The Dale Jr. Download - Bless Your ‘Hardt – Blind Ranking our Biggest Fears

Episode Date: April 3, 2025

Amy Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr. are back in the Dirty Mo Studio for another episode of Bless Your ‘Hardt. Amy is completely over this damn pollen overtaking the southeast, Dale’s carpentry skills are being put to their limit, and we go over the worst fashion trends happening today. Plus, Amy gets a surprise for her birthday, her and Dale try blind ranking their biggest fears, and more! Timestamps:13:34 – Surprise Carrot Cake19:28 – Dale and Isla’s Seasonal Hobby22:47 – Fashion Faux Pas34:38 – Blind Ranking Our Biggest Fears43:44 – #AskAmy Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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You're never going to forget this website because we made it unforgettable. Shop. Dot dirtymomedia.com. The following is a production of Dirtymo Media. Bless your heart. Oh, yeah, this is what it's going to be, girl. If we're going to hang out. Oh, you look amazing.

I can stare to you all day. Are you kidding? I couldn't believe it. What's going on? The world is not your trash hand. I slept till two, smoking cigarettes and drinking amp energy. Lord, have mercy. All right, so what do we got today?

First thing, I want to talk about. out as a pollen that's driving me crazy it's like a hard rain last night it we had a hard rain but it's still stuck in my head and i'm poor Nicole too she's been wrecked all week you think that's what's wrong yes they've been playing outside so much you got a sore throat i mean it's gone now it's just because i've you know when you go to sleep at night and it all settles you wake up and you're kind of clogged up no i've been outside a lot i was even walking gust the other night because he's every time he let him out he gets in the pool so i didn't let him back in the house i just took him on the walk so maybe he would dry out and we went to go visit the

donkeys and I even noticed the donkeys nostrils are full of yellow pollen. I mean like this is just we had a hard rain last night. That's some of that's what you say that's what you talk about when you're 50. Hard rain last night really knocked that pollen down. Should give you a little relief there honey. I was going to say so I don't want to say this doesn't this isn't a big deal to you because I don't want to speak for you but you're I don't you don't often show your emotions around this type of stuff.

But I was sitting upstairs with LW before we came down here to do this show my, my wife, my brother-in-law, trying to think about how he's related to me. So he, everybody's working on the short circuits this morning. I'm terrible with that stuff. I'm not good with names, numbers, phone numbers, dates, birthdays. I think it's by choice because you could spat off any. Race stat or any NCAA video game stat. I would choose to be like that.

A freaking Savon if I could be one. No, it's just you're not interested in it. You could care less. Well, that's different. That's somewhat true, but I would, some people who seem to, it seems to come so easy to remember everything. I'm terrible with remembering stuff like that. But like phone numbers, I couldn't tell you anyone's phone number about my own. No one's.

Well, I mean, in this day and age, you don't have to type it out. Yeah. Yeah. Anyhow. All right. LW. I was upstairs, and I got this picture. I took the picture this morning with your phone,

texted it to myself, so I would have it. What? My phone was in the truck, so I couldn't take the picture myself. So I took the picture with your phone, sent it to me. So I have it. I had some, has like a little spelling test every few days or so. Every Monday. Every Monday, spelling test.

And she goes to, it's 12 words, maybe. It's 10 words. Ten words. And she has to write a sentence with some of the words on the back. Man. So when you're a parent, there'll be milestones, things your kids do, that you're, you know, that you're like, you know, man, that's awesome. I can't believe it. I never thought I'd feel this way when I see them do this or that another or they take a first step or whatever, right?

Yeah. Well, one of the things, there's two things that really, really make me proud of them. Now, there's, I mean, there's a lot of things they do that make me proud, but there's two that stand out that are really. really very normal common activities that aren't that big deal. One is brushing their teeth. I wish I would have done a better job. As a child yourself. Yeah.

At 10, 11, 12, 13, right? I wish I would have done a better job with my teeth. But we all, you know, we all grow up and all of us realize, like, godly, you know. Hindsight is always 20. Yes. And you're like, you're going to the dentist and you're like, man, I should have did, you know, I should have done a better job. And, man, you see, I could get veneers or I could go get my teeth looking pretty

amazing, but you see people that have their original teeth, and you're like, man, that person did a really good job taking care of them. And I wish I would have done that. And you don't have a bunch of fake teeth? No, I don't. But since I'm happy with my teeth, but I wish I would have done better. And so, you know, I smoked all those years and did all these things that tinted the colors and stuff. And so I have to go get them bleached and all that. But anyways, long story short, Nicole doesn't like to do it, and it bothers me. Yeah. It makes me think about, like, am I going to have to literally hold her hand for all of her teenage years trying to get her to brush her teeth?

Is she always going to be a person that just refuses to do it? And is she going to skip, cheat, cut corners and be like me one day when she wakes up and she's 35 years old and goes, man, I should have done a better job of that. Now I have to go get this fixed and that fixed, and I wish I would have done a better job. And so that's one thing But the other The whole reason I'm having this conversation Is

When Ila And eventually Nicole Takes a simple silly 10 word Spelling test And brings home The 100 Or the A plus

And a wow From the teacher And a smiley face And I don't know It's very gratifying Whoa I don't know why

That is is such, I was talking to LW. I was like, I showed him a picture and I was like, man, when Wyatt was bringing these home for the first few times, didn't you, weren't you surprised at this weird feeling that it gave you of pride and happiness and joy over some silly little spelling test that's like 10 words? What do you say? I was, of course, he was like, yeah, I did get a little funny feeling about it.

