The Comment Amy Made That Got the Internet Talking…

Summary

The Dale Jr. Download

Episode: The Comment Amy Made That Got the Internet Talking…
Date: February 19, 2026
Hosts: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Amy Earnhardt, and Travis
Podcast: Dirty Mo Media, SiriusXM

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Dale Jr. Download is a lively blend of candid family chat, playful banter, and honest insights into the lives of Dale Jr., his wife Amy, and their friend Travis. The central theme—and what set the Internet buzzing—was a comment Amy made encouraging Dale to race the Daytona 500 again. The Earnhardts openly discuss the realities and pressures tied to such a decision, dispel rumors about Amy’s influence on Dale’s retirement, and explore everything from their collections and parenting misadventures to cruise ship surprises and Winter Olympic drama.

The episode’s warm, genuine tone offers an engaging look into the couple’s dynamic, revealing both lighthearted and sincere moments.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Collecting (00:56–14:15)

• Baseball Cards & Diecasts: Dale reflects on the resurgence of card collecting post-pandemic, explaining the “junk wax” era and how the hobby has changed with autograph cards and increased value placed on newer, rarer pulls.
• He admits, “All my junk wax from the ‘90s hasn’t really risen in value… not any of the older stuff. It’s all the new stuff.” (05:10)
• Amy teases Dale about his tendency to go all-in with new hobbies, referencing his diecast car collection and how he tries to sneak new arrivals into the house:
  • Amy: “You should see the collection of diecast cars… it started with, ‘I’m just gonna get Dad’s [cars]’ … now they’re all around the room.” (13:13)
  • Dale: “I open it up, pull the car out, slide it in my hoodie, and I creep upstairs…” (13:26)

2. Drink of the Week & High Rock Vodka Accomplishments (14:21–19:39)

• Dirty Martini Talk: Amy shares her favorite cocktail—a dirty martini—and Dale admits he just doesn’t get the appeal, despite loving olives. The playful back-and-forth shows off their chemistry:
  • Amy: “Because it tastes good, bro.” (19:11)
  • Dale: “I can’t get down with it… I just don’t know what the appeal is.” (19:03)
• High Rock Vodka: Dale proudly announces the vodka’s recognition by Forbes and praises its taste and quality, emphasizing its smoothness and lack of hangover, owing to the Lincoln County filtering process.

3. Family Life & Parenting (21:25–23:00, 44:52–50:50)

• They joke about their five-year-old daughter Nicole's habit of communicating with funny noises, with both parents mimicking her “grunt and ‘e’ talk,” illustrating parenting quirks.
• Amy on Parenting: “Looks like a couple Neanderthals talking to each other.” (22:53)
• A candid moment: Isla, their older daughter, struggles with being late to school and experiences an emotional meltdown, prompting real talk about childhood anxiety and parenting strategies.

4. The "Comment" That Got the Internet Talking: Should Dale Race Again? (24:52–34:15)

• Amy’s Suggestion: During Daytona weekend, Amy, in a rare moment, suggested Dale should race the 500 again.
  • Amy: “You just should run it yourself next year… I was kind of serious, but it’s… up to you.” (25:20)
• Dale’s Candid Response: He shares how physically and mentally demanding a Cup return would be, sharing the pressures, the circus-like attention, and doubts about his own sharpness after years away.
  • “It’s an elite level… you have to be freaking badass… I don’t think you can just jump in and all that comes right back… I think it’s naive.” (28:53–29:23)
• Clearing the Air: Dale stresses Amy never made or pressured him to retire, confronting a recurring internet narrative:
  • “When I retired, people were blaming Amy… that’s not accurate at all. I made the choice to stop.” (33:05)
  • Amy: “You have to be happy and your choice has to be yours or you have to live with it.” (33:43)

5. Parenting & Life Updates (34:15–43:59)

• Disney Cruise Adventure: Amy describes their family’s first-ever Disney Cruise—her reservations about cruising, the weather mishaps, and the unexpectedly lavish adult-themed bars (especially a Haunted Mansion bar that delighted and terrified their girls).
  • Amy: “I've never been on a cruise boat. It wasn’t really in my interest… I felt like I’d seen the Titanic…” (34:38)
  • Dale: “I had no idea how much alcohol is on this boat… there was at least five bars.” (36:19–38:09)
  • They relive the Medusa-themed bar episode, which left Nicole scared and having nightmares.
    • Amy: “Both of those kids woke up… screaming, crying. Nicole had dreams about Medusa coming after her.” (41:54–42:04)

6. Generational Differences & Technology (43:59–48:39)

• "Screen Time Limits": Hilarious recounting of a friend’s streaming habits and the newly coined phrase for when partners leave town: “No screen time limits this week.”
  • Dale: “That’s the new slang—my better half’s out of town, no screen time limits this week.” (45:11)
• Code Words & Sarcasm: They muse about “code words” in friendships and relationships, leading to a conversation on Galentine’s Day and playful ribbing:
  • Dale: “If you never heard the word, it absolutely… feels like code.” (46:26)
  • Amy (mocking): “Ralph, you need to get out more.” (46:29)

7. Skipping School & Rebellious Stories (48:52–61:15)

• Amy: Never skipped school, rarely did “bad things.”
• Dale: Shares light—but revealing—stories of skipping school with his sister and friends, getting caught after stealing a traffic cone, and the resulting parental consequences.
  • “Dad finds it… ‘What the hell are you stealing cones for?’” (56:21)
  • Amy: “That’s not too bad a punishment, to be honest. Just a little shame.” (57:01)
• Additional tales of car crashes, more relics from their past, and mutual amusement at their very different upbringings.

8. Ask Amy Segment—Rapid Fire Q&A (61:44–77:46)

Highlights:

• Key West Girls’ Trip: Amy’s guide—girls can stay longer than boys, recommends 4 nights.
  • “Four is a good number. Like a long weekend.” (62:47)
• Best Key West Spots: Blue Heaven for brunch and pie, Bobby’s Monkey Bar (karaoke), Mary Ellen’s (for A/C and a cool bartender), and the Raw Bar for buffalo shrimp and oysters.
• Hangover Breakfasts: Amy prefers Taco Bell or a breakfast burrito; Dale goes for classic sausage or bacon, egg & cheese biscuits.
• Pets for Kids: Hard no to caged critters (hamsters, lizards, snakes), citing maintenance and feeding challenges. Fish tank stays; stories of past (nocturnal) rabbits and the legacy of “Buddy,” “Dude,” and “Cuz” the pets.
• MTV Cribs House: Amy’s take: loved the fridge reveal; found Dale’s house décor sometimes questionable but endearing.
  • Amy: “He took that Elvis thing real serious.” (73:22)
• Winter Olympics Commentary: Curling drama, accusations of cheating, and Dale’s view on betting the Olympics (“She thinks the Olympics are too pure”).
  • Amy: “The Canadians are cheaters.” (74:08)
  • Dale: “I like the racing on skates, the speed skating track and the big track stuff.” (75:01)
  • Amy: On Madonna tribute skater: “She was like, celebrating her. So, it’s fun.” (74:46)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Amy, on Dale’s all-in approach to hobbies:
  “It would spiral into this whole new branch… like your paintball or cycling thing.” (10:19)
• Dale, on racing the Daytona 500 again:
  “You have to be freaking badass… It’s naive to think you can just jump in a Cup car and go…” (28:53–29:23)
• Amy, correcting the narrative:
  “Of course I wanted you to be healthy and safe… but your choice has to be yours.” (33:43)
• On cruise ship bars:
  Dale: “Let me tell you, man. There was five bars on this boat… at 9pm, no more—no kids allowed.” (38:04)
• On parenting:
  Amy: “Looks like a couple Neanderthals talking to each other.” (22:53)
• On Key West recommendations:
  “Don’t just stay in town… get out on the water!” (62:52)
• On caged pets:
  Amy: “That’s where we stop. We're not having extra critters to feed the critter.” (68:48)
• On the family’s enduring love for “Dude” and “Cuz:”
  Dale: “I ain't trying to remember names. I'll just call you what I’m gonna call my friends.” (71:25)
• On MTV Cribs fridge cliché:
  Amy: “People always had like, water bottles and Cristal, and everything was lined up perfectly…” (72:38)
• On Winter Olympic curling drama:
  Amy: “The Canadians are cheaters.” (74:08) Dale: “She thinks the Olympics are too pure.” (74:24)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:56 — Dale talks card collecting resurgence
• 13:13 — Amy on Dale’s diecast obsession
• 14:21 — Dirty Martini/high Rock Vodka talk
• 24:52 — Daytona 500, Amy’s infamous comment
• 28:53–29:23 — Dale on the realities of Cup-level racing
• 33:05 — Dale clears the air about Amy and his retirement
• 34:15 — Disney Cruise with the kids
• 41:54 — Medusa bar fallout and kid nightmares
• 44:11 — “No screen time limits” and technology code talk
• 48:52 — Skipping school: The Earnhardt way vs. the Amy way
• 62:47 — Key West girls trip duration tips
• 72:38 — Amy on MTV Cribs house/fridge commentary
• 74:08 — Curling drama and Olympic chat

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Conclusion

This episode is a showcase of what makes The Dale Jr. Download so beloved: transparency, family humor, pop culture tidbits, parenting honesty, and classic Earnhardt storytelling. Whether you’re here to catch up on the Daytona 500 rumor mill, learn more about the Earnhardts’ home life, or just get tips for your next trip to Key West—this episode delivers it with warmth and Southern wit.

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[A]

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

[C]

I'm working.

[A]

Working that mouth.

[C]

All right, foreign.

[A]

Welcome, everybody, to another episode of bless your heart. My husband Dale Jr. And I are in the dirty Mo media studios.

[C]

Yeah, call me your husband.

[A]

I know it feels weird to say it out loud.

[C]

I like it. It feels weird to say it out loud.

[A]

My husband. I feel like as a southern never

[C]

say it in my presence.

[A]

You have to say husband like. It's not just my.

