Parenting Advice, Big Laughs & Silly Debates: The Best of Ask Amy

Summary

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The Dale Jr. Download – Parenting Advice, Big Laughs & Silly Debates: The Best of Ask Amy

Date: December 14, 2025
Host: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Amy Earnhardt
Producer: Alex, Dirty Mo Media, SiriusXM

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Episode Overview

This “Best of Ask Amy” episode is a curated collection of standout moments from the fan-favorite Ask Amy segments throughout the year. Dale Jr., Amy, and producer Alex tackle fun, candid, and often hilarious listener questions about parenting, relationships, food, traditions, and day-to-day life—peppered with real talk, playful debates, and southern charm. The episode showcases their chemistry as a couple, shares genuine family insight, and offers equal doses of good advice and laughter.

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Key Discussion Points

1. The Romcom Love Story & Silly Titles

[01:49–03:00]

• Prompt: What would the title of Dale and Amy’s life be if it were a romantic comedy (“romcom”)?
• Dale’s Confusion: Hilariously mistakes “romcom” for something tech-y, like “ROM com” being a computer expo.

  “I thought it was like an expo for technology. You’re going to the ROM com this year? They got that new Nvidia card, the 5090.” – Dale Jr. [02:02]

• Amy’s Suggestion: “The Princess and the Clown”, poking fun at their personalities.
• Audience and Alex suggest alternative comedic titles like “Checkers or Wreckers” and “Amy and Her Three Kids.”

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2. How To Be a Fun Uncle or Aunt

[03:09–04:24]

• Amy’s Take: “Listen, you’re either fun or you’re not. Kenny. Sorry.” [03:15]
• Best advice is simple: give kids undivided attention, play on their level, whether pretend dragon or coloring.
• Don’t try too hard with big outings—the key is to engage, not overwhelm.

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3. Birthday Cakes and Debates

[04:32–05:54]

• Amy: Loves carrot cake.
• Dale: Strongly against buying carrot cake, jokes about weird vegetable cakes.

  “When you’re buying cake for your wife, buy what she wants.” – Amy [04:53]

• Back-and-forth teasing about carrot cake’s validity as a birthday dessert.

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4. Memorable Desserts: Cheesecake & Cupcake Sushi

[06:00–08:04]

• Dale and Amy discuss the magic of chocolate-dipped cheesecake (inspired by a Key West treat).
• Fond memories of “cupcake sushi”—cake rolled and decorated to look like sushi, created by a friend in Key West.

  “It’s cake and chocolate, and it’s rolled to look like a piece of sushi. … It is all dessert and it’s absolutely delicious.” – Amy [07:20]

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5. Dream Game Shows & TV Appearances

[09:05–09:54]

• Amy wishes to go on “Family Feud” with Steve Harvey, tried before Mimi’s passing.
• Dale and Amy joke about reality TV but agree they’d just like to hang out at a party in the background of shows like “Summer House.”

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6. Easter Family Traditions: Southern Style

[10:08–13:49]

• Amy describes unique family traditions: making “nests” from Spanish moss for the Easter Bunny, hayrides, Easter egg hunts, and large outdoor family gatherings.
• Crafty Easter eggs: dyeing with shaving cream, spinning and decorating eggs, memories of old-fashioned shrink-wrap egg sleeves.

  “The kids make the nest in the yard, and then we take the kids on a hayride to look for the Easter bunny.” – Dale Jr. [11:07]

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7. Working Together: Surprises and Growth

[16:31–19:48]

• Amy shares that working together on “Bless Yous Heart” brought them even closer.
• Dale is proud of Amy’s willingness to become more of a public figure, despite her private, camera-shy nature early in their relationship.

  “She’s going to find herself in more situations like that, and it’s just fun for me to watch her navigate that.” – Dale Jr. [18:44]

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8. Music, Memories, and Deep Cuts

[20:36–22:34]

• The couple would give up hearing their favorite song forever if it means discovering new music.
• Dale jokes about “secret” favorite songs depending on the audience.

  “When you first meet me, [it’s] Living on a Prayer. … Five years down the road, you’re like, whoa…” – Dale Jr. [21:57]

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9. Time Travel: Past or Future?

[22:36–27:12]

• Amy would travel forward to meet descendants; Dale wants to see ancestors’ journey from Germany to America.
• Entertaining banter about upsetting the timeline, referencing “Back to the Future.”

  “The person wrote their name down as they heard it. And that’s how the Earnhardt name changed.” – Dale Jr. [27:12]

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10. Wedding & Relationship Advice

[28:01–32:23]

• Regrets and memories from their wedding:

  • Amy regrets not doing a “first look” or getting more photos before dark.
  • Dale insists on the magic of waiting to see the bride at the altar.

  “I will never ever be able to replicate the feeling I had when she turned the corner and faced me and started coming down that aisle.” – Dale Jr. [30:31]

• They detail their epic double-party wedding: New Year’s Eve wedding + back-to-back parties, including a disco ball and conga line.

• Advice highlights: Don’t overthink photos, consider experiencing the build-up and surprise.

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11. Break-Up Etiquette: Ghosting or Not?

[34:15–36:39]

• Listener Dilemma: Is it OK to ghost after three dates?
• Amy: “Ghosting is the easy way out, but also, you’re going to feel guilty…” [34:30]
• Dale: “The hardest thing to do is usually the right route to take.” [35:01], suggesting honesty is best, even if uncomfortable.

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12. Kids’ First Day at School: Parental Nerves

[37:00–42:38]

• Amy and Dale recount tears and anxiety dropping Isla at preschool for the first time (during COVID).
• Dale: Kids adapt quickly—parents worry longer than the kids do!

  “You’re sitting in the car going, are they going to be okay? … They have forgotten it. They don’t even…” – Dale Jr. [38:35]

• Strategies for smooth drop-offs: music, distraction, focusing on post-school treats.

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13. Dog Dating Apps & Animal Red Flags

[44:06–47:12]

• New dog-lover dating app prompts a debate: Are any breeds a red flag for guys?
• Mixed takes, but humor about “masculine” dog choices versus little lap dogs, and whether pets are being used as dating bait.

  “If a guy’s got lizards and snakes and stuff like that, I’m out.” – Amy [46:26]

• Kangaroo as an (impractical but cool) pet idea brings big laughs.

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14. If Pets Could Talk

[48:43–52:23]

• What would they ask their dogs if they could talk?
• Amy wants to know how to stop Junebug from peeing on the carpet.
• Dale is puzzled why their dog Gus growls at him.

  “He just sprays it all over the house.” – Dale Jr. [49:12] “If Gus is tired, he’s like, ‘Get off of me.’” – Amy [50:01]

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15. Swapping Lives for a Day

[52:55–55:59]

• Dale and Amy consider swapping lives with each other, with Dale joking Amy would want out of his anxiety-riddled mind.
• Dream swaps: Amy wants to be Taylor Swift or Queen of England; Dale wants to be an adventure expert or Everest climber for a day.

  “Once she climbed into my head, she would scream to get out.” – Dale Jr. [53:15]

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16. Proposal Surprises

[56:10–59:44]

• Listener wants to keep a proposal a surprise for his girlfriend.
• Amy and Dale stress simplicity; don’t overplan or make it an obvious spectacle.

  “Dale shocked me with ours.” – Amy [56:45]

• Make the proposal location special by way of the act, not previous significance.

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17. The Never-Ending Pillow Debate

[59:50–65:52]

• The classic couple’s battle: how many pillows belong on the bed?
• Amy, as an interior designer, loves piles of pillows; Dale wants only what’s necessary and hates making the bed.

  “I just don’t like a made bed.” – Dale Jr. [63:13] “I find a pleasure in pulling back the crisp sheets and crawling in.” – Amy [63:59]

• Playful disagreement, with no clear winner—just lived-in love.

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Notable Quotes and Moments

• “You’re either fun or you’re not, Kenny. Sorry.” – Amy [03:15]
• “When you’re buying cake for your wife, buy what she wants.” – Amy [04:53]
• “The hardest thing to do is usually the right route to take.” – Dale Jr. [35:01]
• “Once she climbed into my head, she would scream to get out.” – Dale Jr. [53:15]
• “I just don’t like a made bed.” – Dale Jr. [63:13]

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Final Thoughts

The “Best of Ask Amy” episode celebrates the loving, teasing, and wise partnership of Dale and Amy Earnhardt. Covering candid parenting advice, the quirks of coupledom, southern holiday magic, and spirited humor, this highlight reel has laughs and heart in equal measure. For listeners, it’s a chance to both relate and learn—whether you need help with parenting, relationships, party planning, or simply want to share in the joy and imperfection of family life.

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Transcript

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[Producer Alex]

Producer Alex here. I hope you're having a great off season. One of the best parts of Bless yous Heart, one of the best segments is the Ask Amy portion of the show where you, the fans, can to ask Dale and Amy anything on your mind. We have a lot of laughs, sometimes some serious conversations, but most of the times it's some silly debates. So we gathered all the best moments from this past year on the Ask Amy portion of the show and we wanted to share with you guys before the new year starts. We'll see you next year and I hope you enjoy.

[Dale Jr.]

The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media.

