Dale Ate Dog Food & Signs from the Universe

Summary

The Dale Jr. Download Episode: "Dale Ate Dog Food & Signs from the Universe" Host: Dirty Mo Media, SiriusXM Date: December 17, 2025

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Episode Overview

This special holiday edition of The Dale Jr. Download is filled with candid family stories, hilarious mishaps, and moments of unexpected reflection. Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his wife Amy sit down for their “Bless Your Heart: Christmas Edition” to share Christmas chaos in the Earnhardt home, traditions old and new, and some wild tales—including Dale accidentally eating dog food, signs from the universe about distracted driving, and plenty of good-natured ribbing about holiday habits.

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Table of Contents

1. Christmas in the Earnhardt House
2. Signs from the Universe: Distracted Driving
3. Dale Eats Dog Food
4. Holiday Traditions, Playlists, and Parental Challenges
5. Listener Q&A – Holiday Traditions, Movies, and Advice
6. Notable/Funny Quotes
7. Memorable Segments & Timestamps

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Christmas in the Earnhardt House

(03:01–10:39)

• Amy describes Christmas as the “Super Bowl for moms.” She’s stressed but loves making the day magical for her kids. Dale gives her heartfelt recognition for all her holiday effort.
  • Dale: “You work so hard, you go around, you know, months in advance, start buying all these little neat… the things… add up into this really great experience for our girls.” (05:16)
• The logistics of shopping and wrapping are wild; Amy coordinates gifts for many children across both sides of the family.
  • Amy: “There’s a lot to do. There's a lot to wrap… making it special is not that hard… bulk is more exciting than a special expensive present.” (07:58)
• Their daughters, Isla and Nicole, create chaos with presents, using the wrapped gifts as toys and even decorating the bags themselves.
  • Amy: “Both girls are underneath the Christmas tree pulling all the gifts out and making like a choo choo train…” (09:39)

Signs from the Universe: Distracted Driving

(13:58–24:34)

• Dale shares a recent, frightening close call with a distracted driver while his daughter was in the car—right after he did a safety event for Nationwide.
  • Dale: “Had the distracted driver appearance with Nationwide. And then this happened. Like, it's a universe sort of telling me that I… need to look at myself… Am I maybe on my phone a little bit too much?” (16:42)
• This triggers a memory from the 1990s: Dale flipping his truck while distracted by a CD player on Christmas Day. No major injuries, but his father's reaction surprises him.
  • Dale: “I flipped my truck… I get out… I was like, Dad, I flipped my truck. I'm on the highway. He's like, all right, I'm coming that way… He just started laughing… ‘Man, I flipped my car when I was 18… just glad you're all right.’” (21:33)
• A full circle “universe moment”: The son of the couple who witnessed Dale’s truck flip is now moving into a house nearby.
  • Amy: “That's also a quick reminder to not be distracted in your car. Like, there's a lot of Easter eggs the universe puts out there.” (22:34)

Dale Eats Dog Food

(24:34–30:39)

• Amy outs Dale for accidentally eating “dog ice cream”—a frozen pup cup intended for their dog, Gus.
  • Amy: “Dale ate dog food. And in that moment, too, I'm thinking, why did I say anything? He would have kept eating it, and I couldn't let it happen.” (26:12)
  • Dale: “I open it up, I dig out a little spoonful, and I take a bite, and I'm like, strange… And she's like, ‘That's for the dog.’ I was like, I’m caught. Right?” (27:02)
• Hilarity ensues as the family jokes about labeling food, Dale’s snack desperation, and debates over whether dog food should share freezer space with human food.
  • Dale: “I'll look at a milk bone and know right away, I don't need to eat that… some stuff, you look at it and you're like, I might accidentally eat that…” (28:37)

Holiday Traditions, Playlists, and Parental Challenges

Car Decorations Debate

(30:44–34:40)

• Amy recounts wanting to put Christmas antlers on her car for their daughter, only for Dale to veto the idea.
  • Amy: “I shamefully took them off and hid them from Isla. And she was so sad. And I blamed it on Dale, of course…” (31:47)
  • Dale: “We are not gonna be those people that run around town with antlers all over our car.” (31:46)
• They compromise and laugh about local car decor traditions.

The Great Profanity Playlist & Parenting Language

(36:48–45:38)

• While driving, Dale plays a 90s rap playlist with plenty of profanity. Amy worries about what the kids are hearing—especially Nicole, who repeats everything.
  • Amy: “He’s willing to risk it at all times with his music.” (38:34)
• Dale admits he uses music and radio as both a personal escape and sometimes a way to interact with the kids. He tries to reason with Isla about swearing:
  • Dale: “You’re not allowed to say [bad words] until you’re at least 16, 17, 18 years old.” (42:25)
  • Isla negotiates: “What about 17?” (42:53)

Playlist Stats & YouTube Habits

(54:01–58:03)

• Spotify Wrapped reveals Dale’s listening age to be “in the 60s or 85,” which both shocks and amuses him.
  • Dale: “I found a bug in the software… I was like 85 or something.” (54:29)
• YouTube’s year-in-review lists his top interests as NASCAR races, home renovation, military history, and “exploring abandoned places.” Dale admits to watching old episodes of his own podcast.
  • Dale: “My favorite videos, Dale Jr. Download. Hey, he watches himself.” (56:48)

White Noise & Sleeping Habits

(57:08–60:23)

• Dale prefers background noise to fall asleep (World War II “sleep stories” or the sound of race cars), while Amy needs total silence.

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Listener Q&A

(48:01–68:20)

Christmas Traditions

• Picking out a real tree at the farmers market.
• Building gingerbread houses with the whole family.
• Driving around the neighborhood to see Christmas lights.
• Visits to mall Santas, which sometimes go hilariously awry.

Christmas Movies & Songs

• Favorite movies: Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, Christmas Chronicles, The Grinch, Polar Express (for Dalton), and Elf (though somewhat overplayed).
• Favorite songs: “Carol of the Bells” (Lindsey Stirling version), “Last Christmas,” and debate over whether “Hallelujah” counts as a Christmas song.

Advice: First Holiday with Girlfriend/Boyfriend

• Amy recommends couples not yet married or engaged spend holidays with their own families to avoid drama and resentment.
  • Amy: “You are not obligated… if it’s that important to you to stick with your traditions, then just do it separately.” (53:14)

New Year’s Resolutions & Celebrations

• Mixed feelings. Amy thinks it’s better to have attainable goals, while Dale likes to keep goals private.
• New Year’s Eve is beloved—especially since the Earnhardts were married on NYE. Dale prefers small gatherings and local bars to big, busy parties.
• They’re finally doing the Polar Plunge this year for charity after talking about it for years.

White Elephant Gift Ideas

• Amy recommends useful gifts or humorous re-gifts (like an Aura ring that didn’t fit, or something random from the house). Dale enjoys bringing a gift “nobody wants,” just for the sport of it.

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Notable Quotes

• Dale: “I’ll look at a milk bone and know right away, I don’t need to eat that… Some stuff, you look at it and you’re like, I might accidentally eat that.” (28:37)
• Amy: “The Super Bowl for moms is coming up… the buildup is happening, every single day is important…” (03:02)
• Amy: “If it’s too good, they on the floor. You can’t have, they can’t taste that good. Mess their bellies up.” (29:49, also callback to intro segment)
• Dale: “Signs from the universe… it’s a universe sort of telling me that I might need to… look at myself… Are you maybe on your phone a little too much?” (16:42)
• Amy: “Dale ate dog food. And in that moment… why did I say anything? He would have kept eating it!” (26:12)

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Memorable Segments & Timestamps

• Holiday Chaos & Gift Wrapping: 03:01–10:39
• Dale’s Near Miss with a Distracted Driver: 15:00–17:12
• Dale’s Truck Flipping Story: 17:14–22:05
• Dog Ice Cream Incident: 24:34–30:39
• Car Antler Decor Debate: 30:44–34:40
• The Profanity Playlist & Parenting Language: 36:48–45:38
• Spotify/YouTube Wrap & Sleep Habits: 54:01–60:23
• Listener Q&A Traditions, Movies, and Resolutions: 48:01–68:22

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Conclusion

In this festive, down-to-earth episode, Dale Jr. and Amy give listeners a seat at their kitchen table with laughter, relatable parenting fails, and the kind of holiday craziness that feels both unique and universal. From eating dog food to seeing “signs from the universe” and arguing over car reindeer antlers, it’s equal parts earnest and hilarious. Perfect background listening—or, if you want the highlights, this summary brings it all home.

Transcript

[Amy]

If it's too good, they on the floor. You can't have it, can't taste that good.

[Dale]

Mess up if it's too good on the floor.

[Amy]

You mean if it's got ingredients in it that make it taste too good, then it'll end up.

[Dale]

Then they're like man on the floor.

