night filled with frustration and playful banter about casino strategies and the unpredictability of Las Vegas nightlife.

Parenting and Family Life

The conversation shifted to their roles as parents, celebrating their daughter Isla's recent seventh birthday. Amy shared amusing anecdotes about Isla's growing understanding of time:

"She wanted to know what time she was born... And I was like, around 10:40, you know, right before 11:00." [16:07]

Dale reflected on the challenges of guiding young children through concepts like time and responsibility, emphasizing the importance of encouraging their daughters, Nicole and Isla, to explore interests such as sports and dance. The hosts discussed the nuances of parenting, balancing personal lives with family responsibilities, and fostering strong, supportive environments for their children.

Games Segment: Building the Perfect Vacation and Flag Flags

Adding a playful element to the episode, Dale and Amy participated in two interactive games facilitated by co-host Denny:

1. Build Your Perfect Vacation: With a budget of $15, Dale and Amy crafted an imaginative trip to Italy, complete with a Vespa tour featuring an unexpected guest—Elvis Presley. Their choices included enjoying pizza and gelato in Naples and embarking on a boat trip on Lake Como, showcasing their creative and humorous teamwork.

2. Red Flag, Beige Flag, Green Flag: This game explored relationship dynamics by categorizing behaviors into red (deal-breakers), beige (neutral), and green flags (positive traits). Through scenarios like someone not celebrating anniversaries or maintaining friendships with ex-partners, the hosts provided insightful and candid opinions on what constitutes healthy relationship behaviors.

Audience Q&A

The episode featured an interactive Q&A segment, addressing listener questions:

• Obsolete Items in 20 Years: Dale predicted the decline of regular toilet paper in favor of more sustainable alternatives like Dude Wipes. Amy considered the potential obsolescence of cash, noting the shift towards a cashless society.

  "I think regular toilet paper will be obsolete. And we'll all have like, dude wipes or some sort of a wet wipe, moist towelette sort of system." [51:16]

• Recent Purchase Regrets: Amy shared a humorous confession about purchasing cotton candy for Isla, which she later hid to avoid conflict. Dale recounted his disappointment with an energy drink he bought on a friend's recommendation, emphasizing the pitfalls of overenthusiastic purchases.

• Family's Reaction to Meeting Dale: Amy described her family's warm and welcoming response to meeting Dale, highlighting the ease of integrating him into their family dynamic.

  "They love him. And it wasn't very, like, awkward. I was more nervous about it than I probably should have been, but it was fine." [65:00]

Personal Reflections and Future Plans

Towards the end of the episode, Dale and Amy reflected on the evolution of their show and their personal growth. Amy discussed becoming more comfortable in front of the camera, attributing her progress to collaborative ventures and supportive interactions. Dale expressed his delight in watching Amy navigate her newfound public presence, appreciating how the show has strengthened their relationship and brought their listeners closer.

"It's been fun watching her navigate that." [58:35]

Additionally, Dale shared heartfelt sentiments about wanting to ensure he leaves nothing unfulfilled:

"I want you to look at me laying there and go, yep, you did it all. You got it all. You got all of it." [13:25]

Conclusion

"Bless Your ‘Hardt – Locked Out in Vegas" offers a blend of humor, heartfelt moments, and relatable discussions. Dale Jr. and Amy provide listeners with an authentic glimpse into their lives, balancing celebrity experiences with everyday challenges. Through personal stories and interactive segments, the episode fosters a strong connection with the audience, making it a memorable installment in The Dale Jr. Download series.

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Note: All timestamps correspond to the given transcript and are included to attribute notable quotes accurately.

Transcript

[Amy]

Hi guys. Welcome to another episode of Bless yous Heart. Dale and I are here in the Dirty One Media Studios and we have a great show for you today. We're talking about a lot of silly things. A burger contest we had in Charlotte airport. Dude wipes. I have a very embarrassing confession for you guys.

[Dale]

Ask Amy.

[Amy]

Ask Amy. And a few fun games. So let's get started.

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[Dale]

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[Amy]

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

[Dale]

Oh, you look amazing. I could stare at you today. Are you kidding me?

[Amy]

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

[Dale]

I slept till 2 smoking cigarettes and drinking amp energy.

[Amy]

Lord have mercy. All right, today's drink of the week brought to you by hi Rock is called the easy breezy and it's a pretty simple recipe. Hi Rock. Cranberry juice, grapefruit juice and then you garnish it with grapefruit. So it's got to be nice and light. You want to try?

[Dale]

Yes.

[Amy]

All right. Cheers.

[Dale]

Cheers.

[Amy]

I noticed that you don't have a straw today.

[Dale]

All right, that's good.

[Amy]

It's hanging kind of tropical feeling.

[Dale]

Tart.

[Amy]

Tart and refreshing.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Easy, easy breezy. Visit highrockvodka.com to find high rock in your area. Also, remember that you have to be 21 years or older and you need to drink responsibly.

[Dale]

When I lived with dad and Teresa, that's what this show's about.

[Amy]

Back in the old days, we had.

[Dale]

Teresa was very health conscious, ahead of her time, honestly. We ate Popeye Corn puff cereal out of a bag and it was just no sugar, no additives, just no junk. Puffed. Yeah, it's kind of like what was the Corn Puffs that. The. Not Captain Crunch, but the Corn Puffs.

[Amy]

I know what you're talking about. We didn't really eat those. Smacks.

[Dale]

Smacks.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale]

So it was like smacks, but without all the great.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

But anyhow, she, we, she, she ate and we ate grapefruits.

[Amy]

Yeah. Like a half grapefruit. Yeah.

[Dale]

I mean that was like a snack. I mean every other two or three days.

[Amy]

Did she have those little special spoons that like saw the little, I don't remember, segmented spoons that like the little edges of them?

[Dale]

I know, but we didn't have that back in the 80s, but yes we did. We did have that back in the 80s, but I mean, I think we use a spoon or just cut it.

[Amy]

With a knife and then spoon it out.

[Dale]

Yeah, but we would dump. I would dump a bunch of sugar on it, cut it in half, dump a on it and eat it and so good.

[Amy]

It's a lost art snack. We should just get some grapefruit.

[Dale]

So good.

[Amy]

Yeah. They are so mad.

[Dale]

I was so mad that I had to eat that. But it was actually probably why I am kicking so much ass these days.

[Amy]

Because of all your grapefruit eating.

[Dale]

When you take care of myself before I decided to treat my body like a carnival ride.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's right.

[Dale]

In my 20s and 30s, I did a lot of hard work.

[Amy]

And 40s.

[Dale]

In my teens and 40s. We're gonna talk about that, are we? Carnival ride.

[Amy]

Carnival ride.

[Dale]

Your body. Yeah, Vegas.

[Amy]

Oh, I can't do Vegas.

[Dale]

You're still hungover.

[Amy]

So we went to Vegas on Sunday for a high rock appearance. We got to meet with the Texas Roadhouse folks. It was really fun. A quick little two hour deal and we just stayed the night because the event was from 8 to 10pm Dale had it in his mind that he was gonna get there and do Vegas. And I can't do Vegas. I don't think I've ever really been that good at partying. I've tried to like stay up and do all the things with Dale, but I regret it heavily for days on end. And I still feel like I'm hungover from just sleep deprivation or whatever from Monday night or from Sunday night. So I totally can't hang. But Dale stayed up all night long.

[Dale]

I went to bed at 5:30, which.

[Amy]

Is 8:30am our time. Yeah, all night.

[Dale]

Yeah, it was. I had fun. We were. We went there for High Rock. We have a relationship with Texas Roadhouse. All of. I think in 300 or so locations and hopefully soon nationwide. You can go to Texas Roadhouse and get a. What is called a del. Yeah, it's a really good drink. If you like Creamsicle. Think Creamsicle and vodka. It's awesome. And it's on the menu right there in front of you at the table. But we were celebrating or working on that partnership with Texas Roadhouse. And we're going to spend the night because our deal was later in the evening.

[Amy]

So we had dinner at Nobu beforehand. We had plenty of time there kind of in between landing and going to the appearance. So we stuffed ourselves with sushi.

[Dale]

There's a bar there, Margaritas. And there's a bar there that we've been going to for so many years. We've already been through two remodels.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Has had two different names. You know how every like, couple dec. Every decade they'll like refurbish the bar. Over on this.

[Amy]

They overhauled this one. The bartender was telling us all the things.

