Someone Wouldn’t Stop Honking at Amy… Then This Happened

Summary

The Dale Jr. Download

Episode: "Someone Wouldn’t Stop Honking at Amy… Then This Happened"

Date: July 2, 2026
Host: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Amy Earnhardt, Travis, Guest
Podcast Network: Dirty Mo Media, SiriusXM

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Episode Overview

This lively, vacation-mode episode of The Dale Jr. Download finds Dale and Amy Earnhardt (with Travis and a friend joining remotely) broadcasting from their beach house. The crew dives into summer rituals, July 4th excitement, parking woes, road etiquette, parenting moments, food debates, and the quirks of family life—all peppered with real-life racing and small-town flavor. The main highlight is Amy's bold confrontation with an impatient driver who wouldn’t stop honking at her, sparking conversations about beach parking drama and public courtesy.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. 4th of July Vibes & Family Traditions

Timestamps: [01:26]–[04:49]

• Dale and Amy discuss being at the beach for July 4th, calling it their favorite holiday and describing the energetic, patriotic, flag-draped atmosphere.
• Amy comments on her love for decorating the house for Independence Day, admitting she goes overboard with flags and bunting—unlike Dale’s tolerance level for Christmas.

  "It's the only holiday where I pull out all the decorations and like really get overboard with it, where he doesn't lose his mind." – Amy [04:05]

2. Chores, Aging, and “Old Man Grunts”

Timestamps: [04:49]–[06:33]

• Lighthearted dialogue about aches, pains, and making “old man grunts” when standing up or carrying stuff around, with playful ribbing about getting older.

3. Beach House Parking & “The Honking Incident”

Timestamps: [06:12]–[10:25]

• Amy recounts difficulty parking due to road construction, leading her to “cone off” (illegally) public parking spots outside their house.
• The highlight: A stranger, eager to park, starts honking at Amy as she wrangles kids into the car. Rather than respond with gestures, Amy directly confronts the driver.

  "I just get out of the car and walk straight up to his window... 'Listen, we have little kids are trying to get into the car. We're going to take a minute, okay?'" – Amy [09:31] "You scared the shit out of me!" – Stranger (to Amy) [09:40]

• Amy makes a point to take her time afterward—"Now take me and my cones.”

4. Road Manners & Pet Peeves

Timestamps: [10:25]–[17:02]

• The team discusses driving etiquette, especially drivers who don’t let others merge or refuse to move out of the right lane.
• Dale confesses to some aggressive merging, expressing frustration with discourteous drivers:

  "I'm the first person to let somebody over...I'm courteous as—like I could do a class. Road etiquette, that'd be–" – Dale [15:03]

5. Parenting: Mustard and Epic Table Gags

Timestamps: [24:03]–[27:15]

• Amy and Dale tell a story about bribing their daughter Nicole to try mustard for a toy "squishy." She obliges—but immediately gags and throws up at the table.

  "She puts in her mouth and immediately starts gagging... and eventually just throws up." – Amy [26:51]

• The pair laugh at the situation while acknowledging their own boredom and desire to push the kids to try new things.

6. Expiration Date Debates

Timestamps: [28:08]–[34:32]

• Vivid debate over food safety and expiration dates. Dale throws out anything past the printed date; Amy and the guest argue that unopened snacks and dry goods are usually fine well past.

  "You're a redneck bougie man." – Amy (to Dale) [33:25] "I believe we need to put this out to the public, see what the truth [is]." – Dale [34:29]

7. Wildlife: A Wasps’ Underwater Escape

Timestamps: [34:43]–[37:55]

• Dale describes catching a wasp with a net, submerging it a foot and a half underwater, only for the wasp to climb out alive and escape—astonishing both him and Isla.

  "That wasp crawled all the way up the handle, out of the water onto the tip, stood there for a second and then flew away." – Dale [36:49]

8. Beach Life Quirks & Listener Help

Timestamps: [38:06]–[41:40]

• The struggle to find a retractable, weather-resistant extension cord for the garage. Dale asks listeners for recommendations:

  "Today is the day that I finally come public with my issues in retractable cords... Give it a little time." – Dale [42:02]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

Amy on the “Honking Incident”:

"We're at the beach, people. We're not going anywhere fast. So he honks, and instead of doing anything out the window... I just get out of the car and I walk straight up to his window." [09:10]

On Parenting/Food Experimentation:

"I want to challenge her to try new things. But also, I was a little bored—I felt like it was a good idea at the moment." – Amy [26:46]

Snack Debate:

"I'm bougie. You're a redneck bougie man." – Amy [33:25]

On Driving Etiquette:

"I'm courteous as—like, I could do a class... and teach them road etiquette." – Dale [15:03]

Wasp in the Pool:

"He was underwater for 20 seconds... He crawl[ed] all the way up the handle, out of the water... and then flew away." – Dale [36:43]

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‘Ask Amy’ Segment Highlights

Timestamps: [42:47]–[59:06]

• Amanda Leaving Summer House: Amy reacts to news that Amanda is not returning to the show, theorizing whether ongoing relationship drama is “for show.”

• Getting Isla in a Race Car: Amy relives the challenge of convincing her daughter to ride, only for Nicole to swoop in and want her shot too—“Everything’s in the ‘kinda phase’ except for mustard.”

• Sonoma Trip: Best part for Amy was taking the kids to feed chickens at Stanley Ranch, besides the wine country itself.

• Favorite Potato Chips:

  • Dale: Lay’s Salt & Vinegar; specialty kettle varieties
  • Amy: Chili Cheese Fritos, salt & vinegar chips
  • Travis: Jalapeño kettle chips

• Firework Cutoff for July 4th:

  "After midnight on the fourth... it's over. The fifth is a reset day." – Amy [54:10]

• Corn Salad Shortage: Amy teases Dale and friends about getting corn salad at their favorite restaurant before they could.

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Other Fun Bits

• Miniature Pocket Jesuses: The crew jokes about hiding tiny Jesus figurines around the offices ("Jesus and jerky" as a shop promo), leading to ongoing office antics.

  "Mike has three in his office. I don't know if he's found them yet." – Travis [50:02]

• Listener Interaction: Dale utilizes listener expertise for product recommendations and embraces the community’s collective wisdom—a key podcasting advantage.

• Wilkesboro Racetrack News: Hints are dropped about both Chicago street course and Wilkesboro events continuing, with Dale pumped to broadcast from Wilkesboro.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [03:01] – July 4th at the beach: traditions and decorations
• [06:12] – Road construction & the “honking at Amy” parking story
• [10:25] – More on road etiquette and merging frustrations
• [24:03] – Parenting: bribing kids to try new foods
• [28:08] – Food expiration date debate
• [34:43] – Wasp escapes drowning attempt
• [38:06] – Extension cord saga: asking listeners for help
• [42:47] – Ask Amy: Bravo show drama, kid racing, Sonoma trip, favorite snacks, fireworks etiquette

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Tone & Style

Conversational, irreverent, and candid—Dale and Amy share real-life moments with dry humor, playful digs, and a warm, familial vibe. The podcast feels like eavesdropping on close friends swapping stories on a porch.

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Summary

This episode mixes the uniquely American flavor of beach side 4th of July celebrations with everyday family drama—playful parking wars, generational food debates, parenting wins and fails, and that signature Earnhardt candor. Amy’s refusal to be cowed by a honking stranger is the comedic anchor, complemented by a whirlwind of chaotic summer stories, office pranks, and racing news. Fans of Dale and Amy will feel right at home—and newcomers will get a real sense of what makes The Dale Jr. Download tick.

Transcript

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[Travis]

The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media.

[Amy]

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

[Travis]

I'm working.

[Amy]

Working that mouth.

[Commercial Announcer]

All right.

[Amy]

Hey guys. Dale and I are in the beach this week for another episode of Bless yous Heart. We're hanging out in the bar this morning. We have lots of fun things to talk about. Let's get started.

[Travis]

Yeah, it's going to be a fun show coming remotely not in the Dirty Mo Media Studio. Travis is. Hello, Travis.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

How we doing?