[C]

You don't ever say in my presence.

[A]

I don't.

[C]

Why would I say? Well, to introduce yourself.

[A]

I mean, I'm not generally introducing you to anybody.

[C]

This is my wife, Amy.

[A]

Yeah, because you're Dale, and I don't have to introduce you to anybody. Does that make sense? Yeah. So this is my husband, Dale Jr.

[C]

Not be treated differently.

[A]

Welcome, Dale Jr. To this.

[C]

He wants me to be treated different.

[A]

I just. I look at you like a normal person, but you're not. So, like, there's that.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

That's why I don't introduce you as my husband outside of this scenario. But anyway, we're gonna have a good show. Let's get started.

[C]

Let's do it. We're. We have. Has it been two weeks?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah, man. It don't feel like it. So just to say a couple quick things, everybody's been asking me about these hats I got on. I got these jerky boys. I had these made. I had the patch made. Sent the. Sent all the hat. Sent the patch to a friend. He does the hats. He irons it on. But in the Junior Motorsports gift shop, we are selling jerky boys hats. Anybody wants one? Because everybody loves jerky boys jerky best in the world.

[A]

If you don't, better get out of here.

[C]

It's the best in the world. And I was in the gift shop. Yeah, right. I was in the gift shop to get this to show y' all today.

[A]

And he started shopping for himself.

[C]

I saw this shirt. Now, I saw some of these with the big 79, 80 Monte Carlo on it. And I'm like, that is the coolest. So I got one. I seen him. I seen him a bunch at the. At the. At the racetrack. Let me get this out of the way.

[A]

But what the heck? This is how life looks now.

[C]

It's out of the frame.

[A]

Now everybody gets a real clear example of how you act now.

[C]

It's out of the frame, and nobody knows it's there.

[A]

Just kick it.

[C]

So

[A]

what are we drinking today, Ralph?

[C]

Well, we're not ready to talk about the drink.

[A]

Oh, what are you drinking?

[C]

We're gonna have a little conversation first.

[A]

Travis, damn it.

[C]

Help. You're on an island with this one, Travis.

[A]

I feel like I'm on an island in general today.

[C]

Hey, Travis, talk so the camera.

[A]

Travis, say something.

[C]

There it is. Look at that shirt. What is that shirt?

[A]

Travis Scott Ripken, the one and only Cal Ripken.

[C]

All right, so it's like the baseball card. It's super cool, very vintage.

[A]

And baseball cards are like a thing again. Aren't they, dude?

[B]

So bad.

[C]

I was just gonna tell you.

[A]

Oh, sorry.

[C]

So I, I have a friend, Landon Huffman, races in the Cars tour, and he's gotten into the cards over the last year. Cole Swindell, Luke Combs, all these dudes are diving into these cards and I'm thinking, what's going on? So cards, baseball cards, racing, all types, Right. Are. Have made a big resurgence since. Since the pandemic or since the 2020, for whatever reason, they've made this sort of big comeback and all of the current stuff. So what I've learned is I talked to a couple people that are in that business and what I've learned is like all of my junk Wax from the 90s, all the stuff that I have from way back hasn't really risen in value, hasn't had this big resurgence. Not any of the older stuff. It's all the new stuff.

[A]

Junk wax is that the.

[C]

There's a period where they were printing so many cards, the stuff was worthless, like 90s upper deck and late 80s tops and stuff like that. They were just making so many cards that now they're not worth anything.

[A]

They're just too saturated.

[C]

Yeah. You can look, you can buy unopened boxes of 87 tops all the time for like 11 bucks. And so I mean there's, there's just not no value there. So all the stuff from the 40s, 50s and 60s, some, some of the 70s is valuable. Then the junk wax period began where they were over, over producing stuff. And then now that's made a big comeback in this. And the car companies have gotten smarter about limiting how much they're producing.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And doing auto. There's a lot of autographed cards these days. So they weren't selling autographed cards in packs years ago. Right. They didn't think to do that. Now they. Now there's autograph. You can pull a, pull a card and pull opening packs is like this new, you know, rush, adrenaline rush now. And there's. The card companies have made an effort to almost help you determine that you're going to get some value out of a pack. So there's different. The packs are, are, are sold now with almost some, some hope that you're going to pull a quality card. And so that's really incentivized collectors to do it, to get involved now because they feel like there's a better chance of them not getting a bunch of junk and no names.

[A]

Does that make you want to buy more box? Because it would make me like buy Less, I guess if I got satisfied,

[C]

I would stop not satisfied. So it makes people going. It makes people get the boxes and go after the cars and go after opening packs. They sit around together with friends and open packs and they're like, oh, look, I got one.

[A]

Travis is nodding very quickly.

[B]

Right?

[A]

That's right.

[C]

Yeah. Like Butterbean and Cole Swindell were somewhere the other day. They sent me a picture and they're together opening packs.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And trying to pull. And they pulled some pretty cool cards. And so it got me thinking, man. Like, dang.

[A]

You know I got you thinking dang?

[C]

Yeah. Got me thinking dang. Dang. I. I'm thinking that I want to. It made me curious. I started looking up some cards that I would love to have and do

[A]

you know what you have and don't have?

[C]

I do.

[A]

Like, where is your card collection?

[C]

I got them out. I've got. Had them in a safe and I got them out. And I was looking through them the other day and, you know, some. Some of my cards have not gone up in value. You can literally buy apps on your phone to take. Just to scan it, scan the card, and it'll be like, yep, that's a good card. And so I don't have a lot of great stuff. I have some parts that are. That are decent. But the what I would. Look what I'm thinking I would love to do is to buy some vintage cards that are autographed by my favorite players. We were right around the Super Bowl. John Riggins, running back for Washington in the. Was selling his super bowl used game, used jersey.

[A]

Really?

[C]

Yep. From 1983 or 82 when they beat the Miami Dolphins for the Super Bowl. He was selling the jersey and it was. It was assumed it would go for around $200,000 and it sold for 500.

[A]

500,000. Holy smokes.

[C]

Yeah, I mean, it's. It's a very iconic, especially if you're a Washington.

[A]

I was just going to ask you if you were going to consider buying it.

[C]

But now the Commanders, now they were the Redskins, and there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of emotion around how. What this team's been through over the last several years, and there's still a ton of hardcore fans from that era, and he was incredible. And he had there. He has this really signature play in that game. So, I mean, it's just having that jersey is the. Is a holy grail for Washington fans. Plus, it's an incredible piece in history. NFL.

[B]

That person also has Reagan's super bowl ring.

[A]

Oh, really? So he's a mega fan.

[C]

Riggins has gotten to the point in his life, he's like, you know what?

[A]

I don't need this.

[B]

Yeah, it's the owner of the, you know, the selling Sunset. So. Yeah, the Oppenheimer guy, he's the one that bought it.

[C]

Okay, I didn't know that. So anyways, that got me thinking. You know what? I do want to own some cards and I need to make like this sort of. It's very short list of like six to 12 players where I would love to have their autographed rookie card. And I think it starts with like John Riggins, Art Monk, Daryl Green. These are players.

[A]

Football. Football, yeah, guys.

[C]

And that would be the lit. I mean, my, my, like getting back into collecting would be basically this little short run of trying to get these 12 cards or so, you know, dozen cards or whatever. And then I'd be like, okay, I don't know.

[A]

I don't believe that for a second.

[C]

You don't?

[A]

I think it would spiral into like this whole new part, like this whole new branch. Just like how it works for you.

[C]

I can't get. I can't get. I don't trust the new trend that guys are, you know, guys and gals are going out there and like getting this rookie card of a current player. And like for example, Jaden Daniels, the owner of Washing, the owner of the Washington Commanders, bought this one of one card of Jaden's for like 100 grand, maybe more. And now it's worth much, much less after the season that he had last year. Now if he has another great year and takes him to the super bowl, eventually that card obviously would rebound. But people are a lot of money to spend. Yeah, guys like my buddy Landon Huffman, he bought a particular player's card who's the quarterback for the Tampa Bay. What's his name?

[B]

Baker.

[C]

Who?

[B]

Baker.

[C]

Yeah, Baker Mayfield. He got a Baker Mayfield card. Baker's hot, playing well and he bought this card. And then Baker had kind of a down year last year, not quite as good. And so, you know, the card drops him. I'm like, I can't get in that.

[A]

I know your emotions will go on the roller coaster too much with it.

[C]

Well, I remember back in the junk wax days, there was a guy named Todd Van Poppel, was a pitcher coming out of high school or college, going to play for the A's, and everybody was buying his card and. And he turned out to not turn into much at all. And none of his cards Are worth anything. All of us. You know, there's the cards right there. What are they worth, like six dollars?

[A]

Yeah, six bucks. How much do you spend on it to begin with?

[C]

Like, if you were buying, we were like, he's one of hundreds of examples of players where we were all like, oh, we got to get this card. This guy's a prospect. He's going to be a badass.

[A]

Yeah. You just never know.

[C]

Yeah. And they don't. And I can't get into that. That's too risky.

[A]

Well, not when they're cheap.

[B]

Also, Dale, I feel like Amy's right. Like, this is gonna be like your paintball or your cycling thing. Like, if you get into it, you're not just gonna, like, tippy toe hambone,

[A]

and it's gonna be a thing. You should see the collection of diecast cars, which. All of them are specific and special, and they have purpose.

[C]

I don't have a car for no reason.

[A]

No, but there's a purpose for the horse. But it started with, I'm just gonna get dad's, blah, blah, blah. And now we've got way more than that. And they take up a lot more space than baseball cards. So, like, in the library upstairs where he's got his cases, he now has these little. These little

[C]

cases.

[A]

They're small. They're not cases, though. They're out. So they're, like, banking like, little pieces of a racetrack, basically. And he's got them set up like they're running on a racetrack. And I look in the window the other day, and I'm like, holy. They're, like, all around the room now. They're everywhere. He's another one of those things. He, like, sneaks into the house. I can. I know who's shipping. Like, I know the label. I know the size of the box. But I see him, and he's like. All of a sudden, he disappears.

