The Dale Jr. Download - Dale Ate Dog Food & Signs from the Universe

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

Welcome to the last Bless Your 'Hardt of 2025! This week, Dale and Amy cover all the chaos, laughs, and life updates that come with the holidays. From gift prep to family shenanigans, nothing is off limits.They talk about why Christmas feels like the Super Bowl for moms, with gift chaos, wrapping stations, and the planning it takes to make sure every niece, nephew, and cousin gets the right thing, while dads just play video games.Plus, a wild story from the road about a truck flip as a teen, narrowly avoiding disaster, and the lessons about distracted driving, universe-sized signs, and staying present that came from it.On top of that, they share smaller, hilarious moments, like Dale accidentally eating dog food, holiday car decorations that make everyone question humanity, and the kids building chaotic gift “trains” while Dale and Amy try to keep up. It’s a holiday episode full of laughs, life lessons, and real family moments, all wrapped up in the chaos and joy of the season.And for more content, check out our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMediaReal fans wear Dirty Mo. Hit the link and join the crew.👇https://shop.dirtymomedia.com/FanDuel: Must be 21+ and present in select states (for Kansas, in affiliation with Kansas Star Casino) or 18+ and present in D.C. First online real money wager only. $5 first deposit required. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable bonus bets which expire 7 days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG. Call 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat in Connecticut, or visit mdgamblinghelp.org in Maryland. Hope is here. Visit GamblingHelpLineMA.org or call [phone] for 24/7 support in Massachusetts or call 1-877-8HOPE-NY or text HOPENY in New York.  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.

If it's too good, they shit on the floor. They can't have, they can't taste that good. It messes their bellies up. If it's too good, on the floor. Yeah. If it's got ingredients in it that make it taste too good, then it'll end up just to...

Then they're like, man, I'm going to be on the floor. This is pretty good. What's the hell? I don't know if the thought process works quite like yours. Make sure that dog food ain't too good. It's a shit on the floor. Oh, my God. The following is a production of Dirty Moe Media.

you. Oh yeah, this is what it's going to be, girl. If we're going to hang out. Open a bunch of jars. You've got big strong hands. Are you suffering from high craft? I'm working. Working that mouth. Hey, everybody. Dale and I are in the studios today for another round of Bless Your Heart, a Christmas edition, if you will. We're excited to chit-chat and let you know what's been going on. Let's get started. First thing we're going to talk about, of course, is the drink of the week,

presented by High Rock Vodka. And today's drink is a Jolly Juice or the Apple Ginger Punch. Jolly juice sounds great. Yeah. What's in it? Two ounces of High Rock Vodka. It's got three ounces of Red Bull, Fiji, apple, and ginger. Yum.

And then an ounce of cranberry juice and a little prosceco and some apple slices or cranberries. That's delicious. It tastes like a Jolly Rancher. Wow. It's good. and jack you up with that red bull in there. Visit high rock vodka.com to find a bottle near you. There's a locator on the site to help you drink responsibly,

and you must be 21 or over. Have some fun this holiday season. Hopefully you've got a bottle of high rock vodka in the kitchen when you're celebrating. Anyhow, a lot of life updates. And I got a good one. I can hold on to it for a minute. You can hold on to it. My brain is scrambled at the moment.

My whole life feels like a scrambled mess. This is a tough part of the year for you. It is. It's like the Super Bowl for moms is coming up. It's like my best analogy for it. Like a buildup is happening. Every single day is important. I feel like you shop until the very last second.

There's always somebody forgot. There's always something messing up your wrapping. That's a great analogy. So like the two kids are like the two teams that are going to play the game. And like the game, they're going to go. They're going to play the game. the game's going to happen, however that happens. And you got to organize the halftime show and all the other shit.

Yeah. I feel like the two sides of the family are more like the two teams. Because that more encompasses like all the players and all the things. And there's all kinds of crap happening sideline shows. Yeah, you got the mom's side and the dad's side. Yes. And I don't have any of that. I'm just.

Oh, no. He's just hanging out playing his video games. Whenever T.J. advances the league, he's like, oh, you've got to go do my thing. Well, we are the national champions. You didn't see Tor heels Oh You switched teams Yeah I did

I got hired up Now I'm But two seasons It took me forever to take Charlotte To the natural championship And win it Two seasons into this new game Yeah

I beat TJ To the Natty He's not been there yet So I'm like better At this point I am better than TJ Yeah No argument

I'm not gonna I love it I like it when you beat TJ Yeah Especially since he's like running the schedule now in both of our houses with this game. All of a sudden he's not, he tells me yesterday, he's like, you know, I just don't like playing this game as much as I did last year. Yeah. I'm like, yeah, because you're not just destroying everybody.

Okay. What's your nugget? Do you want to talk about it? Well, I was wanting to keep, I was wanting to go on about our plans for Christmas. So Amy's, Amy's analogy about being her Super Bowl. Um, it's, uh, it's true. I want to give you all your flowers, man. You work so hard. You, um, you go around, you know, months in advance, start, you know, buying up all these little neat. Buying up. She's just buying up everything. No, no, no. He's not wrong.

Let, let me make sure I get this out. So people don't take the wrong way. Um, the things, like, when the girls come downstairs for Christmas, there's this there's a little display for each one they've got their little Christmas right and it's like they got their little nails and their little makeup kits and all the things and it's all these little small things that just add up into this really great experience for our girls for Christmas and my family didn't do this I had I had these Christmases when I was really little but then they stopped and they're still really little so it's just I know yeah I hear it keep going I'm just saying like they get a genuine legit Christmas. Yeah. You know, and I think that, you know, I remember having a couple of those

and then life changed when my parents divorced and dad's Christmases suck. They didn't know how to make a fun Christmas. And, you know, no disrespect. They were the fun police. To anyone that was in the house

during that period of time. But moms were great. She's over the top. Like, I'd go to her house in North Virginia six hours away and she'd have me a basketball goal in her living room. And I'm like,

how am I getting this back to North Carolina? She wasn't worried about that either. No, but Amy works really hard. A lot of thought goes into it. A lot of rapping. That's just for our family. On the other side, we're going to go to Texas for a couple days.

She's got to make sure that all of the people that are supposed to get gifts and all the kids and grandkids and cousins and all that. Yeah, there's kids everywhere. There's kids galore on both sides of the family. And so, like, that gives me anxiety. Like, I couldn't do it. without like a big binder notepad with like everybody's age and everybody what they like and don't like.

Like I could not car. I couldn't. I don't know how you. Well, I don't have a notepad. I used to do that. But now I can read. So I keep it in my phone. But even just for your family.

Yeah. No, I do. Well, so here's a thing. It's pretty easy with both sides. And the reason why is because all the kids are relatively close in the same age. And like on my side of the family, there's a ton of little girls. So like they all want the same thing anyway. So Katie and Lacey and I, like, we kind of organize our thoughts on, like, what we're going to avoid.