[Amy]

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

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, you look amazing. I can see.

[Amy]

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

[Dale Jr.]

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

[Amy]

Lord have mercy.

[Producer Alex]

Shifting from kids to you guys. If your love story was a romcom, what would the title be?

[Dale Jr.]

What's a romcom?

[Producer Alex]

Romantic.

[Amy]

Romantic comedy.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, why don't they just say that?

[Amy]

It's the thing. You've never heard Rom com? No, it's a term.

[Dale Jr.]

I thought it was like a. An expo for technology. You're going to the ROM com this year. They got that new Nvidia card, the 5090.

[Amy]

It would be called the Princess and the Clown. I don't know. What would a ROM com be called?

[Dale Jr.]

Ralph, what is the. What is it where. The expo where all the people get together and they dress up?

[Producer Alex]

Comic Con.

[Dale Jr.]

Comic Con. Yeah, it reminds me of that. The ROM com, but the Comic Con or.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah, close, I guess.

[Amy]

Yeah, you're better at this kind of stuff than me. So what would our title be?

[Dale Jr.]

What would the title be?

[Amy]

Our love story had a romantic comedy. What the title of the movie be?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Princess and the Clown. Probably something like that. Does the chat have any good ideas? I'm sure they do. They probably have better ideas than we do.

[Amy]

Checkers or wreckers.

[Dale Jr.]

That's pretty funny.

[Amy]

Amy and her three kids. Oh, Lord.

[Dale Jr.]

That's it.

[Producer Alex]

Then there's another one from Kenny. He wants to know, is there any advice on how to become the fun uncle or aunt, maybe?

[Amy]

Listen, you're either fun or you're not. Kenny. Sorry. I think that if you are funny to your friends, you'll be funny to the kids. Fun means paying attention. Play with them, play outside with them. Jamie and I have had a few conversations with being. She's the fun aunt. And she's got nephews, no nieces. So when she was around all these little girls, like, all of our friends have little girls, and she'd poke at them sarcastically. I'm like, don't teach my kid to be a smart aleck. Please quit that. And I'm like, you don't understand. She's gonna get a feeling, hurt, and cry. She's not a boy. She was like, what? I don't we talk to each other like that? I'm like, yeah, we're adults.

[Dale Jr.]

So as.

[Amy]

As long as you learn quick. Yeah, you learn quick. I don't know. That's the one thing I've learned about all kids, boys or girls, is if. If you play with them, if they want you to do like, they want you to color with them, if they want you to be pretend. Pretend dragon. That's all they want. They just want you to be on their level. Undivided attention. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Producer Alex]

He put some, like, you know, should I take them, like, mini golfing or bowling? And I think, like you said, just play with them.

[Amy]

I think playing with them, don't overdo it.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Because then you set the expectation bar pretty dang high. You know, outings are a lot.

[Producer Alex]

What's your favorite birthday dessert? I guess.

[Amy]

Oh, well, my favorite cake is carrot cake.

[Dale Jr.]

Ooh. Okay.

[Amy]

And Dale insists on getting me red velvet every year. He refuses to get me cake. I like.

[Dale Jr.]

It's not a fruit or not even not cake material.

[Amy]

It's also not your birthday.

[Dale Jr.]

I know, but damn, I just can't make myself. I can't force myself to buy a carrot.

[Amy]

When you're buying cake for your wife, buy what she wants.

[Dale Jr.]

Get a tomato Cake.

[Amy]

You could do better with celery.

[Dale Jr.]

Get a celery cake. How about some green? How about some. Some corn cake? I don't know what the hell. It's carrots.

[Amy]

It's like a spice cake. Right.

[Dale Jr.]

It must have been tough times when they. When they were like, yep, carrots all we got. I want a cake. And that's what the hell we're doing. We're making a carrot cake. That's been tough times.

[Amy]

You're getting carrot cake for your birthday.

[Dale Jr.]

Hard times, as Dusty Road would say. You don't know hard times.

[Amy]

They're still making it in mass production because it's delicious.

[Producer Alex]

I don't think I've ever had a carrot cake.

[Amy]

It's so good. It's got, like, spicy nutmeg and cinnamon and stuff like that in it. You don't even taste the carrots.

[Dale Jr.]

Okay, I need to get my little Dusty Roads figurine over here. You don't know hard times. We used to do carrot cake.

[Amy]

Bill, are you from West Virginia by chance?

[Producer Alex]

If you are, please comment in the chat.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, listen to the show to get that joke. I love those.

[Amy]

So I do like carrot cake. Favorite dessert? I don't know. Chocolate chip cookies. I'm pretty simple. I don't eat a lot of sweets, to be honest.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah, no, but chocolate chip cookies is more of the hard outside and a soft inside.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Producer Alex]

That's the perfect chocolate chip cookies.

[Dale Jr.]

Me and Amy came up. Well, I'm sure this is already happening somewhere, but me and Amy came, we had a really cool thought for a dessert. The other night we were at dinner and they brought out this cheesecake that had been sort of half dipped or. Or covered in chocolate that hardened. So it was like hardened put in the freezer.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

And so, yeah, it was like a dip cone. And so, like taking. And it had a little coconut on it all through it, which some people are good with that. But I'm not a coconut. I don't like the pulp or in my orange juice. I don't like the coconut in my cake.

[Announcer]

Right.

[Dale Jr.]

And so I was like, man, regular cheesecake dipped in chocolate and frozen. They do that in Key West.

[Amy]

Yeah, they do that with the key lime.

[Dale Jr.]

Lime. And I'm like, somebody around the world's doing this little, you know, just a little slice, right? Little. Little. Perfect.

[Amy]

I'm like, so basically you want bon bons at dessert because that's all that really is.

[Dale Jr.]

And it reminded me of the awesome cupcake sushi we used to get.

[Amy]

Did y' all get that When y'.

[Dale Jr.]

All were down there and when people. People. Initially, I know I didn't think about doing. When people hear that for the first time, they go, cupcake sushi. What in the hell? Like, cupcake with people, they think it's like, sushi blended, like sushi and cupcake mashup. No, that's not what this is. It is. Go ahead.

[Amy]

It's like a cake pop. It's cake and chocolate, and it's rolled to look like a piece of sushi. But it's dessert. And it's got, like, sprinkles and different, like, chocolate beads and things on the top to look like the caviar. It is all desser, and it's absolutely delicious. And our friend Lori down in Key west patented it, and she started selling it out of the fish market a while ago, so we found it there. But she does eat it. She does ship. Now she sends it everywhere.

[Dale Jr.]

Dozens. We used to eat it at least a dozen times a year.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's probably one of the things we've ever found.

[Announcer]

We.

[Dale Jr.]

We had it. We had her come to the house once. What. What event was that? Or something to do?

[Amy]

It was for our engagement.

[Dale Jr.]

It was our engagement party. She come and set up, and everybody got.

[Amy]

Yeah, she made it in front of you as you were ordering it, just like the sushi guy would do, you.

[Dale Jr.]

Know, and it's cold. You keep it in the refrigerator or the freezer, and it comes in a little sushi tray, just like your. Your, you know, order of, you know, your rolls, tuna roll or whatever. And you can keep it in the freezer, and you just walk by there and grab one.

[Amy]

And everything Dale does is, like, walk by the freezer. I'm gonna walk by and get a swig. I'm gonna walk by and get.

[Dale Jr.]

So good, though.

[Producer Alex]

Tim, he first says he wants. Amy, he wants you to take Vanna White's job when she retires on Wheel of Fortune.

[Amy]

Oh, I feel like I'm too old for that.

[Producer Alex]

She's like.

[Dale Jr.]

Vanna White is.

[Producer Alex]

She's been. She's up there.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. You gotta be at least 30 years, 40 years younger than her.

[Amy]

I know, but I feel like I'm still too old to start. You know what I mean? Like, we need somebody in her 20s.

[Dale Jr.]

I'd like to see you do that once. That little noise it makes when you turn it.

[Producer Alex]

If I don't even have to press it. You just gotta fake it, too.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, it just. It doesn't turn anymore.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, that's. Then we're Out.

[Producer Alex]

No, you need to. We'll bring back the turn for him.

[Amy]

Please.

[Dale Jr.]

We're going to turn them.

[Amy]

We want the old school version.

[Dale Jr.]

We gotta walk over there, nudge it.

[Producer Alex]

That'll be our demand. We want more work. Yeah, that's what we want.

[Dale Jr.]

Yep.

[Producer Alex]

But he wants to know if you could go on or host any game show or reality show, which one would it be?

[Amy]

I would like to go on Steve Harvey's show Family Feud.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Amy]

We honestly really tried to do that right before Mimi passed away.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And it didn't work out because of timing and everything, but. Yeah, that would be super fun.

[Dale Jr.]

Wow.

[Producer Alex]

That'd been cool. Were you supposed to go up against, like, another.

[Amy]

Another group celebrity or whatever?

[Dale Jr.]

Family Feud would be fun.

[Producer Alex]

That'd be really cool. No reality show or anything like that. Like Big Brother, Survivor, Amazing Race.

[Amy]

No. I don't think I'm made for tv.

[Producer Alex]

No, we watch.