[C]

Custom diecast for 500.

[A]

They're so expensive. That's cheap. 500 is, like, the low end.

[B]

Also, stealing from Dirty Mo.

[C]

The box comes in the mail. I open it up, pull the car out, slide it in my hoodie, and I creep upstairs and try to get it.

[A]

What are you hiding it from? I'm not your mom.

[B]

And he wonders where Nicole gets it from.

[A]

That's right.

[C]

It's not that I think Amy's going to get mad or anything. I'm just embarrassed.

[A]

Why are you. Then why are you doing it? It's displayed. We can all see that.

[C]

You don't know what I paid for it. But if you say, hey, dude, I already know.

[A]

Yeah. If any box comes to the house labeled to dirty mo, I justify that

[C]

the price is fair because there's other people willing to pay it 100%.

[A]

He's lost some of these cars and then got mad about it and had the guy making one on the side.

[C]

Yeah, I've lost the.

[A]

The baseball card.

[C]

I've lost the auction.

[A]

Lost the ebay auction.

[C]

I lost in the mail or lost in my.

[A]

Just lost your marbles? No, I just feel like the baseball card thing would kind of lead to that too, but like I said, baseball cards are tiny.

[C]

Yeah, it's possible. Hey, we got the drink of the week. Don't skip forward because I want to tell you about this one.

[A]

This is my favorite drink. This is my absolute favorite cocktail to make.

[C]

Yeah, the.

[A]

This is Amy's favorite.

[C]

And I'm not. You know, I'm not supposed to dog the drinks, right? Because it's High Rock Vodka. And this is good vodka.

[A]

It's very good.

[C]

Oh, by the way, I want to

[A]

tell y', all, I'm gonna just have

[C]

a. Dude, I gotta tell you. And this is. This is awesome. This is why you don't want to skip forward. High Rock Vodka in Forbes magazine, Right. Oh. Is one of the top five world's best vodkas according to the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

It was voted as one of the. One of the top ones.

[A]

I mean, best tasting.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I mean, they go through the whole gamut of Listen things, and that's pretty

[B]

cool to be like, Forbes doesn't mess around.

[C]

This is no bull. So I like, you know, we all like to go out and have fun and maybe your cat, maybe you're, you know, occasionally have a couple of drinks. The. The vodka that we have is filtered seven times, and it's done with a Lincoln county method. And so it's super clean.

[A]

Very smooth, very clean.

[C]

Dude, I promise you, like, no hangout. If you were to drink, you know, if you were sort of to. To do a test over the course of several. Several months and drinking different types of vodka the way you would wake up the next day feeling with drinking High Rock is probably the one you're going to prefer because of how it's filtered, right. And it's so. It's so clean, you don't wake up in the morning feeling all the crap. Life hating life. So, yeah, that's my favorite thing about it. That is my favorite thing about it. Because a lot of people will say, you know, vodka's vodka, whatever you know.

[A]

True.

[C]

But the way you feel the next day can be. Can you. That is in your control. Right. And I do feel like that this gives me some control over that.

[A]

Well, hi, Rock. Also, Sugarlands has full control over the juice. So we're making from start to finish. It is made. We make it in the Sugarlands.

[C]

A lot don't know this, but a lot of companies buy it from another source.

[A]

Wineries do the same thing. Right.

[C]

You know, and so a lot of people do that. And so. Yeah. Anyhow, y' all trust me on that and I'll stop. But we. We got the dirty martini.

[A]

It's the dirty, dirty martini.

[C]

You could probably recognize the dirty martini. I'll try it. It's not my favorite.

[A]

This isn't Dale's favorite, but it is mine. So you have. Can I read the recipe? Dale?

[C]

Oh, sorry. I can't. I can't lie. I can't tell a lie.

[A]

He loves olives, but olives and vodka together for some reason that's interesting just don't work for you, huh?

[C]

I just don't get it. Like, I. This drink.

[A]

Listen, I know if we put pickle juice in it, would you like it better?

[C]

I know that the dirty Martini is extremely popular. There's. I mean, it's been around for ages. It is a staple.

[A]

And any. You know, in any bar. Yeah, absolutely.

[C]

But I can't get down with it.

[A]

One more for me then, I think.

[C]

Is there not enough? Am I not. Is there not enough?

[A]

You like sweet drinks. Let's just start.

[C]

But I do love pickles and, and brine and. And. And. And olives. And I love all those things. Is there not enough? Do I need more olives?

[A]

You probably need more. You like, want a filthy martini?

[C]

A filthy. Yeah, it's dirty.

[B]

You want extra dirty.

[A]

Extra dirty, like you can. There's stages of dirtiness. Yes.

[C]

Well, I don't mind. What's the coffee one?

[A]

An espresso martini. Espresso martini? Yeah. Every college girl likes those two, too.

[B]

That's the most basic.

[C]

Well, I know Tim Duggar drinks those.

[A]

Yeah, well.

[C]

And so we drank. I've drank in a few of those, you know, and that's like. Hey, I'm. I'm. I like the taste. It is. I know. I'm also going to rock and roll a couple more hours tonight. It's going to.

[A]

And all. And all night long when you try

[C]

to go to sleep in the. So that one I can get down with. But I'll be honest. I mean, I. It's tough.

[A]

Well, you don't have to drink it. Just read the recipe.

[C]

I just hate to give up. I'm not.

[B]

Take one more sip.

[A]

One more sip for the. For the crowd. Nope.

[B]

What about the olive?

[C]

I love olives.

[A]

His are stuff with blue cheese. I think he's gonna.

[C]

I will sit down for a snack and get me a plate of olives, a pickle, all of the.

[A]

A pickle extravaganza. You'll have to sit and have a little pickle of this, little pickle of that.

[C]

Some grapes, little pepperonis, some. Great. And I'll do grapes alone. I don't pickles and grapes, but I'll sit down and have a little, you know. What do you call that?

[A]

Charcuterie.

[C]

Charcuterie. No cheese. But I don't know, man. I just.

[A]

We should have put that one in the. In the game later.

[C]

I don't. I've never. I've never been a martini.

[A]

Well, listen, we're not going to make you.

[C]

I don't know what the appeal is.

[A]

Well, I like it.

[C]

I know you do. I wish I knew why.

[A]

Because it tastes good, bro.

[C]

All right, well, you want to tell them how to make it, since it's your favorite?

[A]

No, you tell them you're on a roll.

[C]

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[A]

Yes. This is. This is a big deal.

[C]

This is a huge deal. So fans will go into the store and they'll say, yep, I like the vodka, but I wish they had the big handles. Yeah. What are those? The 1.5. Yep.

[A]

We finally have it.

[C]

We're going to have 1.5s in the stores. And airplane bottles.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

So for those of you that don't like to measure, like myself, you just

[A]

throw the whole little bottle.

[C]

I just get the airplane bottles, and I just. That's how I do it.

[A]

Yeah. So that's coming to you very soon.

[C]

That's right. Keep an eye out. Total Wine has been a great partner for us. There's our airplane bottles. He's bringing them over. Thank you, Travis.

[A]

Thank you.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

Set them right here.

[C]

Yeah. So pretty exciting for us. Hi. Rock's doing great. People are starting to Catch on and. And realize how much of a great product this is. You can find a bottle near you by going to Hirock vodka dot com. There's a locator. You just type in where you're at and it'll say, all right, there's a ABC Store if you're North North Carolina, but there's a liquor store down the street, and it's got two bottles and blah, blah, blah. So remember to drink responsibly. You must be 21 or over. I lied.

[B]

A handle is 1.75.

[C]

1.75.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

You know what I mean? The big boys.

[A]

The big boy.

[C]

Yeah. We're gonna have them now if you want to do a little Red Bull in high Rock, now, I get down with that.

[B]

Now we're talking.

[A]

Now we're talking.

[C]

I can support

[A]

some of the noises you make, I swear. Are you like a porch granny sometimes?

[C]

Porch granny?

[A]

Yeah. You know, like, you remember when Tim used to do the porch granny thing? Don't slam that door.

[C]

So Tim Duggar would put a filter on and make him look like a granny.

[A]

And he would send us so good at it.

[C]

It is hilarious, honey. Hey, take him shoes off now. Take him shoes off. Yeah. Yes. Shut that screen door. You letting flies in.

[A]

He's just as much of a comedian. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. Pretty hilarious.

[A]

But sometimes you make little like me. Yeah, you just did it.

[C]

Well, you know, Nicole does that, too.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

And you're trying. You're telling her. And she needed to stop. So Nicole has these voices. She goes, e. No, I don't.

[A]

Because she's just replaced her words with that now. That's driving me crazy.

[C]

Annoying. But she just.

[A]

We don't need to squeak at each other.

[C]

Nicole is our youngest, and if she's frustrated by something, she'll look at you

[A]

and go, yeah, she, like, growls. She's always done that.

[C]

Or if she's excited about something or she's maybe opening up a present, she'll go, eat.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

And I start doing it, too. I just love it. I think it's the cutest thing. So I'm encouraging it. I'm sorry.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Part of the problem, because I grunt, too. When she starts grunting or getting mad about something and going, you know, I'll do it. I'll do it.

[A]

I'll be like, yeah, you can't beat him. Join them.

[C]

I guess I just think it's hilarious. She'll. She'll grow out. She's not going to be an A grunter and an E. You know, she got going to communicate when she's 25.

[A]

Looks like a couple Neanderthals talking to each other.

[C]

Surely she'll grow.

[B]

How old is she?

[A]

She's five.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

She's only five.

[C]

So cute. She's, she's, she is the cutest.

[A]

She's a great. She's great. She's cute. And yeah, she will grow out of it, but it's really annoying when you're trying to get her dressed and all she's doing is grunting at you.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

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[C]

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[B]

I wanted to keep it going for a little longer.

[A]

What? The elephant in the room.

[C]

Daytona 500.