[Travis]

Yeah, doing pretty good. We got our high rock drink of the day.

[Amy]

Yes. We kind of. It's just the drink of the summer. We've got Sadachi lime and high rock and I put a little cranberry in mine. So yeah, cheers to everybody. If you haven't already, go to highrockvodka.com check out the store locator. You can find High Rock near you. You also must remember to be 21 years or over. Please drink responsibly.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I don't like these remote shows because Morgan's not here to make me.

[Amy]

I know we don't have our bartender with us.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Yeah, this is a bummer.

[Travis]

Right over our shoulder we got our brand new Red Bull refrigerator and it's full of Red Bull. The sudachi.

[Amy]

How you say sudachi?

[Travis]

Sudachi lime is right now. It's my favorite. I like the red too. Obviously the original Red Bull. But pretty goes really, really well with with High Rock Vodka. I've been doing the Red Bull vodka thing for 30 years it feels like, but wow, 30 years.

[Amy]

Well, aging yourself.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

He is Old.

[Amy]

He is old.

[Travis]

Yeah. We're excited about this weekend. Big weekend for The United States. 250 years. July 4th. July 4th. Every year is fun. We celebrate it pretty hard.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's one of my favorite holidays.

[Travis]

It's Amy's. Yeah, Amy loves it. Unfortunately, this year the 4th is falling in the weekend and it does that for like the next couple of years.

[Amy]

Yes. Last year we missed you too.

[Travis]

So, yeah, I'm off to the racetrack. But here in South Carolina, there's all kinds of cool, fun stuff to do around this weekend. A lot of outsiders travel in to the beaches and so forth. So it gets real busy and fun.

[Amy]

Yeah. Energy's high.

[Travis]

Energy is real high. A lot of people everywhere you go. I really love it.

[Amy]

Every porch has flags and bunting on it. There's just. Everybody's yard is decorated. Everybody's wearing red, white, and blue.

[Travis]

Y. We've got a big, gigantic flag that Amy put up. We'll shoot you a shot of that, Travis.

[Amy]

Pretty cool. Yeah. I found an old. It says 1776 on it. It's an old. It's not a real flag. It's just, you know, something flag.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

What's a fake flag?

[Amy]

Everything's real to Dale.

[Travis]

Check this thing out. Travis, I sent to you the. Yeah. Amy kind of decorates the house as does everybody else around the neighborhood.

[Amy]

It's the only holiday where I pull out all the decorations and like, really get overboard with it, where he doesn't loses mind. Like it didn't matter how many red, white move flags I pull out, you know, as opposed to Christmas decorations. He's like, okay, that's enough. But with. With the Americana garb, I get to like, go as deep dive as I want.

[Travis]

Yeah. I don't know why, but it's like no matter how much red, white, and blue things that she puts out during the fourth of July, all of it fits neatly in one box. When it's over with, the Christmas stuff takes up half of a garage.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's true. This folds up.

[Travis]

Yeah. All the Christmas stuff is fluffy. Fluffy and three dimensional. Brittle and delicate and careful. You know, it's just like put stuff away, you get it back out the next year. It's a little banged up.

[Amy]

Kind of like when, you know an aging body.

[Travis]

Yeah, yeah.

[Amy]

Can we relate to. Every time I wake up these days, my back hurts, so I kind of feel like I'm in the same Christmas ornament.

[Travis]

We hadn't been to our house in a while. At least I haven't. And we did a Ton of chores yesterday. Washing golf carts and just cleaning up and getting things kind of ready to go.

[Amy]

Well, the golf carts were more destroyed with the beach dirt and everything because of the road work that's going on.

[Travis]

They're doing some work on the highway, so they're.

[Amy]

They're so close, they're almost done with it. They're paving next week, which is, you know.

[Travis]

But I can. I can attest the aches and pains.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

I climbed in bed and like I said, I don't know. I'm at that age where you're already

[Amy]

sorry before you go to sleep.

[Travis]

I'm at the age where when you're. When you're. When you do a lot in the day and you sit down for five minutes, you get. You start trying to get back up, and you're locked up. You know, you're kind of like everything hurts. You're like, this is kind of what you're supposed to feel like in the morning.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Does Dale have the old man grunts when he gets up out of the chair?

[Amy]

Oh, yeah.

[Travis]

Oh, yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

I think that it's a. It's an. You know, it's a guy thing. Like, you get to a certain age where even though it doesn't hurt to get up, you still.

[Amy]

Or. It's not that complicated, and you grunt. He was grunting, carrying things around yesterday. I'm like, I carried that all the way up the stairs, and I didn't have to grunt. Yeah.

[Travis]

I had to carry.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Just letting you know that he's getting the job done.

[Amy]

I think he does it for flair. Isla was like, hey, mom, you're strong. Yeah. She was trying to help me. She's like, this one feels really heavy. I like, I got this, Isla. But, you know, now my back is tight and sore today, so I'm right there with you. But I wanted to talk about the road construction because the last week I was here, I came down with the girls a couple weekends ago, I think over Father's Day weekend. You were in San Diego.

[Travis]

They're putting in a bunch of drainage.

[Amy]

They're putting in drainage pipes, so they've had the road torn up for a while. When it rains here, there's flooding all in the road.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Your thumbs upping. I didn't know what was happening.

[Travis]

I'm glad they're doing it.

[Amy]

You're flailing.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I was confused on what the thumbs up was about Tim.

[Travis]

I was like, what is he doing?

[Amy]

I thought y' all had, like, a secret thing happening. And I was.

[Travis]

I don't know what Amy's about to say, but I'm just saying I'm happy. Happy they're doing it.

[Amy]

I am happy. I don't know what to do with my hand. I am happy they're doing it, too. It just takes long. It takes a long time. And the timing of it isn't that great because it's 4th of July and it's going to be busy and the road's still turn up. But more than that, the weekend we were here, so I've talked about before that you can't pull into the driveway. So all the parking in front of the house is all we have. And it's public parking right there. So, like, the blocks are kind of funny around here. Some. Some roads have parking and some don't. So I was just having to bank on getting a spot in front of the house or schlepping the kids down the street or finding a spot somewhere, which is fine, except that it's, you know, it's a lot more stress with little kids doing that.

[Travis]

So can I say if you. If you're in one of the public spots and you move to do anything, somebody is ready to take it.

[Amy]

It's like somebody came out of the woods just waiting for you to pull

[Travis]

out the public spot.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

It won't last 10 seconds hard.

[Amy]

And we're right here next to the beach inlet, too, so, you know, there's a lot of people wanting to park here just for that reason.

[Travis]

So since we can't use our own driveway because the road's torn out and they won't let us, it's literally like a foot drop off down into the belly of the. Of the road. So we couldn't get in and out of there.

[Amy]

It's impossible.

[Travis]

She had to use some of the public parking.

[Amy]

I did. So that's fine. It's right in front of the house. But if you pull out and go eat or anything like that, it's going to be a challenge to get it back. So I bought myself some cones. I ordered cones off of Amazon like a total Karen and was coning off in front of the house, willing to get a ticket because I'm sure that's not allowed. Right? Like, you're not supposed to put cones out in the public parking. And it worked pretty seamlessly, to be honest. I've had, like, cones for me. I had cones for my girlfriend. So it coned off, honestly, all across the whole front. And it worked really well. Except the last time we were pulling out to go to dinner. Lisa's on the other side of the car, trying to get the kids in the car seats. And I have pulled out a little bit so that she could put the cones back out, right? So I'm not actually in the spot anymore. I'm kind of hanging off in the road, but the barricades are in the road, too, so I'm not really, really messing up traffic. And anyway, so there's a guy coming through the stop sign, and he can't see that Lisa's on the other side of the car. He just sees that the Suburban's kind of pulled out in the road, and he decides to start honking at me. That horn thing, you know, that we talked about, how rude that is, Just honking for no reason. We're at the beach, people. We're not going anywhere fast. So he honks, and instead of doing anything out the window to let him know, we were like, hang on, we're coming out. I just get out of the car and I walk straight up to his window.

