Bless Your 'Hardt - Signing Boobies & RIP AOL Dial-Up

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dale Jr. Download – "Bless Your 'Hardt - Signing Boobies & RIP AOL Dial-Up"

Release Date: August 14, 2025
Host: Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Amy Earnhardt
Platform: Dirty Mo Media, SiriusXM

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1. Life Updates and Fun Anecdotes

Bunco Nights and Themed Parties
Amy Earnhardt kicks off the episode by sharing her excitement about joining a Bunco group initiated by Caitlin Larson. She describes the latest gathering at Laura Borer's farm, highlighting the "Redneck America" theme, complete with flannel shirts and themed decorations.

Amy Earnhardt (05:08): "This week, it was Laura Borer's turn with a Redneck America theme. Everyone was dressed in flannels and cutoffs, which fit perfectly with the party barn setting."

The "Signing Boobies" Story
A humorous and slightly awkward story unfolds as Amy recounts asking Dale to sign her cleavage for the themed party. Initially confident, she becomes embarrassed when she realizes everyone saw it.

Amy Earnhardt (07:16): "I asked Dale to sign my boob so that I really had that extra oomph to my outfit. He looked intrigued and signed it very large."

Dale Earnhardt Jr. (07:22): "It's really good. I love Creamsicle. I know, that's like a, you know, who doesn't love cream?"

2. Nostalgia Over the End of AOL Dial-Up Service

The conversation shifts to the recent announcement that AOL is shutting down its dial-up service after 35 years, sparking nostalgia for the early days of internet communication.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. (19:07): "AOL has announced that they are going to end the dial-up service of their business after 35 years of operation. I don't know how many people in here used AOL ever."

Amy Earnhardt (19:28): "That's how we chit chat. It was before iPhones."

Personal Memories with AOL
Dale reminisces about using AOL Messenger during the early stages of his relationship with Amy, sharing anecdotes about their limited communication options before the advent of smartphones and texting.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. (27:01): "When we first started dating, we really procrastinated for months about whether this was something we were going to do. Our communication was through AOL Messenger."

3. Gen Z Slang Game: Bridging Generations

In a lively segment, Dale, Amy, and a guest engage in a game testing their knowledge of Gen Z slang compared to 80s and 90s terminology. The playful interaction highlights generational differences and provides humorous insights.

Amy Earnhardt (42:31): "Gen Z slang is a little outside our comfort zone, but we're game to try!"

Notable Highlights:

• Cheugy: Misunderstood attempts to define the term, leading to laughter.

  Amy Earnhardt (43:10): "The milk is cheugy. I'm not cheugy."

• Clapback: Successfully identifying the term as a comeback in an insulting manner.

  Dale Earnhardt Jr. (45:54): "Clap back. Like talk back."

4. Listener Q&A: From Pets in Bars to Back-to-School Tips

Bringing Dogs to Bars and Restaurants
Listeners inquire about the hosts' perspectives on bringing pets to dining establishments. Amy expresses her fondness for pet-friendly venues, equating them to having a "candy jar" at home.

Amy Earnhardt (53:24): "I'm the first person to get on the floor and play with the dog."

Back-to-School Memories and Advice
Dale and Amy share personal memories about their children's first days of school, offering heartfelt advice on handling the emotional aspects of school drop-offs.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. (55:36): "They will get out of the car or get on the bus and may be melting down, but they'll be fine and move on quickly."

Fashion Trends to Avoid
The discussion moves to uncomfortable fashion trends, with Amy lamenting the resurgence of low-rise jeans and Dale contemplating a return to 70s-inspired corduroys.

Amy Earnhardt (62:01): "Low rise jeans are hard. I'd never wear them again."

5. The Comeback of Cassette Tapes and Retro Tech

Dale highlights the revival of cassette tapes among younger generations, sharing his bemusement at receiving cassette press kits from bands despite not having a player.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. (65:24): "The Dangerous Summer sends me these little press kit things with cassette tapes, but I don't have anything to play this on."

6. Closing Remarks and Final Thoughts

As the episode wraps up, Dale and Amy reflect on the cyclical nature of trends and the bittersweet feeling of witnessing the end of nostalgic eras like AOL dial-up.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. (64:38): "I believe everything cycles. Styles come back and then go again."

Amy Earnhardt (65:00): "It's fun watching brands transform and then return to their roots."

They encourage listeners to engage with their content through subscriptions and merchandise, fostering a sense of community and shared memories.

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Key Takeaways:

• Nostalgia vs. Modern Trends: The episode delves into personal and shared memories, juxtaposing the end of iconic services like AOL with the emergence of new generational trends.

• Balancing Parenthood and Personal Time: Discussions around managing family activities, such as boat outings, highlight the challenges and joys of balancing parenting with personal interests.

• Intergenerational Humor: The Gen Z slang game serves as a humorous bridge between generations, showcasing the hosts' willingness to engage with and learn about contemporary language.

• Embracing Change: Both hosts express a philosophical view on the cyclical nature of trends, whether in technology, fashion, or cultural practices, emphasizing adaptability and appreciation for both past and present.

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Notable Quotes:

• Amy Earnhardt (07:16): "I ended up putting my flannel over because I just got embarrassed as to what I had done."

• Dale Earnhardt Jr. (19:07): "AOL shutting down dial-up is kind of weird being old enough to have seen, watched something that came and started and went."

• Amy Earnhardt (53:24): "I'm the first person to get on the floor and play with the dog."

• Dale Earnhardt Jr. (55:36): "They're gonna hop on that bus or they're gonna get out of the car and go into that classroom, and in five minutes, they've forgotten it."

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This episode of The Dale Jr. Download masterfully blends humor, heartfelt stories, and engaging discussions, offering listeners a window into the lives of NASCAR's beloved driver and his insightful co-host. Whether reminiscing about the good old days of AOL or navigating the complexities of modern parenting, Dale and Amy provide relatable content that resonates across generations.

Transcript

[Amy Earnhardt]

Hi, guys. Dale Jr. And I are back in the Dirty Mo Media studios for another episode of Bless yous Heart. We have a great show for you today. We're going to talk about the end of an era. Signing boobies. And she said no.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

The end of an era.

[Amy Earnhardt]

The end of an era. The AOL thing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Let's get started.

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[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Oh, yeah. This is the way it's going to be, girl. We're going to hang out, open a bunch of jars. You got big strong hands. Are you suffering from high crack? I'm working, working that mouth. All.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Our high rock drink of the week this week is a high rock cream sickle. And Amy's got the recipe.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah. So the recipe is one and a half ounces of high rock vodka, one and a half ounces of their orange dream sipping cream, a splash of half and half and some vanilla. And so it's very dessert like, but you put some ice in it and just let it sit for a minute and it is absolutely delicious.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

This one will send you on your way if you ain't careful. Be where you're supposed to be when you drink it. Giggles that's what they say when you drink moonshine. Be where you're supposed to be. It's. It's really good. I Love Creamsicle. I know. That's like a. You know, who doesn't love cream?

[Amy Earnhardt]

Nostalgic taste.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, it is. And creamsicles kind of made a comeback here in the last couple of years, but.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Strong.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, it's. It's really good if you buy. You know, I'm going on about this, but if you get some orange creamsicle, moonshine sipping cream from. From High Rock or any of their sipping creams, I keep it in the freezer because it is, you know, it's just it for me. It just drinks a little better when it's really, really cold.

[Amy Earnhardt]

And you can drink it all on its own.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

So it just drinks it right out of the freezer.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I do. I just every time I keep it in the freezer. And it's hard to walk past the freezer without grabbing a sip.

[Amy Earnhardt]

You can always tell what he's been there, too, because there's a couple drops.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Drops on the floor.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So it's like, it's. It's kind of like you get it out of the freezer, you got to shake it up a little bit. And it's kind of like. It's kind of like soy sauce. That stuff just ends up everywhere somehow. So make sure you visit highrockvaca.com There's a locator for bottles near you so you can drive over to the local liquor store and pick you one up. We also ship to certain states, so that's an option as well. And you may see here, right here on the table, airplane bottles. These are new from Hyrak, so those will. Those will be out and available. You may find them on the counter wherever you check out at the local liquor store. And maybe on highrockvica.com you can get you a couple airplane bottles sent to you. So a lot of fun. That's the perfect amount for me when I'm making a drink is just throw one of these bad boys in there. So much easier. No measuring. So anyways, life updates. These are. You know, you did. You did all the work this week. I didn't put really nothing in the notes. But I'm excited about this because I know a lot of the stories that you're wanting to talk about, and I think this is going to be pretty entertaining. So. And I'm looking forward to this. So where you want to. Where you want to jump off?

