Nicks & Bert Earnhardt

Summary

The Dale Jr. Download

Episode: Nicks & Bert Earnhardt
Host: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Amy Earnhardt, Alex, Travis
Release Date: September 4, 2025
Podcast Network: Dirty Mo Media, SiriusXM

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Episode Overview

This lively episode of The Dale Jr. Download (“Bless Yous Heart” segment) features Dale Earnhardt Jr., his wife Amy, and co-hosts Alex and Travis chatting from Dirty Mo Media Studios. The conversation focuses on personal stories and seasonal traditions, ranging from Halloween prep and childhood mischief to family life, fantasy football, pets, cherished holidays, and playful couple dynamics. The tone is relaxed, fun, and candid—giving listeners a peek into the daily and family life of Dale Jr., with plenty of good-natured teasing and nostalgia.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Current Events & NFL Fantasy Football

[03:26–06:26]

• Both Dale and Amy have drafted fantasy football teams for the new NFL season, with Amy boasting the only A on her draft leaderboard.
• Light-hearted competitive betting between Dale and Amy, with stakes being “a night in Key West” if Dale wins and “a spa day alone” if Amy wins.
  • Dale: “If I win…me and you, a night in Key West.”
  • Amy: “How is that a loss for me?”

2. Back-to-School Family Updates

[06:27–07:15]

• Their daughter Nicole has her “last first day” of preschool, making Amy sentimental.
• Amy talks about navigating the bittersweet milestones of kids growing up.

3. Halloween Mania: Decorations, Costumes, and Family Traditions

[07:15–15:41]

• Decorations: Amy goes “a little ham” on Halloween décor and justifies early decorating, while Dale pokes fun about storage space.
  • Amy: “Some boxes…new stuff. How early is too early to start decorating for Halloween?”
  • Dale: “Do it. Our house is down in the woods; nobody’s gonna see it anyway.”
• Costumes:
  • The kids are obsessed with “K Pop Demon Hunters,” inspiring costume choices.
  • Amy orders costumes early; Dale is pitched (and agrees) to dress up as Beetlejuice’s grotesque transformed face.
  • Recounts of past costumes: Amy as Jeannie from “I Dream of Jeannie” and Dale as a football player for four years running.
• Childhood Trick or Treat:
  • Amy’s neighborhood had “gobs of candy;” Dale’s rural experience was limited to six houses, following tales of razor blades in apples (urban legend anxiety).
• Halloween Parties & Pranks:
  • Amy recalls a middle-school party with real cow organs for spooky effect (“It was a riot. You can’t get away with that now.” [19:26]).
  • Dale admits to a mischievous streak: egging cars, mailbox baseball, and selling his dad’s rare business cards for prank money.
    • Dale: “I took…Dale Earnhardt’s first business card…sold one for $100…and bought eggs and candy.” [25:17–26:26]
    • Gets caught via small-town connections leading to punishment and new locks on household doors.

4. Generational Reflections: Freedom, Parenting, and Growing Up Earnhardt

[36:46–41:20]

• Recollections of “real freedom” in their youth: riding bikes all day, little parental supervision, and the lack of today’s seatbelt strictness.
  • Dale: “I would never let my kid run around like that.”
  • Discussion about current car seat/seatbelt anxieties and how their kids' experiences differ from their own.

5. Funny "Best Friend Questions" Game: Nix & Bert

[41:20–49:43]

• Amy quizzes Dale with lighthearted “funny best friend” questions from Instagram:
  • Amy’s warning label (Dale): “Don’t tell her you’re gonna do something and not do it.” [43:30]
  • Cult choice (Amy for Dale): “A boobies cult.”
    • Amy: “I would think you would join a boobies cult.” [44:33]
    • Playful banter about the existence of “boobie expos.”
  • Rename Amy:
    • Dale: “Maybe Nix…what’s up, Nix?”
    • Amy: “Nix and Bert. What’s up, Bert?” [46:52]
  • What would Amy fail at? (Dale): “Maybe driver’s license test” and finishing projects. [47:11]
  • If Amy got kicked out of a bar: “Probably get in a bouncer’s face.” [49:06]
• Game runs into mutual teasing about their quirks and old habits.

6. Ask Amy and Listener Q&A

[51:23–66:58]

• Pets:
  • Gus the dog’s car anxiety—a detailed story of adopting and dealing with a lovable but motion-sick pup.
• Dancing With the Stars casting:
  • Amy would love to do it (“I grew up dancing…”); Dale says he’d “have a heart attack of anxiety.”
• Beer Preferences:
  • Amy: Miller Lite, Guinness in Ireland.
  • Dale: Surprised by Guinness’s lighter taste overseas.
• If you could be the best in the world at something:
  • Amy: Singing.
  • Dale: Drumming or football.
• Swans Update:
  • Somber news: A coyote killed their female swan Cleo. George the surviving swan is rehomed to a sanctuary. Plans to get him a new mate for a happier life.
  • Dale: “Now I’m ready to rock and go out there…and get this coyote. Days are numbered.” [61:01]
• Holiday Rankings:
  • Dale: Christmas > Thanksgiving > Halloween
  • Amy: Christmas > Halloween > Thanksgiving.
  • Digs into why Thanksgiving isn't a big deal (“We don’t do traditional Thanksgiving…for a very long time, we absolutely did not.” [68:16])
• Pet peeve phrases:
  • Amy wants to ban “I’m just saying.”
• Favorite week of the year:
  • Both agree: the week between Christmas and New Year’s, for its unique freedom and lack of obligations.
    • Dale: “Feels like…the world turned off…nobody gives a crap.” [69:53]

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On Early Halloween Decor:

  • Amy (08:01): "I went a little ham on Amazon last week...How early is too early to start decorating for Halloween?"
  • Dale (08:24): "You can do it. Our house is down in the woods. Nobody’s really gonna see it anyway.”

• On Pranks as a Teen:

  • Dale (25:36): "I sold one [Dad’s first business card] for $100. And we went and bought candy and eggs and all kinds of stuff. We had a blast all weekend."

• Amy’s Halloween party food-torture memory:

  • Amy (19:12): "Papa gave us cow parts, so we had a tongue and intestines…It was a riot…You can’t get away with doing stuff like that now."

• On Spousal Betting Stakes:

  • Dale (05:41): “If I win, me and you a night, one night in Key West.”
  • Amy (05:52): “How do I lose that? That’s not really, like, a loss for me.”

• On Childhood Freedom:

  • Dale (38:17): "He never was like, where you been? Well, don’t be going over there…Nobody was worried."
  • Amy (38:44): "Man. I would never let my kid run around like that. Now I get nervous…maybe we just need to chill out."

• On Naming Conventions:

  • Dale (46:52): "Nix and Bert. What’s up, Nix?…Nix is kind of cool for a first name."
  • Amy (46:57): “What’s up, Bert?”

• Regarding the Swans:

  • Dale (61:01): “Now I’m ready to rock and go out there…and get this coyote. Days are numbered.”

• On the Best Week of the Year:

  • Dale (69:53): "Does it not feel like the one week where…nobody gives a crap what you’re doing, where you’re at?”

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Timestamps by Section

• NFL/Fantasy Betting: [03:26–06:26]
• Back to School & Parenting: [06:27–07:15]
• Halloween: Decorations & Costumes: [07:15–15:41]
• Childhood Stories & Pranks: [15:41–26:58]
• Generational Parenting & Safety: [36:46–41:20]
• Best Friend Q&A ("Nix & Bert" bit): [41:20–49:43]
• Listener Questions (Pets, Holidays, etc): [51:23–66:58]
• Holiday Rankings & Favorite Weeks: [66:16–71:14]

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Overall Tone & Vibe

Candid, humorous, and nostalgic. Heavy on personal anecdotes and couple banter. Playful teasing, heartfelt memories, and a behind-the-scenes look at family life in the Earnhardt household.

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For New Listeners

If you’re looking for inside stories from the Earnhardt family—everything from Halloween mischief to how Dale Jr. got caught selling family memorabilia—plus fun games, candid relationship chat, parenting reflections, and even some pet drama, this episode is an entertaining blend of laughs, nostalgia, and heart.

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End of Summary

Transcript

[Amy]

Hi, guys. We are back in Dirty Mo Media Studios and I have my husband back with me this week. Hey, Dale, how are you doing?

[Dale]

Pretty good, how are you?

[Amy]

We're here for another episode of Bless yous Heart. We've got a good show for you today. We're going to talk about food torture, some dumb things we did as teenagers and Halloween because it's right around the corner. Let's get started.

[Dale]

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[Dale]

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[Amy]

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

[Dale]

I'm working.

[Amy]

Working that mouth.

[Dale]

All right, first thing off the list here, drink of the week. This is freaking awesome.

[Amy]

Is it? He's already indulged.

[Dale]

Presented by High Rock Vodka. Today's drink is the boozy root beer float. 2 ounces of high rock Vodka. And this, this has been infused with vanilla. The vodka has. I guess that takes about two or three months to do. If you wanted to do it that way you don't have to.

[Amy]

Easy.

[Dale]

Two ounces of High Rock Vodka. Eight ounces of root beer. Two scoops of vanilla ice cream. Whipped cream. Throw a cherry in there if you want. Visit highrockvodka.com to find a bottle near you. There's a locator on the website hierockvodka.com it'll tell you. Hey, there's a bottle down the street at your local liquor store. Go get it. Also, remember to drink responsibly. You must be 21 years or over and. Yeah, it's pretty good. Root beer floats are awesome. Put a little vodka in there, you can't even tell.

[Amy]

You cannot tell there's any alcohol in that. That's delicious.

[Dale]

Pretty good. So what's going on in life? You had Laura. Laura Boyer.