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[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

What the hell?

[Amy]

I don't know if. Make sure that dog works quite like yours.

[Dale]

Make sure that dog food ain't too good on the floor.

[Amy]

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[Amy]

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[Dale]

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[Dale]

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[Amy]

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

[Dale]

I'm working.

[Amy]

Working that mouth. Hey everybody. Dale and I are in the studios today for another round of Bless yous Heart, a Christmas edition, if you will. We're excited to chit chat and let you know what's been going on. Let's get started.

[Dale]

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[Amy]

Jolly juice sounds great.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

What's in it?

[Dale]

Two ounces of Haibarach vodka. It's got three ounces of Red Bull. Fiji apple and ginger.

[Amy]

Yum.

[Dale]

And then an ounce of cranberry juice and a little Prosecco and some apple slices or cranberries.

[Amy]

It's delicious. It tastes like a Jolly Rancher. Wow.

[Dale]

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[Amy]

You can hold on to it. My brain is scrambled at the moment. My whole life feels like a scrambled mess.

[Dale]

This is a tough part of the year for you.

[Amy]

It is. It's like the super bowl for moms is coming up. It's like my best analogy for it. Like, the buildup.

[Dale]

Yes.

[Amy]

Is happening every single day is important. I feel like you shop until the very last second. There's always somebody you forgot. There's always something messing up your wrapping.

[Dale]

That's a great analogy. So, like, the two kids are like, the two teens that are going to play the game. And, like, the game. They're going to go. They're going to play the game. The game's going to happen, however that happens. And you got to organize the halftime show and all the other.

[Amy]

Yeah. I feel like the two sides of the family are more like the two teams, because, like, that more is more encompasses, like, all the players and all the things. And there's. Oh, there's all kinds of crap happening. Sideline shows.

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[Dale]

You got the mom's side and the dad's side.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale]

And I don't have any of that. I'm just.

[Amy]

Oh, no. He's just hanging out, playing his video games. Whenever TJ Advances the league, he's like, oh, gotta go do my thing.

[Dale]

Well, we are the national champions. UNC Tar Heels.

[Amy]

Oh, you switched teams.

[Dale]

Yeah, I did. I got hired up now.

[Amy]

Hear that?

[Dale]

It took me forever to take Charlotte to the national championship and win it two seasons into this new game.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

I beat T.J. to the Natty. He's not been there yet, so I'm, like, better at this point. I'm better than tj. Yeah. No argument.

[Amy]

I'm not gonna.

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[Amy]

I like it when you beat tj.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Especially since he's, like, running the schedule now in both of our houses with.

[Dale]

This game all of a sudden. He's not. He tells me yesterday. He's like, you know, I just don't like playing this game as much as I did last year.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

I'm like, yeah. You know, just destroying everybody. Okay.

[Amy]

What's your nugget? Do you want to talk about it?

[Dale]

Well, I was wanting to keep. I was wanting to go on about our, our plans for Christmas. So Amy's. I, I, Amy's analogy about being her super bowl, it's, it's true. I want to give you all your flowers, man. You work so hard, you, you go around, you know, months in advance start, you know, buying up all these little neat.

[Amy]

Buying up. She's just buying up everything. No, no, no, he's not wrong.

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[Dale]

Let me make sure I get this out so people don't take the wrong way. The things. Like, when the girls come downstairs for Christmas, there's this, there's a little display for each one. They've got their little Christmas. Right. And it's like they got their little nails and their little makeup kits and, and all the things. And it's all these little small things that just add up into this really great experience for our girls for Christmas. And my family didn't do this. I had, I had these Christmases when I was really little, but then they stopped, and they're still really little.

[Amy]

So let's just mind. But yeah, here, keep going.

[Dale]

I'm just saying, like, they get a genuine, legit Christmas.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

You know, and I think that, you know, I remember having a couple of those. And then life changed when my parents divorced and dad's Christmases sucked. They didn't know how to make a fun Christmas. And, you know, no, no disrespect.

[Amy]

They were.

[Dale]

They were to anyone that was in the house during that period of time. But moms were great. She's over the top. Like, she. I'd go to her house in North Virginia, six hours away, and she'd have me a basketball going in her living room, and I'm like, how am I getting this back to North Carolina?

[Amy]

But she wasn't worried about that.

[Dale]

No. But Amy works really hard. A lot of thought goes into it, a lot of rapping. That's just for our family on the other side. We're going to go to Texas for a couple of days. She's got to make sure that all of the people that are supposed to get gifts and all the kids and grandkids and cousins and all that.

[Amy]

Yeah, there's kids everywhere. Yeah, there's kids galore on both sides of the family.

[Dale]

So, like, that gives me anxiety. Like, I couldn't do it without, like, a big, big binder notepad with, like, everybody's age and everybody what they like and don't like. Like, I could not car. I couldn't. I don't know how you.

[Amy]

Well, I don't have a notepad. I used to but now I can read, so I keep it in my phone.

[Dale]

But even just for your family.

[Amy]

Yeah, no, I do. Well. So here's the thing. It's pretty easy with both sides. And the reason why is because all the kids are relatively close in the same age. And on my side of the family, there's a ton of little girls, so they all want the same thing anyway, so Katie and Lacey and I, we kind of organize our thoughts on, like, what we're gonna avoid, like, if we're not doing fingernails and makeup and all that junk this year. Cause we're tired of, you know, finding them stuck to the floor and all that.

[Dale]

Those little stick on fingernails.

[Amy]

Yeah. So we kind of just coordinate who's getting what. And then, you know, the size run is like, we have three all the way up to nine. Every year there's a girl three to nine, and then we have some teenagers. So that's pretty. It's pretty easy. But, yeah, there's a lot to do. There's a lot to wrap and sound.

[Dale]

Easy does it.

[Amy]

Making it special is not that hard because, like, I don't know, I feel like as long as you just get one thing right, they're super excited. They love. They're at the age, too, where, like, bulk is more exciting than, like, a special expensive present. Whereas on Dale's side of the family, the kids are older. So, like, you have to be. That's harder for me because you have to be far more thoughtful. And they're at that age, too, where, like, they can buy things too for themselves. So it's a little harder for me.

[Dale]

Eight on that side, Amy shops for my nieces, my nephew. Everyone. Yeah, like, everyone.

[Amy]

Everyone. There's a bunch of people.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So we've got stuff laid out everywhere.

[Dale]

This is. This is a busy time of year.

[Amy]

Yeah. I will say Dale is very good at wrapping presents. So if I'm organized enough and I have the boxes taped up and the kids are not around, then he will sit there and, like, wrap the hell out of some presents.

[Dale]

I don't mind having.

[Amy]

Very meticulous. But at this point, Nicole wants to help. She has been up my tail in that. Like, I have a space set up for, like, a wrapping station, basically. And she's in there just wanting to help. And I love that she wants to help, but I'm not organized enough to guide her. Like, I just want to. I'm not a delegator. Like, I just want to do it and move on. So I've been trying to, like, let her Play and help me with the tape and help me with the tags. Because she's writing her name. She can write things now, but she's going in there in between our sessions and just using up all the bags and Sharpieing all over and writing her name or all of her classmates names all over the gift bags. I'm like, dang it, now I gotta go buy more crap. Cause my gift bags have been used up, and she's taking them and shopping around the house and putting whatever she wants in them.

[Dale]

Yeah, Nicole's been pushing the buttons here.

[Amy]

Last night, I had just finished wrapping for the evening and put all my stuff away. And I look into the foyer and both girls are underneath Christmas tree pulling all the gifts out and making like a choo choo train thing out of them. I'm like, what are y' all doing? Like, those are freshly wrapped gifts. Put them back. I mean, at one point, somebody's gonna start opening them. You know what I mean? I'm just. I can't. I can't rest. I can't relax. There's chaos at all moments until they go to bed. It's chaotic.

[Dale]

It's so funny because I look over there and both of them are. Are like they surrounded themselves by presents and they're. They're sitting there like they're driving a car or something. I don't know. They built this thing around them and we weren't paying attention. And we glance over and we're like, Amy pops up. She's like, what are y' all doing? Like, what are y' all doing? And I see all the. And Isla jumps up and goes, I didn't do it.

[Amy]

She did it. I'm like, I didn't do it.

[Dale]

She. I didn't do it.

[Amy]

You're the train conductor. I can see.

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[Dale]

You were just like, yeah. You were like, yeah.

[Amy]

You were driving this train.

[Dale]

She's like, I didn't do it. She did it.

[Amy]

Yeah. She's always so worried about getting in trouble.

[Dale]

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[Amy]

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So I don't.

[Dale]

This is a. This is gonna be a lot. Okay, okay, everybody buckle in. This is a little bit of a mind. This will be a little.

[Amy]

Is this a wordy stories story?

[Dale]

A little bit of a maze.

