We Started with NASA and Somehow Landed on Summer House

Summary

The Dale Jr. Download — April 2, 2026

Episode: "We Started with NASA and Somehow Landed on Summer House"

Main Theme & Purpose

In this lively, wide-ranging episode, Dale Earnhardt Jr., his wife Amy, and producer Travis kick things off with passionate space launch banter and end up deep-diving into reality TV drama. The trio’s trademark candidness, teasing, and truly random conversational detours make for a funny, relatable, and surprisingly heartwarming listen. The core themes: pride for American spaceflight, the perils and joys of viral tweets, the intricacies of modern reality television (hello, “Scamanda”), and sharing real-life home and family stories.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The NASA Moon Rocket Launch (00:47–11:05)

• Dale’s Surprise at the Launch: Dale shares his shock and emotional pride at accidentally stumbling upon a NASA moon mission rocket launch on TV.
  • He hadn’t realized the launch was happening, despite recalling earlier delays.
  • Dale’s excitement is contagious, describing the process and how invested he was watching the boosters fall away.
  • Noteworthy: “This one just feels so cool because it’s going around the moon and damn it, that’s a long ways away. And they got a plan to freaking get on the moon and then beyond that, whatever. Right. So super proud moment. Awesome moment.” (Dale Jr., 04:18)
• Family Participation: Amy describes watching the launch with their daughters in the car, sparking childhood wonder and lots of questions.
• Reflections on School Memories: Travis wishes they’d aired the launch during school hours, invoking “Apollo 13”-era nostalgia.
• Social Media Response: Dale discusses the troll-y tweet he posted about missing the launch and the wild mix of reactions he received online.
  • “Every time I go on social media… you’re playing with fire.” (Dale Jr., 09:12)
  • Amy chimes in, “Or have thick ass skin.” (Amy, 09:27)
  • They joke about people accusing Dale of "living under a rock" (Dale quips: “under the hood of my Nova wagon”, 11:25).

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2. NASCAR & SpaceX Connections (07:43–08:31)

• Brad Keselowski and Rocket Parts: Quick aside about Brad Keselowski’s 3D-printing company possibly making parts for SpaceX rockets.
  • “Brad Keselowski created or helped create a 3D printing company that made parts for rockets.” (Dale Jr., 08:17)
  • Amy cracks: “They let just anybody print some shit?” (Amy, 08:05)

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3. More NASA Talk: The Astronaut Toilet Troubles (17:06–19:03)

• Toilet Mishap: The group laughs about a reported issue with the spacecraft’s toilet—astronauts could poop but not pee for a while.
  • “How do you stop yourself if you’re… I mean, if you’re a woman?” (Amy, 17:55)
• Racecar Reflex: Dale compares holding it in during a moon mission to his experience driving racecars for hours.
  • “I drive race cars. You don’t hold it for hours. Boy, I peed in my race car maybe a dozen times.” (Dale Jr., 18:30)
  • The team underscores astronaut fitness and stress management, debating if that makes it easier.

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4. Viral Social Media and Online Backlash (09:01–13:33; 19:13–19:41)

• Tweet Reactions: Dale enjoyed the fun but mocks the "fire" of Twitter discourse. Amy calls out the risk of things being taken out of context.
  • “Someone is absolutely going to rip it apart. And someone’s going to take it completely out of context. And I've had that happen.” (Dale Jr., 09:28)
• Dealing With “Mystery People”: Dale’s not a fan of going viral because it invites comments from people who don’t follow or know him.

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5. Offbeat Home Life and Banter (13:31–15:47; 38:03–46:10)

• Boots Too Tight: Amy vents about Christmas boots from Dale crushing her feet; cue a cobbler-joke tangent.
• Drink of the Week: Brunch Punch—a light, fruity vodka drink—gets taste-tested and promoted.
• Communion Confusion: Hilarious family church story—Dale fumbles communion protocol, and both daughters receive wafers though they’re not old enough yet.
  • “I just sit down… I don’t know what to do.” (Dale Jr., 40:01)
  • “He like—and I look over. I’m like, what are you doing?” (Amy, 40:10)

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6. Reality TV Deep Dive: "Summer House" & "Southern Charm" (22:07–38:05)

• Unashamed Bravo Fans: Dale and Amy admit “Summer House” is their couple's must-watch, with “Southern Charm” as a backup.
  • “Let’s not set it up so skewed here. You watch the [bleep] out of it.” (Amy, 22:18)
  • “I didn’t want to admit it… now people are gonna give me [bleep] for watching too much Bravo.” (Dale Jr., 22:28)
• Amy’s Misophonia: Amy explains her intense annoyance at Dale’s snack-munching during shows, leading to a tangent about the condition.
  • “It’s called misophonia. The condition characterized by intense, involuntary, and emotional reaction such as anger, rage, disgust, or anxiety.” (Amy, reading, 24:12)
• "Scamanda" Scandal: The team breaks down the "Scamanda" drama from “Summer House”—Amanda divorces Kyle and starts seeing West (best friend’s ex), stirring fan speculation and accusations of plot-manufacturing for TV.
  • “Like, that’s something you gotta get out of your system, like writing down on a piece of paper.” (Dale Jr., 26:07)
  • Amy and Dale discuss fan forensic sleuthing—fans now rewatch episodes for clues.
  • They speculate on whether the breakup and new romance are fabricated for ratings or genuinely real, especially as Amanda loses brand deals.
  • “If it’s manufactured. Holy [bleep]. It’s brilliant. It’s like Modern Days of our Lives.” (Dale Jr., 32:50)
• "Southern Charm" Update: Shep and Taylor’s complicated post-breakup relationship is due for more tennis-themed drama in the new season.

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7. Church Stories & Childhood Scars (39:03–53:40)

• Nostalgic Church Memories: Dale recalls giving a sermon at 13, complete with a joke about a talking bird that goes awry.
  • “She goes, hey, I was here that day when you gave the sermon.” — Dale Jr., 45:07)
• Childhood Injuries: Everyone shares gnarly injury stories—a treasure trove of stitches, forgotten scars, and “boys will be boys” tales.
  • “I stabbed myself. I just stabbed myself.” (Dale Jr., 47:53)

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8. Easter & Family Traditions (54:01–59:19)

• Heading to Texas for Easter: The family plans their annual camping trip with a houseful of kids and secret Easter egg hiding logistics.
• Candy Talk: Dale’s love for candy is outed, recalling a store clerk’s judgment (“Whoa, your judgment”, 55:00) and a fun exchange with his daughter about her favorite sweets.
  • Sour Patch Kids confusion: “Are they shaped like little people?” (Nicole & Dale, 56:38)
  • Dale’s Key West “crybaby tears” candy becomes a family dare.

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9. Ask Amy Q&A (59:24–73:34)

a. Bundt Cake Update (59:32–61:00)

• The “stolen bundt cake” saga lives on, with the bakery sending more cakes—carrot cake count reaches 7 or 8.

b. Movies That Make You Cry (61:02–66:43)

• Amy: “League of Their Own” always gets her weepy; she avoids dog movies (“Homeward Bound”) because she can’t handle it.
• Dale: “Lonesome Dove” miniseries gets him every time.
  • “For me, watching Lonesome Dove is a miniseries and it’s an eight hour thing…” (Dale Jr., 63:31)
• Travis: Will purposely listen to sad country songs for “a good cry.”

c. Face Masks and Spousal Trolling (66:48–68:43)

• Amy avoids doing beauty routines where Dale can see her (“he’ll clown the [bleep] out of me”); light-hearted plotting about scaring each other with beauty masks.

d. Candle Preferences (69:41–71:57)

• Amy prefers clean, masculine scents like sandalwood or “Volcano” (popular lemon-citrus), not food-related candles.
• Dale reports daughter Nicole blowing out their candles for fun.
  • “You mess with that candle?” “Nope.” “Little liar.” (Dale Jr. and Nicole, 71:10)

e. Nicole’s Creepy Interests (72:07–73:28)

• Nicole loves snakes, dismantling things, and “Wednesday” from the Addams Family—setting the stage for a possible Halloween theme.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (Timestamps Refer To MM:SS Format)

• Proud Moon Launch Feelings:
  • “It was badass watching the rocket book it toward the stars. How in the hell did I not know about this happening today?” — Dale Jr., (05:15)
• On Social Media Fire:
  • “Every time I go on social media… you’re playing with fire.” — Dale Jr., (09:12)
• Snack Attack:
  • “He eats with like… extreme force. It’s like… he’s got to turn the grapes into wine in his mouth…” — Amy, (23:17)
  • “It’s called misophonia.” — Amy, (24:12)
• Summer House Fandom:
  • “Let’s not set it up so skewed here. You watch the [bleep] out of it.” – Amy, (22:18)
• Scamanda’s Spectacle:
  • “If it’s manufactured. Holy [bleep]. It’s brilliant. It’s like Modern Days of our Lives.” — Dale Jr., (32:50)
• Communion Confusion:
  • “He awkwardly just goes to find a new seat in a different pew.” – Amy, (40:10)
  • “I just sit down… I don’t know what to do.” — Dale Jr., (40:01)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• NASA Rocket Launch & Dale's Tweet — 00:47–11:05
• Brad Keselowski, 3D Printing & SpaceX — 07:43–08:31
• Astronaut Toilet Fails — 17:06–19:03
• Replying to Twitter Backlash — 09:01–13:33; 19:13–19:41
• Drink of the Week (Brunch Punch) — 14:28–15:47
• Summer House & Scamanda Drama — 22:07–38:05
• Communion Fumbles — 39:03–46:10
• Childhood Injury Stories — 46:10–53:40
• Candy Fun & Dale as a “Candy Dad” — 54:40–59:19
• Bundt Cake Saga — 59:32–61:00
• Movies That Make You Cry — 61:02–66:43
• Beauty Routines & Spousal Pranks — 66:48–68:43
• Candle Preferences — 69:41–71:57
• Nicole’s Character and Interests — 72:07–73:28

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Overall Tone

The episode swings between cozy domesticity, genuine awe (and humor) about American accomplishments and family traditions, and dishy enthusiasm about pop culture. The co-hosts are quick to laugh at themselves and one another, keep the pace breezy, and never shy away from tangents—whether the topic is kiddie candy, racing injuries, or television scandal. If you missed the episode, this summary delivers both the newsy highlights and the heart behind the Earnhardts’ banter.

