The Dale Jr. Download - Fall Break, Farts & A****** Tendencies

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

On today’s episode of Bless Your ‘Hardt, Amy Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr. jump into their fall break with the kids, and how they realize it's not just a vacation for kids. They go over their week at the beach house, which included a bar-hopping trip to Charleston and how they celebrated Dale's 51st birthday. In the Fixins segment presented by Hellmann’s, Amy and Dale help solve couples' dilemmas which included how to navigate unappreciated gifts, using the bathroom with the door open and how to tell your girlfriend to stop giving you haircuts. Amy and Dale also go over their favorite Makin' Mo Merch submissions, and answer the fan's questions in another edition of #AskAmy.   Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hi, guys, Dale and I are back for another episode of Bless Your Heart. We are on fall break this week, so we're having our show from our beach house and have a good show. So let's get started. The following is a production of Dirtymo Media. Oh, yeah, this is the way it's going to be, girl. We're going to hang out. Open a bunch of jars. You've got big strong hands.

Are you suffering from Highcraft? I'm working. Working that mouth. Yeah. It's going to be a lot of fun doing it remote. Me and Amy are in the same room, just using different cameras. So we've tried to set up multiple different ways. Obviously, I think we prefer being in the studio, but we've got to get out.

And our kids are on fall break, as Amy said. And so, yeah, it's been a long year. It's hard to believe fall break's already here. Like we're starting to head on into the holidays. The holidays, yes. I saw something the other day that said that Christmas is only like 10 Fridays away. that includes this week, so it's going to be right around the corner. So we got a drink of the week.

We each just came into the, this is our little bar in our house upstairs. It's a little bar area. But we just came in here and made a drink. This is a little bit of high rock vodka with cherry lemon sun drop. I have a glass of champagne. Just kept it simple. Delicious. Check on high rock vodka.com.

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And let's get right into it. It's a fall break. I did not anticipate how much I would be looking forward to these little... I thought, you know, when I got out of school, that looking forward to like those breaks in school were over in my life. Well, I don't remember even having a fall break in school. I don't either. Do you?

No. And our school year was different. It feels like, I don't know. I felt like that we didn't start as early. We didn't. We started after Labor Day. Right. And so our kids are starting sooner.

They get more breaks than I remember getting, which is fine. I mean, I'm fine. Lones are staying smart. Those are learning. Okay. But at 51 years old, I'm still sitting here going, hell yeah, fall break. That feels like, you know, on trend for you. It's Dale's fall break.

It's not the kids' fall break. Well, I know we're all vacationing. And it was just your birthday. Yeah. Yeah, it is unique that it falls around this time. But fall break for us is just going, you know, not, I don't, you know, Amy, you can, you may have a different point of view, but I feel like we just kind of, we just leave the house. We go somewhere. we don't really, sometimes maybe we'll end up at a...

A pumpkin patch or something? At a pumpkin? Yeah, something simple, but nothing crazy. Travis's favorite. Our life's full of plans. And so, yeah, this week we use it just to take advantage of coming down here, which is great because there's all types of activities to do that don't need plans. And so we love coming down here.

I actually got to sleep in this morning. Dale was Mr. Mom. And I got to be Dale this morning. Yeah, I had a wild hair to get up. and make some breakfast of the kids, feed the dog. They tried to get me up first. She comes straight to the – I love – or Nicole. I don't even know.

I didn't open my eyes. Came straight to the side of the bed and starts tapping me on the face, telling me she's thirsty and hungry. And Dale got out of the bed and helped him out. But I did notice that – What did you make, Dale? Cinnamon rolls. He made cinnamon rolls.

And there was – Preheated oven to 350. Oh, yeah, you went the easy route. That's smart. Freeheated oven to 350, stick them things in there for 20 minutes. There is a little bit of a trick to the, the cinnamon rolls, though, and I forgot to tell Dale the disclaimer before we ran off. You know, it's the kind of a can that you open and then they pop.

