The Dale Jr. Download - Bless Your ‘Hardt – Music Cleanse & Farting in the Oval Office

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is back with his wife Amy Earnhardt in the Bless Your ‘Hardt studios after a rough week feeling under the weather. Despite feeling sick, Dale and Amy haven’t missed a beat. They talk about Dale’s music cleanse, celebrities at the racetrack, farting in the oval office, and is it time to get rid of the Elvis room? Plus they play a new game called “Love it, Hate it, Cringey AF”, and as usual #AskAmy closes out the show! Timestamps:16:03 Mouse in the House26:20 Celebs at the Track35:16 Tooting in the Oval Office48:27 Love it, Hate it, Cringey AF58:58 #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.

Hey guys, we're back for another episode of Bless Your Heart. I am here with my husband Dale in our Dirtymore Media Studios. We have a fun show today. We're going to talk about Dale's music cleanse that he's going through right now. A girl's trip, things going on in the house, celebrities at the racetrack. It's always fun. And a fun game that we played called Love It, Hate it, or Cringy AF. Also, ask Amy and should be a fun show.

Got a lot of fun topics. We got a mouse in the house. We'll talk about that. The following is a production of Dirtymoe Media. Oh, yeah, this is why it's going to be, girl, if we're going to hang out. Oh, you look amazing. I can stare at you all day. Are you kidding?

I couldn't believe it. What's going on? The world is not your trash hand. I slept till two, smoking cigarettes and drinking amp energy. Lord, have mercy. What did you listen to in your truck? What did I listen to in my truck? He drove separately.

He drove in his truck. I've been listening to... Splashing through mud puddles and shit in front of me. Like, were you paying attention? Yes, I'm trying to clear that water out of the street. Where are you going to put it? Splash it into the grass. Oh.

As it's raining still. It's not too. It's not raining. Okay, what were you listening to? Because you were in a great mood before we left the house and you're on the chip. We're not blaming my music. What else happened in your car? Nothing.

Exactly. Just the music. What was it? Trying to get comfortable in this mess. This is just a... can I just be honest? I hate this chair. I don't like it.

Okay. And I don't want you to... Well, bring your little folding chair like you wanted to. I don't want to say anything because I don't want anyone else to feel the way I feel. Because, like... So if I have anxiety or frustration or any emotion, right, any emotion, and you share... You walk into a room and you go, man, I'm pissed. This guy just said such as such.

Piss me off. Now this person you're talking to is now pissed too. Here's the thing. I don't absorb all of your energy. We talked about that. That was something that was, you know, like one of us comes home. One of us comes home. Somebody's having a great day.

The other person's frustrated by something that happened while they were out. And that whole, that kind of can get into everybody's system. I know, but you can vent about the chair. I'm not emotionally attached to the chair. It's just a chair. It is a really good looking chair. Yeah. But I don't.

I don't, the way I don't, it's not comfortable. What are you wanting to change about it? I want to be comfortable. I know, but what does that mean exactly? What do you need? It's too deep. Okay. And there's this, there, it's too deep.

I just, I'm like, I just can't set up in it. All right. We'll find you a new chair. I can't set up in it. And so I'm constantly sliding out of it and it's making my pants go up my ass. Yeah. And it's uncomfortable. Oh my God.

I'm so sorry for it. You see, that's why I didn't want to share because that right there. Listen, we can fix it. You got to vent. Listen, you want me to be a smart ass. I don't. If I say, okay, you keep going. Yeah.

So I have to be a smart ass to shut you up. Oh. Am I not right? Yeah. I don't know about that, but. Well, I've told you three times we can get you a new chair and that it's okay. Chairs are a drinking word, by the way, on today's show. Is it?

Chairs are drinking. How many times are we saying already? 25 times already. Wow. Speaking of chairs. This is, this is, yeah. Nicole drew on the chair in the kitchen last night. Yeah.

So she's four. She should know better than to draw on anything. I don't think she cares. I think she doesn't give a shit. She literally took her pen and drew a tic-tac toe board and wrote her name on the cushion of the barstool. What am I saying? The cushion in the kitchen. Too many similar sounding words.

But Dale brought up, he was like so easy on her. I'm like, wait a second, she just drew on the furniture. This is not okay. Ila did it, but she was two. She could barely speak, you know what I mean? And she was scared to death. She never did it again. And then Dale politely brings up that his truck got colored in.

And I don't remember which kid it was. Same one. It was Nicole. So she's playing in his old truck. And all of a sudden he's working on the door or working on something. And he turns around and she's sharpying all over the seats that are upholstered. not like leather where you can wipe it off. But yet he had a pile of Sharpies readily available in a little,

it used to be the cigarette lighter, right? And now it's just a Sharpie holder. So she's done this repeat. She's a repeat offender, and I'm just mad that she's going to keep doing it. So I don't know how to fix that. But she drew all over her, I put her in the bathtub. I was so mad. I took her upstairs thrown the bathtub.

Not that that's punishment. But playtime with the markers was over. and she had colored all over her feet with a totally different color marker. I don't know when she's doing this or where she's getting the pens. But I'm worried she's going to color on something that we can't replace. Yeah. How do we fix this? Well, I don't want her drawing on other things, but I don't know, man.

At the same time... It's hard for you to get mad at her? It's hard for me to get mad at her because I... When I was a kid, people... Like when I was a kid and people were too hard, you know, for things that just don't really matter. I just see the look on her face when she realizes that she's in trouble. And then I can then see her, I can see the look on her face and it reminds me in my childhood. And then I think she's not going to, she's not absorbing the information now.

She's glazing over. She's nervous. She's a little worried about. how much trouble she's in, and she's not taking in the information that you want her to take in. Maybe I'm not right about that. Do you think that's just because you guys are similar creatures, like your birthdays are jades apart? So I imagine in some ways you're always going to be. Yeah, like that.

Like I totally understand what's going on in her mind or how she's thinking in a moment. Nicole's like, you know, wouldn't you agree that, like, Ila's mannered? Hey, Ila, stop doing that. No problem. Hey, Ila, don't ever do that again. No problem. Nicole, stop doing that, doing it more, doing it harder, doing it worse. Oh, yeah, watch me.

I know, I don't understand that, so I need you to fix it, because you are similar. Now that we're kind of removed from a little bit, I did want to tell you what I was listening to in the car. Oh, okay, what? Because I was afraid that you would, you would. Could be afraid of me. Just talk. No, I'm not afraid of you. I was afraid that you were going to say it, talk negatively about Fleetwood Mac.

I've been listening to Fleetwood Mac a lot for the past three days. Yeah, you've had it on the TV. I feel like I'm going through a cleanse. A cleanse? Yeah. An emotional, spiritual cleanse? No, the music cleanse.

Oh, and you're starting there? That's kind of like the, what's something that's good to cleanse your body? What do you drink? Lemon juice? No, no, no. Yeah, lemon juice. Like lemon water, apple cider vinegar. stuff drink the dark stuff yeah uh the fruit prune juice prune juice yeah it's the prune juice

of music that's not a good analogy maybe not but i um i've been uh i don't know stevie nix is the equivalent of prune juice probably not a good analogy i got um hung up on this lyric in this song of course i knew the story about her and lindsay buckingham and how they were at odds and how they were like that throughout the whole time the band was in the heights of their success. And it's fascinating. They were able to keep creating and make such great stuff while they were just busting around and not, you know, working out and not working out and making up fighting and all that stuff. And the dynamic of the relationships in the band are crazy. And my mom loved Fleetwood Mac, right? And so anytime I need to like get back to ground zero or

So it's grounding for you. It's balancing. Yeah, it's like a, bring me back to neutral kind of thing. So I've been listening to it a lot. And so I love, like, I like getting out on these tangents, right, with different, you know, with punk music and stuff like that. But, man, and you kind of get, you kind of forget how good. Late 70s, early 80s, styles, like Fleetwood Mac, similar music like that.

