The Dale Jr. Download - Bless Your ‘Hardt – Failing at Karaoke

Episode Date: June 12, 2025

With Dale off to Mexico City, Amy is joined by longtime friend and country singer Tim Dugger.Amy and Tim dive into the story of how Tim first became friends with Dale, swap their favorite Key West bar spots, and reveal the ultimate drunk food picks. They also share what makes Ireland such a special travel spot, debate whether Tim qualifies as a “zaddy,” and discuss his signature mustache.Plus, Tim dishes on helping Dale plan a surprise anniversary for Amy. They also play a hilarious round of word association, and Amy fields fan questions in Ask Amy.Must be 21 or older to purchase or consume alcoholic beverages. Please drink responsibly. This Week’s Drink: French Martini | Presented by High Rock Vodka Ingredients:- 2 oz High Rock Vodka-1 1/2 oz pineapple juice- 1/4 oz ChambordGarnish: fresh raspberry   Dirty Mo Media is launching a new e-commerce merch line! They’ve got some awesome Dale Jr. Download merch on the site. Visit shop.dirtymomedia.com to check out all the new stuff.And for more content check out our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@BlessYourHardt  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.

Hi, everybody. Dale and Amy here. We are at home for an episode of Bless Your Heart. Dale has to leave from Mexico in a couple of minutes, so he came in to say hello. But we wanted to let you guys know that we have a special guest today. Tim Dugger is going to join me for some fun conversation and a lot of laughter, hopefully. We have a great drink from High Rock. This is the French martini. Do you want to try? No, I'm driving. I'll try. It's delicious, of course.

Remember to visit high rock vodka.com to find out where you can find high rock near you. And also they are shipping depending on your state. Also, you must be 21 over and drink responsibly. Are you excited about Mexico? Yes. Yeah, I'm excited. This is, yeah, so I'm getting on getting in a truck, driving the airport here in about five minutes. And we'll be getting on the plane and going out there.

We got a little bit more practice than normal. So I'm working a couple shows Friday and Saturday, and then the race and coming home all day, Monday. So next several days will be quite a weekend, yes. Well, I'm excited. It's going to be fun. Mexico City. I've never been.

A lot of people are already there and sort of hearing the feedback from all the people that are there and how awesome it is. it's making me get more and more excited here to be able to get there. For the last several days, me and Amy's been kind of going around in circles about what we're going to do with the show this week because I was going to have to leave. And I was supposed to be gone already, but the charter or flight that I was supposed to be on didn't work out. But something happened to the plane.

So we had to figure out another plan. But anyways. There's been a lot of back and forth on when you were actually leaving. There's also some, hey, what are we going to do with this show? Yeah. I thought, I was hopeful that this is exactly what you would do. I know you've done a show before where you had Jamie on one of your friends. Yeah.

And that was great. People loved it. And y'all talked about, you know, roommates and the Jugs Hat came. You know, the Jugs Hat that we have is from that episode. Yeah. So that was a really cool episode. But I was kind of privately, as we were talking about, hey, man, what are we going to do? What are you going to do?

What should we do? Where are we going to record it? How, you know, what's it going to be about? I was thinking, man, if she gets one of my buddies, I thought that might be kind of cool for y'all. Tim's my buddy. Well, Tara is your buddy. Tim's my buddy. That's debatable.

Yeah. But anyways, this will be kind of fun because we've had some really, as you're going to learn in this show today, we've had some really great experiences with Tim and his wife Tara. And we've known them a really long time. And just, you know. A family at this point. Yeah. I think it's kind of one of the. those relationships where, you know, you see each other at your best, you see each other at your

worst, and there's a, you know, there's a lot of honesty in the, in the relationship. And we, you know, we've kind of all kind of had each other's back over the years with different things we've all went through. And so it's a real friendship. And so, um, it's going to be fun to see, you know, what you guys talk about. We've had some great experiences with them over the years. It should be pretty fun for me when we get to watch this back. I'm excited. Should we bring him in? Is it time for you go? Tim, I'm going to leave you with the show and with Amy. Y'all have fun, buddy. A lot of pressure here. A lot of pressure, man. Nothing like getting up on stage. Amy and you were going to talk about it, but I was telling her about being in Michigan and being

in the camper and listening to you rocking the whole infield Friday night. And how great it sounded and then you sent me that picture of you from standing on stage looking out of the crowd and you could hear after every song how excited the crowd was and how much of a you know big fan favorite you are you played there many many times y'all will talk about all this i don't want to ruin it yeah hijacking our contact well this is uh this is a but i can't believe that you pressure here i don't feel i don't think you'd have any pressure coming on this show after seeing the point of view you have um yeah from the stage that right there looks like pressure to me Nah, man, I think filling in for you on here is, uh, is, uh, is you're not feeling.

And also trying not to say anything that's going to, uh, is, you know, try to try to keep, uh, that's what I'm worried about. Between you and me, one of us is going to get a little too loose. Yeah. I'll know if there's some hard cuts or edits here if we've, uh, went off off the rails. Well, we don't publish this till later. So you all have plenty of time to think about things that you might not, I should have put out there. I say let it fly. Yeah, I'm not too worried about it.

All right. We'll see y'all. All right, see you. All right, Tim. So we know each other really well, but I want to make sure that everyone that's listening gets to know you a little bit better outside of just singing. So I wanted to talk to you initially about how we all met. I remember meeting you when you came out to the house with Austin Dillon years ago for paintball. Yeah.

Yeah. Do you remember that night? I do. I remember I used to go over. I was still living in Alabama back then. And I would go over and hang with Austin quite a bit. We, I mean, we were together at least maybe once every two months. I'd come up and we'd hang out. And I remember him asking if I wanted to go play paintball. And yeah, and then we ended up. Are you like, no, not really. I don't want to get hit by a paintball, but I'll go. Well, I didn't have any clothes that I wanted to get dirty. So, I mean, and he's a lot smaller than me. So trying to find some clothes. I remember that I found like some clothes to wear.