[Dale]

Three models on that one. But we sitting there drinking some drinks at the bar, and I'm like, yeah. I text Denny about that slot machine that he hit all that, you know, won all that money on. And I was like, what exactly was the specific name? And he told me. He's like, buffalo Stampede. He's like, there's other buffaloes.

[Amy]

Don't be fooled. You gotta stay.

[Dale]

Don't go to those. Go to the Stampede only. And I was like, all right. So we worked. We walked all around. I walked all around the hotel.

[Amy]

No, no. So he decides he's gonna. This is kind of goes back to not wanting to ask for help at Lowe's or anything like that. He's like, no, I'm just gonna walk around and find it. I'm like, surely. Denny was like in the high roller section. He's probably not over here where the penny slots are, definitely. So start there. And he's like, I'm just gonna walk around and look for it. While he gets up to go walk around and look for it. Morgan and I get on the website because you can find exactly where these machines are located in the casino. So we were kind of laughing at that. We were like, this is just one of those things. Men versus women, just total difference.

[Dale]

I found the Buffalo Stampede and it's a little four game kiosk. Kind of situation. And right next to the sports book. Sit down and like, Denny's playing with thousands of dollars, winning hundreds of, you know, tens of thousands of dollars. And I played with, you know, dollars and I want to. I won a thousand dollars. Wow. Sitting on that machine for like four or five minutes.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And then we walked down through the casino and I found another machine that just was calling my name. And I won a 600. I won. I sat there for a while. It's like a wheel of fortune, which is one of the fate. My favorites. And I won 600 bucks on that. And then Amy and them went to bed and I ended up going to the.

[Amy]

Going everywhere.

[Dale]

I like roulette because you don't have to do math. And you just kind of like, oh, this is my daughter's birthday, this is my wife's birthday, this is my birthday. Oh, number 17, that's my granddaddy's racing number. You know, just whatever. And I lost all the money that I wanted.

[Amy]

So that's the thing. He's playing the slots and as he's winning those big numbers, I'm like, okay, now cash out. Like, don't keep, don't lose it all.

[Dale]

And I lost it.

[Amy]

And then I left him and he lost it all. But 1:30 in the morning after being up all day. That's long. I mean, that's 4:30 in the morning of my time. That was too late.

[Dale]

I got two hours of sleep, came home, flew on the airplane, got another two hours.

[Amy]

Yeah. Well, before we even got to the airplane. The only reason I even knew.

[Dale]

Oh my gosh.

[Amy]

Okay, so here's the thing my man lost. He went upstairs and took his sports coat off and that's where left his room key in the room. So he's locked out of the tower, which is why he ended up having to stay up all night. I think around 3 or 4 o'clock he was tired. But at 5:30 I started getting find my phone pings so that he could wake me up so that I could come downstairs and get him. So I come downstairs in my robe, bare feet, madder than a hornet trying to find him, and he's nowhere to be found. I'm like. I go down to the little bar that we were sitting at, thinking maybe it was open. I turn around and I see that there's people coming.

[Dale]

There's not many people in the hotel.

[Amy]

At this point, but enough. Enough to see you walking around in your row. And so I go back upstairs. I didn't have my phone and I text him some really aggressive. Where the Are you typing text messages? I'm like, I'm gonna be downstairs at that lobby. You beat me down there. And so I go down. I just look at him. He gets into the elevator. No words. He gets into the bed, and he gets to sleep for, like, an hour before I have to start waking him up again to go to the airport. But he was a hot mess.

[Dale]

Sure, I was. I was. Yeah, I lost. I. You know, I lost all that money that I won at the roulette wheel, which was fine. I played roulette for two to three hours maybe, and then. And I was like, oh, I'm done. I'm done. I don't. I don't even really know what I want to do next, so I'm just gonna go to the room, and I'm like, I ain't got no key. Oh, no. Amy's, like, dead asleep. I know.

[Amy]

And my phone ringers never.

[Dale]

And I'm texting her, and she's not answering. And while I'm doing this. And this goes on for two hours, I walk this hotel, like, the perimeter of the casino, and it's like. I mean, no, man. It's like, at least half a mile, three, quarter mile just to walk the perimeter of this song. I mean, I'm walking this thing over and over and over. I went to the front desk, and I'm like, hey, you know, I'm in this hotel. I don't have a key. And they're like, which. Which room? And I told them the room. They're like, oh, that's the Nobu Tower. You got to go over to the reception on the other side. And I'm like, I didn't even know there was another one.

[Amy]

That sounds too complicated.

[Dale]

And I just walk away. And Amy's like, well, why didn't you go to the other one? I'm know where it was. And she's like, you didn't ask him? I'm like, no, I'm not asking him. And so I would rather just go wandering off and figure it out myself.

[Amy]

I'd rather a heavy foot around, like a mall walker around the edge of this casino.

[Dale]

Yep. And I. I might have got another beer. I might have. I might have played another slot or two. And finally I'm like, God, I'm tired. I'm so tired. And I'm like, all right, this is, like, emergency.

[Amy]

Last resort.

[Dale]

Last resort. I'm gonna hit the. Hit the. Find my phone on her phone. So her phone starts ringing like it's Lost and voice.

[Amy]

It's tricky.

[Dale]

She doesn't love that. She doesn't love that.

[Amy]

No. It's the most annoying sound.

[Dale]

Yep. Well, you can change the sound to something nice. You can change the sound of my voice. If you wanted to help me and.

[Amy]

Help, help, that would be more fun. But honestly, um, I was so annoyed that you just were up still.

[Dale]

I know.

[Amy]

The whole thing just made me more annoyed than I should have been, but I should have come to expect this.

[Dale]

It was our one. It's literally like the one day, one night. I'm gonna go in my mind now, this is not true. Because I was like, Remember, we were flying there, And I'm like, man, I can't wait to Vegas. This is gonna be awesome. I'm going. I'm going hard in the paint. And.

[Amy]

And you weren't lying. I thought he was just kidding around.

[Dale]

I'm like, I feel like I haven't been here in forever. And Morgan's like, yeah, it was, like, three months ago.

[Amy]

You were.

[Dale]

Yeah, you were here.

[Amy]

You were just here.

[Dale]

Like, really? And so in my mind, I'm like, I'm going to Vegas for one night. I got. I got nothing but flying to do tomorrow.

[Amy]

Never mind.

[Dale]

I don't know that you got to.

[Amy]

Come back and be a parent.

[Dale]

I don't.

[Amy]

All kinds of things happening.

[Dale]

I know. I'm like, I don't know when I'll get back here.

[Amy]

He can justify anything. We're going to hammer down.

[Dale]

We're going to drop the throttle, and we're going to put it in fourth, and we're going to dump the clutch, haul ass. We're just. And then, you know, we'll worry about the consequences later.

[Amy]

It sounds like a Dale Juniorism if I've ever heard one.

[Denny]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I'm just going to justify this and worry about the consequences.

[Dale]

Well, I've had some things. I've had some experiences in life where I know. I just know it when I get. When I'm laying on that. When I'm laying on that bed, taking my last breath, I don't want to have left anything on the table.

[Amy]

I would have rather walked paces around the casino all night long and pissed my wife off, then just have to gone. Has gone to sleep and, you know, had my reasonable amount of fun. You do. You don't.

[Dale]

I want you to look at me laying there and go, yep, you did it all. You got it all. You got all of it.

[Amy]

I feel like if you died tomorrow, I could say that, like, I think you've really, really done your your job there.

[Dale]

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[Amy]

We have a 7 year old.

[Dale]

She's so fun. Man.

[Amy]

Isla has gotten like so sweet and you could talk to her like an adult and she's just really great. She's in a great spot.

[Dale]

She's like I'm putting her to bed. This is cool. As a parent you might not understand this at all but she goes when do I turn seven? I was like what do you mean? She goes when was I born? What hour?

[Amy]

She wanted to know what time she was born.

[Dale]

I'm like Dang Okay, Amy.

[Amy]

Yeah. Cause, hey, when was she born? He comes scuffling, Amy. He comes scuffling into Nicole's rooms. I'm putting her down. He's like, what time was she born? And he just looks at me like, you better know because I gotta. I gotta take her and answer. I was like, around 10:40, you know, right before 11:00. And he was like, okay.

[Dale]

I go back in there and I tell her that, right? And she's like, oh, darn, I got a whole day. The whole day till. And I'm like, I'm like, yeah, you'll be in bed and already asleep for two hours when you actually do turn seven. And we. And so the whole day later, we're putting her in bed and she goes, in two hours, I'll be seven.

