Dale's New Hobby Is Amy's New Pet Peeve

Summary

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The Dale Jr. Download – "Dale's New Hobby Is Amy's New Pet Peeve"

Date: March 5, 2026 | Host: Dale Earnhardt Jr. with Amy and Travis | Producer: Dirty Mo Media, SiriusXM

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode, Dale Jr. and his crew (Amy and Travis) get real about day-to-day family life—complete with pet peeves, new hobbies, family rituals, and the quirks of raising kids in a tech-savvy world. The episode is laced with confessions (and some arguments) about card collecting, debates over the spelling of “I’m ol,” hilariously candid parenting stories, and nostalgia over childhood names and games. As always, the charm is in the candid, unfiltered banter and the authentic glimpse into the Earnhardt household.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The "I'm Just Saying" Tick – Softening the Blow?

[01:24–07:00]

• The gang starts with the phrase “I’m just saying,” unpacking why people use it and whether it's a conversational tick, a way to soften harsh truths, or just filler.
• Dale Jr. finds it confusing and a bit irritating:

  “If you send me a blow and then you go, ‘I’m just saying,’ I’m like, well, so you really didn’t have a point in all this anyway. … Now you’ve got me all pissed off and you’re just saying it just to say it, like, what’s the point?”
  — Dale Jr. [02:53]

• Amy and Travis admit to using it to dampen strong opinions or deliver unwelcome truths.

2. Drink of the Week & The Herb Controversy

[07:00–09:57]

• A “Cherry Sakura Breeze” cocktail (with Hyrak Vodka, lychee, mint, and Red Bull).
• Herb debate: Travis hates mint (and all herbs), leading to playful jabs:

  “He is not a fan of any herb.” — Dale Jr. [08:44]
  “Quit pushing herb on me.” — Travis [08:57]
  “I just feel a lot of pressure.” — Travis [09:01]

3. Family Outings & Kids' Disgusting Traditions

[10:08–12:32]

• At Dunleavy’s Irish Pub, the kids check under tables for old gum (and sometimes peel it off).
• Gross-out moment: Nicole finds enough fresh gum for concern.
• Universal parenting rant about gum stuck under restaurant tables:

  “Who’s still doing that, putting bubblegum under the table? ... That’s disgusting. That’s like, I don’t want my knee to touch that either when I’m crossing my legs, you know?” — Dale Jr. [12:14]

4. Dale’s Card-Collecting Obsession & Amy’s Pet Peeve

[14:14–21:31]

• Travis becomes obsessed with organizing old baseball cards—neglecting family time, according to Amy.
• Nostalgia and dopamine from itemizing, organizing, valuing cards (lots of valuable finds!).
• Amy (playfully exasperated):

  “He has been upstairs in the library, cataloging, scanning, pricing. ... It’s the only thing you’ve done all week.”

• Travis confesses to an “addictive personality” and shares big hopes for a new card concept with Panini.

5. Names & Spelling Debates

[24:28–29:49]

• The complex politics of “Sean/Shawn/Sean S-E-A-N/S-H-A-W-N.”
• Bit about unique family name spellings (Geoff/Jeff, Jon/John, Amy/Ami).

6. Parenting in the Modern World

a. Discipline & Kids Quoting Media

[30:44–41:03]

• Stories of daughter Nicole threatening (“I’m gonna punch you in the nose!”) at a party—thanks to phrases picked up from “Wreck-It Ralph.”
• How to respond to “out of nowhere” sass/insults from young kids.

b. Kids and Cussing

[41:11–45:01]

• Isla says “kick you in the ass”; Nicole tests out “What the hell?”
• “We went through probably the first three or four years super strict with ourselves about our language. ... In the past two years ... I’ve gotten loose about it.” — Travis [43:06]
• Reflections on learning cuss words from parents and knowing which words cross the line.

c. Video Games, Devices & Screen Time

[32:26–38:39]

• Balancing Nintendo Switch time with getting kids outdoors.
• Parenting in the age of in-app ads and games:

  “Those games in particular, they are challenging and they’re frustrating and you have to keep trying. … It’s teaching them some type of problem-solving, coping mechanism.” — Dale Jr. [36:54]

• Airplane mode as a parental life-hack for reducing ad exposure.

7. Tech in Everyday Life: Ring Cameras, Privacy, and AI

[48:09–52:41]

• Dale Jr. is amused by how specific Ring camera alerts have gotten:

  "The other day it said, 'Guy in red shirt walking by with a leaf blower.' … I was like, what is this!?" — Dale Jr. [49:46]

• Debate over privacy, cloud storage, and the sensitive camera location over the pool.
• Lighthearted acceptance: “My Ring cameras are pointed out in the world … If somebody does something silly out in front of my house, that’s on them.” — Travis [52:25]

8. The “I’m Ol” Spelling Debate

[52:52–58:33]

• The team debates how to spell Dale’s catchphrase “I’m ol,” which means “I am going to.”
• Dalton proposes “I’M’LL”; Amy and Dale like “IMOL.”

• “I wanted to create a new word that had never been created before.” — Dalton [55:04]

• T-shirt and dictionary ambitions, and a poll for listeners to decide the official spelling.

9. Q&A with Amy: Parenting, Pillows, Chex Mix, Apps

[60:19–79:00]

• Kids and Makeup: Isla got to play with toy makeup early, but only at home; giving kids a caboodle for organization.
• Ear Piercing: Amy pierced Isla’s ears at six, Nicole’s at four—mixed experiences.
• Household Pillows: Debates over decorative vs. functional pillows; bedsheets and the comforter-only life.
• Quirky Sleep Habits: Stories of friends (and themselves) and preferred sleeping positions.
• Chex Mix Pieces: Universal adoration for the rye chip.
• App Deletion Wish: Travis’d like to nuke Instagram on Amy’s phone (sometimes), Amy would drop X/Twitter on Dale’s.
• Wearable Tech: Dale and Travis consider data-collecting watches but are wary of overload.

  “If my ring kept telling me to go to bed, I would get really annoyed by that. So I just don’t feel like it’s something I need in my life.” — Dale Jr. [77:51]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On addictive personalities and hobbies:
  “I have a very addictive personality. … If it involves collecting, organizing, or itemizing, I get the dopamine from putting things in order.” — Travis [17:25]
• On parenting and language:
  “We went through probably the first three or four years super strict with ourselves about our language… and in the past two years, I’ve gotten tired, gotten loose about it.” — Travis [43:05]
• On kids and technology:
  “Everything they’re going to do the rest of their life is going to be on a screen, on a tablet, automate. ... It doesn’t take them two seconds to learn it.” — Travis [36:54]
• On the “I’m ol” debate:
  “I wanted to create the only word in English history that has two apostrophes in it.” — Dalton [55:13]
• On family life and pillow battles:
  “I really like having decorative pillows and all the fluff. … Dale does not like having the bed made.” — Amy [64:08]

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Important Timestamps

• 01:24: Intro; “Bless Your Heart” returns, first "I'm just saying" riff
• 07:00: Drink of the week & herb banter
• 10:11: Beach house trip & sticky gum stories
• 14:23: Travis’s card hobby takes over his week
• 24:28: Name spellings debate—Sean, Geoff, John, Amy
• 30:44: Parenting mishaps—Nicole’s “punch you in the nose” line
• 41:11: Kids and cuss words—who taught whom?
• 48:09: Ring camera descriptions escalate
• 52:52: “I’m ol” spelling debate—Dalton vs. Amy & Dale
• 60:19: Amy’s Q&A—makeup, pillows, sleep habits
• 69:17: Chex Mix deep dive—rye chip supremacy
• 73:12: If you could delete one app from your spouse’s phone…
• 75:45: Wearable tech—tracking sleep & behavior

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Tone & Language

Conversational, tongue-in-cheek, authentic southern charm, peppered with playful bickering and genuine affection. The group is open about their quirks and household nonsense, embracing a “no filter” look at life as parents, partners, and friends.

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Episode Takeaways

• Family routines are built on little tics and shared humor—sometimes the things that annoy us most become group jokes or t-shirt-worthy catchphrases.
• Modern parenting is a mix of loving structure, controlled chaos, and letting go—especially when it comes to technology, language, and the toys (or hobbies) we can’t resist.
• Naming debates run deeper than we think, both in spelling and the deeper family connections we assign to them.
• Technology, whether doorbell cameras or social media, is both a helpful tool and an endless source of amusement (and occasional paranoia).

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Listeners will laugh, wince, and maybe recognize a little of their own family in this episode’s blend of real talk and self-aware humor.

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Cast:

• Dale Earnhardt Jr.
• Amy Earnhardt
• Travis
• Dalton (for the “I’m ol” segment)

Listen for: Rye chip discourse, “I’m Just Saying” debates, and Dale’s enthusiasm for useless-but-fun data.

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Merch alert: Vote on the correct spelling of "I'm ol" and check out the corresponding t-shirt at shop.dirtymomedia.com

Transcript

[Amy]

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[Travis]

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[Dale Jr.]

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?

[Travis]

I'm working.

[Dale Jr.]

Working that mouth. Hi, guys. Dale Jr. And I are in the Dirty Mo Media studios for another round of Bless yous Heart. And we have a good show for you guys. Today we are going to talk about all of our silly life things. You know, it's like, I'm just saying.

[Travis]

What's. I'm just saying.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know, like, what. Why does anyone do I say that sometimes?

[Travis]

I'm just saying.

[Dale Jr.]

Some people say.

[Amy]

I say it a lot.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm just saying for like they. They'll bait you with some and then they'll say, I'm just saying. I'm like, why are you just saying. What are we just saying this for?

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

What's your point? So you both do that?

[Amy]

I definitely do it.

[Dale Jr.]

You do?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

That doesn't bother you at all? When. When anyone else does it, do you feel like it's like a period on your. On your point or like, what's the

[Travis]

point in Saying it, I feel like it's a. Soften the blow.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, you do?

[Travis]

So, like, if I say if I'm. If I tell you, if I state a fact and I feel like that it has caught you or rubbed you the wrong way or maybe hit you a little bit harder than I expected, I'll go, I'm just saying.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. So, like, I feel like if you.

[Travis]

It's like a dampening.

[Dale Jr.]

If you send me a blow and then you go, I'm just saying. I'm like, well, so you really didn't have a point in all this anyway. And now you've got me all pissed off and you're just saying it just to say it, like, what's the point? I'm just curious. Yeah, I try to not say that because I know it gets under my skin, so. But you did that over the weekend. We were talking about something unimportant, and you're like, I'm just saying. I'm like, oh. I'm just saying.

[Travis]

Oh, man, it got ground your gears.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Damn.

[Dale Jr.]

I hate giving him ammo for grinding my gears too. What is.

[Travis]

How am I going.

[Dale Jr.]

That'll be filed back.

[Travis]

How am I going to use that as ammo? Like, I'm not smart enough to know how to, like, turn that into.

[Dale Jr.]

That's working on its own. I'm not smart enough.

[Amy]

That's a lie.

[Dale Jr.]

Give me a freaking.

