Dale Sings a Love Song to Amy

Summary

The Dale Jr. Download – Episode Summary

Podcast: The Dale Jr. Download
Episode: Dale Sings a Love Song to Amy
Date: October 9, 2025
Host: Dale Earnhardt Jr. (with Amy Earnhardt & Travis)

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Overview

This special episode is a candid, humorous, and heartfelt celebration of Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s 51st birthday. Joined by his wife, Amy, and producer Travis, the show blends birthday surprises, family anecdotes, reflections on aging, relatable marriage moments, parenting stories, and a memorable serenade, with signature down-to-earth banter and sincerity. The crew also fields listener questions offering practical, sometimes hilarious advice, and navigates conversations from skincare woes to pumpkin patches, betting mishaps, and their uniquely “Bless Your Heart” style of marriage.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Birthday Surprises & Celebrations

• Dale’s 51st Birthday (04:46-05:54)

  • Amy surprises Dale with a cake, courtesy of High Rock (his vodka sponsor), leading to confetti, laughter, and gratitude.
  • Dale jokes, “Double birds coming if y’all don’t have a really good surprise. What is this?” (04:54)
  • The group reflects on how birthday traditions change with age.

• Beard Shaving & Dermatology Tales (06:04-13:59)

  • Dale discusses shaving his beard for a dermatologist visit and shares detailed stories about skin issues and preventative care.
  • Highlights the realities of aging and sun damage.
  • Describes how their daughter, Isla, was upset about his beard being gone:
    “Mad that he was gonna shave that beard off…full on started to cry…and then she kissed at him.” (13:31-13:52)

2. Family, Parenting, & Everyday Life

• Life with Kids (14:49-15:58, 21:54-24:01)

  • Stories on co-sleeping with sick kids, Saturday footballs, laying on the carpet, and prioritizing family over traditional birthday dinners.
  • Future plans for Nicole’s (younger daughter) birthday and Amy's family visiting from Texas.
  • Plans for pumpkin patch outings and debates over carving pumpkins—moving from kitchen knives to specialty “super knives.”
    • “Pumpkin carving is a pain in the ass, messy. But Amy bought these specialty tools…” (23:17)

• Travel, Camping & Outdoors (49:41-56:50)

  • The family’s tradition of road trips to the beach and intention to start camping together in their fifth-wheel RV.
  • Dynamics of traveling with kids, including pit stop adventures and children’s lack of concept of time:
    • “That’s something you don’t realize until you become a parent – kids have no concept of time.” (56:15)

3. Marriage Moments, Humor, and a Love Song

• Dale Serenades Amy (19:07-19:35)

  • Dale leaves Amy a voicemail serenading her with a playful “love song”—a surprise affirmation he’d “go anywhere with her.”
    • “I’ll go anywhere, West Virginia, baby. I don’t care. Mexico on a wild hair…” (Dale, 19:07)
  • Amy bemusedly admits she missed the voicemail and pokes fun at their digital communication gap.

• Marriage Dynamics & Playful Teasing (68:29-73:14)

  • Amy recalls policing Dale’s questionable outfit choices, and the couple jokes about clashing styles and his resistance to updating his wardrobe.
    • “I want you to always be giving… I’m not gonna let you walk out looking like a clown.” (Amy, 73:10)

4. Listener Q&A and Advice (“Fixing” Segment, 38:49-48:29)

• Common Relationship & Domestic Issues
  • “My boyfriend's chili is bad. How do I fix it?”
    • Instead of insulting his cooking, enhance with toppings and seasonings.
    • “Just so it’s not going to make it great chili, but... you can at least eat it.” (Dale, 40:45)
  • “My wife wants a watch party. I want to watch the game alone.”
    • Advice: Find a duo room/TV solution, set upfront expectations.
  • “Bought my wife a vacuum for her birthday—how to recover?”
    • “Shame on you… Get out of her cart… Call her friends next time.” (Amy, 45:16-46:15)

5. Music, Media & Pop Culture in the Family

• Who Controls the Radio? (61:54-66:56)

  • Parental struggle over kids’ music vs. adult preferences.
  • Dale’s approach: slip favorite classics into the girls’ playlists for “stealth music education.”
    • “You manipulate them… I play your playlist, but three out of four songs is something I want them to hear.” (Dale, 66:41)

• Halloween & Scary Movies (73:15-74:55)

  • Discussion of favorite scary movies: “Children of the Corn,” “The Ring,” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “The Shining.”
    • “All the original Friday the 13ths. Even Nightmare on Elm Street…Probably hesitant to watch now because it’s like going back to play Nintendo—you’re like, I don’t remember being this bad.” (Dale, 74:24-74:41)

• Time Travel vs. Mind Reading (75:46-79:49)

  • Hypothetical debate: Dale would rather time travel to relive moments (like the Bud Years), not to interfere but just “to be there again.”
  • Agrees mind reading would be “dangerous” and anxiety-inducing.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote / Description | |-----------|---------|--------------------| | 04:54 | Dale | “Double birds coming if y’all don’t have a really good surprise. What is this?” | | 13:31-13:52 | Amy | “Mad that he was gonna shave that beard off…full on started to cry…and then she kissed at him.” | | 19:07-19:35 | Dale | Serenades Amy with: “I’ll go anywhere, West Virginia, baby…Mexico on a wild hair...Have you ever seen California...My bags are packed.” | | 19:33 | Dale | “To let her know that I would go anywhere with you.” | | 23:17 | Dale | “Pumpkin carving is a pain in the ass, messy. But Amy bought these specialty tools…” | | 40:45 | Dale | “Just so it’s not going to make it great chili, but... you can at least eat it, choke it down.” | | 45:16-46:15 | Amy | “Shame on you… Get out of her cart… Call her friends next time.” | | 56:15 | Dale | “Kids have no concept of time. Like, I can tell Isla, all right, this is gonna happen in 20 minutes. And she’s like, not a clue what that means.” | | 66:41 | Dale | “You manipulate them... I play your playlist, and three out of four songs is something I want them to hear.” | | 74:24 | Dale | “All the original Friday the 13ths. Even Nightmare on Elm Street…Like going back to play Nintendo—you’re like, I don’t remember being this bad.” | | 73:10 | Amy | “I’m not gonna let you walk out looking like a clown, but…” | | 75:55 | Dale | “Time travel.” (preference vs. mind reading; echoed by all) | | 79:08 | Dale | “You might look around the room and go, everybody just stop. Right?” (on the anxiety of mind-reading) |

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Segment Timestamps

• Birthday Cake & Beard Shaving: 04:46–13:59
• Gambling & Football: 14:49–16:43
• Pumpkin Patch Plans & Parenting: 21:54–24:57
• Carving Pumpkins Tips: 23:17–24:57
• Listener Fixing Segment: 38:49–48:29
• Road Trip & Fifth Wheel Camping: 49:41–54:57
• Kids’ Concept of Time: 56:15–58:14
• Q&A (Ask Amy): 61:47–68:08
• Scary Movies & Pop Culture: 73:15–75:46
• Time Travel vs. Mind Reading: 75:46–79:49

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Tone & Language

• Conversational, candid, funny: Banter is unfiltered, southern-accented, and frequently self-deprecating.
• Family-friendly with occasional sly adult humor.
• Emotionally open: Dale’s “love song” and marriage talk show sincerity and playful chemistry.

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For Listeners:

This episode is quintessentially Dale Jr. – witty, honest, deeply rooted in family, and ultimately uplifting, with enough NASCAR flavor and personal anecdotes to entertain both racing diehards and casual fans.

Transcript

[Amy]

Hi, guys. Dale and I are in the Dirty Mum Media Studios for another round of Bless yous Heart. We have a special show for you today because somebody has a birthday.

[Dale]

Nicole and Dale. Oh, hey.

[Amy]

Dale's turning 51 tomorrow, so we're gonna celebrate that a little bit. Not sure what else we're gonna talk about because it's just been one of those weeks. But let's get started.

[Travis]

Tron Ares has arrived.

[Dale]

Hostiles. Repeat, we have hostiles.

[Ad Voice 1]

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[Dale]

Mayday. Oh my God.

[Travis]

There's hundreds of them this Friday.

[Dale]

We.

[Travis]

We came here from the digital world. The war for our world begins. What in God's name is that? You and I, Max.

[Amy]

This is the end to this world.

[Dale]

No, it's not. But I can help you.

[Travis]

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[Dale]

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[Amy]

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[Dale]

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[Amy]

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

[Dale]

Oh, you look amazing.

[Amy]

I can stare at you all day.

[Dale]

Are you kidding me?

[Amy]

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

[Dale]

I slept till 2. Smoking cigarettes and drinking amp energy.

[Amy]

Lord have mercy.

[Dale]

Drink of the week is presented by Harak Vodka. And today's drink is the Orange Dream sipping cream. We use. We always, you know, we have these quite, quite often.

[Amy]

Well, this is just the sipping cream.

[Dale]

This is just the cream. Right.

[Amy]

This is how you drink it at home. This was for your. For your birthday. So it's just a little ice and some. Yeah.

[Dale]

Oh, man.

[Amy]

Delicious.

[Dale]

That is so good. So there's no. Wait a minute.

[Amy]

No mixers.

[Dale]

No mixers. So today is just Orange Dream sipping cream that comes in a mason jar from Sugar Lands who makes High Rock Vodka. And it's. It's exactly like you would imagine. I think there's a jar over there. Can y' all hand. Hand me that jar and I'll show behind us too.

[Amy]

There's one, right?

[Dale]

Yeah, there is. I just.

[Amy]

Yeah. Tim wants to hold his baby.

[Dale]

Yeah. There you go. Thanks. So this is what it looks like. Oh, man, it's cold. Look how pretty that is.

[Travis]

It's dangerous. That's the problem.

[Amy]

It is so dangerous. It's delicious.

[Dale]

It is the best.

[Amy]

So you can drink it like we are. You can pour it over ice cream. You can mix it in a mixer and make like whipping cream out of it. You can cook with it. There's. This stuff is very versatile. You can put it in a milkshake. Like an adult milkshake. Absolutely.

[Dale]

I. I keep it in the freezer and just drink straight out of the jug. I walk by the freezer, take a swig. Yeah, take a swig. It's just. It gets everywhere. It's like. It's got the consistency of kind of like soy sauce. You know, like every time I take a swig out of the fridge and walk away, Amy's like, man, there's a couple spots on the floor. I'm like, how did that get there?

[Amy]

I know how it got there. It's just because he took such a big gulp, he couldn't swallow it all at once and it dripped off of his beard.