[Amy]

Yes, Laura Boyer.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

On the show last week. She had a lot of fun.

[Dale]

Yeah, I watched it, the YouTube version. You guys seem like you really enjoyed it. I'm glad she did it. Thank you, Laura. And pretty cool.

[Amy]

Yeah. So we've. We've started the Bunko league. She and I spent a lot of time around each other when we were at the racetrack with you and Clint and that, you know, we're kind of there during the same stint of time. And we did. We had a lot of fun just getting to know each other at the racetrack and going to do silly things as we traveled. But it's been good to kind of rekindle and re. Get, you know, get together with everybody again with Bunko.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And just as time has gone on, it's been fun.

[Dale]

Another thing coming up this weekend is the NFL starts tonight, actually. So this weekend's first weekend of the NFL season, Everybody's super excited. We got our fantasy teams drafted. You did a draft a couple weeks ago?

[Amy]

We did. I drafted when I was in Texas. You drafted on Monday?

[Dale]

I drafted. Yes. Two days ago.

[Amy]

Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday night. Whatever today is.

[Dale]

We both, you know, at the end of the draft. The. Yes. We use ESPN at the end of the draft. It tells. It kind of grades. Everybody and me and Amy got the best grades.

[Amy]

I was the only A on my leaderboard, though. I was at the top of the leaderboard with the best score. You were in there with a couple others.

[Dale]

Everybody will tell you that that doesn't really mean anything because anything can happen. You know, injuries and all that stuff. Anything can happen. But having, you know, had. I had a terrible year last year.

[Amy]

Well, coming out of the gate with, like, a really good team, it's just helpful. Makes it fun.

[Dale]

Yeah. So we're excited about that. And some. Some college football and some already put. So we have a fanduel partnership here at Dirt Media. And I've. I put a. I put a little bit of money on the Eagles Dallas Cowboys game.

[Amy]

Oh, you did?

[Dale]

Yeah, because there was a. So I don't like to bet my own money. I Wait for the app to tell me that they'll, like, let me bet some of their money.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And because they'll give you, like, a little. Little, you know, little nugget here.

[Amy]

The house money.

[Dale]

Yeah. And so I wait for those, and I'll be like, all right, smart.

[Amy]

He. He bets, like, pennies also.

[Dale]

I just like the fun of it.

[Amy]

He'll take. He'll take. If he wins and he wants to bet again, he'll take it back down to, like, the next dollar and a half. You know what I mean? So he's got, like, 33 extra cents. You'll just bet 33 cents. I'm like, that's ridiculous.

[Dale]

Just bet $2.33 up to a dollar.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Alex]

It's way more fun to bet small amounts of money because you're not stressed out. It's not just, like, a little.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's true. I wouldn't want to lose my money.

[Dale]

Either, trying to have a miserable time.

[Amy]

I just find that funny. I feel like with our fantasy teams, since we're both supposed to be pretty neck and neck, we should do an outside bet since we're not really in the same league.

[Dale]

Best.

[Amy]

Best finish.

[Dale]

No. How about we do the best record?

[Amy]

The best record.

[Dale]

And what's the winner get?

[Amy]

Okay. I don't know.

[Dale]

All right. If I win, me and you a night. One night in Key West.

[Amy]

Key West. Okay.

[Dale]

It's my win.

[Amy]

How do I lose that? That's not really, like, a loss for me.

[Dale]

You don't have to have that opinion either way. Whatever.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Dale]

That's what I want. If I win, you get the best record. What do you want?

[Amy]

A day at the spa.

[Dale]

That's it.

[Amy]

I want a spa day.

[Dale]

Together?

[Amy]

No, by myself.

[Dale]

By yourself. Really?

[Amy]

Sorry.

[Dale]

Damn. I mean, I could give you that now.

[Amy]

I know. We can go to Key west now together.

[Dale]

Yeah. But I usually need to. I need some kind of a leverage to force you into the Key West.

[Amy]

Yeah, you do. I mean, I can't.

[Dale]

You don't never go voluntarily. Yeah. All right. There you go.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Dale]

I love it. I should have went higher first. Yeah. So the. The kids are back in school.

[Amy]

Yes. We had our first day of preschool for Nicole this week. And I know that sounds like a silly. Not a big deal, but it's her first. Is her last. First day of preschool. She's going into kindergarten next year. And I didn't even think about it, really, until we got into the class, and one of the teachers was like, oh, my gosh. It's her last first day. And I was like, dang, you had to say that right? Now I'm gonna cry. I don't want to cry in front of her, but she could care less. She goes into school problems. So, like, it makes it real easy, but they're just growing so fast. So, yeah, they're both back in school. We got some free time on our hands, and it's been fun. Spent a little time in home goods and hobby lobby getting Halloween decorations.

[Dale]

Halloween?

[Amy]

Yeah. I mean, I went a little ham on Amazon last week. There's some boxes that just. There's some. Some new stuff.

[Dale]

All right.

[Amy]

I know this is a touchy subject in our house, the decorations, but the kids are so excited. And who doesn't love Halloween decorations?

[Alex]

Halloween is fine.

[Amy]

Yeah, they're, like, interactive. You can play with decorations. It's not like it's finicky, so it's. It's more fun.

[Dale]

I'm not bothered at all by the amount of decorations. However you want to do it, you know, it's. Where does this stuff go when it's over? What's the problem? Because we don't have.

[Amy]

We do.

[Dale]

We don't have designated space.

[Amy]

We absolutely do.

[Dale]

That's already full.

[Amy]

I threw a tantrum about not having space, and you gave me a space. I know, but now I have giant, gorgeous racks. No, they're not.

[Dale]

Okay.

[Amy]

No, they're not. It's like two thirds.

[Dale]

Okay, Two thirds.

[Amy]

So I've got plenty of space, and it's got allocations for Christmas and Easter and Halloween and kids clothes and just random stuff I'm trying to hide from you, like for a birthday or whatever. Now I have a space and it's organized, so we're good. But I was getting some of it out yesterday since the boxes were piling up, and I wanted to just start putting it out. But how early is too early to start decorating for Halloween?

[Dale]

You can do it.

[Amy]

I mean, it's September. What?

[Alex]

Right now is perfect.

[Amy]

What's that?

[Alex]

Right now is perfect.

[Amy]

Right now it's perfect. It's getting cool outside. It feels like the right time.

[Alex]

Yeah, agreed.

[Amy]

So just go for it. I got mixed reviews yesterday on Instagram. Some people said it's too early. Like, what about just enjoying fall? Why do we have to decorate for everything?

[Dale]

You know, I think it's okay to do it because really, our house is down in the woods and nobody really gonna see it anyway, so.

[Amy]

That's true.

[Dale]

You know, we were. I'm just saying, like, if we lived in a neighborhood where we had neighbors Right next door and across the street. You might be a little more subtle. You might work up to it. Right. You might put a couple things out and then add a little more in the next week and just kind of build up and where it ain't so, like, bam. Right in everybody's face. You're driving down the skeletons through the neighborhood.

[Amy]

Ye.

[Dale]

But I. No, I think I like getting in the mood. Getting. I love the holiday season. I love the. That, you know, when. When the. When. When people start decorating for the holidays, it's the sign to me that Christmas is coming.

[Amy]

Christmas is coming. That's right.

[Dale]

Yeah. And Christmas is such a special time of year, so just. Such a special time of year. So I am. I'm all about trying to go ahead and get in spirit and do the Halloween.

[Amy]

All right. Speaking of, while you're gone this week, I will put it out.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

I'm going on. I'm going on a little guys trip.

[Amy]

That's right.

[Dale]

I'm fired up, so I feel like.

[Amy]

You'Re gonna need a day off when you come back.

[Dale]

Would I have such a. Would I be granted such a. Yeah.

[Amy]

Staley.

[Dale]

Such grace.

[Amy]

I'm not gonna sit on the couch for you to lay in my lap for a whole day. No. So you just go sit in the Elvis room by yourself. No.

[Dale]

There's nothing better for a hangover, y'. All. You know, everybody's got cures. There's nothing. Nothing better for hangover than your old. Your. Your wife's.

[Amy]

Were you just about to call me an old lady?

[Dale]

Your old lady's lap.

[Amy]

God dang.

[Dale]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Amy]

You say that without me being present. That's how you talk to your buddies about your wife?

[Dale]

Well, we kind of. We're doing a show that kind of gets me.

[Amy]

Good Lord.

[Dale]

Into that vein.

[Amy]

But now you're definitely staying in the elephants room by yourself.

[Dale]

Or if you. You lay on her chest.

[Alex]

Yes. I was about to say chest is.

[Dale]

If she's in a position where that's possible, then man cures hangovers.

[Amy]

Your face is down. If your face is up with that old sour beer breath, I'm like, tortured. That's torture right there.

[Dale]

He's like. We were. I drank some beer the other day, and Amy's like.

[Amy]

It was after your race. You came home, you had had a sleep and drive home and the whole thing. I went down to the beach. It was a full 24 hours. Almost felt like. Like, God, it's coming out of your pores. You smell like wheat, hops, barley. Yes. Breathing it out of his nose like a fire breathing dragon. I'm like, oh man, go take a shower. Brush your whole face.

[Dale]

Puts up with some.

[Amy]

Yeah, Halloween. So back to that. We've got costumes ordered. Also, the girls have fallen in love with this movie called the K Pop Demon Hunters. If you have kids within the range of 5 to 18, I'm sure that they have watched this movie on Netflix and it's just nothing but like singing really. But it's become like the only thing the kids think about. So that's what they want to be for Halloween. So we've already. I've already ordered the costumes and now I'm trying to be talked into being one of the boys from the boy band. Not you. I wouldn't sign you up for that. I mean, we're talking like crazy wigs and like it's very anime. Like. Okay, yeah, so it's, it's a lot. But I'm getting ad for ads for masks since that's Dale's thing and I sent him one the other day. I'm like, you really need this. You and TJ should just be these for Halloween. Do you want to tell them what it is?