And yeah, we went and had a good time and then end up, you know, as our relationship and friendship has been based on, or surrounded by Coal Beer. And the Coal Beer started happening. And that's kind of where we all kind of got to know each other and kind of hit it off. That's right. You guys all ended up in the basement after a field day, basically, dirty. And you had your guitar, of course. And you started to play. And I had been hanging out in the basement already with some girlfriends. So I had had a few. And I remember looking over and going, you're really good. And you're like, well, yeah, it's kind of what I do. I'm like, oh, it's just like you're for a party favor. You're actually like a real country singer. And you're like, yeah. I'm like that a party that brings out the guitar and everybody. Well, you know, sometimes that happens. but you were legit. And so that was my first memory of meeting you and falling in love with not just your personality,

but your music. And then we got to further our relationship just hanging out and then meeting Tara and Key West. Yep. I remember getting invited down to Key West. Tara didn't want to – Tara didn't know y'all. Right. And I didn't know y'all well.

And I remember going down – we got there before y'all. We'd never been to Key West. and Tara went and got this horrible spray tan. Yeah, I remember that. And we rode a bicycle like for three miles after this spray tan. And it was kind of, it was a bad one. It was bad. So here's the thing.

It's hot. It's Key West. It's hot. She's tan anyway. I don't know why she does a spray tan. I don't either. This girl is bronze. Her skin is beautiful.

This girl does not need a spray tan. So she wears jeans also. She's in tight, skinny jeans. y'all trek all the way to the other side of the island, get her a spray tan. She puts her jeans back on right after she gets the spray tan. So, of course, she's going to have seam lines and all kinds of rubbed off spots. You know what I mean? Yeah.

The whole thing was a mess. And I don't remember this. But he says you guys were sitting on the front porch and he finally was texting you like, hey, where are y'all? Yeah, we didn't know y'all were inside. Oh, you didn't? We're just sitting there on the porch. Like, I think we'd went and got like a flying monkey drink and just was sitting there going,

I guess they're going to be here any minute. And y'all already been inside for like two hours, I guess. We probably missed you while you were doing this straight tan. Yeah. Yeah. That's my least. Do you do the self-tanner stuff? I do.

But honestly, I only do it if I have to. Like, if I'm going somewhere and I'm super pale, I am not a bronzed chick. Like, I can tan, but I'm not going to be tan in the fall. So if I have to get dressed up for something. I don't like the smell of that. I don't like why they smell either. It's pretty, it's unfortunate that it has to stink like that. Yeah.

of a lot of the girly things. But so that trip specifically was when we met Tara and had a great time. We fell in love with each other. She and I, so I understand why Tara was hesitant. Girls can be mean. It's not fun hanging around with a bunch of girls that you don't know that well. It's hard, especially if the guys were already friends. Am I right?

Well, y'all were there with a bunch of friends and we were kind of the outsiders, the new people. But yeah, it was good. I told her, I was like, we'll go. If it gets weird, we'll just sneak out. Yeah, get a hotel. Yeah, or just go home, like, just leave. But they didn't get that weird.

I mean, I do remember that was back when Del's jewelry phobia was at its peak. Really at its peak. And I remember thinking, well, that's new. That's something new. I didn't know about him. Yeah, he used to be quite more dramatic about it than he is now. He's kind of loosened up. I guess having the girls helps.

Like he doesn't really have a choice and he can't be mean to them about it. But back then it was like anybody in the room had jewelry on, he was uncomfortable and mad about it. Yeah, I remember him asking like about rings and stuff. And because y'all, yeah, y'all wasn't engaged or anything back then. Oh, no. This is years before that. Yeah. But yeah, that's how it started.

Did you jump off the balcony? No, I never did. I never did. No, I'm not a. Really? Actually, no. I think I did. I have before. I have before. But I only once or twice. I do miss those KewS days. I miss being that age in KewS days. I don't think I could do a day like that anymore,

although I'm going to be challenged to for your birthday, it sounds like. But we had a lot of fun in the house and went back to Key West over and over again with each other and kind of became travel buddies in general. Like if we go somewhere, y'all are the first people we want to travel with. Yeah, you know, it's we traveled with with other people and different couples. And it's rare that you find people that you can travel with that kind of get, you know, kind of do the same things. We're not, we're not planning it out. Okay, Tuesday, we're doing this. Wednesday, we're just kind of go with the flow.

I don't like having dinner reservations ever because what about if you're having the best time at this bar and then you have to get up and leave it or have to go get ready and. Yeah, the getting ready part is really what hurts because it just. just creates this gap in time and that you get tired of fall asleep. I mean, in Q. West, I have been there's a lot. I've only watched the sunset maybe once. Really? At the pier? Yeah, because I'm afraid to leave my good time. If I leave the bar, you know, it might not be there when I come back. I understand. Okay, so first question is, what are your top three bars for Q. Q. West? Skinner Wharf. Okay. Why? Why do you like Schooner so much? I just... Speaking of smells, that

place has a stench. I mean, I've hung out there plenty with you, but there's something oddly weird about the smell at Schooner. I think that's what I like about it. Reminds me at home. It reminds me of yourself. I don't know. And when I hear that, if I hear a song about a bar or like a Kenny Chesney song or any of that, I'm at Schooner Wharf. Like that is the bar. I'm at the bar, stool, back to the ocean. Yeah, and it always, it opens early. So I like that. You mean, you go on there at 8 o'clock in the morning.

Get a breakfast beer. Yeah. I'd say there. Captain Tony's. Hard to beat that one. And I don't know, probably, probably Hanks. Really? Yeah.

