Fall Break, Farts & A****** Tendencies

Summary

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Episode: "Fall Break, Farts & A****** Tendencies"
Date: October 16, 2025
Host: Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Dale Jr.), with Amy Earnhardt and Travis
Network: Dirty Mo Media, SiriusXM

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Overview

Broadcasting this week from their beach house during fall break, Dale Jr. and Amy share a candid, often hilarious window into their family life away from the NASCAR circuit. The heart of the episode is all about relaxation, parenting quirks, couple routines, and the pursuit of simple pleasures like day trips and unique local bars. There’s also plenty of listener interaction: a laugh-out-loud Fixins segment on awkward relationship moments, a review of Bless Y’all’s Heart merch contest entries, and a closing Ask Amy Q&A with their trademark frankness and warmth.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. Beach House Vibes & Fall Break Reflections

• The show is recorded remotely from Dale and Amy’s beach house, a change from their studio routine thanks to their kids' fall break.
  • [01:45] Dale Jr.: "It's gonna be a lot of fun doing it remote. Me and Amy are in the same room just using different cameras."
• The couple discusses how the school calendar—and fall breaks—have shifted since their own childhoods.
  • [03:35] Amy: "I don't remember even having a fall break in school."
  • [03:57] Dale Jr.: "But at 50, 51 years old, I'm still sitting here going, hell, yeah. Fall break."
• They reminisce about moving away from Key West to somewhere "drivable" for family vacations, settling near Charleston, SC.

2. Simple Fall Break Pleasures

• Most of the break is spent with family, enjoying unstructured activities:
  • Lazy days at the beach
  • Pumpkin patch visits (though results are mixed!)
  • Baking cinnamon rolls (Dale's kitchen experiment goes awry; cinnamon explodes everywhere).
    • [05:26] Amy: "He decorated the whole kitchen... Should have said something, and I didn't. It was my fault."
• Dale shares how he enjoys these quiet moments more as he gets older.
  • [12:30] Dale Jr.: “I just gotten to that point in my life now where I'm more appreciative... of what’s happening around me and who I'm with.”

3. Charleston Adventures: Day Drinking & Local Color

• Dale and Amy go bar-hopping in Charleston, notably during the day ("like senior citizens").
  • Leon’s Oyster Bar (in a converted body shop), Royal American, Rec Room: each praised for their local charm and history.
  • [09:44] Amy: "We were day drinking, but nobody here really does that... We were in there like senior citizens."
  • [10:01] Amy: "These are like the local holes I think that we were in."
• Dale’s birthday celebration revolves around "three or four or five hours" sitting, drinking, and just being with Amy.
  • [11:41] Dale Jr.: “…for my birthday, all I really wanted to go out with Amy and have… hours of sitting around, drinking, staring at each other.”

4. Relationship Routines & Parenting Surprises

• Lighthearted discussion on marriage nuances, like Dale’s tendency to stare at Amy (making her uncomfortable), and the classic couple’s debate over phones and sleeping habits.
  • [12:08] Amy: “He’s always done that... if he didn’t have anything to say, he would just sit there and stare... It is very awkward.”
• Parenting sleep struggles, middle-of-the-night kid visits, and the question of proper nighttime phone etiquette.
  • [16:34] Amy: “That’s Isla’s move. She likes to get as close as she can to your face and just breathe until you wake up.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Aging & Fall Break:
  • [03:57] Dale Jr.: "But at 50, 51 years old, I'm still sitting here going, hell, yeah. Fall break."
• Kitchen Fiasco:
  • [05:26] Amy: "He decorated the whole kitchen... cinnamon stuff gets literally everywhere. Well, but I was. I chuckled because I should have said something, and I didn't. It was my fault."
• Charleston Scene:
  • [09:44] Amy: “We were day drinking, but nobody here really does that. It seems like they're all at the beach during the day and then they go hang out in the dark, cool vibey bars at night. We were in there like senior citizens.”
• On Relationship Quirks:
  • [12:08] Amy: “He’s always done that... If he didn't have anything to say, he would just sit there and stare at me.”
• On Open Door Policies:
  • [23:49] Listener Q: "Is it normal for couples to go to the bathroom with the open door?... Am I stuck smelling his bowel movement forever, or do I have to say something to make it stop?"
  • [24:05] Amy: "You can say something, but bottom line is, he's going to do it anyway... That too happened to me. The exact same thing happened to me."
  • [24:38] Dale Jr. (on fart avoidance): "Good intentions."

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Key Segments (with Timestamps)

1. Fall Break & Beach House Life

• [01:11] - [08:10]: Dale and Amy introduce their fall break, discuss school changes, childhood memories, and family vacation philosophy.

2. Charleston Bar Tour and Birthday Fun

• [08:10] - [11:42]: Details about Charleston hotspots, local recommendations, Dale’s laid back birthday wishes, and the local Instagram sighting.

3. Sleep, Parenting, and Couple Habits

• [15:07] - [18:46]: Waking up in the middle of the night, kids sneaking into the bed, sleep cycles affected by drinking, and phone use at night.

4. The Fixins Segment: Awkward Moments Q&A

Listener Relationship Dilemmas:

• [20:22] - [32:07]:

  • The Misplaced Tennis Outfit: Relationship trust issues when a gift resurfaces a year later.
  • Open Door Bathroom Habits: Navigating comfort (and smells) in cohabitation.
  • Letting Your Partner Give You a Bad Haircut: How to bow out graciously.
  • Zoom Call Rants Gone Public: Leaning into your mistakes when you’re overheard insulting coworkers.
  • Dale’s Gift Gaffes: Accidentally insulting a gift in front of the giver, and embracing imperfection.

  Notable Quotes:

  • [21:55] Dale Jr.: “This is a common, common challenge for men because there'll be all kinds of things that women forget happened... and you’ll be like, I’m telling you, this is what happened.”
  • [28:12] Dale Jr.: "Ooh, you don't tell her she sucks [at cutting hair]."
  • [29:27] Dale Jr.: “I think you lean into it. I mean, once you've made your bed, you kind of gotta own it.”

5. Bless Y’all’s Heart Merch Contest

• [35:57] - [42:25]:
  • Dale, Amy, and Travis react to T-shirt contest submissions—from “boobies and buffalo shrimp” pinup art to "blowing farts and blessing hearts," giving feedback on humor and style.
    • [38:29] Amy: "Blowing farts and blessing hearts... I love that it's in a script font. Like, it's fancy."
    • [40:35] Amy: "I like how simple that one is, too… looks like a stamp of approval."
  • They encourage fans to grab their favorites, noting it’s a limited run.

6. Ask Amy Q&A

• [43:28] - End:
  • Topics: Dancing with the Stars, pumpkin patch adventures, Whataburger openings, beer preferences, fall wardrobe favorites, and thermostat philosophy.
    • [46:00] Amy: "The pumpkin patch was slightly miserable, slightly fun. We didn't even get a damn pumpkin."
    • [49:08] Amy & Dale Jr. debate: Favorite beer vessel (bottle, can, draft).
    • [52:28] Amy: "I just love it when it gets cold. So I can wear a beanie."

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Episode Takeaways

• Dale and Amy revel in the joy of taking it slow and making the most of small-town, offbeat pleasures.
• The show’s strength is the sheer relatability: from birthday bar crawls to the everyday hilarity of parenting, marriage, and mild embarrassment.
• They’re self-deprecating and honest about their quirks—whether it’s Dale’s devotion to his own beef jerky or his failed attempts to avoid sharing bathroom smells.
• The Fixins advice segment is a highlight—Amy and Dale’s rapport with each other and loyal listeners shines, delivering genuine laughs and real-life wisdom.