[Amy]

Don't fall asleep cocktail.

[Dale]

Hopefully I don't. I'm not boring. Hopefully I'm not boring. You did hear tears. So the other day, Nationwide, who I still work with, Nationwide Insurance, they had me go out to this drag strip in Charlotte and work with this company called Breaks. And they teach young kids about distracted driving. It's a really cool course, something I'll probably send my girls to go do. And anytime I'm gonna go do an event or talk about a product or service, I try to figure out whether I can really connect to it, relate to it, so I can kind of tell a story that's genuine. And so I was like, you know, I was distracted one day driving down the road on Christmas and flip my pickup truck. And so I can definitely speak to the dangers of distracted driving.

[Amy]

What were you doing? Because you didn't have a cell phone, I'll tell you.

[Dale]

And so I'm doing this appearance for Nationwide and all that went great. And then we left. And like later on either that day or the next day, the next day, I think I'm in the car with Nicole going through a four way stop sign right up here at the business part entrance. Four way stop sign. And I'm dry. I get up to the stop sign and stop and I see a car coming toward the from the right. And I'm like, they gotta stop. So I'm gonna cruise on over through the four way. And as soon as I get to the center of the four way, I look and they ain't slowing down. They're going 45 miles an hour and they're headed right at me. And I floored it and I drove to the left to get away from them, to create more distance between me and them. And they just missed the back bumper of the truck. And they never stopped. They never even saw me. I Never locked eyes with the person in the car. I was so mad, I wanted to get out and beat somebody's ass. But, you know, you get real mad in those moments when somebody does something that's really stupid and you just kind of get mad. But I wanted to argue or holler at somebody, you know, and. Which I was kind of surprised by that reaction. But we drive on through. I was on the phone with Mike Davis, and I'm having a full conversation with him, and he has no idea that none of that happened. And so also, Nicole's in the backseat, Nicole's in the car. And so, you know, I'm in my truck. I don't know how bad that would have been. It had been bad for the car, but it probably just spun us around. But I was like, holy moly. You know, had the. Had the distracted driver appearance with Nationwide. And then this happened. Like, it's a universe sort of telling me that I might need to, you know, look at myself a little bit in the mirror and say, hey, are you. Are you, you know, maybe on your phone a little bit too much? Are you looking around, doing you shouldn't be doing while you're driving down the road? So that was, you know, sometimes when things like that happen, I think it's a sign telling me that I need to, like, do something inward, do some checks and balances.

[Amy]

So what happened when you were in your truck?

[Dale]

So I thought, you know, I thought about that truck that I flipped. So my dad was alive. So this is like in the mid-90s. Actually is probably like 94. I had a brand new extended cab S10 pickup truck that I would just finance for five years. I was paying a hundred dollars a month. I'd financed it. So I was like, wait, I can pay less if I just finance it for longer. Like a hundred dollars a month. That's affordable. I was making like 300amonth, a week or whatever at changing old dealership. And so I financed this truck. I'm paying, I'm doing some payments, and I've got it for like, I've had this truck for like three. Three months, two months. Just. I mean, I'm happy. Kelly gets me. We go to dad's to Christmas morning, open some presents. Kelly gets me a CD adapter, tape adapter for my. For my S10. And then later we're supposed to go to Mamal's in Kannapolis for the family gathering, the Earnhardt family gathering. So I'm driving myself to Kannapolis up Highway 3. And I've got my CD player, and I got my tape adapter, and I'm rocking out, and I look over to change the cd, and I drove that truck right off the side of the road and hit a driveway culvert, which is a pipe in the ground, in the ground. And I barrel rolled five to seven times. A barrel. Rolled a lot. Crushed the center, crushed the roof of this truck down. The mirror was in the. That in the stereo. Like, the mirror and the stereo were touching. The roof was crushed down on top of the steering wheel, and this thing flipped. Crazy. Luckily, I didn't have any injuries except. Or all my knuckles were busted because I had my hand on the steering wheel and that. And when it rolled over, mush mash a steering wheel and the windshield, and my hands in there in a. In a sandwich. And so I get out of the truck, it lands on its. It lands right upright. It's missing a wheel. One of the wheels broke off the back. And there was only one car coming at me when I started flipping. There was a car driving toward me. I get out, they're stopped in the middle of the road, and they're like, jaw on the floor, and it's a couple.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And I walk up, and I'm like, I need to borrow a cell phone. I don't have a phone. I don't have a phone. I got a pager maybe, but, I mean, this is before, like, having a cell phone. And I was like, do you have a cell phone? They were like, no. And they were like, man, you are flipping. And they were just in awe. They were like, I could. You were just flipping so much. And so I'm standing there, and honestly, it took a little. It took a few minutes for some more cars to pull up. But in this, they. They. I don't know if they stopped or stayed, but they told me in this little brief period of time, I learned that they had just gotten engaged that morning. And I was like, man, you know, I said, thanks. Appreciate y'. All, you know, stop and checking on me, making sure I was okay. They were like, you okay? You all right? So I go to this other car, and I said, can I borrow a phone? And the lady's like, you need to sit down. You're in shock. I was like, I mean, I'm driving.

[Amy]

Last thing I need is your sass, lady. I'm like, drive.

[Dale]

I'm driving street stocks and destroy the hell out of that thing every weekend. So I've been in plenty of crashes at this point. And so finally, I get to a Car that had a phone. And I call my dad, and he's at memos, and they're all there. And I'm like, dad, I flipped my truck. I'm on the highway. He's like, all right, I'm coming that way. And he goes by past, drives by me to get to the farm, which is about three miles away. Gets the flatbed pickup truck drives back, and the state trooper is there at that point. And dad's like, we're gonna put it on this flatbed and haul it out of here. So we. We did all the paperwork or whatever and take the truck to the farm and. And that was that.

[Amy]

Did he yell at you?

[Dale]

No, I thought he was going to chew my ass. So we get in the truck, and we're driving the flatbed to the farm. And I'm sitting there waiting on him to tell me how. What a dummy I am or something, right? And he goes, well, you all right? You ain't hurt? I was like, no, just nothing. Really. Like, man. He just started laughing, and I was like, what's so funny? He goes, man, I flipped my truck, or I flipped my car when I was 18. He's like, you know, just glad you're all right. It was just not a big deal.

[Amy]

That's wild.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

My dad would have ripped me up one side, down the other. Well, especially if he found out I was like. He realized I was okay, then he really would have let me have it, you know.

[Dale]

You know that the house next to Sonny is a rental of ours, and there's a boy that's going to move into it. It's Sonny knows in Austin. It's Austin's friend.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

That boy is the son of that couple.

[Amy]

No way.

[Dalton]

What?

[Amy]

That's cool. Speaking of the universe, like, just showing you things.

[Dale]

Yes.

[Amy]

That's also a quick reminder to, like, not be distracted in your car. Like, there's a lot of Easter.

[Dale]

I don't know their names. Hadn't seen them since that day. Oh, wild.

[Amy]

You're going to see them a bit at this point.

[Dale]

I can't wait. I'd love to hear their version of what they. Saul.

[Amy]

Yeah, I can't wait to hear that, too. Hopefully it aligns.

[Dale]

Yeah. So they went on, got married, and had a son who became friends with Sonny's son Austin, who all. We all in this family.

[Amy]

And now they're moving the kids moving out the gate.

[Dale]

So what?

[Dalton]

What are the odds of that?

[Dale]

What are the odds?

[Amy]

Weird.

[Dale]

Is that not the universe telling me that I need to get off my Phone. Yeah, that's.

[Dalton]

Yeah, that's if that's a sign. If there's ever been a sign.

[Dale]

Right.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

That I just. Whatever. I just need to make sure I'm more mindful, especially with kids in the car and stuff. Right. Not. Not trying to dj. Yeah. Dj, Or. Or pick the phone up and call somebody.

[Amy]

We've talked about that, too. Like, he's always on his phone in the truck. He has to be on the phone calling someone. Last night, he called me three different times in the car on the way home.

[Dale]

Well, I do.

[Amy]

From dance lessons.

[Dale]

Now. Now, to be fair. Listen, I'm not perfect to everybody out there.

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[Dale]

I've. I mess up. And I do know my phone when I'm driving. I shouldn't do it. I can be honest and admit that. But most of the time, I get in the truck, I plug it in, I turn, I open it up. So you can't talk to Siri. And my phone set up where you can't talk to Siri unless the phone is open. And so I set it in the floorboard, and I usually. Siri. Every time when I'm calling somebody, I. Siri.

[Amy]

Yes. You're not looking down. Playing on your phone.

[Dale]

Yeah, I don't. I don't do that. But there are times. There are times when I'm. When I might. Like when I'm not looking at the road right. Like I should be. So, I mean, I know everybody's probably a little guilty of that, but I feel like something's telling me, like, man, you better. You better get your ass in gear. Yeah, there's another bit of nugget. Oh, Amy. I told Amy I didn't want to do this.