I like it better when it was grunts, personally. Yeah. I mean, they've, I've, There for a long time I had a grudge against Hanks because it wasn't grunts, but I've learned to accept it. You've learned to. There's great bars down there. I guess I'd go with those three.

My favorite's Mary Ellen's, I think. Well, go ahead. I think you could find that bar anywhere. That might be true. Mary Lins, though, is one of those places that you go in. And it doesn't really matter what the crowd is like, you have a good time, there's good food. You can control the music. which we have.

We have. We even broke in on Dale's trip and hijack the touch tunes box and changed the music to Celine Dion and all kinds of fun stuff while they were. Mary Ellen's is good. I just, I don't know by the time I get down there, I'm so drunk. I don't really remember, you know. Because the time I'm making down that. The middle of Deval Street. Oh, if I'm down around Green Parrott or Mary Ellen, I'm drunk.

Yeah. The parrot is another one of the establishments that like you have to be drunk to be in, to be honest. But I mean, I learned Q West from y'all and I fell in love with it because of y'all. So, I mean, I start up there at Raw Bar and I work my way down to Green Parrott, Mary Allens, and I work my way back. And that's just what I do. And I try to like, even if y'all aren't there, I'm always sending pictures and, hey, look, what's this bar, you know? Yeah. You'll send us a tiny little clip of a corner of something and be like, guess where?

I'm sitting. Yeah. Shots and needles or whatever. I'll wake up sometimes though and I will want to be there. I will just get this. I'm like today. I wish I was there. That's where I want to be.

I think out of all the places in the world that I've been, it's my favorite place. It is easy to get to so it's a lot of fun. Yeah. For that reason too. All right. At the end of the night, you're drunk,

super drunk. I need to eat before I go to bed if I'm drunk like that. Where are you going to get a snack in Key West? I mean, I guess you, You got to go with, what's the pizza place? Mr. Z's. Mr. Z's, yeah.

I guess that, I mean, or Mary Ellen's grilled cheese. Yeah, they do have good. Something that's going to soak up the booze. Yeah. Sarah likes the peanut noodles across the street. Yeah. It's like a little Thai place that has a window across the street from Mr. Z's. You can get peanut noodles and Mr. Z's pizza.

And Zee's has good sandwiches, too. They have Phillies that are super good. They're just, I don't know, they're a little rude in there. That's their vibe. They are. And I'm drunk. They're unapologetically real. I'm easily offended.

And they take cash only. So if you don't have cash and you forget, you get in their new order. You're like, oh, I do now. I'm like, man, I don't want rude pizza. I'm drunk. Like, be nice to me. Be nice to me. Hold me.

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All right. So everybody loves Tara. Everyone she meets, like literally falls in love with her. How did you meet Tara? I met Tara at Whiskey River. In Charlotte. Yeah. In Charlotte, way before I knew y'all.

And she was unavailable. She was? Yeah, at the time that I met her, yeah. And we had some mutual friends. and probably about six months later, I was at, there used to be a bar called Johnny and June's. I think it was in Winston maybe. Okay.

And I was leaving that bar. And I used to drink Jack Daniels back then. And I used to could really drink it good. And I remember asking her friend about her. And she's like, oh, she's single. And slid in the DMs. And you slid in the DMs. That was a thing already?

On Facebook. On Facebook. Yeah. I probably misspelled all my, you know, my pickup lines and didn't know what to say. But now she's a, you know, we, and we dated long distance. I was still living in Alabama. And she was living here, right? Yeah, she was living in Charlotte.

Her brother lived there. And so, yeah, she, she's a good one. She, everybody, people tolerate me. people love her. She's, I'm only invited because people like Tara. I love that.

I love that you have an awareness about your personality and hers. I'm not dumb. I mean, I get invited places. I like, hey,

you know, you've been Tara. I'm like, how Tara can't make it. Oh, well, that's okay. Then don't worry about it. You next time. Yeah, yeah.

Dated forever and you got married in Ireland. Why did you guys pick Ireland? The pictures were incredible. Well, but you didn't take anybody, including us, which I'm still a little upset about, but it looks beautiful.

We thought about, well, you know, we actually thought about getting married at children's. Uh-huh. We talked about getting married at the winery. And we just, we started talking about that and it just didn't seem like us. I mean, I just, I don't know. I don't think we are, especially me, I don't, I'm not follow the norm sometimes. It felt really formal. Yeah, I like doing my own thing.

I mean, I remember talking to Tara when you guys were thinking about actually setting the date and getting married. And she's like, the thought of planning a big wedding or a wedding where people are coming and I have to coordinate all the things that's just too overwhelming. Yeah. And, you know, we talked about it. Like, we, our families are not even, they're not formal people. And, you know, we're just, we both come from very humble country folks. And I didn't want my, my family or my parents to feel uncomfortable at a wedding. like or or it just make it, I don't know, I just thought it'd be easier to just go. And also, you know, we did our honeymoon and everything there at the same time. It was just us and another couple. You actually went to the spot that we got married.

And yeah, I thought it's beautiful. And I would do it the same way again. I tell anybody, I'm like, if you're thinking about not having that big wedding, don't have it. I mean, the weddings between you and the person. I mean, your wedding was awesome. I loved your. My favorite part of your wedding, though, was the after after party with the. With the disco chicks? Yes. I was really, I mean, I was really into that one disco chick.

I mean, I couldn't see her face, but. But her bod and her disco head were. Yeah, I wanted a small wedding. Dale did not. And his grandmother didn't want to fly. So we chose children's because it just, you know, kind of made sense for for us. But yeah, your wedding was incredible. And we did go get to see the Cliffs of Moore after years of heckling us to go to Ireland with you. We finally like, well, between 2020 and having kids and all the things, we were like, uh-uh, not the right time.