You forget how good that stuff was. I leave my radio station tuned to 80s on 8, and it never disappoints. But you listen to some modern stuff, too. I do, but if I'm not playing it in the car myself, I kind of get tired of the modern stations because it just plays the same 10 songs, you know what I mean? And I get bored, but that I'm never really totally sure. Usually I've got the kids in the car, what they're going to say. And so I just prefer...

I'm trying to get Nicole... I mean, Ila, I'm sorry. Nicole likes all the old music. I'm trying to get Isla to, like, perk up and be like, flat, but playing with him back. That's good. You know what I mean? Because I want them to...

She likes ballads. She likes things that she can sing to. Yeah. You ever met people that you're like, man, you turned out great? You know, you're thinking that in your mind. You're like, your parents did a good job raising you. And they'll be like,

and they'll be one of those people. like, yeah, mom and dad, they played all the oldies all day, music in my house all the time. And you're like, man, you know, you got a real great appreciation for music from your parents. Well, not just that. When your parents are doing things like that in the house, there's joy in your house. Like, everyone's happy, everyone's relaxed. Yeah. You know what I mean?

But a set of parents that, like, constantly played their vinyl collection. Yeah. Right. Sets a tone. that kid's, you know, mind in their ear, they have appreciation for, like, that music that they heard when they grew up.

Same reason I'm an Elvis fan, right? I grew up in my mama, ma'am all loved Elvis. I would have probably not cared one bit about Elvis. Well, you wouldn't care as much for sure. I wouldn't have. Not at all. And because of her, you know,

it's like 10, it's like 10 tenths. It's like all Elvis all day in that one specific room in our house, right? Which is real, which is even silly at this point. Is it as silly as a guest bedroom that's Elvis themed? That's what I'm saying. Elvis all day, every day.

In that one room is pretty old. We didn't play anymore. No, I'm just saying like the stuff on the walls, the pictures. It's Elvis. So you're walking a room. There's nothing to Elvis. Well, you used to actually play Elvis music when you turn the lights on. We turned that off.

So you would, yeah, you'd go in that Elvis room in the guest bedroom, turn on the light theme, and it would still. start playing Elvis the speakers. Yeah. It's really cool. But I'm wondering if it's part of a, I'm wondering if it's almost time to like.

I'm in the middle of redoing the bathroom. If it's time to revamp, like don't let me keep going in this direction. At this point, do we really need, are you ready to, are you good to move on from the Elvis guest bedroom?

I mean, it's the only guest bedroom in the house, but it's a lot to undo. It is. Yeah. They got the headboard. God, yeah, the headboard too. Yeah, the headboard is where the whole room was started around.

Yeah. You can't leave the headboard if you change it, right? No, and like the built-ins and the way that the cabinetry and everything in there is styled, it doesn't make any sense to... Yeah. I'm ripping the whole room apart if you give me the green light to redo. Maybe we just get a little subtle. What do you mean? Just not so much stuff on the shelves.

Well, I mean, I don't like the red wall either. I'm not a red person Well I know But I'm just saying like we could take some of the trinkets out Or some of the Elvis Like the I'm just here's a thing You're either all in and make it as gaudy as you can

Or we get rid of it Really? I feel like that Yeah All right I'm not ready But I like this I like this idea

At some point we're going to redo the room But no not right now Please no The only thing really that bother I would be fine And let you do whatever you wanted But it's the headboard Codley

school. Who made the headboard? Y'all had it made, I thought. No, honey, you had that in your old house. Really? So the headboard... I thought it was made by somebody who actually had something to do with his team. No.

I don't know, but if you, if you, if you remember Elvis's capes with the rhinestones talking to the listener? If you, if you remember some, imagine Elvis in his best suit. And this is skinny Elvis, right? In his best, he's peak Elvis. I thought it was Vegas Elvis. Well, still he was pretty decent shape in Vegas. Yeah.

But I mean, imagine him in his suit with his cape anywhere, Hawaii, Vegas, wherever he was, you know, when he was doing those kind of shows back in the day where he's changing, wearing those gaudy outfits. And this white, the white cape with the rhinestones, that's the headboard. The headboard is white and it's got the bird in rhinestone. And it is insane. And so, yeah, if you went away from Ellis-themed bedroom, you'd have to take the headboard out.

Boy, that'd be a tragedy. So, yeah, I've been listening to Fleetwood Mac going on a music cleanse. Well, I'm a giant Fleetwood fan as well, so I am happy that you're beginning your journey to cleanse. And when I go back to the other stuff that I listen to, it'll be better. For who? For me. I'll like it more because I've got re-grounded, reset, mash the reset button back to zero. Do you feel like it's because you're missing your mom?

Is that why you feel like? I do love to connect mom and Stevie Nix and there's something about her voice and her whole demeanor and sound that puts me in the backseat of my mom's car riding around Canapolis. I like that. I mean when I was

even but but when I was six years old you know I would tell daddy that that was my girlfriend. I know. You told me that. You had a major crush on Steve Inex. When I was young. Now, I mean, it was gone. By the time I was 12, 13, 14 years old, I didn't have a crush on her anymore. Well, the video

you play with her on the stage and the white like very bohemian looking. It's gorgeous. Like, I want the dress. Oh. And that style is very in now. It's a shame, you know. That she, that's the mom had long hair back when

we were with her in that early 80s. and I begged her to never She cut it She went to move to Norfolk Next time I see her She's got short hair And I was freaking heartbroken And she grew it back long one time for me

I mean she's had it long She had it long later life She always grew up Yeah I was so heartbroken I was like mom Can't believe you did that Hey this is Dale Jr And for the latest bless your heart gear

Go to shop.Dirtymo Media.com We've got plenty of options for everybody And adding new stuff every day Go to shop.durdymomedia.com. We do have a mouse or two, two mouse, two mice in the garage. Yeah, I noticed that I was hoarding some things that I pulled out of the closet to donate. A mouse made a little bed in one of the bags of clothes. So I have these little, we're out in our garage that's attached to the house.

So you come in the door and you're in the hall around the laundry room. So this is the garage attached to the house. And so it's a four-stall garage. It's got a couple of closets in it. And in those closets, I keep those little mouse poison traps. So there's these little packets of pink stuff and they crawl into this little maze of a cart of a plastic box to get to that and eat it. And then that will kill them. It's poison.

So I realize that there has been a mouse. in not one, but both of those. The closets? Both of the closets and has eaten the poison in both of those little plastic containers. And so I go over, I'm cleaning that up, and I go some like, you know, he's got to, he got to poison, he or both of them got to, however many, and they're gone to wherever they're going to go and to die. And so I walk over to the wall, and we've got a baseboard just like in the house that

runs the entire length of the floor. And a mouse had eaten, he got on top of that baseboard and ate through the drywall into the interior wall of the garage. So he ate, so the baseboard is sealed to the dry wall. And he ate the seal, the caulk. And then then between the baseboard and the dry wall until he could get into the wall. Which wall? Is it in a closet? On that far wall underneath the breaker box.