Like, we're not doing fingernails and makeup and all that junk this year because we're tired of, you know, finding them stuck to the floor and all that. There's a little stick on fingernails. Yeah, so we kind of just coordinate who's getting what. And then, you know, the size run is like we have three all the way up to nine every year. There's a girl, three to nine. And then we have some teenagers. So that's pretty, it's pretty easy. But yeah, there's a lot to do.

There's a lot of rap. It doesn't sound easy. Making it special is not that hard because, like, I don't know. I feel like as long as you just get one thing right, they're super excited. They're at the age two where like bulk is more exciting than like a special expensive present. Whereas on Dale's side of the family, the kids are older. So like you have to be, that's harder for me because you have to be far more thoughtful. And they're at that age two where like they can buy things too for themselves.

So it's a little harder for me on that side. Amy shops for my nieces, my nephew, everyone. Yeah. Like everyone. Everyone. There's a bunch of people. So we've got stuff laid out everywhere. This is a busy time of year.

Yeah. I will say Dale is very good at wrapping presents. So if I'm organized enough and I have the boxes taped up and the kids are not around, then he will sit there and like wrap the hell out of some presents. I don't mind having. Very meticulous. But at this point, Nicole wants to be able to. to help. She has been up my tail in that, like I have a space set up for like a wrapping station

basically. And she's in there just wanting to help. And I love that she wants to help. But I'm not organized enough to guide her. Like I just want to, I'm not a delegator. Like, I just want to do it and move on. So I've been trying to like let her play and help me with the tape and help me with the tags because she's writing her name. She can write things now. But she's going in there in between our sessions and just using up all the bags and sharpying all over and writing. And writing. her name or all of her classmates' names all over the gift bags. I'm like, dang it, now I've got to go buy more crap because my gift bags have been used up. And she's taking them and shopping around the house and putting whatever she wants in them.

Nicole's been pushing the buttons here. Last night, I had just finished wrapping for the evening and put all my stuff away. And I look into the foyer, and both girls are underneath the Christmas tree pulling all the gifts out and making like a choo-treeing out of them. I'm like, what are you all doing? Like those are freshly wrapped gifts, put them back. I mean, at one point somebody's going to start opening them. You know what I mean? I'm just, I can't rest.

I can't relax. There's chaos at all moments. Until they go to bed, it's chaotic. It's so funny because I look over there and both of them are like they surround themselves by presence and they're sitting there like they're driving a car or something. I don't know. They built this thing around them. And we weren't paying attention.

And we glanced over and we were like, Amy Popper. up she's like what are y'all doing like what are y'all doing and i see all the and i will jump something goes i didn't do it i didn't do it i didn't do it i didn't do it i didn't do it i didn't do it i didn't do it i didn't you're the train conductor i could see you're just like yeah you were like driving this train she's like i didn't do you she did it yeah she's all worried about getting in trouble yeah hey this is dale junior and for the latest bless your heart gear go to shop dot dirtymo media com. We've got plenty of options

for everybody and adding new stuff every day. Go to shop dot dirtymomedia.com. So I don't this is a this is going to be a lot.

Okay. Okay. Everybody. This is a little bit of a mind. This will be a little Is this a wordy story? It's a little wordy story.

A little bit of a maze. Don't fall asleep. Grab a cocktail. Hopefully I don't, I'm not boring. Hopefully I'm not boring you to tears. So

the, the other day nationwide who I still work with nationwide insurance they had me go out to this drag strip in Charlotte and work with this company called brakes and they they teach young kids about distracted driving it's a really cool course

something I'll probably send my girls to go do and anytime I'm going to go do an event or talk about a product or service I try to figure out whether I can really connect to or relate to it so I can kind of tell a story that's genuine and so I was like you know, I was distracted one day driving down the road on Christmas and flipped my pickup truck.

And so I can definitely speak to the dangers of distracted driving. What were you doing? Because you didn't have a cell phone. I'll tell you. And so I'm doing this appearance for Nationwide. And all that went great. And then we left. And like later on either that day or the next day, the next day, I think.

I'm in the car with Nicole going through a four-way stop sign right up here at the business park entrance, four-way stop sign. And I'm dry, I get up to the stop sign and stop, and I see a car coming from the right. And I'm like, they've got to stop, so I'm going to cruise on over through the four-way. And as soon as I get to the center of the four-way,

I look and they ain't slowing down. They're going 45 miles an hour, and they're headed right at me. and I floored it, and I drove to the left to get away from them to create more distance between me and them. And they just missed the back bumper of the truck. And they never stopped. They never even saw me. I never locked eyes with the person in the car.

I was so mad I wanted to get out and beat somebody's ass, but, you know, you get real mad in those moments when somebody does something that's really stupid and you just kind of get mad. But I wanted to argue or hollert somebody, you know, which I was kind of surprised. by that reaction, but we drive on through. I was on the phone with Mike Davis, and I'm having a full conversation with him, and he has no idea that none of that happened. And so... Also, Nicole's in the back seat.

Nicole's in the car. And so, you know, I'm in my truck. I don't know how bad that would have been. It had been bad for the car, but it probably just spun us around. But I was like, holy moly. You know, had the distracted driver appearance with nationwide and then this happened like it's a universe sort of telling me that I might need to

you know look at myself a little bit in the mirror and say hey are you are you you know maybe only fall a little bit too much are you looking around doing something you shouldn't be doing while you're driving down the road so that was you know sometimes when things like that happened I think it's a sign telling me and I need to like do some checks inward do some checks and balances so what happened when You were in your truck. So, I thought about that truck that I flipped. So my dad was alive. So this is like in the mid-90s.

Actually, it's probably like 94. I had a brand new extended cab S-10 pickup truck that I had just financed for five years. I was paying $100 a month. I'd financed it. So I was like, wait, I can pay less if I just finance it for longer. Like $100 a month? That's affordable. I was making like $300 a week or whatever at changing aholds dealership.

And so I financed this truck. I'm doing some payments. And I've got it for like, I've had this truck for like three months, two months. Just, I mean, I'm happy. Kelly gets me, we go to dads to Christmas morning. Open some presents. Kelly gets me a CD adapter, tape adapter for my time. for my S-10.