[Travis]

Give me an example of how I'm going to turn that around and use that in my advantage.

[Amy]

No, but there's going to be a time when, like, you're.

[Dale Jr.]

When you want to take me off,

[Amy]

when you're in, like, a playful mood, want to mess around, and you take this kind of.

[Travis]

That is another thing.

[Amy]

I would do that. Like, it's okay to admit it.

[Travis]

That is another thing Amy says when you want to tick me off.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

There is never, never a time in the day where I'm wanting to tick you off.

[Dale Jr.]

I feel like there's absolutely times that you are willing to tick me off just to get my attention with a soft blow and a. Just say not at all. And that's a good way to do it.

[Travis]

The only time that I'm ever trying to piss you off is when is. Is a reaction to me getting mad. Like, so you'll, you know, so.

[Dale Jr.]

So everybody's got to be mad at the same time.

[Travis]

This. I'm. I'm. I'm being vulnerable, admitting this.

[Dale Jr.]

Uhhuh.

[Travis]

I never. I never have a light bulb moment. Go.

[Dalton]

You know what?

[Travis]

I'm going, I'm going to do. I'm going to. I'm going to do this. And my objective is to piss her off.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't think it's a planned event. I think it's just who you are. But I'm not getting.

[Travis]

There'll be. There'll be things she says, and I'll go, and I'll. And it'll be like, you'll say, you'll say, well, I didn't. You'll say something like, well, well, well, I didn't like that. And I'll go, well, what do you think I felt? You know, or what? Well, I didn't like it either. You know, you'll. You're. You were saying the other day, yeah,

[Dale Jr.]

there's always a tit for tat.

[Travis]

Yeah, exactly. That's when I got, you know, that's when I'm more than likely gonna. I'm not gonna minimize or, you know, that's the only time. And I don't know. I'm not actually trying to piss you off. But it does. But it does every time. But I'm like. So I remember that like, like we're having a conversation the other day and you were saying you said something, and I thought to myself, well, I have to put up with that too. Or, yeah, well, I have to deal with that as well.

[Dale Jr.]

Must have been complaining about the kids,

[Travis]

but I absorbed it instead of saying it because it wasn't going to do nothing but make you go, you're not hearing me. You know, it wasn't going to help my. It wasn't going to help things.

[Amy]

But, yeah, you stole the moment instead of. Yeah, he's got to swoop it around sometimes. They. Girls, either. They want. When they vent, they either want to just have you listen or they want you to offer up an opinion, but they usually don't want you to try to steal the moment and put it on like, well, I have to deal with it too.

[Travis]

I know. That's it.

[Dale Jr.]

So we've been through enough therapy where we know that we're supposed to preface that. And that is just so hard sometimes, especially if you've been together this long.

[Travis]

If somebody.

[Dale Jr.]

If you had to do that with every conversation, that would be.

[Travis]

If your wife or husband comes. If your wife or husband is saying they're busy or complaining about how busy they are, whatever, it isn't a good idea to go, well, let me tell you how busy I've been.

[Dale Jr.]

Let me tell you how bad my day was.

[Travis]

Well, wait, I got more. I got busy, too. I got as much Busy as you

[Dale Jr.]

have, you know, that nobody's seen and nobody's heard and everybody's pissed off.

[Travis]

Yeah, but that is when the I'm just saying comes. Because you'll say, well, I'm busy too. And then immediately I'll go, damn, that was the wrong thing to say. And then y' all say, I'm just saying. Like, I'm just saying that I'm busy as a whale. Right. And you're trying I'm just saying is like a dampen.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, well, the whole I feel like it's a. It's like a slap. Does that make sense? Kind of.

[Travis]

Dang.

[Dale Jr.]

Whatcha drinking on? What's the drink of the week? Well, I'll read it for us. Our drink of the week, provided by Hyrak Vodka, is called the Cherry Sakura Breeze. What do you think?

[Travis]

I mean, it's not bad.

[Dale Jr.]

So in a shaker, you muddle lychee and mint, add hyrak, lime juice, cherry juice, and shake well and strain over ice. So it's pretty simple. But I don't think I've ever had lychee before. Have you?

[Travis]

Yeah. I think this has got a little too much lychee in it.

[Dale Jr.]

Is it lychee for you?

[Travis]

It's heavy on the leach.

[Dale Jr.]

Heavy on the gross.

[Travis]

Gross.

[Dale Jr.]

It looks delicious, though.

[Amy]

You forgot the once you taste it. One other ingredient, though.

[Dale Jr.]

I did. What else? There's a glare. Sorry.

[Amy]

Top it with Red Bull Spring edition.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. So Dale's doesn't have a garnish, but mine has a little mint on the top so you can garnish it with mint if you like it.

[Travis]

It's got a funny taste.

[Dale Jr.]

I.

[Amy]

That drink might be my favorite drink.

[Travis]

That.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, it's delicious.

[Travis]

Yeah. So there's something in the. There's something that when you drink it, it gets up in your nose.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't like it gets in your nose. Did you just put your nose in the cup?

[Travis]

No, I don't. I mean, I drank it like a normal person.

[Dale Jr.]

Okay, well, visit highrock vodka.com to see where you can find.

[Travis]

Do you not breathe in when you take a drink? Do you not inhale through your nose while you're doing it?

[Dale Jr.]

I don't think so. I feel like I hold my breath.

[Travis]

Take a drink. Do not go.

[Dale Jr.]

Do it after.

[Travis]

Did a post sniff every time I take a drink.

[Dale Jr.]

That makes a lot of sense. No wonder you're burping so much. You're breathing and drinking at the same time.

[Travis]

There you go. That's what it is. We just Figure out a birth all the time. So it's. I don't have mint, but I feel like I've got, like, mint in my

[Amy]

nose because there is mint muddled.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, there's mint in there.

[Travis]

Don't like that.

[Dale Jr.]

They tricked him.

[Travis]

I do not like it.

[Dale Jr.]

He is not a fan of any herb.

[Travis]

I don't like herbs.

[Amy]

See, what's funny is I don't like mint usually either.

[Travis]

I don't like herb.

[Amy]

I tried it, and I couldn't taste the mint.

[Travis]

I don't like herb. Okay.

[Dale Jr.]

It's not very minty to me either.

[Travis]

Quit pushing herb on me.

[Amy]

All kinds of herbs.

[Travis]

I just feel a lot of pressure.

[Dale Jr.]

I feel like if you had some more herbs, you might be a little more calm.

[Amy]

I feel like you're the pickiest drinker I've met.

[Dale Jr.]

Dale Mighty has to stuff some herbs in his pillowcase.

[Amy]

Maybe he needs to smoke some herbs. Relax it.

[Dale Jr.]

We just need to start basking him with the herbs.

[Travis]

I don't like it. I don't like it.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. You think cilantro tastes like.

[Travis]

Cilantro is awful.

[Dale Jr.]

It's my favorite.

[Amy]

He's not wrong there.

[Travis]

I love it so bad. Why would you add that to anything? God, it's terrible.

[Dale Jr.]

It tastes delightful.

[Travis]

I don't care. All the cilantro face Facebook. They can come after me.

[Dale Jr.]

Cilantro. Are there Facebook pages dedicated to cilantro?

[Travis]

More than likely.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, my gosh. All right, well, if you want to try some high rock, visit highrockvodga.com and don't forget to check out the store locator. You can find out where you have hi Rock or any sugar lens product near you. And then also, you must be 21 years or over. Please drink responsibly.

[Amy]

Red Bull.

[Travis]

The.

[Amy]

The Red Bull that you guys have there is a limited edition.

[Dale Jr.]

Ooh, you wanna talk about Red Bull?

[Travis]

The spring edition. Sugar free,

[Dale Jr.]

Sugar secure. Oh, so this is what's in the cocktail.

[Amy]

So you can. You can get that sugar free or regular.

[Dale Jr.]

That's yummy. That tastes like a jolly rancher.

[Travis]

I just wish it was this in the vodka. That'd be it. All right, so we're. We're at Dunlevy's. We went to the beach house to check on the beach house and make sure everything is good to go. And one of our favorite places to check out on Sullivan's island in South Carolina. Incredible. Place is done levies. Yeah, we go there all the.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know what's right.

[Travis]

I don't either, but it's an Irish pub, and it's usually our first stop.

[Dale Jr.]

We get in the golf cart and it's the first place we go.

[Travis]

It's a really great place. I love it because it. It checks a bunch of boxes. It's. It works with the kids. It works if I got a buddy and I just want to have beer, or if you and I want to go hang out. It reminds me a lot of old Key west bars we used to hang out in. So I get a little bit of that. That I'm. That I love.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. There's garb everywhere to look at.

[Travis]

Yeah. But they don't rush, you know, and. But the food is really good. They have wings. A really good Reuben. But there was some. What was the gums.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. So Nicole's new fun thing to do is to check out the underside of the tables for gum. She's been doing this for a little while, but it's. It's ramped up. So right at Dunleavy's, and she's just feeling out underneath. So the other thing that happens at Dunlevy's is Dunlevy's D. Levy's, the pub. The pub is really what we call it. There's these big booths, so they're wooden booths. And usually two people are on.

[Travis]

So, you know.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Casually two people are on one side and two people are on the other. But halfway through the meal, usually the girls want to switch. I want to sit next to Daddy. Now I want to sit next to Mom. So they crawl under the table because that's usually faster for them. And then, you know, they get to check out the underside of the table. And Nicole's get. She gets underneath there and she just hangs out a little too long, where I realize either her shoe fell off, which is also disgusting, or she's messing with some gum underneath the table. So I'm like, get out of there. She's like, gosh, there's so many bubble gums underneath here. And there's so many drawings. And I'm like, drawings? Yeah. Apparently somebody took a marker to the underside of the table because your kids are allowed to just hang out there.

[Travis]

Draw.

[Dale Jr.]

She has never actually put one in her mouth, but she has pulled some off before. But I just want to know who's still doing that. Like, who's still putting gum because it's fresh enough where it's soft enough that she can pull it off. Who's still doing that, putting bubble gum under the table? It's like my mom rant.

[Amy]

That's not a Mom rant, though.

[Dale Jr.]

That's disgusting. That's like, I don't want my knee to touch that either when I'm crossing my legs, you know?

[Amy]

Also, like, sometimes you, like, you're kind of shimmying under, like across the booth and you're putting your hands under the table and you're touch it like.

[Dale Jr.]

Yes, that's a major ick.

[Amy]

That's just like a respect thing.

[Travis]

Yeah, there's paper towels right there on the table.

[Dale Jr.]

There are. There's. There's no excuse. There's absolutely no excuse. We went to the Mexican food restaurant down the street too, the next day, and there was more gum underneath that one. And that was a bar height table, so she just had to walk right underneath that one to check it out. She did that before she crawled up into the booth. She's like, mom, this one's got it too. I'm like, oh, it's a plague. But Nicole, get up in your seat.

[Travis]

Oh, no.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. So did you ever do that in school?

[Travis]

I did not. I wasn't. I didn't. I didn't chew. I didn't. Like, I chewed plenty of gum, but I don't remember. I didn't stick it under the.

