The Dale Jr. Download - Bless Your 'Hardt - Roller Coasters, Farts & is Brunch Overrated?

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

Dale and Amy are back after a successful trip to Pocono over the weekend and are now enjoying the beach. After telling people last week about losing her phone, fans responded with places they’ve lost their phone. Dale and Amy took the girls to Pocono with them over the weekend and enjoyed a trip to Hersheypark. The weekend was capped off with a win for Dale as the crew chief for Connor Zilisch. Who created the phrase “Yacht Rock”?Dale had an urge for Fruit Rollups the other day, and that took them down memory lane, thinking about nostalgic snacks.Then, Dale and Amy discuss if brunch is overrated, if captions on TV are allowed, if avocados are good, are adults allowed to wear graphic t-shirts, and more.Plus, Ask Amy:How does it feel to be the wife of a winning crew chiefWhat was it like taking the girls to Victory LaneWhat was your first car, and was it the same car you took your driver’s test inDo they still use their treehouseParenting tips for a toddler and newbornVisit High Rock Vodka dot com to find a bottle near you. Please remember to drink responsibly, must be 21 and over.”  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.

Good morning. We are here at the Beach House for another episode of Bless Your Heart. Dale and I have some fun things to talk about today. We're going to follow up with I lost my phone. I took a poll and there were some really funny remarks, so I want to share those with you. Pocono Farts and Burps, I feel like you probably know where that's going. And Hershey Park. Let's get started. The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media. Oh, yeah, this is what it's going to be, girl. We're going to hang out. Open a bunch of jars. You got big strong hands.

Are you suffering from Highcraft? I'm working. Working that mouth. Hi, guys. We are at the Beach House this week for another episode of Bless Your Heart. Dale and I have some fun things to talk about. We've had a good week, Pocono Farts and Burbs, Hershey Park. Pocono Farts and Burbs.

Yeah, and we're going to follow up on me losing my phone. Everybody has done this and some fun remarks. So let's get started. All right. We have, as usual, we have our high rock vodka cocktail in this awesome glass. I love these glasses, Amy, like something for my childhood. I'm always trying to play into your soul. Yeah, man, we got to show them the wallpaper you hung up in the bathroom downstairs.

Can we put that? Let's put that in the show. Okay. This wallpaper man's amazing. Um, very, very vintage. Anyways, today's drink is, uh, it's the Dale yeah. Oh, shoot, it is it, is it? It's called the Dale, yeah.

This is a really cool drink. Um, Texas Roadhouse, uh, and, and, and High Rock Vodka partnered to make this drink. This week's, uh, yeah, it's, um, high rock vodka, obviously, a little orange juice. Uh, Texas Roadhouse has a sour margarita mix. and also it has some candied orange and vanilla syrup in there. You can go to Texas Roadhouse nationwide to try this Dale. Yeah, drink. Yeah, Hi Rock.

Visit high rock vodka.com also, and you can find a locator for bottles near you. People are always asking us, where do I find it? Well, there's a locator on the website that might help point you in the direction to to the liquor store or the total wine or whatever it may be to get what you need. And remember to drink responsibly. Must be 21 or over. But yeah, thank you, Texas Roadhouse for teaming up with High Rock Vodka and all of us for the Dale. Yeah, I think that's doing really good.

It's been out in the Texas Roadhouse now for, she feels like a year. Yeah, it feels like a while. It's good drink. Very refreshing. So, yeah, that wallpaper downstairs I told Tim Dugger, I said it. Makes me feel like I'm checking into a holiday inn for Speed Weeks in Daytona. I don't know if that's a compliment or not. In 1981.

You actually told me, when you saw it rolled up, you told me not to put it up. You said, I don't know if you want to hang that. That's going to get really dated. Yeah, it's already dated, but I get a good way. It's a vibe. It's a vibe. It's pretty fun. It's just pink and it's got bananas.

Yeah, we'll show the picture. We'll pop the picture up there. Let me see it. See if I can show you on my phone. It's not very. No. I don't think it's going to text. Yeah, don't do it.

It's a cool room. It makes you want a wallpaper the whole house. It is, yeah. I don't know what's going on in my hair, man. I think it's the angle of this iPad, but it's like I got a... You got a faux hawk going on. I got a little 1950s thing going on. I don't know.

He was telling me yesterday he really wants to grow a mullet. So maybe your hair just decided to give you a little juzge just so that you felt more sprightly today. So we did go to Hershey Park. We went to Pocono last week. Obviously, we had a great time. And on the front end of the Pocono trip, we took the kids to Hershey Park. And we bought probably three pounds of chocolate from Hershey Park, ate a little bit of it, and then made it disappear. I don't know what.

I think he's back home. It is, but did you throw it away? Where is it? I don't know. That's my emot to throw the candy away. I don't know where it went. I didn't. round, but it's a, it's a bunch of chocolate.

We couldn't help ourselves. I mean, there's every type of Hershey candy you can imagine in bulk. All the, you just can't help yourself. The gift shop there is like a big giant warehouse, and it's wall-to-wall ceiling stacked candy. Yeah. Every direction you look. And that was the last thing we did.

We rode a bunch of roller coasters and rides. And so by the time we got done, everybody was hungry. That was the other thing. We're kind of shopping for candy as we were hungry. So you just never do that. you know, grocery store shop while you're hungry. It's not a good idea. So that's why we ended up with so much. Yeah. It was cool. The best part about the Hershey Park experience was the girls riding the rides. The cold four years old has to ride the smaller stuff, of course.

But Isla was big enough to actually get on a couple of roller coasters. The comet was the first one she got on and it had a pretty good drop. It's a wooden roller coaster. And it has a pretty could drop at the start for a seven-year-old. And she took that really well. We walked past the loop-to-loop, where there's a coaster with one loop in it, and she was not going to ride that. But about, I don't know. They basically heckled her all afternoon.

Yeah, she got halfway through the day she decided to do it. Got the brave courage to do it, and we rode the loop-to-loop. And maybe we rode it twice, didn't we? No, you just rode it once. Well, either way, Ila got to ride roller coaster. And Nicole was very jealous. She's not scared of anything. And she was so sad.

We'd get up to the little marker and then they'd grade your height and you get in a category. So she's a Hershey kiss, which is the shortest. And so she couldn't ride any of the roller coasters that Ila got to ride. And she was just so sad. She was defeated. Every time we walk up to one, she'd just be like, ugh. Too short. Maybe next year I'll be tall enough.

what she said, can we go back next year so I could be tall enough and ride the roller coasters? So I got her cotton candy every time I got to ride her coaster, we went and got some drunk food to make her feel better. Yep. So the Hershey Park was a blast. Pocono was cool. The kids got to go to Victory Lane. Yeah, they did.