Well, the ones that I buy, full on explode. And so the cinnamon stuff gets literally everywhere. So when I open them, I do it over the trash can. And he decorated the whole kitchen when I was just getting my coffee. I mean, it's all over the cabinet doors, refrigerator. It went everywhere. But I was, I chuckled because I should have said something when I didn't. It was my fault.

I felt like I cleaned up what I saw. Yeah, he was trying his hardest. He cleaned the dishes and everything. He had some dishes. But I don't know why they have to make them. Well, so fall break, this, you know, this is unique because I guess, you know, falling so close to my birthday. Birthday.

Last week, last weekend, we celebrated Nicole turning five. And Amy's like, what do you want to do? And I said, well, when we go to Charleston for fall break, let's just go into town and have a few drinks. No problem. Okay, we'll do a little day drinking noon to five or something. So that's what we did Tuesday. Tuesday.

And yesterday we just kind of laid around, hung out with the kids, didn't really do nothing. We took them on a ride with their new golf cart. That's right. Yeah, we did that. We'll talk about that in a second. We did get another golf cart. But fall break is just, so yeah, we went. we, Tuesday we went into town.

And Charleston, so we have a, we had a place in Key West forever. And then we sold it when we got kids. And so we were down there one day pushing Isla around in a stroller at 9 o'clock in the morning. And people were out partying like hell already. And we thought, man, you know, we got a, before she starts getting aware what's going on, she can't think this is just normal life. We might not need to be around this often, right? And so we thought about getting a place where we could drive and still go vacation.

So I raced down in this area, like Monk's Corner, Savannah, you know, all these areas are familiar to me because racing at Myrtle Beach or racing at Florence or Somerville. I know a lot of the people, you know, that were from those areas. So I don't know why it feels familiar to me. So we kind of settled around here, and it's been nice. We've been here for about five or six years. We get down here as much as we can, and we don't really go into Charleston too much. We kind of get stuck out here on the island and in our groove. And Charleston is insane, really good.

All kinds of stuff to do. All kinds of stuff to do. Yeah, the food is good. The bars are, everything is kind of old. The buildings, even if it's a new space, it's built out in an old, an old shell. So it's just neat. We went to a few bars. We did.

So yesterday, or Tuesday, we went and got something to eat at this one spot, really cool place called Louies, right? Leon's. Leons. Sorry. Leons. It's an oyster bar, but it used to be a body shop. Yeah. It's really neat.

So the building is neat. Staff was great. Everybody was super nice. Food was really good. And then we went to a couple of bars that a friend of ours had suggested we go to, a buddy of ours named Bruce that lives down here. And so we went to the Royal American, super cool, really, really old school inside, Seems like it's been there forever.

And out behind, in the Royal American, you can explain it better than I can, Amy, about the outside of the back deck and all that. Well, you just walk outside and there's a train track right next to it. And then from in the distance in the background, there's like Marsh, and then you could see the Rabinnell Bridge. So it's kind of a weird mashup of things. On the way out, the trains going by, and all these boxcars and stuff. It's really cool vibe.

Yeah. But then we left there and we went to... We went to the rec room? The rec room. That's right. Is that next? So in the rec room, got a couple of photos with some of the staff there. And we're the only people in there.

It's like two in the afternoon. They're just opening up like an hour ago. That's pretty much the situation in everywhere we went to. We were day drinking, but nobody here really does that, it seems. Like they're all at the beach during the day, and then they go hang out in the dark, cool, vibey bars at night. We were in there, like senior citizens. I feel like Charleston is, I feel like Charleston, though, is like a tourist area, though.

Yeah, but we would have people day drinking. Local holes, I think, that we were in. Okay. So, yeah, we were in there by ourselves for the most part, and every one of them. Oh, it's fine. It's perfect. I mean, I don't like to go to those bars at night anymore. And so just going in there and sitting in there and day drinking and getting all that out of the way and getting home at a decent hours, kind of the play these days.