But we went. I'd never thought y'all would have win either. It was really hard to. Well, there was a lot of please come and a lot of nose. Not now. Can't do it. I finally worked. I wore y'all down.

You wore us down. Well, too, like, you'll go on a whim. So you're like, hey, I'm going to go to Ireland next week. Can y'all come? And we're like, no. We have kids, plural. We can't go anywhere next week. I know.

And y'all keep telling me, y'all be like, you should have kids. You should have kids. And now I'm about, hey, y'all want to go somewhere? I can't. We got the kids. And I'm like, see? Well, I wish you'd have kids. So then we all had kids and we could all travel with our kids.

Like, kids can go places, but you don't bring your kids places and, like, ruin the vibe for people that don't have kids and want to party. You know what I mean? I will say this. y'all do a great job you have awesome kids and I was I was kind of curious to see what kind of parents y'all would be and what kind of mom you would be and you're a badass mom you're very hands-on and I have a I have a thing about that like I really I think it's something from my childhood like I really pay attention to see how people like how parents are with their kids like how nurturing they are or like how much they're just how they are and how they just you know they don't pawn their kids off on people and stuff like that. And y'all just don't do that. And, you know, you could easily do that.

But yeah, y'all are very, very hands-on. And you do it. You're a good mom. Thank you. I appreciate that. Having kids is fun. And we didn't want to have kids to, like, pawn them on. We're older.

So, like, we really made the choice to have kids and wanted to be involved. And yes, we have a nanny. And yes, they're with their nanny right now. So, like, you have to have some of that really. just for your sanity. We don't have grandparents around, so we do have someone to help. But I still think that you guys should have a little dougar. And I still think you should name him something Lane, since we didn't get to have Ralph Lane. Preston Lane, maybe. We had, we had y'all a boy named. I know. We picked a name out in Key West years ago. Yeah. And then the boy just never came.

The boy. It wasn't meant to be. It wasn't meant to be. So I did want to ask you, about some of your favorite places in Ireland, just specifically from our trip, because I know you've been so many times. Sean's bar was up there, like really up there. But for me, the ferry ride out to the Aaron Islands. Yeah. So we got to the ferry. It's cold. And I don't remember the town's name that we took off from.

Well, it's what is that? Oh, Lord. It wasn't Doolin, right? Yeah, Doolin. It was Doolin. Okay. So we take off from Doolin. And we're talking like a giant.

giant ferry boat and it's coming from the island towards us. So we got to see how rough the water was. And I'm not talking like pretty Bahamas shallow water. This is the deep blue sea and this boat is rocking. And so we see all that as it's coming towards us knowing we have to get on it to get out there. So we're all a little nervous. Even Dale looks at me. He goes, this is going to be one hell of a ride.

And so it was. And I'd do it again in a heartbeat. There's people throwing up on. There were people throwing up overboard. Like we saw people throwing up coming at us. and then there were people throwing up on our boat. It's just part of the ride, but it was so fun, and the island is wild. Yeah, I think that was probably one of my highlights of that trip with y'all, just going over there.

I'd like to go see the other two islands. You know, there's two more. Right. And I don't know. I thought that was probably my highlight of the trip with y'all. That and, you know, just finding the snugs and the pubs. The snugs? Yeah.

A little, you know, the little rooms. Nugs, like the little tiny hoonooks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's called a snug. So we found one at a pub in Galway. That's where that guy told us that joke where he stuck his face in the Guinness. Oh, yeah. Too know we don't have a Guinness to do it.

Yeah, and the joke is very inappropriate. Well, maybe you can do it in a reel or something. Put it on your page so everybody can see. But, yeah, I, I, Sean's bar is probably one of my favorites for any, it is a tourist bar, but it's a, you know, that town's not a tourist town. Right. So you get the people come in and then they go and then it's more local. The outside of it just looks so quintessentially Irish to me. Yeah. It's a vibe. And any other places that's got a fireplace in it and, you know, just kind of that calm, chill vibe. I get asked a lot why I like going over there. And I just like being, you know, seven hours ahead and that you can, you know,

Finally got ahead all you screwballs. I'm not going to the future. I like looking at you. But yeah, I just, I don't know. There's a vibe over there. It reminds me of kind of stepping back in time a little bit. You see people, people are talking to each other. There's not a lot of people on their phones.

Yeah. But yeah, I'd say that bar. Hey, Penny, there in, they're in Dublin. I love that place. I go on there. And sometimes I'll just go there and just sit there and hang out and know the bartenders. What's the name of the bar we stayed? for lunch and dinner in?

Gertie Browns. Gertie Browns. That was great. It's a rainy day, and I don't know what town we were in. That was what's the only. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, we sat.

So it's also got a fireplace. There's all these little snugs. We sat and had lunch. The food is delicious. We're talking like stew, all the beefiest home-cooked style meals you could think of. You eat lunch. We moved to another little table. We had our heart set on this one, and people were sitting at it when we got there.

So we just waited. And then, you know, below and behold, it was dinner time. So we ordered a second meal and just sat there and had beers all day long. They were impressed that we were able to drink like we can. I know. They told you when we got up, they thought we were surely going to fall over. Yeah, no. And we got, you know, I had those Dale Senior patches.

That's right. That's one there. And the last time I went in there, it was still behind the bar. Really? So, yeah, that was a good, that was a good time. That was a, and then we, day drank there, went back. And I think, and then we got back to Dublin and went to another pub before we went, you know, that was our last night there. But yeah, that was, that was a great.

That reminds me, do you remember when Dale got those people to pretty much move? Yes. He just makes it awkward and like sits real close and pinches them out, basically. So there's a table in this bar in the green parrot. It's kind of a bigger table. We had a bigger group. And Dale's like, I'm going to get that table. And he just walks up and just kind of.