[Travis]

You can't blame the consistency for spilling a drink.

[Dale]

It comes. It gets. What do you to you?

[Amy]

How come the soy sauce gets everywhere? You're not drug it chugging that you shake.

[Dale]

You need to shake it and it gets on the lid and when you take it off, it's just. It's just. It's everywhere, but so good.

[Amy]

User error.

[Dale]

Yeah, it's really, really good. I'm trying to encourage people to go buy this.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale]

And go try it. And it's exactly what you think it is. It's the.

[Amy]

Tastes like an orange.

[Dale]

Orange Creamsicle bars that we all love as kids. And now even today, we still love them. But this is probably the. My favorite product that Sugarlands makes without. I'm over tapping on it off the screen. But anyways, for High Rock Vodka, you can go to highrockvodka.com There's a finder, a locator on the website to be able to. To be able to find a bottle near you so you can, you know, you're not wandering all over town to all the liquor stores. Please remember to drink responsibly. And you must be 21 or over all Right. So. Yeah. What is that?

[Amy]

What's that? Oh, it's somebody's birthday. I think we have a little bit of a surprise.

[Dale]

Double birds coming if y' all don't have a really good surprise. What is this?

[Amy]

Cue the surprise.

[Dale]

Oh, man. Is it Cole Swindell and another trip to key West?

[Amy]

Nope. 51 is a little bit more basic. Look at that. So. Hi. Rock usually sends a cake for Ralph's birthday in this year. That's pretty cool.

[Dale]

It is. Thank you all.

[Amy]

You're welcome.

[Dale]

And all my friends like all of you, I suppose. Holy moly. Was there confetti?

[Amy]

They get shot right over you.

[Dale]

All right.

[Travis]

It's a big cake.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Nothing like a good jump scare for your birthday.

[Dale]

I know, right? This is fun.

[Travis]

Are you gonna take a bite out of it?

[Dale]

No. I will eat it, though.

[Travis]

We give you a fork if you want to try it right now.

[Amy]

What kind of cake is it? Do we know?

[Dale]

Red Vel? I don't know.

[Amy]

I sure hope it's a carrot cake.

[Dale]

We'll get a piece here when the show. At the end of the show, we shall all have. Have a piece.

[Amy]

Okay. Sounds good.

[Dale]

Just. Yeah. I've shaved my beard. I know everybody's probably seeing that I've done that. Let's just get that out of the way. I went to the. I was going to the dermatologist. I haven't been in a while. And I was going for a full body checkup. And I just said, you know what? I don't want to take any chances. I've had some. I've had some work that I had to do on some areas on my. On my temples from sun.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

In my ears. And so I wanted to make sure all that was good to go. And some. Some of that was, you know, my. Some of that stuff's kind of down on top of my beard line. But, yeah, I. He poked and prodded. He took a bunch of samples.

[Amy]

Yeah. You. Dale called, of course, on his way home, and he's like, oh, dang. He just poked me everywhere. He scraped me everywhere. It hurts. My ear hurts. I was like, yeah.

[Dale]

So I have this.

[Amy]

You're going to be fine.

[Dale]

I think right on the back.

[Amy]

You can't even see a spot on your ear.

[Dale]

Yeah, right on the back here. It. I have some sun damage, so he froze that with one of those aerosol cans. And then inside the ear, there was also some areas he wanted to do. He froze that. That really hurt. Yeah, that hurt like hell. He poked a hole in my face right Here, a couple spots on my back, my shoulder and then another spot on my leg and. But he didn't seem too concerned, so I told him about, you know, my nose peels, just constantly peeling.

[Amy]

And this is what 51 year olds talk about.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

This is where we are in life.

[Dale]

So the tip of my nose started.

[Amy]

So go back to this.

[Dale]

Tip of my nose started peeling.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Like a year ago. And so he's. I got this stuff that's supposed to be coming that's a cream and it's going to sing the skin off my face.

[Amy]

Yeah. I hear when you get to a certain age, you get barnacles on your face.

[Dale]

I've. I've done this before already. So that's. I have some friends that have had to do this as well that are my age.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And you put the cream all over your face and it really just kind of burns the top layers of skin off. And you can't go anywhere or do anything for a couple of weeks because you don't want to be seen. It's ugly.

[Amy]

Yeah. But then you look younger when you come out of it on the other end.

[Dale]

Like Freddy Krueger for a day, for a couple of weeks. I think it's that audit. But I'm going to do some of that on some areas on my face and get all that sorted. So. Yeah, I hadn't been in a while. I think it's something that, you know.

[Amy]

Yeah, you're supposed to do it. I've never done it. I've never been to the dermatologist for a full body anything.

[Travis]

I've never been once either, period.

[Amy]

You haven't?

[Dale]

Yeah. Well, y' all don't look like. I mean, I can't. Looking at you, I wouldn't see.

[Amy]

I don't have anything weird popping up, but pretty easily. So I feel like. I don't know if it ain't broke. Don't try to.

[Dale]

I went one time five years ago and I had a. I had a little, kind of like a little mole on my neck that was not a mole. It was like a. It was like a. A sore that wouldn't heal. Maybe it was a mole and I had scratched it or not opened know, scratched it and. And it wouldn't heal and.

[Amy]

And I remember that.

[Travis]

Yep.

[Dale]

And I would, I would scratch it in the shower and stuff. And it was just this constant thing.

[Amy]

It was only like your collar line.

[Dale]

With your shirts right there. So I went to him and he's like. And they checked it and they were like, yep, that's got to come off. This is. This is flagged as some sort of an issue. And so I went to a. He sent me to a guy who could cut it off, man. And it was. It was significant. What they.

[Amy]

They went deep.

[Dale]

They did not. Yeah, not just a little, tiny little remove of the thing. They, like, have to make sure they go above and beyond to get. And then they. So they kind of sewed it up right at the. Right in a crease of my. And to. And all these years later, it's only been five years or so. He was in. I was sitting there yesterday, and he's like, oh, how's that spot on your neck? And I'm like, honestly, I forgot which side it was on. And he's like, oh, it was on this side. I remember he's looking at. He's like, oh, that's good. Can't even see. I'm like, yeah, I don't even remember where it was, what side it was on.

[Amy]

Well, he was. So he did scratch on Dale's face. And Dale's like, you know, you're acting like. You're like. You act like that's such a big thing. But I'm pretty sure that's been there my entire life. And Dale's like, I'm pretty sure it's always been there. It's like a little mole that's, like, not colored. And the doctor's like, are you sure? Sure? And he's like, in the. In the immediate, like, confrontation of. Are you sure? Sure? He's like, maybe 50. 50, like, since you're questioning me so heavily, I don't know.

[Travis]

Did you find an old picture of yourself to confirm?

[Dale]

Every second it was taken by my. My confidence was waning. Like, I'm not sure. Maybe it just popped up yesterday. Ah, cut it off, you know, But I wish he would cut this mole off. I've had this mole forever.

[Amy]

You just have to ask him to.

[Travis]

What do you mean?

[Dale]

You just say, hey, Doc, I know. I would like to get it cut off.

[Amy]

I had one on my shoulder that was not a problem until I had Isla. And I would carry her around and she'd sit there and play with it. And it got to be so frustrating that she'd pull. I didn't like. It's on your back. You can't see it. I didn't know what it looked like, but it grosses me out even thinking about it. So I went and had him just cut it off. And that is the only time I've been to the dermatologist but it didn't hurt at all.

[Dale]

Yeah, I have these things. I have this two things on the center of my back, and I believe I got them from racing in. In some. Some seats. Some racing seats back when I was young that didn't necessarily fit me that good. I was racing in this one particular car for a season probably in the mid-90s. That had. The seat was real bad for me, and it made a. It. It made my back swell up like a knot on my back right in that spot.

[Amy]

Was it just hard or what?

[Dale]

Like the bone. My back bone was like bouncing off right into the aluminum of the seat. And I'm racing and. And that was. It just created. It would get swollen like a. Like a disc was bulging. It looked like or felt like a disc would be bulging out. It didn't bother me other than just. It was, you know, tender. But I think that's right at that spot.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Where these. Where these sort of these circles on my back. But he's. He's. He's already biopsied them a couple times. He's like, there's nothing there. So. And then I have. On my leg, I have a scar from, I believe, like, chickenpox.

[Amy]

Is that what that's from?

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And so. And it's grown. Like, it's gotten bigger and bigger and bigger. And so he's. He biopsied that pretty good this time. He really got into that one. That one was. He put band. They put band aids all over you. And I peeled them off this morning, and that was the only one that really needed a band aid.

[Amy]

Oh, really?

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Gross. Thanks for that. Thanks for that visual.

[Dale]

But, yeah, that's what we're doing.

[Travis]

What do the girls think of you when you're clean? Shave.

[Amy]

I warned Isla. I was like, hey, Daddy's gonna shave his beard tomorrow. And I enjoy it because I get to see the man's face, like, when he gets that beard, when it gets so long you can't even see his facial expressions.

[Dale]

I don't. I like having the beard because it's like a natural Photoshop.

[Travis]

It's makeup for men.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

It's make. Well. And how fun is that for you? Like, to have this extra face you can put on, and then, like, you can.

[Dale]

You can like, make your. So, like, you can make your jawline sharper and, like, you make things disappear, you know, so it's like male Photoshop, natural Photoshop.

[Amy]

I don't know. It's getting. It gets out of hand, though, and then it's not so Cute anymore. It's like. It's just rugged. You know what I mean?

[Dale]

That's.

[Amy]

But we told the girls you were gonna do it, and Isla literally was like. She knew she's seen it before, and she was mad. Mad that it was gonna happen. Mad. It was mad that he was gonna shave that beard off.

[Dale]

She just. I think she doesn't care. She just wants to have a reaction. Just so we are. We have a reaction. Her reaction.

[Amy]

Well, maybe that's true, but she, like, full on started to cry, and then she kissed at him.

[Dale]

She, like, she wanted to react, so we'd go, it's okay. Oh, it's gonna be fine. It'll grow back. She wants all that attention.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Yeah. Yep. She's really indifferent.

[Amy]

You think? Yep. Okay.

[Dale]

That's what I would. I would bet. I would bet my. I would bet on that. I would get on my. I would get on my fanduel and place that bet.

[Travis]

What's the odds?

[Dale]

Plus. Plus 150 probably.

[Amy]

Would you put like 30 cents down like you do or throw down a few bucks?

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Well, you want me to bet?

[Dale]

I'll bet some big money.

[Amy]

Yeah, I actually did bet this week. Weekend. Like, he was doing bets all weekend. And one Pretty. Yeah, pretty good.