[Amy Earnhardt]

Well, no pressure. So life update Monday night. Let's just start with that. Monday is bunco day for me, so I have agreed to be a part of this Bunco group that Caitlin Larson started. Bunko is a game. It's a really simple game. You play four tops, and you have. We have 12 girls, so you have to have the 12 to play. And so we trade off once a month. Everyone hosts. And so this week, it was Laura Borer's turn.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yep. Clint's lovely wife.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yes. And so they have.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They're 45 minutes from us.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah, about.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. And I've never been to his farm, and you hadn't either.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I had neither. It was my first time. It's beautiful. They have, like, black horse fences. It's just very well manicured. And they have this giant party barn. And so that's where we had our bunco evening. And honestly, the barn reminds me of any old dance hall I would have seen in Texas. It really is cool. And they have a bar set up right in the middle of it. And on the far right side is a huge showroom worth, like, a lot of his fun cars. I don't imagine that's everything he owns, but things he doesn't drive, I think, are parked in there. And so I'm surprised he let us kind of play next to his vehicles, because I know that's not something that you really let us do, and it's a little dangerous. Somebody falls into one of your nice cars.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What are y' all falling for?

[Amy Earnhardt]

No, we're old. We're not really getting that wild, to be honest. But, like, the kids are in there playing, too. We saw the kids come in. The dogs were in there. Every month, there's a theme, and this week it was Redneck America. So it was perfect for the party barn. And everybody's dressed up in their flannels and their cutoffs, and I don't really have a lot of American flag or red, white, and blue clothing to, like, add flair to my outfit. And so I had on some ripped jeans and a white tank top and an orange bra, because, like, it's kind of rednecky to, like, have your bra really stand out through your shirt. I did some Googling. So, like, those are kind of standard images I saw. But before I left the house, I asked Dale to sign my boob so that I really had that extra, like, oomph to my outfit. And he looks at me like, I can't believe she just asked me to do that. But I'm intrigued. And so, like, I'm like, I know you've done this before. Yeah, I thought the first time we've talked about it. Yeah, just get a Sharpie right before I leave and I want you to sign my cleavage. And so he was very excited about it, signed it, very large. And then throughout the night, like, I ended up putting my flannel over because I just got embarrassed as to what I had done.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You went there without. You were.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I went.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You chicken? You kind of got.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I kind of got chickened out. I mean, everybody that I knew, they all saw it. But, you know, like, we're not partying hard. We're playing our game. And I, like, I don't need my boobs hanging out over the dice. You know what I mean? The girls don't care about that. So I ended up with my flannel on and it got all over the inside of my shirt. But I know that you've signed some boobs before, which is why I ask. Right?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

So surely back in, like, the day of the race tracking, there was a.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Lot of the racetracking back when we were racetracking.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Back when you're racetracking.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. So my.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Are you okay?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's. Yeah. So I can hear.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I can hear the nerves.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

This. This takes me back to. So when you're. When you're 15, 16, 17, all the way up to about 20, 21. And I'm not sure what it's like in a. In a. I don't know what it's like for women, but, man, when you're. So you're in. In racing, you're. You're around your dad, you're around his buddies, and there's always sort of some hazing going on. Some. They're always like, they always are trying to throw you into situations that'll make you uncomfortable, that they know will make you uncomfortable. I remember I first, I think for my 18th or 21st birthday, one of them two, they had a lady cop show up to the shop.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Just like the days of Thunder.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

At the Deer Head Shop. Yes. So at the Deer Head Shop, which a lot of. A lot of Earnhardt fans will know about. The Deer Head Shop. So I was working in the Deer Head Shop and dressed in my. I had black work pants, had a white Dale and Hart Incorporated Dale junior shirt. I mean, I was all about it. And. And I was racing probably late models around this time. I don't know. I was young, but it was my. It was. It was a four. It was an important birthday. 2118, something like that. And they had a lady cop come in there and La cop. Yeah. And put me. Put. Set me down in a chair right in the middle of the floor in front of Everybody. So that was. That was one that was sitting in a chair. They set me in a chair just like this.

[Amy Earnhardt]

And then what happened that she stripped? You said you signed titties that. Wait, you didn't say she was stripping.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, no, that's not the titty story. I'm just setting up the titty story.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Oh, gosh.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So that was.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That sounds like a Days of Thunder.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It was. It was very. Days of Thunder. Like, it was a setup and it was really embarrassing. And all the guys. Because they're laughing. Yeah, right. Because they see me, I'm turning red. It's crap.

[Amy Earnhardt]

And the girl is okay with the clown show happening? She's not embarrassed herself?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, she. She's in on it. She knows. She must know that, you know, this is going on. And she. I don't know, man.

[Amy Earnhardt]

She's.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What she does.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Did you get a picture with her?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I have pictures of this event.

[Amy Earnhardt]

So, yes. And I cannot, like, not like, not.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Like me and her like, say, hey, let's grab a photo. I have a couple pictures of it happening. And they're terrible. They're like, you know, little five by eight and they're kind of crazy. Yeah, but you'll be able it.

[Unknown]

We're gonna eat those.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I mean, she didn't get naked. She just kind of had a little dance. But it was so embarrassing and awkward. And then so the, The. And. And so like Tony Senior and. And. And dad's buddies, you know, they would kind of put you in these scenarios that were. That were awkward like that. And we were. We were racing somewhere. This was 97, 98. Right at the front end of racing with. With Tony Senior and Tony Jr. And them guys.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And there was. They. There was a. There was a lady that was excited about meeting me or meeting in Earnhardt of meeting in her heart of any kind.

[Amy Earnhardt]

He's being so careful. He's like, oh, God.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And she asked for me. They. They want. They. I was in my hotel room and they knocked on my door. They were. It was, you know, six, seven o' clock in the evening and they were out, all out, coming back and forth from dinner or whatever. And they had. There. There was race, you know, a race fan there or whatever lady, and she wanted. They were like, hey, this. Knocking on door, Dale. I opened door and there's a lady standing there. She's older than me, but not. Not a ton, but. And they're like, she wanted to meet you so bad. She's a big fan of yours. And she just pulled her shirt down and Said, I want you to sign my.

[Amy Earnhardt]

She just took her titties out.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Not like signing your cleavage, like at the racetrack, tastefully, in front of.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They were. And they laughed and she was laugh. You know, they all thought it was hilarious.

[Amy Earnhardt]

What a hooker. Did she get them. Did she get it tattooed on her boob?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't know.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I mean, stuff like that's happened too.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So that was. That was. I was. I felt, you know, it was awkward.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I bet it was.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And. Yeah.

[Unknown]

What do you do there?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, what do you do? Right? Yeah. And. And what's the end game there? Right? You know, you. You sign it and you're like, okay, I'm gonna close my door now. Goodbye. Yeah, like, it was weird, but. And they laughed and they just thought it was hilarious, you know, look on my face. And. And the. And. And they knew I was feeling uncomfortable.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I can hear them cackling.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes. And she was, you know, she was all about it. She thought it was hilarious, but.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Have you seen any children?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No. No. We did that. I think there was. I think that was something that happened in Talladega Nights during one of the things.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I know they always kind of exaggerated all the things.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I found some prosthetic limbs. So I was at Indianapolis and a guy walked up and asked me to sign his. His leg. And he pulled it off and it had all kinds of.

[Amy Earnhardt]

It wasn't awkward till he pulled it off.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, you could tell he was. It was. It was fine. He had all kinds of stickers and things on it. He was a race fan. Big. His. His prostate, maybe that was like his race leg, you know, that on. Wear that to the racetrack.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That was his flare leg.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. So it was. I always like doing that kind of stuff. I don't mind that people do ask you and have asked me to sign skin. And there's not a pen that writes on skin. Well, and sometimes it's some, you know, it's some kid that just has nothing else, and they're like, just sign my hand or whatever, you know.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And that's going to wash off. And they know that and they don't care. Then there's other people that are like, sign it. I'm gonna get it tattooed.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And I'm like, don't do this, man. I don't think that's a great idea. But if you really are gonna do that, let's like, why don't I write it on a white piece of paper where it looks good, take it to your artist, have them do put that, you know, because When I try to sign skin, it just.

[Amy Earnhardt]

It just time. It's not totally dry, but it just doesn't write good.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It doesn't. It's like the worst. It's. It's like some of my worst autographs.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Pretty good on me the other day.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You did well. It's important for the. The surface to be firm and. And. No, I'm kidding.

[Unknown]

Took his time, that's why.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah, what you say.