Transcript

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[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?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm working.

[Amy]

Working that mouth.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

All

[Amy]

right. Hi, y'. All. Welcome back to another episode of Bless yous Heart. Dale and I are in the Dirty Mo Media studio and we're excited to have a fun little chat today. I hear that there's some Kirk Cousins news that's at the top of Dale's mind.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Not really. I. I feel like this is gonna be our best show.

[Amy]

Oh, okay. Well, don't set us up for failure.

[Travis]

I'm pumped about this one.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Are you pumped about this one? Travis is pumped about this one. This is going to be a good one. Well, lots going on.

[Amy]

Well, what are you talking about with Kurt Cousins?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, I sent out a little tweet. A bit of a troll tweet that I.

[Amy]

So you're the troll.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, I got in the mood, so. Yeah.

[Amy]

Is that like a rule? You don't get in the mood and then get on the Internet?

[Travis]

This one I fully support.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So yesterday. Yes, so yesterday. So yesterday I was. Yesterday I was Send it home. You were taking the girls to gymnastics and I was like. I had placed a bed on Fanduel and was going. I had a little two player parlay that. That I was going to check on. Didn't know if the game started or whatever. So I was just like gonna turn on sports, like, you know, FS1 or something like that, right? And so I go to turn on my Xbox and I go into the FS1 or the Fox one. And so.

[Amy]

Sorry, what's going on over there?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Raph just got some flim, dude. What? And so I'm a normal person. I get phlegm, all kinds of normal things. But I was. I. Right on the screen, it said they were about to fire this rocket into the sky with humans on it, you know, Funny to say you were humans, but people.

[Amy]

It is. Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Astronauts. And so look, I remember. I. I do remember that they were going to do this a couple months ago and they delayed it. Something happened. They didn't do it. And. But I wasn't like, you know, I didn't dive into, like, all of the.

[Amy]

All the details of the purpose. Yeah. The mission purposes.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So they're going to send the. They, they. They have. They have fired this rocket off. It happened yesterday. They sent it. It's going around the moon, which is insanely cool. And they're going to do another mission. Everything going. If everything's going as planned, they're going to do another mission and eventually going to land on the moon, which is awesome.

[Amy]

It is really cool.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So I turn it on and I'm like. They're like four minutes. And as soon as that happened, I got a text from a friend of mine in San Diego, Kevin, and he says, hey, man, they're about to fire this rocket off. And I'm like, I'm just watching. I just. What a coincidence that you text me this. I just turned it on. How did I not know about this? Have I not heard about this today? I remember, now that I think about it, the delayed launch.

[Amy]

Yeah. We were talking about the astronauts, and one of the astronauts, the female is actually. She went to NC State, so she's from this area.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. So, I mean, I knew this was happening, but I didn't know it was happening today. And so I put out. I was very proud. I mean, and it was emotional, right? Like, yeah, look, they fire. They've sending. They're sending people to the space station. They've been doing that. It's not like. It's not an unusual thing. This is what I'm thinking.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

This is what I'm thinking as I'm watching this happen is like, you know, it's not that unusual that, you know, being human beings are on rockets that shoot up into the air, but this one just feels so cool because it's going around the moon and damn it, that's a long ways away. And they got our plan. Right.

[Amy]

A lot more risk involved.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. They got a plan to freaking get on the moon and then beyond that, whatever. Right. So super proud moment. Awesome moment. And I'm like. And so I fired off this tweet of, like, how did I not know about this, you know, that this was happening?

[Travis]

Yeah, look at the screen.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So I fired off the street.

[Amy]

I said I had no idea we were sending humans around the moon. Turning my phone for some sports on the.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Turn on my tv.

[Amy]

Oh, it's kind of little. Sorry. Turn on my TV for some sports on there. And it was four minutes to lift off. Unreal. What did you. What's that?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Proud moment.

[Amy]

Proud moment.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It was badass. Watching the rocket book it toward the stars. How in the hell did I not know about this happening today? And so it was really cool, actually. And you're. I'm. I'm again, like, we sent. We send people to space station. I don't watch those. Those moments. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't get invested. And I'm sitting there going, holy moly. Come on, come on, come on, man. Just, you know, keep digging. And then the boosters fell away, and you're like, all right, you know, everything's going through that process, you know, and then you're watching it, you know, kind of do what it does. And it was super. I was insanely quickly, like, heavily invested

[Amy]

in, like, yeah, you sent me the. You sent me a text and said, they're about to shoot off a rocket. And we had just gotten the car from gymnastics. We were heading through to get something to eat. And in a drive through, and so the girls. I pulled it up on my phone, and the girls were like, what's going on? I was like, they're about to shoot off a rocket. And. And they were like, a real one. It's like, yeah, a real one and there's astronauts on it. And they were like, oh, my gosh, mom, we want to watch. So, like, I'm holding the phone like this, trying to watch it myself, trying to get them to watch, and they were asking me a thousand questions.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, I bet.

[Amy]

Where are they going? How do they stop? How do they get back? So the rocket comes back just like that. I'm like, no, no, no, watch it. Because they started to see the pieces fall apart. And Isla was like. Like, both of them were gasping. They were like, it's falling apart. You know what I mean? They weren't expecting to see that they're talking more loudly than the guy that's annotating the whole thing because he's explaining the process as it's happening. But it honestly brought me back to, like, feeling like a child again.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes.

[Amy]

And it was really cool. Almost like. Like you said, proud. But I almost got a little emotional and I had to check myself.

[Travis]

Like, I wish they did it during school so they could have. All the classes could have stopped what they're doing to put it all on.

[Amy]

That would be great. That would. That would be very Apollo 13ish. Don't you remember, like in the movie, they did that during the middle of school day and his son was shuttle.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Space shuttle launches and stuff like that during school, wherein we're like, it was big, big deal.

[Amy]

Yeah, they shot. There was a liftoff for one. Maybe they were just going to the space station not that long ago. And we watched that too, but I don't know. This one did feel different.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, you know, there's a bat. You know, there's a lot of commentary on television.

[Amy]

A lot more clips and videos too, of their prep work and like just getting the rocket to the launch pad and everything.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, I remember that too. Like watching the shuttle. They. They had these little machines that would carry the shuttle out to the launch pad. And it moved it like an inch. An inch every hour. You know, it was like super slow. Right.

[Amy]

And they have a water truck in front of it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You know what?

[Amy]

I was spraying the ground so they don't get stuck. I didn't know that they had to do stuff like that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I was. I was thinking, I wonder if Brad Keselowski has any 3D printed parts on that thing, you know, because, well, Brad make, you know, Brad's old print. I don't know if Brad Stall owns the printing company, but he had a printing company that would make parts and pieces for SpaceX or whatever. Or whatever.

[Amy]

Are you serious?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. Samey.

[Amy]

They let just anybody print some shit.

[Travis]

Not just anybody.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Let's look out. Brad's company is. I've been to tour his business. He showed me and walked me around in it.

[Amy]

I don't nothing about this.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It was.

[Amy]

All I know is my friend Brad, that Louis lived down the street.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Brad Keselowski created or helped create a 3D printing company that made parts for rockets. Yes. And so, you know, I don't know

[Amy]

that he had, I don't know, actually taken off yesterday.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't want to see. But he had something that, you know, anything but hell, who knows? But I had all these millions of thoughts running through my mind. And so I put that tweet out there because I was just so proud. I was so excited. And then I was like, you know, I was really insanely surprised by the response to my.

[Amy]

What were your responses? Were they nice or were they.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They were all over the place. I had a lot of fun with this.

[Amy]

So, I mean, I can imagine with your enthusiasm. There was a little clownish every time.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't know how this is gonna sound. But every time I go on social media, it is. You're playing with fire. It is.

[Amy]

Especially Twitter. Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh yeah. Oh yeah, you are.

[Amy]

It's just an opinion platform.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You gotta be thoughtful about what you're about to say.

[Amy]

Or have thick ass skin.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Someone is absolutely going to rip it apart.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And someone's going to take it completely out of context. And I've had that happen. But there was, there was a couple people that were like, watch. Get your head out of your ass and watch the news. And I was like, dude, I don't got time to watch the news. Like I am. I'm the one. I don't know that there's a news

[Amy]

giveth when you need it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't know that there is a busier person in the, in the NASCAR industry. I honestly feel like. Out. I mean, I, you know, listen, I

[Amy]

don't want to poo poo your thoughts, but you've got time for things.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I got, I know. Well, I got time for things and those things take my time. Like I don't have time to go sit down and look at my phone and watch the fricking news. I don't have. I don't, I can't. I don't have the bandwidth.

[Amy]

Okay? That's different than the time. Bandwidth and time are not the same thing. Bandwidth means you don't have the space. Space up here to deal with that every day. But I feel like if we're ripping cards, we got time to watch the news.

[Travis]

But Nancy not only came out, that's the thing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Like do I rip cards or do I take in a little bit of news? You know, I'm going to rip the cards.

[Amy]

I mean, you could be ripping cards and watching the news at the same time. He's got a whole new set upstairs in his.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That's how we were watching the Shadow launch.

[Amy]

Yes. He's got a whole new screen up there. He's got like, it looks like the space station himself.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

He's got like a 32 inch Alienware monitor sitting there.

[Amy]

Well, whatever. He's got a desk there. He's got a desk downstairs. Like it doesn't even matter if he's upstairs or downstairs now. He's got spaces everywhere where he can watch things.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I can listen to music, I can do whatever. I can watch rocket launch.

[Amy]

But we're not watching the news.

[Travis]

But Nancy came after Dale and Dale's friends. She said, clearly you need to surround yourself with better people because it's been all over the news for like a month.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yep. I Said my friends are catching snakes.

[Amy]

Now she's trying to blame everybody around you too. Yeah, no.

[Travis]

You come after us, Nancy.

[Amy]

Well, screw you.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

This one guy said you live under a rock. I said under the hood of my Nova wagon. I don't know why. We just got the wagon done and

[Amy]

so that just flew out.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Pop out of my mouth.

[Amy]

You just wanted to get into a fight yesterday.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I had fun with it. You know, sometimes you get stuff that pisses you off and I was like, this ain't going to bother me. I mean, I know I look, you know, I bet. Oh, I bet that smart ass didn't know it's opening night at Langley this weekend. They're going to have a hundred lap feature or late model stock race. Bet he didn't know that.