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Final Thoughts

If you want an hour of down-to-earth storytelling, marital banter, and community participation (plus great suggestions on where to drink in Charleston and why you should always photograph your gift-giving), this episode is for you. Most importantly, you’ll walk away with a smile (and maybe a new appreciation for beanies, buffalo shrimp, and the power of keeping your bathroom door closed!).

Transcript

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[Dale Jr.]

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[Amy]

DALE and I are back for another episode of Bless yous Heart. We are on fall break this week. So we're having our show from our beach house. And have a good show. So let's get started.

[Dale Jr.]

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[Amy]

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

[Dale Jr.]

I'm working.

[Amy]

Working that mouth.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. It's gonna be a lot of fun doing it remote. Me and Amy are in the same room just using different cameras. So we've tried this, set up multiple different ways. Obviously I think we prefer being in the studio, but we gotta get out. And our kids are on fall break, as Amy said. And so, yeah, it's been a long year. It's hard to believe fall break's already here. Like we're starting to head on into the holiday holidays.

[Amy]

Yes. I saw something the other day that said that Christmas is only like 10 Fridays away. That includes this week. So it's going to be right around the corner.

[Dale Jr.]

So we got a drink of the week. There's. We each just came into the. This is our little bar in our house upstairs. It's a little bar area, but we just came in here and made a drink. This is a A little bit of high rock vodka with cherry lemon sundrop.

[Amy]

I have a glass of champagne. Just kept it simple.

[Dale Jr.]

Delicious. Check on highrockvodka.com. there's a locator on the website. That locator will tell you where every bottle of high rock vodka is. So you don't, you know, I know a lot of people are like, I don't know where it's at. I don't know if my store has it. Well, you can go and look at the locator and it'll tell you if there's bottles at the store next door. So it's a great way to save yourself a trip or know exactly what you're going there for. Must be 21 or over. Drink responsibly. And let's get right into it. So, fall break. I did not anticipate how much I would be looking forward to, to these little. I thought, you know, when I, I thought when I got out of school that looking forward to, like, those breaks in school were over in my life.

[Amy]

Well, I don't remember even having a fall break in school.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't either.

[Amy]

Do you?

[Dale Jr.]

No. And our, our school year was different. It feels like, I don't know. I, I, I felt like that we didn't start as early.

[Amy]

We didn't. We started after Labor Day.

[Dale Jr.]

Right. And so our kids are starting sooner. They get more breaks than I remember getting, which is fine. I mean, I'm fine. Long as they're staying smart. As long as they're learning.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Dale Jr.]

But at 50, 51 years old, I'm still sitting here going, hell, yeah. Fall break.

[Amy]

That feels on, that feels like, you know, on trend for you. It's Dale's fall break. It's not the kids. Fall break.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, I know we're all vacationing and.

[Amy]

It was just your birthday.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

It is unique that it follows around this time, but fall break for us is just go, you know, not, not. I don't. You know, Amy, you can, you may have a different point of view, but I feel like we just kind of, we just leave the house, we go somewhere we don't really, sometimes maybe we'll.

[Amy]

We'Ll end up at a, A pumpkin patch or something.

[Dale Jr.]

At a pumpkin.

[Tyler Reddick]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Something simple, but nothing crazy.

[Amy]

Travis's favorite. Our life's full of plans. And so, yeah, this week we use it just to take advantage of coming down here, which is great because there's all types of activities to do that don't need plans. And so we love coming down here. I actually got to sleep in. This morning, Dale was Mr. Mom. And I got to be Dale this morning.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, I had a wild. A wild hare to get up and. And make some breakfast of the kids, feed the dog.

[Amy]

They tried to get me up first. She comes straight to the Isla or Nicole, I don't even know. I didn't open my eyes. Came straight to the side of the bed and starts tapping me on the face, telling me she's thirsty and hungry. And Dale got. Got out of the bed and helped him out. But I did notice that.

[Travis]

What'd you make, Dale?

[Dale Jr.]

Cinnamon rolls.

[Amy]

He made cinnamon rolls.

[Dale Jr.]

And there was a. Preheat an oven to 350. Oh, yeah. You went the easy route to 350. Sticking things in there for 20 minutes there.

[Amy]

There is a little bit of cinnamon rolls, though. And I forgot to tell Dale the disclaimer before he ran off. As you. You know that it's the kind of the can that you open and then they pop. Well, the. The ones that I buy full on explode. Oh, man. And so the cinnamon stuff gets literally everywhere. So when I open them, I do it over the trash can. And he decorated the whole kitchen when I was just getting cleaned up. I mean, it's all over the cabinet doors. Oh, refrigerator. It went everywhere. Well, but I was. I chuckled because I should have said something, and I didn't. It was my fault.

[Dale Jr.]

I felt like I cleaned up what I saw.

[Amy]

Yeah, he was trying his hardest to clean the dishes and everything.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, I did some dishes, but I.

[Amy]

Don'T know why they have to make them like that.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, so fall break. This. You know, this is unique because I guess, you know, falling so close to my birthday last birthday last week, last weekend, we celebrated Nicole turning five. And Amy's like, what do you want to do? And I said, well, when we go to Charleston for fall break, let's just go into town and have a few drinks. No problem. Okay. We'll do a little day drinking, noon to 5 or something. So that's what we did Tuesday. Tuesday and yesterday, we just kind of laid around, hung out with the kids. Didn't really do nothing. And so we took them on a.

[Amy]

Ride with their new golf cart.

[Dale Jr.]

That's right. Yeah, we did that. We'll talk about that in a second. We did get another golf cart, but fall break is just so. Yeah, we went. We. We. Tuesday, we went into town and Charleston. So we have. We have a. We had a place in Key west forever, and then we sold it when we got kids. And so we were down there one day pushing Isla around in a stroller at 9 o' clock in the morning. And people were out partying like hell already. And we thought, man, you know, we gotta. Before she starts getting aware what's going on.

[Amy]

She can't think. This is just normal life.

[Dale Jr.]

We might not need to be around this often. Right. And so we, we thought about getting a place where we could drive and still go, go, go vacation. So I raced down in this area, like Monks Corner, Savannah. You know, all these areas are familiar to me because racing at Myrtle beach or racing at Florence or Somer, I know a lot of the people, you know, that were from those areas. So it's. I don't know why it feels familiar to me, but. So we kind of settled around here and it's been nice. We've been here for about five or six years. We get down here as much as we can and we don't really go into Charleston too much.

[Amy]

We kind of get stuck out here on the island and in our groove.

[Dale Jr.]

And Charleston is insane. Really good. All kinds of stuff to do. All kinds of stuff.

[Amy]

Yeah. The food is good. The bars are. Everything is kind of old. The buildings, even if it's a new space, it's built out in an old. An old shell. So it's just neat. We went to a few bars.

[Dale Jr.]

We did. So yesterday or Tuesday, we went and got something to eat at this one spot, really cool place called Lou's.

[Amy]

Right, Leon.

[Dale Jr.]

Leon, sorry, Leon's Oyster Bar.

[Amy]

But it used to be a body shop.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, it's really neat.

[Amy]

So the building is neat, staff was.

[Dale Jr.]