[A]

Listen, listen.

[C]

Explain yourself, Amy.

[A]

I was in a weakened state. You had me trapped in a bus with the kids, and I have a short shelf life. I have a short shelf life in environments like that.

[C]

I was going to say I was laying next to my handsome husband in bed and I was in a weakened state. Well, you know, not trapped in a camper with him.

[A]

I'm a fluffer. I'm trying to make you smile and make you happy. And you laid down and you were talking about the race. I was like, you just should run it yourself next year. And. And he looks at me like, what the hell? Who has abducted my wife and put this chick here? I mean, I was kind of serious, but it's. Listen, it is up to you. Yeah, it's always up to you.

[C]

It's just so much work.

[A]

Oh, my God, it's so much work.

[C]

You have no clue.

[A]

I don't. You're right. I don't.

[C]

So.

[A]

But I feel like it would be worth the extra whatever.

[C]

It ain't like. All right, look, if I could. If I could put a suit on and walk out and climb in the car and start it up and. And drive it off and race like hell. Hell, yes. But you got sim. You're going to photo shoots. You got to take picture. You know, you got to. You got to get fitted in the suit and do all. It's just there's months of lead up to. And there'll be so many, you know, people that are partners, and you'll be a lot of media. There'll be just a bunch of asks.

[A]

You can't just go race.

[C]

You'll be. You'll feel bad saying, no, I don't want to do all that.

[A]

Why do you have to feel bad?

[C]

Because I feel bad. It's a privilege to be able to do it. And you feel like it's your job and your obligation to say yes to all of the things that allow it to happen. Right.

[A]

Well, this is part of the reason you've always felt so much pressure is because you feel that way instead of just enjoying the racing and separating those things for yourself. You know what I mean?

[C]

Yeah. Like, I. I just know that if I said, yeah, I'll do that, it will turn into a. Just a circus. And standing out there on the grid, getting ready to get in the car, it would just be a circus.

[A]

I mean, that's. I don't feel like that's a reason to say no. I mean, the other reason I don't enjoy.

[C]

We go. We went to the Daytona 500. We stood out on the grid.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And when. And it's not a circus in this. In my current role. And I like watching. I like watching the circus not being.

[A]

You don't want to be a monkey in the circus.

[C]

Yeah. So I don't know. I. I do love driving. I do watch them go around the track and go, man, I'd love to be out there and feeling that and doing that. I would love that.

[A]

But what if they created, like, a.

[C]

Okay, so the other part is I

[A]

got that big, fat hand.

[C]

I have never raced the next gen. Oh, that's. I've never been in that car. I don't know where this is. It is racing at the cup level, and I will always feel this way. It is an elite level. You have to be freaking badass to be there and know where all. Every square inch of that car is as you're traveling around the track.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I don't know where the corners are. I don't know. I don't know. You don't know the car that. When we get into the very finite moments of adjustment and driving and decision making and instant, like, bam, bam, bam. I don't know that I still. I don't think you can just jump in and all that comes right back. I think you need to be doing it every week to be able to be as sharp as you're going to want to be. And so if I go out there and those guys are moving, reacting quicker, because their. Their minds are. Are. Are where my mind used to be, you know, and they're. They're quicker reacting. They're sharper. I'm gonna notice that, and I'm gonna go, I don't want to do this unless I can be as good as I remember being.

[A]

I understand.

[C]

Right?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And so while it's fun and I do enjoy it, I only want to do it if I feel like I am absolutely 100 as good as I can possibly be. And.

[A]

Well, how are you gonna know? How do you know you.

[C]

I only can be that good if I'm doing it every single week. It ain't something that it's. It's an. I feel like it's. It's a. I feel like that it's naive to think you can just jump in a Cup car and go. Go run. Well, in the Daytona 500, having driven one in almost eight years, nine years. So I think it's naive, and I think it's. You know, I think. I think any cup guy, like, even Blaney, a friend of ours, Would come in here and say, hey, man. Yeah.

[A]

Are you sure?

[C]

You're gonna have your hands full.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

You know, and so look at Justin. Justin tests. He runs the. He runs the next gen car lot testing. He does the wheel force car. He's got a lot of time in the car, and he still, you know, found himself in a position where, you know, it. Things didn't work out right. And. And people would say, well, you know, he wasn't ready for being pushed out that far. And he made him. He made a decision. He made it. You know, people would say, maybe Denny or some of the people would say that happened because he doesn't do it every single week. Right. And so. Or had he do. Had he been doing it every single week, he might have not made a different choice. Yeah. Yeah. So not. I don't want to insult Justin. He's great. But I feel like I would really be over my head.

[A]

I hear you.

[C]

And as much as it would be fun, there would be no mat. It would be fun, but I would end it no matter what the result would be going, man, I realize I don't. I'm not there anymore, you know?

[A]

So are you worried a little bit, too, putting all that aside, like, how it would affect your ego?

[C]

Not so much.

[A]

I don't mean that in a negative way, but like.

[C]

Yeah, I know what you mean. I wouldn't say ego. I wouldn't say ego. But, yeah, it might. It might. It might drive home the truth that, you know, you're. You're 51. You're. You're not as. You're not going to be as sharp because you don't do it every week. It's like golf. Like, if you want to be great at golf and truly doing a great job hitting the ball and putting it where you're supposed to do it, you need to do it all the time. You can't just. And another example. And I'm not. I'll end here. Casey Kane came in to the studio probably six years ago.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And he was back and forth about driving his dirt cars. And I'm like, why don't you drive them? Why don't you drive them more? He goes, man, I get mad because I do it every now and then, and I'm. And I get my ass kicked, and I. I can only do it well if I'm doing it every week, and I can't do it every week. And so it's frustrating. I want to do it. It's fun, but I can't be as good as I want. Because I can't do it all the time. And I'm like, yep, yeah, he can totally understand that.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And so, I mean, it's the same in the CARS Tour. Like, I badly wish I could run the entire season. Yeah, I can't, because it would make me better. When I do run, I go and run one or two races, and I run. I don't run as well because I don't run it every week. And I don't know what those other guys know because they're doing it every day. And I'm like, you know, it's fun, but damn, you know, kind of got an arm time behind my back when I'm doing it, you know, so.

[A]

All right, well, we settled it. Thank you for.

[C]

But I.

[A]

Listen, I was taken aback when I saw that come up on my phone yesterday. I was like, holy, I can't believe you said that.

[B]

I didn't want him to come out and acknowledge. I wanted you to sit there for a little longer.

[A]

It was just gonna be in the camper, and that was that. We're gonna leave it there.

[C]

Well, I said that. I said that selfishly, maybe, because the reason why I said that, I didn't want y' all to cut a video. I didn't want you to cut a highlight reel. I thought it could live deep inside the podcast. I didn't want you to really cut a highlight reel, but you did, and I didn't get in your way. And I knew it was going to. I knew it was going to stir everybody up. But one of the things that bothered me when I retired was people were blaming Amy. And so people. I saw people on social media, and I know you're not supposed to.

[A]

I mean, I'm an easy target. That's. That's, like, where everybody.

[C]

They were like, I bet Amy told him to quit. It's Amy. It's her. She told him to stop. Amy's. Amy told him not to do anymore. And that's not at. That's not accurate at all. And so when you said that the other night, I was like, man, people would not believe that. She just said that. They would. They wouldn't, you know, they wouldn't believe your. Your point of view. And so. Oh, I. You know, I shared that. I shared a converse. I shared that, you know, with everybody. And I made the choice to stop. And Amy and I. Amy supported my choice, but she wasn't sitting there going, man, you need to stop.

[A]

No, I was very careful with what I said to you. Of course I wanted you to be healthy and safe and all the things. But also, you have to be happy and your choice has to be yours or you have, because you have to live with it. So, no, I. I mean.

[C]

And you understand today, while we have a crap ton of things going on and we got two girls that we're trying to raise into great people. You understand? Like, you. You know, I need to go get a little scratch the itch. Yeah. Go scratch the itch and have a little fun every now and then.

[A]

Yeah, we all have to scratch our itch.

[C]

We figure out how to fit. Yeah. And so, yeah, that was.

[A]

Speaking of scratching itches. Oh, went on a Disney cruise. Oh, we're letting the kids scratch a ditch there. It was. It was. I've never been on a cruise. Let's just start there. I've never been on a cruise boat. It wasn't really in my interest to ever go on a cruise. I just felt like I've seen the Titanic. Shame on me, right? Like, if it happens to me, shame on me.

[C]

So.

[A]

So I was just never interested in going on one. Like, you can fly to an island. You can go to Disney World. But we decided to go on a Disney cruise because Tamla and TJ were going, and Tamla is very well versed and does bookings for Disney. So it's like the perfect person to go to Disney with. And so we have the girls set up with, like, all of the outfits and all the things and the itineraries made. And so we go on the cruise, and it was fun. The only drawback for me.

[C]

Jesus.

[A]

Is the thing you can't control, which is the weather. So it was cold and windy. Very windy. So the boat rocked quite a bit. And then we didn't get to dock on one of the islands one day because it was too windy to even get in the boat slip. I mean, there was, like, some drawbacks on that regard for me, and it made the whole experience just a little bit more skewed. Right. It was amazing.

[C]

It was amazing.

[A]

The boat's amazing. The shows are amazing. It's very well done. But, like, that's the thing you don't think about when you go on a cruise is like your trip may be completely different than you imagined because of the weather.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So it's like any trip, though.

[A]

I'm sorry.

[B]

That's. Any trip, though.

[A]

It was a great trip. Yeah, it was.

[C]

I'm gonna tell you, we get there, I'm. I got. I'm anxious trying to park the car. Get us out. Get us on the boat. I don't know how this process goes. Getting on the boat was simple. They got a good system. They know what they're doing.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Everybody's happy. They're trying to. They know you're trying to have a fun trip. So even the people trying to get you on the boat and process your customs and all that, everything's super nice and good and it's Disney.