But we go to a couple of these bars, and then we finally ended up somewhere for some five o'clock dinner food, and then we got back home. And so yesterday, I guess yesterday we ended up on Instagram. The Charleston scene. Yeah, the Charleston scene. Those kind of Instagram handles. I guess we ended up on the Instagram that we were out and about. And so we were getting text messages from friends in the area. And then we went to dinner last night at a local spot here on the island.

And they were like, y'all are all over Instagram. We're like, really? We were kind of out by ourselves. Who knows who saw us? We were by ourselves. Yeah, we were oblivious. But anyways, we had a good time, Tuesday. Drink a lot of beer.

And one of us drank a lot of beer. Yeah, I drank a ton of beer. Amy did. I would absolutely go back to all those spots. And I was texting Tim Dugger and all my friends about like, man, these are spots that you guys would really love. So again, ton of history in Charleston. And so my birthday was complete. That's all I need. I need just,

you know, for my birthday, all I really want is to go out with Amy and have, you know, three, four, five hours of sitting around drinking and staring at each other. He did do that all day. I don't know what that is. He's been doing that since I met him. It's not like a new thing. I'm not shocked by it. But it is still a little awkward. Travis, when you start dating someone and you like the way that she looks, are you just going to just like, If we were just dating, I wouldn't do that. He's always done that. If you didn't have anything to say, yes.

If you didn't have anything to say, you would just sit there and stare at me. And I'm like, isn't that a good thing? It's a good thing that he likes what he sees, but it is very awkward. How do I know how to, what do I do with that? You're just like, you're eating. All of a sudden, you look up, somebody's just still like staring at you. Same thing. And he still does it.

And he was doing the other day to make me feel awkward after he just, knew it was making me a little uncomfortable. He was like, I'm just going to keep going. I just got into that point in my life now where I'm more appreciative, I guess, of what's happening around me and who I'm with. I think it was just you were being a stinker trying to antagonize me. I'm telling you the truth. I'm trying to tell you the truth.

I got something random. Oh, you do? Go ahead. So I woke up in the middle of the night and you, I woke up in the middle of the night and I had a hand on my arm. And it was rubbing my arm just ever so slightly. And I'm like, you know how when you have a weird dream and you're trying to attack the person,

but you go catatonic, you can't move in the dream? Like you're just paralyzed? That's what I felt because I knew it was a real hand, but I didn't know whose hand it was. It didn't feel like his. And so at one point I grabbed it and I did realize it was his, but his arm was all the way underneath his pillow and my pillow across my chest on my arm.

And he was just rubbing my arm. arm. What the hell were you dreaming about? Was I sleep? Yes. Damn, I don't know. Scared the shit out of me. It's probably having a good dream. Like, man, this feels good. You were tickling my arm. It was weird. It was like velvet. And I literally like froze in my bed. I'm like, there's no little person to my left. Who the fuck is rubbing on me? Sometimes that's the one thing about being a parent man, you'll wake up in the middle of the night. And sometimes there's a kid in the bed. Sometimes there's a, there's another, they get in there and they don't, you know, you don't get woken up. it's kind of a little bit of a jolt when you wake up and there's you know you're going to be careful who you

well the kiddos just climbed in there and you know they do they do that thing where they walk and stand next to the bed and stare at you until you wake up yeah that's ila's move she likes to get as as close as she can to your face and just breathe until she until you wake up that's creepy so weird yeah yeah i woke up late i don't know what time it was i thought it was like i was still like half sleep, thought it was like time to start the day. Then I like grabbed my phone. I'm like, oh, it's like two in the morning. Yeah.

I go back to bed. Like, I was out of it. Are you able to go back to sleep at two in the morning? Oh, yeah. I was out. I did that Tuesday night. We've been out all day drinking and, I mean, you know. That usually happens when you drink alcohol.