[Unknown]

Took his time, that's why.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You're right.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah, he did take.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You're right. So it was pretty cool the way her shirt was. The way Amy's shirt was is like the l in the word in the name. Dale. The L looped up out of the shirt, and I was like, well, you know, you can still wear your shirt. And they're gonna look at that and go, what's on what somebody wrote on you? What's on there? You know? And then you could go, oh, that's part of my outfit.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Well, so Jamie Goddard picked me up and drove me out there, so she was so excited about it. She told everybody before, like, they got to notice. She thought that was hilarious that we did that. So, yeah, it was funny. Amy, we like to have a good time.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

She does. Amy is. It speaks to Amy's creativity, honestly. Because I know it's silly, but everything, like, if we're gonna go, if Amy's gonna dress up for, you know, function like that with her friends, or if we're going to a party where it's a theme, or if we're. Or, you know, if we're theme in anything, I. Amy has always got this ability to, like, add the perfect touch.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Well, I don't want to half ass anything.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I know you don't want to half ass anything. No one. Most people don't, but you have this ability to, like, add, like, the cherry on top every single time.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Thanks, honey.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And that's just, like, something really unique about her. And she could have just. When went to the thing looking like she looked and fit right in and done, you know, no big deal. Had great play, you know, but she had. You know, she adds these little touches on everything she does that are like. It was funny. It was fun, but it was like.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I did it mostly just to make him blush.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

She did.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah. And I asked him a little too early, too, because I had about an hour left before I had to go, and, like, 45 minutes left. He's like, you want me sign your boob? Are you ready? I was like, no, because what if it smears? He's like, how is it going to smear? I was like, I don't know. What if the kids come up to me and like, what if the kids want to see it? I don't really want to do this like that early. And so he, he did it right before I left, but he kept asking me. He like had a Sharpie ready.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That's funny.

[Amy Earnhardt]

It was worth it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

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[Amy Earnhardt]

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[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

AOL has announced that they are going to end the dial up service of their. Of their business after 35 years of operation. I don't know how many people in here. Raise your hand if you used AOL ever. All right, so all of us did. Yeah. That's basically like when me and Amy first started dating.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That's how we chit chat.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That's how we conversated. Yeah. You know, because I mean we didn't.

[Amy Earnhardt]

It was before iPhones.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. Before texting. I wasn't gonna type all that out using, you know, my flip phone.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I had a Razer phone.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You did.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I think you had, you had just gotten an iPhone. But I didn't have one. So we couldn't text each other and I didn't have texting on my eraser.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They had iPhones back then.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That was the year it came out. Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So. Yeah. So our communication was through AOL messenger. Well, and I still remember Amy's screen name. And I still have.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Still say it wrong.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Danzy Cat.

[Amy Earnhardt]

It was not Danzy Cat.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What is it?

[Amy Earnhardt]

I was part of a dance group in college called the Dance Cats. And so it was D A N Z E, like a, like Dance with A Z Dance Cat 22. And he kept, he's always done that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Dan.

[Amy Earnhardt]

It's Danzy Cat.

[Unknown]

I would say Dan's Cat.

[Amy Earnhardt]

You would have said Danzy Cat. There's a Z in it, but there's no Y. Dan's.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Dan's Danz.

[Unknown]

I guess. Yeah. But Dan Dansy just comes.

[Amy Earnhardt]

But no matter how many explanations I've gone through, he still does this Danzy Cat thing. So. Which is fine. It's, it's, it's gone now. But Dan's cat was, was my screen name.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Mine was Rizzo from the Jerky Boys. I'll come with Jerky. Wow. Yes.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Really? So the Jerky Boys, we need a Rizzo flavor then.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We might be getting into some copyright issues there, but we. Which is surprising. So Jerky Boys, the Jerky Boys back 30 years ago was a prank call. Cassette. You know, you, you, you're, you'd throw, you buy their cassettes and throw it in and listen and it. They would, they would be crank calling businesses. And then one of their characters was Rizzo, Frank Rizzo. He'd call up the body shop. He'd be like, yo, Frank Rizzo, you, you up my truck coming over there. I'm gonna bust you up. I'm gonna bring a pipe. I'm pump. I'm gonna hit you upside the head with a pipe. And he would get the store owner so mad and angry. Come on over here. You come on down here. I'm coming down there. I'm gonna be down there. Come on down there. What's what, you know, and they're going back and forth and it's hilarious.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Was there ever a revelation like, hey, just kidding, I don't think so.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

The guy. No. Eventually it would just be a hang up or they would just shut. You know, they would just hang the phone up, then he'd call them back. Yeah.

[Unknown]

Wasn't it like a, like a Joe Pesci type of.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

There was a Saul Rosenberg, Saul something character.

[Unknown]

But the Rizzo character was like, like heavy Italian jersey acts.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It was awesome.

[Unknown]

It's very believable that someone will call and do all this.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Frank Rizzo. So I loved that character and just, I loved. I thought it was hilarious how he messed with people.

[Amy Earnhardt]

And so Rizzo reminds me of Grease.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I know. So Rizzo was my AOL screen name. And then years later, we're going to buy into the Jerky Boy Jerky business. And I'm like, I can't believe they let the trademark lapse on that deal. Yeah. But apparently it was available.

[Amy Earnhardt]

You can't really print call anybody anymore.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I know, but I think their, their equity, their, the equity built up in the Jerky Boys name and brand. People still know Frank Rizo. People still know Jerky Boys from their, their little deal back in the day. But yeah, so we, that's how we communicated, man. So.

[Amy Earnhardt]

And you can send pictures. We didn't. We, we didn't. No, I don't think you could. Could you?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, I don't remember.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I think you could send like little emojis.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, I think you could. I think.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I didn't.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I think in the, in the desktop app you could, you could send a photo or something or a file.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I don't remember being able to send pictures.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I can't remember. It's been so long. Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Because the only picture you had of me was that one photo we had when we had dinner or that or when I was with Michelle.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Sorry. Yeah, you were.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah. So I don't think so because you probably would have asked me for a photo.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So I, I remember like we all know the sound of that modem, right? 28 the Screech 828800 or. And then we, I remember racing online using that technology. And, and then they came out with the modem that was twice as fast, the 46 or whatever it was. And you're like, dude, we're really going to be cooking now. We're going to be racing online. No more. No more glitching and jerking around and cars disappearing. And then, then after that there was ISDN lines. Those were clunky and a lot of hardware and cables and wires and stuff going everywhere. And then I bought a T1 line and there were only T1s were for like hospitals and, and schools. And the only people outside of the hospitals and schools in mooresville that had T1 lines were me and Rusty Wallace. Right. Rusty Wallace's race shop. Really? Wow. I was a second T1 line outside of like the government buildings. That's crazy. But I was like, I got to have it. Yeah. Huh.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Did you have to get approval for that?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Have to be.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

But it was just so expensive. No one, no one was, no one in the right mind was like, well, I need that much Internet, you know. But now like, you know, that T1 line, I can't even imagine what it was. Probably like a couple of megs.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Like four megs or eight megs of download and you're geeking out on me.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I don't know what any of this means.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well now like, you know, we're, we're, we're down. We're getting 200, 300, 400 megs of download and upload. That's like a standard per house. Yeah, that's like standard when you go Xfinity WI Fi at our, like our, our house at the beach. But I was gonna say we were, we were talking. Yeah, we were talking about aol. Yeah. So. Oh yeah. What was I gonna do? I was gonna take us somewhere James.

[Unknown]

Said about shutting down service. That's where you're going.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, they were. Well, yeah, I mean they, they, they're ending their dial up service. Yeah.

[Unknown]

Are we surprised it took this long?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, I kind of. Yeah. I mean, I believe what. So what service do they continue to provide? I don't know that I've ever used AOL in the last 10 to.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Well, I mean the, the email platform still exists. Like the messaging platform. I think all of that still exists. Oh, it's a search engine too now. Right, Right.

[Unknown]

I haven't used AOL probably since the instant messenger was popular.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

But I know the emails still work because he's.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah, the email still work.

[Unknown]

Communicate with some of them.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We'd sit on there, man, me And Amy, I know everybody did, but we'd sit on there texting for hours. I would, I had a four.

[Amy Earnhardt]

We had nothing to talk about also nothing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I had a, basically I had a two station cubicle. So I had, I had a gaming, PC gaming station that was just a corner office cubicle for a corner. And I paired two of them together. And so I had one. I would play at this one and then I would, when TJ would come over, he would, he would, he would play at the other one and we'd race each other and race against other people or play shoot em ups or whatever. And man, every night we'd, I'd sit there and Amy and I would just text back and forth for hours and. Interesting how we, it's interesting how that was enough.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You know, young love. And you're like, oh, I want to tell this person how much I want to see them and how much I want to. Let's, you know. And, and you're trying not to say too much and you're trying to play the game.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That was truly. Because I lived in Jacksonville, Florida. I wasn't living here. So that was during a time too where like we literally didn't see each other unless we physically were in the same room because there was no like sending pictures back and forth or anything like that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That was what I want to talk about. So thank you for the pictures. She's. So just give me a second and I'm going to let you.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I don't have anything to say. Go for it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, but you're going to jump in here. You're going to try to jump in here because I know what I'm, I know what you're going to think about this.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Okay, go.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

When we first started dating, and I've talked about this on here, I'm sorry if you've heard this story, but when we first started dating, for a long time, like me and her are, we've, we've decided we're doing this. We went a long time like talking about whether we should, whether we would or could. And we, we, we really did procrastinate for months and months and months about whether this was something me and her were going to do. And when we finally decided, okay, we're going to date, I'm going to date you, you're going to date me. We're going to, we're going to do this. This is not just a, you know, like a crush or a, a fun thing and, or an eye. It's not just an idea. Right. It's going to. We're going to do it, we're going to invest and I'm. She's living in another state. And again, like, I saw her physically felt. I felt like I saw you once every two or three weeks. No, no, really, More often or less.

