The Dale Jr. Download - Bless Your ‘Hardt - Amy’s Bar Must Haves & Dale’s Unbelievable Karaoke Story

Episode Date: March 13, 2025

Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Amy Earnhardt are back with another episode of Bless Your ‘Hardt. Dale and Amy are at the beach this week and recap Amy’s Miami trip, Dale’s week alone with the kids, their fun day with the girls at USS Yorktown and Dale’s karaoke go-to song. Plus dive deep into Dale’s music cleanse, break down if rats listen to podcasts, and more! Timestamps:1:00 - Amy’s Miami Trip18:34 – Do rats listen to podcasts?21:07 – Key West Karaoke 36:21 – Is This a Real Bar?45:57 - #AskAmy 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.

The following is a production of Dirtymoe Media. Bless your heart. Oh, yeah, this is what it's going to be, girl. If we're going to hang out. Oh, you look amazing. I can stare at you all day. Are you kidding? I couldn't believe it.

What's going on? The world is not your trash hand. I slept till two, smoking cigarettes and drinking amp energy. We'll have mercy. Hey, everybody. It's Dale Jr. and Amy. Back again for another episode of Bless Your Heart. and we're doing this remotely from South Carolina,

on the coast, sandy shores. We're on our kids' spring break, so it's been a great week, but let's dive right into the show. Really been a pretty fun fast several days. Everybody knows about the trip that Amy took. So let's get right into into that.

Well, I went on a fun girl's trip to Miami, and I'll be honest, I think I lost a kitty life on that trip. Yeah. We didn't do anything too crazy. I just think recovering from all the fun is harder these days, but we had a blast. The hotel was insane. We stayed at this beautiful place called the Fianna, and it felt like you were in a different world. But a lot of beach time and good food. There was one particular restaurant, Dale would have loved.

It was like a little speakeasy, and there was a sushi shift there that just made pieces of sushi like one after the next. And so you just ate whatever he made. But it was hidden and there was only six bar stools and like very dark and cool. So all at all was a fabulous trip. It was fun to have some girl time. But I'm glad to be here with my fam. Yeah. We're glad that you're back.

You guys had a rough time while I was gone there. together. Yeah. So Amy's trip looked amazing. And I've, you know, we used to, we used to, I've not really spent a ton of time in Miami. It's been a couple of decades since we really kind of went there and hung out. I remember, you know, I remember going there a couple times after Homestead or for some,

for some NASCAR responsibilities. Yeah. So I really was nervous because, you know, I wanted you to have a great trip, but I was kind of taking a gamble on where to send you. There were some other – so the girls that you're friends with were giving me some other resorts and stuff that they knew would be good. And but those resorts – and this may be where I send you next time. But those resorts are full relax, like full spa, full relax. I wanted you to like be able to choose. It's like I'm a little chill or I want to go have a little fun and some cocktails.

Yeah. So. We did. We did all of that. Sounds like it worked out. The rest of the family drove to South Carolina. And I was so excited about that because, you know, when you're, I was talking about this a couple minutes ago. Like, Amy, Amy is kind of the crew chief of the family.

you know and making sure that everybody's fed and making sure that everybody's clean and just all the basic things um amy's kind of the the the one in charge or the one that's sort of over over all of that she's the she's a shop foreman but uh and these titles yeah so i just um it's a way guys can kind of understand I was really excited about taking the girls and do and meet just them having no one but me. I don't know how to articulate this without sounding weird, but, you know, I admire how you do. I admire how you take care of them and how they look to you, right? And I admire how they envy a bit sometimes, how they know that you're the one that can do it and to handle anything. Yeah, sometimes we have to remind them that you're around.

I'm like if they want apple juice or anything from the refrigerator. I'm like, your dad's, isn't your dad downstairs? I know. So look them all the way upstairs to ask me for something. Like, wait a second. And your dad, wasn't he sitting right next to you? I know. I'm standing.

I'm like, well, ask him, he can help you with whatever you need. I'm standing right there and they're like, mom, mom. I'm like, what do you need? What can I need mom? And I'm like, well, what is it? My shoes untied. I'm like, well, I can do that. I can tie your shoe.

Like, why wouldn't you, why don't they, why something's not clicking here. But so, yeah, I was really excited to take them, drive them down there. We had the, I had the dogs in the back and the kids. I was ready. I was prepared. I had the snacks, the drinks. The full chaos crew. I got all the things.

We used the bathroom before we left. Everything just went so smoothly. We got, the trip down. Like, I have drove home from here with Ila back years ago. and, you know, she had to potty and we pull over on the side of the road and we had a little potty thing in the car. And, I mean, so we, that was a, so I felt pretty confident I could do this, no problem. And we got down here and it was good.

We had a good trip. About a day into it, like we, we did some fun things. And we went to eat. I took them out. you know, to lunch and took them to dinner. And then the next morning I woke up. And I had the stomach bug. It lasted two, two days, two and a half.

Yeah, so the night before I left, Nicole came into our room without getting graphic. The stomach bug started on Wednesday night before I left. And it started in our bed. And then every hour after that, she had an episode. So I went to Miami on very little sleep. to begin with and praying I didn't take the stomach bug with me. And I didn't, but poor Dale got it. So he got down here and had all the kids and all the things.

