The Dale Jr. Download - Bless Your 'Hardt - Our First F1 Race

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

Amy Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr. are back for another episode of Bless Your ‘Hardt. Fresh off their trip to the F1 race in Miami, Amy and Dale recap the experience, and Dale explains the difference between an F1 race and a NASCAR race. Then Amy tells a hilarious story about Nicole (a.k.a. The Candy Thief), a classic name mix-up story, and why your dentist should always be invited to your wedding. Plus, we play Guess That Gen Z Slang, Ask Amy, and so much more!Cocktail Recipe of the Week presented by High Rock VodkaDale Jr's Screwdriver:1.5 oz High Rock Vodka2 oz Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice0.5 oz Soda WaterTimestamps:0:51 – Drink of the Week – Dale Jr’s Screwdriver9:53 – F1 in Miami41:08 – Dentist at your Wedding46:23 – Gen Z Slang54:42 – Ask AmyShop our new 'Stars, Stripes & Beers' merch collection here: https://shop.dirtymomedia.com/collections/stars-stripes-and-beers-collection 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, guys, it's Amy and Dale. We're in the Dirty Mo Media Studios for another episode of Bless Your Heart. We're super excited for our show today. We've talked about a lot of funny things. We're going to talk about the F1 race at his birthday party. The Candy Thief, Men's Sports Praws, and a fun game or two. So let's get started. The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media.

Bless your heart. Oh, yeah, this is the way 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. All right, Dale, what's our drink of the week? All right. Today's drink of the week, pretty simple. It's my screwdriver. It says right here, Dale Jr.'s screwdriver.

One and a half ounce of high rock vodka, two ounces of fresh squeezed orange juice. If you're pouring it out of a jug, nobody's going to know. Half ounce of soda. Soda water. Soda water. Like club soda. Yeah. And if you don't have soda water, don't worry about it.

Forget about it. It's still a screwdriver. You combine all those things in a glass with ice. If you don't have ice, no problem. And you can garnish it with a slice of orange, but I don't do that. Why don't you do that? Amy did. Amy likes her.

I like to decorate my glass. Yeah, Amy likes her garnish. It makes it festive and nice. I'm not a garish. The harsh guy, like if, you know, when I'm ordering water, I don't want the lime or lemon. Why is that? If I'm drinking a beer, something like that, yeah, I might definitely get the lime. You might definitely.

It's an exception. It's delicious drink, light and refreshing. You can visit high rock vodka.com to find a bottle of high rock near you. And please also remember to drink responsibly, you must be 21 or over. That's right. Yeah. All right. So let's get going.

Yeah. We got a lot to talk about. Man, we've been doing some stuff. We have been busy. It's been a busy week. What's on the table here? I don't know. It looks like.

It's a card, so why don't we just... You want me to open this? I don't know what it is. This isn't a surprise. This isn't from you? No, I don't know. It says Amy. Yeah, I figured it was...

Just check it out. Maybe it's sitting. It's sitting there's Mother's Day coming up. It is. We're going to talk about that too. There's also some beautiful orchids sitting here, which are my favorite. Amy's a big orchid fan. Yes, I like orchids.

She's orchids. I'll put that in my Amy note. Yeah, you should have that in there already. It should be in there, but it's probably not. It does say Happy Mother's Day. Oh, it's from Kelly. See? Even she remembers what I like.

Amy likes orchids. You're such a punk. Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you, Kelly. Yes, Mother's Day is coming up. Guys. It's important to make sure to honor your mom. That's right.

And your wife. Here's a life hack. Life hack for all the boyfriends and the husbands out there. Start a note. about all the things your wife likes, the size of her shoes, the clothes that she wears, the color of her eyes, all those things. The color of her eyes should not have to be in your note. Her birthday, put her birthday in there.

All the things that are very important to remember. Make a note. And that way, bam. Do you put the things in there you're not supposed to do also? You could even categorize it in like specific moments like Mother's Day, birthday, and think about, okay, here's a list of things that. Here are her expectations on her birthday. Here's your expectations.

Yeah. It's a good idea. If you can't remember, you should damn sure have a note. You might want to start it before your eight-year anniversary, though. You might want to start it before your... You might want to start it right when you get married. You might want to start it before your seventh anniversary. We've been married eight years.

Eight. Yeah. Eight wonderful years. We're coming up on our eighth. No, we just have eight. Man, it's hard to math. Isn't it? Yeah, because don't...

don't take this wrong way, but getting married on New Year's Eve comes with its own set of challenges. It ruins your ability to really... To math it. Define what the year is. It's hard to go backwards. Yep. I have to go, all right. It was a...

It was a 16. 16. We're not good at it. It's not New Year's Day. It's New Year's Eve, so yes. We have had a lot going on. We had Ayla's birthday party. It was a whole lot of fun.

We had a ton of kids at the house. A bunch of little girls. She wanted to have a very girly birthday party, but considering the time of year, she wanted a pool party. We avoided that just because you never know when it's going to rain. Danger? Yes. You got to have a lifeguard.

Got to have a lifeguard, which we can do. We know a couple lifeguards, and they take it super serious. Yes, but it might rain, so it's not a good idea to plan on a pool party. So we ended up doing it down at the saloon, which she was very against. She was like, Mom, it's just so brown in there. Like, yeah, I know it's brown, but trust me, I can make it way less brown. And so I worked on it for like a week, and I hung pink bows. Like, it was draped.

to the nines and like girly everything. And so the girls had a lot of fun. They had face gyms and they made hats. Kelly had sent, or Kennedy to do hat presses. So they made hats and they had a bouncy house and had a big old time. I get thrown off guard by how elaborate the party is. Yeah? Yep.

Do I take it too far? No. I made a promise to a little seven-year-old girl that it would not be brown. So I kind of like snowballed. I don't know. So this is reminding me a bit about, this reminds me exactly like when I found out how much a gown cost. And I was, you were like, hey, I was like, hey, going to this thing.

You're like, I'm going to buy a gown. I'm like, great. This was our first time. This is the first time that I'm in this process with Amy. It's not the first time we ever went to an event together where she had to wear something nice. but it was the first time I remember us jointly like, okay, you're going to buy the gown, we're going to go do this thing.

Is this for the banquet? It might have been. I remember it was that orange gown. Oh, that one was expensive. I let you pick it out. I let you pick it out. It was an Oscar Delarenta dress, and he bought choked.

When I learned the price, I was like, oh my God, what? And then I was like, you know, and she's like, I'll never, you know, And I learned, you know, most likely never going to wear that gown again. And I'm like, oh, my God. Can you sell it? She's like, hell no.

I'm keeping this thing. You crazy? I'm like, oh, it just sits in the back of the closet. It's not depreciating. And one of our children might be able to wear it. I know. I freaked out. And, but I got some advice that that's like, hey, dude, that's what they cost, you know?

It's just what it is. That's just what it is. And I was like, oh, my God. And then I learned how much couches cost and all kinds of things. It's just like... He didn't pay a damn bit of attention before I came along. It's basically what he's saying. No, it was ignorance was bliss.

I was like... Well, exactly. Hey, we're going to remodel this room or you're going to have... We're going to remodel your house or we're going to put all new... All the things that ever have ever happened to me. I'm like, I don't care. Don't tell me nothing about it. Just do it.

