The Dale Jr. Download - Bless Your 'Hardt - Back to School Shopping & Stealing Cigarettes

Episode Date: July 31, 2025

Amy Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr. are back in the Dirty Mo Studio for another episode of Bless Your ‘Hardt. On today’s show, Amy and Dale talk about back-to-school shopping for Isla and Nicole, and we reminisce about school supplies in the '80s and '90s. Then, Amy shares how Nicole managed to get gum stuck in her hair, Dale recalls a time as a teenager when he stole cigarettes, and tells us why he’s super into inspiring quotes now. Plus, we asked Grok to see who the most famous person to look at our profile was and we have another hilarious #AskAmy segment! 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.

Hey guys, Dale Jr. and I are back in the Dirty Mo Media Studios. Finally with Tim's, it's been a while for another episode of Bless Your Heart. We have a fun show for you today, Cussin, Betton, and Bubble Tate. Let's get started. Cussing, Betton, and Bubble Tate? Yeah. The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media. Oh, yeah, this is the way 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. Yeah, tell us about all that cussin, Ralph. Cussin.

All right, first off, we have the drink of the week. Yes, a drink of the week this week I got from a gentleman off of Instagram. His name was Jared, and he sent me a recipe for something he drank at a racetrack. He said it was excellent. It's called the Orange Crush. So it's sponsored by a high rock, of course, and you have one third cup, freshly squeezed orange juice, two ounces of High Rock vodka, an ounce of orange triple sec, sorry, crushed ice, and then you chop it off with lemon, lime soda, and it is super sonic.

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So, you know, that would be an option to the website. So drink responsibly and you must be 21 or over, of course. So all the cussing. One thing, so sometimes me and Amy, how we do this show is like, this. There's a shared note in our iPhone and me and Amy live our life and when we see a moment that we think's funny, humorous, silly, stupid, whatever, we flag it and write it in that note. And we just jot down like a quick reminder so that one of us, we don't really get too descriptive in the note so that we don't ruin the conversation that we could have live here on the show.

We want to get our genuine reactions to stuff. But sometimes I write stuff down on there that I don't even know how to work into the show. And last week there was a note on there. So we go to our beach house during the summer. And I feel super fortunate that we get the chance to go do that and can do that. And so, you know, we're around the coast of South Carolina. I raced at Myrtle Beach. I'm very familiar with that area and all of the surrounding areas like Monk's Corner and Somerville and all that.

So it's a really comfortable place for me. But we're down there in the summer and I'm now working in the summer broadcast. And so I got to print some of my work. I got a printer that I took off of my bus. And this printer says every time I try to print some documents. So when I print my notes for the races, it's 15, 20. pages at times. It's full of stats and bullet points and different things about the drivers, the track,

anything you might want to know. That's right. And so I'm always printing all kinds of things during the week that I'm getting from racing insights and so forth to prepare my notes and just information for the weekend. And so every single time, so if you've got 15 or 17 pages to print, the down printer defaults to double side. and it annoys a shit out of me because I keep forgetting to uncheck that and I print everything double-side and I can't use it double-side in the during the race broadcasts.

Most people find the double-sided print to be a perk, right? Because we don't want to waste that much paper. And he doesn't, he needs it to be single page so he can just lay them all out flat and like shuffle him around. He just not stapling him at the corner and flipping back and forth, you know. That's right. So he's madder than a hornet every time he goes in there to print off his work. I mean, that's wasting paper. And now we've wasted paper.

Defaulting the printer to double side is a clear fucking issue. So all you printer people out there, Hewlett Packard and whatever, can we just not default to double side? I want to send that message out of there. Maybe over the course of the next decade, we can shift away from that sort of setting. Maybe we just need to laminate some instructions for Dale to put in his office. So that's too much.

To un-click the box. It's kind of like when you remind me that you need to uncheck that box when you're buying something so they don't send you emails constantly. You probably, that's what's what you have to do. Like you have to unclick the box before you hit go. I'm learning. And one day I'll learn this way. I'll get adjusted to doing it this way. And then they'll wise up one day and change that setting.

And then I'll have to relearn the other way. It's just a real pain in the ass. But this. this leads to a conversation around for all the married relationship people out there, you don't have to be married, you can just be in a great relationship with your girlfriend or your boyfriend. And people always say, like, man, if they do this, you've got you a keeper. Or if they do this, they really love you. Or if they do this, you better hang on to that person.

Well, one of the things that they need to do that should, should they should do every now and then. They. It's let you rant. So like, you know, you've had, you know, something bothered you. You woke up on the wrong side of the bed, whatever. It's just been a crappy day or you're just annoyed. It's been a great day, but you're just in the mood.

The other day, I was so freaking annoyed. He's sitting on the couch, though, not saying anything, but he's got this aura of pissed off around him, you know. And I can tell that he's really annoyed, but I'm trying to figure out, like, is this something he needs me to help him with or should I just wait for him to come to me with it? Because at some point it's coming out, right? Is it something I need to deal with or is it something that's really unrelated to all of us? Like, should I leave it alone? And finally, I'm just like, you know, you look like you're really annoyed what's going on. And he goes, I'll tell you what's going on. And he stood up. He said it in a way that I thought maybe I was about

to get attacked because I was like, oh, I don't know what I did. Maybe I did something wrong. I just don't understand. And he starts marching around the living room, just ranting and raving and throwing his hands around. And I'm like, this is almost entertaining. I know that he's needing to get all this steam off his chest and he had legitimate reasons to be pissed off. He really did. It was like a pile on his stuff. But I was kind of entertained. That felt so good. At one point he's over there talking to the fish tank. Like he's just talking. Wow. He's just talking. Did you even realize you were doing that? So, you know, what I was, what I was frustrated with was nothing important.

important, nothing serious. But it, you know, kind of, you suppress all that stuff over time. And you feel like you can't complain because you don't have anything to complain about. You're in a good spot. Life's good. Works good. And so you don't think you have the right to complain. So you don't, right? You don't complain at work. You don't, you know, there's somebody that did some, maybe that's some frivolous thing that you're like, God dang it, why did you have to, you know, you don't put that there. That's not where that goes. You put it over here. We all. know it stays here this is where everybody else puts it why do you move it over here and you know just people have habits about themselves they're just not the same as you and you've got us you can't make

us fuss or stink about things like that and i had been piling up a bunch of stuff about thing you know silly stuff like that and i got home and i was like i'll tell you what the hell is fissing me off and then i stopped and i said are you sure i can do this i'm like yeah go ahead and she's like let her rip and i was like all right i mean this don't don't you know this is going to be my mind stop me and go, Dale, this is nothing to be mad about. Stop. Well, there were so many opportunities to stop him, but he had another issue. Like, there was still, like, another thing you wanted to talk about. So I felt like I just needed to let him go.

Man, it felt good. It was awesome. So. It's hilarious. Because as soon as he was done, he's like, oh, I feel better. Thanks for that. It's all I did. So, yeah, like, the next day was a better day.

