In My Sweatpants, Both Physically and Mentally

Summary

The Dale Jr. Download – “In My Sweatpants, Both Physically and Mentally”

Podcast: The Dale Jr. Download
Host: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Dirty Mo Media
Date: September 25, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode is a blend of heartfelt storytelling, everyday hilarity, and classic Dale Jr. candor. Broadcasting from the Dirty Mo Media Studios, Dale Jr., joined by his wife Amy, discusses life’s small comforts and big losses, including the recent passing of their beloved dog Junebug. The show touches on the Earnhardts’ family routines, grief, parenting, ChatGPT interrogations, home-life mishaps, hunting stories, and lighthearted games. The relaxed, conversational tone makes this episode relatable, funny, and, at times, unexpectedly moving.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Life in “Sweatpants Mode” (01:58 – 05:55)

• Dale describes stepping back from the public eye: Living in “sweatpants” as both a literal and mental state of comfort and disconnection.
  • “I took a break from social media… I’ve been in my sweatpants.” (02:30, Dale)
  • Amy teases him: “He’s been wearing the same pair every day!” (02:56, Amy)
• Sweatpants Hygiene Debate: The group debates how many wears sweatpants can get before they’re considered dirty.
  • “Is it a fart threshold or do you just spill something on them?” (05:55, Amy and guest)
• Amy reminisces about being taught to change out of school clothes as a kid. (05:29)

2. Nighttime Routines and Sleep Struggles (06:29 – 10:26)

• Sneaking into Bed: Dale admits to being self-conscious about breathing heavily after coming upstairs to bed so as not to wake Amy.
  • “I’m like 50 years old and here I am trying to hide my loud breathing so Amy doesn’t wake up.” (08:09, Dale)
• Amy busts his stealth myth: “He walks like a buffalo.” (08:30, Amy)
• Humorous expose on brushing teeth and nighttime noises. (09:51–10:26)

3. Remembering Junebug – Pet Loss and Grief (10:29 – 25:44)

• Amy and Dale share memories of Junebug, their tiny Pomeranian: His quirks, travels, attempts at potty training, and relationship with the kids.
  • “He was super tiny. He was like 1.6 pounds… You couldn't even feel his weight.” (11:07, Amy)
  • “He never learned to go outside… peed everywhere.” (12:05, Dale)
• Managing grief: Amy is heartfelt, while Dale is more stoic, reflecting on how past losses have changed his way of grieving.
  • “When another loss happens… I don’t grieve it like I used to. That part’s not working right.” (19:12, Dale)
• Parenting through loss: Isla mourns, Nicole provides comic relief, sometimes unwittingly torturing with her repeated mentions of Junebug. (14:16–15:35, Amy)
• Coping mechanisms, including humor and practicality, emerge.

4. ChatGPT Obsession and Daily Life Hacks (25:26 – 42:26)

• Dale’s fondness for ChatGPT: Uses it for everything from tracking race dates to asking food safety advice.
  • “Hey man, should I wash chicken in the sink?” (39:07, Dale to ChatGPT)
  • [ChatGPT voice] “Food safety guidelines recommend you don’t wash chicken in the sink…” (39:07, ChatGPT)
• The team ridicules him, but everyone’s secretly curious. (40:08–40:49)
• Amy’s Amazon Rug Bargain: Bought a massive rug for $36, sparking disbelief.
  • “I got a huge rug for $36!” (28:27, Amy)
• Sofa Archaeology: Cleaning under the couch reveals coins, toys, and ancient messes—proof that modern families live differently than their parents did. (29:24–32:22)

5. Hoarding vs. Purging and Home Organization (32:44 – 33:13)

• The Earnhardts struggle with decluttering: Dale wants to keep everything “just in case”; Amy leans toward minimalism.

6. New Truck Talk and Vintage Car Nostalgia (34:10 – 36:59)

• Dale explains his love for customizing his trucks: From full-on bold stripes to a “chill” subtle red accent on the new ride.
  • “This one’s just gonna have a 3 ½ inch tall red stripe... that’s it.” (36:25, Dale)
• Amy doubts the minimalism will last.

7. Cooking Debates: To Wash or Not to Wash Chicken? (37:49 – 42:26)

• Amy asks if you’re supposed to wash chicken before cooking; ChatGPT clarifies: Don’t.
• Dale uses it as a teachable (and teasing) moment for the group.
• Ventures into favorite ChatGPT voices and parenting, as Isla asks it her own questions.

8. Social Media Nostalgia – MySpace and Early Internet Culture (42:35ff)

• Dale recalls his old MySpace profile: Complete with Sundrop logos and cat photos.
• The “Top 8 Friend Drama”: Dissecting the subtle politics of digital friendships.

9. Hunting Stories & Celebrating Family Traditions (44:48 – 58:45)

• Dale tells a vivid story about hunting with his legendary father, Dale Sr.:
  • “There’s a picture I have… Dad’s 40-50 feet in the air in a tree stand… He’s too high!” (45:06, Dale)
  • “He would have to screw the pegs into the tree individually as he climbed…” (46:40)
  • “I was 6… I balled up under his legs on the stand.” (48:00)
• Importance of family comfort vs. adventure: Amy’s apprehensions with hunting, bugs, ticks, and standing on sketchy platforms.
• Dale tries to convince Amy to fulfill his ‘50th wish’ of sitting in a tree stand together.

10. Rapid-Fire Questions & Family Feud Game (62:03 – 71:39)

• Light-hearted Family Feud–style game: About ideal husband traits, things spouses get tired of, “places you’d never want to hear ‘oops,’” and absurd dead body disposal scenarios.
• Standouts:
  • “A husband with a good job.” (63:28, Amy, #1 answer)
  • “Snoring… Dale’s been snoring a lot lately!” (66:09, Amy)
  • “Where would you never want to hear ‘oops’ – in an operating room!” (66:53, Dale, #1 answer)
  • Dead body solutions get darkly comedic: “Bury it,” “hide it in the fridge,” “burn it,” “take it to the neighbors…” (68:45–70:51)

11. Listener Questions (“Ask Amy”) (73:01 – 85:12)

• Horoscopes: The group’s skepticism and past reading habits.
  • “You may feel extra passionate today…” (ChatGPT reading Amy’s Aries horoscope, 74:58)
• Rank Fall Drinks: Cider, hot chocolate, pumpkin spice latte.
  • “Cider’s first for me. I’d say cider, pumpkin spice, hot chocolate.” (75:52, Amy)
• Reunion Tours: Amy picks Spice Girls, Dale mentions Hootie & the Blowfish and Everclear.
• UFOs vs. Bigfoot: Amy leans Bigfoot, Dale leans UFOs—discuss the plausibility of both.
  • “Maybe Bigfoot is an alien.” (81:16, Amy)
• Unusual Food Combos:
  • “My grandmother made peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches.” (82:29, Amy)
  • “Banana and mayonnaise… I got drug on social media for that.” (82:46, Dale)
  • Hot dog toppings: Amy — mustard only; Dale — mustard, ketchup, chili, dill relish.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I’m in my sweatpants—physically and mentally.” (02:45, Dale)
• “He walks like a buffalo.” (08:30, Amy, on Dale sneaking into bed)
• “When another loss happens… I don’t grieve it like I used to. That part’s not working right.” (19:12, Dale)
• “I’m not using Chat for nefarious reasons… I just need to know how many days till the Pocono race!” (26:14–26:22, Dale)
• “Is there a fart threshold with sweatpants?” (05:55, Amy)
• “I want people to think I got a little crazy in me. Every race car driver is a little crazy.” (33:13 – 33:54, Dale)
• “Should I wash the chicken?” – “Guidelines say don’t wash chicken in the sink.” (39:07, ChatGPT)
• “This is why he uses ChatGPT so much. He’s got a new best friend.” (39:39, Amy)
• “You got your body bag out and put your dead body in the body bag!” (68:59, Dale, during the Family Feud game)

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Timestamps by Segment

• 01:58 – Dale’s “sweatpants” life & unplugging from social media
• 05:55 – Sweatpants hygiene and family comfort routines
• 06:29 – 10:26 – Nighttime noise arguments, sneaking into bed
• 10:29 – 25:44 – In-depth Junebug memories, loss, and family grief
• 25:26 – 42:26 – ChatGPT in daily life, Amazon rug story, lost things under the couch, decluttering debates
• 34:10 – 36:59 – Dale’s new truck & design history
• 37:49 – 42:26 – Washing chicken debate, more ChatGPT fun
• 42:35 – 44:48 – MySpace nostalgia and digital friendship politics
• 44:48 – 58:45 – Legendary Earnhardt hunting stories, tick disasters, Amy’s hesitations
• 62:03 – 71:39 – Family Feud–inspired game time
• 73:01 – 85:12 – Ask Amy: horoscopes, fall drinks, reunion bands, UFO vs. Bigfoot, strange sandwiches

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Bottom Line

This episode combines laughter, vulnerability, and the small tribulations of daily life in the Earnhardt household. From honest grief to playful spousal rivalry and the comfort of routines (and sweatpants), fans will relate through their own family, marriage, parenting, and pet stories. Regular listeners are rewarded with inside jokes (ChatGPT, the rug, “crazy” racers), and new listeners get genuine insight into the everyday side of a racing legend.

For those seeking a mix of humor, heart, and down-to-earth conversation, “In My Sweatpants, Both Physically and Mentally” delivers classic Dale Jr. charm.

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Hey, guys. Jill Jr. And I are in the Dirty Mo Media studios again this week for another round of Bless yous Heart. We have a good show for you today. I'm a little blue. We have some news to tell you. If you haven't already heard, we lost our little June bug. We also found some things under the couch and Dale wants to talk about how he interacts with the kids at the school bus stop. So let's get started.

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[B]

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 hands. Are you suffering from high crack?

[A]

I'm working.

[B]

Working that Mo.

[A]

Yeah. Drink of the week, first off. Presented by High Rock Vodka. Today's drink is a cherry lemonade or limeade. Sorry, Limeade. It's a Nod to the 2025 Ryder Cup. I guess that's, that's going on this weekend. I have not been very plugged in lately. So where have you been? I've just been living life. I've been living my life. I've been really not plugged in.

[B]

I've been in his sweatpants is what he's been doing.

[C]

Yeah, that's good.

[A]

I took a break from social media to an extent and I don't know, the last couple of Weeks. I just been. I got a new truck, so I've been enjoying that. But, yeah, I've been in my sweatpants.

[C]

Sometimes you need a week.

[A]

Mentally and figuratively.

[B]

Physics. No, physically.

[A]

Physically.

[B]

Sorry.

[A]

Yes, physically and mentally in sweatpants.

[B]

He might still be there.

[A]

I'm getting old, man.

[B]

You should have just worn them. Yeah, they're the same pair of sweatpants he's been wearing every single day.

[A]

Isn't that smart?

[B]

So less laundry for me, I guess.

