The Dale Jr. Download - Amy and Dale Found a Hilarious VHS of Dale Sr.
Episode Date: November 20, 2025After a couple of weeks off, Amy Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr. are back for a brand-new episode of Bless Your ‘Hardt. Today’s episode starts off hot when Dale gets caught sending his truck awa...y after denting it. Amy accuses Dale of regifting something that was just sitting in their garage, and it sparked the debate: When is it okay to regift something? Then, Dale and Amy recall a hilarious VHS tape they found of Dale Sr. and a little Dale Jr. involving a waterbed. Plus, we solve real listener problems in the Fixins segment presented by Hellmann’s and a fun #AskAmy!And for more content, check out our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@BlessYourHardtReal fans wear Dirty Mo. Hit the link and join the crew.👇https://shop.dirtymomedia.com/FanDuel: Must be 21+ and present in select states (for Kansas, in affiliation with Kansas Star Casino) or 18+ and present in D.C. First online real money wager only. $5 first deposit required. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable bonus bets which expire 7 days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG. Call 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat in Connecticut, or visit mdgamblinghelp.org in Maryland. Hope is here. Visit GamblingHelpLineMA.org or call (800) 327-5050 for 24/7 support in Massachusetts or call 1-877-8HOPE-NY or text HOPENY in New York. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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17 minutes into this thing.
He turned around and he goes,
Junior, do you want to do this?
And I say, yeah.
I got it memorized, but now.
I say, yeah.
And he goes, well, come on over here.
And I said, damn, I got it memorized by now.
The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media.
Oh, yeah, this is what it's going to be, girl.
If we're going to hang out.
Open a bunch of jars.
You've got big strong hands.
Are you suffering from Highcraft?
I'm working.
Working that mouth.
Hey guys, Del Jr. and I are back in the Dirtymoa Media Studio for A Round of Bless Your Heart.
We have a fun show today.
We're going to talk about truck dents.
You know something about truck dents, don't you do?
And a few other fun things.
Let's get started.
All right.
Before we get going, you know, we got the drink of the week.
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So this is one.
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You just need to stir it up.
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Everything needs sun drop, doesn't it?
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All right.
So did you tell them how to combine it?
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I did.
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21 years or over.
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Do you want to redo it?
Are you going to drink responsibly this weekend?
Yeah.
Okay.
Why did you ask me that?
I don't know.
We got Friday off.
We got Friday night.
Me and you, kids are going to stay with a friend.
Yes.
We're going to dinner.
I'm thinking like 5 o'clock dinner.
You're thinking you're going to get some sleep.
Get some sleep.
Jesus.
Yeah, why is that bad?
Because I'm ready to party.
Well, you can do you as you do, and I will do me.
I have activities on Saturday with kids.
So you'll get to, like, hang out and do whatever.
What are you doing with the kids on Saturday?
Christmas stuff.
You weren't invited because I figured you just didn't want to come to begin with.
Dang.
Tree lighting and things like that.
Do you want to do that?
No, I'm not interested.
See, I knew what I was doing.
All right.
So we were talking about dance.
All right.
Time to fence up.
Let's just hit that quickly.
In my garage, all right, everybody.
Try to picture this.
Yeah.
In the garage, I have cabinets, toolboxes, benches,
and I like to be able to move around in that area pretty comfortably.
And if I, you know, sometimes I pull, I got a truck.
Our garage is kind of tight, wouldn't you say?
Yeah.
I got a truck.
And when I pull the truck in and jump out, sometimes it's tight up front.
kind of squeeze by there.
We've got a door right in front of the truck that we keep some drinks and food and stuff in.
And so you got to squeeze all through that to get over to the, you know, toolbox.
And I'm all the time going in there for screwdrivers or whatever, right, to fix stuff in the house.
And I decided to hang a tennis ball from the ceiling.
And I did that in one stall for my old truck.
And so when I pull in and the windshield hits the tennis ball hanging from the ceiling,
the door's going to shut
and it's going to be a few inches
between that and the bumper
and you got all this room
at the front of the truck to work
because that's right at the work bench.
Yeah, he's not lying either.
He doesn't mean an extra foot.
It's a few inches.
You're not able to walk behind
and I thought for sure
when the door was coming down
it was going to clip the...
Well, that's the new one.
So I mounted a tennis ball
out of the ceiling
where I just got a new truck.
So I mounted this tennis ball.
I didn't want to do it,
but I hadn't ever got to it.
So now when I pull in my new truck,
that's very tough to get by and so you got plenty of room and literally when the door shuts it's less than an inch
it's not much tight perfect it's a little it's never it's fine it's scary it's gonna be fine
it's not scary for the rest of us it's fine i promise nothing to worry about yeah well well i thought
you know good old it's pickup truck surely you can climb up on this thing surely it's tough yeah
No
No
So I'm client
I got a ladder
And I'm trying to get up on this truck
And I'm going to stand in the cow
I'm in my socks
But I'm going to stand in the cow
area
And I'm not going to stand on the hood
I'm not going to stand on the roof
I know that that's going to crush buckle
What's the cow area
The cow is the plastic area
Between the windshield and the hood
There's a big plastic tray
Of windshield wipers
And all kinds of stuff
And that's tougher than the hood
Yeah probably
the hood as it did
I put my arm on the hood
and it dented in
it goes boom
and popped right back out
and I thought
damn it
and then when I got done
and got this tennis ball mounted
and got down
I could see there was a dent
in my hood
and I've had this truck a month
less than a month
and there was a dent in the roof
I guess where maybe I put an elbow
I'm not sure
God you didn't it the whole thing up
by the way he had offered
he had a help offered.
David walks in
and offers to help him
and Dale pooh-poo's any help and shoes him away.
I got this.
I'm about to do some damage.
Let me do my own damage.
And he got the ball hung,
but he also did the truck.
Well, luckily.
Here's how this played out for everybody else.
The truck was just missing all of a sudden.
The girls thought,
oh, maybe Daddy just parked his truck out front.
Well, we go to get ready to take the kids to school
the next morning and Daddy's truck is nowhere to be found.
So he had shamefully pass it off to a friend to fix
So he didn't have to tell anybody what he was doing
They didn't need to tell
No one needed to know
Well now we all know
No one's going to know
Don't crawl on the top of your truck
No one's going to know
They're never going to know
They're going to know
So Sean, my buddy
Y'all might have seen Sean
In some nationwide videos in the past
With Sonny Sean
Um
Sean works for his family business
that fixes cars and does body work, mainly primarily bodywork.
And they're down in Charlotte near the airport.
They do all the bodywork for all the rentals.
They only do rentals.
They don't do anything else.
And so anytime I tear something up, he's my guy.
And so he took my truck to work, had a dent wizard guy come out there.
Ding, ding, ding, bang, bada boom, whatever.
Truck comes back and it looks freaking perfect.
you can't even tell it
didn't even have to paint it or nothing
it's incredible
well thank God you got a guy
and he told me he's like man
they glue they pull they pull they stretch
they tap tap tap tap deep deep
and it's crazy
looks perfect so it was far more complicated than just like
taking the thing and popping it up
for driving it down there and I gave the dent wizard guy
a couple hundred bucks and my truck's fine
so
that's the uh that's my
screw up
for the week
why did you feel like
you had to hide it.