[Amy Earnhardt]

When we started dating or before that?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

When we started dating?

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah, it was like every. Yeah, once every two or three weeks.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Right. And it was, it was. It was sucky because, like, of course I wanted to see her more than that.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

But also he was racing, so, like, he was all over the place. Keep going. So you're looking at me. What the.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm all over the place. Yes, of course. This was during my racing career and we were traveling, so she. It was not always working for us to be where we want to be. But I would have to go. I would have to go two, three weeks without seeing her and she would not give me a picture because I'm, you know, I got an image or a vision in my mind, but that ain't good enough. I want to. I want to pull it out and look at it.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Don't pull it out and look at it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I want to open it up on my phone and I want to look at her.

[Amy Earnhardt]

There's no option for that, though.

[Unknown]

But didn't she make it. Didn't it make you miss her more because you.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Who cares, dude? It was so. It did, but it's like, that's not healthy, so don't try this.

[Amy Earnhardt]

He doesn't like to. He has no patience or. You already know that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Most people that are dating are dating in the same area. They can see each other more often. Okay, I don't need a picture. If I can. If I normal. See you in three days, don't need a photo. Fine. But if. If I know that this is going to be the process for however long this may be, I don't know that she's going to come to North Carolina. She might not ever want to move to North Carolina. That might end up being like the big roadblock. I don't know that. And so I'm sitting there going, hey, can I get a picture of you? Like, just to have for. On my phone or just to be able to like, hey, you know, hey, you know, friend, look, this new girl I'm dating, like, this is what she looks like. She refused to give me a photo and she finally.

[Amy Earnhardt]

No, I didn't do it. I didn't give it to you.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Or somebody sent it to me. Her friend of hers finally gave me a picture. And it was a great photo. And. And, I mean, that was. I know that I had that photo, and I was the only photo I had for many months. And then one night, we were sitting there having dinner, and we took a selfie of us together at the table. And that was the second photo that I had of Amy. And we've been dating for several months, and I have two photos of her. Like, it was ridiculous.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I don't feel like it's very common, especially back in 2008, for everyone to have a bunch of photos of each other. Like, you're not posting them anywhere. There's no social media. I think that he had a.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You could have. You could go on the Internet and find any photo of me you want.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That's because you're famous, of course. But also, I didn't do that. I'm Googling you. I wanted to get.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm just saying if you needed a photo, you didn't have to go far. I had to beg you. Like you had a vault.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Well, here's the thing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And you were like, nope, none of the photos are coming out of the vault.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I didn't have any. I didn't like having my picture taken.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

She hated having her picture taken.

[Amy Earnhardt]

There was, like, a very large adjustment getting used to being around you and constantly having your photo taken. I didn't like that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

She didn't like photos of herself. Like, she would. If you get. If you put five photos down in front of her, she'd go, nope, you can't have any of those. Those are bad.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I don't know any girl that's any different, to be honest.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. I'm not saying it's strange.

[Amy Earnhardt]

People have just gotten so much more used to seeing themselves now, hearing themselves talk because of our phones. And back then, I just. I didn't have any reason to see or hear myself. And I didn't really want him having pictures of me and showing everybody either. So, no, I didn't have a picture. And finally my. Yeah, it was from one of my friends. Sent him a picture. We were in Chicago at a trade show or something, and we went to dinner, and Beth, across the table, took a picture of Michelle and I. And Michelle emailed it to you because she knew that you wanted a picture. So that's how that happened.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I used to tell. When me and her started going around each other. Going around, like, working when.

[Amy Earnhardt]

So being around, we're really going back.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

When me and her started to get around each other, I remember. You know, I've told a story about the first time I ever saw her and how I was, you know, knocked off my feet. I went and told talk. This is kind of in the vein of her, you know, the photos, her, how I think she's beautiful and she doesn't think she's beautiful and. Which is a great song. I think Sammy Kershaw sings it. But I was, I would go. I go into the holler and I think it's. I go into the holler and to talk to Tony Jr. My crew chief. And I'm going on and on about Amy. I'm like, man, this girl. I saw this girl. It's beautiful. Can't describe it. And, you know, months of this talking to Tony Jr. About her. And finally I was like, hey, man, she's gonna be here. She's gonna come, you're gonna meet her. And he's like, by zine. And I said, vizine. He goes, yeah, Visine. She's so pretty, make your eyes hurt.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Oh, man, he called me Visine for a while.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

He called it. Yeah.

[Unknown]

That's funny.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Tony Jr. He's funny.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah, he's always got some good like one liners and everything. Like, man, that made me laugh.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

He's like vising gonna be here.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That's funny.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That's funny. But it, it was. Yeah. AOL shutting her down, man, that's a. That's. That's kind of weird being old enough to have seen watch something that come and start and go. Right.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That's what's weird about it is watching something that you use when you were young, when it was fresh come and then now it's going.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I've felt that way about a few things like Peyton Manning's career, Tom Brady's career, all these like, iconic, like sports. Yeah, figures. Like, you're like, I remember when were a rookie, that felt like yesterday. Now they're like tired. They're 40.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Well, to be fair, their careers like they had. I mean, he did have a long one, but they usually football players don't play that long.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Backs do about 20 years when they're that good. But, man, you're like, I. I lived the whole thing, you know, Crazy.

[Amy Earnhardt]

It is crazy. You know what else is crazy?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Peyton Manning and AOL hanging it up.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Bless them.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Bless them. What else is crazy?

[Amy Earnhardt]

Crazy is that I have found, and I hate to admit this, I have found solace in this boat that you bought. She said no. Okay, so Monday, Tuesday nights is dance night and I take Isla and she's got an hour and a half class and the boat slip is Literally down the street from the dance studio. And so Dale's got some towels we need to take back. And instead of him going, he takes Nicole home, and I go down to the boat, and I just got to sit there and chill on the water by myself in this quiet, serene space while Isla was in dance class. And I was like, dale, damn it. I almost fell asleep. I. I mean, I truly could do this every Tuesday. I could go sit on that boat for an hour and a half by myself.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You should.

[Amy Earnhardt]

And.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And tinker with it, you know, play with it.

[Amy Earnhardt]

You know, some things. And I mean, I probably straighten up some things.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

A few things on the wall.

[Amy Earnhardt]

But I. I got up to the pier and I get through there, and I'm walking down to the boat, and I'm like, is it weird that I. I'm walking onto the boat that says she said no on it? Like, I'm she. If anybody's watching, they know that I'm she. And how weird is that? It feels weird a little bit for me.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Does it?

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah. Especially since I now kind of like the boat.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

The whole thing's a little odd.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I think for me, that is the tongue in cheek sort of joke, is that she said no, and she's now in love.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Camping out on Tuesday nights.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

She said, it's kind of like, you know, oh, I don't want to go do that. And then you go. And you're like, damn, that was fun.

[Amy Earnhardt]

You know, it's fun without the kids. I love my children. I think I talk about how I don't want to be around my kids so much, but they. They're just at that age where they suck the joy out of things that are supposed to be serene and peaceful. You know what I mean? And so the boat is one of those things. And every time I've been on the boat, they have been with us.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. I love your.

[Amy Earnhardt]

It's very quiet and nice when they're not there.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So there's a lot there. I. I'm bad. I battle. I battle with that, like, emotion of dude. I. I, of course, love my kids to the end of the earth.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yes.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

But there are some things that you'll do with them. We took them out on the boat. It's a. It's a houseboat. 50 foot. It's a. It's 22 years old. It's in really good shape. But it. It's a. It's. For me. I'm not a boat person, so for me to, like, get it out of the dock and motor it around and get it out there on the channel and cruise, you know, it's gotta concentrate. I got a little anxiety to be a little quiet, but I like it to be calm.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And I'm gonna need Amy's help doing a few things.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah. So at one point, like, he starts to boat it from the inside of the cabin, and there's a giant wheel, which the kids, of course, love to play with.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. They want to go up there and mess with it.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah. Literally, like this. And so he's like, okay, you can't touch the wheel. This actually steers the boat. I'm gonna start the boat, back it out of here, get it in the channel, and then I'm gonna go up top. Amy. So you have to hold the wheel.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

If you see me throttle up just barely, that means I've got it from up top. So, like, also, there's not a whole lot of railing on the side of the boat. So, like, if he leaves the slider open and one of the girls decides to push the other one, she's gonna fall out. Right.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

And so he can't leave it open to holler at me.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. I need to put. I just thought I need to get a little tiny intercom.