And then later, we're supposed to go to Mammals in Canapolis for the family gathering, the Earnhardt Family Gathering. So I'm driving myself to Canapolis up Highway 3, and I've got my CD player, and I've got my tape adapter, and I'm rocking out. And I look over to change the CD, and I drove that truck right off the side of the road, and hit a driveway cover, which is a pipe in the ground,

and I barrel rolled five to seven times. A barrel rolled a lot. Crushed the roof of this truck down. The mirror was in the stereo. Like the mirror and the stereo were touching. The roof was crushed down on top of the steering wheel. And this thing flipped crazy. Luckily, I didn't have any injuries except all my knuckles were busted

because I had my hand on the steering wheel. And when it rolled over, it mush mash a steering wheel and the windshield and my hands in there in a sandwich. And so I get out of the truck. It lands on its... It lands right, upright. It's missing a wheel. One of the wheels broke off the back.

And there was only one car coming at me. When I started flipping, there was a car driving toward me. I get out. They're stopped in the middle of the road, and there you're like jaw on the floor. And it's a couple. Yeah.

And I walk up. and I'm like, I need to borrow a cell phone. I don't have a phone. I don't have a phone. I got a page or maybe. But, I mean, this is before, like, having a cell phone. And I was like, do y'all have a cell phone? They were like, no.

And they were like, man, you were flipping. And they were just in all. They were like, you were just flipping so much. And so I'm standing there. And honestly, it took a little, it took a few, minutes for some more cars to pull up. But in this, they, they, I don't know if they stopped or stayed, but they told me in this little brief period of time, I learned that they had just gotten engaged that morning.

And I was like, man, you know, I said, thanks. Appreciate y'all. You know, stopping, checking on me, making sure I was okay. They were like, you okay? You are right? So I go to this other car and I said, can I borrow a phone? and the lady's like, you need to sit down. You're in shock.

I was like, I mean, I drive, I drive. The last thing I need is your sass lady. I like drive. I drive street stocks and destroy the hell out of that thing every weekend. So I've been in plenty of crashes at this point. And so finally I get to a car that had a phone and I call my dad and he's at Mammals. And they're all there. And I'm like, Dad, I flip my truck.

I'm on the highway. He's like, all right, I'm coming that way. And he goes by, past, drives by him. to get to the farm, which is about three miles away, gets the flatbed pickup truck, drives back, and the state trooper is there at that point,

and dad's like, we're going to put it on this flatbed and haul it out of here. So we did all the paperwork or whatever and take the truck to the farm, and that was that. Did he yell at you? No.

I thought he was going to chew my ass. So we get in the truck and we're driving the flatbed to the farm, and I'm sitting there waiting on him to tell me what a dummy I am or something, right? And he goes, well, you all right? You ain't hurt? I was like, no, just nothing really.

Like, man, he just started laughing. And I was like, what's so funny? He goes, man, I flipped my truck or I flipped my car when I was 18. He's like, you know, just glad you're all right. It was just not a big deal. That's wild. Yeah, I know. My dad would have ripped me up one side and down the other.

Well. Especially if you found out I was, like, he realized I was okay. then he really would have me have it. You know that the house next to Sunny is a rental of ours, and there's a boy that's going to move into it. It's Sunny knows in Austin. It's Austin's friend. Yeah.

That boy is the son of that couple. No way. What? That's cool. Speaking of the universe, like, just showing you things. Yes. That's also a quick reminder to, like, not be distracted in your car. Like, there's a lot of Easterers showing you the same thing.

I don't know their names hadn't seen them since that day. Oh, wild. You're going to see them about at this point. I can't wait. I'd love to hear their version of what they saw. Yeah. I can't wait to hear that too. Hopefully it aligns.

Yeah. So they went on, got married and had a son who became friends with Sonny's son, Austin, who we all in this family. That's crazy. The kids are going out of the gates. What are the odds of that? What are the odds? Is that not the.

universe telling me that I need to get off my phone? Yeah. That's, yeah. If that's, if that's a sign if there's ever been a sign. Right. Yeah. That I just, whatever, I just need to make sure I'm more mindful, especially with the kids in the car and stuff, right? Not, not trying to, you know, DJ or, or pick the phone up and call somebody. We've talked about that too. Like, he's always on his phone in the truck. He has to be on the phone calling someone. Last night, he called me three different times in the car on the way home. Well, I do. From dance lessons. Now, now, now, Now, to be fair, listen, I'm not perfect. To everybody out there, yes, I mess up and I do shit on my phone when I'm driving, I shouldn't do it.

I can be honest and admit that. But most of the time, I get in the truck, I plug it in, I turn, I open it up. So you can't talk to Siri in my phone's set up where you can't talk to Siri unless the phone is open. And so I set it in the floorboard, and I usually Siri every time when I'm calling somebody, I see it. Yes, you're not looking at playing on your phone. Yeah, I don't do that. But there are times when I might, like, when I'm not looking at the road, right, like I should be. So, I mean, I know everybody's probably a little guilty of that.

But I feel like something's telling me, like, man, you better, you better get your ass in gear. Yeah. There's another bit of nugget. Uh-oh. Amy, I told Amy I didn't want to do this. What? Other thing? You ate?

All right. I do not want to do this. It is no secret this name is. I don't want to do this. Can I just make sure that everybody's aware that when this went down, I said, we ain't putting this on the show. She said, oh, yeah. This is one of those universal moments where I'm thinking God put this in my lap for this reason.

He's always in the kitchen, especially this time of year. Like, he's just pacing around the island looking for snacks. And so much so that, like, even like the stuff I've prepared for Christmas dinners, like the charcutory board we always make, I like collect, pile and, like, put things in the pantry. Or sometimes I, like, hide it. him or try to hide him so that he does not eat them because he's always in the pantry. You know, there's little balls of cheese with the almonds. Yeah.

She puts one in the fridge. And now there are not, not any. There were two. There's one. Oh, there is one in there? I saw it. I'm like, we're going to Texas as soon as we get back. We have more family coming over.

I have to be prepared before we leave. And Dale's just eating all the shit in the kitchen. I didn't even go to the grocery store this week because I did not want to give you more ammo. So he's in the kitchen, and I'm sitting on the couch. The kids have just gone to bed. And he comes to the couch with a little tiny cup of ice cream. And he's eating a couple bites. And I look at him, I'm like, I ate one bite.

He's like, this is pretty good. No, I did not. I did not say this is pretty good. You were smacking on it. I did not. I took one bite, and I was like, this is weird. I was like, that's for dogs. It had doggy pup cup written on the side of it.

It was dog ice cream I had gotten for Gus. It's dog ice cream. He had a pup cup. So Dale ate dog food. And in that moment, too, I'm thinking, why did I say anything? He would have kept eating it. And I could have just let it happen. It was terrible.

It's just probably... I doubt I'd have finished it. It probably didn't have any sugar in it. It was just like peanut butter and milk. It's so... I mean, why is there... But that's how desperate he gets. He's like, I got to have something sweet.