Oh, my gosh. And was sick as he could possibly be. So remember, the week before, the week before that, I was sick with a fever for three days, like bad. And then, like the worst bedridden flu-like sickness I've had in a decade at least. It was terrible. And then I get his stomach bug. And I'm literally like for one full day, I was laying on the couch here at the, at the beach. And, uh, I mean, thankfully the kids gave me a lot of grace and they just kept watching

movie after movie after movie. And I would put on a movie, fall asleep, wake up to them going, you know, going chaos running around because the movie ended and put on another movie. They'd calm down. And I'd go back to sleep. And, uh, I'm not a puker. Like I don't throw up. I just ain't a throw-upper.

Anytime I, you know, would get inebriated back in the day, man, it was rare that I would throw up. And so when I get nauseous, I can't, I don't, I don't, blam it. I want to. I was sick and I wanted to throw up. I was like, God, I'd feel so much better, I think, if I did. But I just can't. I'm not like that. But finally, like after about a day and a half, it finally started to go away.

And it took another full day for me to like finally get the queasiness out of my belly. And it was not fun. But usually those things are like 24 hours, but this was just a little longer. And but I'm glad it's over, man. I got so happy when I felt 100%. We had a few drinks last night. And I'm getting a little hair of the dog right here. Yeah, same.

Got a little mom coffee for high rock espresso martini on us. Sure. So, yeah, we had a little fun last night. And we, yeah, so we're here at the beach, having fun, the kids. We go out on the, we go out for walks in the morning. It's awesome. Amy's put some posts on our social media. We have the dog beach, so it's fun to take the dogs out and let them roam. They can just run and meet up.

Like there's thousands of dogs during the day in and out of this beach. So it's fun for everyone to go out and play. Yeah. I think, you know, we joke, man, like we've had this house. I had a place down in Florida for 10 years. And then we sold it and got something that we could drive to because of the kids and just retiring and thinking about long term. And this is, it's such a blessing, man. It's we talking about maybe being here full time someday down the road.

but it's a lot of fun and we're enjoying it. But this year, so last year we stayed at the beach all summer because I had the whole year off, right? And didn't broadcast or anything. So Amy was down here all of June, all of July. When the kids got out of school, the whole summer, man, it was amazing. This year I'll be working. I'm not sure what you're going to do, honey.

I think we'll go back and forth. Back and forth a lot. Yeah, we'll take the kids to a couple of the races and I'll go with you to a couple by myself. I keep forgetting you're going to go to some races. I can't even believe that. Well, I've got to follow you around where I can get you. I know, but you don't go to the races unless I'm driving.

So it's kind of interesting to me that you're going to go while I'm broadcasting, but yeah, we're going to, you're going to go to Mexico. I'm going to go to Mexico City with you and Sonoma. And I'm going to take the kids to Pocono. That's right. We're going to get a house. We're going to go to Hershey Park. Yep.

I'm going to do all the fun things. All right. So that'll be fun. But the kids are having a good time on their sports. break. We got a few more days. We did some obligatory history things. We took them to see the Yorktown. USS Yorktown is parked here in the bay.

So we've drive past it every time we come into town and finally took the kids out and looked at it. And it was cooler than I thought. Isn't there a battleship or something out there too? Well, Lafey is out there. We went out there. I thought we went on a boat. We went on a battleship or something or some other boat this over that way. I thought the Yorktown was the battleship.

So I've... But I don't think I've been on the Yorktown before. No, I haven't been on another one. The Yorktown's a carrier. Right. Carrier. But I think there's another boat out there that we went on. Like when we first got this place.

Yeah, I don't remember that. There's things on the island here. There's a fort here and a lot of history around. So we took the kids to see some of that. The Yorktown was awesome. Yeah, it was really cool. The Yorktown... it's really, there's like three tours,

there's these three tours that you kind of follow down in the belly of the boat and you got to watch these signs because you get lost. It's kind of weird. You do have a free roaming opportunity to get all over this boat. I was so surprised by that. Yeah. Everything's unlocked. Yeah.

There is nobody guiding you. You can roam around this big giant carrier, aircraft carrier, all on your own. And every valve and every knob and every switch, pipe, whatever the hell, it's right there in front of you. And Nicole tried to mess with every single one of them. And I'm sitting there, man, walking through this thing, and I'm loving it.

The stairs are super steep. So I was so nervous that the kids were going to slide down, especially since they're always pushing on each other and not giving each other enough space. I'm trying to... Somebody's going to fall down and, like, break a leg or bust their face open on these metal stairs. I was trying to put myself, like, imagine being on that boat and miles out into the ocean, right?

And they, you know, everybody's, you're in this, you know, in these cots and there's a room full of cots and every, you know, four or five cots stacked on top each other. And that's what you got. And it would have been tough. I know it's exciting to go toward it and neat to walk down through it. but I bet it was not as glamorous and exciting and fun to have been on that thing for a long period of time. But, and imagine all, it was just work, work, work, work, work, work, get up every day, work all day, go to bed. Bet your ass was, I was like, man, I bet they can't sleep in these cots. These cots don't look comfortable.

I bet your ass was tired. You didn't care. You just wanted to lay down. But it was pretty neat. Yeah. And I would suggest anybody that's down in the Charleston area to go to the York. town and check it out because, again, you can tour it. You're by yourself.

You take your own time. You kind of absorb it at your own pace. And you can literally go almost every square inch of this boat. And they do a good job of kind of having a lot of... Interactive things. Interactive things, but props. There's tons of props to sort of... To display and show how all the spaces were used.

What's going on. And it's so, like, the dentist, there was like, five dentist chairs. They were medieval looking. Yeah, old school. I can't imagine what dentistry on that boat was like back in the day. They were just like, hey, we're pulling it.

