The Dale Jr. Download - Bless Your 'Hardt - Amy’s Yabba Dabba Doo Swimsuit and Dale’s Barefoot Sprint
Episode Date: August 8, 2025Dale Jr. and Amy are back with a week full of stories you could not make up. Why is Isla walking around like a pirate and talking in slang? Producer Travis admits to his childhood dance lessons, Dale ...is on a mission to buy Amy a new swimsuit, and we finally learn what “Jiffy Foot” means. Oh, and yes, Dale really did run barefoot down the street chasing a garbage truck.This week’s game puts their relationship to the test: is it just “expected” or truly “something special”? In Ask Amy, we get her side of the jellyfish sting story, talk diaper duty for a newborn, master the art of day drinking without shots, and debate the perfect honeymoon spot. For more Bless Your 'Hardt content head to our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@BlessYourHardtHigh Rock Vodka Drink of the Week – High Rock Mimosa.Must be 21 and over. Please drink responsibly. 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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Hi guys, we are back in the Dirty Mo Media Studios week this week for another episode of Bless Your Heart. I'm here with my Hall of Famer husband, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Good morning.
Hall of famer husband. How about this? Did y'all put her up to that? Did y'all put her up to that?
Did not. That's all amy. Is this what we're going to do? Every show? You're a little glum this morning. I feel like you needed a reminder of how awesome you are. Yeah. Now you're blushing. We got him. Oh, man. We have great show for you today. We're going to talk about Anna Maria.
Bro, got a taco.
I'm sure if you have your little kids, you're going to understand exactly what that is.
Chasing the garbage truck and a few other fun things.
Let's get started.
The following is a production of Dirtymo Media.
Oh, yeah, this is what it's going to be, girl.
We're going to hang out.
Open a bunch of jars.
You've got big strong hands.
Are you suffering from high crap?
I'm working.
Working that mouth.
All right, first off, we've got the drink of the week.
Presented by High Rock Vick, I feel like we've done this one before, but it's such a good one.
I guess it's going to make a second appearance, but it's basically Sundrop and High Rock.
So, Sundrop.
Maybe people listen to this show have never had one.
And Sundrop is a regional soda that's similar to Meliolo, Mountain Dew.
but, I mean, it's similar, but honestly, that would be, that would be kind of leading you down
the wrong path to, to compare it to those two, because it really, it's a lot sweeter.
And man, when you get, when you get a good can or a good bottle of sundrop, it just hits,
it just hits a little different.
I got to speak on sundrop just for a second, and, and, because it's really personal.
When I was, Sundrop made and bottled Salisbury, North Carolina, they set,
it in other places in the country.
I think up in St. Louis, you can find it.
It's little pockets that make no sense.
But it's hard to find.
And if you want some, you typically have to go to North Carolina to find it.
And it is a lot sweeter, but it's just really, really good.
And it's been in the refrigerator of my family since the 70s earlier than that.
I mean, dad grew up with it in his house.
when I was going to mammals or going to my house, we always had sundrop.
And so dad even had a sundrop personal service agreement in the 90s.
And so there were sun drop everywhere in the shop.
We drank tons of sundrop.
And obviously they gave me some money when I raced my late model.
We were running a late model in 1993, my first year.
We had no sponsorship.
and my man Gary Hargett, who was my crew chief,
he was managing the program,
and he was borrowing money from the bank on Friday.
We'd race and go back on Monday and give whatever money we had back to the bank.
And we were getting behind, right?
We weren't bringing back as much as we were taking.
And he said, so we're going to have to stop racing.
But dad got 10 grand from sundrop for us to finish the year,
and thus the green sundrop car that we threw it back to at Wilkesboro a couple years ago.
And so sundrop's been in my life forever
And we still drink it today
We still have it in my house
We have it at the beach
We have it you know sundrop is just going to always be around
Yes
Now when you mix it with high rock it's even better
So
Yeah
It's a great drink
And I would love to know
I love this kind of thing
So if you've never had a sundrop
try one, find one.
Let us know what you think.
Give us a taste test, be honest.
Same with High Rock,
jerky boys, whatever.
Anytime you can try any kind of new stuff,
I love to hear what you think because I know I love it.
Visit highrock.com.
If you want to find a bottle near you,
there's a locator on the website.
You can find the local liquor store
that has bottles in stock.
And if that's reasonable distance to drive,
you go get you a bottle.
In some cases, some states, we can ship.
So there's an opportunity there as well to have some high rock vodka vodka scent straight to you.
Must be 21 or over.
Drink responsibly.
All right.
I'm going to start off with the story that Ila has put us through because it's still continuing.
And so she got her ears pierced last fall right before Christmas.
And that was kind of a buildup because I took her the first time and she decided she didn't want to do it.
So we waited and then we went in another time and she like got the gusto to do it.
And they did both ears at the same time.
It was flawless, seamless.
The whole thing was fine.
She had these cute little butterfly earrings in that had flat backs on them.
So if you don't know what that means, Travis, like that means that there's not, like you had to work really hard to get them off.
But there's also it's flat on the back.
It's not going to get caught on anything.
So it's just safer for little kids.
We should have left those damn things in there.
Nicole had her ears pierce that day too and hers are still in.
she's had zero issues but ila wanting to change hers out as soon as she possibly could at six
weeks changed hers that whole scene was like a disaster because like i said getting them off it's a
little complicated and it hurt so we got one out and then had to put a new earring in and then had
to do that whole process again and ila elevates herself to the point of red in the face screaming
bloody murder very fast and so that was like enough to
scare me from ever having to do this with her again. She's had these little loops in her ears,
though, since January. And her sister and Ila, they were a plant upstairs, a barbies or something,
where they had a toy. So I think it was a Barbie. And she, all of a sudden, Ila starts screaming.
Dale and I are downstairs for like, oh God, what happened? Somebody fell off the top bunk. Somebody
fell down and hurt themselves dramatically. Nope. Ila got her earring ripped.
out. No. Yeah. Nicole had pistol whipped her with the freaking Barbie. And here comes this loop. And it's
still yet to be found, by the way. It's gone. And Ila's got this gigantic red swollen ear.
The whole seems fine. It's not like she ripped it or anything. But now we have a dilemma because
there ain't no way Ila's going to let me put the earring back in or another earring back in.
And I can't take the other one out. So, like we went through this whole process all we've
evening. She's screaming. We've got new sporn. We've got new earrings. We're trying to put them back in her ear.
Dale's even in the middle of it who hates jewelry. And he's like, if you sit still long enough,
I'll even stick it in there. Like, this is absolutely insane. And she's not letting it happen.
And so sometimes with Ila, like, if you walk away and just linger to it by herself, she'll get it done without the drama.
And she tried a couple times and just decided she couldn't get it back in her ear.
And so it's been a week or so, maybe a little bit longer.
And she still hasn't put it back in, but now she still has the left loop still in her ear.
So she's running around like a freaking pirate with one earring in, one earring out.
And school starts next week.
It's awful.
It's decided she's just going to leave it like this.
We talked about it again last night before bed.
Did you?
Yeah.
She was in tears just because I brought it up.
I heard her crying upstairs, and I was like, wow.
I was like, she's pro.
She'll start crying in the bed when she's trying to like,
she didn't want to go to sleep and she's trying to like,
she didn't want you to leave.
And she'll just start crying and making up things to be sad about to prolong.
The process.
The process.
She'd rather sit there and be sad with you than just not have you at all.
And go to bed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Alone.
It's a, it's a process.
It's like not the way I work.
Nicole.
I don't really know how to deal with it.
Nicole is easier.
You're like, I can see her coming.
We don't really plan.
We used to kind of swap back and forth.
And here in the last year, we haven't really done any of that.
I put Nicole down about every time.
Yeah, and I put it out of it down, which is totally fine, but she plays me.
Nicole, Nicole will be like, book?