[Dale Jr.]

We talked about Southern charm. We watch Summer House, too. I think it'd be fun to go to a party.

[Amy]

It would be fun to just go to a party. Yeah. Just kind of be in the backgr.

[Dale Jr.]

Like watching all that happen in real time.

[Amy]

Yeah. There are parties or pool parties, especially around Fourth of July. They're all themed and so, like, everybody's dressed up. It'll be fun. Pretty crazy to hang out.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. They're a little too old for that, too, but not too much. I mean, they're in their 30s and 40s.

[Amy]

Yeah, we're on the cusp.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, that'd be cool.

[Producer Alex]

Just be in the background. I like that answer. That's a good one. Our next question is, Tom wants to know if the Easter bunny is going to be as generous as the tooth fairy this year.

[Amy]

The Easter bunny is even more generous.

[Dale Jr.]

Really?

[Amy]

Yeah. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. We do eastern nests in the yard. I talked about this. We pull the Spanish moss off the trees. The kids all make their, like, little nest in the yard, and they decorate it.

[Dale Jr.]

This is Amy's Texas family.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale Jr.]

These are hardworking Texas people. And I will say this. Amy's family does all of the holidays to the max.

[Amy]

It's like, it might be the last one. Let's just go for it. We love a good time at a party and an event, and we love giving gifts. Could you say, that's right.

[Dale Jr.]

We didn't do crap. We get a little basket from, you know, Target or Walmart, and with some, you know, just a traditional thing right off the shelf. But Amy and her family, they get the Spanish moss off the trees, and they make nests for the kids.

[Amy]

And the kids make the nest in the yard.

[Dale Jr.]

We take. Yeah, the kids make the nest, and then we take the kids on a hayride to look for the Easter bunny. And while that's happening, the rest of the adults are filling those nests full of all kinds of fun, crazy toy, you know, candy.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Snacks, all kinds of. It's crazy.

[Amy]

It's amazing.

[Dale Jr.]

It's crazy. It's good.

[Amy]

When we grew up, there was just three of us. Me and my two sisters. Dad didn't have any brothers and sisters, so we didn't really have any cousins. Mom had one brother who didn't have a sun until, like, way later. So it wasn't that epic of an event. Like, it was still fun, but now there's a lot of kids. And so the yard is full of nests, and it's chaos. And they. They get out of the car and immediately get their. They have their baskets. They go Easter egg hunt all around the yard, and then they sit at their nest and they open all their stuff. It's so much fun.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, it's cool.

[Producer Alex]

Is the Easter egg hunt like, the. The premier event?

[Dale Jr.]

We'll go to church on Sunday, which is awesome.

[Amy]

Yeah. We do all this on Saturday, so it's just like, fun day at the farm.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Church on Sundays in Victoria, Texas, at the local church and other. The rest of the weekend, we're, you know, grilling, cooking, sitting around a campfire in chairs like this one and watching sports or just listening to music or sitting around.

[Amy]

Kids are four wheeling.

[Dale Jr.]

Four wheel. Yeah, Kids are riding four wheelers. We'll go inside to the farmhouse and sit around the kitchen table and laugh.

[Amy]

Play dominoes. Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Chicken foot, all that stuff.

[Amy]

Nice.

[Producer Alex]

That's awesome.

[Dale Jr.]

It's a blast.

[Amy]

It's so much fun.

[Producer Alex]

Does sound like a lot of fun. Next question. Also, Easter theme from Jessica. She wants to know if you ever dyed eggs with the girls for Easter and if you did, how messy does it get?

[Amy]

I have. So I've. I've watched all of the videos, and I did it with shaving cream. And you put the dye in the shaving cream with, like, the cupcake molds, and so it. Each little thing has its own color and they get their own dish. And so. And I always do that stuff outside. I mean, everything. It's a pro, Evan. Messy happens outside.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah.

[Amy]

But it's easier for them to see what they're doing too. And they can make it swirly, and they have way more fun with that. I haven't done that this year.

[Dale Jr.]

You know what I like about Easter eggs? Now that's come out. This used to. This didn't exist when I was young. Is the. Where the. You put the egg on the thing and it spins and you draw. Take it with Sharpie or a marker or something. And you can, you know, make it whatever color you want with a sharp.

[Amy]

I mean we do have that little thing. So all the little plastic eggs though have been taken to like the playroom and used to actually play with.

[Dale Jr.]

So you can do real eggs on that.

[Amy]

I've never tried a real egg on that.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, cuz it's white and you can color any color you want.

[Amy]

Well, the egg in the game is hollow plastic, so it's real light. I don't know if a real one would work, but we could try.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, I'm sure. I. I love that. I think it's easy.

[Amy]

I've seen so many fun things. I saw a thing the other day where somebody took old ties that they had gotten from a thrift store. You can do this with any fabric. And they put the vinegar water in the dish and. But they had wrapped the egg up with this printed fabric and like it put the print all over the egg.

[Dale Jr.]

You remember the old school deals that you slid over the egg and dropped it in hot water and it shrunk to it. Yes.

[Amy]

Plastic shrink wrap. Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

And you're like, man, that's like the. That was kind of like the, the ghetto trailer park version.

[Amy]

That's like, everybody's tired. Let's just do this.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, man, I've done that.

[Producer Alex]

There's nothing wrong with that. Yeah, that was fun.

[Dale Jr.]

No, I mean, yeah, that's what we had. Hey, this is Dale Jr. And for the latest Bless yous Heart gear, go to shop.dirtymomedia.com We've got plenty of options for everybody. And adding new stuff every day.

[Amy]

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[Producer Alex]

Sarah wants to know what's been the most unexpected part of working with each other on Bless yous Heart.

[Amy]

The unexpected part, yes. Honestly, I feel like it's been kind of brought us closer together. I mean, I thought we were as close as we could possibly be, but we're having fun getting to play like this with one another. We've worked together before on little projects here and there, but nothing quite like this. So I mean, for me, that's probably it.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, I don't know that anything's unexpected, but I am enjoying watching Amy kind of venture through this process of putting herself out there and being a bit more of a public figure and the response to that and how everybody's been great, everybody seems to enjoy the show and hearing a lot of comments where people are like, you know, all of our dilgenter download listeners that have been die hard NASCAR and race fans and listen to that content are, you know, telling us, I'm sitting down with my wife and she's watching this with me and now we're doing this together.

[Amy]

And so, so it's also bringing other people.

[Dale Jr.]

That's been a big surprise seeing a bunch of comments like that.

[Amy]

But we did run into a lady in the airport Yesterday that said that her husband. She said she saw him and she text her husband, and he said, you're. You should probably see if his wife is there. And of course, I was standing on the other side of the stage, and so she came up and talked to me, but he told her that.

[Dale Jr.]

That's right. Oh.

[Amy]

Which was interesting.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. So that right there is probably my favorite part is we went. We got asked to go judge this burger contest at the. At the airport yesterday, and Amy was a judge. Amy had a microphone. Amy was walking around on the stage.

[Amy]

Amy was nervous talking.

[Dale Jr.]

You know, there was an emcee, and Amy was looking around and talking about what she was seeing. And her. She would just never have done any of that before. She didn't want nothing to do with none of that. But she's kind of like, almost not got a choice in the matter. If you're going to kind of do this show and kind of. We're going to do this together and kind of put ourselves out there when she. She's going to find herself in more situations like that. And it's just fun for me to watch her navigate that.

[Amy]

And I have gotten far more comfortable being in front of a camera and that kind of thing where I would have totally locked up if you had asked me to do this, like, five years ago. Yeah. I literally would have gone mute.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

It just was not possible. I'm not comfortable.

[Dale Jr.]

When we first met, she wouldn't even give me a picture of herself to have.

[Amy]

No. I didn't have selfies and no photos.

[Dale Jr.]

I didn't have a picture of her on my phone. And like, I'm like, can I please just have a picture of you? Imagine dating this girl.

[Amy]

And I lived in Florida also. I wasn't. I wasn't around.

[Dale Jr.]

Imagine dating her and not being able to, like, see her.

[Producer Alex]

Can't show any of your friends.

[Amy]

I didn't. I didn't have social media. I was on. I didn't have a Facebook page.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, there you are. You know, and nothing. Wow. For.

[Amy]

For weeks and week, he had. He had to see me, see me.

[Dale Jr.]

And so, yeah, the. Eventually she sent me this one photo and that I had one singular photo of her to look at for, like, months. And then finally we took a selfie together. And then I've still got those. I still got that picture. The very first picture we took together.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

And so, yeah, I say all that because she. She's very, like, not comfortable in front of a camera. Um, so it's been fun watching her. Her adjust and improve or whatever you want to call it?

[Producer Alex]

Yeah. Would you say that's the. That's one of the things you've learned the most about yourself, Amy, that you've become more comfortable, I guess, in front of the camera?

[Amy]

Probably, yeah. I think doing so doing ads with the agency that I work with a little bit as has kind of given me a little bit of shift in that direction. And being around Dell for so long and doing certain things with him where they're pre taped that like any of those Hellman's deals we did, that stuff helped me as well. But it's just not something I seek. I don't need it. But it is. It's fun to do because it does help me kind of peel back a layer or something. I don't know how you really describe it.