Great, everybody was super nice. Food was. Food was really good. And. And then we went to a couple of bars that a friend of ours had suggested we go to. A buddy of ours named Bruce that lives down here. And so we went to the Royal American. Super cool. Really, really old school inside. Seems like it's been there forever. And out in the Royal American, you can explain it better than I can, Amy, but the outside, the back deck.

[Amy]

And all that, well, you just walk outside and there's a train track right next to it. And then from in the distance in the background, there's like marsh. And then you could see the Ravenel Bridge. So it's kind of a weird mashup of things.

[Dale Jr.]

But on the way out, the trains going by and all these box cars and stuff. It's. It's really cool vibe.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

But then we left there and we went to.

[Amy]

We went to the rec room.

[Dale Jr.]

The rec room, that's right, the rec room. So in the rec room. Got. Got a couple photos with some of the staff there. And we're the only people in there. It's like two in the afternoon. They're just opening up like an hour ago.

[Amy]

That's pretty much the situation in every bar we went to. We were day drinking, but nobody here really does that. It seems like they're all at the beach during the day and then they go hang out in the dark, cool vibey bars at night. We were in there like senior citizens.

[Travis]

Charleston is. I feel like Charleston, though, is like a tourist area though.

[Amy]

Yeah, these are like the local holes I think that we were in.

[Travis]

Okay.

[Amy]

So, yeah, we were in there by ourselves for the most part. And every one of them.

[Dale Jr.]

No, it's fine. It's perfect. I mean, I don't like to go to those bars at night anymore. And so just going in there and sitting in there and day drinking and getting all that out of the way and getting home at a decent hour is kind of the play these days. But we go to a couple of these bars and then we finally ended up somewhere for some five o' clock dinner food, and then we got back home and so yesterday, I guess yesterday we ended up on Instagram.

[Amy]

The Charleston scene.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, the Charleston scene. Those kind of Instagram handles. I guess we ended up on. On the Instagram that we were out and about and so we were getting text messages from friends in the area. And then we went to dinner last night at the. At a local spot here on the island and they were like, y' all are all over Instagram. We're like, really?

[Amy]

We were kind of out by ourselves. Who know? Who knows who saw us?

[Dale Jr.]

We were oblivious.

[Amy]

Ourselves?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, in the bars.

[Amy]

All of them.

[Dale Jr.]

But anyways, we had a good time Tuesday. Drank a lot of beer and.

[Amy]

One of us drank a lot of beer.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, I drank a ton of beer. Amy did. I. I would absolutely go back to all those spots. And, you know, I was texting Tim Duggar and every. All my friends about like, man, this, these are spots that you guys would really love. So again, ton of history in. In Charleston. And so my birthday was complete. That's all I need. I need just, you know, for my birthday, all. I really want to go out with Amy and have, you know, three or four or five hours of sitting around, drinking, staring at each other.

[Amy]

He did do that all day. I don't know what that is. He's been doing that since I met him. It's not like a new thing. I'm not shocked by it. But it is still a little awkward. Travis, when you start dating someone and you. And you like the way that she looks, are you just going to just like, if we were just dating, stare at her? He's always done that. If he didn't have anything to say. Yes, if you didn't have anything to say, you would just sit there and stare at me.

[Travis]

Isn't that a good thing?

[Amy]

It's a good thing that he likes what he sees, but it is very awkward. How do I know? What do I do with that? You just like you're eating. All of a sudden you look up, somebody's just like staring at you. Same thing. And he still does it. And he was doing it the other day to make me feel awkward. After, he just knew it was making me a little uncomfortable. He was like, I'm just gonna keep going.

[Dale Jr.]

So I just gotten to that point in my life now where I'm more appreciative, I guess, of what, what, what's happening around me and who I'm with.

[Amy]

And I think it was just you were being a stinker, trying to antagonize me.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm telling you, I'm trying to tell you the truth.

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[Amy]

I got something random.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, you do? Go ahead.

[Amy]

So I woke up middle of the night and you. I. I woke up in the middle of the night and I had a hand on my arm. And it was. It was rubbing my arm just ever so slightly. And I'm like, you know how when you have a weird dream and you're trying to attack the person but it like you go catatonic, you can't move in the dream. Like, you're just like paralyzed. That's what I felt because I knew it was a real hand, but I didn't know whose hand it was. It didn't feel like his. And so at one point I grabbed it and I did realize it was his, but his arm was all the way underneath his pillow and my pillow across my chest on my arm and he was just rubbing my arm. What the hell were you dreaming about? Yes.

[Dale Jr.]

Damn. I don't know.

[Amy]

Scared the out of me.

[Dale Jr.]

Probably having a good dream. Like, man, this feels good.

[Amy]

You were tickling my arm. It was weird.

[Dale Jr.]

It was like velvet.

[Amy]

And I went literally, like froze in my bed. I'm like, there's no little person to my left who the is rubbing on me.

[Dale Jr.]

Sometimes. That's the one thing about being a parent, man. You'll wake up in the middle of the night and sometimes there's There's a kid in the bed. Sometimes there's a, there's another.

[Amy]

There's a, another.

[Dale Jr.]

They get in there and they don't, you know, you don't get woken up. It's kind of a little bit of a jolt when you wake up and there's, you know, you better be careful who you're going. The kiddos climbed in there and, you know, they do that thing where they walk and stand next to the bed and stare at you until you wake up.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's Isla's move. She likes to get as close as she can to your face and just breathe until she. Until you wake up.

[Dale Jr.]

That's creepy.

[Amy]

So weird.

[Travis]

Yeah, I woke up late. I don't know what time it was. I thought it was like, I was still like half sleep. Thought it was like time to start the day. Then I like, grab my phone. I'm like, oh, it's like two in the morning. Yeah, go back to bed. Like, I was out of it.

[Amy]

Are you able to go back to sleep at 2 in the morning? Yeah.

[Travis]

Oh, yeah, I was out.

[Dale Jr.]

I did that Tuesday night. We, we've been out all day drinking and I mean, you know, that usually.

[Amy]

Happens when you drink alcohol.

[Dale Jr.]

We had like eight or. I had like eight or ten beers over the course of five hours. And so we get back and, man, we, you know, we put, we get the kids, teeth brush, we get them upstairs, get on the bed. We're in the bed. Nine o'.

[Amy]

Clock.

[Dale Jr.]

I woke up at midnight. And when I woke up, I'm thinking, my bed. It's, you know, four or five, six, four in the morning. Five in the morning, still dark out. I looked at the clock and I was like, it's only like 12. And I'm like sitting there wide awake at 12 o'. Clock.

[Amy]

You're not usually in bed by 12.

[Dale Jr.]

I know, I hate that. And then I sit there on my phone for an hour and finally get sleepy enough. So they say you don't, you're, you know when you're trying to go to sleep, you're not supposed to look at your phone.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Like, that's not, that's like going to stimulate, stimulate you. But any kind of reading, any kind of reading or looking at words and stuff like that makes me sleepy. So if I just sit up and read anything, like, no matter what it is, I get tired.

[Amy]

Yeah. You're used to the lights and the gaming stuff, so it doesn't bother you.

[Travis]

So.

[Dale Jr.]

Wow.

[Travis]

Yeah. Your body tells you if you're on your phone you're supposed to be awake. So then if you do that when you're trying to fall asleep, like, it. Your body's like, no, no, laying in bed right now. I should be awake.

[Dale Jr.]

Mine doesn't do that. And so if I. If I. You know, if I grab my phone, Amy's like, what are you doing on your phone?

[Amy]

Yeah, because this phone is huge, and the brightness is all the way up, and sometimes the noise is.