[A]

Well, that's a. Let me finish the cocktail.

[B]

Today's drink of the week is Cherry Limeade.

[A]

Cherry limeade. The cocktail includes Sugarland's limited edition Cherry Limeade Moonshine. Sounds amazing. It's made specifically from the. What is that word? For the biannual battle between Europe and the United States. Best golfers.

[B]

Oh, the Ryder Cup.

[A]

Oh, I thought they were going to say, this is made specially from creek. And, you know, I don't know.

[C]

From the creek. Water.

[B]

Read the words.

[A]

Well, sometimes you'll read. You're going to read like a. A promo or something, and you start imagining what's coming next. And I thought they were gonna.

[B]

That's exactly how Isla reads.

[A]

I thought they were.

[B]

She makes up her own damn words. I'm like, no, no, no.

[A]

I thought they were gonna tell me. The moonshine was made on this specific hill in Gatlinburg and pulled, you know, these cherries were pulled from a specific. You know, from Washington's tree food plot or something.

[B]

Special trees.

[A]

Nope. That's made for the biannual battle between Europe and United States in the golfing world. But let's give it a shot. I mean, I like it. It's good. Very light tart and very light refreshing. 2 ounces of Ryder cup cherry limeade moonshine. 1 ounce of high rock vodka. 1 ounce of cherry juice, and you can top the glass off with a little club soda. Throw a cherry in there. If you like. Visit High Rock Vodka dot com. They have a locator on the website to tell you where the closest bottle is. So you'll know before you have to make that drive to the local store if they've. They've got it in stock. There are some areas where we can ship. So drink responsibly. And you need to be 21 years or. Or over to drink. Obviously, everybody knows that. So we get in. We get up in the. We all get up in the morning, get dressed, go do our thing, come home. When you get home, maybe you put on some comfortable clothes, right? You get out of your jeans or whatever. If you know that you're not going to leave the house for an errand or anything like that. Amy's the motivation for me because she does that. She gets in when Amy's not got a thing. She's going to dress comfortably. So she's got sweats and things and outfits and stuff in the house that are super comfortable.

[B]

I mean, I feel like we were all taught that as kids, like, take your school clothes off. You know what I mean? Your play clothes and your school clothes are not the same. And so I do that. Yes.

[A]

So I have a pair of sweatpants. I have multiple pairs, but I'll. I get one pair, and I'm going to wear them for those three or four hours in the afternoon or evening, and then they come off when I go to bed, and I just hang them up for tomorrow. I mean, when. When are they dirty? When is it like, okay, these have hit the threshold of dirtiness.

[B]

I don't know. How many times have you farted in them? I think they need the threshold.

[A]

I mean, multiple times.

[B]

I'm sure if you're walking around like lioness with, like, a dirt cloud around you, I feel like it's time to change them out.

[A]

So farts, I think it's when you.

[C]

Spill something on them.

[B]

Oh, really?

[C]

That's it.

[B]

There's no fart. There's no fart threshold.

[C]

No, they're fart sweatpants. There's enough cushion.

[A]

I did get some mud on them. We were in the yard talking landscaping, and so I did get mud on the knee of a pair.

[B]

Then he put them back on, and.

[A]

Then those going into the hamper. That was the threshold of dirtiness.

[C]

I think that's appropriate.

[A]

Yeah, y'. All. I went upstairs to get this hat right before we started recording. I came back down, needed a bit of a couple deep breaths to. To get back to normal. And it made me think, so how many people in here like Dalton? You probably do this. Dalton's married. But if you. If you're on the regular sleeping with someone and you go. You come into bed after they've been in bed, like I did this last night. And I think it's the funniest thing, but you can't not. I can't control it. But Amy goes to bed early.

[B]

Control anything he does, even his choices.

[A]

Amy goes to bed early, and I'm like, all right, we'll hang out. So I sit downstairs. I had a little snack and hung out. But I come upstairs and it's. It probably we wouldn't have this situation if it was a single floor home. But I come up the stairs and I crawl in bed and I'm like, I'm out of breath. Like, just a little bit out of breath, right? And my breathing's a little bit fast or a little bit heavy. And I'm laying there trying to breathe as slow as I can while trying to catch my breath so that I don't wake her up. And man, you're like.

[C]

Which sounds like shaking too.

[A]

Yes. You're like, your breaths or like shaking to the beat of your heart, you're like, yeah. And it is. And I'm sitting there, I'm like, this is silly. As I'm like 50 years old and I'm sitting here trying to hide my. My loud breathing so Amy doesn't wake up.

[B]

Listen, that's a. I thank you for that because that's. That's never fun. Laura and I talked about that. Like when a man's loud, panting in the bed, especially when he's right behind you.

[A]

And I'll. And I'll jump. I'll jump in the bed. And I'm like, here's the thing, too.

[B]

Like, he thinks he's quiet and stealthy all the time. I know when he comes to bed, I know he's not quiet.

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

He walks like a buffalo.

[A]

I don't know if she really knows, but I think she might know, but she might not know because she doesn't make a sound. Like, if I hop in bed, she.

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Doesn'T go, no, because I don't want you to try to get on me. Oh, well, I don't want that to be the high sign of like, oh, she's awake. Start grabbing boobs. I'm like, I'm just gonna lay there for the.

[A]

So she'll. I'll climb in bed. And you know, you get in bed and you're like, damn, I'm not really comfortable. Like, you'll get in your position and you're like, matt, this isn't it. Yeah. And I like, I like, I'm breathing heavy and I'm like, not comfortable, so I don't want to tussle around. And I'm. And I like, wait. And boy, she moves. It's like, ah, finally I can move because. Because she starts moving, she rolls over, whatever. I'm like, oh, now I can move and get comfortable. Get in my position. And then, dude, I like a light.

[B]

And now I'm awake.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Trying to go back to sleep.

[C]

That's a stressful little time right there for You.

[A]

It really is.

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I've experienced this every time.

[B]

Every time.

[C]

Every time. Because I don't. I go to bed late, too. I can't go to bed before, like, 12.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So every time I sneak into bed, it's. It's. It's stressful. I don't want to wake her, but I'm gonna wake her because I gotta get comfortable.

[B]

Yeah. I have a feeling you're a little bit more quiet than he is.

[A]

I try to be quiet, breathing wise. Probably my hardest breathing wise.

[C]

Now I'm doing exactly what Dale just said.

[B]

Well, the thing is, too, he brushes his teeth downstairs in the powder room, right next to the kitchen, like a guest bath. So, like, I go downstairs in the morning, and there's toothpaste everywhere. But if he had chosen to brush his teeth in his own sink upstairs, he might not be so out of breath. Like, it gives him a minute to get his breathing in.

[A]

But I'm worried that that's noisy.

[B]

You're noisy.

[A]

Anyway, our sink is like our sink and me brushing my teeth. My little Noisy toothbrush is 10ft from her bed.

[B]

I can hear you shuffling through the bathroom with your feet. I can hear you.

[A]

So quiet.

[B]

Nope.

[A]

Man.

[B]

No, you're not.

[A]

Well, you're not. Those items weren't on the. On the notes today, but they were fun to talk about. Amy, you mentioned that we lost Junebug. Junebug has. Was 14 years old. Pomeranian. They said when we were getting him, he was a teacup Pomeranian. You could hold him in your hands. He was so tiny. He. You moved up here from Jacksonville and lived in a rental. A few different apartments and so forth. And I remember when we got Junebug and how tiny and perfect he was.

[B]

Yeah, he was super tiny. He was like 1.6 pounds.

[A]

He would hop up on your chest. You couldn't even feel his weight. He was so, so small.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And just so, so tiny. You're afraid you're gonna hurt him, but.

[B]

You couldn't hold him in one arm. He'd fall through the gap in your arm. Like, you had to hold him.

[A]

He would climb in your hoodie.

[B]

Yeah. You could stick them in the pocket of your hoodie.

[A]

It's like a little.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

It was exactly like having the stuffed.

[B]

Animal come to life.

[A]

Yeah, but like the movie. The. The old movie. Nobody's going to. A lot of people.

[B]

Well, you can't even remember Magpie.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Got you lost.

[A]

Gremlins. The Gremlins name. What? Magpie was his name. The Gremlin.

[B]

They called him Mugwai. One of them. Well, like the gremlins. He did not look like a gremlin.

[A]

I thought he was, like, a neat, fun. When they were good. Like the. Before they get water on and turn bad.

[B]

What did you eat yesterday?

[A]

Good gremlin.

[B]

You're in a weird, weird, weird mindset.

[A]

With the things he would remember. This is who I am. Nah, Junebug was amazing. He never was trained to go outside and potty, to peed everywhere. We talked about that.

[B]

We tried.

[A]

Golly.

[B]

Here's the thing about June Bug. So he was super tiny. Like, when I first got him, I was still working and doing cad work and drawing and doing interior design. So he would sit on the front part of my laptop on the front, like, corner. And he was so little, he wouldn't touch the keys or the mousepad or anything. Like, he could just sit there, and he just stared at me while I drew and did my work. And then we'd take a break and play, and then I'd put him back up there. But, you know, he didn't have any manners. He'd run off. Jamie and I lived together at the time, and he would, like, take off into the woods thinking he was being funny. And we're like, you're gonna get picked up by a hawk. Joke's on you. And we'd have to, like, literally close the door and wait for him to come back. But he also. He also didn't have any Mariners because he traveled with us so much. Like, he had to pee in the gravel or pee anywhere just because we were always toting him everywhere. So I don't think he really ever learned that. Like, it's only in the grass. You know what I mean?

[A]

Yeah. Dogs are a big, big deal. I've had a bunch of. I've had a bunch of dogs. We had a white. We had a big white. Kind of looked like a size of a retriever, but it was a white dog we called Domino. I've got pictures of that dog. I don't really remember that dog, but that was our first kind of dog. Do you remember the first pet you had?

[B]

Our first dog was Simon, and he was a Pekingese. He looked just like your mom's old dog. Yeah. And, yeah, he was outside. Dad did not let us. He was an outside dog, even in South Texas.

[A]

Oh, wow.

[B]

Yeah. We'd have to sneak him in the house when dad was at work, but, yeah, he was sweet. Mom was devastated when he passed, but I remember we had him for the.

[A]

Longest, and then we had Zach, so that Was a. Interesting experience, I guess, trying to explain to the girls what was going on. And Isla was emotional and understood, you know, what was going on. But Nicole didn't really get it.

[B]

I feel like she understands now. And now she's just trying to, like, twist the knife because. And it's partially my fault because I have a stuffed animal that looks like Juneba.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

And I bought this for Isla when she was small.

[A]

There's a stuffed animal in our house that looks identical to the dog. And the kids are tearing.

[B]

They're fighting over it now.

[A]

They're fighting over.

[B]

It's a whole jumbo.