[Producer Alex]

Danny wants to know. You guys talk a lot about music, so if you could only listen to your favorite song forever or never hear it again. But just keep discovering new music, which one are you picking? So favorite song forever or never listen to it again?

[Dale Jr.]

Never hear it again.

[Amy]

Never hear it again.

[Dale Jr.]

That's pretty easy. Yeah, that's a pretty easy one.

[Amy]

I feel like it. Even if it's your favorite song, everything starts to torture you after a certain amount of time. Right.

[Dale Jr.]

I think there's the odds that you might find a new favorite song.

[Amy]

Absolutely. Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

If you're listening to new music all.

[Producer Alex]

The time, when's the last time you think you've updated your favorite song?

[Dale Jr.]

When people ask you, I have a rotating.

[Producer Alex]

Oh, okay.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, I think I do. And it's the pen. It's dependent upon the person asking. I'm like, I'm not sure if you're ready for this. I might give you this one, because to his crowd. Yeah. I don't think you're ready for the one I really want to tell you, so trust you to appreciate it.

[Producer Alex]

Says Eminence.

[Amy]

He just doesn't want your judgment is what it really is.

[Producer Alex]

So is Eminence Front your real favorite song, or is that just.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm like, no, there's like. There's a song that I like. And I'm like, yeah, I don't think you're gonna appreciate it the way I do. So I'm gonna tell you something else.

[Amy]

I'm gonna tell you what you want to hear. Wow.

[Producer Alex]

What now? Questioning which group I'm in.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh. I mean, you know, I think the more I get to know you, the more I trust you with that type of knowledge.

[Producer Alex]

Okay. That's very, very secretive knowledge.

[Amy]

Man, somebody takes themselves too seriously.

[Dale Jr.]

When you first meet me Living on a prayer, man, that's not fair. Then it's some, like, really obscure down.

[Amy]

The line, deep, deep, dark stuff.

[Dale Jr.]

Five years down the road, you're like, whoa, this is.

[Producer Alex]

I mean, there is some truth, I guess. You can't really hit him with, like. I like bodies, like, you know, I can't really hit him with that. Something aggressive. But that's.

[Amy]

You're a level one. You get this song.

[Producer Alex]

You get this. When we get to know each other. Hey, I lied.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, it's this obscure artist from Canada. This is a B side song from 1998. And yeah, they'll be like, well, you. You lost me when you said obscure.

[Amy]

Yes. So sorry, I'm not.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Producer Alex]

It'S off the beaten path. Independent. Yeah, I get that. Next question is from Bella. Kind of the same. Along the same lines. Would you rather travel to the past and meet your ancestors or travel to the future and meet your descendants?

[Amy]

Ooh, future descendants.

[Dale Jr.]

Holy smokes.

[Amy]

We already know what happened in the history, right? Like the history of your family. Where they were, what their names were, what they looked like. We're privy enough to know even, like, what they sounded like. We're talking about, I'm going in the.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm going to the past.

[Amy]

He's going to the past. I want to see what my, like, great, great grandchildren look like and what life looks like.

[Dale Jr.]

I mean, I think the odds of you going there and being so freaking pissed off. Pissed off are so high.

[Amy]

Why?

[Dale Jr.]

Gosh. I mean that you could be very pleasantly surprised, but there's. You're knowing how you are as a parent. How my parents were. How, how, how. How we are as parents. How my parents were. We're going to go forward into the future and get there and go, why in the hell y' all do this?

[Amy]

Maybe they need me.

[Dale Jr.]

Why are you wearing that? You know, we're just.

[Amy]

Why is no one wearing clothes? Why are all the clothes.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, I don't know what the future holds, but I'm not sure that I'm ready for it. And so I'd like to go into the past and be like, man, you boys ain't going to believe this. Yeah, y' all don't know what's about to happen. Let me tell you some things.

[Amy]

You know, the Back to the Future series were some of my favorite movies. So I feel like. I mean, yes, going forward was frustrating for the whole scenario. Right. Like in that movie, in. Going Back to the Wild west, back would be fun.

[Dale Jr.]

Because you kind of know enough to keep yourself out of trouble. Yeah. You know, and I just don't think.

[Amy]

I'd be able to.

[Dale Jr.]

Let me ask you all this, though.

[Amy]

Like, an old, rough wife has.

[Dale Jr.]

Has the Back to the Future movies. If you went back in time, right, and you go, are you, like, nervous about, like, upsetting the. The. The path.

[Amy]

The algorithm of life?

[Producer Alex]

No, I'd take.

[Amy]

Would you buy the almanac and take it back with you? Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, I mean, not so much that. I'm talking about your own descendant, your direct. You know, your. You know, if you go back in time and you're like, hey, you're hanging out with your. Your fifth great grandfather or whatever, five.

[Amy]

Generations ago, your own children's lives, and.

[Dale Jr.]

You convince them to do something that you think's pointless or meaningless in the moment, but it changes the entire path of the family, you know, would you worry about that?

[Producer Alex]

No, because, like, it's. I have good intentions, I think. And then if somebody else down the line screws it up. Well, it's not technically on me.

[Amy]

Well, you know, like, he went back, and he almost, like, erased his brother and sister.

[Dale Jr.]

Like, his.

[Amy]

Screw the whole family.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah, well, that would suck.

[Amy]

That would suck.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know.

[Amy]

I'm going for it. Forward. I think we've decided forward.

[Dale Jr.]

Back. We talked about time travel on here, didn't we?

[Amy]

We. Of course, we've talked about time travel and aliens and Bigfoot and all the things, you know, everything's on the table.

[Producer Alex]

What era would you go back to?

[Dale Jr.]

I mean, that's hard to do.

[Producer Alex]

I know.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, it is. What. What generation of your. What gen. What part of your family's history would you want to visit? Yeah, specifically. Damn.

[Producer Alex]

See, because I don't think you can go back too far to where there's no, like, cars on the road or anything like that. I'd still like to have, like, the Model T or something.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, my gosh. You want to go way back, Traveler.

[Producer Alex]

Way back.

[Amy]

I would probably.

[Producer Alex]

Plague era.

[Dale Jr.]

So the. So the Earnhardt's traveled from Germany to Pennsylvania on a ship, and I think I'd like to kind of. I don't. I know as soon as I got there, I'd be like, give me the hell out of here. But I think I'd kind of want to go back and see what they were. What was up, you know, what was going on over. Huh.

[Producer Alex]

Coming over to.

[Dale Jr.]

From Germany, coming over. And what happened when they got here? They get off the boat, and somebody was sitting at a desk, and we're like, what's your last name? And they wrote it down, and they gave him 200 acres or something like that, gave him a plot of land and said, all right, go. Go to your land. Do what you do. I'd kind of want to know what all that process was like, because we kind of have it in our minds what, you know, you imagine it would be like. But moment. Big moments like that. Because the Earnhardt name was spelled so differently in Germany. But they got off the boat and they told the person sitting there was they had to get off the boat, had to pledge their allegiance to the Queen to be able to be citizens and be granted access to this property that was being given out. And the person wrote their name down as they heard it. And that's how the Earnhardt name changed.

[Amy]

It was Ehrenhardt.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, it changed because that's how that person writing it heard it, who was probably not German. They were just a person. Right. That was tasked to do that for that day. And then the name changed in the ledger. That's pretty common from their own. Right. And so I needed to be. I want to be there. Hey, whoa, whoa. You wrote that wrong.

[Producer Alex]

That's funny.

[Dale Jr.]

You spelled that wrong.

[Producer Alex]

That'd be cool to see, like. Yeah, it's kind of funny that we put it like that, that there's just somebody who.

[Dale Jr.]

And you know how people talk back then. Could you imagine being around all those people?

[Amy]

You'd be put jail. They wouldn't hang smart ass free willy nilly on the street. They lock you up.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah, well, I think it's just funny that there's some guy that was. That was his task for that day, and if he cared, he would write it down, right?

[Dale Jr.]

If he didn't, oh, no, he was. He was gonna see so hundreds of people coming off these boats. He's just like, yeah, whatever.

[Producer Alex]

This is your name now.

[Dale Jr.]

I mean, you got what you. Okay, one child.

[Producer Alex]

Next question's from Debbie. She saw Dale tweet out a picture that you guys got engaged 10 years ago yesterday, I believe, or. So was there something you did on your wedding day that you'd recommend every bride do?

[Dale Jr.]

Oh.

[Amy]

Probably not on the wedding day because we didn't really like. I regret not seeing him before the wedding. He didn't want to do that. I regret not getting more pictures and stuff like that before because we got married later in the evening and all of our pictures are dark. I regret not having that first looks thing because we didn't do engagement photos or anything. We have no pictures Otherwise. But that's really the only reason. The surprise of seeing each other was fabulous. You know, when you.

[Dale Jr.]

You told me that there was. I can't remember exactly what it was, but there was something about the, you know, being around your family, your girls, your girlfriends and all that. Something about that that you. You. You might have absorbed more fully. I can't remember what it was, but you told me you were like, man, there was this thing that happened or this experience that was going on that I wish I really took in better. I can't remember what that was, but I remember you talking about that, but I don't know.

