The Dale Jr. Download - Bless Your 'Hardt - What Did We Sign Up For

Episode Date: February 6, 2025

Welcome to the all-new show with your favorite couple: Dale and Amy Earnhardt! Bless Your 'Hardt is all about the hilarious antics, heartfelt stories, and everyday moments of the Earnhardt family. Each week, Dale and Amy sit down to share their sides of the life they’ve built together—and if this first episode is any indication, you won’t be able to get enough!In this debut, Dale and Amy cover everything from the daddy-daughter dance to the dilemma of picking which kid artwork stays. Surprise, Dale also shares his take on video games (including what his daily routine looked like as a bachelor), and they play We Listen and We Don’t Judge—where things get interesting fast. Oh, and yes, squishy grapes come up too.Don’t miss this fun, real, and unfiltered conversation! Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hey, y'all. I am Amy Earnhardt, and we are here at Dirty Mo Media Studios. I'm with my husband Dale for our very first episode of Bless Your Heart. The following is a production of Dirtymo Media. The very first time I hung out with you and stayed with you, I'm brushing my teeth. And this man sits down behind me to take a number two. Oh, yeah, this is the way it's going to be, girl. We're going to hang out. I'm like, the fuck it is. I am out of here.

Oh, you look amazing. I get scared to all day. Oh, shut up. I couldn't believe it. The toilet sick story is my microcosm of a relationship that goes from... Why? You don't make rules in general, so why would you make rules for yourself? It was just a series of trying to figure out how to tame your wild beast habits. God, you're so awkward.

You're making me feel awkward. I'm sorry. I don't mean to make you feel awkward. Yes, you do. No, I don't. All right. Well, I'm excited to be here. I had fun.

What the f*** quit laughing. I'm really excited about this. Can you control yourself? Yes. We are. Are we supposed to be in that much control? Shouldn't we not like let loose a little bit? I don't know.

I'm really nervous. I'm nervous to be here. You said you woke up at five o'clock in the morning. I did. That's not me. I woke up bright eye. I got up. What do you think we're going to do here that's got you so shook up?

I don't know. When I come in and I'm just hanging out on your show and I'm in here for like 20 minutes, it's like a no pressure situation. but I'm feeling some pressure, especially when you just sit there and stare at me, which is always awkward. And you like to do that to make me feel awkward just in life. But doing it in here makes me even more uncomfortable. So quit it. All right.

Well, there's a lot to unpack. So bless your heart is, first off, that's the name of the show. Yes. The team came with a lot of ideas. This was your favorite. It was. I like the term, bless your heart. I think it's a fun, it's a fun response when you don't really have a good response.

It's a very southern thing, and I feel like it makes sense for us. There's a lot of moments where we could say that to one another. And you came on our podcast, the Del Jr. Download a couple times last year, and we had a blast. And people seem to really enjoy it. We had some great moments, funny moments. That's not like the genesis of this idea. Like you've been, we've, I've heard you talk about podcasting for years. Yeah, I've had a few ideas.

None of which really made sense globally, you know. So it kind of took a while to come together on a good idea that made sense. But here we are. So what do you think this show's going to be? I don't know. I mean, I'm hoping it's just a fun way for you and I to make light of all the crazy things that happen in our lives. Yeah.

parenting, just funny stories between the two of us or things that have happened, you know, otherwise. Yeah. And just a fun way for us to poke fun at each other. We did. You came on the Dale Jr. Download maybe once a month last year. This is going to be every Thursday. I mean, there'll be a couple Thursdays that get missed because of different things. The kids have spring break, but we'll probably do a remote show.

But I'm just saying, like, you know, you're ratcheting up the responsibility. Yeah. Adding something new to your full plate, you know, as a mom and a wife and all that. I'm excited about that element of it, though, because being a wife and a mom is very full, the schedule's full and it's fulfilling. But this is going to be a fun thing that we get to do just as adults together. So I'm excited about that. Yeah. Have you, me and you've done a couple of things professionally.

How are those things going? will you, I mean, when you're, you weren't hesitant to get involved in this knowing that, look, man, I mean, we're, we, we have a relationship at risk. We're not going to do anything to ruin our relationship. I'm not coming into the, I know, but I'm just saying like, you know, people say don't work with family, don't, you know, and this is very, this is waiting into some uncharted waters. Yeah, so here's the thing. I feel like when you say don't work with family, I think it's your own family, not you're married, not

your chosen family, right? Because things are just different. The dynamics different. But you seem to make use of that without any issues. I mean, it has its challenges. It should be fine. We've done a lot of things together and we've had a lot of fun. There were some concerns like working with family, right?

You tend to sometimes take things even more personal, right? When something, like when you're working with people that aren't your family, things you're things that miff you or ruffle your feathers but you don't react to it in a certain way because it's got to be professional but when it's family that guards down or that that walls down and you can be a little more hey this bothered me i'm and react to that however you want and um it's harder i think to swallow your pride and say you're wrong or compromise or whatever it is to bring everybody back together, right? Same thing in a relationship like we have.

We have that. We have those moments. We have them without a podcast, right? But the podcast, you know, there's some concerns on my end about the podcast, you know, not really exposing something, but if we do have a disagreement, right? And it's Thursday morning, we got to go sit down and do a show. Well, maybe we'll just hash it out right here. Yeah. So maybe someone said this.

maybe the podcast is therapeutic is good yeah so to your point when you and I have a disagreement we just ignore each other we can go a week without freaking talking to each other even with kids and the whole thing in the house I used to I'm not gonna put I'm not gonna speak for you but I think that's better than what we I used to do I mean yeah no nobody there's no raised voices there's no drama before kids it's the complete antithesis of that it's Like a complete 180. Yeah, sure.

We have been arguing since we met. Even just in a playful way. We do that. I feel like you really like to argue. I don't like to argue. You like to clown, debate, argue, and poke at everyone around you.

I like to be a smart ass and I like to... That creates arguments. Joke. Sometimes it's not the right time for that. I am not out to win arguments. I'm not like out. No, I think you just like the drama. I don't.

I don't. Are you crazy? No. No. I don't want you riled up at all, ever. Well, how about Mike? Let's take Mike, for example. Now, that's, I mean, I push the limits with Mike. I mean, you do that with most people. It's like part of your personality. It's, all right. So, I don't know. That's a unique, that might say. I have learned to see that coming and just not respond. That's how we have gotten to the point of we get to an argument. Yeah. I'm just like, peace out. And I just will wait until one of us breaks. Yeah.

And it's usually me because you can be silent for a long, long time. It's pretty impressive. Oh, yeah. You pout pretty good. Yeah. I think it's better than arguing continuously back and forth. Yes, it is. It ain't the perfect resolution in terms, you know, because if we do have a disagreement,

we do kind of go quiet, go silent, go quiet for a couple days, and eventually, But I think so I'm To be fair The discreements are usually pretty damn stupid They are silly Yeah And I recognize that in a moment But I think the podcast

Might actually Hold us accountable to Hey look I know we're not getting alone today Or we disagreed about something yesterday But we can't not do the show Maybe it'll make us both grow up a little bit Yeah

I think that's a good idea I'm hopeful We've talked about this What do you I guess the question is What do you think the show is going to be you know, if you've watched any of the clips that we've done on the Dale Jr. Downlood last year with Amy, all of that stuff. That's all on the table, that type of conversation about everyday life.