[Amy]

Yeah, she's been thinking about it all day long. Listen, even though she woke up and we, like, had cake for breakfast and the whole, like the whole day was her day.

[Dale]

When you're a parent, one of the things that kind of frustrated me, and I'm not. I mean, maybe to a degree, was their inability to understand time.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

They don't know what yesterday means. They don't know what tomorrow means. They don't know what a minute, five minutes, ten minutes, feels like. They still kind of don't.

[Amy]

And asked me the other day how many seconds were in a day, so I had to Google that. She's like, What? And it's 86,400. I won't forget now.

[Dale]

And so till a certain age, you'll tell them, we're going to do that in 10 minutes or you get to play for five minutes. They really don't know what that means.

[Amy]

No. Unless you set the timer, they have no concept of how long that feels.

[Dale]

So for her to be asking like these little, like, oh, I turn. She. You know, for her to kind of get. Starting to get the concept of time is nice.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

It's such a relief.

[Amy]

I'll be honest. If you were to ask me when Nicole was born, I'd have to look it up on her thing. I know it's in the middle of the afternoon.

[Dale]

Yeah, it was like middle afternoon. 4ish.

[Amy]

Around 4ish. But like, I don't know the exact time. My mom could tell you the exact time to the minute that all of her kids were born, and I can't do that.

[Dale]

I'm trying to have.

[Amy]

I'm trying to remember when you were born.

[Dale]

No, I'm trying. I do. I remember.

[Amy]

I don't the birth.

[Dale]

I'm trying.

[Amy]

Where are you going, Ralph?

[Dale]

I'm trying to remember. I remember more about Nicole than that day in the hospital and the whole experience than I do. Than I do Isla.

[Amy]

Really.

[Dale]

The only thing I remember about I. The one thing that I remember about Isla, and this is when the guy came in and told us she had that imperfection in her heart.

[Amy]

Yeah. That was way after she was.

[Dale]

I know. It, like, blanked it, like, it, like, mind erased you. Mind erased me.

[Amy]

Oh, man.

[Dale]

And. And that was a scary little moment.

[Amy]

Well, the experience with Isla was just very different. Like, the room was different. The whole thing was different.

[Dale]

Saw a little thing.

[Amy]

Yeah. She had a hole in her heart, but eventually grew back. But, yeah, it was scary, but that was way after.

[Dale]

Yeah, I know. And it, like. I don't. I remember the whole thing with Nicole.

[Amy]

Well, Mimi was there for Isla. Do you remember that?

[Dale]

Oh, I remember sitting in the waiting room with her.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

That was special. Should we tell this?

[Amy]

Why not? We went to, well, the airport yesterday to do a really fun thing. I'll let you tell. Tell everybody what? The fun part.

[Dale]

All right, so Whiskey river in the. We have one in the Charlotte airport. It does amazing. Got voted number one casual dining experience in all of, I think, the country.

[Amy]

Yeah. In the airport.

[Dale]

In all the airports across the country. We learned that Charlotte is the eighth busiest airport in the world. And so we've had Whiskey river in the. In one of the concourses down there for over 10 years. And it's just awesome. Done. Amazing. The foot traffic's insane, but it's a great place to. To go chill and live music and kill some time during your layover. And they invited us out to the second annual Cook Off. They. They're going to cook burgers. It's all the. All the chefs from. In these different restaurants in the.

[Amy]

It's four different local breweries that are now opening restaurants in the airports.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And so, like, Noda, Sycamore, Wicked Weed.

[Dale]

Oh, wow.

[Amy]

And omb.

[Dale]

But these chefs that are cooking this already work in places in the.

[Amy]

In the airports. Yeah.

[Dale]

And we sat down, and it was fun. We had a great time. Do it again. Absolutely. But Amy. Amy and I both ended up getting a little.

[Amy]

A little belly ache.

[Dale]

Oh, no.

[Amy]

I was putting Isla to bed, and I'm like, I think I'm gonna need to hand this book over to your dad.

[Dale]

I had to read Isla's book, and Amy went to emergency room.

[Amy]

Emergency room.

[Dale]

Maybe went to the emergency room upstairs.

[Amy]

Yeah. It was. It was epic. Little hour I had.

[Dale]

But I'm not a thrower upper.

[Denny]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And so I'll just get nauseous and just kind of. And it. Yeah.

[Denny]

Melting it.

[Dale]

Nothing happens. Yeah.

[Amy]

Maybe it's my mentals. Like, once I start feeling like that, I just know I need to get it out.

[Dale]

But he. We don't really know what caused that. But the burgers, they were insane. Insane. Good.

[Amy]

The one that won.

[Dale]

That one was.

[Amy]

It had. It was more of, like, a Mexican vibe. It had crema and cohita cheese and had a green guac. It had guacamole on the bottom and had a raw, not fried, green tomato slice on the bottom of the burger. And then it had tortilla chips, like, strips of tortillas in the top.

[Dale]

They gave us a Mexican lager to drink with it. It was just like. I was like, damn. And Amy goes, I'm ready to take a trip. She took two bites of that burger. She's like, okay, let's book a trip.

[Amy]

No, it wasn't the burger. I was in the airport. I'm like, this makes me want to go somewhere.

[Dale]

She was. She. We go every time we go. Therefore, she's like, hate the airport. Hate traveling.

[Amy]

Well, they hate the.

[Dale]

Hate the hustle and bustle. Right.

[Amy]

It's It. They have really done a good job renovating our airport.

[Denny]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And the process is only, like, halfway through. They're now. They're, like, in the other. The E Concourse, where the Whiskey river is. So we didn't get to see that. But it's really nice.

[Dale]

Yeah. And so we're walking around there.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And she's like, I'm ready. This makes me want to go on a trip.

[Amy]

Go somewhere. Yeah.

[Dale]

I was like, really? I was like, wonder what? So I don't have to bring you to the airport to walk around every time. I wonder what we could have at home that could actually spring you.

[Amy]

What could I put in the house? You can't parade you around the airport just to make you get in the mood to go somewhere.

[Dale]

I'm like, I'm always wanting to go on trips, like, me and Amy or me and the kids and us. I'm, like, ready to go. I'm down for a good time and. But she's always like, we got school. We got this.

[Amy]

We got responsibilities.

[Dale]

We can't go anywhere.

[Amy]

We can't just pick up. There's dogs. We've been going.

[Dale]

We've been going.

[Amy]

We have. I'm tired. I was just telling you how tired I am from one day away on.

[Dale]

Sunday, we took her to the airport. She didn't get to check in. She didn't get to buy a ticket. She didn't get to board a plane. And she's like, I want to do a trip.

[Amy]

No. You know what I got to do? I got to go see what the. The conveyor belts in the back of the house look like, where your luggage goes through. That is crazy looking. It's like. It's like the biggest roller coaster you've ever seen for your bags. No wonder your might get lost or damaged. Like, no wonder. Yeah, we got to see the underbelly of the airport. It was pretty cool. I've seen more kitchens and back of the house kind of stuff with him then I can count.

[Dale]

But we go in the back. We go in the side door, brother.

[Amy]

All right, I have another confession in kind of the same vein.

[Dale]

Amy's embarrassing confession.

[Amy]

That's.

[Dale]

That's the.

[Amy]

I'm gonna share this. That's the note with you, too.

[Dale]

I'm anxious. I know nothing about this.

[Amy]

No judgment.

[Dale]

There will be judgment.

[Amy]

No. No, there won't. I have a feeling you've done something similar to this. So I get to go.

[Dale]

Now I'm roped in. Yeah, now I'm. Now I'm in the scandal.

[Amy]

It's not a scandal. It's just an embarrassing thing that only happened to me. Here's what happened. I went to a store opening in Charlotte last Thursday. It's too late. I'm gonna tell. I go to the store opening down in Charlotte with one of my girlfriends last Thursday, and it's for Love Shack Fancy. So I'm in this, like, really pretty white lace dress, and we have a cocktail before we go to the event. And then the event is in the store, but there's no food or anything like that. So, like, I don't have that much in my belly. But we leave, and before I get in my car, I'm like, I kind of have to go to the bathroom, but there's nothing really around. There's no bathroom in the store, and I don't see one inside. Unless I were to go back into, like, Restoration Hardware and go upstairs. Like, that felt like it was too much work at that point. So I get in my car, and I'm like, I'm just gonna stop that first gas station. Well, I pull over to the gas station, and it's one of those old school, like, you can't go in gas stations. It's just like a hut in the middle. I'm like, well, I'm screwed. Because at this point, nothing's nothing. Nothing is around here. So I just, like, try to get my mind right. And I'm like, I'm just gonna go down the road and find the first place I can pull over. And it's like 7:00, 7:30 at this point.