[Amy]

It was. There was a lot going on.

[Dale Jr.]

On our wedding day, I would. I would advise if you're white, no matter what your wife says or your wife to be says, I would advise against seeing her before the wedding because it would be great either way, surely. But not. I. I was in a room with my buddies, and we were all hanging out, and they're, you know, cleaning everybody's neck up. They had a couple girls in there that were. They're trimming and carrying on and ripping on our nose hairs and all that, and. Yeah.

[Amy]

The full spa experience.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, boy. They put that hot glue in the. In your nose right up in here. And we had these little popsicle sticks. Popsicle sticks hanging out for, like, five minutes, and then they come out and rip them out. And you're like, hell, yeah. I mean, it hurts, but you're like, hair's gone. No more tickling. So all that was so much fun. And then, you know, you. You move on from that, and you're standing on that stage and everybody's in the room, and the next thing you're gonna see is Amy or your wife. And it was. If I had seen her an hour or two before, that moment might have been different.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

And I will never forget. What. I'm not saying that shit. Just because she's sitting here. I will never, ever be able to replicate the feeling I had when she turned the corner and faced me and started coming down that aisle. There is no feeling like it, so I would, like, try your best to hold off. I went and stayed in the treehouse.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

You know, to stay away from her and not be. And try to, really. And that was awesome. That was so cool to be able to, you know, have that feeling and it be so genuine. I'm not sure it would have been the same. It would still been good, but not quite as perfect.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah, I kind of agree. I had a friend do, like, first reveal Pictures, what they call it. And it was like four hours before the wedding. And it kind of felt like the actual walking down the aisle part wasn't as maybe special for even the spectators because you're not.

[Amy]

Yeah, I've seen it where they take the pictures where like you're separated by something so you don't have to actually see. See each other. But like you have pictures. Daylight.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So that would have. That's just the only thing I regret not having more photo. If we have plenty of photos. But like it's party scene stuff. Like we had a great big amazing wedding.

[Dale Jr.]

We had two parties.

[Amy]

There were. It was New Year's Eve, we got.

[Dale Jr.]

Married and then had two back to back parties.

[Amy]

The wedding reception. Doors open like you went into another space. And then we had the New Year's party. So like it was a really awesome time.

[Dale Jr.]

The. I can't drive this point home. We had the reception which had a stage, a band, Congo line dancing, drinking. Felt like that was like an hour and a half, two hours. And then a curtain fell and there was a ballroom and it was New Year's Eve party.

[Amy]

Yeah. So you walked through and like went into a whole different space.

[Dale Jr.]

I've raised a disco ball of hell, partied my ass off. But I've never had a back to back party. That's a hell of. That's an amazing idea. Y' all were gonna party our ass off and then immediately start again. Totally different party.

[Producer Alex]

That's.

[Dale Jr.]

That's something we need to try to replicate.

[Producer Alex]

That's.

[Amy]

Well, that's tough to. Maybe on our 10th anniversary, we'll have another New Year's party.

[Producer Alex]

A back to back party. That's interesting. People in the chat now want you. They want you to list off your.

[Dale Jr.]

Top three favorite parties. Oh, that's hard. It is hard. Key West. Key West. Key West.

[Producer Alex]

I don't know.

[Dale Jr.]

No. Our wedding night was the best one for sure.

[Amy]

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[Producer Alex]

This next one also advice from Brooke. She needs help. She's breaking up with this guy and she's only been on three dates with him and she just doesn't see it go anywhere. But her question is, do I even need to break up with him or can I just ghost him?

[Amy]

I would say ghosting is like the easy way out, but also you're going to feel guilty about doing that. I would, I would just tell them, like, hey, this isn't working. I think you're great, but let's just be friends. Three dates, though, that feels like an easy.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah.

[Amy]

After three dates, how connected are we?

[Producer Alex]

That's what I'm saying. They're not easier to ghost there. Like you just not. They kind of get.

[Amy]

But that's just so rude. Like, why are we doing that?

[Dale Jr.]

I have, I have some advice in this.

[Amy]

Take her to the. The ax throwing thing.

[Dale Jr.]

I just have us have a, have a motto.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Dale Jr.]

This isn't something I would have written on the thought board. It actually, it actually does. It works across. It works for everything. Okay. The hardest thing. The hardest thing to do is usually the right route to take.

[Amy]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Dale Jr.]

If you say, you know, it's easy just to say, screw it. Not column. Just going about my life. Yes, that is the easy way to do it. But the best way to do it is usually the hardest way.

[Amy]

And it's good for your character.

[Dale Jr.]

It'd be the most uncomfortable and awkward, but it's. It's the right way.

[Amy]

You're gonna feel better about just. Even if it's just a text message, you can send that and just be done with it. I send it and block him. Like, at least you said something.

[Producer Alex]

Block him. I mean, that's hard.

[Amy]

Mute him. Block him. Whatever.

[Producer Alex]

I got, don't.

[Dale Jr.]

And block. Double whammy.

[Amy]

At least it's better than no answers.

[Dale Jr.]

Just a bad day that break my heart and rip my heart.

[Amy]

Your heart's already broken. I think.

[Dale Jr.]

I know, but you, like, ripped it out and then you stomped on it. You didn't have to block me. I wasn't going to harass you.

[Amy]

Oh, my God. Maybe. Maybe he will. I feel that's a.

[Dale Jr.]

Wait for that. Wait.

[Amy]

She's going to have to deal with that.

[Dale Jr.]

Wait for the harassment before to go. You go. I mean, you know, if some. If you break up with somebody and then they're calling you two years later going, man, kind of, you know, can you rethink this? That's when you say, I know. Going to block you. I told you I didn't want anything to do with this. Not interested. I moved on.

[Amy]

I don't know. I feel like it's better to sever it all together. You have said your piece, which you absolutely should do.

[Dale Jr.]

Are you going to.

[Amy]

And if you wait to get a response, and he's like, okay, cool, then maybe you don't block, but what's the point? Or just delete his contact. I don't know.

[Dale Jr.]

Amy's going to break up with you, block you, and then get a restraining order.

[Amy]

Yeah. When I move on, I am moved on.

[Producer Alex]

I want to see it, hear them. I don't want to ever see that again.

[Amy]

Smell it, sniff it, look at it.

[Producer Alex]

The next question is from Jordan. My kids are going back to school for the first. Or going to school for the first time. It's back to school time. How can I prepare for that moment, watching them get on the bus and drive away.

[Amy]

Ooh, that is always scary and unnerving, watching your child go to school for the first time. Dale and I, we didn't have to use the bus. And so when we dropped Isla off for preschool the very first time, it was during COVID and everybody had masks on and, like, they literally came to the car and took her out of the car seat. I think everyone was traumatized. Dale and I sat in the parking lot and cried. Do you remember that? He didn't want to leave her. I'm like, she's got to go at some point because we delayed her going anyway because I was pregnant with Nicole, so she went in January. It wasn't even, like, this time of year.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, wow.

[Amy]

But it was traumatic.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I don't think it. I don't think it matters what the scenario is. You are always like, a little unnerved by that. But, you know, they're usually pretty okay and they're more resilient. Like they're going to get to school and have a great time and you're the only one that's really sad. It's fine.

[Dale Jr.]

The one thing that I've learned is they will get out of the car or get on the bus and they may be like, melting down. Yeah, melting down. And you're thinking in your, your eyes, you're thinking, this is how they're going.

[Announcer]

To be all day.

[Dale Jr.]

And this is just this, this, this is the emotion they'll feel till they get back. Not true.

[Amy]

The day is ruined, dude.

[Dale Jr.]

And they're gonna hop on that bus or they're gonna get out of the car and go into that classroom and in five minutes they are like, they have forgotten it. They don't even.

[Amy]

They're.

[Dale Jr.]

They're on another thing. And you're the, that you're all. That's a distant memory, but you're still sitting in the car going, are they gonna be okay?

[Amy]

Yeah. They're feeding off of your energy. And that's why they get emotional to begin with, you know, that's why.

[Dale Jr.]

So Amy would take Isla and all. Isla would always take it, you know, manipulate Amy and get emotional.

[Amy]

She still does it. I can't do school drop off line.

[Dale Jr.]

Amy has a hard time, like, well, I'm confusing soft.

[Amy]

I'm like, get out of the car. We're not doing this. It's embarrassing. Or holding the whole line up. Get out of the car. And that would make her melt down more. For some reason, she just hops right out of Dale's truck.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, so that's ride in. You have to play the right music, you have to ask the right questions, you know, and if you look in, I can look in the mirror and see Isla's eyes and tell if she's starting to get sad or get nervous or get anxious or worried. And you got to start like, you know, popping questions or, hey, you know, you turn on some music, you know she's going to love, start singing just to, like, change her thought.

[Amy]

Dale's M.O. too, is to, like, get her excited about something that's going to happen after school or the next day or this weekend. Like, look forward to something else, like, just to distract her from her mind because she'll kind of spiral downward and it's hard to get her out. And I'm not good at that.

[Dale Jr.]