[Amy Earnhardt]

We need to do something. Something. But so we're always learning through this process, and usually the kids are around, and it makes it far more stressful and hectic, and they want to help. Like, they're just trying to be, you know, in the mix. So it was. It was nice to just have.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. We took them out there the couple months ago, and we park it in the middle. Middle of this little sort of area off the side of the main channel. There's a couple other boats out there. They're. You know, they're. They're just enjoying their day. So we pull up there, throw an anchor out, and go upstairs, and, man, it is freaking awesome.

[Amy Earnhardt]

You can see I had gotten dinner. We're eating out the table upstairs.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. We got food. And then you got two kids, like, flipping over and. And crashing into stuff.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Fighting each other.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Arguing.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Arguing which beanbag they're gonna sit in or.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. Fighting over the beanbag.

[Amy Earnhardt]

And not just, like, whining, like, punching each other.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Kicking each other, like, go overboard.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And it's like, this had the chance to be so fun. So chill. And I look at Amy and me, but we both look at each other, and we both go, never again. Next time, we're not bringing them. And I have, and I'm like, you know, I feel bad about that. But I don't, and I shouldn't. There's got to be times when, like, me and Amy can just get out and do and. Yeah. So I look forward to that. I mean, the kids. There's a time and a day when it's right to have the kids out there, and we can have that kind of an experience. But also, there's moments when you're like, damn, dude, I just want to go.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Sit and not have that chaos with.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You and just listen. Inherit. Listen to the water lap against the side of the boat.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Also, I want to learn to drive the boat myself. Like, that was the thing. He went down, he was going to do something. And so I was up top manning the boat. I don't have a damn clue what I'm doing. Not a clue. Small. Yeah. He's going down for the anchor because the kids were throwing such a fit. Yes.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. We were like, all right, we're getting out of here.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And so I'm like, all right, I'm.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Going down to get the anchor really bad.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm going to holler at you. You might have to pull up or this or that and the other.

[Amy Earnhardt]

How do I pull up?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

You might want to give me a little bit of a cliff note lesson right here before you take off.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Because we're. We're not far from the shore on the back side, and it's shallow.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's. It's a manual anchor. Oh. So it's a throwback. It's a cool boat, man. I know it's a 2002, but when you go inside of it, Amy. I mean, if you could date the interior, like, 92. Yeah. Wow.

[Unknown]

Really?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's got that.

[Amy Earnhardt]

It's got that, like, pickled paneling.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Okay.

[Amy Earnhardt]

And we've redone some of the things, but we didn't try to.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

A lot of brass stuff in the railing and so forth.

[Amy Earnhardt]

It looks like it's just fresh and clean. But in that 90 early 90s era, I would say it's cool, man.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's got this neat little kitchenette, and it's just freaking perfect. And I'm like, like, Amy, like, I'll. I'll be like, man, I got. I got. I got this silly little thing that I want to throw on the boat, and I'm gonna run over there and throw it on there. I'm gonna just. And. And then you get. Yeah, you get in there and you're like, I'll drink a beer right here. Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I'm just gonna enjoy this.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm Gonna go upstairs and see how the radio sounds. You know, you end up being there for an hour. Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

If I go miss it on Tuesday nights, you know, I'll come over there.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And spend the night with you.

[Amy Earnhardt]

It's not a bad idea.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, it's pretty cool, man. I'm glad. I'm glad you liked it. I'm glad. Yeah, you should absolutely. When you're at dance, run over there and just even just to take a peek at it, it. The spot. The spiders build these webs around the exterior of the boat on the dock, and man, you got to stay after those.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah, they can do that overnight.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And. And so it's just kind of good to put eyes on the boat, make sure everything's okay.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Well, she said no, but she's, she likes it now, so that makes the.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Name even better because now that you're in love with the boat.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Well, now I don't walk to it with like this chip on my shoulder. Now I'm like, hey, boat.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

It's so weird.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, good.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Usually when I make a choice, I'm. I really believe in my choice. And it's wavering is what's making me feel awkward. It's like, who am I? Yeah, I don't even know who I am anymore. All right, you want to play a game?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Let's do it.

[Unknown]

All right, this game, we're bringing it back. Gen Z slang.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Gen Z slang.

[Unknown]

So there's a couple Gen Z words and you guys are going to guess.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I hope you got some new ones because we're a little bit up on the Gen Z slang. Seven year old is using some of these terms now.

[Unknown]

All right, good. I think I got some good ones. Some that I didn't know, some that are pretty popular. And then there'll be a twist.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Where are you going to say these? Because I don't know if I can pronounce that first one.

[Unknown]

I'll say these. You guys try to figure out what it means.

[Amy Earnhardt]

All right.

[Unknown]

And then there's going to be a twist where we're bringing back to 80s and 90s slang and see if you guys remember what it is. Okay, so, all right, first Gen Z word. Chuggy.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Chuggy.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Chuggy.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Can you use it in a sentence?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, gosh, you're gonna get asked that a few times. Cheugy.

[Unknown]

Some people would say me and Amy are cheugies.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Lovers.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Weirdos.

[Unknown]

No.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Dorks.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Chewies.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You and Amy or Me and Amy. You and Amy.

[Unknown]

Me and Amy.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I think.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Oh, shorties.

[Unknown]

No.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Damn.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Called him out. All right.

[Amy Earnhardt]

He's like, dang it. That vac.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Like that. Happy people.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Happy, loving people.

[Unknown]

Good try.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Saw James bounce in there for a second. That was. He liked that one.

[Amy Earnhardt]

He's a chi too.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I saw a little chuckle bounce. Yep.

[Unknown]

It is millennials.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Oh, yeah.

[Unknown]

Yeah. Or something that's out of date. But millennials is out of date. They would call. They would call millennials out of date.

[Amy Earnhardt]

The milk is cheugy. I'm not cheugy. How do we get there? Dude, how do I get cheugy out of date?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Out of date.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Dang.

[Unknown]

Or someone who has had a date. So, yeah, next one is unk.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Uncle. Like Uncle Dale, Trusted elder, except unk.

[Unknown]

Yeah, unk. Exactly.

[Amy Earnhardt]

An older wiser.

[Unknown]

Yeah, exactly. It's like code for ankh. But a lot of, like, younger, like Gen Z, people think they're just quitting.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Halfway through the word.

[Unknown]

Yeah. That somebody did a quiz that was like, what is considered unk? And they're like, you know, if you're born in like 19, it starts with the 19. You're young. So, okay, that's like 25. Right.

[Amy Earnhardt]

But it's a term of endearment.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I think you need to also have some wisdom.

[Unknown]

Yeah, that's what they mean. A lot of like, those settings are. The 25 year olds are the wise ones.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's a compliment.

[Amy Earnhardt]

It's a compliment. It's a term of endearment.

[Unknown]

Okay, that one's popular now. This one is an acronym, so it's grwm.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Get Ready With Me.

[Unknown]

Yeah, I think I knew you knew that one.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That's a girly term.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, we got that one.

[Unknown]

Quick, you guys might.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I watch a lot of Get Ready With Me.

[Unknown]

Yeah, it's big on TikTok right now. Next one's finna fixing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Two.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I'm figgina. I'm fixing to figure Go to the ball.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm getting ready to do.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Fixing. I'm fixing to do.

[Amy Earnhardt]

So fixing's not a good. That's not a real word either, but yeah, I understand what you're saying. Dale does. I'm ol. I M O L. Yeah. He's got his own. What's the. His own Gen Z slang is imol. I'm. I am going to.

[Unknown]

I'm going to. Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Amal. Yeah.

[Unknown]

I guess the Southern redneck way is, you know, I'm fixing to. But yeah, same thing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I think. I think that term should be embraced into the. Into into the Gen Z slang. I'm all.

[Unknown]

I think you'd start that for sure.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I Have started it. I don't know why it hasn't.

[Unknown]

We need to make a mashup of all the clips and I don't know.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Why it hasn't taken off.

[Amy Earnhardt]

We need to type it out.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't know why it's not worldwide. Help me out, Pitbull.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Help me out, Pitbull. Oh my gosh.

[Unknown]

Next one is clapback.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Clap back. Like talk back. Yeah, come back.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Come back.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Like a comeback.

[Unknown]

Yeah, like in an insulting way.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty. Yeah, I know that one.

[Unknown]

This one. This one's fine. Chopped.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Is that for a shorty's too? No, her legs are chopped.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Is that a. I mean in car world that means they're lower to roof.

[Amy Earnhardt]

No, they chop the car.

[Unknown]

This is more to describe someone she's chopped.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah, busted. Is that like busted?

[Unknown]

Yeah, she's ugly.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Ugly.

[Unknown]

Ugly.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, that one's just chopped.

[Unknown]

Mean.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Damn.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Damn. That girl's chopped, right?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's me.

[Amy Earnhardt]

It also sounds like something you could order at the Waffle House. Chopped, smothered, covered, chopped and slopped. Whatever.

[Unknown]

Chopped and slopped. That'd be.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That's even worse.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Oh my God. This next one is looks. Maxing. It's one word. Looks.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Max. Looks. Maxing.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That's a lot. Usually Gen Z are going backwards.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Like not making words longer.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah, looks maxing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Like good looking. Like fine.