[A]

Everyone's got a smile on their face. Everybody wants to make sure your experience is as happy as it could possibly be.

[C]

So one thing that I'll say is I had no. No idea how much alcohol is on this boat. No clue.

[A]

So when you're. When you're not getting off the boat too, all you. All you do is sit in the little bars and things and.

[C]

Dude.

[A]

And hang out and drink.

[C]

I'm like, you know, I'm thinking Disney cruise. I'm thinking there's gonna be characters running around, kids and just gonna be running up to Mickey and. And Goofy, and it's gonna be. It's gonna be just Disney just pouring out of every hallway and every. Everywhere you go, just Disney's everything. And so. And the boat is absolutely full on, giving you Disney all day. And so there's places to go see movies and rewatch shows, and there's. There's shows every night now and. And. And trivia and. And all kinds of games happening. There's just stuff where you could be in multiple places at once. But I was like, you know, maybe they'll have, like, a little bar hidden down at the bottom of the boat for the adults late at night when everybody's tired and the kids go to bed and they're like, all right, here's your beer.

[A]

He's imagining he's going to be, like, in steerage with all the other dads trying to escape their families, helping row the boat, just, like, hiding out.

[C]

I know. Just. I just figured, like, you know, that's

[A]

where you have to go find a very good time.

[C]

I felt like that'd be a very minimal, you know, it's only sort of. Yeah. I didn't expect much, you know, and it's for the kid. This trip's all about the kids.

[A]

Well, for us, it was for the kids, but some people go on those

[C]

trips on there just by themselves.

[B]

Disney adults scare me.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Disney adults scare you.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

They're different for you.

[B]

There's something.

[C]

Let me tell you, man. They was five bars on this boat.

[A]

Oh, I mean, at least.

[C]

Yeah, one. I mean. And at 9pm no more no kids allowed.

[A]

There's some adult only restaurants and things too that are a little bit like higher scale, but. So all of the bars though are themed? They are. It's like a Disney ride. Everything, every inch of the walls is covered with whatever the theme is. There's a pirate bar. There was a Haunted mansion bar, which we all loved.

[C]

The Haunted Mansion bar is the coolest bar I've ever been in, ever.

[A]

So you've been to Magic, the Magic Kingdom and you've been through the Haunted Mansion ride. It's just like that. Inside there's like, the whole room is like gothic and dark and the lights change and there's music playing constantly. There's a fish tank in the middle of the room that's got skeleton, holographic

[C]

little fish House of the monsters, kind of a little.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So there's a big fish tank in the middle. There's a fish tank in the middle of the room and there's chairs all around it, couches everywhere.

[A]

Everything Victorian looking old.

[C]

And in the fish tank is skeleton fish.

[A]

Yeah, little holograms.

[C]

And they look like they're really in there when holograms.

[A]

Yeah, it's holograms. And then there's music playing. So eventually when the music starts and the fish start dancing to the music, like everything is just very thoughtfully done. Just like there's all these photos.

[C]

There's like an old war hero and a. And a, you know, I mean the like 16, 14, 1500s. And there's a lady on the wall and. And they all look like regular, normal, old vintage pictures. Photograph and pictures. And then the room gets a little gloomier and the music gets a little more intense and the pictures come to life and their eyes start moving around and looking around. And then the lady grows the snake hair. She turns into Medusa.

[A]

She turns into Medusa. And that was one picture in particular that Nicole locked in on. She's like, dad, what is that? What's that lady got on her? Why she have snakes on her head?

[C]

I know. I told Nicole. I was like, that's Medusa. I remember the story about Medusa. I remember watching the movies back in the day.

[A]

Yeah, the Odyssey.

[C]

And I'm like, that's Medusa. If you look at her, you turn to stone and don't lock eyes with her.

[A]

And shame on you, Dale.

[C]

So I had told her, believed everything I was telling her.

[A]

She did. I had told her before. I'm like, that's Medusa. It's part of a mythological story. She's not real, but she is A character kind of like Mickey and Minnie. They're not real. They're just characters. Well, Dale fools all and tells her, like, if you look at her in the eyeballs, like, this is the next day we were back in the bar. If you look at her, she's. You're going to turn into a statue. And so she was scared to death of that.

[C]

She was scared, but she kept saying, can we go there? Can we go?

[A]

She wanted to go in there. She loves creepy things. She's like, I want to go to the creepy bar. I want to go to the creepy place.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And of course they have like Shirley Temples and all kinds of like, cool cocktails for the kids to drink too. Like, mocktails.

[C]

Nervous to be in there, but wanted so curious to like. Yeah, like, go there more and figure it out. She's like. But then finally, we're sitting there on like the last day and we're side bus. It's like three in the afternoon. And she's like, I want to get out of here. She grabbed me by the arm. She's like.

[A]

She's like, I had enough.

[C]

I'm ready to leave. And I was like, what? She goes, I don't want to get turned into stone. And I was like, honey, it's not real. I was like, I didn't want to not tell her it wasn't real because it's not real. Well, no, I didn't want. I didn't want to say it's real. She's a real person. That's definitely. I didn't say any of that, but I didn't want to. I have a hard time, like, knowing what to tell them, like, about their. The fantasy of it. And I was like, I don't want to ruin her. This fantasy and experience and say this is all fake. That's a machine, you know, that's.

[A]

Well, you don't have to tell her that. You don't have to tell her it's a machine. How the picture works.

[C]

No. And so I tried to let it be a fantasy and.

[A]

And you forgot she's five and could have nightmares.

[C]

She goes, I don't really like it anymore. And I'm like, okay, okay. It's not real. The lady's not going to do anything.

[A]

The first night we got home, both of those kids woke up like an hour after we put them out, put them down, screaming, crying. Nicole.

[C]

Nicole has never woke up crying from like a bad dream.

[A]

She was having dreams about Medusa coming after her.

[C]

Dang.

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[A]

You said that Stefan told you he got to have some screen time this week. What is that all about?

[C]

We promised we weren't going to mention names.

[A]

Well, it's too late.

[C]

Oh damn. So he can figure this out for himself. So we we're playing our college football dynasty and we stream and Stefan was streaming and his girlfriend was giving him a hard time because he was playing a game and then on another television he had somebody else's stream up and she's like, do we need all this going on? Like, this is way too much screen time.

[A]

Haven't you had enough screen time?

[C]

Haven't you had enough screen time is what she asked Steven. And we give him so much about

[A]

it, because on the stream, his microphone was live. Everyone could hear everyone.

[C]

We all heard in the live.

[A]

So, yeah.

[C]

And so now we're like, hey, man, you, you. How's your screen time this week? Are you getting. Getting close to your quota? Are you getting over? And he told us the other day, he come, we're leaving Daytona. He's like, man, I'm going to be able to play all my games and

[A]

do all girlfriends out of town this week and get to have extra screen

[C]

time limits this week. And I was like. I was like, that's the new.

[A]

That's the new term.

[C]

That's the new slang for my. My better house out of town. No screen. No screen time limits this week. That's what.

[A]

That's when you know I can have unlimited screen time.

[C]

Yep. And so I was wondering that might be. Have you ever had code for anything with your boys, your friends, your.

[A]

He asked me this because he's like. He used to do things that were bad, like, pretty regularly. So he would have code words for things. Like, did you have a code word with your brothers or sisters for something specific if, like, you're around your parents? I'm like, no, I didn't have those things because I didn't do bad things.

[B]

I don't have code words.

[A]

I didn't either. But if he. Apparently Dale did do things like, I

[C]

don't remember, like having code words, but

[A]

he goes, do you have code words? I'm like, you mean like speaking pig Latin? I used to do that a little.

[C]

No, but like, you know the word you had the other day, the Valentine's Day or what?

[A]

Galentine's is not code.

[C]

It is. The hell it's not.

[A]

It is not.

[C]

I know what it is. Code.

[A]

If you didn't start getting Galentine's posts in your phone regularly after that podcast, like, it's a. It's a very regular thing.

[C]

You don't know what the word is and never have heard it. It is absolutely. It feels like code.

[A]

That's just.

[B]

You need to get out more.

[A]

Yeah, Ralph, I need to get out more.

[C]

I'm freaking out. Have you not.

[A]

I mean, where am I? I'm out.

[C]

I have been all over the world. I'm tired.

[A]

Oh, my God. That's the problem.

[C]

You're just getting in more. I need to get. I need to get in more, not out.

[A]

No, Galentine's is not code.

[C]

I need to sit down and stay at home on the couch. That's what I'm all about.

[A]

You're never going to learn anything new sitting on the couch. Except. Except if you're on your phone scrolling, you'll learn about Galentine's.

[C]

So you know, in back to the story, like, you know, if I say to Stephen, you know, say you go on another girls trip and I say to Steven, hey, man, no screen time limits for me this week, you know, he'll know what I mean.

[A]

He will, because it's like a personal joke.

[C]

And so you've never had any of that with your friends?

[A]

Yeah. Oh, like, yeah.

[B]

Not necessarily like code words.

[A]

I feel like that's just like sarcasm.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Which of course.

[C]

Have you had any sarcasm?

[B]

I had a friend, like in high school, like we always said, like he was whipped. So we just like, just like you're locked up and like you can't go out. Like the girlfriend's got him under wraps for a weekend or whatever.

[A]

Shackles.

[C]

Whooped. That's what we used to call it, man. You're whooped. Like tj. We would, we would give TJ a hard time and tell him, you know, when he couldn't do something or go go with somewhere, we'd tell him he's whooped and he'd be like, man, I got a five year old at home. You don't know what it's like. And we weren't, none of us had kids yet. And we're like, he used to give

[A]

TJ a really hard time.

[C]

Yeah. Every time he would miss something, I'd go, man, you got that five year old home. TJ can't be here. He's got the five year old at home. Even when his child had now turned 8, 9, 10 years old, that was still the running joke.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Where's tj? Yeah, got that five year old. Couldn't be here today, but now. And so that, like recently, you know, I apologized to him. I'm like, dude, I am so sorry for all those years. Now that I have kids, I totally understand.