[Dale]

Yeah, you can.

[Amy]

It's Beetlejuice. You know the part of Beetlejuice where they pull their faces open? Yeah, like wretched looking. Very funny.

[Dale]

You almost need to walk around. We go to TJ's neighborhood. All the wives and dads and then their kids. Right, Kids. She wants me to walk around with a really pretty. Pretty freaking scary looking. Yes, it's pretty.

[Amy]

It's Halloween.

[Dale]

Like I am. Everybody on the block's gonna go, damn. Really? That's what you choose?

[Amy]

Last year, he was that creepy old man and everybody was still kind of going like, who's this freaking old guy walking around?

[Dale]

But it looked like a real kind.

[Amy]

Of creepy in a totally different way.

[Dale]

I know, but I look like a real old man.

[Amy]

So I feel like this way, at least the people that are our age will recognize what he is. And it's still scary. But you can see his eyes and everything. Yeah, it should be fun.

[Dale]

It's the thing where the, the mouth opens way up and it's like got a hundred teeth, like 70 molars.

[Amy]

And the eyeballs are above.

[Dale]

Eyeballs are in the tonsils. It's really weird.

[Amy]

And then the other ones that like long stretched out.

[Dale]

Yeah, TJ can do that.

[Amy]

TJ could do that one.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Alex]

That is scary though. That'd be fun.

[Amy]

It's Halloween.

[Dale]

I'll totally do it. I'll totally do it, man. I was.

[Amy]

I bet Jonathan Davis would do it. He lives across the street.

[Dale]

Yeah, yeah. No, he's not getting to do that. I'm doing it.

[Amy]

Oh, now we're liking it.

[Dale]

I'm doing it.

[Amy]

That's all you gotta do is just make him a little jealous. He's all excited.

[Dale]

When we were kids, what was your. Out of all the Halloween costumes that you had when you were young, when you were trick or treating.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

What was your favorite?

[Amy]

So here's the thing about Halloween. And when we were kids, we didn't have all those, like, princess dresses, just dress up all the time. So Halloween was, like, really extra special. And we used a lot of time when we were little, we just wore, like, our previous year's ballet outfits, like our recital outfits. And then one year, my mom made me. You'll. You'll like this. I was Jeie from I Dream of Jeie. And she made the whole thing, the little crop, the little thing that my ponytail went through. I think I was probably about Isla's age, and we don't still have it, but I know she has. My mom has photos somewhere, but I think that whole outfit got sold in a garage sale at some point. But it was. It was absolutely my favorite.

[Dale]

I wanted to be a football player in real life, and so I had a. My mom got me the entire kit, like the shoulder pads, the pants with the pads in the pants. So I was a football player, the same pants, same jersey, same helmet, you know, plastic, two bar for four years in a row.

[Amy]

Oh, really?

[Dale]

Oh, yeah.

[Amy]

And it fit you for four years?

[Dale]

Yeah. I mean, I was. When I was. When I got my driver's license, I was 4, 10, 5, 3, 5, 3, 5 foot 3.

[Amy]

That's me.

[Dale]

So, I mean, I was short. I was the same size for a long period of time. I'll just say that.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Until I finally got my legs, but.

[Amy]

Finally got my legs, literally.

[Dale]

You got your legs. Okay.

[Amy]

So that was your favorite? Just being a Washington, I wanted to.

[Dale]

Be a football Paris player so bad.

[Amy]

And was that what it was? It was Washington?

[Dale]

No, it was just red, had no number on it.

[Amy]

It was like an unidentifiable team.

[Dale]

Totally generic, white helmet.

[Amy]

You didn't sticker it up?

[Dale]

Nope. We didn't have stickers.

[Amy]

We didn't have stickers.

[Dale]

No racing stickers. I had a. It was a red jersey with blue and white stripes on the shoulders, no number. It was so cheap. But I loved it. I wanted to be a football player. And it was an Excuse to be a football player all day. I was like, you know, if. If I could do this every day, I'd dress up like a football player.

[Amy]

When did you stop trick or treating?

[Dale]

I can't remember when I stopped trick or treating. You know, I think it was probably 12, 13, because we didn't have a neighbor. We didn't have it organized. Like, this is. You know, we're going to this neighborhood. We lived on this road, and you would go to six houses.

[Amy]

Okay. You know, a lot more work.

[Dale]

And it was really, you know, they didn't try that hard around there. So the you were getting. You're like, you know, so after a while, you just kind of quit doing it.

[Amy]

Oh, we got gobs of candy. I mean, you know, my neighborhood girl, it was covered with kids. I mean, people would come to our neighborhood to trick or treat. It was awesome.

[Dale]

We had the exact opposite. We had to get in a car and go and go to, like, the six houses, drop off, run inside, come back, and then we were trying to get home and see what we got.

[Amy]

Okay. We had so much candy, dad took half of it to work.

[Dale]

And there were all these, like, stories, these horror stories. And on, like, a riding on the school bus, other kids telling you about, like, people putting razor blades in apples and all kinds of weird stuff.

[Amy]

Dang.

[Dale]

You remember that, Dalton? Like, there was all these, like.

[Amy]

That happened to you, too, Dalton?

[Dale]

It didn't happen. But the stories people. Kids would tell. Oh, did you hear about this guy, this kid, that kid, this bad kid?

[Amy]

Like, just people trying to spooky. Get spooky and tell you things the kids told the.

[Dale]

Your friends.

[Amy]

Right? So it didn't really happen.

[Dale]

It wasn't like adults telling these stories.

[Amy]

Right.

[Dale]

It didn't really happen. Okay, but you were hearing these. You know, kids would always go, you know what I heard? And you'd be like, shoot. And you're chomping into every piece of candy real slowly, hoping you're not gonna bite down on the razor.

[Amy]

Somebody's uncle or grandfather said, hey, be careful with that. And then that spread through the school of us.

[Dale]

Me and Dalton share the same, like, level of anxiety trauma. We just traumatized. We just live with this every day. So when I start talking about these anxiety.

[Amy]

Holy. Y'. All. I hate that for y'. All. He's like, yep, I think Alex and I live with the same level of giving.

[Alex]

I mean, there might have been a razor blade in there I was biting for.

[Amy]

I was going for it, too.

[Dale]

I was not going to take any.

[Amy]

Chances nothing was getting in the middle of me and my recess.

[Dale]

Exactly.

[Alex]

I'm like, if it's open, great. That's I got to do.

[Amy]

Yeah, exactly. All right, well, then there.

[Dale]

But it's interesting because there's this period of time where you. You do the kid thing, right. And then you stop.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

You stopped dressing up. You might go to parties, you might hang out with friends. But like, when did you quit dressing up?

[Amy]

Probably around 10, 11.

[Dale]

Really? Good job.

[Amy]

And then. Yeah, because, I mean, like I said, it was very busy in our neighborhood. So at that point I had two little sisters. And so dad and mom, like somebody would take them trick or treating and I would pass out the candy. And that was a lot more fun too, because you got to see. Yeah, it was fun. A lot of fun. You could eat some too. While you're passing it out, you have someone steal your bowl.

[Alex]

Like if you left like a bowl of candy out and someone steals the bowl because you didn't want to, actually.

[Amy]

So we never. We never left it out. Cuz somebody would have dumped the whole thing.

[Alex]

A yearly thing.

[Dale]

At my house in the.

[Amy]

Yeah. Did they ever steal the bowl?

[Alex]

Oh, yeah, they went.

[Amy]

Oh, really?

[Alex]

Yeah, my mom chased them down the street. They just wanted the bowl back.

[Dale]

A bowl.

[Amy]

Come on, A Halloween bowl back.

[Dale]

Yeah, when. When your turn, when you get, you know, 16, 18, 20, 25, you start going to haunted trails. Haunted houses.

[Amy]

Yeah, we did that. I did get to have a Halloween party once when I was like in middle school. And we did it in the garage and it was kind of like a little dance.

[Dale]

Tiny garage.

[Amy]

Yeah, the little tiny garage. Well, I mean, it was only like 8 to 10 of us kids in there, you know, like half girls, half boys, and we dance and we had a little thing set up where you could put your hands through, and they touched creepy things. And so we had grapes for eyeballs and we had Grand. Papa gave us cow parts, so we had a tongue, damn it. And intestines.

[Dale]

Gross. Real.

[Amy]

Yes, Amy. Papa has cattle. So I'm like, hey, Papa, I need.

[Dale]

Friends are like, it was a party last night. Well, there's a cow tongue.

[Amy]

Yeah, intestines. Last night it was.

[Dale]

It was a riot.

[Amy]

You can't get away with doing stuff like that. Now we dance. We dance.

[Dale]

Then we did cow organs.

[Alex]

The cow body parts to start showing up.

[Amy]

Yeah, I asked him for eyeballs. He's like, that's too far. I think we're gonna have to just use some grapes.

[Dale]

Holy.

[Amy]

Yeah, I got to do that. I didn't do haunted trails, though. Until I got to college, they didn't.

[Dale]

Have trails in Texas.

[Amy]

Really? It's not a lot of flat and. Yeah, there's no one messing around in the brushes. No. You get stuck.

[Dale]

Yeah, we have trails. They were crazy. Like some of the, some of the haunted trails. There's haunted houses too, you'll hear about from time to time that people, you know, go these elaborate old, you know, abandoned homes and they'll, they'll turn them into haunted houses or something.

[Amy]

I love that.