Makes it really awkward. What are you doing? Where are y'all from? And then they do not want to talk to him. They don't know who he is. Nope. And I get some goes to the bathroom. Del just sits down.

Sits in his seat. Yep. And he's like, just starts talking to him. And finally the people just get frustrated and leave. Uh-huh. And he's like, we got the table. Talk about being confident. Yeah. Yeah, I don't have that. I would get nervous. Girls can't do that anyway.

I'm not a table thief. I can't do that. Yeah, I can't either. All right. So I want to talk about Nashville and music and all those things. You have so many good songs from oldies to new ones like Hurdstone It. I love that. And then all your all stars of the album, the whole album is so good. But you're writing new music now. can you explain what your album's coming your coming album's going to sound like is it a different sound you said you're working with new people yeah i um thank you for that music is a lot like racing it really is it's um you can you know you're on a team uh you're at your you know you have your record label you have you know all these little small pieces that go into making an album and sometimes

you can miss, you can, you can miss kind of the mark of what you were going for. I always, and I think we've bonded over, we both love country music, and we love classic country music, we love 90s country music, and I've always tried to least be myself, no matter what in my music, and in my songwriting and just, you know, who I am, just always, I'm not really have followed the leader or follow trends and music is very, you know, has trends. And now, country especially went through a big trend with like some modern stuff we were both of us were not into. Yeah, yeah.

It kind of, you know, but it always kind of comes back and it's back. It seems like we're kind of in a more people's really loving country music. And I'm not one of these that like to go, that ain't country or that ain't, you know, But I prefer kind of traditional style music. Now, when I record, I don't think it's traditional, you know, twin fiddles and just kind of straightforward. But we've been in the studio for the past maybe two months. I had a meet at my record label. You know, we came out with an album last year and I was excited with it.

But that album was kind of pieced together. You know what I mean? Like there was so many songs that had kind of been released. It just didn't feel like I was, it was fresh. You know, a lot of the songs were kind of older. But we started from scratch, new producer, new band, new engineers, new everything. Oh, wow. And it was, it was kind of much needed.

I loved all the folks I've been working with. Every, anything I've recorded the last six years has been with the same team. And this is going to be a completely different crew. and guy producing. I've loved the albums he's made. He's Jason Aldine's producer, Michael Knox. Okay. And I've been a fan of, you know, Jason's records always sound pretty badass and big.

And I just kind of wanted to find that because my shows are, I like the energy. I like to keep it up. Yeah, you're a very energetic performer. Like you don't just worry about singing your songs. Like you're really worried about your crowd's experience. Yeah, to me, that's my. favorite part of being a musician's live show yeah song writing i could kind of take and leave it sometimes uh uh when i say that it's the all right we have them tomorrow we're writing 11 so right

you're either inspired or you're not yeah i have to really want to want to write um but you know i've not i've definitely not achieved all the things that i've wanted to achieve in music but i'm really really excited about this music. Like you say that about all music you're doing. Yeah. Well, you kind of have to be. You have to be that hopeful that the next one is like the one that's going to break it, right? Yeah. It's a, it's a weird, like, you know, you can let it get you down sometimes because you want to, especially when you see your peers having success and you're like, well, what am I doing? But like, I think that's where it kind of goes to, you can compare it to racing. Like, you know, you know, sometimes people's got a better car.

Some people's got a better pick crew. Some people, you know, it's got more money behind them or this or that or relationships. Is it nerve-wracking, getting a new team like that? Did you- I was a little nervous when we showed up to track. So you track the music first. That's what you do.

So you go in and the band's there. They chart out the song. if it's a, you usually have a demo or, you know, play it for them. This is what we're kind of thinking. And then you start making the music. You go back later and sing the vocal. Oh. So you don't do that all at once.

So on our tracking day, it was a whole new band. It was some of the guys I'd known of, but I'd never worked with. And I was like, I remember sitting in the parking lot going, okay, is this going to be awkward? They're a team. It's like the first day of school again. Yeah, yeah. but it was there was none of that. Okay.

And we're now just waiting on mixing. But I will say I think this is, we got some songs in this bunch that I think people are going to really like. And whether I don't make music for, you know, of course you want to be as successful as you can be. But I don't make music to be, you know, a star or this or that. I make music because I just love making music. it's amazing when people like it and tell you they like it or sing along to it or or come up to you and they got your shirt on or or a hat or you know they've bought your music that's that's special but if if i wasn't out if i wouldn't you know blessed enough to have a record deal and be doing

what i'm doing i'd be you know i'd be playing my guitar you know sitting in this room here by myself one more question i got to ask you when did you decide to grow the mustache. So I think it's cool. But this is like a mustache era. It's happening. Yeah. I've had mixed reviews on it.

I've never been able to grow any facial hair. I mean, I'm not a hairy guy at all. No. I mean, I do have hair, but it's in the right places. It's on your head and on your face.

Yeah. But I, so I'd never been able to do it, right? And I was just like, you know what? I'm going to try to grow it out. And I went and it took me a while. And I'm going to keep it.

I'm going to keep it. Well, listen, it's like kind of become part of your image now. Yeah. Like a risky move growing it out. And then people get, you can't take it off now. No, I don't look weird. I told Tara, I go, I think I will never not have a mustache ever in my life. Well, she likes it.

Yeah. Yeah. She just sent me a picture of you guys on one of your travels. I forget where you were. She sent it to our whole girls group. and she was calling you a daddy. What is his daddy? What's his daddy?

I don't know. I'm too old. Yeah, we, I don't know. She was a mixed review. You know, it's peach fuzz. I had peach fuzz for like two months. But yeah, it's coming in. I kind of like it.