That's the way I operate in my mind is like, if I have something I'm nervous about or dreading or not looking forward to, I look at the thing past it, I look at the thing in front, beyond it that I am excited about, and go, well, I can go through this.

[Amy]

That's happening next.

[Dale Jr.]

I can do this because this thing's out there in front of me. And Tim Duggar is the same way. As a buddy of mine, and me and him both, we. We always need, like, a thing to look forward to.

[Amy]

Yeah. The next nibble. What's happening, dude?

[Dale Jr.]

When I. When there's some time, it's rare, but there's some times when there's, like, nothing out there in front of you and you're like, man, I'm. I'm depressed. Why am I so depressed?

[Amy]

I find that to be peaceful.

[Dale Jr.]

No, no. I need a thing to look forward to. I don't care if it's like you and me for a couple hours on the boat in a. You know, out in front on a Friday. I don't care if it's a trip to Key West. I don't. It doesn't have to be. It can be giant. It can be something small, insignificant. But I need, like, a thing. I have to have something.

[Amy]

I can look at the things. Like, I'm making dinner, and I'm like, I'm gonna serve dinner over here. We're gonna put candles out. Like, we're gonna have a candlelight dinner. And they do that for the kids, especially when you're gone, to make it just fun.

[Dale Jr.]

I need to look at my calendar and, like, see a physical thing on there that go. That makes me go, hell, yeah. I'm looking forward to that. And I'll do anything you want me to do. All the things and travel and whatever, because I'm going there and I'm doing this when it's all over.

[Amy]

Right. But back to your question. They're going to be fine. The bus ride is going to be fine, and you should plan something for yourself that morning, like a brunch, even with another parent. Or go get your nails done, or. I don't know who this is asking, is it a girl or guy?

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know.

[Amy]

Just find something to busy your time so, like, get your mind off of it, too, because your child's going to be fine.

[Dale Jr.]

I. In second grade.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Today was day one.

[Producer Alex]

Oh, okay.

[Dale Jr.]

She gets out of the car, looks it. There's an individual that has opened the door for her. She gets out, looks up, goes first Day of second grade, grabs her back, starts hauling ass in the classroom.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

I was like, man, this is different from like last year.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Two years ago we were not getting out of the car.

[Amy]

Every single drop off was hard. Is she going to get out? Is she going to get out?

[Dale Jr.]

Is she going to cry? Is she going to get out?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Producer Alex]

So it hasn't gotten better as she's gotten older.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh yeah.

[Amy]

She's like very extra with her emotions. Nicole, peace out. The very first day she didn't look back. So, you know, it just depends on the kid.

[Dale Jr.]

If you have a kid that is emotional like Isla was, it's probably like a two week, maybe a month max of a bit of a struggle. It eventually goes away. They get for them. They make friends. Yeah, they make friends in classroom. I can't wait to see Kate. I want to sleep over with, with, with her and I want to see this friend and that and they, they start looking forward to getting with their buddies.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah, that's. How about you guys? You got any back to school memories from when you guys were a kid? Do you remember how you were the.

[Amy]

Only back to school or drop off line memory I have because dad, we lived so close to the elementary school. Dad would just pick us up and he'd walk us home. Usually mom would drop us off in the morning, go to work and then dad would pick us up and he would just, we would just walk home, which was fun.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

One morning mom was dropping me off and she had an old Camaro. What, what year? Do you remember that? Do you remember the Camaro sitting in the garage?

[Dale Jr.]

No.

[Amy]

70.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. 72, 76.

[Amy]

80.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Something in the 70s.

[Amy]

Yeah. So I slammed my finger in it in the door, getting out my thumb like I couldn't even pull it out. They had to get out. She had to get out of the car and undo the door latch. It was stuck right there in the latch. And so we had a substitute teacher that day. And I remember this mean lady not even letting me go to the nurse's office. And my finger was bleeding, it was purple. And the fingernail eventually even fell off. And my dad came up there to pick me up and lit that lady up. He was so mad. And that's the only memory I have of that. Oh, I have one more chewing. I think I've said this one before. I was chewing some peanut M&MS, same car, I think. And one of my teeth fell out and I chomped it thinking it was a peanut.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh my God.

[Amy]

I didn't hear that both traumatic?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. Geez. Oh my gosh. That happen again when you get old?

[Amy]

Oh, gross.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah, that's gross. Jessica is our next question. This is a good one. Apparently there's a new dating app in her city for dog lovers. So you can, like, post your dog, their dog, and that's how you match with each other? I guess. So she's wondering, what kind of dogs would you think would be a red flag for a guy to own?

[Amy]

Oh, I don't think that any of them. Do you think a dog, like, a dog, any type of a breed, is a red flag?

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

Kinda like, like, if there's like a big old guy with like a little tiny, like, shih Tzu or something.

[Amy]

What if he rescued it? If they just don't, you kind of end up looking like your dog. So maybe, like, that would be odd. Yeah, they do say, like, you picked something that, like, matches you.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

Like, I feel like a man should have a masculine dog. You know what I mean?

[Amy]

Like, I just.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

No, if they show up and now I struggle with that one.

[Amy]

You're like, what happened here? And why did you end up.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

Why do you have this little tiny, like, I don't know, what's another little tiny? Like a shih Tzu?

[Producer Alex]

Yeah.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

And they're like, hey, babe. You're like, shouldn't you have like a labor's dog? Yes, it better be. Or his.

[Amy]

Is he using his grandmother's dog to get dates?

[Producer Alex]

That has happened way more than not.

[Amy]

There's people doing that for sure.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

You guys don't have small, little tiny girly dogs, do you?

[Producer Alex]

No, I have a lab. See?

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

See a lab or like a German shepherd or something like that.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah, I know a guy who's like, he was a big buff dude, like six four, built nice. He had that little terrier just like on his, like, a little. And he was showing it around to girls in bars. And I thought it was a real cheap way to do that, but I was like, that's not gonna work. Like, who wants.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

He loves a dog, but she's not gonna go home with him.

[Amy]

She's gonna hold your dog for you while you're at the bar, but she's not gonna go home with you.

[Producer Alex]

No, right, exactly. A golden retriever that just comes up and like, lays on its back. That's how. That's what you want.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

Like, who's the guy on Tick Tock that's got that big dog that, like, he travels with? It's like a sheepdog. Have you ever seen that?

[Amy]

No.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

He, like, puts it in his backpack.

[Amy]

And, like, travels with his dog. He hikes with him. And I'm like, that's cool. Yeah, that is cool.

[Producer Alex]

That is cool. Yeah. What about if he owns, like, a cat or something?

[Amy]

Dale had cats. He also had dogs, but, yeah, he's. He's. He's like an animal lover in general. They were big cats. Like, huge. A Maine coon and a Manx. Like, they were giant cats.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

Oh, those are kind of cool.

[Amy]

Yeah, they were neat.

[Producer Alex]

What. What would be the coolest animal that you go over, like, and he's got.

[Amy]

Honestly, a dog.

[Producer Alex]

Really? A dog would be it.

[Amy]

If a guy's got, like, lizards and snakes and stuff like that. I'm out. You know what?

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

Clint wants a kangaroo.

[Producer Alex]

Oh, that's cool.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

I'm like, what? Because we need it, but I think that's kind of cool.

[Amy]

And what if it kicks you? Well, you're done for.

[Dale Jr.]

A kangaroo.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

But wouldn't that be cool to be like, hey, here's my kangaroo.

[Amy]

I mean, it's kind of cool, right, Clint? Want ever.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

I know. And I was like, where the heck.

[Amy]

Do you have kangaroos in North Carolina? I don't know.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

I don't know. That's a great question. We do not have any kangaroos. But he's like, let's get some kangaroos.

[Amy]

Anybody around has a kangaroo? Clint Boyer really wants one.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

I don't even know.

[Amy]

Watch out, Laura. They're gonna show up.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

We're gonna show up with, like, three kangaroos.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah, they're gonna be fighting in the backyard.

[Amy]

So that would be kind of cool.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

If he, like, went on a first date and he's like, you wanna beat my kangaroos?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Producer Alex]

Right?

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

I'm like, yeah.

[Amy]

Kind of.

[Dale Jr.]

Kind of awesome.

[Amy]

He's so excited. Alex also wants a kangaroo.

[Producer Alex]

You kangaroo now, too? Yeah. I did one of those drive through safaris one time, and a zebra came up to the door, and that was the coolest thing ever. I mean, maybe because I had food and they weren't too violent, but I'm like, imagine just like, you want to see my zebra and this thing just walking around your backyard.

[Amy]

Zebras are less scary, I feel like.

[Producer Alex]

Because I've heard they're dangerous.

[Amy]

Really?

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

They're really dangerous.

[Amy]

I feel like a kangaroo would be more scary than a zebra, but I don't really know what I'm talking about. I just this. My assumption.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah. Kangaroos and dogs, I don't think mix. Like, they try to fight. Each other.

[Amy]

Right?

[Producer Alex]

But. And they're strong kangaroos. But I feel like you can just punch them and they'll let go. That's what I've seen.

[Amy]

Would you really need to get in a fist fight with your pet?

[Producer Alex]

Like, kangaroo? Stand up. They'll box with you a little bit.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

Yes.