The next day was an even better day. Like, yesterday I had an incredible day. Like, one of the best days that I've had in a long time. in an environment that's usually really stressful and anxiety ridden for me. I was at a photo shoot and I was out of my element and I was around a bunch of people that were, I was, you know, just feeling a little pressure.

He wasn't around like his typical racing community. Yeah, I was feeling, I was feeling a little pressure to nail it. And, man, I went in there with a great attitude and kicked ass. But,

uh, he left the house a little mopey and he talked himself into having a good attitude as he was flying in. Yeah. He's like, you know, I'm looking out the window and I see all these beach. He's going down to Florida and he's like, it's so beautiful.

And I realize all my problems are so stupid. I should just have a good day. I'm like, that's exactly right. Choose joy and have a good day. And he said he did. Yeah. So that's your mindset. Everybody, listen, if you're in a relationship, a really good one, this needs,

it needs to be a good relationship, not a new one. Don't do this after, you know, 10 dates. But if you're in a good relationship, you should every now and then, maybe once a month or so, just let your partner unload and just sit there and let it happen. That was one of the coolest things that Amy could have done for me in that moment. I don't know that, you know, she does all kinds of little gestures and acts of service and all these things all the time. But that was like low effort for her.

All she had to do is sit there and listen, but man, it was so helpful. Well, we did learn that in therapy. So our therapist told us years ago, she said, you always have to remember that if you need help to preface when you're talking to, especially she told me, men feel like they have to fix everything. I'm like, I find that to be ironic because I'm the one doing all the things. Like, I need, I need your help, but I only ask when I need your help. So, like, that was hard for me to learn. But I feel like I've learned that enough now to know that you're just venting and to let you vent. So, like, if you need help with something, a girl's listen up. Apparently, you're supposed to

say, hey, honey, I need your help. Can you listen to me? Or, hey, honey, I'm so annoyed. I just need to vent. And then you can turn your ears down and not really listen and then just let the person go. But apparently that is a real tool that's actually helped us, which now we're not even doing, we're not prefacing it anymore. We kind of know better. But it took us a while. Dude, me and Amy had this awesome therapist named Jane and incredible lady, incredible. Like I therapy, I've been in and out of therapy all my life for different things, you know, and working on different stuff. and sometimes you'll go to a therapist and it just isn't working.

And you're like, I just fix this myself, you know. Or it's just not a connection with that person. We had this great relationship with her. She came to our wedding. Like she was one of the last. She was more like a life coach. Yes, we had this awesome picture of us walking down the aisle walking out. And she's standing right there.

She was the reason why all that happened. Yeah. And so, but she told us, it's simple. you know, she told us a lot of awesome advice, but one of the, one of the ones we remember, so I would come, you know, I'm around Amy, we're together, you know, going through this relationship, and, you know, I would, I would start complaining about something and she would be, or she might start complaining about something that happened to her or that she's not happy with or, and it might not have anything to do with me. And I'm like, what do I need to do? Just tell me

what to do. I'll fix it. Like on guard, like, and uncomfortable. Yeah, and well, my reaction is to go, just give me the order of what specifically it is that I can do to fix this and erase all this stress or, you know, fix the whole problem. I'll fix it. Tell me what it is. But sometimes she didn't need me to do that. And sometimes she would tell me things just so she needs someone to hear it.

And so we would get in arguments when we're really, really, like we would. Wait, this is going awry. Why are you getting frustrated? We get an argument and I'm like, well, just tell me what to do to fix it. I can fix it for you. And she's like, shut up and listen. Just shut up and listen. And we would get into these little weird conversations that we're going nowhere and

and then we'd get mad, be mad at each other. We're mad because we're mad at each other. We're mad because we're mad and then we're. So stupid. And she's like, listen. She's like, before you, if you don't need Dale's help or if you don't need any of help, you got to start with, I don't need you to fix anything. I just need to tell, and it's a neat event.

I don't need you to do anything. Like, because, you know, you'll have, like, Amy, or I might have a problem with somebody, right? And I'll be like, man, you know, this person piss me off. Well, Amy's reaction is to go, I'll handle this, you know. They have pissed off. Not anymore. Back in the day, we've calmed down a little bit with that kind of thing. Yeah, but, like, well, I'll, next time I, next time I see that person, I'll handle this.

And so, but, you know, so you got to preface it, like, I don't need you to do anything. You don't have to get involved. But I just wanted to tell you what happened, and I'm mad about it. And help me understand how to get over it or get through it. And so those little, that's silly, that sounds silly, that sounds insignificant to say, hey, I need your help before you go into the dialogue about what you want to say, right? Or, hey, I don't need your help. I just need to tell you.

It changes the tone of the entire conversation. Because the person hearing it goes, all right, I can relax. She doesn't need me to fix anything. I'm just going to listen. And I'm just going to get, you know, I'm just going to hear it, hear it and help her sort of, you know, calm down or whatever. And so, yeah, that stuff was, that stuff was really helpful. But, man, if you're, like, having a stressful day and a shi piling up or you feel like it's piling up, like, if your partner can be like, here, man, just let it just, just unload, you know, we're sitting here, getting ready to have dinner.

you're in the house or whatever, just sitting around on the couch. Just get up and march around for about 20 minutes, just cussing at everything that you're mad about and everybody. And boy... You can also do this when you're alone.

No. It's not unallowed to talk to yourself just the same, especially if you live by yourself or whatever. If you're by yourself, you can do that too. It is very therapeutic just to like get it out of your body.

So it's different for men, I think, because like in a race car, we have a button. We can talk to our cruise. We can talk to the world. A guy cuts you off. You can say, that ass.

But it's not as good, or it doesn't feel, it doesn't feel, you don't feel the relief unless you mash the button and someone hears you say that. It doesn't care, I don't matter who hears it. Just someone needs to hear it.

That ass that just cut me off. That guy, I'm going to get him. If you say it without matching the button, it's like it wasn't even said at all. And so while Amy, I think you're right, you can mark your,

I do. I march, you know, I cuss to myself or I hit my thumb or something breaks and, you know, I'm like, yeah, that's how I'm talking about. Like, I'll walk around just like, not super loud, but like if I'm walking dust, sometimes I talk to myself louder than I probably should. Just to like get things off my chest. And as I'm saying them out loud, I realize how stupid it is to begin with. And then I feel better. And I don't think about it anymore. Well, I like saying, I like getting out of my chest, but I need you to hear it. You just want the attention. I need your attention. That's what it comes down to. So back to school shopping, I know you've been doing a little bit of that. Yeah, so the girls are going back to school in a couple weeks, and Ila's got her list. And so I take the girls while you're out of town to Target to do her back to school shopping. And there's this, like, perfect little section in the back of the store. And so me and all the other moms with their kids are back there kind of like politely, just like with our little list, like going from the thing to the thing. Because they're kind of the same, you know, like you need the pencils and then you need the pencil bag.

and they're all just perfectly, like, right next to each other. So you kind of hit this spot, then you turn, and you go to the next spot. And so you have to be kind of methodical about the way you're moving through here. But I've got Nicole in the cart because I just knew better than to let her free willy-nilly. Oh, yeah, because there's all kinds of fun little kiddy stuff. Yeah. Even the school supplies are very kiddy and fun. Yeah.