[Dale]

At night.

[Amy]

At night, South Charlotte. So I'm just driving through the neighborhood. I get to where there's like a little strip of stores. The Panera that used to be there is not there anymore. I'm like, I'm running out of options here. And it's really getting hard for me to hold it. So I pull over and what I think is like this little neighborhood with a couple businesses and there's a wine shop. And it's open. Like it looks like a grocery store, A tiny grocery store for just wine and snacks. And this lady pulls up to the left of me at the same time. I'm like, she's going to beat me to the door. Like, I'm not going to be able to scurry at this point. I get out of the car and I just walk on the side of the building. And I had to pee down my legs.

[Dale]

Oh, my gosh.

[Amy]

On my shoes. It was the most horrible feeling on the planet. It's your fault. This only happened because I had your children.

[Dale]

Oh.

[Amy]

But I ruined some of my favorite shoes. It was so bad. I just. I had my phone out and I text my girlfriends a picture of my feet. I'm like, guess what just happened to me? And they're like, oh, no, at least you didn't poop your pants. Like, lifted me back up, you know? And so I get back in my car and I text Dale and I'm on my way home. And instead of just going home, I stopped by Taco Bell first because I was really hungry.

[Denny]

I deserve this.

[Amy]

So I had a Double Decker and a Mexican pizza in my dirty dress. And then I got home. I was trying to. To sneak in the house without anybody giving me a hug or talking to me. I get upstairs, the girls are going to brush their teeth. And Dale comes in and I'm in the shower. He's like, why are you in the shower? And I was like, I peed my pants. And he's like, oh, man. He just walks. He's like, I don't really know what to do with that, but I'm not gonna bring her down. She looks like she's feeling pretty blue about it.

[Dale]

Oh, my gosh. I feel sorry that I wasn't there to Save you.

[Amy]

Nobody could have saved me. I couldn't even save me. There was no stopping it. Yeah. But, you know, here's to 43, man.

[Dale]

Well, you're tough. No, you're a tough girl, man. Hey, you brushed that off and then went to Taco Bell.

[Amy]

I mean, at that point, I needed something to make me feel better, and a taco is gonna do it.

[Dale]

You were like, you know, that was terribly, terribly embarrassing. But tacos.

[Amy]

I was scared to look up. I'm on the side of that little lion building. I'm like, surely they have a video camera or something out here, like, on their parking lot. But if I looked up, then they had a picture of my face. So I'm like, don't look up. Just.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

It was so bad, the taco.

[Dale]

I bet buying the tacos made you feel better.

[Amy]

It did. Taco Bell.

[Dale]

I go on Amazon and purchase some $20 trinket, and I'm like, I feel better.

[Amy]

You never peed yourself?

[Dale]

Oh, hell, yeah.

[Amy]

I mean, you have in the race car a couple times, but I've never.

[Dale]

I've never peed myself out of the race car. It's always happened inside the car. And it's probably. I probably done that six times total. I will plug your ears if you're a lady. I was so. So the first time I had to pee in a car, it was at. It was so hot. It was at St. Louis. It was so hot. We were chugging waters because we were terrified that we were going to burn up in the car. You know, just dehydrate. I drink way too much water. I get in the car, and it's like, 10 laps into the race, and I got a pee. And we had a caution. And I was not like, oh, just pee in the seat.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Because the seats were aluminum. And the rumor. The thought was that it could get in the bottom of the seat and boil because the floorboards. A couple hundred degrees.

[Amy]

It wouldn't just evaporate.

[Dale]

It might boil and burn your ass. There's been stories of guys having that issue. If you don't have a hole in your seat for it to flow out of. I'm not under. I'm not gonna take no chances. And under the caution, I undid my uniform and pulled it out and peed into the rocker panel.

[Amy]

You did not.

[Dale]

Yes.

[Amy]

You pulled it out.

[Dale]

Yes.

[Amy]

Oh, my God. This is before in car cameras.

[Dale]

That was not easy to do.

[Amy]

No. I bet you're all hooked up. You're like, how do I.

[Dale]

After that, I just went in the seat after that one, because I didn't. I did get it back in my suit, but I couldn't get. I wasn't sure. I got it all zipped up.

[Amy]

Oh, Lord.

[Dale]

And I'm like, you know what? Just gonna pee.

[Amy]

It's a little too risky. Yeah, I'd rather get a butt blister.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

From hot pee.

[Dale]

There's been guys that have had blisters on their asses from the bolts in the bottom of the seat getting hot. So there was one. I know one person, and I think it might have been Tony Stewart, but I know one person that had a chunk of their ass get burnt out because a button head bolt at the bottom of the seat was somehow really, really close to an exhaust pipe. And the heat conducted through the bolt and they were literally like right on top of it and riding for four hours, and it. It burnt a chunk out of their ass.

[Amy]

All right, this is a stupid question. Obviously y'all don't have, like a pad or like a lining in there.

[Dale]

Things have improved dramatically. Dramatically.

[Amy]

Traumatically, it seems like traumatically is how it starts.

[Dale]

Things have improved quite a bit. But this is in the 90s and the. Or, you know, back when we weren't. Everything was. It was just. Everything was just a bare minimum. But. Yeah. Anyhow, we're. I'm getting yes off the radio.

[Amy]

Speaking of bare minimum. You don't like the bare minimum in the bathroom. And you have proclaimed your heavy, heavy love for dude wife wiped. I know we're straight in the toilet today, but everything's in the.

[Dale]

Everything is toys. I was thinking about this. I don't. I forget who I was talking to. This about me. I know, but I put the idea down because I was talking to a friend of mine and I was like, hey. I was like, this is another guy, right? And I'm like, you know what dude wipes are, right? And he's like, we have them. We have another brand at my house, but I know what you're talking about. I was like, how long have those been around for you?

[Amy]

For you?

[Dale]

And he's like, a couple years. I'm like, yeah, right. Me too. Couple years. I'm like, where the hell's this been?

[Amy]

I don't know. We've had cotton L wipes in the bathroom for a long time, but until, like, they were branded for you, you didn't use them.

[Dale]

It's. You know, there's these. You know, there's. There's toilets that wash your ass. And I think there was one at the damn Vegas hotel.

[Amy]

I said, you didn't even have to ask for the function. It happened whether you were coming.

[Denny]

I sit down.

[Dale]

We get there, check in. I put my bags down. I sit down to pee, and I'm like. I got up. I was like, I mean, this damn told just wash my ass. I didn't push a button or nothing.

[Amy]

At first I thought, surely he accidentally pushed the button. And then I used the toilet later, too. And I was like, oh, no.

[Dale]

Yeah. It don't even ask. It just does it. And so. But that stuff's been around forever, you know, and just not. It's not. You know, it wasn't very common in American households, for sure, and still isn't. But the dude wipes. And I know they're a partner for some great people in nascar, and so. And. But they're kind of this taboo, you know, because it is. It is for the toilet. But, my gosh, they've changed Dell's life. It's funny because you can't use them in. You can't use them in marine or in the camper. A camper toilet, right? Because every. You have to have single ply, and it's got to be that dissolving style of toilet paper. And I forgot about that one time, and I brought some dude wipes onto the bus, and Kenny threw them some.

[Amy]

You're not ruining this tank.

[Dale]

Yeah. He's like, what the hell you think you're doing with these dude wipes in here? I was like, kenny, I gotta have them, man. They're amazing.

[Amy]

He's like, put it in the trash.

[Dale]

I can't imagine not. I can't go back. Right after you've used them. You're like, I can't. Regular dry toilet paper. No way. The one thing your mom wants from you is for you to call her this Mother's Day, give her a call, and give her an aura digital picture frame. Aura frames was named the best digital photo frame by Wirecutter and featured in 495 gift guides last year. So the next time you call your mom, send her that new pic from that trip you're telling her all about, right? From your phone. Andrew, you've used Aura before. Yeah, I have. This is a gift that my dad's side of the family gave my grandparents and that they have just loved it. I get to send pictures to them just about every week, and there's nothing that compares to the texts I get from them in the morning saying, hey, I just got your photo. I love it. Thank you so much for sending so it's a very meaningful gift to give somebody. Yeah, it's pretty cool. We have a couple and we have one at our house, so when you add a picture to it, it's kind of fun waiting to see who notices the new photo that you've added into the rotation. Aura has a great deal for Mother's Day. For limited time, listeners can save on the perfect gift by using auraframes.com to get $35 off plus free shipping on their best selling Carver mat frame. That's a uraframes.com promo code. Dale Jr. Support the show by mentioning us at checkout. Terms and conditions apply. This podcast is sponsored by Squarespace. Squarespace is the all in one website platform to help you stand out and succeed online. Whether you're just starting out or growing your business, it has everything you need to create a professional site, manage your brand and get paid all in one place. We all know in NASCAR how important the paint scheme is and how it looks on the car and well, the same thing when you're building a website and Squarespace has that for you. With their industry leading website templates, designer fonts and color palettes, it's all important. Get paid quickly with branded invoices and streamline your workflow with built in scheduling and email tools. No matter where you start, your website is flexible to what you need. I was talking to a friend the other day, tj who says building a new website in Squarespace has been perfect for him. You believe that?