[Amy]

That would be so weird.

[Producer Alex]

Oh, no.

[Amy]

Like, looking at you eye level. Like, put them up.

[Producer Alex]

I'll be honest, if I had a kangaroo, I'd try to box it every day.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

Maybe we'll get you a kangaroo.

[Amy]

I feel like you really need one.

[Producer Alex]

That's my new favorite animal.

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[Producer Alex]

If Junebug or Gus could talk, what would you ask them?

[Amy]

If Juneba could talk, I would wanna know why he can't stop peeing on my carpet. Yeah, he decorates it like it's his.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm kidding. He does. He pees all over the floor.

[Amy]

That's really his only flaw.

[Dale Jr.]

I spend every day of my life, probably multiple times a day, seeing if there's pee on the floor.

[Amy]

Yeah, there's certain areas of the house, too. He does it now that he's gotten older. He will just pee on the hardwoods or the tile, too.

[Dale Jr.]

He just sprays it all over the house.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Not peeing in the.

[Amy]

Which I prefer. You know, like, instead of peeing all over the carpet. Easier to clean up. But you have to be careful walking through any transition space in our house that he might have peed there. Just because you're getting ready to leave, like, you put your shoes on, he's like, okay, peeing on the fork.

[Dale Jr.]

One out of ten days, you're stepping in him.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And it's. Then you're hopping on one leg to try to. To get to the towel.

[Producer Alex]

Oh, boy.

[Dale Jr.]

I. I would ask Gus.

[Amy]

Why he growls at you.

[Dale Jr.]

Why he growls?

[Amy]

Yeah, specifically at you.

[Producer Alex]

That's a good one.

[Amy]

If Gus is tired, he's like, Gus.

[Dale Jr.]

Is very away from me, moody. Like, most times I can pet him, hug on him, love on him. And he likes it. And he wags his tail. And then the other times, at 40 of the time, you'll go over there and go, yeah, it's kind of low.

[Amy]

Like, just get off of me.

[Dale Jr.]

Grumpy. I just love to know, like, hey, what's the deal?

[Amy]

He's always been like a very vocal dog. Like, he is almost like they used to talk to each other.

[Dale Jr.]

He is not a dog.

[Amy]

He would like, oh, like he'd howl and make his noises and now he didn't do that. He just growls at you.

[Dale Jr.]

He used to. He's not a dog that's gonna run in. Like, if you came in the door, he's not gonna run up to you and greet you and greet you and lick your hand or like, you know, yeah, hey, who are you? You know, he don't. He's gonna bark, get mad.

[Amy]

He's attacking the door to see. Make sure you're intruding.

[Dale Jr.]

You're gonna. He's coming after you.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

But then as soon as you're not, it recognizes you're okay. You're not thread. He's back to the couch. Yeah, but he's just unbothered, bothered. And I can't. Like, I. He. This is the only thing I don't. The one thing I wish it was different about him is like he. I want him to jump on me like I want to.

[Amy]

If he was 100 pound dog.

[Dale Jr.]

If he's in the floor and I said, come here, Gus. I want him to come climb up on me.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Or, you know, the other night I was going to tell you I got this head cold when I was with my buddies. So Amy's been sleeping downstairs because I.

[Amy]

Don'T have time to get.

[Dale Jr.]

She don't want to get sick. So Gus tried to get into bed.

[Amy]

The other night in my spot. What?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

You lie.

[Dale Jr.]

I swear.

[Amy]

Did you help him?

[Dale Jr.]

No, he put both paws up there.

[Amy]

Are you sure he wasn't just looking for me?

[Dale Jr.]

I mean, I don't think so. He was trying to get up and he was, you know, he's doing that thing where he's trying to figure out what to do his back leg kind of how to get it to where he can get into. And he couldn't get up there. I should have helped him get in, but I thought he'd gone growl at me. I'd go over there and try to help him. Yeah. I was like, dang, there's a little bit of old Gus.

[Amy]

Yeah, a little bit.

[Dale Jr.]

You know, young, but young Gus trying to get into bed. He used to jump in the bed and sleep at the end of the bed.

[Amy]

He's so tall. He used to just like stick his butt up there first and then push his front Legs off. And then just, like, he'd be spooning with you.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

But he can't do that anymore. He's got arthritis in his back legs. That's probably what.

[Dale Jr.]

Both of our dogs are old.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Both of them.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah.

[Amy]

They're great. But I'm glad they can't talk. To be honest. I don't think June bugger would ever shut up.

[Dale Jr.]

Sure.

[Producer Alex]

That's. That's pretty accurate.

[Dale Jr.]

June bug, though, has lost his hearing. Really? Entirely. Really entirely.

[Amy]

You can sneak right up on him.

[Dale Jr.]

There's. He's not, like, got any left. And so his barks changed when he lost. So he had a stroke and he lost his hearing. I don't know that he lost anything else, but we do know his hearing is gone entirely. And so his barks changed pitch. Wow. Because he can't hear himself.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah. That's funny, actually.

[Dale Jr.]

So his barks have, like, a little back end.

[Amy]

Little raspier.

[Dale Jr.]

His bark so good. He used to bark like a regular dog, and now he goes by raw. It's weird. It's got a bat. Yeah. Doesn't he?

[Announcer]

Yes.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Producer Alex]

Next one from Sally. If you had to swap lives with anyone for a day, who would it be? But keep in mind, they get to swap. They get to be you as well.

[Amy]

Lies with Dale. I want to see what it's like to just, you know, do whatever.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Sleep.

[Dale Jr.]

Do whatever.

[Announcer]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

All right.

[Amy]

I don't think that I really, like.

[Dale Jr.]

Once she climbed into my head, she would scream to get out. Let me out of here.

[Amy]

This is.

[Dale Jr.]

This is terrifying.

[Amy]

I might not. I might not be up your ass so much if I knew how scary it was there. I don't know. I'm scared to, like, say anybody important, which would be a cool vantage point, like, maybe Taylor Swift for a day.

[Announcer]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I want to see how the access feels. You know what I mean? Like, truly, like, everything's available.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I don't know. Being the queen of England would have been cool for a day. Same thing.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Like, put all the jewels on.

[Producer Alex]

All the jewels all at once.

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[Producer Alex]

I. I would take, like, a bird.

[Amy]

A bird?

[Announcer]

Yeah.

[Producer Alex]

Just gonna fly around, see what I do.

[Amy]

What are we doing?

[Producer Alex]

Just want to see what I do.

[Dale Jr.]

You're just a bird.

[Amy]

You said anyone.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, well, you're picking at things on the ground. Is this food? It's not food.

[Producer Alex]

I would do that. I would just fly all day.

[Dale Jr.]

That's what I see birds doing.

[Amy]

You know what I. This food.

[Producer Alex]

Nope, not food. You could just. Wherever you want. That's food.

[Dale Jr.]

Okay, well, that's edible. It's not really food.

[Amy]

That's what I woke up to this morning. I let Gus out, and I'm like, oh, there's a dead bird on the. On the porch. Is that a bad omen?

[Producer Alex]

Well, if you swap places, a bird die.

[Amy]

All right.

[Dale Jr.]

That was Bob. That wasn't me.

[Amy]

Are you a bird of prey at least?

[Producer Alex]

I was just thinking a bird that flies. I wasn't being picky.

[Dale Jr.]

She wasn't being picky. Might be a seagull. Might be.

[Producer Alex]

Might be a crow. I don't know.

[Amy]

Oh, my God.

[Dale Jr.]

Nothing.

[Producer Alex]

Dale. He just wants to be Dale.

[Dale Jr.]

I. Me, I would probably want to be. I'd probably want to be something. Somebody that was adventurous. We talked about sailing earlier in the show. Somebody like, an expert at that. I've always been curious of sailing and what. You know, having the confidence to even go do that out, you know, out in the open ocean with the dangers that all that presents. But. Or, yeah, like climbing Everest. Right. If you were somebody who was an expert at that type of thing, like, to be in there, to live that experience of climbing one of those mountains and the. Yeah.

[Amy]

So you could probably do that if you just train for it.

[Dale Jr.]

That's it.

[Amy]

He can't be a bird.

[Dale Jr.]

Who says, yeah. I mean, it's doable, but I would want to, like, plop into the body and mind of a person that knew everything already and was like, I'm the expert.

[Amy]

Let's go.

[Announcer]

Okay.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't want to go through the process of becoming.

[Amy]

Oh, you're a lazy Everest climber.

[Dale Jr.]

We were asked who we swap lies with. Now. I'm a lazy sov.

[Amy]

I said, Everest climber. I never said sov.

[Producer Alex]

Next question from Herville. He said, my girlfriend told me if I make it obvious that I'm about to propose, she'll be pissed. Any advice on how to handle that or keep it a surprise?

[Amy]

Ooh. Keeping it a surprise is really important. I know that feels like such pressure for a guy. It is a lot of pressure, and it should be because it's a big moment. I think the only way to make it a surprise is to not make it such a big visual experience. You know what I mean? Like, some people set up flowers, and they have a photographer there. Like, that's very obvious that you're about to have a big moment when they walk in.