[A]

And now it's Tim doing it to us. Can't go anywhere because the kids got those kids.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

It's just part of life. So another thing you asked me was about skipping school. Speaking of doing bad things.

[C]

Yeah. Had you ever skipped school?

[A]

He asked me if I skipped school in the same conversation. And I'm like, no, I didn't skip school.

[C]

Our girls were back to this other day.

[A]

I didn't do bad things. Yes. Isla. So we would get where we get back from Daytona. We flew Back in the morning on Monday because of the weather. So they were, like an hour late to school, which I didn't think was a big deal. The school was fine. Isla was not fine. Isla does not do well being embarrassed. She doesn't do well with, like, fallen out of the structure. She needs. She needs to stay in her box, right?

[C]

She had no idea she was going to be late to school. We're flying. We stayed. The weather was bad Sunday after the race, so we just said, hey, we'll. We'll not even worry about it. We'll get up in the morning, got up at 7 and left Daytona. And I has. I think she's going to show up at school on time. When she learned she was going to be 30 minutes late or whatever it was, she fell apart.

[A]

She fell apart. She melted down. I took her to school that morning. Dale took Nicole because he had to come here.

[C]

I think I heard about this because I took Nicole. She's fine.

[A]

And she. She generally does cry if I drop her off. Like, she gets emotional, so I was prepared for that. But she cried in the house right after y' all left. She cried twice in the car. She cried in the office when I'm checking her in. The lady, like, walked her back and she was just in tears. I'm like, this poor child just did not do well with being late. And her teacher even emailed me and said, I'm handling her with care today because she's very sad.

[C]

I wonder if when she's with me, because I take her to school every day, I wonder if she's. When she's with me, she does want to cry, but she doesn't because she doesn't cry in front of me as much. And when she rides with you, she feels like this.

[A]

She can have her emotions.

[C]

She can be vulnerable and cry.

[A]

Right? And I'm sure there's.

[C]

She's riding to school every day with me back there, going and feeling miserable, like, wanting to cry but not doing it.

[A]

I hope not.

[C]

I hate that thought.

[A]

Well, I don't think so. I think she was tired and we had gotten up early, and the whole process was different. She was just, like, a little out of sorts. But.

[C]

But I asked you, I was like, had you ever skipped school before, back when you were young?

[A]

No.

[C]

You said you did.

[A]

No, I said, I have never skipped school.

[C]

You never skipped?

[A]

I never even considered skipping school. I never considered it. I wasn't about to do something that dumb and get caught. That's the thing. I never wanted to get caught. I'M not trying to answer to anybody for doing something stupid unless it's like, an accident. Right. Like I'll own up to that.

[C]

I'm going to tell you, I did

[A]

sneak out of the house a few times, but never got.

[B]

You skipped school. You're going to get caught.

[A]

First period, you're going to get caught.

[C]

You never get. You got caught skipping out of the house.

[A]

No, no, I never got caught doing anything bad. I did plenty of stupid things. But skipping school, you're going to get caught.

[C]

Never snuck out of the house. Because we didn't live anywhere. We lived too far out.

[A]

Yeah. To do that.

[C]

Nowhere to sneak to, you know?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

But I didn't.

[A]

I lived in one of those, like, neighborhoods.

[C]

Skipping school stories. Okay. And one's really short with Kelly. Kelly skipped school. She had.

[A]

This is like high school.

[C]

Yep. She was a senior, and I must have been in the 10th grade. She had a 1987 Monte Carlo with the fastback, badass car. And I didn't appreciate it then, but it's badass today. She wrecked it and had borrowed a Beretta, which was a badass car. Chevy Beretta. And driving it around. She skipped school and drives this Beretta. She ran in the back of somebody.

[A]

Damn.

[C]

While skipping school. So now she's wrecked the Beretta. I'm in school, and they called me to the principal's office, and I have no clue why. And I. I'm not. I'm not getting trouble.

[A]

Yeah, you're, like, terrified now.

[C]

What in the hell? Yeah, they call me to the principal's office, and I go up to the principal's office, and they said, your sister's out front, needs to talk to you. And I was like, what? This is not making sense. Why she's in school. Why is she out front? What do you mean she's out front? What is going on? Something bad's happened. Something serious is what is going on.

[A]

Right.

[C]

So I go out. I mean, right out front of the school, right through the doors, and there's the Beretta parked at the street in front of the school. And Kelly's like, I don't know what to do. I wrecked the Beretta. And I'm like, you're skipping school? She's like, yes. And I was like, what is going on?

[A]

Why? Yeah, are you skipping school?

[C]

I was like, I'm jealous. We tell each other everything. You didn't tell me you're skipping school. Like, I had no idea. And I'm like, man, I don't know what to tell you. I mean, what do you do?

[A]

Right? You're going to have to.

[C]

That was the.

[A]

Go through the consequences of this one.

[C]

And that was a bad influence because I now want to skip school.

[A]

Really? Now the idea is planted.

[C]

Now I'm like, hey, she can do it. And she's, she's a great student. She's well respected in her class. And here she is skipping school and she's going to totally breeze through it and be fine. And I'll skip to. And so I got with some buddies.

[A]

What a follower.

[C]

I'm like, I got. I got with some buddies of mine. I'm like, y' all want to skip school? And they're like, yeah.

[A]

Oh, no.

[C]

And I'm like, let's do it. We're going to go all the way up. So Statesville used to have a really great mall. And I'm like, let's just go to the Statesville Mall, hang out all day. And so we go. We skipped school and drove to the Statesville Mall. And we feel like, you know, we're up there. No one's ever going to know.

[A]

You don't feel like a criminal now.

[C]

Oh, you felt free. Like, you felt like you were freedom, right? Yeah. You're like, this is great. They know. They don't know where we are. They don't think we're sick or what.

[A]

Meanwhile, you're in public at the mall.

[C]

Yeah, but we're in Statesville. We might. Well, we might as well been in freaking New York City. Or we, you know, Florida. You know, for us, we were a long ways from home in our minds. Right? You know, we're 16 years old. We're like, dude, we're 20 minutes up the road. Nobody's ever going to see us. And so we hung out at the mall, you know, and we, we ate and we went and looked at the CDs and we went in a couple more stores. And then like, it's 10 o' clock and we're like, kind of bored. This is at 10:00am yeah, I'm kind of. What are we gonna do now? And so we driving. We. We get in the trucks and we're driving around in the parking lot just being idiots.

[A]

Like doing donuts?

[C]

No, just driving. We're just driving around and I saw a. A traffic cone. And I said to my buddy, I said, hey, I'm gonna drive by that traffic cone. We're in the back side of the mall, empty parking lot for the most part. I was like, I'm gonna drive by that thing on Your side. I want you to grab it and just throw it in the bed of the truck where we're gonna be going about 20 mile an hour. Just quick movement. Boom, boom, boom. He does it. And we're driving around the rest of the day. And I get home and I'm like, dale, I'm gonna do this. I can't. In my mind, I was gonna put it in my bedroom. I'm like, where my dad is.

[A]

Your dad's gonna see that?

[C]

Yeah. So dad's gonna figure it out. So I take it. We had these pine trees on in the lot next to us was empty, and it was pine trees down both sides of that lot, and there was tons of pine needles. And so I go out into that lot and I take that orange cone and I bury it under these pine needles, and I'm like, there it's. There it is. I'm hiding it for now. Right. I don't know what I'm gonna do with it. Dad finds it literally, like, the next day. I don't know how he. I don't know what he was down there for. Maybe he saw me.

[A]

He probably saw it.

[C]

He probably saw me doing it. But I'm like, he'll never see it. And he finds it, and he's like, hey, man. Found this cone. What the hell are you stealing cones for? Yeah, you know this is illegal.

[A]

Where'd you get this?

[C]

And he's like, where. Where were you? And I was like, statesville Mall. He's like, when did you go to the Statesville Mall? I was like, yesterday. He's like, when? I was like, morning. He's like, you didn't go to school? I was like, no. I was like. He's like, take it back.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Made me drive all the way up there and put it back shamefully. And that was my one day I skipped.

[A]

That's not too bad of a punishment, to be honest. Yeah, just a little shame.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I'm surprised you didn't get more trouble than that. I'm also shocked that your sister wrecked two cars back to back like that.

[C]

I was, too.

[A]

Is that the only wreck she got in?

[C]

I don't think so.

[A]

No,

[C]

probably not. I had a couple of traffic accidents.

[A]

Yeah, I know about yours.

[C]

I flipped my pickup truck. Flipped it big time. Talked. I think we talked about that on the show.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

The other time. So I was with a friend of mine, and I was in a. I was in extended cab, brown, two tone, no carpet, crappy truck my dad got me for graduating high school. And I was Mad I say crappy because I mean I was lucky to have a car. But my dad, my dad took my S10 that I loved and he just didn't even tell me he was doing it. One day my S10 was there and the next day it was gone. And now there's this farm truck. And I'm like, dad, why?

[A]

Why, God, why?

[C]

And he's like, got you a truck, extended cab. And it had no carpet. It was just a rubber mats.

[A]

Did he think he was doing you a favor?

[C]

And it was brown. Two tone brown. Like a tan. Then dark brown tan and taupe. Gross. I mean I was cool with my S10. I loved it. And this truck's two tone brown trucks sucked. And so anyways, we were driving, me and my friend. I don't know what the hell we were doing. I don't know why we were way up there, but we're way down there. We were in Concord next to the Sharpener Speedway and we had been messing around in Harrisburg or something. I mean I'm probably only 18, 19 years old. And we, I said, we're driving down the road and I said, hey, I'm gonna show you where my granddaddy lives. It's dark, it's like 10, 11 o' clock at night. And I, my granddaddy lives off this road right next to Charlotte Mer Speedway. And Kenny Schrader owns the house now. But I turn off this road and I'm like, there's granddaddy's house. Robert G. My mom's dad on my mom's side. And I'd never been past his driveway, right? We went there, turned into the driveway and would leave all my life. Never knew what was beyond that point. And so I drive past it and I'm. I'm talking to him about all the cool things we used to do there. And, and came up like running 50 miles an hour, 45 miles an hour on a absolute 90 degree left hand turn. Holy. And I, and it's got those signs on the side of the road that had the arrow telling you to frickin like your ass is going left.