It was a magical little day, kind of unexpected, to be honest. I mean, the whole day was just surreal. You getting to be on the pit box was not something any of us were expecting. It was kind of a last minute thing. And the girls got to go up and see the pit box and just really see all the things, really. You brought the girls to the pit box before the race started. I thought that was against the rules. I thought you weren't allowed to have miners out on pit road.

But I guess they can come out there. Well, the cars weren't on yet. Like they hadn't fired the engines. Right. So I didn't know the rules. You know them better than I did. They've been out there for pre-race stuff. You knew them better than I did.

Well, I was just going to ask for forgiveness if we were in the wrong spot. Surely they wouldn't let me out there with the kids. They were not supposed to be out there. But that was cool. They'd come up on the pit boss before the race started. That was cool to see. I like watching them and that be around the race cars, be on pit road and the wonderment, you know, in their curiosity and they're looking around going,

what's about to happen here, you know? Yeah. And then after the race, we went to Victory Lane. That was pretty cool. I mean, honestly, it was one of the cooler things that I've experienced in a long time in terms of race in the racing industry. I've, uh, or it was just so maybe it wasn't as cool as winning the championship with Justin and things like that, but it was just different. I just, I just don't know how to explain it. But, um, it was.

Ila was dead set on holding that flag. So she took her spot and didn't move. And, um, she wasn't about to lose it to her sister. That's for sure. So she made, she had a death grip on the flag. And I think you said when you took a JRM for the toast, she actually said thank you to the whole thing for let her hold the flag. Yeah. Yeah.

So we're riding in the car. And I don't know. I'd be curious how other parents do it. But I was going to drive over to June of Murder Sports and speak to the company, call them down to the floor, tell them thank you. And I was like, hey, I'm going to do this, I this is what I'm planning on doing. I think it might be nice if you say thank you as well. and I didn't never think she would. I expected to go any further than that.

I mean, yeah, because it's... She's shy. She doesn't like getting up in front of people. But she's like, I'll do it. I'm like, all right, so let's talk. We were driving down the road, and I'm like, let's practice. Like, Tim, what's you going to say? So we practice a little bit.

And sure enough, man, I got done talking and I said, I love, you wanted to say a few words. She walks over, held the mic. She's like, thank you for letting me go to Victor Lane hold the flag. That was cool. Thanks for the opportunity to do that. And everybody loved it. I can't believe she did that.

I still haven't seen a video. I'm hoping somebody has one. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah. Not that I don't believe you, but I just want to see her little face. I know. Yeah. Yeah.

I think there is video of it out. There's got to be. They were filming it. They were. Yeah. Yeah, we can get that. So that was pretty neat. I don't know.

I was had a big. weekend roller coasters loop-de-loops speaking in front of 140 people you know pretty pretty cool to see your daughter um get the confidence to do those type of things it sure is yeah so um what was your polka no experience my polka no experience was was was great i mean it was so hot so when we went to the racetrack the girls just hung out in mRO and because we don't have the motor coach or anything there all of the spoils that i'm used to um i just hung out an MRI too but it was um It was pretty hot. Yeah.

We rented this old house. We did. We rented a house in the mountains. Is that what you call it? Pocono Mountains. Yeah. Right there next to Lake Harmony. We rented this house and the bottom floor is like a gameish room with a little bunk room,

a couple beds and have a bathroom. And then you go upstairs and that's a living space. Top of the stairs is a door. That door is the hinges are destroyed. The door jam is destroyed. I'm hoping that. they don't think we did that. But when I got up there at the top of the door,

the top hinge is completely loose from the door jam. You can't shut the door without picking the handle up, picking the door literally up off the floor and setting it into the door jam. It's just, it stayed open the whole time. And I'm like, man. So when we got there, the door was shut. I know the door. You can shut the door.

But the hinges, it's ripped off the hinges. It is. I took all the screws out. There's no. There's no. behind that hinge for it to get a hold of. It's all destroyed. Yeah, so we get to the house. We open the door and we're unpacking all the things and all of a sudden I turn around. Dale's got a screwdriver in his hand, which I don't

know where the hell you got that thing from. And it's not like you can have tools in a rental house. All of a sudden he's got a screwdriver in his hand and he's whittling with the door jam talking to himself, you know. I'm like, oh, what's going on with the door? He's already annoyed. What's going on? Girls go to your room, unpack your things. I bet there's some deer outside. Yeah. No, it's fine. It was fine.

I just didn't want them to think that we had done that. I don't know. It wasn't the newest house, really. No. They're used to the quirks of the house. I mean, it's just a little, hell, I can put a door in. I'll fix it. Why didn't you do that?

I mean, I was waiting on you to tell me to stop messing with it. I was not about to get in the middle of that. I've seen that look on your face, and I, too, had a dad that acted that way sometimes. Yeah. You don't get in the middle of that. Pocono is awesome. There's a little restaurant next to the racetrack called Louis Prime.

They did a little remodeling since I've been back there. It's a cute little steakhouse. The weird thing is I had it in my mind that dad took me there in the 80s. And I asked the lady, I said, how long y'all been here? And she goes, 20 years. I'm like, damn, did I make that up? Maybe it was a restaurant before and just named something different. I got to still, I got to go back and ask her.

The building would say it's been there longer than 20 years. And the renovation, before they renovated it, it looked like a cute little German building or something. And you and I had gone there for what I remember being the first time, back when you were racing. I was like begging you to get out of the bus so we would go eat at places like that. And I remember her saying,

somebody saying to you that maybe your dad used to come eat there. But I don't know that you went there with him. Yeah. I don't remember that happening. Either way, I still feel like dad ate there. Yeah, there's some nostalgia there. There's something in my mind that's got me and dad or dad connected to that place. So it's like this routine.

When we go to Pocono, we eat at Louis Prime. So we took the girls. Yeah. And it's a little bit of a nicer place. And they're used to going out to eat. But, you know, Nicole's just a stinker. And Ila can sit and mind her manners and put her napkin in her lap and do the whole thing. Nicole doesn't know how to sit still very well.

She just doesn't. They got some butter noodles in their, you know, she'll put some spaghetti in her mouth and then chew on it. And then if she gets a whim, she'll just look down in her lap and spin it out right into her napkin. And then the napkin, you know, as it will, will slip off the leg and fall onto the floor. Now we've got noodles out beside the table in the middle of the floor. Yeah. of this freshly remodeled restaurant.

But the people of the staff, they didn't care. They don't mind. At one point I had to get Nicole out of the seat, though, and take her out to the little vestibular and just talk to her in a minute. I'm like, you don't think you understand. You better get it together. Your dad's about to get really mad. But in the midst of all of the Nicole settled down,

y'all behave. Dale is ripping them in the seat. Huh? Don't you remember farting? I had, I farted once. I mean, with no shame. I'm like, how do you think we're going to get her to act right if that's what you're going to do in the middle of the boots? No shame.