[Dale Jr.]

How I'm gonna try to make myself completely back to sleep is like.

[Travis]

But can you turn the brightness down a little bit for Amy?

[Dale Jr.]

I turn it all the way off.

[Amy]

Even if he's got it underneath the covers, I know I can.

[Dale Jr.]

I will have the brightness to zero. I'll be under a comforter. And she'll be like, hey, why are you on your.

[Amy]

Go in another room.

[Dale Jr.]

Go in the other room.

[Tyler Reddick]

That.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, that's definitely not going to. I'm not going to be able to sleep in another room.

[Amy]

You can sleep on the couch just fine.

[Travis]

Get one of the screens that, like, from the side, you can't see a shady screen.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, that's. That's a new one. So I can. If I. So Amy doesn't like it if I sleep on the couch. If I go to sleep on the couch, she gets upset because she thinks it's like a dig to her. Like, I've insulted her in some way by not coming to bed. But I can start in bed as long as. If I end up on the couch, it's okay. As long as I started in bed.

[Amy]

Only on special circumstances. And at home, we have a couch right next door to the bed. Like, we have a little sitting room.

[Dale Jr.]

I saw it the other night.

[Amy]

Yeah. For a while, it used to serve as the nursery, and now it's just got a big couch in it.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So you could.

[Dale Jr.]

Nicole was sick and came in our bed, and she was, like, 150 degrees. Her body was really hot.

[Amy]

She was hacking all over Dale, and he's like, I can't get sick.

[Dale Jr.]

I got up and got on the couch. It's like five feet away from the bed.

[Amy]

It's not far, but there is a little bit of a wall, so you can't really see your phone.

[Dale Jr.]

We had a lot of fun doing this segment on the. On previous episodes. And you'll hear Gus barking every now and then. He's trying to get in here, but he's wet. So this is the fixings segment presented by Hellman's. Hellman's is made with real quality ingredients. It's a lifesaver in the kitchen. Grab a jar next time you're out. And check out hellmans.com for recipes that can fix just about anything you have going on. That's what this segment's about. Sometimes you mess up really bad. You need someone to tell you exactly how to make things right. And so in this new fixing segment, listeners have sent in their most disastrous moments. And we're going to lay out a recovery plan. So we're ready to go. Travis.

[Travis]

This first one is a doozy, so buckle in. My girlfriend, My girlfriend loves tennis, so I bought her a tennis outfit one day as a random just because gift. You know, like how guys are gifted. Golf polos. She said she liked it, but left it in my closet. Fast forward a year while she was helping me pack up my apartment to move. Last week, she found the outfit in the closet and thinks it belongs to someone else. I've explained to her that it was the one that I got for her, but she never wore. But I have zero proof. She's been mad for a week, but she's sort of starting to believe me. What could I have done differently?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

That'S kind of wild. So I'm surprised she didn't remember ever opening it. Like, girls usually remember opening a gift and the fact that he gave her.

[Travis]

One, which tells me she didn't like the gift.

[Amy]

No, she didn't like it. Or. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe she left it there thinking they were going to play together and that just never happened. That is a doozy. You're not wrong.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know that there is a cure or fix for this.

[Amy]

I feel like you gotta just stick to the story. I'm surprised there's no photo evidence of her opening it or anything.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, yeah, I think you just kind of got to stick to the story.

[Amy]

And I mean, it's got the tags on it, like, right?

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So she's gotta understand that nobody's been wearing that.

[Dale Jr.]

Maybe it doesn't have the tags on.

[Amy]

Well, I mean, you can tell when something's fresh and it's been worn or it's been worn. I feel like she just needs to try it on and go with it. Wear the outfit. Yeah, man, that's really bad.

[Travis]

I think also that next time he's just got to take photos when he gives gifts of he's got receipts.

[Amy]

Yeah, you need receipts.

[Dale Jr.]

This is a common, common challenge for men because there'll be all kinds of things that women forget happened or that they forget we did. Or what? And you'll. You'll be like, I'm telling you, this is what happened. No, I don't know. That's not what happened.

[Amy]

I.

[Dale Jr.]

There's no way out of that.

[Amy]

Beg to differ.

[Dale Jr.]

There's no way out of this. I feel bad for this guy because he's got no root out. He's got no. No safety net.

[Amy]

I wonder if he bought it and thought he gave it to her, but, like, never did. Why would it be hanging in his closet?

[Travis]

That could be.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, yeah.

[Travis]

Like, why would she left it there? Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah. Because even if she didn't like it, most girls wouldn't just leave it.

[Travis]

Yeah. They're gonna take it. So they can. Then they make it feel like I liked it. Yeah, it's a little easier. Yeah.

[Amy]

Usually a little more gracious. And even if they didn't like it, they take it home and make fun of it with their friends.

[Dale Jr.]

Because, I mean, if I was him, if a lot of time had passed it. Huh? I think it would have dawned on me that this. This actual problem would become a possibility. You know what I mean? So, like, if. If this is only, like, surely some time has passed for her to forget.

[Travis]

Right?

[Dale Jr.]

And so the year, it's on him to have not went, you know, four months ago. Hey, you know what? This could be problematic, you know, this being in here. She might not remember this or whatever. He could have saved himself some trouble just getting rid of it. Yep.

[Travis]

This next one. I have a feeling you two are going to be able to talk about this one in depth. Is it normal for couples to go to the bathroom with the open door? With the door open? I just moved in with my boyfriend, my apartment, and within hours of living together, he goes number one and number two, with the door wide open. I've never lived with the man before. Tell me, is this normal? Am I stuck smelling his bowel movement forever, or do I have to say something to make it stop?

[Amy]

Okay, you can say something, but bottom line is, he's going to do it anyway. That's what I have learned. That, too, happened to me. The exact same thing happened to me. And I think just yesterday I was smelling some bowel movements. So I feel like no matter what, I was.

[Dale Jr.]

We were in bed last night, and I got. I knew I had a tattoo because I ate some grapes earlier, and I was like, all right. So I got up, walked all the way. I mean, I walked a whole lap in the house to go to, and I came back in there thinking, I'm good She says, hey, do you fart? I'm like, yeah. She said, did you leave the room or leave the bedroom to go far? And I said, yes. She said, you brought it back in here? Yeah. I was like, damn it.

[Amy]

It's like a dirt cloud still stuck in his britches. And then walks it back into the room. He. He doesn't walk as near as long as he thinks he does.

[Dale Jr.]

Good intentions.

[Travis]

Wait, how long is a person he's supposed to walk, Amy? Like, a half a mile.

[Amy]

How long are you tooting? You're gonna have to leave it in the other room. But if you still are still tooting while you're walking back in, like, you're being. You're basically a crop duster just crop dusting the entire house. And now there's nowhere to escape to. Now we just have to smell it and taste it in every room about 30ft away.

[Dale Jr.]

So walk 30ft post toot.

[Amy]

So, like, there's only one way in and out of the bedroom, right?

[Dale Jr.]

So I guess you got to have.

[Amy]

I can't get away from it.

[Dale Jr.]

30Ft ain't enough.

[Amy]

And now it's back underneath the covers, too. So, like, there's really no escape.

[Travis]

I think what you need to do, Dale, is you need to change directions, because if you are farting as you're walking back, you're just taking it with you. It's like a car. Like, the air's just going.

[Amy]

I'm telling you guys, it's still stuck in your britches.

[Dale Jr.]

Here's a play by play. I'm expert at this. Let me do this.