I'll be like, nah, you stayed up too late.
She's like, okay, I know.
Bill's got it easy.
My girl.
He gets in and out of there pretty quickly.
Meanwhile, I'm having to, like, read all the stories.
recites.
If they stay up like past 8.30, I'm like, no book tonight.
You've got a little extra TV.
It's good enough.
That isn't.
Well, so Iler is reading now, and I want her to read.
I want her to read the book to me.
So that's, like, part of our process, which when she's tired isn't the greatest solution
to getting her to read books, you know.
But anyway, so we're laying in the bed last night.
I'm trying to, like, just talk to her about it.
Like, hey, you don't have to do this right now.
But I want you to be thinking about what you're going to plan to do,
because you have to make this choice.
You're either going to put that earring back in or,
we're going to take that one out before school starts. And you have to figure out what you want to do.
But we're not going back to get your ears pierced again until you're like 15 years old and you're old enough to really like do it all on your own.
Because this is not, this is not fun for mommy. And I know that your ear hurts and you don't want to do it. So like, well, wait until you're like truly old enough to mess with it. And so she's just bawling.
A whole process. I was like, why are you crying so hard? Well, you keep telling me all these things and now I can't think about what I'm supposed to be thinking about.
I'm like, there's like, there's no reason for the tears.
But anyway, we have a pirate child with one earring in,
and I feel like that's how she's going to go to school.
And if anybody has, how am I supposed to get it out?
I mean, really, how am I?
You're going to put your foot down.
We would literally have to physically hold this kid's body down to the floor
and hold her head in a vice.
Like, you would have to hold her head for me to get this thing out.
You know, she's not going to let me do that.
Let her go to school with one earring.
Well, the other thing she brought up last night is,
what if they all make funny?
Like, they would make more fun of you.
if you have the one earring in,
then if you just take them out.
Yeah.
You can just take them out.
She's got another little friend
that took hers out and let them row in.
I'm like, did you make fun of her?
No.
I'm then like, why are,
no one's going to make fun of you
for taking your earrings out.
Only having one is.
But only having one's more of a scene,
you know?
Like, let's figure this out.
Do you regret getting her ears pierced?
At this point, I do.
Yeah.
I don't regret doing Nicole's
because she's left hers alone.
She doesn't give a crap.
And she's going to leave those exact earrings in
for a very, very long time.
The only thing that Nicole
doesn't like about her earrings is I get her out of the car she'll sleep on the ride home she's
passed out in her seat and he pulls into the garage I get her out of her seat and she
wants to keep sleeping so she lays her head down on your shoulder and it's uncomfortable and so she
puts her chin on your shoulder like right here she's like man I really want to lay down
but my earring hurts my you know like smashing it really yes she puts she
Yesterday we got out of the car and she laid her head down and I'm like, man, that earring's got to be, you know, laying on my shoulders.
Okay, so did you bring it up or did she bring it up?
She didn't say anything.
She just, I just, she just picked, laid her head down.
She's like, that's uncomfortable.
You know how Gus does?
Yeah.
When he lays his head on your knee, he puts his chin on your knee when he wants something.
Just flops his face down on your leg.
Yeah.
And she tried to rest that way.
I'm like, yep, that ear ring.
Make things, make things different.
Maybe she just had a crick in her neck from sleeping with her head cock sideways.
I know what it was, Amy.
All right.
So after the original earrings saga happens, we come downstairs.
We finally get her calm down.
And Dale's like, let's get some chips.
Like, it's late.
It's like 9.30.
The kids should be in bed already.
Chips.
We were trying to calm her down and distract her with food.
Who?
Ila.
What?
She came back downstairs?
Not last night.
The original night when the earring got ripped out.
I was back to last night.
Sorry, no.
This is back when it first act.
I don't remember all this getting chips.
Dale gets...
I don't think it.
It was a week ago.
This has been erased from his memory.
So he gets a bag of chips out.
We're watching a little show before they go to bed.
And it's that big bag of salt and vinegar chips that you like.
Yes.
And so she pulls one out and she goes, oh, bro got a taco because it's folded in half.
Like a taco.
She has been saying bro, like it's and or uh or um or...
It's a noun, it's a verb, it's everything.
Bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro.
And it's driving me absolutely bonkers.
Didn't you film her playing or she recorded herself?
I recorded her across the, you were at the racetrack.
And so I'm like, you just can I stop saying bro.
She's playing a video game or something.
And Amy was secretly filming her.
She didn't know it.
She's sitting there playing the video game going, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro.
Like she's talking to the game.
Over and over again.
It's not doing something she wants it to do.
And she's like, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro.
And I'm like, and Amy played a friend.
I'm like, holy shit.
She just started it that week.
Yeah.
It's like her first.
It's gotten out of hand.
You got to understand.
Like, you know, these kids are talking the basics.
Like these are, you know, they're just talking basic language.
And they sprinkle in some new words now and then.
But it's all above board, right?
Just normal.
generic vanilla-ass
conversation.
They're a little kid voice
and it's really cute, you know, because our kids
got a unique voice, Eva's voice.
Amazing. They're cutest. Eva's our little
niece.
And
but then she starts
saying things, they pick
up the first, they're going to eventually
one day pick up like the first
slang. slang, like bro.
And when that comes
in the room for the first time,
you're like, say what?
Yeah.
What did you say?
And they're saying it like they've been saying it their whole lives.
And you're like, where'd you hear that?
Where'd you learn that?
I still can't figure out where she picked up, bro.
Yeah.
It's not like she's in school and like a friend was saying it.
Like it's summertime.
It is.
Yeah, but it's summertime.
So we haven't been around other kids.
She can face time two people.
And they're both her age.
And one is TJ's daughter and the other is her cousin.
And so she asks us, can I,
FaceTime. Yes. Okay, here you go. You can FaceTime. And so she FaceTime and they will let them, we, we know, we'll let them be off to the side playing their games and doing whatever. And I think that's where it comes from. One of them, you know, heard it from, you know, one of them might, you know, one of them might have heard it from a friend. They get it from school. They, they exchange it. Now they're both saying it. That's where it's got to come from. Yeah, maybe. The other thing she keeps saying this drive me nuts is, oof.
Bro, oofed. I oofed. Mom, I just oofed. Should you see what I just did? I just oofed. I'm like, I'm
ridiculous. It's out of control. Now we're like speaking all those weird. Oh, it's coming.
It's going to be like a, it's like a dripping faucet right now. And eventually it's going to be like pipes busted.
Waters pouring into the room. There's going to be all kinds of words that we don't know what they mean.
I'm worried she's going to go to school. School starts next week. And I'm going to get called in just because she's going to call.
the teacher bro.
Something like that might happen.
I don't think that.
It's not like a bad word, but it's going to be.
But I just feel like, you know,
mishandled at some point.
So we,
we play the games here sometimes where we're talking about,
you know,
different generational slang and what it means.
And there's things,
you know,
overnight you go from being on top of everything,
knowing everything,
to being a generation behind.
overnight.
And so like, I just know that the very near future,
she's going to be talking and saying terms and abbreviated words and stuff,
and we're going to have to really think, like, what does that mean?
What is, you know?
So the way to, she's probably too young for this right now,
but the way to counter it when they're a little older is my niece and nephews use these
slang words, I just start using them so much where they get annoyed with them and they stop using
them.
Yeah.
I remember TJ did that with Madeline.
He kept calling himself the Riz making her mad.
Do you remember that?
Yeah.
Well, we'll see.
That's not a bad piece of advice.
That means we're going to have to learn new things.
You don't have to learn.
No, you don't have to know what it.
Even using it wrong would probably be even better.
You don't want to use them right.
Use them wrong.
It makes them mad.
I feel like we could totally do that.
We're obnoxious.
We could do that.
Just start calling Amy bro.
Bro.
Bro.
What's for dinner?
We do call each other dude.