Racing, we're not going to give you the preview of the upcoming race at the Charlotte or whatever, you know, on any given weekend. Racing will creep into the conversation because everything we do. Yeah. Yeah. And so what do you? what are you excited about, I guess? I'm excited just to kind of analyze some of the things that happened. You know, life is fast.

There's a lot going on. And we don't really get the chance a lot of the time to sit down and just talk about things or even just laugh at something silly that happened. We kind of have to move on to the next thing because there is always something coming up. So I'm excited for that. I'm excited to get other people's opinions about when I find to be normal or crazy. Same for you. Also, we had a couple cool ideas.

We're going to play some games. Yeah. We might do some, we might comment or partaking some of the trends of the week in terms of what we're seeing out there. We'll have Ask Amy, which is always fun. Yeah, I always like that part too. The best thing that I've been doing on the Dell Jr. download this year is I pull up the live stream and watch the chat. Oh, yeah? And I never did that before, and I don't know why. It's pretty silly that I have it.

but you're at you know the best part about doing that ask segment is that it's like the audience is here right and man when you got the chat in front of you you're really you're you're you're engaged yeah it's so cool it's the best part so um that'll be fun um so let's dive right in we got we had uh I had the daddy daughter dance this year took Ila to uh to her school for the daddy daughter dance her second one yeah the theme this year was princesses like Disney, basically Disney. Yeah. It was right up her alley.

It was good. Yeah. She looked so pretty. That was one of my favorite things. You said that. About being a girl mom is getting to dress them up, especially for like real events. They like to dress up all the time. They're always wearing a costume.

But it's fun to see her feel so special. Yeah. Yeah. I took her to my favorite place, one of my favorite places that eat in Morseville, Pine the Sky Pizza. I've been going there since I was about 14, 15, 15 years old. And so you know I'm a fool for nostalgia. And so that was really neat to take her.

Full circle moment. Yeah. And so we had a couple of dances. The slow dances is when the dads get out there. They play a slow song. So do you hold her? Do you pick her up when you do that? No.

Well, I held her for one. Did she stand on your feet? Yeah, she stood on my feet for a couple, you know, verses. I mean, they look around and see what the other kids are doing with their dads. So she's not really like paying attention to you. No, she's looking at her friend, her friend standing on her dad's feet. She wants to do it. Look over here, her friend's getting hailed by her dad.

Hold me, daddy. You know. Yeah, I understand. So you're just kind of doing that. And running. What else happens at a father-in-datter-dance? So when you walk in, there's junk food. Oh.

Like the cotton candies and the lot of pops and all the, you know, sugar-coated pretzel sticks and all kinds of crazy stuff, right? Yeah. Dives right into that. go ahead, have what you want. And then you got to like, okay, you got a little, you know, clean her up. Get her mouth nice and clean. After she gets done eating, she had a little bit of chocolate or something on the color of her mouth.

You got to make sure that's not there because her friends are starting to come. Everybody's starting to show up. Everybody's starting to take pictures with the princesses. There's a little photo booth, photo moment. You've got to get that photo. And then there's a table over here. There's crayons, drawings, color, a castle, whatever you want to do. That's always on the table.

I find that to be a little odd. I mean, I've never seen crafting at a... Well, it's actually just... I guess it makes sense with their age group. Well, they're going to eat, and sometimes they need to sit down with some of the stuff that they're eating. And two, they get so tired and their feet hurt.

They're wearing these ridiculous, you know, shoes. I know. She wanted to wear her play shoes and some sneakers, which she should have worn. And so she... All the dads stand in a big giant perimeter all the way around. Now, some of the dads get in there for some of the high-end song, high-energy songs,

but the kids are in a con. They're 20, 30 kids in a Congo line. And then they're in these little packs running through, you know, just running through the room. So it sounds like a typical dance when you get older, too. Like all the girls dance and all the guys just stand around waiting for their turn or waiting to be cast in or called in. Yeah. And I stand there and I talk to random dads. Random dads.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm a random dad. They're just, we're just, you know, you'll stand in there. A guy, guy, got me next of you. Hey, man, what's up? Oh, okay. I got what you're saying now.

Which one's yours? And then, yeah, you're having conversations with them and, you know, got to go to the bathroom and then running back out for food and popcorn and in and out and in and out. And it lies about two hours. And there was a carriage ride. We did that, which basically just runs the loop of the drop-off line. Okay. It's about six or eight, you know, probably about four sets can get on one carriage ride.

So you're sharing the carriage ride with other dads and kids. Yep. Regan Smith was on my carriage ride, so we chatted. I did get pictures of that from Megan. I wanted to get ice cream on the way home, but I don't know we were running late or something. I don't know. She had a sleepover. She missed a birthday party, so she had a sleepover.

With Taita. Yeah. Yeah. I just got an idea. We're going to play a game in a bit called, yeah, we listen and we don't judge. I just came up with one. Oh, yeah? I'm scared to play this game.

Well, I think we should credit. I'm really excited about it. I think we should credit where we saw this. Samantha Bush and Brexton did this in December. Yeah. One of our team saw the clip, thought it might be fun for us to try it, so we're giving them a credit.

Yeah, it's a very different dynamic when you're doing it. Theirs was awesome. With spouses, theirs was great. Brexton was awesome. Yeah. You know, I got to say, since we're just shooting a shit, I think Brexton is such a cool kid.

Yeah, he is. I've heard he's really sweet. They've done a good job. Yeah. I can't believe she throws his artwork away. You know, it's funny because we always We're standing there holding that shit going, damn, I want to throw this away.

I know. So you know what I did though? But we don't. No, we don't throw it away. I keep them all. And then I sent them off, all of the stuff that we've had so far, sent them off to this company that will scan them and put them into a book.

So I'm waiting for that to come back. A picture of them? They scan them and they make a booklet out of them, like an actual book. Then you can get rid of the original. They actually will get rid of the artwork for you. Or they'll send it back if you want it back. I mean.

So I'm in the process of just doing that I will say Amy I have something I have this little turkey It's kind of like I took this This shit happened like in the kindergarten Kindergarten I stapled this thing

I stapled some paper together in the shape of a turkey You put little cotton balls in there And it's like a little puffy turkey And I made it for my mom And she had it she kept it And to get that back I know All these years later

This isn't the same thing but we were home for Christmas and I got my kindergarten lunchbox back that someone ate, one of my mom's garage sales. We got to be particular, I think, about keeping something. I know, so my mom used to sell my shit. Sell it. Damn, were you some sort of artist?

No, the lunchbox still, not my art. Amy's like, my art. Oh. My lunchbox. Go back to Victoria and see some Amy's shit hanging on somebody's wall in the house. You have some old artwork that I did in school hanging up in the garage with all your clutter. I do.

I love it. I don't, I'm not, I don't, I don't, I don't even look at it and go, oh, that's great. No, it's not, it's miserable. I just look at it and go, my wife made that when she was in high school. I'm hanging that shit up. I think it was probably like eight when I made that. I know, but I didn't know you then, so it's awesome for me to have it. Look at it.

Okay, well. I adore you. I think that's, so I'm going to hang that shit up. All of the reasons why we shouldn't throw the kids' artwork away. Right. You know, we just, I don't think we should throw, I don't think we should keep it all. I don't think we should. No, I'm kind of selected.