[Amy]

I didn't either. Yeah, but I saw that rocket take

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

on that was consume news.

[Travis]

Kevin said you got to watch more than flow racing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Kirk Cousins going to going to play for Raiders this year.

[Travis]

So that's why his tweet saw that this morning.

[Amy]

That was why he started why.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That's why I posted that. It's like I saw it on the news this morning. Her cousin's going to the Raiders. You got. Hey, you like that? That's what his old saying is. You like that? You like that? That's what he said one time after a win against the Buccaneers when he was a commander.

[Amy]

Did you hashtag it?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I did.

[Amy]

People still hashtag these.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I did. They don't work anymore, but I do it. If you're trying to be a smart ass.

[Amy]

Well, I got to say something. This is very off topic, but my shoes are killing me and I'm having a hard time concentrating. I'm going to take them off.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Take your shoes off.

[Amy]

I've gone through the stage like they are like torture devices. Dale gave me boots for Christmas.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Do you won't mind people looking at your feet?

[Amy]

I mean, I got socks on. I'm not a complete animal.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

All right, so that's.

[Amy]

I wanted these boots forever and Dale got them for me for Christmas and I don't have like troll feet, but they're like basic wide feet, you know, like regular width. And these things are made for skis. They are. I need stretch. I need stretchers or something for them.

[Travis]

But it's because women love to just. They care more about how it looks than how it feels.

[Amy]

Yes. Typically I would just not even mention it, but I like they literally, my feet are numb. Driving over here was a thing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So anyway, that's a mystery.

[Amy]

I'm Gonna need you to help me stretch those out with your little wooden things, your little cobbler things.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I got little wooden. Yeah, I got wooden.

[Amy]

I need you to be a shoe cobbler and fix my boots.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Shoe cobbler?

[Travis]

Who doesn't have time for that?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Is that.

[Amy]

Can you fit that into your schedule since you're so busy?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What's a shoe cobbler? Is that like a shoey during Thanksgiving? Like a shoe cobbler? I don't know. What's a shoe cobbler?

[Amy]

No, your jokes won't work here. Nope. Not even try. Travis even looked away. He's like, nope.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What is a shoe cobbler?

[Amy]

Isn't that the word?

[Travis]

Yeah, they repair. They build shoes.

[Amy]

They make shoes.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I got these little wooden things that I put in my dress shoes to keep them from collapsing because I don't wear dress shoes that often.

[Travis]

I have those, too.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They sit on my damn shelf so long, they. They just collapse. But they do. Yeah, they'll just. The toes of them.

[Amy]

Oh, Like Pinocchio will collapse.

[Travis]

It keeps the form of the shoe

[Amy]

Pinocchio Geppetto situation in my head.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't know why they. I don't know what those things are really for, but I can put them in there, and it might help stretch them out. Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah. They're like crushing my feet. All right, speaking of crushing, let's crush this drink.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What is the drink?

[Amy]

I don't know. Let's see. A Drink of the Week, presented by hi Rock. Is Is the brunch punch. It's got Dale. Oh, that's good. Very drinkable. It's very light. It's one and a half ounces of High Rock vodka, one and a half ounces of orange juice, one and a half ounces of fruit punch, and one and a half of ginger ale, and then one ounce of pineapple juice. So you could really make this in a pitcher, too, and, like, make it a good, you know, group drink. Combine all of this in the shaker and serve it in your glass. So if you haven't already, check out Hirock vodka dot com. You can use the store locator. Excuse me? Use the store locator on there and check out where Hyrock and any Sugarlands products is in your area. We have exciting news for Hyrock coming up, which we will share with you soon.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Tell it right now.

[Amy]

Are we allowed to share?

[Travis]

I don't know.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

New 1.75 bottles of high Rock.

[Amy]

That's right. We shared it on. We have two sizes now. Two new sizes. We have the 50ml so we have the Minis, I call them Minis with the airflame bottles and then we have a 1.75 coming out in May.

[Travis]

The handle.

[Amy]

The Handle, the Big Boy. So now you have three different sizes to choose from and you can find that at Total Wine just about everywhere in May. Very exciting.

[Travis]

I'm pumped about the handle because the fifth, it just like, it's a tease. It goes fast.

[Amy]

The bottle is really pretty though. So I'm excited about everybody seeing that. You must be 21 years or over. And also remember to please drink responsively.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

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[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Did y' all know that I guess they had some problems with the toilet on the. On the space?

[Travis]

Oh yeah. Did you hear about that, Amy?

[Amy]

I didn't hear about the problems with the toilet, but I did watch a really good video of one of the astronauts explaining how the toilet works and how loud it is. They have to use ear protection just to flush it. It's so loud. And the capsule is really small.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They're going to the far side of the moon and they're going to set a record for the farthest distance ever traveled. 252,000 miles.

[Amy]

It's going to take 10 days. That's what I read 10 days.

[Travis]

Yeah. The toilet fan jammed and so apparently, while they couldn't. While they were fixing it, you could poop but not pee. I don't. I don't know how.

[Amy]

How do you stop yourself?

[Travis]

I don't know.

[Amy]

How do you stop yourself if you're. I mean, if you're a woman? I don't know how you.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Sorry.

[Amy]

Poop and not pee.

[Travis]

They had a contingency plan, though.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They just were allowed to poop if they could. Needed to, but they couldn't pee.

[Travis]

Astronauts reportedly employed their contingency, quote, waste management capabilities specifically for urine. End of quote.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So they had a backup plan, but they fixed it. They fixed it.

[Amy]

That sounds tragic.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That's fine.

[Travis]

The last thing you like fine.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's like. It's fine.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. Hey, they're headed to the moon, man. I think I could hold it.

[Amy]

No, you couldn't.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes. I drive race cars. You don't hold it for hours. Boy, I peed in my race car maybe a dozen times.

[Amy]

Okay, I know, but that's just because you're dehydrated. They're doing all the things right.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They're probably dehydrated.

[Amy]

They have a workout.

[Travis]

No, they need to stay hydrated. Like, their body, like, is going through a lot of stress. More stress in a race car.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Look, I'm not saying it's hard. It's not. I'm not saying it's, like, easy to hold it, but I would have been so excited and enamored. I think I would have had my mind busy with other things.

[Amy]

I don't know. Not being able to do all bodily functions would be stressful.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Maybe they'll get asked when they get back, how hard was it to hold it?

[Amy]

Maybe you should tweet about it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, no, I'm done. I'm done for a bit.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You know, I like to tweet, and I do like to, you know, communicate and get feedback and respond to people and stuff like that. But going, getting. Going viral, where most the people that are communicating with you aren't people that are following you and they don't really even know you. That is not fun. Yeah, it's just. They're just mystery people, you know? It's, like, weird.

[Amy]

Are they even real people sometimes? Even real.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They're not. Normally don't have real names and stuff, but it's interesting.

[Amy]

Well, I saw something really funny on Instagram this week, and I saw it a few times. I sent it to straps Yesterday. There was a Miss Thailand competition. I'm sure. Some of our followers have seen these clips. It's a beauty pageant, and they were having a moment where they're dancing on the stage. And I don't know exactly if this is before or after.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, my God.

[Amy]

Swimsuit things, but this girl, well, she just qualified. There's a stink about one of the contestants not doing, like, the sexy dance, but she went clubbing on the stage.

[Travis]

Give her the, like.

[Amy]

What is that dance move called? Because I've seen it before. But she went. She went for it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

She did.

[Amy]

And so there's. There's a lot of controversy on her dance moves.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What's the controversy?

[Amy]

I don't. That she didn't stick to the plan. Like, I think she even.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They were probably told to like, hey,

[Amy]

kind of fitness qualified. Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

She's like, hell, it. She's like.

[Amy]

She's like, it. I'm going for it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It. It's my time. Can you imagine right when the camera pans, she's like, here we go.

[Amy]

I freaking love it. It's hilarious.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

All her friends, y' all watch.

[Amy]

Y' all watch this. I'm about to go ham bone.

[Travis]

She done that five inch heels.

[Amy]

Well, that's a skill. She should stand out. She's. That's what she's. I'm gonna stand out. Y' all watch me go.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

These other girls can shake their hips all they want to.

[Travis]

I'm.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That should have gotten her into the next round because the rest of them looked almost like they were all doing the same dance.

[Amy]

They were. So why the same girl over here? How could you?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

How can you, like, you know, you look at all of them doing the same thing and it's like, damn, this is hard.

[Travis]

She only made the top 20.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You got her doing.

[Amy]

She only made the top 20.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Hey, top 20. Give it up. That's tough.

[Amy]

Yeah. I think it was funny. I watched it over again. There was the missed Grand Thailand.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It was just the Miss Grand Thailand. It wasn't like the world or universe.

[Amy]

No. It was all like, she's top 20 kind of thing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Top 20 in Thailand is pretty good.

[Travis]

She said I was just truly myself.

[Amy]

What you say?

[Travis]

She was saying she was just being herself.

[Amy]

She was just being herself. Yeah. She's like, I ain't going to be like these other girls. I'm just going to do me.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Hey, she's memorable. Everybody's talking about her. We're talking about her.

[Amy]

I feel like they need to move around.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I didn't even know they had this. I didn't either in Thailand thing.

[Amy]

And yeah, that's what happens when Thailand watch.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

The Grand Thailand Commission has to love it. Or the. The council or whatever.

[Amy]

That's true.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They've gotta love it.

[Amy]

There's one more other thing that's been all over my phone this week.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Me too. I know what you're about to talk about.

[Amy]

Well, it's the summer house.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Find me. Is it? No. Amy likes it. I mean, look, I watch the show too, okay?

[Amy]

Let's not set it up so skewed here. You watch the out of it.

[Travis]

Oh, you do?

[Amy]

That's one of those shows. If I watch by myself. He's annoyed. He's like, oh, you watched it already?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I didn't want to admit it. I'm already catching for not watching enough news, and now people are gonna give me for watching too much. Bravo.

[Travis]

You're gonna get crushed for this.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm gonna crush you.

[Travis]

I support you. I watch Summerhouse too.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

My Bravo.