[Dale]

They're like pop ups, you know, every year it might be like a. It'll. It'll. It'll come and go, you know, but the haunted trails were pretty consistent. We knew where they were and we would go to the same ones every year.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And literally you drive up into somebody's yard and it's. And it's like a farm and a couple of neighbors got together and they're like, yeah, we'll have a haunted trail. They. They'll get some friends that just dress up like scary people and they'll take the chain off the chainsaw and that's always the chase you around. And they'll, they'll build these. It'd be interesting. I never saw like a haunted trail during the day. You know, you go there at night, it's pitch black and you're running through like this makeshift hall with trash bags. The walls are like trash bags and.

[Amy]

Every time you hit it, it makes noise.

[Dale]

Yeah. And you're terrified. And like, if you were to see it during the day, like the next morning at 10 o', clock, you'd be like, holy. That was it.

[Amy]

It's just a piece of plywood and a trash bag.

[Dale]

Just trash bags. And some, some two by four.

[Alex]

Kind of embarrassing.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's embarrassing.

[Dale]

Yes.

[Alex]

I was terrified.

[Dale]

Yeah. But ton of trails are the best. And you go. And the lines are super long and you're standing there.

[Amy]

Anticipation.

[Dale]

Standing in the line was fun because. Yeah. You're like, you're hearing all this going on.

[Amy]

You're like, oh, you hear the chainsaw guy? And you're like, oh my God. What part is he?

[Dale]

I mean, it was kind of fun. You know, you had, you had some booze in your pocket.

[Amy]

Oh yeah.

[Dale]

Oh yeah. You know, drinking a little bit of whiskey.

[Amy]

I got chased out of one in Kentucky once and I had never been through a trail where they had a chainsaw guy and he was at the very end. And Kentucky is like North Carolina. It's very hilly. I literally pulled one of my friends to hide. I slipped down this hill. Both of us went rolling down this gigantic hill because of the chainsaw guy. I don't think I had done another one until we went to Missouri after that.

[Dale]

Did we do it in Missouri?

[Amy]

We did the. The one with Carson, Kennedy and Wyatt.

[Dale]

I don't remember.

[Amy]

You didn't go in. I think you stayed with the Littles. The little hay maze thing.

[Dale]

Yeah, I did that.

[Amy]

Well, I went in with the kids. It was so good. Yeah, they had lots. That was at the Bass Pro, like getting real.

[Dale]

What's it called?

[Amy]

Face.

[Alex]

It's a big cedar lodge.

[Amy]

Cedar, yes. They had a really, really good one.

[Dale]

We had a little Spam where we did the haunted trails and haunted houses. But then we started getting more aggressive and shock.

[Amy]

Are you shocked?

[Dale]

We had a. We had a little span of about four years where we would throw eggs at cars.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah.

[Dale]

And play mailbox baseball a little bit.

[Amy]

Well, I did some eggs. I never did mailbox.

[Dale]

You did eggs? Yeah, I was driving. I did eggs a lot when I was younger and I was driving down the road one day I was coming from my late model shop down in Monroe and driving home and I saw it in slow motion. I'm driving my truck and this is. Damn egg comes flying into the view headlight. It was like at 9 o' clock at night or 10 o' clock at night, it flew in and I went into the grill of my truck and I was like, hell yeah. Solid shot.

[Amy]

You didn't even get mad?

[Dale]

Hell no. I mean, as many people as I've hit with eggs and to gotten out of there unscathed, you used to get.

[Amy]

Like 18 pack cartons squirrel and just go ham.

[Dale]

One year. This wasn't on Halloween. But I'll tell the story. And you may have heard this story, but dad and Teresa moved me downstairs. And right across the hall from my room was the staircase. And in the staircase was a closet. And it was. The closet had a door. The door was waist high.

[Amy]

Yeah. So it looked like a water heater closet.

[Dale]

That's right. And it wasn't to the. The door wasn't to the floor. It was at your belt line. And I would snoop around this house. Like, I was always curious as to what dad and them were hiding and what they had in the closets and everything.

[Amy]

They must be hiding things in every closet.

[Dale]

Well, I loved racing and a lot of the things that were stored away, maybe racing memorabilia or whatever. Right. And I look and I'm looking in this closet. I know everything that's in there. I looked in there many times. And so I also was collecting racing cards. NASCAR was doing baseball cars and stuff around that time. That was getting pretty big. I was still in high school, driving my S10 pickup truck. I was 16, 17 years old. So I'm looking in this magazine, and in this magazine, it said this. It showed a business card of dad's, and it said, this is believed to be dalenhardt's very first business card from 1976. And I said, I know where a bunch of those are. Right out here in this little closet. So I go out there, and I grabbed a handful of them. They're in brand new shape. Brand new still in the sleeve. There must have been a thousand, right? I got about 40 of them, 50 of them out of there. And I'm like, holy crap. I've. You know, I'm old.

[Amy]

I'm rich. I hit the jackpot.

[Dale]

I'm going to go and so one weekend, dad and Teresa are going to go to the race. I'm going to go to Hank Parker Jr. S house in Denver and hang out with him, who he was my age. And I'm going to also hang out with Ben and Bill, who are the twin brothers of Hank Parker Jr. We're all going to hang out, have fun. So I go to their house, and I'm like. I'm like, let's get some eggs and stuff. Let's raise some hail.

[Amy]

Really?

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Parker did this with you?

[Dale]

Hank Parker did not. The Bill and Ben did.

[Amy]

Oh.

[Dale]

I'm like, let's. Let's hit some mailboxes. Let's go. Let's go crazy. We got the whole weekend. So I take this card, stealing cards. I take this card to a card shop in Kannapolis.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's.

[Dale]

And I sold it.

[Amy]

So smart.

[Dale]

Sold one of them for 100 bucks. And we went and bought candy and eggs and all kinds of stuff. We had a blast all weekend. And we threw some eggs, and we didn't get in any trouble. We should have. We should have gotten a lot of trouble. But we didn't. And then I think, everything's cool. I go home about a couple weeks later, dad comes into the room or calls me upstairs or whatever, and he goes, you got in my closet, got some of them business cards out of there. I was like, oh, he knows. He must see, you know, must know how many he's in there. Just can tell something's missing or something. Is one of his employees, guy named Rick Bost, who was dad's very first employee Was a visitor of the card shop, and the guy that owned the card shop that bought the card from, he told him that you went in.

[Amy]

There and sold it, that I went.

[Dale]

In there and sold it, and I got big time punishment.

[Amy]

I mean, you didn't even think through that circle of life, did you?

[Dale]

I thought I was.

[Amy]

Now came a telephone.

[Dale]

I was like, here, hey, I'm on some cash. These guys. This is a way for me to get some money.

[Amy]

Cash now.

[Dale]

Yeah. This is the way I can get some money so we can go have some fun.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh.

[Dale]

Yeah, I was. I'll never kind of.

[Amy]

You were quite distinct.

[Dale]

I was. Well, they did send me to military school and all kinds of other things to try to fix me.

[Amy]

Try to fix it?

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I think they just gave you more angst.

[Dale]

Oh, I still have about 20 or 30 of those cards. You do a little business card. Yeah.

[Amy]

You didn't have to give the rest back. He didn't ask you for the rest.

[Dale]

He did. He asked me to give me. He asked me to give him the rest of them back, and I gave him about half of them back.

[Amy]

Did he know?

[Dale]

I don't know.

[Amy]

He just probably looked at you like.

[Dale]

Okay, kid, I didn't give him all I wanted. Some of them, I want to keep them. I gave one.

[Amy]

Y' all didn't make a deal like, hey, can I just keep a couple?

[Dale]

I gave one to rick Hendrick Probably 10 years ago. I gave one to Kenny Schrader. I gave out a few to some friends of dad's.

[Amy]

I thought they might want them.

[Dale]

Yeah, I was like, I never sold another one, but I tried to.

[Amy]

They locked that closet, too, didn't they?

[Dale]

They put a lock on every door that would. That. They put a lock on every single.

[Amy]

Door in the house that didn't already have one.

[Dale]

Yeah, Yeah. I stole out of his chain. He had this big water jug in his room that was that big, giant water jug. And he would always come home with change in his pocket. And he put it in there over and over and over. And I pulled about 80 bucks out of that thing in quarters. One day. I got an antenna off the car outside.

[Amy]

That takes a lot of time.

[Dale]

I know. I got antenna. I got. Dad didn't give us money like people think.

[Amy]

I know. I didn't get an allowance either, But I just asked if I wanted to go do something. I didn't start stealing.

[Dale]

I wouldn't know what people think about our lives or what it must have been like. But he never was like, know here's 20 bucks. Or here's. Here's an allowance. We didn't have any of that.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And so I got an antenna off the car, put duct tape on the end, fished out one quarter at a time for 80 bucks. Went and bought me a Game Boy and some games, and then was playing it on the couch the next day, and he. And they were like, where'd you get that? How'd you get that? I'm like, what? Game Boy? No, not everybody has a Game Boy. And, yeah, that Game Boy.

[Amy]

Where did you get big trouble? I bet it did.

[Dale]

I got in real big trouble. But, dad. Dude, when we were 16 and Kelly was 18, dad would order out to this place down the street all the time, once or twice a week, and he would say, you know, me and Kelly were scrambling to be the one to go pick the order up, only because he was going to give you $100 and go. And you would go get the food.

[Amy]

And you got to keep the change.

[Dale]

And you didn't know. You might. He might not ask for it.

[Amy]

He might just.

[Dale]

Most times he asked for the change, but sometimes he wouldn't. And you're like, freaking, hey, 25 in my pocket.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh. The game of gambling and chess that y' all played just for some pocket.

[Dale]

Change, taking the money, taking the business cars, taking the money. They put a lock on every door in the house. Every door in the house had a lock on it. And. And they locked them. They kept their bedroom door locked.