Technically an exterior wall. Okay, perfect. At least it's not in the house. No, no, no. I mean, not that it matters. If he's in the wall, he's in the house. Yeah. So these are two mice that have eaten this poison,

and they are absolutely no question dead somewhere, right? Then I notice that there's more work been done on the wall. A third mouse has came in, And he has come in and went into the plastic box, ate some poison, and he, too, has worked on the wall. And so I was like, all right, I got it. I got some of that spray expanding foam. And I stuck down into that hole they created in the wall, and I sprayed that wall full of expanding foam. Full.

It's all in there. If he's going to come out of this wall, he's going to have to tunnel. his ass off through that foam. Or just chew a hole somewhere else in the drywall. Yeah, well, if he does. He's going to pop out random in some random spot. Whatever. Bring it.

And so I had to, once the spray foam expands out of this hole. Yeah. I got to trim it away and make the wall look like it looked again, like originally, right? So I kind of cut all this spray foam that's expanding out of that hole. I feel like there's a reason you haven't shown me this physically. It's right there for you to look at. I'm not hiding it from you. I like the bucket downstairs that you have where they just fall in.

Yeah. I love that too. So you might get one for the garage. That would be better. Yeah. Because then we wouldn't have to tear holes in the house and spray foam shit. Like we could just... There's this little bucket and it has a lid and a ladder.

And a ladder. And the ladder, they walk up this ladder and they walk in this little space. It's kind of like walking the plank. They walk this plank toward this. peanut butter and they get close and flip into the bucket they go yep and i feel the bucket about six inches of water dale what i thought you let them go well i wouldn't you used to do that you and i used to let them go i used to let them go i used to let them go but then one or two didn't survive the bucket i didn't get to the bucket soon enough i know what's

the water for kills them kill them faster yeah and they don't stink How does it not stink? Now it's got water to rot in. Well, if they die in the bucket, they stink up the whole house. And they ruin the bottom of the bucket. And then they stink up the whole room with their death. And if they drown in the water, the water keeps them from decaying and rotting. And like if two weeks go by and we're out of town or something,

this guy is just going to be floating in there. And it doesn't create a noise. It doesn't create a smell. It is disgusting. You asked a question. I mean, I didn't know that you were doing all that. Yeah. Just let me handle it is what I should have said.

Don't show Ila any of that. Why? Because I don't want her being desensitized like you. Desensitized. To life. Oh, my God. Well, they're eating this poison running off and suffering. They probably happen way fast.

That's probably slow and painful eats them from the inside out. No, those tapey things that y'all used to use, that's torturous. They used to bite their own legs off to get off. that thing. Awful. That's how we got to the bucket to begin with, because that's what you guys were using. I thought the bucket was just neat

because they fall into it. Yeah, it was an Instagram ad you fell for. They walk a plank and go, bloop, right in there. You can watch a YouTube videos, and I'm like, yep, that's what I want. I got this other... It's almost like a game.

I've got this other thing down at the beach house. Yeah, but those aren't mice. They're rats. They are. But it, I bought this thing. I could not believe it. it has a CO2 cartridge. Yeah.

And they walk up in there and trigger this thing. And it sends a piston right through their skull. It's like, boom! Knocks them, kills them, like, flattens their head. That's disgusting too. It's pretty bad. But it's like... Those things are just as Junebug.

They're not small. Yeah. You're not coming back from that. You really enjoy this. Yeah. That thing is about 80 bucks, $100. But it's got... It's a little CO2 cylinders that you would use for like a BB gun.

You screw that in there and it probably has about 30 strikes worth of compressed air. And they go up in there and they trigger this little thing. And they're up in there trying to eat and they trigger this thing and it sends that piston right through them. And then I got the big sticky pads. I don't like sticky pads either. I'm not going to use a sticky pad. but I have one. But I like to...

A sticky pad with one of those giant things? I've got this little... He's just going to run off with it. I know. He did. I put a sticky pad downstairs one time. So at the beach house, we have rats. They come out of the marsh.

The house is elevated a whole floor off of the ground. Yeah. They're giant. They're disgusting. And so I put a sticky trap down there and he took the damn thing disappeared. Wherever he went, it went with him. I'm like, well, that was a waste of time. Yeah.

And so, um, But I got this box and it's like a, it's a little smaller than a shoe box. The floor pan is metal. It takes two or three C batteries. You flip a switch and it goes, and then a little green light flashes. And they walk in there because you put a little, there's just a little thing in the... He puts Reese's peanut butter cups in the end that you can put whatever you want and I put Reese's cup. and so he's like oh hell yeah

Recy Cup and as soon as he gets all his legs on that That's exactly what's happening Hell yeah Dale Jr left me a Recy Cup As soon as he gets up in there It just zaps him And I mean I don't know how like three C batteries Produced enough electricity to kill a rat But it puts their ass to sleep

And then I got these big tweezers You know how like if you're going to pick up some dog poop Out of the park And I grab that damn rat and I take him over to the corner and throw him in the trash. And I'm like, you know, I hope the other rats see this. I'm walking their buddy out to the corner of the street. I'm like, I hope you other ass.

They're watching. Don't be coming around my house unless you want to sleep forever. You're something else. Hell yeah. I love a good challenge. Well, I think you nailed it or you daled it. Oh, gosh. Dailed it.

We're going to get. calls from Peter Peter? Peter? The animal? Peter. Peter ain't calling but PETA might.

Did you know? Peter's calling to give you a high-five. Totally unrelated. Not really. Totally related. When I was when I was driving KFC car,

I got a letter from Pamela Anderson and PETA. You're like, I had a letter from Pamela Anderson, but. I think she was dating Kid Rock at the time. Yeah. But, yeah, she wrote me a letter telling me how I shouldn't have Kentucky Fried Chicken as a sponsor.

Yeah. Was that before or after you met her in the bus? Right before? Yeah. I don't know. She probably didn't even write a damn letter. Who knows? I don't know.

It was funny. And the things that would happen back in the day. Yes. So speaking of girls in racing, can we talk about the Willie B. Sabrina Carpenter thing? Yes. What actually happened there? Nothing.

What do you mean nothing? There was a thing on social media. So apparently there was a screenshot of Willie, William Byron, saying hello to one of her Instagram posts. I asked him and he said it wasn't him. And maybe, so I'm thinking it was Photoshopped or something, why someone would, that's random, right? It blew up.

So if you went into her insta post, You could see all these fans going, oh, look it's William Byron. And they were like these. Yeah, people were just posting nothing but gifts of his car doing donuts and stuff. Or like all the random non-factual things that they did that he did for them. Thanks, Willie, for saving my cat out of my tree. He's such a great guy. He took me up on the side of the road.

I've been there for hours. Thanks for giving me your kidney kid. Yeah. Very, very crazy comments. It was awesome. Yeah. Yeah. It kind of reminded me of when you.

and I first started dating because, like, at the 500, especially, there's lots of celebrities. And you and I had just started to date. So I think it's the 500. And Jessica Simpson's coming to perform. And she did a media interview where she talked about how she had had a dream. Dream, yeah. Where you and her got married in a tree house. That's weird.

