What Would Dale Be Like As A Prom Date

Summary

The Dale Jr. Download

Episode: What Would Dale Be Like As A Prom Date
Date: March 12, 2026
Host: Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Co-hosts: Amy Earnhardt, Travis
Studio: Dirty Mo Media

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Episode Overview

In this lively vacation-week edition, Dale Jr., Amy, and Travis gather for a pre-recorded, laid-back episode featuring playful games, candid family talk, and viewer questions. Highlights include a humorous pronunciation challenge, personal tales about parenting, memories of high school and first dates, and a spirited debate on kids’ sports. The main theme is how Dale Jr. and Amy's personalities might translate to a high school prom date—providing a funny, endearing, and self-reflective discussion of their younger selves.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Family Spring Break Plans and Skiing Adventures

[01:37-03:01]

• The Earnhardt family is headed for a spring break ski trip with their girls, excited for a change from their usual beach trips.
• Amy is hesitant about night tubing and wary of injuries, referencing Brad Keselowski's ski-related broken leg.
• They mention conquering ski gear with their children and considering snowmobiling, showing excitement for building family memories.

Notable Quotes:

• “I’m excited for just an adventure that’s not the beach because this is going to be fun for everybody.” – Dale Jr. [02:10]

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2. "How Hard Is It to Pronounce?" Game

[04:06–08:45]

• Travis introduces a game challenging Dale Jr. and Amy to pronounce tricky words (mostly food or place names).
• Dale’s Southern accent becomes a source of friendly teasing.
• Hilarious mispronunciations ensue, including "dolce de leche" as "douche delouche" and "Latvia" as "Latavia."
• The group shares food preferences, with Amy nailing some tough words and Dale critiquing "useless foods."
• Personal quirks are exposed, like Dale's unique ways of saying “signal” as “singnal."

Memorable Moments:

• “I saw a video on Instagram. This girl called it douche delouche… ‘douche delosh!’” – Dale Jr. [05:00]
• "Dale hates quinoa." – Amy [08:17]
• “He always says signal instead of signal. It's a singnal to Dale.” – Travis [09:19]

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3. Language, Mispronunciations, and Family Linguistics

[09:17–11:15]

• The trio share words their families always mispronounced—“Virginia” as “Firgina,” “Cincinnati” as “Cincinnata,” and “Washington” as “Warshington.”
• Discussion about regional dialects and the funny consequences.

Notable Quotes:

• “My grandma says Cincinnati, Washington…” – Travis [09:57]

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4. Tooth Trouble and Sickness Rituals

[11:15–13:36]

• They discuss the agony of chipped teeth and the urgent need to fix dental issues.
• Amy describes being the household “drill sergeant” when anyone is sick—stacking vitamins and enforcing recovery routines.
• Reflects on their experience both being hit hard by the flu, noting how parenting changes their ability to just “shut down” when sick.

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5. Ask Amy Segment

[16:45–41:58]
A highlight of the show, this segment is packed with candid life talk, laughs, and insights.

a. Would You Rather Always Be Hot or Cold?

[16:45–18:39]

• Both Dale and Amy would rather be hot; Amy shares a college memory about skipping classes in Kentucky due to not owning a coat.

b. Handling Accidental Cussing Around Kids

[19:07–23:50]

• They admit to letting a few curse words slip, especially after their second child.
• Amy employs direct, rational talks with her girls, clarifying “bad words” and why they shouldn’t repeat them.
• A funny parenting moment: kids find the word “butt” hilarious; Amy and Dale recall their own childhood experience with cuss words.

Memorable Quotes:

• “I remember telling Dale, we have to stop cussing now or try to phase that out now because otherwise it will be too hard.” – Amy [19:14]
• "They think the word 'but' is so funny to say..." – Dale Jr. [20:59]
• "Customers really aren't that great, but there's a couple of them that feel good to say, like, the F word." – Dale Jr. [21:27]

c. What Would Dale be Like as a Prom Date?

[26:40–30:42]

• Amy declares he would’ve been a terrible, very quiet prom date, referencing their own awkward, nearly silent first date.
• Dale reminisces about never going to prom ("some of the girls I would've asked already had boyfriends"), and both recall the pressure to have a date.
• Sadie Hawkins Dances are discussed; Amy loved the costumes but laments she was too short and shy in school for that sort of attention.

Memorable Quotes:

• “What did we talk about? What did we say on our first date? ...Nothing. There were no words except for, ‘It’s time to go.’” – Dale Jr. [27:00]

d. Sports & Activities Parents Dread

[37:31–41:58]

• Both parents hope their kids avoid high-commitment, travel-heavy sports like gymnastics, cheer, or dance competitions, recalling Amy’s grueling all-day dance meets.
• They advocate for basic school sports but want to keep things manageable.
• The conversation turns to why golf and tennis are better lifelong sports, though the girls currently want to be Taylor Swift.

Memorable Quotes:

• "I don't want them to do the competition stuff—dance or cheer, gymnastics." – Dale Jr. [37:42]
• "Right now they want to dance and sing and be Taylor Swift. That's what they want to do." – Dale Jr. [42:01]

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6. The LASIK Debate & Personal Odd Jobs

[33:42–37:00]

• Amy shares her life-altering LASIK story, pushed by Dale who got frustrated with her glasses ("Four Eyes" and "Little Legs" as old nicknames).
• Amusing side note about how Dale values watching TV in bed.
• Travis contemplates getting LASIK, but is hesitant due to fear of surgery.