[Dale Jr.]

I swallowed plenty of it. I wasn't.

[Travis]

Swallowed a lot of gum too. I hate to admit that.

[Amy]

Were you allowed to have gum in school?

[Travis]

Did you ever.

[Dale Jr.]

I guess we were because there was gum stuck underneath it. Or maybe you weren't and that's why I got stuck. I don't remember. We weren't parents.

[Travis]

Told you about swallowing gum? How he's gonna blow bubbles out your ass? Or is it gonna.

[Dale Jr.]

My fog never told me that.

[Travis]

It's gonna clog up your.

[Dale Jr.]

If my parents told me it was gonna make me blow bubbles out of my butt, I would have been far more inclined to swallow it. They did say it was going to stay in your belly like that.

[Travis]

Red Bull vodka for.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, my God. Special delivery.

[Travis]

My goodness.

[Dale Jr.]

You better like it.

[Travis]

You know,

[Dale Jr.]

And I say he's.

[Travis]

I got a conference call after this.

[Dale Jr.]

Do you.

[Travis]

Yes.

[Dale Jr.]

Is it with Red Bull? Because it should be.

[Travis]

No, it's with Panini Card company.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, really? Oh, my God.

[Travis]

The car alive.

[Dale Jr.]

I predicted correctly. Travis, we.

[Amy]

We had. We had this talk.

[Dale Jr.]

This dude, I saw that y' all talked about it already, so I'll go light. But we got home from the beach on Sunday at 2 o'. Clock. I haven't seen him since. I haven't seen his ass since. He has been upstairs in the library, cataloging, scanning, pricing. It's like he's not even existing in our lives this week. So.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Well last night he had him all over the kitchen counter and I looked at him, I was like, are you gonna. Are you about done?

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

He goes, what? I was like, are you about done with that? It's the only thing you've done all week.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

I was so annoyed.

[Travis]

Yeah. I got, I got excited about the cards. Collecting cards. I used to collect them when I was little and I have about. Have a bunch of cards that I've just stored away. I haven't looked at them in 30 years and I didn't think they were worth crap. But there's a bunch of like Cal Ripkens and Ken Griffey juniors and, and Frank Thomas and Bo Jackson's and there's. I'm like, I don't remember having all of this but I'm going through there. I'm like damn, this is a 50 car. This is a hundred dollar card. This is a 200 car.

[Dale Jr.]

This is a. I thought for sure he had bought all these boxes. There are so many more boxes. And he claimed that he had collected to begin with. Like you really didn't remember apparently. I didn't even know that.

[Travis]

I thought you had just bought all I had. So I had two closets full and I only thought I had one little closet and I found some more because I was missing some and I was like I know I got some stuff, I got. I had a. I had stuff down stairs that I had stored away. But so I'm learning like these things have been. I opened the packs in night. I collected from 88 to 91. I opened all the packs the day I bought them and put them away and haven't touched them. And they're. These cards are in perfect condition and so they're all worth, they're all worth thousands of dollars. And so in total. Right. And so I bet you there's. Yeah, there's some good cards. So.

[Dale Jr.]

So you haven't been upstairs ripping packs as you say, you're not buying.

[Travis]

I'm going through my old stuff.

[Dale Jr.]

You haven't bought any new ones?

[Travis]

A little, but not, not much. I bought two boxes and that's it. But. And they're. I mean there's about 100 cards.

[Dale Jr.]

Well the way you've been talking to about ripping packs, I thought if he had bought all these and he's sitting up there doing this by himself. How sad is that? We've reached a new level.

[Amy]

Be ripping packs, let me know, I'll

[Travis]

Come over, see if I go.

[Dale Jr.]

That's what I was thinking too. Like there needs to. Aren't you supposed to do this with someone else?

[Travis]

I don't want to give it away till I get buy in from Panini, but I'm going to present Panini with an idea today about a very, very limited edition card.

[Amy]

It's truly a home run.

[Travis]

It is absolutely a home run. No pun intended.

[Amy]

Like, actually, honestly, when he told me grand slam, like, I legitimately, I'm like, okay, this is something you should pursue.

[Travis]

So I'm, I'm. This is.

[Dale Jr.]

Are you gonna share it right now?

[Travis]

Well, no. So I'm.

[Dale Jr.]

I never get to know.

[Travis]

Well, I'll tell you after. I don't want to tell it because if it don't happen.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, but, well, see, this is. If you really want it to happen, this is how you play.

[Travis]

Oh, but I, I think it's best to have a comp.

[Dale Jr.]

I hear you. I'm just.

[Travis]

Conference call. So this is, this is my. This is a flaw, massive flaw in me. Okay? I am. I have a very addictive personality. And when I like something, I, I do, I want to do it every minute of that day. And so as soon as I, like get to doing something or starting to messing with something, collecting or. And, and I. If it's collect, if it involves collecting, if it involves organizing or itemizing, I like the. For some reason, I get the dopamine from, from like organizing things and putting things in order.

[Dale Jr.]

Yep.

[Travis]

And so, so like collecting the cards or just going through my cards, I'll open up on my iPad, there's a website and it'll say, here are the top 20 cards that are the most valuable ones out of this year set. And so I'll go, okay, there's the 20 cards. Let's go through. There's one, there's one, there's one. And then when I'm done, I put them all in this nice little plastic sleeve so they're better protected. So they'll last another 30 years.

[Dale Jr.]

And then you kind of do you refile them in the ring.

[Travis]

I put them in a nice metal box. And so what do you do with

[Dale Jr.]

the rest of them?

[Travis]

They go back in the car, they go back in the little white sleeves and go put it back in the closet because they're worth a quarter a piece. And so I get addicted to that. And I want to do that. Like, it drives dry. It's driving like it's at the forefront of my brain. Even when there's other things I Need to be doing that. I know I've got to do. That's like, oh, okay, I'll do that but I'll get back to cards and I'll do that and I'll get back to cards and I'll do that and get back to cards and so I'll manic. Yeah. I'll go through this whole huge arc of obsession over something and it crescendo's into a final project and I think that's what this card idea is. So I went in just a couple of days from like, man, I want to kind of get back into collecting. Yeah. Okay. I remember what that was like. That was fun. I'm good to. I want to make a card. You know, I've. I bring those card sleeves home and I sign them from Panini. Right?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

I lay them out on the table or sign them. And I've done that for years and never thought nothing about them. This is, you know, never looked at them and went, what's the difference between this card and this one? This one's blue, this one's green, this one's red. But it's all, you know, I've never really tried to. It's all sitting right there in front of me. But I don't really.

[Dale Jr.]

It's never just me light bulb go off. Yeah.

[Travis]

Well, in the just simple couple of days I've been messing with this. I came up with the idea to actually create what I believe will be the most sought after card racing ever.

[Dale Jr.]

He's okay.

[Amy]

He's not wrong.

[Dale Jr.]

I believe you. If. Especially if Travis is behind it. Like. Yeah.

[Travis]

While you wait to hear. While. Yes, it has been. It has been annoying that I've been a long week. Yeah. I've been in Single mom and yeah, it's been annoying because I've been sitting in the library all day.

[Dale Jr.]

You got too many spaces to hide too.

[Travis]

Yeah. It's gonna come. It's gonna. If this plan works, it's gonna be worth it.

[Dale Jr.]

I can't wait. Can't wait to hear what it is. You and your plans.

[Travis]

Yeah. And I'm. Yeah. But it gets all kinds of things started. Like I was. I called Steve Myers today. We're working on the next console game for nascar.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

And I called him today and I was like, man, there's gotta be a way where we can. Where Panini or the card company and the console maker iracing. There could be a way for you to play together in the, in the game to produce an opportunity for a specific card for the user or vice. You know, something there's gotta be. It just makes things, you know, all

[Dale Jr.]

about connecting people, huh?

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

So stuff comes out of this. I know. I'm just sitting up there looking at

[Dale Jr.]

cards and you can justify anything. Well, I'm excited to see what the card is.

[Amy]

He's just saying.

[Dale Jr.]

He's just saying.

[Travis]

I'm just saying. That's it.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm just saying.

[Travis]

Dampening. It's the dampener.

[Dale Jr.]

Like don't build me up to dampen me down. I just don't understand it.

[Travis]

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[Travis]

so we have a best friend named Sean and we have another friend. Y' all remember my old buddy Sean Brawley. We have another friend that is named Sean as well. All right.

[Dale Jr.]

And so we've been talking to both, we talked to them both for the

[Travis]

past couple of weeks and it has me wondering, could the Sean's all get together and just decide on one spelling? Because we have Sean S H a W N and then Sean S E a N And I really think the S E a n just go to the S H a W N. I totally disagree.

[Dale Jr.]

I feel like scene S E a N is like I told him, he's like, why? I'm like, what? Sean's more sophisticated. Also, you can't get mad at the Sean's. It was their mom's fault to begin with. But like Sean, Sean Sea is from Canada so his spelling is probably different for that reason.

[Travis]

There's a can.

[Dale Jr.]

So I would look at that and say Sean.

[Travis]

There's the Canada Sean.

[Dale Jr.]

I look at S H a W N from North Carolina and I don't say Sean. I'm like Shawn, Sean. His nickname is Shawnee. You know what I mean?

[Travis]

Yeah. Well, yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

So I feel like there's so many name spellings that are different. Like he even said the Amy's. He's like the am I you? We don't like them.

[Travis]

Well, that was.

[Amy]

They gotta go.

[Dale Jr.]

He went real hard trying to sell me.

[Travis]

I don't know. I will piss him off. I don't want the Ies from Facebook to come after me. But what about the Jets?

[Amy]

The Geoff?

[Dale Jr.]

Hey, so I G, O, F H. Jeff. Yeah.

[Travis]

I think it's a German spelling. I think it would be hilarious if all the Sean's met in a big Sean expo and decided that they're all going to adopt the same.

[Dale Jr.]

We need a gavel, we need a ticker. We need the whole thing.

[Travis]

All right. From this day forward, we have decided that we're all spelling our names the same. And Amy's like, well, you know, the Sean, the S, E, A, N. That's like the more sophisticated Sean. And I was like, oh, we talk

[Dale Jr.]

about the dumbest environment.

[Travis]

And I was like. I was like, oh, man. Don't you. Don't that annoy you? Like when somebody has a. Has a regular name and then you meet somebody who has like the extra. Extra spelling on the. You know, they like, twist the spelling a little bit. Like, their mom and dad were like, yeah, I'm gonna do that, but make it cuter. Yeah.

[Amy]

And greg with two GS at the end. What are we doing?

[Dale Jr.]

What are we doing?

[Travis]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

You're just asking. We're just asking for the teacher to misspell it.

[Travis]

Being assholes. We were just sitting there having lunch. Being assholes.

[Dale Jr.]

Being assholes. Yeah, but so our kids get it.

[Travis]

God. It was a funny conversation.

[Dale Jr.]

It was funny because it came with a sound effect.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Shown.

[Amy]

I'm thinking about all the names now. John. Can we make a decision there?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

What's that?