[Travis]

Damn.

[Amy]

I walked straight up to his window.

[Travis]

I heard this story.

[Amy]

No, I haven't told Dale about it. I wasn't mad, but I was at the point of the day where we're putting the kids in the car for dinner. It's hot. There's four children trying to get in the car seats. It's been a long day. I'm stressed out. I'm in that weird, fuzzy space between I'm having a good time and anything could set me off. So I just get out of the car and walk straight up to his window, and I just stand there until he rolls his window down. He's in there with his wife, and he's like. I was like, listen, we have little kids are trying to get into the car. We're going to take a minute, okay? You can see that I can't get into my driveway. This is my house. You're going to need to just chill out. And he goes, you scared the shit out of me. I was like, you probably shouldn't be honking then. Like, what are you doing? And so he rolls his window back up, and I get back in my car, and I take my ever loving time getting out of there because he was waiting to park in that spot anyway. I'm like, off, man. Now take me and my cones. Like, the whole thing was, don't mess with Amy. I know. Well, I had had enough.

[Travis]

Yeah. End of the show, man. None of our topics are going to top that.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I used the horn when I was in San Diego, but normally I have my Kia. And my horn, when I use my Kia, it's like, you're not allowed to

[Amy]

honk at anyone if you're in a Kia, by the way.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

It's like my horn's like a. Excuse me, but the Tahoe that I was driving out in San Diego was a rental, and I hit that and that thing was like, move, motherfucker.

[Travis]

That was loud.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

And I just. Because it was just a. It was supposed to be a gentle, but it was not a gentle.

[Amy]

It didn't even have it in it.

[Travis]

To be fair, I felt bad.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I did the. Sorry.

[Travis]

I have a. I have a truck that has a train horn in the bed of it. It's obnoxious and it is freaking 100 decibels, man. When you lay on that thing, you have to prime it. There's an air pump underneath the hood, so you flip on a switch to prime the pump and get the compressed air in the tank.

[Amy]

Why would you put something like that on your truck?

[Travis]

To be the biggest you can be.

[Amy]

And that's what your goal was.

[Travis]

I mean, if somebody deserves it, they're going to get it so.

[Amy]

Well, that took the Honda. Yeah. I've never heard you. I've never heard it. You've had the truck at the house to show. I love the truck because it's huge. It's like a big monster truck. And she used to watch Blaze and she looks just like Blaze, the monster truck. Blaze and the monster machines. Yeah. So she's not that. At that point, she was the same height as the tire. Yeah, it was awesome. It's huge.

[Travis]

Speaking of things that do. Speaking of things that people do that drive you crazy on the highway, I have a bit of confession to make. I don't know if Amy even remember realizes this was happening and this on the drive, probably highly illegal. And we may. We may get shut down just because we're. We're. We're at. To be clear.

[Amy]

Wait a second. What happened, man?

[Travis]

Well, I mean, so this drives me crazy. This happens quite often, honestly. And it drives me crazy. And so you're. You're coming down an own ramp to blend onto the interstate. The interstate is two lanes. It don't matter how many lanes, but minimum two lanes. You look in the. You look in the driver's side mirror to see what kind of traffic's coming from behind on the interstate. As you're going to blend on to the right hand lane, there's a. There's a guy driving up, you know, probably. He's probably about 10 car lengths back he's not beside you, but he's. He's. He's a little faster than you. And he sees you coming down the own ramp, and he knows that you're gonna want to next blend onto the highway. That's like your next move, your only move. Yeah. He has nobody around him, nobody in the left lane, and he chooses to stay in the right lane and block. And you either gotta gun it to get in front of him or slow down and let him go by when he could just easily blend over into the left lane to allow you to have the right. There's an. I was. We were getting on the interstate just as we were coming down here.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

And there's this guy just tootling along in his car. And I'm coming down the ramp and I'm like, all right, buddy.

[Amy]

You know, as you were me, man.

[Travis]

And I just said. And I just started blending on into the highway.

[Amy]

Did you push him over?

[Travis]

He was behind me still, but he had to slow down. And he honks and I'm like, let's go, Come on. I'm just so.

[Amy]

I can't say that when you're not having manners on the road.

[Travis]

I don't. Easy. I've never had road rage. I've never done anything on the highway that. Except for that one time that Charger soft and I gunned it. Amy had to stop me. But I. I have never done anything on the highway like. Like, you know, I don't see you

[Amy]

flip your lid in general.

[Travis]

I just. Well, I mean, you, You. There are laws against using your vehicle in. In certain ways on the road. You get yourself some big trouble there. But that pissed me off. And I'm. And I'm. I wouldn't. Like. I wasn't coming over into the side of his car. He was still behind me by like a half a car length. We were clear to come over into the lane, but he. It was going to be tight. And I'm like, I'm coming over. And he's. He slows down, he honks his horn. And I'm like, man, I'd love to. I'd love to just talk to this person. Like, dude, why not just get over. You see what's going on here. You know what I need. And you've got plenty here. Plenty of.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Yeah, let's work together here.

[Amy]

I feel like that's kind of like the honking at someone when they're just trying to get in their car. Like, everybody needs to just be courteous on the back.

[Travis]

I'm the first Person to let somebody over when I can tell they're in the right lane and we're running up on. They're running up on 18 Wheeler and they're gonna. I'm like, here, come on, get in front of me. Come on over into the left lane. I ain't going to hold you. You know, I'm not. I'm not going to make you go to the back of the line. And I'm the first person I'm courteous as. And I'm courteous like I could do a class. I could have all of these that don't come. Don't let some. Somebody have the. Right away or what. I can have all these in a classroom and teach them road etiquette. That'd be.

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[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Can you teach them? If you're in the left lane, you gotta go at minimum the speed limit.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Because my God, on 77, every idiot is on the left lane.

[Amy]

I agree. So it's similar in South Carolina. There's two lanes on the highway. You've been down here a few times, Travis. You know, like once you get down into South Carolina, it's just two lanes. Well, there's plenty of trucks and cargo and different trailers and things coming through here right now. A lot of construction happening. The way that people drive here has always driven me nuts. Like, you're in the left lane, you're going the speed limit. Everybody's got a good pace, but there's always that one guy that comes up on the right side and instead of slowing down because he got too close to the truck, he just weaves right in the middle. So now we're all bunched up and everybody's gonna freaking run into each other and it's like you're inchworming down the dang highway and nobody's really going any faster. You know what I mean? I hate that.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I think Dale and I have conversations about it every time we get in the car to come down here. I'm like, there's. Here we go.

[Travis]

I bet now, to be fair to us, I bet everybody driving down the interstate's about somebody around them, you know what I mean? Nine times out of 10, if you're driving 15 minutes down 77, you're gonna be about something somebody's doing right.

[Amy]

Well, that's because nobody uses their brain anymore. Everyone's just like in a hurry or we're trying to cause problems.

[Travis]

We're not that bad. We're just.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

But you have too many of the people that are in LA LA land and they're doing, like.

[Amy]

Yeah, they're 55.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Like, let's focus here, people. Put the phone down.

[Amy]

Yeah. One thing at a time.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Drive.

[Travis]

So, Amy saw the clip from Tuesday's show.

[Amy]

Yeah, I did. I saw the clip from Tuesday show about you and the cards and your father's Day gift.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And I have a question.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

We're in the Sonoma house in the kitchen. You have slithered away from the family again to start messing with your cards.

[Travis]

I'm in the middle of the room with all of y'.

[Amy]

All. Well, the rest of us were outside. Yeah, you were in the kitchen messing with your cards. And I said, oh, you still haven't opened all of those. I thought you opened the whole pack. And I knew he had gone to a card shop. I already knew he went.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So there was really no reason to fib. But he sounds like he straight lied to my face about having bought an extra set. Like, I know. I teed him up for the live because I said, you haven't finished opening all of those yet. Because it was the same box.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Maybe he forgot which ones were from which. His memory lapse.