[Dale]

I bet this. I bet $5 on a. I. I won a 5. 500 plus prop, and I only bet 5 bucks. I won 290 or something. I was so mad at myself. I was like, wow, I've. I've won a bed and got angry about it. Yeah. Because everybody on social media that tell this bets, like, posting their win ticket, and there it's like $60 won 3,000.

[Amy]

Yeah. They went a little harder than five. Yeah.

[Dale]

I'm not gonna post mine. Not gonna post mine.

[Travis]

I was waiting to see if you're gonna comment. It makes sense now why you didn't.

[Dale]

Yeah, he.

[Amy]

There was another parlay that came down Monday night. The Monday night game.

[Dale]

One get one yard. I missed.

[Amy]

We were both laying on the floor like small children watching that game because I had one player left that was on my fantasy team in the game, and I lost. Like, wait, hold on.

[Travis]

You're bearing the lead, though. You guys were laying on the floor.

[Amy]

Yeah. So I don't know. I grew up sitting on the carpet, like, down on the couch.

[Travis]

Yeah. Okay.

[Amy]

And so the kids had gone to bed, and we just got that new cheap ass rug that I was talking about, the $36 rug that's very soft. I decided to just lay on the floor. And then so Dale gets down he's laying on the floor with me or, I don't know, watching football, just laying.

[Dale]

On the carpet, wondering if Amy's going to win her fantasy game.

[Amy]

And then finally, when we figured out that it wasn't going to happen, Dale just looks at me very candidly. He goes, well, you lost that. That's never going to happen for you. I was, like, rude. And then he lost his parlay. So I was like, well, there you go.

[Dale]

I've already put three bets on for this weekend.

[Amy]

Really?

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale]

I got a. I got. I got some. I got $5 on tonight's game.

[Amy]

$5. I got $5 on it.

[Ad Voice 2]

$5.

[Dale]

I got $5 on tonight's Thursday night.

[Amy]

Fix vendor.

[Dale]

I can't bring myself to bet more because.

[Amy]

What about 10?

[Dale]

10'S fine. I'll bet 10, but 20 is, like, my limit. Like, I. I feel like if I bet more, I don't. I'm not good at it. I don't really know.

[Amy]

I'm just basically like, the most conservative options.

[Dale]

Yeah, I do. I mean, I. I can. I choose the options that should be more likely to win. I bet. I don't bet, like, huge stakes. I wanna. I won last night. I put. I bet $20 and I won, like, 48.

[Travis]

Getting wild.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So last night you were betting because you were sleeping on the couch. I woke up. Wait, what?

[Dale]

You can't just say that.

[Amy]

Well, listen, is there problems at home? There's no problems at home. Except for we've had a sick kid in our bed all week.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And so finally I'm like, just sleep on the couch. Because he gets up in the middle of the night and moves anyway. Because she sleeps sideways like a helicopter, you know? Yeah.

[Dale]

So she's been running a fever and her body is like a campfire.

[Amy]

Campfire. And she's wiggling. She can't get comfortable.

[Dale]

Nicole. This is Nicole. She's the youngest. Her birthday is the 12th, so we're going to celebrate her birthday this weekend. We're going to be home. Amy's got. Amy's got some family coming in town. This is super exciting. Amy's sister and her kids. So all the cousins will be together. Your dad. It's going to be fun. And I'm taking them. Us. I'm taking us to find the sky.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah. I asked Dale what he wants to do for his birthday. I'm like, we have family coming in. Because he's always very anti. Birthday dinner. I don't want to be.

[Dale]

I am not.

[Amy]

I love you, like, attention, but you don't like stuffy birthday? No, I don't listen to your podcast.

[Dale]

No, no, no. Did you?

[Amy]

No, no, no.

[Travis]

Hey, don't do that.

[Dale]

Amy, did you listen to my voicemail?

[Amy]

No.

[Dale]

Did you see it?

[Amy]

You're getting too off.

[Dale]

Did you play the voicemail?

[Amy]

Did you say anything? That's not appropriate anymore.

[Dale]

Play the voicemail. Did you not even listen to it yet.

[Amy]

So here's the other thing he brought up yesterday. I send you things all the time in Instagram. I send you voicemails, I send you text messages, and you don't respond. I'm like, that's bullshit. I respond to your text messages, but I don't even have notifications for a missed phone call. So if you leave me a voicemail that shame on you. Don't email me, don't call me. I'm not going to answer either one of those things. And he knows that. But he still.

[Dale]

I don't know that. I don't know that. Yes, he does, or I would have not sent you this voicemail.

[Amy]

I don't even know how to find voicemails in this new phone.

[Dale]

What?

[Amy]

That's another problem. I got missed calls. Contacts go to voicemail. Right, but, like, where is that?

[Travis]

Do you have, like, favorites, recent contacts, keypad, voicemail?

[Amy]

See, it's not in there. Up at the top, voicemails. Oh, you have to hit the tab up at the top corner. Now.

[Dale]

Can you play it?

[Amy]

Goodness gracious, no. What day? Oh, God. You. You want me to play this out loud for you?

[Dale]

I'll go anywhere. West Virginia, baby. I don't care. Mexico on a wild hair. Have you ever seen California ticket spot on any old map? My bags are light and my bags are packed. That's it.

[Travis]

Yeah, I think that's a question.

[Amy]

Why did you even send me that?

[Dale]

To let her know that I would go anywhere with you.

[Travis]

That's romantic of Dale to do that.

[Dale]

I sent that to her, like, four days ago, and we're now just hearing it.

[Amy]

Listen.

[Dale]

How romantic that. That's my response to he doesn't like birthday dinners. I'll go anywhere you want to go.

[Amy]

No, that's not true.

[Travis]

So I.

[Amy]

We.

[Dale]

I'll do whatever.

[Amy]

So we had to drive in again last week.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And there was a trip on our online auction that I was looking at, and so I told him where it was, and he's like, oof, that's kind of far away. And I was like, you just told me you'd go anywhere. And he texted me that. So I did get that message, but I didn't hear the voicemail.

[Dale]

Well, we.

[Amy]

I'm gonna save that and bring that up at leisure.

[Travis]

Wait, where was this trip to Antigua.

[Amy]

Like, it's not across the country or across the world.

[Dale]

It's like just three hours.

[Amy]

Three hours from Miami.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale]

That's all right. It's fine. We're going. We're gonna go. We got it. We're gonna try to go.

[Travis]

You can't. But you can't say, that's too far and then say you'll go anywhere.

[Amy]

Well, he said, I'll go anywhere first. I was like, okay, I'll buy the. I'll buy the thing. He was doing something else while I was bidding on it anyway, so I couldn't confirm. I couldn't have a conversation with him before I bought it, so.

[Dale]

Yeah. Well, this weekend we've got pie in the sky, pizza, and the Texans haven't been there. This is a big deal for me to be able to take her family to. To. I mean, it's. Is the best place in Mooresville. Pine, the sky. So we're going. Going to take them and. And then, yeah, Nicole's birthday, we got the Xfinity race, little college football, maybe a pumpkin patch. Pumpkin patch.

[Travis]

I hate pumpkin.

[Amy]

I know. So I know that you hate. You hate hiking. You hate anything outdoors, basically.

[Travis]

No, no, no, no.

[Amy]

Unless there's a bar. But some pumpkin patches do have bars.

[Travis]

But it's the, like, I don't understand. Like, apple picking.

[Amy]

Listen, the last time I went apple picking, I swear I'd never take my kids again. Like, if I do it, I'm just gonna.

[Dale]

That's probably what you're gonna say after the pumpkin patch.

[Amy]

No, the pumpkin patch isn't the same thing because, like, the pumpkins are already picked. You just go get them, and they can pick out a pumpkin. We can take it home. Slides and a corn maze and all kinds of activities today. And there's a truck that serves cider, beer, and different things like that. So, like, it's not that. It's not that bad.

[Dale]

It's not bad. It just isn't something that I put on my to do list.

[Amy]

I know, but you do it for the kids.

[Dale]

They're just. What are they experiencing?

[Travis]

What is Nicole's birthday?

[Dale]

We're gonna have a birthday party.

[Amy]

We're gonna have a party down to sleep.

[Dale]

We're gonna go to a pumpkin patch. She wasn't even gonna go to the pumpkin patch. It's her sister Katie that's insisting we do this.

[Amy]

Yeah, she Wants activities.

[Dale]

Sister Katie is activity driven.

[Travis]

Well, also to her. Your sister's defense, like, they probably like this is they're getting, like, some colder weather.

[Dale]

They're coming all the way.

[Travis]

Outdoor Falls.

[Dale]

They're coming all the way from Texas.

[Amy]

Yeah, I know Texas. It's their fall break. They're coming. They want some activities. So we're going to the.

[Dale]

We wanted to show them a good time by laying around on the couch or the carpet.

[Amy]

Dale's version of entertaining is like, you know where the drinks are. Help yourself.

[Dale]

That's me. You want to go downstairs?

[Amy]

I'm going to take you, get some pizza. It's going to be real nice. And then later we're going downstairs.

[Dale]

That's exactly right.

[Amy]

And when you're ready to go to bed, you can walk down the hill and put yourself to bed. You're silly. He's not kidding either.

[Dale]

I'm not kidding. All right, so.

[Amy]

So we're dragging down to the pumpkin patch, and he'll have a grand old time.

[Dale]

Carving pumpkins. Yes or no?

[Travis]

I don't care for him, but sure.

[Amy]

Amy Travis, what are you gonna do when you get. When you get to having kids? What are you gonna do then?

[Travis]

You like, that's. You do it for them.

[Dale]

I have a help. I have a help here.

[Travis]

What's that?

[Dale]

All right. And I don't like it either. I don't like carving pumpkins. It's pain in the ass, messy. But Amy bought these little specialty tools that makes it super easy to carve a pumpkin. Now you bought, you know, these tiny little knives and saws. It's a kit.

[Amy]

It's pretty. It's way stronger than the little dinky ones you get at the grocery store.

[Dale]

But, you know, you.

[Amy]

You're like super knives for, you know.

[Dale]

All of my life we've been getting the biggest kitchen knife. And you're like, oh, that went too far. Now I'm going to cut my leg off. And, you know, you're trying to be very precise with this we freaking kitchen knife. It's just. It's not a saw, you know, and.

[Amy]

You can also do it with a bread knife or like a meat carving knife, the electric ones. And then I've taken the mixer, the hand mixer, and gotten all the guts out with that before. That just made a veil mess on my mixing tool that. That wasn't working.