And I was like, I had to ask you, because I was a fan before I heard that. And my girlfriend and I were in the bus. And I was like, can you bring her by the bus? I wanted to meet her. And you were like, no, I don't think I'm going to mess with that. And then I read the, or I saw or something, the interview she did. And I was like, screw her. I was so mad after that.

Yes. I was like, that she ain't coming around my man. Dang. Trying to plant a seed that she's going to marry Dale Jr. Oh. So stupid. You think that's what that was? I think that's what that was.

She was just tearing something up. Yeah. She was fishing. Wow. She was, when she married? Not then. I think Nick Lashay had just Had moved on?

Yep I don't think I ever met her I did meet Brittany Spears Yeah Yeah And her dad Yeah

That was I mean Considering everything Try to think about People listening I guess Try to think about this Before like everything

Got weird With that a whole family But or before they got At odds with each other So this was probably 2004-ish or little around that sometime around. She was in her heyday. Yeah, she is peak fame and somehow

another her dad had a had someone that was friends in NASCAR. He had a relationship with Josh Snyder in the new old situation. And he was a big race NASCAR fan. And so Josh says, hey, Brittany's dad wants to meet you. She's going to bring him by. And so she came to Texas and they just come by the bus for 20 minutes. I just, It was like a hello, how you doing? Totally normal, normal, normal. Yeah, you said she was super down to earth. Regular normal, dressed in regular normal clothes like me and you would just put on and go outside to go to the store.

Yeah. And he was regular. I mean, it was kind of nice because... Refreshing. Yeah, you see the showbiz and the performance, right, all the time. And you're thinking that those people are just so. so far out of touch or out of reach right but uh you know of course many things have changed since them but there's um who else have you met man it's hard to remember everybody gosh i know you met

we would go to yeah i mean when you when you go to these races especially back in the peak gascar days 2004 to 2012 ish they were pulling quite a few celebrities to all the races not just Daytona. Of course, Daytona had a lot of people. But I mean, anytime a celebrity came, you would get a, your PR person would come up and go, do you want to meet them? They will come by the bus. They will, you know, NASCAR will bring them over if you wanted to say, hey. And Do you think that happened for every driver? I don't know. But I mean, I, I didn't, I didn't, entertain every one of them. No, sure. Um, there's a lot going on to you on race day. Yeah, I'm in a bad mood. Yeah. And so. That's basically what I was getting. Yeah.

And I was, I'd be like, yeah, I'll see them at the intro stage. Yeah, good enough. Yeah. We're in the driver's meeting. Right. If I was a really big fan, I'd be like, hell, yes. Let's meet. Because I want a, you know, I want a personal 10 minute conversation.

But if it was like, I like their celebrity, absolutely famous, it's cool they're here. But I'll just, my, I'll just check that box at the intro stage. How are you doing? Thanks for coming. Yeah. Like everybody else will when they walk across the stage. but man I don't know look at me I was walking around the house

when my pants rolled up at least you put your real shoes on and not your house shoes they're still rolled up I'm trying to think there's got to be one that was like can't believe this person have you met a president at the racetrack I know you've been to the White House I've met presidents yes

so George W came to Daytona in 2004 we said we several of us met him hello, briefly had a conversation with him on pit road before the race. I went on and won the race at Daytona 500. He left, but I'm in the media center. And I'm just sitting there in a media center.

And this was when the media, I think the media center was on the other side of the racetrack. I was up in a suite in the grandstands before they rebuilt Daytona's grandstands. It was different. But I'm standing there and they handed me a phone. They said, hey, got a phone call. I'm in the middle of my media answering a question or something. Everybody's, we're all talking, me in the media. And it was George W., but she's like, hey, George W.

is President of the United States, man. Good job today. Appreciate you. You're representing, you know, being a great citizen. You're being an awesome American. What did you say? I was like, thanks a lot, man. I appreciate it.

You called him, man? Yeah. It's like dream come true. He's like, all right, man. We'll keep doing a great job. I said, all right,

take it easy, man. And everybody in the room was like, he told him to take it easy. And he and George chuckled. Yeah, I bet. He was like, take it easy. Yeah, sure.

But I mean, that's how I talk. Yeah, I know. If you ever met George W. Bush, and you're pretty down to earth too. Yeah, we've seen him in the, during the inauguration,

I think, it was this year. Yeah, just clowning. He's clowning. He's having a good thing. That's him. And so when you're around him and I've met him at the airport, we were at the bottom of the stairs when he come down Air Force One one time.

And he just, as soon as you start talking to him, you can't help but feel like he's just one of the guys. An uncle you've known forever. And so. I got to meet him with you at Johnny Morris's opening. That's right. St. Louis. Yeah.

So you know. Yeah. Yeah. And he's just hanging. You wouldn't even know he's in the room. I actually got to meet him when I was in high school when he was the governor. Really? Yeah.

But that was, you know. I'll tell you this. I've told this story. And I don't know if it would make sense. But we were at, we were, I went to, I went with a friend to sit courtside at a UNC Charlotte 49ers basketball game. Totally random. No big deal. Just sitting there watching them play.

I think they were playing. in Cincinnati. And this was a long time ago, probably 2000, 2001. So dad had just passed away. So I'm sitting there at this game, and I'm talking to one of the key individuals with the school. He's sitting next to me. And I don't know why I'm, I don't have an agenda.

I don't know why I'm there. I'm not doing, I'm not doing anything for the school or I'm not working or anything. They just invited me and I'm sitting there. and me and this guy got to talking about scholarships and I said man I would love to sponsor or be a part of creating a scholarship for this for an engineer position that might you know send somebody into motorsports

and we had a it was a brief mention and he's like man that's a great idea we should do that and it went no further and then a month later they asked Teresa, me and Kelly, to be at the bottom of the stairs when George W. Bush got off Air Force One. And Charlotte?

I guess. I'm trying to think of the timeline would he even been present in him. But he comes down the stairs, whenever this happened, whatever year was. He comes down the stairs, and he's like shaking Teresa's hand, talking to her for a minute, Kelly, gets to me, and he goes,

hey man, I heard what you might be doing for the school and UNC Charlotte about that. scholarship that's a pretty cool idea I was like how does he know yeah like one little conversation

how did it get to him how did that where did that conversation like where did that conversation go that night yeah like all around all these things and to the president it went quickly right kind of like those mice in the wall they know I was like from that moment on I was like they know everything

yeah they know everything they know everything they know everything I got to meet Barack we went to we went to the I was with you when you We went to the White House. We went to the White House, the playoff drivers or something, some NASCAR. Yeah.

And that was when... Seeing the White House is just incredible. Because she'd... That was... That was the... So, why did we even get to this topic the other day? Were we watching something about Trump being in the Oval Office? Because he's done a lot of addresses.

Sure. Is that what we were watching? I can't remember. So we're watching whatever we're watching on TV. And Dale goes, you know, I actually farted in the Oval Office once. I'm like, of course you did. When did you do that? When he was there meeting Barack Obama?

And he's like, I just couldn't hold it. I was like, you probably could have. You just took the golden opportunity just to do that, didn't you? Barack wasn't in there. He wasn't by himself. They were letting us walk around in the room, and I walked around behind the desk and was just standing there, and I was like, and then I was like, oh, I got a little fart here.