And then Ila has her list, and I'm making her read off what she needs, and she's helping me pick out her things and put them in the cart. And so it just was nostalgic for me. There are so many cool things now. We had cool things growing up too. And they've gotten kind of, I feel like more rigid about what you're allowed to have in school just so it's not such a show and tell. But yeah, we did have a little bit of, you know, leaning over the cart to grab it this and that. The other ILO's dead set on getting a new backpack even though she has 30.

And so like there was a lot of like, excuse me, there was a lot of trying to wrangle their thoughts as we're trying to like get the things and get out. and like all the other moms, we're all chuckling at each other because the kids are all doing the same things and they're all wanting these like shiny purple things and it's like, nope, we have to have this red folder and da-da-da-da-da. And so it was just like a fun learning experience and fun moment for me. Last year I got on Amazon and just ordered it all. So I didn't have to go through this. And this year I was like, you know what?

I'm just going to idle this reading now. I'm going to take her. I'm going to make her pick it all out herself. I make her read through the list. And I think that they both enjoyed it and it was pretty fun. But the experience for me was honestly far less stressful than when I went as a kid with my sisters and my mom. I mean, she had three of us to do, but don't you remember wanting to picket the trapper keepers and all that fun stuff and like what design you got and everybody's digging through all the shelves and there's like a mess of stuff everywhere? It didn't look like that in the store anymore.

What like, do you remember going back to school shopping? Yeah, yeah. It was like a chaos. Everything mixed in. I feel like it was chaos. Little things mixed in with other things. And I don't remember. We're getting like a hard list from the school either.

It's just like get your school supplies. Yeah. I mean, but it was so much, I feel like that's because it was so basic back then. Like you needed pencils, number two pencils. You needed erasers to go on them. And because the little tiny stubby eraser is going to break off or get ripped off. Um, and you're going to get a spiral notebook. Um, maybe a trapper keeper.

Uh, the, the click open note, you know, binder. Winders, yeah. But otherwise it was very, I mean, there wasn't a whole lot of creativity in the school supplies back in my day. So I felt like there was in my day, like the 80s, late 80s, early 90s. Like, I mean, you could have unicorns with rainbows, like all the fun. Yeah, but I was older. I was in senior high, so we weren't doing rainbows and uniforms. Oh, we had all kinds of random fun stuff.

We weren't doing excite bike. The clicky pins that had all the colors around the top that you click the color, you know what I mean? I got one of those right now. You do? Yeah. Oh, you do. The one I had was white and it was really, it was honestly kind of fat. We did it.

Yes. I had those. There's all kinds of stuff like that. And it usually broke and then you didn't have a pen. Well, you sit there and clicked it forever. Yeah, you were sitting there messing with it. So they've omitted the opportunity to have any of that phone stuff in your school box. Oh, yeah.

Really? That sucks. Yeah, it kind of does suck. But I remember that pen, uh, had all the colors in, in one pin. But I never really remember using anything. I remember just clicking it and having it. and having it and everybody having one, and we'd take it apart.

Yes, the spring is, yes. And then put it out together and take it apart and put it again. Why do we do that? I don't know. It was just too easy. It must have come apart pretty easily. I needed to like modify my spring. Yeah.

Did you stretch it out? I always stretched my out too far and I couldn't get it back to you're like, oh man, now I got a really got a good spring in this thing now. And the only ink color that ever worked was the green one, which is the last color you wanted to use. The blue and the black never worked and the red just, you couldn't see it. Yeah. I remember white out.

Remember when you used to white out my fingernails? Really? Yeah, in class. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, we, I remember white out. I remember when white out like was not, you know, somewhat, I'm sure it was invented way before, but I remember the first time I saw it and I was like, holy crap. And then you can write on top of it.

Yeah. You know. The original whiteout, though, you had to get it on there really, really nice to be able to write on top of it. Otherwise, it was like chunky and then you ripped the paper. When they had the tape that was. Oh, the tape white out. Oh, yeah. But it clicked, too.

So, like, it made a lot of noise. Well, that's okay. I mean, kind of. Sometimes I would get embarrassed to make a noise in class. I know that you didn't because you were the class clown, but I didn't want attention at school. And so I didn't feel comfortable doing that kind of thing, but I remember playing with the whiteout.

I remember the number two pencils that had all the NFL teams. And so, you know, I always had to have the Washington pencil and chargers, chiefs. So I remember all of those. It was pretty cool. I don't have, remember having any cool pencils. I just remember never having enracers. Like, never ever being able to erase anything. I'm trying to think about the cool things.

Like, I mean, you're, the backpacks. When you were really young, people had those crayon boxes of all 64 and the sharpener in the back. I know. That's what you knew you had money. That was a flex move. If you came to school with a 64 pack with the sharpener in the back. Yeah, I was like, this guy's got money. Yeah.

I never had one of those. Yeah. I didn't either. Did y'all, did y'all ever use the pencil sharpener on the wall? Yes. Oh, yeah. Yes. I wish they still had those.

I used to borrow a pencil just to do it because I wanted to get up and walk. Yeah. It's very satisfying grinding it through that thing. Yeah. They don't use those anymore. Oh, that sucks. That was a staple. You buy the pencil sharpened already, and then, like, you're supposed to go to school with, like, a box of 20. So, like, I don't think they ever really sharpened anything.

No. I really, I don't think so. They're not even supposed to have a little sharpener in their pencil bag, so. Really, just throw out the pencil when it's done? They guess they just throw it out. That's a waste. They stick in their backpack and bring it home. Yeah, I don't remember much.

I'm trying to think of other cool things that we had or used in school. I don't think I ever really had a trapper keeper. I did, and it fell apart. And then my mom wouldn't buy me a regular binder. She's like, you should have taken care of that thing. So bubble tape. Yeah, bubble tape. So here's the ending of our shopping experience.

The girls were great. They really did pretty well. I was impressed with their attitudes and how efficiently we got through there. We didn't leave the store with like a bunch of other stuff, which is a hard thing to do at Target. That's like there's so many cute fun things. It's like a guy going to Lowe's. It's like a guy going to Lowe's or Best Buy. Or that computer store that's downtown that you like to go to now.

For, you know, to get you a number 10 socket or a 16th socket. You come home with the whole toolbox. A whole toolbox, yes. And a new ceiling fan or a plant or whatever, yeah, things you don't eat. So we get to the checkout. Ila has commissioned for some gum. I'm like, yes, you can have some gum. Well, I want this bubble tape.

I'm like, ew, gross, bubble tape. And she goes, yeah, daddy gets it for me. Does Daddy get her bubble tape, by the way? Does Daddy give her bubble tape? When I've had bubble tape in my possession, yes, I've shared it. When do you buy bubble tape? I feel like there's this whole extra like a couple of hours that you've had in life that I don't know about where you're buying candy. Like when do you do that?