[A]

This stuffed animal had. Has been sitting in the same spot that's unattended. Nobody messed with it. It was just another toy in the corner of the room. And now, over the last, like, two days, they have been fighting over. And it's been everywhere. And it's little, and they're saying Junebug.

[B]

They won't stop saying his name. And so Nicole.

[A]

It's been a nightmare.

[B]

June Bug wasn't nice to kids. He just never was. So I got this thing for Isla so she could have her own little June Bug that she could carry around. And sometimes they push it around on the baby stroller or whatever. But it's now everybody's favorite toy. And Nicole wanted to take it in the ride to school this morning. So Junebug's doing this and Junebug's doing that, and Junebug sees this, and I'm like, oh, my God, can you just stop saying Junebug? I know she's just, like, four and not trying to torture me, but it's totally torturing me. So it kind of put me in a funk. By the time we got out of the car and I got here, I was, like, just blue again. I was happier yesterday, but then just kind of sad again today. I don't think the weather's helping, but it was kind of partially my fault. But I'm gonna miss him. He's a sweet little boy. And I was. I'm gonna cry. I was holding him when he passed away, which is I'm grateful for, because if I hadn't had to make the choice to put him down, I think that would have been harder. He was sleeping next to me down in the Elvis room, and I could hear his. My alarm went off. I could hear he wasn't breathing that well. So I look over, and I'm just petting him. And as soon as I picked him up and started taking him towards the front door, he just Passed away. So, like, I feel like he waited for me to wake up. It's so sad, but I miss him. Isla was sad yesterday again, so I think she's gonna go in and out of it with me. But Nicole's gonna continue to torture us with all of her commentary about, he's in the dirt, he's in the yard.

[A]

And, yeah, we have.

[B]

Maybe it's some comic relief, but, yeah, we. Dale did the same thing to me yesterday. Speaking of, we were talking to Sunny about the irrigation and all the beds that we needed to replant because the water is now getting into the garage, blah, blah, blah. And he's like, you know, there's a thing out there about the whole size of June Buug. I'm like, God dang, dude, can you just leave June Bug out of this? It's too soon.

[A]

Yeah, I. Yeah, everybody deals with things. Things differently, and I don't love my feel the way I deal with it, but because I. I'm Amy's, you know, reaction to it is very normal and. And expected.

[B]

And Dale's a butthead about it.

[A]

I'm not a butthead.

[B]

I mean, that was kind of a butthead thing to say.

[A]

I didn't. I was just trying to describe the hole in the ground was the same hole.

[B]

Even Sonny turned around and looked at him like, dang, man, it's too soon. I dug the hole. I know how.

[A]

Just say there was a hole in the ground for this, for the landscaping, and. And there was a guy they built. There was a drain. There's a drain in our yard. And we've got some water issues where some water's sort of settling in some spots. We need it to not do that. And so we're gonna have to dig out the flower beds. They've just sort of built up over time, and now they're. Now the water table when it rains, is getting over the water barrier on the side of the house and getting water into the garage. Well, there's a drain out in the yard. And I look at this drain. Plastic box drain with a grate over it, and it's full of water. I pull the top off and dig down in there. It's mud, mulch, all kinds of stuff down in this plastic box.

[B]

It's a risky move.

[A]

There's no. And then I get it all dug out. That's how I got the mud on the sweatpants making sense now. I get it all dug out, and this basically is all. All it is is a plastic box that somebody dug a hole and Put in the ground. There's no piping out to run this water off anywhere. It's not real. It's not a drain. And so I was trying to say to Amy, this house.

[B]

This house was built in 2008, by the way. And it's taken us this long to figure that out. Water stands in that part of the yard, and it has ever since the house was built.

[A]

And that's why. Because that drains. Not real. Whoever put it in there didn't finish the job or didn't put the piping to be able to let it run off somewhere out, you know, out underneath the yard. And I said, yeah, the box there is a hole the same size as the hole that we dug for Junebug. I thought. I was just describing the hole.

[B]

You said it triggered very, very.

[A]

I don't have.

[B]

Yeah, no, he doesn't have. He doesn't have empathy. Like, his empathy chip is. It's situational, I guess. I don't know.

[A]

Yeah, I don't know.

[B]

He didn't have it yesterday. Not in that moment, anyway.

[A]

Yeah, I feel like that, if we're being honest. So, you know, when you have a. When you have a loss, like, I dealt. I had a very big loss back in 2001 with dad, and that's something that, you know, traditionally you expect to happen later in life, but you kind of get this unfortunate situation early in life. And so I have. You know, I've experienced something that a lot of people will experience later and that, like, hardened or seasoned or like now, when another loss happens in life, the next loss or the next person passes or a pet or something. Very. Even though I love Junebug to death and I will miss him terribly, I feel like I don't grieve. I don't know why I don't grieve it, because. And it's not like I don't appreciate him and love him, but, like, that part of me is not working. Right.

[B]

Yeah, I know. Yes. I think that. That your empathy chip has been damaged.

[A]

I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I feel fine. I feel okay with how that's working. I'm not, you know, I don't. I don't. I might not be working the right way. You know, I think the way you react to it and how you're dealing with it is traditional, you know, you know, grieving and so forth, but I am already so. He. Junebug has had a lot of, you know, things. I've almost lost track of all of the sort of challenges he's faced over the last year and a half, two years. He had a collapsed trachea.

[B]

His trachea is starting to collapse. It's like a pretty common thing that happens with little dogs and their airway gets tight.

[A]

So he's dealing with that. Always sort of like hacking and trying to cough up like a. Like a cat or somebody might cough up a.

[B]

He doesn't cough up furball. He coughs. He didn't cough up anything.

[A]

But it's not that, you know, it's what it would remind you of.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And he had some battles with Gus that. Well, he had. He had to work through a heart murmur. He had a heart murmur that was getting worse. That was the one thing that they were telling us was really bad. Probably going to, you know, be the biggest challenge was his heart murmur. Our vet, I suppose, Amy, you said he got pretty emotional about the news.

[B]

He was upset. Yeah.

[A]

I hated that they worked over the last couple of days, like, I. You know, Gus, June bug was laying, just laying. You know, he would sit up a little bit and look at you, but he would not walk, not. Not do much moving. Didn't want to stand. And so, I mean, it was kind of like, gosh, it feels like it's time to.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Maybe, you know, think about. Think about putting him down. But, gosh, you just kind of want to give him every chance you can. And we were right there in that sort of threshold of having to sort it out. And. And I'm kind of glad that we. I'm glad it happened the way it happened, Honestly, like, to your point, like, I'm. We were the doc. If the doctor would have said the day before we had him at the vet, if he would have said, man, it's time, we would have done it. Right. But, you know, I'm glad we kind of. Maybe it's good. I don't know. But it. He. You know, he was. He's. He was a great. He's a fun dog. A lot of fun. I loved him. And, man, just so hard to replace, you know, you don't. When. When Killer died, I thought, you know, man, when Killer had cancer, we knew he was gonna pass. And I'm telling myself, you know, I'm gonna take a break from dogs for a while. Let's just take a break. You know, let's just not do dogs for a while.

[B]

Yeah, well, we had already had June Bug at that point.

[A]

Yeah. But as soon as he passes, you're like, you know, the change in the house, it's Immediate.

[B]

The energy has definitely changed in the house, and Gus was even pounding this morning. And I don't know if it was because he just wanted to go for a walk or if he's actually getting sad now because we showed him Junebug after it happened. They say you're supposed to do that so they know where their buddy went. And he sniffed on him and just moved on, like, yeah, part of my plan all along. You know what I mean? Dale and I both were like, no, try it again. Make sure he really understands.

[A]

Felt like he needed to butt head, figure it out.

[B]

Yeah. But, yeah, I don't know. I don't think that. I think we're just gonna hang on to Gus for a little bit.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Do Gus. Gus does not let you bring another dog into the house anyway, so.

[C]

Yeah. Territory territorial.

[B]

Very, Very. Yeah.

[A]

But this morning, we drink water, and, you know, you. You drink, like, three quarters of the bottle, and you set it on the island in the kitchen, and. And, you know, get up in the morning, you're like, I'll just put this remaining water in June bug's bowl. And it's like, you know, you have those moments where you. You have to, like, you're reminded, like, now that's not. That's not what you're doing anymore.

[B]

Yeah. You can pour him in Gus's instead.

[A]

Yeah, I did.

[B]

You did, yeah.

[A]

But, yeah, it'll be tough trying to. There'll be moments where you, like, first time we go back to the, you know, the beach house or first. You know, there'll be moments.

[B]

Yeah. We're going to have to start getting rid of all this.

[A]

We got to go and find his things. And.

[B]

I feel like we just save it. It's just bulls and things. We just.

[A]

It's. Whatever. I'm not touching it. You know, I'm gonna let you handle it.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

But Junebug was 14. I asked Chat GTP how long Pomeranians live. He said 12 to 16 years. So he had a good, long life.

[B]

He did. Mr. H had a. Had a Pomeranian that was his dad's. Is that correct? That he adopted. And that dog lived today be 18 years old.

[C]

That's.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

He ate one cheeseburger every day. He would ride in the car with Mr. H. I thought it was his dad's dog. And they would eat a cheese. They would share a cheeseburger, or the dog would. His own cheeseburger, and that's all he ate, was one cheeseburger a day. And that dog lived at 18 years old. And I remember Mr. H. Telling us that. And I was like, 18 years. Oh, my gosh. We just, like, basically got a kid. You know what I mean? So I was expecting at least 14 based on that story.

[A]

Gus is 11.

[B]

Gus is gonna be 11 in December.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

Yep. And did you ask Chad about Gus since you were in there? Oh, my God.

[A]

They live 11 to 15, 11 to 13, but 15 sometimes. What is wrong with me?

[B]

I don't know. Like, it's.

[A]

I'm just asking questions. I could. I'm just like, Google. Same thing on Google.

[B]

It's like seeing the Internet. What's wrong with yourself if you've got a cut and then all of a sudden it tells you you got the same C word. You know what I mean? Like what?

[A]

No, I'm just saying the Internet will.

[B]

Tell you whatever you want to say.

[A]

But I'm just asking. You can ask it whatever you want to ask it. Like, I asked it, how many days till the Pocono race? Because the kids are always asking about going to Hershey park, and I can't freaking figure that out.

[B]

Did you just ask it how many days?

[A]

So I just ask it, how many days till the Pocono race? And it's like, 270 days.

[B]

That's logic. All right.

[A]

Anyhow, I'm not using chat for nefarious reasons. Just in case.

[B]

Not nefarious reasons, but, like, I don't.

[A]

Know what you're worried about.

[B]

Oh, I just feel like I don't think about using chat as much as you do. But, you know, that's just personality difference.

[A]

I ask it for hacks for college football. 26. Tell me some cheese plays. How can I beat TJ?

[B]

What's a cheese play?

[A]

Cheese play is like a play that's broken that you probably shouldn't or not supposed to use or a way to rig, kind of do something that breaks the game.