Because I was mad.
You're mad at yourself?
You're embarrassed?
Yeah.
I was embarrassed, but mostly mad.
And I just wanted it to get fixed.
And as soon as it comes back in the driveway and it's not dead it anymore, it never happened.
Until Sean decided to tell me about it later, which always always happens.
Sean likes to poke on you just as much as I do.
So speaking of trucks, last year, we did the raffle for the big suburban.
It was a Tahoe.
It was a Tahoe.
Yeah, it was a record, normal.
But it was a nice Tahoe, but not a Corvette.
Not a Corvette.
So we decided to fill the backup with all the different fun things that we liked,
that we thought made sense to gift.
I procured my items, purchased my items.
It was special for this specific event.
Dale re-gifted a couple of things.
I walked around my home and I said, hey, that's a brand new.
still in the box, been there for a year, that'll go in there.
Yeah, which I thought was a little tacky.
Tacky.
It was only tacky because he told everybody about it, because nobody needed to know that.
Like, that's the kind of thing.
I feel like nobody needs to know.
If you read gift something, you told the planet when we did the video,
and then you told the guy that won the car.
I just said, this has been sitting in my garage for a while.
Yeah.
I didn't say, hey, this was a gift to me, and I didn't use it.
So here it is.
I think that was pretty obvious when you said,
well, I didn't say this.
This has been sitting around, having used this, so it's going in the car.
I wasn't like bragging about it.
I feel, it felt braggadocious.
It did.
We could play back the video and watch.
There's a video of us putting the things in the car.
And from my recollection, you were pretty proud of yourself.
I was happy that the thing, I thought it was, it was this little burner, cooker?
Yeah.
What was it?
It's like a camping roaster cooker.
I felt like it did a couple of things, but.
I'm like, I'm never going to.
use it. It's sitting in the garage for a year.
Hadn't had the chance to use it.
Yeah. And I probably wasn't going to. We've got so many burner, smokers,
fire pits, all the things. And I'm like,
somebody could use this. It's perfect. Totally understand that. I was happy
that I had decluttered the garage. Decluttered. Okay. So
if you regift something, this is a question for you two, Alex. What do you think the parameters
are on regifting? And then also, are you actually ever telling the person that it's a regift?
Or is it just some sneaky thing that you do?
Because in my mind, it's something that you just do and don't tell.
You know what I mean?
Especially if it's something good like that.
Let's just make it feel more special than a re-gift.
Do you know what I mean?
All right.
So with the Tahoe, we were putting things in the back of the Tahoe that we liked that we use, that we have.
I put in hats that I had made.
Like, you know, I get these hats custom made and I get about 20.
And I threw a few of them in there.
And so for me it felt like, all right, this, this clears the bar.
This, this passes muster.
And it's something that I have.
It's cool.
I think someone else should use it.
I'm not going to use it.
And so otherwise, I'm going to put it up into storage and it's going to sit in there for 20 years.
Yeah, I'm not.
All that's valid.
But why do we have to tell everybody?
I didn't tell everybody.
Yes, you did.
If you re-gift something, you're not supposed to tell.
It's supposed to be a secret.
I didn't know that it was given to me.
I didn't know it was a gift.
I don't know how it showed up.
Until after the fact,
the people that gave it to me,
the company that makes it,
commented on the post.
Orion was like,
oh,
no kidding.
Hey,
we gave that to you.
That's embarrassing.
Yes,
it's embarrassing.
Exactly.
I'm not embarrassed.
I told Dale,
I was like,
I saw Orion comment on the video
because they gifted that to you.
They sent that to the shop.
I'm not embarrassed.
God.
It's definitely an ocean moment.
I was embarrassed for us both.
Like,
oh,
that he asked me a gift.
I was like, all right, you know, look, the thing was cool, so cool that I thought to put it in the Tahoe to gift to someone else.
I mean, it's not like I was like, damn, this is a worthless piece of crap.
How do I get rid of it?
It was like, let's try to put this in there because I think someone might actually buy more raffle tickets.
But to Amy's question, with Christmas coming up.
Yeah, we do this with his family.
we come over, they all come over, we have a gift exchange.
But instead of doing like the typical white elephant where you buy like a $25 gift or a gag gift or something,
or you have a basket, we always try to do a theme.
Last year we did the, you pick something from around the house, used or not.
And that's going to get wrapped up.
And then that's part of the gift exchange.
And we're going to do it again this year.
So some people have put like, you know, used fuzzy socks.
Dude, it's like, you know.
That's far.
It's fun.
And like, none of us that are doing it are there for the gifts anyway.
We're there for the entertainment and the fun and they like exchange.
So there is, there always is one gift that's like, damn.
That was cool.
I like that one.
And we always try to figure out how to trip the system.
Yeah, we team up as couples.
But now the big kids are involved.
Where one of us ends up with it.
Yeah.
But now we don't have anything good to sit to put into it.
So we're going to have to.
Oh, I'm sure I got something.
I'm sure there's something else laying around the house that somebody gave us that we are,
are not using.
Well, I am not going to tell anybody what it is that I'm putting it in.
Here's the other thing that's tricky about that.
Regifting is scary because what if you regift something that that person actually gave you?
Yeah, that's just your mistake.
I know, of course it is, but like, how do you know?
Do you put posts on things you know you're never going to use?
Like, is there a re-gift cabinet?
Like, oh, I'm never going to use that sticking it over here.
So-and-so gave this to me.
Don't give it back.
Yeah.
How do you do that?
I don't know.
I think, you know, like, you get some crummy tie.
or something that you're never going to use
and it just kind of goes into your collect
you know goes into your tie rack for a while
and eventually you know sort of pass you get
sort of you get to a certain point in time
where you can actually throw it out
you know like all right you know
I didn't wear your tie but I kept it for
five years you know
so it can go now
that's actually not a bad idea for your gift
exchange item just a sack of ties
sack of ties yeah
there you go what do you think about regifting
I think it's very obvious when you
been regifted.
Oh, because you can just feel that it wasn't sincere.
You can tell.
Yeah, it's just the look on their face.
They're kind of hoping you don't notice it.
Yeah, I can sniff it out.
Oh, man.
I've never regifted.
I kind of just looked at what Dale said, hold on to it,
and then it just kind of goes out of style, and I just get rid of it.
Get rid of it.
Yeah.
I regrifts stuff every once in a while, but it's usually something I just have multiples of
that I like, you know what I mean?
So it's not quite so obvious, but I hate clutter and, and I don't, I don't know if
it's that.
I just.
He hates anything that's not his idea.
Yeah.
That's what it is.
So if it's not his idea, he didn't buy it, he didn't pick it out for himself.
He didn't want it to begin with, and he's just going to give it to somebody else.
That is a fact.
No.
Even if it's nice.
He has piled up nice things that I have given him to give away.