[Amy]

We record two shows, Summerhouse and Southern Charm. And we sit and watch those together. So it's like our together time. Even if we're not talking to each other. Cause we're watching the show. Dale likes to eat his snacks while we watch shows. So he sits on the other side of the couch so that I can hear.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

She doesn't like the sound of someone eating, so I can't sit near her.

[Amy]

And he likes to eat those really flat pretzels, like crunchy, really loud foods.

[Travis]

Can't you, like, find a way to, like, eat in a quiet, non crunchy manner?

[Amy]

No, no, no. He can't.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Even if I eat a grape, it's too. It's loud.

[Travis]

She's like, do you chew with your mouth closed?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes. She listen.

[Amy]

He eats with like.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

This is a condition.

[Amy]

Extreme force. It's like this is a condition. He feels like he's got to turn the grapes into wine in his mouth or something. Like he's smashing it so hard.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I've read about this. This is a condition that she has.

[Travis]

What's it called?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't know. Look it up.

[Amy]

When people don't like. It's not. I'm not alone is what you're saying.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. There's other people and it's a condition. It's the sound of someone eating is an annoyance.

[Amy]

What's it called? Misophonia.

[Travis]

Yes. Yes, Here it is.

[Amy]

Do you have it too, James?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't.

[Amy]

Liar.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

James.

[Amy]

He knew the exact name.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. It's condition. It's so small.

[Travis]

Involuntary emotional reaction.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Can you change the phone?

[Amy]

But he's not wrong. Misophonia is what it's called. The condition characterized by intense, involuntary, and emotional reaction such as anger, rage, disgust, or anxiety.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Describes it perfectly.

[Amy]

Common sound, most likely the chewing, slurping, or breathing of other people. Yeah, I have that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yep.

[Amy]

I am disgusted and annoyed and sometimes enraged. So I sit on the other end of your smacking.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I sit on the other end of the sectional, and we watch together. And it's. It's pleasant. I enjoy it. We do. I enjoy that we're together. I enjoy that. Amy and I like, you know, it is what it is. But Summer House is a damn.

[Amy]

It's a good show.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Good show.

[Amy]

It's very entertaining.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We used to watch. No, no. You know, we used to watch Vanderpump Rules and all that stuff, but they changed the cast.

[Amy]

Yeah. We decided we were too old to get into a new cast.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I mean, too invested in the original.

[Travis]

I stopped after the season, after Scandival, I stopped watching.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So speaking of Scandival, we have now. We now have Scamanda.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Skamanda.

[Amy]

That's what they've. That's what they've dubbed it. Scamanda. So Amanda and Kyle just got divorced in January.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Sad news.

[Amy]

Sad news. We kind of saw it coming. Not surprised by that part. But now we've just realized that she's hooking up with.

[Travis]

Exploring.

[Amy]

Well, exploring his dad bod West. You know, like her best friend's ex.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

West was at Atlanta.

[Amy]

West was at Atlanta at the race. Listen, I. Carson Kwapple.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I think west, they were there for Arby's.

[Travis]

Sophie Cunningham with Arby's.

[Amy]

I'm sure he's a great guy.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I wonder if he. I wonder if he told Carson Quapple. Hey, man, you want some gossip?

[Amy]

You think he just opened up with all that?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Because he probably knew Carson Copple didn't know. So he's like, I got to get this out.

[Travis]

I got to tell somebody. Who.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Tell somebody. So let me tell somebody who will not ever know to tell another one.

[Amy]

Carson, your brain is crazy.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Wouldn't that. Isn't that right? Like, if you. Like, that's something that you got to get out of your system, like writing

[Amy]

down on a piece of paper.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Stranger that you know you'll never see again. And now you're like, I'm free.

[Amy]

Is that what you do?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, but it sounds like a good idea.

[Travis]

No, Dale's awful. He can't keep a secret.

[Amy]

No, he cannot. Do not ever tell Dale.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Don't ever tell me.

[Amy]

Someone to know.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Please don't. I don't understand.

[Amy]

It. It eats him alive.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, it's uncomfortable.

[Amy]

Even a good secret, like a surprise. I know someone else.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes.

[Amy]

He'll get right in the middle of that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, they'll be. I mean, they'll be like, hey, we're going to throw a surprise party for this person.

[Amy]

I'm like, God, don't even tell me I'm going until I'm going. Yeah, Actually physically moving and going there.

[Travis]

Take his phone away from him, too.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's physically uncomfortable for me to hold on to a secret.

[Amy]

Yes. Yeah, that seems to be.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I like. I like. I'd rather say that I cannot tell a lie, but.

[Amy]

No, you will spoil a secret and you'll spoil it on purpose. I learned that the hard way when I first started dating you. I was like, wait a second. That's not even your. That's not your news to share. What? What are you doing? Like, it's just so exciting. I gotta tell it. Gotta shout it. He just loves.

[Travis]

I've got something to tell you after the show that we had to edit out of a dirty air because he shared something that we're like, no.

[Amy]

Oh, really?

[Travis]

Lock it up. I'll tell you after the show.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

There's a few things.

[Amy]

He's also one of those people, too. You can't kick under the table. Like, I've physically kicked him in the shit under the table. Cause he's talking about something he shouldn't. Or he shouldn't say something. And he'll be like, why are you kicking me?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, I'm oblivious. If we haven't learned that already, obviously,

[Travis]

it's gotta be a good.

[Amy]

It's by choice. It's situation. It's not all the time.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's selective. I want to be oblivious. I'm more comfortable.

[Amy]

All right, let's get back to Scamanda.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yep. Sorry.

[Amy]

Can you believe that she cheated? It's essentially a cheat.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Listen, I want to know.

[Amy]

I know that your phone has showed you all the clips.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

My phone hasn't. So to be fair, yesterday in the middle afternoon, my Instagram sent me a reel of some fan, and it had Celine Dion music. And it was like showing.

[Amy]

Lovely.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It was like showing a slow motion of her walking by him during one of the shots. And she grabs his hand.

[Amy]

She's going to the kitchen. And they are, like, caressing. He reaches for her boob.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, well.

[Amy]

And she swats him down. And then they, like, do this arm caress as she's walking.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Whoa.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

We're going to couch all this with a legend. So they're all Keep going.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They're re watching all of this. All the fans are now going back and watching the entire season over to see these little hints.

[Amy]

And there's a dinner party where she's sitting. He's sitting between the two of them.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So I got a couple. I got one or two clips on my Instagram yesterday and I have no idea why. My Instagram has never sent me anything. Bravo. Anything is. My Instagram doesn't seem.

[Amy]

Because everyone.

[Travis]

Everyone's talking about it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I get baseball cards, commander stuff, racing stuff.

[Amy]

Well, that's boring. This is really exciting. And it was like full force yesterday.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Car stuff.

[Travis]

Allegedly they were at the Super Bowl.

[Amy]

They were at the Super Bowl. So Dave Portnoy.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Dave Portnoy on his podcast was like,

[Amy]

this is old news. He blew up, saw them at the Super Bowl. Chicken fry told me it was happening

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

at the super bowl and he blew it up.

[Travis]

And Brand the chicken fry apparently is friends with West.

[Amy]

Okay, well, so I've. I've since I've seen all the clips, all the little, like, innuendos, like, he's really close to her. He's touching her. He's doting on her. He's standing up for her. With Kyle, you need to apologize. You shouldn't treat her that way. Like, he's all along. We think he's still crushing on Sierra and he's really got the hots for Amanda. Yeah, but she's married, so of course he's not talking about that.

[Travis]

But he was mad this season when Jesse wanted to kiss Sierra. And you're on the.

[Amy]

He was. So I hear. I think. I think all of it's like, all of it can be true and all of it could be too, you know, like it's still TV and maybe the whole thing's. I saw an interview with Kyle. He's got stopped on the street and did this whole calm interview and it felt like he was too okay.

[Travis]

Well, here's why he has to be okay, though, is he is now getting the sympathy card. And before this, I think everyone was blaming him for his actions and the divorce happening. So if he goes out there and crushes Amanda, then people aren't going to sympathize with him.

[Amy]

Also, why is he even talking to the media?

[Travis]

Because lover. Because now he can promote lover boy and stuff.

[Amy]

Oh, you think he's doing. I thought that they just declared bankruptcy.

[Travis]

The reunions coming up, dude, I mean,

[Amy]

it's not a bad light for him to be in. He should. He should eat it up. He really should. But he just Felt like even though he still wants to be, you know, held up now after all of this, he still seems a little too okay with it being Wes and not, like, annoyed that Amanda's seeing anybody. You know what I mean? Like, I know that they're divorced, but that's one of his buddies, and they just got divorced. I don't know if all of it was kind of somewhat happening under his nose. I don't know. It feels like he should have a little bit of, like, an annoyance.

[Travis]

Yeah, I would.

[Amy]

Yeah. In any human relationship, whether it was like somebody you didn't even marry, you would be like, that's kind of up. I hope she's okay. But that was too okay. It made it almost feel a little staged to me. It made me question whether it was all even bull or real. What do you think?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, I mean, I think that. I think when you're watching the show, the tension between them and the discomfort and all that stuff feels too. Feels real. Feels like that's not.

[Amy]

Yeah. It was developed over a period of

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

time or two, and they were Both appeared to be kind of. She seemed to be. Yeah. Pretty much kind of like. Yeah. What the ever.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And he's, like, miserable. So I think that maybe they were both. Even though they don't want it to fail, it did fail. And they're kind of relieved that now at least that they're not. They had to live in that every day. And so now at least he wakes up in the morning and he's, you know, the.

[Amy]

The DJ without the empty house sucks.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

But it's a clear slate, you know, and he can't, you know, you don't have to walk into the kitchen and that tension there being there or whatever. Right. Just metaphorically. And so maybe that's why he's okay with it. Maybe it's actually been going on longer than we thought or know about. Because when they film. Right. This isn't modern. When they. They filmed what we saw from the show. That was months ago.

[Amy]

Yeah, it was last summer.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Right. So, like, this has all been going on for years with them. So I don't know, man. Maybe he's just kind of like, I hate it. Didn't it, you know, didn't. I can see why he was the way he was in that interview. But it's really interesting. We'll see how it plays out. But I, too.

[Amy]

A little bit more annoyed.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Look. I too, like, there's 20. There's this little percentage of me over here going, this could be, you know, this could be all just kind of manufactured.