[B]

Cheating?

[A]

Yeah, a little bit. Yes. We don't use that word, but it's called cheese chess. That feels better than cheating. That's cheesy. Like, man, you know, you keep running the same play over and over again. That's cheesy. Or you keep doing this thing that probably shouldn't do, but I'll do those things to beat tj. Whatever it takes.

[B]

Yeah, so I remember you guys, like, actually sharing real hacks to break into certain games back in the day.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I found this cheat. Found a cheat code.

[A]

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[B]

So we got a new rug. One of my girlfriends in Texas sent me a link for an Amazon rug, and considering how many dog messes we've had on ours, it was time. I got a huge rug for $36. 36 bucks?

[A]

I don't believe it. Still.

[B]

I know. I was waiting for them to give me a refund. Like they had messed up the post. Amy said, because all of the other rugs were the normal price, which were very expensive, and then they had this gigantic size on sale for 36 bucks, and they probably just had overstock and they just wanted to get rid of them.

[A]

Amy knows that I freak out about cost of things, and she's like, guess how much I got this rug for? I'm like, oh, I don't even want to guess.

[B]

I mean, it was expensive. I wasn't gonna tell him.

[A]

She's like, $36 or whatever. I was like, my mind just said, ain't no way. Just don't make a sound. Just. That is not true. It's not real. There's no way. But don't debate. Oh, let it. Let it happen.

[B]

I had even sent it to Kelly and she's like, my living room's not even big enough for that. But she has. She saw it. So anyway, I got one. Katie got one. There's a few other friends I got.

[A]

Oh, really?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Damn. What's wrong with this rug?

[B]

Nothing. There's nothing wrong with it. So we rolled. We get the rug out or we get the rug. It's sitting in the rug.

[A]

I like the rug. It's great. Really ties the room together.

[B]

Do the task of ungator clipping the couch, moving all the furniture off, getting the kids to stay off, the dogs to stay off so that we can roll up the other one and put the new one down. Well, of course we move all the furniture off and then find, like, the most disgusting display of crap underneath the couch and in the couch cushions. Wasn't so bad because we pulled the couch cushions off quite a bit to clean.

[A]

Wasn't all my crap.

[B]

The cushions. It wasn't. It was actually none of Dale's craft. There were no candy pieces left.

[C]

No big win.

[A]

No candy. No toe fingernails. None of that stuff.

[B]

Gross. Do you do that?

[A]

No. No. Did you find any that were. None there.

[B]

Well, maybe they were underneath the pile of necklaces and jewelry things. Gross, dude.

[A]

There was all kinds of dirt and crap. Coins.

[B]

And there were. There were a lot of coins. Where'd those come from?

[A]

It was gross.

[B]

I don't know where they were in a very. They were in a pile together.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, bracelets. Walking around with coins.

[B]

Wrappers from gummy bears.

[A]

Oh, yes.

[B]

A plethora of Barbie shoes and all kinds of, you know, little things like that from their toys.

[A]

Yeah. We don't back. We don't get under that rug or under the sofa enough, I guess.

[B]

Yeah, it was under the sofa. So anyway, we've got that moved out of the way, and the new rug's nice, but you never know what you're gonna find on Amazon. You really don't. 36 bucks.

[A]

That's crazy. Amazon.

[B]

Amazon.

[A]

I still think there must be something wrong with it.

[B]

I didn't steal it. I mean, it's. It's good.

[A]

Yeah. But, like, if you look at land and they're like, yeah, this is a very cheap acre of land, and you're like, got to be something wrong with it. Must not be able to build anything. There must be some kind of a floodplain or something's wrong. It's unfavorable.

[B]

There's nothing wrong with the rug.

[A]

The rug seems fine, but maybe there's some.

[B]

Did you lose things under the rug as a kid, though?

[A]

Did I lose.

[B]

Lose things under the couch? Lose things. Like, I don't remember mom and dad ever pulling the couches back and us having, like, our entire toy collection so.

[A]

Our couches were off the ground. Like, the couches these days are, like, on the floor. Right. So, like, you don't get. You can't clean under them. Like, the couches that we lived. Our houses, they had legs and you could vacuum under or, you know.

[B]

Yeah. I don't really remember what our couch. I feel like it was skirted.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

So, like, maybe it did have a little.

[A]

You could get under it.

[B]

Well, my point is, like, we didn't have our toys in there as much, and we didn't eat in there. Like, we didn't eat on the couch.

[A]

I 100% agree. Like, I. I wish. I wish we had never introduced toys into the living room.

[B]

We didn't. They do.

[A]

Well, I mean, we. We let that happen. We don't stop it. We don't say. I want to, you know, not. Don't want the kids to hear this, but I want to take all of those toys that are in that center console and just bag them up and get them out.

[B]

Yeah, I'm about ready to do that, too.

[A]

They don't even know what's in there.

[B]

I don't really want that ottoman anymore.

[A]

We've got an ottoman with a little wood top on it that you remove, and it's full of toys, and they have no clue what's in there. They would never miss them, but they'll o. They'll come over there and throw that top off.

[B]

Top.

[A]

Is pulling toys out dangerous?

[B]

Like, she. Nicole especially, would just shoot it around.

[A]

They start pulling toys out, and then five minutes later, hey, where are the kids? Oh, they're upstairs. It's like a freaking everywhere. And I'm like, this is bull. You know, they're not cleaning this up. I'm just gonna trash it. That's like something I'm working on in myself is like, I never want to get rid of anything.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

What if I needed. I just need to go ahead and say, you know what? I'm never going to need this. I don't need to hang on to this old faucet that we replaced. I'm never going to need it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Just throw it away. You know, I hang on to stuff like that. I'm like, you never know. You know, you might need this. But then we're, you know, then this.

[B]

Faucet that does not work.

[A]

Yeah. And then one day it's going to be somebody else's problem, you know, and I won't. They're going to go, why did he keep this stuff?

[B]

Man was crazy.

[A]

Yeah. I think that's a compliment. When somebody says you're crazy. I want people to think I got a little crazy in me.

[B]

Really? Yeah. Women can't say that out loud.

[A]

Well, I don't want people to be indifferent.

[B]

There's some crazy women. Like, we're not allowed to say that.

[A]

I was told the other day, when people are indifferent, we're not allowed to own that anyway.

[B]

What?

[A]

Somebody told me some great advice the other day that when people are indifferent, that's when you need to worry. Like, when people are like they're ambivalent.

[B]

Like they just have a so meh attitude about who you are.

[A]

Yeah, I like, I kind of want people to.

[B]

So crazy's okay for you?

[A]

Just a little tinge of crazy. I think every race car driver is a little crazy.

[B]

Yes. You're. You're not wrong, right? You're not wrong. Ever since I've gone on those ride alongs with you, there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that you have a little crazy in you.

[A]

Yeah. Good. See, I want you to think that even if it might not be true, it is true.

[B]

So it's not not true.

[A]

I got a new truck.

[B]

Yeah, but he's got a. He's got a flashy idea for that one too.

[A]

Not really.

[B]

He showed me his idea, and I'm like, that looks like. That looks like the NASCAR dots. Like, it looks like now you're. It does.

[A]

So I have this. I had this white truck since 2021, and it had this, if you remember, the. The vintage Toyota 4Runner, orange, you know, yellow, orange, red, black stripes. I had that down the side of this truck just as loud as you could be, right? And, man, the girls, me, we loved it. And we had the KC lights on the top, and this thing was awesome. And I don't know, you know, I kind of. I kind of. I don't over. I don't. Over the last couple. Yeah, over the last couple weeks, I was like, you know what? I'm just gonna go low profile for a while. You know, I need a little. I need a little chill. And so me and my sweatpants. My truck. Yeah, my truck. I've never really had a vehicle long enough to put a ton of miles on it. And I noticed the other day I was pulling out of an intersection, and I just didn't like the acceleration much, you know, Just didn't feel like it was as crisp as it always had been in the past. I thought there's a little bit of hesitation there. So maybe it's. Maybe it's about time to start looking for a new truck. And this has got the old dash in it. You know, they got the new trucks with the big iPad dash in there.

[B]

And, like, you need that distraction, you know?

[A]

So, yeah, I'm going to. This thing's just this time.

[B]

So I like how you just make it make sense for yourself. That's a standard Dell junior move.

[A]

So I learned that the trade in value on my 2021 truck with 32,000 miles on it is really good. They gave me 40 grand for this thing. So I'm not, you know, I'm in pretty good shape there, thank God. And I got a new truck, and it's black. This truck is just going to have a 3 1/2 inch tall red stripe down the rocker panel from over. Across the. Both. Both doors. That's it. The old truck was decal from top to bottom in stripes and stripes and stripes and KC lights and all kinds of cool stuff.

[B]

Just give it a couple months.

[A]

This one's going to be very subtle, and it's a little red stripe. It's going to match the trail box.

[B]

And then it dashes like the NASCAR logo.

[A]

It's similar, but I also did that on my. My last cup car for the Nationwide. It had that in the. In the middle of the door. It was like these blue dashes. So I kind of was going off of that.

[B]

Gotcha.

[A]

But I'm pumped. I love the truck, and I wish. I mean, I could talk about it for a while, but I don't want to bore everybody.

[B]

Thanks. To fall asleep over here, I have a random question. I saw something on the Internet the other day. These two ladies were frying chicken, and it was chicken tenderloins. And they literally just got the grease hot in the little tiny sauce pot, and they poured all the flour in the grease, and then they put the chicken into the pot, and it kind of breaded itself as it was cooking. I'm sure that didn't taste very good because the chicken had to have, like, soaked up a bunch of that oil. But before they even did all that, the friend that wasn't doing the cooking was asking if she was gonna wash the chicken. And the lady that was cooking was like, no, I'm not gonna wash the chicken. You wash your chicken. She's like, yeah, it's slimy. You don't wash your chicken. Are you supposed to wash the chicken? That's my question. I've never in my life washed chicken. Came out of a package. I've never washed any type of meat, really. Do you wash chicken?

[C]

Are you supposed to? I always do.

[B]

You do?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You wash the chicken, and now you've got chicken all in your sink. Everything is contaminated. Right?

[C]

Like, well, you wash your sink after.

[B]

That is a lot of extra steps.

[C]

Maybe, But, I mean, it's not like it didn't take long.

[B]

So you rinse it with water and then you, like, pat it dry?

[C]

No, I throw it in like. Like in, like, a bowl of egg. So it gets like, the breadcrumbs can stick to the egg and Then I throw it in the pan.

[B]

Do you ever grilled chicken?

[C]

Sometimes. Yeah.

[B]

And you wash that, too?

[C]

Yeah, I wash that, too. Just in case.

[B]

What is it just in case for? What's the water gonna.

[C]

Because I've always been taught that you get, like, sick if you don't. It could be a lie, but I still do it.

[B]

So like, unless you put soap on it and it killed the bacteria.