[Amy]

They were hiding in there.

[Dale]

They just didn't want me going in there and snooping around. I would go in there, look around.

[Amy]

Yeah, I did that, too.

[Alex]

Curious kid. Yeah.

[Amy]

Nothing to hide. I mean, come on. Yeah, well, it wasn't. My dad wasn't hiding things like that in his closet. But you're. Yeah.

[Dale]

But then, you know, go back to Halloween. So you have these sort of phases, right, of dressing up as a kid. Then you don't dress up for a while, you hang out with your friends, whatever, and then you get a family, get married, and you have kids, and then you're back in this routine.

[Amy]

Yeah, you're back in it.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Almost more heavy than you.

[Dale]

I've never been. Yeah, we. I wasn't doing it like this when I was a kid.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Like, you know, we are really doing it now. Like, the outfits, the thought that you put into things, and the.

[Amy]

It's fun because it's easy now. Like I said, mom had to make my outfit, every little piece. And she put a lot of work into it. I get that genetically, like, she really went hard for some.

[Dale]

I've had fun most of the. Most of the. Halloween's, like when we were League of Their Own.

[Amy]

Yeah, that was fun.

[Dale]

Freaking awesome. That was so much fun.

[Amy]

But now the kids are getting older and they have an opinion about what we are.

[Dale]

So being the old man, that was fun.

[Amy]

Yeah. Well, you can pick your outfit. I was just giving you a suggestion.

[Dale]

I thought sometimes you make me be part of the. Part of the idea.

[Amy]

Well, I know, but being Jimmy Dugan was like, no, it wasn't a hard ask.

[Dale]

No, that was great.

[Amy]

But. Yeah, I don't really know what else I could talk you into that would be.

[Dale]

Memorize Darth Vader one year.

[Amy]

Yeah. Not a hard ass. Except for the outfit was a little sketchy. Ordered an outfit from Etsy. It ended up being fine. It was fine, but it was a little. What's the term? BDSM or whatever you call it?

[Dale]

What, like dominatrix stuff?

[Amy]

Very dominatrix.

[Dale]

No, it wasn't. Stop it. It was an expected one.

[Amy]

There were parts of it that were more sure than they were supposed to. Like, we're just gonna put some layers over this.

[Dale]

God dang it.

[Amy]

He's like, amy, where did you get this money for that? That was custom size.

[Alex]

We're gonna need the picture of the.

[Dale]

Outfit for the photoshopped or. Oh, man, I'm gonna get roasted.

[Amy]

Yeah, the helmet was badass. So we did keep the helmet because it, like, made noises and everything.

[Dale]

Yeah, that's cool.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

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[Dale]

I talked about the dumbest thing that I did as a teenager.

[Amy]

Yeah, did you have dumbest things?

[Dale]

The thing?

[Amy]

Yeah, I mean I did some. I mean I did dumb things. I did dumb things with my friends. You know, I snuck out of the house plenty. We could just walk out the front door. My parents slept hard. Mom used to always keep sleigh bells on the front door too.

[Dale]

People I saw Somebody on the Internet yesterday. There's kind of been this like the, the sort of the generation, the young generation today is going. Wait a minute.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Did y' all really just go out and.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Come back at dark?

[Amy]

When was dinner?

[Dale]

People can't.

[Amy]

Yeah. Whenever we came home, I still, I, I mean, spotlight, like neighborhood spotlight, stuff like that. We would never let our kids do that.

[Dale]

Now I still have a hard time believing that it was really like that. And I, I lived it.

[Amy]

I know you're right. It was like we had a lot. We had real freedom.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

We get on our bikes in the mornings on a Saturday. Ride the neighborhood, go to the pool. We would literally not come home until dinner time.

[Dale]

Yep.

[Amy]

And we didn't. Like we had a couple bucks. I don't know.

[Dale]

I would go. I would go with dad to the shop at Mama's house. I mean, he was there at 8 o' clock in the morning and I'm not going to leave till 6, 7 o' clock at night.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And I would. We'd get there. I'd get out of the truck. I'd run down to my buddy Monroe's house. We had my buddy Walter Boss. He's Rick's nephew. But his nickname was Monroe. What a cool nickname.

[Amy]

Yeah. Not Monroe, but Monroe.

[Dale]

Monroe or Monroe, however you want to say it. But I call him Monroe because Monroe was. I don't know.

[Amy]

It's a character.

[Dale]

No, it's a shock. Racing Shock. But back in the old days. But man, we. I'd leave. I'd get out of the truck and just be gone. I wouldn't see dad till I'd come back for lunch. We'd have. We'd have whataburger and, you know, order pickles and side order pickles. And we'd eat whataburger for lunch. And then I'm back out again.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And he never was like, where you been? Well, don't be going over there. Don't be going down there.

[Amy]

Nobody was worried.

[Dale]

We were running up. I was. I was up at the four lane, three blocks away in the Dairy Queen getting a Nerds Blizzard.

[Amy]

And with all that money you stole.

[Dale]

Yeah. With $10 I begged from Daddy, please. We're getting Nurse Blizzard and. Yeah. We were all over. Yeah, all over.

[Amy]

Same. It was awesome.

[Dale]

Man. I would never let my kid run around like that.

[Amy]

Now I get nervous. I'm running around the farm and there's nobody to take them. There's nothing really that they could hurt themselves with. I mean, I don't know, maybe we Just need to chill out.

[Dale]

I agree. We do. We need to chill like this. The kit. So I'm. I think about this a lot in reference to riding in a car. So, you know, we talked about this. I rode in the back of Mama's 79 Monte Carlo, sleeping all over the back of the seat, climbing all over the place, not buckled in, no seat belt or nothing. And now we won't get in the car and pull out the damn garage unless everybody's got their five point harness on. You know what I'm saying?

[Amy]

Sometimes with your driving, I wish I had a five point harness.

[Dale]

I'll get in the car and put it in reverse and hold the brake and even. Just put it in reverse. Nicole, go. I ain't buckled up yet, dad. And I'm like, I'm not going anywhere. We're still in the driveway. And, you know, so everybody's got this mindset of, well, you can't move without being strapped in perfectly. And it bothers me because, like, I want to take. I am. I cannot wait to get in my old truck with Isla or my, you know.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

A bench seat.

[Amy]

I want to take him in the El Camino, too.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And, like, I'm tired of these damn buckles. I know.

[Dale]

You look. Well, you. You look at the. You know, you look at the. You know, you Google like, hey, when is it safe for somebody to ride in the front seat? And they'll say, 13 years old. I'm like, holy. What?

[Amy]

Yeah. They're almost driving by that point. Like, they got no experience even sitting in the front seat of the car.

[Dale]

And this and that. And I'm like, golly, man. Why is it.

[Amy]

Maybe there's a loophole in an old.

[Dale]

I would just love for her to be able to ride in the front seat of my truck.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

She has to get in the back and ride in the back, and I'm all right back here.

[Amy]

Is that you?

[Dale]

Not much conversation when we're sitting like this. It's kind of hard.

[Amy]

Oh, my. You don't like being by yourself, so that probably adds to the anxiety.

[Dale]

Like, you got somebody looking over here buckled up.

[Amy]

I don't make the rules, but you should just take her for a few laps in your truck.

[Dale]

I'd like to know everybody's opinion on when it's okay for the kid to ride in the front seat. Give me some specifics. Age, weight, what is it?

[Amy]

There's got to be a law. There's an age and weight situation for the car seat stuff in the back seat, even But I don't know.

[Dale]

Yep.

[Amy]

I think it's like kind of a guideline, kind of a law. I don't know, really. It's like, how much trouble.

[Alex]

You're airbag dependent, too.

[Dale]

Airbags a big deal.

[Alex]

Airbags are a big deal.

[Amy]

But in his old cars, like, since you don't have those.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

You could probably take her for a lap.

[Dale]

All right, we got funny questions to ask your best friend. It's a game we're gonna play. This was found on Instagram last week. Amy, you found this?

[Amy]

I did. I sent it to Alex.

[Dale]

Yes. All right, you're gonna ask. You're gonna ask me five questions that I have to answer. And do I have questions for you?

[Alex]

Same ones?

[Amy]

Oh, yeah. You could ask the same ones.

[Dale]

And this segment of funny questions to ask your best friend is brought to you by Jerky Boys. Was it the best jerky in the entire world? Jerky Boys.

[Amy]

He's been practicing that in the mirror for everyone.

[Dale]

Yeah, it's the best jerky in the world.

[Amy]

Just ask Dale.

[Dale]

Jerky Boys.

[Amy]

You're such a clown. All right, you ready?

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So these are questions about me.

[Dale]

Great.

[Amy]

All right, if I had a warning label, what would it say?

[Dale]

What would your warning label say?

[Amy]

You shouldn't have to think this hard. Come on, now you're just trying to be careful.

[Dale]

I want to be correct. Warning label. I would say the warning label is going to be.

[Amy]

Did we lose?

[Dale]

There's a lot of things. Oh, my God.

[Amy]

I would say, okay, action packed.

[Dale]

There's a couple of issues, maybe. No, I would say the warning label would be something like, don't do. Don't tell her you're gonna do something and not do it. Like, that was one thing that I took me a while to learn because I would. I'd be like, you know, hey, I'll be home by 2 and come home at 4. And you'd be like, just tell me you're coming home at four. I mean, don't tell me you're coming home two and you're coming home at four. Just say, I'm not mad. Just want to know when you're coming home. So say four. If you're coming home four, Say four. Don't say two. You know, and so, like, learning that process of just kind of just shooting it straight, because I was always thinking I needed to tell you, like, I'm going to be home as soon as possible. So soon as possible is probably two, and it didn't be four. So that was one thing that really helped Our relationship. Once I got that figured out, the other thing might be. Is. Has a. We'll have a messy closet.