Well, I went in there and I'm like, I saw him in there. It's got Ben and Jerry's or... whatever for it. And it's got a brand name on it. And I'm like, I saw it in there. I'm like, oh, a little cup's ice cream. That's cool for the girls, I imagine. But I'm going to eat it anyway. And I try not to eat it. And then, you know, a couple days go by, I'm like, yeah, their kids are in bed. I'm going to have one in a little cup's ice cream. And, uh, it's, you know, it's just a little cup. Can't be that many calories. And so I go grab one. How many calories did it have? Did you? I don't know. I open it up. I dig out a little

spoonful and I'll take a bite. And I'm like, strange. and I look at it and I go, I'm standing with her at the couch, I'm like, this is weird. Just tasted weird. And she's like, that's for the dog. I was like, I'm caught.

This is one of those things he would have let slide by, like he never told me about. Never told her. But he didn't have a choice. He was standing right in front of me. I want to throw the, it's in the, it's in our freezer. That's for the humans.

We don't have a dog. fridge. We do have a dog freezer. Gus doesn't have his own fridge. We have a freezer where all his dog food used to be. He does have his own freezer. What's in there now? Nothing.

Popsicles and things. You move some stuff in there. I've never looked in there since we got rid of the frozen dog food. You put things in there. I'm just saying he's got a place for his own food. Probably hiding in the dog fridge. If it's in the refrigerator or the freezer, that's for the humans. I don't put

Who's putting a dog food In the human fridge Well most people don't have a dog fridge Like the fridge is the fridge The freezer is the fridge But is the fridge for the dogs Are you putting You know if you had a cat or a dog

You put in any of that in your own refrigerator or freezer? Yes If you have cat food Because it's the one you're using I don't know something about that feels I don't want their food My food that close

Well you got to read the labels Ralph This is your fault For this very reason It said doggy on it Does it say does it say Plain and clear I mean, doggy. If it isn't a milk bone, I'm not going to look at it and go,

except for dogs or humans. I mean, I'll look at a milkbone and know right away I don't need to eat that. Oh my God, you're a piece of work. Some stuff you look at it and you're like, I could accidentally eat that. Yeah, like that looks like bacon. Like the doggy jerky. Yeah, looks like jerky. Yeah.

Maybe Dale Stalky. Don't get that too close to human food. Maybe Dale Stocky and Gus is. People like me are going to make a mistake. Are going to be right next to each other this year. You're just going to have to guess. I'm not going to put a tag on it. You're going to have to guess which stocking is yours or Guses by the s in it.

Well, they all look the same. Might be a fun game for us to do. If that was dog food or not. Is it dog food? Or Dale food. Dale or dog food. I'm going to tell you right now, them dogs, they ought to be raising hell about how that I should take.

I mean, they ought to be mad. No damn dog wants that. Yeah, they do. It was that bad. It's not that bad, surely. And I all want to taste it. Go for it. Yeah, I'll be good.

If it's too good, they shit on the floor. They can't have, they can't taste that good. It messes their bellies up. If it's too good on the floor. Yeah. If it's got ingredients in it that make it taste too good, then it'll end up. Then they're like, man, I'm going to be on the floor. This is pretty good.

Yeah. What's the hell? I mean, I don't know if the thought process works quite like yours. Make sure that dog food ain't too good. My shit on the floor. Oh, my God. See what I mean?

He needs to get out of the house. Just him and Nicole both out of the house. Is your dog shit on the floor? How good is that dog food? Probably too good. I can't help it. This is a good drink. Everybody try out the high rock Red Bull combo.

You get a little high rock and a Red Bull high. All right. I got another Christmas thing that we don't agree on. So years ago, it's probably been two or three years ago at least, Ila sees a car riding by with antlers on it. And she's like, Mom, there's a car that looks like a reindeer. How did they do that? I'm like, oh, there's a little kits you can buy.

No big deal. I get a kid. How do they do that? How'd they do that? And she's so young. I don't think Nicole, I don't even know if Nicole was up and walking in it. Like, she's, it's been a while. So I get the antlers, of course, to please this tiny little human being.

And I put them on my car. And I didn't put the nose on because it has wire. And I'm like, I don't you scratching up the car. I'm not going to, like, worry about the nose. But I did the antlers. And Dale comes home and he's like, what the f is that? He goes. There's a couple things I can put up with, but that's not happening.

We are not going to be those people that run around town with antlers all over our car. And so I shamefully took them off and hid them from Ila. And she was so sad. And I blamed it on Dale, of course, because it was the reason. But I found him the other day because I didn't throw them out out. And I have noticed since Dale accosted me for my antlers how many people decorate their cars for Christmas. And so I want to know, like, what's the threshold? Like, are we allowed to put wreaths on the front of our trucks?

Are we allowed to, like, I saw yesterday this lady had elf feet hanging out of the back of her hatch, like flipping around as the car was going. There was a car in the, when I took Ayla to dance yesterday, there was a car in the red light covered in lights. Oh, it looked good. Really? Yeah. So. Real Christmas lights? Yeah.

This was not the Christmas lights you're thinking that, like, wrap around a tree. something about these lights were like really bright and almost a neon and so on this black little it was just a little black standard sedan I'm telling you it

look really good I was like you know ever seen you ever been in a room where they had the black light carpet where the flakes it just like that just like that

okay it was so good so it gave you like an 80s vibe and that's why you liked it or 90s vibe maybe it was like a 90s club like the floor of a 90s club. So it didn't have Christmas vibes at all.

Well, it wasn't even Christmas lights. It was strip club and that's why he liked it. He would have Christmas vibes. Because it's the time of year. I've seen the big magnetic decals with the Christmas lights. And Sonny used to put an actual Christmas tree on the top of his old car.

You remember? Yes. Drive around. Yeah, just drive around town. And it had ornaments and stuff on it. Like, it would cover the whole top of the car. So, like, it's not just me. I think that's fine. I didn't know the kids asked about that.

I thought you were just like, I'm one of those, I'm one of those, you know. I'm one of those people pleasers. I'm one of those peoples that's, I'm like, Amy, this ain't Amy. What judgment. I know. That's rude. Wait.

You do all kinds of weird stuff to your cars. I know. You think I'm, you think I think I'm perfect? Well, why are you so judgy? Hey, dog, because I'm imperfect. Why are you judging me? I'm, you. I had never in.

My life put stuff like that on my car. We have a three-year-old. Of course, I'm not doing it for myself. I thought you were. Oh, my God. What the hell? I didn't know the conversation happened with the kid. Yes, you did.

We just heavily discussed it in that moment. I know, but I didn't know when I saw it initially, when you pull in, I'm like, what is Amy doing? It ain't her. Who did I marry? Oh, no. Bait and switch. Something's happened. Something's happened to her.

It's crazy. for help. She's been switched. Oh my gosh. What's the, um, profane playlist? So we're riding out of the beach for Thanksgiving. It's like extra heavy traffic. It takes us like five hours.