Like if it's just a scribble page, whatever. But it's got their handprints and things on it, especially. You know, there's little dry beans that glue, you would make like a smiley face or something. Typically around Thanksgiving, you glue them on to the paper. They little dry, pinto beans or something. The black-eyed peas? I don't know. Yeah.

But they're dry and you might use them for like eyeballs or whatever. That shit's got to go away. Because that glue is going to turn loose one day and it's going to, they'll be a fucking eye. ball is going to end up in the bottom of the box and it's just you know we're not keeping something that can't that's going to deteriorate here's the thing it will last long enough if you just put it in this little box that I have in the changing room all right it's like a folder made for this right it's got these little filing things in it yeah and then we can send it off and have it scanned and then we'll throw it away yeah well I was really thankful that you were interested in listening

to the songs that I was trying to curate for this soundtrack you do a good job yeah yeah I'm excited to see how it plays out um Not so excited to see the game come into our house because I know that I'm probably going to see you again. Yeah. I've spent a lot of time. I'm probably going to not. I don't think I'm going to. Listen, I'm a SimRacer PC specific.

Not that I won't. I'm going to try this game because I'm following along so intently during the development of it. But it's kind of going to be like a, I think maybe like a music, a band. that releases an album. They work on the album, then they release it. They don't listen to it every day. Oh. Right?

I'm calling a major bluff on that. Plus, I really enjoy, I know that I have like a bucket of time that I can put into playing the console game. How do you decide what the bucket looks like and how big it is? By the look on your face. Well, going back to the bucket and the console game thing. Sunday. we have to leave to go to your appearance.

Yeah, we're having to laugh about this. And we're flying at three o'clock. The kids have things to do. We have to pack up the kids, pack up the dogs, clean the house, pack up our things. I forget what else was happening that day. Groceries, whatever, something. So I'm doing all of those things,

getting everyone together. I keep peeking in and out of the computer room because you keep going back in there and you're standing there with your freaking console just staring at the TV. Like, what is he doing? What is he working on? Well, it's Madden.

NCAA. What the fuck ever? It's the same thing to me. You're in there standing, staring at the TV with your little control in your hand. Like, she's looking at me, but I'm happening. I'm like, I can see his body language. I'm like, all right, I'll just stomp off and maybe he'll come back out. You didn't stomp off.

If you had stomped off, I would have heard that cue. Well, I stumped as loud as I could. I don't really walk that hard like you do. But eventually it is time for us to actually go and you haven't packed. You haven't done anything. And so he heads upstairs. You head upstairs to get ready and pack. And then we get in the car.

I mean, the dogs are taking care of. Everything's taken care of. In the car, whatever. And we're backing out of the garage. I'm driving. And you are talking to me as I'm backing out telling me how nervous or how rushed you feel. I feel rushed. I'm like, what the f*** did you do all day?

It's like, oh, we forgot something. I feel like we have forgot something. You're like, would you forget? I'm like, I don't know, but that feeling of feeling like... Meanwhile, this whole conversation is happening as I'm backing out. The seats vibrating. Every time I even sees a shadow. But the suburban's also parked relatively close to where I'm backing out.

I was like, I hit the suburban. And he's, you're like making me nervous. Just because you're nervous. I'm like, you're not rush. You didn't forget anything. If you did, let's figure it out before we leave. But you're like, don't hit the car. Don't hit the car.

The whole situation was just. It's a big old shit show. And it really came down to the fact that you just like Madden all day or NCAA whatever. And you weren't prepared to leave. I rushed it at the end. And now you're trying to project all your anxiety onto me as I'm backing the car out. Yep. Do you believe that that's, I believe that that's real.

What? The projection? Yeah. Yes. You 100%. You project everything. Like I was upset the other day. We came in to record dirty air and had some things on my mind.

and I come in unleashed and get it unleashed on Mike Davis and I do feel like that you take that that anger whatever that emotion is

good bad or whatever and especially the bad stuff and it leaves you and attaches to the other person and then that's their problem and you're like I'm good now I don't have that problem anymore

but that person now is walking around it's almost like a that's just rude you can do that with joy too by the way you can pass on joy instead of just anxiety as much. Some people do.

I feel like you choose to be overwhelmed. I would love to believe that I walk into a room. Back to that, you love the drama thing. I think that that's something you're comfortable with. I would love to believe that I walk into a room and after I leave everybody, go, oh, man, I'm in a better mood. But I'm not going to assume that. Does that not usually happen for years? I'm not going to assume it.

But I do know that like this real, like, I'll come home and if I'm frustrated about something, And it has, even it has nothing to do with you. I'm hesitant to, like, share it because unknowingly or unconsciously, like, I will then share that frustration. You believe this happened today? You believe that person did this? Yeah. And then I walk away feeling better. But now you're holding some of that.

And now your mood is in that direction. It's like, and you know, you're not even asking for that. I think it just depends on what it is. Yeah. If it's something that happened that you can't really, there's no progression for it, you know what I mean? Like it's not going to go anywhere else. Like it's one of those things you have to figure out how to just let go of.

And that is not something I really absorb as much, like when you just vent about something stupid that happened. Yeah. But if something happened with someone else or in retrospect to like a job or whatever, and there's, you have to go back to that, that's kind of one of those things that projects and sits. Yeah. there's something that has to be fixed there. You know, our therapist always said if you have an issue, you have to preface with, I need your help.

Or if you just need to vent, you have to say that. I don't need you to fix anything. Which is really hard to do. Yeah. Because I was, if you, when you tell me a problem, my immediate thought is what, what, just, just tell me how to fix it. Tell me what it is that I can do and it's fixed. Yeah. But most times you don't want.

me to fix it. No. You just want empathy. I know. So my brain doesn't work like that, which is why it's so hard for me to preface it. I think that's the male.

If I need help, I'm going to ask. But for the most part, I tend to just do things on my own. And I prefer that. I think when wives or, you know, I think when wives are venting

just to vent, guys assume, guys are fixers. Like, well, let me fix it. How do I fix it? Yeah. Right. And it's not, it's just a natural reaction. And, but so yeah, you're to your point, like, that was a really great advice we got one day when somebody said, Amy, just make sure you say, I don't need you to do anything before you start talking. Because that was like, you know, then I can go, oh, okay. But do you even listen if I say that first?

Yeah. You're like, okay, I'm just going to glaze over. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You have, you, happy guys are. I would hear that. I don't need you to do anything. I don't care what. you're talking about. I just want you to listen to the gab and vent. Yes. You think any man, really? That's something that helps you feel better? When we hear the words, I don't need you to do anything.

That's pretty good. Because usually we're assuming that there's something necessary that we need to be doing or that you're going to want us to do or that you're going to ask us to do, which is totally fine. We're doers. We're fixers. But if you were to say, it's like Addie soldier, you're good. you can continue to relax.

I just need you to hear what I have to. You continue to play your video game. I just need you to hear what I'm saying. I got to get this on my chest. Okay. We like that. How do I approach you if you're in the middle of a game? Can you stop for a second?

That's it? Yeah. Can you stop for saying? I need you to listen to me. Can you pause that for a minute? I'm not going to pause your game to vent. It's not that important. But if I need you to get ready so that we can leave so there's no stress and I

almost hit something. Yeah. Because you're gathering. in my ear while I'm backing out. How do I do that? So most of the time when you're playing those games, you've got a headpiece on or you're like talking to people. So there's part of that.

Not the, not the kind of, yeah, somewhat, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's so weird, so silly. So in the... Which part? All right. All of it. So the, this is the trouble.