Yeah. How do you even explain yourself there, sir? I know. I was telling you this yesterday. Yeah, because he did it again yesterday. Well, I was burped. We were walking around somewhere doing something and I just burped. And I thought to myself, I said it out loud.

I said, you know, when we first started dating and early in our relationship, I would never you know, burp out loud or fart, right? And I'm like, you know, you deserve better, Amy. You deserve better because here I am just like, ah, whatever. I mean, just like that too, big conversation. Yeah. And I'm like, man, are you okay? How can I expect you to, how can I expect you to look at me as the greatest thing you've, you know, the greatest decision you've ever made, and I'm over here not. You're a barbarian. Doing my, yeah, not doing my best.

I'm going to try to get back to where I don't. How are you going to do that? Fart and burp out loud in front of you. Like a gentleman, right? Yeah. Like a gentleman. We'll see how that goes. I'm going to try to do it, try to get a better habit.

Can we, I want to follow up on me losing my phone. Yeah, you did. You lost your phone in Vegas. And since then, you've had a lot of correspondence and connections. People have shared some stories with you. I'm excited about it. Well, losing phones is just the thing that everybody does. You've lost your phone.

Nope. Not it. You have misplaced your phone. I absolutely don't believe that you've never lost your phone. I don't let that happen. Okay. Well, Earnhardt. A lot of people do.

And I took a poll. and it's very common. Some... What poll would you take? I just said, what's the craziest place you've lost your phone? There are a lot of people that lose it in the refrigerator. What? A lot of people are putting the groceries away,

set it in there to turn around and grab something else, or they're just getting in water, get distracted, lose it in the fridge. The other really popular place is in the laundry, like in the laundry, either basket or in the machine. I've got a couple people say they lost it in the machine. Um, got one in the freezer. A lot of poor people lose it in the lake, like kayaking.

Oh, yeah, dropping, yeah. I remember Bubba losing, Brandon Suggs lost his phone in the lake one day. Oh, did he lose his mind or did he not care? Hey, you dropped yours at the pier and a dude swam down and got it, remember that? No. The hell. I mean, I'm not saying it didn't happen. We were at the lake house and the neighbor across the street, they were partying on their pier.

Uh-huh. And we were going to untie our pond. I think we still had the old boat house, our houseboat, sorry. Oh, loose change? Yeah. And so we're coming out in a while ago. No wonder I don't remember. It was me and you, and we're getting ready to get on the boat, and you dropped your phone

in the slip of the boat, of the dock. Oh. The boy came over. Were they floating? They were, like, in the water. They were hanging. He come over and he's like, he'd come over to ask us if they could go off our slide of the houseboat.

Oh. And we were like, you can go off it all day long if you'll go down here and get this phone that she just dropped in the lake. He swam down there and got it. It's like seven foot of water. Yeah. And then we put it in rice. Yep, it's a pretty good memory. Some things.

Some things. Yeah, some things stick. Some people lose it in the sewer drain. That's happened. I mean, it's gone in. I ain't getting it out of there. A lot of people lose it when it's in their back pocket. Like, it's on their person.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. That happened. I mean, yeah. Yeah. I've done that. Hang tight. Got some more. There's some funny ones here. Dog crate. My cooler. This one poor lady, oh my gosh, she lost hers in the shredder. They have a business. So they have like a really big industrial shredder.

Yeah. She had to call whoever comes to receive, get all this stuff out of it to get her phone out. Let's see here. Oh, on the back of the car. Top of the car, back of the car, the bumper. Pretty common. People to drive around. Oh, man. It flies off. Yep. I haven't done that with my phone, but a few things. What?

I didn't do that with my phone, but I did drive off with, so I have my little garment, my garment thing for my bike, my road bike, and my brake, my little tail light thing and all, all the stuff that's on my bike when I go riding, I left it on the bumper and put the bike in the truck and jumped in the truck to drive away and all that stuff was out on the street. Oh, shoot. So you did it after you rode. After I rode. Yeah.

and got it. It's all still good. This last one, this lady wrapped it up in a UPS package and shipped it with some things and ended up having to get it back through UPS. Holy shit. They could to chase it down. So that's it. And I have one other story I wanted to add. I should have just told you this last week. And this is not a tragedy.

But it's something my friends razz me about all the time. So we're in Nashville for Alexa's, Alexa Jordan's Bachelorette. This is years ago, way before kids. And I have this tiny little crossbody bag and my little card case is in my bag. And it's just got like a flap. There's no lock or anything. So you've been downtown Nashville to Bar Hop. There's like five through six levels at some of these buildings.

And so there's bars on each level. You're jumping all over the place. I lost my wallet. I get to the next bar. I don't have my cards. I'm like, oh no, this is really bad. I have my phone. so I know that I don't have, like I haven't lost everything,

but I start trying to backtrack with some of my friends on the bars that we went to cross-eyed. I mean, with Thatchalette weekend. I think I lost a kitty life that weekend too. It was bad. So I ended up finding the wallet in a bathroom. The bathroom attendant had it. And I remember slinging my purse around when I went to the bathroom and just, it must have fallen out.

But in the meantime of the hunt, I had drafted an email to my banker, at Wells Fargo. Oh, gosh. Her name's Debbie. She's the sweetest lady. And in the subject line, but it reads, I've lost it all. Now anytime, I lose anything, all of my friends text me. They're like, I lost it all.

So, I mean, it's not new. I lose things all the time. Oh, yeah. I know. I do know that. Hey, it's Dale Jr. Did you know that we've got brand new merch from our Star Stripes and Beers Collection available now?

We've got tanks, teas, beach towels, and more just in time for summer. Check it all out at shop.dirtymodea.com. Speaking of houseboats. Yeah. I've got a... You didn't buy another one, did you? No, I got a houseboat playlist, houseboat rock on my Spotify. So I share...

I got two playlists that I've got... that I've shared with folks on social media and so forth. And one of them is Houseboat Rock. and I wondered who came up with the name Yacht Rock. You know, yacht rock, the style of music. Like we rode down here to the beach in a suburban listening to Yacht Rock on Sirius X-N-O. I guess some guy that has a yacht. Why a yacht?

I don't know. Right? It's like, who can really relate? Right. I don't know. You know? And it's not yachts are like, you know, expensive, mills. million dollars, multi-million dollar pieces of equipment.

This music's laid back approachable. Laid back easy, you know, accessible. It doesn't connect. Does it make sense? I don't like the name. Okay, so you've renamed it Houseboat Rock. Right not just Boat Rock. Pontoon Rock even.