[Unknown]

Yeah, some somewhat. It's like looking your best.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Looking at your best.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That is exactly what looks good.

[Unknown]

Looking. Looking your best.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Looking your best. Your looks. Maxing. Okay. Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Your look is maxing. And now we turned it into looks. Maxing.

[Unknown]

Yeah, that one's weird. That's so. So longer than. Just say you look good. This last Gen Z term.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Find with a Y. Fine.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Bet it's the best.

[Unknown]

No, not the best.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Look for stuff. Look for stuff.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Find it. Find that. You better go find that. Where's your. Go find it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I mean that's what I'd say. Find. Let's go find. I don't know.

[Amy Earnhardt]

What does it mean? I don't know.

[Unknown]

I mean means you have a crush on someone. Oh, she's fine.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Well, wait, wait. What?

[Unknown]

How does. You were not close.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I was close.

[Amy Earnhardt]

So I gotta find that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, the first thing I said if.

[Amy Earnhardt]

You have a crush on someone, this is the way to describe that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Something that's fine.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Something that looks fine.

[Unknown]

You said that I must not find it.

[Amy Earnhardt]

But it was. That was for looks maxing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. No, so fine looks Maxing's very similar.

[Unknown]

Very similar. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. All right. Let's try some 80s 90s songs.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Okay.

[Unknown]

See if you guys remember some of these. Eat my shorts.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That means like.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Unknown]

Kiss my ass. Tubular.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Cool.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Totally cool. Totally tubular.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Motor, motor, motor. Means to go. Yeah.

[Unknown]

Go somewhere quickly. Oh, let's motor around down to the boat dock.

[Amy Earnhardt]

What was it you told me the other day? Bossin busin.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Busin.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That's bopping.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, bopping.

[Unknown]

I do beatbop.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

If you hear noise, don't mind if you hear noise, it's just me and the boys bopping.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Is that a song?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, it's a T shirt that a baseball player wore way back in the 70s.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Oh. Just me and the boys bopping motor.

[Unknown]

Gag me with a spoon.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That means it's gross or disgusting.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

The very Valley girl thing to say.

[Unknown]

Yeah. All that and a bag of chips.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Awesome.

[Unknown]

Yeah. All persons. All that and more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's not and say we did. We gotta bring this one back.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Like, it's like a guilty pleasure. No, wait, that's the opposite of that. Let's not and say we did. Like somebody asked you to do something, you're like, let's not and say we did.

[Unknown]

Yeah. Something I don't want to do.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yep.

[Unknown]

Homie don't play. Homie don't play that.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I've said this to myself.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't mess with it. I don't mess with it. I don't like that. Yeah.

[Unknown]

Dunkaroos.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Dunkaroos are shorts. Right.

[Unknown]

I thought they were jeans.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Dungaroos.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Dunkaroos are those things. They were the cookies with the chocolate.

[Unknown]

All right, that's my bad. It's before my time. That one was before my time.

[Amy Earnhardt]

You're thinking of dungarees.

[Unknown]

Yeah, dungarees. That's what I am thinking of. My dad says that.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah. And we talked about.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I had a nanny and she was from up north, and she used to call them dungarees. And I'm like, God dang, stop. Because we were Wrangler jeans and jeans was the word, Right?

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And she come down, she's like, put your dungarees on. I'm like, what the.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I remember getting them having them called britches.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Talks like that. Yeah, yeah.

[Unknown]

Britches is like the same thing. Older.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's like older than all of us.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah. Britches.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Dungarees is like some 1920s.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Well, Alex's dad says it's 60.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That's like when pants first came out. That's what they called them. And then they got to thinking. Then around 1935. They're like, you know, that's a dumb word. We call them jeans. We'll call them pants and jeans. All right.

[Unknown]

My last one, faux chisel.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Oh, shizzle. I mean, come on. For sure.

[Unknown]

Everyone. Everyone I looked up for this was like faux chisel, my nizzle. That's how they were responsible. I'm like, yeah, that was easy.

[Amy Earnhardt]

We could see. We could see.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It feels like these were all words from yesterday.

[Amy Earnhardt]

We still say the.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

We still say half of this.

[Unknown]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think. Let's not say we did.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Was like, I still call TJ Jizzle. When I seen.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yes, T. Jizzle. That is his name.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What was like 10, 15 years ago. Everything was his. Jizzle was 20 years ago.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Maybe it's probably a little longer.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Everything. Right. Everybody was everything. You did it to everything.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

And I.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And I started calling T Jizzle or TJT Jizzle. And I still call him that today.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah, just jizzle, though.

[Unknown]

You gotta say it on the.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And I let it. It's kind of to let him know, hey, Tjam in good mood.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Oh, okay.

[Amy Earnhardt]

If he gets the jizzle, still's in a good baby.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I say, hey, T. Jizzle. What's up? What's up, man? What's up? Jizzle. That makes him know that I come. I come. I come to him. I come to him in a happy. In a happy mood. Yeah.

[Unknown]

Okay.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, that's good.

[Unknown]

So if we don't say it. Don't, don't.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

If I come to him aggravated, it's usually just tj.

[Unknown]

This tj, you don't use his full name.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Travis.

[Unknown]

Travis.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Travis James.

[Unknown]

James.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

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[Unknown]

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[Amy Earnhardt]

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[Unknown]

All right, first questions from Remy. What are your thoughts on people who bring their dogs to bars and restaurants?

[Amy Earnhardt]

Oh, I don't mind that at all.

[Unknown]

No.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I'm the first person to get on the floor and play with the dog.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I used to take Junebug everywhere.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Even in Key West.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't know what it is about a pet friendly restaurant or bar, but it makes me feel like they're cool.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah, yeah. It's like having a candy jar in the house. You know what I mean?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It makes me more comfortable eating there for some reason.

[Unknown]

Brings up the vibe a lot.

[Amy Earnhardt]

It does.

[Unknown]

I think so.

[Amy Earnhardt]

It's just like Gus everywhere too. In Key west, back in the day.

[Unknown]

The office had a debate about this and they. They thought it was weird if you just brought it for like a group. But if you're trying to, like pick up a girl for, say, then it's acceptable.

[Amy Earnhardt]

So if it's a guy, it's obvious. Especially if it's like a puppy and they say I'm fostering it. That ain't your dog.

[Unknown]

I think that's really cheap way to get attention.

[Amy Earnhardt]

It is.

[Unknown]

I think you gotta try harder than that.

[Amy Earnhardt]

But girls that are not cheap are gonna see right through that.

[Unknown]

Yeah, 100%.

[Amy Earnhardt]

So if you want to pick a cheap chick, bring your dog or your neighbor's dog to the bar.

[Unknown]

They're calling girls that have like those golden doodles or whatever dogs and they bring them out. They're calling them pick me girls now because they want attention. So, like, pick me.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Pick me. Oh, my God.

[Unknown]

It's big science to this.

[Amy Earnhardt]

There's a big science to this.

[Unknown]

Big science to this.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Thanks.

[Unknown]

The next question is from Jordan. My kids are going Back to school for the first or going to school for the first time. It's back to school time. How can I prepare for that moment? Watching them get on the bus and drive away.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Ooh, that is always scary and unnerving, watching your child go to school for the first time. Dale and I, we didn't have to use the bus. And so when we dropped Isla off for preschool the very first time, it was during COVID and everybody had masks on and, like, they literally came to the car and took her out of the car seat. I think everyone was traumatized. Dale and I sat in the parking lot and cried. Do you remember that? He didn't want to leave her. I'm like, she's got to go at some point because we delayed her going anyway because I was pregnant with Nicole, so she went in January. It wasn't even like this time of year, but it was traumatic. Yeah, I don't think it. I don't think it matters what the scenario is. You are always, like, a little unnerved by that. But, you know, they're usually pretty okay and they're more resilient. Like, they're going to get to school and have a great time, and you're the only one that's really sad. Yeah, it's fine.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

The. The one thing that I've learned is they will. They will get out of the car or. Or get on the bus and they may be, like, melting down.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Melting down. And you're thinking in your. Your eyes, you're thinking, this is how they're going to be all day. And this is just this. This. This is the emotion they'll feel till they get back. Not true.

[Amy Earnhardt]

The day is ruined, dude.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And they're gonna hop on that bus or they're gonna get out of the car and go into that classroom, and in five minutes, they are like, they have forgotten it. They don't even. They're. They're on to another thing. And you're the. That you're all. That's a distant memory. But you're still sitting in the car going, are they gonna be okay?

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah. They're feeding off of your energy. That's why they get emotional to begin with.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You know, that's why. So Amy would take Isla and all. Isla would always take it, you know, manipulate Amy and get emotional.