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• “I was really looking forward to in this relationship just laying in bed watching TV… and she can't do it.” – Dale Jr., on Amy needing glasses [33:44]
• “You were probably cute and sweet back then. But not shy.” – Dale Jr., to Amy, discussing school dances [30:22]
• “Dale used to call me Little Legs.” – Amy [32:55]
• “Well, we’ll see. They’re not into it right now. Not at all.” – Amy, on daughters and sports [41:58]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Spring Break/Skiing: [01:37–03:01]
• Pronunciation Game: [04:06–08:45]
• Regional Mispronunciations: [09:17–11:15]
• Tooth Trouble & Sickness: [11:15–13:36]
• Ask Amy: Hot or Cold: [16:45–18:39]
• Ask Amy: Cussing Around Kids: [19:07–23:50]
• Ask Amy: Prom Date Discussion: [26:40–30:42]
• Ask Amy: Dreaded Kids’ Sports: [37:31–41:58]
• LASIK/Eye Surgery Stories: [33:42–37:00]

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Tone & Style

The episode is playful, teasing, and full of anecdotes, with Dale’s trademark deadpan humor and Amy’s matter-of-fact warmth. The conversations are candid and self-deprecating, often looping in personal quirks, family folklore, and the realities of parenting. Travis serves as the friendly instigator and adds plenty of comic relief.

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Summary

Whether poking fun at each other’s mispronunciations, revealing their “terrible” first date, or sharing their parenting strategies, the Earnhardts provide listeners the same honest, down-home perspective that’s made Dale Jr. a NASCAR fan favorite. The discussion about Dale as a prom date turns into a meditation on adolescent awkwardness, shyness, and finding humor in the past, making this episode a relatable and highly entertaining listen for longtime fans and new listeners alike.

Transcript

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[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media.

[Dale Jr.]

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?

[Amy]

I'm working.

[Dale Jr.]

Working that mouth. Hey, guys. Dell Jr. And I are in the Dirty Mo Media studios for another round of Bless yous Heart. We're on vacation this week, so we're going to film this ahead of time. We have a fun game to play, but we. We're going skiing with the girls over spring break.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

And so I'm excited. We have mastered putting on all of our gear and. And spent some time in the snow. The girls and I have.

[Amy]

Well, yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

So I'm excited for just an adventure that's not the beach because this is going to be fun for everybody.

[Amy]

I just have to say, I snow. I learned how to snow ski a couple years ago and I'm pretty, pretty good with it. I don't really need to do anymore, but, um, I'm hoping the girls want a tube. If they ski, they ski. We'll ski. I'll ski.

[Dale Jr.]

There's some night tubing that it's like I'm not glow in the dark. Kind of.

[Amy]

I'm not eager to go down.

[Dale Jr.]

You're gonna appreh is what you're saying.

[Amy]

I don't know. I'm not eager to injure myself.

[Dale Jr.]

You're not gonna injure yourself.

[Amy]

Brad Keselowski. He went skiing. Broke. Broke his leg.

[Dale Jr.]

He probably went too hard. We'll just do the easy, easy things. We're gonna be with the kids. It'll be fine. You can just hang out at ski school if you want. Drink some. Drink some cocktails. I'm just gonna watch that.

[Amy]

I'll do whatever the kids are doing. If the kids are skiing, I'm skiing. If the kids are tubing, I'm tubing.

[Dale Jr.]

Sure. Snow. We're gonna go snowmobiling too.

[Amy]

Whatever the kids are into.

[Dale Jr.]

Okay. Well, I think it's gonna be a great trip. We have a very simple drink this week. This is the Orange Creamsicle Sipping Cream by Sugarlands. And it is ice cold.

[Amy]

Fantastic.

[Dale Jr.]

Dale's favorite.

[Amy]

Tastes great.

[Dale Jr.]

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[Travis]

What do you guys call the little bottles?

[Amy]

Airplane bottles?

[Dale Jr.]

I just call them minis.

[Travis]

Okay. Because I've heard that people call them nips.

[Dale Jr.]

What?

[Amy]

I'm not doing that.

[Travis]

I'm with Dale. They're airplane bottles.

[Dale Jr.]

Nips.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

No, I feel like nips is reserved for only one thing. And you know what that thing is? No. It's a mini.

[Travis]

Okay.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm with bottles. Yeah. Thanks for that, Travis.

[Travis]

Anytime.

[Dale Jr.]

We have a game to play. Travis, you want to tell us what the games are?

[Travis]

First time we're playing a game this year and it's called how heart is it to pronounce?

[Dale Jr.]

How hard is it to pronounce?

[Travis]

Yes. And so if for the listeners the words will be in the description because the word will be up on the screen for Dale and Amy and we're going to see how they pronounce it.

[Amy]

Go ahead.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm going to let Dale go first because he's got the more fun dialect accent.

[Amy]

Yeah, let's get the. There we go. Dolce Delish. Delish.

[Dale Jr.]

What is that. Do you know what it is?

[Amy]

Sounds French.

[Travis]

What is it, Amy, do you know the word?

[Dale Jr.]

It's dolce de leche.

[Amy]

Dolce de leche. Dos. Delish.

[Travis]

What do you think?

[Dale Jr.]

I saw a video on Instagram. This girl called it douche delouche, and she's got an Australian accent. She's like, douche delosh.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

If that's close. Yeah, it was pretty bad.

[Travis]

And it's a dessert, right?

[Dale Jr.]

It's a dessert, yes. It's like, I think caramelly. Leche is milk, so I think it's caramel. What's that one, Ralph? Next word is the next word. He's just shaking his head. He's like, nop.

[Amy]

I don't know. Asia.

[Dale Jr.]

Asia, yeah.

[Travis]

Oh, you almost had it.

[Dale Jr.]

It's pretty close. It's acai.

[Amy]

Acai?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

All right.

[Dale Jr.]

You know those frozen fruit bowls that's purple. It's like purple sorbet, basically. And you get all the fruit on top of it. That's an acai bowl.

[Amy]

I can see it. Leave it right there. You know you had it right there. Yeah, that's. That's large enough.