There was some bubble tape made its way into my stock in one year. I didn't put that in your stock in. You're sure? I'm pretty sure. I didn't buy you bubble tape. Okay. Well, somehow or another I got some bubble tape. And I ended up hiding it from myself up on the top shelf.

in the cupboard. As soon as you walk in the cupboard up on that, I always put like candy on the very, very top shelf as soon as you walk in the door. Yeah, you like to put things too on top of the box. I have all the pharmaceuticals in too. So I got to get the box down to get the kids some sinus medicine and something hits me right in the face. That's fun, but keep going. There was some bubble tape up there. And I forgot about it. So like, you know, months and months and and months later, I'm like, oh crap, bubble tape, a little extra bonus bubble tape. Is it hard and crunchy at this point? It wasn't fine. It was fine. Shoot, girl. You know, gum, gum's got a pretty damn long life. Shelf life, sorry, life shelf.

So you shared it with her at some point. I don't want to, I don't want to even admit how old some of the tops baseball card bubble gum I've ate. Oh my God. Oh, that's the worst type of gum, too. It's bad gum, but I mean, I still ate it. Just to see if you could? No, but, I mean, you know, you're collecting baseball. We would buy So I don't know This is probably in the It's probably 89, 90, maybe 91, 92 You could

You can still buy like 83 tops In unwrapped You could buy the whole box, the whole box of packets And sit there and just unwrap Unwrap, unwrap, unwrap Chewing gum, chewing gum And I mean it turned, as soon as you put it in the mouth It turned into powder

And then it would be like a couple seconds later it would reform into gum. It's so gross. It's so gross. It's so. I find that to be so ironic too because you won't, you will throw out pickles that are a past date, even if they haven't been opened.

Except for the, Butler's orchard. Those ain't going anywhere. Okay, so back to the gum. Yeah. We're at the checkout. We get some bubble tape. Ila waits until we get in the car and I let her have it.

And she gives herself some and she politely gives her sister some to share. Nicole's had gun plenty of times before. Oh gosh. And we're riding home and we get close to the house and Nicole says, I'm done with my gum, mom. And so I reached my hand back thinking she's going to put it in my hand. And she goes, it's okay, I already put it at my cup holder. And I was like, okay, I'm thinking I'll just get it out when I get home. We parked the car.

The girls are getting out. Nicole needs help getting out of her seat. She's got her foot in the cup holder on the left side of her car seat. And so I'm like, why are you, she's like sitting and saying all weird. So I'm trying to get her out without. getting us both annoyed. She's four, everybody. She's four.

This is crazy. But she's, she's not four. She's, she's 12. At least 12 in that mind sometimes. And so she's just like in a bad attitude. She's having a bad attitude. She's got her foot in the cup holder. And so as I'm getting her out, her foot kicks the cup holder out and now it rolls underneath the car.

I'm like, all right, I look in the other side. There's no gum in that one. I'm like, okay, well, it must be in the one under the car, which I'll fetch later. And so we get out and get in the house. And I turn around and look at her, and that gum is not in the cup holder. It's in her freaking hair. Oh, no. It's right here in the front of her hair.

Smashed. I'm like, she knew. The kid knew it wasn't in the cup holder. She was just too scared to say anything. And as she should be, because I was so mad. This girl's hair is gorgeous, which is beyond the point of the fact that she shouldn't have stuck it in there to begin with. But her hair's long. And I'm like, panicked.

How am I going to get this gum out? And of course I take to the internet and there's like all these like opportunities to try. And so I set her down and it's right here next to her face. and I'm holding ice cubes on it trying to get it to like harden up so I can just pull her hair out. And she keeps going, mom, mom, I'm like, quit pulling. And she goes, you're hurting me. I was like, you don't move. Just don't move.

We both need to just close your eyes. We're both going to take a 30 second time out and just make sure that this works. And so finally, like, it gets hardened up where I'm pulling it off and we got it out. But she knew exactly what she did and lied to me the whole time. And this is the problem I have with her. Like, she'll straight look at me and just lie to me and just wait to see what I'm going to do. And I don't know how to handle that. Because she thinks it's funny.

But yeah, yeah, this is just how, like, the process of our days just go. Target, bubble gum, everything's fine, and all of a sudden, boom, gum in the hair. I thought we were going to have to cut her hair off. I did, too. I told her, I was like, we're going to have to cut your hair. So after I got it out, she goes, are we cutting my hair now, Mom? I'm like, didn't faz her at all. She was just going to let me cut her into a little bob.

Wow. She didn't care. Wow. I don't know what to say about that part of the attitude. I just can't figure it out. I can't figure out how to harness it either. but, you know, we got the gum out. Yeah.

But I don't like, I'm not a fan of bubble tape. I like, I like, no, we're just going to read that in the bag. Bubble tape is good gum. It's kind of like the Big League chew. Yeah. Just really pure, basic, you know, regular, just regular gum. Yeah. I like Big League Cheap.

Yeah, grape is good. Yeah. But, yeah. I like it, too. I think I like bubble tape and Big League Chew because of the shape it's in. bazooka's good, but it's square, and oftentimes, like, you got to get, you got to chew it to get it to soften up.

But it was, it's really hard until you kind of like get to chewing, chewing the bazooka, it softens up a little bit, unless you want to keep it on the dash, you know, on a hot summer day, then it'd be amazing. But, um, yeah, like Bigley Chew and Bubble tape is always ready to go. What is your go-to candy? I know it's dark chocolate's a bit of, big favorite. But like when you want, if you could eat like something tartar, sweeter candy,

like if I'm going to a theater and I'm going to get chocolate, not like a, you know, not a classic, not classic candy. Like go to the store, walk into the convenience store and get the gaudiest, you know, nerds cluster or some crazy shit like that. If I'm going to go get candy, it's usually like a peanut M&M or Rolos, those are my two favorites because I do like chocolate. But if I have to get something sugary, I'm going to get Starburst. Really? Yeah. Okay.

Because they just taste the best. Yeah. What's your favorite? Starburst. I like Pop Rocks, too. Those are just fun. What's the favorite color of Starburst? The pink ones.

I like the yellow ones, too. I don't know that they all, they do taste a little different, I guess. Yeah, they do. They do. They taste different. I liked sprees, runts. Razzle. I don't like razzles because they turn into gum, and I felt like that was weird.

That, you know what? eating a razzle is it razzle or razzler Razzles Eating a razzle is exactly Like eating 10 year old tops Bubble gum It is You take the razzle and you throw in your mouth

And you start chewing and it turns into like a powder And then it forms into gum Exact same experience Eating old baseball gum That's so gross When you're a kid or a teenager You don't give a shit No you don't

No you're like Give me that tops gum I'm here by myself. Who's going to judge me? This feels like... I'm opening up my card packs. Nobody's here to judge you. Nobody's here to judge me.

It was always stuck to like a really bad player too. So you didn't really care about the card. It's not stuck to nothing. Yeah, well, the gun was always stuck to a card. It's like got this sort of powder. Yours weren't old enough to... No, no, it's got this powder stuff around it. It keeps it from...

It's like a pet... You know, when you're trying to make a pizza on top of a counter. You got to put... Throw the... Got to throw the... The dough? Flour down. The flower.