[Amy]

Right.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

To just create interest and. Which is brilliant. If it's manufactured. Holy. It's brilliant. It's like Modern Days of our Lives.

[Amy]

I know. So I bounce those thoughts in my head too. Like, if it's manufactured, if it's all fake, just to fluff the show. Especially, like, right before the reunions about to commence. They haven't done it yet, then very brilliant. But also, that's a lot to freaking keep up with, and that's a lot of kickback to get if you're Amanda,

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

especially if it's real. It's a risk to the show, which is unfortunate.

[Amy]

Well, she's lost brand deals.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

She got dropped from it, like.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

I don't. That's why I think it's right.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So, I mean, if it. That would tell me. I mean, again, that would tell me it's probably more legitimate, that it's legit and. And it risks the show being canceled. How could you put them all back in the same space?

[Amy]

Well, surely some of them just won't come back. If I was Sierra, I'd be like, y', all, I'm out.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Right.

[Amy]

And apparently he was dating her. So here's the thing. Wes was also kind of dating her again and dating this other Chicago girl. Yes.

[Travis]

Who Sierra has since followed on Instagram.

[Amy]

Oh, she did.

[Travis]

And I think there might have been another girl maybe.

[Amy]

Yeah. So he was, like, not just dating Amanda.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, West.

[Amy]

It's pretty impressive. But also, you think. How do they not all know?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Think it'd be Australian dude that would be doing all this?

[Amy]

No, he's the sweet one.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I know, but I'm just saying here.

[Amy]

I think he got back with the girl he was talking about on the show. Well, yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm just saying, of all the guys on the show, Wes is the. Is the playboy who's stringing them all along.

[Amy]

He's the Labrador.

[Travis]

Yeah. I thought it been like, Jesse would have been more likely to.

[Amy]

Yes. He's. Because he wears it on his sleeve.

[Travis]

Yeah. You know, Exactly. Wes tried to play as, like, the funny, like.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Haha guy.

[Amy]

Yeah. Well, I don't know. I didn't see it coming, to be honest. Did not see west and Amanda together. I didn't.

[Travis]

Bro code. Out the window. Girl code.

[Amy]

Yeah. There were no codes evaluated before making those choices.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Did you read where on Southern Charm for the next season, Shep and his ex. What's your face?

[Travis]

Taylor.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Taylor.

[Amy]

Taylor.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They have decided to somehow, I don't know if this is real or not. Maybe hoax but they have somehow decided to play in a competitive competition. Cup double, A doubles competition, tennis tournament.

[Amy]

And they're playing together.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And so the season spans them practicing together and trying to go play. And it's so.

[Amy]

I thought you didn't watch the news, Shepherd.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, I do watch the news. People think I don't, but I do. Shep Rose has partnered with the intent with the intense professional tennis league as a team owner. And. And he's his season. This next season features him with ex girlfriend Taylor and Green pairing up for comp. Competitive tennis matches. And it's caused a lot of drama and friction.

[Amy]

Well, I'm kind of surprised she decided to come back to the show. Yeah, well, the drama friction part doesn't surprise me whatsoever.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That show that we were watching a reunion of that last night, and I

[Amy]

feel like we're always behind on that show. But anyway, it's all right.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I mean, it doesn't matter. They recorded that stuff. I mean, the seasons weren't.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You know, when we're watching the season, it didn't happen yesterday. That was months ago. That's fine.

[Amy]

I saw a thing about Sally yesterday, too. She had commented on her tick tock, made some posts about girl code in response to Amanda, and then has since deleted it. Cause, you know, she's not really.

[Travis]

I'm a big fan of Sally.

[Amy]

You're a big fan of Sally?

[Travis]

I think she takes a lot of heat.

[Amy]

She does. She takes it on the chin. Like, she takes it really well.

[Travis]

I didn't realize that, like, on top of doing this show, she still works her night. Like, her, like, awesome job that she's got.

[Amy]

Like, she's out there.

[Travis]

Like, I think, like, Austin in the reunion was, like, judging her for the same things that he does.

[Amy]

I didn't like how Austin and Craig. No, not Craig. While I'm having a brain fart, the little tiny blonde that just had the baby.

[Travis]

Oh, Madison.

[Amy]

Madison. Yes. I didn't like how Madison and Austin were, like, ganging up on her about that. Like, why does Madison even care?

[Travis]

Who cares if Sally goes out? Austin, you go out too.

[Amy]

And why does. And what does Madison give a for.

[Travis]

And Austin. Sally goes out and then goes into work. So, like, I think she's managing it just fine.

[Amy]

Just because she's single and going out for dinner and having a glass of wine doesn't make her, like, a bar rat.

[Travis]

Even if she is a bar rat.

[Amy]

Yeah, well, I mean, if you're going in and doing surgery the next day, you're probably not supposed to be out drinking. But if she's doing her job. Yeah. Clearly not breaking any rules. Yeah. Why do you care? And if you're with her, what the hell are you judging her for? Like, he's out too.

[Travis]

Yeah. I think she'd be like the total catch for you.

[Amy]

It seems like you're supposed to fall in love with the people that you're the most alike. That way there's no friction. Like you're going to live life pretty easily together if you know what to do together. You know what I mean? When you try to force the opposites attract thing, it's. It usually doesn't work out.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I don't know. It felt weird.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I can't talk any about Austin.

[Amy]

No, I love Austin. I think he's so sweet. He's such a great guy. And I'm sure Madison is too, but in that moment, I was like, damn.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Sending some jerky boys. And he liked it.

[Amy]

He said it was the best beef jerky he'd ever had. He did. I have it in print. Yeah. I don't know. We can move on from the whole Scamander thing. I just can't believe it. I can't wait to see what happens at the reunion.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's just to be continued.

[Amy]

Man, Sierra's gonna lose her freaking mind on these people.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's gonna be something.

[Amy]

What if she doesn't even show up?

[Travis]

I think they will because of their contract.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Probably.

[Travis]

Like if they don't, I don't think they, like, they can withhold pay for the season and stuff.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So we got some Easter plans.

[Amy]

We do. We're gonna take our camper back to Texas.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What about communication can be tricky?

[Amy]

Not communication. Communion.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It says communication.

[Amy]

Oh, well, that was my phone accidente.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Communion can be tricky.

[Amy]

Communion can be tricky. Especially for Dale Earnhardt Jr. We went to church on Sunday, took the girls to St. Mark's Lutheran where we go to church and.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I have to preface, I've been going to this church since I was tiny. Six, seven years old.

[Amy]

He was baptized in this church. So were both of our kids. It's Brown's deep.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You know, when dad passed away, we had his funeral there. All that so. Or. Well, we had.

[Amy]

You said he got married.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We had a personal. I know the funeral was at another place, but we had a personal thing there.

[Amy]

Yeah. Kelly got married in the church.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

She did? Yep. Dads and dads helped the church.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You know, financially, in big moments, but. So we've been going there a long time. I remember I got some memories there as a Tiny, tiny dude. And we go every now and then, usually around the holidays, you know, we go, and it's great, and I enjoy it, and.

[Amy]

But he does forget things.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

But I mean, hell, dude, let me tell the story.

[Amy]

All right, so we're sitting, like, four or five rows back. Church is going fine. The girls are getting a little restless, but it's close to the end of service, and we have to do communion. And so, of course, the gentleman at the end of the row says, it's time for you guys to stand up. We go. And the entire pew on the front where everyone's doing communion is full, so we have to stand and wait. Well, Dale doesn't stand. He takes the girls and just goes, come on over here and sits in the ladies in the front, very front row where the older ladies sit. Their purses are sitting there and everything. And I'm like, what are you doing?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I just sit down.

[Amy]

He's just. Instead of standing in the. In the aisle like you're supposed to, it's, you know, 30 seconds, not that long. He awkwardly just goes to find a new seat in a different view.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't know what to do.

[Amy]

He like. And I look over. I'm like, what are you doing?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I look up. Amy's still standing there, and she's like, what are you doing?

[Amy]

And there's a gentleman behind me and another gentleman behind him.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And then everybody's lined up behind them. I'm like, oh, I was supposed to do that.

[Amy]

He goes, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm like, come on back. Come on back over.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And then we go. We go up and, you know, put her knees down on the cushion and wait for the pasture to come around with the bread and the wine. And the wine comes up, and it's red and white.

[Amy]

They had white grape juice on the top.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I know one's grape juice and one's not. I know one's wine and one's grape juice, and I don't know which one, and I don't know which one to get.

[Amy]

I was blown away that he was so confused. First of all, too, the pastor gives both of our kids the wafers, and they're five and seven. They haven't been through communion.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, but he's like. He looked at me and he goes, is it. It was kind of like, no.

[Amy]

He did ask. I saw that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Is it all right? I'm like, yeah, sure.

[Amy]

Hold your hand out, kid.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Hey, kid, take the bread. Body of Christ.

[Amy]

Body of Christ. Shed for you. Yeah, it literally Looked just like that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

This is exactly what's happening.

[Amy]

So we're in the middle of the damn church.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We're in the front, right at the very front.

[Amy]

And so the kids are taking it. And, like, Nicole sits there, and she cracks little pieces off and puts it in her mouth because she's never seen anything like that. It wasn't actual prep.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Did you not prep them?

[Amy]

Tell me. Well, I didn't see that coming. And so Isla sticks the whole thing in her mouth, and her mouth's, like, tight and locked up. Now she goes, she wants some of the wine, too. I'm like, no, no, we're drawing the line. She goes, what about the grape juice? I was like, no, just get out of here.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I didn't know which was which. And I got the great. I got just regular stuff.

[Amy]

And she's sitting right next to Dale, so she's too far away for me to really help her without making a scene.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So I'm like, I was disappointed I didn't get no wine.

[Travis]

How did you not get the wine?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Know which one was which?

[Travis]

Can't you say, like, I'll take the wine?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, they just.

[Amy]

They're in the little cups, and so you take it. They just put the tray down, and he had a choice, and he made the wrong one is what it came down.

[Travis]

See, this is how I have. It's been so long since I went to church. Last time I went to church, you literally would drink out of the thing and pass it back to.

[Amy]

They don't do that anymore.

[Travis]

That's how long it's been.