I'm like, I just gave you that for Christmas.
What are you doing?
Donating clothes.
Give me that.
Yeah.
I'll give it to my brother-in-law or something.
I got these gray pair of shoes.
They look like plain as hell.
They're expensive.
You got them downtown.
I ain't comfortable. I put them on. I'm like, no, I'm not even going to break these in.
And I'm like, put them in the donation pile. We have a donation pile that's always going, right?
And every couple of weeks, we grab it all up and take it into the Christian mission.
And so we do that all the time. And I tried to slide them on in there. And he's like, uh-uh.
I frequently check what he's been putting into the donation file. They're sitting in the garage, by the way, if anybody has a size of 11 foot.
Like, what now?
What are they doing?
They're literally sitting in the floor in the middle of our garage.
They're brand new shoes.
Between two cars, just sitting there.
Now that's what they're going to do until something happens to.
I'm trying to give them away.
Anybody in here a size 11?
They're great shoes.
They look like trucks.
They're all leather.
I'm going to bring them to work and see if any of y'all want them.
They're on the break room table upstairs.
It's not a, there is not, they have not taken one step.
So they are brand new.
It's not like I picked them out on.
I'm just saying like you want to wear about my sock being all in there.
My dirty old foot.
They're brand new.
Yeah, brand new.
They are brand new.
Man, if you want these shoes, you're some special kind of person.
They're pretty dang.
They're bad.
They're made for special people.
Gray and boring.
You are special.
They're not gray and boring.
Gray goes with everything.
What color of shoe are you wearing at the moment, bro?
These are not, these are, look how cool these are.
Frickin fuzzy gray, straight shoes.
They're so old.
They're pilling.
Put your foot back up.
Put the other one back up.
Look at this.
they're comfortable
that's worn in
yeah
they're comfortable
I don't know
they're broken in
before you
who's special now
maybe you're the special
one
okay so
regifting is
I regret
I regift if I like
if I think the person
is going to like it
I don't give them
something crummy
just to get it
out of my house
but if I'm like
you know
this is something
I don't need
or I have one of
already
you know
I might wrap it up
I will
say like a smoker or like a grill is a great re-gift because you think like you might get it
and think you can use it and then you don't use it.
Right.
Somebody else might love that.
Yeah.
We did do that with a green egg.
That's a perfect example.
Like I have had friends come over and they're like, I'm like, I got three smokers.
I don't need three.
Yep.
I'm, you know, I got a new and I like and I don't need this one.
Yeah.
Right.
And your buddy will be like, I'll take it.
And you like put in a truck right now.
Now you've gift.
Now you've re-gifted.
But then it was mutual.
It was like a conversation.
That doesn't feel the same.
You've done it on a Wednesday in the middle of year that means nothing.
Like, damn it, you know?
Yeah.
Can we not check a few boxes here?
Can it not be like Christmas?
Yeah.
I feel like as men,
you guys could just do that as a handshake deal.
We're always bargaining.
We're always haggling.
I thought it wouldn't polite to haggle.
I thought that was embarrassing, too.
But going back to our last show.
Man, one-on-one, a haggling.
It's sport.
I mean, I feel like giving a gift like that in the moment.
is like me giving Katie, who is my sister, something out of my closet that she liked or that
fit her better than me.
You know what I mean?
Like, just take it home.
Yeah.
That doesn't feel like a gift that just feels like sharing.
If you gift another guy, a smoker, have you not in that moment signed a lifetime friend
contract?
100%.
Every time they use something to smoke that thing, you're getting the invite.
You're like, that's kind of my meat.
It's your meat, but it's my meat too.
Exactly.
It's just when you give a gift of that size and that.
And something that can be that productive and functional.
You've kind of like, you've also made this sort of unspoken agreement to be friends forever.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
All right.
So if you've been over to our house and Dale's giving you something, y'all are like blood brothers now.
Yes.
Yeah.
It's, you already were probably, but this is more like solidifying.
Do you think about that before you do it or do you just feel like that afterwards?
It's got to be in the moment.
It's just in the moment.
Like,
the unplanned event.
Who got the green egg?
Was it Jake?
I feel like you told Jake to get the green egg,
but it is still at the house.
I mean,
that's like a thing that you have to really plan to move.
It's tough.
It's sitting next to our woodpile.
I've told them to come get it.
Covered up.
And I got all these like, uh,
accessories that come with this thing.
I'm never going to use.
They've never been used.
I'm never going to use it.
But like once I transfer the ownership of the green egg to Jake,
like we're already pretty much best friends for life.
Once I transfer the green egg to,
to him, it's more like an official contract.
Jake's the friend that gets all of Dale's old pants.
All pants.
Or pants that, like, he likes his pants a little bit more snug than Dale does, but they're the same way.
He wears skinny jeans, just say it.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's a skinny pant guy.
Yeah.
And so.
I don't.
No, and so Dale orders.
Let's not get that confused.
No, you don't like skinny jeans.
You're like a, nothing can be tight.
I like to wear oversized hoodies.
And I don't, I don't like my pants to be tight at all.
No, you just like fuzzy shoes.
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I also was getting on it in the other day
because he was talking through my show.
So I'm watching the last few episodes of
Nobody wants this.
And their episodes are short.
They're like 20 to 30 minutes.
And they had just released a new season.
So I watched half one night and I watched was going to watch the other half the next time.
Dale's sitting next to me quiet as a mouse.
Looking at his phone, not doing a whole lot.
And then all of a sudden, in the last episode, he starts getting real chatty.
Tell me about some Christmas presents he bought, which coincidentally was a freaking Dyson vacuum stick.
And I'm like, that surely ain't for me.
You better try again.
And then he stands up to, like, really come and talk to me and cuddle with me in the last scene.
And so I missed the last scene and the words and everything.
I didn't hear anything that happened in the last freaking scene of the whole series.
I had no idea.
And to the point where I couldn't even, like, rewind it to zip back.
So I'm like, you, I can't believe you did that.
It's like you've been waiting to pounce.
Like this whole time, you've been sitting there so quiet.
And all of a sudden, I don't even know how it ended.
You've got to be kidding.
me. And then also, get out of here with that stupid vacuum. I don't even care about your vacuum
anymore. You have the same vacuum at the beach house and when you lost the charging cord,
you're so sad. I didn't lose nothing. And then when I got you, I went on Amazon, got you a new
charging cord. Don't recall that at all. Yes. I don't think I lost it. Maybe it like burn up or something.
Or whatever, but you were so upset because you're like, I love this vacuum. I did. So that was
years ago. I know. That was one year. I got her the brand, I got her the newest of newest of
dice and vacuums.
And it is, these things are like,
he's been getting on the Amazon again.
These things are like a jet engine.
Power.
I mean,
they're amazing.
He goes,
there's a light on the front.
You can see everything.
It's a light and it lights up the dust and you're just like, oh,
there's the dust.
I'm like,
so the other thing you do with the vacuum,
by the way,
when I was gone from the house.
Oh, God.
Is he decided to mount it on the wall.