[Dale]

But she got the specialty saws and so forth. And now it's super, super easy. And you can be so particular and detailed with it.

[Amy]

So he. He hates it. He hates it so much. Except that it's fun. Fun to use the tools.

[Dale]

Well, now that I'm not using a kitchen knife and I'm only, you know, with the kitchen knife, your only. Your only creativity is like triangles. Triangles for eyes, you know, and hope we don't the teeth up.

[Amy]

Hope I don't cut the teeth off.

[Dale]

Yeah. Hope we don't cut the teeth off. Accidentally go too far.

[Amy]

Then you got toothpicks sticking it back in. And then the tooth wilts. So great.

[Dale]

You can be like so particular with those little tools. And now my mind goes, all right, now we're going to have a kick ass, kick ass jack o Lantern. So that. That would probably. You'd probably like that if you could do it that way.

[Amy]

Travis, we're going to do this on Sunday afternoon if you want to.

[Dale]

Travis. Yes. You're going. Travis, you're coming to the pumpkin patch.

[Travis]

I've got to watch the race.

[Dale]

We'll watch the race some.

[Amy]

Oh, I'm sure Dave will be watching the race on his phone.

[Dale]

No, no. I mean, when I'm at the patch, I'm at the patch. You know?

[Amy]

You know what we're gonna do? We're gonna send Dale into. When I'm.

[Dale]

When I'm patching it, I'm not watching the race.

[Amy]

This reminds me of the four hamster patch.

[Dale]

I know. Yeah.

[Travis]

Patching. Who was the other one?

[Amy]

Yeah, we're going to send Dale into the corn maze to hide and make the kids come and find him.

[Dale]

Oh, can we?

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale]

When I'm Corn Mason, I'm not watching the race. I'm serious. I'm serious about Corn Mason not going to find me.

[Travis]

I figured just like you get yourself lost, open up your phone and relax.

[Amy]

I'd probably scare myself if I got lost in the corn maze and nobody came to find me. I'd actually, like, spooked myself a little bit. You never did that? Like playing hide and seek or anything? Like, only time.

[Dale]

I mean, I've. Only time I've spooked myself was on purpose. I've never spooked myself accidentally.

[Amy]

Like, you know how you get lost in your thoughts? You do that quite a bit. Yeah, you spiral. You've never spiraled in, like a spooky situation and thought, there's definitely somebody behind me or that shadow is doing something weird over there? Is that a real shadow?

[Dale]

I do that on purpose.

[Amy]

What do you mean you do that on purpose?

[Dale]

So, like, when you go to the haunted house or the haunted trail, like, you make it more than it really Is, you know, it's fake. You know, they're not going to get you with the chainsaw. Chainsaw doesn't have a chain on it.

[Amy]

No, I don't. That's not.

[Dale]

They take.

[Amy]

I don't even know if they're not.

[Dale]

Going to run around. They're not going to run through there with a real chainsaw revving it up with near people.

[Amy]

I know.

[Dale]

So there's a thing you ran into.

[Amy]

There's still a thing making noise.

[Travis]

Yeah, it's just the motor. But like, you, Dale saying, like, you act scared to, like, scare your friends.

[Dale]

Act scared to scare your friends, but also to get yourself riled up to make more fun. Yeah. It makes it more fun.

[Amy]

I just get scared.

[Dale]

I mean, if you set me down in front of a scary movie, I'm leaning in. I'm not. I'm not trying to be like, oh, that ain't real. That would never happen, you know?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

I guess I'm leaning into it, like, oh, man. Imagine if that really did happen.

[Amy]

I get scared. What? That show I'm watching, it's called the Last of Us. It's about zombies.

[Dale]

It's all right.

[Amy]

It's ridiculous. Parts of it are absolutely ridiculous, but some of it really scares me.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And some of it's like real life situations that you can imagine just having to go through and just feeling like.

[Travis]

Oh, I started this show and I couldn't. I couldn't get hooked on it, so I quit.

[Amy]

You started watching it?

[Travis]

Yeah. And I just. It wasn't for me.

[Amy]

Well, what is for you? Travis. Can we go to that? What is Travis into? Top three things.

[Dale]

Going to Matt's and drinking beer.

[Amy]

Going to what?

[Dale]

Going to Matt's house and drinking.

[Amy]

Oh, Matt's. We did see some videos. Yes.

[Dale]

Sports.

[Travis]

I like being outside by the water.

[Amy]

Really?

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Swimming pools.

[Travis]

Oh, yeah.

[Amy]

Are you a floaty kind of a guy?

[Travis]

Oh, yeah. I'm in the water. I mean, I grew up as, like, swimming, so, like, I love the water.

[Amy]

That's right. Dancing and swimming.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So we like concerts.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Do you go to plays?

[Travis]

No, plays aren't for me. I'd get bored.

[Amy]

You, like, grew up in the theater? What do you mean?

[Travis]

I didn't grow up in theater.

[Amy]

I'm pretty sure there was a little theater action in your pictures. Weren't you a character?

[Travis]

Huh?

[Amy]

In the dance pictures you showed me.

[Travis]

But that. That was. You're the one dancing. I'm not going to a play. And sitting there and watching it sounds awful.

[Amy]

How's your dating Life going.

[Travis]

It's going.

[Amy]

If your new date wanted to go to a ballet or a play. No, you're not taking her.

[Travis]

No.

[Amy]

That's so rude. Why? They have wine. They usually have good cocktails at things like that.

[Travis]

I would need like.

[Amy]

And it's like two hours of your life.

[Travis]

I would eat something that's entertaining. I don't feel like I would be entertained by it.

[Amy]

She's your entertainment. You go to. You go for her, Travis. My goodness.

[Travis]

What?

[Amy]

She's like, I'm standing my ground. I'm never going to play.

[Travis]

I mean, I wouldn't say never, but.

[Amy]

But never.

[Travis]

It wouldn't be early on in the.

[Amy]

Dating because you don't want to like set the bar there.

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[Travis]

You're just sitting. Like you're not even hanging out with them at this point. You're just sitting there both watching it. Yeah.

[Dale]

Is. It can't happen.

[Amy]

Isn't that the same for a concert?

[Dale]

You can't really chat.

[Travis]

No. Concerts are different.

[Dale]

Concerts are different. Right. Can't chat at those.

[Travis]

Because you can. You can. You can chat if you want to.

[Dale]

I suppose. Yeah.

[Amy]

You yell at each other.

[Dale]

Did you see. I saw a clip on social media. Speaking of concerts where I think in. In Europe, they have urinals outside.

[Amy]

What, just like in the open air?

[Dale]

Yeah, yeah, Some. I saw a video of somebody that say you're at an amphitheater and it was like this grassy area and if you're a guy and you needed to go pee, they were just urinals over here.

[Amy]

Disgusting.

[Dale]

And the guys are just over there just peeing.

[Amy]

Do you think they did that?

[Dale]

Did y' all see that?

[Amy]

Because the people were just. You've seen it Yard.

[Dale]

Anyway, so I'm not crazy. It's real. Because I don't know some so much AI on social media these days, you don't know what's what. You've seen that before. I'm not crazy, right? Because I don't know if I'm saying I'm. I got tricked or something.

[Amy]

He's too old to know if he's seeing real things or AI.

[Dale]

Well, the other day I saw Elvis Presley giving a post race interview and I knew that that wasn't real. Well, everybody's not gonna get me on that one.

[Amy]

I think they.

[Dale]

I know Elvis didn't do that.

[Amy]

They took an Elliot Sadler video and layered Elvis's face on it. Yeah, I saw that too. I didn't listen to it.

[Dale]

I ask AI for silly things like give me a three parlay prop that you think might win this weekend, and then I'll try to see if I believe it. You know, I asked AI questions, so Amy. I annoy AI like, I used to annoy Amy because I would ask Amy something and she'd say, yeah, this is it. And I go, really?

[Amy]

And she'd go, no, he still does that.

[Dale]

She gets so offended. I just told you it was. You don't believe me? I'm annoyed that you. You were, like, questioning me. I just. You asked me the question. I gave you the answer, and you were questioning me. So that's what I do with AI.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

I ask AI stuff, and I'll be like, you sure?

[Amy]

Like, why are we even having this conversation? If you're asking me, it's because you wanted me to give you an answer, right?

[Dale]

I've seen AI. So I ask AI a lot about college football for Xbox, and I know it doesn't know everything because it says some stupid stuff that I should do to play.

[Amy]

Well, like what?

[Dale]

It'll just tell me things. And I'm like, that ain't even the right name of that play. Or that's not even your. It just gathers off the Internet and it just throws it all onto. You know, on. Onto the screen in front of you and tries to word it in such a way that makes it sound like it knows what it's talking about. But some of the stuff it gets confused on.

[Amy]

You are wasting your time. Like, you're just sitting on ChatGPT. I'm just curious.

[Dale]

I'm just curious, but the other day, I was talking to my chat gtp and I asked it to talk like Christopher Walken, and it did. Yeah.

[Amy]

What did it say?

[Dale]

It just started talking like. It was like, oh, yeah, Christopher Walken. He has these awkward pauses and blah, blah, blah, blah. And then it started doing it.

[Amy]

That's cool.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Did you ask ChatGPT how to do the Roger Rabbit?

[Dale]

No.

[Amy]

So we're at driven to give. Everyone has left except for the.

[Dale]

Is that what I did?

[Amy]

10 or 15 people left, and I had gone home to relieve the babysitter and come back. I was going to try to get Dale to come back with me. Dale was not going anywhere. I'm sitting there talking to Carson and Morgan, and my back's to Dale. He's standing, like, in the back bar area. And Carson looks over my shoulder. She goes, I've never seen my uncle dance before. And I looked at her. I was like, really? And I turned around, and he's standing there doing the Roger Rabbit all by Himself. There's no one around. There's not even like hip hop music playing.

[Dale]

Yes, there was.

[Amy]

No, there wasn't.

[Dale]

Come on, Amy.

[Amy]

There was music playing, but it wasn't like Roger Rabbit music. It was like country or something.

[Dale]

Amy. Coming. So I didn't know the name.

[Amy]

Wait a second. You have enough rhythm to know how to do that, but you won't dance with me? But I just was blown away.

[Dale]

Dance with you?

[Amy]

Not. Not unless I force you. And it's usually like country dancing. But you. I've never seen you do that before.

[Dale]

We're not gonna Roger Rabbit together. I'm not gonna go over and go, hey, let's do the Roger Rabbit.

[Amy]

I agree. That's. That would be. It would be kind of fun. I would Roger Rabbit with you.