[A]

Is your buddy not going, hey man, no, slow down.

[C]

We're just. And I mean we're going off the road wide open. And I turned the wheel and I stood on the gas wide ass open and turned sideways and slid. I slid off the road like in a dirt track. And I took out this, these, these arrows that are pointing are like 1, 2, 3, 4. And we just, we went right over the top of them. Bam. Bam. Bam, bam, bam. Like an ice. Like a. Like a snow. Like somebody snow skiing. Going over the clipping.

[A]

The mogul flags.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

We're like, oh, not the moguls. Yeah, the flags.

[C]

And so we go. And I get her straightened out and get back up on the road, and I was like, holy who? You know, we're both, like, shaken, and I'm like, man, we ran over the size. Let's take a look at it. We pull. We get down the road a little bit, and we pull over, get out, and I'm look down. There's no damage really, to the side of the truck, but I have slashed both rear tires.

[A]

Holy. So now you're stuck.

[C]

Yeah. And so that was. That was the. That was the other kind of accident.

[A]

I've never heard that story. Yeah, wild one.

[C]

Yeah. I think that's the only time I've crashed.

[A]

Oh, your life is a series of crashes.

[C]

I had a 65 Impala. I got T boned at a red light. I was going through, had the green and a lady come wide open and drove into the door and. And T boned my car. I had a couple buddies with me. Nobody was hurt, but she hit us hard going 35 mile an hour.

[A]

Goodness gracious.

[C]

She never saw the red light, went, you know, older lady, and everybody was fine. I took that car and quartered it. So we took. We cut the car in half and the. And we cut it up front in half and then the back half. We took that whole back off. We got a donor car and I rebuilt. I still have it. That blue, blue 65. It's been in my family since it was forever. So that car, we had to cut 25% of it off and put it back together. Probably wasn't worth doing. But. Yeah, but I don't know, I think about it. I've probably been more crash crashes.

[A]

We are excited for Ask Amy Session and all your questions. What do you have, Travis?

[B]

All right, so the first question comes from Tiffany, and she says that she's going on a girls trip to Key west, and she wants to know what's the correct number of nights that they should go down there for.

[C]

Sorry.

[A]

Okay. Key west, in my opinion, if it's a girls trip, you can have more nights than if you're with boys.

[C]

Sorry.

[A]

And the reason for that is you know when to go to sleep. So, like, you go down there for four or five nights and have a couple of, like, we're gonna like, party, but, like, have a good dinner and go to bed. Boys don't let you do that. Dale rips till two or three in the morning in Key West. And so like you. You blow your motor way faster. Is that the right way to put it?

[C]

That's a great word. We were trying to talk about code. Blow your motor.

[A]

Blow your motor. Yeah. So we're gonna have a Key west girls trip. I will have one coming up. One of my sorry friends is turning 40 and so we're having a trip down there for her. And so we're gonna go for.

[C]

I got one coming.

[A]

I think just three nights, maybe four. Yes. So honestly, if it's a girls trip, I'd say. I'd say four is a good number. Like a long weekend.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

There's lots to do.

[B]

Then you can plan some different things. You don't feel like you're 100%.

[C]

Get out on the water.

[A]

Don't just stay in town. Get out on the.

[C]

Some.

[A]

Some things like also that the boys don't want to do that will extend your trip and like, give you more of a vibe for the island, I think. But I mean, you could stay down there as long as you want. As long as you're a pirate, you can stay down there.

[C]

You want a Key West?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

What's your favorite Key west spots?

[A]

Favorite Key west spots. I love.

[C]

Everybody always asks this.

[A]

So to eat. I love the raw bar. Cause we like the buffalo shrimp. It's right in the marina. The scene's just nice.

[B]

And he eats the oysters like he's. It's going to be his last meal. And he only has two minutes to get it done.

[A]

He does. It's. They're so impressive. He'll order a dozen oysters and then order another dozen. And like, he sat there and eaten buffalo shrimp.

[C]

I've ever had buffalo shrimp.

[A]

Dude.

[C]

It's insane.

[A]

You have to go to blue heaven if you're going to go down there. Just because it's like a landmark. You sit outside. Food's great. You can't make a reservation. So be prepared.

[C]

Food heavy. But it's. It is. It's supposed to be the best. Like.

[A]

Yeah. They have brunch as well. So you could brunch there and then move on.

[C]

It's real food. Not like.

[A]

It's not bar food.

[C]

It's.

[A]

It's real food. And they have great key lime pie. As far as bars, we love Bobby's because we like to sing karaoke.

[C]

Bobby's monkey bar.

[A]

Bobby's monkey bar. Amigos tacos. You can sit on the rail and like, people watch. That's like the main square in downtown where like there's this corner of just. It's right across bars and Tony's right across from Captain Tony's which is also a landmark.

[B]

You have to be careful with their salsa there though.

[A]

Did it light you on fire?

[C]

Hot.

[B]

Blew us up. Damn. Did not know it was going be that hot.

[C]

It's so hot.

[A]

They have good margaritas.

[C]

Hank is good.

[A]

Hanks is good.

[C]

So. Hey. So I'm gonna tell this.

[A]

So what did you do?

[C]

Nothing. Just so you know, we as a company are trying to do a end of year show and it will be like a one to two hour show and it will mix all of our. Our hosts.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

And in Key West. So the last race of the year is at Homestead. So race Homestead, go over Monday to Hanks and do it on Hank's live stage at like noon, you know.

[A]

Really?

[C]

Yeah. Well that's afternoon. Cuz they're going to want their live music on the stage at night. We're not going to, you know, we're not going to try to muscle in there probably. But I don't think Hanks even knows we're going to approach them yet. They don't but it could be anywhere.

[A]

Do you think that space is big enough?

[C]

Yeah, we're just gonna do a live show. Three or four guests. Three. I mean three or four hosts. Maybe Freddie, me. I mean you. If you wanted. And, and you, you don't have to be up there the whole time. But we do like you know, we do sort of a end of season celebration of everything that's happened that year and close out the year.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

And. And we'll. Where we Hanks will be my preference. But it could happen anywhere. And so we're trying to put it together.

[A]

I love that idea. And then does Mike approved this?

[C]

Yeah, Mike and Tiff have.

[A]

Whoa.

[C]

Well, they have a step in the right direction. Really said this is Dale doing Dale things?

[A]

Yes or nobody.

[C]

They've nodded in approval. They haven't verbalized.

[A]

Oh they haven't. The budget hasn't been approved. But they like the idea. I got it.

[C]

But I think it'd be a lot of fun. And we invite, you know, if we get ahead of it and start promoting it in the summer, if we just

[A]

book the house and make the plans,

[C]

well, fans can say, you know what, I'm in town for the race. I'll extend my, you know, trip to. To Monday to go down to Key west and, and see this live. So we'll. We'll get our genuine audience that'll want to really listen to us.

[A]

Listen. That's a great idea.

[C]

Instead of just the walk ups in Key west that are there for tourism going, what the hell is this? Going, what is this?

[A]

Who are these jabronis babbling around?

[C]

What are they talking about?

[B]

What's the bar that has the touch tunes that Amy hijacked?

[A]

Oh, Mary J. Mary Ellen's.

[C]

Yeah. Awesome.

[B]

That's a good one.

[C]

Do you like Mary Ellen's?

[A]

I like Mary Ellen's.

[C]

They.

[A]

So that's inside too. Like when you get to Key west and you get super hot, go to Mary Ellen's. They have great food, great air conditioner. A great air conditioner and bartender in there is really great too. But yeah, yeah, there's lots of good fun places to go hang out.

[B]

It's the next question. I think this will run right in with what we're talking about here. But this comes from Tim. You're hungover. What's your go to breakfast? Sandwich? Bread, protein, cheese, kind of. What's your go to sandwich?

[A]

Honestly, when I'm hungover I kind of don't eat breakfast because I'm scared to put too much in there. I don't know. I like, I like a cheeseburger, I like a burrito. Like Mexican food, like bean, egg, cheese. Yeah, that's what I grew up eating. I love that. So if I can eat anything from Taco Bell when I'm hungover, I'm very excited.

[B]

That's when, if you get, if you get Taco Bell the night before you order enough so you know you have leftovers.

[A]

I've never had leftover Taco Bell.

[B]

Really?

[A]

No. Like also I feel like if I over order a Taco Bell I, I feel like I can always stick it all in there. Like I always eat all. Got room for one more bite?

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

What is your hungover?

[C]

Greasy. Yeah.

[A]

I mean French fries are always good.

[C]

Yeah, I mean, you know sausage or bacon, egg and cheese biscuit is going to do it.

[A]

A biscuit?

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Simple.

[B]

Gotcha. Well yours I'm a bacon, egg and cheese on like Asiago cheese bagel or

[A]

something like that so.

[B]

Or like a jalapeno cheddar. Bacon jalapeno cheddar bagel.

[A]

So do you pre plan like you were just saying and have that ready for the fridge if you know you're going out? Like you're probably going to be hungover?

[B]

No, because I prefer if I can get it like super fresh. Yeah, especially if you get a place that's like fresh like, there's Linden Bakery here in Mooresville.

[A]

Yeah. It's so good.

[B]

Their bagels are made. So, like, the next morning, it's perfect. But if, you know you're getting Taco Bell the night before, like, an extra cheesy Gordita crunch is never going to hurt.

[A]

It's not going to hurt you.

[C]

No. Yeah.

[B]

Next question comes from Doug. Is there a pet you wouldn't let the girls get?