[Dale Jr.]

All right, the next word is facade. Facade, that's right. Good job.

[Amy]

Throw back up, man. Put it on the screen.

[Travis]

I don't want you. I don't want you prepping.

[Amy]

It doesn't matter.

[Dale Jr.]

Do you know what a facade is?

[Amy]

Latavia. Latvia.

[Travis]

There you go.

[Dale Jr.]

Latavia.

[Amy]

Sorry, I did. I see it backwards.

[Dale Jr.]

You see it backwards?

[Amy]

Latvia. Yeah, I see it, and I think latavia. But Latvia.

[Dale Jr.]

Latvia. That's a place, right?

[Travis]

Yes. It's country.

[Dale Jr.]

It's a country.

[Amy]

I've learned that. Sus vide.

[Dale Jr.]

Susfide. No, it's sous vide.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

Sous vide.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, and it's a cooking method.

[Travis]

Yeah. Okay. You ever had food cooked with a sous vide?

[Dale Jr.]

I don't think so.

[Travis]

Oh, my gosh.

[Amy]

You.

[Dale Jr.]

It's like a fine art to be able to do that.

[Travis]

Steaks that you have, if you cook it with a sous vide, will be the best steak you ever had.

[Dale Jr.]

Just, like, super tender, because you can

[Travis]

pick the temperature and it's going to be exact. And then you just throw it on the. You know, to sear it at the end. And I. So I act like I'm done. This I've never had. My friend has and can.

[Dale Jr.]

And do it at home.

[Travis]

Yeah, yeah. At home. And crushes it.

[Dale Jr.]

Crushes it. Yeah. I mean, that feels like that would be easy. No, I had to try that out. Next word.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

Bruschetta.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, bruschetta. He came out with it fast.

[Travis]

That's one item that I hate.

[Dale Jr.]

It's bruschetta. Right.

[Amy]

I don't mind eating it.

[Dale Jr.]

It's like Italian salsa, basically, Right?

[Travis]

Sure. I just don't like the. Because the balsamic goes on it, right? Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

You don't like balsamic vinegar?

[Travis]

No. You lose me there.

[Dale Jr.]

Ooh, I could drink that. Dale likes vinegar too.

[Amy]

I'm good with that. Yeah, I'm good with it. Let's go to the next word.

[Dale Jr.]

He's waiting anxiously.

[Amy]

Gyro. These aren't hard.

[Dale Jr.]

That's not what it is.

[Amy]

Gyro. It's a gyro.

[Dale Jr.]

It's more like hero gyro.

[Amy]

No, gyro. I mean, that's a gyro, which is

[Dale Jr.]

a Greek food, like a lamb wrap.

[Amy]

Worcestershire.

[Travis]

Worcestershire.

[Dale Jr.]

Worcestershire. Or what's this here? Sauce Worcestershire. That is one of the hardest words to say.

[Amy]

Moussaka.

[Dale Jr.]

You did it. Moussaka.

[Travis]

You crushed that one.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't even know what moussaka is. Is that food, too?

[Travis]

It's a. I think it's like a Greek meal. It's with, like, the couscous, and there's, like, dough on both sides, but then, like, hamburger meat or something in the middle of them or something.

[Dale Jr.]

Something like that.

[Amy]

Quinoa.

[Dale Jr.]

I used to think this is quinoa, too. It's quinoa.

[Amy]

Quinoa. Ah.

[Dale Jr.]

Dale hates quinoa.

[Travis]

I mean, it's useless. Useless.

[Dale Jr.]

Does anyone falls into the useless category? Useless foods?

[Amy]

Epitome.

[Dale Jr.]

Epitome. Nailed it. Nailed it.

[Amy]

Ganosi.

[Dale Jr.]

Ganosi. Noki, noi.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Now that's a good food.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, that's a good food.

[Travis]

And so that's the words we got.

[Amy]

Dang.

[Dale Jr.]

All right.

[Amy]

I did all right.

[Dale Jr.]

You did all right.

[Travis]

Yeah. After douche Del. The. When you said latavia. And then Amy sent me the douche deluge, I was like, okay, I think we've.

[Dale Jr.]

We've got a game.

[Travis]

We've got a game here. I will say to some of these words, they're not. They're like French or whatever. That's usually where they get people.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. But yeah, it's. We should put some, like, actual standard English words in there. We've gotta. We screw some words up in our language all day, every day.

[Travis]

Are there any words that you just always.

[Dale Jr.]

He always says signal instead of signal. It's a signal to Dale.

[Travis]

Signal.

[Amy]

How does he say it? Signal.

[Dale Jr.]

Signal.

[Amy]

Oh, instead of a sig null, like, turn signal. Yeah, it's a Sing.

[Dale Jr.]

No signal. He's always done that.

[Amy]

I've always done that. Sing. No, like, single word. I get it backwards. I put the N in the wrong place or something.

[Dale Jr.]

He gets that from his mom. She used to say Virginia and Formosa.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

It wasn't a mimosa, it was Formosa.

[Amy]

Instead of Virginia, it's with an F. Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Virginia.

[Travis]

My grandma say Cincinnati. Washington.

[Dale Jr.]

Washington. Kenny K. Our bus driver, he goes. He washes the clothes.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. He still does that.

[Travis]

No, it's Washington.

[Dale Jr.]

It's Washington.

[Travis]

I don't know where you get that from.

[Dale Jr.]

He probably would be really. She'd be able to say Worcestershire. Really? Well, then, too.

[Travis]

Oh, yeah. Be able to crush that one. I'm trying to think if there's any words that I mispronounce, people say that.

[Amy]

I say, like, Toyota. Funny.

[Dale Jr.]

Chevrolet.

[Amy]

Chevy. Chevrolet. Chevrolet.