[Dale]

I was doing the Roger Rabbit because I was happy that you had returned. A lot of us thought you weren't coming back.

[Amy]

So there I was coming to fetch you. But it didn't work.

[Dale]

You were coming to get me?

[Amy]

It was late.

[Dale]

Well, how late was it?

[Amy]

Late enough.

[Dale]

Oh, man. It wasn't even midnight, honey.

[Amy]

We had to get it at 6 to get the kids ready for school.

[Dale]

We did.

[Amy]

That was a freaking miserable experience.

[Dale]

That slipped my mind. We were so. We had driven to give and we had Chris Stapleton playing and we had this whole fun night. And then after everything kind of slows down, we keep going, have a few drinks. And I totally, totally forgot that I was going to take as, you know, the next morning I was going to take my daughter to school just like I was do every day.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And I was like, holy smokes.

[Amy]

Yeah, he hammered down. I thought for sure you weren't going to wake up.

[Dale]

Well, I did. I got up and done it.

[Amy]

Yeah, you did. But that Roger Rabbit stuck in there. I think Carson will not forget that either.

[Dale]

Well, I was just excited that you came back.

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[Amy]

She does. She loves some mayonnaise bread and mayonnaise. Just a mayonnaise sandwich.

[Dale]

Yeah. Sometimes you mess up real bad, right, and you need someone to tell you exactly how to make it right. In the new fixings segment, listeners have sent in their most disastrous moments, and Amy and I are going to lay out a recovery plan. So let's get forward.

[Travis]

All right, so the first question. My boyfriend loves to make chili when the weather starts to turn. But chili? Yeah, but unfortunately, his chili isn't exactly good. I don't want to suffer through eating it.

[Dale]

How.

[Travis]

How should I fix this?

[Amy]

Have you ever made chili? Have you ever made chili? It's really not that hard. It's like one of the easiest things to make.

[Travis]

But how do you handle, like, if someone loves to cook and they're just not, like, good at it?

[Amy]

All right, That's a hard combo.

[Dale]

Here's the thing. Here's the thing. This is. I'm a guy, but this is what I would do, all right? Depending on whatever the chili flavor. So you get the chili right, you get it in a bowl and you're gonna eat it. You take a bite. Listen, this is the plan. You take a bite of the chili, all right? You determine what it, what it needs, all right? It either needs more pepper, it either needs more salt, or you can mix in, like, some hamburger seasoning or some steak seasoning. You can mix in any. Get something out of the. Either go get seasoning or you can get barbecue sauce. You can put any kind of sauce in there. We. I say that because we have, like, fricking hundreds of seasonings and.

[Amy]

Which is so weird because I don't buy anymore.

[Dale]

No, we don't.

[Amy]

They just keep coming out of the woodworks.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I would say, to Dale's point, add some toppings instead of trying to fix the whole pot of chili, especially if you're not a cook and insult. Risk insulting your partner. Maybe, like, there's some cheese, some jalapenos, maybe some Fritos in there. Like, really dress it up.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Buffalo.

[Dale]

Put buffalo barbecue sauce, stuff like that in there to give a little flavor. Just so it's. It's not going to make it great chili, but it's going to get it to a point to where you can at least eat it, choke it down. Yeah. Make it reasonable. I wonder what's wrong with the chili.

[Amy]

I know. Me too. Because I feel like this is a really easy fix. We knew.

[Dale]

I guess it seems like it'd be an easy thing to tune up.

[Travis]

I'm guessing it doesn't have enough, like, kick to it or like.

[Dale]

Yeah, I was. So I got that.

[Amy]

You can add. Yeah.

[Dale]

I got a can of slap your mama. And it. That stuff is. It slaps. Yeah, it slaps is badass. And I put it in everything. I put it in soup, and I put a lot. Like, I.

[Amy]

He wants to sweat while he's eating.

[Dale]

Yes. He wants to. Like, if something doesn't have any flavor, that'll just be all you need to get. To get, you know, to get going. But I always add a little barbecue sauce or some sort of a, you know, some sort of tang or something to some. To some things. Yeah.

[Travis]

All right, next question. My favorite football team has a big game this weekend, and my wife wants to invite people over for the game. I want to watch alone, because I know everyone is going to be talking and not watching. How can I fix this problem?

[Dale]

Come again? Say it again.

[Amy]

He's got a game that he wants to watch.

[Travis]

His team has got a big game, and he wants to lock in and watch it. But his wife wants to have, like, a party for the game.

[Dale]

A party for the game?

[Amy]

Yeah, like a get together. Everybody come over and watch the game. But he's worried he's gonna be able to hear the football game.

[Dale]

Yeah. That's annoying.

[Amy]

That's annoying. And that's. That's where we land. That's. That's just not gonna happen. So here's the thing.

[Dale]

You can't leave.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Can't leave the room.

[Amy]

Are there two TVs?

[Travis]

Yeah, I think that's the place. If you can have, like two rooms.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's.

[Dale]

But then, you know, you get the. The wife comes in. Hey, we're all in here. Yeah, I know. Well, why aren't you in here? Because I want to watch the game. But everyone's here. We're all in here. Yeah, I know. I mean, it's like, it's, you know, guilt that you get because you're not with everyone. You know, there's a thing going on and you're separated.

[Amy]

Surely there are other gentlemen that want to also just sit and watch the game. Right.

[Dale]

So you think if. As long as you get a buddy or two to come into the other room, you're good.

[Travis]

Yeah, that's.

[Amy]

I feel like that's fair.

[Dale]

That is fair.

[Travis]

You invite some other, you know, that are going to watch.

[Amy]

No, you aren't gonna. This weekend.

[Dale]

Yeah. So, like, when the football games are on, if I take your dad and me and we go downstairs.

[Amy]

Yeah. I don't care.

[Dale]

See.

[Amy]

Oh, hey, no, listen.

[Travis]

But you're gonna be patching, Dale. When you patch, you patch.

[Dale]

Well, I'm gonna patch.

[Amy]

We patch. We patch before we football. We football. When we party. We party. There's like, we're all in. I don't know. That's hard. I feel like you just talk about it up front. Tell your girlfriend, like, I really want to watch this game. You can force invite people over. I want you to have fun, too. But my focus is going to be on the football game. So there's no confusion. That's just the best way to do it. But also, I mean, there's going to be noise. With a football game on, you're going to be able to hear that. How many times have you been out to watch your football game at the bar?

[Travis]

I don't go to the bar to watch Ohio State, Travis. Because they're not. Most times you're not going to have the volume of my game on at the bar.

[Dale]

Oh, Travis.

[Travis]

So I need to hear what the announcer saying and why you can see.

[Amy]

What the ball's doing.

[Travis]

Yeah, but I need to hear, like, if they made a call, like, what happened. Like, I need to be locked.

[Amy]

That's why they have the flags and all the signs and you can figure it out. How do you get through life?

[Travis]

What do you mean? I go over to a friend's house and watch the game or watch it.

[Dale]

At My place, you could have social media open. And I mean, the game is delayed. Like what you're seeing on television is about 7 to 20 seconds behind what actually is happening in the real world. And so if you're following, like, anybody that's a, you know, reporter that's following the game at the game, you're going to get the information before it even comes to the tv.

[Amy]

That's what I used to do with the races too.

[Travis]

Like, I'd rather go to a friend's house.

[Dale]

And if you got a little money on the game, you know, the apps updated way before the game updates.

[Travis]

Yeah, I'm not doing that. Cuz then spoils the plays.

[Dale]

Oh, gosh.

[Amy]

Travis came to argue today. He just came to say no.

[Travis]

I'm not arguing. You asked me for my opinion.

[Amy]

All right. I feel like football games are going to be loud. You just say, I'm going to watch the game and let the party go. Like, let it happen.

[Travis]

I agree. Last one. It was my wife's birthday last week and I saw on her Amazon account she had a vacuum in the shopping cart. So I got that for her. She wasn't exactly thrilled about this gift. How do I fix this?

[Dale]

What? What?

[Amy]

First of all, get out of her cart. Get on your own phone.

[Dale]

Oh, she had it in her.

[Amy]

She had it in her cart. She's probably waiting for it to go on sale. That's what we do. We stick it in our cart and just wait for the alert. They're like, hey, this is 30 off today. Because that happens. And so you just went ahead and bought her the vacuum. Shame on you.

[Dale]

Is that like, if you buy a woman a vacuum, is that like getting somebody like a chore doer?

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale]

That's not a good thing.

[Amy]

Yeah, like a lawnmower. You want me to buy you a lawnmower Or a leaf blower for your birthday?

[Dale]

That would not be good. Not for my birthday. If you want to just buy me one on a Tuesday, that's good.

[Amy]

Exactly.

[Dale]

But like, for my birthday.

[Amy]

Yeah. Here's your Tuesday present.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I say the only way to fix that is to buy her something nice.

[Travis]

Double nice.

[Amy]

That makes her forget about the vacuum. And you use the vacuum first. You use that bitch first.

[Dale]

I need to call her friends. Call her friends.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Hey, what would. What can I get? What should I get? Don't go off your instincts.

[Amy]

No, clearly you've missed it with those. Your instincts aren't dialed in.

[Dale]

Call her friends. And I like that too, because. So Amy has a couple friends that like for me, conversation and friendship and. And. And that type of stuff with females is always awkward. I. I've never been great at it. And so having the ha. You know, having any interaction with Amy's friends is good because I, you know.

[Amy]

I want them to give me practice.

[Dale]

I want them to know that I appreciate them.

[Travis]

Right.

[Dale]

And that I'm glad that she has great friends, even though I'm not very good at communicating. And so you can ask them, hey, man, it's Amy's. This. Or. And what happens is Amy's. Amy's got a birthday coming up. Amy's, you know, this. This anniversary is coming up. Or they know. They know what's going on in her. They know as well, if not better at times than I know. And so they'll then start reaching out to you when something's coming up. Hey.

[Amy]

Yeah, she mentioned she likes this.

[Dale]

Just letting you know. I was with Amy. She said, this likes this. Put it in a. Put it and put it off to the side for when this date comes.

[Travis]

That.

[Dale]

This. This will be great. And so then now you kind of got this rapport, you know, with. With her friends. That. That.

[Travis]

That's.

[Amy]

You got your own personal. Personal shopper.

[Dale]

Good and healthy.

[Amy]

Or a few of them if you. If you just set it up that way.

[Travis]

Yeah, that's the move.

[Amy]

It's a myth.

[Travis]

I said that's the move.

[Amy]

That's the move. Yeah.