[Amy]

What other thing you ate? All right.

[Dale]

I did not want to do this.

[Amy]

It is no secret, this, man.

[Dale]

I don't want to do this. I just make sure that everybody's aware when this went down. I said, we ain't putting this on the show. She said, this is one of those.

[Amy]

Universal moments where I'm thinking, God, put this in my lap. For this reason, he's always in the kitchen, especially this time of year. He's just pacing around the island looking for snacks. So much so that even the stuff I prepared for Christmas dinners, the charcuterie board we always make, I collect pile and put things in the pantry. Or sometimes I hide them or try to hide them so that he does not eat them, because he's always in the pantry.

[Dale]

You know those balls of cheese with the almonds all over them?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

She puts one in the fridge.

[Amy]

And now there are not any.

[Dale]

There were two. There's one.

[Amy]

Oh, there is one in there.

[Dale]

I saw it.

[Amy]

I'm like, we're going to Texas. As soon as we get back, we have more family coming over. I have to be prepared before we leave.

[Dale]

Those things are good.

[Amy]

And Dale's just eating all the. In the kitchen. I didn't even go to the grocery store this week because I did not want to give you more ammo. So he's in the. He's in the kitchen, and I'm sitting on the couch. The kid's just gone to bed, and he comes to the couch with a little tiny cup of ice cream, and he's eating a couple bites, and I look at him.

[Dale]

I'm like, I ate one bite.

[Amy]

He's like, this is pretty good, dogs.

[Dale]

I did not say, this is pretty good.

[Amy]

You were smacking on it.

[Dale]

I did not. I took one bite, and I was like, this is weird.

[Amy]

I was like, that's for dogs. It had doggy pup cup written on the side of it. It was dog ice cream I had gotten for Gus.

[Dale]

It's dog ice cream.

[Dalton]

He had a pup cup.

[Amy]

So Dale ate dog food. And in that moment, too, I'm thinking, why did I say anything? He would have kept eating it, and I couldn't let it happen.

[Dale]

It was terrible.

[Amy]

It's just probably not.

[Dale]

I'd have finished it.

[Amy]

It probably didn't have any sugar in it. It was just, like, peanut butter and milk.

[Dale]

It's so. I mean, why.

[Amy]

But that's how desperate he gets. He's like, I got to have something.

[Dale]

Well, I went in there, and I'm like, I saw them in there. I. It's got Ben and Jerry's or whatever, and it's got a brand name on it. And I'm like, I saw it in there. I'm like, oh, little cups ice cream. That's cool for the girls, I imagine.

[Amy]

But I'm gonna eat it anyway.

[Dale]

And I try not to eat it. And then, you know, a couple days go by, I'm like, yeah, their kids are in bed. I'm having one of them little cups ice cream. And it's. You know, it's just a little cup. Can't be that many calories. And so I go grab one.

[Amy]

How many calories?

[Dale]

I don't know. I open it up, I dig out a little spoonful, and I take a bite, and I'm like, strange. And I look at it, and I go. I'm standing with her at the couch. I'M like, this is weird. This tasted weird. And she's like, that's for the dog. I was like, I'm caught. Right?

[Amy]

This is one of those things he would have let slide by. Like, he never told me about.

[Dale]

Never told her.

[Amy]

But he didn't have a choice. He was standing right in front of me.

[Dale]

I want to throw this. It's in the. It's in our freezer. That's for the humans.

[Amy]

We don't have a dog fridge.

[Dale]

We do have a dog freezer.

[Amy]

Gus doesn't have his own fridge.

[Dale]

We have a freezer where all his dog food used to be. He does have his own freezer.

[Amy]

What's in there now?

[Dale]

Nothing.

[Amy]

Popsicles and things. You moved some stuff in there.

[Dale]

Did I? I've never looked in there since we got rid of the frozen things in there. I'm just saying he's got a place.

[Amy]

For probably hiding in the dog in.

[Dale]

The refrigerator or the freezer. It's. That's for the humans. I don't put. We putting the dog food in the human fridge.

[Amy]

Well, most people don't have a dog fridge. Like, the fridge is the fridge. The freezer.

[Dale]

But is the fridge for the dogs? Are you putting. You know, if you had a cat or a dog, you putting any of that in your own refrigerator or freezer?

[Dalton]

Yeah. If you have food.

[Dale]

If someone you're using about that feels, I don't want their food and my food that close.

[Amy]

Well, you got to read the labels, Ralph.

[Dale]

This is really fault for this very reason.

[Amy]

It said doggy on it.

[Dalton]

Does it.

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[Amy]

Say. Does it say plain and clear, doggy?

[Dale]

If it isn't a milk bone, I'm not going to look at it and go, is that for dogs or humans? I mean, I'll look at a milk bone and know right away, I don't need to eat that.

[Amy]

Oh, my God. You're a piece of work.

[Dale]

I feel like some stuff. You look at it and you're like, I might. I could accidentally eat that. Yeah, that looks like bacon.

[Amy]

Like the doggy jerky?

[Dale]

Yeah, it looks like j. Yeah.

[Amy]

Maybe Dale's stocking too close to me. Maybe Dale's stocking and Gus's stocking.

[Dale]

People like me are gonna make a.

[Amy]

Mistake, are gonna be right next to each other this year. You're just gonna have to guess. I'm not gonna put a tag on it. You're gonna have to guess which stocking is yours or Gus's by the senate.

[Dale]

Well, they all look the same.

[Amy]

Might be a fun game for us.

[Dalton]

To dog food or not?

[Amy]

Is it dog food or Dale food? Dale or dog food?

[Dale]

I'm gonna tell you right now, them dogs, they ought to be raising hell about how that ice cream tastes. I mean, they ought to be mad. No. No damn dog wants that.

[Dalton]

It was that bad?

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

It's not that bad, surely. Now I want to taste it.

[Dale]

Go for it.

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[Amy]

Gosh, if it's too good, they on the floor. You can't have. They can't taste that good. Mess their bellies up.

[Dale]

If it's too good on the floor.

[Amy]

I mean, if it's got ingredients in it that make it taste too good, then it'll end up.

[Dale]

And they're like, man, I'm on the floor.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

What.

[Amy]

I mean, I don't know if. Make sure that dog food quite like yours.

[Dale]

Make sure that dog food ain't too good on the floor.

[Amy]

Oh, my God. See what I mean? He needs to get out of the house. Just him and Nicole both out.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

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[Dale]

Did your dog on the floor. How good is that dog food? Probably too good.

[Amy]

I got.

[Dale]

I can't help it. This is a good drink.

[Amy]

Everybody try out the high rock Red Bull combo.

[Dale]

Get a little high rock and a Red Bull high.

[Amy]

All right. I got another Christmas thing that we don't agree on. So years ago, it's probably been two or three years ago, at least. Isla sees a car riding by with antlers on it, and she's like, mom, there's a car that looks like a reindeer. How did they do that? I'm like, oh, there's these little kits you can buy. No big deal. I get it.

[Dale]

Don't you love how innocent kids are? How do they do that?

[Amy]

How'd they do that? And she's so young. I don't think Nicole. I don't even know if Nicole was up and walking in it. Like, she's. It's been a while. So I get the antlers, of course, to please this tiny little human being. And I put him on my car. And I didn't put the nose on because it has wire. And I'm like, I ain't scratching up the car. I'm not gonna, like, worry about the nose. But I did the antlers, and Dale comes home, and he's like, what the is that? He goes, there's a couple things I can put up with. But that's not happening. We are not gonna be those people that run around town with antlers all over our car.

[Dale]

Zero.

[Amy]

So I shamefully took them off and hid them From Isla. And she was so sad. And I blamed it on Dale, of course, because it was the reason. But I found him the other day because I didn't throw him out. Out. And I have noticed since Dale accosted me for my antlers, how many people decorate their cars for Christmas? And so I want to know, like, what's the threshold? Like, are we allowed to put wreaths on the front of our trucks? Are we allowed to. Like, I saw yesterday, this lady had elf feet hanging out of the back of her hatch, like, flipping around. The car was going.

[Dale]

There was a car in the. When I took Isla to dance yesterday, there was a car in the red light, covered in lights. Oh, it looked good. Really? Yeah.

[Amy]

So real Christmas lights?

[Dale]

Yeah. This was not the. Not the Christmas lights. You're thinking that like wrap around a tree, something about these lights, really bright and almost a neon. And so on this black little. It was just a little black standard sedan. I'm telling you, it looked really good. I was like, you know. Ever seen. You ever been in a room where they have the black light carpet where the flakes. Yeah, it just like that.

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[Dale]

It was so good.

[Amy]

So it gave you like an 80s vibe and that's why you liked it.