I don't know. I just wanted the gum. I don't know if I wanted the cards that much. No, you just wanted the gum. You're just probably very fresh. Yeah. I think I stole a pack when I was really young and just got the gum. And I left the cards on there.

I just wanted the gum. Dude, you stole? I did. You've never stolen anything? I probably, yes. I mean, only a couple times. Yeah. Yeah.

I stole a pack of lucky strike cigarettes. Why? So I worked at a gas station, pumping gas, full service station. I got a full service station. a speeding ticket and my dad said you know I've been around I've been around my dad's shop listening to all them boys and guys and all his buddies talking talk and talk and they you know I had to call my lawyer help me he turned my speeding ticket into a muffler ticket and this not another and I heard that over and over and I got a speeding ticket 16 years old

and I'm like hmm hopefully dad's going to help me figure out how to turn this speeding ticket into a muffler ticket. And he goes, guess you got to get a job? And I was like, damn. So I went and got a job at a gas station down the road from where we lived on, it's that Exxon station right off of exit 36 that's closed right in front of the Woffa House. In that, I worked in there for a summer pumping gas. And I was going to high school.

And I thought I didn't smoke, cigarettes. But I was like, you know what? I kept seeing them lucky strike. on the wall in the box up there and I'm like they were just talking to you I wonder what that's like you got a filter on or nothing and so I stole a pack and tried to smoke them and then what happened and it was terrible I had like I got it come out did you like choke on it well I you know the tobacco gets in your mouth I was like what do you what do you do you got to like get a straw and stick a straw on the end of it what do you do here um because it's like terrible you needed like one of

old school cigarette holders. Yeah, like, how do you smoke a lucky strike in the back of not getting your mouth? It comes fall out of the cigarette. It's, I don't know. So. These are not things that Alex Sims has ever been curious about. Ever? No, never. He's so pure.

I don't think they were, like, when I was growing up, that wasn't really. It wasn't as popular. Yeah, it really wasn't. But I was just so curious about a lucky strike and how you smoked it. So I stole them. I'd probably lifted something else at some point. I was living in a mill house with mom back in like 1980, six years old. And we had these kids that lived across the street from us.

And they were our age. And they were boys. Me and Kelly would hang out with them from time to time. But they were bad news. And even at six years old, I kind of felt it like I didn't need to, they were bad news. they weren't friendly. They wanted to hang out, but they were going to get you in trouble.

And we had a gas station at the end of the road about four blocks away. And we went down at that gas station, and they ran in there. We went in there, and they stole something. They're like, go, run, run. And I'm like, I ain't stole nothing, but I'm going to get in trouble, you know.

And so I never really wanted to hang out with them anymore after that. Didn't you tell me once that they took your shoe? And then two days, three days, maybe a couple weeks later, I had these gray Adidas with blue stripes. And they were kind of like the soccer tennis shoe Adidas. And I had just gotten them. And two weeks later, the damn kid across streets wearing my shoes. Really?

Yeah. Did you leave him out on the porch or something? I don't know how you got them. Yeah, well, your mom's probably like shoes out of the house. Yeah. Like I do. I don't know if he's put him on when he was in my house or something, but I'm like, hey, thames look like my shoes.

Thems look like my shoes. Hey, this is Dale Jr. And for the latest, bless your heart gear, go to shop.durdymomedia.com. We've got plenty of options for everybody and adding new stuff every day. Go to shop.durdymomedia.com. So we talked about me going to work a job. I was, I flew to Florida this week. to be in a hard rock back shoot.

I think it's going to be a commercial. There's some videos, some print. And John Daly and Mike Tyson are in this commercial. And so I've not ever met them. They actually shot on different days than me. But I hadn't been on a big shoot like that in a long time. I used to do stuff like that all the time with the Bud and Amp and Mountain Dew. These big huge shoots in L.A. and all over the place.

and I walked up on this house and they had cranes and... He was very... Dozens of people running everywhere. Yeah, he didn't understand really what he was walking into. I didn't know. I didn't have any idea. He was like, oh my gosh, I didn't realize how big this was. I'm not used to this anymore.

There were about 50 extras. Wow. All in having this pool, they were sort of staging this pool party in the back. And man, it was fun. Felt like I was a full-time NASCAR driving rock star. Maybe that's why you had such a good day. Like it gave you some energy. You know what I mean?

Yeah, it did. Yeah, it was fun. While I was there, so when we're shooting, we're shooting this music video at a house, or not a music video, we're shooting this video for a hard rock bed at that. Settle down there. At a house, it felt like a music video. We're shooting this content at this house,

huge mansion in this neighborhood. And there was this kind, kind man that owned this house. And his family, his wife and kids were out of the country. And he was still staying there while this entire crew had taken over the entire house. They had put cardboard down on all the floors. All the furniture was moved out of the way around the edges of the room. And they had taken over every room and were working and filming and staging and recording and doing something everywhere. There was makeup here and clothes racks over here for all the extras.

They had so many clothes racks. and people just wondering all over this guy's house. And I didn't know that the owner was there, but he come up to me. He goes, hey, man, I got a gift for you. I'm on the home here. I'm like, you're here? He's like, yeah.

I was like, where's your family? He's like, oh, my wife and kids, they're overseas. I'm just staying here during this. I was like, I wouldn't be here. If this was happening in my house, I wouldn't want to see it. I would leave and hope for the best. Yeah. And he's like, oh, it's fine.

I've done this. We do this so many times. you know, my wife knows some people when the house gets used like this often, so we kind of used to it. And he said, hey, would you, I want to ask you all,

like, on the spot, can you give me an inspirational quote that you like? That I like? Yeah, give me an inspirational quote. Kim's. Does that have you like a... Give me an inspiring quote that matters to you,

that you would share with me or anyone or, or like a real one not like a funny give me Tim's motto give me Tim's motto for life to do something you've never done you have to go I don't know actually messing this up um this is hard I it is hard all right Tim mine is always you've failed already you've made my point Amy inspirational quote mine has always just been to choose joy choose joy all right okay simple it's a simple life motto choose joy so this guy says I've got this um

I've got this sort of thought board that he has teenage kids. And he's like, so the day before I was at this house, there were five Hall of Fame NFL football players. And then tomorrow or today, John Daly's there. And then Mike Tyson will be there the fourth day. And so he is getting everyone to write a quote on this thought board. for his kids. And at the top of this thought board, it says something like, you know, messages for life or something. And he walks up and he goes, hey, you know, I wanted to give you this gift.

Appreciate you're awesome. You know, I've been fan of yours and watched your dad and all that. And super nice guy. And he goes, can you write, would you mind writing an inspirational quote on this board for my kids? I was going to give it to my kids. and I thought, damn, that's cool. I can't believe you didn't write if you ain't first or last. I mean, that would have been like the NASCAR quote.

That would be funny. Yeah. So. He's shaking his head in shame. Don't mean that he won't hear ten times. That's right. So he walked out of the room and he goes, I was going to do, I said, yeah, I'll do it. I'll do it.

I'll do it. No problem. So he walks out of the room. And I'm standing there, I'm going, what the hell kind of quote am I going to put on this thing? Gosh, he's getting all these other guys to write quotes. I bet they're amazing quotes. You know, football players, boy, they've been coached their whole lives. They've heard every great inspirational thing that could be said to them, right?