We do.
Dude's pretty normal.
And so we can shift the bro
pretty simply, I think.
You got to just say bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro.
Like, maybe you can make a rhythm out of it.
Yeah, I can do that.
All right, so last night I took them to sign up for dance
and get their outfits fitted because they start dance next week too.
And like all the little girls are sitting down with their moms,
behaving themselves, waiting their turn.
and our children are upside down, literally with their feet in the air, on top of the chairs.
Nicole's panties are showing.
Like, it's a whole damn mess.
And I'm like, I look at, I'm like, why are you doing this?
All you have to do is sit here for 10 minutes.
She's going to try on some leotards with you, get your shoes fitted, and then we get to leave.
And she's like, Mom, I'm so bored.
Like, she can't be bored for any amount of time.
And so instead of just trying to behave themselves, they both decided together.
It just takes a look.
We're going to beat.
We're going to f*** this up.
We're just going to make mom as mad as we can.
That's why I took their iPads away.
Like, you don't get to have your iPad, like dad said, because the way you just behaved
yourself, I asked Ila over and over, like, quit it, quit it.
Please quit it.
Like, it's embarrassing now.
Like, you're too old for this.
And she didn't have it.
She didn't care.
She didn't even respond with, I hear you.
Yes, Mom.
Yes, ma'am.
Nothing.
So, you know, Balala, you know, Balala.
is off to a bad start for us.
Balalae.
Yeah, Balalae.
That's what, that's how Nicole pronounces it.
So that's what's happening.
That's what's happening.
Valet.
I hear Travis did a little ballet back in the day.
Yeah, I took dance lessons as a kid.
Hey, for two years.
There you go.
There was like four or five other guys and one of the dances we did was to gangsters in paradise.
Oh, that's not like ballet though.
Like what type of dancing do you?
tap for that one I think really you did tap tap and jazz what yeah can you still do it no probably
not I mean it pays off at wedding receptions as an adult though like I think you got the rhythm yeah there's
moments where I'm sure that comes in pretty handy and then in high school I had some friends of
they took dance lessons and they did one of their dances for the recitals was a guy girl and so for like
I think three years I did one of those also so that help you with the ladies in high school didn't
hurt. It didn't hurt. So what's your go-to move at a wedding reception? Usually spinning them
around. Spitting girls around. Yeah. Like, twirling them. Yeah. And then you hold their arm and then like
spin them around and pull like. Yeah. Girls love that. Yeah. Good for you. They just want someone to
show some effort out on the dance floor. Did your mom have to talk you into that? Like how'd you get into
dance lessons? So one of our family friends owned a dance studio like right down the street from us.
And they're one son. They had three girls and one boy. And so he took dance.
lessons and so then I did too.
Yeah. Okay.
Yeah. It was fun.
I grew up with one boy in dance class too, but he was the brother of one of those
girls in class. And I don't think he liked it very much, but he did it anyway. His mom was
like, you're doing this. Yeah, I probably threw a fit and that's probably why I stopped after
two years, but. Yeah. Did you have to wear tights? Uh, there was one where I did have to wear tight.
All right. We'll just share it. There was one where I was dressed up as Peter Pan.
Stop. I bet there's video. There's video some. Like in a play?
Yeah, like in a day.
Like a recital?
Yeah.
There's video somewhere.
I don't know.
It's got to be in my dad's house and I hope it.
I feel like we need to see that.
No longer is viewable.
But yeah.
I love that.
Did you ever take dance lessons?
No.
Like ever in your life?
Never.
No.
Just with me.
Everything I know is by teaching myself.
Dale doesn't really like to dance much.
Nope.
Mm-mm.
When me and Amy met, I refused.
like for the first couple of years
we'd be sitting somewhere
where you know
people were at a restaurant
or a bar or wedding or whatever right
places where dancing happens
all of a sudden people start dancing
or Amy's song comes on
or you know George Strait or whatever
and she's like all right here we go
time to dance now and I'm like the hell
I'm like I don't dance
she's like the hell you don't
you do now yeah
it's basically
I said you do now.
We had this like, it was about a two-year conversation of, yeah, when I say you're dancing,
you're dancing.
When I say I'm sitting, I'm sitting.
Yeah, that was more like a battle, not a conversation.
It was a battle.
Just give me a little liquid courage and I'm good to go.
Amy, you kind of won the battle.
Yeah, I mean, it's not hard.
Look, I'm just saying, do I get up and dance when you say get up and dance?
Do we dance?
Sometimes.
Most often.
Yeah, I mean, I don't really ask you anymore.
I kind of got tired of.
you.
I know, but I don't refuse you.
You're supposed to ask me to dance.
Yeah, you're supposed to
can I have this dance?
I want to dance, so I'm not asking to dance.
If she wants to dance, she can ask me
and I do not refuse her.
Man, shilvary has loopholes, doesn't it?
This is going to come in, this,
shilvery and what you should do is going to come in
to play later in the show. I can't wait to hear
Dale's answers.
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Do you want to talk about Anna Maria?
Sure.
So we went to Anna Maria Island, Florida this last weekend, and it's a beautiful, beautiful
beach.
I originally rented this house when it was Dale's, like, tour of 50, and the hurricane
came through.
The year of 50.
The year of 50.
We were a party all year.
Yeah.
We ended up in Bozeman, Montana instead, which was great for his birthday.
It was, like, far more, like, masculine and outdoorsy, more Dale-like.
Less dancing.
Less dancing.
Actually, probably not.
Anyway, so we spent the weekend in Anna Maria.
We had this beautiful little perfectly white beach house, and the beach is right on the beach.
And if you haven't been there, it's a great place to visit.
It's very safe, very quiet.
It is, Anna Marie is, it's cool.
It's cool.
Full of vacation rentals.
full of families all from all over the world really just a but a pretty
relatively large island a little strip and you know comparable to where we are in
South Carolina it's it's almost similar but more more more touristy for sure which I
didn't I don't I don't mind I felt less populated like you saw less people you know
donut shop coffee shop sandwich shop
Flip-pop shop.
Good restaurants, flip-flops.
I've got some flops.
I lost my flops.
I must have left them on the beach the first day.
Cool.
I do.
I don't totally remember that.
We are pulling the beach cart out.
It's not that far.
And he declares like, there is no way I left my flip-flops out of the beach.
There's just no way.
There's not in the house anywhere that you must have.
You only had two pairs of shoes, 10 shoes and flip-flops.
The thing is, though, is that I am in my mind when we go out to the beach and when we come back,
I feel like that I'm the one that's most top of mind of putting things away, getting things organized,
because I'm going to be one of the ones that probably pulls the cart or make, you know, so you're,
I'm kind of like, all right, do we leave anything behind?
I don't leave things behind.
He man the junk.
I man the junk.
Yeah.
And so I'm sitting there going, there's no way.
I left the flops.
I did not leave my, they're in this house.
They're somewhere here or somewhere.
I don't know where they ended up.
I just can't believe that I left them on the beach because I just ain't, I don't think.
I don't leave.
laying behind.
The flip flops weren't top of mind though.
Everything else that you had to take with.
The sand was pretty hot.
So I'm surprised he got back without blister in his feet.
Well.
So the next, like we would go to the, but we got.
I just want to say, Anna Marie.
So I've been to a lot of beaches and different places in the states,
out of the states, Hawaii, all around.
Anne-Marie, the water was clear, warm.
I've never been to a beach where I spent so much time in the water.
Floating in the water.
Yeah.
You can see all the way to the bottom.
Yeah.
It's calm.
There's no big gigantic.
A lot of manatees moving back and forth out there in front of us about 30, 40 yards.
So they'd swim by every now and then.
There was, you know, some fish and stuff in the water you'd see every now and then.