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[Amy]

Play a game.

[Dale]

Let's play a game.

[Amy]

Let's play a game. Which one are we gonna play first?

[Denny]

Let's play build your perfect vacation.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Denny]

All right, for this game, you guys are going on a trip, and we're gonna build your perfect vacation. You have 15 to spend. Each activity in this is category is separated by four categories, and they each have their own price. And we'll read them as we go through the categories.

[Amy]

We gotta do math.

[Denny]

Yeah, you do. So you guys are going to Italy. I don't know if you guys have ever been, but you're going to Italy.

[Amy]

I have. Dale hasn't.

[Dale]

Italy. I've never been.

[Denny]

Okay, so our first category is crew. So you're picking someone to go with or not? Because $1. The $1 price.

[Dale]

Here we have $15.

[Denny]

Here, $15 is just the two of you.

[Dale]

I think me and Amy are gonna do just the two of us.

[Amy]

Are we doing this together? Are we spending this together?

[Denny]

You're spending it together, yeah.

[Amy]

Okay. Yes. Just two of us.

[Denny]

You just want to know the two of us. Okay, well, let me read the options just in case for the fans. $2 is Stranger, $3 is your favorite band, $4 is Tom Hanks, and $5 is Elvis. And you guys are choosing the $1 option.

[Amy]

Yeah, I think that we're just gonna go by ourselves. Elvis would be too much work.

[Dale]

Well, 15 bucks. I wouldn't want to spend one third of the. Of the budget on Elvis. Yeah, but Elvis, the King man.

[Denny]

Going to Italy with Elvis.

[Dale]

Elvis is. Elvis is high maintenance. I imagine being around.

[Amy]

Yeah, he's gonna steal all your thunder.

[Dale]

No, I'm just saying I think he's. What yellows are we talking about here? 69 Elvis, maybe 69 comeback special Elvis, maybe. I do.

[Denny]

Any Elvis you want.

[Dale]

What do you think? 69 comeback special, Elvis. We've got to do it.

[Amy]

All right, all right. Okay. Well, now we're taking Elvis.

[Denny]

Now you're taking ELVIS. All right, five.

[Dale]

$5 on the 69 comeback special. Ellis.

[Denny]

All right, well, here's the activity. You guys are doing the $1 option. You go to Milan to view fashion. $2 Vespa tour in Tuscany, $3 a tour historic Rome, $4 a gondola ride in Venice. And $5, you drive down the Amalfi coast.

[Dale]

You want to do the fashion? Save a little money.

[Amy]

No.

[Dale]

You don't like. I thought you'd like fashion. Milan.

[Amy]

I do like fashion.

[Dale]

Well, we only we'd be doing if we spend. What about the Vespa tour with Elvis? We got.

[Denny]

He's with us now.

[Dale]

At this point.

[Amy]

Now, I'm just trying to imagine the three of us. That's what you have toodling along.

[Dale]

We have to account for him.

[Amy]

Let's do the Vespa tour.

[Dale]

Vespour.

[Denny]

All right, Elvis. And you guys are doing a Vespa tour.

[Amy]

Do we all get to wear black leather suits?

[Denny]

You can wear whatever you want.

[Amy]

I feel like we all need to look like we're in the TCV gang, you know what I mean?

[Denny]

I agree. Now you're gonna go for your meal and drink. So your $1 is pizza and gelato in Naples. $2 is espresso and pastry at a Roman bar. $3 is pasta making class in Rome, and $4, wine tour in Sicily. $5 cooking class in Tuscany.

[Dale]

I'll let you pick this.

[Amy]

I feel like pizza and gelato would be awesome.

[Dale]

$1, $1 pizza and gelato.

[Denny]

That's easy. I would choose that.

[Amy]

I like the wine part, but I don't want to take a tour. I just want to have a couple glasses.

[Dale]

So what we got left over here? We're only at eight bucks.

[Denny]

So now you have. You're at eight bucks. So now you guys have, you know, pretty good rain here. Yeah, you guys are. You guys are doing well. You only got one more category, so, I mean, the wild card is $1 food poisoning. $2, you lose your phone. $3, you run into the worst person, you know. $4, you win unlimited supply of alcohol, and $5, you win a boat trip on Lake Como.

[Amy]

We're doing boat trip.

[Dale]

We can afford the boat trip.

[Amy]

We're going boating.

[Denny]

All right. There you go.

[Dale]

All right, we got 69 comeback special. Elvis.

[Amy]

We're all going on a Vespa tour dressed in our black leather suits, eating.

[Dale]

Pizza and gelato in Naples.

[Amy]

And then we're going on a boat trip on Lake Como.

[Dale]

This is an awesome trip.

[Amy]

Sounds like an epic day.

[Denny]

You got $2 left over to tip.

[Amy]

Elvis for his fun time.

[Dale]

Game number two is red flag, beige flag, green flag. In this game, Tim's is going to give us different scenarios, and we'll have to decide which flag best fits each.

[Amy]

What's a beige flag for? Like, a yellow flag?

[Dale]

Kind of meh.

[Denny]

Yeah, it's like, meh. No real opinion.

[Dale]

Like. Yeah. One way or the other.

[Denny]

Not a big deal. Not a deal breaker.

[Dale]

You ready?

[Amy]

I'm ready.

[Denny]

Okay. The first scenario. These are a lot of, like, modern dating scenarios, too, so just put that in mind.

[Amy]

So we're gonna be awesome.

[Denny]

You guys are good. If you're more. The advice. You're giving me advice, I guess.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Denny]

They don't believe in celebrating anniversaries. Red flag, beige flag, green flag.

[Dale]

Oh, the person doesn't believe in celebrating anniversaries.

[Amy]

Like any anniversary.

[Denny]

Any anniversary.

[Amy]

I say that's a red flag.

[Dale]

Red flag.

[Amy]

Yeah. So here's the thing. Like, you don't have to celebrate every little anniversary. I know, like back in the day. Oh, we just started dating a week ago. Like, that's ridiculous. But if you can't celebrate your wedding anniversary, then there's something wrong with the, you know, the partnership. I feel like you should want to make sure you celebrate each other on that day and your commitment to each other. Yeah, I don't know.

[Denny]

I agree. Red flag, red flag.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Denny]

They text good morning and good night every single day.

[Amy]

I think that's a green flag.

[Dale]

Yeah, Green flag. Or beige. Like, it's not a deal breaker, but. And I actually kind of like it.

[Amy]

Yeah. You just don't know when your last moment is. So if you don't take the opportunity, you might regret that.

[Denny]

It's a good point. Good point. They're best friends with their ex.

[Amy]

No. Absolutely. Red flag.

[Dale]

Red flag.

[Denny]

What if it was 10, 12 years ago?

[Dale]

No, red flag. They can't be best friends.

[Amy]

No. Get out of here.

[Denny]

Just say they say they will text you when they get home, but never do.

[Amy]

That's a red flag.

[Dale]

Oh, they. This has happened 1. This is a one time thing.

[Denny]

I think it's like every time you hang out and they say, I'll text you when I get home. And they never do. I'll just text you in the morning.

[Dale]

Piss me off. I'd say, hey, stop. Just don't.

[Amy]

That's amazing me. Awfully so.

[Dale]

Amy. I did that to Amy all the time. And she'd go, I did things. Like, I'd say, I'm gonna do this and not do it. I'd say, I'd. I'd text her when I'd land. I'd text her when I, you know, do things.

[Amy]

It's more. It's more like with the plane. She's like, he would just get busy. Like, if he was flying somewhere and I wasn't along, it's because he was doing an appearance or something. So he'd land and, like, get busy. And it wasn't like he was doing anything wrong, but I just wanted to make sure.