[C]

That's not true.

[B]

It's not doing anything.

[C]

No, that can't be true.

[B]

I. I want somebody else. Can we ask the Chat GPT Are you supposed to wash your chicken?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I found that to be so awesome.

[A]

Hey, man. How's it going?

[C]

Hey, there. It's going pretty well on my end. Hope you're doing great too. Always nice to hear from you. Let me know what's on your mind today.

[A]

Hey, I bought some chicken. Some. I brought some drumsticks and some tenderloins. Tenderloins. And I was gonna bread them. Should I wash the chicken in the sink first?

[C]

Ah, the classic to rinse or not to rinse question. So, officially, food safety guidelines actually recommend that you don't wash chicken in the sink. The reason is it can spread bacteria around your kitchen surfaces, and it doesn't really do anything to get rid of germs on the chicken itself. Cooking it thoroughly will kill any bacteria anyway. So you're generally good to just pat it dry with a paper towel and then go ahead and bread it.

[A]

All right, man. Take it easy. Appreciate it.

[C]

You got it. Anytime. And good luck with those drumsticks and tenderloins. They're gonna turn out great.

[B]

This is why he uses Chat GBT so much. He's got a new best friend.

[C]

That's crazy.

[A]

I don't want to see any of you Son of a. Going out and talking to Chat GTP if y' all gonna sit here and laugh at me.

[B]

Also, don't wash your chicken anymore. You're just up your sink.

[C]

I learned something.

[A]

I don't want to see y' all in your car out in the parking lot later today talking to Chat gtp. All right, Little son of guns.

[B]

Now We're Son of a Vicious.

[A]

Well, I just felt like it might have been too aggressive. I'll ask Chad about it later. I'll ask him if that was too aggressive.

[B]

In a work environment, is Son of a okay to use, or is Son of a gun more appropriate?

[A]

Y', all, you are all very curious. I can see it in your eyes. I can see it. You're all like, I need to try that.

[B]

I want to know what other voices there are.

[A]

There's lots. Lots of voices.

[B]

Is there a chick voice?

[A]

Oh, yeah, multiple. They have a. Like, an English accent. Ireland. They have all of them.

[B]

What about a Scottish man, maybe?

[A]

Yeah, I'm sure they don't have names or anything. They just call themselves Chat gtp.

[B]

Really?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

How do you know which one you're. You're clicking on?

[A]

Well, it's got a. The. The. The. The. The. The accent has a. A name.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

But not like a. Like a personal name. Yeah, Yeah. I was like. We were riding in the car to school, and I was like, isla, ask this thing anything you want. And she's like, what did she say? Oh, she was asking it like, what state has the most earthquakes?

[B]

Really?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That's a good way to get to know your kid.

[A]

And she's like. And it's like, Alaska. And tells her, and she's like, oh, okay. What state has the most tsunamis? So we were on, like, a little.

[B]

She knows what a tsunami is.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And then that school's doing its thing.

[A]

Yeah, look at school. She said. She said, when will the next tornado warning be? And it was like, yeah, you know, hard to predict. It's North Carolina, too. Not many of them. So I was like, yeah, how often did you know? So I was like, we had a conversation about tornadoes in North Carolina. And then, you know, what. What. What states had the most tornadoes?

[B]

And I'm surprised she didn't ask it about the moon. She's always asking me when the next red moon is or the eclipse.

[A]

So I should write some notes, like some questions to ask it on the way to school.

[B]

Yeah, she's always asking me those things that I don't use chat like you do, but maybe I will, because Googling is not as safe if you can just talk into that. Yeah, probably easier.

[A]

Yeah, it's. It's. It's pretty. Pretty helpful.

[B]

So I'm glad you're so entertained, I think, by yourself.

[A]

New technology. I don't. You know, I don't. I don't want to get down the road and it become this thing that everybody's using. And I'm like, oh, what is that?

[B]

You know, listen, that's okay. So I didn't have a Facebook account forever. I didn't have. What was the first one? MySpace. I didn't do MySpace. I didn't feel left out.

[A]

I had a MySpace. Sorry, go ahead.

[B]

No, go ahead. I know you had a MySpace.

[A]

I had a MySpace and my cats. And you know what? I thought you Know, you put.

[B]

He had a MySpace where he said.

[A]

I had pictures of my cats, race cars, my trucks, my cars.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

Oh, man. You would put. Put everything on there. I had like a logo, a sundrop logo on there. Like, hey, everybody, don't come at me unless you're talking Sundrop.

[B]

I would never have ever, like, you.

[A]

Know, you put like. I would put. You know, you had the little photo section, and you. You put things in there that you were like, this is my. All right, so if you like this kind of stuff, we can talk about that.

[B]

Yeah, I would never have, like, messaged you if I had seen this.

[A]

I know it. You had your friends, and you had to move your friends in your front. Top eight. Was it top eight, top 10?

[B]

There was a ranking.

[C]

Yeah, I think it was like, top eight or something.

[A]

And there was the guy. What was his name? Tom.

[B]

Did that cause issues in your friendship?

[A]

Yeah, the first. Could you take him?

[C]

He was your number one.

[A]

You couldn't take him out?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

How. What a. I know. Come on, Tom. He created MySpace, right? And he wouldn't let you take him out. He had to be everybody's number one.

[B]

That's weird.

[A]

Did he do that?

[B]

Because he had some kind of weird.

[A]

We all expected it because we're like, all right. It. Okay, well, here's my favorite seven in Tom and man, people were like, I boycott. I saw such and such put somebody in their top eight. Do you notice that? That was, like, gossipy, right?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Hey, did you see who got added to the top eight on what's His Face?

[B]

So did you, like, slide people in and out of your top eight just to see if people would notice? Sure. That's so stupid.

[A]

It was just like the follow. Follow back. Like, you unfollow in that country song. You unfollowed. You unfollowed me and followed me back just to see. Just so I'd notice in that song. In that country song, Some Girls.

[B]

Huh?

[A]

There's a country song, you know, of country. So there's a country song called Some Girls.

[B]

I want you just to sing it for us.

[A]

And he's talking about how the girl unfollowed him, then followed him back so he would get the alert so that he would. She would know that she was thinking about. Still interested. Yeah. And so, like, you would. You would slide people around in your top eight or whatever and hope that, you know, somebody would notice.

[B]

Oh, goodness gracious. Bless you.

[A]

All right, we're going to do a little segment around celebrating National Hunting and Fishing Day. This is presented by Bass Pro Shops. They are great friends of ours. We have. We're going to do hunting stories. I think last week we did fishing. And Bass Pro is North America's premier outdoor and conservation company. Plan your next adventure at Bass Pro Shops near you or online@bass pro.com One of my favorite hunting stories, I always like telling stories about how big of a badass my dad was. And so if you haven't noticed, I try to slide it in there every now and then and not be too obvious about it. But there's a picture that I have on my phone of my dad, and I always show it to people because it speaks clearly to how fearless and determined he was. And he's. It's a picture of him in a deer stand. And this picture is taken from 150 yards away. Right. So you get the ground, the field, the entire tree, and dad up in the top, and he is literally 50ft, 40ft in the air, like twice the height that you truly needed to be. Certainly too high to bow hunt.

[B]

He just did it because he could.

[A]

He was. He just thought that that was what needed to happen in that moment in that tree and for him to be able to have the best vantage point to see the deer moving in to the field, I suppose. But he's too high. And he would have to screw the pegs into the tree individually and climb this tree, screwing in one peg at.

[B]

A time as he climbed up.

[A]

As he climbed up with the stand. And then he would have to mount the stand up at this tree, 50 foot into the air. Right.

[B]

So he was. Screw the pegs in as he was climbing up the tree. At this point, how many pegs does he.

[A]

Let me. I'll tell you. So he's got the bag of pegs, he's crawling, climbing up tree, climbs up the tree. And then maybe he goes down and gets the stand, takes the stand back up there. But this picture is just really a. Speaks to just his, his, his, his crazy.

[B]

He's crazy. Yeah.

[A]

And so I went with him hunting, I believe one of the very first times I went. The first time I went hunting with dad, I don't remember climbing the stand, but I remember we were in a chain up. And the bottom of the chain up is about twice the size of the seat I'm sitting on.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Like, it's.

[B]

It's just like a great. Right.

[A]

It's a great. And it kind of. It kind of spreads out and. And kind of, you know, gets a little front teardrop. Yeah. A little Teardrop.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And so if you sit on it and put your feet down, your toes are at the edge of the grate. And it was cold as hell and early in the morning and I balled up. I was six. I balled up. Under his legs. Yeah, under his seat.

[B]

This story makes me laid so uncomfortable. I can't believe on this.

[A]

Laid on this thing and slept. Yeah, under his legs. You know, we hunted in the morning, we got out of the street stand at 11 o' clock and went on about our day. The next time I go hunting with him, we walk up to this tree and this is the first time I ever shot a deer. We were in Alabama. We get up to this tree and it's a tall ass tree. There's not a limb on it. Right at the very top, this tree split and he had a couple two by fours with a chain up in this tree. And so he had two two by fours nailed across the Y that were kind of arm height. If you're sitting in this, in the stand and so lean on or what? I'm 12 or 13.

[B]

Like what do you, what do you. What's the two by four for him.

[A]

To rest a gun on or whatever, you know, hang something, throw his jacket over. And so we start to, we get to the bottom of this stand and I'm just going to do whatever he says, right? So we get to the bottom of the stand, he goes, all right, you start up and I'll go up behind you. I get going, I start climbing up. I'm like, I can barely reach the pegs, they're so spread apart. He put these pegs as far apart as possible.

[B]

So he didn't have to do so many.

[A]

So he didn't have to put so many in there. Yeah, but I can't get my foot to the next peg all the way up this tree. I'm crawling up this thing and he's having to push each foot.

[B]

That is insane.

[A]

He's having to. Because I would get my foot up and I'd be about 6 inches or so short of the next peg and he would push my foot from underneath to the next peg.

[B]

Oh my gosh. Neither one of you are tethered to anything.

[A]

We had no safety harness, nothing. Like we hunt with safety harnesses now. And you don't get in a stand without one. And so. But then there was no safety harnesses, nothing. So we, we got our guns on our backs, you know, and we're.

[B]

So you had a gun too?

[A]

Yeah, I had a gun. He had a Gun.

[B]

Oh, this is your first year? Yeah.

[A]

And so we go up in this. We go up in the stand. We finally get up in there. We. When we get to the top, I am. I've been terrified all this way up.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I'm scared.

[B]

You're already traumatized.

[A]

I'm scared. Not. Not. I'm scared more for him, you know, than me. Like, I'm. I'm. And that goes back to like my empathy, I guess. It's like I wasn't really. I'm like, yeah, whatever happens to me, happens to me. But I was worried about him.

[B]

Why?

[A]

Because he's the breadwinner. He's like the. The greatest thing on earth.