So usually, if I'm in there and you're like, I need him to do something. I need him to go do this or that other, by all means. Hey, can you pause that for a minute? I need this. No problem. Yes, I can pause. I want to be doing whatever it is that you want me to do.

The one games that I can't pause are the ones against other users being in that dynasty with T.J. And there's 12, 16 other real people. Sometimes we have to play each other due to the scheduling. And I tend to schedule those at like 10. o'clock or nine o'clock. Are you telling me that T.J's in charge of the schedule in our house now, too? TJ's the commissioner of the league. So TJ's the one I need to speak with.

No. Yeah. Sounds like it. If I'm going to play another human, I always schedule those for after the kids are in bed. And that's, I won't ever be doing, I won't ever be playing that game. So what were you doing on Sunday? Farting around, nothing. Nothing.

Farting around. What does that even mean? Farting around. You were doing something. What are you doing? I mean, I'm messing with my roster. I got a custom playbook I fool with and add and remove plays. That's cute.

Yes, I know. You asked me that and I told you the truth and then you're going to poo poo on it. Well. I knew better than to tell you exactly what I was doing because I knew you were going to make it silly. Maybe you feel silly about it already. I know, but I like it. One of these days, I'm going to have a bunch of Barbies sitting up. I just want you to see how that feels.

Like, oh, she's doing that cute thing that she used to do when she was a kid all by herself. You equate video games with playing with toys. It's not the same. Ask. This is a question we need to put out in the atmosphere for other women to answer to. It's not just me.

Men can't answer. You don't get to count. No, the women. I want you to understand how women view that. I appreciate that you feel that way. But I'll promise you All the men don't look at video games and go Yep, I'm playing with Matchbox cars at 50

What would be the equivalent for a woman? No, I'm just saying whether I'm playing this console I know, so if it's not Barbies, what would be the equivalent? Oh, whatever, you know, whatever, crochet, I don't know. Crochet? I don't know, like what do women do? I'm not 80. For fun.

You don't have to be 80 to crochet. See, you're so. You're putting people in this, you're putting activities into an age group. It's unnecessary. Isn't that what we do though? Like you start life doing certain activities and then you get to the next phase

and then you kind of move on to other activities. That is absolutely true. Like GI Joe's Matchbox cars have not changed. They are tiny little toys that 12 year olds and 8 year olds play with, right? But video games have advanced and grown from, you know, we tried to play the old original Nintendo's right and we couldn't believe how bad they were like wow this I just remember this being so much better but it's terrible I think it was the transfer to the

big TV too like it was probably like now you got VR and all this technology and I mean the advanced the game the like the game I play than NCAA game like the ability to be able to play in a league with 16 other people that follows all the statistics and the process of the it's like being a coach or being running or franchise right it's the the running and the of the franchise picking the players and scouting and all those things. The technology is what like, I think how video games have advanced and improved with technology is what's kept it relevant to me.

Let me just say it like this. So if the game I'm playing today was exactly like the game that they made in 2004, I wouldn't be playing. I'd be bored to death with it. I would never be anywhere. I wouldn't fool with it because it would be no interest to me. Okay, so back to the original about the new NASCAR console game coming out. I have a feeling that you're going to be doing the same thing.

They will create leagues to do that too. Yeah, I'm telling you, I'm on the other, I'm on the wrong side of, not the wrong side, but I'm on the other side of doing that game. I'm helping that game get developed. And so it's... You did that with ir racing and you still do that too. Yeah, but, you know, it's sporadic. I'm not going to be surprised.

We don't have to... Yeah. We don't have to beat it. We'll see. We'll see. But I don't think... I mean, ir racing to me is like, so good. It's different.

I get the difference. Like to run on a console. I'm like, I just get on my rig. Okay. Because it's so real. That makes sense. I get that. Yeah.

Like that's, again, the technology and how advanced that is. I can't put that down. I can't stop sim racing. I know. Listen, if I'm sitting in a rig at 80 years old, I'll be surprised. I won't. The one thing your sister said when you and I first started dating,

I feel like, or maybe somebody asked her this in an interview, what's the one thing that Dale Jr. needs in a woman, and what she said was someone that's going to put up with him playing video games. And here we are. I mean, what are the things you're willing to put up with? It's like you're going to accept me for, you've got to take me. for the reasons you love me and the reasons you don't.

Yeah, like crumbs on the couch. Yeah. Video games are crumbs on the couch? But the crumbs on the couch, I can get, I can fix. I can't promise you that I could quit video games. And I know you don't want me to quit video games, but I'm just saying I can't, I can't, it's hard to control the excitement about, man, this new thing, this new things in there.

And it's right inside that room. And they've got this new game. or this or my buddies are playing it like I so I feel like that's the reason to do it well this is plain and simple this is another this is another if I had something my girlfriends were doing I could just pick something up and chit-chat and goof-bop with them there's absolutely would all my buddies are playing this but there's nothing like that for chicks no yeah the crumbs on the couch thing is tough it's really not that tough you know when you sit at the dinner table you eat your food and you don't get up and like leave a pile of shit I just don't understand what happens after we all go to

sleep and you stay up, eating snacks by yourself, do you turn into a werewolf? Like, what happens that you have to create such a damn mess on the couch? If I come downstairs every morning and you've been down there snacking, watching YouTube or whatever, I can tell what you had. Yeah, I know. Beef, turkey pepper, peels from an orange, grape stems. That's the two. There's just stuff everywhere. The other day was the pretzels, the dots pretzels, which for the kids lunchboxes, by the way. And you ate the whole bag, and then there was pieces all over the carpet. I'm like, what the fuck is going on here? Why can't he just clean it up?

And if I'm sitting next to you and you're eating snacks after dinner or something, I'll look over because when you finish, you're going to go all over the floor. I'm like, this is not the fucking trash can. The world is not your trash can. What the hell? Oh, man. What's going on? I lived my life one way for all these years.

you came into it. Did you walk through your living room when you woke up any time before you had me in the house and just have food stuck to the bottom of your feet? No. Somebody was coming in like first thing in the morning to clean up your mess every day? I guess. Golly. Well, wait, wait, back then I didn't have dots, pretzels or grapes or oranges. What were you eating? I ate one meal a day. Before you came into my life, I ate one meal. So you're saying that the food thing's my fault? No. I'm going to stop buying the grapes. The cupboard wasn't full. How did you survive?

I ate one. I ate every day I ate one big meal right around 2 o'clock because I mean I slept till until 2. Yeah, I slept till 2 and then I would eat. I'd get up. I'd go, I'm hungry. And I'd have somebody go run down. You know, I always was ordering out.

So I'd bring the food I'd eat it And then I'd get on a computer And I'd drink energy drinks Until You know, five in the morning Playing video games Eating nothing

Smoking cigarettes and drinking amp energy The Lord have mercy And then I would go to bed And do the whole thing the next day That was That was what I... You know that That was what I was doing

When I met you I thought you at least had snacks And food in the house Even when I... No But I mean what I did eat It was like chicken wings.

Pizzas. You know, all the worst shit. And then you came and now I got grapes are good. Damn, these things are nice.

I like grapes. I'm going to lead a lot of grapes. And like you'll bring a, you'll bring three, you bought three bags of grapes. If I don't, you're in there tapping your foot at the freaking drawer that's empty,

like waiting for them to just freaking poof and appear. Yeah. Or you'll text me. Are you out? Get some grapes. Yep. No squishy ones.