And then when I had to start... He had to start trusting me to have the same awareness. So now like the birthday parties, the Easters, the holidays, all of Amy's family, and I've said it before, Amy's family celebrates beautifully, all these moments. They, they,

everybody feels appreciated. All the kids get all the things together. Nobody's left out. And they, they're a blue collar, hardworking family, and they go to the fullest to deliver great Easter's and,

and holiday experiences for all of the kids and the family. And I've, and so it's not, just us, you know, it's not like, I look at it and I go, man, is this spoiling, Is this spoiling, Ila, is this spoiling Nicole? But this is Amy's tradition. Like, that's her Texas heritage. Here's what I think about that, though, too. Last year we had a birthday party at the bounce, the jump place, and it was the most simple thing. Very straight down. Very easy. Yeah, it was. And so we don't do this every year. No, we don't. But also, she's going to get to a

point in an age where she doesn't even want to have a big birthday party like this. This is for, like, little kids. Well, I'll say, I love when we use the Western Town, because we're We built that thing to raise hell and party in, and we did. And then it sort of fell in disuse or, you know, we just weren't needing it and didn't have a purpose for it. And I felt so foolish. Well, it's been rejuvenated. Having even built it and spent all that money on it. And now we're like using it for really all these, we're using it for our foundation,

birthday parties, family day for junior murder sports and stuff like that. It's just family reunions for us in general. Partners and companies are coming over and bringing 150 employees and having events. Weddings. We've had some friends getting married. Yeah. So, I mean, it's this awesome space now. But yeah, you did a good job.

If she had nothing to complain about. That party was awesome. You had a hat station that Kennedy and Amy's, I mean, Kelly's kids come by and had a hat station making hats with patches and stuff. They had that little press. And so all the girls were crowded around picking out their patches and their hats and getting their stuff made. and we had food. You had this thing outside on the stage where these ladies came to paint their hair

and do all kinds of makeup and all kinds of stuff. I mean, it was cake and cupcakes and all the dads hanging out drinking bull-hs. I had a little bull-session with some of the dudes. So this is a little bit of something for everybody. It was good. You did a great job. Thank you, honey. I appreciate that.

Ila said she had a blast. I want to get to the F-1 race. We did the birthday party on Saturday. and Sunday morning we woke up and flew to Miami for the F1 race, which was out of the control. So good. We've partnered up and become friends with the folks at Hard Rock, and we've been down to the hotel in Florida,

around Hollywood or Fort Lauderdale, wherever that is. You fly right by this thing when you come into the airport and you see this big giant guitar. It's amazing, man. It's really cool. And the hotel's really nice, really nice. They're building one in Vegas as well. that I can't wait to see,

but we've gotten some pretty, we've got some merch with them that they're selling. We've got some, we're doing some high rock vodka stuff with them on the menu. And so we're having a lot of fun with that. And so they invited us out. We have some friends at Red Bull as well because of our relationship now with Connor Zillich,

who's in SVG, who will have Red Bull as a sponsor and some of the stuff they're doing. in the NASCAR world. So we had a couple different places to kind of hang out. And everybody's been asking me about my opinion on the F1 thing. Well, what is it? I'll say this, man.

I was excited to go because Amy was going. It's this cool experience that I've never, it's something I've never done that I'm going to do with Amy for the first time. Those are very. Those moments are actually kind of rare. Rare. And so, yeah, so that was going to be cool. The food is really good.

The hospitality is awesome. All the things that fans will touch and engage with is really, really good. Very thoughtful. Everything's beautiful. The grounds are nice. Everyone's dressed. It doesn't matter where you're sitting, what you're doing. Like, everyone is dressed, and it's Miami.

So, like, even the scantily clad are well put together, you know what I mean? so like the environment is just exhilarating. Yeah, it's good. It's fun. I mean, I wasn't as, I wasn't, the racing was pretty good up until Max got passed. So Max was kind of holding up the McLaren's, and that was exciting to see how they were trying to put the passes together.

And once he fell to third, you know, the race was pretty much over, even though they're still halfway, half of the race to go. Now, there were some things going on for the diehards that they could see happening and Hamilton and some different things going on in the back of the field

in the middle of the pack that were interesting to the diehard fans but it was easy to like clue zone out you know from the race itself and get more you know

get more food and drink and hang around and BS with the people yeah we kept trying to spot celebrities from far away we were watching the whole start of the race from right up right above

yeah the amenities are awesome. They had this big swimming pool, bungalows, all the hospitality. The swimming pool had mermaids in it. Yeah, really?

Yes. It was like a scene. It was really cool. But I'll say this, and I'm being completely honest. I know I'm a NASCAR fanboy. NASCAR to me is the greatest thing in the whole wide world. Always will be.

Of course it is. I grew up around it. But, like, I'm more entertained by the, NASCAR product by a bit.

Now, I was a bit surprised how entertained I was by the F1 product, especially when Max was trying to defend. So that was really any, if it had been anyone trying to defend for that lead, I'm a Max for stabbing fan and got to meet him, which was awesome.

So that was cool to meet him, then watch him race and watch him have to try to hold off these faster cars and be so determined to do it. Even though it was a futile effort, they were going to get there, right? So that was fun to watch. But I am more entertained by the NASCAR product.

Well, we knew going into it that it was like an event. It wasn't just about the racing. There are so many different pockets of things to do. I mean, parties. There's like techno club music playing at all times. Even up to the point of a race starting, the fans are like fist pumping and on their feet. everybody, it feels like everybody's at a beach club.

You know what I mean? Part of that's probably because it's Miami, of course. But the environment was just like full of energy and everyone was excited. It was really cool. I've heard there's also like all weekend there's a lot of concerts. Oh yeah.

There's concerts and like things going on. It's like a three-day festival at some point. Especially in a city like Miami. So not only is F1 themselves organizing concerts and so forth, but like the hotel had things going on. This hotel. had things going on.

This event space had something happening that they were trying to draw, right? People too that wasn't even totally, you know, the F1 had nothing to do with, right? So there was tons of opportunities for things. If you want to, you know, if you want to have a hell of a weekend, you go get you a hotel room and you just do all the things and then you go see the race. And I'm sure, and I would do that again. what I did feel like I was seeing like the Americanized version of F1 F1 is global F1 is more obviously more European I want to experience that I want to go

to spa or one of those racetracks in Europe and see a race and see how it feels different or may feel more traditional and I would say it's like I love sushi but you know when you really get down to the hardcore sushi fans there They're like, oh, you've got to go to Japan to get real sushi. I'm like, that's kind of way I probably, like, you've got to go to Europe to get real F1. So maybe me and Amy need to do that. Let's go to Monaco.

That would be fun. Monaco, I've been to the city. And so that wouldn't, I would rather go somewhere I've never seen. But I know we can. I hear the best way to watch a race in Monaco is from up. I will try to get you to Monaco at some point. And you might want to do it when there's not a race because the city is kind of small and the track literally takes over the entire town.

and so you'd be limited to be able to kind of move about, you know, to get to certain spaces. So you might want to go there when the race ain't happening because it's just such an amazing place. I kind of feel like the F1 environment in Miami, it reminded me of going to the Derby because it's the same thing. There's stuff going on all over town. Everyone's dressed. Everyone's like minding their manners. Like there's races. But, you know, it's like just one big old party.

You might not even see a horse race, especially if you're in the infield because the hedge is so tall. Like you might not see a thing, but everyone's having an awesome time. That's true. That's a good point. It did have that vibe. You know, everybody was there, just had fun. The other thing that I thought was really interesting. So in NASCAR, if there's, you know, you pick any race, Texas this past weekend,

there's cars in relatively close proximity to each other all over the racetrack at all times. And there's passes for position in the, in the, in the, in the, of the field and toward the front or toward the back. There's passes happening, right? And we celebrate some of those passes or get excited about some of them, but, you know, we don't really, the crowd doesn't just start, the whole crowd doesn't stand up and start to cheer at the mere potential of a pass in NASCAR.