Pondoon Rock. That one sounds, you know, like flows a little bit better. Yeah. But it's the same music. I think, you know, we're kind of stuck with yacht rock because it's, everybody knows what that means when you say it. But I think it was mislabeled. Google says it started from a like comedy sketch series. They call it Yacht Rock making fun of the lifestyle. These songs were like trying to portray.

And then it just stuck. That's what Google said. There we go. Oh, I like it better. That way it's like a comedic sort of tongue and cheek. Yeah. Joke. How about that?

Yacht Rock's a joke. Yeah. Now we like it. I still like Houseboat rock. I get that. I have a houseboat. I don't have a yacht. but I gave that playlist a follow that you tweeted out Dale

I follow it now I'm listening to that thanks man when do you listen to it like there's a thousand followers on it now a thousand you have a thousand followers on my yacht rock you can have followers on Spotify saves whatever they're people I don't know how this stuff works basically if somebody makes a playlist you can go follow it and it basically just adds it to your library so you can just listen to it whenever you want

It's your playlist, right? So as people update their playlist, you get the updates to? Yep. That's pretty neat. I'll add a couple songs a day. If I'm listening to it, as I'm listening to it, I'm probably adding a couple songs here and there. So, yeah, it's always percolating. Perculating?

Yeah. It's always alive. That's not a word I've ever heard you say before. I also have my original playlist called Shuffle It. Uh-huh. What's on that? Mostly, that is a playlist that is a blend of grunge from the 90s all the way till current time of sort of grunge, pop punk, alternative style music, and just things that were kind of popular over the years. But it's all in this really wide vein of kind of rock.

So they'll take you up and bring you down and take you up and bring you down. Yeah, yeah. There's all kinds. It's all over the place. It is, I think it's over 24 hours of music. Oh, Lord. Yeah. I don't know how many songs are in that one, but it's a lot.

I've been working on it for a long time. And I think it has 4,000 people that have saved it. I've shared it a couple times on social media. Well, speaking of social media, you sent me a funny clip. I did. Yeah, or you showed it to me. of this guy talking about this lake. It was from Twitter.

Oh. So apparently there's a lake, and I don't remember where. Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe. It's really deep and really cold at the bottom. Mega deep, very cold. And so if you fall off of your boat and you die in this lake, you sink and you don't decompose because you're so cold and you're like preserved. So they call it the dance, what is it?

The dancing floor. Oh, hell if I'm not. The death of day. We have to Google it. Can you look it up? I'm not going to be able to find it. So apparently if you get to a certain level, there's a bunch of bodies down there and they're still preserved.

And they call it something about dancing. Yeah. Because it looks like when you're down there, they're dancing. It looks like their bodies kind of floating around. They don't decompose because of the temperature of the water is too cold. Well, it just reminded me of being on Lake Norman years ago on the houseboat because we're going off the side, hanging out in the water,

and there is a party boat that's rather large, and there's nobody on it except for the captain, and you can see him kind of walking around the edge of the boat. And he's looking in the water. He clearly lost something. What he had lost was a person, and that dead body was floating around somewhere close to us while we were partying and acting like fools.

We could have absolutely just bumped into a damn dead body in Lake Norman. So what I want to know is what happens to the dead bodies in Lake Norman? They find them. Do they? Do they really find them all? Well, they don't. They decompose eventually. We didn't run into one, but I hear that there's a lot of bodies in that lake too.

Like people die in Lake Norman pretty regularly all summer. I felt, I remember that day. We had a houseboat called Loose Change, and we get on that thing. It's, you know, it's in the afternoon. We got all of our friends, some of the people that I worked with at Hendrick Motorsports and crewmen, wives, girlfriends, we go out into the lake. We passed by this other houseboat that we knew was rentable and that would take people out and party.

And I'm like, hmm, it's interesting. They're usually not out during the day. They're usually a night kind of thing. I wonder what they're doing. They were, you know, they had obviously sort of put everything away on the top deck, so I knew they weren't, and they weren't working. They were just out on the lake for some reason. They were kind of cleaning things up, and we're waving.

We're like, hey, I know who they are, right? So we're like, hey, y'all, they know, they can see our boat, recognize it. And they're just like, you know, not really in a hay mood, you know. and so we go on by and then we see a couple of sheriff's boats trolling around and we're cruising over to where we're going to park we get over there we park and we have a day right we're swimming going off the slide having a good time and and and it's about four or five hours later we learned that they had lost somebody off the back of that boat the day before the night that night that night that night before and they were looking out there looking they still hadn't found the body and i'm like

we're not in like this mega wide part of the lake i wasn't i wasn't like worried about what amy was worried about my i was like what fucking we were to ride by me like what's up y'all hey how y'all doing well us and everybody else in the leg nobody knew what they're seeing you out today what's up you know and they're sitting there going we've lost somebody we're looking for somebody we're probably You know, I don't know. That was. We didn't learn that until we got off the lake. Nobody knew.

I don't know. But we all kind of should have known. We should have known. We should have kept our ass out of the water. I felt terrible about that. But I don't know. I feel like there's more to the stories about people falling in the lakes. Where do they go?

I don't know if I believe that the, you know, if you fall into Lake Tahoe and you sink to the bottom where it's that cold, you know, Your body just, it doesn't blow it or anything. It doesn't, so it won't serve. Yeah, it doesn't float. It doesn't decompose. So there's no gases lifting you up to the surface of the water. Like you just pickle and you're hanging out down there. I don't believe that.

You don't? I feel like it wouldn't be real if it wasn't talked about it. I would think that everything has an ounce of truth. All right. So, all right. So the bodies that from the Titanic. Yeah. Right.

All the microorganisms and all those things. things, they've taken care of all that. There's nothing down there. I know, that's over a vast period of time. We don't know. Could have it in a year. Hmm. But I imagine in Lake Tahoe, same thing.

Well, there's not like sharks and stuff in the lake. No, I'm not saying sharks have torn them, you know, eating the people from the Titanic. I'm just saying like in Lake Tahoe, I'm sure there's microorganisms and other things, too, that would take care of something like that. I don't know. I think that that video on the internet was just a clickbaiter. Well, it got me. It got you.

You're the one that showed to me. Yeah, well, I knew you'd love it. Me and Amy were talking about, Amy was making a list on her phone for shopping from the grocery store. What do you call that? A grocery list. No, no, no. What do you call it?

what do you call it when you're filling up your thing? My Instacart? Instacart. That's what I'm thinking. So she was doing her Instacart. I needed some printer cartridges to be able to print for work and getting a couple of things. Mind you, we're sitting at the pub doing this. Yeah, we're sitting at a bar drinking a couple beers.