[Amy]

Yeah, we were talking about that at Bunko because. Yes. So to your point, some people used to drink out of the chalice and was like, that's so gross.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

You think about it. Sometimes you even, like, dip the wafer in the chalice. I feel like the last time we went to church, they did that, too. Like, that was something that happened. But that's also gross. Somebody's sticking their damn hand in there.

[Travis]

That's why. Now, think about it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Wild.

[Travis]

Let's call it 300 people drank out of the same.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So I remember.

[Amy]

That's so gross.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That's so gross. Let's stop talking about it. So.

[Travis]

But I will drink out of Dale's drink after the show because he hasn't touched it.

[Amy]

So we can't go anywhere without making a sip.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I didn't take a little sip. The one thing, though, that was really cool. So, I mean, of course, the whole, you know, being at church and doing all that was great. We get up, and I've told Amy and the girls, like, 14 times at least, how I've done this sermon when I was little. Like, when had you. We had you Sunday, and I gave the sermon.

[Amy]

The whole sermon. You not told me that. Yes, you told me you were an acolyte.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, I. On you Sunday. I was around 13. I was tasked. The kids did the whole. The whole service, and I was. I did the sermon, and my pastor was Pastor Kart. He gave me the joke.

[Amy]

Yeah, you did tell me that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Got to have a little humor in your sermon. And your sermon is going to be about forgiveness. And you're going to tell this joke about how this mother whose son went off to college and she missed him terribly and worried about him being lonely, she got him a. A parrot or an expensive bird that would talk to him. And she went around and found this really expensive bird that she was really excited about, and she sent it to him. I don't know why this was that funny, because it doesn't sound great now,

[Amy]

but I'm still waiting for you to put the fries in the bag.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

She. She waits and hears nothing. And she finally writes him or calls him or whatever. I mean, this is years ago. So she says, hey, man, did you get the bird? He goes, yes, mom, it was delicious. And so. That doesn't sound that funny now.

[Amy]

So he ate the bird?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I think he did, yeah.

[Amy]

Dang.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And she had to forgive him.

[Amy]

Did the church laugh? Did your congregation laugh with you? Yeah, but I can't believe you did that. As shy as you were.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I know it. That's the thing. So that's why I tell y' all about it, because I'm like, hey, I

[Amy]

mean, we don't know you. That part of you. I know that the you that we know is super talky.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Not when we first met.

[Amy]

Yeah, but you were famous then, so, like, you've been out in public and done things and appearances and all that. I didn't. Like, I knew you to be somewhat shy, but not, like when you had to turn it on. You absolutely could do that.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

At the end of church, we stand up to leave, and this lady in the pew right in front of us goes, hey. She's, you know, I don't know, maybe my age, a little older. She goes, hey, I was here that day when you gave the sermon. And I was like, really? Were you? That's pretty good, wasn't it?

[Amy]

He leaves church.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm like.

[Amy]

And he's like, God, I really needed that. The church was good for me.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Today I was like, yeah, that was a good sermon. Yes, yes. I've been telling my family about it over and over. I'm glad. I was like, amy, did you hear that? She was here. She was here. Amy, did you hear that?

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah. Grab a kid.

[Travis]

Let's still talk about that sermon.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Hell, yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah. Good for you, though.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, I'm sorry.

[Amy]

I used to do the acolyte or like get up and read and that was nerve wracking.

[Travis]

Oh, that was the worst.

[Amy]

I was so scared. I knew I could read very well, but I was terrified I was going to get up there and just like lock up. That happened a couple times, I'm sure.

[Travis]

I had to go to Sunday school and I would never, like, try or pay attention because I'm like, they can't fail you for Sunday school. But then it's like, oh, you have to stand up and do this prayer.

[Amy]

And I'm like, yeah, do I have to recite it or can I have a paper? Like, what's the deal here?

[Travis]

You have to go up there and you're like, oh, no, this is.

[Amy]

Yeah, this is nerve wracking.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I was.

[Amy]

And it's like the most forgiving place. But it doesn't feel like that when you're that age.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

We were in Sunday school downstairs and we were going to make the lanterns that you put on the driveway for luminaires. Luminaires, yeah, we were making those out of, out of 1 gallon milk jugs. This was. I was 12, 13, and my dad gave me a pocket, a pocket knife. And it didn't. It was an old kind of that. Both ends flipped open and it didn't lock, so you had to be careful. But I didn't. And so I'm cutting. I'm like, hey, I'm gonna use my new pocket knife.

[Amy]

You took it to church?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. I mean, this was like 1983, 1985. People could walk around with pocket knife.

[Amy]

Well, people still do that all the time. But not, you know, you don't.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't anymore. It's a different world. Nobody. I mean, I don't know, walking around with a knife, walking into church with it would feel weird today.

[Amy]

Yes, but back then, walking into church with a pocket knife, then every 15,

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

14 year old kid had a pocket knife in their pocket.

[Amy]

Okay, and so you were doing what with yours?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I'm cutting the top of the lantern off.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And I'm trying to cut and I slipped and that damn knife. Now the blades about probably 4 inches long, little, tiny little blade.

[Amy]

4 inches. Feels big.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No. Maybe 3 inches long, but it's a little tiny blade.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And it. It's one of them small pocket knives. That thing went into my leg, like, top of my thigh.

[Travis]

Like Ricky Bobby.

[Amy]

He Ricky bobbied himself.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It was like this real quick. It was like, shoo.

[Amy]

Boom. Oh, it came back up.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, I pulled it right out. And I was like. And I'm like, I just stabbed myself. I just stabbed myself. So I'm looking around. Nobody saw. I get up, put the. You know, I get up. I walk to the bathroom. Got a little pain. I. I take my pants down. There's a hole in my leg. There's a hole in my leg about the size of a dime. And so I got. I don't know whether I don't know how I got them or. I told no one about this. It's not bleeding for some reason. I don't know why. It's not. It's not like bleeding. Not. Not doing any of that. But I butterfly band aided my leg. Never told a soul. I got a. I got a scar on my leg still, you know, obviously from.

[Amy]

You never told your dad or anything

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

when you never told anyone that it

[Amy]

happened because you didn't want to take the knife away.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That maybe.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

But I was also embarrassed that I did it.

[Amy]

What about the hole in your pants?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't know.

[Amy]

They never asked you about it?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No.

[Amy]

Interesting.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I stabbed myself in the hand once trying to chop some ice. It was one of the kitchen knives. And, you know, remember those little square fruit punch or like lemonade jugs? And they had like a peel off top. We had some of those. And I wanted it to get cold fast, so I stuck it in the freezer and it froze. I stuck it in there too long. So I got one of the kitchen knives out of the block and I was stabbing it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Trying to get it to, like, turn into a slushy. And I just stabbed right into right here. Equally too. Did not bleed.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And it closed right back up. I just banded it. But I did, of course, tell my parents, my dad. I was pretty little. I was like five or six.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I was cutting a hole in a. In the grill. I was cutting the hole in the nose for my late model car back in, like 94, 95. With the whole saw. And the whole saw got out of control. And it. That scar. That scar right there. So it. It got into the web of my hand right there and, like, just ate it up. Ate. Was so painful.

[Amy]

You've been through some dude Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I busted my head open. I looked like Magnum TA Blood coming all down my head. Busted my head up and skateboarding. I blew my. I got a scar on my knee that goes from the front all the way to the back from falling on a broken brick. When I was about five, six years old, we were playing running through the yard in this. We lived in these apartments in Kannapolis. Rainbow Apartments is what it was called. And with mom before we went to live with dad. And I was running through the yard or backyard of this, you know, this property where this, you know, and there was a brick that it was broken in half, laying deep in the grass. You couldn't. It was like, you know, the grass was probably tall enough to hide the brick.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And I just fell on it, like, getting tackled or felt, you know, getting tripped or whatever. And I rolled over, and I could see the bone. It was crazy. I could see. I looked at my knee, and I could see all kinds of white things in there. Yes, sir. I was like, oh, my God. My mom, we. She was dating the son of this old man who had a family practice. And when. I mean, family practice, this kind of guy, you went when you got a sore throat. They took me in there. We go. We run over to her boyfriend's house. We ended up at the dad's. The. The actual doctor or physician or whatever. And his. His practice was right across the street. And so we run over there, and he sewed it up, and he put. It's a. It was a cut. I'm gonna tell you, I swear. It was a cut about five inches long. And he put seven stitches in it. Now, how many stitches would you put in that today, Right? A lot. He sewed that thing up with seven. I was screaming.

[Amy]

He didn't numb it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No. So, I mean, they're holding me down. I'm screaming like hell. And he sewed that thing up, put about seven stitches in it, and it's a big old.

[Amy]

Wow. It looks like a Frankenstein scar.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes. It's a wide, ugly scar because he didn't.

[Amy]

Didn't tighten it, do enough.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, he didn't do enough to, like. It was like. Yeah. I remember having these big old bandages and being afraid to even bend a damn thing because it only had seven strings in it holding it together. I've got.

[Travis]

I've got a scar on my wrist. I was chasing my brother, and he closed the screen door fast, and I ran through the glass door, and my mom literally had to pull a piece of glass out. It's like, right Over.

[Amy]

Right there next to your artery.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Holy.

[Amy]

Dude, that's so scary.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

You boys. Yeah. They always say boys are like, always doing something. And that's what they mean. You guys are just rough.

[Travis]

I've got a scar on my lip. I'd like to say that this was when I was young, but it was when I was like, 30.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I got a scar here.

[Travis]

I.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Here. I had no idea where it came from.

[Travis]

I woke up in a pool of blood in my bedroom.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Fell out of bed.

[Travis]

Well, so my uber said like 1:30am Your Uber? My Uber said that I got dropped off at 1:30 at my apartment.

[Amy]

You were an adult when this happened?

[Travis]

I said I was like 38.

[Amy]

I thought this was a childhood thing.

[Travis]

Show you the photos I got.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Discard on how I got it falling

[Amy]

out of the bed thing. Could still be possible.

[Travis]

I didn't fall. I was walking to the bed. I think I tripped over my fan. Face planted into my bed frame and I laid. I Woke up at 3:40 in the pool of blood, but I got all the blood out of the carpet. Club soda just doused it. But yeah, I'll show you the vid. Like, I've got pictures.

[Amy]

When did this happen, Travis?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yesterday, actually, last night.