[Dale]

Or 90s vibe made me. It was like a 90s club. Like the floor of a 90s club.

[Amy]

So it didn't have Christmas vibes at all.

[Dalton]

Well, it wasn't even Christmas lights.

[Amy]

And that's why you like it.

[Dale]

Christmas vibes.

[Amy]

I've seen the big magnetic decals, like, with Christmas lights. And Sonny used to put an actual Christmas tree on the top of his old car. You remember?

[Dale]

Yes. Drive around the whole market. Yeah.

[Amy]

Drive around town. And it had ornaments and stuff on it. Like it would cover the whole top of the car. So, like, it's not just me.

[Dale]

I think that's fine. Do whatever. I didn't know the kids asked about that. I thought you were just like, I'm one of those. I'm one of those.

[Amy]

You know, I'm one of those people pleaser, those peoples.

[Dale]

That's. I'm like, Amy, say name.

[Amy]

What? Judgment.

[Dale]

I know that's rude. Wait.

[Amy]

You do all kinds of weird stuff to your car.

[Dale]

I know you think I'm. You think I think I'm perfect, but.

[Amy]

Why are you so judgy?

[Dale]

Hey, dog. Because I'm imperfect.

[Amy]

Why are you judging me?

[Dale]

I'm you.

[Amy]

I had never in my life put stuff like that on my car. We have a three year old. Of course I'm not doing it. For myself.

[Dale]

I thought you were.

[Amy]

Oh my God.

[Dale]

What the hell? I didn't know the conversation happened with the kid.

[Amy]

Yes, you did.

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[Amy]

We just heavily discussed it in that moment.

[Dale]

I know, but I didn't know when I saw it initially. When I you pull in, I'm like, what is Amy doing? This ain't her.

[Amy]

You're like, who did I marry? Oh, no. Bait and switch.

[Dale]

Something's happened. She's.

[Amy]

Something's happened to her.

[Dale]

Cry for help.

[Amy]

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[Dale]

What'S the profane playlist?

[Amy]

So we're riding down to the beach for Thanksgiving. It's like extra heavy traffic. It takes us like five hours. It should take us three and a half. Takes us five hours. And the kids have their headphones on. They're on and off, you know, Dale, because they have their headphones on, just takes it free rein to play whatever he wants on the radio. So he's like going through this playlist that I hadn't heard before. Or maybe you're just like letting Spotify do its thing, I don't know. But all of a sudden it's like 90s rap and there's, you know, all the greatest words that we grew up listening to. And like, Nicole's in the backseat and she's. She's not the kid that you can tell her to quit saying something and she'll just quit saying it. So, like, if the P word comes out or MF comes out, she's gonna use it. And so I like, start listening to the. Because he's not got it out too loud for once. And I'm listening to the music and I'm like, you think we should turn this down? Like, I'm hesitant to say anything about the music anyway because I'm like, gonna get that. Like, it's my radio. Do you think maybe we should turn this down? And I turn around and they've both got their headphones on, so it's like, not that big of a deal. But I don't know how loud whatever they're doing is happening in their ears also, like, I don't know what they can hear and what they can't hear. Who's running around in a chip bag? Look at him.

[Dale]

Oh, sorry. He's running around. It sounded like you said, who's running around in a bag?

[Amy]

In a shit bag. Sorry.

[Dale]

It's a heavy show. Who's in a.

[Amy]

One of the race car drivers is running around in a chip. Carson Kwafles are running around in a chip bag. Life size chip bag.

[Dalton]

What is he doing?

[Amy]

I don't know. He's walking around the shop in it. Anyway, so, like, the actual playlist is so profane that, like. And he doesn't care. I'm like. He's willing to. He's willing to risk it at all times with his music. I'm like, I don't know. I don't know where the brakes are here. Like, what am I allowed to say? Where do we stop this? It's not like it's not repairable at this point. The music he was playing, you don't even remember, do you?

[Dale]

I know when Amy's mad at me. Yeah. You know, there's men in the room. We've all been in relationships, many different kinds. Some are married, I'm married.

[Amy]

We've all been in relationships, many different kinds.

[Dale]

I'm just saying you're in a different relationship than I am. You're in the same kind of relationship that I'm not sure if everybody I.

[Amy]

Don'T know is pretty close.

[Dale]

The what?

[Amy]

What?

[Dale]

Well, there are times when. There's times when you're like, you're not sure. Is she mad at me? I know for sure when Amy reaches over and starts doing the radio, she's not happy with me. That's your cue. Usually Willie, like, you know, I'm not gonna mess with the radio because it's saying he's. He's very weird about. He's very weird about his radio. But sometimes she'll be just like. And I'm like, damn, she's pissed at me about something. That's a sign that I'm in the doghouse.

[Amy]

Always the song. It's always what you are playing. Well, here's the thing too. We've discussed this heavily. Dale does not read the room. He doesn't care about the room. He doesn't give a. About anybody else's attitude. Moment. Temperament. He is willing to risk it and just play what he wants.

[Dale]

That's right.

[Amy]

And so like, if it's a high stress situation, he will put on some of the most ridiculous music music and make it worse. I'm like, if you don't want me to bite your face off right now, turn that off. Because I. You're sending me to a third dimension. And if you really care about the quality of this entire experience, just turn it off. Just give me five minutes to like woo saw and sit in this seat with like just some chill music or nothing for a minute. And then, and then we can turn.

[Dale]

The music back on, back to the language. I took Isla to dance yesterday and we get to dance and we're there a couple minutes early. We were at this light that we're gonna turn. It was a two lane left hand turn and I was in one lane. The car on the inside of me was gonna do a U turn and go back the other way. And so they were waiting on oncoming traffic before they could make that turn. And I've made that turn, that same very turn, that same very U turn. So I know what that person's doing. The guy behind him is laying on the horn. He's sitting there. He's like, I've been waiting on this light to change, and here you are holding me up, waiting on oncoming traffic to do your U turn. I'm ready to go. Honk, honk, honk, honk, honk, honk, honk.

[Amy]

I hate that.

[Dale]

And I was like. I said something like, what the.

[Amy]

You did right in front of Isla.

[Dale]

Mm. I was saying. I was. I was like. I said something like that. Like, look. What the. And we drove on, and the dance studio is just another tenth of a mile.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

So we pull in super close. And I was like, Isla. I was like. You know when. I was like, you ever. You ever sometimes hear me talk? And no, I said a bad word. But you don't know what the word is. But you know it's a bad word that you just don't. You've never heard it before. You don't know what it means. You're like, yeah, Yeah, I do. And I was like, all right. I was like, sometimes I'm gonna make. Make a mistake and say some of them words, but you're not allowed to say them until you're at least 16, 17, 18 years old.

[Amy]

Oh, really? We've given her an age.

[Dale]

I was like. I was like, isla. I was like. I was around my dad, and he cussed a lot. And I was like. But I knew. I knew when he cussed. I knew the words, and I knew what they meant. I said, but I wasn't allowed to say them. And I didn't say them until I got old enough to say them. Especially in front of your mom and dad. I was like, do not say them. And I was like, you know, I said, when you're 16, 18. Ish. She's like, what about 17?

[Amy]

And the conversation's over, and we've lost her now we're just not sure.

[Dale]

Their head is at. You're like, you know, 16, 18 years old.

[Amy]

That's when you know you said too much. Like, you've talked it so hard that she's like, I don't know what the point of this was.

[Dale]

She's like, wait, you skipped?

[Amy]

But I get to do something cool at 17.

[Dale]

17.

[Dalton]

Take the year off.

[Dale]

Yep. 17. Is that. What about 17? Can I say it then?

[Amy]

Yeah, that sounds like Negotiating. How many bites we have left with Nicole, I always tell her, like, let's just do a few. Let's start with a few. She's like, I feel like, how about five? I'm like, okay, great. Five sounds good.

[Dale]

I know that it's. It's feudal, but I feel like that trying to have a reasonable conversation, like, real. Trying to reason, is good for them.

[Amy]

You can do that with Isla. You can. Like, I feel like we've always been able to do that with her. She's.

[Dale]

She's like, the point of that whole conversation I had where there wasn't really how to try to tell her not to say bad words. It was really just like an exercise for.

[Amy]

For you, for her. For both. For her.

[Dale]

Yeah. To see what she accomplished.

[Amy]

Do you want to see if she was paying attention also? Yeah. Okay.

[Dale]

I wonder, like, sometimes when I slip, if she's like, what does that mean? Because, you know, you'll say, I'll say words. And Nicole goes, what does that word mean? Not cuss words. Like, I'll be talking in general. Just normal conversation. She don't understand the words. She asks you right away, what does that mean? Like, I said immediately the other day. And she goes, what is immediately? And so.

[Amy]

Really?

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

She didn't do that with me.

[Dale]

Dude, I'm telling you, I have the best time in the car with the kids. Like, we talk. I don't play the radio.