So they have this, you know, this library of all these awesome, yeah, thoughts and stuff. And I'm like, I don't have a quote. I don't have a motto. And so I googled quotes. And it first showed me Dale Earnhardt quotes. And I was looking through them. And I was like, oh, there's a couple good ones. But I don't need to write that.

What if, you know, what if somebody saw this and went, that's dad. That's his damn dead his quote. That's not his quote. And so I was like, dare I Google my quotes? Dare I do. Dare I Google myself. Damn it. It's weird to Google yourself.

You shouldn't do that, right? But in this instance, I'm thinking, I think I have to do it because I can't come up with a quote. And I really want to deliver. And so I, um, I googled my quotes, and one of them that said, I never wished to be anyone else. There were 30 quotes, different ones, like weird, funny, stupid, silly things that I've ever said in articles and whatnot.

But that one right there, it was like, I never wished to be anyone else. That was the quote. And I was like, I can work with this. I can work with me. I know. So I went in there and I saw the, he's in his office and I was like, hey man, where's this thing you want me to take care of sign? And he shows it to me. And he, there it is. All the football players. Just beautiful handwriting. I mean, incredible, incredibly good handwriting. Yeah. And just all these awesome, like really good quotes about just take life by the horns, you know, just go kick ass and be awesome. And I'm like, man, I'm glad I didn't write if you're not first, your last. Or something like cheesy. Like beer calories don't count or something like that.

You could have written something for a found. Honey, of course that crossed my mind. But when I went in there, I was like... Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the fog. Yeah, I mean, I can't. Yeah. Boobies and buffalo shrimp or something like that. You can't move forward, looking back.

I mean, you know, there's a bunch of some, you know, they fall in line with a car or racing. I get it. But, I mean, those other guys wrote something that these kids could actually benefit from. I wanted to put something on the board that they might actually read and go, hmm I will take that advice you know yeah and so I wrote I never wish to be anyone else be you be confident and I thought you know because I worry about my girls and their confidence well everybody always wanted to be somebody else had said yeah I'm worried about them having

having the confidence that they're good enough and what whatever you know whatever whether it through school or in in prod you know when they're working on projects or trying to create or build or do anything that their ideas or their method or their approach is good enough be proud and confident in your your decision in the direction you want to go and so i was like hey that's that's good i'll write that and um that guy was pretty happy about it my handwriting was probably not the not the best but was it was it was definitely legible i was very careful i was very careful to write it there's no point in writing that on the the awesome quote if they can't even I know it.

Yeah. And my handwriting is pretty bad, but I thought my handwriting was really average until I see other people's handwriting. I'm like, man, it's like I need to go practice. You write a lot, but you're a lefty and you turn the page completely upside down. So there's a lot of disadvantages to running on the wall. From this moment forward, like if somebody, if somebody needs a quote or wants to know a motto, you better have one ready, Tim. You better have one ready.

Yeah, that's tough. Mine is now and forever. Life motto, if you go to Mexico, don't drink the water. Don't drink the water. Don't drink the water. I don't have it on me, and I wish I did, but Jerky Boys is back in the store. We've been away. I've been gone for two weeks without jerky.

It has been torches. That is really why his attitude got so sour. That might be it. That's what it was. It has been a rough couple of weeks without jerky. And, but I, I see. Rodney Childers kids in there. That's Rodney Childers, two sons.

Yeah, I saw him walk by. I have an exercise that I want to do, and Tim's, you're going to do it. Okay. And when people... So, can someone be a witness to Tim's doing this act? So go to create a tweet, and maybe he, maybe you've already done this.

Create a tweet. Maybe you've already done this. Type in, hey, GROC. Hey, you know GROC? Yeah, the AI. Type in, hey, GROC. Who is the most famous person to visit my profile? I didn't know what GROC was.

He had to explain this to me last night. I know what chat GBT is, and that's as far as I go. Did you type it? Yeah, do I have to tag GROC in it? Yeah, at GROC. So this will be visible. You're talking to, it will, it's going to respond to you. So will everybody that follows you be able to, be able to,

If you want no one to see this, don't just tag GROC first and don't put the period before it. Grock, who is the most famous person to visit my profile? It's supposed to just show up? It'll respond to you in another tweet. Grop?

Oh, but they won't see it. Who's they? People. People won't see this. It's not been an embarrassing situation. If you start to tweet with at Grock. Tim's, I'm going to do it. too.

Oh, I got it. All right. I got it. What's Grock say? It says, based on mutual connections and public data, Dale Earnhardt Jr. stands out as the most famous person to visit your profile. Did Dale set himself up for just a little ego fluffs here?

I must have been a set up. I'm sure that mine is going to say the same thing. What if it was like Sidney, what would you do there? Oh, man. What would you do? I would be in her right away. He's already his pants.

Plenty. We're done here. I don't think. I don't think of having it. anything left to do that. What the hell? Four people. Where is it?

Amy responded. It said me. And now there's other people responding back. People are like, Dale Jr., are you seeing this? Amy, whoa, what's this activity going on here? No one, no gronk, or whoever the grok is. Grok has responded. Yes, he did.

Donnie's like Amy freaking earner. Amy Grock did respond. Well, what is it? Read it. Just you? Yes. You're doing this on purpose. Has anybody else responded to your tweet?

No, nobody. Mine's just me and Grock. Go ahead and delete it before anybody sees this. That's so funny. Should I respond with, damn it? I'm going to retweet Amy. I'm going to retweet Amy. Oh!

Don't do it. Let me get there. Oh, screenshot. Let me see. I said Dale made me do this. Ralph, that was rotten of you. I should have known better. I mean, I should have freaking known better.

I had no bad intentions. But damn, this played out perfectly. Yeah, but you knew it. Hey, guys, Dale and I are in the Dirty Mo Media Studio for Bless Your Heart today, and we are here for your questions for Ask Amy. We're excited that you're here. If you haven't already, please hit subscribe on our YouTube page. Also, don't forget to check out all of the merch at shop.

Dot dirtymo Media.com. All right, Timmy, what you got? All right. Well, I haven't called Timmy since high school. I know. Sorry, that just flew out. My God. First questions from Jerry.

He wants to know who initiates going on vacation and who does most of the planning. I would say I do the planning. I don't know. We kind of initiate. It just depends on what it is. Dale's not going to go anywhere unless somebody else has teed it up. Sorry. Dale, turn your phone off.

He's laughed at himself. No, I'm on our live chat. It's us. Why are we doing this? So I can engage with the group. Good morning. Good morning. You do both initiate and plan.

He says, good morning. He has places he wants to go, and he leaves it up to me to, like, find the location, do the hotel and do all the organizing for the most part. Is that right? I mean, I don't know. If Dale wants to go anywhere, he's like, it's his typical. Key West or somewhere he's been before. But if something new is arising, it's because I brought it up. Barbara wants to know why you call me Ralph.