[Travis]

Coincidentally, like, she bought me. She bought me a badass box. It was a tops, chrome, platinum. It's an awesome, awesome set.

[Amy]

He had already bought himself some, too.

[Travis]

I had inadvertently, coincidentally bought this exact same box as well as some other cards when I was in San Diego.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

And so I was. I had opened up everything except for her box and the identical box that I had. And so I laid in. I laid in the bed one night and opened up one box. It might have been hers. Might have been mine. And she was with. She was in the bed with me. She's like. She thought. You know, I guess she assumes I'm opening up her box, but I'm just opening the cards and looking at it.

[Amy]

Well, I assumed that because I didn't know you had bought yourself the same thing.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And he didn't say that. He was excited and shocked that I got him baseball cards to begin with. And then that must have just.

[Travis]

And then I'm in the kitchen opening up same same cards.

[Amy]

And she goes, you're still opening those, huh?

[Travis]

I'm like, well, kind of. Yeah. Yes, I am.

[Amy]

Shoot. Big fat liar.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Amy, I'm impressed that you even got him cards, because that's like. I mean, we know how addicted it is, and you kind of just.

[Amy]

I'm an enabler, Travis. Haven't you figured that out yet?

[Travis]

That's deleted.

[Amy]

He doesn't change because I Enable it.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

That's. That's an amazing gift by you. And that just shows.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

How much I love that.

[Travis]

Yes.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

That you're willing to go that far.

[Amy]

He's like, you are so thoughtful. He wants to make pickle spears. He had pickle spears on his trip. So he wants to have panko fries, some of those butcher's orchard pickles that we have. So I get all the ingredients for that. And he asked me yesterday. He's like, did you get the stuff for the pickles? I was like, of course I did. He's like, you're the best. Like, I know this is what being thoughtful looks like, you know?

[Travis]

So he's got this built in gene of thoughtfulness. Not everybody has it.

[Amy]

No, not everyone has told me that yesterday. He's like, gosh, you're so thoughtful. I was like, I know it feels good to be thoughtful. It feels really good.

[Travis]

I thought I was thoughtful till I met Amy. You did.

[Amy]

You really thought you were thoughtful?

[Travis]

I thought I was average. And then I met Amy. I'm like, holy. She's like, to the. To the. You're like, full thoughtful. I'm like, half thoughtful.

[Amy]

It just depends on what it is. But gifting is definitely not where he thrives. Oh, he short circles.

[Travis]

Where do I thrive? Do I thrive at all? I mean, honest question.

[Amy]

If it has something to do with boys and racing or whatever like you are, if so, if someone's child wants to get into a cart or race car somehow you will figure that out. You are thoughtful. You got all the things aligned. I know who to contact. I know who to do. Da da da da da.

[Travis]

Mike Cook's gonna race his son at Millbridge for the first time next Wednesday. And in a car that I own the engine and Carson Kwapo owns the cart. So I'm like.

[Amy]

He's like. He's got his line of people. He knows exactly who to contact, and he lines it up and he can make it happen in seconds. And Blake didn't ask him to do that. So that was very thoughtful. He absolutely can do it. But when he looks at me and he's like, yeah, I know, but I

[Travis]

don't know who to call to set up. You know, I don't know. I can call and set up massage. No, I want, but I mean, I don't. What's the equivalent of calling, like, I call a buddy and go, hey, man, I need a motor for this cart. What's the equivalent to that for you? For, like, what would I. What would I be doing?

[Amy]

Listen, after 18 years together, I feel like we should just have to. It shouldn't be that hard.

[Travis]

I'm gonna call. Hey, I need a motor for Amy. I need a new engine for Amy.

[Amy]

Okay,

[Travis]

I can do it.

[Amy]

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[Travis]

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[Travis]

Listen, I got a preference before you start rolling into the story. We are good parents.

[Amy]

We love our children. Okay?

[Travis]

We are really good parents. They are super sweet, sound like the

[Amy]

worst ever and they challenge us, and so sometimes we challenge them back. But it's for growth. It's always for growth.

[Travis]

If you had been sitting there watching this happen, you would think that we were the biggest parents.

[Amy]

Don't say that.

[Travis]

I'm just saying it.

[Amy]

She said yes. Listen, we're at dinner the first night we get here. We're at the pub, as we always do, and Nicole doesn't like spreads. We've talked about this. She wanted ketchup, mustard, syrup, none of that. And so she's ordered a piece of grilled chicken plain, and she has got chips. The kid won't eat anything with flavor on it.

[Travis]

Regular, normal potato chips.

[Amy]

And so I. I've challenged her with maybe trying some mustard just. Just in case that's the wrong thing to start. We tried ketchup already, and she gagged. But she just put her finger in it, and she tried it, and she gagged.

[Travis]

She won't do.

[Amy]

So instead. No, she won't do any of it.

[Travis]

It's the consistency. It's pasty.

[Amy]

So. Well, she just gets really mental. She gets in her head about it because she'll eat chocolate syrup. Like, it's. It's not totally the consistency. I think it's just the flavor. And then, like, her psyching herself out. So I put some mustard on a potato chip, and I'm like, how about you try this? I'll give you 20 bucks. And she was like, Nah, I don't need 20 bucks. How about a squishy? Because I have a box full of squishies for bribery, obviously, at the house here. And she goes, yep, I'll do it for a squishy, but I'm just gonna put my finger in it. I was like, no, no, no, no. You have to eat this whole thing. And she's, like, sniffing it. So I give her the chip, and it's got some mustard on it, and she wants to, like, stick her finger in it and just try it that way. I'm like, no, no, no, no. You have to eat the whole chip. So she gets it really close, and she's sniffing on it, and she's, like, trying to talk herself into it. And finally Dale's like, you gotta just do it. Go for it. And so she sticks the whole chip in her mouth with the mustard on it, and she starts to gag, but she's chewing it up like she's really gonna be able to swallow it. And then all of a sudden, she starts barfing all over the table.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Dude, I would, too. That's I'm on Nicole's side with this one.

[Travis]

Oh, I am, too now.

[Amy]

Like, well, I won't do it again. But honestly, she said yes, like, she knew what she was signing herself up for.

[Travis]

Think about how, like, super simple and innocent this is. Like, it's.

[Amy]

It's a.

[Travis]

It's a little bit of mustard on

[Amy]

the side of my pinky finger. Now. It's not like a Nobody.

[Travis]

Nobody's going to eat this and just blow chunks all over the table. That's not what's usually going to happen. Right. So I might. I'm thinking, man, this is. This is the kind of shit I do. Like, I'm always trying to bribe them to do stuff I want them to do. Try buffalo sauce, whatever. And I'm like, dang, this is. Amy's trying to bribe them. That's not her style.

[Amy]

I want to challenge her to try new things. But also, I was a little bored. I felt like it was a good idea at the moment.

[Travis]

Yeah. So she. She. She puts in her mouth and immediately starts, like, gagging, gagging, gagging over and over and eventually just throws up.

[Amy]

It wasn't loud, like, to. To the point where I'm looking at Dale laughing, and he goes and, like, points at her. And I look over and it's happening. And so I just grab a bunch of napkins and, like, we felt.

[Travis]

I felt terrible for her.

[Amy]

I didn't. She's fine.

[Travis]

I know.

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She.

[Travis]

My little.

[Amy]

She's your little critter. She just. She's fine.

[Travis]

But I. I did. I could not even look around the room. I was so terrified of what someone else saw. What other group sitting there at. In the pub was mortified, like, looking at us going, what are y' all doing to this kid?

[Amy]

They didn't know that we asked her to try mustard.

[Travis]

I know.

[Amy]

We didn't ask her to eat a burger. We asked her to eat some mustard. It's not the same thing. It's like food, you know, it's not an oyster either. It's, like, not something weird that, like, most people don't like. It's freaking.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Why don't you start with, like, barbecue sauce? Do barbecue sauce with the chicken. Do something like mustard and a chip.