[Travis]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dale]

It's awesome.

[Amy]

It sucks because guys don't do that. Like, you guys tell each other a story, but you don't get to the details. And so there's no way. Y' all have a shopping list for us.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

You know what I mean?

[Travis]

We could sit there for two hours and say 10 words.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Travis]

And be perfectly fine.

[Dale]

I'll be like, hey.

[Amy]

So and so has an illness.

[Dale]

Like, yeah, Travis is sick. What's he got? I don't know. I'm like, what did you not. Did he not take.

[Amy]

Does he need anything? Is he gonna be okay?

[Dale]

Did you. Is it runny nose?

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[Amy]

Are you gonna get it?

[Travis]

But if you want us. If you want details on our bets, we'll. We'll know everything about that.

[Amy]

Yes. That's so true. Yeah. So sorry about the vacuum. Bad choice.

[Dale]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Travis]

And that is it for.

[Dale]

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[Amy]

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[Dale]

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[Amy]

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[Dale]

It's time for this week's Are we There Yet? Brought to you by Bass Pro, North America's premier outdoor and conservation company. Plan your next adventure at a Bass Pro shops near you or@bass pro.com we're going to talk about family trips.

[Amy]

So we have a few road trips that we take and usually it's to this to the beach house. Which.

[Dale]

First off.

[Amy]

What?

[Dale]

First off, we've had this fifth wheel for a while.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And it is time for a replacement.

[Amy]

Why? What'd you do to it?

[Dale]

Nothing.

[Amy]

You sure?

[Dale]

Me and you need to go look for a new one. I want a new one. And I've looked at a couple models. We're going to get a mid bump for the girls.

[Amy]

Yes. We've looked at models.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

We've decided that we have a. Yeah.

[Dale]

And we have a very specific length that we can exceed. So we got to be under 40 foot.

[Amy]

Why is that?

[Dale]

Because of where we park it in the garage. My race cars are in the way. You know there's two. Two. I got two.

[Amy]

Oh. Not the racing garage like out. It's our home garage. I mean I didn't know if there were regulations. We park our. What's the limit for we.

[Dale]

This is going to make no sense to anybody listening to this. But we park our fifth wheel on top of the basketball court.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale]

That we used to play on.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale]

And it can't fit nothing but a 40 footer in there because of. There's four race cars that are on racks.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And so I wish I would have put the race car somewhere else and the rack somewhere else. But they are where they are now it's too late because then we could get whatever fifth wheel we want. But we got to be under 40 foot to fit it inside the building.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Dale]

And so that's. There's only about three or four mid bunks that'll be able to accommodate that size. But we've had a lot of fun with the, with the fifth wheel.

[Amy]

We have. We've taken the, we've taken the fifth wheel to Texas a couple of times. We love camping out on my grandparents property for Easter. So that's always fun because everyone brings their camper and we have like this giant shindig for Easter.

[Dale]

But yeah, we have.

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[Dale]

We've not taken it as a family yet.

[Amy]

No, we have.

[Dale]

That is what I want to do.

[Amy]

We have literally just not made the time.

[Dale]

So Kenny, my bus driver from all my days racing since way back, we'll drive it. He still, he still will travel with it and take it wherever we needed to go. So he's taking it to Texas. I've drove it myself to Langley, Virginia for, for a race down to Florence. So I've taken it a few places. But we've yet to all, you know, you, me, the two girls. No. Kenny.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Tie that thing up and go somewhere.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

That is a. That is something we need to get.

[Amy]

The only time I've seen you pull a trailer is when we took the Airstream years ago, one hour up the road. We were too scared to take it too far just in case we screwed it up. So we took it.

[Dale]

Did we tell you this trip about.

[Amy]

45 miles down the road to a KOA it was just you, me and Killer.

[Dale]

Yep. I got a fifth, I got the Airstream and I'm like, let's go on a test run. So we went two nights.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

So we drove it one hour up the road to A KOA and parked it.

[Amy]

And it was cold.

[Dale]

It was cold, it was cold. And so.

[Amy]

We just sat there.

[Dale]

We had the dog Killer, me and Amy, no kids. And this was before kids. We had a dually. We. I hooked, I set this thing up. It's all good. And in my mind I've got enough beer for two days. I'm going to build a fire. And Angels and Airwaves had just came out with Dreamwalker and I was going to sit there and listen to that cd.

[Amy]

He literally only thought about his experience.

[Dale]

I was going to sit down, listen to that record on Repeat for freaking 48 hours and drink as much Bud Light as I could. And we got there and Amy's like, man, can we change the song?

[Amy]

I'm about to lose my.

[Travis]

That's not a crazy request.

[Dale]

After we had heard. Yeah after we had heard, I think.

[Amy]

Even Killer was like, I gotta get out of here.

[Dale]

Yeah. We'd heard one particular song multiple times. She's like, okay, all right. Can we change music? I'm like, yeah, I hadn't even thought of that. Let's do that. But that's the way I work.

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah, that's the way you work. We haven't gone camping like that since, but I don't think the experience would be quite the same. There's a lot of amazing campgrounds that we've flagged that we want to take the kids to. But I think it just needs to be a little bit warmer is the only thing that's the problem. Like any, anything we really want to do has to fit in this certain chunk of time because of the weather and school and all that. We just don't have. We have to, we have to prioritize it.

[Dale]

With your family in Texas, we've talked about meeting in like a neutral point point somewhere.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

West or west of maybe Tennessee or something or you know, west Tennessee or just a little bit beyond there.

[Amy]

Maybe the Ozarks or something like that.

[Dale]

That'd be incredible. I'm ready, like I want to get on the road and have the kids in the back, be hot, be going. When are we going to get there? Are we there yet? I'm ready to do that.

[Amy]

We do listen to that. Going down to the beach quite a bit.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And with two little girls having to stop to go to potty is like an Olympic.

[Dale]

Now we got our. We'll be having our own potty. We'll travel our probably traveling.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's true. Pulling over to let them go potty on the side of the road is always scary, man. I mean we don't do it like right on the highway. But I'm always scared that like a snake or something's going to come out of nowhere. Do you ever have those like irrational fears because you don't have to squat? Nevermind, just a girl thing. I'm always terrified that something's going to bite my rear end if I'm like squatting in the grass in the middle of nowhere.

[Dale]

I never thought about that. Yeah, that would be concerning.

[Amy]

If you have to hover, it's just what are you going to do? So that for me every time we get in the car is like going in my mind we have to pull over and it's like an emergency. That's always a problem. But also going down to the beach, it's three and a half hour drive Sometimes it's five and a half hours because you had to pull over traffic or pulling over. And. Yeah, that's just part of the. It's part of the deal, I guess. But, yeah, they are always asking, even on the way home from school, are we there yet? Because they just can't figure it out.

[Dale]

Yeah. That's the funny thing about our kids is, like, you think they would look.

[Amy]

Up and realize where they are.

[Dale]

Yeah. Like, get used to the trip. Get used to the, like, the roads and everything. Recognize roads. We'll be driving. We'll be driving, and I'll ask. I'll be like, you know, where we at? She was like, no, you don't know this. We're on this road every day.

[Amy]

They don't have iPads in the car unless they're, like, on a long road trip. So it's not like they're unable to. Like, they have nothing to look at.

[Dale]

What if you.

[Amy]

What if look up?

[Dale]

How do you not know this is the road we live on?

[Amy]

Yeah. How do you not know that it's the same amount of time every time we get in this car to go to school?

[Travis]

Because they don't have an idea of, like, no rest time. They don't think, like. They don't think about that. And they're not, like, looking at things and, like, remembering. They're just.

[Amy]

They're just.

[Dale]

That's something they don't. That's something that you don't realize until you become a parent is that kids have no concept of time. Like, I can tell Isla, all right, this is gonna happen in 20 minutes. And she's like, not a clue what that means.

[Travis]

And then in two minutes, you say.

[Amy]

It, and she's like, all right, it's crazy to me.

[Dale]

Yeah, it's crazy to me. And I'm like, all right, I wish you really. Because then, you know. Because you want. They're all impatient as, right?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And when you tell them it's happening in 20 minutes, they don't know whether that's two days. They're like, how many sleeps is that?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

No sleeps at all. Just 20 minutes.

[Amy]

Just 20 minutes.

[Dale]

No sleeps are gonna happen.

[Amy]

Count to 60, 20 times. That's what I tell ilo. She's like, five minutes. How long is that? Like, count to 65 times. She's like, golly, that's forever. I was like, no, it's not that long. Goodness. And every time you set a timer, too, they get anxious.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Because a timer usually means something's ending. Right.

[Dale]

Like, Nicole wants to Know when her cousins are coming, and they're coming Friday, and we're like, in two days. And, you know, you basically just confused her more.

[Amy]

Yeah. Right.

[Dale]

She doesn't know what that means, but.

[Amy]

She does know what two sleeps means.

[Dale]

She's. Yeah.

[Travis]

I remember being on the phone with Dale, and you could hear her, like, saying. She's like, but you said, we're gonna go tomorrow. And he's like, yeah, we haven't got to tomorrow yet. Yeah, still, like, she was getting confused.

[Amy]

She can't use tomorrow, today, yesterday, any of that in the right context.

[Travis]

Wild.

[Dale]

I don't know if that comes easier for some kids.

[Amy]

No, she's just four. Like, she'll be five.

[Dale]

I'm just wondering, does that. Does that come naturally for some kids?

[Travis]

Does it.

[Dale]

Is it harder for other kids to understand?

[Amy]

That's a great question. I don't know. I have no idea.

[Dale]

Because I don't. I mean, it was. I didn't understand. I didn't have a problem with it. But I don't remember being.

[Amy]

You don't remember being four either?

[Dale]

I do remember being four, but I don't remember worrying about time, you know.

[Amy]

I have a feeling you didn't worry about time for a very. So, like, 2012. Barely. And just barely. Are we still worried about it? Right.

[Dale]

Yeah. When we going camping? How many sleeps? Soon.

[Amy]

Soon.

[Dale]

Soon.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

What does that mean?

[Amy]

It means we have to plan it. After we go shopping for a new camp.

[Dale]

Yeah. We're going to get a new fifth wheel. But that requires you and I traveling to this. To the store to look at them. Okay. The Earnhardt family has always relied on Bass Pro Shops for our outdoor adventures, and that tradition continues today. Everything that we're going to need for our camper we're going to go find at a Bass Pro Shops to make sure that we're dialed in. Bass Pro Shops has been in my life for as long as I can remember. The best part is I'd be going to Bass Pro Shops even if they weren't a sponsor.