Yeah, charge.
So he's told me,
he's like, hey, it's got a wall mount.
Or there's a stand that comes with it if you'd prefer that.
And I was just like, oh, okay.
I didn't think we had made a choice.
I didn't think that I needed to give him any direction.
It was kind of like an impassing conversation, to be honest.
And I come home, and he's like, look, I'm out of the vacuum.
I'm like, okay, why do I all of a sudden feel like I'm not going to like this?
Because he's super excited about it.
And we go into the dog room, which is like, it's basically like an extension of the laundry space.
like, but also where we lock up Gus and he's hung it on the middle of the wall right there
next to his dog bed. Middle of the wall, middle of the wall. Like dangling in the middle of the room.
Like it's a piece of artwork. I'm like, why did you do that? And he looks at me with this
like startled face. I'm like, that's your choice? That was your choice. Right in the middle
of the wall in the middle. I'm like, it's not even close to the floor. Why is it hanging in the middle
the air like that.
And he stands back to look at and goes, well, I don't know.
I just thought that's where it looked nice.
And so I must have been pretty scary looking because he immediately took it down.
The thing off the wall was patching holes.
I took it down.
I mean, this is weird.
I mean, he did pout heavily in the middle of all of this.
I'm in this 30-minute window of when I need to take out of the school and get myself ready
and to do all this.
That's when he did it.
When I'm getting the kids ready for school, he's in the dog room, drilling holes in the wall.
I took it down during that period of time.
I'm like, I'm taking this thing down.
And so I took it down.
And then I went outside and I got some spackle.
And I mixed up some spackle real fast.
And I spackled the holes and I flatten them and cleaned it all up.
And then I took out of school.
And then I came home.
I went downstairs.
I found a bucket of paint that match it.
And I got a little paint, a little paint brush.
And I go up there and I paint other.
And I'm like, problems fixed.
No worries.
And then I went on Amazon and I bought the damn stand.
And the stand comes the next day.
put the stand together and I take a picture of the stand and I send a picture of the stand
and the damn dice and vacuum hanging all over it.
I'm like, it's all right.
It's okay.
It's like you wanted.
It's just funny.
The things that happen sometimes, it's not what I thought you would have chose to do.
This vacuum can fix anything.
It's vacuum.
And he usually is far more thoughtful about the position of all things, you know, and that
was his choice.
And I'm like, what the, man?
How did you land on that?
Yeah.
That was what blew me away more than anything.
But also, I already have disdain for this stupid vacuum.
I've yet to touch it.
I'll be honest, I thought as good as the vacuum is,
I thought that the mount that they would send you
would mount it more flush on the wall.
It was, when I mounted it and hung it up there,
I'm like, damn, it's like way out there.
It's like six inches off the wall, dangling, its legs.
You know, it's like a couple legs dangling down toward the floor,
and there's still a foot between the bottom of the vacuum and the floor.
So it's just out in the room.
And also, right at the edge of Gus's dog bed,
I'm like, he's going to knock that damn thing.
I'm off the wall.
Gus's going to come through there and clean house.
Yeah.
It was all bad.
We're good now.
We're good.
We're good.
I still haven't used it.
I'll let you do it first.
April asked me yesterday.
She goes, hey, can I use that nude?
I said, I'm like, yeah, but just don't try to stand it up because it doesn't have,
it doesn't stand up on its own.
I think that was before the stand thing.
Somebody's used it.
It's got dirt in it.
Yeah, wouldn't me.
I think the last thing we wanted to talk about was our, we're getting a, well,
we're trading in our current camper.
So we have some friends at Camping World and wanted to get a camper.
So we got a camper and we've had it for a couple years.
And it's, you know, I'm not an expert on campers,
but this thing's kind of low on the, it was a,
I guess if we got it in 24, it was a 23 model that didn't sell.
So it was it was discounted because of that.
And it's one of the, it's very,
basic, you know.
And I liked it because everything on it was easy to fix.
If it broke, I could fix it.
And it was fun to learn how campers work and hooking them up, towing them,
driving all the etiquette and everything else.
So that's been fun.
Yeah.
Also, the size was good for what we needed.
Yeah.
And so now we're ready to step it up, step the game up a little bit.
Yes.
Now that you've gotten your racks and things moved out of the way, like you mentioned.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, that's gone.
So we used to have a basket.
I don't know if maybe some of you all remember there was a basketball league that we used to have
and I had a basketball court.
We tore that up.
We talked about it.
What did we do it?
We tore the court.
The court's gone.
I told Sonny the other day,
my property manager said,
let's make the court disappear and I don't even want to see the, I don't even want to see it.
That doesn't make sense to me.
I'm like,
well,
how did they take it out?
Did they take it out in panels?
Did they do, da,
and he was like,
I didn't ask.
I didn't want to see.
It was heartbreaking to take it out because we've had it for so long.
And it was in some great memories.
We used to play basketball.
Did you re-gift it?
No, you couldn't.
It destroyed it when it come up.
But anyways, we had a lot of great memories.
We played lots of basketball games with back in the days when we were racing.
We had the Hendrik guys over there all the time every Tuesday night.
Yeah.
You know, we'd play for two hours.
And so that was tough.
But we got it out of there.
We moved some things around.
And now we got enough room.
So we were limited to like 40 foot on our camper.
So we'd have to only be able to shop models shorter than that.
And so now we can.
And there's like really good models that are 41, 42 foot.
Yeah, just over.
Yeah, and it's like, well, we can't fit it in there.
Like, we had ours in there tight.
And so now we can kind of do whatever we want.
So I'm excited.
Yes, we have to go shopping.
We were shopping online this week and have a plan to go venture out.
Yeah, if anybody has any ideas or advice on campers, we need some bunks.
I was thinking about a mid bunk.
I like the mid bunk.
So.
We looked at one with a kitchen in the back, and the layout was amazing.
but we were a little worried about the kitchen being in the back
and just bouncing around going down the road.
Anything behind the axles is going to be flying all over the damn place
going down the road, going through bumps and stuff.
So that's kind of what we've experienced with the current camper.
Those are just our assumptions too.
We don't really understand how the thing's going to drive down the road.
We're sitting on the couch just, you know,
trying to make the best choice.
But we have to go look at them.
So looking forward to that.
I am too.
Ready to go camping.
We're going to Daytona.
That's where we're going to take it for the 500.
We're going to go run it again.
That'll be the first go out.
That probably will.
Okay.
Daytona.
Should we do something?
Oh.
What?
Every time I start to try to do.
Yesterday.
The next thing, he's like, oh.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Yesterday.
So I have a YouTube page that's completely basic as hell.
And I, every probably 12 months, I'll upload a video.
I've got a bunch of VHS tapes in my, in a closet.
of all of my in cars from like 2000, 2001, 2002.
And so I found the in car of my Texas win in 2000, my first win ever.
Wow.
And it's the whole race riding on my car.
And so I uploaded it onto this YouTube page.
And there's a couple people that it's got like, you know, I don't know, 80 subscribers.