But that's exactly what happens in F-1. So they have the DRS, which means, When a car gets within a second of another car, the rear spoiler opens up and takes off all the drag and that following car can make this massive run down the straightaway. So if you're watching the race as Max is trying to defend the McLaren's, the McLaren's wings would open up and the drag would go away and that car would get this really badass advantage on that long straightaway.

There were a couple different long straightaways, the front stretch where we were at, and then over where we were with the Red Bull folks at the, that was the end of that straightaway. That's how, that was the, that was the point where he was most vulnerable because they had this advantage. And the crowd knew if the car was within a second, as they're watching those cars snake through a couple corners before the long straight, the crowd was like, he's going to be in the zone. They start cheering. Before they ever even throttle up to go into that long straightaway, the crowd's going, yeah, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes.

calls yeah and the cars are running down the straightaway and maybe max blocks him at the last minute and no pass even happens and then they calm down and then then as they're starting to approach the next long straightaway if that car's in that zone they start cheering again and it's like what is going on they're getting excited about the idea that this past could be happening at the end of this next straightaway which is so the process of the whole thing it's neat it's neat it's neat but they the way they enjoy the event is so, so different. They're not mad at their drivers. They're not like, I didn't get that energy vibe from anybody.

At the end of the race, there was a little back and forth between Norris and Max really didn't say nothing. But Norris had a few words for how Max was driving. And so at the end of the race, there was a little, you know, saltiness. Between the drivers. Yeah. But I'm sure the fans share. Share that. Because you go on social media and look at the responses to the clips of what Norris was saying and stuff.

And the fans are like one side or the other. Yeah. So you just don't feel that though in the environment. Like nobody's getting massively booed like how I was used to. You know what I mean? There was none of that. It was just pure joy. It was pretty neat.

It was really, they said, hey, time for the pit walk. And I'm like, let's do the pit walk. Don't know what we're doing, but we're going to do it. and we start hustling down toward the pit row, and everybody's going. Like the whole, everybody is going. I felt like herding cattle. Yeah, really.

We were all in this tiny little spaces like shoulder to shoulder together. Oh, yeah. Just trying to get through this to this opening. Everybody's stepping on everybody's feet. And we get out to pit road. And it's just a sea of people just kind of shuffling down pit road from car to car. And you could take pictures. they were pit practicing.

The teams were like changing the tires and doing some practice stops and stuff. And that's loud. That is so loud. I didn't expect that. Oh yeah. They do all four tires at once. The other thing that was interesting to me

was the footprint of the actual car is massive. So I look at a, I look at the wheelbase or the size of a stock car, a cup car or an Xfinity car. And then I look at an indie car. The wheelbase and the width and all of that stuff is relatively in this. sort of same ballpark, give or take.

But the F1 car is massive, super wide, super long. The tires are just bigger. Everything about this car is just larger than you think it is. Watching it, because we've been around indie cars and stock cars all our life, and we may have been next to them and stood next to them, and we can see this car here and cars out in the garage. If you rolled an indie car through here, it would be almost like 25% larger than anything in this.

In terms of the width footprint, it's, they're large cars. And they, we watched the start of the race right from the front straightaway, and I was like, Amy, we're going to stand here and watch them come back at full speed.

It's going to be like the time we were standing down on the tree at the drag race, man, that's, the car, it's going, it's going, it's going to scare a shit out of you.

They're going to come back here so fast. It's going to be like, It was not quite as dynamic as that. They came by and it's like, but it's like you don't blink or you miss it. They're going. They're going like 200 mile an hour. Watching them start from a dead stop to take off was the coolest part

because they're going from zero to, I don't even know how fast. When they're going down the frustrated way. Just as they take off. They're not going, you know, they're going freaking fast. That's why. But it didn't look as fast. Really?

Yeah. Well, because they're not next to each other either. Like there's no action happening. They're just running the car. And they're large cars. I don't know. Like if the small. smaller they get the faster they would look.

I don't know. That's how RC cars are. You get a quarter-scale RC car versus like a 12-scale or a tent scale. It's because your eyes can't follow it, I guess. Yeah, the tent scale looks like a missile. Like, don't get hit by that thing. The quarter scale is going the same speed and you could jump over it, no problem. If it came at you.

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wearing what looks to be like a sports bra. What does that do with missiles? I don't know. Usually braw's hold missiles. Like, what are we doing here? Why is a man wearing a freaking bra? Bras hold missiles. Okay.

So I was watching I was watching this soccer match And the team wins And when the team wins Some of the guys pull their jerseys off I guess maybe to hand it to a fan or whatever And this guy pulls his jersey off And he's wearing sports bra

I mean it's shocking And I was like What is that? And then I saw Jaden Daniels My quarterback Yes Washington commanders

He had one on outside of his hoodie really? Yes. On the outside. Why? Gray hoodie, black sports bra. At a voluntary practice or whatever, minicamp or whatever is going on right now. And I said, we were on the plane going to the F1 race and I said, Amy, what is that?

Like, what's he wearing? I mean, it looks like a sports bra. It's shaped like a sports bra. Do you know what that is? And she goes, oh, I don't. It looks like a weird fashion choice, which I, you know, could totally finally or totally admit. to not understanding. But it turns out it's like a GPS tracker.

Yeah. Connor told us it was like a utilitarian device. Yeah. For what possibly could that benefit? It helps you track your workout, your heart rate, all things.

I'm like, well, what's it doing on the outside? It's not touching your skin. Also, there's so many other options. Like heart rate tracking, like watches,

bands, whatever that don't look like a woman's bra. Yeah. It's a two-straps, scoop neck situation. It's odd. I wouldn't choose

that. And it seems like an odd choice. But it seems like they're all choosing it. Somebody bought in on it. Somebody's getting paid to choose it.

Yeah. Somebody eventually. It's kind of like what were those golden things that like Jerry Rice was pitching? The copper bracelets.

Copperware. Yeah. Copper fit or whatever. Copper fit. It's like the new, it's the new trend. That's why I see people with compression socks.

I don't know. They're up to like their knees. Compression socks? Yeah, I don't get that. Don't understand what that is. I don't know. It feels like. like a lot.

Yeah. I don't know. Sometimes when I drink a lot, I need some compression socks. Yeah, totally. We should wear compression socks around the keys. Yeah. Yeah, so we're in the plane, and Connor's trying to explain this whole thing to us, and none of us are really figuring out, like, how to buy into it.

But Connor, Connor had a, yeah, he had another fun tidbit about the Red Bull hat. Oh, God. Dale, it's like the elusive, ungettable get now, because you have to be a Red Bull driver. Athlete. athlete. You have to be a Red Bull athlete, sorry, not driver, to receive a hat with a Red Bull logo on it. And you're like crowned with your hat. So we get up to the Red Bull suite at the track. And there's a guy. A streamer, gamer.