I dig it. I was shocked when I saw it just because, like you said, I didn't know you had the ability to grow that. I thought for sure it was just like a joke. I can't grow anything else. This is smooth as a baby's ass. This is. I can't do anything else.

Oh, my gosh. Well, I like it. Thank you. It does make you have a vibe. Not that you didn't have a vibe anyway, but I dig it. All right, I'm going to ask you one more question. And I told you to prepare for this one. What is your favorite thing that we have done together? I was thinking about this one.

We've done so, we've traveled, we've laughed. We've, we've teared in our beard. We've, you know, we've done. at all, it seems. I would say one of my favorite, I mean, I would say the Ireland trip would be way up there, but one of my favorite memories of me and you, and this is a way back one. Do you remember me and you were singing karaoke one night at Bobby's Monkey Bar? Yeah.

When we were trying to do Jackson, Johnny Cash, and Jim. Carter's Jackson. And we're like halfway through it and we both looked at each other and go, this is horrible. Yeah. I went out of here. And we're just like laid up down and left. That's probably one of my, one of my favorite memories. I'd say, I mean, anytime we're, we're with y'all, we, you know, just sitting around and having honest conversations and, you know, things that you can't, not, things that you just don't tell them, just anybody. I know. For some reason, we, always been extremely honest with one another.

Like we share everything. Nothing's really not on the table. And we're not afraid to hurt each other's feelings either. Yeah. We just, you know, have always felt that way. It's kind of a odd thing. Yeah. When me and Dale first, you know, was Bill and our friendship,

I just was like, you know what, I'm going to treat him just like I would treat any of my friends. You know, I grew up a huge fan of his dad's. but I wanted kind of I wanted to separate, you know, and not judge him as the race car driver and just get to know him. Yeah. And that comes with, I was like, I'm not going to kiss his ass. Like, he's going to, we're going to, we're going to be buddies or we're not. Like, you know, it's going to be a legit, genuine friendship or we're not going to be friends at all.

Yeah. And so, yeah, that's how I just kind of, kind of approached it and became to where we're very honest and we can tell each other. And me and you, I mean, we, me and you, I mean, me and you. text a lot and keep in touch and you're always very thoughtful. You know, if we're going through something or we, you know, we're sharing it back and forth. And so, yeah, but I'd say the drunk in karaoke is probably one of my favorite, favorite times together because you, because you won't hardly. Listen, I don't like to be, but yeah, because I don't sing well and I don't want to be a center

of attention doing something crappy. Like, I'm happy to be the audience. I have always been a very good supporter and a good audience. so that was like very outside of my comfort zone but you know we knew when to fold it we knew it was terrible just irish combined ourselves we set the mics on the ground walked away i'm sure everybody in there was grateful yeah we couldn't keep beat we couldn't keep time like it was it was it's bad when you can't even read the prompter and stay on time with the song like you've got the words there's no excuse for this being so poor yeah yeah i'd say that's probably one of my favorite memories because our i mean we just

We accepted defeat together. Yeah. That was good. Well, my favorite memory was watching you sing at the Opry. We got to go watch you sing your initial debut at the Grand Ole Opry, and that was so special. It felt like we weren't there to watch you guys get married because I kind of feel like Dale and I both feel like since we're just a tad older than y'all feel like we're older brother and sister or something like, I don't know.

I don't know what that is, but watching you seeing, watching getting to go backstage and seeing the green room and watching your family interact with all the things happening, which is so special and so cool. And I cried like a baby, of course. I get so emotional watching you do all these things, because I'm so proud of you. I'm going to cry now.

I can't help it. But that was just neat. And I appreciate you involving us in that. That was awesome for y'all coming and being there. And I knew it was going to be a special day. I had, you know, that's a dream that, you know, that's something you dream about and want to hope that might happen. And so getting asked to play there for the first time was, you know, and every, I, a lot of people don't get to feel celebrated while they're alive. Yeah.

And I'm very lucky. I mean, I got very celebrated. My friends celebrated me and my accomplishment and getting able to be. able to make that step and do something that I dreamed of as a kid. And so, yeah, for y'all being there and just getting that and take it in with y'all, you know, it was new to me. I'd never done it. Yeah.

And just enjoying it. And, you know, I know how much you love country music. And that's kind of where we really connect with. When Delt is controlling the music, we're always like, hey, plays some country. Yeah, plays some country. But yeah, it was very special. That meant a lot for y'all to be there. And you got a standing ovation.

Yeah, it was awesome. It was awesome. That is, I never get nervous, but I knew I really had wanted to be able to do that and my parents see that. Yeah. And I was kind of in my head that that wasn't ever going to get to happen. You know, I've been very lucky and my parents got to see me do some. some cool stuff and and see me play some awesome stages. And I was worried, though, in the back of my head that that wasn't going to get to happen.

And I really wanted that to happen for them. So, yeah. I feel like a big moment for everybody. Yeah. So I appreciate y'all being there. That was awesome. How many times have you played since? Seven.

And I'm counting. I'm counting. That's a lot. It's amazing. And, you know, you never know if you're ever going to get. they ask you like you don't get to right you don't get so when you leave there you're like well i hope i get to come back you know i hope it's like a tight-knit little family too right yeah yeah it's a it's always a and there's there's a i love country music i grew up on it the history of it

it means a lot to me country music does yeah uh and when you walk in the the back door the artist's entrance of the opera you can boy you can feel country music's in there i mean it's It's there. And when you stand in that circle, I get kind of sometimes we'll get wrapped up, just looking down at it while I'm playing because it creaks. It makes noises where you're standing on it. Yeah. So there's a circle in the center of the stage.

Yeah. And there's something very special about the circle. Yeah. And is it painted on the ground or is it like what is? That circle came out of the rhyming. Okay. And it got moved into that place when they opened up the newer Opry House. which has been there for a long time now.