It should take us three and a half. It takes us five hours. And the kids have their headphones on. They're on and off. You know, Dale, because they have their headphones on, just takes it free rein to play whatever he wants on the radio. So he's like going through this playlist that I hadn't heard before. Or maybe you're just like letting Spotify do it saying, I don't know.

But all of a sudden it's like 90s rap and there's, you know, all the greatest words that we grew up listening to. And like Nicole's in the back seat. And she's not the kid that you can tell her to quit saying something and she'll just quit saying it. So, like, if the P-word comes out or MF comes out, she's going to use it. And so I, like, start listening to the – because he's not got it out too loud for once. And I'm listening to the music. And I'm like, you think we should turn this down? Like, I'm hesitant to say anything about the music anyway because I'm, like, going to get that.

Like, it's my radio. Do you think maybe we should turn this down? And I turn around and they both got their headphones on. So it's, like, not that big of a deal. But I don't know how loud whatever they're doing. doing is happening in their ears also like I don't know what they can hear and what they can't hear who's running around in a chip bag look at him oh sorry he's running around it sounded like you said who's running around in a shit bag in a ship bag sorry it's a race car drivers is running around

in a chip it's carson carson wafelhoffles are running around a chip bag life size chip bag what is he doing I don't know he's walking around the shop in it. Anyway, so like the actual playlist is so profane that like, and he doesn't care. I'm like, he's willing to, he's willing to risk it at all times with his music. I'm like, I don't know, I don't know where the breaks are here. Like, what am I allowed to say? Where do we stop this?

It's not like, it's not repairable at this point, the music he was playing. You don't even remember, do you? I know when Amy's mad at me. You know, there's men in the room We're all been in relationships Many different kinds Some are married I'm married

We've all been in relationships Many different kinds I'm just saying you're in a different relationship than I am You're in the same kind of relationship Than I'm not sure of everybody I don't know, Texas is pretty close To what? What?

Well, there are times when There's times when you're like You're not sure Are she mad at me? I know for sure when Amy reaches over and starts doing the radio she's not happy with me because she usually will be like

you know I'm not going to mess with the radio because it's the thing he's very weird about his radio but sometimes she'll be just like and I'm like damn she's pissed at me about something that's a sign that I'm in the dog house always the song it's always what you are playing well here's the thing too we've discussed this heavily.

Dale does not read the room. He doesn't care about the room. He doesn't give a shit about anybody else's attitude, moment, temperament. He is willing to risk it and just play what he wants. That's right. And so, like, if it's a high-stress situation, he will put on some of the most ridiculous music and make it worse. I'm like, if you don't want me to bite your face off right now, turn that shit off. Because you're sending me to a third dimension.

and if you really care about the quality of this entire experience, just turn it off, just give you five minutes to like, whoso and sit in this seat with like just some chill music or nothing for a minute. And then we can turn the music back on. Back to the language. I took Isla to dance yesterday and we get to dance and we're there a couple of minutes early. We were at this light that we were going to turn.

It was a two-lane left-hand turn. and I was in one lane. The car on the inside of me was going to do a U-turn and go back the other way. And so they were waiting on coming traffic before they could make that turn. And I've made that turn.

That's the very turn, that seemed very U-turn. So I know what that person's doing. The guy behind him is laying on the horn. He's sitting there. He's like, I've been waiting on this light to change, and here you are holding me up, waiting on-coming traffic to do your new turn.

I'm ready to go. hon, hon, hon, hon, hon, hon. I hate that. And I was like, I said something like, what the f***? You did? Right in front of Isla? Mm-hmm. I was saying it.

I was like, I said something like that. Like, look, what the fuck? And we drove on in the dance studio is just another tenth of a mile. Yeah. So we pull in. Super close. And I was like, Ila. I was like, you know, when I was like,

you ever, you ever sometimes? hear me talk and know I said a bad word, but you don't know what the word is, but you know it's a bad word, but you just don't, you've never heard it before. You don't know what it means? You're like, yeah? Yeah, I do. And I was like, all right. I was like, sometimes I'm going to make a mistake and say some of them words,

but you're not allowed to say them until you're at least 16, 17, 18 years old. Oh, really? We've given her an age. I was like, I was like, I was around my dad and he cussed a lot. And I was like, but I knew. I knew when he cussed. knew the words and I knew what they meant. I said, but I wasn't allowed to say them.

And I didn't say them until I got old enough to say them, especially in front of your mom and dad. I was like, do not say them. And I was like, you know, I said, when you're 16, 18-ish, she's like, what about 17? And the conversation's over. And we lost her. Now we're just negotiating numbers.

You're like, you know, 16, 18 years old. That's when you know you said too much. Like you've talked it so hard that. She's like, I don't know what the point of this was. She's like, wait, you skip one. But I get to do something cool at 17. You skip 17. 17 take the year off.

Yep, 17. What about 17? Can I say it then? Yeah, that sounds like negotiating how many bites we have left with Nicole. I always tell her like, let's just do a few. Let's start with a few. She's like, how about five? I'm like, okay, great, five sounds good.

I know that it's futile. But I feel like that trying to have a reasonable conversation. like real trying to reason is good for them. You can do that with Ila. I feel like we've always been able to do that with her. She's, she's rational. Like the point of that whole conversation I had where there wasn't really heard how to try to tell her not to say bad words.

It was really just like an exercise. For you or for her? For both. For her. Yeah. Let's see what she accomplished. Do you want to see if she was paying attention also? Yeah.

Okay. I wonder like sometimes when I slip, if she's like, what does that mean? because I'll say words and Nicole goes What does that word mean? Not cuss words like I'll be talking in general Just normal conversation She don't understand a word she asks you right away

What does that mean? Like I said immediately The other day and she goes What is immediately? Really? Yeah She didn't do that with me Dude I'm telling me I have the best time in the car With the kids

Like we talk I don't play the radio What? We drive all the way to school You used to have like a whole playlist I know but they don't We just, if we get in the car, I mean, sometimes you get in the car and you just turn on the radio, go. But I mean, most of the time I'll get in the car and we drive out of the driveway.

And if she doesn't start talking, I start asking questions and we just talk all the way there. Really? No, not me. That is a no talking thing for me. Sometimes. Sometimes I was in a mood. And she, and it's like a challenge of trying to get her out of it, you know, like trying to, because she, I'll be like, what are you looking at back here? You know, I can see her in the mirror

And she just So that's just Your goofballness is good for you in that moment Because I can't do that Usually if they're in a bad mood It's because we had an argument Before we got out of the door She's in bad mood

Dilly Dalian Morning gloomy And she doesn't want to go to school Yeah Well Nicole and I'm like So I usually take Nicole to school And you take I like I'm trying to crack that

Yeah I don't Yeah I just put the radio on And like hopefully the music Soos everybody Sometimes I play Dangerous Summer And ask her she knows who's singing it. She never gets it wrong.