I just feel so relaxed. I was like, you know what, I'm just going to leave it right here. What a hell Did it change the vibe With the room? Well, I don't think Anybody noticed I feel like Mike Davis was in the room

He had to have been I don't know that I was there with you Yeah It did not like stink up the room I mean I didn't create a scene or in no Maybe it did maybe it didn't Who was gonna know? Well Mike was doing it too

So I mean probably I mean if somebody smelled it Fine whatever But You're special I mean you know Sometimes you're in these spaces that are just, you know, famous spaces.

Listen, if I had the opportunity to be in a famous space, farting is not my go-tie. Well, if you had a fart came to you. It's a once-and-lifetime opportunity. It ain't like I was sitting there going, damn, I want to fart in here. It's just like a fart came. You're like, what a gift. My body wants to fart right now when I'm in the Oval Office. Hell yes.

Where was I supposed to go? Clinch your butt. Hold it. Clench my butt. And hold it. No, sir. Yes, yes, sir. No, the immediate reaction is how do we get this out?

No. Not how do we hold it? Not how do we keep it in there. Hello, where's the restroom? I need to get out of here. Not looks like a good place for me. A fart. I'm just going to let it rip.

The chance of me getting to the restroom before it comes out. It was pretty low. Are you worried are you going to have the walking farts as you're walking out of there? Does that happen for you? Then it's obvious. You're clenching and you're walking. Yeah. The walk clinch is a very, is a.

did give away. I've never seen you do that, but that would be pretty funny to see. Yeah. We, oh, I was, so we had this,

you all had this joke, uh, that we, we, we, we, we laughed a little bit over the, um,

this used to be farmland. Oh, yeah. So during, uh, during, um, Sunday,

we got home Sunday and Ila had homeschool. Yeah, we've postponed her Friday work. Right. So we had, Yeah, you had to do that. And so I need to take Nicole. Yeah, it helps me when Nicole's not there.

So I had to grab Nicole and we get my pickup truck and we drove around. I said, let's take a look at the property, see if everything's okay. No trees laying on any fences and power lines. Of course, there was no problem. But we're just busy in ourselves. We drove over to Sunny's house and I said, Sunny, I want to do something one day. I was like, so I look at some old historical aerial maps of the highway we live on. And it's straight past our house.

But back in the 50s, it snaked really big out into these people's yards and through the woods. And I'm like, I really bad. And you look around and you don't see like any evidence of the original road bed. But I'm like, I bet there's some. of it in those woods over there. And so I called Sunny and I went over there and I was just seeing what he's doing. And I was sitting there thinking, I was like, Sunny, you know what? The old highway used to go off in the woods and come back.

I was like, now it's straight, but the old original road used to go into the woods. I was like, I really don't want to walk through them woods and see if we can find it. And he's like, I don't know. That old man lives over there. He used to have a, used to have a garden. might be tilled over I was like get in the truck

so we drove out to the highway and parked on the side of the road and stared into the woods and I'm like man I bet it's off in there you see that little ridge right there could be right there where that ridge is

and we're sitting there and I'm like I'm gone nuts I'm old yeah if you're getting seen how it sounds like I'm old this is like

entertainment yeah what's Nicole doing is she entertained she's sitting there I'm like all right when the weather gets a little warm

man we're going to walk out in them woods see if we can find that old road bed. You'd be better not doing it in the wintertime when there's nothing growing. It's cold. It's uncomfortable. I bet we can take a metal detector out there once we learn how to use one and find some old stuff that's been cast off the side of the road, right? Cans. You're just going to find old cans. I don't know. Like it's in the 40s and 50s or earlier. The historical aerials only go back to like 1953.

But who knows what was getting hauled up and down that road on the wagons, horse-drawn carriages and stuff. Back then, I mean, our road was just dirt. We're now going to horse-drawn carriage. I'm just saying back. Out where we lived. Out where we lived. Back to the Roman Empire thing. Out where we lived was really, really country back then.

Well, I don't think they had carriages in the 40s, 50s. No, okay. Horse-drawn wagon, whatever. You think? Well, they probably didn't all have cars. In the 50s? Well, I'm saying before that. Like, only the, the map only goes to the 50s.

What was going on in the 20s, 30s? And you really think that it's possible you're going to find something out there. That's 100 years. Oh, there's all kinds of stuff on the ground. Okay. I've found stuff in our own yard. Like the rings for old wooden pail buckets. And, um.

you remember so me and Sean I got a metal detector and was walking around in the yard and I found like old rusted bands that would go around wooden buckets and stuff like that and all kinds of things barrel bands and then we were on this

we found this one thing you know I'm walking remember where the remember where the the little kid playhouse used to be I don't know

well it used to be up in the Is it closer where those plants are, like that flower bed is now? Where the light pole is. Yeah, okay. Over there. So it used to be there, and we moved it. Now it's the church down in the western town. But there used to be his little kid playhouse.

Me and Sean, it was moved, and me and Sean were over there, and that damn metal detector is going haywire. Sean's reaching down in the ground, and it was the power that ran to that kid's playhouse. Did he touch it? And he grabbed that damn line and it was hot and he knocked him on his ass. I'll laugh so hard. That was before I came around.

That was way before me. There was a live power line laying in the hotline, laying in the ground, just laying on top of the ground for anybody to touch. And it lit him up. We stopped metal detecting that day. Yeah, I feel like you really shouldn't go back. Yeah. Let's talk about your upcoming trip.

Okay. I'm super excited. We'll leave tomorrow. Me and three girlfriends. And packing for a girl's trip is fun, but also challenging. I've got this sensational mess in the closet. Not that I ever don't. You've been going through all kinds of stuff, getting all your stuff ready. Yep. But I've got quite the mess in piles everywhere. But I'm excited. I mean, I don't really know what to expect. I know. I'm excited for the surprise. I feel like the surprise is going to happen. I get there. You talked about not knowing what to wear. Yeah, so trips in Miami. And I haven't been to Miami quite a bit. But I also have like sun dresses and things that I don't feel like really fit the vibe. So I'm a little nervous about what I've packed or what I have to pack.

But I can find something there if I really need it. But yeah, I'm just not sure. I have something in my mouth. I mean, just say something. something. I did. No, you're sitting there just scratching your own mouth. The other side. You're going to get your phone? Why don't you just get it? Okay. I don't see anything.

You don't know what I freckle? She's picking boogers out of my nose. She's picking boogers out of my nose yesterday. Let a dangle. Help me out. Well, I was doing it. Yeah, I don't know if I've got the stuff packed I need, but we're going to figure it out when we get there. I'm not going to worry about it. What are you going to do with the kids while I'm gone? Because their spring break starts. What's your plan? Well, I don't know.

I mean, I will probably take them to the park. I'll probably take them for ice cream. We'll probably go have some meals, go out a little bit, to some places and have some food. Have you scheduled any play dates with T.J. or something? With kids? No. I was thinking about,

Like what crafts might be fun. They like to make things. I remember when we got those, I got those white cars from Lionel and we painted them. Do you have any more of the blanks? Yeah, I thought about seeing if I could get some more blanks to do more cars. That was kind of fun. You know what you should do with those?

This is off topic. But you should let them decorate or design one and then try to turn it into a real paint scheme. Yeah. That you run somewhere. Yeah, I'm not, I mean, I guess on my late model I could do get some blanks for the late models and do it because I'm not running anything, but late models from here on out. Well, it's transferable, right? Like, it doesn't have to be so exact. I'm very specific. The blank of the car. I'm very literal. What do you suppose I should do? What do you think they would enjoy?