Yeah. So he doesn't speak English very well, but he is like mega excited. And we just stumbled upon him getting crowned with his hat and they gave him a jacket and the whole thing. So we got to watch him get super excited about him. We're like, Connor, what is happening here? He's like, oh, well, he's, you know, a Red Bull. athlete so they just gave him his hat and uh dale had Connor has a red bull hat and it's that's the hat that's his he wears it's already starting to get a little dirty on the brim that's his red bull athlete hat and that's how you can tell too when you're in an environment like that who they all are

so it's very cool it's such a simple thing but it really rubs dale's well I've heard about this this is something I mean I've heard about the athletes getting the hats but they they were like hey man, you and Connor Zilich are going to do a little content about the Red Bull Soapbox race. So I host with Mike Bagley on Discovery, this Red Bull Soapbox race. And it's out now. You can go stream it on Discovery. And basically, it's hilarious and a lot of fun to watch if you want to check it out. So I've been doing a little bit of work.

Red Bull's been fun. They're a great iconic brand. I'm loving there back in NASCAR. and because I want them to succeed. But we had this little content grab on my property in my gas station that I have on my property where we shoot a lot of stuff. And we're sitting there and I walk in and I'm like, I had some other hat on like this. And I was like, do y'all need me to change hats?

I'll put on a Red Bull hat. I don't care. Connor goes, oh, you can't wear a Red Bull hat. You're not a Red Bull athlete. And I was like, who the fuck are you? Tell me what I can. tell me what I'm wearing my own property. I was like, an 18-year-old kid going to snap back at me about what I'm wearing.

And this sweet kid is literally just like trying to tell him what the rules are. Like, oh, no, don't break the rules, you know, because it's important to him. I'm like, I should have snatched that. Dale's feathers flew out. I was so mad. But I was like, I, yeah, I get it, man. You know, I kind of knew about this phenomenon. on and I'm like yeah no problem and uh but it all the while he's like every red bull hat he sees he's

like i see him i know they uh but it was cool you know to it is a big deal to those athletes it is a big deal to those guys that become part of that brand or part of that team and to watch this guy sort of get his crown yeah um and he got it from max yes he got it from max like max for stapping big deal top of the chain in terms of red bull athletes, right? Wouldn't you say? And this guy, this gamer, I guess he has like millions of followers on his stream on his, like 150 million followers. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah. It was cool to see. He was like, there were some of his friends with him and they were so happy for him. Like it was this really big moment. Yeah. And this guy's life. But. All right. Well, here's the story that will

keep you from zoning out. Tuesday morning. I am, I wake up with toothache. I'm clenching my teeth super hard at night for whatever reason. So I've made the time to go by the drugstore. Wait, wait, wait, wait. There was one thing that happened at the race that we forgot to talk about. What? Jim!

Oh, Jim. Dude, this is hilarious. Everybody tune in. All right. So we're walking, we're going to do our grid walk. And there's this sweet gentleman that's in our suite that's going to, like, kind of guide us down there. Just make sure we don't get lost. We know what we're doing.

Very tall man. His name's Jim. we think his name is Jim. We didn't pay attention with the handshake and when he introduced himself. So mind you, there are four of us and one of him. So all four of us are calling this man Jim, Jim. And we're chirping, Jim, Jim. As we're walking through.

We're going all the way. We do the whole pit walk with him. We're trying to get his attention, though, at one point because he's like hung up looking at something. And we're like, Jim. Jim. Jim. Over here. We're over here, Jim.

We're like, you know, a crowd of people. Some of us are saying it quietly because we're not 100% sure of the thing. I was 100% sure. Because I'm listening to them, and I'm like, guys name's Jim, they're calling me Jim. At one point, he's walking right close to him. We're going back upstairs. We're going back towards the exit. And he's like, right behind you, Jim, and I see Jim chuckle.

Well, Jim's name is not Jim. It's David. It's not even close. And I'm like, at this point, I'm calling Jim. It's Jim. The rest of the day. He took it. like a champ though it was hilarious

I looked at Amy in the rest of our group and I said all right are y'all going to change the David or are you staying with Jim I'm staying with Jim I just said excuse me or I just just avoided name calling at all of that point oh my gosh it was embarrassing then we went from calling him the wrong names

they're like overcompensating like calling David for no reason like oh look that spot on the ground Dave watch out don't step in that right behind you David thanks for taking us, David. Watch your step.

Had a great time today, David. Escalator, David. Watch your step. You're the best, David. See you next time, David. That's hilarious. It's so funny. You probably made him think,

did I say Jim when I was introducing myself? Yeah. We just did like the whole mind flip on it. Absolutely. We were around this guy for an hour, or if we were with him an hour, we called in Jim for 60% of that. Oh, gee.

Yes. Oh man, we felt stupid. He was the only person we knew. So we had to kind of be tethered and chit-chat with him. He was our guy. On the pit walk. Yeah, so we chirped Jim at him quite a bit of it. He's never going to forget you guys.

No, he's not. I'm sorry, Jim! He's Jim. All right. All right, so Tuesday, I'm taking Nicole to school, but I have a toothache. So I've got to stop by the drugstore and get some ore gel. Well, I was gripped my teeth super hard. night. Like I've just, sometimes I do that. If I don't wear my emvisaline or my trays to keep my

big old teeth straight, I grit my teeth. My jaw was hurting so bad. I had like a headache up through my eyeball. So I go by the drugstore. I'm getting some more gel. We find a blueie and a bingo toy. We've got those. I'm not trying to make a scene. I'm really like in a weekend state. So I'm at the register, self-checkout. Everything is fine. We're about to leave. I turn around. She's right behind me ready to go. We get out the door and she turns, I turn to like grab her hand to get into the parking lot and she goes, aha.

And she's got a lollipop the side of Texas. That's got a lightsaber on the bottom of it. And I'm like, where did you get that? Mommy didn't pay for that. We got to go back inside. And she's like, I don't want to go back inside. I want it. I'm like, no, you're not going to have that. And we're doing this

in the parking lot. No. And I take her arm, you know how I do. She's got a death grip on this lollipop. and I take her back and she has to show me where she got it. And it is a very, very low bucket of candy right there next to the self-checkout. So of course she grabbed it. But she stole that damn thing. I was so sad.

Did you tell the lady? No, but they were watching me make her put it back in there. So of course they knew that we walked out with it. I mean, there's cameras everywhere in there. There's a camera on you as you're just doing the self-checkout. There's probably footage of her taking it. Oh, my gosh. I want to see that.

We need to have that for the show. We need to get that. But I'm like, Nicole, you surely. Circle K, send that to us. No, it wasn't Circle K, it was CVS. CVS, send it. We need it for the show.

I was like, I remember doing that as a kid a couple times, you know, in the grocery store. Back in the 80s, like, Brock's had this giant display at the grocery store and, like, all the little bucklets, and you could fill your little bag up and then weigh it at the checkout. And they had, like, those strawberry candies

and the butterscotch and all the really good old ones. So I'm pretty sure I lifted a couple pieces of candy, but dang. I might have talked about it on here. Forgive me. but I'm sure I know I've said it on one of our shows but when I went to military school I was there for two weeks

you had to stay there for any new kid couldn't go home they had a two week in get used to it period and so the first off weekend they're like hey there's a 15 past your van we'll take you to the mall whoever wants to go and man like we don't have we're scrounging like we have 20 bucks like every kid's got like five 10 20 bucks in their pocket we weren't ready for this nobody knew about it our parents didn't like leave us with a

bunch of money right we're we're seventh eighth ninth graders at this military school that you lived at you lived at the school and so it's like an hour and a half up the road and so uh we i've got a roommate that i just met a week ago don't know this freaking guy Right? And he's in here for some reason. I don't know what that reason is. I know I'm in here for being a bad kid. Bad kid.