[Amy]

Comes with a messy closet.

[Dale]

Comes with a messy closet.

[Amy]

I feel like yours would probably say, riddled with anxiety.

[Dale]

Yes.

[Amy]

Handle with care. Yeah, handle with care. Next question. If I joined a cult, what would it be about?

[Dale]

I mean, I don't know, general conspiracy. Nothing.

[Amy]

I would have to join a cult.

[Dale]

I don't know. I mean, what do cults do?

[Amy]

Like, something that I'm mega into that you would. You think that's it. General conspiracies?

[Dale]

I don't know. I mean, you know, you'll. You'll. You'll. You'll ask me questions about things you hear about, and I'll be like, yeah, that's not real. Or there's two sides to every story. Or there's some truth somewhere in between. I don't know. I guess. Yeah. Okay. Let me think about this. Your coat would be working out.

[Amy]

Working out?

[Dale]

Yeah. Like you'd like a Pilates or a Pilates cult. Yeah.

[Amy]

I would think that you would join a boobies cult.

[Dale]

Boobies cult. Do they exist?

[Amy]

Probably.

[Alex]

I'm with you, Dale.

[Amy]

I'll join if there is one. That's where you're going. Like, what can send me straight to a cult?

[Dale]

I wonder if there is like a. You know, they have like Comic Con and all these different things, right. Where people gather.

[Amy]

Neki Becky to celebrate. Like the Neki Becky culture.

[Dale]

They have like a candy expos and all kinds. Like, if they have a booby expo where everybody that loves boobies gets together and just celebrates boobs.

[Amy]

Probably. If not, surely started. I'm sure you probably got one follower. Alex is gonna show up.

[Dale]

Yeah, as long as. I mean, it could be super sketchy.

[Amy]

Weird, but it's gonna. Everything gets a little weird when you're naked, you know?

[Dale]

No, I mean, I don't. I don't know if they're naked. Needs to be evolved. I don't think people need to be naked doing this.

[Amy]

Oh, really? There aren't naked movies. They're called. They're covered boobies. That's weird. That's weird.

[Dale]

No, I just don't know. No, I mean, that's a strip club. That's what that is.

[Amy]

I read the strip club. Is that a cult? I mean, it feels like it kind of could be a little group.

[Dale]

Could be.

[Amy]

If you had to give me a new first name, what would it be?

[Dale]

Really?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

These are tough questions, Amy.

[Amy]

It doesn't have to be meaningful, just a Name that you like. Or you could make it meaningful.

[Dale]

Oh, my gosh.

[Amy]

Man, he's really thinking hard.

[Dale]

Mm. I'm like. I don't know. Like, there's not an.

[Alex]

It's tough. Cause you look like an Amy.

[Amy]

Do I?

[Alex]

Yeah, I think you look like an Amy. There's not one that would pop up for somebody that, like.

[Dale]

Oh, yeah.

[Amy]

What do you want to call somebody? Like, I'm gonna. I'm gonna call you Bert.

[Dale]

I like calling you Amos.

[Amy]

I'm call you something silly like I'm gonna call you Bert. Oh, Amos. That's like a nickname that I already have.

[Dale]

Ooh. That's all right. That's all I can think of. But, I mean, hold on.

[Amy]

How about Diane?

[Dale]

Diane might be one.

[Amy]

How about Sherry? How about, I don't know, Tiffany?

[Dale]

No. What's her face?

[Amy]

Really not. This is not a good name if you can't.

[Dale]

These games are tough because I draw blanks when I really got. It's in there. I got the answer. I just can't find it. But what is she on? She's. I can't. I'm so mad that I can't do this because she's my favorite singer. Oh.

[Amy]

Oh, Stevie.

[Dale]

Stevie? Yeah.

[Amy]

You're gonna call me Stevie?

[Dale]

Sure.

[Amy]

Okay. I can handle that.

[Dale]

Yeah. Or maybe Nix.

[Amy]

Nix and Bert.

[Dale]

Nix and Bert. What's up, Nix?

[Amy]

What's up, Bert?

[Dale]

Nix is kind of cool for first name.

[Amy]

No, it feels like a sound. Kind of like giat. Now we're back to sound.

[Dale]

Stevie. I don't know. Stevie doesn't. Steven's not going to work as much as I want it to.

[Amy]

If you had to bet money on me failing something, what would it be failing?

[Dale]

Probably your driver's license test.

[Amy]

Really?

[Alex]

Quickest answer.

[Amy]

Why do you say that?

[Dale]

I mean, not that you're a bad driver. I just. What tests do you take these days.

[Amy]

That you don't have to take a test to fail at something like an activity? Things I do was the quickest response.

[Dale]

I don't know. I mean, there's lots of things that I don't. I don't think you would succeed at. Like stupid games. Video games that I play or.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Gambling.

[Amy]

That's. That's all you got?

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Games.

[Dale]

What is a good answer here?

[Amy]

I don't know. Finishing things. I like to start a project, and I don't actually finish it half the.

[Dale]

Time, and that's something that you can say about yourself, but I'm not gonna damn sure say it.

[Amy]

Point.

[Dale]

I'm saying that you Start a ton of stuff that you don't finish.

[Amy]

Yes, that's exactly right.

[Dale]

Or you do finish it, but it's when you're ready to finish.

[Amy]

That's damn right too. Sometimes I need a minute, sometimes it derails and I have to regroup or I get distracted by my family. Yeah, if I had to bet money on you failing something, it would be.

[Dale]

Are we doing these questions now? Me?

[Amy]

Well, we've kind of been doing it the whole time. Have you not been paying attention?

[Dale]

No.

[Amy]

Really, we have. I gave you. Yes.

[Dale]

Wait, okay. You said I do.

[Amy]

My warning label was what your warning label?

[Dale]

I joined a cult. Okay. And if I get you didn't do first name. Bert. Bert. Okay, if I. What would I fail?

[Amy]

What would you fail?

[Dale]

You had to bet money on this.

[Amy]

Admitting you're wrong. Okay, yeah. If I got like that chair you're sitting in that's squeaking so bad I can't hardly pay attention.

[Dale]

If you got kicked out of a bar tonight, what would it be for? I mean, you know, probably the traditional thing, getting in the bouncer's face.

[Amy]

Me. What? I've never in my life gotten in a bouncer's face.

[Dale]

No, I've never seen you get kicked out of a bar either. I mean, but if I think I had to guess, what would happen is probably because something happened and somebody was rude and you got in the bouncer's.

[Amy]

Face and told him to go to stick it.

[Dale]

Yeah. Shove it up his ass and they ask you to leave.

[Amy]

I know. You make it sound like I've actually done that before, though. Oh, my God. All right, well, that's the end of the game.

[Dale]

Nice. Fun game.

[Amy]

Awesome. Let's do some Ask Amy.

[Alex]

Let's do some Ask Amy.

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[Amy]

Hello, everyone. Dale and I are back in the Dirty Mo Media Studios this week for another episode of Bless yous Heart. Dale has just opened his beef jerky.

[Dale]

Yep.

[Amy]

And now it smells like a meat market in here.

[Dale]

Jerky boys.

[Amy]

Turkey boys back in stock.

[Dale]

It's the best ever. So good.

[Amy]

We are ready for your questions.

[Alex]

All right, well, a lot of people have been asking, when will Gus make an appearance on the show? Because Junebug's been on a ton of times.

[Amy]

Yeah. So June Bug is like pocket size, like Polly Pocket. He's really tiny and easy to tote around Gus. However, he pants a lot. He paces a lot, so he would probably be distracting.

[Dale]

So, yeah, we got Gus and we got him in 2008.

[Amy]

No.

[Dale]

When was it?

[Amy]

I don't know. He's gonna be 12. He's gonna be 11. 11 this year.

[Dale]

Oh, wow. So we got him and we brought him home. He was 14 and we got him home. It was 14. I think we're riding in the car from the airport and we have gotten seven miles maybe, and he throws up all over the back seat.

[Amy]

Yeah, he doesn't ride well in the car.

[Dale]

We're pulling over. We're like, what in the hell?

[Amy]

I've never had a dog that did that.

[Dale]

I mean, we're worried and he's, like, looking like he's just not feeling so.

[Amy]

Good, drooling heavily like he's gonna do it again, you know?

[Dale]

So what we learned that about Gus is he doesn't like riding in cars, riding in anything that moves. So we don't fly with him. We don't. We take him in the car. But it's just only when we have to.

[Amy]

Yeah. Down to the beach. So if you put him in the car, too, to even go to the vet, his little teeth start to chatter like he just doesn't want to get in the car.

[Dale]

Drools like he Drools. Yeah. He just starts to get constantly sick. Right. Getting car sick, motion sick, or whatever. Yeah, he didn't like it.

[Amy]

He, too, like, Dale is riddled with anxiety, especially about the car. I'd love to bring him, but he just. He's not into the process that's things.

[Alex]

So if you go to the beach, it's like, you've got to, like.

[Amy]

Yeah. We've got his bed in the back of the car.

[Dale]

We try to make it pretty comfortable.

[Amy]

We've gotten him meds before, and I did that once or twice. Twice. And then after that, he started throwing it up because he's like, no, you're not doing that. I don't want to feel like that either.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So he just deals with it.

[Dale]

He's gotten better. Like, he. He'll. He usually. He wouldn't even want to get in the car. You take him around the Suburban or whatever, and he's like, I don't want to get in. I'm not getting in.

[Amy]

I think he knows where we're going, but now we're going to the beach. He sees all the stuff getting packed up in the car. He knows.