[Amy]

What?

[Dale]

We drive all the way to school.

[Amy]

We used to have, like, a whole playlist.

[Dale]

I know, but they don't. We just. If we get in the car. I mean, sometimes you get in the car and you just turn on the radio. Go. But most time, I'll get in the car and we drive out of the driveway, and if. If she doesn't start talking, I start asking questions, and we just talk all the way there.

[Amy]

Really? Nope, not me. That is the no time, no talking thing for me.

[Dale]

Sometimes.

[Amy]

I don't mess with conversations.

[Dale]

Sometimes mood. And she. And it's like a challenge of trying to get her out of it, you know, like, trying to. Because she. I'll be like, what are you looking at back here? You know, I can see her in the mirror. And she just.

[Amy]

So that's just you. Your goofballness is good for you in that moment. Because I can't do that. Usually if they're in a bad mood, it's because we had an argument before we got out of the door. She's in bad mood because silly, dallying morning, gloomy.

[Dale]

And she's I want to go to school.

[Amy]

Want to go to school. Yeah. Well, so I'm like, sometimes Nicole to school. And you take island.

[Dale]

Trying to crack that?

[Amy]

Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I just put the radio on and, like, hopefully the music sues everybody.

[Dale]

Sometimes I play Danger Summer and ask her if she knows who's singing it. She never gets it wrong.

[Amy]

Sometimes, Every time.

[Dale]

She never gets it wrong.

[Amy]

No, she doesn't get it wrong. She lives a dangerous summer. So do you. I. I'm not. I'm a little surprised by the fact that you don't just play that every time you get in the car like you used to.

[Dale]

No.

[Amy]

So that was y' all saying most.

[Dale]

Time wearing, like, wanting to talk. Talking. Instead of calling somebody, I'm gonna talk to them. It's kind of the same thing. Like, usually when I'm in the car by myself, as soon as I get in the car, I'm like, gotta call somebody. Who can I call to make this. You know, while I'm. While I'm driving toward the destination, I'll have a conversation that might be important.

[Amy]

So I thought we discussed that we're not going to do that anymore.

[Dale]

Oh, I'm doing that. I call Amy and I'm like, what are you doing?

[Amy]

I'm writing Christmas cards. Well, we forgot shoes at ballet. I can't remember who was sitting in that room, but I think it was this person. You might want to text them, see if they have eyeless shoes. But I can go back. I'm like, well, why don't you just go back and see if they're there? So he goes back.

[Dale]

I'm right next to it.

[Amy]

I hang up because I'm literally handwriting Christmas cards. And he. So he knows this, and I'm like, okay, let me know. And so we hang up. Thirty seconds later, he calls back. He's like, nope, they're not there. I'm like, okay, just come. Like, just come home. What does it matter? They're not going to. Nobody stole our shoes. Somebody we know has them or they're in lost and found. It's going to be fine. They hang up. Then they call. He calls me back again, and I forget why, but at this point, I'm like, I'm not even listening.

[Dale]

No, no, no. Isla thought it was a different parent, and so I don't know the gentleman's.

[Amy]

Name that got the shoes. His name is Parker. Yeah, she thought that I said Harper, which does not. Harper is a friend. Different Childette.

[Dale]

So we call mom back.

[Amy]

Just to clarify, we're all confused.

[Dale]

And Amy's like, guys, just get. Just come on back. Just get back here. Just get back.

[Amy]

Quit calling.

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And we hang up.

[Dale]

And me and Isla are like, my gosh, an attitude. What an attitude.

[Amy]

Nobody gives a about all the stress and all the things I got to do. All they care about is quality.

[Dale]

Me and I are rather going this and that. We're just trying to do the right thing. We're just trying to find these shoes.

[Amy]

Let's do it. Why do I have to be involved? God dang. Hi, guys. Dale and I are back in the Dirty Mo media studio for another round of Bless yous Heart. And we're excited for your questions this week. What you got?

[Dalton]

All right, our first question. Very Christmas themed. Ask Amy today.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Dalton]

Carly wants to know, do you guys have any traditions with the girls? And what about any you had as.

[Amy]

A kid with the girls? Christmas tradition number one is picking out the tree. So we always go to the farmer's market and. And let the girls pick the tree. We've had some fake trees in the past, and the lights always die so quickly that it's annoying. So the real ones smell good. And so that's our first tradition. The second one, I started with Kelly's kids way before we had kids at gingerbread houses. And so we do that on Christmas Eve. And now everyone comes over and there's like 10 to 12 kids that sit around the table and I'll decorate gingerbread houses.

[Dale]

We build about six show houses, right? Yeah. Roughly half a dozen houses.

[Amy]

No, there's like 10 to 12.

[Dale]

Oh, really? There's a lot more than that.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Okay. So. Yeah. Just saying it's robust.

[Amy]

He's involved, clearly.

[Dalton]

Do you guys, like, have competitions?

[Amy]

He's sitting on the couch, holding up the pillows when we do gingerbread.

[Dale]

It's messy.

[Amy]

It is messy.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

What about any. When you guys were.

[Amy]

When I was a kid, I mean, we always drove around and saw the Christmas lights.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Back then, too, like, the neighborhoods were, like, more packed in or where I grew up, they were. So it was easy to go to, like, a nice neighborhood and, like, see the Christmas lights everywhere. And they had some of the drive through things that we always did with grandparents. That's pretty much it as far as that goes. Like going to see the mall Santa. Yeah, Mall Santa was always a little scary, but we did it. We've stopped doing Santa so much with our girls. We used to take Isla to Sweetgrass to see the Santa Claus there. And then we. We saw a new Santa by Accident. And that started some questions. So now we try to avoid the close ups. We. We didn't really have a choice here. Recently we had a Santa Claus come visit us at the saloon. And so he. He. I. Santa Claus walks in, came up and he. Kelly organized, said, what's your name?

[Dale]

And she. And. And she's like, you're supposed to know my name.

[Amy]

Yeah. And I said, it's Isla. And then he said, isla. I'm like, oh, man, he's screwing this up left and right. And so. And then he goes, are you Kelly?

[Dale]

And I'm like, It's like Santa, what do you mean?

[Amy]

Say list. Yeah, yeah.

[Dale]

Santa don't talk.

[Dalton]

Gosh, that's.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's pretty bad.

[Dalton]

All right, next one from Pam. She wants to know if you guys have any Christmas movies that are your favorite Christmas movies.

[Dale]

Yes.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah. Christmas Vacation, probably number one.

[Dalton]

Oh, like the old one with Chevy J's.

[Amy]

Yes, and Home Alone. We've been watching that one on repeat.

[Dale]

A lot of Home Alone this year.

[Amy]

Our kids like watching that in July. Yeah, they love that movie.

[Dalton]

It's a timeless movie. I feel like. Yeah, yeah. Nothing about the Santa Claus trilogy with Tim Allen.

[Amy]

I didn't really get into that. I think that was a little too old for that one when I was a kid. And they've watched it.

[Dale]

But what's the one with. Is it Kurt Russell?

[Amy]

Kurt Russell. We watched that one the other day. They're both in it.

[Dalton]

What was that? Christmas Chronicles.

[Amy]

Christmas Chronicles, yeah. They watched that.

[Dale]

Yeah. It's all right.

[Amy]

They like the Grinch. All versions of the Grinch is good. Yeah.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

I get a lot of flack for this. My favorite's the Polar Express.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, we like.

[Dale]

We did. Polar Express was really big the last probably five years. It's kind of slowed down.

[Dalton]

Back on the down silt.

[Dale]

Oh, man, we watched it.

[Amy]

We watched the hell out of that. That one's another one too. They'll watch in July, Nicole especially. We'll watch that all year long.

[Dalton]

You can overplay it. Like Elf, I feel like is overplayed.

[Amy]

I love the Elf.

[Dalton]

It's nice. It's a good movie. But it's too much now. I can't watch it.

[Amy]

It's a lot.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

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[Dalton]

What about any Christmas songs? Do you have a favorite thing?

[Amy]

Favorite Christmas song is Carol of the Bells. It's the girl's favorite too. There's a version too, that Lindsey Sterling plays and she's a violinist and so it's. It's awesome. That one's probably the favorite. You?

[Dale]

Last Christmas.

[Amy]

Last Christmas.

[Dale]

Oh, good one.

[Amy]

That feels like you.

[Dale]

What the hell does that sound like?

[Amy]

Dale's new karaoke song is Last Christmas. Yeah, you do?

[Dale]

I just like it. I think it's a. It's a good song. A lot of. A lot of different versions. That's funny.

[Dalton]

I thought you guys say Blue Christmas by Elvis.

[Amy]

No, he didn't. We haven't listened to any Elvis.

[Dale]

Hallelujah is a good song. Who sings that?