And I was like, hey, put some fruit roll-ups on there. It's like, the hell. I'm getting you a fruit roll-off. Put some gushers. What were What are some of the And we were just kind of like going through Like what are some of the things that

What we bounced around with is that Is that 8 something that's sold anymore? Because we haven't bought them in so long And they are What are some of the things that you You eat as a kid? You guys are here at Dunkeroo's? Dunkeroo's?

They're like they came back for a hot minute a couple years ago It's like icing and like animal crackers And you would dunk those in the ice They were good. And then you would eat the icing. Gross. Oh, man. I had a lot of little debbies.

Yeah. Swiss cake rolls, oatmeal cream pies, that kind of stuff. When I was a little kid, like the goat of candies was the fun dip. Like that, when you got a hold of one of them, you'd hit the jackpot. I don't know why, because it was so much work. Yeah. You know, the little chalky stick into the. You know, it's basically like, um, Kool-Aid mix.

And you're like, yum-n-g-nom-n-nam. And we ended up, we ended up, fun dip turned into getting, literally getting, um, the Kool-Aid packets and just like. Eating the Kool-Aid? Like no sugar? Right out of the Kool-Aid packet. Man, we were broke. We're poor. Poor and stupid.

I bet your teeth are all-collar. Oh, yeah. Mega dye. Yeah. And we got, we tried everything. Some of it wasn't that good. Like Gatorade? No.

Just Gatorade powder? No. I always really like pop rocks. And so does Ila. She likes some pop rocks. Yeah. What else? I don't know.

We ate all the junk. We ate all of the junk. Yeah. Well, fruit roll-ups, man. I used to get those and take it all and once and put it and ball it up in the ball. And throw it in your mouth and chew on that. Everything is so aggressive. Nothing could just be done as planned, as designed.

He's got to step it up a notch. Wad up the entire fruit ball and put it in my mouth or eat the fund-up. Oh, man. We're going straight to Kool-Aid. Yeah. We're just going to. Well, we can't, yeah. They didn't sell fund-up everywhere either.

We didn't get Kool-Aid powder like that. That was one thing we didn't have. It's like, just a Kool-Lade. Packets. They were little packets. I know, but we didn't make that. Like, you had tea in the fridge. Other than that, there was just, like, sink water.

Yeah. I didn't get Kool-Aid. I don't remember getting Kool-Aid anyway. Fruit roll-ups, man, they were the ticket. And it ain't nothing but a sugar sheet. And it's not even the good sugar. It's like the sugar, the bad for you. The game that we played a couple weeks ago,

where it was Guess the Girls. Yeah, that was last week. Was it last week? Yeah, it was last week. Are we going to play that again? I got also, I got these scratch-alls. I bought last night. Let's see if we won.

You want to scratch them off right now? Well, I won't. I was going to do it while we were in a conversation. Well, I think we lost that opportunity. I also was going to talk about your hair. Ear hair? Yeah. This is the fastest growing hair on my, on my body.

And it's on the top of my ear. Do you get those? No, he's not old enough for that, yeah. Pins. Mine are still peach fuzz. Oh, my God. Because if you shave it, I'm convinced it grows back thicker. Oh, yeah.

I think you might be right. When I was a kid, I wanted to grow a beard and a mustache and all that so bad that, I mean, I'm shaving my peach fuzz. Because they said, you know, if you shave it, it'll grow back faster. And I'm like, all right, well, we'll get this going. Boy, what a, I regret all that because now I hate shaving. I wish you could just make, you know, like all this, never grow again, you know, so you didn't have to cut it. But, yeah, man, right at the tops of my ears, because I kind of forget to cut it.

And, man, it just grows back so fast. It's weird. Things you have to look forward to there, Alex. When you get, yeah, when you turn 50, all the damn hair and your nose is starting to grow out, you're, you got to look in. the mirror because you walk around with hair sticking out of your nose. You turn an eyebrow hair hanging down into your lid. God almighty.

You know what I found the other day? It was like right here, like right here in my eye was like growing out some thick hairs. And I'm like, I didn't get up there. Yeah. I didn't get up there. I shave that. I'm like, what is that? Hell yeah.

Hey, I had a damn eyebrow, like my eyebrows writer where they're supposed to be. I had a hair way off to the side one day, and I'm like, all right, now I know that's probably part of the eyebrow, but I'm a person, like that one off. I started breaking away from the pack. Yeah, he was leaving. Oh, my God. Yeah, I hate that. Stray hairs is like, how does that happen? I know.

I started having to pluck them out of my chin. Oh, my gosh. It happens when you get older and you're a woman. Yeah. Estrogen drops, and all of a sudden you've got chin hair, you've got to pluck. And they can grow fast. You can sprout one like in an hour. So you just kind of, if you see me doing this, it's not because I'm thinking.

Yeah. Just checking for hairs. Yeah. I'm convinced the hair on my ears is like, grows faster than any other hair on my body. All right. So we got a game today. The game is called hot takes. Agree or disagree.

Alex is going to list off some hot takes and we're going to decide if we agree or disagree with them. I'm going to challenge you, Alex. Next week, I want to get back to playing that game, but we can flip it and do the guys, the guy slang. Yeah, let's do it. Me and you can come up with some words too. All right, let's do it. Next week.

But, right, let's play Hot Takes. All right, Hot Takes this week. The first one is Brunch is overrated. Who says that? Brunch is not overrated. French is one of the greatest inventions ever. Brunch is great, especially if you're hungover because it's, you know, you get to mimosas and get right back into it.

Yeah, you have breakfast or lunch. You can sit and hang for hours. Why is that, for some reason, brunch is like an extended situation. It's not like your typical dining experience. Like you don't sit for an hour. You can stay for three or four hours. I like brunch. It turns to a party.

I thought brunch was stupid when I was in my 20s or 30s, but now it's, I get it. I hate the people that are too focused on the food part of brunch. I don't really consider that. The focus is the drinks. That's the difference. 100%. The next one, adults shouldn't wear graphic teas. Agree or disagree.

Adults shouldn't wear graphic teas? Yeah. It feels a little juvenile. Dale likes the graphic tea. I like graphic tea too. The racing shirts are cool. That's what I have to consider. I think it just depends on what's on it.

I mean, I'm not against the racing shirts. He wore one yesterday. He wore one yesterday. He had like a sunset or something. it. We're at the beach, you know. But it does feel a little juvenile, right? Yes. I think that, so everybody knows I'm very nostalgic and I went on and I went online and bought some old spring break MTV shirts. So MTV remakes these shirts. It's like it's not a vintage shirt that I'm buying from somebody, but it'll be like, hey, 1998.