And I was surprised at how that made me, how happy that made me. I didn't think it would matter that much to me. but again like I was a C student I only tried hard enough to get the C if I if I somehow ended up with a C plus or B minus I was like whoa I didn't expect to get that you know we had A's in my house no I didn't

Kelly was A's and Bs and she would have a B or one B or a couple Bs and be very disappointed I didn't care I just didn't want to fail and I'm you know otherwise mailed it in and so I was again kind of like going you know I guess like the teeth brushing and how I regretted not doing a better job of something so silly I um I wish I would have done a better job in school because it felt super hard when you were in it right but it wasn't and and so to see I like torture sometimes yeah to see my little girl excel and try and even at this young age do things better than that. than I did is so rewarding and relieving. Yeah. I'm so proud of that.

I mean, they get new words every week. We practice and she, you know, she's going over them. And then on Monday mornings before school, we sit and do it one more time just so that she's got it fresh on her mind. And so we sat down Monday morning with her little tablet, and I'm calling out the words. And Dale, who is usually busy feeding dogs doing something else, was sitting next to Isla. And I call out the word shown. and she writes it down correctly and Dale's like nope that's not how you spell show oh this is funny and he thinks she's she's supposed to be writing like I've shown you how to do something S-H-O-W-N and it's not it's shown like the light has shown on your face or whatever

it's not a word you say very often but in context for the rest of the spelling list it was just you know the word families that they're learning so S-H-O-N-E that's a real word it's a Word. Yeah, but it's not really, when you use. I didn't know that. She had stone and shown, and so it's, all the words are always in these families, and very similar. And phone, so they're letting P-A-H-A-R-E.

Yeah, so the kid really just has to change the first few letters. And Amy, I'm not, I'm so, I'm not paying, I mean, I'm paying attention, but it didn't on on me. And she writes down, she writes it down, S-H-O-N-E, and I'm like, mm-mm. And she's like, no? And she starts to erase. And she's like, she's thinking in her head. And I'm like, yep, no, that's not it.

She's like, I've been writing this for a week like this. Surely this isn't wrong. Two minutes. And Amy's like, yeah, come on. What is it? You've got to get it right. Amy can't see it. I can't see, but I assume he's up to speed.

Yeah. And he's absolutely not. He's about to wreck her confidence. She looks over and she's like, no, she got it right. And I was like, really? Dale's like, I'm like, I don't know how to speak. I've never seen that before. Still don't know how to spell.

I know. I'm like, a 50 and I'm not a spell. Give me that test. Let me try it. Dale got a C yet again. And I've got an A. Yeah. But it is gratifying.

And so he taped it up on the, I mean, she does this every week. And she usually does get 100 or maybe she'll miss one. But I, dude. He made a really big deal out of it this week. I love it. And I won't. I don't want. Yeah.

I don't want. So I'm trying to. So my reaction. in the moment when she when I see the test right my reaction in the moment's really important because i can make her i can show her right that i'm happy and try to trigger things in her mind they're like wow i did this thing it got that result i love that i'm gonna i'm gonna try to do that thing again or she'll go or she'll feel like it didn't matter much well i'm more worried about okay i want her to I want there I'm worried about her feeling pressure like oh man I got to do that every time

yeah and that's not what I want right I don't want her to think god I got to live up to that standard every day um it's okay I don't really get bothered when she misses a word or two words or whatever I mean I want her to do great we just want her to try yeah yeah but I do want her to I don't want I don't want her to come home with a test that's a great score and me go oh cool good job on to my next on the next thing i'm dealing with i want her to you know i want her to know how proud i am and i want her to maybe when she's taking the next test go i'm going to try to do great i really love how happy this makes dad well i've heard what you say in those moments instead of saying like that's so great you got an a you have to commend them on the work that

they did or how hard they tried so every time like When she's doing something that's frustrating or hard, I have to remind her, like, you can try. Try again. Don't quit. It's okay to fail. You're going to fail until you get it right. Like you do that at anything new because she likes service. She likes to be helped.

Nicole, on the other hand, wants to do everything on her own, even if she screws it up. She's totally fine with that, but she wants to do it on her own. Ila likes to be helped. She's always been that way. It's just part of her personality. So, like, she's one of those kids. I have to constantly say, try again. Even if you're mad, just focus on what you're doing or try again.

I think that that's what you're supposed to say in those moments instead of like, nice job, you're the best, you know, you say you work so hard and you study, look what you got, you know what I mean? Yeah, I think putting that thing on the fridge too is a big, like, I want another one on the fridge. Yeah, that's true. That's a big motivator too.

I'm taping it up there. That feels like it could be like putting the pressure situation. They're like, it's a trophy now. Well, I put it, I think, you know, it's, so she like, she wants when she draws something, she's like, can we tape it up on the, you know, refrigerator? At one point, so refrigerators have wooden panels on them. They're not magnetic.

So, like, we have scotch tape, like, all over this thing. And at one point, there was artwork from one side to the other. Like, the whole wall was covered in paper and paper. So that's not a, that's not a new thing. But I was putting it up there. I was like, hey, look, Ila. I was putting it up there. I was like, hey, look, Ila.

And she looks over there, and she's like, hey, put some tape on the bottom so it doesn't flap around and you open the shut the door. I was like, good idea. You know, working together. But speaking of Ila, this is, we had a little issue. We did? Oh, we didn't. Yeah.

One of us had an issue. So Rick Allen. One of us was just fine. Rick Allen built us, built Ila a chair, small little chair. When she was like a year old, it's not a new chair. Has her name engraved in it. The top of the chair, the seat of the chair is glued to the frame. and it had been set outside on the porch

during some event and sat outside for a while so like it's the glue got brittle and the top basically yeah the seat come loose in the top Amy's like hey can you fix this I'm like yeah I can fix it and so go with the hill I know what this is Steve Park has walked in and Steve Park has a surprise gift

well junior you know how much I like you and I wanted to give you a gift but this is I'm saying. Hi. I heard me and my buddy Dan from from Good Eats

and Sweets heard that you love carrot cake Yes. And you did not want to get her a carrot you want to get her

a red velvet cake? Yes. Isn't that fair? It's not fair, is it? That was not fair. No. We decided when we were watching the show

and Dan said, you know what? I'll cook are the best carrot cakes you ever had. That's so nice. So take a look at this. Whoa.