[B]

You didn't stop to think, how am I going to get the hell down from here?

[A]

I didn't worry about it. I was worried about the greatest man that I knew existed, having something happen to him. And so it's a hard thing to explain or understand, but I wasn't really worried about me. If something happened to me, he was there, right. If I fail, if I got hurt, the greatest man on earth was going to be there to take care of me. What's going to happen if daddy gets hurt?

[B]

We're both screwed here.

[A]

Not just now, but you know, what, long term. What happens, right, if he break his back or something?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So we finally get up there and I'm so relieved. He sets his ass up on a two by four. He's like got his. He's. He's got his feet. He's standing on the platform of this chain up, leaned up against this 2x4. This thing is nailed into that tree by what, I don't know. And I'm sitting on the stand and I'm like, I don't love this. I don't like this. He don't give a. He's just whatever. We shot a deer. We sat there for a couple hours. We shot a deer. I shot that deer at 150 yards. It dropped right where it was. He was as happy as if he'd shot his own deer, which is awesome.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then we had to get down and he had to go down underneath me and take each foot and help me find the next peg because I had to kind of drop down to the next peg. I will never forget it. It was terrifying.

[B]

That's something I wouldn't forget either.

[A]

But I mean, of course it's this great memory. Right. As scary as it was in the moment. And then like, not long after that, I hunted on my own. Like, I would go with dad. And then. And then he's like, all right, you're good enough to do it. And I remember hunting in this field right down the hill from that stand we were in. And it was in this little finger field. We called it the finger field because it was shaped like a finger and all the field, like, that's the great thing about hunting and having hunting on a property is you get to name everything by the shape of it.

[B]

Okay?

[A]

And so. Or something. Some creek next to it or just.

[B]

Something that's gonna sink and make you remember where you are.

[A]

And so I remember I'd go into the finger field, climb my stand, and I'd look up at that hill, and I could see him up on that.

[B]

Tree, in the same tree you were in with him.

[A]

And then. And one night, the same week maybe, or at least maybe months later or a year later, we're back in that same property in Alabama, and a big animal got in the top of the tree. It was like a hawk or something. Landed in the top of my tree.

[B]

I was thinking, like a bear. When you.

[A]

No, no, no, no, no. Like a big hawk, dude. I'll be in trees. And, like, I don't know, birds or squirrels, all kinds of stuff. They're running around there. And they don't know you're there.

[B]

Right?

[A]

Right.

[B]

Nothing's supposed to know.

[A]

And I'm like. And there's a moment where you're like, damn, I don't want this thing to crawl on me. And so you kind of gotta, you know, make a move or do something where it's like, oh, crap, there's a person, you know? Cause they'll come over, they're running.

[B]

This is insane. So you're sitting in the woods dressed like a tree in a tree. Try not to be seen by large animals that you want to kill. And then all the while you're like, if this squirrel runs across my lap.

[A]

I'm going to scream. I know I will. And so you don't want it to jump on you and you not know it. You'll hear a squirrel, and it's. A squirrel will be in a tree next to you, and it can hop out of that tree into your tree and come down. Right. And be on top of you in a second, not know you're there. It's like a big. It's like a bad deal for both of you. And so you're sitting there and you're watching the squirrels and the birds and stuff, and that squirrel starts to look like he's getting a little too Close, man. You gotta slide. Move a boot or something, you know? You know, do a little movement. They'll be like, oh, crap, there's a person in there.

[B]

Is there any point where you've locked eyes with the squirrel or anything that got really close to you and they're, like, sizing you up, trying to figure you out?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Really?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Do you wink? Do you blink? What do you do?

[A]

Yeah, whatever. Do you grunt, then make a little noise?

[B]

You try to make squirrel noises at it?

[A]

No, you just make a noise of something. You just let it know that there's a thing, a living thing sitting there, and it'll be like, whatever. I'm not going there. Not bothering you. This is why you need to go, so you can get the answers to all these questions.

[B]

Yeah. So that was part of Dale's 50th wish, is that I got it. Sit in a stand with him.

[A]

Never got it.

[B]

Have to hunt anything. But. But no, we didn't. Because.

[A]

Not fulfilled.

[B]

We didn't have enough time. Really. You went hunting last year. But I didn't. I didn't.

[A]

Hey, I think I've. I've got.

[B]

This is why I don't want to go back.

[A]

No, no, no. This is it. So I'm going to take advantage of this opportunity since we're here for months.

[B]

Sign me up for whatever, but it doesn't mean I'm going.

[A]

Since we're here promoting Bass Pro shops. Hunting. Hunting and fishing day. You did not fulfill my request for you to sit in the stand for one evening. I've got a sit. I've got a tree that I want to put us in. Where you're in your own stand right next to me, and we can sit there and have, you know, you'll be.

[B]

Comfortable and see, here's how it goes in my mind. He tries to recreate all the moments he had with his dad, and he wants me to see how all these things felt. So in my mind, I'm thinking, this is going to be uncomfortable, scary. The pegs are going to be too far away.

[A]

No, these stands are easy. They're ladder stands. They're 18, 15 foot off the ground. It's very nice. Yeah, you're sheltered. Nice tree canopy. Pretty fun.

[B]

It sounds peaceful.

[A]

Yeah, it's awesome. You need to do it once, one time, and you never. I'll never ask you again.

[B]

So here's the thing. He bought this up, this property in Ohio, and we go up. I think Gus was even with us just to look at it. I don't know if he had even bought it yet. And we're just marching around, just looking at the land, and Gus gets deer all over him. Do you remember that?

[A]

I don't.

[B]

We were about to go to the racetrack too. So Gus gets. Gus gets completely destroyed with poop rolled all in it. He had the time of his life. And I'm like, it is hot outside. It's not cold yet. And I'm worried about getting ticks, and I'm worried about Gus getting ticks. And so we make it out of there and we're in the bus for the race weekend. And I don't remember where we are. It doesn't really matter. But as we're getting in bed, I feel like I've got something crawling on my neck. And I kept touching my neck and I'm like, I don't feel anything. But all night long, I kept feeling like I had something crawling on me. Well, I wake up the next morning after breakfast, like we had had hours. I wake up, do breakfast, I get my workout clothes on, and I'm on my workout mat. I'm about to like, start doing some Pilates, and all of a sudden a tic falls from my head, like my hairline onto my eyelash. So I did get a tic, and it was on me all damn night, just crawling all over me. And Gus was full of tics and deer. And I'm like, you know what? I don't know. This is for me.

[A]

Well, that. That's what happens when you go to the property and you walk it. Like, if you go to the property and shed hunt and do a ton of walking.

[B]

We did shed hunt. I've been back to do that.

[A]

And it was cold. That's a real chance. Yeah. When it's cold, you're not going to have many ticks. But if you. If you're walking property like that in an. In reasonable decent weather, you're going to get ticks on you.

[B]

I mean, I grew up outside. But listen, we have country, we have cows, we have.

[A]

If we're going to go. If. If you are going to go with me and go hunt, we're gonna ride us. We're gonna ride a side by side, or we're gonna get a lift in the truck all the way to the stand and all the way out of there. You'll your beat. Your boots will be on the ground for mere, mere moments.

[B]

I'm not worried about walking.

[A]

You're not gonna.

[B]

I'm not worried about grass. I'm not worried about being outside. I don't want anybody to get the wrong impression. I love. I know, but you're not the outdoors I'm gonna be.

[A]

You'll be the tick. Percentage or chance of getting the ticks that way will be way down. Yeah, and if we have a tracker, we shouldn't have to track one. But if we had to track one. You don't have to do that.

[B]

Well, you might need to sack my bow in cuz I haven't pulled that thing back in a while.

[A]

You're going to. I don't need you to shoot.

[B]

Well, I want to shoot something even if it's like targets like.

[A]

Okay, we'll take your bow. Yeah, we'll play.

[B]

You didn't get rid of it, did you?

[A]

No.

[B]

It's pink.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Haven't seen it in a while.

[A]

Pink bow. Well, of course you haven't wanted to look at it.

[B]

Where'd you put it?

[A]

I have to go find it. It's somewhere.

[B]

Just somewhere.

[A]

I don't know, Amy. I mean, it might be time for a new bow. That thing's old. Probably dry rotted. Pull it. Pull it back and it's going to explode.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

I wouldn't trust.

[B]

Do they do that?

[A]

Well, it could.

[B]

Bows are not supposed to explode.

[A]

Well, no, but.

[B]

I don't know. We'll see.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

See if we can work this out.

[A]

Hunting season's right around the corner.

[B]

Yeah, it is.

[A]

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[A]

We'Re going to play a game. It's a again inspired by Family Feud.

[C]

Inspired by family.

[A]

We had so much fun doing that.

[B]

Yeah, we did.

[C]

Yeah. I thought we'd bring it back a.

[A]

Good let's bring it back.

[C]

First question, top eight answers on the board. If there were a store that only sold husbands, most people would try to buy one with a what the husband would have this.

[B]

He would be part of something he had.

[C]

Like you want with this.

[A]

All right.

[B]

With manners.

[A]

A husband with a nice car.

[C]

What a nice car is not on there.

[B]

I mean obviously this Is money. People want money.

[A]

I should probably not get these correct.

[C]

This is the number five answer. Money's not even that high.

[A]

Money.

[B]

Sense of humor.

[C]

Sense of humor. That is number two.

[A]

Damn.

[C]

Personality.

[A]

See, Amy's on it.

[B]

Muscles.

[A]

Amy didn't get any of these muscles.

[C]

Yep. Number six.

[B]

Did I get the number one answer yet?

[C]

Nope. Number one answer is still on the board. Number three answer is still on the board. Number four answer is still on the board.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Husband with a good heart.

[C]

A good heart is number four answer.

[B]

He gets so excited when we get one. It's like, yay. Number one answer has to be a husband with a big house.

[C]

Big house is not on there at all.

[B]

A good job.

[A]

Good job.

[C]

Number one answer.

[A]

Number one answer. Good job.

[C]

Okay, one more.

[B]

A husband with that loves his mother.

[C]

Nope.

[B]

They always say you can judge a man by how he treats his mom.

[C]

That is true. I'm surprised it's not on here, but no, I guess that would go under character.

[A]

What about a husband that can cook?

[C]

Nope, not cook. Not can cook. This is more of a physical attribute.

[B]

Oh, a tall man.

[C]

Nope.

[B]

I said muscles. But that. We did that.

[A]

A husband with large feet.

[B]

Ew. Dale and I said physical.

[A]

He said physical attribute. What else?

[B]

Strong hands.

[A]

Strong hands.

[B]

He's really trying to get one of his in there.

[C]

You have this.

[B]

Oh, he does.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

A husband.

[B]

A beard with good hair.

[C]

Yeah. Head of hair.

[A]

Damn it. Yep. All right. Oh, man. I didn't know that was such a critical thing. Sucks for some guys.