Got a little cavity here. It's just going to get pulled out. I bet that's what happened. I don't think they were doing any real, you know. They weren't fine-tuning and making your mouth look nice. They were just getting rid of the bad stuff. No, they weren't doing veneers or anything. No.

But that was pretty cool. We had a, if you look around, room, there's some blinds on the, on the, on the, on the, on the windows. And when we, the fun thing about this place and the environment, um, it's rough. It's not that rough. Well, the environment is. Like the, the ocean, being so close to the ocean, soft in the air, all that. Yeah. So, everything kind of gets, it's ass kicked. And so. Including us. Yeah, all the stuff, yeah, including us. But like, all the piping. wiring, all the things that, like the water heaters and all the stuff around the house,

you've got to stay on top of stuff. You're always working on something. But we came up here and there was this fine powder on two of the windows seals. And it was wood. It was like a little sawdust. And these blinds, Amy ordered these blinds from where? I got them on Etsy. They came from Thailand, I think.

they came over in one box all rolled up. They're called chick blinds, and I wanted something like authentic and just really, really laid back. And so like we're in the bar area and the whole idea of here is for it to feel like, just like an old beach bar, fish camp, whatever, you know. And so they fit the vibe.

But they are without, they aren't without their challenges. Yeah. So I'm looking at the wind of seal right here. and there was a fine dust on a couple of windowsills. And they were, what I learned, were powder post beetles in these blinds. And so a powder post beetle, this is... How long have the blinds been hanging in here?

The blinds been in here for at least... For a year? A year, six months, to a year. So the powder post beetles will get into raw wood and unfinished. And it's, you know, it's going to be, They don't really, I don't know that they get into like walls and things like that, but they get into dressers and furniture and things like that. And so somewhere along the line, and they'll get in there and they'll plant their larva in the wood,

and it's in there for years. So these boys had been in this blind way back wherever it came from. and traveled all the way over here, and we put it up, and then they've been here, and they'll be in the wood for up to three years before it finally hatches and comes out. And then they're alive for two weeks. Is that what you learned? And then they're alive for like two weeks while they're trying to put more eggs somewhere,

and then they die. And then the new larva nest for a year to three years, yeah. And so these things were full of beetles, and they started hatching and started. coming out and and started burrowing into new things. And so they burrowed back into the blinds to refest the blind. And then they got in a chair. So I found a little powder underneath one of the chair. So we had to basically call pest control come out here. I took all these blinds down. We sent the blinds with the pest control folks, Ledford, great company here in South Carolina,

and family-owned. And so they treated all these blinds and then came back and treated the the furniture. The wicker furniture. And so... Anything hollow they can carry in. And so we're hoping... Burrowberry. You know, that treatment

that they put on there, got them. And I'm sitting right here and I see two dead beetles right here on this window. Oh, really? Yeah, there's two right here, Amy. That fell out of that thing

when we rolled it up. There's another one. So they're... Hopefully we all see more powder. As long as there's a powder because that means they're alive and working. But that's one of the

that's one of the fun things about. Well, you're always trying to kill something around here. Yeah. Hey, this is Dale Jr. And for the latest, bless your heart gear, go to shop. Dot dirtymomedia.com. We've got plenty of options for everybody and adding new stuff every day. Go to shop.

Dot, dirtymomedia.com. So, oh, yeah. So I was wondering if rats listen to podcasts because we had this big, long spiel on how I was going to come down here and take care of business. Because we had some rat shit underneath the house. Did you kill any? No. So I put out two traps, the little zappers that puts them to sleep forever. And we ain't caught nothing yet.

We stuffed Hershey bars in them this time. No Reese's cups to be found. So he stuffed the smoor, basically our schmores stack. We stuffed in there. They must not like the schmores. No. I think they like, I've gotten, they like chocolate. I've gotten them with chocolate.

Just chocolate? Yeah. I think they like, they'll eat chocolate. They'll eat anything. I'd have put some cheese in there. Like, is that the standard? Is it too cliche? Does that not work?

Yeah. They'd probably be insulted. Insulted. These humans. But I haven't called any rats. So, you know, I'm a little... And, you know, I was thinking around this poop that I found are some acorn shells. And so I looked it up on the internet and squirrel poop and rat poop are very similar, just shaped exactly the same, but different color a little bit, which really is...

not relative or what am I looking for? Relevant. Relevant. And so it could be squirrel poop. Could have been squirrels just chilling out during the freeze because we had to call off freezes. They may have been just chilling out eating some acorns. Rats eat acorns too, they say.

Who knows? We might not have rats at all. We have an extra baby monitor that we just took down. Dale Sised his hand trying to take this thing apart. We moved Nicole into the other, to like the bunker. room. And so we have a camera we can put down there to investigate. Maybe we should just do that so we don't have to keep guessing. That is the worst when you like cut yourself right where your fingerprint is, like where you're going to touch things all the time. You must have been manhandling

it. It's, it's, I was taking apart. I don't even understand what you broke your finger on. The, the tripod part. The whole thing's made out of plastic. I know the tripod, the tripod part of the nanic camera, comes apart, like slides apart, and it sliced my hand when I was, going too hard. Going too hard. So,

speaking of going too hard, we were, I want to get into our karaoke conversation. So we talked about music cleanse. I was wondering what people thought about the music cleanse

if they really, if they kind of understood what I'm, you know, if anybody else does a music cleanse. But we were. Does anyone else need to do a music cleanse? Tims, do you do anything like that? You know what? There are winter and summer genres for me. Oh, really? I'm not a big country guy in the winter because it's too sad.