[Dale]

Her advice was like, don't tell me you're gonna do it if you're not gonna do it.

[Amy]

Just let me be able to track you so at least I can tell you.

[Dale]

Just don't.

[Amy]

You're there, you know, I mean, she'd.

[Dale]

Rather me not if. I'm not gonna say she'd rather me not tell her. I'm gonna say, yeah, because that's a disappointment.

[Denny]

Yeah, I get that.

[Amy]

Don't set me up for that.

[Dale]

So it's not. It's not that you have to text. If. So if you're. If there's this person and you're like feeling this obligation to tell them when you get home, maybe they don't really care as long as you don't promise to do it right.

[Denny]

Yeah, it's like you're letting them down.

[Dale]

Yeah, it is. So don't even tell them you're going to do it. Just going home.

[Denny]

We'll do.

[Dale]

See you later, Irish.

[Amy]

Goodbye. Just get out of here.

[Denny]

The next one. They always quote movies and TV shows.

[Amy]

I love that beige. I mean, if it's the only thing you're doing, it's annoying probably.

[Dale]

I think it's not. I got buddies that quote the same movies over and over. Like, anytime there's like a hit movie, like Step Brothers or Did we just become best friends?

[Amy]

That kind of thing. I love that.

[Denny]

The same one liner.

[Dale]

Because I don't. I've watched the movie, but I don't know none of the quotes. And they'll do like, I know that one, but they'll do another one from somewhere in the movie. And they'll look at me like.

[Denny]

And I'm like, they got deep cuts. They've watched deleted scenes and stuff like that.

[Dale]

I got buddies that do that.

[Amy]

Well, I do that. I have memorized movies that I like. Like that. Where I don't memorize songs as much. You know what I mean? Like, everybody has their thing. I can. I can do that with movies pretty well.

[Denny]

That's a green flag for you.

[Amy]

Like all the way back to the Goonies. Like old movies.

[Denny]

Okay.

[Amy]

Yeah. Just something that people get fixated on, I guess.

[Dale]

I can't pull a quote like I had a thin air that's from a movie, even though I might have seen it 20 times.

[Amy]

I know, but you could pull a stat from a race that came from 1975.

[Dale]

Yes.

[Amy]

So, like, you've. There's certain things people latch on to.

[Denny]

That's true. When people say, no offense and then say the most offensive thing.

[Amy]

Yeah. Rude red flag.

[Dale]

Depends on time. Depends on where we are in the relationship.

[Denny]

When's the good.

[Amy]

Yeah. What's the threshold, Rob?

[Dale]

Well, I think you get. I mean, where me and you are. You'll ask me, you know, I've got two dresses. Do you like this dress? Do you like that dress?

[Amy]

Yeah. So here's the thing about that.

[Dale]

And I'm like, well, am I supposed to tell you the truth?

[Amy]

Here's the thing. I have asked for your opinion, so I do want it. But I also own both of these pieces of clothing, so don't love one and then on the other one, because that other one's gonna have to be worn at some point. I just mean, like, for this event, for this day. That's what he does. He's like, oh, that one. He's, like, overselling me on the one he likes because he's gonna poo poo on the other one. Just tell me which one you like.

[Dale]

No, but I'll say you'll go, why don't you. Why don't you like this one? What is it about this one?

[Amy]

Well, if I ask you, then you get to tell me.

[Dale]

Okay, there you go. There's the answer.

[Denny]

They leave voice memos instead of texting.

[Dale]

I like that.

[Amy]

Yeah, it depends on the. I like it on the person, I guess. Tim Duggar does that with us all the time. And it's usually pretty funny. Like, he's telling us jokes or telling us a story that it's too long to type it out.

[Dale]

I like it because I think there's far too many times where I've gotten myself into trouble or I've misunderstood the other person. Not. Can't see the understanding, the tone and text. So sending a voice memo helps you understand inflection and. And all that. And I think it's like the future of, like, phone.

[Amy]

Like, it's more personal.

[Dale]

Yeah, phone calls. You know, we had. We had pagers then. Then we went to the cell phone, and now we're doing FaceTime. And, you know, soon one day, all calls will be video calls and all text messages will be audio.

[Denny]

And this one. I hate this one. They exclusively refer to you by a nickname you didn't choose instead of your real name.

[Amy]

Oh, now I don't like that either.

[Dale]

Yeah, like Tampa Tim's.

[Denny]

Like, similar. Like, college friends would call me Tim's, but my name's Alex. So if I'm dating you, I kind of want you to call me Alex. Not Tims. I'm not your bro.

[Dale]

You don't like being called what your friends call you?

[Denny]

Not my girlfriend. No.

[Dale]

Right.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Denny]

I don't want that. I want you to call me Alex.

[Dale]

She can't call you by the nickname your buddies use.

[Amy]

She needs to take you more seriously. Than that.

[Denny]

Yes.

[Amy]

Yeah, I agree with that.

[Denny]

I hate that. It's a red flag for me.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Like, I'm not gonna call Dale Junebug.

[Denny]

No.

[Amy]

No, that's not sexy.

[Denny]

No, that'd be weird.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

She's got a pit. Amy's. Amy's. What Amy did is call me Ralph. No one calls me Ralph.

[Amy]

That's the only reason I did that, to be fair, is because he didn't hear me say Dale Jr. Like, he could. He can tune that out. Especially back when we first started dating, he was still racing and constantly being yelled at. You know what I mean? Yeah. So Ralph is what started. Because I got his attention. The first time I said that, he was like, what?

[Dale]

I know, but that's fun for me, too. I like that. And so that. I think if you. Yeah. If you're picking. If you're thinking, you're wanting to go nickname, you have to have something that's all yours.

[Denny]

Yeah. Like, it's. It's something special. Everyone's calling you one thing or two things, but they call you this one thing. It's like, that's our thing.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Denny]

That's a red flag. I got two more for you.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Denny]

They constantly talk about what they want to do, but never actually do it.

[Amy]

Ooh, that's a red flag. Like, no, follow beige. You think it's beige?

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

It's circumstantial.

[Dale]

I guess I'd be hypocritical to call it a red flag, because I do it.

[Denny]

It's more. I think more if it's. If it's pipe dreams, stuff like that. Like, I want to go on this trip and never do it. That's the. That's a beige flag. Don't care if it's something that you really should be doing. It's like, you know, if something's a problem and you say that.

[Dale]

I think that is a red flag for me.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Denny]

Yeah.

[Dale]

So if somebody's like, I shouldn't eat that, or I shouldn't drink this much, or, you know, and they just keep on.

[Amy]

Do something about it.

[Dale]

Yeah. Yeah. They don't do something about it. Yeah.

[Denny]

The last one here and probably think more of this time. They don't have any social media accounts.

[Dale]

I don't mind.

[Amy]

I don't mind that I find that to be.

[Dale]

I figured you're a bit envious. I wish it, like, you know, it's like, there no putting a genie back in the bottle. But I do wonder what it would be like if that didn't exist and.

[Amy]

Not Be so tethered to your phone.

[Dale]

Yes. Gosh, I hate how addicted to it I am.

[Denny]

I think in the current generation it's seen as a red flag because it's been so. It's their whole life has been social.

[Dale]

Media that it's like what are you.

[Denny]

What are you afraid of? Like what are you hiding? That you're afraid that people know where you're at. Oh, it's almost seem like you're a doomsday prepper of some sort. You don't want the government to know where you are.

[Dale]

I don't think that through my nose anyway. I don't think that when someone doesn't have social media I tend to assume they're just probably my age or older and they just never did adapt to it. Now if it was a 25 year old individual that didn't have social media, I'd certainly wonder why.

[Amy]

I'd wonder why. But if they, if their choice was just to like be free from the judgment and from the. Because it's. There's a lot going on there and not wanting that stress, that person would seem like a very intelligent individual to me.

[Denny]

Interesting.

[Amy]

Like if you can have that much self control and you don't need it and you don't need the attention or to be in the fray, there's. You're like you're a step ahead.

[Tim]

Yeah.

[Dale]

I mean I'd be envious of that much willpower.

[Denny]

Well, that was red flag, beige flag, green flag.

[Dale]

Pretty fun.

[Amy]

It was fun.

[Dale]

Yeah. You want to do some ass gaming?

[Amy]

Let's do it.