But it was super clear.
really comfortable and I was in we were in that water all day in and out in and out cooling off and
man it was so much fun beach wasn't really overly crowded about 20 20 yards or so between you and
the next person on each side everybody having a lot of fun yeah I would recommend going out there
it got a direct hit from the storm last year and I just was surprised that they were able to
bounce back as quick as they did you drive through there and they're
There's a lot of work going on, different houses getting fixed back up, but there's a lot of tons of brand new paint.
Everybody busting ass to get their rentals back going and get tourism back down there and going.
They worked hard to rebound very fast.
They resilient.
It's amazing because you had to imagine as bad as that storm was in the Gulf.
Anytime a storm hits anywhere in the Gulf, right, it's going to be catastrophic.
A lot of those homes, too, are on the ground.
They're not built up off the ground.
So they had to have had water standing in them.
Yeah.
Our house we knew had water standing in it because of some of the ways they were remodeling.
And roof was even missing.
Like they're still finishing the roof.
When we drove up, there was some blue tarp on one side.
And, you know, they're just trying to make a living, right, off of their rentals and trying to get the rentals back going.
And it was really nice.
One of the things I thought was ironic, but it kind of says how safe and laid back this island is, is we're going to
dinner. We're going to breakfast. Oh, yeah. We're going to breakfast. It's Sunday morning. We're going to get donuts for the kids. Dale literally doesn't have any shoes on his feet because he's lost his slip-offs. And we're going to go to the flop store. We're going to the flop store, but he just decided to go Jiffie Foot on the way. And this guy flags us down. She keeps saying that. I've never heard that term my life until this weekend.
You got it? And you're mad at your kid for same bro? I've known you. Jiffie Mart feet. It's like Kmart feet or? I've known you for eight.
18 years and you didn't say jiffyfoot
You should never run around town without your damn shoes on.
That's not true.
I've run around all the time barefoot.
Not outside in public.
In Key West we go around barefoot a lot.
Never.
All right.
Well, look, you've said jiffy foot at least a half a dozen times,
maybe a dozen times in the last three, four, six, seven days.
Well, you've gotten so loose.
I just didn't understand why you were so willing.
You used to wear socks and tennis shoes.
I know, but not once for 16 years.
Now, Jiffyfoot once a day.
Well, what is it?
Not once a day.
Did you hear it recently?
No.
It's like stuck in there.
Jiffy feet is a regional term primarily used in Jacksonville, Florida, describe dirty bare feet, especially those of children.
Yeah, there you go.
Well, this is my big child, and he went Jiffy Foot and all the way down through Anna Maria Island.
Never heard of it.
To the donut shop.
So we stopped in the flip-flop shop first.
It's literally called the flip-flop and candy shop.
And so we get in there.
He's buying shoes across the streets.
donut shop, but on the way, this guy flags us down. Nice looking, gentlemen, dressed in his
shorts in his shirt, and he wants us to take him down to the pub because he's got church
service happening. He's just like hitchhiking on the golf cart. And we have a six-seater.
There's four little girls in the back, two-faced in the very back.
He's set between the two in the back. Before we could really figure out what was happening, he's sitting
between the two in the back, asking him all kinds of questions. And I know that they're uncomfortable,
because we're both like, this is odd.
Like we've never had this happen anywhere we've ever been.
And he was a nice guy.
He really was.
Everything was fine.
We dropped him off the corner.
He went about his missus.
So the next day, we're going down to dinner.
And instead of taking the kids back and having them fight each other out, we take him
for a long golf cart ride after dinner.
And this lady, same thing, stops us as we're kind of turning around to go the other way,
flags us down because she wants a ride.
And, like, tells us this whole story about how her friends just got in town.
and she decided she was just going to walk
because the trolley's this trolley wasn't coming anytime soon
so here we are giving the second person a ride
way down, way down the end of the island
and she had a long walk
it was like it was nice that she asked
because she would have had a hard time
it just seemed between those two
it was like man this must be kind of common
for people to say oh hey can you pick
can I ride on your cart
exactly two blocks can I ride on your car
just going four blocks
like everybody down there
mostly locals I guess
yeah it's the locals and it's like
middle aged or above retirees
and instead of just having a bike or a golf cart
they just find a ride
there's a big school
on the island
elementary high school
there's a bunch of churches
big churches little churches
it's a unique place
kind of got its own
own little ecosystem
sort of own little vibe going on
And they're like, you don't really need to leave to go do anything.
And, man, you know, there's a lot of old homes that are like the ranch single floor on the ground that are abandoned.
Look like they have been abandoned since like a storm maybe about 20 years ago.
And so there's a lot of potential in some of those where you could probably either fix it up or tear it down and build.
But pretty neat place.
I love Florida, man.
I love Florida.
I know there's lots of interesting things happening there,
but Anna Maria was pretty cool.
The only other thing that happened to Anna Maria that I will never forget is the swimsuit.
Dale, okay, so Dale's getting ads all the time for random stuff on Amazon.
Oh, yeah.
And he's sitting next to me on the couch the other day, and he goes,
hey, because what's my swimsuit would you be, like in a full piece swimsuit?
I'm like, I don't know.
What does it look like?
And he goes, well, I want it to be surprised.
I'm like, no, what is this is it looked like?
Why can't it be a surprise?
And he showed it to me.
I was like, oh my God, that's really something you think I need to wear?
It's a skirted, one-shoulder swimsuit.
And I'm like, this is the kind of ads you're getting.
It looked like something you'd see on the Flintstones.
It did.
It looked like Frickin Wilma from the Flintstones, but it had a skirt on it.
But hot.
But the models are always hot.
It doesn't matter what the swimsuit looks like.
The models are always hot.
My model's hot too.
Oh, my God.
Stop it.
So I'm like, really, that's where you think we are in life.
I'm supposed to wearing skirted swimsuits.
Like, do you know that's like with the, please don't anybody get mad?
My grandmother did this.
This is what the grandmothers wear to, like, water aerobics.
It's like these skirted swimsuits.
I'm not quite there yet, am I?
It's like up high on her thigh.
It's a short, short skirt.
Yeah, but it's still a skirt.
It's attached, too.
It's not like a swimsuit came with a cover-up.
It's attached.
Yeah, well, like, to what I'm saying, like you wear coverups and all kinds of, you tie things around your waist and all kinds of things.
I was like, hey, I don't know.
I saw, Instagram showed it to me in my algorithm.
And I was like, that looks, yep, buying that.
I want that.
I want Amy to wear that.
So, instead of.
I see this, I see stuff.
I see, I see stuff from time to time.
And I'm like, hmm, I want Amy to, I remember I bought you that bathing suit or that, no, it was that real fluffy.
Oh, my God.
Yes.
for Christmas.
It buys me.
It's like chenil, which is fluffy, which makes you look fluffier when you wear it.
It's like a two-piece set with a robe.
And I'm talking like booty shorts and a tank top.
Yes.
Like, you need to stop clicking on these because this is why we keep getting this kind of stuff in your algorithm.
I don't need this kind of shit on my ass.
This is the last thing I need is an extra layer.
It was like booty shorts and a tank top and then a robe.
and it was like really fluffy.
I almost cried putting it on.
I was like, I have to wear this.
Are you kidding me?
You literally just had to try it on and you could take it off and never wear it again.
There's a reason to get emotional, Ila.
And so I'm sitting there and I bought it.
No, it's 20 freaking bucks.
It's nothing.
I'm like this is why we are not supposed to buy it to begin with.
It's junk.
It is junk.
But it's like, I'm like, man, you're going to try it on.
I know you're going to hate it.
I know you're not going to wear it.
I know you're not going to wear it.
know you're not going to go, oh my God, thank you. I love this. I know you're going to go,
this is silly. But that's because if you, I mean, it's not so much a gag gift. And it's, I think in the
picture, the model makes it look great. And I'm like, my wife is attractive. My wife has an amazing
fucking body. I would love to see her wear this. And so, and that bathing suit was fucking awesome.