And so as soon as I uploaded it, people on Reddit were like,
day, there's a new video on this website, or there's a new video on this channel.
And they kind of know it's me.
And so...
It's not obvious that it's you?
It just says Junior uploads.
It's the name of it.
But I'm not like, hey, I'm Dellenhart Jr.
And here's my videos.
But I went on Reddit and I'm like, y'all, let's, yeah, put it up there.
Let's just keep between us now.
Well, here we go.
Too late.
It's a fun joke.
And so, but I was going through these videos and I found this.
This 20-minute reel of dad trying to read a telepropter.
He's in the deerhead shop.
That's where you found that?
Yes, down there in that storage.
He's in the deerhead shop, and I'm an extra, and I'm rubbing.
It's waxing the car.
Oh, wow.
So I'm in the background, waxing the car.
And his little head just barely comes above.
Like you can see his nose.
Yeah.
Maybe you can see his chin, just barely above the car.
Yeah.
And so I'm waxing the car, and dad's reading this promo about waterbeds.
Really?
Yes.
Wow.
He's like, you know, to be the best in racing, you got out of the best car, the best crew,
and the driver's got to give 100 percent, and getting a good night's sleep is important.
And I sleep on a something, something, something waterbed.
You know how important my sleep is to me?
And he walks over to this waterbed and he goes, this is my third waterbed I've had from blah, blah, blah,
waterbed. If you want to get one, you want to be a winner, call them up, ask for the darn
heart special and save $100, you know, blah, blah, blah. And so it takes him 20 minutes.
Dude, it was, it was painful. We watched it yesterday. He took me downstairs to the theater and had
it blown up. And I was like, I feel bad for him right now. He is so physically uncomfortable
and pissed off at himself because he can't just, like, spit this thing out. And this is before
teleprompters and everything. He's got like somebody holding cue cards. And he's trying to read from afar,
those things.
Yeah.
And then you can hear Teresa and then Dale Jr.'s back here.
Like there's so many Easter eggs in this video.
So like five minutes or like three minutes in, he's struggling.
He's getting mad.
He's starting to get mad and he's struggling.
Just random flipping people off like, you, you get out of here.
He says, crew, he's looking past the camera.
He's like, crew, y'all get out.
I can't do this.
Y'all staring at me.
I can probably do this without y'all looking at.
You go outside, walk around.
Go find something to do.
Go walk around.
Don't look at them.
And Teresa's in the background.
She goes, Dale, it sounds really good, though, what you're doing.
He goes, hush.
And then he just starts.
He starts trying to do the read again.
And then like 17 minutes into this thing, he turns around.
He goes, he goes, junior, do you want to do this?
And I say, yeah.
I say, yeah.
And he goes, well, come on over here.
And I said, damn, I got it memorized by now.
It was awesome.
I cannot believe.
Dale's a little tiny voice in his accent.
I can't believe I was such a smart ass to him because, I mean.
He said, I got it memorized by now.
He saw a good opportunity right now.
Yeah, he goes, you want to do this?
I go, yeah, I got it memorized by now.
It was hilarious.
I'm just sitting there the whole time.
Just waxing.
Not left arm.
I don't like this.
I mean, 17 straight minutes of this.
Yeah.
Because I don't know when they're rolling, when they're not rolling, when we're
live or not like, I don't want to get my ass, Jude, right?
I don't want to be the one that they go up, do it again.
Dale wasn't wiping.
Dale was picking his nose.
Yeah.
So I'm like wiping even when we're not rolling.
Yeah.
It was awesome.
But it was also very painful to watch.
Yeah.
I felt bad for him.
I kept getting up out of my chair.
Like, I can't.
I thought I might upload that one one day.
You should.
Yeah.
That's cool.
That's a great story.
It was.
It was interesting.
It was interesting seeing his dad in that environment and then him being vulnerable and
mad at himself.
That's what I was telling Amy.
I was like, you got to come.
down here and watch this. I was like, this is that if you were just kind of like to walk up on him
and him be unsuspecting of camera. Even though they were filming something, that was really kind of
him and how he behaved. And yeah, when he get frustrated and stuff, it's funny. God.
The best part about it for me was when he finally nailed it, he's like, God, and he was talking to
himself. Like he was, like nobody was in the room. He's like, God, just making fun of himself one moment,
cussing at himself one moment.
It was awesome.
You should absolutely upload that.
Yeah.
That'd be awesome to see.
And how about that water bed?
That lumbar support.
I'm like, waterbed.
Water beds was wild.
That a hell?
They didn't have no damn waterbed.
I will tell you that dad did have a waterbed like in the in the 70s.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But in the 90s he didn't.
I remember it.
But now when he filmed that, he wasn't using water beds.
It had regular beds.
Were they big in the 90s?
No, I feel like they're big.
So it didn't look like your typical water bed.
Like it wasn't just like the big bubble in the bed frame.
It looked like a normal bed.
So it was water inside of a mattress.
Yeah.
So it wasn't like a, it was like a combination.
Yeah.
It's like a waterbed.
Then the mattress cover made it look exactly like a mattress.
Yeah.
It had like foam or whatever on the top.
Have you ever slept on a water bed?
One time.
Yeah.
They're impossible.
I mean, it's a ride.
Who thought?
Who thought that was like the way to go?
I don't know, but the waterbed guy was, I mean, he probably made a killing whenever that was in the 70s and 80s.
Imagine if you're, we were like, we're married now.
Imagine if we had a waterbed.
You would catapult my ass right out of there.
The way you sit down and lay down?
You could not.
I would be like a cartoon character.
You could be flying out of that thing.
Like you would move just by the person breathing.
Like you'd be gone to go, stop breathing.
I mean, it would rock you to sleep like a baby.
Yeah, I don't know if that's good.
But if you had to turn over, right?
Yeah.
Or do anything or get up and go pee.
Like you wake in the person up.
It's like going to.
Yeah.
It's a single situation.
Yeah.
It must be.
Yeah.
And I remember like in the 70s, it was like a thing, you know, if you had one you bragged about, like a waterbed.
Yeah.
Motion of the ocean.
Come check me on a water bed out.
You know, it's like.
Come check up my water bed.
Yeah.
Like guys, guys were like, yeah.
Hey girl, I got a water bed.
Got a water bed over here.
Have you ever slept on a water bed?
No.
You know?
No.
I could just imagine, though.
That's probably horrible.
It's pretty weird.
Getting out of them is tough.
Yes.
Yes.
Getting out of the water bed is the worst part.
Yeah,
because it's like the old school ones,
where it is just the big bubble in that frame.
Like you're below the frame, right?
So trying to like get yourself up over that.
Yeah.
I imagine it's like a...
Getting out of a water bed is like climbing out of a pool.
You almost need an assistant to punch the other side of the bed to shoot you up a little.
Is it like an under deflated air mattress in a way?
Like you're kind of.
stock and it's like hard to get out of.
Yeah, kind of. Yeah. Maybe they'll make a comeback.
But they are fun to play on.
I always worried about busting it.
Yeah, of course. Yeah.