[Amy]

I don't think that that's a Christmas song.

[Dale]

No, we sing it during Christmas, then it becomes Christmas.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh.

[Dalton]

All right, our next one's from Carter. He needs some advice. This is the first holiday season he's spending with his girlfriend, and they both have very strong family traditions, but they're at a crossroads on how to split up. Seeing each other's families. Is it a big deal if they separate? Do separate Christmases with, I guess, their own families or try to, you know, figure out which one gets a sacrifice?

[Amy]

I feel like if they're not engaged, like, they're not. They're dating, but they're not even, like, engaged, married, or any of that, then they can totally do separate Christmases. Like, you are not obligated, and if it's that important to you to stick with your traditions, with your family, then just do it separately, because I feel like if you don't and you're not that far along in your relationship and somebody skips something, then, like, your family's mad at you, and then, like, the girlfriend or whoever didn't get to do what they wanted, missed out, and they're gonna be resentful.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Even just, like, a little bit of that. It's not a good foundational thing for your relationship. I say just do it.

[Dalton]

Separate, strong family traditions. That's tough to break.

[Amy]

It is.

[Dalton]

Once you do, you kind of. It's hard to go right back to it.

[Amy]

It is. I feel like you just need more time in the relationship where it doesn't feel like you're giving something up. You know what I mean?

[Dalton]

Yeah, I get that.

[Amy]

Are you. Is this. Is this question?

[Dalton]

It's a real question. I knew that was coming.

[Dale]

I knew it.

[Dalton]

No, that is not me. No. We were doing separate Christmases. I feel the same way.

[Dale]

Of course you are.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Dale]

So I totally feel like that felt.

[Amy]

Like a nail in the coffin. I don't know.

[Dale]

No, I'm just saying I feel like he totally asked that question for himself.

[Amy]

He did. That was funny.

[Dale]

And now he's sitting here after he heard the answer and he's like, yep. Oh, yeah, we're doing. We're doing separate. Yeah, we're doing separate.

[Dalton]

I just texted her, I'm not coming. I'm not making it.

[Amy]

Not making it.

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[Dalton]

Next one's from Corey. Any surprises on your Spotify wrapped this year?

[Amy]

I didn't even look at Spotify wraps because I don't play it enough to have, like, values. I don't think Dale's was. Dale's aged him a little bit. A lot of people's were older. Nobody's Spotify rap came back and said, you're younger than you are.

[Dalton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

The new.

[Dalton]

This year they have the new age feature. It tells you.

[Dale]

Yeah, I was like 85 or something.

[Dalton]

85?

[Amy]

I thought you were in your 60s.

[Dale]

60S, yeah. It was just old. But I mean, I'm listening to pop punk, Dangerous Summer. So, like, what is that? What is it doing?

[Amy]

I don't know. But he was really affected by it. He was shocked and affected. I took a video of him looking at that.

[Dale]

I found a big. I found a bug in the software.

[Amy]

You did?

[Dale]

Yeah, the age thing.

[Dalton]

I have a 20.

[Dale]

I will say this.

[Amy]

It says on there too, do not let this affect your feelings. Like, don't worry about this.

[Dale]

No, it's in the very tiny print.

[Dalton]

Everybody got affected.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

The one thing that I. I. Nobody gives about your wrapped, but I'll say this. The I on YouTube. My YouTube was better. So check this out.

[Amy]

His YouTube showed him that he watches himself more than anything.

[Dalton]

YouTuber had a new rap, too.

[Dale]

YouTube.

[Amy]

Didn't you guys discuss this? Wouldn't he call you?

[Dale]

No, we didn't talk. We didn't talk about this, actually. So here it is. So my top interests on YouTube. Amy, what do you believe is number one? Race videos, NASCAR race replays. Number two.

[Amy]

Chateau rebuilds, home renovation ideas.

[Dale]

Is number four.

[Amy]

Okay, so it's in there. All right, number two is music videos.

[Dale]

Classic rock music. What would be number three? What did we always have to fall asleep to when you first moved in?

[Amy]

In? Oh, World War II videos.

[Dale]

Military history number three. And finally, number five. What? What do I like to do? What I like to explore when I go.

[Amy]

Dive bars.

[Dale]

Yeah. Exploring abandoned places.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

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[Dale]

Oh, wow.

[Dalton]

That's a good YouTube rabbit hole.

[Amy]

So now you don't have to go.

[Dale]

It says you're drawn to content that takes you on an exciting journey. You've watched travel vlogs and explored abandoned places showing a love for discovery. You are the adventurer, the wonder seeker, the challenger. My YouTube award, most likely to find the coolest vintage find while on a road trip with friends. My favorite videos, Dale Jr. Download.

[Amy]

Hey, he watches himself.

[Dale]

World War II sleep stories. Okay.

[Amy]

What? Who even knew that was a thing?

[Dale]

Yeah, it'll be like World War II sleep.

[Amy]

It'll be like here's lullabies by Hitler.

[Dale]

It'll be like, here's. It'll be like, here's four hours of facts from World War II to go to sleep to.

[Amy]

Do you remember any of them?

[Dalton]

He's asleep by the first one.

[Dale]

Part time explorer.

[Amy]

When are you listening to this?

[Dale]

I don't know. And then the Joe Rogan Experience, number five.

[Amy]

Okay, I've never seen you watch Joe Rogan.

[Dale]

I know, right? I mean, I've watched some clips.

[Amy]

Like, some clips. But like, you're not watching full episodes on YouTube.

[Dale]

I know.

[Amy]

Maybe it is bullshit.

[Dale]

That is crazy.

[Amy]

Maybe it's just trying to get you to lean into something that's like wanting.

[Dale]

You to watch I some. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I've. Instead of like white noise, I'll turn on YouTube videos that are be like monotone. Like, hey, here's four hours of this to put you to sleep. And it's intended to be like. And it'll be military history, like War two or you know, just world. You know, the. The Greek. The follow the Roman Greek mythology. Yeah, it'll be whatever, you know, and it'll just be like, just a person talking in monotone. Like.

[Amy]

I always told Dale he needs to create a racetrack white noise machine. Like small tracks, big tracks. The announcers from back in the day.

[Dale]

Every time you tell me that, it takes me back to when I was broadcasting the 24 hours of Daytona not many years ago. And I had my camper, my bus in the infield and I went. I got out of the booth at around 11 or 12 o' clock, and I'm gonna go down there and go to sleep and get up at 8 and get right back in the booth. And I go down there and it was awesome. You had, you know, say there's 50 cars on the racetrack and all of them sound different. Yeah, right. There's Porsches, BMWs, all types of different cars. They all sound different and they're just running around. And so like, I agree there needs to be like a. A sound machine that's an endurance. A European endurance race, like the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

[Amy]

Well, I mean, so he always liked the like a train, which isn't like a pretty consistent sound, but not A train.

[Dale]

But it. More of a boxcar. The clickety clack ride. Like if you ride in a box car, what that would sound like? I used to have that when we first met. I had that sound machine and I would play that.

[Amy]

I bought it.

[Dale]

Oh, really? I liked it. It was a clock.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Yeah. I like the box car.

[Amy]

Well, I mean, nothing. Please.

[Dale]

I felt like I was gonna dream about being in a boxcar.

[Amy]

We're back to adventures. Siki. Or something. Train hopping. I feel like any of those noises are good for falling asleep, but I. I can't. I can't fall asleep like that. Unless it's like I'm actually at a NASCAR race and I'm in the bus on the couch or in the bed or whatever, and, like, I can hear that and it's far enough away and muffled, then I can fall asleep.

[Dale]

You need dead silence.

[Amy]

Dead silence.

[Dale]

And that is strange to me because when. When it's dead silent, dead silence, my mind is loud as hell. Like, all the things in my mind going on are like. Like they. They go, all right. Turning the volume up, and it's like, what are we doing tomorrow? What do we do? What do you think about this? What should we do? What should we fix it? What should we do about that? Let's think. Let's solve this problem. You know, it's all these little things happening in my head.

[Amy]

Yeah.

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[Amy]

We're polar opposites in that regard.

[Dalton]

You hear every little noise too. If it's dead silent, like the street going on outside, you're like, what is that? That's a car. And that's how my mind goes.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

We live out in the middle of the country, so if we start hearing noises, it's coyotes or something like that.

[Dale]

I'll tell you, when we live. When we had the house in Key West.

[Amy]

Yeah. It was very loud.

[Dale]

I mean, it was like. That was like the. The sound. The tropical sound of Key West.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Some drunk riding home to the bar.

[Dalton]

Occasionally you get a wipeout. Oh, get up and scrape.

[Dale]

They all sounded the same.

[Dalton]

They're super loud.

[Amy]

Suzuki.

[Dale]

The house is, like, right on the street. It was awesome.