Sometimes, every time. She never gets it wrong. No, she doesn't get it wrong. She lives a dangerous summer, so do you. I'm not, I'm a little surprised by the fact that you don't just play that every time you get in the car like you used to. So that was y'all saying.

Most time we're, like, wanting to talk. Talking. Instead of calling somebody, I'm going to talk to them. It's kind of the same thing. Like, usually when I'm in the car by myself, As soon as I get in the car, I'm like, got to call somebody. Who can I call?

To make this, you know, while I'm driving toward the destination, I'll have a conversation that might be important. But I thought we discussed that. We're not going to do that anymore. Oh, I'm doing that. I call Amy, and I'm like, what are you doing? I'm writing Christmas cards.

Well, we forgot shoes at ballet. I can't remember who was sitting in that room, but I think it was this person. You might want to text them, and see if they have eyeless shoes, but I can go back. I'm like, well, why don't you just go back and see if they're there? So he goes back. I'm right next to it.

I hang up because I'm literally handwriting Christmas cards, and he's so he knows this. And I'm like, okay, let me know. And so we hang up. 30 seconds later, he calls back. He's like, nope, they're not there. I'm like, okay, just come home. Just come home. They're not going to, nobody stole her shoes.

Somebody we know has them or they're in lost and found. It's going to be fine. They hang up. Then he calls me back again. And I forget why, but at this point, I'm not even listening. No, no, no. I thought it was a different parent. And so, I don't know.

The gentleman's name that got the shoes, his name is Parker. She thought that I said Harper, which does not, Harper is her friend of school. Different child, different parents. So we call mom back. Just to clarify. We're all confused. And Amy's like, guys, just get, just come on back. Just get back here.

Just get back. Quit calling me. And we hang up and me and Iler are like, my gosh, an attitude. What an attitude. Nobody gives a shit about all the stress and all the things I got to do. All the care about is clarifying this and that. We're just trying to do the right thing. We're just trying to find these shoes.

Just do it. Why do I have to be involved? God dang. Hi, guys, Dale and I are back in the Dirty Moe Media Studio for another round of Bless Your Heart. And we're excited for your questions this week. What you got? All right, our first question, very Christmas themed asking me today. Carly wants to know, do you guys have any traditions with the girls?

And what about any you had as a kid? With the girls? Christmas tradition, number one, is picking out the tree. So we always go to the farmer's market and let the girls pick the tree. We've had some fake trees in the past, and the lights always die so quickly that it's annoying. So the real one is smell good. And so that's our first tradition. The second one, I started with Kelly's kids, way before we had kids.

way before we had kids at gingerbread houses. And so we do that on Christmas Eve. And now everyone comes over and there's like 10 to 12 kids that sit around the table and I'll decorate gingerbread houses together. We build about six show houses, right? Yeah, roughly. Half a dozen houses? No, there's like 10 to 12.

Oh, really? There's a lot more than that. Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, just saying it's robust. He's involved, clearly. No, no. Do you guys, like, have competitions?

He's sitting on the couch, holding up the pillows when we do gingerbread. It's messy. It is messy. What about any of when you guys were younger? I mean, we always drove around and saw the Christmas lights. Back then to like the neighborhoods were like more packed in or where I grew up they were. So it was easy to go to like a nice neighborhood and like see the Christmas lights everywhere. And they had some of the drive-through things that we always did with grandparents.

That's pretty much it as far as that goes. Like going to see the mall Santa. Yeah. Mall Santa was always a little scary. but we did it. We stopped doing Santa so much with our girls. We used to take Isla to sweet grass to see the Santa Claus there. And then we saw a new Santa by accident, and that started some questions.

So now we try to avoid the close-ups. We didn't really have a choice here recently. We had a Santa Claus come visit us at the saloon. And so... He, uh... Santa Claus walks in. Came up and... Kelly organized this.

What's your name? And she's like, you're supposed to know my name. Yeah. And I said, it's Isla. I'm like, man, he's screwing this up left and right. And so, and then he goes, are you Kelly? And I'm like, it's like, Santa, what do you know? Santa, what are you doing?

Say list. Yeah. Yeah, Santa, don't talk. Gosh, that's funny. Yeah, it's pretty bad. All right, next one from Pam, which wants to know if you guys have any Christmas movies that are your favorite. Christmas movies? Yes.

Oh, yeah. Christmas vacation, probably number one. Oh, like the old one with Chevy Chase? Yes, and Home Alone. We've, like, been watching that one on repeat. A home alone this year. Our kids, like, watching that in July. Yeah.

They love that movie. That's a timeless movie, I feel like. Yeah. Yeah. Nothing about the Santa Claus trilogy with Tim Allen. I didn't really get into that. Really? I think that was a little too old for that one when I was a kid, and they've watched it.

What's the one with, is it? Kurt Russell. Kurt, they're both in it. What was that? Christmas Chronicles or something? Christmas Chronicles, yeah. They watch that. Yeah, it's all right.

They like the Grinch, all versions of the Grinch. Grinch is good. Yeah. Yeah. I get a lot of flack for this. My favorite's of the Polar Express. Oh, yeah. We like the Polar Express.

We did. Polack Express was really big. The last probably five years, it's kind of slowed down. Back on the down salt. Oh, man, we watched it. We watched the hell out of that. That one's another one too. They'll watch in July.

Nicole especially will watch that all year long. You can overplay it. Like, Elf, I feel like is overplayed. I love the elf, too. It's a good movie, but it's too much now. Yeah. You can't watch it. It's a lot.

Yeah. What about any Christmas songs? Do you have a favorite thing? Favorite Christmas song is Carol of the Bell's. It's the girl's favorite, too. There's a version, too, that Lindsay Sterling plays, and she's a violinist, and so it's awesome. That one's probably the favorite. You?

Last Christmas. Last Christmas? Oh, good one. That feels like you. What the hell is that supposed to me? Dale's new karaoke song is Last Christmas. Oh, really? I'm singing it.

Yeah, you do. I just like it. I think it's a good song. A lot of different versions. That's funny. I thought you guys would say Blue Christmas by Elvis. No, he didn't. We haven't listened to any Elvis.

Hallelujah. It's a good song. Who sings that? I don't think that that's a Christmas song. We can sing it during Christmas. Then it becomes Christmas. Oh, my gosh. All right.