[Amy Earnhardt]

She still does it. I can't do school drop off line.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Amy has a hard time, like, well, I'm confusing soft.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I'm like, get out of the car. When I'm doing this. It's embarrassing. Or holding the whole line up, get out of the car. And that would make her melt down more. For some reason, she just hops right out of Dale's truck.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, so that's the ride in. You have to play the right music, you have to ask the right questions, you know, and if you look in, I can look in the mirror and see Eyla's eyes and tell if she's starting to get sad or get nervous or get anxious or worried. And you got to start, like, you know, popping questions or, hey, you know, if you turn on some music, you know she's going to love. Start singing just to, like, like, change her thought.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Dale's M.O. too, is to, like, get her excited about something that's gonna happen after school or the next day or this weekend. Like, look forward to something else. Like, just distract her from her mind because she'll kind of spiral downward and it's hard to get her out. And I'm not good at that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That's the way I operate in my mind is, like, if I have something I'm nervous about or dreading or not looking forward to, I look at the thing past it, I look at the thing in front, beyond it that I am excited about and go, well, I. I can go through this.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That's happening next.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I can do this because this thing's out there in front of me. And Tim Duggar's the same way. As a buddy of mine and me and him both, we. We always need, like, a thing to look forward to the next nibble.

[Amy Earnhardt]

What's happening next?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Dude, when I. When there's. Sometimes it's rare, but there's some times when there's, like, nothing out there in front of you, and you're like, man, I'm depressed. Why am I so depressed?

[Amy Earnhardt]

I find that to be peaceful.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, I need a thing to look forward to. I don't care if it's like you and me for a couple hours on the boat in. In a. You know, out in front on a Friday. I don't care if it's a trip to Key West. I don't. It doesn't have to be. It can be giant. It can be something small, insignificant. But I need, like, a thing. I have to have something. I can look at the things.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Like, I'm making dinner. I'm like, I'm gonna serve dinner over here. We're gonna put candles out. Like, we're gonna have a candlelight dinner. And they do that for the kids, especially when you're gone, to make it just fun.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I Need to look at my calendar and like, see a physical thing on there that go. That makes me go, hell yeah, I'm looking forward to that. And I'll do anything you want me to do. All the work and things and travel and whatever, because I'm going there and I'm doing this when it's all over. Right.

[Amy Earnhardt]

But back to your question. They're gonna be fine. The bus ride's gonna be fine. And you should plan something for yourself that morning, like a brunch, even with another parent. Or go get your nails done or. I don't know who this is asking, is it a girl or guy?

[Unknown]

I don't know.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Just find something to busy your time so, like, get your mind off of it too, because your child's gonna be fine.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Eyeless in second grade. Today was day one.

[Unknown]

Oh, okay.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

She gets out of the car, looks at there's an individual that has opened the door for her. She gets out, looks up, goes first day of second grade, grabs her back, starts hauling ass to the classroom.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I was like, man, this is different from like two years ago. Yeah, two years ago we were not getting out of the car.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Every single drop off was hard. Is she gonna get out? Is she gonna get out?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Is she gonna cry? Is she gonna get out?

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

So it hasn't gotten better as she's gotten older?

[Amy Earnhardt]

Oh, yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

She's like very extra with her emotions. Nicole, Peace out. The very first day, she didn't look back. So, you know, it just depends on the kids.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You have a kid that is emotional like Isla was, it's probably like a two week, maybe a month max of a bit of a struggle. It eventually goes away. They get for them. They. They make friends. Yeah, they make friends in classroom. I can't wait to see Kate. I want to sleep over with, with, with her and. And I want to see this friend and that and they. They start looking forward to getting with their buddies.

[Unknown]

Yeah, that's. How about you guys? You got any back to school memories from when you guys were a kid? Do you remember how you were the.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Only back to school or drop off line memory I have because dad, we lived so close to the elementary school. Dad would just pick us up and he'd walk us home. Usually mom would drop us off in the morning, go to work, and then dad would pick us up and he would just. We would just walk home, which was fun. One morning, mom was dropping me off and she had an old Camaro. What year? Do you remember that? Do you remember the Camaro? Sitting in the garage.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No.

[Amy Earnhardt]

70.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. 72. 76.

[Amy Earnhardt]

80.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. Something in the 70s.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah. So I slammed my finger in it in the door, getting out my thumb. Like I couldn't even pull it out. They had to get out. She had to get out of the car and undo the door latch. It was stuck right there in the latch. And so we had a substitute teacher that day. And I remember this mean lady not even letting me go to the nurse's office. And my finger was bleeding. It was purple. And the fingernail eventually even fell off. And my dad came up there to pick me up and lit that lady up, he was so mad. And that's the only memory I have of that. Oh, I have one more chewing. I think I've said this one before. I was chewing some peanut M&MS, same car, I think, and one of my teeth fell out and I chomped it, thinking it was a peanut.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, my gosh.

[Unknown]

I didn't hear that.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Both traumatic.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. Geez.

[Unknown]

Oh, my gosh.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Not that happen again when you get old.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Oh, gross.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, that's gross.

[Unknown]

All right, next question. Annabelle wants to know, well, she sees low rise jeans are making a comeback. She always hated them. What other fashion trends should our younger generations never bring back? Let's help them out. Low rise jeans, tapered jeans.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Low rise jeans are hard. So I. That happened when I was in college and I worked at Abercrombie and Fitch. I remember wearing them, but I was, like, fit as a fiddle. And I remember wearing them home for Christmas, like, you know, around the family. And Dad's like, you need to put some damn clothes on. This is not appropriate. And I didn't think anything of it because I was 18 years old, but there ain't no way I could put those on now. We'd have my butt coming out of the top of it. It'd be like a real new muffin top situation.

[Unknown]

Butt cracks be coming out of that major crack.

[Amy Earnhardt]

High crack. Low crack.

[Unknown]

High crack is bad for low rise.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Straight crack.

[Unknown]

They don't mix.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah, Yeah. I don't know. There's a lot of weird trends.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I would rather name the things we would want to come back.

[Unknown]

What do you want to come back?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You did, like, what were the thing. What were those things that women wore on their. On their legs when they worked out?

[Unknown]

Leg warmers.

[Amy Earnhardt]

The 80s.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Those are awesome.

[Unknown]

Like the neon colors, all that stuff. That'd be fun.

[Amy Earnhardt]

They probably go well with that swimsuit.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They should come back. Those should come back. Yeah. Then I know for sure. I'M like, oh, games are going to work out. Yeah. Got her leg warmers on.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Otherwise you can't tell, huh?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Those go right in line with, like, the tiny little, like, butterflies side shorts that, like, boys like Tom Hanks would wear these in big. You know what I mean? Playing basketball, I guess.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Do you know what I'm talking about? Super shorty.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Workout shorts.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I like those. I like bell bottom jeans.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Those are kind of for dudes or for anybody.

[Unknown]

Oh, for.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, for.

[Unknown]

I know. For girls.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I like this. My stuff. Like my. My.

[Amy Earnhardt]

He used to have some pretty. I like embellish jeans.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I did. I like the. I like the. Yeah. Boot cut.

[Amy Earnhardt]

But you worn with the sneakers.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. Boot cut with sneakers. Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I like that's. Yeah, I wouldn't. I didn't like huge bell bottom, but I like the 70s. So a lot of prints and a lot of shape, fit and size and stuff from the 70s. I always like corduroys.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

The corduroys is still cool to me. Yeah.

[Unknown]

Like, company logos have like, gone really simple now, and a lot of people, like, we should go back to, like, the 90s or, like, the 80s where they have these big and flashy logos and colors. Like, things are like that, too.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's. It's interesting how things have. How things cycle. Like, I believe in things. Cycle. I believe in everything. Kind of is. Everything's a circle, and everything kind of goes around and comes back. Styles and all kinds of things. But it. We're. You're like, you're living it, and you're. It's really. It's literally happening. Like, bell bottoms left in the 70s. They came back and already gone again. Yeah. You know, they come back.

[Unknown]

Come in for really quick. You got to be Honest, when the.

[Amy Earnhardt]

90S trends came back and, like, everyone was doing the baby doll dresses with the little T shirts underneath and, like, Doc Martens are back in style and all that. I'm like, oh, my God, I don't think I can do that again.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I mean, that's not appropriate for me to do that again because I'm. I'm in my 40s. But, like, wow, that's kind of humbling. I remember when the beer companies did that. Like, I remember when Miller Lite got their logo back.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

And didn't Bud do the same thing? Like, they all go through these transformations of being really modern, and they always just end up back where they started.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

And that's fun.

[Unknown]

Yeah. Speaking of coming back, cassette tapes are apparently making a comeback. So they're making modern cassette tapes at some point or kids are starting to wear them. No idea. But kids are starting to get, like, buy them and put song like mixtapes on them and make that. So Sam wants to know what you guys would put on your buddy.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So the. My friends. The. My friends, the Danger Summer pop punk band out of Baltimore, or, you know, they're. When they make a new record, they'll make sets and sell. They.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah, they do.

[Unknown]

That's cool.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I mean, I remember the. All of the new bands making vinyls, which I thought was cool.