[Amy]

John.

[Travis]

Yeah, Like, John should be J, O, H, N. But then you have the Jon out there wandering around, which one needs to go thinking there's something special. Like, I'm John, but I'm different.

[Amy]

I think John better.

[Dale Jr.]

The Hins need to go, well, it's biblical. You can't screw with it. John is John.

[Amy]

That's true. Yeah.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

So you brought up the Jeff thing. My dad's name is Jeff, but his J, E, F, F. Okay.

[Amy]

So he can.

[Travis]

He's.

[Dale Jr.]

Yes.

[Travis]

What's the. How do you spell?

[Dale Jr.]

Which is like the German spelling.

[Travis]

Yes. They gotta get.

[Amy]

They gotta get the. Out of here.

[Travis]

Perfect analogy. Because I always was like, yeah, that make. That's why Jeff Bodine's the way he is. Because he's the G. Yeah, he's gonna F, F. Like the whole. You Know.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, my God.

[Travis]

Like, who spells Jeff like that, right? Geoff. No wonder the guy drives the way he drives.

[Dale Jr.]

I want to get out of here right now. I want to slither out of my chair.

[Travis]

Gonna be our DJD classic. I'm just kidding. The Bodines and Earnhardts have always had a fun little rivalry, and it just must continue.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, it's gonna.

[Amy]

He's not wrong.

[Travis]

I felt that way in the 80s. I'm like, he spells his name weird, and he drives weird.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, Kelly always resented that she had a knee in the back of her name. She said she never got a keychain. Every time she went to, like, a carnival or a theme park or whatever, they had those junk stores. She's like, I always perused the keychains, and they never had ornaments or keychains or anything with her name on it. She was annoyed by that.

[Travis]

Imagine being a Dale. Ain't no damn Dale keychains out there.

[Amy]

I can barely find a trouser.

[Dale Jr.]

Any Ralph's?

[Travis]

I didn't want to be Ralph. Like, Ralph was. Like, you were opening yourself up for all kind of. All kinds of ridicule. If your friends found out your first name was Ralph.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, I hear you.

[Amy]

You want to know what that.

[Travis]

All through high school.

[Amy]

Do you want to know what my dad wanted to name me?

[Dale Jr.]

What?

[Amy]

Bernie.

[Dale Jr.]

Bernie.

[Amy]

After Bernie Kozar.

[Travis]

No.

[Dale Jr.]

I kind of like that.

[Amy]

And luckily, my mom fought it.

[Dale Jr.]

They thought I was gonna be a boy, and my name was Travis. They had picked out Travis for me.

[Amy]

It's a great name.

[Dale Jr.]

And now here I am being an Amy.

[Travis]

Bernie. That'd be a tough one.

[Dale Jr.]

That's a great.

[Amy]

Like, I would have understood why I got bullied if my name was. No, if my name was Bernie, I would have understood, like, people bullying me. Like, I would have bullied myself. Bernie. Like, who wants that name? Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

It's cute when you're little, but there's a phase in the middle.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

From, like, 10 people, 55.

[Dale Jr.]

Funny names like that. Ralph and Bernie. I don't know.

[Travis]

I would have. If dad hadn't have been who he was. Dale would have been a pretty underwhelming name to have to go through life with.

[Dale Jr.]

Did you get called Junior in school? All the time. It was always Dale Jr. Dale Jr.

[Travis]

Probably. But Dale was very unspectacular. There are not many great Dales out there. And, you know, if it weren't for dad, you know, it'd be pretty underwhelming.

[Amy]

Did you ever get called D.J.

[Travis]

you know what a Dale Is like the farmer in the dale.

[Dale Jr.]

It's a body of water in a pond.

[Travis]

Something. Some kind of a valley or some.

[Dale Jr.]

It's not even anything cool like a pond.

[Travis]

Didn't know that. Or a pond. Okay. It's still very underwhelming. It's a creek.

[Dale Jr.]

What did you just ask for the

[Travis]

intimidator who made it cool. Just saying.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't really have enough rebuttal for that. Yeah, you wanna know something else stupid? Nicole did this last weekend.

[Amy]

Oh, of course.

[Dale Jr.]

So the reason we went down, besides just checking on the house was our neighbors were having a birthday party for their six year old. So there were like 30 little girls in their backyard and they had a little spa party and it was very fun. And Isla decided she wanted to go home about halfway through. Cause she was the oldest kid there and she was like.

[Travis]

Which was so weird.

[Dale Jr.]

It is. I've never seen her act like that. And at first I was really disappointed. I'm like, why do you want to leave? That's so rude. I'm like, we done cake or whatever yet? She's like, I don't know anybody, but there's no any. There's not any other girls my age. She's like, can you just walk me back across the street?

[Travis]

Hey.

[Dale Jr.]

So I did. Wait, what?

[Travis]

Yeah, so Amy text me, she says, I want to come home. I was like, why? She's like, she doesn't. Not having fun. They're all kid. Younger kids here. So you. We. We met in the street and I walk her back to the house and we're walking back into the house, we're going up the stairs. And I was like, so you wanted to come home? You know? And she's like, yeah, I was the oldest one. There was no one wanted to play with me. And she started to cry. She was about.

[Dale Jr.]

No way.

[Travis]

She was hurt. She was sad. Yeah. And I was like, honey, it's all right. It's, you know.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, as the oldest one there, you can't be sad that the little one's not coming up to you.

[Travis]

She started saying it and I looked on her face and I saw that look on her face, like she was puckering up. And I was like, honey, you're growing up, you're getting older. That's going to happen. That's going to be the way things are. That's not a bad thing. You know, it was quick. She was quickly out of it. But she wasn't, I thought for sure.

[Dale Jr.]

Besides just.

[Travis]

She wasn't like the oldest one in the Air this party.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, I thought she. I thought she just wanted to come back and play on her switch. She's like, dad's upstairs watching the race. That means I play on my video games. If I really want to go home, then I want to go hang out with my dad because I get to play with my video game, which.

[Travis]

Hey.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. So she's reading the room pretty well.

[Travis]

Yeah, I like the Switch. She plays Princess Peach.

[Dale Jr.]

She plays games. It's not as bad as I've had. She can't. Like, she.

[Travis]

Nicole has a.

[Dale Jr.]

It's contained.

[Travis]

They have the old switch. They don't even got the new one yet. But I. Nicole has. So Isla plays Princess Peach and just plays the crap out of this thing, Right? And I love it because it reminds me of when I was a little kid and I had my original Nintendo. I was just running through this game. Nicole, I give her a Switch, and she gets this. I want the same game. Okay. Same game. Here, dad, do it.

[Dale Jr.]

She just like. And she flings it over like this, too. Don't drop that thing.

[Travis]

I'm like, no, I'm not doing it.

[Dale Jr.]

You.

[Travis]

It's a game you play. You figure it out. I can't do it. I can't figure it out. All right. I run through the first phase. She's watching. I'm like, all right, you see what we're doing here? You hopping, you jumping, you doing this?

[Dale Jr.]

Okay, now there's too many buttons for her.

[Travis]

One, two minutes goes by. Here it comes back. Dad, do it. Get me through this part. And I'm like, no. Like, you got to. This is the fun part of the game is, like, trying to learn and figure it out. But, like, she's just too young.

[Dale Jr.]

I know. Yes, she is too young. We got Isla Switch when she was 5, 2. And we ended up putting it away because she was too young. She did the same thing. She would want you to help her play the whole game. We're like, no, no, no, no. I don't want to do this.

[Travis]

I know a lot of people are sitting here going, video games. Really? But, you know, we're going to be a video. We're going to be gamers a little bit. I can't wait till we let them

[Dale Jr.]

play video games a little bit, but then we kick them outside.

[Travis]

Yeah, it's very limited.

[Dale Jr.]

It's balanced. Surely it's balanced.

[Travis]

It is a good balance.

[Amy]

Anybody that says, like, oh, I don't let my kids on a device, like, there's. You're lying. You've got.

[Dale Jr.]

And we grew up playing. Like, we would spend hours in front of the TV playing the Nintendo on a Saturday. I mean, hours trying to master those games.

[Travis]

You know, I. I think there's absolutely a good balance. But I remember, I'll never forget this, when I wanted to buy a computer, I was. I think I was 15. I didn't have credit yet. And Kelly had to. Kelly put it on her credit, and it's a $500 computer for Best Buy, and she financed it for 100 bucks a month, and I was going to pay her the hundred dollars or whatever. And we're taught. We're talking about this. Excited. I couldn't believe it. I was going to get a computer. You know, no one had computers in their houses in 1994, you know, and so I don't know, man, I must have been. This must have been earlier than that. But. So it was early 90s. Box screen kind of thing is early 90s. But I was so excited. And dad heard us talking about it, and he's like, and then I bought it and we got it, and I'm over there messing with it. And I got racing Billy's NASCAR Challenge, because I was playing Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge on a floppy disc in drafting class. Like, I would stay after school and go back into drafting class and With a DOS floppy disk.

[Dale Jr.]

Did let you do that?

[Travis]

Yeah. And I'd play. And Mr. Nail was our drafting teacher. But cool last name for a drafting.

[Dale Jr.]

It is very on point.

[Travis]

But he should have been the carpenter teacher, I guess. But anyways, I was into that. And I'm like, I need this at home, you know, I don't want to stay after school and play for an hour until they run me off. So dad sees that I'm sitting over there doing this, and he says, you're wasting your time with them computers. And I'm like, what? Like, how could you not be like, you know, this box that I have no understanding of. And he's like, doing. But he was like, you're wasting your time with them computers. That's a waste of time. And I'm like, man, I would tell if he was sitting right here.

[Dale Jr.]

He's laughing.

[Travis]

I'd be like, how about.

[Dale Jr.]

What did you look at me now,

[Travis]

dad, you didn't know.

[Dale Jr.]

And so you would not tell him that. But that's a good night.

[Travis]

Yeah. So when we. When I. So I like to see Isla. You know, we have iPads and they play their iPads and they have games and. And we. Absolutely. I am a. I am I am a absolute observer. I have all the settings and I've got the apps to follow. Everything they're doing, like they are not doing anything on there that I don't know about and it's always in our presence. But I like it because everything they're going to do the rest of their life is going to be on a screen, on a tablet, automate. It's going to be. Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

It doesn't take them two seconds to learn it. I just like to switch over the iPad because those games in particular, they are challenging and they're frustrating and you have to keep trying. So like it's teaching them some type of a problem solving, coping and the coping mechanism with getting frustrated and having to work through it versus the iPad. It's like, go to the next app or whatever or they will come to you, want you to buy tokens or buy something for them to just advance. And we're like, that is absolutely not happening.

[Travis]

Yeah, that is frustrating because it. I will buy them video games all day long. I don't have a problem. Like, you want a new game? No problem. You want a new game? Be. I mean, I don't, I don't. It's. That's not a problem. The freaking apps, they'll, you know, I'll get them, we'll get them this like spelling app or accounting app or it's. It's a school app, you know, and there's. Or there. Nicole's got an app where she loves to do this or she's just matching, flipping things over. Matching them.