[Amy]

You are not. That's the whole point of this. You're not actually as good at it as you think.

[Dale Jr.]

Yes.

[Travis]

Give us play by play on this.

[Dale Jr.]

He gets up out of the bedroom. He walks out of the bedroom, walks down the hall into the spare bedroom, does a circle while tooting, gets his toot done, leaves that bedroom, walks down the hall 30ft back into his bedroom and lays down, pulls the covers over.

[Amy]

Next time, just go outside.

[Dale Jr.]

That's what I did. All right, what was the story we were talking about?

[Amy]

So back to the story. I think you should do it with the door shut. Especially when you start having kids. They need to know that the door is supposed to be shut. Dale will still sit to do things with the door open. I'm like, these kids are too old now. They're doing it too. We have to make sure the door is shut up. Of course you need to do that.

[Dale Jr.]

So.

[Amy]

But you're going to smell it for the rest of your life. Yes.

[Dale Jr.]

I wasn't the one. I did not practice this. But I think, yeah, shutting the door, it's just. It's like, you know, guys will walk into a bathroom and go, you know what? Shutting the door is just wasting time. I'm gonna get right to it. Shutting the door is not like a. It is inconsiderate. I can see it can be viewed as inconsiderate, but it's not intentional. You're just thinking, I'm just gonna get this over with. It's gonna take a few seconds to take a piss or whatever. So I'm not. I'm not shutting the door. So you'll try to. Unless there's someone else in the house. Like, if there's another person in the house, like cleaning lady or whatever. Yeah, you gotta shut this.

[Travis]

I'm glad we've had stipulations here.

[Dale Jr.]

Absolutely. Shut the door.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh.

[Dale Jr.]

And this is what happens. So I don't.

[Amy]

Manners are not. We're not worried about manners at all. We're just worried about if the cleaning lady sees us with her pants down. That's the threshold.

[Dale Jr.]

I know. And that's what I say. So. Geez, if you have kids in the house, you're teaching them those same manners. So shutting the door. Because my girls do that, they go in there and they pee with a door open. And I'm like, well, I. I wish.

[Amy]

They wouldn't get onto Isla. He's like, why aren't you shutting the door? And she's like, you don't.

[Dale Jr.]

I know. I'm like, I don't.

[Amy]

You don't?

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm like, all right, I get it. So I'm shutting the door now just so they see me shutting the door, so they'll shut the door.

[Travis]

Amy, is that true? Has he been shutting the door?

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale Jr.]

More so. Yeah.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Travis]

Okay.

[Amy]

Because two. He'll go in there and sit down, and they'll just come on in.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And bring their dolls or whatever. And they. They don't care. They have. I mean, small kids. They don't care about anything, really. So. Yeah. Now he shuts the door because he just wants his privacy because they've gotten obnoxious. But it's a good idea to do.

[Travis]

That on the next one. My. My wife recently has taken up cosmetology, so I offered to let her practice on me. And my hair. I had. I had long hair down my shoulders, so I let her cut it. Big mistake. She's learning. So I told her it looked Great. The first time, but now we're six times in, and I don't want to keep looking like I have a bowl cut as a 40 year old man. How do I tell her she sucks?

[Dale Jr.]

Ooh, you don't tell her she's.

[Travis]

Well, first of all.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, you don't do that. You tell her that.

[Amy]

Ask her which beetle you look like.

[Dale Jr.]

No, no, no.

[Amy]

Or was it the monkeys that had the full cuts?

[Dale Jr.]

All of them at points. Yeah, I think you got to tell her you're going back to your original hairdresser.

[Amy]

Just tell her you want to grow it back out.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Bingo.

[Amy]

Yeah. Just say disavoid all the. You. You suck. Let's critique her job. Let's. Let's just say I want to just grow my hair back out.

[Dale Jr.]

Hopefully over time, she gets better.

[Amy]

Maybe you could try on my buddy Travis.

[Dale Jr.]

You know, she don't improve, then you're in a really bad spot.

[Travis]

Well, we don't know. Also, if normally her clients are women cutting men's hair and women's hair is completely different, it's not the same. So maybe she's just not cut out for cutting men's hair for being a barber.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, she just started. Guys, if she doesn't improve, then you're in big trouble. But she's certainly going to get better at it.

[Travis]

Yeah, you just got to say you want your hair long again. You miss it.

[Amy]

Yeah, I feel like that. You just avoid the rest of it altogether and say you want to grow back out.

[Travis]

Last one. I was on a company call. A company zoom call. I muted myself to rant about the incompetence of others to a person two doors down. She. The person I was ranting to was not muted. And everybody heard me. How do I fix this?

[Dale Jr.]

I think you lean into it. I mean, once you've made your bed, you kind of gotta own it. I mean, I do that. I. I do that sometimes. I. I get a little bit aggressive and.

[Amy]

Yeah, you did that the other day.

[Dale Jr.]

And so what?

[Amy]

Yeah, in the kitchen, he was ranting about something he got as a gift.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, my God.

[Amy]

Was.

[Dale Jr.]

This is terrible.

[Amy]

But there was someone else in the room that got him said zing. Oh, no, not the exact same one, but. So Dale got beef jerky from someone.

[Dale Jr.]

Y' all know I have my own beef jerky jerky boys. And it is. I'm telling everybody it's the greatest stuff in the world, because it really is.

[Amy]

So listen, if I had a dress company, it doesn't mean that somebody else can't give me a dress from another designer. Right. I know it's not the same. I'm not eating it. But Dale is very adamant that beef jerky is off limits now. The jerky poisons it, and that's fine. But I don't think that other people, especially people that don't live close by, truly know that. So he got some beef jerky for his birthday, and he was ranting about one specific. It wasn't the stuff the person in the room gave, but he was talking to Katie, my sister, and I, about it going on and on and on. At one point, I'm at the dish, I'm at the sink, just doing the dishes. And I turned around because I'm like, oh, my gosh, he's talking about this. And he won't stop. He's like, going. Going so hard.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm like, man, I'm. I've got all. They gave me a bag of. They gave me a bag full of jerky. And I'm like, you know, I'm not probably going to eat it because it's. It's more of a store brand. And I really. I'm loyal to what we're doing with jerky boys.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

And I don't know what to. Can you believe this? They know I have jerky boys. Can you believe they gave me this bag of jerky while I'm saying all of that?

[Amy]

And I turn around and I look at him. I was like, I think Amy's like, stop it.

[Dale Jr.]

And I'm like, what? I'm just talking. What is the problem? She's like, cut it out.

[Amy]

Cut it out. Lock it up.

[Dale Jr.]

Lock it down. I'm like, I don't think I'm doing anything wrong.

[Amy]

And now he's so. He's also the type of guy, if you kick him under the table, he's going to say, hey, man, why'd you kick me?

[Dale Jr.]

Yes.

[Amy]

He doesn't. Doesn't pick it up. He does not pick up that. He's supposed to be.

[Dale Jr.]

What I didn't understand and know was that her dad is sitting in the kitchen and he, too, got me a bag of beef jerky.

[Amy]

And he asked me what to get daylight. I was like, I don't know, maybe get him some of that dried sausage or some things that, like, you like from home. And so he did. And he brought him local things. It was not anything store bought.

[Dale Jr.]

I was so embarrassed.

[Amy]

But he's. So. He gets in the freezer, he's like. He bought me steak. So I was like, I don't think so. I think you need to look at it. But anyway, he was going on and on and on and on. I'm like, I'm sitting there, open mouth.

[Dale Jr.]