[Dale Jr.]

Chevrolet.

[Amy]

Chevrolet. But I get Toyota. People talk about how I say Toyota on the broadcast.

[Travis]

Yeah. There's a little. How do you pronounce O? I, L?

[Dale Jr.]

Sorry, Ohio.

[Travis]

How do you pronounce the word O? I, L?

[Dale Jr.]

O, I, L. Oil.

[Amy]

Oh, gotta change it all. Yeah.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

O.

[Dale Jr.]

That was ridiculous. It took. I had to, like, look up at the sky to try to visualize what O was.

[Travis]

It's like, Ohio.

[Dale Jr.]

And I'm like, like, what? Did you see the hockey. I just watched his speech at the end, the USA Olympics, and, like, his teeth were all smashed out. That's something else.

[Travis]

I don't know why they don't wear mouthpieces.

[Dale Jr.]

That's a great question. I mean, I feel like that sport in particular, it should be a standard issue.

[Amy]

He might have had one in.

[Dale Jr.]

You think he had one?

[Amy]

I mean, that puck coming through or whatever, hitting whatever. I'm just saying he still had it. Still can get your teeth knocked out, even if you got a mouthpiece in.

[Dale Jr.]

That one was broken in half.

[Amy]

That was probably my feelings the most. It's probably been broken before.

[Travis]

And he didn't even miss any playing time.

[Dale Jr.]

No.

[Travis]

I would have been out of commission for a week.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

I cracked my tooth of New Year's, and I'm like, on the entire weekend, I didn't do anything.

[Dale Jr.]

Because it hurt your feelings so bad, or did it actually bother me?

[Travis]

Even with, like, I put dental wax in, but I still just didn't want to do anything.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Yeah. If you ever have, like, a chipped or cracked tooth, buy dental wax and you can cover up the cracker.

[Dale Jr.]

So if you need time to get.

[Travis]

To get to the dentist. Yeah.

[Amy]

If I chip a tooth, nothing in the world can happen next until I go get it fixed.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. So you're like, travis, like, I can't.

[Amy]

If I chip a tooth, I'd cancel

[Dale Jr.]

everything until life is permanently canceled. Until it's fixed.

[Amy]

I call my dentist and I'm like, all right, I'll be there at 6am I'm like, I don't care. Like, I'll come as early as possible. I'll get up at 3 o' clock in the morning. I'll give a sh. I will. I am getting this fixed and there's nothing happening until that's taking care of.

[Travis]

Are you like that if you have a cold too? Like, if I have a cold. Like I baby that.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

No.

[Amy]

And I'm like, I mean, he used

[Dale Jr.]

to be like that. And now since we have kids, he knows he can't. Like, he can't just cancel life and lay on the couch.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

I give him all these. I give him a stack of vitamins. I'm like, swallow this and get going. And so he's. And they do work.

[Amy]

Yeah. We did get real sick last year where we were both in the. In the guest bedroom.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So I got it first shut down for like days.

[Dale Jr.]

It had to have been the flu. I got it first. Then Dale ended up with it the week later. So at least it was just one at a time. We weren't both so nice.

[Amy]

Amy. Amy was like, you just lay here. Don't do anything. Just rest.

[Dale Jr.]

I know how bad I felt. I'm like, I had not gotten sick first. I would not have much mercy on him.

[Amy]

You serious? I'm just gonna get lay here.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, yeah. You act like you're always in trouble and like you don't get to do anything.

[Amy]

I do feel you don't have anything sick, but this is super cool. This is late. I'm just taking a vacation. Like a staycation.

[Dale Jr.]

The staycation? Yeah. Getting service?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Meds, water.

[Amy]

It was awesome.

[Dale Jr.]

Humidifier? Yeah.

[Amy]

I had all the things bounced right back. Got back up out of there about three days.

[Travis]

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[Travis]

So first question comes from Tara and she says, would you rather always be hot or cold?

[Dale Jr.]

Ooh, I think I'd rather always be hot.

[Amy]

And I think hot. Yeah. I mean neither one, neither one are great hot.

[Dale Jr.]

I grew up in South Texas hot. I feel like I could acclimate to

[Amy]

and get used to cold would be always annoying.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, it would. Because you, I mean, you literally can't get rid of that and you're bundled up. You can't mentally. No. I mean you could bundle up. Is that allowed?

[Travis]

But then you're, but then you're like.

[Dale Jr.]

But then you're bundled up.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

And then you're wearing all these things. I swear.

[Travis]

What was it like for you when you moved to Kentucky and had to deal with cold weather?

[Dale Jr.]

It was terrible. So I moved 2000 and I went to Kentucky 10 days after I graduated high school. I didn't even have a coat.

[Travis]

That was a quick move.

[Dale Jr.]

I was just like, I want to get out of this tiny little town I live in so bad. I signed up for summer classes and just went. And I didn't even have a winter coat. So like 8am Classes in Kentucky, when it got cold, I didn't go. I got kicked out of English because I didn't go enough.

[Travis]

Well, why didn't you buy a coat?

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know.

[Travis]

Like, it's not like winter classes was 10 days.

[Dale Jr.]

Like, it's not like I didn't have an idea that it should get cold. I just didn't. Wasn't like, I don't know. I didn't, I just didn't have a coat and so I didn't go to class. I didn't deal with it very well is what I'm, what I'm saying. I'm like, I ain't Going outside, it's too cold for me.

[Travis]

That was always the worst is wintertime. Walk into class, you're just like.

[Dale Jr.]

And yes. And English was all the way across campus, 8am I mean a lot of bad choices, to be honest. Typical freshman year.

[Travis]

That's also where you got to be clever with like the scheduling, like never go too early, never too late.

[Dale Jr.]