Yeah. All of us, it's like an assumed thing. Like you're in there because you're a troublemaker. And so we go to the mall and me and him get into the first store you go into right inside the entrance is the drugstore. Right. Usually there's the drug store right on the first, right inside the, we're in this drugstore walking around. And I'm like thinking in my mind. All right, I got $15.

Okay, this costs five, this cost four, this cost, I'm going to get this, this, this. So I'm like piecing it out. And you're going to spend everything you've got. Well, I'm going to buy what I can buy because I want to take snacks back to my, I got nothing in my room, right? We had a bed, a desk, and the military clothes. We weren't allowed to wear, like, civilian clothes, right? So we had like our three shirts and three pairs of pants and a couple pairs of socks. Like your room was bare.

and it was a brick, it was freaky. So I'm walking down this aisle and I come up to, I see my roommate and I walk up to him and he's eating. You know, there's little pretzel sticks you dip in chocolate. Yeah. He's eating one of those. In the store? In the store. And I'm like, what you go?

I was like, oh, hey, what are you doing? Nothing. And he sits it on the shelf. And I was like, you know, I got, you're not going to eat the rest of it? and he goes, no. I was like, you ain't going to pay for that? He goes, no. And I was like, holy

This is why you're here. You are so brazen, wow. And like I love, I want to do that, but I don't have the balls to do that. And then there was a, I lived on this street with mom before our house burnt down. I lived on this street

and the kids that lived across the street from us. There was a gas station at the end of the end of the road. man and they would walk in there and take stuff all the time really and just run off i know i they would just put in their pockets and walk out i could not bring myself well that's good i'm glad to hear that i'm glad to hear that military school is just like a let's just straighten you up a little bit and not like holy smokes i'm stealing candy every day yeah one day i saw one of them boys across street wearing my shoes i was like oh what you do about that i don't remember i was like i was like five five yeah and he stole your shoes i'm i lived with my mom till

I was six. Yeah, that's right. You're a little. So I'm like five years old and I'm like, those are my shoes. I went to, man, I went, when I was in military school, I had my watch stole, I had some time X, nothing crazy. And a pair of running shoes. It seems like that would be a very hard place to get away with stealing anything.

Like, it's obvious whose shit is who's, right? I know. So, well, I never, I mean, the stuff that I lost, I never ever saw again. I thought for sure, like, okay, there's. You know, 90 kids here. Somebody stole my shoes. I'll see them somewhere. Well, the watch, like on outing day, probably went to the pawn shop.

Yeah. Well, I, the thing about my shoes was, there wasn't a whole lot in the military school. There wasn't a whole lot of things in military school that you could turn into fun. Everything was pretty gray, black, and white, you know, it was very, very drab and chore driven. and so but there were some things you could make fun and we had PE class and the PE teacher made us run around this big giant field that was my chance to turn it into a race right now I was little I was short shortest guy at the school by far and so I had short legs and I had to take twice as

many steps as anybody else if we're going to run this run these laps so I don't know how but Teresa took us shopping one time and I ended up buying these running shoes that had these metal spikes that you screwed in. Oh, damn. Oh, yeah. It's like real track shoes. Yeah. Because we would go running and it would be in the morning and it's due on the ground. You'd slip. And I'm like, man, I'm going to get me some shoes

with some cleats. And those are the, I found, I was like, well, damn, those are precisely what I need. And somehow another, I got Trisa. Somehow I got Trisa to buy them for me. And I'm probably seventh grade at this point. I take them shoes out there and I hauled ass. and I got so much traction and I ran, I mean, I'm like,

I'm a seventh or eighth grader running against, you know, 11th and 12th graders. All my buddies that are my age are way back. And I'm up in the top five with the older kids. And the coach or the P teacher even said, man, man, you do pretty good having to take twice as many steps as everybody else. Next day, shoes were gone. Oh, man.

Somebody took my shoes out of the locker in the gym. Do you think it was the coach? No. The coach wouldn't have made you get rid of your cleats? I don't know. Why would he just not say don't bring these back? I don't know. We weren't competing.

It wasn't a real competition. It was just P.E. It was just going to run. It was just going to run. In my mind, I made it a race. I don't know. My free shoes got stole. Who, and I never saw them again.

What are you going to do with those? There's like a specialty unique thing that you would never, you can't wear them walking around. They got spikes on them. I'm surprised you didn't see them. I know. And I never saw him again. Oh, man.

those things got sold. We got a question for you, Alex. Okay. On the way home from the F1 race, I was eating an orange-flavored... Lifesaver. Lifesavers. You know the orange-flavored ones that are like cream sickle.

Yeah. Oh, man, they're awesome. And so I have a bunch of those in the plane. I've got a tooth on the bottom here. that I chipped a long time ago. And that chip, that repair broke off in the plane ride home. And I'm like, ah, darn it. You know, now I've got to call my dentist and go.

And so we get home, and I get up in the morning, and I call him, 7.30 on the way, taking out of school. And he answers, and I'm like, hey, man, I got a little thing. I'm going to come in whenever I can. I'm wide open today, wide open Wednesday. He goes, 11 o'clock today, good. I see you then. Come in there, sit down in the chair.

I take Nicole with me when Nicole sits in the room. And they get in there, didn't even numb it up or anything, just fixed it. And I'm like, all right, appreciate it, man. Thank you. And so. He's got a very good relationship with us, Dennis, because he gets into a pickle quite a bit. Yeah. And so I call him and be like, hey, man, I got this thing.

Or, you know, my dad had a lot of crowns. I think I took some of his DNA in. terms of the teeth and I've got a few crowns myself. I didn't take very good care of my teeth when I was young. And so when we were making our list for our wedding, obviously we were like all the family, all the friends to check, check, check everybody. Okay, we got everybody. And then there were two people that we invited that were not in the traditional circle. And it was our therapist who we both, I think would equally credit for the success of our union. Absolutely.

And my dentist. Or our dentist. Our dentist, yes. We realize as you get older, like, there are certain people that are really important in your life. Your dentist is in the top five of that list. He is. Your doctor, your dentist, your therapist, yeah. It was kind of just a funny thing.

And we've all made friends that kids go to this dentist now, too. So, like, it's just a, he's a family friend. He's awesome. He's Brad. We talked about him on Dale Jr. Download joking with Mike. You're going to get married. You're not, but you're going to get married. You're planning a wedding.

You're going to get married. What person, not in the circle? What's the non-traditional person you're inviting to your wedding? Oh, easy. Barber I've been going to you for like 20 years. Your barber. Every time I go back home to New York, go to him. Known for like 20 years.

He saw me grow up, basically. Yeah. That's basically kind of the same. It's in the same vein. Talk to him more than some family members. Mm-hmm. I mean, that's the reality of it. Yeah.

My baba. So, yeah, there's these people in your life. You're like, yeah, you're not blood. You're not family. We didn't hang out. I don't go to the bar and drink with you. You're not a pal from school. There's nothing extracurricular happening.

No, nothing. I see you at your work where you do your profession, and that's our relationship. It's maybe a 30 minutes to 45-minute interaction, and that's it. But they are very, very. So important. You value them. Yes, 100%. He's literally come in on like a Friday or Saturday to help one of us if we've cracked a crown or something.

Wow. Yeah, he goes above and beyond. And he's got little, he's got kids too, so he understands. I had a root canal a long time ago, and it was great. And I was like, awesome. That wasn't a problem at all. Fast forward like 20 years later. That tooth is like giving me some problems.