[Travis]

It was like 2019, dude.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah. I mean, I did stuff like that when I was little. I haven't done that in a while. I haven't. I haven't had any crashes in a while.

[Travis]

It was August 28, 2021, actually.

[Amy]

Damn.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Damn, son.

[Amy]

That's pretty impressive. Yeah, well, I don't see a scar.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So you must have.

[Travis]

I got lucky.

[Amy]

You got lucky.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So.

[Amy]

So we are about to go to Texas for Easter. We're gonna take the camper again and spend the weekend out at the farm and do our typical fiesta, if you will. And so we're excited about that. Kenny actually arrived Tuesday. So he got there super fast to set up the camper for us. And we get to fly out this afternoon. I'm excited.

[Travis]

That'll be fun.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, I am too.

[Amy]

There are 13 kids this year.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Golly.

[Travis]

And now the girls are at the age where, like, they can look forward to it. And they, like, it's something that they do.

[Amy]

They're very much looking forward to it. So here's the thing. Hiding the things now is hard because there are a certain group of kids that are questioning everything. And then there's some that are obviously old enough to know better anyway and still play along. But, yeah, it's rarely. It's really hard to try to Figure out how to hide everything because they're into everything in the camper. It's, like, hard to hide. I mean, just about anything from them anyway, but especially in an environment like that. So I'm always nervous or just gonna stumble across all the goodies.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

But it's otherwise very fun.

[Travis]

Dale claims he's not on a candy kick right now. Is that true?

[Amy]

I wouldn't know, because usually he binges his candy after I go to sleep.

[Travis]

He says that ever since the Key west trip, he's pulled back on his candy consumption.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. When the lady had that reaction, I brought my candy bag up to the counter, and she goes, whoa, Your judgment.

[Amy]

Yeah, your judgment.

[Travis]

I think it worked.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I need to dial it back.

[Amy]

Are you upset? Well, he's about to. Dad, tax the heck out of these kids with candy.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I have. So I got. I do want to do this. And I told. I told Nicole I might, but she's. We're. So we're riding to school this morning, and she's telling me about the Texas trip. She goes, dad, remember last year we were. You were helping me find the eggs during the Easter egg hunt? I was like, yeah. She's like, yeah.

[Amy]

You gonna do that again, dad?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

She didn't say that.

[Amy]

No, she didn't.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

She just goes, you remember that?

[Amy]

Her memory is really good. She's got a lot of attention.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, I do remember that. And I was wanting her or waiting for her to go, let's do that again, or whatever. And I think she was trying to get there, but. And she was like, let's play a game. I was like, all right. She goes, my favorite food. And she. I said, man, I don't know. She goes. I said, is it a dessert? She goes, yeah. I said, ice cream. She goes, no. I said, candy. She goes, yeah. I said, candy's not a food, honey. We can't live on candy. She goes, well, okay. What's my favorite candy?

[Amy]

And I was like, re asked the question.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And I was like, well. She goes, it starts with an S. And I was like. She goes, it's sour. I was like. She says, it comes in a bag. I was like, what color is it? She goes, it's all colors. And I'm like, okay. And I was like, skittles. She goes, those aren't sour. I'm like, they can be. She goes, no, this is really, really sour. And I was like. Starts with this, and she's back there going, I know what an S sounds like.

[Amy]

She's just really trying to help you out.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And it was Sour Patch.

[Amy]

Sour Patch Kids.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And I was like, oh.

[Amy]

I was like, that's what took the tooth out.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

When I went to Key West, I got a bag of. Of crybaby tears. And I'm like, coley, if you like sour, I got a candy you need to try. It's real sour now. It's sour. Sour. She goes, oh. Another clue she gave me was hilarious. I was like, on the Sour Patch Kids. I was like, give me a clue. What's it shaped like? She goes, kids. I'm like, wait, what? It's a candy, and it looks like little people. And she goes, yep.

[Amy]

And it's sour. And you still didn't get it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I didn't. I don't know. Do they. Are they shaped like kids?

[Amy]

Yes. Really sour patches.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I know, but they're little kids.

[Amy]

Yes.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, I've never seen this.

[Amy]

How have you not look? They all. Earnhardt Jr. They look like a little critter kid.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, there you go. I have never seen one. Like, I've seen these bags, but I've never seen them.

[Amy]

They fly straight from the bag, straight to his mouth, straight past his vision.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't eat them.

[Amy]

Well, that's what you were eating in Colorado when your tooth came out. They were just shaped like watermelons.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes.

[Travis]

To Dale's defense, this photo here.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, There you go.

[Amy]

Yeah, but they're called kids. Sour Patch Kids.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

All right.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So. All right, so that happens. And I got. I said, I got this candy. You need to try. And it's crybaby tears.

[Amy]

Or.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I said, it's crybabies. And she goes, are they shaped.

[Amy]

Are those the ones that are individually wrapped?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They look like. Shaped like tears. And. But I don't know if they're crybaby tears or just crybabies, but that's what it is.

[Amy]

Yeah. I've never had those.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And she goes, is it shaped like little babies? I was like, no.

[Amy]

That's a great question, considering the kids.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I was like, no, it's shaped like a little tear.

[Amy]

You're not gonna eat babies.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, we just got off to talking about little kids.

[Amy]

I know. And so she's thinking, crybabies must be shaped like a baby.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes. And she goes, is it gonna make me cry? I hope it don't make me cry. I'm like, no, I don't think it really will make you cry.

[Amy]

I feel like we need to give her some of these.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, we're gonna. And so after school, I said, you could try one.

[Amy]

You have some at home.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Bag. Yes. I got them from Key west, whole bag.

[Amy]

Oh, you still have them. So he hasn't eaten his candy. He still hasn't eaten the Key west candy.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

There's a lot of it. I got crybaby tears, crybaby gum, and then some caramels.

[Amy]

What are the ones that are like little rounds and they usually are warheads?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Those are pretty good. They're the hard candy. I like crybabies, and the crybaby tears are good.

[Amy]

I'll try one too.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, they're good.

[Amy]

Hi, guys. Welcome to Ask Amy. Dale and I are in the Dirty Mo Media Studios, and we have had a lot of fun conversation today. Hopefully you guys will check it out. What do you have, Travis?

[Travis]

So the first question we had a few people ask us, they want to know, did we have an update on the bundt cake situation?

[Amy]

Okay, so the bundt cake situation is. Yes. The bundt cake that Dale stole is still to be determined. We don't know for sure if he truly stole the cake. But just about as soon as the clip of us talking about the cake went out last week, the bundt cake ladies from the store in Mooresville showed up at Junior Motorsports with another cake. Now we have three just wishing us happy birthday. So that's. We're up to three bundt cakes.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And there's a new cake that showed up at the house that has carrots on top of it.

[Amy]

Yes. So I went to brunch yesterday with my girlfriends. We worked out and did Pilates, and then we went to brunch, and I got yet another carrot cake, and we had bontinis at lunch. I got. I. The cake count has reached like 7 or 8 at this point.

[Travis]

Good Lord.

[Amy]

Yes. So we have really made up for lost time with carrot cake. But as far as the bunch of

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

just mention, I'm not sure podcast it just. Baseball cards. Baseball cards. Baseball.

[Travis]

Cold beer.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Cold beer. Cold beer.

[Amy]

Chanel. Chanel. Chanel. Chanel.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Chanel.

[Amy]

What?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You put that in?

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh. Yes, the cake. The cakes have really been plentiful this year. And so I'm going to take the cake that I got yesterday because it hasn't been cut into to Texas for Easter.

[Travis]

That explains why then I think James was like. Yesterday was like, hey, there's a cake in the break room.

[Amy]

Yeah, another one.

[Travis]

Yeah, yeah, we'll take it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, buddy.

[Travis]

Next question is, is there a movie you refuse to watch because it'll make you cry, or is there a movie that you watch that, like, you want a good cry?

[Amy]

So I don't Refuse to cry. I feel like I'm gonna be emotional, just doing. I get emotional. Even watching video clips of his dad, whom I've never met. It just, like, I get really excited, and big emotions just make me cry.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I've almost cried watching the rocket launch yesterday, you know, just because I got excited. It took me back to my childhood. It gave me, like, Ronald Reagan era vibes, you know, when you were that age. Does that make any sense to you? Yes, it is.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So sometimes I watch movies knowing I might cry like a League of Their Own. I love that movie. It reminds me of, like, cry during

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

the League of Their Own.

[Amy]

Yes. The sister. The sister relationship and all of the things.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Okay. Yep.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah. When they come back together at the end, I cry like a baby. I love that. I don't care to cry.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

We have a friend, his name is Billy, who will purposely put on sad country songs because he wants to cry.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

The end of Lonesome Dove.

[Amy]

The end of Lonesome Dove makes you cry. Is that a thing, that crying?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. When. When he takes Gus all the way. When he. So Gus passes away, dies in that town after he wouldn't let him imitate his leg. He took an arrow to the knee, and they're like. He's like, he ain't cutting my leg off. I'm not gonna, you know, hobble around in a chair. So he dies, and he promised him. So they had traveled all the way up to Montana to. To create a ranch. Well, he dies now. He said, you got to take me all the way back to Texas and bury me next to the creek where I had this date with this girl that I love. And so he's like, you son of a. So he drags him all the way back.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And now Woodrow, I believe, is at the town. He has buried his friend, and he's standing at the town, and there's a guy that walks up. It's like a journalist, and he's like, hey, are you. Are you who I think you are? You. You ran. You know, you were the first one to take a. You know, do a cattle drive all the way up to Montana. He's like, yep. He's like, you. You. You. You and your buddy did this, that, and the other. He's like, yep. He's like, you. You brought your buddy all the way back here after he passed away? He's like, I did. And it's just really emotional. I don't know if you watch. It's a. It's a Lonesome Dove.

[Amy]

It's the love that makes you emotional. It's like their relationship. It's the same thing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

For me, watching Lonesome Dove is a miniseries and it's an eight hour thing, which isn't a big deal these days. Like trying to. I used to tell my friends, like, like, I get my buddies and I'd be like, let's watch Lawson Dove.

[Amy]

And they're like, that's a weird ass thing to do with your buddies.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

They're like, really? I'm like, man, it's good.