I love grapes. Yes, man has never shop for grapes. before. I'm a weirdo in the store poking the bags of the grapes. You ain't the only one I'm probably sure. I've never seen anybody else doing it. I can look at the bag of grapes at the store and tell whether they're crispy or soft. No.

You can't just look at them. They are. They're not good, but. But we, so you bring, you bring grapes home, and I can eat one, I can eat a bag in a day. So also, if anybody else wants grapes, you better put it could find some else somewhere else to get them. And I always like green grapes. So maybe y'all should get their purple grapes. y'all can eat those.

The kids want to eat what daddy eats. I'm never going to eat those. I know. I bought those because that was the only type of grape they had in the store the last time I went and they just sat there and got mildewed, which is so frustrating. Yep. Not eating them. But anyhow.

Well, maybe we'll figure out something else for you snack on. You know what the other thing I said this yesterday. I thought this is so good. This is so smart, right? Amy and Mike were talking about jerky. I was talking about jerky. And no, it's you and somebody. You and Kelly.

And y'all were like, yeah, you know, it's good. I like jerky, but it gets in my teeth. I don't like that. And I was like, you know, that's the reason I do like to eat jerky, because it does get in my teeth. And then I floss more regularly, which is what my dentist always asking me to do. You can rationalize anything for yourself. Eat more jerky, floss more, happy dentist. Look, we're doing it.

It's like a two-for-one there. I love the jerky. I want to eat it. Tofer. And I'm getting the flossing in that I'm needing to do. Dude, I'm flossing like a maniac. I flossed last night. Two o'clock in the morning.

Did you really? Probably. I know it was midnight when I came to bed. I don't know what that is. Like, well, I can't go to bed when you go to bed. I don't either. Because I know you're tired. You're yawning and falling asleep on me on the couch if we hang out and watch anything

together. I'm tired, Amy, but damn it, man. You get in bed at sometimes two in the morning and then you're up at six. I know. I can't keep this up. No. Yep. I've been talking to myself about that. Like, I can't keep doing this.

I was so glad last night when I went to bed at midnight. It was like 12-12 or something. I'm proud of myself when I go to bed at like 10.30, which feels... I was so glad. I was like, ah, I'm going to get some sleep. And then I got upstairs and the air is so dry. I couldn't stop coughing. You'd get a little tickling your throat.

And I had to get up, go back downstairs and lay on the couch, which I don't sleep good down there. And I just got terrible sleep. Every single time I roll over and I wake up. up and you're not in the bed. It makes me go, where is he? What's he doing? I don't cry, but I'm like, if I could stop my foot in the bed, I would.

I'm so annoyed. I'm like, is he still on his computer at 4 in the morning? Yeah. And so that's what I thought you were doing. And then I realized, well, it's too late for him to still be up, so he's probably just to sleep on the couch. But I didn't even know you came upstairs. When I get a little tickle, like I'm getting over a cold or something and your throat

gets in that kind of tickle phase, our bedroom is so dry. You go up, you know this. You go up there and I'm like, mm-hmm, and I, you're, I didn't hear you. I can hear you.

I can know, I know when you're sleeping because of the way you breathe. Because I'm snoring. No. I sleep with my mouth open. Well, they're going to say that. It's fine.

I'm all fully admitted it. It's not like a hardcore snore. I have teeth aligners I sleep in so that my big old teeth don't get crooked and I can't close my mouth all the way. So it's, I did just get these tape things. I've seen people do the mouth tape.

Jesus. So if you look over and you see this big black thing on my mouth, It's because I've taped my mouth shut. That's going to make it difficult to be intimate. What were we talking about? So in a perfect world, I think, in Wally Cleaver's world, we go to bed at 9 o'clock and brush your teeth and calm in bed and go right to sleep. You don't have to be a cleaver to have an actual normal schedule. When we're putting those kids down, I love putting our kids down.

I do. I do. As soon as they're asleep. It's our time. When the kids go to sleep, I'm thinking I have like an hour and a half. Right. I've got to wash my face and do all that. Just to relax before I want to go to sleep because I have to get up early to do it all over again.

You're thinking I'm going to go play with video games with my buddies. Like that's always top of mind. Even if I'm going to hang out with Amy on the couch for about an hour, I'm going into the computer room to do whatever I want for as long as I want. So knowing that you're going in there anyway, I don't make plans to hang out with you. I just don't. Yeah. I watch Housewives or something that's short. If you sit next to me and want to watch something,

we're going to sit there until midnight watching scary stuff that gives me nightmares. What? And that's just we, we watch some show American Prime Evil. I know, but listen, not even just that one. Like, you'll, you'll want to watch some documentary or something like that. So now every show is a scary show. It's not true. We watch, we'll watch whatever.

I'm just saying, and you don't, it don't even have to be with me. Like, I wonder why. you don't go Like do you I'm exhausted You're exhausted Yeah I'm exhausted Buying grapes all day

And you're not buying grapes every day Just about What's a week? Dale I buy grapes at least two or three times a week Every time I'm out running errands I see this place that's crunchy grapes Is what we're what we call grocery shopping I don't have to go buy anybody else something that regularly

Yeah You and the grapes is something I have to keep up with know what? You eat one every day. You eat a whole bag every single day. I want to do the grocery shopping. I want to go into your schedule. Are you going to buy all the things that we all need?

If you put it in a list. You should just give me your Instacart. And then I'll just go in the store and get all the things on that Instacart that are in that, you can look at the picture and everything and know everything I need to get. But so. A picture? Oh, you want me to load the Instacart and then just hand it off to you? You're going to load the card anyway.

waste. And so I'll just take the Instacart and I'll go physically get it. So I was thinking about this. I know what we're changing. Why do you want to do that? Because. The service is there for a reason. Nope.

It's not for me. It's for the kids. No. It's for adults. That was made for adults. My, I remember, I remember going on grocery shopping. I remember getting, I remember sitting in that cart. I remember when I got to get out of that cart and get in the front.

I remember when I got to push the cart. Do you remember ever being at a grocery store and your mom or your dad going, you can push the cart this time? Yeah, we should run over people's heels and get in trouble. The whole process was chaotic. I'm trying to avoid more of that. No. You're looking at it.

I used to take Ila to do the shopping and then COVID hit. That's when I had Nicole. So, no, I'm not taking two kids that want to supermarket sweep. They don't do that. I take them and they don't do that. and you can tell them no. I tell them no. Please. I tell them no.

I know you do. That works. If I'm going to go into grocery shop, I'm going to do it because it's something I want to do and enjoy. So I'm not taking the kids with me to do that. Nope. So I'm different. I would like to do the grocery shopping,

and I would like to take one or both kids because I think it's a good, fun experience for them. And I think that I remember that as a kid, and I want them to have that, natural, normal experience. Okay, go for it. Right? And so that they can then go, oh, I remember doing that.

Dad used to take us there or grocery shopping. You know, I mean, it's a silly, simple, simple, meaningless thing, but it's part of your, it's part of your, it makes you who you are. Go and grocery shopping? Yes. Well, we have plenty of, like, normal experiences with these kids. If my mom could have shopped Instacart and not drug us through, she would have done it.

I know she would have. That's your mom. I know. So eventually we went to the store with that too. She would make the list. This is not about the parent. Okay. You can take them.