It's bothering me. And I go to my guy. And I'm like, man, feeling like, like, little something here. I don't know what's going on. We get in there and did some x-rays. They take these little, like little tiny miniature saws,

and they go down there and they... Drills. Drill bits. Yeah. Yikes. Well, they drill, but they also... These medieval tiny tools. No, but they also have these saws

that they go down there in the root, and they saw in the tooth to get all of the root out. I think we've lost. You've lost everybody. Sorry. Everybody is laying on the floor now. 20 years ago, this guy broke one off in there. What?

A little tiny end of that bit was in my tooth. I forgot about that. He just left it in there. And so my guy's like, oh, yeah, I see what's going on. And I was freaking out. I'm like, I'm going to lose this tooth entirely. I'm going to have a fake tooth. I've got to get a stub put in there and all this weird shit.

You know, Dale Jr. spiraled out of control. And he's like, blan, bam, bam, bam, bang, fix. Cleaned it out. Wow. I'm like, whoa. Things I've been carrying around that thing for 20 years. Had a drill bit in your mouth for 20 years.

At least. Yeah. That's crazy. How did we get to talking about this? You just start talking. You know how that goes. All right. Let's play a game.

Let's do it. Do you want to T. up, Thames? I can tee up, yeah. This is called, guess that Gen Z slang. We're going to be really terrible at this. This is, like, going around on social media. There's all these weird sayings that, you know, millennials, Gen Z, everyone's got their

own little pocket. I think the new one is Gen Alpha, people born 2010 and after. Wait, what? There's already a new gin? Yeah, because they're at 15 now. How do they get the freaking Gen Alpha? I don't know. Because Alpha.

Is like the top. It's like top tier. They got to start over. They went Gen Z. Now they got to go back to A, I guess. Well, they could have been like, gen, any word with an A. Well, they just stop. I'm millennial.

I'm technically a millennial, too, believe it or not. Really? I think we talked about this for each end. Like one year there in the coast. Yeah, they're going to take advantage of that. Yeah. So here's how it works. I'll give you guys a...

I'll use that against us. I'll give you guys a slang term. And you guys will take turns guessing what it means. and I'll reveal the real definition after once. So our first one is put the fries in the bag, bro. Put the fries in the bag? Put the fries in the bag? The fries in the bag?

Put the fries in the bag. What do you think that means? Is that like the same as give me the tea? I want some gossip? Not really. I think it means finish. Get to the point. Yeah, kind of.

That's closer than that one. it's when a person is addressing something they're talking for too long. Oh. It is kind of good. Put the fries in the bag. I'm so going to say that.

It's insulting. Yeah. Oops. The next one, it's giving. Huh? It's giving. It's giving.

It's giving. Giving? It's giving. It's giving. Like it's giving something? Why are you laughing? Really? Oh.

something that's entertaining me it's it's uh it's giving i n g yes this is cool i like this oh i feel like it's it means like you have to follow it up with something right like it's giving yeah race like it's giving nascar like it's giving you a vibe yes exactly that's that i use it's like a compliment giving praise this is i'm enjoying when i'm yeah i'm enjoying this it's giving happiness yes something like that So then this one kind of coincides with it. Ohio. Ohio.

Ohio. Is that a fat girl? No, it's not a fat girl. I know there's one slang term that refers to a chubby girl. There is too. Ohio. Ohio. Like the state.

Off? Kind of. Like go kick rocks in Ohio? It describes something weird. Use it in a sentence. I don't even know. I don't even know how to use it in a sentence. sentence.

Tim's is being Ohio? Tim's a millennial. Give him a break. That could be it. It's something to describe something weird or cringe or awkward. Ohio? Oh, Ohio. How do we land on that?

Opposite of its giving. It's like you're giving Ohio. Ohio's catching some strays. I don't know why it's Ohio. That's not fair to Ohio. It's not. Shout out Koshacton. Okay, what's the next one?

The next one's busin. Busin? Busin? Busin. Busin. Bussin is Like we're Bustin

Awesome That's cool Yeah When you like something Is that like Bussing with the boys Kind of yeah Yeah You didn't have an unfair advantage there

Yeah Bussin This one I've actually seen around Snatched Yeah I know Snatch It's like she's got She's tight She's in shape

Yeah She's looking good Stylish I thought that meant I'm married Snatched I'm snatched I'm snatched

I'm snatched I've been snatched this ain't it chief This ain't it chief Oh this is Yeah that you're wrong Stop it You're stopped doing what you're doing

Saying what you're saying Disapproved That feels like old slang That's old slang That's old slang That ain't it chief They're coming back with that Yep

I like good They need to come back With some stuff that I can say Or used to say Eight and left no crumbs Eight and left no crumbs Eight and left no crumbs Finish the job

Eight and left no crumbs Like they did it all Did something incredibly well. You did something incredibly well. You ate and you left no crumbs. I think I was correct. But you left nothing on the table. Yeah. Okay. Finished the job. Exceptionally. Yeah. I can't wait to hear Dale say that to someone. He ate and left no crumbs. Well, I mean, we do say it, but we just don't use those words. I know that's the whole point. We'll be like, he did a really good job. You killed it. He did a really good job and did not make

mistakes. Well, hey, you know, I got one for you. Go ahead. No comebacks. So that, if you said he, he finished the job with no comebacks would be this, that, that could be a kind of a cool new slang. Maybe you could change the front end of that. But the no comebacks would be a nod to dealership service mechanics.

And anytime they do a job. it ends up returning because it's not fixed, that's a comeback. And a mechanic wants no comebacks. I think it's too close to no take backsies. Take backs. So we used to say that as kids. Well, no comebacks means if somebody said, you know what? Tim's the buddy mine working over there at Dirty Mo Media, man, he's doing all right?

I'll be like, no comebacks. And that would be me saying, Tim's does a good job. Okay, I get that. Yeah. He ate and left no crumbs. Yes. No comebacks. No comebacks.

Okay. A couple more for you here. This one, Mike Davis, did not understand. Crash out. Crash out? Crash out? Oh, Carson was just trying to explain this to me. Let me think if I can pull it from the back of my mind.

Nope. Not coming. Like they're crashing out right now over there. I mean, crashing out to us was like going to sleep. Crashing out to me means that they failed miserably. Well, that too. Are they That's those are the obvious ones

Not really It's when you're mad or angry at someone So you're like yelling That makes zero sense They're crashing out right now That makes zero sense But you're mad at them but they're crashing out They're mad at you

So you're crashing out on man I'm mad at you right now I'm crashing out That don't make any sense Yeah so if you guys were in a fight He could be like you're crashing out right now Because you're getting mad and angry You're spiraling

You're about to crash out I don't know How about a bop? A bop? A bop. A bop. I'm going to say a good time. The way you walk?

It's more for music. Oh. It's a good song? Yeah, good song. It's a good listen. It's a bop. Have you heard of the song Bop by Dan Seals? Not by Dan Seals.

There's one by the baby that I've heard. It's so good. You have to listen to that. I won't sing it. I think as a baseball player, it's awareness from the 70s. It's kind of a famous photo. This guy wearing this t-shirt, and he's a very popular at the time baseball player. And it says, don't mind me and the boys, we're just bopping.

Yeah. It says something along those lines. Yeah. And so it made me think that maybe it was. It's another old term. They're just having a good time. Bopping is like, we're just hanging out. We're having fun.

Don't mind this. Bopping. Yep. I've heard that. Last one, I think you guys would know this one. Riz. Yeah, I know Riz. Charisma.