[Amy]

Hey, she won't do barbecue either. Listen, next time we'll try barbecue, see how that plays out.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

But that was a little more like mustard. And the chip is awful.

[Amy]

Oh, I. I dip my must. My chips in mustard. I'm a mustard chick.

[Travis]

Thank you.

[Amy]

I like mustard with my mustard.

[Travis]

So there's a big Debate in our house around expiration dates on foods.

[Amy]

Dale seems to think as soon as the expiration date hits, it has to be thrown out. Oh, no, it has to be. Even if it's a thing that has not been opened.

[Travis]

Not true.

[Amy]

That's exactly how you've always been. I remember having that pantry cleaned out and you throwing things out. Even if it was like ketchup that hadn't been opened. Yeah.

[Travis]

So if it's two months, three months, four months, more like, if it's a couple of weeks and not opened, it's fine. See, I have. Have a different. Different opinion than you thought.

[Amy]

So two weeks.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

It depends on what it is.

[Travis]

If it's unopened. Yeah, I mean, you know, like steak, chicken, meats, things like that. Out. When it crosses that date, it's. It's done to me.

[Amy]

Yes, it's out.

[Travis]

So. But if it's something that's, you know, in the pan in the pantry, a dry good. Right. And it's a couple of weeks or so, unopened, still, fine. But if it's a couple of weeks and it's opened, then it's definitely not something I want to eat. I'm not even mess with it. I'm not. I'm not. I mean, it's got a date on there for a reason.

[Amy]

Yeah. The data is on there so that they have a marker of which their quality is. Is benchmarks. Like, you can still eat it. It's not going to hurt you. Like, if you can open a bag of chips that are a year old and just check it out and see if.

[Travis]

What does the word expire mean? I mean, is it like.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

No, but that's. That's more like for, like, legally, so that, like, they can't be sued and like.

[Travis]

Yes.

[Amy]

They have to have a different liability. Yuck. For the most part, especially if it's something completely dry.

[Travis]

I don't. I don't. I don't adhere to that.

[Amy]

So, I mean, I'll take an Advil too, if it's expired, but.

[Travis]

Oh, now I'll do some.

[Amy]

It's gonna be a little weak.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

No, medicine is what I wouldn't do because it won't. It can lose, like, its effectiveness.

[Travis]

Yeah, that's o. If it's effective, I still want some of its effectiveness.

[Amy]

That's how I feel about the chips. You threw all my snacks away. We have a snack drawer here in the bar.

[Travis]

You told me to. I told you the dates and you said, yeah, throw that out.

[Amy]

Because he starts arguing with me and I'm like, you know what? It's not even. I never started arguing. I'll get some new snackies. Start arguing. Yes, she did. You're like, but it says, that's April. It says April.

[Travis]

No, like, that's not how that went.

[Amy]

The only thing I told you to throw away immediately was open stuff.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Which is obvious. It's stale.

[Travis]

Yeah, of course.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

So I have a question.

[Amy]

Get rid of it.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Yeah, I have a question for you then. So I drank, like, the lactate milk, and it was. The expiration date was like, June 18th, and I had it early. I did, like, I just opened it. Smell test, and then it smelled fine. So I.

[Amy]

So the lactose free stuff lasts longer than they.

[Travis]

Is that the end of the story?

[Amy]

No, he's like.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

But like, I. So it's like 10 days after its expiration date. Is that too much for you?

[Amy]

Did you blow up?

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

No, it's fine.

[Amy]

That's the measure for all things. I mean, if it didn't make you barf, you're fine.

[Travis]

Did you have diarrhea?

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

No, I did not.

[Travis]

Did you get any kind of stomach pains and then do a lot of farting?

[Amy]

Did you break out in a rash?

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

No. Rashes should be good then.

[Amy]

Yeah. I think milk is scary.

[Travis]

Your body was probably like, what the hell? But you didn't know. You didn't know that.

[Amy]

What? Okay.

[Travis]

You put it down in there and your body's like, jesus, this stuff.

[Amy]

This guy's an animal.

[Travis]

Freaking idiot.

[Amy]

No, I would say milk is something you have to be a little more careful with, but the lactose free stuff does last way longer.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Yeah, that's what I thought. So I was like, I. I do the smell test or like, the cheese sometimes. Like, I'll just like, look. I'm like, I don't see any mold in there. It's still good.

[Amy]

Yeah. And then you just cut the moldy part off and go for it.

[Travis]

We have.

[Amy]

No,

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

that's when you got to pitch it, Amy. You can't just cut the mold off.

[Amy]

Yeah, you can.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

We.

[Travis]

We have snacks up here in this bar, right? We only come up here every couple of months. And when we have guests up here, you don't want them opening up a bag of chips and then being stale and them having to go, what the hell? They don't keep fresh around here, you know? And so, you know, if it's like, if there's chips in there that are six months old, four months old, they

[Amy]

gotta go, I didn't grow up like that. Risk we ate it Anyway, I get

[Travis]

it if I'm gonna eat it, but that's like community food.

[Amy]

It's not gonna hurt someone's belly. It's just. Yeah, not.

[Travis]

Not hurting the belly. It's a snake.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

No, he's got a point. If the chip loses its crispiness and people bite into it and that's gonna ruin the.

[Amy]

I know. No, no. Everything.

[Travis]

It's somebody's impression of us and what we're providing them is gonna go down. We're gonna get a four star rating instead of a five star.

[Amy]

Here's what I challenge you to do, Ralph. I would challenge you to open one and just try it first. I haven't. I haven't could guarantee you that it would still be crunchy. It's its job to be crunchy. It doesn't get squishy unless you open it. Not supposed to squish it to the air. Same thing. Like, it doesn't do that unless you expose it to the air.

[Travis]

I have had. I'm 51. I've had experiences. I mean, I've experienced this.

[Amy]

I have been eating old food for a long time too, and I've never had one that was.

[Travis]

I got higher standards, I guess.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Wait, hold on. I got a question.

[Amy]

Whoa. That what I mean.

[Travis]

I mean, I mean, in terms of

[Amy]

staleness, you're just bougie. You're bougie.

[Travis]

I'm bougie.

[Amy]

You're a redneck bougie man.

[Travis]

I guess so.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

So, Dale, you're throwing away chips that the bag hasn't even been opened yet.

[Amy]

Yes, Travis. Yes. Yes.

[Travis]

From April.

[Amy]

Like snack size bags of chips or crackers or something.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Those are. Those can last years.

[Amy]

Are you.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I thought you're talking about like an open bag.

[Travis]

You seal like you think chips can last years.

[Amy]

Yes, sir. Bob.

[Travis]

In a sealed bag.

[Commercial Announcer]

Yes.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Yes.

[Travis]

No.

[Amy]

Yes. It's full of preservatives.

[Travis]

I mean, that's true, but it doesn't mean it's going to not be stale.

[Amy]

Yeah, it does, actually.

[Travis]

So, all right. We had chips in there from February, January. We had chips in there from December, 2025. You're eating those?

[Amy]

Yeah, I'm going to try it before I throw it away.

[Travis]

Eating them.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Travis.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Yes.

[Travis]

From what year? From what month?

[Amy]

Travis, what you throw.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

They could be from 20, 25 if they're a bag of Ruffles potato chips. And open those puppies up and going.

[Amy]

Yes, they're going down.

[Travis]

Y' all are in the minority. Let's get a poll.

[Jimmy Uso]

No, no.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

It's two against one.

[Amy]

It's two here. You're the minority.

[Travis]

I believe we need to put this out to the public, see what the truth. All right.

[Amy]

I feel like you need to just stop throwing away good food, Ralph.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Yeah,

[Travis]

this is the public house to say.

[Amy]

Pebble ice is a no go.

[Travis]

So yesterday I was in the swimming pool with Isla and I saw something that I can't explain. Well, I guess I can explain it, but I saw something that I didn't believe was possible. So there was that. We have some wasps that fly around.

[Amy]

Yeah, there's lots of.