[Amy]

Right.

[Travis]

What do you call that?

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know. Puzzles.

[Travis]

Huh.

[Dale Jr.]

Like a puzzle.

[Travis]

And so she playing that thing she wants me to play with her and all that stuff. But it shows them ads and they're like, I want that, I want that, I want that.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Between every level they do, they've got to watch this ad.

[Travis]

They bring the thing over. Can we. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Amy]

Have you tried.

[Travis]

This is a scam.

[Amy]

Have you tried putting on airplane mode?

[Dale Jr.]

They are on airplane mode.

[Amy]

Okay. Because a lot of, a lot of apps, when you're playing games, you put on airplane mode, you don't get the ads.

[Dale Jr.]

Really?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Interesting.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, so they don't have service if they're on airplane. We have to have them to the WI fi anyway. So I think they're not online.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Travis]

They're not like connected to the Internet or anything.

[Dale Jr.]

They don't have a phone number, but

[Travis]

yeah, but it's just. Yeah. The iPads Are tough because they. They're always bringing it over.

[Dale Jr.]

They're always selling you something. Yeah.

[Travis]

So can we get this? Can we get that?

[Dale Jr.]

I think that part of the reason she wanted to leave the party that day was just to play her game. But back to the Nicole thing. So we stay. There's a whole nother hour for the party.

[Travis]

Back to the.

[Dale Jr.]

Back to the original story. We're at the birthday party, and there's a bunch of little girls running around. Nicole's having the time of her life. They have a fashion show, so they're, like, walking down this Runway in little princess dresses. And so having the time of her life. Cake time's happening. I can tell Nicole's getting a little tired. And the cake is being sliced. All the girls are, like, slamming around each other, getting real close. And so I pick Nicole up just so that she's not going to get pummeled, because some of the other girls are a little taller than her. And she's like, mom, I want some cake. And it's like, I know. I just. I'll get the cake for you. I don't want you to get stepped on. So I grab a cake. I squat down. She doesn't like icing, so I'm trying to scrape the icing off with the spoon. She also has her hand on the spoon. She's not letting go. I'm like, I'm just gonna scrape this icing off and move it over here so you can eat the cake. And she just looks straight at me and she goes, I'm gonna punch you in the nose. It was so shocking that I, like, didn't really know if I heard her right, but I just, like, let me have the cake. And I picked up the cake, and I went and threw it away. And she. And I. I wish goodbye out of the backside of the house. I was like, you aren't getting any cake. And then she just cried, wailing, crying the whole way home, all the way across the street. I was like, dale, you're never gonna believe what this kid just said to me. And I didn't even know what to do. I ended up putting her in her bed.

[Travis]

And I busted out laughing, which I don't think was the right reaction.

[Dale Jr.]

I texted him because I knew he was gonna do that.

[Travis]

You came into the. You came under the wall, right?

[Dale Jr.]

But she was already in timeout. Like, I'd already put her in the bed, and I was like, don't you come out of here until I come and find you. So she took a nap but, yeah, Dale, of course, laughs at all of those things, and it was pretty funny, but I just. It had no context. We weren't fighting over anything. I was helping her eat something I didn't really feel like she needed to begin with. And then, you know her, we're in the house.

[Travis]

But yesterday, and she said. Or two days ago, and she said, I'm. She said something.

[Dale Jr.]

She said something else. Yeah.

[Travis]

And you were like, where did you hear that?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. She said there was a show she was watching that she learned it from.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

I was like, is that also where you learned I'm going to punch you in the nose? It was Wreck It Ralph. Yeah. She said she was gonna slam somebody,

[Travis]

kick you in the face, punch your nose, face or something.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, Wreck It Ralph. Yeah. Well, I asked her about the nose thing. She said she made that one up on her own, but Wreck It Ralph. Planted the seed for one, I guess, one of the phrases. And then she just decided she was just gonna roll with that.

[Travis]

And this yesterday or two days ago. The last couple days have been a blur with the card stuff I've been doing.

[Amy]

You didn't have to add that.

[Dale Jr.]

Bless your heart, Ralph.

[Travis]

I'm just saying. So, yes, a couple days ago, me and Isla are horse playing, and Isla likes to try to, like, swing and gymnastics. Kick me in the butt. Like, that's her thing.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

And she says, I'm going to kick you in the ass.

[Dale Jr.]

That's what she said. So I wasn't in the room, but I heard she said a cuss word and nobody would repeat it, so I didn't know what she said. She said, oh, my God. Not Isla, too. We're doing something wrong.

[Travis]

Dale learning this for the first time. And I said, isla. I go, isla, do you know that's a bad word? She goes, yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I said. She goes, it just came out. It just came out. I said, where'd you hear that? She goes, from you. And I was like, yep, valid. Oh, man.

[Dale Jr.]

Like, no wonder nobody would tell me what was.

[Travis]

And I told her, I don't think we were. We. You didn't seem like you wanted to know. You were kind of like.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, because you seem like you had it handled, and I didn't want to make it a bigger deal, but I asked her later what it was she said, and she's like, nothing. Don't worry about it.

[Travis]

Yeah. I was like, isla. That's one of them words you can't say again until you're older. So just go to put it away. So she's like, all right, but what are you gonna do?

[Dale Jr.]

Well, Nicole, same day, ask April when they were getting ready for ballet, she goes, can I say what the hell?

[Travis]

Yes.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. What. What was going on in the living room that day? I don't know. We're in trouble.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Not nearly as bad. But I asked my friend, his three year old, I said, jackson, you're going to be good tonight. And he goes, do you want a beer?

[Dale Jr.]

Really?

[Amy]

And then walks out and goes, like.

[Dale Jr.]

And he served you one?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

That's pretty cool. Yeah, you can get him out of the fridge. That's pretty nice.

[Travis]

I feel like. So when we. When me and Amy decided we're going to have kids, and we, you know, went through probably the first three or four years super strict with ourselves about our language.

[Dale Jr.]

Yes.

[Travis]

And I feel like that took some real work. It did, I think in the past two years. I don't know about Amy, but I've. I've gotten tired, gotten loose about it, you know, and they'll be. I. Like, I'm in a conversation with somebody on the phone in the truck, and they might say something accidentally, not knowing I'm on the phone, you know, not

[Dale Jr.]

knowing his whole family's in the car.

[Travis]

Or I'll say something accidentally on, and I'll. And I'll hang the phone up and I'll say, isla, did you hear a bad word? And she might say, no. I'm like, all right. Because there was a bad word in a song the other day that me and Amy were listening to. And I said, hey, Isla, did you hear bad words?

[Dale Jr.]

She goes, no, it's a Taylor Swift song she likes to listen to on her own.

[Travis]

I say, she sings along, but she doesn't know there's a bad word in there. But sometimes I ask her, I say, and she'll say, yes, yes, I heard a bad word. I'm like, okay, well, you know, you ain't supposed to. You know, I just. We just have a little conversation. I don't know if it.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know.

[Travis]

She needs to know that it's bad at least. And if she wants to get herself in trouble by using it, then that's her choice.

[Dale Jr.]

But I feel like they innately know bad words are bad words.

[Travis]

I always felt like I did, too.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Like, I would hear a bad word, a cuss word, when I was a kid, and I didn't know immediately that was a cuss word, and they'll just never say it. You know what I mean?

[Dale Jr.]

Was like, that sounds too sharp. That sounds like it's rough. Like, what are you.

[Travis]

Like, the F word. That was, like, super taboo.

[Dale Jr.]

We don't say that.

[Travis]

Right. When I was a kid. Kid.

[Dale Jr.]

I remember. So I don't remember my dad cussing too much. He said quite a bit. Or damn.

[Travis]

We heard F all the time for dad and his friends.

[Dale Jr.]

Really?

[Travis]

Yes. Like, Rusty Wallace says the F word every three words.

[Dale Jr.]

That's how you used to be.

[Travis]

Yes.

[Dale Jr.]

Dad used to say, what? The buck?

[Travis]

Really?

[Dale Jr.]

Yes. Son of a buck. That's what I used to say. Son of a buck.

[Travis]

Well, yeah, but nobody says son of a. I know.

[Dale Jr.]

It was for son of a.

[Travis]

You know. Oh. Oh.

[Dale Jr.]

But he didn't say any of that stuff around the son of a book. And he would say it was such

[Travis]

a. I don't say the. I don't say the B word because I feel like, no, you can't.

[Dale Jr.]

You're in a house. You better not be bad for you.

[Travis]

Yeah, I wouldn't even say it. Not referencing a woman.

[Dale Jr.]

It doesn't matter. All of us would go, excuse me,

[Travis]

that's a B. I don't even say it. Like, in general. Yeah, because it's. I feel like women would. Women. When. When a woman hears it, do they go, what?

[Dale Jr.]

What?

[Travis]

Does it hit you wrong? Even when it's used out of context,

[Dale Jr.]

like something being like, damn, that was a. Is it if you and I are talking to each other?

[Travis]

No, but what's the equivalent, the male equivalent to the B word?

[Dale Jr.]

To the B word. Oh, man, my granny's going to kill my ass. Oh, why are you trying to bait me? You're tearing me up for trouble.

[Travis]

You women don't use it.

[Dale Jr.]

We do it when we're talking about you behind your back.

[Travis]

Really?

[Dale Jr.]

I'm like, in the pantry just going,

[Travis]

oh, she's just saying, in the pantry.

[Dale Jr.]

Wherever I'm hiding.

[Travis]

Do you ever.

[Dale Jr.]

Yes, I do. Yes, I do. Of course I do. Of course I do. And of course you do. I mean, I ain't gonna lie through my teeth and say, no, of course I do. It's better than doing it to your face. You and I would be like, oh, really? And there would be, like, the clash of the Titans, just one upping each other.

[Amy]

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[Travis]

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[Dale Jr.]

You have had some fun with a ring camera at the beach house lately. What is that memory filed away too? Yeah, but I do you were telling us the other day how the technology with the ring cameras has gotten so detailed. Like not only does it alert you that there's someone around, but it goes into very, very good description. What they're doing, where they are, what they might even be wearing.

[Travis]

Wait, this is the thing. So okay, I remember now. So I and sorry don't be coming after Facebook ring camera People that don't like Ring cameras and ring.

[Dale Jr.]

We're kind of intrigued by this.

[Travis]

People, people. People are like, oh, man, you know, you better turn all these settings off. They're doing stuff. I. I don't care. Hell with it. I looked for the setting. I couldn't find it. I. I'm just messing.

[Amy]

A person is walking on the paved area with the leaf blower.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Yeah. So. So I get the ring camera and we have them at this, at the, at our vacation house. And you know, I'm, I'm. They're cool. I'm liking them. You know, the only thing. Only bad problem is is minor. Mine are wireless and so I got to keep the batteries charged in them.

[Dale Jr.]

But, you know, so if we're not there, we can't peek in.

[Travis]

Yeah, you can. Well, if you let them out, but they usually don't. They last quite a while. All right. For a year. If it saw a person, it would just say person, you know, it or see, I saw a person. It would just say, basically a person walking.