Yeah. So I hope you wear it again. Back to the swimsuit. Wait, do you have a picture of the bathing suit from
the model on your phone, Dale?
Yes.
Yes.
No, I don't.
We can do this.
Not from the model.
Well, I do because I bought the fucking thing.
Yeah.
Show him.
Instead of letting him do it, I went in there and bought it just to like make sure if I was
going to wear this thing.
I was going to try to on privately.
And then wear it for him as a surprise if it was remotely here.
She looked awesome.
And I bought two because my sister was going to be with me.
She bought her sister, the white one.
And I bought, that's black is the color.
And by the way, the brand is called Temp Me.
This is the suit.
Look at that.
That's what Amy looked like wearing it.
No, it isn't.
Yes, it is.
But anyway.
Show him closer.
I'm trying to get it.
No, take it to him.
Okay.
Here, thanks, Michael.
Go on there.
Give me a real impression.
Give me your true opinion now.
It's not even a real person.
It's probably an AI model.
Wait, and the skirt is attached?
It's attached.
No.
Oh, my God.
If the skirt was detachable.
I see where you're.
I can understand your thought process.
That's it.
Show the camera better.
You're going to force people to agree with you so that you'll let sit back down.
That swimsuit feels like you're going to be at the pool and then you got pickleball later on and you can't change.
That's attractive.
And Andy made it look that good.
Well, I put mine on and Katie put the white one on and we made complete asses of ourselves on the beach just to make a point.
We danced all over the place and everyone saw me in that swimsuit.
That was within like 100 yard radio.
I can't believe the shame.
How did we get out of the...
We were doing high kicks like the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders.
How did they not barricade the island have us arrested?
Oh my gosh.
Well, I don't know what's going on in your mind sometimes, but that swimsuit.
You got to give him credit for trying, though.
Yeah.
I love that he thinks I'm cute.
That's the bottom mind.
Love that he thinks I'm cute.
But the things he wants me to wear are questionable.
That's for sure.
I am.
I don't like...
I know where this people's minds are going.
I don't like lingerie.
I mean...
Yeah, he told me that when he first started a day.
He's like, don't even bother buying that stupid lingerie.
So I don't.
Wear a t-shirt and your panties.
That's all that you need to wear in a bedroom.
That'll do it for me.
Oh, my gosh.
Especially if it's my t-shirt.
And oversized one of your own t-shirts.
I'm always trying to give her my own t-shirts.
I will go into the closet.
And he's bitching already about how messy my area of the closet is.
But there's an extra, like,
pile of team T-shirts just hanging out over here.
that I didn't lay in my area.
It's kind of like, hey, I'm getting rid of these,
but if you want them, if you want to wear them with your panties today.
I'm going to buy you $20 junk off of Amazon to wear,
and you can have my old shirts, lady, and that's that.
Or if you don't want them, then they're definitely going out.
But I don't want to throw them out, and you go, wait, I like that.
That's one of my favorites that you wear, and I want to wear it.
It's kind of, you know, kind of like the...
I think it when I get to go and steal your favorite one,
instead of you just throwing your junk in my corner.
Well, you don't never go steal any of my shirts.
Once you try stealing some.
some of my shirts.
It's like the girl, you know, this guys only, I think only guys understand this.
Like when your girlfriend wore your letter jacket in school, right?
It was like a, it was like a, it was like a.
He gave me his old letter jacket too.
I did.
I gave her my original letter jacket that fits her.
It's dirty.
The M is brown.
It's dirty.
It's fucking 40 years old.
I mean, it's old.
And I'm like, hey, you should wear this.
She's like, why would I want to wear that thing?
I'm like, this is my old letter jacket.
from one out later than high school playing soccer.
I'm like, let me get my freaking pool skirt out,
and then I'll stick this on over top.
State finals patch on it.
I mean, it's a fucking good jacket.
Got some fucking real celebrative,
real awardship on there.
I'm like,
I won the national championship and cheerleading.
You're going to wear mine because mine's bigger than yours.
My jacket is bigger than yours is.
No, but he's right.
Like, girls wear the varsity jacket
or your sweatshirts or like it's...
So we didn't do that in Texas.
We didn't really wear our jackets
because it was so damn hot, to be honest.
We didn't even wear them.
All right.
Well, Texas is missing out on a pastime.
Maybe it's just a generational thing.
Nope.
No.
I mean, this was happening in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s.
I feel like varsity jackets in Texas are popular with football.
They were, but it was all for show.
None of the girlfriends will wear their boyfriends.
Yeah, I never wore my boyfriend's letter jackets.
You won't catch any of the girlfriends wearing any of the boyfriend's letter jackets down there.
No, we were proud of our own.
All right.
It's okay.
It is okay
You're wrong on this one Amy
I'm sorry well I'm fine being wrong
But I'm not going to move my opinion to this other side
Hard-headed stubble
About all right last thing I want to talk about
And this is something that is a perpetual
Game if you will
At the beach house is Dale
And the trash truck
We are usually there over a long weekend
The trash happens in the middle of the week
But lately we've been there during the middle of the week
and he's gotten to put the trash out
instead of having to run it
and sneak it to the public trash cans
in the middle of the night,
which he does.
So it's the recycling truck.
He's running around Wednesday
and he's got the truck,
he's got his can out in the driveway.
And you can hear the trash truck running around,
but you can't see him.
And we're loading up
Katie and Kobe
in the car. They're headed to the airport. So we're all outside. Dale has no shoes on.
Jiffy foot. Jiffy footing again. And I think he's got his shirt on, but he may be just in his
swim truss. He hears that trash truck and he sees it whiz by. And instead of waiting to see if
it's going to come down our road, because he feels like it's already past the house, but he doesn't
know for sure. He takes that thing by the handles and starts running down the street, chasing the
trash truck. And we're laughing our asses off at him. Because he's,
just the visual of this man doing this is ridiculous. Well, then he turns around and he comes back
around the corner, pushing the trash truck, pushing his garbage can again. It's still full. I'm like,
didn't you just talk to him? He's like, yeah, but he said he's going to come back by. He wouldn't
just empty this thing for you since you were so feverishly running after him? I had more to the story.
Okay, go for it. Whatever happened around the corner is still a mystery. All right. So the trash,
I've never lived in a house where there was a weekly trash pickup.
So we lived in the woods and you haul it to the dump or you have a local dumpster or whatever.
You have a dumpster on your property, whatever, right?
So this house that we have in South Carolina is the first neighborhood home that I've ever been in where I'm responsible to put the cans out of the street.
Awesome. That's my, I'm, my job is a man.
Yes, trash is his responsibility.
I have a couple things on my list and I'm the man of the house and trash is one of them.
If Amy's over there tie and draw strings in the kitchen on the trash bags, I'm offended.
That's my job.
You've come a long way.
That's my job. I'm coming over there to do that. You're not supposed to do that.
If you have a full trash can and I'm not aware, you should say, Dale, you need to take out the trash.
So I'm in terms of.
charge of the trash. And so we have recycling. We get, you know, we get a Amazon box. I'm going to
cut it up, put it in a recycling trash can. Well, they run every other Wednesday. We're never
there during the middle of week, much less when we are, it's always on the wrong Wednesday.
This trash can at one time carried cardboard in it that was more than a year old. Like we went a full
cycle of summer, from one summer to the next, without getting that recycling can emptied.
And man, when that day came and we were finally there on a Wednesday and they came by and emptied
that thing.
He's throwing his arms up in the air.
He's like, he's rocking.
Celebrating.
Yeah.
So we have now since put more cardboard back in it.
And it's about three-quarter full.
They're going to run on that Wednesday.
You have to put it out there.
the night before, I forgot.
I get up in the morning, jump out of bed, 7.30.
Amy's like, where are you going?
I got a good house there, put the trash can out.
It's a trash can.
I put the trash can out on the street.
All right.
Damn it.