[Producer Alex]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah, your mom's there. Why is your mom all of a sudden standing there? So the element of surprise isn't that hard if you just don't overthink it. Dale shocked me with ours. We were in a church on a genealogy trip, and it had nothing to do with us. You know what I mean? And he asked me to get to marry him in the church, and so I just wasn't expecting that at all. I don't think it's that hard, right? No, no. Just don't overdo it. Don't overdo the day. Like, make it a. Just a simple, heartfelt moment. Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know if this needs to be something you have to tell somebody, but it is. It only needs to be, like. It doesn't have to be at a.

[Producer Alex]

It doesn't have a mountain.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, no, I'm just like. It doesn't have to be during an event or a moment, and it doesn't have to be around anybody. Like, it just, you know, shouldn't.

[Amy]

Anyway, yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

The. The. The. That. That moment can be just you and her, Right?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

And. And so, like, you know, if someone happens to be there, that could be a witness. That's cool, because then they can tell the story. But that's not necessary. But. So it just needs to be y' all two. And it can be really anywhere. Anywhere. And it can be on. It can be in a new place. Doesn't have to be in a place that's like, oh, I want to do it here, because this. This is.

[Amy]

Yeah, I think that's going to tear up a little bit.

[Dale Jr.]

We don't. Yeah. It doesn't make a new. Make. Make this place a new place that's now somewhere you'll want to go in the future, because that's where this happened. Right. And so. And it can be it. You know, it can be a new. It can be, you know, a tropical vacation spot. You know, it could be anywhere you go see it. You go to Europe, to a country you've wanted to visit all your life, and. And you just happened to go take this trip and you could do it there, you know, because once you have. You know, once you've had. Once you've done that thing in that spot. Now, that spot is somewhere you're going to want to go to.

[Amy]

Sure.

[Dale Jr.]

You're going to want to go back to it. So make it being a new spot. Being this new part.

[Amy]

Take notes, Alex.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. No, no, no. A lot of people think they need to do it in a place that's connected to them or connected to that person. It's like. Right. You know, a lot of people, well.

[Amy]

They'Re trying to find something that makes it special.

[Dale Jr.]

Right.

[Amy]

But the thing is what's happening is the special thing so it doesn't have to be connected to any other way. Yeah.

[Producer Alex]

What I'm seeing a lot on like with nowadays is the girls are very worried about what they're wearing when they get proposed.

[Amy]

Yeah. Because everybody's taking pictures. Yeah. And I get that. So like to that point Kelly asked me that morning when I was getting ready, she's like do you ever like coordinate yalls outfits on trips to that your pictures look pretty? And I was like no. And she's like well what are you wearing? And I showed her and she's like oh that's perfect. And then she ran off and I was like I wasn't wearing over to catch it.

[Dale Jr.]

Really I was wearing like this.

[Amy]

And he. Yeah, well like, like I'm gonna try to coordinate outfits with this man. Right. No.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So anyway, yeah. Don't overthink it. It'll be fine. Don't overdo it and just surprise the out of her with something simple.

[Producer Alex]

Good advice from Cleo. Me and my boyfriend just moved in together and we are arguing about this. What's the correct number of pillows on the bed?

[Amy]

Dalen, I don't agree. He only wants the pillows he's going to sleep on. And I as an interior designer like wanted to decorate and make our bed look nice. He also doesn't even like the bed made up. So I don't know, maybe I'll never agree on that. I obviously lost that battle because he would just take him and kick him off onto the floor and then all the pretty nice things are laid on a dog to lay on or whatever.

[Dale Jr.]

There is a pillow in our bedroom floor next to my side of the bed that's been there for four days.

[Amy]

Yeah. So we have, we go through this battle sometimes of and they're king size pillows you can sleep on but we have too many and some of them are more firm than others and some of them are just super squishy. So like I don't know which ones he wants.

[Dale Jr.]

And I have these so that. Yeah, we have this blanket and I'll climb the last, I don't know the last two weeks I've slept on top of the comforter.

[Amy]

Yeah. So I like sleeping under the feather blanket. Like as a feather blanket. Yes, the bedding.

[Dale Jr.]

The bedding.

[Amy]

And Dale will only sleep under this Lola blanket. Everybody knows what these things are now. These big fuzzy, heavy, comfortable.

[Dale Jr.]

Perfect.

[Amy]

But he'll lay on top of the COVID underneath the Lola blanket. So like I can't pull the covers because his 200 pound ass is like laying on it.

[Dale Jr.]

185.

[Amy]

So much weight, can't pull it. Well, with the blanket it's 200. He's mad now.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh my gosh.

[Amy]

He's too heavy for me to pull my covers, so. Yeah, we never really have agreed on that. Yeah, good luck.

[Dale Jr.]

No, I think the, the, the, the. I'm real weird about the weight of the blanket. And so I, if I'm sleeping on my back and my feet are up, I don't like the blanket to be heavy on my toes. And I don't like the sheets so tucked into the bed that it's like my toes are like smashed up in there.

[Amy]

You don't want to feel like you're in a womb.

[Dale Jr.]

No. And so I get in like you go into the hotel, and the first thing I do when I get in bed in the hotel is get down in the bed and lay on the mattress and kick my feet and pull the sheet out from under the mattress to get my feet like free.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

I was like, oh, geez. Yeah. So they can do what they need.

[Amy]

He does that at home too.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. And on the bed. I want the, I want the bare minimum. I don't, I want to be warm and cuddle and all that bull, but I don't need, I don't need more blanket than I need. I want, if I, if I need a sheet, good blanket, nothing else. I don't like sheet. Blanket comforter, you know, and the comforter, I don't like it thick and fluffy and taking up all the room. It's like it takes up the whole room.

[Amy]

It does not.

[Dale Jr.]

So I like, I like a thin top comforter and a sheet and I'm.

[Amy]

Not gonna go to that. So I'm gonna have my blanket.

[Dale Jr.]

I hate making the bed. So I'll either leave the bed unmade or never get in the bed and just sleep on top of the comforter in the, with the, with the blanket. So I don't like, I don't like making, I don't like making a bed. So if I don't have to make it, I won't either make the bed. But now I'm married to you, so the bed has to get made and so I won't unmake the bed.

[Amy]

You don't make the bed. I know, you just get mad because I make it up.

[Dale Jr.]

No, I just don't like a made bed.

[Amy]

I don't understand that if you went into a hotel room, the bed wasn't.

[Dale Jr.]

Made you'd be like, that's gross because somebody else slept in it. But it's my. It's my bed I slept in. So it is. When I walk, it's like, all right, here's. Here's what it is. It's like I find you more attractive wearing a silly. A $10 T shirt with no makeup. That's. That's your most attractive state. Right.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Dale Jr.]

You would not agree with that. You like to get makeup and get in a nice clothes and all that. But I find you most attractive in the most stripped down, simple state. And so when I walk into the bedroom, the unmade bed looks way more comfortable to jump into than the made bed.

[Amy]

Oh. So I totally disagree. I find a pleasure in like pulling back the crisp sheets and like crawling in. And everything's like perfectly laid out. And even the.

[Dale Jr.]

Is restricted. I know I'm gonna pull the sheets back, but they're gonna still be tucked under and my feet are gonna be smashed all down in the bottom and I have to just completely destroy the bed to get comfortable.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's not something that 5 foot 3 person has to worry about.

[Dale Jr.]

And I don't need other pillow. I need a pillow for my head and another pillow to throw my leg over or to kind of like cuddle with. I don't need a third pillow. You want three pillows?

[Amy]

You asked me for the third pillow? Yes.

[Dale Jr.]

Why?

[Amy]

Because you wanted to be able to sit up and look at your iPad and the other two weren't. Weren't cutting it.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, my bad. That's my fault.

[Amy]

So it just sits in the cubby just in case, I guess.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know. I don't. I don't. I. We have a. In our camper, you know, this tiny little. That Our little. What was that? A full bed, Full mattress.

[Amy]

Tiny. Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. And I mean, you know, you got pillows everywhere in the comforter, all this big fluffy.

[Amy]

Sounds amazing.

[Dale Jr.]

Taking up the room. Sounds like a cloud complete you.

[Amy]

He's very particular. Clearly. I would say just.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, we got into this one.

[Amy]

Let it ride.

[Producer Alex]

The chat goes anywhere from two to four pillows that go back to the original pillow.

[Dale Jr.]

Two, four.

[Amy]

Like just the pillows you sleep on.

[Dale Jr.]

We go into Isla's room. Drives me crazy. Isla sleeps on her bed one way.

[Amy]

She's got lots of knickknacks and lots of little things sitting everywhere.

[Dale Jr.]

There's 51 stuff, stuffed animals to get out of the way before she can climb into bed. And then her bed gets made with the pillows on one end and she sleeps with her head on the other. So every night we got to move the pillows. Yeah. We got to recreate her bed for her to sleep in it.

[Producer Alex]

Oh, my God.

[Amy]

It's a lot.

[Producer Alex]

Well, we can go on this for hours, it seems like, but we're out of time, so that's all.

[Dale Jr.]

Nicole's awesome. Hops in her bed, jumps under the COVID.

[Producer Alex]

Actually.

[Dale Jr.]

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