Take them to shop. Yeah. Godspeed. You know like I need those normal experiences. Oh, so you need it. That's what you're saying. Yes. You want to have those experiences with them.

They do, honey. They do, but I mean, that's another one I want to add to the thing. Okay, go for it. Yeah. You should do that. You should make it like the thing you do every whatever day of the week. You could take Nicole on Monday since she's not in school and do the grocery shopping. To be determined how that place out for you.

Are you sure? You're going to come back with balloons and suckers from the checkout. Dude, if I'm feeling good at day, she might get a damn balloon. Okay. If I'm like, you know, we ain't getting balloons today. I didn't like your attitude. You know, whatever. So you're taking that public.

That's the thing that makes me nervous. No, that's real life. Okay. How am I supposed to learn to be a good dad if I can't dad? You can do plenty of other things than taking her to the grocery store. Yes, I could, but the grocery store is another great place. You know what I used to do with my dad that I loved? Because we went to the grocery store too.

Was him taking us to get cheeseburgers and then just taking us to the park. And we picnicked and she's like had our afternoon just doing that. didn't go. She needed time by herself. And so dad would take us on his day off to do things like that. I think that's cool, but you're not, I think that's great. And there's nothing wrong with that. But when you're grocery shopping, you're also doing a chore, which I like. I didn't ever view it as a chore before kids. I liked it. It was enjoyable. I like to cook. I like to grocery shop. I get it. Picking out my own produce is something that I'd like. So I understand the great thing and wanting to go and pick it at yourself. That's another reason.

Well, I have such a big note in my Instacart too. They don't put Squat. She grapes in my... It's the only product I have, like a disclaimer on. Here's what we're going to do. Again, Samantha and Brexton Bush did this for their TikTok, and it was really great, so we're going to give it a try. And we talked about this last night, and we're going to try to prep. We're going to try to come up with things. You've had really good success with that.

I have not. I have one that might shock you. I don't know about the others, but we'll see. All right. Well, let's just do one. I'm kind of nervous to share it at this point. I know. I am, too.

I'm nervous to hear it. I can't share it then Is everybody else need to hear it? I don't know Damn it, dude See, that's the one thing I'm worried about with this show With me. You don't know when to stop talking?

You don't know when to stop sharing? You want to whisper it to me? No. We listen and we don't judge. So basically you're going to tell me something and I have to accept it. Okay. So sometimes I say I've got errands to run

and I just get in my car and I drive around. Really? Yeah. Where do you go? Just listen. I just make laps. Where? I don't know, all over town.

Sometimes I find places to stop and do things, but I like, I like that. I don't really have a need. I know. I just need to get out of the house or need to get like my own space and have some alone time. Damn. I like that. Yeah. I wish you had like a, I wish you had like a route or I wish you had did have places that you were like, I'm going.

I mean, I don't. do that very often. Sometimes I just get in the car and I blank on what I actually needed to do because that's just part of being overstimulated. But we have, we track each other. Yeah. So, I mean, I could. Yeah, but you don't know when I'm doing it. I know. I'm just saying, like, I'm not worried about you. Do you sit and look at your tracker? Like, if I'm gone? If I, if it pops in my mind and I'm like, I wonder where Amy's at, I don't know where she's at. You do? I'll go, yeah. And sometimes, like, if I'm going to go home, I've been doing something here or whatever, I'll go, I wonder if Amy's at home. Is she not there? I'll check.

So I do that too with you when you say you're on your way. Like, is he really on his way or did he leave yet? Especially if you're at the late model shop or something. I'm like, nope, he's still a JRM. That's the one? No, that's not the one. Oh, my God. I was hoping that was the one.

I'm really scared about this one. I don't think I'm going to tell you. I might just take it to the grave. Are you serious? It's not that bad. I mean, other people do it. Oh, my God. Do you have one?

When I take I let the school. we listen to my music. Well, yeah, I know that. That's why she sings it so easily. I know she's got to memorize because... I ride in the car with her. Like four-letter word music or just like... No, I turn...

If there's an F word in there or a bad word, I just quickly turn the volume down and back to normal. So you have to be on the chip and ready to do that? I know when it's coming because I know the songs. But we play all of my pop punk. She never complains.

Pop punk. I kind of look back sometimes when a song's playing and they're like screaming away. I look back and she's just kind of beep boffing around looking around. And never, you know, because she'll ask you if she, she'll like play some Taylor Swift or whatever. Daddy, can I hear X, Y, and Z? But she never goes, dad, I hate this. I'm waiting on that.

Maybe that would be her listening and don't judge confession to you. It's like, I really don't like your music, Dad. Yes. She might. I think she likes it. Well, she doesn't get out of the car crying. when you drop her off at school. She doesn't.

She does with me every single time. Yeah. And I think it's because of the music and I do not allow things to go south. Dude, I can't predict that that's going to happen. I mean, every single time, even if she's happy, we get to that part where I have to open up the door. And she's just like, like, she just, it's like she combusts with tears. I don't really understand. When we are in the car driving to school, I am, what's the word I'm looking for, intention.

about the energy of the songs that play. And I'm also intentional about my own energy, even if I'm not saying anything. And so, and I make, if I see something or somebody does, if I see anything that I can make a little light of, I will go,

look at that, Ila. Check that out. It's crazy over there, that thing. Look at that sign. That's funny. Yeah, I don't have that in me.

I do that intentionally. Because I want her. her energy to be where, I want her energy to be on the positive side. Why do you think we have to try so hard with that kid with her energy? It ain't effort. It doesn't take another effort. It is for me. Like, why, why does she have such strong emotions about getting out and going to school? She's happy when she's there. If I drop her off and she cries, I'm texting her teacher immediately. I know. And her teacher texts me back. She's like, by the time she got a class,

she was totally fine. I don't know. What is she trying to manipulate me like that for? So what's the heavy? What's the big one? I can't tell you. But my second one is, my second one is something that I need your help with. Okay. I have been around you for 15 years longer. You have told me so many racing stories, and there's still some terms I don't understand. Oh, what?

Like, what in that f*** is y'all? Y'all. Not y'all, but y'all. The very first time, or a few times, I heard you say that word, I thought you were saying, y'all. I'm like, I don't understand how that makes sense, but what is y'all? All right. So when a car goes into a turn, this is the car.

these are the back tires when a car goes into a turn the force of the car is going this way like energy everything's heading this way and so the car goes into like a

two three or four five degree y'all and that is created by flex in suspension and the deflection in the side wall of the tires so the the tire the wheel in the tire and the tires this is the contact patch of the

tire on the track. Right. Here's the wheel, my fist. The wheel moves. And that's the yaw. And that's the flexion in the sidewall.

The sidewall lays over. Uh-huh. Because the car goes in the corner and the weight of the car is trying to pull the wheel out of the tire. Yeah. And so the tire has the flexion

and then the suspension will flex some. And so the car goes into y'all. As you go through the corner, the car goes into y'all. And that creates down force on the side of the car because now the side of the car is out in the wind like a swing and that creates sideboards.

And so, man, it's in y'all. Too much y'all. Whoa, I feel like I'm well spent out. Okay. Not enough y'all is too straight. Now I'm tight. Okay. Yeah.

You know when the plane, our plane lands and it's kind of pitching this way, that's y'all pitching. Yeah. So I don't like y'all. That's a y'all moment. I don't really like that at all. No. No. You need to tell me the other one.