I looked down the street and one of the blue cans
at the neighbor's house is cocked a little bit.
And I'm like, they've got that one emptied.
Because the neighbor would, everybody puts their cans out proper.
Every man's got the OCD and it's got to be out there against the street.
perfect. You don't park your can sideways or backwards or none of that. Every man that rolls
its can out there, the OCD kicks in, and it's got to be perfectly parallel with the street. Well,
then the truck can perfectly pick it up. Well, that one's turned. And that makes me think in my head
that the truck has ran there and lifted it and emptied it and then set it back down and it toppled
around. And that's where it's now, damn it, I've missed it. And I thought I heard a truck go by
and that's what made me jump out of bed.
So in my mind, I'm thinking,
I bet they've ran by my house already.
Well, out of the corner of my eye,
about 30 minutes,
we're down there getting them in the car.
It's about, I don't know, 930, 10 o'clock.
So a little bit of times went by.
We're down there.
I'm still wondering about the trash
if they've ran, if they've not ran,
should I push it to another street
that they haven't, you know, done the trash
and they'll just grab my can
and run back over and get it
later. I'm trying to think about this. Well, finally, out of the corner of my eye, see the truck.
He turned and he turned away from us, went down a block and then turned again to drive away.
And I'm like, there it is. There's the truck. I'm, I did miss it. They have ran through here.
Without any comment, he grabs that thing and starts running. Wait, wait, wait. They went around the
block and then I could see them, I could see them catty corner on the other street.
with my house. I'm like, there they are. So I take off running and I go over there and there's the
trash truck. And I pull up and it's two guys and they're getting out and they're throwing some
yard debris in there. And he's looking at me and he's like, we're, we're not, we're, we're, we're not, we're, we're not,
we haven't ran this, ran this loop yet. We're going to run this loop. And I'm like, all right.
Like he knows exactly which house you belong at.
I know, and I'm looking at this truck.
It ain't the trash truck.
This is the yard trash.
This is the limbs, the yard debris.
This ain't the trash truck with the arm on it to grab the can and tosses it in the top.
I'm at the wrong truck.
These guys are looking at me like we ain't even that truck.
We're not the trash.
We're not the recycling truck.
We're blue.
We look like the recycling truck.
Well, we're not.
We're at a yard trash truck.
And so they pull up, guy, pasture gets out, throws the limbs and debris and yard stuff into the back, and they moved in the next house.
And they're driving around just looking for yard debris.
But it looked like the blue recycling truck.
And so I'm like, all right, man, sorry, man.
Yep, I got it.
He's like, we're not, we haven't ran this, ran this route yet with, we'll get you.
We're going to get you.
So I push it back over, put it in place.
And they came by later that day, a couple hours later.
and emptied my trash.
It's just really funny to me.
It is.
I'm worried that, look, if I don't get this emptied,
damn it, we're going to come down here next time,
and I'm going to fill it to the brim with cardboard.
Then I'm going to have to start sneaking cardboard out of the house,
over to other people's recycling,
and over here, you know, spreading the cardboard around the neighborhood.
And it's a tough deal.
We live right on the entrance to the beach,
and there's public trash cans there.
There's like six of them.
Yeah, there's six of them.
And I'm over there.
I keep them some bitches looking good.
I keep them organized because, you know, the trash truck dumps them out,
and they topple over and they're turned around and their lids are wide open.
And I go over there and I straighten it all up.
And then, you know, the, you know, the tourists come and they're using them,
and they're shutting them lids half open, broken umbrellas and shit all in there,
lid open, rats are trying to get in there.
There's flies.
flies. I'm like, y'all, so I go over there and I straighten all that up. And I keep
right. And so it gives me the right to put our own trash in there. Because I'm not going to,
he is now the neighborhood Trass Association board member. This is the deal. Me and Amy are going to
go to the beach house with the kids. We're going to come in on a Friday. We're going to leave on a
Sunday. We're going to accumulate two, three bags of trash. And there's food waste and all kinds of
stuff in there. That is, and the trash truck don't run till Tuesday and I'm not going to be there.
So I cannot leave this trash under my house. The rats will get in there. We got rats in the
marsh. We did try leaving our trash can out. Run it on Tuesday. We're coming back Friday.
No big deal. And then all the locals, because our, like you said, we're like running the
path to go to the beach. All the people that are coming in and out, we're just using our trash can.
So it was absolutely gnarly. Yeah. Is there anybody you know that could take your can out?
I'm not asking anybody for help.
I'm going to take my three or four trash bags over to the public cans and put them in there
because I keep them some straight anyway.
So I'm allowed.
He's already bought into this process.
Yeah.
There is no other process.
I don't see any other neighbors over there straighten them up when they're all disordered.
I go over there, straighten them up, keep them organized.
Do you see other neighbors putting their trash in them though?
Huh?
Do you see other neighbors putting their trash in?
I don't judge.
I don't judge.
Maybe that's why they don't fix them.
Nobody else is out at midnight putting them.
their trash in there.
They might not be, but I don't judge them.
It's just one of those things I never thought I'd see Del Jr. do running after a trash
truck with that thing.
Look at this little white feet just, do, do, do, do.
I've never, ever in my mind thought that would be something that would happen.
It was not on his bingo card.
But I got to see that.
Thank you for the last.
I'm domesticated.
All right.
Should we play a game?
Let's do it.
All right.
All right.
So this game's called Baraminum or Princess Treatment or King Treatment.
So, Amy, you will ask Dale a question and he will answer it if it's something that it's the bare minimum he should be doing or if it's Princess Treatment.
Okay.
And then vice versa.
You guys can alternate questions if you want or you can, Amy, you can go first and then Dale can do his questions.
Go ahead.
Getting surprise flowers.
Princess treatment, bare minimum or bare minimum?
You getting me surprised flowers.
Oh, bare minimum.
I mean, that's normal, expected in a relationship.
So that's just bare minimum.
I don't even know that that's bare minimum.
that's expected treatment
that's built
that's fair minimum
okay bare minimum
bear minimum seems to be a little bit of a
it's like at the bottom of the food chain
insult
oh you don't like the way it's phrased
no I think it should
but bare minimum
y'all that's how you all understand it
so that's how we'll call it
bare minimum
all right do you do one
doing my laundry
bare minimum
okay
opening doors
bare minimum
letting me play video games.
Princess treatment.
You're some guy.
It's bull-s.
Writing me love letters.
Bare minimum.
Really?
I think so.
I don't do it.
No, you don't.
Should do it.
I don't do it, but I should do it.
I feel like a love letter for Valentine's Day is like the answer, right?
I'll write your damn low letter.
But Valentine's Day is, you don't get credit for that.
That's something you're supposed to do.
get credit for the love letter on May
All right. You're totally right.
I used to sneak a little notes into his backpack.
Laughing at my jokes.
Oh, fair minimum.
Okay.
Filling up the gas tank in my car.
Bare minimum.
Really?
Yes.
Okay.
I mean, I feel like that's, especially when you're married,
maybe when you're not, when you're dating.
Right?
That's my job.
Keep gas in the cars.
All right.
Go.
What's your next one?
Waking up early to feed the animals so I get to sleep in.
Did you ever?
Wait, that's princess treatment.
Yeah.
Whoever.
I agree with that.
Breakfast in bed.
Princess treatment.
You go.
Coming to the doctors with me.
Princess treatment and we do that.
Paying to get my nails done.
You're taking me to the nail show.
Minimal or whatever, yeah.
That's regular.
I feel like that's princess treatment.
I should pay to put.
gear nails done.
Okay.
All right.
Everything's bare minimum
over here.
What's your next one?
Pay for a round of drinks
when we're at the bar.
I feel like that falls in the middle.
It's not like princess treatment.
It's like surprise treatment?
Sure.
Yeah.
I like doing stuff like that.
We're at this point in our lives
where it's more like,
did you bring your card?