[Travis]

And every time you come down here, there's a new wasp nest to find and hunt down and take care of. And so we're in the pool and there's a wasp that's kind of flying around in the yard a little bit. And he comes up to the coping of the pool and stuff every now and then. And we had this fishing net. The net is like 6 by 6 inches.

[Amy]

It's a kid's toy.

[Travis]

Kids toy. And it has a rod handle that's probably, let's say, a foot and a half long.

[Amy]

It's like for catching butterflies or something.

[Travis]

And it's bright orange. And so I catch this wasp with this net and now have the wasp in the net and I put it in the water way low, like a foot and a half deep into the water is. I'm holding the wasp. The handle of this thing, it's a foot and a half long. Then the net, and the wasp is in it all underwater by about a foot and a half. Isla's got on her little goggles and I'm like, swim, look underwater and see if that wasp is still in that net. I just wanted her to see the wasp. And she's like, that I'd called it. And she's like, yep, the wasp is in there. And she goes down again. She goes, dad. She comes up, she goes, dad, dad, he's out. He's coming out. He's walking up the handle. And I'm like, what? How? He's like, underwater. And I let go of it and the handle, the net, it floats it Bob. No, the net sunk and the handle bobbed in the water just the very end of the. The handle sticking out of the water by about 2 inches. That wasp crawled all the way up the handle, out of the water onto the tip, stood there for a second and then flew away.

[Amy]

What the hell? Yeah, that's an evil bug.

[Travis]

He was underwater for 20 seconds more.

[Amy]

He walked.

[Travis]

That's a tough wasp, that handle. Like, it wasn't I'm glad I let go of it. He just stuck my ass underwater, no less.

[Amy]

That would have been.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I saved your life.

[Amy]

I, I can't believe that they can swim like that. I didn't either even just march underwater.

[Sponsor Voice]

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[Amy]

Who.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

They can't. This one just must have. They. I just googled like they, they would normally drown, right?

[Travis]

So like I would assume.

[Amy]

Yeah. When their wings.

[Travis]

They can't fly, I'm gonna hold him underwater and drown this thing. And because I was like, you know, we can't get. There's a bee flying around. She's like, we can't kill the bees. They gotta pollinate.

[Amy]

Yeah. She's like, they have a job. They're good. We need to keep the bees. But that wasp.

[Travis]

Wasp ain't got no job. We can kill it. I'm like, all right, so I'm drowning him and damn, his ass was gonna walk out of there. Sting me on the way out. Yeah, how about that, dude? I let go of it and I mean, it was like three, four seconds later, he come crawling up the damn pole right out of the water. I was like, what the hell?

[Amy]

Yeah, that would have blown my mind too if I saw that.

[Travis]

And then Isla's been trying to tell Amy for the last 12 hours. And I'm like, don't tell her, don't tell her, don't tell her. But I was like, I gotta tell her. I want to tell.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Why not tell why?

[Amy]

Oh, man. There are wasps. They'll like bury in the grass too, right there next to the pool. So they come out of nowhere. Well, now we know we literally have to have a fly swatter sitting around. The net's not good enough.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

You need to get one of those, like the ones that look like little rackets that have like, you press it and electrocute some.

[Amy]

Oh, do we not have one of those? That sounds fun.

[Travis]

I mean, it probably wouldn't last down here in these elements moments. Oh, so I need.

[Amy]

Nothing lasts down here.

[Travis]

I need. This is what I like to do. So when I'm. I. I usually like to do everything on my own or I've gotten better at doing everything on my own. But sometimes I just get to my wits end and I reach out to the Internet. I need a retractable extension cord that will handle the elements. So I've put. I've. We're on a beach. I've got in the garage. It's not out in the rain, it's downstairs covered. But it's a breathe breathable garage. There's wind blowing through there, it's slatted. And this. I've had to put two retractable extension cords in this garage because they keep failing. And I don't know why. I mean, I know the elements down here are.

[Amy]

And

[Travis]

the sand, the salt water, the salty out of everything, but I don't know why these retractable extension cords keep failing. Because we have. I mounted two fans up in the ceiling of the garage. They're your standard grilled big, you know, 16 inch, 18 inch fan, pull string, crank, you know, two or three speeds. Them damn things have been hung in this garage for.

[Amy]

Since you bought the house four or

[Travis]

five years and run like a champ. They'll sit down here not turned on for months. And that's the worst thing for anything down here, is for it to sit turned off. If it's working. It's actually kind of better off for everything down here. I've had to put two water pumps in our ice machine maker outside because the pump, magnetic pump keeps failing it because of the elements out here, just up over time. But then fans have never. They keep working and working and working and I can't. I don't know what the hell it is about it, the extension cord, but I need a retractable one. Not. No, just regular extension cord. Hell, I can go buy one of them anywhere. I need a good retractable that you pull out and you let it go and it run. Winds itself back up.

[Amy]

It's for the golf carts, which is why he wants it to go away. So it's not laying through the, through the garage.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

No, you don't want it out there?

[Amy]

No.

[Travis]

Yeah, I mean, I'm using a regular cord. That's fine. I want the retractable one to work, but I can't find one to last. So shoot me a suggestion out there.

[Amy]

Somebody send him help.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

There's got to be one. The Internet's got everything.

[Travis]

That's what this is good for. So if you like stuff, you talk about it, the Internet tells you about it and says this is the good stuff of that stuff.

[Amy]

Oh my gosh.

[Travis]

That's the best thing about the Internet. That's really just podcasting.

[Amy]

He's really just using you listeners.

[Travis]

No, it's. If you talk about things, you get answers, things you like, things you don't like, things you're struggling with, whether. Whatever it is, whether it's material items, whether it's emotional stress, work, whatever. Internet's like therapy now. You gotta weed through a lot of. You gotta weed through a ton of. And if you ask for a good retractable drop cord, you gotta weep through the. But you'll find a good one.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

You'll have one within a week, I guarantee it.

[Travis]

That's it.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

And your phone's probably listening. It's going to start feeding you.

[Amy]

I was just going to say, at this point, it's just going to pop right into your feed. You don't even need to worry about it.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Just open up your phone and just say, retractable cord.

[Amy]

Yeah, I'm surprised he hadn't found one. Just doing that. Anyway, I think it'll be okay.

[Travis]

Today is the day that I finally come public with my issues in retractable cords. So this is the first time people are hearing about it. Give it a little time.

[Jimmy Uso]

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[Travis]

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[Amy]

Okay, guys, we're back with another session of Ask Amy. What do you have for us this week, Travis?

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

So first question people will know is, what do you think about Amanda not returning to summer house?

[Amy]

I think.

[Travis]

Hey, wait, wait. What news to me. What's going on?

[Amy]

News flash. Amanda's not returning to the summer house.

[Travis]

I wasn't sure who wouldn't come. I figured. I figured there would be a few people, one or two that wouldn't be on it, but. So it's Amanda. Amanda's the one that's getting.

[Amy]

Well, west is also not coming back.

[Travis]

Well, of course. Okay, so Amanda and West are out.

[Amy]

Amanda has officially proclaimed that she is also not coming back. I feel like we could have saw that coming. I think that now she's got the in the City show and not. I'm not shocked, but I'm kind of surprised that she's on TV anymore right now at all. Unless this whole thing as we started from the very beginning, the whole thing might just be a ruse and they were getting divorced anyway. And, like, this whole thing is what a hell of a thing to put yourself through, but maybe it's all just for show. I don't know.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I don't think that this is, like, a fake thing, though.

[Amy]

It's hard to understand if it was fake. It's very developed, but it's gone too far for fake. It's gone too far. Okay.

[Travis]

Hey, somewhat related. Craig Conover is. Is at the race this weekend in Charlotte or Chicago.

[Amy]

Yeah. I'm like, what? Not Charlotte, Chicago.

[Travis]

He's Grand Marshal or something. Oh, yeah. He texts me. He's like, you're going to be in Chicago for the race. Let me see.

[Amy]

We are big Southern Tram fans, obviously. We've talked about Southern Tram quite a

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

bit, but for real.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

They're all very nice people.