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listeners share their most disastrous moments and Amy and I will figure out the recovery plan.
All right. Our first fixin that somebody needs fixing. My wife's mother is moving to our town.
She's getting older and wants to be closer to the family. We have no kids but want to start a family in the next year or two and we are excited about the move.
However, my wife dropped on me a month ago before this is scheduled to happen that she's moving in with us for six months so she can, quote, find a nice place.
I immediately freak out because I'm blindsided and terrified that six months turned into forever.
My wife didn't appreciate my freak out, but I feel like it was justified.
How do we fix the mother-in-law situation?
That's a hard situation.
I mean, I feel like six months could easily turn into a year.
It could also easily just be two, but likely not, you know.
I don't know.
I feel like Dale and I would probably overreact in those moments too.
Like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
How would you fix it?
that though Ralph?
I don't know.
If you overreacted,
if I said my mom was moving in for six months
and you overreacted, how would you fix that?
So here's what I would.
By helping or find a plan.
No, here's what I would do.
Let's go shopping.
Let's go shopping.
If I overreacted, I would wait
to see if you go,
hey, you're overreacted.
Or maybe if you don't,
then I don't do anything.
I've kind of like let my feelings be known and that's...
So the fact of this is, I'm offended.
Yeah.
I mean, if you're offended, then I need to do some work.
But if you're not offended and I'm just kind of like, all right, well, I mean, it's your mother.
Like, you're, we're going to, we're going to do whatever needs to be done.
But if I overreact, I'll wait and see if you go, damn.
Later we get to bed and something.
You're going to wait, wait and see how much I ignore you for the rest of the day.
No, you might go, man.
what the hell?
And I'll be like, oh, crap.
I've reacted, I guess.
But if you don't say anything,
then I'll be like,
my reaction must have been necessary amount.
The necessary amount.
Yeah.
I feel like the only way to fix it in this moment
is to tell her you're sorry
and then also offer just to be helpful.
Because any way you're helping her
is going to move the process along, right?
No?
I mean, it's your mom.
It's not my mom.
That's the mom.
Like the mom, if the mom's moving in, how do you be, how do you fix it?
How do you help be helpful?
Do you think so?
By helping her, like, taking her looking at houses, helping her move in, just helping her.
I would get in the bed with you and go, what are we going to do?
I'd be like, what are we going to do about this?
And then I'll just wait for your direction.
And whatever you say is what's happening.
Okay.
I have a friend whose mom moved in with the parents.
They're all like a little older.
I think the parents were even retired.
So like everybody's hanging out in the house.
But her dad is so attentive and sweet and like makes breakfast every morning and like
make sure her pills are in her little pill thing.
This is his mother-in-law.
That she's like, I don't ever want to.
I think her plan was to move in.
But she's like, this is the most amazing thing.
My husband never did any of these things for me.
So she's like living it up in her new environment.
with her son-in-law.
Dale's like, that's never going to happen.
He literally had a physical reaction to that.
Oh, man.
All right.
Well, we know who Dale is and we know who is.
I'm spoiled.
Yeah, you are.
Well.
We have it our way.
Okay, let's do the next one.
Well, this last one is actually really funny.
I'm excited for this one.
This past weekend, I went to support my niece, meet my niece at her soccer game.
I don't have kids of my own, but I don't have kids of my own, but I
get really into watching my niece play. Some would say too much. I'm the, I'm the,
I'm the uncle who yells at the ref and gets way too into it. I'm well aware this is a potential
issue. Well, this past weekend, I might have taken things a little too far. The other team
sucked, like tripping over the ball bad. And at one point, my niece got beaten on a breakaway by
the worst girl on the team for a goal. And I'm like, what the f***? In my minor rage,
I let out something along the lines of, you let that girl beat you. She's the worst one. That was then
followed by an audible gas from the other parents, a slap on the arm from my wife, and then
the little girl's dad in my face. I apologize, but they could all tell. I didn't mean it in the moment.
So how do I fix this? I love a good rage or like a good loud mouth at a supporting event.
Because even if you know the person, it's somewhat funny. I don't know. Rage it on little girls.
I don't know how I would fix that. I don't know how I would react in the moment besides just laughing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Unless it was my kid that was the worst one.
I mean, I think you're,
you apologize to the parent,
and that's all you can do.
And if they, you know, you try,
I think the next time you see them,
you,
you mention it again,
you go, man, I really.
And keep making an issue.
I've had some time to consider, right?
That, you know,
because apparently he apologized
in the moment and they're like,
yeah, right.
Yeah, whatever.
You know, go back and, you know,
after some time and go,
listen, I'm really am sorry.
I'm...
Maybe the uncle can be, like,
the guy that brings the snacks and the drinks to the next game
to try to make it up to everybody.
I think you just sit at the other side.
You sit on the other side.
You want to church everybody.
Don't be his parents.
Hell, yeah.
Okay.
You're driven a stick in the ground.
Maybe Uncle Jerkface doesn't get to come back.
Unless you sit on the other side.
He's behind the goal.
He's in his own little timeout.
That's hilarious.
I mean, honestly, I don't know if I...
I don't know if I feel bad about it.
I think it's funny.
It is funny.
I imagine he just didn't, he wasn't like thinking he was going to say that out loud and
if he didn't want to hear it.
It was more like to himself.
Yeah.
Even if it was out loud and he's just like rambling off these ridiculous things like,
how could you not laugh at that?
Yeah, it's funny.
Not even his kid.
Yeah.
She's the worst one.
It feels like a movie.
I think I would love that.
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Hi, guys, Dale Jr. and I are in the Dirty Mo Media Studio today for another round of
Bless Your Heart, and we have a few funny things to talk about, some serious things to talk
about today. Hopefully you listen to the show, and we're excited to you for your questions.
So what you got?
Our first question, this is a big debate going on right now.
It's when is the right time to start decorating for Christmas?
Is it after Halloween or after Thanksgiving?
This is like all over the place right now.
I feel like so many people went hard in right after Halloween.
I feel like
Thanksgiving week is
like a good week to do it
if you don't want to wait
to like the day after Thanksgiving
because everybody's tired that day anyway, right?
Yeah.
So like that whole week I feel like it's fair game.
Post Thanksgiving is a bit of,
like immediately after the holiday
can be a bit of a lull.
Like the energy, the excitement
for the next holiday takes a while
to be able to ramp back up.
And so my advice to you,
my advice would be
if you have a local radio station that plays nothing but your Christmas music
put that on put that on I got a little radio out in the garage
and so when that station starts playing it's on all the time it's turned down low
but it's on all the time if you go in the garage you'll hear it
and so when that station starts playing Christmas music
you should start getting the trees out getting you should start
slowly like piecing it together I like that process instead of like
All right, today we're going to do it.
I like more of a, you know what, today we're going to get this bucket and this bucket
and we're going to put these things out.
And then the next day we're going to get this and this and this, put this thing out.
The next day we're going to shop for a tree.
The next day, you know, not one day after the next, but like I like it to be like, just my preference.
I like the Christmas decorating of the house to be like a one to two week process.
Why?