So I started calling Dale Ralph because he didn't hear me call him Dale anymore. Like when we first started dating, if I wanted his attention, especially when he was at the racetrack all the time. If I said Dale, he was not going to turn around and look at me. So I started calling him Ralph just to get his attention. And he swiveled very quickly. So I'm like, okay, that's it. I'm just going to call him Ralph.

And it just stuck. And now he kind of likes it. It's like an endearing nickname. It is. No one else calls me that. Yeah, it is his first name. Next question. Spencer needs some help based off you guys taking the kids to Hershey Park a couple weeks ago.

He's taking his kids six and two to a theme park for the first time. Any tips to help make the day go smoothly? Okay, that's a lot to do, especially with his heat. So I would say make sure you have your stroller for the two-year-old. Yes. Or double for both just in case they need a timeout. Take, go get the cheapest, junkiest stroller you can find. Or rent one at the part.

park if they do that and don't call yours. Don't worry about, you know, just take it just because they're going to want you to carry them. Yeah. Or you're going to have... It's hilly. Yeah. It's hilly there. Yeah. It's a chocolate. And you're going to buy stuff, so you need, like, storage compartments for all the stuff. I would say also get those clip on rechargeable fans, so you have those. Those are, I mean, if you have a two-year-old and there's going to be a nap or something, if you're going all day, I would suggest doing that. They have a water park, which we did not do. So, like, there's a... There's just something to think through, but we ended the day making chocolate bars.

I definitely think that's a good way to end the day versus starting the day. It's kind of like a little bit of a process. And then you get to ride a ride at the end and it's cool. So it's just a good way to end. And there's just like a gigantic store full of all types of candy. Which you don't want to walk around the park with. It's a lot of fun. There's a few rides for the six-year-old that are kind of in between that are fun.

like everything's a little spread out too, so you have to make sure you, I would hit those first, to be honest, because there's not that many of them, like two roller coasters that I did, the Super Dooper, and then what was the other one? Casper? No, Comet. Comet. Comet. Yeah, comment.

Hit those first and then just stay in the kiddie park area, so it's just easier for you. Yeah. That's a great time. The kids keep talking about it. Oh, that's awesome. That's really good. This next one, also advice from Brooke. she needs help. She's breaking up with this guy.

And she's only been on three dates with him, and she just doesn't see it go anywhere. But her question is, do I even need to break up with him or can I just ghost him? I would say ghosting is like the easy way out, but also you're going to feel guilty about doing that. I would just tell him like, hey, this isn't working. I think you're great. But let's just be friends. That feels like an easy. Yeah. After three dates, how connected are we? That's what I'm saying. Easier to ghost there. Absolutely.

You just, not, they kind of get the hint. But that's just so rude. Like, why are we doing that? I have, I have some advice in this.

Take her to the, the axe throwing thing? Nope. Nope. I just have a, have a motto. Okay. This isn't something I would have written

on the thought board. It actually, it actually does. It works across, it works for everything. Okay. The hardest thing, the hardest thing to do

is usually the right. root to take. Yeah, absolutely. So like, if you say, you know, it's easy just to say screw it, not call them, just going about my life, yes, that is the easy way to do it. But the best way to do it is usually the hardest way. And it's good

for your character to do that. It'd be the most uncomfortable and awkward, but it's, it's the right way. You're going to feel better about just, even if it's just a text message, you can send that and just be done with it. I send it and block him. Like, at least you said something. Damn, I don't know that. That's harsh, too.

Mude him, block him, whatever. What did I do? He's like, wow. I got don't and blocked. Double whammy. At least it's better than being ghost and no answers. It's just a bad day. I didn't know anything bad.

Break my heart. It'd rip my heart out. Your heart's already broken, I think. I know, but you like ripped it out and then you stumped on it. You didn't have to block me. I wasn't going to harass you. Oh my God. Maybe he will.

I feel like that's a situation. She's going to have to deal with that. Wait for the harassment. before you go, you go blah. I mean, you know, if you break up with somebody and then they're calling you two days later and going, man, kind of, you know, can you rethink this? That's when you say, all right, nope, going to have to block you. I told you didn't want anything to do with this, not interested.

I'm moving on. I don't know. I feel like it's better to sever it all together. You have said your piece, which you absolutely should do. And if you wait to get a response and he's like, okay, cool, then maybe you don't block. But what's the point, or just to lead his contact? I don't know. Amy's going to break up with you, block you, and then get a restraining order.

Listen, when I move on, I am moved on. Don't, I want to see it, hear them. Hear about it, smell it, sniff it, look at it, no. Okay. There's a question in the chat from Richard. He wants to know when Dale and you decided to go steady, what song did you put on repeat? Hell yeah, this is a good question. We didn't have any songs on repeat.

No, not us. No, what song were you listening to? Yeah. Was I, oh, sex on fire? Oh. Oh. You remember that song?

Yes, I do. What's the band's name? God dang. Kings a Leon. Yeah, Kings a Leon. That's a great song. Yeah, it is a good song. That came out too, right?

About when we're dating. Okay. That's good. All right. Good question, Richard. Oh, somebody in the chat also wants to know how the Luke Combs music video was. How was a Luke Combs video? Great.

Yeah. Luke texted me and said, hey man, I got an idea. I wanted you to be in this video. I said, I'm in no matter what. And they said, hey, I want you to, they were like, we're thinking next gen car at Charlotte, Merr Speedway.

I was like, all right. And went about a day and getting the next gen was hard. NASCAR didn't have one that we could use. It was just not easy. I have a late model shop with two late models sitting over there. So we wrapped them and went to track. County Speedway. And when you listen to the song, it does sound like a grassroots getting back to your

old roots kind of vibe. I was like, I ain't never going to run a next-gen car. That's not authentic. So let's not do that. Late model will be more sense. Let's go run a lake model, shine a light on short track racing. And I think it would be cool for people that are fans of Tri-County or fans of local short-track racing to see Luke at their track, you know, doing something at their place.

So that's got to be pretty cool. Also, Dale wanted to test at that track, too, so we got to do that. I didn't need some lap. I'm supposed to race there in October, so I didn't need to run. I'm going to go there and test, and so that was kind of a nice way to break the ice. Nice, that's good. Yeah. I have not ran laps at Tri-County in about 20 years.

I took Jeremy McGrath, the championship motorcycle, you know, I took him to, he ran a late model stock for us about seven times one year. Jeremy McGrath did, and had monster energy on it. And so I took him to try. I counted and tested and I drove the car a little bit that day. It was about 20 years ago. Damn. Wow. I've lived a life.

You lived a few kiddie lives. Life lived. You should put that on the board. Now he's only speaking in quotes. Yeah, exactly. There's a ton of them coming. Turn him off. I'm just quote me now.