I forgot mine.
Did you bring yours?
Yeah, I got mine.
As long as he's got his phone
and I have the credit cards,
for five.
Yeah.
Yeah, because he's never got his money.
Is you cash only.
Did you bring in cash?
That's our relationship.
Yeah.
And he doesn't have a debit card.
Whoever's got the stuff, that's who's paying.
All right.
Carrying me when my feet hurt.
Princess treatment.
I don't feel like I've ever asked you to carry me.
I feel like I'm scared for you to really know how heavy I am.
Letting me eat your leftovers.
That's fair minimum.
I let you eat off my plate.
Our leftovers are good.
Carrying my bags.
I like doing it, but it's Princess Treatment.
No, that's chivalry.
It's like opening the door.
You carry the trash.
You carry the bags.
You pick stuff up.
You put it down.
What are we talking bags that like?
Luggage.
Yeah, but if you're walking through the airport, like they can, things on the wheels.
No, no, I do it myself if we're going together and doing all of that.
But like if he's reloading the car.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You do that.
And he will come help me unloading.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Loading the car is a different thing.
Correct.
Carrying the bags is a different thing.
You've carried my tote before?
I should load the car.
That's bare minimum.
I don't mind carrying your shit, but I think it's Princess Treatment.
Okay, fine.
But I don't mind doing it.
What's the next, Ralph?
Watching any Commander's game with me.
Oh, it's bare minimum.
I'm a fan.
I am now a Commander's fan.
I'm in.
All right.
Especially after last year.
She's really in.
Well, I've always been there with you.
It's been hard sometimes, but, you know.
There for a while, she's like, why do they suck so bad?
Are they ever going to be good?
What are we going to do here?
Gosh, Amy, this is already hard enough.
We need some drama.
They're breaking my heart.
You're breaking my heart.
All right.
My last one is taking candid pictures of me.
I actually asked him to do that recently.
Really?
Yes.
I'm like, can you take pictures of me with my kids?
Like, take pictures of me.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Not like by myself.
No, that's bare minimum.
Because, I mean, I don't know.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that.
Amy has never and never will ask me to take a picture of her as she's posing.
But what she does want me to do that I don't do enough is take pictures of her in her normal life having time with her kids.
Like if I'm sitting on the beach and they're down at the shore playing in the water, I should take pictures of that while she's just enjoying her life.
So she has photos of her and the kids.
of me actually smiling at my children.
Yeah.
I think that is a, I'm guessing a lot of husbands don't do it because I have a friend that never does.
It's a thing. It's a real thing.
They added me to their like family album on the phone.
Then I'll take pictures of his wife and the kids when they're hanging out.
That's so nice of you.
Because he never.
He never does it.
I never think to do it.
So some of my girlfriends will do that for me too, knowing that Dale doesn't really do it that often.
Like you, when you're, we're out just like having dinner and I'm messing and we're playing.
Like we actually get pictures together.
But yeah, no, he's on his phone.
He's just not taking pictures.
I took some at the beach this weekend.
He took pictures of me walking out of the water.
Yeah.
And that swimsuit.
In that swimsuit.
That's right.
Burn it.
Wilma Flintstone.
Looking good.
Betty Rebel.
Betty Rebel.
And so, yeah, we looked like Betty and Wilma.
The two of us were white and a black.
Amy was more Betty.
I was Betty.
Yeah.
All right.
One last one.
Book a surprise trip.
That's princess treatment.
But we do that too.
Our princess is living large.
It is the best.
When Amy comes in and my favorite thing,
this may be my favorite thing in the world in terms of like,
of course, like my kids, my wife, all those things are top of the list.
But this is like a material in a material world.
This is his actual love language.
Yeah.
If Amy walks in the door and goes, surprise, we're going such and such.
And it's just her.
Like, I love the kids.
I want to go do things with the kids, but sometimes just going with Amy is awesome.
And we don't get to do that all that often.
So that's really more of my, I'm saying this, hoping to wheel it into existence.
Law of Attraction.
Amy taught me law of attraction.
Yeah, it's a real thing.
If you say something over and over again loud enough, it really starts to become a reality.
All right, that's it for Bare Minimum or Princess.
Let's do some ask Amy.
We're ready for your questions.
All right.
So the first question comes from Kenneth.
Amy, can you tell your side of the jellyfish sting on the beach story?
We've heard Dale's version and it's hilarious.
Yeah.
All right.
So I have been sung by jellyfish a few times.
And I know by experience that the only way to really make the sting go away is by getting peed on.
And so we're out at the beach and we have a whole tent and everything set up.
say getting peed on. Like I would have said, well, I can't pee on myself. I would just say urine or pee
takes a sting out. Getting peed on. That's the same thing. That's this funny, funny phrase. I don't know
why. Well, I know why. I'm here for you, buddy. It is funny. So we're sitting at the beach. I go out
to rinse off. I'm playing with Isla. She's pretty small. And we're playing in the sand. So I go to
rinse my hands and I step, barely step in the water and I step in like a jellyfish nest.
if you will. And I have all these little red dots and like one strap across my ankle.
And I'm hobbling out of the water back towards Dale. He's still sitting. He's still sitting there
drinking his beer. And I walk up to him like, hey, I just got stung and it's hurting so bad.
I need you to do me a solid and pee on my ankle. And he's like, uh, no.
Really? No, I won't. I thought I would have been all about that. Do it. It's the, it's the
The only thing that's going to make this stop singing.
He's like, how am I supposed to do that?
I was like, I don't know.
Stay sitting and I'll just stand in front of you.
And so he digs a hole for my foot so that it's just like a little bit lower and he doesn't have to wiggle at all.
And pulls it down his short leg, his pants, is your swim trunks?
I pulled it out of my leg, out of the leg of my swim trunks and peter my ankle.
And it took him a minute because he got a little stage fright.
But once he got it going, it really helped.
Stage fright's a real thing.
Jesus.
At that point, it was.
It's mostly blood 55 that he peed on my leg.
But it worked.
I've been stung by jellyfish since then.
Yeah.
But, you know, it does work.
It does work.
That's good to know.
She never left the beach.
We went right back to doing whatever.
No, we just went right back to playing.
I got stung by jellyfish when we were in the Bahamas.
And one of my friends.
We peed in a cup.
Yeah, peed in a cup and poured it on her little arm.
Makes the most sense.
We didn't have cups with us.
We had no cups.
We had no vessels.
We could have figured it out.
Right.
We didn't, we weren't adding it all up.
We weren't adding it all up there.
But anyways, yeah, digging her.
It's like, I'm sitting there.
And I'm either.
He's in a really low lounge chair.
I'm going to load of the ground lounge chair, like a little beach chair.
We've got all these, we got a tent.
We got kind of a cover shade.
We got, I've got the beer cooler and a couple of other things around me.
So, I mean, the people on each side can't really see what's going on.
So just dig a hole.
She puts her foot down in there.
And, man, it was easy.
And my hero came.
Man.
And then so because I'm going to, I'm like, man, I'm not moving from this spot.
But I don't want to sit.
I don't want to, you know, pee on the ground.
So digging the hole not only got her foot down so it was easier to hit.
But it actually, you know, fill the hole up and you're like, hey, shit.
Like the litter box.
It never happened.
Yeah.
It's like litter box.
Yeah.
It worked.
It's so weird.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Next question comes from Jonathan.
Just had my first child.
Was curious how you guys handled 3 AM diapers.
diaper changes. Did you switch every time?
Diaper changes? Yeah.
Like him switched like he did one night of one?
No, I feel like I did most of them. Dale did a lot of diaper changing, but I was with
the babies more just because I was nursing and all of that. So when they were really tiny,
unless I needed assistance or just if it's messy or whatever, because all things
happen. But Dale did a lot of diaper changes. I don't feel like one did more than the other,
but we didn't have like a system. It was more less like whoever.
over's closest, just do it.