But that's the original pieces of wood where they've all stood from Patsy Cline, Hick Williams. So it's got special energy. Yeah. And there is a, there's an energy in that circle. I mean, you just, and anybody that's ever played it, you know, I've talked to people, everybody, if you don't feel something getting a play there, then you don't appreciate it. Yeah. You don't appreciate what it is. and the history of it and the, you know, being the longest radio show in history of the Grand Ole Opry.

And I will listen to WSM. And, you know, that's what's cool about living in Nashville. You can turn it on and listen to AM radio and hear the Grand Ole Opry live. And it's awesome. But yeah, y'all being there was great. You know, another favorite memory of mine is getting a play for you and Dale on y'all's anniversary. Yes. That was really sad off.

It was our anniversary. It was so it was New Year's Eve and it was 2020. Yeah. I had been pregnant most of the year. And because it was COVID, no one had seen each other. And I wasn't expecting to do anything because we were all kind of in lockdown still. And Dale surprised me with flying you in and playing for us in the saloon down here on the property. And I literally like bawled my eyes out the entire time because I was so like just taken aback by.

you coming to do that for us. And I missed you guys. I miss people in general. I told you, I was like, I don't think I realized how bad I needed to see somebody else because we lived out in the middle of nowhere.

And that was just so special. Well, it was Dale's idea. And he had, I met him down at the Western town, um, you know, an hour beforehand getting set up.

And, uh, he's like, hey, I'm going to text you. I want you to start playing before we even walk in. And, you know, I think I started with that George Strait song. Did I cross my heart?

I cross my heart. Yeah. And I remember like, while you walk around, he had a little table in the middle of this. I mean, it was pretty movie moment. It was a movie moment. It was very romantic. It was very cleared out because usually the place is full of little round tables, like poker tables, like everybody's sitting around like a saloon would be.

And there was only the one little table and he had food cater. and it was like flowers on the table. It was so romantic and a spotlight and one bar stools. I was sitting there. I was like, you know, just playing. I go, this is pretty, this is pretty sweet. This is a sweet moment. And getting the kind of, I remember, I was like, I'm treating this as a, as a, I'm a guest.

I'm playing a show. I didn't want to go, hey, Amy, you know, I just, I just played the songs. Didn't say anything between them. And, yeah, it was, it was a beautiful moment. Del did, Del did good on that one. He really did. I don't think that we've had so much. Like, that's the most romantic moment, I think we've had.

It was, I, uh, I think it would be, uh, it would be hard to top that, uh, you know, just, just as a man myself, like, uh, to be, you know, to want to have a Western town that you can take your wife to in an old saloon and have a little bit of a flex. Yeah, yeah, a guy's singing there. And, uh, it was, it was cool. It was he was, he was, I like when Dale gets excited to be doing something for you. you know, and he's, I think she's going to love this. Yeah.

He was very giddy and it was very sweet. It was perfect. It really was. So I thank you for doing that. So around here, your Uncle Tim, our kids call you Uncle Tim, so much so that I can't not refer to you as Uncle Tim, even when I'm talking to Dale about you. And I have finished your bathroom, sir. So your Elvis room is complete and you can come back and visit. And I hope you do so very soon.

Yeah. Before I let you go, I want to play one quick little game with you. Okay. It's a word association game. So I'm just going to call out the word, and you think of the, you splurred out the first thing that comes to your mind. All right. You ready? Yeah.

Ocean. Key West. Fire. Camping. Music. Merle Haggard. Dream. Hot girls.

Why did I think you were trying to figure out? out a polite way to say that. Yeah, I was going to say boobs. You're thinking about boobies. Yeah. Mountain. Boobes. I mean.

More boobs. Colorado. Colorado. Secret. Skip. Skip. All right. Robot.

Don't like them. Don't like them. You know what I think about with robot? Tara doing that robot dance outside of whatever that bar was in Q-West. Oh, yeah. That we made the giff of. Robots are. getting weird now.

Yeah, I'm not into the AI thing at all. Did you see that they had one that the guy, like, touched the robot's waist and the robot got, like, offended and wanted to fight? No. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. I'm not kind of robot. I'm not into it.

Magic. Fantasia. Fear. Dying. Yeah. Same. Future. Bears in Key West.

Chocolate. Snickers. Shadow. The dog in Homeward Bound. Oh, wow. That was such a sad movie. Okay. Last one.

Hero. My dad. Oh. Now you're going to make me cry. No crying. No crying. Timmy just lost his dad. Yeah.

All right. But, you know, I'm learning to appreciate. You know, you want to talk about them. So, so yeah. So don't, no tears on the. I'm trying to hold it back. You cannot find a t-shirt. I know.

It's a party shirt. I can't cry. Like, ugh. You can't be like, oh, that girl's probably a party. No, she's crying. Don't talk to her. All right. Well, I appreciate you coming on the show and love you so much.

I mean, to come visit soon. Okay. I will. I thank you for, for having me on here. I never get nervous about anything, but this was very nerve-wracking once you asked me to do it. Really? Oh, yeah. I mean, I am a huge, I think y'all do a great job on this podcast, and I like watching it. And I'm probably not going to watch this one. Yes, you are. Come on. Well, I don't know how you get nervous doing this because getting on the stage and performing like you do, I can't imagine you're not, you know, you're not, you don't seem nervous when you do that and you kill it. So.

No, I, yeah, I think y'all do a great job. And it's, I've had so many people that come up and tell me how much they love y'all's podcast. And I'm like, Well, that's them. Like when seeing y'all interact, that's how y'all are. And it's very genuine. So it's, I'm a fan and glad you're doing it. And you're doing a great job being a badass podcaster now. Well, I appreciate that. And I appreciate your support. And you watching as always. Give Tara hugs for me. I will. Thank you. Bye. I am here now with you for Ask Amy. All right. Our first question is from Daniel. And he wants to know if there's anything. you miss from your hometown slash where you grew up?