[C]

It was only the number eight answer, so.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

All right, next question. Top seven answers on the board. Fill in the blank. I'm getting really tired of my wife's. What?

[B]

Nagging?

[C]

Yeah. Number one answer.

[A]

How about cooking?

[C]

Number two answer.

[A]

Oh, no. Driving.

[C]

Driving's not on there. Nope.

[A]

Damn.

[B]

Oh, my gosh. I'm getting really tired of my wife's attitude.

[C]

Yep. Number three answer.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Mess.

[C]

Mess is not on there.

[B]

Kids.

[C]

Well, I mean family, but I think she means, like mother.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

But I'll give you that. That was number five.

[A]

Oh, man. How many we have?

[C]

You have three more. Four, six, and seven.

[A]

I'm getting tired of my wife's.

[B]

Friends.

[C]

Nope.

[B]

Girlfriends?

[A]

No. Being late.

[C]

Nope.

[A]

Being lazy. Nope.

[C]

One, we've kind of already mentioned. Two, actually, we've kind of already mentioned on the show today in some capacity.

[B]

Farting.

[C]

Not farting, no, but close thing. I mean, not really that close.

[B]

Feelings.

[A]

I'm tired of my wife's hygiene. Lack of hygiene.

[B]

We haven't talked about that.

[C]

No. When I say it, you'll get it.

[A]

But he said. She said fart. And he said, close. So I thought, oh, maybe she stinks.

[C]

Close, but not really.

[B]

She stinks. She farts. She's pooping. Pooping.

[C]

No, no. Now we've gone off the defense. There's no return on this one.

[A]

Give us the answer.

[C]

All right, number four answer was spending.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

The one I was thinking of is the number six answer. Snoring. Oh, he farted in his sleep or something.

[B]

Dale's been snoring a lot lately.

[A]

Yeah, bull.

[B]

You have. You've been snoring a lot lately, and you've been doing this thing where you, like, go.

[A]

Really? Are you sweet?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Oh, my gosh.

[C]

And the number seven answer was no sexually.

[A]

Getting old.

[B]

The no sex policy.

[C]

No sex policy was. Number seven answer.

[B]

Women that have sex policies. That sounds like a lot of work.

[C]

Yeah. All right, next one. Top five answers are on the board. Name a place you would never want to hear someone say oops.

[B]

In the bathroom. Public restroom.

[C]

Nope.

[A]

In an operating room.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Number one answer.

[B]

The dentist.

[A]

Dentist.

[C]

Yeah. That's the same thing.

[A]

Yeah. In carpentry class.

[C]

No. No.

[B]

What the is wrong with you? While they're hunting.

[C]

No.

[A]

No. That's a good one, but no. Never going to get three of these. But during knives. While sharpening a knife.

[B]

No, during sex.

[C]

Oh, no, that's a good one. That should be on there.

[A]

Oops.

[B]

Oopsie. I don't know. Driving.

[C]

What'd you say?

[B]

Driving.

[C]

Not driving. Close, though. I can't give it to you.

[A]

Operating equipment.

[B]

Operating heavy machinery.

[C]

Yeah. Heavy machinery is number three, so.

[A]

Yeah, heavy machinery. Yeah, that's what I meant.

[C]

This one. You got this number two answer. You guys should get this.

[A]

It's not sex.

[C]

It's not sex.

[A]

No. He said we should get this. I'm like, well, it's got to be sex.

[C]

It's got to be.

[A]

Yeah. Is it farting? Farting's neural farting.

[B]

We really are some shallow.

[C]

All right, you want me to give it to you?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Number two answer was on an airplane.

[B]

Oh, yeah. I can't stand it when people clap on an airplane either. Like, oops.

[A]

They don't sold an airplane. Yeah.

[C]

Four was in a library. I don't quite get that one. Number five was a job interview.

[A]

Gotcha.

[B]

Yeah, job interview. That was.

[A]

You weren't gonna get those.

[C]

No, you weren't. The airplane one.

[B]

I thought you would.

[A]

God.

[C]

All right, last one I got for you. Top eight answers on the board again. There's A dead body in the house. What do you do with it?

[A]

Holy this. Could I call. Call the police.

[C]

Call the cops. Number three, answer.

[B]

Cover it with a sheet.

[A]

Cover it with a sheet.

[C]

No, it's not.

[A]

Maybe put it in a body bag.

[B]

Roll it up in the.

[C]

Obviously.

[B]

Roll it up in the.

[A]

Obviously. Get your body bag out and put your. Put your dead body in the body bag.

[B]

Back the truck up to the front door.

[C]

I mean, none of these. I'm trying to give you one of these, but. No, no, no.

[B]

Damn. But call the cops. Call the 911. Call the police.

[C]

Call the cops. All right, number three, answer the emergency. This list is more of like. You don't want it. Besides the cop one you've already got. You don't.

[A]

You're.

[C]

You don't want to get caught. This is kind of what the list is.

[B]

If you don't want to get caught.

[C]

If you don't want to get caught. Basically, yeah.

[A]

So it's not bury it.

[C]

Bury. It's number one answer.

[B]

Yeah, put it in the trunk. I don't either. I don't know.

[A]

Dispose of it.

[C]

I mean, dispose of it. But where would. This is. Most of us is disposing it.

[B]

Do you chop it up and stick it in a barrel?

[A]

Damn. Amy, I'm gonna make sure we. I'm gonna get. I'm gonna get rid of all the barrels. I'm getting rid of all the barrels. Burn it.

[C]

Burn it. Yep. That's number five.

[A]

Damn. This is sadistic. I do not want you making content out of this one. Let's live in the pod. Deep in the pod.

[C]

This is a pod special.

[B]

Feed it to the dogs.

[C]

Oh, my God.

[B]

I mean, I don't know.

[A]

I can't believe you.

[C]

These are. Just Start thinking simple, despicable, simple ways.

[B]

Put it in the bathtub. Clean up.

[C]

Oh, my gosh. Where would you put. Is there a body of water around you?

[A]

Yeah, drop it.

[B]

Drop it in the lake.

[C]

Drink.

[A]

Put some concrete cinder blocks on the feet.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

All right.

[C]

I'll give you the rest of these.

[B]

Probably for the best.

[C]

Number two is hide it in the fridge.

[B]

Whoa, the fridge, not the freezer.

[A]

No, I guess not a deep freeze.

[C]

Number four was leave it, don't touch it. That's a good one.

[A]

Leave it, don't touch it is not an option.

[C]

Number six was take it to the neighbors.

[B]

Take it to the neighbors, of course.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And number eight was just trash or dumpster. Yeah.

[A]

Speaking of, how would you dispose of an old rug that was like a living room? Large.

[B]

Living room. Large.

[A]

This is not a little rug. This is a big boy.

[C]

Cut it up into pieces.

[A]

Cut it up in pieces. You're gonna need a real industrial piece of machinery to cut this thing.

[C]

I would just throw it to the curb. Usually they take that.

[A]

Throw it to the curb.

[B]

We don't have a curb.

[A]

We don't have curbs.

[C]

Dumpster.

[A]

Dumpster. You think Dumpster's okay?

[C]

I think so.

[A]

Dude.

[B]

The dumpster, it's not that damaged, though. Like, honestly, it could be put.

[A]

But does the dumpster guy go, God dang, you can't put a whole rug in here?

[B]

Yeah. Is there a proper way to dispose of something large like that?

[C]

I still don't even know how to dump, technically. But, like, if you have a dumpster, I think that's.

[A]

To be fair. Yeah, let's just so everybody knows, it did go to the dumpster.

[B]

It did.

[A]

But while I was putting it in the dumpster, I thought, this probably isn't something that's supposed to go in a dumpster.

[C]

I think because it's a. It's a larger truck than just a regular trash truck, I would think that's okay.

[A]

Yeah. All right. Some people just throw them on the.

[B]

Side of the street and then they disappear, I guess.

[A]

Yeah. Somebody comes up, picks up and cleans it up.

[B]

Gross.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Well, that's our show, people. Everything's so weird and gross today.

[A]

Yeah, pretty weird and gross.

[C]

A real Etsy buyer review for handmade home decor by a real Etsy seller. I could not be happier about the.

[A]

Quality or the wonderful personal message supplied.

[C]

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[A]

Hostiles. Repeat, we have hostiles. Mayday. Mayday. Oh, my God. There's hundreds of them.

[B]

On October 10, we came here from the digital world.

[C]

The war for our world begins.

[A]

What in God's name is that?

[B]

Unai Max, this is the arranged world.

[A]

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

[C]

Tron Ares suited PG13 may be inappropriate for children under 13. Only in theaters October 10th. Get tickets now. You guys wanna do some AskGamey?

[B]

Yes. Let's do some Ask Amy. Hi, everybody. Dale Jr. And I are back in the Dirty Mo Media Studios for another round of Bless yous Heart. And we would love to hear what you have for us this week on Ask Amy. What you got, Alex?

[C]

All right, our first question is from Daniella. She wants to know if you ever read your Horoscope.

[A]

I used to.

[B]

I used to.

[A]

I don't know, back when people read the paper.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, you might be in Grandma's house or whatever and she might read it. I can't remember what I am. Do you remember? Do you know what I am?

[B]

You're a Libra.

[A]

Oh.

[B]

You and Nicole both.

[A]

All right.

[B]

I read them. Every once in a while. It pops up.

[A]

Should we do ours now?

[C]

I think you should, yeah.

[B]

Oh, ask your friend.

[C]

Chat.

[B]

Dale's very, very good friends with Chatgpt. I'm an Aries and Isla is a tourist, so she's a bull. I used to read them a lot too, because I used to get paper magazines, like actual tangible magazines, and I was always in the back.

[C]

Yeah. Do you believe in, like, the characteristics that they.

[B]

100%. Yes. I feel like your sign definitely categorizes your attributes as far as your personality and your tendencies. You know what I mean?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

What are you?

[C]

I'm a Capricorn.

[B]

Capricorn. My sister's a Capricorn.

[A]

Yeah, Right.

[C]

I believe it too.

[A]

There's a lot. Things might. Things might feel a bit fast paced around you today, but you don't need to match that energy. Keep your same steady, measured pace.

[B]

I feel like you're the one that's. Energy is a little fast paced today.

[A]

Oh, for. Love and relationships speak from the heart, but gently. Kind message or attentive listen can strengthen bonds.

[B]

What's mine?

[A]

If you're single, you're out of luck.

[B]

Does not say that.

[A]

Yes, it does.

[B]

No, it doesn't. Surely not.

[A]

What are you?

[B]

I'm an Aries.

[A]

How do you spell that?

[B]

A, R, I, E, S. You may.

[A]

Feel extra passionate today. There's intensity under the surface and you may take things to extremes. More than usual.

[B]

Watch out, Ralph.

[A]

In love and relationships, emotions run deep. Today you might try to woo someone or express intimate feelings. But be careful. Desire can become overwhelmingly overwhelming if not balanced with the respect and open communication.