Spring Break, MTV. Panama. Yeah, Panama City, Daytona Beach. And I bought those, and I'm like, those are freaking badass. I can't wait to go to the beach and wear that. That's going to be kick ass. And then every now and then, when I do something like that, I'll, like, have this sort of out-of-body perspective

where I'll go, damn it, I'm 50. I shouldn't be wearing the shit. You know, I bet I look like a freaking idiot out here with Amy and my kids. And I'm walking around dressing like I did when I was 20. Well, what's funny about that is he doesn't just wear the shirt. We have shorts that match. Oh, yeah. We have had that matches.

We are full neon. Yeah. And, like, he found these trunks on Amazon that are bright colors. And then the undershorts, like, are built in. And they are splatter painted or something equally, like, it looks like back. The 90s and the very 90s. Yeah. say by the bell print, you know what I mean?

Like very, very bright. So if it worked for just a T-shirt, maybe you would feel that way. But he goes very hard for his theme. I do. It's commitment. I think that it is, I think it's probably best that adults don't wear graphic teas, but. The heart wants what it wants. Yeah, I kind of see how easy that is to do.

Yeah, I get it. This next one, I'm excited to hear this answer. It's fine not to answer a call or text back. for days. Not okay. It's probably not okay. I'm guilty of doing that. And the reason why isn't because I lose my phone.

It's because I will check it as I'm driving or something just because I can't stand the notification to be there. But then I forget to go back, like when I stop and I just get distracted to keep going. And so I forget. So sometimes I do that for that reason. But I don't ignore people on purpose. What about responding with like those reactions, like a thumbs up, a heart? I think that's okay.

Like if you don't have your red receipts. on and they don't know that you read it, at least give them like the high sign, yes, that you have paid attention. Some people don't like that, though. They feel like that's rude. I don't think that it's rude. A thumbs up is rude? Yeah, like some people feel like if you can't respond back that you're either in a bad

mood, you're short, something's wrong. So I mean, I think it's fine. That's what they're there for. The acknowledgement's what I'm looking for. I don't really need a whole conversation about that. Right. Yeah. I agree with that.

The next one, once you hit a certain age, birthdays don't matter. I totally disagree. Every birthday matters. Right? No? I think they all matter. So when I got to everyone mattered and then I turned 40. And not that 40 was bad or that, you know, rocked my mentality around it.

But like the numbers get boring, like 41, 44, 46. You know, you're like, oh, man, 46. What a crap number. And then, so you just, it becomes like, all right, you know, this is, you know, I'll get excited about 45 or 50, 55. You know, you start to really kind of like the 51s, two, three, fours just don't hit as hard as a 50 or a 55, you know. I still like to celebrate on, though. I'm doing your thing now. I don't need a party. Yeah.

But I'm sure I want a present and some carrot cake for my birthday. I want to, at this point, I want, you know, a good morning hug, happy birthday. And then I want to be able to choose kind of like Father's Day or Mother's Day. I just kind of want to choose what I'm going to do that day. Yeah. And it's just a me thing. It's not like I need. I want, you.

you know, to go have a party or a dinner with a group. It's just like, hey, just let me go do whatever. I think it's fun to, like, not have a rigid, like, this has to happen on my birthday. But it's fun to have a dinner one year, maybe just, like, go do nothing the next year, go to the spa. Maybe the family goes to dinner together. Who knows? I think you should acknowledge every birthday. Yes, of course.

You've got to acknowledge them. But I think that, you know, I think everybody changes as they get older or everybody's, you know, the birthday, the intensity of the birthday. Sure. It definitely dwindles. It's not a hot take, really. I don't think. I think it's just... Yeah, general fact. Next one, subtitles should always be on when you're watching TV.

Always be on? No. Oh, I turn that shit off. I'm like, who messed up? And put on the subtitles. So lately, I've been doing that. And I accidentally did it once. I'm like, I actually kind of like this. Because if I don't turn the TV out very loud,

I can actually still see what's going. I can still follow along, especially if I'm in bed at night. I don't know. Maybe that's something to do with me getting over also. That's an old person thing. That's an old lady hack. It's a little lady hack. Yeah, subtitles, they don't hurt my feelings.

It's like a newer thing, I think. Like watching movies, I think is very popular. So the other thing I've heard too is like if you want your kids to like pay attention to the words and be reading as they're listening, it's a good thing for kids to have on the TV because they're reading the words. if they're learning to read, it's not a bad idea. I don't know. Clearly we're divided on that. We are divided.

A house divided on the, what do you call it? Subtitles. Subtitles. Next one, making your bed every day is overrated. No, I want my bed made. Amy makes the bed every day. I make the bed every day, but he's the last one out of it. It's so freaking annoying.

Can you please just make the bed or at least your side? I remember Carrie Earnhardt telling me, I make my side of the bed, Renee makes her side of the bed. I'm like, that's so ridiculous. Why don't you just make the whole thing? He's like, well, because I get out of it first. So I'm going to make up my side, and she has to make up her side. I'm like, Dale doesn't do that.

He doesn't ever make it. And he loves the sloppy sheets kicked everywhere bed. And I want it to be like perfectly made when I get in. A bed that's a mess is more comfortable to me than a made bed. It gives me anxiety. Like I need the sheets to be crisp and I want to pull them back and like tuck myself in. But I don't sleep like a Tasmanian devil either. So he doesn't.

does. He kicks everything off. Everything's like thrown all over the place. So when before, before Amy, I had a cleaning service or or or individual that would clean the house. And yeah, when I walk into my room and the bed's made from the night before, I'm like, one more task I got to do. Oh, man. That's not as comfortable as I left it, you know? Never mind those clean sheets. you have. How I left it was like because I'm, when I'm laying in it in the morning, are you, you know,

when you're laying in the bed waking up, don't we all say like, holy crap, this is hard to get out of his bed. It's so comfortable. I love it. Well, you get out of it and you're like, don't touch it. Just like, it's like that. It's as comfortable as I've ever felt, you know, just leave it just like it is. This just doesn't align.

He's so OCD about all these other things, like wires having to be perfectly clamped together. There was no slack in every time. Cable management is important. But the bed is like a whole mess. They might have flipped me on that. I get that. Do you make your bed? I do because everyone always says it's a great way to start the day,

but I don't really, it doesn't change my day. I don't even think about it. But I agree that it's comfortable when I get out of it. And it takes me all night to get back to that spot. Yes. That's right. You get in the bed that's made. The bed, you know, the sheet is tucked in at the bottom

and your feet are kind of smashed down in there and you're like, you know, when you go to a hotel and you're climbing them things, they got them tight. They got that thing sealed. And you got to kick all them sheets around and get some room down there. I don't like the sheets tight on my feet either. No.

See, that's... But I do want everything pulled up and perfectly even. Like, I need my stuff to be straight on the bed. I got you. Yeah. I got two more for you. This one, avocados are overrated. No.