Insert foot, beef jerky to someone who gave someone in the room who gave me jerky like, two days before. Two days before.

[Amy]

Yeah. So we've done that. What an I am an did lean in.

[Dale Jr.]

I want everybody to know that I, I am very imperfect and I have some tendencies. So it's just put that out there so nobody's surprised when that flares up.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh. He felt bad afterwards. He sat on the couch. He was scared to go downstairs. They were downstairs drinking beer. He just, like, hid from him. I did, like, just go, go play. It's fine.

[Dale Jr.]

They were fine.

[Amy]

No, they didn't care.

[Travis]

That's a tough one.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Well, that's the last question we've got for this.

[Dale Jr.]

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[Amy]

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[Dale Jr.]

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[Amy]

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[Travis]

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[Travis]

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[Travis]

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[Dale Jr.]

The Making Mo Merch, the Bless yous Heart Making Mo Merch contest has ended. Thanks to everyone who submitted a design. We're going to go through them right now on the show. Travis has all of them teed up and we'll pick our favorite 10. They will be put on the shop.dirtymomedia.com website available for purchase and the top three best selling designs are going to win cash prizes. I believe it's 500 for first, so let's get to it. All right, so the first shirt here, Amy That. That gal looks like she's one of them pinup girls from the 50s.

[Amy]

She does, yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

That would be painted on a B17 bomber or something.

[Amy]

It's a cute shirt. It says boobies and buffalo shrimp. And she's holding up a tray of buffalo.

[Dale Jr.]

She's serving some buffalo shrimp. She's got a nice.

[Amy]

She's got a little curvy bod underneath. It says, sir spicy with love from the heart.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, nice.

[Amy]

Very cute.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm a fan of this one.

[Amy]

I think this one's good. This is better than the buffalo shrimp we had last time.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Oh, this one's super cute. So this is kind of a take on travel posters. So the back of it's got. How many is that? Nine travel posters and different things that involve things we like.

[Dale Jr.]

I really do like that.

[Amy]

That's super cute.

[Dale Jr.]

I wear the out of that.

[Amy]

It's got a pocket tee on the front, too. So it's got a poster of Gus Junebug, Key West.

[Dale Jr.]

It says, she said no. She said no houseboat reference. And then it's got our chairs, our lawn chairs.

[Amy]

That's very cute.

[Dale Jr.]

It is. All right, here's another shirt. It's white and just got, like, a little blueprint here. Got a problem that needs fixing. Dale and Amy got you covered. 1-800-bless your heart. We're running.

[Amy]

We're like caricatures.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, we're running with.

[Amy]

With our tools.

[Dale Jr.]

With our tools to go fix something really quickly.

[Amy]

That's pretty funny.

[Dale Jr.]

It's funny.

[Amy]

Man, your knees are up.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, this is more of an Americana sort of red, white, and blue theme. The heartbeat of America. And got a white shirt, a little American flag emblem there.

[Amy]

That's cute. Very simple.

[Travis]

I like the hat.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah, the hat's great.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. I'd need it on a Richardson. That looks like a foam.

[Amy]

I like the foamy.

[Travis]

I don't like foam hats.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't like foams either.

[Amy]

I like the big foam hat, a little head. So I want a big hat. Oh, Lord. So this is a take on the. On your dad wearing the Dame I'm good shirt Y. So it's a drawing of him, and he's pulling his jacket open or his suit open, and it says bless your heart on it. That's pretty cute.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I mean, I like it. It's a black T shirt, too, which is nice.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I even like it on the yellow. On the bottom, there's like, a yellow T shirt option. I think that makes more sense.

[Dale Jr.]

All right. It's white and black. Blowing farts and blessing hearts.

[Amy]

I love that it's in a script font. Like, it's fancy.

[Dale Jr.]

I know.

[Amy]

Blowing hearts. And what's the emblem on the front?

[Dale Jr.]

Is it on the pocket? Around the pockets of.

[Amy]

Oh, Lord.

[Travis]

I would wear that shirt.

[Amy]

You would?

[Travis]

Yes.

[Amy]

Did you design this?

[Travis]

Funny.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

No. Everybody here knows if you want me to design a shirt, it's not going to work out well.

[Amy]

Oh, I think this one's pretty understated. Like, you wouldn't understand that it's.

[Dale Jr.]

I like it that it's about to know what it is.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

All right. Don't wash your chicken. And it's a chicken in the bathtub to me. I'd have a hard time wearing because I don't know if people would try to guess what the reference is. They might think it's something touche or. What do you call that?

[Amy]

Something dirty.

[Travis]

Risque.

[Dale Jr.]

Don't wash your chicken. I don't know, man. I don't know.

[Amy]

Do we call it a chicken?

[Dale Jr.]

We talked about not washing your chicken.

[Amy]

I know, but what else would chicken be?

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know.

[Amy]

I think it's funny.

[Dale Jr.]

All right. Sign my boobs.

[Amy]

Oh, my God.

[Dale Jr.]

Wow.

[Amy]

And it's got your signature on the cleavage. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, my gosh.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh. I feel like it needs to have a question mark on it. Like, it's actually asking for someone to sign your boobs.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know, man. You might get.

[Amy]

That might get people in trouble.

[Dale Jr.]

You might get people. Yeah. Coming at you. Some guys might come at you at the bar.

[Amy]

I feel like we just need to get rid of Sign my boobs all together and keep the cleavage on the cleavage and write bless your heart on the back or something. Like, you know, like the bikini tees that people are making now.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Amy]

Just do that. And get rid of Sign my boobs altogether.

[Dale Jr.]

So it's actually the boobs.

[Amy]

The boobs are signed in the right spot. In the right spot.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Okay.

[Amy]

Jugs Hard seltzer. We've got a cute little tropical jug's. Got two Seltzer can. No, just us girls.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh.

[Amy]

In no format. Does jugs have two?

[Dale Jr.]

I'm sorry, I can't remember. Official drink of the week. Tester. Bless your heart. That's kind of cool.

[Amy]

That's cute.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I like how simple that one is, too. Like, it looks like a stamp of approval.

[Travis]

Yep.

[Amy]

Trash day. 5K.

[Travis]

What?

[Amy]

Oh, from you chasing the trash truck. That's hilarious.

[Dale Jr.]

That is funny.

[Amy]

Oh, we should get one of those.

[Dale Jr.]

Made trash day just for you to wear. It's got me chasing. It's got a man chasing after the trash truck in the letters. 5K.

[Travis]

Is that man barefoot?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh. That's funny.

[Dale Jr.]

That's really good. Bless your heart, garage door repair company. We'll see you again soon. I like that.

[Amy]

That's funny. We're back into it again.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, that's pretty funny.

[Travis]

And that's it.

[Sponsor/Announcer]

Oh, man.

[Dale Jr.]

There are some good ones.

[Amy]

Those are great. Yeah. Thank you guys for all of your submissions. I've heard we've had quite a few and a lot to cipher through, so. Is that right?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, yeah. Cipher decipher.

[Amy]

But those are great. So can't wait to see which ones we narrow it down to.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. We'll pick our favorite 10. They'll be put on shop dirtymomedia.com all 10 and the top three best sellers. They'll win the cash prize.

[Travis]

Are there any that, like, stick out to you right now that you're like.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, that's probably shouldn't. Yeah, we shouldn't sway.

[Travis]

Okay.

[Dale Jr.]

I've done that in the. I've done that in the past in these kind of contest things and it ruins.