[B]

Yeah, I don't feel like that.

[A]

Nope. All right.

[B]

All right.

[C]

Interesting.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, that's kind of probably why we stopped reading them. Yeah, they were just kind of like.

[C]

That was counterintuitive.

[B]

They set you up for failure.

[A]

They're just kind of like, you know.

[B]

Sometimes they lift you up, sometimes they just don't.

[A]

Yeah, it's not a lot of substance.

[C]

That was swinging a miss, huh?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

All right, next one's from Annabeth. We've ranked things in the past, so she wants us to rank these fall drinks. Ready? Apple cider. Hot chocolate, pumpkin spice latte.

[B]

Ooh.

[A]

Cider's last. Wow.

[B]

Cider's first for me. I would say cider, pumpkin spice latte, and then hot chocolate.

[A]

I'm the opposite. Hot chocolate first latte, middle insider's last.

[B]

Oh, man.

[C]

Do you guys like pumpkin flavored stuff?

[B]

I do. I like pumpkin flavor. I don't like pumpkin pie. And that's not because of this flavor. It's because of the texture.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

But I do like pumpkin. Like, pumpkin spice cakes, muffins. I like a coffee, too.

[C]

But really, pumpkins? Do you eat pumpkin? Like, it's not. This is like a food.

[B]

It's more like the spice blend that they put in the pie that makes it pumpkiny.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

I made pumpkin chili the other day. Did you know that had pumpkin in it?

[A]

Oh, I did, but I didn't. You couldn't tell.

[B]

No.

[A]

No.

[C]

Interesting. All right, our next question from Julian. What band or artists from your past would you like to see go on a reunion tour?

[B]

A band or an artist from the past? Alive. That could do it.

[A]

Alive.

[C]

Yeah. Because I know Dead at Pybielva's.

[B]

I don't know. The Spice Girls. That would be fun.

[A]

Damn.

[B]

I feel like. I feel like they are performing every once in a while.

[A]

Yeah. I know. The ones that I keep thinking about, like Everclear, they're coming to Charlotte later this year or soon, in October, I think. I've kind of always wanted to see Everclear because I was always a big fan of a lot of their music.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

A lot of them are like, I feel like coming back to do reunion.

[A]

Yeah. The ones that I keep thinking about.

[B]

Are already getting that chance. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Me and Amy got to see Hooting to Blowfish when they caught. When they came back.

[B]

That was super cool. Yeah.

[A]

When I saw them, I was like, man, I'm glad they came back because I. I skipped all when they were hot. Right. Yeah. They were kicking it and everything was great. In the 90s, I was like, ah, you know, I see them. I'm not going. I'll see them down the road. And then they broke up.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

That's a great example of that.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

I feel like that's. That's happens a lot. I'll see him maybe.

[A]

Yeah, I'll see him.

[B]

The Stones did a reunion tour, and I wish I had gone to that.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

With some friends.

[A]

Saw Phil Collins.

[B]

I did get to see Phil Collins in New York on his last farewell tour. That was awesome.

[C]

That's fun. That is awesome. Next Question from. If you had the opportunity to go on an expedition to find Bigfoot or an expedition to investigate UFOs, which one would you choose?

[B]

Bigfoot. UFOs, we are never on the same page, really.

[C]

Why do you say Bigfoot?

[B]

Because I, I feel like that's more attainable. I get Bigfoot things in my phone a lot.

[C]

Do you believe?

[B]

I know where the Appalachians is, where they are people. We just gotta go, you know?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Not that far away. I feel like the videos are getting better, too, because of all the AI, I think.

[A]

Yeah. But, yeah, I feel like the UFOs, like, we've talked about it on the show. Yeah, right. I didn't. I didn't really believe in UFOs when I was younger, but then I started to imagine, like, well, if we're here, there's got to be a chance of something else similar or something else possibly, like what happened on Earth happening somewhere in another solar system, because it's infinite. So there's got to be a chance, right, that there's something.

[B]

But how would they be so smart to get here? That's where you get, like, hung up, right?

[A]

I know. Yeah, dude, get hung up. Like, we, We. We can't travel outside of, you know, we can't travel beyond the moon. And so how, how so having the idea that something, something. Something living could travel.

[B]

So if you went to hunt for UFOs and you found one, like, that's a. That's a level of terrified, right, that, like, you can't describe, like, what's going to happen. I wouldn't, I wouldn't. I mean, I could probably run away from Bigfoot, but you can't probably run away from an alien.

[A]

Yeah, right. No, no.

[B]

I know the chances are small if we're going off of all of our movies.

[A]

Yeah, there's.

[B]

You're not getting away.

[A]

You'll. You'll see something on. On YouTube or on the Internet where they're like, we. We found something that's on Mars. That could only be possible if there was living. You know, if there was a. It's not. We haven't found, you know, proof of life, but this, this could only exist in. In a. In a. In a situation where there was a living organism. And I'm like, don't touch it. Don't bring that.

[B]

Don't bring it back here.

[A]

We're not bringing it back here to study it.

[C]

We don't want.

[A]

We don't know what.

[B]

Yeah, don't you pick up that rock. You leave it there.

[A]

Leave that Rock.

[B]

Right.

[A]

You know, cuz like once you break, you know, it's like kudzu. You know what I mean? You bring that here, it's like now it's all. You can't control it. Trying to rid our property of kudzu, it's like really hard.

[C]

What's crazy is like every movie the aliens are kind of like the same, just like kudzu.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So it's like alien diseases. Someone create this. Like they had have seen something and that's where they get it from.

[B]

100%.

[C]

Everybody had just kind of followed.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

But it's like how do you just create.

[B]

The imagery came from something.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It didn't come out of like one person's imagination. Yeah, I agree with you there.

[C]

Although Bigfoot's like the stupidest thing.

[B]

Well, I watched Harry and the Hendersons when I was young and I fell in love with Harry and I'm like, if I see a Bigfoot, I don't feel he's gonna be that scary.

[C]

I don't think so. That's why.

[B]

I mean, he probably would try to eat your face off. But who knows? Maybe he's not. Maybe he's like a cuddly Harry and the Hendersons kind of thing.

[A]

No, I just don't think they are real. I don't think that they existed.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

So I think it's more possible, more plausible that there's alien life than there's a Bigfoot.

[B]

Maybe Bigfoot is an alien.

[A]

I'm open minded to the idea that Bigfoot could exist, but I think it's more plausible that the alien exists.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I think like the government knows stuff about aliens that we don't know yet.

[B]

100%. I will not disagree with that.

[A]

That could be somewhat related to the fact that I'm a big Blink 182 fan. Angels and airwaves and Tom DeLonge, he's.

[B]

Also friends with the aliens.

[A]

100% committed to proving out the alien he is storyline. Yeah.

[C]

Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, I agree with you. I think there's more. There's more a better fact that aliens over Bigfoot for sure. All right, I got one more question for you. Elaine wants to know if you guys have like a random food combination you like, for example, ketchup on Mac and cheese. That's a big one.

[B]

Really? I mean, I've seen Isla do that, but she puts ketchup on everything. She like ketchup with her ketchup.

[C]

I feel like when you're younger you put ketchup on everything. You Just kind of experiment.

[A]

That was something that I saw my friends do that I didn't understand.

[B]

My dad puts ketchup on his eggs.

[C]

That's a big thing in New York, too.

[B]

Is it?

[C]

Yeah. On an egg sandwich. They put ketchup on it.

[A]

I hate it. Ketchup on eggs.

[C]

Right?

[A]

That's a great example.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I was like, no, no.

[B]

Hot sauce. Yes.

[C]

Hot sauce. Yeah.

[B]

No.

[C]

Ketchup. No, no. Does not fit. Ketchup's cold, and you have a hot sandwich. I don't like that.

[B]

I remember my grandmother making me peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches as a kid.

[A]

Those are good.

[B]

Like, we ran out of jelly. We just slapped some mayo on it.

[C]

Sounds gross. Yeah, I used to just have mustard.

[B]

I think the banana mayonnaise sandwich is an odd combo.

[C]

That's odd.

[A]

It is absolutely an odd combo.

[B]

That's like a North Carolina.

[A]

I got just drug on social media when I talked about that. So it's kind of a touchy subject.

[B]

Oh, it's.

[C]

Oh, no.

[A]

Like, I think sandwiches in general. So, like, they were. Hellman's had this deal where they were trying to come up with this. They had this program called the Strange Witch. Like, come up with something strange. And that was one of our ideas. The other one was Doritos on, you know, like, ham and cheese.

[B]

Oh, absolutely. Yes.

[A]

So good.

[B]

You put chips in any sandwich. Chips on a sandwich elevates it.

[A]

Yeah. Or.

[B]

That's not like, a thing y' all just did for Hellman's. Like, I've seen Kelly do that.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Just. Y' all grew up eating.

[A]

No, we did. We grew up eating those mayonnaise and mayonnaise and banana. Peanut butter and banana.

[B]

That's not strange to me. I feel like that's so good.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And also, I've gotten back into this where my. My dad would get tomato bread and salt and pepper.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And maybe I've heard of that, too.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And just eat a tomato sandwich. And when I was a kid, I'm like, it's ridiculous.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, that is ridiculous because you have to eat it. You have to. You kind of have to get a good tomato because it's gotta. It can't be too. It's gonna ruin the bread immediately. Right. So you gotta have the right kind of tomato. But I just thought, wow, how could that be any good at all? But, you know.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Now I'm like, man, I'll eat the hell out of one of those.

[C]

What's your hot dog economy situation? That's usually a very debatable topic.

[B]

So I can do a hot dog loaded with chili and all the things. But my favorite way to eat it is just with mustard.

[C]

Simple, straight.

[B]

With mustard. Yeah.

[A]

Okay. Mustard, ketchup, some chili. Dill relish.

[C]

That's a good one. That's a good one.

[B]

I mean, honestly, everything.

[A]

Dill relish doesn't get enough appreciation.

[B]

I love relish, too.

[A]

Relish in general. People think it's when they say relish. When you say relish, people always assume it's the.

[B]

The sweet relish. Yeah, the sweet relish, which is what I prefer.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Dill relish is the better of the relishes.

[B]

That's just not true.

[A]

It is. It just. I don't know why that. I don't know why the sweet relish has become so popular. Because dill relish is way better.

[B]

Probably because of deviled eggs. Because that's what you put in a deviled egg.

[A]

I suppose.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I like. I know. I would prefer to have dill relish in the deviled egg.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Pickled onion is on there. Needs to be on.

[B]

Pickled onions are great. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Love those. Anything pickly on a hot dog is good.

[A]

Yeah. All right.

[C]

That's all I got for asking.

[B]

All right, thanks, guys. Thanks for your questions. If you haven't already, please hit the subscribe button on our YouTube channel. And don't forget to check out all of the merch on shop.dirtymomedia.com we'll see you next week.

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