I'm more of a summertime. There's some songs coming up that are like summertime songs. So if the sky is gray, you're not doing any sad country songs. No, not really. Really? That's interesting. I'm more of a mood guy, but it's kind of a cleanse, I guess. I mean, the like sad 90s country is always my favorite, no matter what the sky looks like. That's funny.

There's a classic ones, yeah. So in my, so what I think a music cleanse is to kind of revisit, basically, you know, you kind of hear all these new songs or you listen to this sort of hard, heavy stuff or whatever it is you like, right? you know, techno or whatever, right? You listen to all these things and you really dive into it. And inadvertently, accidentally, or even on purpose, you at one point go back to something known, comfortable and probably old, right, or vintage. Like for me, it's going to be late 70s rock

and some 80s pop, stuff that kind of reset, you recalibrates you or takes you back to your childhood that's kind of the music cleanse i'm talking about and so i get on this you know i get on these wild tangents and go off and listen to you know some some crazy hard stuff that maybe is amy's favorite or the kids aren't into and every once in a while i kind of got a mash your reset button and we were talking about how what band that was for me was a fleetwood mac will do that but another one one popped up while I was in a, we was having lunch the other day and they played some fine young cannibals.

That's always a favorite. She drives me crazy is one of their pot-top songs and Good Thing. Good thing is such a good song. Tim's are you familiar? I had to look at this off after. No, too young. Maybe Dale can sing us some since that was such a karaoke fan for you. Come on.

Oh, man, I can't do it. Dale used to sing karaoke in this really cute little bar in Key West called Bobby. monkey bar. And his favorite thing to do when he got super drunk was to take his little flip-flops, his heavy feet all the way down because it was like not really at the end of the island. There were a lot of bars around. So like you had to trek all the way down there. And he would get on stage and seeing a good thing.

Yes. By Fine Young Cannibals. And it was amazing. I'm surprised we don't have any video of that. I know. So the first, so the fine Young Cannibals is a great example of an 80s. pop, you know, song that would definitely hit the reset button for me and ground to me, right? But we go to, I don't do karaoke.

Every time, I wouldn't, I would even avoid karaoke bars because I didn't want to be pressured or asked and have to refuse and be that, you know, be that bummer, be that party pooper. And so, but we go to this place called Bobby's Monkey Bar in Key West. We're down there for, you know, weeks throughout the year for many years. many years, right? We're enjoying all the bars down there, having a great time. We go into Bobby's a few times. And there's a couple karaoke bars on the island.

But we go into that one, and we're hanging out. We're having fun. It's a good bar. It's a lot more locals, too. Yeah. It's a very, very local bar. But it's kind of off the ball, one block. But I don't know why, but I got that drunk where I was like,

I'll go up there. I got a song when I sing. And I don't know why I picked. find Young Cannibal's good thing out of all the songs in the world. And it's, I mean, it's not, it's a song I like, but not something that's like on my, you know, favorite playlist. But, uh, dude, I am not joking. And Amy, you back me up here.

I get up there to sing this song, and I'm like, I'm to instantly regretting this choice when I stand on stage. You didn't seem like you regretted it. You seem like you were all into it. Well, once I got going. Dancing or, like, working the stage, side to side. We're going side to side to side. Oh, yeah.

Do do, do, do, do, do doing all the things himself. It was amazing. And he got drunk enough to do it a few times because that wasn't just a one-man show. It wasn't one-time deal. He did it over again. I just want to make it clear. I sing this song, probably the first time I'd ever karaoke at a bar, legit karaoke. You know, I've done it at a house in front of, you know, my friends and Amy and my mom.

But this is real deal, Holyfield, karaoke. And you're in Key West at Bobby's Monkey Bar. That's a, you know, it's a, they don't, they don't let just, you know, they'll boo you off stage. Yeah, they will. But, uh, and I get done and this place started, they's cheering and clapping. We couldn't, none of us could believe our eyes. Not just Amy. He didn't do a bad job, but we couldn't believe that the whole situation even happened and played

out the way it did. The whole bar was like, whoa! Were they not, Amy? They were. You did a good job. And so that's why I guess you went back for more. You liked the whole scene. Yeah.

So like fast forward, probably two or three years later. And we get there to Bobby's one night, I go up to hand a guy my slip. And he goes, I don't even have to look at it. Let me guess. Good thing. I find young cannibals. I was like, damn, do I need to sing another song? He goes, would you?

That's hilarious. Yes. So do you guys have a go-to karaoke song? Well, that would be mine. That was his. I used to not get up there by myself because I don't really like doing all that. And sometimes I would get pressured or just be drunk enough to do it. I did a Nelvis song once up there.

Yeah, you did? I forget which one it was. I always did Love Shack, which is a hard song to sing. But you just start screaming. I didn't get up there. A crowd participation is good. Like getting a song that everyone else can sing and help you out too is the key. Yeah.

Yeah. Neon Moon's another one I like to sing. sister likes to sing that one with me. Yeah, I like a duet. Yeah. Yeah. But something got Gus's attention. He was just asleep. Yeah.

What's up, buddy? He's getting, uh, ain't nothing out there, bud. But anyways, we had a lot of fun at Bobby's shout out to Bobby's Monkey Bar. Good folks down there, missing Key West. Me and I remember just talking about going to Key West and getting over to the raw bar and getting some buffalo shrimp and a couple of orders. Yeah. Hanging out for a day.