[Travis]

Oh. Because then if it makes it, then people are going to go, if I.

[Dale Jr.]

Tell you that this one's one I like, that one's gonna get a little leg up.

[Amy]

There were a few standouts for me.

[Dale Jr.]

There were. There were absolutely some. And something I'm probably gonna own. Yeah.

[Travis]

Well, that's the other thing too is these shirts you better go buy now when they're up there, the top 10. Because it's like a limited selection. It's not going to be like they're up there forever. So.

[Amy]

Right.

[Travis]

Limited supply. So either by now or you're going to miss out on some cool shirts forever aren't going to be available.

[Amy]

Yeah. Especially the top. Those other seven.

[Dale Jr.]

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[Travis]

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[Dale Jr.]

All right, time for some mask, Amy.

[Amy]

All right, guys, I think we're ready for Ask Amy. If you haven't already, please hit the subscribe button on the YouTube channel. And don't forget to check out shop.dirtymomedia.com thank you guys again for all of your submissions for the merch competition that is going to be up this week. I believe. So let's get started with your Ask Amy questions.

[Travis]

So the first question is, have you been keeping up with Dancing with the Stars? What are your thoughts on who's going to win?

[Amy]

I haven't really. The only thing I've seen is the Irwin Sun.

[Travis]

Yeah. So on Tick Tock.

[Amy]

And then last night they had a, a dedication, so we got to dance with his mom. And I heard that was pretty emotional, but no, otherwise I haven't been watching. I do follow Julianne Huff because I like watching her dance, but I haven't been watching the actual show.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, I don't watch it. I don't watch that show. I don't really watch any shows that are on network television.

[Amy]

He has, he, he's. We even tried to watch the Victoria's Secret fashion show last night.

[Dale Jr.]

And I mean, I'm.

[Amy]

And didn't do that.

[Dale Jr.]

I was in.

[Travis]

I didn't know they brought that back.

[Amy]

They did. I think they brought it back last year. Maybe, maybe this was the first year, but I don't know, it just didn't have the vibe that it used to.

[Dale Jr.]

I used to watch, you know, network sitcoms. I mean, I had tons and tons that I, you know, watched every day or every week or whatever. Cheers and Night Court and.

[Amy]

Squid Billies.

[Dale Jr.]

Squid Billies, Yeah. But like, you know, Seinfeld and the Office and all those. I mean, I was a big fan and watched them all, but I don't know when the, I guess around the time that the Office went off air. I've never really picked up another sitcom since then. That's really kind of been my, like, oh, man, I gotta, I gotta see this.

[Travis]

So do you guys have a show that you guys like watch together at.

[Dale Jr.]

All every now and then? Every now and then we'll get. She watches a lot of shows.

[Amy]

I watch shows because I don't Play video games at night. So, like, I have TV time by myself, and I'll watch whatever.

[Travis]

And what are you watching right now?

[Amy]

I have been watching the Last of Us. It's the zombie show on.

[Travis]

Oh, yeah, you mentioned that last on hbo.

[Amy]

Yeah. But, like, I've watched. I'll kind of, like, dabble around if I have something else I want to pick up and, like, all of the series that I want to catch up on, I'll just, depending on my mood, change what I'm watching. I like Southern Charms coming back out in November, and so we love that. And so we'll watch that together. So that's part of it.

[Travis]

Big fan of. Big fan of Southern triumph. Can't wait for it to come back on. Next question. How was the pumpkin patch on Sunday?

[Amy]

The pumpkin patch was slightly miserable, slightly fun. We didn't even get a damn pumpkin.

[Dale Jr.]

What?

[Amy]

The kids were very tired and short circuiting. We. We did this giant slides. They have some really cool slides at Patterson Farm.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And we did all that stuff. We did the corn maze. That was fun. We had to, like, do clues to get out.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, the corn maze was great.

[Amy]

The corn maze was fun. And then after that, we kind of just were biting our time. And then I got to leave early. We cut it a little early. Dale had to go to the bathroom, so he took.

[Dale Jr.]

I had to go to the bathroom. So me and her dad left a bit earlier, but y' all only stayed in an hour.

[Amy]

Yeah, the kids literally lost their minds.

[Dale Jr.]

Weather wasn't all that great. It was misting. And they had a pretty cool little kind of a general store shop, if you will. That I could have. I could have bought some stuff in there. But we got. We got to move it around and checking everything out. It's fun.

[Amy]

There's another one down here that's pretty amazing that we might try to hit up on Friday. We'll see.

[Travis]

All right. Also, this past weekend was, from Mooresville, the grand opening of Whataburger. Did you go? How was getting the taste of home?

[Amy]

I didn't been there yet. I haven't been yet. Yeah, I know. So Friday was Dale's birthday, so we had birthday things to do. Saturday we had a birthday party for Nicole. Sunday we were doing the pumpkin patch. And then Monday we came down here. So I haven't had a chance to.

[Dale Jr.]

We went to Pie in the Sky. I took everybody from Texas to. To the best place in Mooresville.

[Travis]

Did you feel pressure?

[Dale Jr.]

Did I feel pressure?

[Travis]

Yeah. Like, if I recommend something that I'm Like, I build up, you know, take.

[Dale Jr.]

Friends now because I didn't have, I had. I think my confidence is at a thousand guys. So I'm like, man, they're, you know, this is gonna hit, Hit a home run. I had some of their wings for the first time. They're pretty good. But what I've been thinking about with the whataburger, I've been thinking about, like getting one of each. You know, they're, they're, they're, they're basic cheeseburger and sitting down and eating both and seeing.

[Amy]

Oh, doing a side by side.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, that'd be fun.

[Amy]

Let's do that.

[Travis]

I went on Saturday. You did so good. Yes. Having a cheeseburger, sitting outside watching college football, drinking beers. Like, oh, yeah, perfect. Saturday afternoon.

[Amy]

Yeah, we, we did, we did get a sundrop bundt cake at the Pie in the Sky. That was a surprise. Yes, they brought out a cake. So we also, we sang. The whole restaurant got some cake.

[Dale Jr.]

We had too much cake. So we passed it around. Everybody else in the restaurant go. One table said, no, thank you.

[Amy]

That's right.

[Travis]

I would have probably said, no, thank you.

[Amy]

You would have.

[Travis]

I'm not a huge cake person.

[Amy]

Yeah, but this goes back to like the tennis outfit. You just say yes and take it.

[Travis]

You just go, I don't want to throw it away.

[Amy]

Well, there were five people sitting at the table. Somebody would have eaten it. But there's this one stuck up dude that was like, no, thank you.

[Travis]

You. Oh, I would have said no, thank you.

[Dale Jr.]

For me.

[Travis]

Not for like.

[Amy]

No. He spoke for the group.

[Travis]

Oh, no, no. I'm not speaking for the group. You get your cake.

[Amy]

I should have just threw it down.

[Travis]

Yeah. This next question. Rank these from favorite to least. Favorite bottle beer, draft beer or can.

[Amy]

Be bottled beer Draft bill. Draft beer can be.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Favorite bottled.

[Travis]

Favorite to least.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

You like bottle?

[Amy]

I would do bottle, draft and then can.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, can.

[Amy]

Of course he's going to be the exact opposite.

[Dale Jr.]

Draft, bottled.

[Amy]

See.

[Dale Jr.]