They like activities. I like going out. They also like playing with the kids. So if you pick a stella and them around, you can, that's easy. I like activities that are easy. I don't want it to be complicated. So that's usually what I do. I try to like meet up with friends where it's fun for everybody. Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited to spend time with them and get their, you know, be their, be their provider and get their sole attention and prove to them because you're earning like this, you know, you're earning. Earning stripes.

Stripes, yeah. So you earn the stripes most of the days. And so it'll be fun for me to earn it a little bit and prove to them that I'm capable. Are you going to be able to give them boundaries and rules? You're just going to let them do whatever they want. I'm very, very much hold them accountable. Okay. I mean, do I not?

You say sometimes I'm too hard on. Sometimes you're too hard on Ila. Well, she's an older one that should be doing more or doing better. I know, she's not as old as she acts. She's always had that kind of. She tricked me. Yeah. I give she gets going so good I'm I get to building up my expectations yeah she can't make any mistakes

no she gets to do she does so good and you're like yeah kickin butt way whoa whoa whoa whoa what was that yeah yeah no I think that you're we'll just see how it plays out I'm excited that you get to have a time well I don't want you to worry at all I'm going to it's just impossible I was I felt worried and guilty as soon as you told me that I had a trip it's just impossible not to worry I hope you can still enjoy your trip I absolutely will That's going to be super fun. Get you a glass of wine and just have, you know. I'll have a few of those, I think. Knock the edge off. Yeah. All right.

Let's play a game. All right. There's a game we have called Love It, Hate it, or Cringy A.F. Yeah. That's my working title. Are you going to ask this the questions? Yeah, I can ask the questions. Basically, I just describe scenarios.

Most of these are relationship type scenarios, but some household or everyday life ones. And you guys say, if you love them, hate them, or think they're just cringy. Okay. So pretty simple. The first one is couples who sit on the same side of the booth at a restaurant. I like it. I love it. Yeah.

Really? We usually do that. Really? Is it more like the table? Like you said, it's more catty-cornered? Is it like that? Or are you guys sitting the same side? No.

If it's a booth, we're sitting on the same side. Yeah. Really? We're lovers. Okay. Yeah. If it's a table, we just sit. We love to be together.

We sit corner to corner. Yeah. We went to a charity dinner the other night, and it's a small table and of us were sitting there and instead of sitting in the chair he sits in the booth next me and held my hand like we're if we're having a date night yeah I know it might look like sometimes on here that we always bicker a little bit or we're done it we kind of but we enjoy we enjoy kind of challenging each other if we had a couch he would be sitting when we all halfway on top of me yeah that's how he sits when we yeah that's why he's complaining

about the chair he's too far away from the couch I don't know it's just I'm I need to stand up pulling my pants out of my ass Just do that. Will that make you feel better? Shimmy, shimmy, shake. All right. Good for about five. Good for about ten minutes. The next one, couples who hold hands in public, you guys just said you basically do this on date night, so you guys must love this one. Yeah, I like it.

Yeah, we hold hands. Yeah, okay. We hold hands probably, I would say above average. I like it when he holds my hand, not just because it's nice because we're connected, but honestly, I can keep up with him a little bit better. It keeps our pace together because he walks mega fast. Oh. And it kind of slows you down, I guess, a little bit. Yeah.

Pull them back. Okay. I get that. How about gender reveal parties? Do they, are they cringy? Some people think they're cringy. Yeah. Really?

Yeah. They were very popular for the last couple years, five, six years. They are popular. They are pretty. We didn't do that. I think gender reveals are awesome. I think gender reveals are awesome. Having kids is awesome in those moments.

or like honestly when you're going through it you don't even care who doesn't like it yeah you're not really it's super special for you so yeah i think it's good to each their own yeah let people like let people experience that moment however they won't i think it's cringy when it's done for attention versus just done for like your family you know what i mean yeah a little more intimate setting you guys are way more loving than me i think a lot of these are cringy but are you cringing at everything most of these are cringy yeah the same side of the booth i cringe every time i see it i don't get it it It looks weird. There's a whole open side, all the foods on one side.

That's weird. Wait, wait, wait. We share food and we're sharing the booth. Well, I mean, I don't know. Maybe it's different when you're married. But like, I mean, you see. No, we've been doing that since we really, since we started dating. So if you're sitting with someone that you actually really like and you're sitting across from each other and you don't have a whole lot to say, especially when you first meet.

It's like a business meeting. It's like a business meeting. It's true. There's no intimacy there. I don't know. Because I'm like, I'm usually on the edge of my seat talking to them. like, I don't know. Yeah, so Dale's not like that.

First date, we sat across from each other. I'm not talking about. Had hardly anything to say. Yeah. But he ate half of my food and got up and I was like, all right, it's time to go because I'm done. So, you know, I'd rather sit next to me so I can hold his hand at least have some intimacy. Was your first date in like a restaurant? It was.

A Mexican food restaurant close to the house is an old church. I've ate. I don't know if you're food. I think you had a soup and I don't think your main course had even come yet. No. I'm like, I stood up. I was like, time to go. And he was absolutely serious.

He sat up at the side of the table. And I'm like, are you for real? I put down some cash on the table. I'm like, that should cover it. Let's go. 300 bucks down and I was like, let's go. Yeah. Wow.

Yeah. I didn't need a whole lot in that first few days of hanging out with you. There was nothing but grapes in the fridge. I was terrible. Terrible. I was a terrible date. Yeah. A real bit.

So this one is picking food off your partner's plate. So Dale does that. So I don't like it when it's just. a blank stab. Like, that's rude. But if you're going to share food, let's discuss it. An invitation.

Yeah. It's not like every time you sit down, he's picking their fries. No, he never does that. No, no, no, no. That is not okay. No, he wouldn't do that. So you hate that.

We'll go with that. That's fringy. That's the same. That's straight rude. Reaching over and grabbing a piece of my chicken or my steak without, like, saying, hey, that looks good. Might if I try a bite?

It's just like touching the volume on the radio in the car. Okay. comparable, I guess. Rage. Yeah, yeah, Reagan. What about pet names for each other? I don't hate pet names, but if it's like pooky or something really stupid.

I don't love it. You don't love it? Do we have pet names for each other? No? Just sweet honey. Yeah, but those are fine. Like you said, pooky or like Uber. It's a made-up name.

No, we don't do that. Yeah. I don't like that or personalized license plates, by the way. I think those are stupid. Really? Okay. That falls into the same type of person to me. Yeah. Couples who post each other's text message conversations on social media. Posting a text of any kind of any situation is never okay.

Really? Yeah. I mean, not without saying, hey, you mind if I post this. Yeah. So like, say somebody says, say somebody a friend or somebody shares you some good news and you're like, hell yeah, that's awesome. They need to ask you. Before they screen. they're like, hey, I'm going to screenshot this and post this. They need to say, hey, do you mind?

That always needs to be the case. Well, yeah, it goes back to, like, just doing things for attention seeking. But I don't love posting text messages just in general because it's just a one-on-one conversation. Now, there's some times, like, I've texted my mom. It was a long time ago, but it was like some silly shit mom said in a text, and I shared it on social media because she doesn't have Twitter. It was a long time ago.

So, I mean, everybody, I mean, I'm not... Was it a post-race thing? I don't remember what it was. It was just something funny. I thought people would think it was hilarious. They always say the people that couples that post, like, every, like often, oh, I love you so much, they fight the most. Like, they're more open about it on social media is not really how they are behind the

the scene. We're writing something. Yeah. That's a good conversation to have. So, like, so this is something I don't know about you. It's directed at me. something I don't know about you. I feel I'm about to get a lesson here, Tim.