Sorry. I still never been to Key West. That sounds fun, though. You haven't? No, haven't been. I've always wanted to go. It's amazing.

Well, I've been trying to plan this trip to go down there and been talking about taking you and Travis. Oh. Did you know that? No, I did not know that? Oh, you didn't know that?

Well, I've been talking to Travis about it. Travis says it's not telling, He's not spilling the beans. Me and Travis have been debating on whether we should take you all. Why? What do I got to prove? That's so perfect. I'm just kidding.

You want to go. I would love to. That's a guy's trip of a guy's trip. Yeah. I feel like it's a guy's trip. Yeah. I can drink beer all day. Buffalo shrimp and cold beer, footflops and karaoke.

You might have to do some karaoke. I'm like I get drunk enough I could do karaoke for sure. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good time. I could just seem the tequila song if I get nervous anyway. So, really? Oh, yeah.

Well, it's just, it just, it just, oh, tequila. Yeah. Oh, I thought you said you'd drink tequila. Well, I could drink tequila too and get that, but. Do you do the Pee-B. Herman dance? What's that? I don't know what that is. No, you don't even know what that is?

No. Yeah. Damn it. Oh, God. These boys are so young. Yeah. How's it going? Yeah.

On his toes. Yeah. Yeah. Damn. We're getting old. Yeah, we are. Oh. I did,

what's the, is the back, did I do Backstreet Boys? I don't remember that. That might have been on a guy's trip too. You tweeted at, I did. This Backstreet Boys is sponsoring a car this weekend,

I think, and you're like, I'm willing to admit that I turn this up, this song up every time I hear it. Oh, hell yes. Show me the meaning of being lonely. Yeah,

you'll sing the hell out of that song. The Backstreet Boys are sponsoring, whose car is it? John Hunter Eamich's this week. That's right. And, yeah, a long time ago, I was riding down the street. Back when you tweeted pretty much every thought in your brain, I was driving down the road and that song came on.

And I was like, oh, hell, I got to tell everybody that I love this song. Oh, man, you know how you were back in the old days of Twitter. But I had a moment. Show me the meaning of being lonely is a jam. If that comes on, I'm singing it. Damn right. I'm singing it in the car, whether you're in there or not. Probably more loudly if you're in there.

because I'm trying to impress you. He worked hard of that. My range. But, all right, so. So you're a backstreet fan and were you more of a backstreet fan than an in sync fan?

Because everybody kind of picked one. It was like Britney and Christina. Yeah, that's tough. I liked them both. I liked them both almost the same. And they both had like three or four songs that, like, I'd play them right now. That was more of an in sync girl.

Really? And Christina. Yeah. I like Brittany, but I felt like she just wasn't as good as good as singer as Christina was. Yeah.

Sorry, I was picked her. Yeah. I also liked how raunchy she was. I wasn't into nose rings. I think Christina Aguilier had one of those. Yeah. It's kind of weird.

She probably had rings in a lot of places. I always wondered like with a nose ring, like how it gets all crusty and boogery in there. That's where your mind goes? Yes. I mean, it's in your nose. Like it's catching all the shit,

just like your nose hairs. How do you keep? Well, she's not a man. She doesn't have like burly nose hairs. It just, grosses me out to think about boogers getting hung up on it. Now everybody's grossed.

Yeah. Well, I mean, am I the only one that thinks about that when they see a nose ring? What do you think about when you see belly button rings? I don't think about anything. I think, well, I think it's, I can do without it, I guess, is what I think.

What'd you do that for? Yeah, why'd you do that? I just, I just picture, like, if they take it out, how weird it looks. I'm like, I don't like that. Then you got a hole? In your belly? Yeah, I don't like that at all.

A lot of my, I didn't ever get one, but a lot of my girlfriends who now have children have really weird looking belly buttons from those belly button holes. Yeah, including my sister Katie. Katie's belly button got so weird looking that she had a couple of vacations. This is post kids. She's going to kill me. Whereas she went at one point a crab latched onto it. Oh, that's hilarious. And they were in the lake once and a fish bit it thinking it was like, wait.

Oh my gosh. Yeah. She's going to kill you. She's going to kill me. But yeah, so don't do that, girls. Belly button rings are a no-no. You're going to regret that. We can take this out if this is too much.

But it was like that little thing that pops out of the turkey. Is that what it was like? The thermometer? Yes. Is that what her belly button was like? I don't think it was quite that bad. But in the same vein, I guess. When she had her kids, pop!

this one's ready she is going to kill me all right sorry Katie we need to talk about sitting on the opposite sides of the booth we had a lot of feedback by the way I put that on my Instagram

story and pulled it and I think 60 something percent said that it was an ick yeah and it was kind of split otherwise and so I got a lot of messages too so a lot of people like to respond explain themselves.

And apparently Dale and I are weirdos. For sitting next to each other. I don't get it. We concede. We concede to being, we accept our weirdonness. We're not going to change it. But, you know, I was shocked. You're definitely the minority.

But yeah, definitely stick to you. Don't conform to the norm. To further this just a bit. All right. So I was thinking that we're not weird, that most of the people that are answering ick or nope, won't do that, like yourself, Tims, are looking through it through the lens of someone who's in a good,

but not like... A new fresh relationship. Yes, a new fresh relationship. So on the front end of that, yes, I would not sit on the same side as somebody that I just recently started seeing and I probably wouldn't do it until we got really in deep, deep romantic love, right? And so, like, me and Amy are, I think, as in love as one couple could be, right? And so when you reach that point, I think it becomes like, all right, why do I just sit together.