Yeah. And the only reason I know this one is because of T.J. Majors, because he always. calls himself the Riz to make his daughter mad. Oh, no. Like the wrestler. Oh, yeah. That's funny.

All right. That's all I got for you. I really got one right. Hello, everyone. It is Amy and Dale, and we're in the Dirty MoMo Media Studios for another episode of Bless Your Heart, and we are excited about your questions for Ask Amy.

If you haven't already, please hit the subscribe button. And don't forget to check out our merch at shop.DirtymoMedia.com. All right, Tims, what you got? Our first questions from Claire, she wants to know if you saw the MetGat this past weekend.

And if you liked any of the outfits, what was your favorite? I didn't watch the mat gala. I was at a bunco party with some girlfriends. And so I didn't watch it live, but I did see all of the red carpet pictures on my Instagram. There are quite a few really good ones. Diana Ross kind of blew me away just because I haven't seen her in so long. And she had like an 18-foot train. So that one was amazing.

They all were really cool. It wasn't like so avant-gardeau out there this year that, like, you didn't understand it. They just had a lot of really fun outfits. Yeah. Well, I didn't feel like you didn't see any really outlandish ones. No, nothing was like,

what in the hell is happening there, but. Yeah. Pamela Anderson got a lot of, like, a pub because she's now all natural, no makeup or whatever. I know.

I kind of miss her having, like, her Pam look, but she's really rocking what she's got going on. She has a bob cut too and like some pixie bangs. So totally different vibe than our old Pam.

What's the Met gala? The Met is a, an art gallery. And there's a... The Met is a physical building? It's a, physical building, and you don't get to see what goes on inside. So it's not like an award show or anything.

There is a big party that happens in support of the Met. The Met Gala. So it's like a, it's just a gathering to raise money for the Met? I think so. I think it's a charitable event. Oh. But every year there's a theme and a very artistic theme. And so the red carpet is what you see.

And all the outfits are like extravagant. Why do all the people want to go? It's a big honor. You have to be invited to go. Really? I wonder how that got started. The Kardashians got kicked out a couple of years ago because you're not supposed to have your phones out at all

and they took a bathroom selfie and so they didn't get to come for a while. I wonder how it started. I don't know how it started. It was the original. We'll have to Google that. I don't know. If you ever been to them at?

I've never been, no. Have you been in? Yeah, I've been in. What's in there? Just art. Just art? Yeah. Anything specific?

Do you remember? Framed stuff? No, paintings. I don't remember. I mean, like art like, physical art or framed art? Yeah, like framed art. Yeah. It's just big and it's like, it's just cool.

Look at history. Like a museum? Yeah, like a museum. Yeah. Man. Our next one, a little shifting gears. Erica wants to know she is starting a long distance relationship. She's super nervous. Do you guys have any advice for her on how to handle that?

What's her name? Erica. Erica. How long of distance is this? And be careful of the catfish situation. Would you be scared of that at this point in life? We had a long-distance relationship for a year. It's doable, but it's hard.

You have to make sure to physically see each other often. You can't just, you know, have a relationship virtually. I don't know. It's always scary to be in a long-distance relationship. I have so many questions, though. This is like one of those things we need to go back and forth on, Erica. I know. If she's in the chat, please comment.

What do you have for advice? Because your perspective is probably way different than mine. I think those are good things. I would, indeed, like if you're physically able to see the person do that as often as you possibly can, it's sometimes the travel or the effort to do that might become tough. But once you stop or once you take that one weekend off, it's kind of like committing to working out or whatever the things that you want to commit to, once you take that one day off and you're like,

I just don't feel like it today. It becomes a bad habit where you're not putting as much into it as it needs to, and it's just not going to work. Yeah, well, also, you know, don't pay attention to that because if you kind of lose interest, it's just the universe trying to tell you something, you know. I think it works. It can absolutely work. Like, it can work just fine if both people like it and want to do it.

Especially if you know, too, that there's an end point to it. You also have to have a lot of grace. because that person's however many miles away living their life, doing what they need to do, used to what their life is, right? You have a pattern and they have a pattern, and maybe, you know, maybe that day they're a little busy and you're just not feeling like they're giving you enough attention

or whatever. You've got to have a lot of grace and just understand that, you know, you're both in two different parts of the country with a lot, two different things going on. He wants grace. I want a tracking device. You can't, but you can't be...

I feel like you have to communicate consistently or the other person's going to... I'm not saying that you don't communicate. I'm just saying... Feel feelings. You know what I mean? To be specific, all right? What I'm talking about is like,

there'd be times where like Amy's going to go out with her friends, you know, or Amy's going to do something else. And I don't, you know, I'll call her, but she's going to go, you know what? I love talking to you, but I'm going to go in here with my friends for a minute. And I'm going to do this tonight. you got to be able to go, I feel good about that.

Yeah. You know, because, you know, when you're in the same space, you do things together. You're physically there, right?

You can go where they go. But when you're not, they have their friends. They have the routine. And you got to respect that. And so, you know, just have some great,

or, you know, be able to be able to have some confidence. Sort of have some confidence to go, have some fun with their friends, go out. I'm 150 or 500 miles away.

I've got no idea. what's going on there and I'm comfortable with that. Yeah. Do you think there's a certain amount of time that it, then you're like, okay, maybe we should have to kind of get closer to each other? For us, it was the year. Yeah, for us it was a year. I think that's a long period of time.

And there's, there's, you know, if it goes beyond that, there better be some damn good reason for that. I think. Or you need to maybe think about fishing in your pond. Doing something else. Yeah. Closer pond. Yeah, that's good advice.

Unless there's a really good reason, right? Yeah, like he's in the military. You know what I mean? Obviously, that changes everything. Yeah, I agree. I agree. That's good advice. Everyone in the chat wants to have a swan update.

Any update with the swans? How are they doing? The swans are doing great. The swans are awesome. We go down there and visit them every single day. And we've had some geese. What? You want to tell it?

Oh. Awesome, man. I don't know how this will... Mike Davis. Cover your ears. Our pond is... a quarter mile from the house. And it's on the property.

It's inside a quarter mile, but it's a distance. And we go down there and feed them every day. And I've been telling Ila, you know, subtly, this is kind of your chore. This is your thing. You've got to remember to do this. But yesterday, or was it two days ago? I was like, hey, man, it's time to feed the swans. I was like, why don't you go down there and do it?

She's like, okay. And that was totally the opposite to what I thought she would say. Okay, I'll do it. So we got the swan food, put it in her backpack. She got on her back, she put her backpack on and got on her little scooter. She's been riding a scooter a lot lately, which she just learned how to ride her bike yesterday. Hell yeah. I got a little video of her riding a bike.

It's a massive, awesome time when you're trying. child just takes off riding on a bike for the first time. It's really cooler than you'd imagine. But she's been riding this scooter, which was a great segue to the bike, by the way. And I watched her. She rode the scooter all the way down, out of sight. Then she comes back, comes back up, and fed them all by herself, right? They have two little bowls out there.