[Dale]

He loves going out on the beach, and so I think he does know when we're going to the beach, that we're going to where the sand is and all the morning walks and all the things he's going to get to do. So he does get eager and excited about down there, and he doesn't really seem to mind riding in that long ride there. But he does not fly. And, I mean, he would. He would soak a beach towel, drooling, wow. In an airplane. He's. That drool. Wow. Yeah, it's terrible. That's great.

[Amy]

And he's gonna dehydrate it and all the things. Yeah, it's just not a fun process.

[Alex]

Meanwhile, Junebug's just happy to.

[Amy]

Yeah, he don't care. Well, Gus is huge, too. He's a gigantic dog, so.

[Alex]

Yeah, I get that. Our next question's from Janice. The cast of Dancing with the Stars was just revealed, so she wants to know which one of you would most likely go on and have the better.

[Dale]

Chance of winning Amy.

[Amy]

I would love to do that.

[Dale]

Really?

[Amy]

So fun. Yeah. I grew up dancing and my family dances anyway, so, like, partner dancing would be fun, but.

[Dale]

Yeah, I would never do it.

[Amy]

Dale would die of fear. Of fear. Yes.

[Dale]

I'd have a heart attack of anxiety before the show ever started.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Yeah, yeah.

[Amy]

That would be so fun. Yeah. I feel like he's been Invited to do it or there's been speculation, like, they were going to invite him to do it.

[Dale]

Not a damn chance.

[Amy]

Back in when he was still racing and he was like, I don't have.

[Dale]

I don't have time, Michael.

[Alex]

Walter did it, didn't he?

[Dale]

Yeah, he did it.

[Alex]

That makes sense.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Alex]

People in the chat want to know what your favorite beer is, Amy. Do you drink beer?

[Amy]

Well, my favorite beer is.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Miller Light. I've always been a Miller Light fan. My family's always had Miller Light in the fridge, so I like the label, I like the beer. I like cider beers. I like Bud Light. We'll drink any of the light beers. But I did have Guinness when we went to Ireland.

[Dale]

Yes.

[Amy]

And that's totally different ball game. But it's not as near as heavy as I thought it would be either.

[Dale]

Yeah, it's not as heavy as I thought. It looks heavy.

[Amy]

It looks like chocolate.

[Dale]

And they say it's not as good in the States as it is over there. And they're. They're. I'm not a expert on Guinness by no means, but they're right. It does taste, like, different there. It's more like a dessert, though.

[Amy]

It's just fresh.

[Dale]

Yeah. Yeah. But it's good. It's thinner than you think.

[Amy]

Yeah. It's not as heavy.

[Dale]

No. Yeah.

[Alex]

Do you guys know about splitting the G on your first.

[Amy]

Oh, yes, we did that.

[Alex]

Is that big in Ireland?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Alex]

Okay, good. It's my favorite part about drinking again.

[Amy]

Yeah. I always got the half pints, though, because, like this, the whole one was just way too much.

[Dale]

But yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's fun.

[Alex]

That's cool. This question's from Jasper. Kind of interesting. If you could be the best in the world that anything, what would it be like? Singing? Play an instrument.

[Amy]

Oh, I think it'd be singing. Our kids sing constantly.

[Dale]

Really?

[Amy]

And, yeah, singing would just be fun to be able to do even by yourself. I probably wouldn't want to do it, like, beyond stage in the world. Yeah.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Alex]

And it's kind of subjective because people would just be like, oh, she's the best in the world at this.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's true.

[Alex]

But yeah, like, when they. When you show up, people are like, oh, we gotta see this. You know.

[Amy]

I mean, singing is the easy answer, I guess. What would you want to be the best at?

[Dale]

Well.

[Amy]

Come on, Dale.

[Dale]

Tons of things.

[Amy]

Tons of things. Big one.

[Dale]

Racing. Being a football player. Being a. Being in a band of any kind. Yeah. Being in a band of any kind. Being the best drummer. Guitarist.

[Amy]

Being a good drummer would be really, really cool.

[Alex]

So drummer would be awesome.

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah.

[Alex]

Can you just do guest appearances on different, you know, stages? Like, oh, here's Dale, Best drummer.

[Amy]

There's drummer Dale.

[Dale]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Amy]

All right.

[Alex]

Multiple people are also asking, any update on the swans yet? Have they been relocated?

[Dale]

Should we just tell them?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

All right. We got some bad news on the swan.

[Alex]

Oh, no.

[Dale]

Did you?

[Amy]

We had bad news about one of the swans.

[Dale]

Yeah. All right. So we got the swans from. From Cletus McFarland, and they. We loved them. We were very happy about it. We were going down there every day, feeding them. We were excited about was they were the new pets, and they were great, fun as hell. And so we do have some coyotes and stuff around the property. The female Cleo got out of the pond and up into an erosion ditch in a field, an old farm field that had kind of growed up and had some pine trees and stuff in it. So she was in this sheltered area down in this erosion ditch and wasn't.

[Amy]

Too far away from the pond.

[Dale]

It was about 40ft from the bank. And she was nesting, I suppose, and the coyote got her. So we got up in there. Yeah, it was. It was feathers everywhere. It was ridiculous, honestly.

[Amy]

So poor little George had to witness that.

[Dale]

So George. George had to have heard it. Had to have heard it. It had to have been the loudest commotion, and he had to have instinctually knew what had happened. So we don't know what to do, do we? We contemplated spending tons of money to fence this pond in. Yeah. Six acres.

[Amy]

It's not in a flat spot like you were saying. So fencing it in was.

[Dale]

We contemplated. Yeah, we contemplated putting a fence in. We were gonna. We're gonna have to. It was gonna be expensive. We had a guy that was like, hey, I'll take the swan. George, I got a place fenced in, three ponds. It's perfect for him.

[Amy]

He's got other birds and.

[Dale]

He's got other birds and everything down there. And we've seen photos of this area, and it's perfect. And so we contemplated doing that. So we couldn't. We went into the pond to try to catch George. And you couldn't catch him?

[Amy]

No, he was not having it.

[Dale]

But George would get out of the pond, going to look for Cleo.

[Amy]

Not like small, little.

[Dale]

He would walk around.

[Amy]

Yeah, he'd walk half a mile down the road.

[Dale]

Yeah. One day, George is on the highway, like, literally, I would say, a quarter mile from the pond, walking down the street.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Cars going around him. And so we got him into a pen in a neighbor's yard so that he was contained and protected. And then we started thinking about, like, really sending him to this guy.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

To live the rest of his life.

[Amy]

We have to think fast. Are we doing this fence thing or what are we gonna do? And so the other options seemed more. Yeah, it just seemed better for the bird, to be honest.

[Dale]

So he's gonna. We are going to get him another mate.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And try to get him mated up and then he'll be in this place that's more suited for. It sucked because, man, I mean, we really wanted it to work.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

It was awesome. They're really cool. And we were just getting them comfortable to where we would get down on the bank and they would come up.

[Amy]

And maybe eat out of Dale's hand. He didn't like me much, but he really liked Dale. He would hiss at me.

[Dale]

We were dudes.

[Amy]

Yeah. Which was fine. But he would eat out of Dale's hand. So he's down in South Carolina and he's at a sanctuary. They were making sure he was okay. And he had 15 females there. So he was going to get to pick his own mate. They was going to pair off. So they were given that, like a process of time. And then he's going to his forever home. So maybe we'll get to go visit him.

[Dale]

Yeah. Well, he's better off there.

[Amy]

He is. He's going to be happier.

[Dale]

And I hate what happened to Cleo, but. And I really am thankful that I know Cletus and those guys did that as sort of a, you know, fun little gimmick for. For their YouTube and all. But I was very thankful.

[Amy]

They did a nice gift.

[Dale]

It was a very nice gift. And it was very thoughtful. Yeah. And we had a lot of fun with them. And I wish it would have worked out the girls. But now especially.

[Amy]

I love. We talked about that last week.

[Dale]

Yeah. Now I'm. I'm ready to rock and. And go out there in some point in the near future and get this coyote.

[Alex]

Oh, yeah. It's a motivation.

[Dale]

Days are numbered.

[Alex]

It's revenge.

[Amy]

Days are numbered.

[Dale]

Days are numbered.

[Alex]

I like that A lot of people when we. A couple weeks ago, when they want. When you guys first broke the news that there's a coyote problem, they were all very supportive of relocating Georgia Clear.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah. That helps that you just got to do the right with the right thing for the. For the bird.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah. The high fence was just.

[Dale]

It was so expensive.

[Amy]

It was ridiculous. It couldn't make it make sense.

[Alex]

Yeah. And it's less fun. I think, you know, you want more that open pond.

[Amy]

Yeah. Well, we were going to fit in.

[Dale]

We were going to fit a large area, about probably 12 acres.

[Amy]

It's going to be a lot like room to roam.

[Dale]

My dad. My dad high fence 300 acres. Oh, wow. And so in my mind I'm thinking, oh, I'm gonna fence this in. Shouldn't be too expensive. I was like, when I got. We got the damn. It was Bill on it.

[Amy]

I was like, could have built a house.

[Dale]

Can't do this.

[Amy]

It was insane.

[Dale]

I was like, this is ridiculous.

[Amy]

We cannot justify this for two swans.

[Dale]

Yeah, I agree. And hoping that that's going to keep them out, right?

[Alex]

Yeah, exactly. What about the donkeys? That's what I get.

[Amy]

The donkeys are great. The donkeys are thriving.

[Dale]

Did you hear him last night or this morning?

[Amy]

They don't like Gus. So Gus goes out the front door and you can see the barn from our front door. So we let the dogs out in the morning. Anytime that the dogs are out, the boys hee haw. They. They're alerting that there's a big dog. He's so loud, dude. Yeah, pumpkin. Well, there's two of them doing it now, so it's pretty loud.