[Dale Jr.]

Camera two.

[Travis]

Camera two, person walking caller. You know, it was very basic and vague. Then the other day it said guy in red shirt walking by with a leaf blower. And I was like, what is this? Like this alert? So descriptive.

[Dale Jr.]

It looked like a personal text message

[Travis]

came and I was like, what the hell? Ring camera. I started like looking and then it start. And so the. The landscapers were at my property. And so for the next 30 minutes, I got all kinds of very descriptive. Thanks for my ring camera. I'm like, when the update come, like they've updated the software and which I'm thankful. It's like I've got this man walking

[Dale Jr.]

near the edge of the pool.

[Travis]

They made this camera. Yeah. Man walking on the edge of the pool, you know, on the south side of the pool, you know, by the umbrella. I don't know. You know, it was just very descriptive.

[Amy]

Yeah, I mean, it's nice to have when you're not there too.

[Dale Jr.]

It is nice to have.

[Travis]

I just thought it was hilarious. They didn't tell me, hey, man, just be, Be on the lookout. Your descriptions are going to get more, you know, descriptive. Descriptive. Little heads up would have been good,

[Dale Jr.]

but I feel like it was more fun the way it was.

[Travis]

It was startling.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

It was detailed. They're. They're getting.

[Dale Jr.]

So that's what people are saying too, with the updates, I guess is, you know, the AI that's in the program. Yeah, there was some really analytically looking at all the things including kind of

[Travis]

rumors about a, you know, there's some setting that helps them find lost dogs, but

[Dale Jr.]

help some fine. Lost dogs.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's what they advertise. But then people realize that, like, it's

[Dale Jr.]

being supposedly dogs code for something else.

[Amy]

No, no, no. Like, their super bowl commercial is like, oh, ring cameras will help you find your lost dogs. And then people realize that, like, supposedly the ring cameras or the other companies are it how they're using the cameras to store footage or something like that. I don't.

[Dale Jr.]

That's crazy.

[Travis]

People learned. Well, if you're able to go that far back, how are. How are they? I guess what they're wondering or genuine concern is they're taking all of the footage that I have access to and they're compiling it, stock saving it somewhere on a server.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, you know, that's a little scary,

[Travis]

but, I mean, my ring cameras are pointed out in the world. I'm not watching.

[Dale Jr.]

That's not true. The one I was pointed at the pool. So, like, there is no skinny dipping or anything like that.

[Travis]

We don't skinny dip.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, sometimes the kids come back from the beach and they're all sandy and

[Travis]

there's a happening there that nobody needs to not see. I mean, ain't nothing going on that we wouldn't go. Like, I don't give.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, now I won't be doing that, that's for sure.

[Travis]

All right, well, I can take that one down.

[Dale Jr.]

But I could take it down.

[Travis]

Most of them are just pointed out at the world, so if somebody does something silly out out in front of my house, then that's on them.

[Dale Jr.]

But, yeah, we were entertained.

[Travis]

I thought it was hilarious. I was like, damn, that was very descriptive. Thank you. Ring camera.

[Dale Jr.]

Speaking of descriptive, we have a visitor. I think we have a debate to settle.

[Travis]

Sorry, does the visitor know about this?

[Dale Jr.]

It's an I'm old debate.

[Travis]

All right. Do you know about this?

[Dale Jr.]

I do know about this. So we have a t shirt with shop.dirtymomedia.com and it's a quote of Dale's. He has made up this word or he says a word constantly. I'm a run to the racetrack. I'm ol. Get myself something to eat. I'm ol. So I have always teased him that, like, that's not actually a word. It's almost like three words compiled into one. And so he and I have, like, gotten to where we'll text each other about I'm ol and I just write out IM O L. Well, the T shirt that Dalton has created for us says I apostrophe M apostrophe ll.

[Dalton]

That's right.

[Dale Jr.]

There's two apostrophes in Walmart.

[Dalton]

It is a made up word.

[Dale Jr.]

Yes. So we have to have a debate and we're going to do a poll for what we feel like the proper spelling of this word.

[Travis]

What's the poll choices?

[Dalton]

It's going to be my way and your way.

[Travis]

Two options.

[Dale Jr.]

Two options.

[Travis]

Okay.

[Dalton]

All right, so I'm going to start us off. I think we can all agree that this word definitely starts with I'm. The word I'm.

[Travis]

Right.

[Dalton]

I'm all right. And the word means I'm going to.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

Right. I'm going to.

[Travis]

Yes.

[Dalton]

Okay, so we're all on the same page. Well, I'm going to means I will slide show. I did. I've.

[Travis]

Listen, he thinks I'm going to is equal to I will.

[Dalton]

Right. It's the same thing. Right?

[Travis]

Sure.

[Dalton]

I'm gonna take out the trash. I will take out the trash. Yeah, gotcha.

[Travis]

All right.

[Dale Jr.]

No, because that's the tense is not always the same.

[Travis]

Yeah, there are tense.

[Dalton]

There's some paths you keep going with your slideshow and, you know, all that kind of future.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dalton]

There's some subjugates. And don't say subject to me. I'm just saying words at this point. All right, so I will. We know turns into I'll.

[Travis]

Right.

[Dalton]

Okay, so then we have. We're going to replace I'm going to with I'm Will. But that doesn't make any sense.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm Will.

[Dalton]

I'm Will. I'm.

[Travis]

I'll.

[Dalton]

Well, you got two I's. You can't have two eyes in the same. There's only one I. It's me.

[Travis]

Yeah. I'm Will.

[Dale Jr.]

Was this really your process?

[Dalton]

I think yes. In about this much time. And then I was like, how did I come up with this? And this is where I got to.

[Dale Jr.]

You just wanted to have two apostrophes in one word?

[Dalton]

I wanted to create a new word that had never been created before. Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

So he's here to an adventure.

[Travis]

So option A.

[Dale Jr.]

Option A is I'm.

[Travis]

I apostrophe. M Apostrophe ll.

[Dalton]

Yeah, I mean, I'm cool with creating the only word in the English history that has two apostrophes in it.

[Travis]

That's good.

[Amy]

That's pretty cool.

[Travis]

All right.

[Dale Jr.]

Okay. So my argument is that it stands for I'm going to, which is the same as Dalton's, but in context of the way that it sounds and for conciseness, especially texting it, we have always spelled it I M, O L, I mole. Because that's what it sounds like. Dale's saying I'm ol Shorthand. I have asked Dale, truly ask him. When he says the word I'm like, what is that actually? What do you think you're saying? What does that mean? He goes, I'm all, I'm going to a mama. I'm like, so I am going to.

[Travis]

It's a stutter.

[Dale Jr.]

He's like, I don't know.

[Travis]

It's like a short. A short circuit. Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Start.

[Travis]

Just.

[Dalton]

That's how we ended up with the word.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. So, like, I M O L. That's how we have always texted I am

[Dalton]

O L. Yeah, it just looks like. Like a government organization. Like, you know, that's designed to take out, like, yard pests. Like, I'm all like.

[Travis]

It sounds like a. Sounds like a name for a very boring company.

[Dalton]

Yeah. Well, I don't know. I mean, I'm pretty firm. I think it's IPOs for impostery.

[Travis]

Ll, are we going to put this up to vote?

[Dalton]

I think it has to.

[Dale Jr.]

I think we have to put it to a vote.

[Dalton]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

When are we doing that?

[Dalton]

Today, I think. Yeah, we're going to do it today. Elijah is going to put it out there. Abigail is going to put it.

[Travis]

Now, everybody, don't vote for IMOL on just because me and Amy, we want genuine way. Let's have a very balanced, fair voting.

[Dalton]

I appreciate the. What you're doing especially.

[Dale Jr.]

Especially for the effort with his slideshow and all of his. Yeah, all of his work he's put into this. So there will be a T shirt. The T shirt is already created that says I apostrophe M apostrophe ll. But we are wanting him to change it back. Dale, I think, has the shirt.

[Dalton]

Oh, you do have the shirt.

[Dale Jr.]

Hold the janky shirt up.

[Travis]

This one's the bad. This one's the not so correct spelling.

[Dalton]

I'm going to drink some beer. That looks great to me. Look at that.

[Dale Jr.]

It does square up nicely with omel drinks.

[Dalton]

Imagine imol.

[Dale Jr.]

But IMOL is the same amount of letters as beer.

[Dalton]

Isn't that the wizard from the Smurfs?

[Dale Jr.]

Redo the graphics just fine.

[Travis]

My argument to all of this would be if. If me and Amy hadn't have had the conversation years ago about the spelling, I'd be on board with whatever.

[Dale Jr.]

Whoever anybody wanted to write it down.

[Travis]

We two, three years ago decided I

[Dalton]

am O L. Okay, so I see. Yeah, I'm stealing a little bit of a Memory from you.

[Travis]

Amy picked up on the fact that I was doing it, and then she decided how it would be spelled. And I'm like, I did it to tease him, right?

[Dale Jr.]

Like, you know, it was always a poke.

[Dalton]

You know what's funny is the more time I've spent around Dale, I. I

[Dale Jr.]

say you see it. Oh, you do.

[Dalton]

I say it all the time. Like, I'll be like, yeah, I'm gonna go down to the store. And what? I'm like, where did that. Like, I I it come.

[Travis]

Yeah, maybe you.

[Dale Jr.]

Maybe you were saying it all along. So he didn't even realize he was saying it until I pointed it out.

[Dalton]

Maybe I just notice it more now.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, maybe a lot of people say it.

[Travis]

It's crazy.

[Dale Jr.]

Maybe this poll will go very.

[Travis]

I think it should be very easy to say. My opinion is it should be a freaking word.

[Dalton]

My goal is to get it in the dictionary. I want to get it in, like, the Webster's dictionary.

[Travis]

That's my go to.

[Dalton]

Let's do it.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, my gosh. Who's going to share the glory in this? What if you win? What if he wins and it's your word? That would suck.

[Travis]

I know.

[Dalton]

Well, we'll let the people vote.

[Travis]

Let the people vote.

[Dalton]

All right. This is fun. I'm gonna get out of here.

[Dale Jr.]

All right, let's do some ask Amy. I'm gonna get out of here. Hey, mic drop.

[Travis]

I heard that.

[Dale Jr.]

Dalton,

[Travis]

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[Dale Jr.]

Hi guys. Dale and I are in the Dirty Mo Media Studios for another round of Bless yous Heart. And we're excited for your questions today. What do you have, Travis?

[Amy]

So our first question comes from Carla and she said that my daughter wants to start wearing makeup and I'm not sure how to handle this. How much? Like, when did you like start letting the girls put on a little makeup or whatever?

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, man. How old's the daughter? Her daughter?

[Amy]

Seven.

[Dale Jr.]

Seven. So I mean, we fluffed. We gave Isla a makeup desk when she was what, four? Three. Four.

[Travis]

They had. I mean, they were getting, it's like a tiny makeup. They were getting little fun toy kits from their grandparents and all this. I mean, a little, tiny little kit. I mean, so they've been playing in makeup for. Since they were tiny.