I thought if I get my classes done then I have all day, I can get a job, I can do my work, whatever I have to do for class. And that didn't really work out very well. And so I, I, from that day, from that semester on, after that semester, I just did classes like Tuesday, Thursday, and I didn't do anything on Monday, Wednesday or Friday.

[Travis]

I once had, that was a smart

[Dale Jr.]

way to do it.

[Travis]

I once had Tuesday, Thursday also. And it was the best because you get a four day weekend. Tuesdays, okay, you're back. And then Thursdays are kind of tough, but you're like, just get through the day. And I get four day weekend.

[Dale Jr.]

Very smart.

[Travis]

It was probably my favorite and I always just avoided Friday classes. Never schedule a Friday class.

[Dale Jr.]

That's right. Nobody wants anything on Fridays.

[Amy]

No, no.

[Travis]

Next question comes from John and is how do you handle when accidentally cussing around the kids and then they want to start saying those words.

[Dale Jr.]

What's funny is like Dale and I stopped. We were, when I was pregnant with Isla, we used to cuss a lot. We just like Dale, the F word was like a filler word, you know what I mean? And so when I was pregnant with her, I remember telling Dale, we have to stop cussing now or try to phase that out now because otherwise it will be too hard. And so we did a good job of that. And I feel like when Isla was little there wasn't any cussing going on. And then when Nicole came, we both kind of gave up. And every once in a while I feel like I was the first one to slip up in front of the kids and say a word. But they haven't tried to repeat it, luckily.

[Amy]

Yeah. So I think right now they're five and seven and we're, we're still pretty cognizant of it, but we're a little more careless these days. And I will ask if I, if I slip up. So I might be on the phone or something.

[Dale Jr.]

This happens this week and, and Isla

[Amy]

might hear it in a conversation I'm having with somebody and we're driving to school or something and I'm like, Isla, did you, did you hear any words in there? That were bad words. And she'll go, yeah. And I'm like, all right. Right. Just so you know, they're bad words. You know, I don't. Don't want you saying any of those.

[Dale Jr.]

You'll have, like, a rational conversation.

[Amy]

Yeah. Like, I just. It'll be, like, the word or something like that. And I'll say in that last sentence, I said, did you hear a bad word? She goes, yeah. And I'm like, all right. As long as you know it's a bad word. You're not supposed to say it. You can get older. You can say it, but you can't say it till you're older.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, but they're not allowed to say, like, dumb or stupid or anything like that. Allowed to call each other names like that.

[Amy]

We. We call them out when we hear them say just stuff like that.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

You know, so we're pretty particular.

[Dale Jr.]

But they think the word but is so funny to say, so they'll, like, add that onto the end of something that's normal just to make each other laugh.

[Amy]

Yeah. And we. Yeah.

[Travis]

I remember I was visiting my aunt, and in their town was a physical dam. And so I thought it was so cool that I could use that word. I'm like, can we go see the damn.

[Dale Jr.]

Damn. I want to see the dam.

[Travis]

And I was just getting the word over and over again. I thought. I was like, yeah, I got away with one. Found a little.

[Dale Jr.]

Being sneaky.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. That's funny. I mean, customers really aren't that great, but there's a couple of. There's a couple of them that feel good to say, like, the F word. It just does. I was on the phone with speakerphone with Dale the other day. I was picking up both of the kids from school. So they're both in the backseat, and he calls. I think he was here all day. No, it was Monday. Whatever. He was here. He was coming home, and he's like, what's going on this evening? I was like, oh, I have bunko. And the first response without any hesitation was, I'm like, you're on.

[Amy]

I don't think I said it that loud, that energetic.

[Dale Jr.]

I just went, was that loud in my speakers in the car? I was like.

[Amy]

Cause, I mean.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

And then I said, dude, it seems

[Amy]

like you're doing that every week. She's like, it's been six weeks.

[Dale Jr.]

We didn't even do it last month because of the snow and the ice.

[Amy]

I'm like, really? God, it feels like it's every other week. It's so Big, you know, if I

[Dale Jr.]

have a 12 hour dinner, he's like, oh, man. She was gone forever. Because the week before we had our fantasy football league Christmas dinner where we crown our champion. We had had to push that off, too. So we finally did that the week before. Yeah, it's like, you're always gone.

[Amy]

But she's like, the kids are in here.

[Dale Jr.]

I'm like, oh, shoot, sorry, I was too late. But neither one of them have tried to say that yet. I can't believe that. Nicole, to be honest.

[Travis]

Yeah, I feel like that's coming.

[Dale Jr.]

We've gotten lucky. Yeah, it is coming.

[Travis]

The funniest thing also is if a kid can't pronounce a word and instead they're cussing.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Like, they're trying to say, like, frog. And they're saying. Yeah, like, that's all.

[Amy]

Do y' all remember the first time your parents were got angry with you for saying a cuss word?

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. I didn't ever want to have those conversations. Like, I was scared enough of my dad, but I didn't. He never had to. Like, he said he gave me a spanking once when I was pretty little because I was getting into something and not listening. And he said it broke his heart just as much as it made me sad. He never did it again. But I never really stepped out of line too much either. I always told him where I was going. I always, like, minded the rules. I didn't ask for too much. Like, my sisters were not the same. Especially Katie at one point during high school because she and I butted heads too, and we didn't hang out in the same crowds. I was like, you're doing this all wrong. Like, you just have to tell them where you are and they won't make you come home at like, 9:00'.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

Clock.

[Dale Jr.]

She's like, I ain't telling nobody nothing. I'm like, it must be a second kid thing because I've seen it and heard it, you know, so many times. But she wouldn't listen to anybody and she got in a lot of trouble.

[Travis]

I'm a little worried about your grandma, though. You're gonna get trouble with this episode, with all this cussing.