[Travis]

You feeling okay, Dale?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. And this ain't like, you know, before

[Amy]

the Netflix binge situation, if I would

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

have said, hey, let's watch an hour and a half long movie, you know, they'd have been like, cool, okay. But I'm like, this is eight hours. And you're like, yeah, I'm not doing that. And. But now people sit down and that's

[Amy]

binge watching show, right?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That was. See, I was ahead of my time. I was a binger before Benjamin was cool. But Lonesome Dove, man, if you ain't never watched it, the actors in that, the list of people dying Lane, all the people that are in that insane. And, and the storyline is incredible. So if you just went and read the cast, you would go, this is gonna be good.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

But the storyline is really awesome. They did a good job. They did a good job. I think I was in the 9th or, you know, 10th, 11th grade when that came out.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's a good movie.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I watched that before Ricky Schroeder, Chris Cooper, Timothy Scott, Robert Erich. You remember him. Danny Glover, Angelica Houston.

[Amy]

He was good.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Robert Duvall is one of the lead characters and he does an amazing job.

[Amy]

Our dog is named after captain Augustus McCray.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That's right.

[Amy]

Gus is after.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Steve Buscemi's in there. How about that?

[Travis]

It's a good cast.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes. Dude, I'm telling you, you need to watch it. It is.

[Amy]

It's a good Saturday binge if you got nothing to do.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, it's so good. You'll. You'll, you'll finish it if you start it pretty good.

[Amy]

You'll have to report back on if you cry.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

There is some sad moments like Danny Glover gets killed and it's just like, you're like, no, man. You know, when you're watching a show, people can appreciate this, right? Well, I think we all can. You'll get into a movie or a series and one of your favorite character D dies early. You're like, God dang.

[Amy]

Yeah. No, man, it hurts your feelings.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I don't want that one to go, you know?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

That's how I was like, I watch Survivor, and if you do and you haven't watched last night, turn away. But somebody got voted off. They did. And I was like, damn. I'm like, that, like who you were rooting for?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

I was like, that hurt like, I wanted them to stay in there.

[Amy]

Who was it? I haven't watched Survivor in a long time.

[Travis]

I don't want to say the name just in case anybody's okay.

[Amy]

Not watched yet.

[Travis]

Yeah, Just in case. I don't want to be that. That person that's. Well. But, yeah, sometimes I'll put on, like, some sad country music or whatever and just. You're in one of those movies.

[Amy]

I didn't pick that for you. Sad country.

[Travis]

Like, if it's like. Let's say it's like a Friday night, you're not doing anything and you got some. You having a drink or two and put on some music and just like, getting your feelings. Yeah. Sometimes you just got. Sometimes you need it and just release it.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

But I know one of the movies that was. I saw is people said Marley and Me is a movie that, like, they. They know if they watch it, it's just.

[Amy]

I'm not watching a dog movie. Okay. So. Yes. Homeward Bound. Cried like a baby.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

That one I don't think I want to watch anymore. So back to the original question. I probably wouldn't put that on because I can't handle that. Animals. Yeah, you know, going through stuff. People. Yes, but not animals. And I don't want the kids to see that either.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Break their little hearts.

[Travis]

Next question is, they want to know, has Dale tried your face mask thing that you've been.

[Amy]

He has not. No. And I try to do that kind of stuff when he's not around because he's just going to clown the out of me.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I walked into the bathroom the other night, she had it on, you remember?

[Amy]

No.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes. Like three or four nights ago. I don't know, maybe it was a week ago. But I walked in there and you had on this full thing and you giggled.

[Amy]

Oh, they're talking about my LED mask. Yeah, yeah. So I have your other stuff. It looks like the Jason mask that's sitting on the floor, the white one. Oh, yeah, I try to. Yeah, yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, I'm not doing that.

[Amy]

No, not that you. No, you're not doing it. But no, he. I try to do all of my voodoo girly stuff when he is down there ripping cards or playing video games or Whatever he's doing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Because I don't want to get into, like a clown. He has come up before, and I've had masks on where I can't move my face, so I can't even laugh with him. And it's like the laughing keeps going and it hurts. So, you know, we've been together a long time. He's. He's seen quite a bit.

[Travis]

I found it funny. Just because it's dark and you're ready. You just hear Amy's voice.

[Amy]

Yeah, I. You know what I should do is put that damn thing on and creep up on his ass and just turn it on and be like, yeah, boo. He's scared the out of me the last two nights coming to bed.

[Travis]

The next time that you wake up in the middle of the night and he's asleep, put it on.

[Amy]

I should.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

If you're not scaring, I might try all that. If you're not trying to scare your wife on a regular basis.

[Amy]

Do you even like her?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You're not having fun.

[Amy]

He used to jump out and scare me in the house all the time. And then we had kids, and now he's, you know, does it with them. But every once in a while.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

The other night, she was awake. He'll scare me.

[Amy]

Coming to bed.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I came upstairs. It was like 10:30, and she's in bed scrolling on her phone.

[Amy]

I was watching a video of this little girl who was suffering from something that her mom was helping her with. And I was like, oh. And I didn't know he was standing in the doorway. And he goes, oh. I'm like,

[Travis]

why you gotta fight fire with fire, baby?

[Amy]

What? Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, I'm standing there. It's dark. Super dark.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

But you could probably see my silhouette.

[Amy]

And so you couldn't, because I had my phone light in my face so I couldn't see anything.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And I'm sitting there, I'm like, man, I want her to look over here and get scared. And she goes. And she's watching the thing. She goes, aw. She has no idea anyone's there. And she's like, oh. And I was like, oh, man. She talks to her phone. She like. She was like.

[Amy]

She's a sweet kid.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I know, but like, I was. I mean, I'd be. I hear you laugh all the time. Like, you'll be watching TV or whatever. And she just cackles at the tv.

[Amy]

Doesn't everyone? Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

But you know.

[Amy]

Yeah, he likes to scare me. He scared me last night just by accident because I happened to forget to put my Teeth aligners in before I went to sleep. And so I went back to the bathroom. So I'm in one doorway, he's coming in the other one. And I didn't expect him because usually I can hear him walking and he's. There he is again. I'm like, and he loves it. God, he loves it when he scares me. Especially when it's by pure accident like that.

[Travis]

One more question here is, they want to know what is your favorite scent or scents for candles. Do you have ones that like, you always like to have at the house?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Vanilla?

[Amy]

No. So I don't like. I don't like food smelling candles.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Come on, dj.

[Amy]

Oh, oh, tj. TJ likes vanilla.

[Travis]

Top three ice creams.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Vanilla. I said, tj, what's your top three ice creams? He goes, well, vanilla's one. I'm like, what the hell? You got to put like something.

[Amy]

It's got to have some extra in it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, it's not.

[Amy]

But he's also the type of guy that orders the kids grilled cheese or the kids cheese and turkey with no spreads on it. And he'll double down and get some to go when he comes to the beach. If he's going back to the racetrack, that's what he eats for the next few days. So, like, that's TJ's just vanilla. That's who TJ is. What was the question again?

[Travis]

I don't remember Candle scents that you

[Amy]

like to have at the house. Yeah, I don't like food candle scents, so I like sandalwood, anything kind of like woodsy, more masculine smelling or just something clean. My favorite candle of all time, I think is everyone's favorite. It's called Volcano and it has like this lemony.

[Travis]

I don't think I've ever.

[Amy]

Just really clean scent.

[Travis]

I'm a big like, yeah, you bought some.

[Amy]

We. You've smelled them. We have them. He's trying to make notes, like the

[Travis]

ocean breeze kind of one. But I also love like an apple cinnamon.

[Amy]

So if, if it's like October.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

September and October, there's like a small little window when I can deal with that. But like, I ain't going to burn the whole candle down. I just like a day or two,

[Travis]

I'll burn that thing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

In the last couple of, in the last couple of weeks maybe I say weeks in the last couple of months, I've caught Nicole playing with the candles.

[Amy]

Yeah, I can't burn candles with Nicole in the house. She blows them all out.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So we got a candle over by the, the Front door. That's at three or four.

[Amy]

It's a big giant one.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, it's one of the big ones. And I come. I come out of the library, which is upstairs, and I can look over the. Over the banister and she's standing there and she. I heard her go. And I walk over and one of the wicks is done out and the other three are still lit. And I go, you mess with that candle? She goes, nope. And I was like, you sure? She goes, no. Just standing here. And I was like, little liar. Be careful now you mess with that.

[Amy]

And that sucks too, because that type of candle, if you don't have all the wicks burning, it doesn't melt. Right. And then the whole thing gets screwed up.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes.

[Travis]

You get a tunnel and it's the worst.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, you get. They got to burn evenly.

[Amy]

Yeah. But yeah, like clean smell, clean, crisp, non food smelling for the most part. But yeah, if it's fall, I can deal with like pumpkin spice or apple.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

So Nicole told me something that Make a lot of sense today. We was riding to school in the car and we were talking about favorite. I was like asking her what her favorite new cartoon was. And then I said, all right, tell me a show that you used to watch that you don't like anymore. You know, we're going through all these little things. I was just curious what she would say. And she says, my favorite cartoon character. And I'm like, I don't know. Who. Who is it? She goes, Wednesday. And I'm like, this tracks?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

100.

[Amy]

She's found the Addams Family. And there's a cartoon now. Yeah, about Wednesday and Wednesday. She likes creepy everything.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That's her. Oh, she is little Wednesday, is it not? Yeah, she's in the. She's always kind of like messing with things she knows she shouldn't do. She knows she ain't supposed to touch. She knows she don't touch that. You know, can I tell you something

[Amy]

really weird that she did the other day?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You sure you want the world to know?

[Amy]

Maybe not. Maybe I'll tell you later. Yeah, I think that the Wednesday thing, like you said, tracks, but she's like. She likes to take things apart. She wants to. She likes creepy stuff like she likes snakes. We went to Sweetgrass the other day to do Easter baskets and she went straight for these little 3D printed critters and like picked out all the little snakes, which is why we have all those now.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Okay.

[Amy]

Yeah. So she's really into that. So we might. We could end up being the Addams Family for Christmas or for Halloween.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, she, she, she would definitely probably enjoy being Wednesday, but that was a new revelation for me.

[Travis]

All right, well, that's all we got for this week.

[Amy]

All right. Thank you guys for your questions. Hope you listened to the show. If you have not already, hit the the subscribe button and check out all of the [e-mail] and we'll see you next week.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

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