I want to hold you and put my arm around you. I want to hold your hand. I just want you next to me. Or steal your food. just like people like when you're riding down to pick up, you know, riding down the street in a bench pickup truck, right? The girl wants to slide over and sits in the middle.

I mean, I think that's cool when I see it. And so some people might look at that and go, gosh, you know, how, you know. Love. Yeah. But I was going to ask you. So this. You are dating someone, right? No.

You're not? No, I'm single. All right. He's single ladies. Okay. I saw that you went to a wedding or something and you had posted a pick with people. I went to a water. Yeah.

I thought maybe it was your date. So if you're sitting at a square table with four chairs, are you needing to be completely opposite or would you be cat a corner or what is it called? Adjacent. I'm adjacent. I actually think sitting totally across on a four-sided table is a little bit too extreme. Too much. Too far.

Yeah. Unless there's obviously like three people. but I like to be one-on-one, it's catty corner or adjacent. Okay. Yeah. Gotcha. Yeah. I was a bit surprised that we were in the minority there.

Yeah, I was too. A lot of the explanation was, no, we just want us to be able to sit and cross and talk to each other. I feel like when Dale and I get to go sit by ourselves, especially just two of us, we don't say anything. Yeah. I mean, we talk in the truck.

I guess we get all of our conversation out on the ride over and just kind of relax all we're sitting there together. Yeah. I don't know. We're weird. I'm willing to accept it. We're going to play a game now. Is this a real bar?

Tim's is going to read off some bar names and a customer review, and then me and Amy must decide whether it's a real bar. So some of these are fake? Some of these are real, and some of them have customer reviews. Some are just like the description of the bar. So it'll give you some context clues if they're real or not. All right, here we go. So the first one is going to be the Village Idiot.

pub. And this review says, My wife and I come here every year for our anniversary. We love it so much that our daughter was conceived in the parking lot, four stars. I would say it's real. They seem like some pretty rowdy people. I'm going to go fake. That is real. It is a real bar in Patchhog, New York. I actually have been to this bar. It is fun. It is very fun.

Hey, we should. So the real ones, let's make a list and hit some of them up. Yeah. Okay, keep going. This is fun. Well, there's these talking about places you've been. There's a couple handles I follow on social media on Instagram, actually, like this dive bar account. And then there's a guy that does dive bars strictly in Wisconsin. And, dude, these places, every time, everyone they post, I'm like, gosh, that looks great. Like, it does make you want to kind of go on a week-long tour, yeah.

It does, yeah. I see once a week the Thirsty Beaver get posted because of their whole story. It's a local bill for Charlotte. And it's a great bar. I love it. Don't get me wrong. But it does. Everyone in the comments is like,

I got to go there. That sounds sick. So those accounts are awesome. Our next one is Ray's happy birthday bar. And the description here is it was 1938 when our founder Ray Capizoli, they get dedicated his life to saying happy birthday every time a customer walk through the door. Real or fake. I'm going to say real.

It sounds like it could be real. Sounds like a fun place. if it is real. It is real. It's real. Ray's happy birthday bar. They named it. That's cool.

That's great. It's great. birthday bar after he passed away or moved on. Very cool. Our next one is called the horny harp. The horny harp. The horny harp. Oh my gosh.

Customer review is if you've ever been to a cowboy bar in the United States, you'd love this place. Instead of riding a bull, you can ride a leprechaun. And instead of finding a tall cowboy, you find a fat, bald Irishman. Fake. That is fake, yes. Very creative, blurb. Yes, I came up with that.

Our next one is Broken Promises. It's a divorcee bar. Marriage failed on your first time around. Grieve with a cold drink. Use our bartenders as therapist, then try round two with the guy at the end of the bar.

Real or fake? Fake. I'm going to say real just because it seems like it's in the middle. That is fake. Fake. All right. It's fake.

All right. I got two more for you. We're tied, by the way, Ralph. Oh, we're counting? Yeah. Okay. Of course we are. Two, maybe three then.

Sister Louisa's church has two locations, both in Georgia. I didn't know if there was a god until I walked in here. Great food and even better artwork on the walls, 10 out of 10 recommend. P.S., music kind of sucks, though. Five stars. Real. Real. That is real. Yeah.

My girlfriends and I wanted to create a place we called church. Did I tell you, do we talk about this with Jamie? We all said we were going to put some money in and buy like a little house somewhere and we were just going to say it was we're going to call it church. And so if we had to tell our husbands we were going to church or going somewhere, we're going to church and we were just going to go hang out in this house. Like as an escape, like a man, not like a man cake, like a lady. What do they call it?

I don't know. What's the lady version? of a man cave. Yeah, I forget what they call that. Those little buildings they have out in the backyard. Oh, she shed? A she shed. It was going to be like how she shed, but we were going to call it church. I've heard people say, I'm going to open a bar call a gym. So I'm going to the gym. Yeah, going to the gym. Yeah. All right. This one is called the whale sex club. The whale sex club. The whale sex club.

Not what I was expecting, but tasty cocktails, kid friendly two with unlimited basket of chicken fingers. Five stars. Fake. It's got to be fake, right? That's real. Whoa. Yeah. Arizona? Arizona.

It's called the Whale Sex Club. Whale Sex Club? It's kid-friendly with chicken tenters? I think they were being sarcastic. Yeah. Are they? It might have been. It gave them five stars, though.