What the hell? Avocados are great. Why? Who thinks that avocado? Do you not like an avocado? I think avocados are overrated. Why are we? What?

Why are we being so judgmental? They're just a normal. Avocados didn't do shit. It's just normal. It's not normal. It's not. It's just a normal. It's like a superfood.

It ain't nothing about it normal. It's so unique. It reminds me of nothing. There's nothing like an avocado. Not that they're exceptional. Well, why are we hyping up Kiwis? There's nothing like Kiwis. You can't mash up a kiwi in you.

You can't put a kiwis are so good. You could if you want. I mean, there's no rules against it. I'm not sure, man. Maybe Kiwi's got its day. Maybe it's coming out there in the future. Maybe Kiwi, you know, in the next decade, we're looking at Kiwis the way we look at avocados. I just think the hype is so overrated.

Is that because you don't know how to cut it open? Yeah, that's part of it. But I would love to see you just attack an avocado. It's going to get mangled. It's going to get you running a knife. It's going to be a mangled mess. It is? It's so easy.

I don't know. I like any, I like, there ain't a lot of, there aren't a lot of really healthy foods that I like to eat. Most everything that is good for you is not as tasty or flavorful as all the bad things. Where avocado is the one standout that, you know, you squeeze a little, you mash up an avocado, squeeze a little lime juice on it. And now you're good, you're golden. I mean, it's just, it's like, hey, man, I found something that. He's like, nope, I don't care. I found something that's good for me to eat that I can eat and enjoy.

There's not a lot of stuff that. More for us. You know what it is? It's the, I think it's good. It's the color and the look that it, of the texture of it. I don't. I mean, it definitely is deterring from the outside. It's a little tough mental battle all the time to get over that.

I only see avocados when they see, They're mashed or sliced neatly. I don't see them otherwise. It's kind of like how that bed gets made. He doesn't really have anything to do with that. I know, but I'm just saying like when I see it, every time I, every time somebody puts an avocado in front of me, it looks fine. He did never have to cut it open either.

Yeah, I'm not cutting them open. Last one, it's better to shower at night versus in the morning. Honestly, I think it just depends on your day. If you're dirty before you get in the bed, you should probably take a shower. You know, like if you had a long sweaty day, you absolutely. should get in the shower and clean all that off of you. Otherwise, you're getting your bed all dirty. But, you know, for girls with your hair and everything,

it's better to wash your hair in the morning for styling. Dale has to wet his hair down. His just gets big. I don't, I don't, I usually shower in the morning. Most of the time I'm shower in the morning, but, you know, if you're dirty, like after the Xfinity race, right, sitting on that bitbox all day, putting sunscreen all over your arms. It just depends.

Speaking of, I think, did we talk about, I remember a couple, just to put a button on something, we were talking about how we were having an issue in the patient portal with my doctor. Oh, yeah? You got more information on the portal? I just thought we would, so. Did you get to meet Sandra or whoever it was?

I got some, the results from my blood tests. So we You went back and did it again Yeah, I went back and did it again So I get my, you know, I do the physical every year And a couple of years ago, my PSA level was a little high And over four, they were like, hey, you know, we need to take a look at this But it all ended up going back down, everything was fine

I went to a couple specialists and everything was good When I went back to get the physical this time, my PSA was not over, or four, but it was high. It's supposed to be like 0.7, really low all the time. And mine was like three. And that's when I was like, well, in the page reporter, I was like, well, me and Amy, you know, if you have sex, you can make your PSA go up. I can't believe he's so comfortable talking about this. Didn't we do this? Yeah, we did. I couldn't believe you were comfortable the first time. And so I was, and so that's how that conversation happened where the nurse was like, y'all can talk about this when you come visit. I'm like, whoa, who's here? I thought this. I thought this.

This was me and my doctor conversation, but everybody else in the office read my note to my doctor about me and Amy. We go and win the Xfinity Series race. We're over the moon. We've had a day at Hershey Park, blast. Kids, awesome, riding roller coasters. Great day for a parent. Next day, we go and win the Xfinity race. Unreal.

late that night, I get the results from my PSA, and it's back to 0.7. And I was like, yeah. He gets the email. He goes, oh, I got my results. Do you think we should look at it? I was like, yeah, just let her go. Like, don't wait. Because he was like, I don't want to ruin this day.

I don't want to ruin this day. Yeah, I don't want to ruin this day. And, you know, hey, man, it's still a little elevated. We've got to go to Charlotte and probably get your biopsy and all those things. And I was like, gosh, that's the worst thing, man, getting some test results back in an email. because that's the way it works these days. They don't hold the result and call you and go, hey, here's the results.

This is what I think. You just get them. And you interpretate it. You get to spiral. No doctor. You get plenty of time to spiral first. And you're like, holy shit, here we go. All right.

But we got, you know, so that was like, we're sitting there at, you know, seven, eight o'clock at night in that, in that house or renting, fist pumping. Yeah, he's literally walking around throwing sand in the air. Yeah, we got our PSA score back. Anyways, let's do some Ask Amy. Okay, guys, we are ready for some Ask Amy questions. Dale and I are on location today at our Beach House, but we've had a good show, and I can't wait to hear what you have. Yes, our first question is from Bee Boone 77.

Be Boone! That's fun. How does it feel to be the wife of a winning crew chief? It feels so good. He's undefeated. I'm proud of it. I'm honestly, that was one of those things we really didn't plan for. And when he got asked to do it, I'm like, well, that sounds fun.

Are you, like, so excited. And he's like, yeah, but I'm so nervous, blah, blah, blah. But he killed it. He does such a good job. I got to go up and watch the last few laps on the pit box. And I got to really see how excited they all were and watch Connor make his move for the lead there too. So that was really fun. We were all very proud of.

That was the best part for me. I remember we're standing on the pit box. And, man, you're, as when you're watching that race and it's closing down, three to go, two to go, you're like a powder keg. Man, you are, you have all of this excitement and emotion that's like right here. And you won't, you know, when he comes off the end of turn three, he keys up the mic and goes, heck yeah, boys. you're like, he knows he's going to win this race. He understands that he's going to. And it just comes all, you know, you just release all that energy.

And we're, we're hugging the guys and we're punching each other. And I hear Amy go, oh. We aren't punching each other. Dale's doing all the punching. Both are the guys up there. I'm like, oh, my God, you're going to need to ask him if he's okay because he punched him hard in the back and the ribs just trying to give him a hug. I'm like, holy smokes, Dale. Yeah, Amy, I heard Amy go.

Oh. It's gracious. And I was like, yes. I mean, the energy was coming out everywhere. Everybody was so excited. It was cool. Yeah. She got too close.