Look at that. You've been out done, sir. You've been out done, sir. That looks amazing. Thank you. How are you? How are you? I'm doing good.

You're doing it. Yes, sir. Thank you so much. Oh, you're welcome, Miss Amy. This is so nice. Who is the store again? This is my buddy, Dan, he's from Good Eats and Sweets. Good Eats and Sweets.

He's right here in Moore'sville. And he cooks everything himself. Everything's homemade. Good Eats and Sweet. I'll write that in my note. There's a scam thing. Yeah, there's a scan thing. We will put that up.

He's a big fan of the show. and he also wanted me to let you know that, you know, a red velvet cake, it was originally derived from Beats. Oh, no way. She loves Beets. I knew that. I do like Beets. I knew.

He didn't know that. And that's why I got that because she loves Beets, Beets salad. She eats meat salad all the time. A lot of carrots in there. What we need to do is let's guess how many carrots it takes. The closest. This one gets a pre-carriage. It's hilarious.

Thank you, Steve. All right, thank you. Yes, sir. So that was a pretty neat Steve Park come by. He's an incredible dude. I know you probably know this, but he drove for my dad and was kind of part of the original DEI group. And just a super awesome guy. Still around and still, you know.

That's the first time I've actually met him. Really? Oh, man. I met this man for the first time and he brought me a carrot cake. Isn't that nice? I know some cool people. I'm glad that they pay attention. Very cool, though.

It's heavy. We're going to eat some a little bit. So we were talking about this chair. Rick made a chair for Ila. And he wanted it fixed. I'm going to try to fix it. I couldn't screw from the bottom up through the frame into the lid because the frame had these rails around it. and man, I just was not thinking and drilled a hole in the lid

and was going to put screws down in the seat. So he didn't just drill a hole. He drilled four holes with four different screws and one, it looked like one finishing nail in the back corner. All four holes, all four screws were different, and it looked terrible. And... One didn't have a screw in.

This man can fix anything, which is why I ask him to fix the chair to begin with. Instead of just asking Rick to take it back and fix it for me, I'm like, my husband can put some plumbing and electrical together. This man can fix this chair. He murdered it. He, like, murdered the chair. When I saw it, I was so mad.

I literally saw red, and I let him have it. I overreacted, but the top of that seat is ruined. And Ila was staying in there and started to cry. And, of course, my reaction probably made her more upset, which is what Dale was trying to tell me in the moment. But I was just so pissed that he was like, like so careless. And so now we have to get Rick to fix the chair.

So what happened was is... You got bored and started screwing around with stuff in the garage. So I think that I couldn't find four screws the right length that were the same. That's true. I only found three. One hole didn't even have a screw in it. What, the finish Chanel, just nothing in there. And then when I tried to bevel the screws to because...

The counter sinker. They were countersink, yeah. It messed up the wood. It messed the wood up. So the counter sink looked terrible. Just a bad job all the way around. Really, really botched the whole thing. But Rick is coming by to take the chair, and he's just going to make a new lid for it.

Cool. Rick Allen, who we all love, has, now that he's got, you know, some time, not in the broadcast booth, he's a, he's a full-on carpenter. He can build their whole house. Build anything. Yeah. Yeah, he can make anything. He can make anything. And he does a really nice job.

Yes. Incredible. Yeah. He can make anything out of wood. You know, he did build a house entirely on his own. Cabinets and everything. Cabinets, furniture, chairs, whatever you need made. I don't, I'm not a carpenter.

I'm not going to build nothing out of wood, clearly. I feel like that's where we stop is it wood. I think what I need to do, though. All right, so he's fixing a chair. Chairs are going to get fixed. But I got to figure out how to get some bits that. bevel that wood better. No.

I think we're done. Because I need a bit. You can't not have... You need an apprenticeship before you get to like... Every man needs all the right tools. And I in that case did not have the right tools. I tried...

In that moment, instead of just going, you know, I don't have the right tools, I'm just going to wait. I tried to bevel it with a larger bit, and it was just a bad idea. I need the right tools. All the things point to, I wasn't supposed to do this.

I should have waited. Yes. I should have just glued it. I could have glued it back. Hey, this is Dale Jr. And for the latest Bless Your Heart Gear, go to shop.orgia.com.

We've got plenty of options for everybody and adding new stuff every day. Go to shop. Dottingmobedia.com. Can I show them the video of you swat and the bees? So the woodcover bees

are bad at our house, really bad. We have wooden shutters on the house and then wooden corbels everywhere. They're being replaced. This is very, I just want to preface.

I just want to preface this. If you're an animal lover, and I want to get your earmuffs out. Just saying. If you happen to love carpenter bees, this is not for you. They are destroying our house. Like, there are so many areas where, like, stuff has to be... Like, we don't even get under that trellis downstairs anymore because surely it's completely hollowed out.

Anyway, so we... Dale has a little racket, a racquetball racket, and he will just go outside and start whaling on the carpenter bees. And it's become a thing that now Ila likes to do, so they get out there together. Yeah. And it's like the tennis racket for badminton. Yeah. Not a good tennis racket. It's like a little easy lightweight.

Really lightweight. You swing that thing around pretty heavy. Oh, man. You can end some carpenter bees of that thing. But it's not become a game. We have the carpenter bee traps with the little blocks that they crawl in and then they hide or they can't get out. And that has only worked so well. I can't find it.

Oh, good. I have some videos. There's some video of me running around doing this. Oh, here it is. Oh yeah, look at that. Dude. He's vertical. He's got Ayla doing it too.