[Dale Jr.]

So we, we let her do it. I feel like a little too early. But she wasn't allowed to wear it out of the house. She just played in it.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

And it was like blue and pink and tacky and full of glitter. And she didn't really know how to play with it either or put it on. So she would dig holes in it and it'd be gone in a day. To be honest. Like, it didn't last very long.

[Travis]

Super messy.

[Dale Jr.]

Gets all so messy. And we haven't done that with Nicole yet because we saw. Yeah, we learned from our mistakes. And so she doesn't have a makeup desk in her room, but she will get into my makeup. But both of them are pretty good at putting it on. Like they can put mascara on without poking their eyeballs or anything like that.

[Travis]

It would be my advice that if you're gonna do it, you try to help with how it can be organized. So like we like alligating that little desk and having a little. It's a place where it all is contained. Right. Because those little kits, they're gonna get them for, you know, once you start letting them play, they're gonna want to ask for more. And they're gonna get it from aunts and uncles and niece, you know, nephews and friends and grandparents, and they're gonna have all these funky little crappy kits everywhere.

[Dale Jr.]

Crappy kids.

[Travis]

Well, it's just gonna. And if you have a space where you're like, honey, this is your makeup stand. This is where your makeup goes. You keep it here so your sister didn't get in it. So such and such and such and such.

[Dale Jr.]

And an old school caboodle. I got her one of those too. Like, I thought that would be a better thing that Nicole could not get into. So it looks like a little tackle box, to be honest. And they're cute colors and so they have a mirror inside. So if you don't want to actually commit to a full makeup desk, that's a good idea too.

[Travis]

Just the organization.

[Dale Jr.]

I think letting them play is fine.

[Amy]

What age did you let them get their ears pierced? What's what at what age did you let them get their ears pierced?

[Dale Jr.]

Well, so unpopular opinion is I did it already. Dale was not excited, but he knew it was happening. Isla. How old was Isla? She was six. And Nicole's four. And Nicole has not taken hers out. We have not changed them out, and it's been fine. The experience was really nice. Isla, however, wanted to change hers out as soon as she could. So it was like six weeks in and it was a little tender, and so we got them out. And putting the new ones back in was absolute torture. She had these little loops in and then, you know, she and her sister were playing with Barbies and she got Barbie whipped and it pulled one of them out, which also hurt. So she was not going to let me put that back in her ear. So she now still has just one loop in her ear.

[Travis]

She's had a hoop in one ear and the other one's grown back for over a year.

[Dale Jr.]

It's. She's like pirate. She's like a little pirate with one loop in her right ear. Yeah, we can't. I can't convince her to get that one repierced or change the other one out to something smaller that's a little more subtle. So she's got a loop. I feel like when they're younger, it's better because then they don't mess with them.

[Amy]

Yeah, you see, sometimes you'll see like a one year old with like little studs and you're just like, I feel

[Dale Jr.]

like I Don't think it's a bad choice.

[Amy]

No.

[Dale Jr.]

Because they're not going to mess with it, but their ears grow, you know? So, like, the only reason I would wait a little bit just is because the hole might not be in the right place. But. Yeah, I don't know. All girls really like that stuff, so I don't think it's a bad idea to do it.

[Amy]

Yeah. So this next question is how many pillows is too many pillows on a bed?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, we don't agree on that one. I really like having decorative pillows and all the fluff. And I want my bed to be made every morning. I want it to look pretty. Dale does not agree with that. He does not like having the bed made. So we just. I gave up. I don't have any decorative pillows on our bed at the house house. But I do at the beach house. We have king pillows, and I think each one of us have three and one of them always gets kicked on the floor. So I don't know, two. Two per person. I feel like you need an extra to hold onto or to, like, put your leg over or something.

[Travis]

I like an unmade bed. I think it's way more comfortable.

[Dale Jr.]

He likes.

[Amy]

Because then you get in. You just have to then pull the sheets off at the bottom to get it comfortable anyways. So it's like, why make it when you're literally gonna get in and just

[Dale Jr.]

pull it, pull it up? Just. Can we just pull the top up and just.

[Travis]

I don't mind, like, straightening the bed, but I hate, like, tucking in the sheets and all that stuff because I. My toe. I get down in the bottom. My toes are all bent. Now I gotta kick the sheet out of the. Out under the mattress to get my.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Cause it's tight to give me room.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, I don't like that either. I don't want the sheet to be tight on my feet.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

But I'm way shorter than you, so my feet don't get to the bottom of the bed.

[Amy]

Like at home. I just have a comforter on my bed.

[Dale Jr.]

Really?

[Amy]

Just sleep with just the comforter and

[Dale Jr.]

like a fitted sheet. No top sheet.

[Travis]

No top sheet. Amy, what kind of blankets are these?

[Dale Jr.]

We have Lola blankets. And if you have to live under a rock to not know what this is, to be honest, Travis is like, I don't.

[Amy]

I love under rock.

[Dale Jr.]

Apparently they're the softest, most fluffy blankets. And now, like, they started out with a throw blanket and now they make king size ones that cover your bed. And so that's Dale's favorite thing. But it's really heavy and warm.

[Travis]

I will. It would. If it's up to me, I would just jump on top of the. I would just cover. Throw that on top of the bed. I'd never even get under the blanket,

[Dale Jr.]

which he does that a lot. And he comes into bed later than I do. So I'm underneath the feather blanket with the Lola over on his side, and he'll come and lay on the top of the duvet and then cover up. And so I can't move. Like, I can't move my covers at all. I feel like we're gonna have to go Dutch style and, like, get our own. Like, you know how they have their own duvets on each side of the king bed? We each have our own, and then nobody's. Yeah, like, fighting over the blanket.

[Travis]

German.

[Amy]

That would be smart, dude. How many pillows do you sleep with? Like, when you're actively sleeping? Are you one, you're two?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

What is it?

[Amy]

I'm a one pillow guy.

[Dale Jr.]

One.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Super simple.

[Amy]

Just lay down, head.

[Dale Jr.]

Like, I don't want, like, do lay like this.

[Amy]

There are times where I'll sleep on my back. Yeah.

[Travis]

I do that every now and then.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Dan sleeps like that.

[Travis]

I start on my right side arm under the top. Like, on the right side, arm under the pillow. And then I have another pillow jackknife leg.

[Dale Jr.]

But also he sleeps diagonally across the bed.

[Travis]

I will start jackknife, But I wake up literally on my back with my hands like this. Yeah. I mean, I don't know.

[Dale Jr.]

Like, he's laying in his coffin.

[Travis]

Like I'm laying in a coffin.

[Amy]

I usually fall asleep best if I'm on my left side.

[Dale Jr.]

On your left side.

[Travis]

We know somebody and one of Amy's friends that sleeps balled up like a frog. Like a frog. She still does it, like fetal position.

[Dale Jr.]

Kind of like a fetal position. Yeah, but like, on her belly, on her knees up. Like she's a little frog.

[Amy]

I would be so sore. The next morning, she's.

[Travis]

This person is like a. In their 40s.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, she's my age.

[Travis]

Young. Yeah, like in their 40s. Low young 40s. And. And sleeps on her knees.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. We had a sleepover because the girls are the same age. I don't know. It was last spring.

[Travis]

She's gonna kill us.

[Dale Jr.]

It's all right. We're not saying her name. She won't care. It's not. She's. It's kind of funny, but she still does it. I thought, I'm going To. So she and I slept together in her bed. Her husband was away. And I look over in the morning, I'm like, there's this tiny little ball underneath the covers on her side of the. Like. Yeah. She still sleeps like that. That's crazy.

[Travis]

How.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know.

[Travis]

Is that comfortable?

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know, but she must sleep really well.

[Travis]

She sleeps exactly how she was balled up in her mother's belly.

[Dale Jr.]

Exactly.

[Travis]

Wow.

[Dale Jr.]

I think that all of us fall asleep with our face smashed into the pillow the same way it was comfortable in our room. That's. There's, like, one side that's more comfortable.

[Amy]

That makes sense.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

I. I do have, like. I. I do sleep better on my right side than my left. I'd rather sleep on my left because I'm facing you. But I don't. I don't. Not as calm, not comfortable. I don't know what it is. I'm just. I'm not more comfortable on my right side.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Have you thought about.

[Travis]

What difference does it make?

[Amy]

Have you guys thought about just switching sides?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, but Dale won't do it. He likes that side of the bed.

[Travis]

That's not true. What is it about the side of the bed and I like.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know. You just decided that was your side of the bed. That's your side of the bed at the beach, too. You have the same side. I don't do believe it's okay that we're not facing each other with our. Our nighttime breath just, like, hacking on each other.

[Travis]

I do believe that, though, if you're. If you're a couple and you sleep the same way in one bed, if you got a camper or if you got a vacation home or whatever. If you go on vacation, if you go to a hotel, like, you have to stay, do you have a side of the bed?

[Amy]

Makes sense.

[Travis]

Yeah. Because I feel like it throws everything off. I don't know.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't think about it that much.

[Travis]

Yeah. But.

[Dale Jr.]

So, yeah, he does care about the side of the bed.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Well, I'm just wanting to be the same as I am at home, whether it's. Whatever.

[Dale Jr.]

Whatever.

[Amy]

So our next question is, what is your favorite Chex mix piece?

[Dale Jr.]

Favorite checks? Mix?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Oh, man. The rye chip.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, the actual piece.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Let me read them for everybody listening. You got the corn checks, which is pretty good. The squiggle.

[Dale Jr.]

The breadstick.

[Travis]

Breadstick. Terrible. Wheat check. Wheat checks me. Round pretzel, bagel chip, garbage square. Pretzel. Eh. I mean, if old pretzels. I Just get pretzels. The rye chip is by far the best.

[Dale Jr.]

It is by far the best.

[Travis]

It is even close.

[Dale Jr.]

It's so salty.

[Travis]

And they finally, after I don't know, lots of complaints, 2000 freaking years, decided to put rye chips in a bag by themselves. Yeah. So you can.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, yeah. You can get your own bag.

[Travis]

You can get your own. You don't. You know what? Forgo the rest of the stuff and get just rye chips.

[Dale Jr.]

Because, you know, when you open a bag, everybody digs through and just gets the right chips out, and then you're

[Travis]

left with all the things, you know,

[Dale Jr.]

which is super rude. So annoying.

[Travis]

Well, it's. I know, but when you're doing it,

[Dale Jr.]

too, you're like, yeah, you don't care about whatever. I do it, I do it as well. Like, I talk about dopamine, A dopamine fix.

[Travis]

Dopamine rushes and stuff. And, like, itemizing, organizing, and what. What gives you, like, pleasure of, like, doing a chore or task or hobby?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Well, like, eating a bag of chicks, opening that whole bag and seeing all that's in there and digging through to get just. The rye is the opposite of dopamine because you're like, damn it. I'm. I'm.

[Dale Jr.]

Where are they?

[Travis]

Are they all getting only the ones I want, And I'm eventually going to run out pretty quick and have to eat the rest of this garbage. You know what I mean?