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[Amy]

Hi, guys. We're here for another episode of Bless yous Heart. Dale and I are in the Dirty My media studio and want to remind you, if you haven't already, to hit the subscribe subscribe button. Also, don't forget to check out our merch. Dale's wearing one of our shirts today for Bless yous [e-mail] and I think we're ready for Ask Amy. So what questions do you have?

[Denny]

We do. Our first question is from Joey, and he wants to know what item do you think will be obsolete in 20 years? Ooh, that's a tough one.

[Amy]

What item? Dale seems to think regular toilet paper will be obsolete. Yeah, girls still want some of that.

[Dale]

But I think. Yeah, I think regular toilet paper will be obsolete. And we'll all have like, dude wipes or some sort of a wet wipe, moist towelette sort of system or, you know.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's your refill that you have to. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. Otherwise that stuff's so hard to predict, you know, I can't even imagine what's coming that. I don't. I don't. My brain just doesn't work like that. I'm like, content.

[Denny]

Yeah. Like what was obsolete 20 years ago that we. That was so common. I don't know. Some would say cash is kind of becoming obsolete.

[Amy]

Well, coins. Yeah, we don't really use.

[Dale]

I'm a little nervous about cash or coins.

[Denny]

You can't even go to the Panther stadium anymore for any game and use cash. It has to be all card.

[Amy]

Oh, really?

[Denny]

Yeah. It's cashless stadium now.

[Dale]

Yeah, I mean, I don't. I get. I get that. Like, I. I don't. I'm not. I don't carry. Carry cash. So when we go somewhere and you need it. Cash. Yeah. I don't usually have it.

[Amy]

We're in a pickle.

[Denny]

Yeah. Over the chat, we'll come up with some suggestions here.

[Dale]

What's that?

[Denny]

Hope the chat will come up with some suggestions, too.

[Dale]

I want to say, like, so for some reason, I feel like. Like. Like we were talking about this just a second ago, but, like, phone calls and text messages and all that stuff, I think will change the way we communicate with each other.

[Denny]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Will be more video and audio and less typing and talk. You know, texting and all of that stuff.

[Denny]

You think it'll go back to more face to face? Are you still. Or at least.

[Amy]

No, I think just be a video message.

[Dale]

Every phone call will be a video.

[Denny]

Okay. Like a face.

[Dale]

Every text message will be an audio message versus typing.

[Denny]

Okay, I get that. Somebody put telephone booths, which is a great example. They're taking those out.

[Amy]

Oh, right. That's true.

[Denny]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Cassette tapes, payphones.

[Denny]

Yeah, all that.

[Dale]

That's. Well, everything's digital now, so. I mean, what's not. Still not digital? What isn't digital today or what isn't a downloadable.

[Amy]

Yep. Developing film. Like, you don't really do that like you used to. I don't know.

[Denny]

Retail stores, too, is another one.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Denny]

Because of Amazon.

[Dale]

You know what I think? Laptops.

[Denny]

Laptops.

[Amy]

Where are we going with a laptop?

[Dale]

I believe that everything. I believe laptops will go by the wayside, and it'll be like, mini iPads and phones. Everything will be on, like, a tablet, Tablet, tablet only. And we'll all carry these around and plug them into everything we need to. You know, we need to do, like, all that over there. You guys are running that switchboard and everything. You'll walk in here with a tablet, plug it in, boom. It's all simplified keyboard basically, too.

[Denny]

Keyboards.

[Dale]

Keyboards? Yeah, keyboards, mouses.

[Amy]

It'll just be a flat piece of glass that you're typing on.

[Dale]

Yeah, I guess. I don't know. I'm just thinking all that probably gonna.

[Amy]

Oh, like an iPad.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah. Pretty cool.

[Denny]

Pretty cool. Next question from Josh. What's a purchase you've made recently that you immediately regretted or you do? Whatever.

[Dale]

Oh, I've had some. I'm trying to think.

[Amy]

I bought Isla some cotton candy the other day, and I regretted it as soon as I walked out of the store. And it's in the refrigerator in the garage. I still haven't let her have it.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

In the store. I don't want to have the fight, so I just say okay, and then I hide it when I get home. I haven't bought anything major that I regret.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Have you? No, No.

[Dale]

I mean, I haven't really had a big, big purchase here in a while, but.

[Amy]

Oh, man, these are some stumpy questions today.

[Dale]

I just. There's a couple about this drink about this, like, energy drink that I didn't like. A buddy of mine told me about it. He's like, hey, man, you should try this. And I bought it. And I'm like, I got a case. Because I was like, oh, he had.

[Amy]

To order it, so he ordered a case.

[Dale]

My guy, he likes it. I'm sure it's great. I drank one of them and I was like, damn, I got all this crap.

[Amy]

It's miserable. I can't drink this.

[Denny]

Yeah, so that's a good one. You over. Over bought it.

[Dale]

And then. Yeah, because you get excited and you're like, yeah, I want to try this. It's going to be awesome. And it came and I drank one. I was like, yeah, I can't drink no more of this. This is terrible.

[Denny]

You ever buy, like. Like, I bought sunglasses recently and they looked horrible on me.

[Amy]

Oh, really?

[Denny]

There's no. There's no coming back.

[Amy]

No. That's one of those things I don't order. Like, I have to try them on.

[Denny]

Yeah. Clothes and shoes online is the worst.

[Amy]

It's really hard.

[Dale]

Yeah, it's a. It's a lottery.

[Denny]

Yes.

[Amy]

I don't love sending things back either. And it's not because I don't. The process of putting it back in the mail is just something that I, like, have a hard time getting to. Like, I have a pack a pile of stuff that I need to mail out. Not. Not necessarily returns, but, like, me going to the post office is just like a pain in the back.

[Denny]

You never know what box to put it in. If you don't have the box, it's very. Socially, anxiety comes out there. Sarah wants to know what's been the most unexpected part of working with each other on Bless yous Heart.

[Amy]

The unexpected part, yes. Honestly, I feel like it's kind of brought us closer together. I mean, I thought we were as close as we could possibly be, but we're having fun getting to play like this with one another. We've worked together before on little projects here and there, but nothing quite like this. So, I mean, for me, that's probably it.

[Dale]

Yeah, I. I don't know that anything's unexpected, but I am. I am enjoying watching Amy kind of venture through this, you know, process of putting herself out there and being a bit more of a public figure and the. The response to that and how everybody's been great, everybody seems to enjoy the show and hearing a lot of con, you know, comments where people are like, you know, all of our dilgenter Download listeners that have been Die hard NASCAR and race fans and listen to that content are, you know, telling us, I'm sitting down with my wife and she's watching this with me. And now we're doing this together. And so.

[Amy]

So it's also bringing other people in.

[Dale]

A big surprise that's been a big surprise, seeing a bunch of comments like that.

[Amy]

But we did run into a lady in the airport yesterday that said that her husband, she said she saw him and she texted her husband and he said, you should probably see if his wife is there. And of course, I was standing on the other side of the stage, and so she came up and talked to me. But he told her that.

[Dale]

That's right.

[Denny]

Oh.

[Amy]

Which was interesting.

[Dale]

Yeah. So that right there is probably my favorite part is we went. We got asked to go judge this burger contest at the airport yesterday, and Amy was a judge. Amy had a microphone. Amy was walking around on the stage.

[Amy]

Amy was nervous, talking.

[Dale]

You know, there was an emcee, and Amy was looking around and talking about what she was seeing. And her. She would just never have done any of that before. She didn't want nothing to do with none of that. But she's kind of like, almost not got a choice in the matter. If you're going to kind of do this show and kind of. We're going to do this together and kind of put ourselves out there when she. She's going to find herself in more situations like that. And it's just fun for me to watch her navigate that.

[Amy]

And I have gotten far more comfortable being in front of a camera and that kind of thing where I would have totally locked up if you had to ask me to do this, like, five years ago. Yeah, I literally would have gone mute.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

It just was not possible. I'm not comfortable.

[Dale]

When we first met, she wouldn't even give me a picture of herself to have.

[Amy]

No, I didn't have selfies and no photos.

[Dale]

I didn't have a picture of her on my phone. And like, I'm like, can I please just have a picture of you? Imagine dating this girl.

[Amy]

And I lived in Florida also. I wasn't. I wasn't around.

[Dale]

Imagine dating her and not being able to, like, see her.

[Denny]

Can't show any of your friends.

[Amy]

I didn't. I didn't have social media. I was on a Facebook page or a wife's face page.

[Dale]

Yeah, there you are. You know, and nothing.

[Amy]

Nope.

[Denny]

Wow.

[Dale]

For.

[Amy]

For weeks and weeks, he had. He had to see me, see me.