It just feels like it's your, it just feels like it's a.
For me, that feels like we're just not getting it.
done. And honestly, I'm going to get more tired. I probably won't finish it. Yeah.
You know how I am. Like, if it's going to take me two weeks, I'm probably not going to do it.
Well, we don't go, we don't do it all in one day. We don't do it all in two days. We don't go
get the tree when we get the tree. We decorate the tree maybe the next day. Yeah. So the tree, the big tree is
totally different than the rest of the stuff because I have to get the bins down and like,
they're not organized by room. You know what I mean? Like they're organized with all the
nutcrackers and the different things we got in Germany and one. And like there's just,
and they don't all go in the same place. Yeah.
So that I have to get it all out and kind of kind of do it on the same weekend at least.
I like the room.
I like the house to like gradually.
Close in on you.
Become Christmas.
It's like gradually.
It's like gradually becoming Christmas.
Yeah.
That's fun.
I like it to just be like sweat all like that.
Like a snap.
You blink and it's Christmas.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But what I've gathered on the internet is if you host Thanksgiving, it's the day after.
If you don't, it's any time in November.
Because you can't set the tone for Christmas and have Thanksgiving.
Yeah.
It's kind of awkward.
I guess to have Thanksgiving dinner with the Christmas tree up, I guess.
Yeah.
That's what I've gathered.
Well, that makes sense.
I don't like that rule, though.
I don't either.
I would not.
If I have to host, then I want to get my stuff out.
Let me give my stuff out.
If I have to host, yeah, I would say that would put me even, if I came to somebody's house,
and, yeah, I would want to see some Christmas stuff around.
Yeah.
You heard it, Alex.
That's it.
He wants to see the Christmas stuff.
Well, I just like this time of year.
I love the holidays.
I love Christmas.
I love Thanksgiving.
Well, speaking of Thanksgiving, Eric wants to know what you guys have planned for Thanksgiving.
We're going to go to the beach house.
And so it's just us and the girls.
And then our friends Tim and Tara Dugger are going to come visit.
So it's going to be a friend's giving.
We've done this before.
Yeah, we have.
We've done it many times, actually.
And we're going to cook turkey and do the whole thing.
That's awesome.
So you're cooking turkey.
Any specific way, just roast in the oven.
Last year, we're going to do the same as last year.
Last year we brined it.
And then we covered it in a cheesecloth with like mayonnaise and butter.
and it roasted up very nicely.
Yeah.
So we're going to do that again.
That sounds awesome.
Do you guys have a favorite dish for Thanksgiving that you like?
I always like the sides.
I mean, I like the turkey, but I'm a sides girl.
I like the mashed potatoes and the corn and all this stuff.
There's one thing I don't like, and that's pumpkin pie.
Dale ate some pumpkin pie earlier today, and I was like, ugh.
She likes carrot cake.
Yeah.
But not pumpkin pie.
Figure that one out.
It's the smush.
Yeah.
It's the texture of it.
Pumpkin's weird.
Maybe that's where Nicole gets it.
Probably.
Yeah.
She probably gets it for me.
But I can't handle the...
It smells lovely, but no, I don't want to eat that.
The other debate is Christmas dinner or Thanksgiving dinner.
Do you have a preference of which one?
Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving.
Yeah, Christmas is...
I don't think dinner when I think Christmas.
I don't think about...
When I think about Christmas, I don't think about eating.
Yeah.
We don't do everything the same then either.
It's always a little different.
Yeah.
Growing up, we had Thanksgiving dinner at my grandmother's house, though, on Christmas also.
So we've got to eat it twice.
I mean, Thanksgiving is literally about.
a meal. Yeah. That's true.
Yeah. That's true. It's a
feast. Yeah. Yeah, that is true.
Staying to the holiday theme,
Lori wants to know real or fake
Christmas tree. What are your opinions?
I like both.
Yeah, same. Yeah. I like having all the fake trees all over
the house because I want to decorate them
and I don't want them shedding everywhere.
I like the fake ones better actually than
the real one.
But the real one
get
everywhere. Yeah, it does. We're like
sweeping up needles for, I mean, it's just ridiculous.
It's that pine needle sort of sticky kind of gets.
You don't like the sap?
A little, it gets a little bit, you know, in the house.
I don't know.
This gives you this vibe.
I thought you like Christmas.
It's hard to get the, when you take the tree out, it doesn't leave, it doesn't take itself.
It doesn't leave some stuff behind.
Yeah.
It's a mess.
It's a hot mess.
I'm not.
I love the real tree, though, because of the way it smells.
And it's just so nice.
It's soft.
You can go by, and the girls do.
we touch it and that's why I get the needles get all over the floor.
Yeah, the shopping for the tree part's fun.
So that's kind of,
there's some reasons why you get the real tree because there's a lot of cool elements.
It's a tradition.
We take the kids,
they pick out the tree.
Very much.
Yeah.
We kind of give them like,
okay,
this is your group.
Do you know how you're going to decorate it this year?
I'm not putting tinsel all over it like I did the last two years.
That was the question.
I won't ever do that again.
So we're just doing lights and balls and ornaments.
I don't even know if I'm going to do balls and ornaments.
We're going to light it.
Wow.
I saw this thing.
So everybody's putting gigantic bows on their tree, like at the top.
This giant bow and like the ribbons cascade down.
We could do something like that.
Or this,
I've seen like just giant paper flowers.
So you just like put a few of those on there and then that's it.
We have ornaments that we've collected as we've traveled.
And we have a tree that we put those on that the kids can't mess with because Nicole.
Yeah.
So we've tensled the tree.
And as soon as you get it done,
you're like, damn, that's nice looking.
And all of a sudden.
It's stunning.
Like in a very sway.
And it's pretty.
Like a chandelier.
And she's freaking taking it.
putting it and trying to get it to stick.
Hey, we forgot about that part.
They're having like a tensile fight with it.
I'm like, God, dang, can you all just leave something alone?
And now we're like, our Dyson's like finding Tensel everywhere.
Yeah.
Like, oh, yeah.
That's funny.
It's a mess.
Now you love the Dyson.
The Dyson's going to get worked out over that's true.
That's for sure.
Oh, geez.
Shifting gears now a little bit.
Carter wants to know.
Do you guys have any road trip hacks or advice to survive an eight-hour car ride with someone?
And also, what's the right amount of conversation to silence ratio?
Ooh.
Eight hours is a long time.
So there's going to be some silence.
I think that you should be fine with that.
Bring a book if you're not writing or if you're not driving.
Let's sing to the music.
I think that any hack for any road trip is to have a cooler.
We do this when we go to the beach.
Like it's got just a few snacks, some juice boxes and waters and things like that.
So you don't have to stop if somebody wants something to drink.
Like have some snacks.
Have some things to keep people busy.
All right.
Dale's got some...
So...
If you're driving,
have a lot of energy drinks.
Like, take an unhealthy amount.
Oh, my God.
You're like, in that moment,
it's okay to be completely unhealthy.
Yeah.