Our next one's from Carter. He needs some advice. This is the first holiday season he's spending with his girlfriend, and they both have very strong family traditions, but they're at a crossroads on how to split up seeing each other's families. Is it a big deal if they do separate Christmases with, I guess, their own families, or try to figure out which one gets a sacrifice? I feel like if they're not engaged, like they're dating,

but they're not even like engaged, married or any of that, then they can totally do separate Christmases. Like you are not obligated, and if it's that important to you to stick with your traditions with your family, then just do it separately. Because I feel like if you don't and you're not that far along in your relationship and somebody skips something,

then like your family's mad at you and then like the girlfriend or whoever didn't get to do what they wanted missed out and they're going to be resentful. Yeah. Even just like a little bit of that it's not a good foundational thing for your relationship. I say just do it separate.

Strong family traditions, that's tough to break. It is. Once you do, it's hard to go right back to it. It is. I feel like you just need more time in the relationship. where it doesn't feel like you're giving something up. You know what I mean?

Yeah, I get that. Are you, is this question? This is a real question. This is a real question. I knew that was coming. I knew it. No, that is not me.

No, we were doing separate Christmases. I feel the same way. Of course you are. Yeah. So. Is that me? I totally feel like that is.

That felt like a nail in the coffin. I don't know. No, I'm just saying, I feel like that he totally asked that question for himself. He did. No. And he's like,

and now he's sitting here after you heard the answer. And he's like, Yep. Separate. We're doing separate. Yeah. We're doing. I just texted her.

I'm not coming. I'm not making it. Not making it. No. Next one's from Corey. Any surprises on your Spotify Raps this year? I didn't even look at Spotify raps because I don't play it enough to have like values. I don't think.

Dale's was, Dale's aged him a little bit. A lot of people's were older. Nobody's Spotify rap came back and said you're younger than you are. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This year they had the new age fees.

It tells you like 85 or something. 85? I thought you were in your 60s. Yeah, it was just old. But I mean, I'm listening to pop punk, danger summer. So like, what is that? What is it doing? I don't know, but he was really affected by it.

He was shocked and affected. I took a video of him looking at that. I found a bug in the software. You did? Yeah, the age thing. I don't know. I have a 27. I will say this.

It says on there, too. Do not let this affect your feelings. Don't worry about this. It's in the very tiny print. Everybody got affected. Yeah. The one thing that I, nobody gives a shit about your wrapped.

But I'll say this. The, on YouTube, my YouTube was better. So check this out. Because YouTube showed him that he watches himself more than anything. YouTube had a new rap too.

YouTube had a rap. Didn't you guys discuss this? Wouldn't you call you? No, we didn't talk about this. actually. So here it is. So my top interests on YouTube, Amy, what do you believe is number one? Race videos. NASCAR race replays. Number two. Chateau rebuilds. Home renovation ideas is number four. Okay. So it's in there. All right. Number two is music videos. Classic rock music. What would be number three? What did we?

always have to fall asleep to when you first moved in. Oh, World War II videos. Military history number three. And finally, number five, what do I like to do? What I like to explore when I go? Diplires. Exploring abandoned places. Oh, wow. That's a good YouTube rabbit hole. So, now you don't have to go. It says you're drawn to content that takes you on an exciting journey. You've watched travel vlogs and explored abandoned places, showing a love for discovery. You are the adventurer, the wonder seeker, the challenger. My YouTube award, most likely to find the coolest vintage find while on a road trip with friends. My favorite videos, Dale Jr. download.

Hey. He watches himself. World War II sleep stories. Okay. What? Who even knew that was a thing? It'll be like... It'll be like...

It'll be like here's four... Lullaby's by Hitler. It'll be like, here's... It'll be like, here's four hours of facts from World War II to go to sleep to. Do you remember any of them? He's asleep by the first one. Part-time Explorer.

When are you listening to this? I don't know. And then the Joe Rogan experience, number five. Okay. I've never seen you watch Joe Rogan. I know, right? I mean, I've watched some clips.

Like some clips, but like you're not watching full episodes on YouTube. I know. Maybe it is bullshit. That is crazy. Maybe it's just trying to get you to lean into something that's like wanting you to watch. I, some, yeah, I don't know. I mean, I've, instead of like white noise, I'll turn on YouTube videos that would be like monotone, like, hey, here's four hours of this to put you to sleep. And it's intended to be, like, and it'll be military history, like, War II or, you know, just world, you know, the Greek, the fall of the Roman art.

Greek mythology. Yeah, it'll be whatever, you know. And it'll just be like, just a person talking in Monotone. Like, blah, do, do, whatever, whatever. I always told Dale, he needs to create a racetrack, white noise machine, like, small tracks, big tracks. The announcers from back on the day. Every time you tell me that, it takes me back to when I was broadcasting the 24 hours of Daytona, not many years ago. And I had my camper, my bus in the infield.

and I went, I got out of the booth at around 11 or 12 o'clock and I'm going to go down there and go to sleep and get up at 8 and get right back in the booth. And I go down there and it was awesome. You had, you know, say there's 50 cars on the racetrack and all of them sound different, right? There's Porsche's BMWs, all types of different cars.

They all sound different. And they're just running around. Burr-br-br-br-bram-bram-bram. And so, like, I agree. There needs to be, like, a sound machine that's an endurance, a European endurance race. Like the 24 hours of LaMalle or something like that. So he always liked the, like a train, which isn't like a pretty consistent sound. Well, not a train, but it's more of a box car.

The clickety-clack ride, like if you're riding in a box car, what that would sound like. I used to have that. When we first met, I had that sound machine and I would play that. I bought it. Oh, really? Mm-hmm. I liked it. It was a clock.

Yeah. Yeah. I like the box car. Well, I mean, nothing. Because I felt like I was going to dream about being in a box car. We're back to adventures seeking. We hear something. Train hopping.

I feel like any of those noises are good for falling asleep, but I can't, I can't fall asleep like that. Unless it's like I'm actually at a NASCAR race and I'm in the bus on the couch or in the bed or whatever. And like I can hear that. And it's far enough away and muffled. You need dead silence. Dead silence. And that is strange to me because when it's dead silence, dead silence.

My mind is loud as hell. Like all the things in my mind going on or like, like they go, all right, turn in the volume up. And it's like, what are we doing tomorrow? What do we do? What are you thinking about this? What should we do? What should we do? What should we do about that?

Let's solve this problem. You know, it's all these little things happening in my head. Yeah. We're polar opposites in that regard. You hear it. every little noise, too, if it's dead silent. Like the street going on outside. You're like, what is that? That's a car.

And that's how my mind goes. We live out in the middle of the country. So if we start hearing noises, it's coyotes or something like that. I'll tell you, when we had the house in Key West, mopeds. Yeah, it was very loud. Moped, ambulance. I mean, it was like the, that was like the sound, the tropical sound of Key West.

Yeah. Some drunk riding home from the bar. Occasionally you get a little. wipe out. Yeah. Get up and scrape. They all sounded the same. Yeah.

So Suzuki's. The house is like right on the street. Yeah. It was awesome. That's awesome. Well, piggybacking off that question, is there something in life that you wish had a Spotify wrapped? That doesn't.