Here, here's. I would do. Here's my reasoning. Too many times I've gotten bottled beer from a bar that isn't hot, isn't cold, and I don't know why. Maybe there's some scientific evidence of this. But if you put a can beer and a bottled beer in a cooler and for the same amount of time, I think that the beer in the can is going to have a lower temperature than the beer in the bottle. And when you go to these bars and they're stocking over, you know, consistently like restocking the beer. Or they've gotten, you know, they.

[Amy]

They're busy.

[Dale Jr.]

They opened up and they've stocked beer. And you get in there 1, 2, 3 o' clock in the afternoon, the beer, you get out of there cooler is just. If it's bottled, it tends to be less, you know, not cold enough.

[Amy]

Yeah, that I can appreciate.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm not.

[Amy]

I'm not. I just would prefer to physically drink out of the bottle versus a can.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, I don't mind drinking out of the can. I think it's a. I don't mind that. I don't prefer one over the other, but I just feel like bottled. I'm at a risk of getting a beer that's not quite as cold as I can get it. That's one of my one gripes, man. I'm not a. I don't bitch about too much. I'm not too high maintenance. But I can't. I. Man, can't.

[Amy]

I can't.

[Dale Jr.]

Can't do a beer that ain't cold, man.

[Travis]

Well, yeah, but. Man, I love a good giraffe beer.

[Dale Jr.]

Giraffes, great. Yeah.

[Travis]

It's my favorite.

[Amy]

It's the glass. Right. And the ease of which you can drink it.

[Travis]

Yeah. Get a nice frosted mug.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

And you know what? I know that we're Bud folks and we got a Bud partnership, and we'll always be buddy, but there's this pickle beer. Donna's.

[Amy]

Donna's pickle beer.

[Dale Jr.]

Pickle beer. You got to give it a shot. Have you ever tried it?

[Travis]

Yeah, I've never heard of it.

[Dale Jr.]

I see it down here. I'm gonna go over to the.

[Amy]

We had some at Leon's.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm gonna go over to the Total Wine and pick some up today.

[Amy]

The story behind the Donna's pickle Beer is that Donna was kissed by Mick Jagger back in the day, and she was eating pickles. Loves pickles.

[Dale Jr.]

Donna was backstage at a concert eating.

[Amy]

Pickles, and he had a bunch of beer in his mouth.

[Dale Jr.]

Beer. And. And they kissed and she was like, pickles and beer.

[Amy]

Why not?

[Dale Jr.]

Flavor of the two.

[Travis]

I know people that have put like a pickle in a bush light.

[Dale Jr.]

It says that on the can. On Donna's can, it says that story.

[Amy]

I've never had a pickle in a beer. I've had on a bloody before, but not. Not a beer. But why not?

[Dale Jr.]

Well, I don't know if you're gonna get a six pack and take them all down, but having one is pretty good.

[Amy]

It's probably like a Good hangover beer.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Because it's not quite so pungent. It's got a little that pickle taste.

[Dale Jr.]

It's good. Donna's pickle Beer.

[Travis]

I'll check it out. This next question is for Amy. Specifically. Do you have a favorite fall wardrobe item that you always wear every year, like one of your go to's?

[Amy]

I just love it when it gets cold. So I can wear a beanie. Not really beanie weather. I wanna. I like the way it feels and I like the big slouchy ones. So I. I mean, I'm not doing my hair all the time and love a beanie. Beanies and hoodies. Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

I got like two or three specific hoodies that are like the softer than anything else.

[Travis]

I always love shorts and hoodie weather. Like my favorite.

[Amy]

It's a combo of shorts and a hoodie. Yeah.

[Travis]

Yeah. Like right now that like is like the perfect weather outside.

[Amy]

Like it is.

[Travis]

Open the windows. It's crisp outside.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Now this is exactly the right time of year to be hanging out outside.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Our final question, speaking of the weather, how cold does it have to be for you guys to turn the heat on in the house?

[Amy]

I don't know.

[Dale Jr.]

I mean, I have it on automatic. So I said it's. We ran. We go from. So I'm very scientific about this. So.

[Amy]

You can tell I don't touch the thermostat.

[Dale Jr.]

We have a basement. All right. So if you have a basement and then a main floor. All right, heat rises. So I always set the thermometer in the basement, the lower floor, 1 degree cooler so that it isn't sending up air that needs to then be conditioned in the second floor or in the main floor. And so if the, you know, if the top floor is a 70, the bottoms of 69 or 69. 68. So that's kind of the thing I do. But we range.

[Amy]

I feel like if it's cold outside. Is this a hot weather situation?

[Dale Jr.]

We range from 68 to 72 in our house, depending on what's going on. But it's on autos. I mean, it, it does what it needs to do depending on what's going on.

[Amy]

It does get cold fast on the main floor if it's cold outside, because the basement's all concrete and. And it really does get cold down.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't turn the air conditioner on. It's on auto.

[Amy]

We didn't answer your question.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't, I don't.

[Travis]

That's.

[Amy]

We like it to be cold in the summer and hot in the winter, we have no idea what the temperature number is.

[Travis]

I thought you would have a temperature, Amy, that you're like. That's where I kind of want the house to be at.

[Amy]

I do. When I sleep, like, I want the bedroom to be, like, at 68 or even a little cooler is fine with me.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

But in the middle of the day.

[Dale Jr.]

I'll say this to me. If you look back, if I see a thermostat that I believe was set to a specific temperature and it is now changed, we're gonna have to have a damn investigation. Who has. Who has touched this thing? Who's changed this?

[Amy]

So that's like, what happens when you literally become a dad. I don't know often if he ever looked at it before that.

[Dale Jr.]

Oftentimes we learned that it was just a power outage that quickly reset it back to a default temperature. But I'll have all of everything. I'll have all the thermostats exactly like they're supposed to be. And then I'll, you know, a couple weeks go by and I'll walk into a room and I'll be like, this doesn't feel right. I walk over to the thermostat. Oh, It's A. It's 4 degrees higher than it's supposed to be. Wonder who did this.

[Travis]

Could it be that it's not who did this, but just like it did it itself with the temperatures and stuff?

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, the thing's just changing its own temperature. What kind of thermostat is that? I wouldn't buy it.

[Travis]

Well, who's going around your house? I bet Nicole's really tinkered with it.

[Amy]

So Isla has one in her bedroom, and it works both of the girls rooms, like, that whole space in that side of the house. So she'll play with it or Nicole will, because they can reach it from the bed.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Oh, I wish I could figure out how to lock them.

[Amy]

You'd have to put a cage on the front, which would look terrible.

[Travis]

But when you were in high school, did they ever have cages over them?

[Dale Jr.]

Yes.

[Travis]

And then the teacher put, like, a cold cloth or something over it to try to.

[Amy]

She did make.

[Travis]

Make it. To make it like. Yeah, to trip and make it think it's colder.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know if the sensor's in the thermostat. I don't know. It might be.

[Amy]

Yeah, it is.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

See, we don't even know how it works.

[Dale Jr.]

How it works. We don't.

[Amy]

Oh, man.

[Travis]

Yeah, See, I have to flip it because I just live in apartments. So I have to turn it over to heat. We're not there.

[Dale Jr.]

I thought I got real.

[Amy]

So the heat's running or the cool's running and that's it. And then you turn it on and off. That sounds okay. Yeah, that's easier.

[Travis]

So that's all we got for ask me this week.

[Amy]

All right, thank you guys for your questions. Thanks for tuning in. And don't forget to check out the show. Please hit subscribe if you haven't already. And also, don't forget to check out all of the [e-mail] we'll see you next week.

[Dale Jr.]

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[Dale Jr.]

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[Amy]

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