What was that like the first couple
diaper changes you had to do?
The first couple of diaper changes are really gnarly.
Well, I was scared.
You're always scared because they're so little.
Yeah.
But the first times they go
or what they release is
pretty hard to get rid of.
So it did take both of us.
I loved something needing me so bad.
Well, they want us to be needed.
They needed her or I.
for those type of things
and they couldn't do for themselves
and that was just a really awesome feeling
to be,
it was like the introduction to parenthood
and being a parent and
you're like, hey man,
change your diaper,
everything's been great,
going to get her all cleaned up,
going to get you happy.
Yep.
That is the thing.
So like little girls,
I don't know if it's the same for boys,
I guess both girls were like this.
If they were wet or the sensation of going to the bathroom,
freak dial out.
So she would cry really hard.
So we knew when she peed.
We didn't know when Nicole peed.
She cared less.
So like we were changing Ila constantly because she did not like being wet.
And the diapers were made to handle all of this, right?
Like it's not going to hurt the child to sit in it for a few minutes.
But we were changing Ila's diaper a lot.
Was Ila's diaper the first diaper you guys ever changed her?
Had you had any?
No, I had changed my nieces before.
I didn't really do a whole lot of babysitting, like ever.
Yeah.
I would say that's probably the first for me.
No, you changed Wyatt's.
Did I? Yeah, you changed White's once.
Damn. I now can go to Wyatt and say, I changed your diapers, boy.
I wiped your ass. Wipeed your ass once, boy.
I changed your diapers, boy. Because he's going to be driving my late model soon in the next, you know, handful of years, I'm sure. And when I want to really put him in his place.
You're going to embarrass it. I don't know if you say that in public. Yeah, I'll do it. He might need to be embarrassed.
Oh, my gosh. We're Wyatt. He didn't even deserve this.
Alt and into a budsaw. Sorry, buddy. I shouldn't have said that out loud.
Next question comes from Brooke.
Help.
My boyfriend can't hang.
My boyfriend and I like to day drink together.
The problem is that he can only handle two or three rounds.
Then he needs a nap.
Well, I can keep going all night.
I don't want to go home, but I don't want to stay out alone.
How do I get his tolerance up?
That sounds like a Dale question.
How do you get your tolerance up, Dale?
Because I'm now the boyfriend.
Like, I can have a few, and I probably shouldn't have too many more because it's like lights out for me.
We used to party all night.
Building up your tolerance is, yeah, I mean, it's just, it is exactly that.
You've got to practice.
Is he eating too much food while he's drinking?
Well, here's another hack is just tell him to mix in some waters.
Like, he doesn't have to go throw a spacer in.
Beer for beer.
Right.
Throw a Coke or a water in there.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
But yeah, to build your tolerance up, you just.
I mean, I know it sounds silly, but you're also trying not to drink things with a high volume of alcohol.
Right.
You know, some craft beers can have some ridiculous percentages
and some different domestic beers have different amounts of alcohol in them
and, you know, just kind of mix it up a little bit.
Dial it back in a couple or just like you say drink.
No shots.
Don't you don't, do not take shots.
Listen, I mean, this is.
No shot policy over here.
I do not take shots.
You bring me a shot at a bar.
I'm spitting it in my empty beer.
Yep.
I will ruin his beer over that.
I will see your ass coming.
I will be like, this person's about to buy us a shot.
And I will chug my beer to be able to spit that shot in the beer.
It took him a long time of doing that without telling us he was doing that.
I always took my shot.
We get to the end of the day and they're all jacked up.
And they're like, man, you're not all messed up.
I'm like, yeah, I didn't take all them shots.
I respect you just saying out at the beginning, hey, you can buy shots.
I ain't doing them.
I ain't doing them.
I hate when you're out and you're day drinking and you got your mindset on how you're going to handle the day.
And then there's that one friend that comes around with a tray of tequila or vodka or whatever.
And they start this vicious circle.
And then you feel like you owe around.
And then it's just all hell breaks loose.
So the way.
We have friends like that.
Everybody's got at least one or two friends like that.
Yeah.
The way that I do not.
Tim Dugger.
I do not drink a beer at dinner.
I don't have a couple with a friend.
And if you ask, you know, if you're like, hey, man, just have a couple.
Nope.
I don't have a couple.
And I don't drink.
I drink to get drunk.
I drink to drink a lot.
And I, so I don't.
He's a party drinker is what he's trying to say.
I don't go downstairs and grab a beer.
I don't, you know, I don't, oh, it's a hot day.
I'll be refreshing.
None of that bullshit.
So I only drink when I want to drink and when I plan to drink.
And my plan, my drinking is an all day drink or an all night drink.
And so I know, to your point, Travis, like, I know what my pace needs to be, all right, to achieve what I want to achieve.
I drink, get up on plane, and I want to just kind of stay there.
Yeah.
Right.
I don't want to keep going and going and then crash out.
And so if you throw a shot in there, you're fucking up my plan.
Mm-hmm.
And, you know, I'm going to turn the idle up to $6,500 and stay there all day long.
and I don't need somebody coming in there and trying to hit the rev chip every three hours or every two hours and get me all screwed up.
And so, and I think that's, that, it isn't about, I never really built up a tolerance.
It's just that I, when I'm doing it right, I can drink, you know, spread the beers out and drink for the entire day.
I can go 12 hours, you know, drink 18 beers.
Day drinking's the best because you go to bed at 9.30, wake up and you're fine.
Yeah.
we wish you well there with your boyfriend hopefully he
good old brook good luck
last question comes from carter honeymoon destination options
Ireland Hawaii Germany says that's a family history thing
which one would you choose come again
Ireland Hawaii or Germany
what's the family thing they have family history in Germany yeah for honeymoon
destination honeymoon we went do we went to Hawaii for Hawaii I think Hawaii
I think for her honeymoon yes the
Germany and Ireland.
Ireland.
Those are trips you take for the, you know, to celebrate.
Those countries.
Being married.
Yeah.
You know, or like, you know, that's the trips you take once you've got that three, four,
five years in.
They're not quite as romantic.
There are plenty of things to do and actually great places to go.
Hawaii is like just romantic.
Those are trips you take when you know each other.
Yeah.
That's true.
Right.
You can actually, yeah, plan a trip together.
You got all the bugs worked out.
Why do you say that?
I'm just saying like going to Hawaii is fun and it's a celebratory area.
It's perfect environment.
It begs for you to be celebrating this union, this marriage.
When you go to Ireland and Germany, they're awesome, but they're really monotone.
I feel like that's a friend trip to me.
It isn't like it isn't a place where you want to celebrate your union of this marriage.
You want to go party, have fun.
getting the sun, hang out, getting your bikini.
Right?
You've worked your ass off.
You worked your ass off to get your skirted swimsuit.
You worked hard to get into that dress all those months, you know, to be in your best,
be it your best for your wedding or going to Ireland and Germany is fun, but I don't know how to
cat, I don't know how to explain that it's just, it's just, that's like a family trip.
That's like a trip that couples take after, or they've been married a couple years and they've got,
you know, they kind of know what each other is going to do in these.
moments.
They're kind of moody places.
The weather's not always amazing.
It's a place you go, but it's not really as romantic.
So, Hawaii, absolutely.
Skies could be great.
I will say if you go to Maui, stay away from the triangle.
We ventured out of our resort.
And there are plenty of places you can go to venture out, but just there's bars.
Don't go bar hopping.
I just think we got an off night.
We did.
But if you don't also want to have an off night, just stay at your lovely resort.
Gotcha.
Well, that's it for asking me for today.
Thank you guys.
You not remember we drove around.
We went to the waterfalls.
We did.
We did out and about.
We did all the things.
We had a great time.
But late night bar hopping, we did some stupid things.
Everywhere's got some.
We made some bad toys.
We did.
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