[Amy]

Yeah, for sure. I mean, you know, Bass Pro Shop is fun to go and just walk around in, even if you're not buying anything.

[Dale]

I agree.

[Amy]

It's like an event, an experience me.

[Dale]

And you need to do together.

[Amy]

Just go walk around.

[Dale]

Whatever you need at Bass Pro Shops, they've got you covered. I've even got the girls some fishing poles from Bass Pro Shops. So we go fishing anytime we need to go fishing off the dock, you can get them little kid poles. Get your bucket of worms and you're good to go. Be sure to check out all that Bass Pro Shops has to offer. Whether you're going fishing, camp and hunting, you can find everything you need at the nearest Bass Pro Shops. You can also shop online@bass pro.com Getting.

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[Amy]

Hey guys. Dale and I are in the Dirty Mo Media studios for another round of Bless yous Heart. And we are excited about your questions today for Ask Amy. What do you have?

[Travis]

So this first question is actually really good, considering off the last conversation we just had, Sarah said, I have two little kids and they always want to listen to their kids music in the car. But I can't take listening to that non stop and want my music. What should I do?

[Amy]

I was thinking about this earlier today because I have just recently downloaded a couple of songs that I think are great that my daughter balked at.

[Dale]

And what was the name of the one?

[Amy]

No Broke Boys. It's a good song. Anyway, we're constantly listening to kids music and lately it's been like K Pop Demon Hunters on repeat. Which isn't terrible, but it's just. Anything on repeat is hard. And it's hard to not have any control over the radio. I think that you, like, give them two songs and then you flip it or just tell them, no, not today. Mommy's gonna pick. I don't know. That's hard. You just have to. You have to hurt their feelings every once in a while and tell them, no. Dale doesn't abide.

[Travis]

He just starts feeling good.

[Amy]

Oblige them.

[Dale]

We have.

[Amy]

He plays his own songs.

[Dale]

It's a different culture in Montreal.

[Amy]

It's a different culture. Oh, my God. What does that mean?

[Dale]

Well, I take all of school normally, you know, Nicole's rarely in the truck, but I take all of the school every morning. And Isla goes to school happy, smiling, and never, rarely, if at all, asking for me to play a specific song. And so when I get in the truck, my phone automatically connects and it's already playing whatever's playing. And we just. We listen to music all the time in the truck. And I think that the song. There's a couple songs that she likes currently that she heard through me. And so I think that she kind of knows, like, all right, every now and then, you know, Dad's gonna play a song that I might like. Or she's kind of on this. She's not really giving a crap about it, or she's on a little bit of a discovery mission when she's in the truck with me, but she doesn't ever go, dad, play this song. Dad, do you have this song? Dad, will you. You know, I don't like this song.

[Amy]

Both of the girls, when they get in my car, immediately they start making their requests, man.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And you know how they battle each other constantly. Like, they're going, I want this one. I want this one. Like, so, okay, it might be what it would be like, one song.

[Dale]

That might be what it would be like, I guess, if I had them both in there. But a lot of times, too. Like, for example, this morning, we ain't half. We're halfway to school, and Ally goes, hey, dad. And I turned the radio down. And that. That meant. Then we had a conversation all the way to the. To the school about, you know, Ila said, you know, hey, Dad, a blue dump truck was on the road. And she goes, oh, hey, dad. Yesterday, we were behind six blue dump trucks. They were going so slow. And that was the conversation we had the rest of the trip. Right.

[Amy]

That was so profound. I thought for sure there was something.

[Dale]

She needed to tell you. Dude, dump trucks are slow, dad. You know, that was what we talked about for the next ten minutes.

[Amy]

Oh, Lord. Yeah. I say take. Take over the radio. Take it back.

[Dale]

Yeah, definitely take it back. I mean, you just gotta.

[Amy]

I think it's important for them to hear songs that you like and things you grew up listening to. Like, all the good we did as.

[Dale]

Kids, all of the. How many times. How many times have you heard somebody in music that's a. That's an artist talk about how they heard such and such in their parents home or their parents had a vinyl collection, or they listened to their. Their. Their influences are this, this, and this. Because that's what mom and dad played in the house. Right?

[Amy]

It sets the tone.

[Dale]

Yeah. And so I feel like, while I don't mind them listening to the Demon Hunters and all of that stuff, like, I want them to know some music that I grew up on or that I heard from my parents. And I want them to, you know, I want it to be like, music's a big deal to me. So I kind of. You know, it might be for the girls, it might not.

[Amy]

But we were getting in the car after ballet the other night, and one of her little friends, Katie, she was, like, singing the Judds as she was getting in her mom's truck. I was like, see, they're doing it, right? She's making her listen to, like, the music she likes. I was like, isla, like, I put the Juds on. I love the Judds. And they're like, can we listen to something else? I'm like, you're making. Now you're making me mad.

[Dale]

Yeah, I have.

[Amy]

That's what it's like having more chicks around. You know what I Mean, I have.

[Dale]

A playlist on my phone for the girls. And while there's stuff in there that. That they. That I don't like or wouldn't listen to or not, wasn't even on my phone till we had kids.

[Travis]

Right.

[Dale]

There's stuff like that in there, like Taylor Swift or whatever. But I also drop in things. You like, things I like.

[Amy]

It's like a mashup of things.

[Dale]

Yeah, that. So it kind of. I'm like, hey, I'm gonna play your playlist. And then all of a sudden, now it's rotating through songs and they think this is their Playlist. Playlists, Right.

[Amy]

You manipulate them.

[Dale]

Yeah. They're hearing, like, three or three out of four songs is something I want them to hear.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

You know.

[Amy]

I just tell them, I'm not going to DJ. I'm going to play whatever serious on 80s on 8 is going to play. That's what we're listening to.

[Dale]

That playlist is all female singers.

[Amy]

Oh, it is.

[Dale]

Yeah. But it'll be like. It'll be 70s, 80s, 90s. Yeah.

[Amy]

All the things.

[Dale]

Yep. But I'm like. Because typically, I don't know why. Maybe I'm. Maybe I'm stereotypical, but I feel like Isla's probably gonna gravitate more toward female singers, being a female herself. Right? I don't know. I don't know.

[Amy]

Maybe. Maybe you found a buy in. I don't know. I've listened. We listened to everything growing up.

[Dale]

I don't see her, like. All the songs that I see her liking are female sung.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Dale]

I mean, is there. Are there boy songs that she's listening to?

[Amy]

I don't know. I don't. I don't play her music.

[Dale]

Well, you said in the car. She's.

[Amy]

They're making their requests. I'd give them each one song so that she gets a K Pop demon hunter song or whatever. Or that 608. Is that what it's called? That's which we're listening to a lot.

[Dale]

So, yeah, I played that song. And, man, she. She wants. She. If she was to request, it would.

[Amy]

Be that one over time. Yeah.

[Travis]

All right, next question comes from Maddie.

[Dale]

I don't know if we even answered the question.

[Amy]

We said, take the music. Right.

[Travis]

Take the radio.

[Dale]

Valley, take over.

[Travis]

Yeah. This next question comes from Matt.

[Dale]

If you can figure out how to get the TV back, we would like to know that. That'd be nice.

[Amy]

The TV's harder than the radio.

[Travis]

Just have two TVs in the room. They can have theirs with. No.

[Amy]

Well, here's the thing. What we want to watch. Wildly inappropriate for kids.

[Travis]

Oh, well, yeah.

[Amy]

That's usually, like, the problem with the language or whatever is. So we just kind of have to give that up.

[Travis]

This one comes from Matty. Has Dale ever walked in ready for a date or something, and you looked at him and said, you. You're not wearing that, are you?

[Amy]

Probably so. Probably not. More so much for a date as something we were supposed to go to. Like. Like, driven to give or whatever that's. He's supposed to get dressed up, and he's usually less stressed than he's supposed to be, and so we'll have to start over. Or, like, I'll make him add a. A sports coat or something on, and he's like, ugh, let's just start over. Because this doesn't work with the sports coat. You know what I mean? So usually now we just pick it out together.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

He picks his pants, and then we. We go for the rest of it.

[Dale]

Yeah. We're in the. There's a. There's a closet bathroom sort of situation in the house. And I'll.

[Amy]

He pops in as I'm doing my hair.

[Dale]

I'll jump. I'll jump into the bathroom while she's doing her hair, and she'll turn around and she laughs. I'm like, not.

[Amy]

Not the grade we wanted, even.

[Dale]

It'll be like a subtle, like, snicker or just some little.

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[Dale]

And I'm like, yep, not wearing this now. What is what. Yep. You're coming to help.

[Amy]

He was leaving to go to the racetrack. Not this last weekend, but the. Whatever race before he came in. And he had on tan. Were they tan shorts?

[Dale]

I don't know.

[Amy]

He had black knee socks on and tennis shoes.

[Dale]

I'm like, knee socks?

[Amy]

They were not short. They were high knee socks. They were like, stop it.

[Travis]

They're above the ankle.

[Amy]

They were too high.

[Dale]

No way.

[Amy]

They were black. I don't have long socks.

[Dale]

None.

[Amy]

I didn't know you had the socks you had on in your drawer.

[Dale]

Honey. They were just ankle high. They weren't knees. Stop it.

[Amy]

They were not that.

[Dale]

Lied.

[Amy]

I'm lying. They were at least up on your leg.

[Dale]

You can't tell lies, Amy.

[Amy]

I'm not.

[Dale]

I don't have my saw.

[Amy]

What they saw.

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[Dale]

Goodness gracious.

[Amy]

They were too high. If we're gonna do this whole thing. The whole outfit was really ridiculous, and that's why I laughed. And so he went back and changed and put lower socks on, but they were still dark.

[Dale]

Oh, man, they were not. They were like this high, maybe.

[Amy]

Fine.

[Travis]

No, that's too high.

[Dale]

I agree. But they were. That's a big. That's like a foot different. Everybody listening to this is shaping this in their brain.

[Travis]

Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story. That's right.

[Amy]

Well, the outfit was ridiculous. That's when I chuckled. But he still didn't. And he was gonna go lay on the ground and get dirty. So that's why I put dark socks on, I guess. But I don't know, just the whole thing was alarming visually. Yeah, he's mad at me now. What's your next question?

[Dale]

Now I, you know, when you're going to the racetrack, you want to wear something you don't mind getting dirty because you're definitely going to get on the ground and get under the car and work on it, get on your knees and stuff. Jacking the car up and putting Jack stands under it and all that stuff.

[Amy]

I don't usually see him wear shorts either, unless he's going to the swimming pool.