[Dale Jr.]

Some of the things. Just frustration.

[Travis]

Yeah, I do like the. The checks. What is that one part?

[Dale Jr.]

The first one. The rice.

[Travis]

Yeah, the. Right. The corn checks.

[Dale Jr.]

Corn checks.

[Travis]

I like those. They're. They're not bad. If once the rye chips are gone, I can. I'm digging to those guys.

[Amy]

See, then we could hang out, because I'm not going for the rye chips.

[Travis]

The bagel and the bagel and the breadstick.

[Dale Jr.]

What do you. Which, Travis?

[Amy]

I would go pretzels, then I would go bagel, then breadstick, then the checks.

[Travis]

So you got the bagel chip.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, he said it doesn't go for the rye at all, so y' all would absolutely be, like, a perfect match sitting at the bar.

[Amy]

Well, now, what I love is UTS has a thing called pub mix.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, the pub mix. We have that at the house.

[Amy]

They have it because they have, like, the seasoning on it.

[Dale Jr.]

Yes.

[Amy]

And then that's where it's really good.

[Dale Jr.]

They have those little hot wasabi peas in there, too.

[Amy]

I don't think I've ever seen that one.

[Dale Jr.]

Really?

[Travis]

Those things are good, but they're hard you gotta be careful.

[Dale Jr.]

Gotta be careful with your teeth.

[Amy]

Yeah, well, yeah, that's the same thing with those dry chips taken. But, yeah, we had this discussion in the office. I feel like everyone yesterday was going with the rye.

[Travis]

Yeah. They're so good.

[Dale Jr.]

It's like picking the. The. The lucky charm marshmallows out of the cereal, too. And they finally made bags of just the marshmallows. Not that those are good for you, but they're so fun.

[Travis]

They need to come up with, you know, Right. Ratchet. What is the sandwich made on rye?

[Dale Jr.]

A Reuben.

[Travis]

Yeah. Why don't they come up with the Reuben flavored ratchet? That would be awesome.

[Dale Jr.]

Reuben chip.

[Travis]

A Reuben chip. A Reuben rye chip.

[Dale Jr.]

So with, like, a little meat flavor and a little sauerkraut flavor.

[Travis]

Yeah, Sauerkraut. Oh, that'd be so good if there's some sauerkraut seasoning.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Like ranchy sauerkraut, probably.

[Travis]

Since it's such an amazing idea, it's probably gonna happen, but it'll be a few years from now, probably.

[Dale Jr.]

How do we master the Thousand island sauerkraut flavor?

[Amy]

I mean, it's amazing how these chip makers can find a flavor and put

[Travis]

it in a chip, nail it. Yeah.

[Amy]

I don't know.

[Travis]

You know, I probably don't want to

[Dale Jr.]

know how they're doing it, but some things are better left to be a mystery.

[Amy]

This next one comes from Tom. If you could delete an app off your significant other's phone, what would it be?

[Dale Jr.]

Ooh, Dale, you go first. If you could delete an app off of my phone, what would it be?

[Travis]

Oh, I mean, the only one I see you own is Instagram.

[Dale Jr.]

Really? So you delete Instagram?

[Travis]

Probably. I don't want to, but, I mean, I. I would delete it at certain moments. Like, it'd be cool if it. I do not want to delete Instagram from her phone for good. But there's some moments when I'm sitting there and I'm like, I want to delete the Instagram when he wants me

[Dale Jr.]

to pet his head or something and I'm just looking at my phone instead.

[Travis]

No, no, no. Just when we're hanging out. We're say, like, if we go to eat lunch or dinner together, we're by ourselves, but it's like, not like a nice dinner. You would never look at your phone during dinner. But, like, if we're hanging out at lunch or something, just. But just us and she'll be on her phone or something. I do. I would want it you're usually on

[Dale Jr.]

your phone too, though. Usually it's.

[Travis]

I knew this is going. Conversation is a tough one, man.

[Dale Jr.]

It's okay. But so he. His all look like his is either Reddit or X or something. It's always. He's reading. Reading nonsense. It's not like he's looking at Instagram.

[Travis]

I wish you could delete X off my phone.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, we've gone through periods of time where it was deleted off of your phone and then it keeps popping back in there.

[Travis]

Yeah. I get out of X and deleted off my phone for like a year at a time. And then I get back in there and I'm like, oh, pretty fun. And then I'll delete it, get rid of it for a while.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, he gets tired of himself.

[Travis]

I know it's not. Got his hooks in me. You know what I'm saying?

[Dale Jr.]

So you do it just to make sure you.

[Travis]

You know what I'm saying?

[Dale Jr.]

No, I'm just saying. What's another quote that we don't like? I'm just saying. What. What else you got?

[Travis]

Oh, man, I don't know.

[Dale Jr.]

You don't know. Too hard to put you on the spot. You can think about it.

[Amy]

It's hard to think of it when you're.

[Dale Jr.]

I know it's hard.

[Amy]

The show will end and all a sudden you're like, oh, that one, that one, that one.

[Dale Jr.]

That happens. Part of it.

[Amy]

I hate that.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Do you have any more questions?

[Amy]

Nope, that's it. Well, do you have an app that you went off Dale's.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, X. It would be.

[Travis]

It would be X. Yeah, X. I

[Dale Jr.]

don't feel like he's on any other social platforms that often.

[Amy]

Dale, didn't you used to have, like, set limits for you on your phone?

[Dale Jr.]

No, I don't.

[Travis]

I did mess around.

[Dale Jr.]

You did do that screen time, but

[Travis]

I would ignore it and I was like, it's a waste of time.

[Dale Jr.]

So I feel like it's the same. That would be the same for me as, like, having the ring or the. The watch that, like, tracks your sleep and your steps and all that. Every girlfriend of mine has those things.

[Travis]

I'm getting one.

[Dale Jr.]

I have them. I had. I gave my sister the ring because I just.

[Travis]

Garmin watch.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, you are?

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

And I have a whoop band which, like, calibrates, and I couldn't even wear it long enough to let it calibrate because you have to sleep in it. And I don't sleep in my jewelry or anything.

[Amy]

I've thought about trying whoop.

[Dale Jr.]

It's a great band. It really does a good job. But I just feel like I've got to the point where I'm like, if I can't even let this thing calibrate, I don't need to know all the things. One of the crew tell me anyway.

[Travis]

One of the crew chiefs has one and was showing it to me, and it's a little Garmin watch, the 970, and I was gonna wear it just to see what it told me. And he's like, man, it tells you all this different stuff. He's showing me everything.

[Dale Jr.]

I feel like as neurotic as you are, that's going to be too much information.

[Travis]

I know, but it's like, it's the. It's the itemizing and the. In the collecting of data, and then.

[Dale Jr.]

I know, but you got to do something with it.

[Amy]

But maybe if it tells him that he's not getting enough sleep, he might go to bed earlier.

[Travis]

Like, I'm either gonna get him to do something. Some things I'm either going to look

[Dale Jr.]

at it and go, that would be shocking.

[Travis]

I'm either going to look at it and go, man, I'm challenged to try to improve these numbers and I'll do some work on myself. Or I'm going to look at it and go, yep, didn't want to know that and throw it away. I don't know.

[Dale Jr.]

You know, I can't wait to see how that plays out. Yeah, I. I know that when I see a rule like that for myself, I find that to be annoying, even if I set it up for myself. And so, like, Jamie, she.

[Travis]

I just have a hard time wearing watch, period. Like, I had the Apple Watch for a while, and I just. I like it. I love it.

[Dale Jr.]

The Apple Watch does a lot of the same things, by the way.

[Travis]

And I love the Apple Watch because you wouldn't. You'd get a phone, you get a text message or something. You wouldn't have to. You know, you don't have to.

[Dale Jr.]

At least you generally, though, had the phone really close to you.

[Travis]

I know, but more Apple Watch meant less phone. And I liked that. I was, like, giving. I was, like, doing less with this.

[Dale Jr.]

Giving your thumbs a break. Yeah, I don't know. We'll see.

[Travis]

But then just putting it on and charging it and updating it this and that, and it's like, really, what is this thing doing?

[Dale Jr.]

Well, they have fun little, like, charging stations now where it's real easy to just throw it over there when you're going to sleep, but you're Supposed to sleep in some of those things, like the oura ring. Jamie has one of those, and it tells her, like, it's approaching your bedtime parameters she has set up for herself. And I'm like, if my ring kept telling me to go to bed, I would get really annoyed by that. So I just don't feel like it's something I need in my life.

[Travis]

All right, well, I'm just. You're. I'm just interested in what the watch is going to tell me, but I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with that information.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, I don't know. I would like to see my sleep patterns, though. Like, I know I wake up and I have.

[Travis]

Yes.

[Dale Jr.]

Like, I have not slept well at all this week. I wake up at 2:00am Just, like, looking at the ceiling.

[Travis]

I want it to tell me, you're not gonna have a good day. You're gonna fall. You know, you're gonna crash early because you didn't sleep. Such and such and such. I'm gonna be like, all right, watch this.

[Dale Jr.]

Does it tell you that?

[Travis]

You didn't know I was gonna drink all this Red Bull, did you?

[Dale Jr.]

You don't know me that well. Watch me go watch.

[Amy]

Yeah, that'd be smart to have it, like, for your spouse. So, you know, like, oh, they didn't sleep well. They're tired. I better be nice today because of X, Y, and Z. I'm gonna mind my P's and Q's today. Yeah, maybe that's Dale. You can get Amy's information sent to you. So, you know. Okay. She's running low today. Let me be nice.

[Dale Jr.]

That's a way better idea. I'll wear the whoop and he can have that.

[Amy]

She gets the information.

[Travis]

Yeah. Careful, careful around Amy today.

[Dale Jr.]

Careful. Handle with care.

[Amy]

Avoid.

[Dale Jr.]

She got an excellent night of sleep. Litter it like. And he would totally do that.

[Travis]

See?

[Dale Jr.]

Just saying.

[Amy]

There you go.

[Dale Jr.]

All right, well, thank you for your questions. We had a great show today. Please tune in if you haven't already. Please hit the subscribe button. And also, don't forget to check out all the [e-mail] we have a poll going up today with the I'm old T shirt. I am the spelling O L or I apostrophe M apostrophe ll. So we need your vote. Check that out in stories and we will see you next week.

[Travis]

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[Amy]

Another day, another buzz delayed.

[Dale Jr.]

Look on the bright side. You can finally catch up on podcasts.

[Travis]

You don't mind running late. What's your deal?

[Dale Jr.]

What's my deal? I saved at Metro with no activation fees. I got one line of 5G for just 25amonth. Kept the phone I love and a 5 year price guarantee for my talk, text and data. Only 25.

[Travis]

I'm going to Metro when we hop off.

[Dale Jr.]

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[Travis]

after a long day. Have you ever wondered if you work to live or if you live live to work? Neither do we. Why should we when the beach is always just a lime away? Corona La Playa awaits.

[Amy]

Relax responsibly.

[Travis]

Corona Extra Beer imported by Crown Import, Chicago, Illinois.