Jake wants to know what's the story about getting Junebug and Gus. And is there a certain dog breed you'd like to adopt or get in the future? So Dale had a, production company Hammerhead previously, and he was doing a shoot. And Regina, who you might remember, she used to work upstairs, had a Pomeranian. And it was tiny. It was just a little puppy. And I live right around the street corner. And he's like, you got to come down here. You got to see something. I need you to see something. And I get up there. I have no idea what he wants me to see until I see this dog. And he's like, that's what I wanted you to see. This dog was like,

this tiny little poof ball, like a cotton ball just hopping around. And I'm like, oh my gosh, this is precious. I've never seen a Pomeranian before. my cat that I had had all through college was staying at his house I was starting to go out on the road with him and old Oscar figured out how to use the dog door and he lived happily ever after in the woods we found him a couple of times that he just wouldn't come back he was happy and so I he talked me into getting a Pomeranian so that I could take him with me on the road and it would be a little easier and so we found junebug and then years later after we lost killer I think it was about three or four years later we lost killer our boxer and Dale's like I want an Irish setter. I had one when I was a kid. I really want another setter. So I got online and was like researching. There are not a whole lot of those around here. The rescue groups didn't have any. And so I found a breeder in Oregon that had three puppies. One was already spoken for and two were available. And so by the time I called her, really there was only one available. And Gus was actually getting ready to go to Germany for a guy that was doing

dog shows and things like that over there. And I had told her who I was buying the dog for and that this dog was going to like have a great life. And, and we wanted to, but we wanted the calmer of the two if we could have that. And so she's like, well, actually, the calmer of the two is about to go to Germany, but let me talk to my guy because he's bought dogs for me, dogs for me before. And so she talked to him into taking the other puppy and I flew out to Oregon after we dropped you off in Phoenix. Yeah, we dropped all off of Phoenix. I went up to Oregon and got this puppy and brought him back to the racetrack. So, like, he was a little bit of a, of a chore trying to find.

But Dale was very, very dead set on having another setter. Yeah. Strange thing is, is, like, I've got a picture of me and Rocket. That was my first, that was my original Irish setter. Dad had brought Rocket home. Rocket was a, come from a litter that I think Hal Houston, who is Teresa's dad, had had a Irish setter and this

rocket come from a litter that they had and so, but Rocket was like at full grown is like three quarter of what Gus is. So I thought I was getting this you know, big but small dog right? And Gus is like a... He's a giant dog. He's giant.

And man. He's 100 pounds and he's not overweight. And he's just tall. He can walk straight up to the dining table and put his head on there. He's just big. And he is moody as hell. He's a little moody.

He loves you in the morning. It's so funny. Because in the morning, he's up, eight o'clock, we're kind of all getting up. You can go over there and lay on him and rub him, and he's happy,

and he's lifting his head. And he's like, yeah, you go over there and do the exact same thing at eight o'clock, nine o'clock at night. When he's gotten in his bed in the room. And he is growling. Do not approach. It's like a growl.

Like you really think, he could bite you. Yeah. Wow. Like it ain't like a, it's a real deal, like do not F with me. He's always done that to Dale.

Yeah. He doesn't always do that to me, but he did that to me the other day. He's got ear infections and I was trying to put his cone on him because I didn't want to lick in his paws. Sometimes he does that when he's just annoyed. And he started growling at me and I just kept going.

I'm like, you're getting this freaking cone on your head. I'm not, I'm not dealing with this. Dale's like, Amy, stop it. He's going to bite you. I never heard him growl at Amy like that.

I was getting nervous. Wow. No, we love both of them. They're just vastly different spectrums of dogs, and they get along most of the time. Most time, man. Iris setters, they, all I've met, they're pretty booty in general, I think. I know a few of them.

Interesting. Yeah. I don't remember Rocket being nothing but just a, he was an outside dog, though. Yeah. And that's what I thought Gus was going to be. And Amy's like, no. I was like, honey. We're going to have this dog in the coach.

We're going to have a dog on the airplane. He wants to chase birds. Let him out there. No. And then he's like, his dog ain't living outside. I'm like, yeah, he's going to live outside. That's what Irish settlers do.

But he's not. He's an inside dog. Yeah. Domesticated now. He likes to drink the water out of the faucet. What? Really? So we took the dog to the motor coach immediately.

He was like in and out of the bus. And then he got tall enough where he needed or he could get to the faucet. And he wanted water. At one point, it was raining. I'm like, you know what? I'm not taking you outside anymore. I'm done drying you off. And so I just turned the faucet on the bathroom and he just started drinking out of the faucet.

And so now he thinks that that's what's he's, he's supposed to do. Every night he comes, he over there, brush your teeth, he comes over to the sink. Yeah, he's like,

out of the way. Move over. You know, move over. That's fine. That's funny. That's really funny. That's funny as hell.

Yeah. cool thing to be able to do that with your spouse. But yeah, that's always a concern that you're going to spend so much time together. I think back to what we're saying earlier about prefacing, if you have an annoyance and you just need to vent or if you need help, make sure that you're, you try to keep, like, the hats on while you're at work and then take them off when you're not and then talk to each other with that friendly tone in mind. They're going into business together. They're going to be around each other all the time. Yeah. So she's worried about she's going to get super annoyed by him.

and it's going to maybe spill over. Is she already annoyed with him? Yeah, that's what I would love to know. I think that it'll be fine. You just have to remember to take a breath before you say anything. Don't just try to make sure you like keep it friendly. You know what I mean? Yeah.

I like what you said to separate the work and home. Yeah, church and stay. Make sure the hats are on where they're going. Which is hard to do. Yeah, very hard. I've seen it happen here. Like it's possible. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, they're, they should look at it as opportunity. to support each other, but also talk each other. Everybody, here's a quote, everybody's going to need talking off a ledge at some point. And so don't look at it like, oh, damn, we're going to be around each other. I'm worried. Look at it like, hey, I'm lucky I'll have this person around all the time

to help me make the right decision, not make the wrong decision here, discuss what should we do about this or buying that, investing here or whatever to grow the business. Yeah. Your mindset does have everything to do with it. You're going to have somebody in your corner, somebody you can trust. Like, man, when you get into business, you know, you're working with people that aren't family that you think have your best interest at heart, but you'll know that that person absolutely

is in it for the right reasons. And so I think it's incredible. It should work really good. I like that. It's good advice. But go outside and scream every once in a while if you need to. and then, you know. You should have one hour to scream at each other.

Every night. We're going to end the day with just screaming. And then we'll go home. Yeah. Don't take it home. Yeah. Don't drive to work together. Maybe you take separate cars.

Yeah, there you go. Set the tone for your day in your own car with your own music. Absolutely. That's a good point. Yeah. Find some separate time. Yeah. But that's all we got for asking me today. All right, guys.

Thank you for your questions. Yeah. A lot of fun. Yeah. I will close out the show with a question. Okay. Sometimes a man will plant a tree knowing that he will never sit in its shade. All right.

Where did you get that? Would you come up with that? Mike is like, oh, boom. All right, guys, thank you for a great show. Del and I had a lot of fun talking about, you know, all of our fun things, cussing, bubble tape, back-to-school shopping, and, Dale's got another quote for you guys to end our show. Yeah. When your opponent is destroying himself, do not interrupt.

That's a good quote. Just let it explode, huh? All right, guys, thank you again. Please hit subscribe on our channels, and also don't forget to check out our merch at shop.dirtymomedia.com. See you next week. Check out, check out dirtymo media. Check out dirtymo media.

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