[Dale]

I don't wear shorts because my legs are so dang.

[Travis]

Is that why you wear the knee?

[Dale]

Every time I wear shorts, everybody goes, dang, boy, get some sun, everybody. Right? So I don't wear shorts because that's what I get every time I wear shorts. But sometimes I, you know, you just don't give a. What people are going to say and you know they're going to say what they're going to say. But I Going to the racetrack, I don't care if I look silly or not so much silly, but just don't look that put together because I'm just not giving a. That day I'm going to the racetrack to race and work on my car and everybody there is kind of wearing whatever the hell they want, you know, some old greasy shirt and a bad, bad pants that they're gonna, you know, get dirty.

[Amy]

I guess the answer to this question is if this happens on a date, maybe let it go because it's gonna get worse.

[Dale]

No, no, no, no. If it. No, like when it's an important. Like when it's for the racetrack.

[Amy]

No, it's important cares. But sometimes we still have to fix it when it's.

[Dale]

When you're going somewhere and it doesn't matter and you're just don't. You're gonna get your all messed up at. It's not a big deal. But I think if it's a, if it's a dinner or if you're just even going to target together. Like, if I want her to. To not go. Yeah. I want her to absolutely say that. That doesn't go right. It's probably not best that you go out looking like this because. I don't know. I don't. Like, I'm thinking in my mind, hey, I match my shirt with my shoes. I'm doing.

[Amy]

I'm doing it right, you know, and my neon yellow.

[Dale]

Yeah. And so. And I. I'm still. I'm 50, going to be 51 on the 10th, and I'm still wearing shirts that have sands on them. I mean, you know, I mean, I've got a shirt, you know, that's some silly, you know, slogan. I mean, I should be. I don't know what I. I don't know what. I don't know. You know what I mean? I don't. I probably need to give it. Give up some of the fashion choices that I've clung to over the years.

[Amy]

You do you.

[Dale]

No, no, no. I need you to, like, say, hey, this. You know, it's probably time to put this out entirely.

[Amy]

I'm going to focus on other things. You just wear what you want.

[Dale]

I don't want that. What I want you to always be giving.

[Amy]

I'm not gonna let you walk out looking like a clown, but.

[Dale]

Good. That's all I need.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Dale]

Yeah. All right.

[Travis]

This next one comes from Delaney. With it being October, my family started watching scary movies. Do you have any favorite scary movies?

[Dale]

Favorite scary movies?

[Amy]

Favorite scary movies? Oh, Children of the Corn was the first one I saw. And I don't remember how scary it would be like now because, you know, 80s movies are kind of, like, more cheesy. That was the first one I saw. There was a lot of, like, thrillers back in the 80s that were really scary. I haven't watched one in a long time.

[Dale]

Yeah, I was. I.

[Amy]

What's the movie where the chick crawls out of the well? The ring. That's scary. I saw somebody doing that as a Halloween costume. A little kid on my phone right before we. And she was walking in a backbend. Scared the. Out of me. Just on my phone. Yeah.

[Dale]

The original Chainsaw Massacre. The original, yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

I watched the Scream. All those Scream. Yeah.

[Amy]

Does that scare you?

[Travis]

I mean, probably the first one I watched it. I don't remember how young it was, but, like. Yeah, once you're like, a certain age, you're like. You're just waiting for the guy to.

[Amy]

Come out in the mask. Yeah, yeah.

[Dale]

All I was like, all the Original Friday the 13s. Even Nightmare on Elm Street. Like, I'm like. I like those.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

I haven't seen them in so long, and it's probably. I'm probably, like, hesitant to watch them because it's like going back to play Nintendo and you're like.

[Amy]

You're like, oh, man.

[Dale]

I don't remember being this bad.

[Amy]

Is. Yeah, exactly. People under the stairs. Did you watch that?

[Dale]

No.

[Amy]

The people that. Did you watch that one? Oh, that one's really weird and scary. There's a kid that lived in the walls. He had his tongue cut off. Yeah. What's the movie with the clown in the. In the gutter? They remade that. It. Yeah.

[Dale]

Oh, that was. Scary one. Yeah, that was pretty good.

[Travis]

I've never seen that one.

[Amy]

You haven't? That one's a good one to watch. I think they remade that not that long ago. Saw all the saws with the little kid on the tricycle. Yeah.

[Dale]

The Shining was.

[Amy]

I never saw that. You've never seen it with Jack Nicholson.

[Dale]

You gotta see it.

[Amy]

Here's Johnny. Is that the one? You know, never seen it.

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[Dale]

We need to do it. We need to watch it.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Dale]

Me and you on the carpet.

[Amy]

On the carpet. Carpet party.

[Dale]

We're forgetting.

[Amy]

I want the beard back now. I can see his.

[Dale]

Wow.

[Amy]

His snide smirks, and I don't like it. He's judging me, and I couldn't tell before.

[Dale]

Yeah. Might shave more often. Should we go?

[Travis]

The next question. Yes. So we'll go. The final question comes from Carter. If he had to choose, would you rather be a time traveler or a mind reader?

[Dale]

Time travel.

[Amy]

Probably time travel. I'd be scared to know everybody's thoughts, Right?

[Travis]

Yeah. You're not. You don't even like Dale smirk right now. Imagine.

[Amy]

I don't need to know what he's thinking about all the things all the time.

[Dale]

This goes to the next question. So. So if you could time travel, right? I would time travel back multiple times to, like, do multiple things.

[Travis]

So I would.

[Dale]

If you could time travel, you know, I'd travel back. I'd do all the Bud Races over. I do the Bud Years over again. I'd try. I come back, then I'd go back and do.

[Amy]

You know, I'd go back and get arrest and reset or what.

[Dale]

Yeah. Then I'd go back and just be a fan in the 70s and just wandering around the garage, just watching, you know, just being just, you know, that might last a weekend. I don't know. Might like it and stay longer, but.

[Travis]

You wouldn't want to time travel to, like, the 1700 something. You're just going to 1982.

[Dale]

Yeah. I think you would get. No, no, no. I think, like, you'd get braver. Right. As you try, as you traveled. You wouldn't become more of a brazen traveler where I'd be scared to death to go back to the 1700s and plop my ass down in there. You might just get murdered right away. You know what's going on, right? Yeah.

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[Dale]

You don't have anything. You're just landing into the world.

[Amy]

Well, surely you've prepared yourself with, like, wait, how. The proper attire and, like.

[Dale]

Well, yeah, I mean, you might try, but you're gonna get there, and they're gonna go, yeah, you're not from here. I mean, immediately there's gonna be something weird that they're. They're gonna notice and recognize. I think you'd have to travel, like, creep, like, dip your toe in the water. Right. And then go. Does that make sense? Like, you would. Who would travel back to the 1800s or 1700s first, right?

[Travis]

Travis, I'm not going to 1993.

[Dale]

Why not? Why not?

[Amy]

Don't you want to do, like, a Christmas all over again? Like, what your favorite Christmas was in your life?

[Dale]

You'd like to do differently, better, or just.

[Travis]

You can't redo? Like, you can't redo something.

[Dale]

No. Why not?

[Travis]

Because you're just going, like. I don't know.

[Dale]

I'm not.

[Amy]

You're just an observer. You're not.

[Dale]

Let's say we're not. We're not. Let's not.

[Amy]

You're not going back to be the same child.

[Dale]

Let's not get into. Let's not even. Let's say you can alter the course of time.

[Travis]

Okay.

[Amy]

The trajectory.

[Dale]

Yeah. Let's say you can't. You can't go change something. Right. Or, you know, let's not. Let's not get into that. But let's imagine if you just could go back and experience stuff, you wouldn't do something in your past, your. Your own life that you enjoyed, that you'd like to live again.

[Travis]

I guess that makes sense. Yeah.

[Dale]

Maybe you could alter the result of the day, but not so much like the course of life.

[Amy]

Yeah. Maybe come out with a little bit more gratitude or something.

[Travis]

That makes sense, man.

[Dale]

Do you think it's possible that there'll ever be time travel?

[Travis]

No.

[Dale]

I don't either. I don't see how our physical being can be moved to another time.

[Travis]

It won't be in My life's time.

[Dale]

No, it won't be in our lifetime, but I don't know.

[Amy]

Well, I'm glad we got that settled.

[Travis]

But, yeah, if you knew what everyone's thinking.

[Amy]

No, that's dangerous.

[Dale]

Mind reader. Yeah, you probably wouldn't enjoy that.

[Travis]

It'd be a lot of times where.

[Amy]

You'Re upset, especially if you couldn't turn it off.

[Dale]

Right? That's what I was just thinking. You might look around the room and go, everybody just to stop. Right?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

You know, I wanted to stop, and it can't stop.

[Travis]

But if you could turn it off, then, like, you're at the bar and you're like, oh, that girl thinks I'm cute. I'm gonna go talk to her.

[Dale]

So on the rare chance that happens would be a good thing, but otherwise, 99 of the time, you'd be like, yep. Didn't want to know that.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Nope, nope, nope, nope. Everybody in here thinks I'm a. That's not fun.

[Amy]

You know, everybody's wondering why I'm not talking.

[Dale]

You might walk into the room and learn something you really didn't want to know about people.

[Amy]

You're around all day, and now you just want to go back in time and time travel to a different time. I don't think. Yeah. I don't think anybody would change.

[Dale]

What if you walk up to somebody and said, good morning, and you immediately knew that your breath stunk? You'd be like. Because there's. You know, you're reading their mind, and.

[Travis]

They'Re like, you for not brushing your.

[Dale]

Teeth in the morning, Travis. And you're like. Then it gets super awkward. You'd just. You'd just lock up right there.

[Travis]

Yeah, well, I would have brushed my teeth in the morning.

[Dale]

But you still might have bad breath. Maybe you ate some onions.

[Amy]

Maybe drink some coffee. More likely than onions.

[Travis]

Yeah, I think that's. That's it for asking me today.

[Dale]

We're having so much fun.

[Amy]

Dale doesn't want it to end.

[Dale]

Ask everyone.

[Amy]

Make sure to wish Dale a happy birthday. His birthday is tomorrow. He's turning 4. 51.

[Dale]

You got it right.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale]

Sound like you weren't sure when you were saying that you're, like, 50. Math.

[Amy]

Well, that. That shaved face is tricky, but thank you for your questions. We'll see you next week. Don't forget to check out all of the [e-mail] and hit the subscribe button if you haven't already. See you next week.

[Dale]

Check out Dirty Mo Media, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram Tyler Redick here from.

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