I've got videos of her. He's just... That's kind of fun. He loves it. He's fun. He secretly likes it. I don't know if anybody else has any other helpful tips for carpenter bees. We've replaced some of the wood things with faux wood things around our house just to make them not want to hang out at our house anymore, but you can't get rid of all of it.

Is there something you could spray on like the outside? You know what? No man. No, no, no, no. The reason we have the spray that he was working with the mice holes so much with the other day is because of the bees. He used to spray into a hole. He's thinking like spray like poison. I know.

I know. I do. So they try not to use poison in general. The bees bore these holes into the wood way in there. And like if you're standing there at the garage door, you can hear them in there working like. They're just in there just. cutting this wood that's boring this hole. And I took some of that expanding foam

and I'd spray it up in there. And there, dude, these little so I'll spray that spanning foam in there and it goes all into the tunnel they've made because it's a vast system of tunnels they've cut into this wood. And they will bore out around the, they'll come out another, they'll make a lot.

Right in front of your eyes. They'll just pop right out. They'll bore out of a new hole that they, they're like, oh yeah, I'll just go somewhere. I'll just go this way. And I'm like, damn it. And so the spray foam isn't an idea.

Now, if you're, if you finally get rid of the bees, you can use the spray foam to fill the holes and then, you know, you're good. See, we really need help. We don't know how to do this. We need to get rid of this wood. This wood's just too soft and they love it. And so they're going to tear this wood up because they're, they won't get into the garage doors. That wood's too hard.

Yeah. And so this wood that we got in this particular wood jam of the garage. Doge doors is too soft and they love it. And that's why they love that trellis because that trellis wood is super soft. I was thinking about on the way here some fashion faux poses that people do.

You were thinking about fashion faux paws on the way to the shop? If you want me to tell you the truth, so I was trying, I was putting my hat on and my hat was pushing my ear out a little bit and I was like, man, I hate that. And so, because I don't like, I like my hat to go all the way down on my head,

but not put my ears out. And I was thinking, that must be why some people put their ears inside their hat. But every time I see somebody with their ears inside their hat, I think immediately, oh, man, you've never seen a man

put on a hat like this and have his ears inside. I've never noticed that if somebody around me has done that. So I hate to call him out, but I think I saw Cold Custer do it back in the day. When I see somebody do that, I'm like, man,

I can't trust them. I don't trust that person. It is a weird thing to do. It's like tucking your jeans into your socks a little bit. Yeah. Who does that? I've never seen that. But socks with sandals.

So that's like a new thing that the kids are doing. So yeah, I hear you. Something that's fashion and you see it and you go, why do they do that? Like I would never do that. Or who started that? That's terrible. Like hats inside the ears.

is an absolute no. And I see it quite often, especially on the west side of the country. There's a lot of people over there doing California. Especially the Californians. California. Is that true? Do you think it's just because the hats are bigger?

I don't. Yeah, they get their hats a little larger. But I see a lot of racers and people in the racing industry on the West Coast that'll do it. You don't see as much over here. but sometimes you do but the hats inside the ears bothers the hell out of me hats inside of ears

ears inside of hats or if you pull your hat down and you have your shades on the outside of the hat because of hat's so low hats inside of ears socks sandals hats inside ears inside of your hat

ears and hats sorry was I saying it backwards yeah my man y'all hopefully everybody got the message yeah I think that they did what are some fashion faux paws that you see and you go can't trust you we were watching a show

Sure, we have one. We were watching a show last night, and I won't say which one, but there's a bunch of, like, 30-somethings sitting around having a birthday party. And the birthday girl stands up, and she's literally just wearing a big old pair of panties. And, like, that's what we're doing now? We're just running around in our panties. It's not, like, late night. They hadn't been out. It's an early afternoon.

And they weren't, like, a swimsuit bottom. There's just, I don't understand that. Yeah. Dale wore socks with his flofers. Do you know what flofers are? I do not. They are like a crock, but it looks like a loafer, and they call them flofers. Oh, okay.

And so Dale was sent some as a gift. They have wings on them. From Luke. From Luke, Colms. Luke did that? The crocs are from Luke. Both. Oh.

Well, they have wings on the tops of them, but he's running around with them with socks on it. They don't think you're supposed to wear socks with those. I put them on just to go down and take the trash downstairs. I didn't wear them out to the damn bar or anything. Well, you have worn your house shoes out. Accidentally. Like more than once. Accidentally.

Dude, I mean, that's when you know you're comfortable and on vacations when you walk out of the house in your house shoes and forget you got a moment. I know. I've came here and podcasted in my house shoes. Really? I don't do it on purpose. I don't walk out of the house and go, I'm lazy. I'm just going to leave my house shoes on. I get here and I go, I forgot to put on shoes.

It's not an on purpose thing. Well, I don't wear house shoes. That's an accidental thing. How about white after Labor Day as a fashion faux pa? Right. Is that a real thing? So I feel like the only thing that matters in that regard is linen. Like you shouldn't wear linen in the middle of winter.

Dale will oftentimes go to put a dress shirt on or something and he'll put like a flannel shirt on in July. I'm like, no, you can't wear that right now. But I think the colors aren't that big of a deal. Like white after Labor Day, what's the other one in the fall? You're not supposed to wear white. And then you're not supposed to wear it again until like after Memorial Day? Is that when it is? Like Labor Day?

Yeah. I feel like white's okay. Maybe not white jeans. I cannot stand venecks. Yeah, I don't like venex either. He thinks venex are for titties with cleavage. Okay. That's true.

You're not wrong. I mean, Vnecks, I ain't doing v necks. And I see someone in a v neck. It's bothersome. Even like a short vneck? Oh, yeah. I don't really understand.

I don't get it. It's just a taste. He won't wear like a zipper. Flack it. Quarter zips. Nope. Really? That's like golfy.