No, no, no. So, like, I used to post, like, happy birthdays or happy anniversaries. No, you definitely don't post anything about that. You know, and I kind of, I did it for a while because, I don't know, just was real, real excited and happy and new. But it doesn't. It doesn't feel genuine anymore to wish your wife happy birthday? So publicly?

Mm-hmm. I don't know. What box is it checking? It's like an affirmation. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, I see it. Other people do it and they're like,

I couldn't do it without you. And I get it. No, I mean, I feel that and I want you to tell me that at home. I don't need you to tell me that kind of stuff. But you can say happy birthday. Oh, okay. Really?

Yeah. So what is acceptable social media posting in terms of milestones or relationship milestones? and stuff like that. So like, happy birthday to you? Yeah, say happy birthday. Happy anniversary. Really?

We don't have to like elaborate. But you don't even have Twitter. So do it on Instagram only? You don't do it. You do it for your wife to see, not for everybody else to see. Exactly. You don't have Twitter. Don't do it on Twitter.

I don't, I think. So do it where you'll see it? Yes, that's the point. Otherwise, you're doing it for tension for yourself. That's what it looks like. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, don't do that.

Okay. I get it. I mean, I wonder why people do do it because you can just say it. People that do that when their spouse or a significant another is not even going to see it is just doing it for their own attention. Yeah. Which is gross. Yeah, I agree. It's way too often, too, when they do it.

Yeah. Yeah. Like, important milestones or, like, you know, individual milestones, you're trying to congratulate her or him. Like, I think that's kind of. Yeah, she had like, if she got to. It's got to just be genuine. Yeah, genuine. But for the other person.

She'd finished gotten a degree or some crazy thing. Yeah. I mean, you can be like, hey, I'm proud of my wife. Check this out. But something, I don't know where the line is of like, okay, so birthdays, Instagram birthday is good. You'll see it. Happy birthday. But like.

Like if we're together on my birthday out celebrating, you want to post a picture, that makes sense. For sure. But if I get up in the morning on your birthday and craft a post, it's A.B.'s birthday, y'all. You used to do that. I did, but it just doesn't feel necessary anymore. I don't know. They wear off over time, I feel. In the beginning, it feels like your...

Like our anniversaries and stuff, it's like we celebrate it. We know it. We enjoy it. Yeah, I get it. I don't need... I guess I'm just getting boring on social media. Yeah, you are kind of boring. Yeah.

You don't post anything about your family at all. I don't. All work. I know. So the fan. Family, so like you do a lot of the posting for the kids, and the family stuff, you know, you do that. And you do it so good. I feel like what I post is just.

Well, you used to even post pictures of like your travels. You don't do that anymore. I know. Well, I haven't traveled much outside of work. What the hell ever? You've been all over the place. We did. We had a year.

Yeah, we did. Well, that was love at hate or cringy. That was, we were definitely cringe right there. the end. You want to do Ask Amy? Yep. Hi guys. Thank you for being here on Bless Your Heart.

We are on our new YouTube station. So thank you for subscribing. If you haven't already, hit the button. And we are here for Ask Amy. So what do you have today? Well, our first question is from Katie. She really enjoyed watching you and Jamie play priorities last week. And you mentioned that Dale is really good at games.

Dale, do you know which one you're good at and which one Amy thinks you're good at? Any game, card game or board games? you guys prefer? What type of game you guys prefer? It's a lot in there, I know. Yeah, what have we played? I mean, you're good at all games. Yeah, I mean, I just, we used to play president and assholes. Yeah, I've watched you play poker.

Poker, yeah, I mean. Blackjack. Yeah. I mean, the thing about him, Monopoly, he's going to, he's, it's like he can foresee what's going to happen on the board and he just sweeps it. But I think you're just good at games. You're good at like puzzles and games and things like that. And it doesn't even matter if you've had 10 beers.

Like you're still pretty sharp when it comes to that kind of thing. Yeah. It's impressive. Yeah. Their next question is also, is from McCoy. They want to know yesterday on Ask Junior, Dale said he got in trouble at school because he had a playboy. And he's wondering if, Amy, what kind of student you were in school and did you ever get in trouble? I did not get in trouble.

I was always worried about getting in trouble at home, which I didn't get in trouble at home very much either. I just was a rule follower. And so I was always pretty good as a good student. And I did get put in, actually, take it back. I did get put in ISS once for hitting somebody. Oh, watch out. Yeah, I clocked this boy because he deserved it. And I got put in ISS too because I got him pretty good.

That's like the top tier level of trouble to get put. Yeah. Well, I was kind of tired of being bullied. Oh. I got bullied a little bit in school. I got punched a couple times myself. Really? Yes.

Really? Yep. Turn me into a scrappy little girl. But yeah, that happened once. Wow. Okay. Did you know that? I think so, yeah.

Damn, all right. Well, from that, there's a question in the YouTube chat about your upcoming girls' trip. Hopefully no punches are thrown there. What's your go-to hangover meal in the morning? Ooh. Honestly, usually when I'm hungover and I want to eat in. anything. But my favorite guilty pleasure when I'm hung over is like Taco Bell.

Ooh, Taco Bell. What do you get the Mexican pizza or do you just go straight? I get a Mexican pizza. I used to get the double-decker tacos and they've taken those off the menu. And I'm so upset about it. Every once in a while they bring them back and I just hit the drive-thru at lunchtime. Just for, you know, good measure. But what's yours?

I like five guys or like a good cheeseburger. Mm-hmm. Some greasy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Some bojangles. Yeah.

Are you guys a hair-of-the-dog type of people, too? Where, like, you know, it's a bad one. You need another drink to kind of eat yourself back in. Oh, yeah. Hair of the dog. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the only problem there is, like, if I drink another, so if I get up and have a beer, I'm ready to have another, I'm ready to do the whole day over again.

Yeah. So if we're on a trip, that's just usually the plan. You kind of don't have a choice. Don't stop. I'll just, because one, one beer puts me back to drunk. Oh, really? Like, one beer will get me back to like where I was around five or six the day before. And I'm like, hey, I'm ready to party.

Yeah. I'm back. Let's go. What are we doing? So I can only have hair of the dog if there's like a runway to raise some help. Yeah. Okay. I get on that board with that.

Is there a water ratio when you're on that too? Like, rehydrate too? There should be, but they're probably using enough. That was the problem to begin with. Okay. Next question is from Randy. What are two things you'd love to ask your pet? So if your pet could talk, what would you ask it?

Would you want to know? I'm going to ask Junebug while he pees everywhere in the house. Okay. What are you going to ask? I would just, man, I don't know. I mean, he has spitefully done that since we got him. He's a tiny little dog. And we traveled with him quite a bit.

So he knows where to go. And he will do it if he's stressed or if he thinks we're going to travel and leave him somewhere. He'll just start peeing. Gus, yeah, sorry. Go ahead. Gus growls at us, mostly me. Yeah, you. He cries at you.