[Dale Jr.]

I know. Granny's. I hope Granny doesn't pay attention.

[Travis]

Has she called to complain about your cussing yet lately?

[Dale Jr.]

No, but she likes to do it when we're in person.

[Travis]

Okay.

[Dale Jr.]

She likes to make sure that she can embarrass me in a group setting. That's funny.

[Travis]

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[Travis]

Our next question is, how do you think Dale would have been like as a prom date?

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, wow.

[Amy]

Terrible.

[Dale Jr.]

He would have been very quiet. I know how our first date went, and that was when he was an adult, accomplished adult. You know what I mean? He probably would have been like, what

[Amy]

did we talk about? What did we say on our first date?

[Dale Jr.]

Nothing. There were no words except for, it's time to go.

[Amy]

I don't believe that.

[Dale Jr.]

We sat in this Mexican food restaurant that was an old church.

[Amy]

It's still there.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, it's changed restaurants there. Like, this was more of like a. It's still a restaurant, not Tex Mexi. And so we sat down and ate, and we ordered soup. I got black bean soup. Dale got corn chowder or something. And then we both ordered meals, and he ate his soup, and then he ate mine because he thought mine would taste better. So he ate his first and then ate mine. And then when we got our plates, he inhaled his food. If you don't already know that about Dale, he really does not even taste it. It just all goes down in one big gulp. And then at the end of that, I had had two or three bites. He stands up, puts $100 down on the table, stands up and is like, all right, it's time to go. I was like, are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? He's like, no, let's go. Straight face, not smiling. And then the whole time we sat there, it was just super awkward. I don't know what to say to him. We've been hanging out a little bit, but I didn't have a list of questions. And it was just weird. He just gazed at me like I've said he does. He just stared at me and then ate my food and was like, it's time to leave. And there was no food in his apartment, the loft that he was living in when the house was being built. So there was no snacks in there, nothing to eat. I was pretty hungry.

[Travis]

Dale, would you have brought a corsage to Amy as a prom date?

[Amy]

Probably.

[Dale Jr.]

Did you go? You didn't go to the prom?

[Amy]

No, I was. I blame it on racing, but I was.

[Dale Jr.]

You weren't racing yet?

[Amy]

No. I mean, I was racing at 16. I was racing at 15. I just didn't. I mean, I.

[Dale Jr.]

You just didn't really want to do it.

[Amy]

I. There was a couple girls that I would have asked to the dance or whatever, but they all had boyfriends. Some of most of them had boyfriends, didn't go to school. You know, they weren't even boys that went to the school we were at because there's a lot of schools around South Iredale and all that. And you'd have this girl that you liked, and she'd be dating a boy at another school or whatever. So I don't know. I had friends that were girls, but I don't know. I just.

[Dale Jr.]

So as a guy, you just can't go to the prom by yourself. You just can't just go just to hang out and.

[Amy]

No, no, you did not go without it. I. I didn't think that you went. We had dances.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

Right.

[Amy]

And so at the dance, everybody would come by themselves. But the prom was for dates. That's the way for cup dates. Yeah, that's the way it was working in my brain.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. I probably would have felt the same.

[Travis]

Did you ever have the Sadie Hawkins dance where the girl had to ask the guy?

[Dale Jr.]

Yes. I loved that. So in Texas, we dressed up like hillbillies, too. Like you wore. Just like you're dressed down bandana plaid. Like every. Like the guys wore jorts. Like it was played up, very costumey. And so that was so fun.

[Amy]

What's this called?

[Dale Jr.]

Sadie Hawkins.

[Amy]

Who?

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

Sadie.

[Dale Jr.]

Sadie Hawkins. Yeah. Was another dance where the girl asked the guy.

[Amy]

Yeah, they should do. They should have done that back in the day. That would have been nice. And maybe somebody would ask me, oh, I was short. I wasn't. I wasn't this thing you see sitting here today.

[Dale Jr.]

You weren't a specimen. You are now.

[Amy]

Yeah, I was little.

[Dale Jr.]

You were probably cute and sweet back then. But not shy.

[Amy]

No. Yeah, I was all those things. But not the guy you wanted to take to the dance.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Amy]

I was shorter than all the girls.

[Dale Jr.]

Really.

[Amy]

I was probably 5, 3 when I got my driver's license at 16. So I didn't really get taller. Taller till like, I was a senior.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

I entered high school 411.

[Dale Jr.]

411?

[Amy]

Yeah, I was 411 as.

[Dale Jr.]

Wow.

[Amy]

Yeah. 13. I was 411 in as a freshman, I suppose, right before I got my license.

[Dale Jr.]

When did you sprout up the next,

[Travis]

like, probably like 16 months. Just.

[Dale Jr.]

Just like over the first couple years.

[Travis]

You did from like 4. Like that 15 to like 16 range. Just boom.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, it's just the difference between girls and boys. I was full grown at 12. I thought for sure I was going to be tall. And then I stopped growing. I was so sad. Like, everybody, like, you go home for the summer and then you come back to school, or you just, like, you go. You get out of school for the summer and you come back to school and everybody else had sprouted up, and I was like, dang it, this is it for me.

[Amy]

Through all of my school years, thinking that I was going to be tiny. Tiny, like 5, 8 was going to be the highs I got.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

But luckily I got decent.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, for a guy, it's probably a little bit different being a girl that's petite's not so bad.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Guy you don't want to be under six feet, I feel like is like

[Dale Jr.]

the under six feet.

[Travis]

Yeah. I feel like that's the line of that's tall that you want to reach.

[Amy]

Well, you'd love that, I think. You know, I don't know. I feel pretty good.

[Dale Jr.]