[Travis]

I should have mentioned it. He's on the Southern Charm.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Travis]

He is invited to the Chicago races weekend. Honorary starter.

[Sponsor Voice]

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[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Wonder what the Chicago tie is.

[Travis]

I don't know. I was surprised to hear that as well.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Yeah, that's cool. Speaking of races, Amy, we saw Isla finally get in the car. What was it like for you? What was your thoughts?

[Amy]

Yeah, so I have. I. She is always a little scared, and so I will put her in situations where I'm like, she's going to be challenged and she's either going to go with it or she's going to lock up, because she locked up the first time she got, you know, put in that position to get in the car. And so I. I told her going up to the race, leading up to it and during the day of the race that if they won, that it was her turn to get in the car. And she seemed excited about it. Her dad had talked to her about it. She was all about it. And then we get in the moment and everyone's staring at her, and it's time, and she has to make a choice very quickly. And she walks over to the car with Dale, and then she turns around, she comes right back to me. She's like, I can't do it, Mom. I don't want to do it. She was worried about it being too hot in the car. She was worried about everything. And then Nicole's like, well, I want to go. So she, like, screams, throws her hands in the air, runs over to Daddy, and. And then Isla decides she wants to change her mind and she's gonna go back. So I'm like, coley, come over here with me. And so Coley cries. And I'm holding Nicole. She's crying against my leg. And then Isla finally gets in the car, and she pretends the whole time that she's not having a good time, but she was smirking and loved every second of it, but she's not gonna admit that she's talked about it since. So I know that she enjoyed it, but she's definitely not like the natural daredevil that Nicole is. And Nicole was crushed. She's like, dang it. She said no. She changed her mind. Like, it was a whole thing. I thought we were gonna have, like, two kids crying at the race car, and then SVG's like, what the. What the hell's going on here? It was definitely, like, more time spent trying to get that to happen than we should have been doing right there at that moment. But I think she liked it.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I love how Nicole's like, please don't do it.

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[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Like, she's now, like, fully bought in.

[Sponsor Voice]

She loves it.

[Amy]

She was banking on Isla chickening out.

[Travis]

Yeah. I'm kind of. I'm. I'm interested to see where this goes with Coley, because I don't. I don't think would have any interest whatsoever in genuinely, like, trying to. Trying to drive something or getting any kind of a cart of any kind. But we have carts, and there's. We have little tracks, and I can get. I can get Coley on a little slow cart and have her. That's what all the kids did. I mean, I could tell you two dozen children of crew chief, drivers, mechanics that all got their kids on tiny little carts and by themselves, just let them run around this little track for hours on end.

[Amy]

They just come out to the house.

[Travis]

They would come out to our house, and we just tell them, come on Sunday, Saturday, whenever y' all wanted to come. And they'd just be down there by themselves with their dad, just running laps over and over and over and over. They get off, take a little break,

[Amy]

and Isla's done that. She. She's done that on her little cart. But it's not like something that drives her. It's like something she'll play with, but it's not something she's passionate about.

[Travis]

Yeah. So. Yeah, we'll see. Coley seems like she. She's. She's pretending or she's serious. I can't tell. But she says she wants to learn more about it.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Are we still in the kind of phase?

[Travis]

Yeah, we're still in the kind of phase.

[Amy]

Everything's in the kind of phase she. Except for mustard. She definitely doesn't like that.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Well, listen, Cole, I'm with you on mustard, so stay strong on that one. It's awful. We heard Dale talk about The Sonoma trip out on the download. Amy, what was like kind of your highlighter would you like best about going out there?

[Amy]

I always love going out to Sonoma because, of course, I like the wine country because of the wine. But the weather is just so nice. It's beautiful. The sun is out. It's like, there's no clouds in the sky, and it's a little chilly in the morning and super hot in the afternoon. So, like, you get to just experience just really different weather. But the girls had a blast. We stayed at the Stanley ranch this year. It was our first time. And they have a chicken coop. And I think that was their favorite thing of the whole trip was just getting to go inside this coop and feed the chickens. So we did that a couple of times, and they could pick them up. And so Nicole and I both chased the chickens down. You know, everything has a swimming pool. Everything has all the things. But the chicken coop was special, and so they love that. I love the racetrack, too. It's one of my favorite ones. I like that it's road course, and it's like, not like a flat, basic road course. It's more dynamic, so it's fun to watch.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Have any of the Jesus has made its way to Sullivan's island yet?

[Amy]

Probably.

[Travis]

Yeah. I've got some in my bag. I haven't put them anywhere yet.

[Amy]

I'm surprised he hasn't. He should have a couple in his pocket at all times. So we get those Jesuses at Sweetgrass. They keep them on the countertop right next to the checkout. So, like, we do have several of those at home. Like, every little backpack has one in its pocket.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

And so you're already aware of this before.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, the pocket Jesus. Yeah. But I didn't know that Dale would be so excited about it. We need little tiny Dale Juniors or even your dad just to give the number. The little number three. That would be so fun.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I got a text from a coworker at Junior Motorsports, and he goes, I just saw the social clip. It makes sense why I have a Jesus in my office right now.

[Amy]

He's like, I don't know where Jesus popped up.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I wish we wouldn't have cut the social clip, though, so that people around the office would have been wondering what's going on.

[Amy]

Yeah. Where it came from.

[Travis]

Mike has three in his office. I don't know if he's found them yet.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

He's on vacation, so he. He won't even know about him until he gets back.

[Travis]

Probably understood.

[Amy]

You gotta hide them in Places that'll surprise you. Like, I don't know, in a drawer, in a seat, and a cup holder.

[Travis]

There's one.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

We put one in one of the bathrooms.

[Amy]

There's one in Travis's space right now.

[Travis]

What room Travis is in right now.

[Amy]

Can we see it? Should he be able to see it?

[Travis]

Look over by the. Look over by the door and then the glass wall.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Yeah, he's over in the corner.

[Amy]

Listen, just a little blessing for you.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I put. I put one in the bathroom in the men's bathroom at Dirty Move.

[Travis]

Awesome.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Just, you know, bless the bathroom.

[Amy]

Did you order a box as well?

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I did not order a box because

[Amy]

we've got a lot.

[Travis]

So Steven ordered some, and then I ordered some sitting next to him, but Steven thought he was ordering them to give to me. So he comes into the Dirty Mo media studio. Here's your box of Jesus's. I said, that's your box. I've got my box. And he goes. He was. The look on his face when he was like, oh, no. He was the owner of a box of miniature Jesus. He was like, okay, now what am I gonna do with all these same things? You know? He's like,

[Amy]

this is. This is more challenge, dude.

[Travis]

And I said, just get rid of them. Like, put them everywhere. He comes back, like, 20 minutes later. He's like, all right. They're everywhere. I'm like, the whole box, really? I'm looking at my box going, this is gonna take a while, right?

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Yeah. Like, you gotta take not to. You can't just put them all in one office. You gotta take them with you places.

[Amy]

I don't want to think about this longer than I have to. I'm just going to get rid of them. Yeah, that's funny. You could have just sold them in the shop downstairs. Get a little Jesus on your. Jesus and jerky.

[Travis]

Yep.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Jesus and jerky.

[Amy]

You buy a bag of jerky, you get a Jesus.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

There you go. Next question. Speaking of potato chips, what's your go to potato chip?

[Amy]

Potato chip or chip?

[Travis]

Oh, man. Lay salt and vinegar. It could be a chip, hands down. Lay salt and vinegar.

[Amy]

I like salt and vinegar. Really good. I also really like the chili cheese Fritos. Fritos have always been on the top for me.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Those are my favorite as a kid.

[Travis]

Another salt and vinegar. That's really good, too. And I can't remember the name. Golly. I can't remember the brand name, but

[Amy]

it's the ones in the can. Huh?

[Travis]

No, no, no, no. They're. It's in a Bag.

[Amy]

They're like kettle chips.

[Travis]

They're super tart.

[Amy]

Yeah, I remember where I bought those.