What? Like how many times you went to? Sorry again? Something else in life that you wish had a Spotify wrap, like an analyzation. What did you say? Your fridge? Your fridge. That'd be a good one.

Yeah. Like, what did you? How many times do you open and look? What did you get out of here the most? What are the top five things you retrieved from the fridge? That's a good one, Dalton. I don't know. So I don't like seeing all these analyizations.

Like, I don't wear the ring that tells you how volume slept. Like, I don't need that extra info because that would give me anxiety. So I don't think about it too hard. How many glasses of wine you drank? How many, like, same thing. Oh, yeah. Bears. Yeah.

What beers you drink? Beer count. More of you. Beer counts. Yeah. That would be. Probably not a good idea there Having a beer count

Yeah Hmm Just Your number one beer Your number two beer That's what I would want Tell me how many Just number one drinks

You don't even want to know how many Nope No It's probably not a good number Oh How many hours in the In the video game seat It's just

I'm just talking about this They can be want to get to it I mean you are getting to it Some beers Let's go to bar guys All right. Well, our next one is from Tom, and he wants to know what your opinion is on New Year's resolutions. Are they stupid or a good motivator for the new year? I just, so New Year's resolutions, I can't say that they're completely stupid because some people like to have the goals set up for the year.

I feel like that they're too extreme. Then you're kind of setting yourself up for disappointment unless it's like a rollover goal. You know what I mean? Like I almost got there last year. I'm going to try it again. I don't know. I feel like we've talked about the dry January thing. I think that's honorable, but also kind of extreme.

I like to keep my mind to myself. So if I fail, no one knows. Like, I like to have them. Yeah. And I like other people to have them, but I'm not going to tell you what mine are. I definitely don't make any. I just, I'm going to keep trying to battle the typical things. I have one.

We'll see. We'll see if it works out. I'm not even going to ask you what it is. I'm not going to pretend to be interested. You don't have one. They're in the chat saying keep them obtainable is the big thing. It is. It's a huge ideology that you're never going to keep.

Yeah, I agree. Yeah. Do we think New Year's Eve is overrated or underrated? Oh, man, New Year's Eve is amazing. New Year's Eve is fun. So we got married on New Year's Eve. It's one of those holidays, especially when you're young, it's like effervescent and fun and everybody goes out and has this big old time.

When you get older, like you don't want to battle crowds. No. Stand in line for the bathroom. So, like, we don't really want to go out and do all that. But it is like, there's just like this, lightness and joy about the holiday, kind of like Christmas. Like, it's not got any bad connotations, I don't think. I think if you can find a bar that's comfortable, you know, easy, close by, nothing crazy, small, intimate.

You got to find the small towns that have their own New Year's Eve celebration with something weird. Like I know Mount Olive North Carolina has a pickle drop. Oh, really? They drop a pickle instead of a ball. That's fun. That is fun. We used to do it in Key. We've done it in Key West.

They have a drag queen and a big slipper. Yeah. Yeah. Something like that. At the drag bar. And on the other end of the street, there's a conch shell that drops, but it's so much busier down there. So we hit the drag, drag bar.

Key West was crazy because the street is like elbow to elbow. You know, it's packed. People everywhere. It's packed. So that was kind of, that was different because it's a bit of, we wouldn't go try to be in something that crazy, but that was Key West. In any other city. Yeah.

Yeah. Right. But I mean, if in this environment, in this day and time, like let's go down the street to the pub and have a few drinks and we'll get back home before midnight and yeah solid new years we're going to do the polar plunge this year oh we've so speaking of goals and resolutions if there is a goal or resolution we make January 1 we've done this a couple of times we're like next year we're going to do that we've said it over and over next year we're going to do it yeah so this year's the year we're doing it we're going to go to the beach

and we're going to try to hang out at the pub and then polar plunge. It's a fundraiser that they do every year. That's fun. In the ocean. They raise money for the Special Olympics. Yeah. So we're going to be a part of that. Very nice.

Run off into the ocean. Come right back out. Go to the bar, drink. Freeze your ass off. Yeah. Going to the bar after, it has to be a must after that. Oh, yeah. We are?

I thought we were going to, like, be lying home. Sorry? Change clothes and maybe come back. Well, yeah, I mean, we'll dry off. Oh, okay. Yeah. I'm imagining, like, freezing, truly freezing in the pub. No, no, we won't be doing that.

Okay. But we'll have to be quick because the pub fills up. Yes, it does. Yeah, for sure. That's the thing. Like last year, or last time we were in the pub, everybody runs out, and it's like the perfect time to get another drink, go to the bathroom, order some food.

Yeah. So that's why we don't go. Yeah, that's too prime of a spot at it now. Yeah. My last question is from Mary. She wants to know if you guys have any tips or fun ideas for her white elephant gift for her family gathering this year. Oh, we had a good one the other day. What were we going to do?

The white elephant gift? We were going to re-gift something, remember? Oh, I have a pile of stuff to re-gift. So we did for Christmas with his family, all the adults do a re-gift white elephant. And so I have started collecting piles of stuff. Yeah, you were asking me about a specific gift. You were like, is this a white elephant gift? I'm like, hell yeah.

My aura ring. I bought an aura ring. It was too small for my flower. finger and so it's been sitting in the box that's the ring that tells you all the things yeah and so i was going to give that get it out of here that's a good re-gift i don't know if it's a good one because it's small like it's it's it's too small for my fingers too bad yeah yeah well too bad i say booze is always a good idea high rock i don't take some high rock i i like i like getting things that i can use so i like i don't think gifts are fun if it's if it's if it's

I like to give the gift that no one wants, that everybody's trying not to land. That's fun for me. Yeah. That's my entertainment. Let me get this, put this gift in the rotation and watch people try not to end up with it. Watch people try to trade that thing. You really want to invite him over for Christmas. This part, joy to have the most traded gift at the party.

There definitely is some joy in that. Yeah, you wanted to get stolen. So it's got to be good for that to happen. I want to go the other way. Yeah, but yeah, I'm just trying to. to get rid of this thing, so here you go. Yeah. There's one funny trend online that they just like wrap things that are in like their

grandparents house or something and put that in the white elephant. I think you go that route. That's always funny. Yeah, like the crochet thing that sits on the back of the toilet, whatever that is, covers the toilet paper and give it to the, like, is she in the room? Yeah. Or they're opening it to like somebody else. Like, what is this?

And it's like, see, like, I think I have something like that. Like, it is yours. That would be fun. Oh, man. All right, everybody. That's the end of the show. show. Appreciate everybody tuning in. Make sure you subscribe and check out the YouTube page. We've got a couple of the best of clips floating around on our YouTube page from earlier this year. There's

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