Dale's not quite six feet is what

[Amy]

he's not quite six feet. I'm five, ten and a half. But I'm pretty happy with that.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Good to know. I don't go around like TJ going, damn, I wish I was taller. Sorry, dj. Does he just say that I took a stray?

[Travis]

Does he say that?

[Dale Jr.]

No, it just. You can tell he's exuding that.

[Amy]

I just thought he'd. I thought he'd enjoy hearing that, but he's thrilled.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

The general is going to be real mad about that.

[Amy]

You want to get tj, just do a height joke. You got him. He's very sensitive. Well.

[Dale Jr.]

Or, you know, rag on Buffalo.

[Travis]

Yeah. The height thing, though, I feel like you can't control it, so I don't want to always.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. That's not fair. It's cheap.

[Amy]

Yeah, but it's tj, so there's sometimes where you just don't care because you're so mad at him.

[Travis]

That's true.

[Dale Jr.]

And he deserves it.

[Amy]

Yeah. I'm not saying just walk around doing height jokes on anybody that's short. This T joked home.

[Dale Jr.]

Dale used to call me Little Legs.

[Amy]

What?

[Dale Jr.]

He called me Four Eyes. When we first started dating, he called me Little Legs. Yes. Yes. At one point, you said that to me out loud. It's the only time in my entire life I've been called that.

[Travis]

Little Legs is fine because that's like a. I feel like he's saying it from Endearment, like, being funny, but he

[Dale Jr.]

was trying to be funny. He wasn't, like, calling me like A name. Trying to be mean, but he was.

[Amy]

When did I call you four eyes?

[Dale Jr.]

When I had glasses on. When we first started dating, I had glasses. I had contacts. And so in the evening when I'd take my contacts out and I'd have my glasses on the bed or I just decided I didn't want to have them on my face, he would get so mad because I couldn't see the tv, the rather large tv. My eyes were pretty bad. And so, yeah, he used to call me four eyes just to try to talk me into getting laser treatment on my eyes, which I was terrified of.

[Amy]

This is the way I thought I

[Dale Jr.]

was going to beat her into submission with.

[Amy]

This is the way my brain worked. I was like, man, I've met the woman that I want to marry, the. The love of my life, and will never be able to lay in the bed at night and watch SpongeBob. What the hell? She's like the one thing. The one thing that I was really looking forward to in this relationship, just laying in the bed watching TV at night or in the morning, and she can't do it.

[Travis]

Well, she put her glasses on, I

[Dale Jr.]

could do it, but I had to take all that stuff on to go to sleep. I don't know. Yeah, he talked me into the laser treatment. I got it done. Decision Dale ever made for me.

[Travis]

I've thought about doing that.

[Dale Jr.]

It was a dream. I have worn glasses since I was seven, like, my entire life. And yeah, it was. It was a good thing to get talked into. The doctor was fantastic. His mom took me. She had had the same laser Lasik done on her eyes. And so she took me down there in her little red Corvette, and I got my eyes lasered, and she brought me home and dropped me off at the back door. And I army crawled from the back door all the way up to my bed. I was living with Jamie Goddard at the time because you can't see.

[Amy]

You can't see anything.

[Dale Jr.]

You have goggles on. And then it takes, like, 24 hours for your sight to, like, fully come in.

[Travis]

But I'm nervous that something's going to happen. I'm gonna be blind.

[Dale Jr.]

I was terrified of the same thing. But you're awake through the whole thing.

[Travis]

That's why I'm. I'd rather be put out, like, go under. And they do it.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, I don't think they can. Like, they need you. They need your attention.

[Travis]

That's where I would.

[Dale Jr.]

Well, they give you a Valium, and then they put these numbing drops in your eyes and you don't feel anything. 30 seconds. No, I didn't smell anything.

[Amy]

30 seconds.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. The thing comes down and goes. And it goes over to the other guy. Other eye, and it goes. And then it's done. They flip the lenses back over. They put the goggles on you.

[Amy]

Yeah, but, like, the lin. The flipping the lenses over is not part of the 30 seconds.

[Dale Jr.]

Yes, it is. It's done with a machine.

[Amy]

Oh, okay.

[Dale Jr.]

There's like, marginal room for error as long as you're strapped down too. Like, you can't go anywhere.

[Amy]

You're really strapped in hard.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. They have your head, like.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

And you're like, I said, they gave you drugs so you're not really upset about anything. Oh, I don't like being tied down.

[Amy]

You know, I need more than the normal amount of drugs for that.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, well, horse tranquilizer.

[Travis]

Yeah, I thought about it.

[Dale Jr.]

You would be fine. I highly recommend it.

[Amy]

You should do it.

[Travis]

You want to do it? We can both do it down.

[Amy]

If I. If I ever am a candidate, I'm doing it.

[Travis]

Oh, your eyes are just. Too bad you can't.

[Amy]

I used to have the best vision. I used to have 2010 and sharp as attack. Freaking badass. And then round 38, 39, it started going. And so, yeah, I miss it because it's like playing, like, sim racing.

[Dale Jr.]

Right.

[Amy]

So when I'm sitting at sim Racer, when I'm sitting my sim rig, I gotta wear the computer goggles that are basically the reader's prescription over the full lens. But it only. It has a sweet spot. And outside, that sweet spot gets blurry. But if you, you know, if you look here and there, everything's sharp, but all my peripherals blurry. And I'm so used to my peripheral being perfect.

[Dale Jr.]

That's another word he says funny is peripheral.

[Amy]

Peripheral. And so I wish I could go back and get it done and. Or I wish I could go back to where I was. I thought, man, I miss being. I miss my eyesight being as good as it was.

[Travis]

Yeah.

[Amy]

There's all kinds of moments in the day when it's annoying.

[Dale Jr.]

It is a gift. Thanks for mine.

[Travis]

I just thought of a word when I first moved here. I pronounced it Jatan Road.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, Jatan.