[Dale]

But yeah, I love it.

[Amy]

I do too. And Gus isn't here. And of course Gus doesn't know that the donkeys are honking at him. So he walks right up to the fence and just really makes him mad.

[Dale]

I forget they're out there and it'll be six o' clock in the morning and one of them we going. Going ape out there.

[Amy]

And you're like, oh, yeah, it's our rooster, basically, because I let the dog out and then the donkeys go, hey.

[Dale]

Yeah, it's loud. It's really loud.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

That's so cool. Yeah.

[Alex]

Next question is from Todd and he wants to know if you could ban a phrase that people say too much, what would it be?

[Amy]

I'm just saying.

[Alex]

I'm just saying.

[Amy]

I hate that phrase. Wow.

[Dale]

Really?

[Amy]

Quit. I'm just saying. What's your point? What are you trying to just say? Are you trying to start. What are you doing? Just saying. Yeah, don't just say have a point.

[Dale]

Okay.

[Amy]

Or quit it.

[Alex]

It can be condescending at times.

[Amy]

It's usually condescending. Yeah, it's usually for that point.

[Dale]

One of the things that I hate that I do is I start sentences with I'm just so. Like when you're. And I Try my hard. I do it in text message a lot, and I'll see if I can make this make sense. But. So you'll. You'll reach out to somebody about something, and you're trying to explain. You're trying to be helpful, or you're. You're trying to explain something you chose to do or something you did or said or. And you're. You're. You'll start to sentence with, I'm just trying to blah, blah, blah. Like, you're apologetic almost, in a way.

[Amy]

Yeah. You're trying to be polite for asking the questions, but you're trying to make them understand what your point is.

[Dale]

And when I. When somebody says, I'm just trying to be nice or I'm just trying to fix it, or I'm just trying to help, I'm like, man, I'm not sure whether I believe it. And so I try to take the word just yeah out. That single word there gives me this feeling like I can. I don't need to say. I don't need to say. I'm just trying to do this.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Because I'd. Me and you had that conversation too. Sometimes we'll be discussing something and you're like, I don't agree with that. Why did you choose that? Why did you do that? Have you done this? I'm just this. I'm just that. And I'm like, you just take the word just out and just say it like you know it. I'm some. I don't know. That's kind of silly and trivial and stupid, but that's something that I do that bugs the. Out of me. And I'm like, why am I so apologetic? Why am I being apologetic? I'm literally. I'm literally this. So just say this.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

Don't have to be like, softening it with, I'm just trying this, or I'm just helping, or I'm just.

[Amy]

I'm looking for an answer to this problem.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

That's just a habit.

[Alex]

Think the same way. Because I overuse the word. Like, especially when I'm describing something, and I'll hear it and I will hate it, and I will derail my entire thought.

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did that a lot when I was younger, and I had to make a point to stop doing that so much. Whenever I respond. Respond to text, I put the word yeah in there. Like, if I'm in agreement, I don't. I don't know why I do that, but it's. I started off with, yeah, yeah.

[Dale]

I. Like, I wish the word ammo would be. Would be.

[Amy]

Would. Catch on.

[Dale]

Catch on. Yeah. Yeah.

[Alex]

I'm starting to use it more.

[Dale]

Really? Yeah.

[Alex]

And in text message, I'm trying to get my phone to, like, learn it, to recognize it, so it'll just go amal.

[Dale]

How are you spelling it?

[Alex]

I am apostrophe L. Amel.

[Dale]

Amel. Amel.

[Alex]

That's tough to get the apple, though.

[Dale]

To figure that out.

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah.

[Alex]

They have no idea what I'm talking about. I think I got one more question for you. And it goes on the theme we talked about on the show that you'll hear later. Halloween. Carol wants you to rank the three big holidays, and she says the three big holidays are Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas.

[Dale]

So rank those three.

[Alex]

Rank those three.

[Amy]

Those three.

[Dale]

Yeah. I don't agree with Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween.

[Amy]

Yeah. Really? Mine's Christmas, Halloween, then Thanksgiving's on the bottom.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Honestly, I would put Christmas, Easter than Halloween, Easter, Thanksgiving, for me is like a. I know it's. I know it's an important day, but it's not really as important as the.

[Dale]

Other Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Halloween, fourth.

[Amy]

Okay. Yeah.

[Dale]

Halloween, to me is like. I would put the biblical. You know, the. I would put them higher than Halloween.

[Amy]

I do, too.

[Dale]

Halloween's just like a dam.

[Amy]

Thanksgiving belongs in the world.

[Dale]

Came up with. It's not really like what happened on Halloween in the Bible. Well, nothing. Well, yeah.

[Alex]

Well, I would put Fourth of July up there.

[Amy]

Fourth of July is great, which is.

[Dale]

Like, probably Fourth of July is good. True, true.

[Amy]

Yeah. New Year's is.

[Dale]

I would slide 4th of July over Halloween. I love Halloween. Like, I got nothing against it, but it's just kind of the bottom for me.

[Alex]

Thanksgiving, I get, like you said, the importance. I don't like the holiday. Stupid.

[Amy]

I could take it or leave it real. Yeah.

[Alex]

Maybe because I have to travel up north to see family.

[Dale]

I guess Thanksgiving's not a biblical holiday either.

[Amy]

Thanksgiving is one of those holidays that we decide to do whatever. We could travel. We've gone to Tennessee to hang out with the Sugarlands people. We've gone to Key west, and we've eaten fish tacos on Halloween or Thanksgiving. So I don't know.

[Dale]

Yeah, I like Thanksgiving. Sorry, I made a random statement.

[Amy]

He's on his soapbox.

[Dale]

We do.

[Amy]

We don't use the. We don't usually do the traditional. We did last year for the first time in a while because we have the kids, but for a very long time. We absolutely did not.

[Dale]

That's why it's so fun, because it's.

[Amy]

Not A real holiday, either.

[Dale]

I know, but we will. We. When we had the house down in the Key west, we had this one place we'd always go to because they served the traditional Thanksgiving. Like, in Key West. Eating a traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner was like, so it's kind of funny. Out of the ordinary, and it was fun. And then to Amy's point, we would, like, take trips. Like, where we're going for Thanksgiving. Yeah. We're gonna go visit this friend or go here, hang out.

[Amy]

Well, the NASCAR season was always to just over, and now freedom weekend.

[Dale]

And now it's become a family gathering. Like, we'll get Kelly and Carrie, and everybody gets together, and we have a thing at my house.

[Amy]

No, that hasn't happened ever.

[Dale]

What are we doing then? When do we have.

[Amy]

Last year. We did it. We were in Charleston.

[Dale]

No, no. When Kelly and Carrie come over and we do Christmas.

[Amy]

Rough.

[Dale]

That's Christmas. Yeah. All right.

[Alex]

See, they're close together.

[Dale]

Feels like the same thing.

[Amy]

Christmas is a big deal. We. Yes. Everybody comes over. All the kids sit around. A tradition I started with Kelly. Everybody builds a gingerbread house.

[Dale]

Obviously, I don't know what's happening.

[Amy]

He does zero planning, that's for sure. He just sh. I love it.

[Dale]

The meals are similar. I'm with.

[Alex]

That's why I don't think.

[Dale]

Man, Thanksgiving's great.

[Amy]

His rankings just lost value right there.

[Alex]

I'll tell you the best Thanksgiving I ever had, though. I was in a Hooters in Augusta, Georgia.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah.

[Alex]

I didn't go home. I was like, what are we going to do? Only place open. That place was packed. I bet it was fun.

[Amy]

Was it nothing but men, or were there women?

[Alex]

A lot of truckers.

[Amy]

A lot of truckers. Truckers. Alex and the truckers.

[Alex]

I was there all day. It was fun.

[Dale]

Do you want to know this reminds me of my favorite week of the year. Do you have a favorite week? My favorite week of the year is the one between Christmas and New Year's.

[Alex]

Oh, yeah.

[Dale]

Oh, it feels like. Does it not feel like the one week where everything. Yeah. The world turned off.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

And like, nobody gives a crap what you're doing where you're at.

[Amy]

You don't have to shower.

[Dale]

You don't have to change your clothes.

[Amy]

All week, everybody's in the same outfit.

[Dale]

Yep. Nobody's calling and going, hey, where are you? You're supposed to be here.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale]

You're just. Everybody's just like, let me alone.

[Amy]

Eat as much food, as crap as you want, whatever's left in the candy.

[Dale]

And the cookies, everything that week, especially when you were. Especially when I was a race car driver. The whole year was so chock full of deadlines, meetings, places you had to be, schedules and things that were planned for you. And that one week was where everybody. Nobody called, nobody had anything on the calendar. Everybody was somewhere else. And it just felt so nice, so quiet.

[Alex]

It's also like, you don't. When the 25th's over, the next day is just the 31st. Like, you don't. From the 26th to the 30th, you don't even know what day it is.

[Amy]

Yeah, you don't.

[Alex]

You're just like, whatever. You don't really even know.

[Dale]

You're playing with all the toys, all the new things you got.

[Amy]

Yep.

[Dale]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Glorious.

[Dale]

The best week.

[Alex]

Oh, yeah.

[Dale]

And then right at the end of it is a big party New Year's Eve. You're like, not only do I just get to cough for a week, then I'm going to party. Like, that's the best week ever. All right, let's end that.

[Amy]

Can't argue with that.

[Alex]

Can't argue with that.

[Amy]

No.

[Dale]

Sorry for my language.

[Amy]

Yeah. Thank you for your questions, everybody. We had a fun show. Check us out and make sure to subscribe to our YouTube page. Please also don't forget to check out the [e-mail] and we'll see you next week.

[Dale]

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[Amy]

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