I'll tell you. Oh, you will tell me. I'll tell you at home. I promise. I can't tell you in here. Damn, man. You didn't bring any heaters. I can't bring mine out.

You know, we were trying to think about this last night. I don't, I have, you know everything. Like, there ain't something I could go say and you'd be like. Yeah, I kind of feel the same. We're very open with each other. Yeah. Okay, I got one. Oh, God.

Just looking at me just in this moment. What is, I don't know if these count. I love our kids. I love our, be challenging. Yeah. I love everything that we've done and we've kind of repositioned. But I miss going to Key West with you, you know, just how we used to be. Yeah, I mean.

I miss, I miss. I don't know that. You miss your youth is what you're saying? I don't like, I don't need that as often as we did it back then. But, man, I wish we, I wish that we had, I wish that me and you, you know, it would really make me, me comfortable and I would not no longer worry or think about this or be curious about when the next moment is. I wish we had more structure in our schedule and it was like Amy and Dale is going to do an annual trip where they're going to go every January. We're going to take a week and it's

us. I mean, we just have to create that moment, but. Well, I wish it was more structured. in in a calendar and like I know it's there and then I don't have to worry or wonder when it's going to happen again because I know next January that's when it'll happen. I'm saying you're talking about like needing to get in my car just to be by myself and drive around and you're wanting trips. No, I'm just, I'm just, I'm not wanting trips. We have trips. We're going to take trips.

No, that trip. You're wanting that. You, I don't really. I don't need it to be Key West. I don't need it to be a binge drinking party. I'm just, um, I do. miss Key West. I miss our... I thought that was the thing is that you missed Key West.

I do. I miss Key West. I love Key West. I think about it a lot. I miss Key West too, but I can't... I can't Key West like I used to Key West. I mean, I can't live like that anymore. I know. I don't want you to not go. I don't want to go without you. And here we are. Suck it home, because Dale won't go without a security blanket. Let's move on to Ask Amy.

I feel like I should just tell you my thing Quiet I don't know I can do it Why? I have I have proof That other women do that That's hilarious

Hey everybody It's Dale Jr. and Amy For the first episode Of Bless Your Heart And we've had a pretty good show We're about I don't know 60, 75% of way through. And it took us a while to get rolling, but man, it's been a lot of fun. And it's literally,

I guess if you're kind of curious about what this show is going to be, we are too. And it'll evolve, I think, over time. But what we've really kind of been doing is just just hashing out. Yeah, you can, yeah, hash it out. She's listening to the, we're watching the chat. But anyhow, so the show's been a lot of fun. We've just kind of been talking about life and some things that we think are odd about each other and asking for explanation on some of the things, the weird things we do. But, and it's been fun. You're having fun?

I've had fun. Yeah. So, yeah. Tim's is in the back, right in the cage over there, and he's going to bring some questions that y'all been curating for Amy. And Amy's actually watching the chat. So if y'all got anything to say to Amy, by all means. So let's get started.

Jonathan, he's a first-time parent and he has a two-week-old and he wants to know if you guys have any advice for surviving the newborn stage. The newborn stage is hard, especially with your first because you just don't know what just happened. I mean, you almost have to mourn your previous life. When you have a baby, it's just a totally new world, right? The newborn phase is hard because you're just trying to get them to sleep at night. All babies seem to be born nocturnal. I don't know why that is. So it's hard because you're not getting any rest.

And I'm sure his wife is stressed and tired and all the things. As the husband, I would say, do everything you can just to be supportive. Bring her snacks. Even if she says she doesn't want anything, make sure she's got food, make sure there's water by the bed, clean anything you can. And I don't know, it's kind of one of those things you just have to feel out. But it is, especially with your first, a really hard thing. I would say, don't worry as much. The kid's fine.

Yes, the kid is fine. We lay there at night by the sound machine or the baby monitor wondering if she's okay, right? You know, wondering if we're doing what we're supposed to and she's comfortable, if she's healthy and you're, you know. Is she breathing? Yeah. If the baby is too quiet, especially with the first one, you really don't know what you're doing. You're like, oh my gosh, is she? everything okay don't work don't worry as much relax you're doing great yes um to amy's point try to do the things that you can like the mom there's a lot of things that only the mother can do

and that the dad physically or or doesn't have the tools to do right so pick you know pick as many nights as you're comfortable with willing to be the one that does the bottle or or changes of the diaper. And, you know, it's a, I loved the being, I loved the hands on part of it. I loved changing the diaper. I wanted the child to see me and know that I was part of that process too instead of, because I thought if I didn't do some of those things, they would look at mom as the provider and I would just be this other person that would just happen to be there.

You know, I needed them to want to depend and count on. me too, right? So, you know, rocking him to sleep. Gosh, you know, I think one of the tougher parts for us with Ila was getting her rock to sleep. Yeah, she had reflux so we couldn't lay her flat for like seven months. She had to kind of be on an incline. So she laid on her chest or whatever. Getting her to bed was hard. To get her to bed. And yeah, you know, taking that on every other night or doing that for Amy to where Amy didn't have to worry about that. Amy had been, you know, Amy was exhausted. You're just exhausted.

Yeah, you can't sleep. Yeah. And so making her do that final moment before, you know, one of the toughest things of the day, taking that off our shoulders, I'm sure. So that, yeah, just do the things you can do. Try to enjoy it instead of stressing. And that's really hard to do. It's easier said than done.

But second kid is totally different ballgame because you just know what to expect. So you don't feel so stressed out and nervous. What was the best physical? tool or item that you thought was a game changer. I was going to say that what popped in my mind was a diaper genie, but. Oh no. I mean, you can just throw in the, my favorite thing was having her strapped to my chest.

Like I could still get up and do things and feel like a normal person and not have to like hover. So like that baby bejourn thing. And a man can wear that too. There's one that's really, really soft. You just like it cuddles the baby. You can just tow them around. Yeah.

It gives you some flexibility. Then you can do, yeah, because that's, I think that is the toughest part is when the baby's there, you can't do anything, but you're taking care of this child all day. Yeah. It's almost even hard just to make yourself stop staring at the baby. Yeah. It really is. So everything that needs to get done around the house has to hold. And it just makes you feel normal to be able to do something, get a walk around and just be normal. Yeah, take a walk outside.

Yeah, that's a good question. I saw this one on the YouTube chat, I think, from Athena. What's one parenting rule you swore you'd follow, but totally. broke right away right away. There's a few of those, I'm sure. We strolled around with the iPad with Ila when we were a kid. She was a baby.

We were in Key West still. We kind of took them away now. They don't really have their iPads, but. I was thinking about that. When we we would go to dinners and we would bring the iPad, and now we were controlling what was on it.

And it's Disney movies and Bluey and stuff like that. And so we would have that available. so selfishly so we could just have a dinner out. And then it comes, you know, then it's car rides and stuff like that. And then they're just used to not being able to sit through a dinner without having that. And so they don't learn table manners or any of those things. Yeah.

And they're really not eating very well either. But they don't get them at home. At home they stay locked away. And honestly. We don't take them to dinner anymore either. No. No. Long car rides, maybe in the plane.