That's like, uh, I hate quarter zips now. I don't like. It's got to do with the zipper, I think. Yeah, the zipper can, you know, what are you doing? All the way up? Well, no, but like it's, it don't, you know, you can't fold it down. It's not a collar. That's true.

So it's just kind of here floating around and whatever that is. And I hate jackets do that too. You'll get, I can't stand a big jacket or a jacket where the collar is just like a half collar. Like the mok-knit. Can't fold down. And it's all, it's always. in your way. It drives me crazy.

I can't turn my head. I am, I don't, I'm learning. I guess I'm just super freaking particular about clothes because I was on here the other day bitching about pants and how, and I can't wear pants that are grabbing my. You're particular about everything. I am. I am. Well, I know what I like.

I know what makes me happy. He won't wear cardigans either. I remember Steve LaTart started like, he likes clothes and he likes to be stylish. And so he will put on like a dress shirt and like a cardigan over it. I'm like, that's pretty cool. Dale would you? He's like, absolutely no. I'm not Mr. Rogers.

I'm not wearing a fucking card again. I can't see that either. What about the new swim trunks? Like, swim trunks for guys have gotten shorter and shorter and shorter. Like, we're back to like the 80s length. I know. I get on, when I go buy board shorts, I get on there. And now, this is something I never had to worry about.

But now I have to go and make sure, okay, there's a measurement from the crotch to end seam, right? I'm like, okay, seven inches, that's too short. I can't buy these. don't have the nine inch, you know. Yeah, they used to, like, hit your knees or go at least, or below. And you could, they called, you know, they were baggy. He called them baggies. They were board shorts.

And now they're, like, everything has stretching them. And then they're skinny and they're tight. He ordered some. They're sized up from his typical pants size because he likes them loose. And they were as tight as they could be. And he was so pissed off. Like, it ruins your spirit a little bit when your swimsuit doesn't fit. That don't matter if you're a girl or a guy.

But that is that. I have, I like a. I like board shorts that go down to just above the knee, and I've got a big ass. So it has to have, when I sit down, it has to be able to, if I sit down and it's trying to pull the waistband down, it's like, all right, this ain't got enough room for my ass in here. Yeah.

And so I hate pair, like, you get, I buy cheap. I buy some cheap ass shit off of Amazon, like a 19 pair, $19, all the pair of damn board shorts just because I think the color's cool and I put them on and ain't enough material in the ass and there's too much up front. So when you sit down, it's like you got all this balloon ballooned and baggied and then in your waistband sliding down and crack your ass is coming out. Yep. Not a good. It's like God dang man. I mean, it ain't hard to like just add a little extra material. People know, everybody knows how everybody's body's made. I mean, they're all the same. Oh, speaking of hats, I have an update about the Austerlund hat.

Yay! Oh, you do? Yes. The guy reached out. He got it from the big Mooresville antique, like we said. It's in Booth 34, the one with all the die cast, and it was in a pile of hats just sitting off to the side. And he's talked to the guy before about where he gets those. And he usually gets them at estate sales, race shops, or other businesses. And he bought it last summer.

Interesting. So he bought that hat. He bought that hat at the Big Antique, Moorsville place. And the guy got it from just a guy whose booth it is. He knows him. And he says he always has kind of hats like that. But he wouldn't give up whose booth. It was.

It was booth 34. That's all he gave. Yeah. It doesn't sound like that our culprit is the actual owner of the booth, which is a relief. Yeah. And it must have been just somebody I gave it to that was like, yeah, I don't want this. That's just the way it is. I just got to live with it.

I'm sure people want me to pursue this further, but I think I'm going to close the case. I mean, I kind of feel like we should go to the antique bond. I'm going to ask the question. Why? I just, I don't know that the end result is really going to be that revealing or captivating for me. You're in a weird mood No, I'm not Well, I don't have any cream today

No sipping cream No, I'll cut you off after last week That by the way, that's what he was drinking When he messed with the chair He drank a big old glass of sipping cream That's true And then went and hacked up that chair There's a connection there

Something's to that It's like, you are too loose And you have no coooth right now This is a pattern Today We're going to do the show And then I'm going to go over to The Late Model Schock

shop to say hello and check in. I haven't been over there much at all and I've got a race next weekend in Cordill, Georgia. And this will be the first race. I think that I guess you're not coming. I'm not coming, yeah. So

Amy won't be there. You remember the voicemail that you played on here accidentally? Yeah, I'm hoping to get another one. So I love going racing. I'm going to have a blast, but oh man, am I going to miss my family. Has him

tough. What's going this weekend? I'm going to to Darlington Saturday to watch the Xfinity race hang out with

Sammy. I think that's it. I mean, we've got little things here and there. There needs to be some downtime. We've gotten to

where we're so busy. If we don't have anything to do, we feel like we have to fill the void instead of just enjoying nothing and being,

like, it's okay to relax and it's okay to rest and it's okay for the kids to be bored. I don't like having schedules. Damn, I'm glad to hear you say

that play dates and things like that all the time like go outside and just get into something play in the dirt yeah we'll be sitting there and amy he's like we gotta get these kids out of the house well i know they get stir crazy but they just need to get out i'm like nobody was worried about me when i was a little kid you were outside i know i'm just saying no my parents weren't like we need to take the kids and do x y and z they were just like hey get over and do that well life could have been a little bit better if you had a little bit more uh but with your family. These kids are in heaven. They have more than enough and they do more than enough. They go more than enough. We take them all over the place. They need to just learn, they need to learn how

to go upstairs and play. I agree. You know, they're excited when they get something for Christmas and then they don't even fool with it the rest of the year. I don't really know the answer, except that they're used to having someone playing with them. I told Ila the other day, she's like, I'm bored. I'm like, what are you going to do about that? I'm not coming to play with you. What are you going to do to fix that? So she just disappeared. And now the kids are getting, old enough where they like to play together. I just worry about what they're getting into together. What do you mean?