And when you get near them, they come to you. They come to you, but they're also a little aggressive. you know the boy especially yeah so we have two bowls now because george wasn't really letting cleo eat um and so to like keep that keep from keep from true keeps you george sorry to keep george from thinking he wasn't going to get enough food we just gave him two bowls so that they kind of get used to it i was proud of her but yeah because she did it she's i want her to like chore be chore oriented and be willing to help he doesn't want her to be spoiled so he's giving her more chores yeah i want her i'm like hey i'm my feet of dogs. I want her to go, let me help. Let me help you do that. You know, and so,

you know, it's cool to have her go down there and do that, and it's intimidating because when you walk up to the man, he comes at you. He's like, he's like, what are you doing down here? Get away from my bowl. He's just excited you're there to put it in the ball. He's not. He's, he has this aggressive posture and they hiss. Yeah, they hiss a little bit. If I go down there, usually have the dogs with me, so Gus will get in the pond. I thought she would get up to the moment of putting the food in the bowl and chicken out. And not do it. No, she's not scared. Good for her.

They're not scared. They're great. That's good. Next question is from Derek. This is his wife's first Mother's Day. So he's wondering what he should get her for her first Mother's Day. I would say to keep it simple, if he knows what kind of flowers she likes, get her all the things that make her feel pampered, and then give her some time to herself. Like make sure you take that baby and give her some time to just do nothing.

Nothing. Go away by the pool, read a book, send her to the spa for a massage, all those things. So she doesn't feel like she has to, like, be the mom on Mother's Day. That's for me what I like. Dale's sending me the spa on Saturday because he's got to work on Sunday. So I'm going to get to go away and, like, have my time, which is really important. Yeah, she gets up in the morning whenever she feels like it goes to this spa deal. There's a couple things she'll do there, and she'll hang out there.

hang out there as long as long as she wants to she's ready to come back yeah as a mom you don't really get a whole lot of time to yourself so that's really like the best gift yeah early on too I think that's a really that was something you know guys guys may not understand that so I thought that it was like either gifts or acts of service or um taking them somewhere or doing something as a group but it's the exact opposite they like want the day off and that's something so that's not obvious to everyone's a little different it just Depends on the traditions. Like, if the grandmothers and everybody were around,

we'd still be brunching on Sunday and doing all those traditional things. I'm pretty sure most women are similar. We just want some time for ourselves. Give us the day off. Makes sense now you say it. Yeah. I'm like, damn, that's easy. Yeah, you can do that.

All right. Yeah. Everybody wants to know. We've got this question like 10 times. The chat's got it. Amy, they want to know what bad habits Dale has that make you cringe. Bad habits? Bad habits.

Yeah. Go for it. It was popular this week. I don't know why. Go for it. The biggest one, and I feel like I've said this before, is he's just messy with food. On my plate? Oh, like a messy eater.

Jerky on the couch. If he eats at the table, there's spots of, there's always a sauce bottle, so there's spots. If he's making food in the kitchen, there's pickle juice and spots and stuff all over the countertop. And he didn't clean that up. If he's sipping orange cream out of the freezer, there's spots on the floor. If I come down in the morning, pretty much every morning, there's grape stems or beef jerky pepper or, like, I can tell what he's snacked on. Orange peels. Like, how the f*** did you not see that?

Clean it up. So, like, I, he leaves a trail of food everywhere he goes. I eat in the dark a lot. He doesn't have to be in the dark. And honestly, he's got a giant iPad and a TV that's on. There's no darkness. He can see. He's just, you know, messy with food.

The only other thing that he does that really annoys me is instead of brushing his teeth, because he stays up so late, in our bathroom and making his toothpaste mess in his sink, he does it in the powder room right next to the kitchen. So there's freaking toothpaste all in that sink. And his toothbrush is sitting out, you know, how I feel about all the things. I'm trying not to make any noise. So I do it downstairs.

So when I come up, I go right into the bed. I know. But when I wake up and come down, I still wake up when he gets in the bed. But when I wake up and come down, now I've got toothpaste. place to clean up and food on the couch. There's just like, Dale's been here. I know exactly what he was doing all night and what he ate. She ain't lying.

So that's pretty much it. There you go. Come on, there's more. I know those. I need a new one. I want a new one. Unknown. No, I don't really have anymore.

You like clutter. He likes to collect things. Are you kidding me? That's not really like a cringy. I'm the clutter? I have. Holy moly. Dale, if you have a space,

you feel like you have to clutter it up. There is knick-knacks, pictures, things, just lean in here and sitting there. There's a velvet Elvis hanging in his corner of the garage. Like, there's stuff everywhere. Yeah. I have a hard time keeping my part of the closet clean. That is not a lie. The clothes are clean, but they ain't put away.

God almighty. Yeah, it's bad. The closet's wild in there. Her makeup place, if you look at the two count, the his and hers counters in the bathroom, no. Yeah, well, I have a lot of potions. Take care of all this. Like you get legit, like 50 different bottles of things. You use every single one of them?

How do you know? I mean, it's impossible. I have phases. Some of that stuff you can't use in the summer and some of you can't use in the winter. Like I've got different creams for this and you can't use all the stuff in the summertime because you know, bad peels your skin, blah, blah.

I'm like, I walk in there and I'm like, just show me the bottle that says shampoo. pour it on my head. I don't care what it's for. I don't care what, like, you know, the shampoos are like for this type of hair, this type of hair, this type of hair, and I walk in there to the shower, and I'm just like... Yeah, because he can't see that. Shampoo! Is it really?

That's how it works. I just buy the regular shampoo I've had for years. I don't buy my shampoo. I just use whatever's in there. If you stand in our shower, there, I promise, are 25 bottles of stuff. In the shower. I don't buy all of it. either. I get gifted boxes of things like that,

girly products to try, and so Dale gets to also try them out. That's how that happens. So I go, Ila uses our shower and she takes our shampoo and she's like She does make potions with it. Making potions. She has these little bottles in there. And I'll go in there

to get my, I'll go in there to get my shampoo and it's empty. The tower of bottles. I'm like, okay, this is for your face. This is for your, you know, this is this. and this, this, shampoo, okay. You know, and I can't see without my glasses, so I got to, like, read out of the bottom.

Bless him. Bless him. All right, well, I got one more question for you. Eric wants to know if you guys name your houseplants. Name our house plants? Yeah, houseplants. No, I haven't named my houseplants. No, I haven't named my houseplants. I do have a lot of plants.

It's the other thing I have a lot of collection. That's the only thing I really have a collection of his plants. No, I have a fiddle fig that I've had for a while. What is that? What is that? to him. That big tree, the bigger tree in the sunroom. They're fickle.

I've had a few of them. And he's in a good, happy place now. So it's just, it's a boy. It's not a girl, but I haven't named him. Do you have any, like, you name your cars or anything like that? What is you used to? No. Have you named your cars?

Oh, yeah. You've named all of them? No. But I have, I, I'd say I name eight out of ten vehicles. Any fun ones? Well, the Nova here. is the only one I'm aware of. We were going to call it the Champagne Supernova

because it's like a champagne color. I just put a new picture of the paint process of that. It's a Nova Station wagon 66 model. I just put a new picture on this morning on my Instagram story of the roof getting painted.

But what do we call on that one? The Champagne Supernova. Champagne Supernova. After the song. Yeah. So the color on it's like a milk chocolate metallic. It's really cool. Nice. That fits perfect, though. Yeah.

It looks a little lighter than chocolate, though. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You guys have ever heard of people naming their pets like regular human names? Yes, and I love that. Yeah, like a Brian. My best friend, Jamie, has a doodle named Franklin. I love that. Yeah. I mean, we have a swan named George.

Yeah, that's true. That fits it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, that's all we got for Ask Amy today. All right. Thank you guys for your questions. We have a great show, so please check it out. And if you haven't already subscribe to our Bless Your Heart YouTube channel, and please check out the merch at shop.dotorimmedia.com. We'll see you next week.

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