I go over there this morning, and he's sitting on the couch, and I go over there, and I give him this big old hug, and he's like, er, and I'm like, what are you growling at? Like, what is the problem? Yeah. Like, you are so love. Yeah. He seems to have just enough punk in him that if he's annoyed with Dale's extra energy

and all the things, he's going to growl. hug him and give him this hug and rub his back and he's like err and then as soon as I sit up he's like where are you going man yeah he used to talk and I'm like I know it he used to like howl and kind of moan and talk like he you almost felt like y'all were having a conversation and that has gone he's not doing that at all anymore he just grouse he does have a lot of arthritis so he's probably in pain a little bit but do they do they both like rush to the door when you guys come home and jump on yeah howl and scream and loud I feel like I would wonder I would wonder I would want to know what they're saying.

Is it just noises? You're like, intruder. When Amy comes in the driveway, she comes by the front door and then to the garage. So they see her and they run to the front door, loud barking, barking, both of them. And then they run all the way through the house

to the garage door. Every time. And stand at that garage door, just bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, till she comes through it. Yeah. And I'm like, y'all know the routine. Y'all know what is happening here.

You know my car. The barking is really not changing anything. And they can hear my voice. They will not stop talking. They won't stop screaming. And Gus is loud. He's so loud. And he's the next level.

He's not a bark. It's like a howl. He's a bird dog. He's really loud. He's Irish setter, right? Yeah. Do they have a favorite? Do we have a favorite?

Favorite person? You were. Oh, they're, I'm the favorite. Yeah. Usually most do. Mm-hmm. These next couple questions are more about you guys. As a couple,

Jody wants to know who said I love you first. Oh, I don't know. Do you? Mm-mm. I'd be guessing. That would be, too. Really? Wow.

I know it happened pretty early. I can't even remember those. I mean, I can't even imagine what that looks like. But it was, I bet that was cringy. It was awkward. It was so awkward. So it may be advice for people that are a little nervous to say it to their part for the first time. How early is too early?

I don't know. You have a right to be nervous, but never worry about putting your feelings. out there, I guess. Yeah. Because you might not get the chance if you wait, but... Good advice. Yeah. Man, I don't know.

That's always tough. It's scary. It's never not scary. Yeah. Read the room, I guess. Mm-hmm. I don't know. The next one then also is,

Amy, can you tell us how Dale proposed to you? Yes. So we were in Ilbishheim, Germany. We were there for what I thought was a genealogy kind of excursion to explore where his family was from. He had done a lot of research. and we had checked into this tiny little bed and breakfast and had a night downstairs with the locals. And so we were hung over and we were going to see the church the next day.

And our good friend Martin had lined up a meeting with the pastor so we get to open the church. I think it was like a middle of the week. It wasn't a Sunday. So the church was not open. And we're just looking around the church. And all of a sudden I turn around. It's kind of quiet. And he's on his knee.

I'm right next to the altar. and he's on his knee. And I have, I was flabbergasted. Um, I don't know. He blew it out of the park. Yeah. Did you think it was coming? You had no.

No, I had no idea. We really, we hadn't discussed rings or really getting engaged. We, I don't know, we had, we were in a good place in our relationship, but that was good enough for me. And, um, the trip was not about us. It was about seeing where his family was from, which was exciting. And so, no, it was, we were very distracted. and I didn't see it coming at all.

Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. You're nervous still? When you did it? Huh? Was I nervous? Yeah. I was so ready to do it.

I was so excited to do it. I wasn't really nervous as much as I was just like, had been carrying that ring around, and I was like, man, I wanted this for myself for so long. Of course, you got to remember I'd, I'd, I'd, um, this is happening like kind of later in my life, right, than I'd imagined. And so, um,

and the way we had planned it to be there and it just was came together perfectly. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I didn't know what that church looked like. I didn't know what the town looked like we were going to. I was totally like, you know,

just focused on that moment. Well, no. I mean, I was like, he was going into those portions of it, not knowing what he was going to get. Oh, okay.

I was visiting this, this town, Ilbusheim has 300 people in it. In 1700, when the Earnhardt's were there, there were 300 people. It is not changed. I didn't know what we were walking into. This church was a thousand years old, or 700 years old.

I didn't know what it looked like. And I'm like, yeah, I guess, I mean, I'm a wasker into church, I hope, you know, if everything goes the way it's supposed to go. I didn't know if it's going to be busy, a bunch of people in there. We're by ourselves. Would it be quiet? Had no clue, but... It was like

this ethereal space and we were all by ourselves and it was just perfect. It was everything. It was, everything was the way that I would have asked, I would have wanted it to be. Yeah. To be able to set up the moment.

So it was good. That's awesome. It worked out. I remember, um, the funny, the, the,

the, the part that's kind of funny to me is when we got, when we did that, you know, we had, we got, you know, we had this moment of being excited and happy and everybody's happy and,

you know, that was, I mean, you know, who, Kelly and everybody's so, Yeah. And we go outside, take a couple pictures, and then we walked back to wherever we, you know,

we walked back to wherever we came from to the car down the street or whatever. And it's just you're walking down the street and you're just like, all right, well, I guess we're going to, I guess now I'm engaged, you know, it's just just this really weird. Weird transition. Yeah, everything. I mean, you know, life does just go right back to normal. Yeah. I've always wanted that when you see the pictures.

of people get engaged. Like, what did you guys do after? Did you like, high five? Nothing. Like, I don't remember, to be honest. You didn't do any, you did, what you were going to do if you did get engaged. Yeah, it's kind of a crazy thing to think about. Yeah.

Yeah, so a lot of people, they get engaged, you know, a little closer to home. Not like in the backyard, but not in Europe with nobody around them. So they might have friends and family around or have like a cocktail reception plan or they might have been planning to go to dinner or do something. So, like, there's an event to. to support the excitedness. I don't know what we were doing that day besides the church.

We were just kind of exploring the town. We were. I don't know. The whole trip was a big celebration I felt like. Yeah. It's fascinating. Yeah.

Our last question is from James. And what do you got? There was this one thing we did where we stopped by this lady's house and we bought some. Yeah, so there's like three or four businesses in town only and one of them is a bridal shop. And so we did go into the bridal shop and I got a few little things.

So, like, put in my bouquet and a handkerchief and some different things from the bridal shop there. Yeah. So that was special too. That was just coincidence. That was just coincidence. Yeah. There's like an appliance store, a bridal shop, and I forget what the other thing is. Wood shop or something.

Yeah. Wow. All right. That's cool. Yeah. That's good. Last question from James. He wants to know.

Did Dale buy you your own beard trimmer yet? No, we're still saying. What, Dale? I clipped his, I clipped his hair with that the other. day. Yeah. I think we have a new shirt. It's ours now, okay?

It's always going to be a shared one. I'm fine with it. Everybody's like, oh, man, chill out. I think it's more common. He's just shy and he blushes. I mean, we talked about this. So back to that, he loves to come up behind me in the kitchen.

Most men do this to their wives. He's squeezing on me, juggling boobies, poking my butt, whatever he wants to do. If I go to do anything similar, back to him. He jumps out of his skin. Like he's like, ah! Yeah, yeah. That's just who he is.

Yeah. I think we have a shirt on the the dirty-mo store that has something similar to that. Yes, we have a new shirt. I have a printout so I can show everybody. So we have merch now for Bless Your Heart, and our first item is fully charged and ready to rip. So there's a T-shirt and a sweatshirt,

and we have more things to come. But this is our initial item. Pretty cool. That's pretty good. That's all we got for Ask Annie today. All right, thanks, guys. Thank you for another episode of Bless Your Heart. Thank you for being here, hony.

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