That's what I was going to say. Honestly, they've kind of like drifted away from them. and they're not as it's not as neat and cool but I wish they and I don't know what this is about

but I they have you know in their playroom they have dolls and toys and sets build kits building whatever things right

and they do not play with physical toys as much as I expected like I remember when I was a kid and I went under my buddy's house. He had this awesome G.I. Joe collection. I can sit there for hours. I think there's just too much

stuff. And, you know, physical toys like we played with Maxbox cars or whatever, right? And our kids just don't play with physical toys that much. So they play now with those like little unicorns and the horses, like they've got a stable. A bit. And they'll play with that a little bit. I think that if you

don't, if you put it away, I've got these bins I could put them all away. It's like out of side out of mind, right? So you have to like get the bin out and leave it on the table or leave it out for them. Yeah. That hadn't worked out like I thought it would. They have a dedicated space where their playroom is, and they don't spend tons of time

in there like I expected. No, they have a yoga mat that's got hopscotch on it in the living room. They hop scotch. Dale was hopscotch with them on a hopscotch mat. That's what we're doing. Watch my cartwheels. She'll put on a movie, and every time one of the songs plays in the movie, and now she's got to get up and do a performance.

So you have to watch her. That's who they are. They play outside quite a bit. it. Yeah, do they make up games? They're more imaginary games too. No. Last night we were roller skated and then drive away. Yeah. The kids play together quite a bit. They like to imaginary play, which I'm not good at. I didn't play with Barbies as a kid. I would cut their hair and switch their heads. I was mutilating my Barbies. And I played outside. And so, I don't know, I would rather they just played outside. The other day, they came in with like dirt all underneath

their fingernails because they were trying to dig for earthworms and snails in the dirt. Like, that's what I want them to do. So, like, the toys, they play with them when their friends are over. But the two of them fight over everything right now. They're four and six. And so they are 50-50 getting along or just mad fighting over the same thing. They do makeup. Jewelry.

They like makeup, which I don't love. But, you know, thanks Taylor Swift. They get into where they're, like, Ailo will, in the morning they get up. Ila will, they'll get up in the morning. They wake up a little bit before us sometimes. We can hear them. They'll come downstairs for breakfast. And Ila has gave Nicole a full makeover.

Yeah. She's in a dress. Blue and purple and glitter. Oh, yeah. Everywhere. I'm like, I know, why didn't you do that to yourself?

She's like, because she wanted to look pretty. I was like, yeah, you did it to your sister. Now she's got junk all over her face. Yeah. And I mean,

caked on lipstick with glitter all in her lips. And Nicole loves it. Oh, yeah, because she loves the attention. Yeah. Shifting from kids to you guys, if your love story

was a rom- What would the title be? What's a rom-com? Romantic comedy. Oh, why don't they just said it? It's the thing. You've never heard rom-com? No.

It's a term. I thought it was like an expo for technology. You're going to the rom-com this year? They got that new invidia card. The 50-90. It would be called The Princess and the Clown. I don't know. What would our rom-com be called?

Ralph. What is the what is it where the expo where all the people get together and they dress up? Comic-Con. Comic-Con. Yeah, it reminds me that. It's the rom-com, but the Comic-Con. Close, I guess. You're better at this kind of stuff than me, so what would our title be? What were the title be? If our love story

had a romantic comedy, what the title of movie be? Yeah, that's it. Yeah, Princess and the Clown, probably, something like that. Does the chat have any good ideas? I'm sure they do. they probably have better ideas than we do. Checkers are wreckers. That's pretty funny. Amy and her three kids.

Oh, Lord. That's it. That's good. My last question is from Derek, and he wants to know, what's the best surprise Dale has ever given you, Amy? Oh, probably my engagement ring. Like, getting engaged,

because that was a shock. Yeah. Otherwise, the best surprise. We really didn't think I was ever going to. I really didn't know how comfortable I guess I was with that either until you asked me. And I'm like, holy shit. I can't believe it's head. I couldn't remember if we'd even talked about it.

No. We'd not talked about getting engaged or married or nothing. We had talked about not getting married. Yeah. Plenty. Yeah. No. We were like, well, we're okay.

No kids. Not going to get married. Yeah. Like, as long as you don't want to have kids, I'm fine, not getting married. But I'm not having kids with you unless we're married. Yeah. That's kind of the extent of that. I have an El Camino that was a really big surprise that I love.

I can't drive it very often because that's, you know, got one extra seat. I have kids, plural. And you can't put a car seat in that car anyway, but I don't think it's legal. Yeah. But that was a really big surprise. Okay. That I love. Yeah.

Everybody's asking about Junebug there on the couch next to you. Junebug? Yeah. Junebug is I have a I have a surprise coming that I think you're gonna like Really?

Yeah Surprise coming down the road Coming down the pipe How long I gotta wait? Probably two weeks Two weeks Is it for Valentine's Day? No

It's not for it's not Attached to a milestone The moment Okay Well that's exciting Yeah all I'm saying. All right.

Junebug's here. Junebug's here because he got in a scuffle with Gus again last night. He got a bar fight last night with Gus. We can't get Gus to stop beating him up. Every once in a while, Gus will attack him. Usually it's food related. There was no food around. I was just cleaning Gus's water bowls.

And Junebug got too close to his room. Gus has his own room where he eats and drinks. There's a dog door. So if we leave, we can leave him. Jimbug was in the hall. Gus attacked him. He attacked him, like full on. Like, he would kill him.

I think the only reason he didn't do worse. It's not an overstatement. It's not an overstatement. He would say that he would kill him. No, he would. He's shaking him before. Yeah. He grabbed him one time by the neck and back and forth, back and forth and two mugs

eye popped. The last time this happened was like, yes, his eyeball was out of the socket. I had to take him down to Charlotte. That's terrifying. So I'm sitting in the living room and I can hear an Amy, Amy, screams at this really high pitch and it's, I'm thinking. There's something. weird animalistic that happens inside of me when I see that.

I'm like, I got to scream as long as I can to scare Gus. Her scream is like... And he wasn't letting go. I had to pull Gus off of him. And I think the only reason I was able to do that is because it was tile and he can't... Literally can't get any traction. So I was able to rip the dog off.

I was like, so traumatic. I come in there and jimbugs hobbling out of the fight. Squealing. Shurping, squealing. So yeah, he's here because... He's a little sore today. Yeah. He needs some extra TLC.

Yeah. he's fine he can walk he's just scared i wouldn't want to be around gus today either yeah guess was in his room all night punished yep do we have another no that's that's all i got for all right okay all right hey um i hope everybody look we're gonna have a lot of fun with this show this year and um this is the first episode finding our sea legs if you have suggestions of things do you want us to do yeah that's a great idea we got some segments and some games and stuff we're going to play from time to time but to amy's point if you guys got some things that you'd like us to talk about or if you got some ideas on things you'd like to see us partake in, just let us know.

We're going to have fun every Thursday. Bless your heart with Amy and Dale. Come join us. All right, everybody. That was a lot of fun. I think this is going to work, don't you? I do too. I like hashing it out.

I think this is going to be good for us. I know. I'm thankful that we're doing this. I'm excited. I love spending time with you. and I think we're going to have a lot of fun things to talk about throughout the year. With Daytona coming around, that's going to bring a lot of great conversation for a next couple of shows. So there'll just be a lot of good things happening that we'll have to pull from.

And I'm excited for you to have a project and see how you kind of put your mark on this. So it'd be cool. I am too. Thanks for joining me. You bet. Leave us an Apple review and let us know what you think of the show and also leave comments for us on YouTube. all right we'll see y'all next week check out dirty moe media on twitter facebook tick tock and instagram