[Dalton]

That's awesome. Well, piggybacking off that question, is there something in life that you wish had a Spotify wrapped that doesn't.

[Dale]

What?

[Dalton]

Like, how many times you went to.

[Amy]

Something else in life that you wish had a Spotify wrap? Like an analyzation? What'd you say?

[Dale]

Your fridge.

[Amy]

Your fridge.

[Dale]

That'd be a good one. Yeah. Like, what did you.

[Amy]

How many times do you open and look?

[Dale]

What did you get out of here the most? What were the top five. Five things you retrieved from the fridge?

[Amy]

That's a good one, Dalton. I don't know. So I don't like seeing all these analyzations. Like, I don't wear the ring that tells you how well you slept. I get us. I don't need that extra info because that would give me anxiety so I don't think about it too hard. How many glasses of wine you drank? How many, like, have. Same thing.

[Dale]

Oh, yeah. Beers. Yeah. What beers you drink?

[Amy]

Beer count.

[Dale]

More of. Yeah. Beer count. Yeah. Probably not a good idea there. Beer count.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

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[Dale]

Just your number one beer. Your number two beer.

[Dalton]

That's what I would want.

[Dale]

Tell me how many.

[Dalton]

Just number one drinks?

[Amy]

You don't even want to know how many?

[Dale]

Nope. No, it's probably not a good number.

[Amy]

Oh. How many hours in the. In the video game seat?

[Dale]

It's just. I'm just talking about. This is making me want to get. Get to it.

[Amy]

Give me a. I mean, you are getting to it.

[Dale]

Let's go tomorrow, guys.

[Dalton]

All right, well, our next one is from Tom, and he wants to know what your opinion is on New Year's resolutions. Are they stupid or a good motivator for the new year?

[Amy]

I just. So, New Year's resolutions. I can't say that they're completely stupid, because some. Some people like to have the goals set up for the year. I feel like that they're too extreme. Then you're kind of setting yourself up for disappointment. Unless it's like a rollover goal. You know what I mean? Like, I almost got there last year. I'm gonna try it again. I don't know. I feel like we've talked about the dry January thing. I think that's honorable, but also kind of extreme.

[Dale]

I like to keep my mind to myself. So if I fail, no one knows.

[Amy]

No one knows.

[Dale]

Smart. Like, I like to have them.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And I like other people to have them, but I'm not gonna tell you what mine are.

[Amy]

I definitely don't make any. I just. I'm gonna keep trying to battle the typical things.

[Dale]

I have one. We'll see. We'll see if it works out.

[Amy]

I'm not even gonna ask you what it is. I'm not even gonna pretend to be interested. You don't have one.

[Dalton]

They're in the chat saying, keep them. Obtainable is the. Is the big thing.

[Amy]

Don't make it.

[Dalton]

It's a huge ideology that you're never.

[Amy]

Gonna keep Yeah, I agree.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Do we think New Year's Eve is overrated or underrated?

[Dale]

Oh, man. New Year's Eve is amazing.

[Amy]

New Year's Eve is fun. So we got married on New Year's Eve. It's one of those holidays, especially when you're young. It's like, effervescent and fun, and everybody goes out and has this big old time when you get older, like, you don't want to battle crowds.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

No.

[Amy]

Stand in line for the bathroom. So, like, we don't really want to go out and do all that, but it is like, there's just like this lightness and joy about the holiday. Kind of like Christmas. Like, it's. It's not. Got any bad connotations, I don't think.

[Dale]

I think if you can find a bar that's comfortable, you know, easy, close by, nothing crazy, small, intimate.

[Dalton]

You got to find the small towns that have their own New Year's Eve celebration with something weird. Like, I know Mount Olive, North Carolina, has a pickle drop.

[Amy]

Oh, really?

[Dalton]

Pickle instead of a ball.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

That's fun.

[Amy]

That is fun. We used to do it in Key. We've done it in Key West.

[Dale]

Key west, they have a drag queen. There's a big slipper.

[Amy]

Yeah. Like that at the drag bar. And there's. On the other end of the street, there's a conch shell that drops. But it's so much busier down there. So with the drag.

[Dale]

Drag bar, Key west was crazy because the street is like elbow to elbow. You know, it's packed.

[Amy]

People everywhere.

[Dale]

It's packed. So that was kind of. That was different because it's a bit. Adam. We wouldn't go try to be in something that crazy. But that was key in any other city. Yeah, yeah.

[Amy]

Right.

[Dale]

But I. I mean, if in this environment, in this day and time, like, let's go down the street to the pub and have a few drinks, and we'll get back home before midnight and.

[Dalton]

Yeah, solid New Year's.

[Dale]

We're gonna do the Polar Plunge this year. Oh, we've.

[Amy]

So speaking of. And resolutions, if there is a goal or resolution, we make January 1st. We've done this a couple times. Like, next year we're gonna do that.

[Dale]

We've said it over and over. Next year we're gonna do it. Next year we're gonna do it.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

So this year's the year we're doing it.

[Amy]

We're gonna go to the beach and we're gonna try to hang out at the pub. And then Polar Plunge. It's A fundraiser that they do every year.

[Dalton]

Yeah, that's fine.

[Dale]

They raise money for the Special Olympics. Yeah. So we're going to be a part of that.

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[Dale]

Run off into the ocean, come right back out, go to the bar, drink.

[Amy]

Freeze your ass off the.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Going to the bar after. It has to be a must after that.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, we are. I thought we were gonna, like, beeline home.

[Dale]

Sorry.

[Amy]

Change clothes, maybe come back.

[Dale]

Oh, well, yeah. I mean, we'll dry off.

[Amy]

Oh, okay.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I'm imagining, like, freezing. Truly freezing. In the pub.

[Dale]

No, no, we won't be doing that.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Dale]

But we'll be. Have to be quick because the pub fills up.

[Amy]

Yes, it does.

[Dalton]

Yeah, for sure.

[Amy]

That's the thing. Like last year, we're. Last time we were in the pub, everybody runs out, and it's like the perfect time to get another drink, go to the bathroom, order some food, table. Yeah. So that's why we don't go. Yeah.

[Dalton]

It's too prime of a spot now.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

My last question is from Mary. She wants to know if you guys have any tips or fun ideas for her white elephant gift for her family gathering.

[Dale]

Oh, we had a good one the other day. What were we gonna do?

[Amy]

The white elephant gift?

[Dale]

We were gonna re. Gift something, remember?

[Amy]

Oh, I have a pile of stuff to regift. So we did. For Christmas with his family, all the adults do a re. Gift. White elephant. And so I have started collecting.

[Dale]

Yeah. You were out. You were asking me about a specific gift. You were like, is this white elephant gift? I'm like, hell, yeah.

[Amy]

My aura ring. I bought an aura ring. It was too small for my finger, and so it's been sitting in the box. That's the ring that tells you all the things.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And so I was gonna gift that.

[Dale]

Get it out of here.

[Dalton]

That's a good regal.

[Amy]

I don't know if it's a good one because it's small. Like, it's. This. It's. It's too small for my fingers.

[Dale]

Too bad.

[Amy]

Yeah, well, too bad. I say. Booze is always a good idea. High rock. Take some high rock. I. I like. I like getting things that I can use. I like elephant Gifts are fun if it's. If it's thought.

[Dale]

I like to give the gift that no one wants that everybody's trying not to land. That's fun for me. Yeah, that's. That's my entertainment. Let me get this. Put this gift in the rotation and watch people try not to end up with it.

[Dalton]

Watch people try to trade that.

[Amy]

You really want to invite him over for Christmas.

[Dalton]

This part of this part. Joy to have the most traded gift at the party. There definitely is some joy in that.

[Amy]

Yeah. You want it to get stolen. So like it's got to be good for that to happen.

[Dale]

I want to go the other way. Yeah.

[Dalton]

But the, yeah, I'm trying to get rid of this thing. So here you go. Yeah. There's one funny trend online that they just like wrap things that are in like their grandparents house or something and put that in the white elephant. I think you go that route. That's always funny.

[Amy]

Yeah. Like the crochet thing that sits on the back of the toilet.

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[Amy]

Whatever that is, covers the toilet paper and give it to the like, is she in the room?

[Dalton]

I, I, yeah. Or they're opening it to like somebody else. Like, what is this? And it's like, see like I think I have something like that. Like it is yours.

[Amy]

That would be fun.

[Dale]

Oh, man. All right, everybody, that's the end of the show. Appreciate everybody tuning in. Make sure you subscribe and check out the YouTube page. We've got a couple of the best of clips floating around on our YouTube page from earlier this year. There's so many great moments during the show. Honey, I've loved it. It's been a blast this year. You've done such an amazing job.

[Amy]

I've had fun.

[Dale]

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[Dalton]

What about toys? Do they have brands kids have been wanting all year?

[Dale]

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[Dalton]

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[Dale]

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