Like one of them's got the big idea and one of them's going to help them do it. You know, they're conspiring now. They're into something like if they're upstairs, they can sneak over to my closet and get into my makeup. Oh, yeah. I went to put a skirt on the other day and there's a big hole in it because they like run through the clothing backs and the way back. We've just got like big racks that are high.

So they can fly through there and they do. And there's smears on some of my skirts from like somebody's wife, their face. on it or holes in this and that. I'm like, you got to be a little bit concerned when they're upstairs and they're quiet. As long as they're on their side, you can hear them stomping around. It's fine. But I'd rather to just kick them outside. Silence is concerning.

Silence is concerning. Absolutely. Today we're going to do a little blind ranking for our biggest fears. So there's going to be 10 things, Ralph, and we have to put them in a ranking from 1 to 10. Just as they pop up, we have to place them. Yep, as a place them. Can't move them once they're placed. One is the biggest fear.

10th is the, is the least. The least fear. Okay. Our first fear, deep water. Where are you going to place that one? Deep water. Coming out with deep water first.

Let's see. Hmm, I would say six. Six. I go with, uh, let's move to seven. Seven? All right. I already put it's six, sorry. So it's just deep water.

There's stuff in the deep water. We don't know that. He didn't say that. It's just deep water. That's the assumption, though. That's the assumption. When their fear is lying with the fact that there may be something lurking in the steepest, Deep water with something lurking.

I used to get scared in the deep end of the swimming pool knowing there was no fish in there. If he said deep water with something lurking, I'm moving it to three, two. He said deep water, period. That's the fear, though. Your mind is what's creating the fear. Not letting my mind do that. It's like racing a car. If you worried about getting hurt, you're going to not want to do it.

That's why I preface this whole thing with, are you scared of anything? The answer is, me. Not really. You're not scared of deep water thinking like there's a shark or something that could grab my foot. It might not be salt water. There's stuff in every body of deep water. There's something. Okay.

All right. What's next? The next one is rejection. That's still number one. Yeah, that's pretty hot. Almost like three. Really? Rejection?

No. Over deep water? Yes. Rejection sucks, man. That's real. Deep water's just water. What the hell? Where would you put it, Amy, on your list?

Rejection? Yeah. Maybe five. Okay. Okay, so we'll put it at four. Four. The next one, spiders. Ten.

Ten. Oh, really? I'm going to step on them. Ghosts. Ghosts? Ghosts. I don't know. Pretty, pretty, right.

In the middle? Five? Yeah, five. Five, all right. You have four, five, six, and ten already locked up. The next one is storms. Nine. Nine.

I mean, it could be, it could be, it could be, it could be, it could be, if we live somewhere Where different geographically, I might have changed that. Right. In North Carolina, they're for the most part. We're not dealing with tsunamis or too many hurricanes. It's not that bad here. How about mice? I mean, if they're going to get lamer than mice, we might need to move it up.

I mean... I would say a mouse, so it's funny you ask that. I've caught two in the last week. Yeah. See, I would think this is low on your guys list because you have so much experience with mice. I mean, so if the mouse was to jump on me, I would be freaking out. Right. So that's true.

I would, too. Had that happened, by the way. Have I told you that story? No. Oh my gosh. He used to have cats. This is so awesome. And so one of the cats, tucks, would go out the dog door and come right back in.

At night he'd go out and prowl, catch a field mice, they'd come in. And he would leave him usually in the dog room, which is downstairs or on the steps outside. And they were dead. They were always dead. So he's at the racetrack one weekend, and I didn't go, right? You was somewhere. I was there. I was in the bed with you.

You were not in the bed with me. with me. Really? No. I was sleeping and killer was in the bed with me. You were not there. Tux comes in to the bedroom, making that weird, you know how cats do in the middle of the night if they're prowling around. And I'm fully asleep, but I realized that Tux is now in the bed making this noise.

And I open my eyes and Tux's paws are on my chest. He's standing on me. And all of a sudden I feel something scurried down my whole body. He brought a f*** mouse all the way upstairs. Into the bed. Into the bed to show it to me. was alive. Oh, my God. Carled into the bed. Oh, it was the weirdest little scurried, like, it was on top of the covers, I think. So, like, I didn't fully feel it all the way down to my feet,

but, like, I fell it down my chest. It was awful. We found that thing downstairs underneath the couch. It had gotten loose and, like, lived a couple days in the house somehow, and then died under the couch. Yeah, so that's why I'm scared of them. I's just a little bit more than Dale, because I know what that feels like. That's torture. It was awful. And Texas was really. And Texas was proud of him. So what do we have? You have one, two, three, seven, and eight open. You guys are setting yourself up for failure here.

Yeah, seven and eight's open. So you want to put mice at three? No, I would say seven. Seven? Okay. You guys are setting yourself up here. Uh-oh. There's blood's next.

But there's going to be scarier ones, you've got to think. Blood's the next one. Three? I'm not scared of blood so much. It's like, if, like, I can do boo-boos and blood, no problem. I can too, but I mean, sometimes if he's just... If it's associated with like a bone. sticking out of your leg that's gonna I don't know what about drawing blood like with the needle

going in no I don't like it it's uncomfortable hurts a little bit um you got eight open or one two three I'm gonna say that we're gonna need to put it at eight but three would work too because sometimes when I see blood I get scared like if I if I don't know where it come from I go what what happened who's bleeding why is there blood So there is some fear. I don't panic like he does when I see things like that. So we were riding a gator. Me and Truex were riding some gaiters one night on my property.

And we're just hauling ass around just being idiots. And I got on my gator, I think I have T.J. and Willie, my father. Your stepdad. Stepdad. And man, this was a. long time ago. And True X, I chased True X into this field and he does a couple of donuts or he just starts going in a circle and I start going in a circle and I'm trying to catch him.