All right. Our last one, unless you guys tie, then I have another one. It's called Ye Old Bad Decisions. Wow, what a ride. Shamis the bartender poured me a regret on the Rock's cocktail, and I never looked back. Woke up with a tattoo, a missing shoe, and a phone number labeled,

please don't call. Three stars. The phone number that says please don't call. I'm going to say it's fake. Real. It is fake. I win. Yeah, we had to do it.

I had to go the other route. I know. See who wins. Well. All right. Yeah, that's pretty cool. I always, I love a dive bar. Love them.

You used to get dive bar t-shirts. I knew it. I was part of that. You got the dive bar t-shirt every month, once a month? From real places. Yeah, it's like a $20 kind of a subscription. Subscription. Yeah.

Subscription. Yeah. Dyb bar t-shirt. It got out of hand, though. He had like way too many of those things. Yeah, after like a year and a half, I had to turn it off. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, I'm all for like going somewhere just strictly to go to the cool

dive bar in town. You know, like take a real trip just for the bar. Yeah. There's nothing like going somewhere and you walk down like the main strip and you see this really divey or, you know, Irish pub. And you're like, let's just go in there and you go drink and you end up there all day. There's always a good time in an Irish pub. Yeah, we went to Montana this past year. And I mean, any trip we took, that's like the, that's like the, that's research with those options were first. Everywhere you go, you're like, okay, yeah, I'm going to do this. There's this, there's that. If you're going to Ireland or England or whatever, we've got this on the, we're going to eat here. We're going to do that. But you're going to do that. But you're. you're a radar, your die bar radar is like on all the time. And if they have touch tunes they're in different countries it's just pubs or whatever but

you're like, oh yeah, that's an old place. I need to go in there. We can't we get to stop in there. And you yeah and you never want to leave. You go in there and you're like damn, I'm ready. I just don't want him leave. Yeah. Do you guys, when you guys are on vacation, do you try to, you find a bar like that? Do you stay at that bar all day? Can you do that? Or do you

you try to bar hop and try to find it on the town. Like if there's a lot of options, we we might hop around. But if we're having a good time, we don't really try to get up and ruin the vibe. Because sometimes you can do that. And so we've got plenty of vacations where we'll start in a pub, have some lunch,

and then have such a good time. We also have dinner the same place. Yeah, like we don't move. Yeah, we don't move. I think when it's just like me and Amy, if we go somewhere, we'll probably spend a longer time at the first bar and before we move to another one

or maybe not even move to it. When you got a big group, it's hard to do that. It's hard because everybody feels antsy, everybody's like, what's next? There's so many opinions. What's better? I will tell you this, though,

what I've learned in my experiences is that even though you leave that first bar thinking you're going to go to the next one, the next one, next one, next one, it's going to keep getting better or you're going to find another cool place or the first one's always the best one. and you always end up back at that bar at the end of the night

more often than not going, we should have never left here. Why did we do that? And I'll tell you what bar that is in Key West. It's schooners. It's kind of the first, so when we go to Key West, I have this sort of system.

Yeah, he's got a map. Yeah. So we'll hit the, we're going to land and go have lunch at the raw bar. Walk from the raw bar to schooners. and have drinks. And then you just go from there, wherever you go, right?

And it's using, Cap Tone's is great. There's a bunch of awesome bars. Everybody's heard of several of these bars. But you always, like, end up back at schooners to cap, to finish the night. And you're like, man, you know, this is a pretty good damn place. Why did we leave here earlier, you know? But, yeah, it's a fun.

You're going to love it too. I got a little system. Yeah, it sounds amazing. The other thing that I wanted to do, So I'm kind of torn because I wanted to, I have, I've been, I've been down in Key West, Old Town a ton, and I know pretty much all the stuff going on down there and all the great bars to go to. I never really did a lot of investigating from Homest, yeah, from Homestead to Key West Old Town, all that in between, all the middle keys. And I never, there's a bunch of great places, a lot of history. And I wanted to do like a north to south three-day tour and hit all these kind of cool.

spots. So that's something I want to do one day, but I'm not sure when I'll get to it. Hey guys, this is Ask Amy. We are on Bless Your Heart and on location at our Beach House here in South Carolina. So you guys have sent us some questions. Thanks for sending. Tims, what do you got? Our first question is for him. He wants to know where his wife can get that sweatshirt you had on your Instagram story yesterday. Oh. What was it? What did your shirt say? It's that shirt that says, sorry for having great tits and incorrect opinions. I'll put it in my story with a link because I, I think I saw someone else with it on and Googled it, like did a Google image search. So I'm not sure where I bought it. It could

have been Amazon, but I'm not sure. Interesting. Yeah. I couldn't read it. It was backwards. And I'm like, I felt like I needed to keep it backwards. Like if you were clever enough to flip it and read it, then it was good. Otherwise, it was kind of one of those shirts that are Half of people can't read it. Yeah. Our next question kind of goes what we just talked about. What are some must-haves

for a bar to be fun? That's a good question. Must-habs for a bar to be fun. Number one, touch tunes. That's number one. Music. Comfortable seating. Very cold beer.

I was going to say cold beer. Very cold. Like cold beer. Like beer. Like cold. Yeah, yeah, cold beer. There was a place we used to go to in Key West that the beer was so cold and they served it in a mug that they had to give you a hot pad so that it didn't stick to the bar top. And now it's gotten so popular they can't keep the mugs cold enough.