[Travis]

The name is they're more of a specialty. The name feels like a very old vintage brand. I can't remember the damn name, but they are freaking good. Salt and vinegar to me is just such a cool combo flavor for a chip. Even for like almonds and stuff. Salt, vinegar, almonds.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I love the jalapeno kettle chips.

[Travis]

Yeah. I can't get down with jalapeno flavored things. I like jalapenos.

[Amy]

Yeah. I'm with you. It doesn't have the same vibe.

[Travis]

No. That's something that's always kind of been strange.

[Amy]

I do like jalapenos in my wine, though. It's like a trend that I do actually like. You slice up jalapenos and stick it in your Sauvignon blanc or your rose, and over time it gets more spicy, but it's good. I don't think I ever picked ones, fresh ones.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Last question at 4th of July is this weekend. When is the cutoff for you to, for people to stop doing like fireworks and it's being like annoying, my opinion.

[Travis]

So Monday. Don't. So traditionally, fireworks. The more, you know, the, the local public setup or, or your buddies down the street that do it every year, it usually happens in the evening, right? Yeah, sometime. You know, I think once it's. Once you've kind of started that like official firework display that's going to happen that you're going to do in the evening or that's happening at the town square or whatever after that's done and it's beyond midnight, like, I think it's. We moved on to the next day. Like it's, it's over. Like it's the fifth. So.

[Amy]

Yeah, I'm with you. I feel like if you're still shooting

[Travis]

fireworks off at 2 o' clock in the morning, 3 o' clock in the morning on the 5th, or doing it

[Amy]

wrong or even like the next day in the afternoon. So like, yeah, July, the 4th is the day and then I like fireworks and I don't care about the noise, but I feel like fireworks on the

[Travis]

first, second, third, leading up. Good.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Afterwards, a couple experimental fireworks.

[Amy]

It's like Christmas music after the new year. Like, that's right. You know what I mean?

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So you cut, you cut off the fireworks at, at the end of the fourth.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I thought I was going to be stingy. I was going to give people. I'm going to give people July 5th because especially since it's a Sunday, if you want to set on fireworks.

[Amy]

Is that only because it's a Sunday this year? Yeah.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I'll give you the fifth. I thought that was going to be stingy.

[Travis]

Okay. Since the 5th's on a Sunday, you might have a little tolerance there. But I think, honestly, man, I just feel like it's like Amy said, it's like we got this radio that plays in the garage, and it plays on this radio station that play once it's Christmas time. Right around Thanksgiving, they play Christmas music all the way. I think they play it all the way to Christmas Day, and right after Christmas, it changes back to regular programming.

[Amy]

Yep.

[Travis]

It would be freaking weird to walk in there on the 26th, 7th, or 8th, and their Christmas music still playing.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Because our jingle bell, emotionally, we have moved on.

[Amy]

Yeah. We are spent. Check. We're done. We made it to the finish line. It's kind of the same thing with the fourth.

[Travis]

It was awesome.

[Amy]

The buildup is so big, too, around here.

[Travis]

It was awesome.

[Amy]

That's probably another reason I feel that way. Like, the fifth needs to be a reset day. Sunday is a reset for hangover day. Normal summer stuff happening.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

All right. No fun for Amy and Dale.

[Travis]

No fun. No. We had fun yesterday, buddy.

[Amy]

We had fun on the third, all day. Fourth, all day on the third.

[Travis]

We had fun on the third, the second. We're having fun today.

[Sponsor Voice]

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[Travis]

Speaking of the fifth is recover sleep. Get your ass ready for Monday.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Speaking of fun, I forgot about. This is not an Ask Amy question, but we forgot about this topic. What the hell's going on with the. The corn salad.

[Amy]

Yeah. So we went to our favorite restaurant here last night, and they didn't have the corn salad again because they sold too many batches of it. Yes. The day before. It's so popular, and I think it marinates, like, it's not something they just freshly make.

[Travis]

I was told it would be back today.

[Jimmy Uso]

Yes.

[Amy]

We asked. We wanted to make sure that we could get some. So she said that they just had to get it together, and it has to.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I was wondering if. Was there a corn shortage or what?

[Amy]

Yeah. I text Travis immediately, and he gets on the Google, and he's like, there is absolutely no shortage of corn in the United States, period, ever. Period.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Yeah. Chat did not like me asking about it.

[Amy]

Yeah. He was offended that you. Appalled even, that you asked such a question. Where's all the corn?

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I hope, Dale, because you haven't had any yet. Right. And, like, Amy was able to get some a couple Weeks ago. But you aren't some.

[Travis]

Soon enough.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Okay.

[Amy]

He hasn't. To answer your question, no, he is deprived of the corn.

[Travis]

It's all right.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Amy decided to brag about it to us.

[Amy]

Yeah, I sent a photo and everything. I feel like it was a small victory, like they had it in stock.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

I'm out in San Diego trying to enjoy my drink, and then Amy just rubs in that she gets the corn salad.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Little food porn Food. Corn porn. Corn porn thing. Y' all know don't remember setting me up for that.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

No, I. I knew I was a plan.

[Travis]

We had a plan all along. Kind of like summer house. Sometime I feel like wrap this all into one big bow.

[Amy]

Y' all plot against me since I'm the only chick

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

we. No, we don't plot against you at all.

[Amy]

Well, y' all are aware of stuff that I obviously am not because a. Y' all are boys. And then y' all are probably on social media reading things. I don't like tik toks and stuff like that.

[Travis]

You looking at me? I don't have tik to.

[Amy]

No, but you're all over X and all those Reddit like, I'm. Yeah.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

Zero. Plotting against Jamie.

[Amy]

I'm lame. I stick to the gram.

[Travis]

Speaking of Chicago, I got word that it will likely be a sellout this weekend. Oh, and I also got word that they are looking to go back, even though this Charlotte Chicago street course has been teased as a return.

[Amy]

Really?

[Travis]

They. I didn't think they could do both, but it sounds like both is actually on the table. I think it's going to be a fantastic race and a badass racetrack and a lot of fun. So. Yeah, I was hoping it would be extremely popular so it would stick around. So it looks like. I was kind of thinking, you know, they're putting so much into it to get us back. Like, financially, it's got to be costly just to get the track back in order. So it's good to hear that there is a plan to continue.

[Amy]

Was it in bad shape?

[Travis]

Well, I mean, it's just been sitting idle for about four or five years.

[Amy]

So if a track doesn't have a race, a sanctioned race coming, they just let it chill. Like they're not. Yeah.

[Travis]

I mean, just needs a new, fresh coat of paint, make sure all the plumbing works, wiring and electrical.

[Amy]

And not the actual physical track itself. No, it's everything else around it.

[Travis]

I mean, the physical track itself probably needed a little bit of, you know, weed killer and stuff like that. Yeah.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh. Really?

[Travis]

Probably. I mean, grows up through the cracks. I don't know. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, if you leave it sitting, it's. It's gonna look like our. You know, like your driveway would.

[Amy]

Right. But it's not like a retired track for life. Like somebody's surely pulling the weeds. No.

[Travis]

Oh, I don't know.

[Amy]

I don't. I don't either.

[Travis]

I don't know one like that.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

You're the expert.

[Amy]

Yeah, well, Wilkesboro was dead D E

[Travis]

D well, it ain't no more, it's

[Amy]

a lie D E D yeah. Dead Wilt.

[Travis]

Squirrel's back, baby. Finally. All the way. All the way back. Like, the All Star Race was cool, but the points race is officially. We are all the way back.

[Amy]

Yeah. Good job.

[Travis]

I'm pumped I get to broadcast this race.

[Amy]

I know. What a full circle thing.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Right? Yeah.

[Travis]

Yeah. The universe.

[Guest/Travis' Friend]

All right, well, I think that's a good place to stop.

[Amy]

All right. Thank you guys for all of your questions. Thank you for listening. Hopefully you had a good time, and we will, you see. See you next week.

[Travis]

Check out Dirty Mo Media on Instagram, Facebook X and Tik Tok.

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