[Unknown]

Yeah, vinyls have been around back, I guess, right?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

A little bit. Yeah. I. Yeah, vinyls is. Vinyls almost feels normalized again. Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Right.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

When you. When. When somebody makes a record. I got friends in country, pop punk, all kinds of different places. And like Citizen Cope sent me a record the other day. And so record. To me, records are like regular again. Like. Yeah, yeah, I. You know, they're not. It's not like niche, sort of. Oh, man. Yeah, I got a vinyl collection.

[Unknown]

Yeah, you're not. You're not like, cool and trendy. If you have a record player now, it's like, kind of common.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So. But yeah, like the Dangerous Summer. They'll. They send me these little press kit kind of things when they have a new record come out and it'll have a cassette tape in it. And I'm like, I don't have nothing to play this. It's like a. I guess I'm collecting it. I don't know.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Someone's manufacturing that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I know. But I reckon there's, you know, you just got to have a vintage record or a cassette player.

[Unknown]

Yeah, I. I don't know where you'd play it. Like, the cars don't have those anymore. There's not really adapter. I know I used to have a car that had an adapter that you could play cassettes to, but none of.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Them work like that anymore.

[Unknown]

Yeah, they don't work like that anymore.

[Amy Earnhardt]

They don't have CD players in them either.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm sure somebody in the chat's telling us all about this.

[Unknown]

I know also, cassettes was kind of the most inconvenient one.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Like CDs rewinding it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Trying to get it right in the right spot. It was just impossible.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

I don't know why.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'll tell you one thing that I hope.

[Amy Earnhardt]

And then pulling the strings.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'll tell you one thing that I hope doesn't come back. And somebody in the chat just made me think about this. So if you look at photos from like 98 or 99. The sunglasses we used to wear, Remember those? Real skinny.

[Amy Earnhardt]

So those are back for the girls. Like those almond shaped sunglasses.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They were like Oakley's and all kinds of different kinds. And they were like. They look like they were. They were curved. They were curvy roundy. They weren't sharp. No sharp edges. And they were like super narrow. And like, you'll. You'll look at pictures of like the 99, 2000. Everyone was wearing them. Yeah. From Sterling Marlin to all the guy. Me. All the guys in Xfinity series, Vanilla Ice. I mean, all the racers. Like, everyone was wearing them. That's. That was what all the brands were.

[Unknown]

Making, like the metallic silver.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Terrible.

[Unknown]

So bad.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They were so bad. Look at pictures. And I go, hey, why was I wearing that?

[Unknown]

Never bring that back, please. Don't know.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, man.

[Unknown]

All right, my last question for you from Tamela. How do you check out of a hotel? My children say there's no need to actually go to the front desk and check out anymore.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't.

[Amy Earnhardt]

So you don't have to unless you have, like. So we were in Sonoma. We had actual physical keys versus, like a card.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

So we turn those in, and she's like, do you want your checkout slip? And I just said yes, because she was brought to print it anyway. But they know your checkout time and they have your credit card, so you don't actually have to check out. And the little card key is obsolete anyway, after you check out.

[Unknown]

Wow. Okay. I didn't know that. So, like, I. And when I was in Mexico, I. They made me go to the desk and check out.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

But I thought maybe that was different because it's Mexico. But usually I just walk right out.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I mean, if we're in a different country, like, I feel like we always do those things just because it is weird. It is more odd to just pick up and leave.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Well, I don't know why that is.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't know. I mean, I. I've. I've never. I will. I will not go to the desk. Like, if I get. If I feel like, you know, yeah, I can get away with it. But to your point, like, if it's a resort or we're on a trip and it's over. It's. If you got a passport or it feels like you're supposed to go to the desk.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah. It's more polite.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Is there something I need to sign? Is there something that, you know, are we good? You know, because you don't want to get that call, you know, on a day later or whatever. And like, hey, you forgot this. X, Y, and Z. We needed you to sign this and that and the other.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah, well, so they make you sign so much when you get there.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

You don't have to do that, so I don't think you have to.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I agree. Like, every time I've ever, like, went to the desk, there was no need. There was nothing where I went, oh, okay. I'm glad you're.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Proper goodbyes is always nice.

[Unknown]

Yeah, they kind of. They kind of just like, all right, what's your room number? All right, see you. Like, they didn't even really do anything.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

But on race weekends, like when we were staying in hotels on a race.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Weekend, nobody said goodbye. Tailed it out of there.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, yeah. I leave my key in the room and haul ass.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I think it just depends on the type of hotel you're in.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Do you. Do you, like, try to make it easy on the cleaning service?

[Unknown]

This is really bad. I don't. I'm. I'm not a messy person.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Like, I will.

[Unknown]

But I am in a hotel when.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Me and Amy, just because you can be.

[Unknown]

It's just. I just know they're coming to pick it up no matter what.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Me and Amy are done. Or every day, like, when I went to Mexico, for example, like, every day I would get my bath towel and the floor towel and the hand towel or, you know, and everything and put it in a little ball on the floor next, you know, easy to. You know, here's all the stuff. And then I would straighten up the room, like, the best I could, kind of like halfway make the bed back. Kind of like, wait, what?

[Amy Earnhardt]

You're making the bed in the hotels?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I mean, you don't do that. I just pull the COVID up. I don't, like, make the bed. I just kind of halfway make the bed. And it's kind of like a. Hey, you don't really have to really remake this. Yeah, they're gonna.

[Amy Earnhardt]

They're gonna do it.

[Unknown]

If I didn't book the room myself, I. I'll. I'll clean up a little bit.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

But if it's just under my name, I'm like, whatever, dude.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I gotta.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That's odd.

[Unknown]

Like, usually I think it's my. Like, it's vacation. Whatever. Just throw. I don't use.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Every time I imagine that person goes in there, it goes into some rooms, and it is disgusting. Disaster. Yeah. And I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna Try to make it as easy as possible. Yeah. So I feel it's an obligation to like, not be a slob.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's like human nature to just try to tidy up a little bit, but, like.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'll wipe the sink out. You know, you're cleaning for again. Amy's like, you don't do this at home.

[Amy Earnhardt]

What the hell? Toothpaste, toothpaste in the sink. Beard clippings.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, yeah. Cause I'm. That's my sink. Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah. But he knows some. He's got a maid that's gonna come clean it up.

[Unknown]

Do you guys bring your own, like, soap and shampoo or do you just use theirs?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I think a woman does.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I. I bring that stuff. Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Women have their particular. About the shampoo.

[Amy Earnhardt]

They use the stuff in the hotels usually just really dries your hair out.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yep.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That's the only reason.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. I, you know, you'll go to. I know this is about something totally I shouldn't be about. Man, you'll go. We. We. I get excited when we go to Vegas.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I get excited when you get. Get. And let's. Let's hear it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, I'm sure this is nothing, but, man, you go, we get excited. We're going to Vegas. Vegas is fun and, and I don't get to go there as much anymore because of, you know, the broadcast and my broadcast races aren't there or whatever. But so any. Anytime there's like a. A sponsor something, I'm like, hey, Amy, let's go to Vegas and, you know, have some fun. But man, you'll get in them room, and these are like, supposed to be really nice hotel rooms. And you'll get in there and like the, the. The shampoo pump don't work. Or you gotta pump. Pump it down and pull it back up and then put. You know, it's like, come on, man. Mgm. Like, what is this? Yeah.

[Unknown]

You know, that's such a low expense. Yeah, just give me a squeeze bottle.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, don't give me a pump. Don't work.

[Unknown]

I agree.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Just give me a little squeeze bottle.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That's annoying. No matter where you are. The bathroom, in the. In the shower. If your pumps don't work.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes.

[Amy Earnhardt]

That's just happened with me ordering stuff.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We had those in our house.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Yeah, I know some. The shampoo will work and the conditioner pump won't. And it's just. And it's this giant bottle. You're like, well, what the am I gonna do with this now?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I gotta take the damn unscrew it. Yeah, squeeze it off in my hand. Now I gotta. Damn. I got five helpings of.

[Amy Earnhardt]

I got a glob. Trying not to get water in the. In the whole bottle as I'm doing all this in the shower with the water pouring everywhere. It's pain in the rear end.

[Unknown]

Yeah, that's a. That's a warranted gripe. I would hate that too. Yeah, that is. That's a good place to stop. Ask Amy for today.

[Amy Earnhardt]

All right, thank you guys for your questions. We appreciate you watching.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy Earnhardt]

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[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

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[Amy Earnhardt]

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[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

One sausage McMuffin with egg, please.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Okay, your total is.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Wait. Let's negotiate. How's about you throw in hash browns for a dollar?

[Unknown]

Well, yes sir, that price is already a do.

Take it or leave it.

[Amy Earnhardt]

Take it, I guess.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Buy one, add one for a dollar.

[Unknown]

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[Amy Earnhardt]

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[Unknown]

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[Amy Earnhardt]

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