But yeah, cold, cold beer, music, comfortable seating. I don't know. What else do you think? Neon lights. Always fun. Yeah, neon's helpful to help the vibe. Yeah. I think we nailed it.

Yeah. What about like dark or light? Is it more like no windows kind of? Or do you want some sunlight in there? I prefer windows even if the place is dark. Like some natural light in just, it's just good for your mind, right? I don't like bright places.

I like them kind of dingy, but yeah, I don't mind some windows. But I like a dive bar kind of been around. Local vibe. It feels like it's been there for a long, long time. Yeah. Yeah.

No bar games or anything like that? I'm not into bar games. No? No, his bar game is playing the music on the touch shoes. My bar game is drinking beer. We have friends out to travel with like a pack of cards. And so like, I like that. But sometimes, too, we're just playing games without tools.

Like instead of I spy, it's more like try to guess what that person does for work or, you know, like kiss someone's story. And it's just fun to chit chat about things like that. There's a place in Canapolis or around Enigville, North Carolina called Sandy Ridge, and it's a gas station with a bar in the back. and you can play Kino and things like on the TV. Yeah. And you can make, you can, there's a little gambling going on with the North Carolina lottery.

But, uh, that's kind of fun. But after about three or four beers, like I can't do the, I can't do the math. I can't pay attention. I can't like,

you've lost. Yeah. I've kind of lost my ability to like really focus. Yeah. I'll give you two that are, I love to spot where you can people watch like, maybe like outdoors, like watch people walk by.

Yeah. And one of the TVs has to have like a game. show network on or something that's just like not a typical game or anything like that just so yeah because i sat at a bar watch the game show network and i was basically playing along with them and i was what station is it too that plays all the clips where people are falling oh yeah it's like hydebcule or something like that it's like a yeah some i don't know with talent it's some special one that's or mav tv maybe has that something yeah maybe it's pretty good uh our next one is where is the next place you guys like to vacation that you haven't been before?

We've been trying to figure out how to get to Italy. I've been, but Dale has not. Australia. Australia. I've been. Amy has not. That's right. We want to take the kids, though, so we're going to wait a little longer.

Is it tough to find a spot you guys both have a bid to that you want to go to? I mean, I think. Greece. Yeah. That would be fun. Yeah. I like to go all the really pretty places. They don't have di-vars.

Oh, no, no. We've been talking about this. Is it Amsterdam or Austria? There was like a, you know, remember the... We talked about going to Prague and there's some beautiful, like, places around there. Like coastal towns on these big lakes. Lake Como. Lake Como?

That's in Italy. Oh. Oh. Well, yeah, there's kind of like... Central Europe or Eastern Europe, there's some really, really beautiful places that we thought about going to. Yeah. Kind of cool. Yeah.

October. I feel like we've mashed the breaks completely on a big trip because we've just done, we did so much that stuff last year. Yeah, we're kind of taking it easy this year and just working and being at home. Yeah, that makes sense. This next one is, this is funny. Would you rather be drunk on a rainy day or sober on a sunny day? A lot of drinking questions this week. Yeah, good. I like answering questions.

I'm more saying sober on a sunny day, I think. Yeah, I think so, too. Drunk on a rainy day. I don't want to do shit on a rainy day, you know. Rainy days aren't fun no matter what. Yeah, I mean, you can't go outside and do anything. We have plenty of rainy days. We're always going back to Key West, but rain in Key West does not deter you,

even though it's a very outside place. It's often sunny while it's raining in Key West. Yeah, that's true. You can have both at the same time. Yeah, I'm going to take that. sunny day, even if I have to be sober. I have one more for you guys here. Matthew wants to know.

Any tips to help get my fiance into racing with taking her to a race help? Yeah. Taking her is a good idea. It's completely different in person. I tell that to anyone who hasn't been and every track is very different to, different atmosphere, different vibes.

Amy, which... She'll choose wisely, but... Yeah, so like, Amy, of all the tracks that you went to, if you were say, hey, I'm going to take one of my girlfriends that's never been, which one would you take, you know, feeling confident that that would be the one which you

probably have the most fun. Excluding the race. Like, maybe what... Oh, excluding the race? Yeah, like, which one did you go to where you're like, it's the most comfortable seating or the best experience pre-race, the most festive or the best location to be able to

go to restaurants or whatever, right? So, like, that's how you're trying. That's how I'm selling it. Yeah, you're selling that. Sell it to me. That's really hard. So I was thinking about the racetrack experience, like, alone, which, you know, any of the bigger tracks are epics. Like, Daytona is incredible.

But Bristol's also very amazing because it's so loud. Everything's on top. You're, like, on top of it. And just a very different experience. The racing is different, too. But if I'm going to take a girl and I want the entire weekend to be awesome, I'm to take her to Sonoma or probably did Texas because in Texas there's a racetrack's kind of outside of town but you can there's a lot to do there's a lot to see and do and I don't know

I feel like Buckeys yeah there's Buckeys I mean you can go into the stockyards and see some something that you don't usually get to see billy bobs billy bobs yeah um Sonoma's just great because it's beautiful and it's wine country so every every girl even if they don't love wine appreciates the atmosphere. And it's just beautiful out there. But I don't know. They're just all so different. Go to the one that's closest to you.

Like start there. And I think that you get the buy-in. I kind of almost wonder where these people live so I can give them like a direct answer. But I think taking her and letting her see it in person is a good way to start. It's just so cool. Very different than seeing it on TV. Yeah.

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