Well, of course, I miss, I grew up in Victoria, Texas, and my entire family, or most of my family is still there, so I miss my grandparents and I miss my dad. Beyond that and just being out of the farm, I just miss the Mexican food. There's like nothing better than South Texas Mexican food. The little talkeria right down the street from the church is where we went every Sunday after church, and it's a vibe and just like a hole in the wall, but it's so good. How does it compare to other states Mexican food, I guess? It just doesn't.

Like, it's special. Tex-Mex is special. Southern California has some good Mexican food, too. It is, like, unique in itself as well. But I don't know. It's like just so good. I don't even know how to describe it. It's home, too, so it's probably way better.

It's home. Yeah. Our next one's from Andrew. She's been asking week after week, so we're finally going to get to her question. She wants to know what your guilty shopping pleasure is. My guilty shopping pleasure is probably Amazon like everybody else. It's just so easy.

But if it's something I feel guilty about, I don't know, probably buy too many dresses. Okay. Like, I'm not really going places where I need this many sundresses, but it's just my favorite thing to wear. So I see a cute one and I justify buying it. Yeah. I would say most women are like that, I feel like. Yeah.

I've told Dale, like, a rose is only as pretty as it's petals. So, like, we're supposed to dress yourself up. Yeah. You understood. Yeah. Next one is from Seth. I know a couple weeks ago we talked about what animals that you guys own would you like to talk to.

He wants to know if you could be an animal, land or sea, which one would you be? Ooh. I would be a dolphin, I think. Dolphins a good one. I don't know. Everybody seems like a dolphin, and being in the sea seems a little bit more safe than being out here. You think so? Yeah.

I mean, people don't really hunt dolphins, do they? That's a good question. I don't know. I don't know too much about that. I don't either. But I don't think so. They seem very smart. They're very smart, yeah.

I'm going to be a Bahama. Be a dolphin. I'm going to live in the Bahamas. Yeah, that's true. I would pick giraffe. Giraff's another one. Really? Yeah, you're tall.

You just swing your neck around. Everyone wants to look at you? She just want to be tall. I think that's it. I mean, I do, but I don't know. you're kind of limited, right? You're eating like tiny little twiggy leaves. Yeah, I mean, if there's not a tall tree around, I think they die, but, you know, it is what it is.

It is what it is. I'll die today. Yeah. Our next one is from Kim, and she wants to know you're going for ice cream as a family. What flavor is everybody getting? My kids want to get the brightest colored whatever they can, so they usually go for cotton candy. and if I if I veto that from the food dye standpoint they end up with like mint chocolate chip or something like that good choice good choice they'll never orders he just eats part of the kids I usually get like an affigato which is just

vanilla ice cream with espresso on it yeah it's so good like the gives you a little kick too yeah I never had that you have it it's delicious that's delicious that's interesting um next one from claire who was your first celebrity crush My first celebrity crush Probably Patrick Swayze Patrick Swayze really I was obsessed with dirty dancing I just loved dancing in general I grew up in South Texas

And everybody two steps and dances And come from a dancing family So that movie was just fun for me And always like dreamt of having a guy That would dance with me like that Wow Do you know Dales? Dail's was Diane Lane

Diane, I don't know who that is You don't? No. That's funny. He got to meet her in L.A. Not that long ago. We were out there for something, and we got to meet Ben Affleck, who was also a crush of mine and Diane Lane on the same set. Wow.

So that was fun. Yeah. That's fun. We have pictures of that. I'll send you the photos. She was super, super sweet, too. I always wonder, like, if you're going to meet a celebrity, if they're nice or not. And she was absolutely delightful.

Connor wants to know if you are on a deserted island and you can have three non-survival items on you. What would you pick? classic question. Non-survivable. Non-survival. I want a pillow. Okay. And a hammock. A hammock's a good one. And a book.

A book, really? Okay. Yeah. Non-survival. I mean, it's some entertainment, I guess. You have to read the same book over and over again, so that would kind of stink. Yeah. Which book would you pick? What genre you think? No idea. Something romantic, like something smutty. Okay. All right. What are you taking? Oh, man.

Well, half those I think you can just, besides the book, I think you can just find on the island and create it. You're going to create a hammock? A hammock you can make out of sticks and leaves, yeah. And a pillow, you got the sand or something? I don't know. That's not the same thing, Tim's? Yeah, but the sand's comfortable. No, what is it?

Yeah, it is. You ever got sand in your bikini? No, I haven't. I don't know. I would probably, I'd bring like a football or something. I don't know. A football? Yeah, throw it at.

You're going to play with yourself? Yeah, throw it at stuff. Throw it in the ocean. Let it come back to me. I probably, can I bring a dog? I'd bring a dog. Oh, yeah. How are you going to feed your dog?

There's probably stuff on the island. It's going to be like the giraffe. I'm just going to let the thing die today. Yeah, not tall trees. I'll just let it die. And then I probably bring a bottle of alcohol. High Rock. That'd be a good one.

You bring some high rock? I bring some high rock. Way to trump me on that one. Good job. Sorry. I mean, you went with a pillow and, uh, Listen, if I'm on an island, I want to be comfortable. Yeah, that's not a bad idea, but I don't know.

It's a good way to stop asking me. Thank you, Tim, for being on the show. Thank you guys for listening. If you haven't, please hit subscribe on our YouTube channel. Also check out shop.dirtymo Media.com for all of our merch. There is some red, white, and blue patriotic things on there now for the 4th of July. So check that out, and we'll see you next week.