[Travis]

Or No, I said that's how it's pronounced, right?

[Dale Jr.]

I don't know. I pronounced.

[Travis]

I said Jetton Road.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, Jetton. I pronounced Iredale. Iredale Irdale. I remember the first time I said that out loud too. Is I, like, not from here? He's like. He just Laughs his ass off at me. Like who would know to say it? Iredale. Yeah, that sounds wrong.

[Travis]

Yeah, it looks like.

[Dale Jr.]

Here we go.

[Travis]

So we have one other question here. Is there a sport or activity that you secretly hope your kids don't get into so that you don't have to go and deal with, to be honest.

[Amy]

Any travel.

[Dale Jr.]

I don't want them to do the competition stuff. Dance or cheer gymnastics.

[Amy]

I don't want any travel.

[Dale Jr.]

We're gonna have to do it at some capacity.

[Amy]

Nope. We can enjoy the country.

[Dale Jr.]

The country. Dale? Yes, there is a, there is a sport that's going to cost, cost some traveling but like the dance competitions and all that stuff. I grew up doing that and I remember the scene, the tortured soul look on my parents face. Having to sit through that all day long.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Dale Jr.]

It's only fun for three minutes while

[Amy]

your kids performing tools and things now to occupy our time. I'm not too worried about it. I mean I hope that I got some people that get, you know, I know some friends that have kids that are in travel, sports and they, they're like, you know, well, once you're in, you're in. You can't really take your kid in their dream of doing it away. Right. So you continue down this path. But I want them to do sports like ball sports.

[Dale Jr.]

We've tried to sign them up for soccer.

[Amy]

I want them to try things like that.

[Dale Jr.]

And they don't want to have anything to do with it.

[Amy]

I want them to go for it at least, you know, try it before. And they got to do it now because it's harder to enter into that skills.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah, yeah.

[Amy]

It's harder to enter into that when you're in, you know, seventh, eighth, ninth grade having not been in any kind of a organized sport.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah. So being part of a team is

[Travis]

important, like friends and learn how to work, man.

[Amy]

I mean for them to try.

[Dale Jr.]

Work ethic.

[Amy]

But I'm gonna cap it at the, at the school level. Like we will play for our school. We'll do those things at that level like I did. But we're not gonna join like this regional club and, and start traveling up down the east coast.

[Dale Jr.]

Well that's like.

[Amy]

It's all a money game. It's a big money game. They're like, they're just making money off of the parents.

[Dale Jr.]

He's not wrong. But everything costs money. The gymnastics cost money.

[Amy]

You can do it and get the same fun experience, get the same life lessons, learn how to win, learn how to lose all those things.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

In the.

[Dale Jr.]

I tried to sign Isla up to do run club after school. Like, they just have, like, a little. Kind of like they're not running track. It's not that serious. But a lot of the people and the little girls in her class will stay and do run club after school, and she wouldn't even sign up for that. She said, please don't make me do that. So I don't think that we're gonna get athletes.

[Travis]

I would make sure if you can. I swam.

[Dale Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Travis]

Don't let your kids get into that. Because the swim meets. The swim meets are all day sometimes.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

And let's say that you're in. You usually can be in up to five events, but most of the events, you're done in, like, three minutes.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

So now you're just sitting there watching other kids swim, and it's all.

[Dale Jr.]

You're trying to entertain yourself, feed everybody. It's very hard. Yeah.

[Travis]

It's brutal.

[Dale Jr.]

Swimming start early.

[Travis]

Yes. So if you can.

[Amy]

Loaded.

[Travis]

Don't get into swimming.

[Amy]

I was thinking something like soccer or basketball.

[Dale Jr.]

Golf. Golf is a sport. Tennis, Golf.

[Amy]

No, I don't want to. I want to watch them do it and enjoy that. Because I don't want to watch my kid golf.

[Travis]

Because you have to follow him around.

[Amy]

No, I'm not golfing yet.

[Dale Jr.]

You can golf with them if they still. They learn how to do. And we'll carry on.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Travis]

You can use that golf simulator at

[Dale Jr.]

home, which we don't use.

[Amy]

I want it to be like soccer, basketball, like traditional high school sports.

[Dale Jr.]

They're girls, Ralph.

[Amy]

I know. I see girls play those games.

[Dale Jr.]

They're like petite little. Like petite little girls.

[Amy]

Like, right now they can get some. They can get some physical attributes by playing some sports.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

They need to.

[Travis]

I get why you say golf, but remember, like, if they're in a tournament that's multiple days, I can go with them.

[Dale Jr.]

He might stay home.

[Travis]

Walking hole to hole.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Like, look, I would. Whatever they like that we're doing, but I'm just not going to encourage golf. I mean, I've never enjoyed. I've never been. Golf's never had any kind of role in my life. We do have a simulator. We. I never mess with it. I regret it. I wish I played with it.

[Dale Jr.]

Of those classic sports. That's not going away and that they can do for the rest of their life. They can't play basketball forever.

[Amy]

Great.

[Dale Jr.]

Can't. You know what I mean? Tennis. Golf would be a good.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

Good point.

[Dale Jr.]

Sport for them to learn. Good point. For all the reasons. Yeah, but you know.

[Amy]

Well, we'll see. They're not into it right now. Not at all.

[Dale Jr.]

No, they're not. They want to dance and sing and be Taylor Swift. That's what they want to do.

[Travis]

Dream big.

[Dale Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Well, that's all I got for Ask Amy today.

[Dale Jr.]

All right. Thank you for your questions. If you haven't already, hit the subscribe button and check out all of the [e-mail] we have new Beef Jerky Merch Jerky Boys and we'll see you next week.

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[Amy]

Oh joy.

[Travis]

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[Dale Jr.]

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