And so I'm running a tighter circle and I rolled it, flipped it over. And it's on its side and I'm standing up in it and I'm looking down and I'm like, oh no, Willie, you got some blood on you there, man, bleeding. And so initially I was like, Some, I've hurt Willie. Yeah, that's scarier because it's Willie. That's why I would, but it was my head that was bleeding. But it was, the blood was on Willie.

It was dripping on Willie. Gross. I saw it. It just dripped one drop. And I was like, oh man, Willie, you're bleeding. So if you get somebody else's blood on you, yeah, that's a little, that goes into the ick box. So that's it. But there was initial, oh, crap.

You know, some. And so. I don't know, three or. What about like when you cut your finger real bad, not. You know, in the kitchen. So I've done that because I got, you know, got to do those steak knives. I cleaned it the other day. There's not like a fear initially when you're doing, when it happens.

No, I'm more mad at myself. Like, you fool? You should have known better. But anytime, I'm trying my hardest to get this to number three. It's just not happening. He's not put it on three. He's scared of blood. Now, I'm not scared of blood.

He's got eight open, seven's taken. It's either eight or three. Blood a eight. I tried. All right. Hopefully the rest of them are scary. This one, I'm interested to see what this one's all about. Heights.

Oh. You guys skater heights? Yeah. I would say it's probably not a three, but we've got no choice. Would you have put that below blood? No, no, no, heights are scarier than blood. Heights, scary than blood. I would say heights is probably a five or six, but three it is.

Three is not bad. How about snakes? One or two. You only got one or two. I definitely put it at one or two. Let's foot two. Snakes are freaking freaky. Yeah.

All right, your number one fear? Crowds of people. Crowds of people? I'd flip snakes and crowds. But they can't do it. Yeah. Nope. I don't like crowds.

I don't love crowds either. Where would you have put crowds of people if you had them all open? I don't know. Eight. Probably put blood at three. I tried to put blood at three. Damn it, Amy. This is your list.

You got crowds of people. That is, that is marriage right there. In a nutshell. Yeah. You had crowds of people won, snakes two, heights three, rejection for Ghost 5 Deepwater 6

Mice 7 Blood 8 Storms 9 and spiders 10 There you go That's the list Not too bad I won't go somewhere

If I think If I'm nervous Like I don't like crowds So I won't go to a thing I would be more scared of ghosts Than a crowd Like there was a concert Last night

And I'm like if I could go I probably would be hesitant Because of the crowd I went to Brooks and Dental on Friday and it was awesome. I didn't think twice about the crowd. That's all people I knew. I know. We're different. We are different. Obviously, very

different. Hi guys, we are here for Ask Amy. Dale is making things awkward as per usual. I'm talking to you about something. He's looking at his journal and reading me poems from his journal. That's right. I wrote two of poems. Yeah. Thanks for being here. If you haven't already subscribe

with a subscribe button for our YouTube page, and I think we're ready for some questions. But you got to him. We are. first question is from Kathy. She wants to know how the donkeys are doing. The donkeys are doing really well. They've settled in and they're all like best friends now. I was just telling Dale that I took a walk yesterday and they all had pollen up their nose like we all do, but they're having a great time. Yeah, they're getting along together. They're all getting along. Yeah. That's awesome. Our next question is from Travis. With it being throwback weekend at Darlington, Amy, I have to ask

you what you thought about Dale's frosted tips. back in the day. So it's funny. It feels like that's like a totally different human being that existed back then because the version of Dale that was then is definitely not the version of Dale I have now. I think any guy that frosted their hair. Careful. It was a little silly.

Careful. I can't imagine him doing that, to be honest, which is why I feel like is a totally different guy. It was in style. Yeah. It was the style. It was. I know. But like I have to schedule his haircuts now.

He refuses to even go, but back then he was going regularly to get his tips frosted. So, I mean, you know what I mean? Just, uh. It was painful. Yeah, he pulled it through the cap, didn't they? Put the cap on and they poke in there. Yeah, they don't use those anymore. And he will always poke you.

They don't have to go, they don't have to hurt you, but they, that little thing. Yeah. It is painful. That is funny. That is funny. Speaking of which, like, I've won the question is from Jake. The broadcast, I guess we've shown a lot of clips of Dale's last Martinsville in. and he wants to know what do you have a favorite victory of dales that you were a part of

that one was pretty up there yeah um i was there for the 500 win in detona and that was epic too that whole week was epic because it like is followed by media and traveling all over the place and you just don't really know how to wrap your head around all the things that are about to happen especially me i've never done it before um but martinsville was really special we thought that stage was going to collapse because the guys were jumping up and down so hard and the clocks clocks rocking all over the place. So that one was really good. That's good.

It's got the best trophy too. It is a cool trophy. What was your favorite post-race party? I don't remember any of them, to be honest. Me and Latart were talking yesterday. So when we won, we always went back home and drank until the sun came up. Yeah. And the biggest post-race party that we had was after a third-place run at Sonoma.

Oh, really? Yeah. We party harder over that third place run at Sonoma than we did any of the wins. That's kind of funny. Yeah, that was a surprise. This next question is from Ronnie. I just became a grandpa for the first time, but I'm too young to be called Grandpa. What should I go by? And what did you guys call your grandparents? Well, congratulations. That's so sweet. I have a granddaddy and a Pawpaw. Both are still with us. You had a granddaddy. And we refer to Dale Senior as Pop-all-Dale also.

Papaw. Papal. I like papal. I like pops. So we call Tony Senior Pops. My dad is pop. I don't know. Sometimes you gotta wait to let

just see if the babies do it for you. Yeah. They'll usually come up with something cool. And maybe something cooler than you would have. So you can wait. Unfortunately, I don't think he gets to choose. Yeah.