Yeah. You got too close. That's funny. Similar follow-up. Sarah Ann wants to know. What was it like getting the girls ready to go to Victory Lane? That was a little hectic, to be honest, because they were at MRO. I was having a hard time getting them to leave.

and MRO, if anybody that's listening doesn't know, is called Motor Racing Outreach, and it's this group that travels to the racetracks to kind of provide a place for the kids to hang out and craft and play, and it's wonderful. So we love MRO, and the girls didn't really want to leave. So I had my friend Jamie with us, and I went to the pit box and she stayed with the girls and she was going to bring them to Victory Lane. So she comes, like, with two laps to go, and she's hiding out. waiting and she had a hard time getting them to get out and and sit on the golf cart.

She's like, you don't understand. You're going to win. You're going to go to Victory Lane. And so at that point, Nicole's like, oh, okay, I want to go. And so we get there. And of course, I'm like, you're going to hold it. This is when you really get to hold up your number one finger. And because it was his second win, we held up number twos the whole time and it threw her off. And she could, and she was trying to get her twos out, like, her little, she's like holding her fingers trying to do it. She's looking at her. Yeah, she's like, looking at her fingers. I have the pictures are her looking down at her hand trying to get her twos out. She was so confused.

But it was awesome. Our next question is from Dat Dude. Going to Daytona in August for my bachelor party and the race. What is something I have to do while I'm there? Oh, the bachelor party. And Daytona? Hmm. Man, it's changed so much.

It has. If you were asking me this 15, 20 years ago, I'd have you a list. The Hard Rock is a good place to go hang out now. There's a new hotel. They should go hang out at the Hard Rock, the pool scene and everything. And there's cool. Where else? Like any of the old bars?

Well, I mean, obviously take some time to go through Daytona USA. Go by the Earnhardt statue out front. There's a lot of kind of neat things around the racetrack there or right at the racetrack. There's a bunch of restaurants and shopping and stuff across the street. I mean, that place has really grown just right at the track itself. but there is a strip of Little Beach Barzzo like oh the fourth turn I think it's called or whatever that there's a bar at the end of the beach where the old beach and road course used to be for the racetrack what's that turn I forget the name of the bar restaurant it's a restaurant

bar but it's it's been there since the 50s it's located in the turn of the old beach course that they raced in the 40s and 50s so I'd go there for sure. There's a lot of... North Turn? North Turn. Yeah. North Turn. Restaurant. A lot of good history inside the restaurant. Pretty cool place to check out. There is one little strip.

So speaking of the original beach course, you can go to the North Turn restaurant and ask them about this. But there is a strip of pavement that's probably about a block long. That's the original road that they raced on. And then there's, and on that strip are two houses that were the first two homes to be built down on that end of the beach.

And one of them's now been torn down, but the other was remodeled and still there. Oh, really? Yep. They were built by a, one of the riders from the motorcycles, they used to race motorcycles as well in the beach back then. One of the riders that raced in the motorcycles built those houses for him. his team or family to stay in when they would come down there and race. Interesting. And one of them's still there.

That's cool. Next question's from Donald. What was your first car and was it the same car you took your driver's test in? My first car was a Chevy Cavalier and I had that car until I moved to North Carolina. So I had it for a very long time. And I think the car I took my driver's test. was not my car. I think in Texas, back when I was in high school, you took your driver's test in whatever town car they had at the school. Oh, really? Uh-huh. I don't know if that's true or not.

I remember doing like a summer course and like you did all of your in-car stuff with an instructor and then you had a simulator you went into and then you had like a school where you did all the signs and everything. And then you went to the DMV and just took a written test. You didn't get in the car with someone then. So you did all that way. before, yeah. Interesting. So you didn't have to parallel park or do anything like that? Oh, yeah. I had to parallel park. I'm good at parallel parking because I learned to drive. My mom had a suburban. She always had a big car, so I can parallel park anything.

But, no, I don't think I did my driver's test in my own car. And I remember getting on the highway. She would teach us how to, like, get up to speed and we're supposed to like blend as you're, like you're supposed to be up to speed by the time you're at the top of the ramp. And if you didn't match the gas as hard as she wanted you to, she was mashing it for you. She'd put her foot over there to mash it down for you. It was scary. But, yeah, it was an adventure. I won't forget for sure.

And there's kids in the back, too. You're not in there by yourself. Oh, yeah. It's really kind of scary. I can't believe they let you do that. Our next question is from Amy Rose, and she wants to know if y'all still have and use your tree house. Oh, yeah.

We do have the tree house. I haven't been in it in quite a while. Dale takes the girls up there to clean it and hang out. Yeah. I'll go in there and clean the floor. up, vacuum a little bit. Yeah. Make sure there's no critters, squatting.

And Island, the girls seem to enjoy it, but they get bored pretty quickly. Yeah, they get bored. They get bored doing anything right now. Yeah. So, five, ten minutes. But it's there. It's close to the saloon and good shape. Good shape.

Still kicking. Last question is from Giggles 26. He's, or they're expecting, baby number two in February. Any tips for handling a toddler and a newborn? I guess they have two under two at this point. They're going to have two under two under two. Well, congratulations on your second baby. I will say having two is a dynamic change, but the second baby is not as hard.

It's like not as scary, right? Because you know what you're doing. So Ila just ignored the fact that I was pregnant and didn't really want to have anything to do with Nicole. It took her like a solid year for her to really acknowledge that that was her sister because it was not her choice for this baby to come home. So, you know, don't let any of that stuff hurt your feelings. I tried to just, like, brush it off. It did hurt my feelings for a while.

Everything hurts your feelings when you have a new baby. But I would just say try not to change too much. I know that infants need, like, the naps and all of those things, but just pack up and go. Like, just go do everything. Don't try to worry too much about it. I don't know. I feel like if you get too tied down to the house, everybody gets a little stressed. you know what I mean?

So just keep going. The babies adapt, yeah. It'll be fine. I have double strollers still. Like my kids get tired. I've just strapped them in the stroller. Because I can't sit at the house all day. You know what I mean?

If they get tired. Yeah. So. I'm ready to get rid of all that stuff. I know. I won't let him. I'm like, no, no, no. I need my wagons.

I need my strollers. I want to go walk. Even when I was seven years, you know, she's seven years old, but I can still throw her in there and take a walk. That's all we have for asking me this week. Thanks for your questions. If you haven't already, please make sure to hit the subscribe button on our YouTube page. Also, don't forget to check out shop.dirtymohmedia.com for merch.

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Going to Atlanta. We're definitely in beach mode. TNT. Getting ready to crank through five more races with the TNT partners. You excited? Yeah, I'm excited. I'm ready to get to you. Yeah.

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