[A]

Yes. I don't want anything that has a cage that they have to keep in their room, like a hamster or a snake or a lizard. Madeline Majors had a bearded dragon, and it was cool, but she had to feed it live bugs with tweezers. And I'm like, that's where we start. That's where we stop. We're not having extra critters to feed the critter. So, like a snake, we have to feed it mice. No's been asking for all these things.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

She wants a critter to keep in her room, and I think, I can't. I just can't do it. When I was little, my sister had a hamster.

[B]

Rest in peace.

[A]

Yeah, we've heard about Patch. That didn't work out well.

[C]

Well, it never does. I mean.

[A]

That's right. It doesn't.

[C]

Hamsters are pretty fragile, and, yeah, if you're not on top of things, they.

[A]

It goes south fast.

[C]

It goes south.

[A]

I had a fish tank in my room as a kid, and that was a lot to take care of.

[C]

We have a fish tank now, and we've had one since we. We've had the house. And I've tried to tell Amy. I'm like, I'm kind of ready if you want to, you know, get rid of it.

[A]

And this piece of the house is, like, right in the middle of the house. And this. This whole part was designed around the fact that Dale had to have a fish tank.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

I'm like, no, we're keeping this. You're gonna have to deal with the fish.

[C]

You know, back in the Cribs days, you know, everybody had fish tanks. So, like, you know, we'll have fish

[B]

tank that was, like, the centerpiece, like, the showcase.

[C]

Like, yeah, yeah.

[A]

And it is in the center of our house.

[C]

Yeah. Fish tank was a sign of, you know, status.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

But now I'm like, well, the kids love it. Let's just get rid of it.

[A]

But she's like, nope, no, we're not gonna. It's too much to undo.

[B]

I watch Southern Charm, and there's a person on there that Has a snake. And they showed her, like, frozen mice like that. And she had, like. The mice had to fall out to

[A]

feed it, which is gnarly. Like, I can't do that hard. No, no. So anything. Anything fuzzy that we can hold, I'm down with.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Bunnies, goats, cats, dogs.

[C]

Bunnies are caged animals.

[A]

I know, but you can. It's not like I've had a rabbit in the house. You did?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

In the house?

[C]

Yes, in a cage in the house. They're loud. They don't sleep at night. They're nocturnal. So, like, you don't hear crap all day long. You turn the lights out, and all of a sudden that thing starts running laps in the cage till four in the morning. And you're like, what's the deal?

[A]

Well, my bunnies stayed outside. He had a cage outside on the porch. Well, we have a barn we could put a bunny in.

[C]

I had a cage. I had a. I had a bunny back when I worked at the dealership changing oil, and one of the other mechanics was moving to California, and he took the bunny. I was like, man, you want to take this bunny? I don't want it.

[A]

It's a hell of a party.

[C]

He's like, yeah, I'll take it. I'll take the bunny.

[A]

What was the bunny's name?

[C]

Probably Buddy or Dude or something's Buddy.

[A]

Buddy or Cuz.

[C]

I ain't trying to name. I ain't trying to remember names. I'll just call you what I'm gonna call my friends. Like, what's up, Dude. I had a cat named Dude. I had a cat named Dude. I had a cat named Buddy. I had a cat named Cuz. All of the.

[B]

Did they respond to it?

[C]

All the Terms of Endearment did.

[B]

What did they respond to?

[C]

It was their name.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

Okay, Just checking.

[C]

Well, yeah, that was their names.

[B]

Well, I could understand if a cat wouldn't respond to Cuz.

[A]

Come on, cuz. Up here, cuz.

[B]

Last question. Speaking of Cribs, a couple people had this question is, Amy, what did you think. Think of Dale's MTV Cribs house?

[A]

I actually walked through the last one before we tore it down. And the Cribs videos are just funny. What he chooses to highlight or talk about. And the way he describes things is still like. I love the way he describes things and his analogies and the way he pronounces words, so it's just fun to look back on it. But the opening of the fridge was my favorite part of any crisp episode. I wanted to See what was in the fridge. And so I don't remember what you had in yours, but people always had, like, water bottles and Cristal, and everything was like, we had Cristal lined up perfectly.

[C]

I think we went and bought some just because everybody had it. Yeah. Like, we'd never drank it in our lives.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

We're like, yeah, we'll get some Cristal. And we had a bunch of Bud in there. I can't remember, though.

[A]

I can't remember either. Yeah. I actually did get to walk through the house, though, before he tore it down. I mean, it was. It was cool. A lot of the same items are still in our house now.

[C]

We still have some of the furniture. I had a purple and orange couch. Remember that?

[A]

Yes. That was in the dirty movie studio at one point for a while. Or at Hammerhead.

[C]

Yeah, it was pretty.

[A]

I feel like Dale's had a whole other life before he met me.

[C]

This is like, I had blue shag carpet.

[A]

Yep. In his bedroom.

[C]

Like 5 inch tall, 4 inch tall shag carpet. I love shag carpet.

[A]

He took that Elvis thing real serious.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Why do you like shag carpet?

[C]

It feels good on your feet. Like walking on a cloud. Next question. We're still alive here, pal.

[B]

I know.

[C]

I actually forgot we were live, Travis.

[B]

All right, we'll do. We got time for one more question. Tina wants to know, have you guys been watching the Olympics and any sports, Amy, that you like to watch for Winter Olympics?

[A]

For whatever reason? I've been watching more curling than anything. The curling has been on the television when I sit. I've watched some of the clips of the ice skating, which I love.

[C]

Drama in the curling with the cheating.

[A]

Yeah. That one guy pushing it with his finger and then screaming about, I didn't touch it. He totally cheated.

[C]

And then there's the female team of the same country.

[A]

Did the same thing.

[B]

Yeah. Canada.

[A]

The Canadians are cheaters.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I can't trust them.

[A]

Wow. I wouldn't have. I wouldn't have been that.

[C]

I was. I bet on Canada to win a hockey game, and they came through yesterday.

[A]

That's the other thing. He had his app out, and he was betting. Betting on the Olympics. I was like, I feel like that's the one thing you shouldn't be able to bet on. Like, it's not like a typical.

[B]

No, that's the one thing you should.

[C]

She thinks the Olympics are too pure.

[A]

I feel like it's a celebration of, like, of these athletes that are extremely elite and. And that's not like a typical Season of stuff that you should be able to bet on. I know. Unpopular opinion.

[C]

Hey, I've got. I've got little odd, quirky, sort of.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

You know, principles too.

[A]

I love watching the ice skating, though. One of the girls that performed to Madonna got a video from Madonna and I saw her post about that, so that was pretty cool. She was like, celebrating her. So it's fun.

[B]

A flip. The figure skater.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Ah, yeah.

[A]

I have a hard time pronouncing his name. Ian Gideon. Yeah, so it's. His name is hard to pronounce, but his routine is insane. Insane.

[C]

So he won, I imagine.

[A]

Oh, yeah. He took the gold home for sure.

[B]

But the thing is that flip doesn't actually count towards his score.

[A]

It was just flex.

[B]

It's just to say, look what I can do and you can't do.

[A]

The first time I saw the clip of it, he did it and landed on one foot and arabesque out of it. I was like, wow.

[B]

And he what? Out of it.

[C]

But then he completely fell apart when he did his next one. No, like four times.

[A]

Really?

[C]

Came in like eighth or ninth, bless him.

[A]

It was awesome though, watching it.

[C]

I like the. I like the racing on skates, the speed skating track and the big track stuff too. I like.

[A]

Did you see Colin Yost do the bobsled?

[B]

No, I played Jason Kelsey.

[C]

Skeleton.

[A]

Did the what?

[C]

The skeleton, where you lay down on the thing, go head first.

[A]

Oh, shoot, I didn't see that. I saw Colin Yost video doing the bobsled. He was riding along with one of the athletes and his rendition of what. What his life felt like was amazing. He was like, I thought I was going to die.

[C]

You all need to look it up. Where. Where Flavor Flav did the skeleton.

[A]

I mean, so he's riding by himself face first.

[C]

I think he really did it. And he. He's. They said he went like 60, 66 miles an hour.

[A]

That's got to be terrifying. Yeah, I think that's cool when they let regular people do the things with athletes because it lets you really understand how hard it is.

[C]

Not that he's just anyone, but I mean, he had to have done a little. Some.

[A]

Some training or prep. Yeah, for sure. They didn't just sit down and say, good lunch.

[C]

I didn't know you could just show up and go, hey, man, send me down the. Send me down.

[A]

Send me down the luge.

[B]

Well, Flavor Flav does a lot of stuff for the Olympics and getting these athletes paid and stuff, so makes sense. But there, I think around here, you can do curling. There's a place here in Charlotte.

[A]

Is it at Joey's curling ice skating rink?

[C]

Curling's like a bar game just on ice.

[A]

Now Dale thinks he can do it.

[C]

Well, I mean, it's like shuffleboard.

[B]

It is similar, but it's harder because you're trying to slide down ice when they do it.

[A]

Huh?

[C]

People drink beer when they.

[B]

Yeah, you can. This place. You can. In Charlotte. You can drink beer and curl do curling.

[A]

Have you done it?

[B]

I know, but I want to.

[A]

I mean, sounds like a good challenge. Maybe we should go.

[C]

I have no interest in doing it.

[A]

Wait, you just said you thought it would be easy.

[C]

There it is.

[A]

Flavor Flav, but yeah.

[B]

So tv.

[C]

This thing's sucked. There it is.

[B]

Well, they can't. The viewers can't see it either, so.

[C]

I know. Well, I don't. I mean, I. I do care about the viewers, but.

[A]

We'll watch it later. We'll watch it later. Look it up, everyone. Look it up.

[C]

Things trying to think right now because our Internet's garbage.

[A]

All right, this is the most awkward live asking.

[C]

It's not awkward. It's honest and authentic.

[A]

Okay, We. We were excited about all the awkwardness, clearly. Thank you for your questions. We will see you next week. Please don't forget to check out all the [e-mail] and if you haven't already, please hit the subscribe button.

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