It's whatever they do. I think in the north, it is more traditional grandpa and grandma. But down south, there's a lot different names. Yeah, me ma'all people. And it usually kind of goes together like that. Where are you from?

Long Island, New York. Yeah, you guys also say Dungarees. Dunkerese, yeah. My dad says that. Really? Such a weird word. It's like, how many freaking syllables is that? Instead of just pants or jeans.

I know. I think Dunkerese and jeans are different, apparently. I remember we had. Well, Dungarees was a brand. Was it? Yeah. Oh, I didn't even know that. I remember we had this nanny back when we were kids that she said Dungarees.

And I was like, Oh my God. I'm in hail. I'm in hail. I'm in hail. Our next question, Josh, he's having baby number two. It's on the way. It'll be two under two and he wants to know how different is it going from one girl to two girls. Oh, Josh. I'm going to pray for you in your soul. I'm just kidding. Two girls is great. But 2002, that's a lot. I will say this. It's life-changing having the first baby and not so hard having another one because you just know what you're doing. But the dynamic changes forever in the

house because the first child has to now compete with the second child for attention and the baby's nap schedule and all the things kind of take precedence. So everybody's got to be quiet where they didn't before. It's just a little harder that way. I don't know. Two girls is, it's working out for us, but it's a lot. Like one is one. I've heard this before and it's true. One is one and two is the energy level is, you know, very big. It's very big difference between one and two, I think. I've heard, like, Brad Keselowski say it's like the more he had, the more is like you don't have enough arms or hands for all of them.

You're just kind of like you're hoping kind of hang out in plain zone or whatever is the famous quote. Yeah, I imagine that. Yeah. But it's not bad. It's not that hard. And that them being so close together in age, they're going to be best friends. So that's really good. Yeah, 202 seems like that's, when they get older,

they can always take care of themselves at that point. Dale, any contact lens update is another one that come in the chat. They want to know how your contact lenses. We're not doing it. They're still in the bag. All the little boxes are still in the bag from the optometrists sitting in the bathroom. Like a bag of shame. Yeah.

What's the hold up? Well, there's a couple things. My vision isn't as good with them in as it is with glass. I mean, I think I actually see better without the contact. When I put the contact lens in, My vision at distance gets worse. And so I don't... I think I just need to revisit the actual prescription.

Yeah. I think I need to go back and just start from scratch with my eye doctor and see how that goes. Because, yeah, when I... They told me they're like, you're not going to see as good as you can with your glasses. Your glasses are always going to be better, right? And that's what they're telling me. They're like, your glasses are just always going to be clearer. And that's true. but I do get tired of like having them on my face

and so it would be nice to get to where I could wear the contact lenses but when I put them in I see worse than even without lenses altogether right so something is just not quite right there but yeah I remember when I put them in and I was at the doctor's office and I put them in and I looked outside and I was like I was about to walk out the door they were like I have a great day and I'm like yep okay

and I got to the door and I looked out the window and I was like I can't everything across the street's blurry and I stopped I turned around and I was like hey y'all like everything everything at like 200 300 500 yards is real blurry like it's not clear at all they're like come back in here and I went back in there and we messed around and I just never got satisfied with that and I don't I'd just rather I wouldn't wear I'd just rather not wear anything you just have some readers than to wear contacts that make me see worse yeah he doesn't like touching his eye either like that he has to put him in he has to take them out.

Too much for him. I could get that down, I think, eventually, but it's a tough thing, man. Trying to get that thing in there. There's a learning curve. There's a learning curve for sure. Our last question in the chat is they want to know if you guys, who cooks the most at home and what is your favorite meal that you cook?

I absolutely cook the most at home. I feel like I show Dale my cards too early with cooking because, yeah, I did. When we were dating, I started cooking. mostly just because I didn't want to eat pizza and chicken wings. And he'll eat anything I make for the most part. But his favorite meal, I think, is the buffalo chicken soup. Anything buffalo he loves. He's been grilling steaks, though, lately.

And so we're trying to make the girls just eat what we're eating instead of catering to them. So he's been in the kitchen a little bit more lately. Yeah, I've been doing the steaks in a skillet and cereal on the skillet and then into the oven for about eight minutes and just been having fun with that. But not really going outdoors just yet. but it's about that time of year, you know, where you start going out. I've been wanting to smoke some ribs or something here on a Sunday, so maybe this weekend we'll do something.

But what's your favorite thing that I make? Yeah, that's, my mother used to make that gritty, what was that, casserole? I don't know. So it's got mushrooms in it, which is why I don't make it. Chicken something. It was basically like an Alfredo style. Yeah, it was so good. She used to make one, and I'd eat on that for a couple weeks.

and so that was kind of my favorite thing that she made. But Amy, I mean, Amy cooks all kinds of awesome stuff. I would say, weren't we doing some, like, that peanut sauce, noodles stuff? Like a Thai peanut. Yeah, I love that. Anytime you're doing that stuff. But, yeah, she's right. There's a buffalo soup dish that she makes.

It's really good. But, yeah. I haven't made that in a while. No, it's, I mean, it's, she, every, there's not like a dish that's like super badass that stands out. There's just a lot of, I mean, they're all good. He's like, I'm bad, I'm fine. Yeah, they're all good. And everything she cooks always tastes great, and she's always trying something different.

Kenny, my coach driver, his, he, his salmon is very simple and basic. And anyone can do it. I know that it's not anything trick. He puts it in a friar and the air fryer, but it's always perfect. Yeah. And he was a cook. He had a restaurant at one point.

Oh, really? Yeah, so he's got a leg up. Oh, that's good. So that air friar salmon that Kenny cooks is amazing. I don't know why, but so simple. Would you guys consider you guys foodies? Like you're really into food? I like food.

Yeah. I think so. Which is why I'm always cooking different things. Yeah. I don't want to get bored. Trying these things. Yeah. Yeah.

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