So if you got to, you know,
if you're doing a five-hour energy,
it's okay to take the second one
before the five hours is up.
Oh, my gosh, Rob.
It is.
So you can do like a full five hour, then a half after like four hours.
You can kind of slide that half in there and not get in trouble.
With yourself?
Yeah.
Or, yeah, just whatever.
That explains a lot.
That explains why we're doing so much like on the console.
You know, if you're doing the driving of the eight hours, yeah, you can do all the unhealthy things.
You get a pass to eat all the junk.
And so if you're writing, like bring a tablet.
if I know I'm going to do an 80-hour trip and I'm sitting still,
like if I'm going to get on a plane and fly overseas or whatever,
I like have a plan somewhat of a rough idea of things that I can work on
on my tablet or something that I can do that's going to take some time,
consume some time.
And so like if I have a lot of, you know, I don't know,
you can sort through your music library and things like that
or create playlists that you've been trying to create for years
or you got another trip out in front of you
or a party or something, right,
that you might want to create a musical playlist for.
You can work on your YouTube playlist.
If it's an eight hour drive,
are you okay with your passenger,
fall on asleep?
So I get in the car,
I talk a lot on the front end,
and then when I trail...
Not just a lot.
Like, we're talking to he's probably taken two, five hours
and he can't stop talking.
And when I'm going to trail off
and when I trail off, then it can be silence for hours.
Yeah.
You know, like, I don't need to, I don't need you asking me what's going on in my life.
I don't want you, I don't need to check in on what's going on in your life.
Like, I'm going to ride in this car and we're going to get through this.
If you try to go to your own space before he has bridged and tapered off of his energy drink high, he's like, what are you doing?
What are you talking about?
What are you looking at?
Hey, hey, hey.
What's you looking at?
What's on your phone?
What's you doing?
Who you talking to?
What's going on in the world?
Are you working on the world?
I do that.
What are you looking at?
What's going on?
My God, dang.
I'll, I'll be with like.
The kids have their headphones on.
Everybody's quiet except Dale's like, what's up?
I'm driving.
I'll be driving and we'll go, you know, 30 or 40 minutes down the road.
And I'll be like, she'll be on her, you know, scrolling Instagram or something.
And I'll be like, all right, man, tell me what you learned, you know, what's going on?
And what have you seen in the last 30 minutes?
Tell me something.
popped up there.
It's pretty cool.
Yeah.
Meanwhile,
this is not work in reverse.
If you start asking him,
what he's doing,
he's like,
I mean,
I'm just,
I'm like,
you're not being attacked,
dude.
What's with the questions?
Golly.
Every time she asks me a question,
that's the way I am.
I'm like,
what?
I mean,
honestly,
almost every time,
he thinks I'm trying
to like get to something
that I'm not asking him.
Like,
I'm being very direct here.
It's real simple.
Yeah.
But her tone sounds interrogating.
It's not my tone.
It's your ears.
If she calls me from across the house, I'm like, oh.
Because it always sounds like, why am I not standing right next to her?
Well, half the time I turn around and you are up my ass standing right next to me.
So when you're not, I'm like, Dale!
That's not how you say it.
There's no other way to say it.
There is.
I need to record it because it sounds like, Dale, where the fuck are you?
And what are you doing that you're probably not?
Well, chop, chop.
Wiggy, wiggie, where are you?
What are you doing that you probably shouldn't be doing right now?
That's right.
Why aren't you saying next to me when I need you right now?
Yes.
Get your ass in here.
I need to record it.
It's like it's the same tone all the time.
It's like really unique.
You never use that when we're in the same room.
Maybe it's just how my voice projects if I need to get loud.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I'm glad to know it makes you squirm a little, to be honest.
It makes me feel good to know that.
That's funny.
Do we have any more questions?
Yeah, we got one more.
The penny died recently.
You guys hear about this.
The penny's going out.
They stopped manufacturing.
The penny.
The penny.
They ain't making them.
So Luke wants to know, are you a physical change person?
Do you like having physical change on you?
And is there something along those lines that you think goes out of stock next you never thought would?
I mean, it's kind of a weird thing that a piece of money that we used forever is now gone.
Yeah.
It feels a little scary, to be honest.
I do like having change for the kids to see and play with.
count.
Like, they're learning to do that in school.
And they still value it, you know what I mean?
Like, it's kind of a weird thing that it's just, we're just going to knock that off.
But it's not shocking, I guess.
Yeah.
As we've evolved to things.
There's been.
Like Bitcoin, I still don't understand.
You know what I mean?
There's been coins that have went out of, you know, what do they call that?
Out of commission.
Yeah, out of commission.
Yeah, out of commission.
There's been coins that have went out of commission before in other, you know,
centuries and
yeah but they're usually worth more
like the denomination is more than a cent
I guess we don't need it
I mean apparently I read where it costs them more
to make the scent than it's worth
yeah it does so it's like
it makes good sense
no pun intended right yeah
it just sounds like yeah
let's not do that anymore
yeah change in your pocket's probably the most
annoying thing on earth I'll be honest
yeah I don't like it in my handbag either
do we uh let me ask this do we take Abe
and put him on another thing
I think we honor Abe in a different way.
We make like a $250 bill or something.
Yeah, that'd be sweet.
$250 bill.
Or a $200 bill.
Put Abe on that.
I think you got to go $250.
That's flex.
Yeah.
Look at this nice $250.
I want to bring the $2 bills back.
How do you can get them like?
We can't not have some money without Able.
That's true.
He's been around for.
I know.
He's on the five.
Oh.
Damn.
I'm glad somebody said that.
I was like, you're fine.
He's on the $5.
Everybody on that.
Is he really?
Camera's probably screaming that too.
Well,
I thought it wasn't just Dale and I, even Alex, was like, oh, yeah.
Nobody in the chat card either.
How is he owned two?
How is he owned two?
That's awesome.
Because he's a batty.
All right.
He's a batty.
All right.
Aves a batty.
I think that's a good way to stop.
He can laugh.
It's okay.
It's okay to laugh.
You can point and laugh all you want.
We found the clip.
That's the clip.
That's the clip.
Well, I think Abe's a baddie is a good way to stop.
This is one of those things.
This is one of those things where it's like we can't, we can't find like,
like certain places on a map or we don't know the capital of certain states that would be a fun game
to play too by the way really fun we should make the united states what yeah like i would have got
that wrong what president is on two pieces of money yeah i think there's another one isn't there is there
is jefferson old george is anybody in the chat yeah george is on nobody in the chat knows anything
about this either so we're i think we're all glad i feel like all of the coin guys are on the dollars too
Okay.
Aren't they?
I don't know.
The coin guys.
Who's on the dime?
Jefferson's on one.
The nickel, right?
Are they playing ball together, coins versus paper?
Man, we're so stupid.
That's bad.
That's bad.
Okay, next time we're going to learn some things and we'll come back with some real knowledge.
We're not going to be too critical of ILO that she's now learning about coins.
They always say you relearn some stuff when the kids go back through school.
Maybe we should sit in on our lesson this next week because we're doing time and money.
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