[Dale]

And so, yeah, the. Eventually she sent me this one photo and that I had one singular photo of her to look at for, like months. And then finally we took a selfie together. And then I've still got those. I still got that picture. The very first picture we took together.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And so, yeah, I say all that because she's very, like, not comfortable in front of a camera. So it's been fun watching her. Her adjust and improve or whatever you want to call it.

[Denny]

Yeah. Would you say that's the. That's one of the things you've learned the most about yourself, Amy, that you've become more comfortable? I guess, probably, yeah.

[Amy]

I think doing so doing ads with the agency that I work with a little bit as has kind of given me a little bit of shift in that direction. And being around Dell for so long and doing certain things with him where they're pre taped that like any of those Hellman's deals we did, that stuff helped me as well. But, yeah, it's just not something I seek. I don't need it. But it is. It's fun to do because it does help me kind of peel back a layer or something. I don't know how you would really describe it.

[Denny]

Yeah, I get that. Our next question is from Brianna, and she says, happy birthday, Isla, and wants to know if you plan on putting the girls in any sports like T ball, volleyball, basketball, or even dance.

[Amy]

They're in dance. Thank you for the birthday wishes for her, by the way. She's in dance. We did gymnastics with her last year and she was so long and gangly, I don't think she was really ready, but she's much stronger now. We've tried to talk her into soccer and she's not interested in that. Nicole isn't either. If they wanted to play soccer or play a sport, we would be all for that. I feel like if they had a little friend that did it, they would sign up whether they loved it or not. They would at least try it. But us just blankly asking them, no. Yeah, not interested. I've even tried to ask Isla about doing taekwondo or something like that.

[Dale]

Nicole is really physical, tough, gritty, and she's four. And if anybody's gonna do any kind of sports, it'll probably be her.

[Amy]

Yeah, I think that she would do better with the team aspect of it too.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And she may. Maybe she just needs that to harness herself.

[Dale]

I'm hoping that she might get into some soccer, some kind of organized sports, T ball, but you know, whatever. Softball. I'd love to be a. Be a girl. Dad taking her to games and stuff like that. That'd be awesome.

[Amy]

It would be.

[Dale]

I'm happy and proud of them and dance and all that stuff. But it's not my cup of tea. Obviously not something I'm gonna go sit, really, truly get into.

[Amy]

Like, Amy might they sit and kick the soccer ball, you know, outside here and there.

[Dale]

But the, you know, we need to do more.

[Amy]

It doesn't last very long.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Denny]

Would you guys ever coach one of their sports or.

[Dale]

Probably would. Yeah.

[Denny]

You would?

[Dale]

I'd coach soccer.

[Amy]

I guess I'd be like the snack mom.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Denny]

Yeah, that's very. Coach orange slices.

[Dale]

I mean, it's not real coaching. It's just. I mean, I don't want to insult all the coaches out there, but like, if you're, you know, we're talking 6 to 10 year olds, you're just trying.

[Amy]

To organize chaos, having fun.

[Dale]

Yeah, exactly.

[Denny]

Youth coaching is like, anyone can do that.

[Dale]

Yeah, I'd do that.

[Denny]

Yeah. I'd be part of that, like coaching T ball.

[Dale]

I feel like I'd probably like it.

[Amy]

It'd be so cute.

[Dale]

The other parents that be in my. I guess the other parents are pretty aggressive, so I might. I might not like it as much as I think.

[Amy]

I don't know.

[Denny]

It's always good. The hard coaches, when I was real, real young, was like, what are we doing? We're five and six.

[Amy]

Let's not take this so seriously. Settle down.

[Denny]

Exactly. Next question's from Katie. She wants to know which home decor trend do you think is tacky or no longer in style?

[Amy]

H. Tacky? I don't know if it's t. It's not stag carpet. No, I don't think that's tacky.

[Dale]

No, not tacky.

[Amy]

If it's just like. Well, wall to wall carpet is not something it will do too much.

[Dale]

What about carpet on the wall?

[Amy]

Carpet on the wall?

[Dale]

Yeah, they have. They have some of that at the roller skate rink in Kannapolis. Well, it's original.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's original. You know, it's awesome.

[Denny]

I think that kind of place. You need that.

[Amy]

Yeah. Well, now, like the nostalgia, it's like reached the point where it's. That's so cool that that's still up on the wall and the, like that burnt orange shag carpet. But anything modern, I don't know. I'm kind of over the farmhouse thing. I feel like unless you are on a farm, we don't need to look like we have a farmhouse. I feel like all decor and design needs to be appropriate for where you are. I don't know. Dale wants to do all the wacky things all the time. I also feel like just a black and white, like, everything's neutral is so boring. Like, if you. I'm very into the. Oh, there's a phrase for it. Basically. If you just buy it and it makes you happy, put it in your house, because the more of you're kind of gonna be attracted to the same style of things generally. And once you put it all together, it's just more of an interesting space. I feel like that's Dale's design style, too. I don't know.

[Denny]

Yeah, yeah. Buy it. You like it. That's really.

[Amy]

Buy it. You like it. Yeah. Do it in your house. Your house.

[Denny]

What about, like, at the outdoor landscaping? Anything that, like, you were like, oh, like a big hedge in the front of the yard used to be, like, a big thing or on the side that you block the fences, anything like that. That's kind of stuff.

[Dale]

I don't care.

[Denny]

No, no.

[Amy]

As long as it's tidy, I don't care.

[Denny]

Yeah, makes sense.

[Dale]

I don't really care. I just. I just get annoyed when the lights are not working or you got a bulb out or, you know, like a festoon light or something and strings not working. This bugs me.

[Denny]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah. I don't like it when, like, there's just stuff all over the place. Yeah.

[Denny]

Yeah, I agree with that. Our last question is from David, and he wants to know, Amy, what was your family's reaction when they first met Dale?

[Dale]

Oh.

[Amy]

Oh, that's a good question.

[Dale]

Hadn't been asked. I hadn't heard this. They were like, damn.

[Amy]

They were very.

[Dale]

Where'd you meet him?

[Amy]

He's awesome.

[Dale]

No, they were like, amy, don't screw this one up.

[Amy]

No, that's not how that happened.

[Dale]

No, your dad probably was. He's smiling. Hey, he's cool.

[Amy]

No, you don't want to know. What my dad said was, does he know what he has? I'm like, I don't know, dad. We'll see. They were excited to meet him. They had never been around a celebrity before, and honestly, they received him just like I did. I don't really find the celebrity thing to be a thing that intimidates me, and I think Dale can attest to that. Like, we've gone plenty of places I've gotten to tag along with him, and I don't know, unless it's Dolly Parton, I'm probably gonna just walk up and treat you like a normal person. You know what I mean? And so they Kind of, you know, received him, like, I don't know, just as a new member of the family, to be honest. They love him. And it wasn't very, like, awkward. I was more nervous about it than I probably should have been, but it was fine. Do you even remember meeting them for.

[Dale]

The first time, I think, out at the farm?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

We went out to their family farm and built a bonfire, and Snyder went with us. He and his dad, or Amy's dad and me, ran for some firewood later in that afternoon or that evening. And I just tried to, like, show them that, like, I wasn't afraid to, you know, grab some firewood off the pile or help stoke the fire, keep it going or fill up the cooler or, like, I wasn't going to come in there and be like, you know, I thought they would probably assume that I was somebody that was used to having everybody do everything for me. And so I made it a real point to, like, show them that I could, like, do things to kind of help this night happen and help things happen and go.

[Amy]

He just tried to be a normal person.

[Dale]

Yeah. I went to the cooler. Hey, anybody want a beer? You. You need a beer. Which was a bit out of character for me because I'm pretty shy.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Yeah. So I tried really hard to, like, be normal and leave a good impression.

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah. It was so long ago. It's hard to remember, to be honest.

[Dale]

I remember that.

[Amy]

But they were excited to meet them. They were. They were not, like, worried or standoffish at all.

[Dale]

No, I was thrilled because I was like, these people drink beer like I do and like to stand around a fire and play music, and this is, like, the best. This is, like, what I'd love. This is what I'd want to be doing tonight anyways. Right?

[Denny]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And here. And I'm doing it with him, so it's fun.

[Denny]

When you fit in nice, that's best.

[Dale]

Yeah, I fit in there.

[Amy]

When you're similar, it's great. It's easy.

[Dale]

Yep.

[Denny]

Yeah, that's a good way to stop. Ask Amy for today.

[Amy]

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[Denny]

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