We had like eight or ten beers over the course of five hours. And so we get back and, man, we, you know, we put, we get the kids to, brush, we get them upstairs, get on the bed. We're in the bed at 9 o'clock. I woke up at midnight. And when I woke up, I'm thinking, my bed it's, you know, 4, 5, 6 in the morning, 5 in the morning, still dark out.

I looked at the clock and I was like, it's only like 12. And I'm like sitting there wide awake at 12 o'clock. You're not usually in bed by 12. I know. I hate that. And then I sit there on my phone for an hour and finally get sleepy enough.

So they say you don't, you know, when you're trying to go to sleep, you're not supposed to look at your phone. Yeah. Like that's not, that's like going to stimulate you. But any kind of reading, any kind of reading or looking at words and stuff like that makes me sleepy. So if I just sit up and read anything, like, it doesn't matter what it is, I get tired. Yeah. You're used to the lights and the gaming stuff, so it doesn't bother you.

So I'll... Yeah, your body tells you, if you're on your phone, you're supposed to be awake. So then if you do that when you're trying to fall asleep, like it, your body's like, No, no. Laying in bed right now, I should be awake. By the does it do that. And so if I, if I grab my phone, Amy's like, what are you doing on your phone? Yeah, because this phone is huge and the brightness is all the way up and sometimes the noise is on.

That's how I'm going to try to make myself go back to sleep. But can you turn the brightness down a little bit for Amy? I mean, I turn it all the way off. Even if he's got it underneath the covers, I know. I can. I will have the brightness to zero. I'll be under a comforter. And she'll be like, hey, why are you on your fucking? Go in another room.

Go in the other room. Yeah, that's definitely not going to. I'm not going to be able to sleep in another room. You can sleep on the couch is fine. Get one of those screens that like from the side you can't see. A shady screen? Yeah. That's a new one.

So I can, if I, so Amy doesn't like it if I sleep on the couch. If I go to sleep on the couch, she gets upset because she thinks it's like a dig to her, like I insulted her in some way by not coming to bed. But I can start in bed as long as if I end up on the couch, it's okay. as long as I started in bed. Only on special circumstances. And at home we have a couch right next door to the bed. Like we have a little sitting room.

I slipped on the other night. Yeah, for a while it used to serve as a nursery. And now it's just got a big couch in it. Yeah. Nicole was sick and came in our bed and she was like 150 degrees. Her body was really hot. She was hacking all over Dale and he's like, I can't get sick. I got up and got on the couch.

It's like five feet away from the bed. It's not far. But there was a little bit of a wall so you can't really see your phone. We had a lot of fun doing. this segment on the, on previous episodes, and you'll hear Gus barking every now and then he's trying to get in here, but he's whip. So this is the Fixings segment presented by Helmans. Helmonds is made with real quality ingredients. It's a lifesaver in the kitchen. Grab a jar next time you're out, and check out Helmonds.com for recipes that can fix just about anything you have going on.

That's what this segment's about. Sometimes you mess up really bad. You need someone to tell you exactly how to make things right. And so in this new fixing segment, listeners have sent in their most disastrous moments, and we're going to lay out a recovery plan. So we're ready to go, Travis. This first one is a doozy, so buckle in. My girlfriend loves tennis.

So I bought her a tennis outfit one day as a random just because gift. You know, like how guys are gifted golf polos. She said she liked it, but left it in my closet. Fast forward a year, while she was helping me pack up my apartment to move last week, She found the outfit in the closet and thinks it belongs to someone else. I've explained to her that it was the one that I got for her, but she never wore. But I have zero proof. She's been mad for a week, but she's sort of starting to believe me, what could I have done differently?

That's kind of wild. So I'm surprised she didn't remember ever opening it. Like girls usually remember opening a gift and the fact that he gave her one. Which tells me she didn't like the gift. No, she didn't like it. Or, yeah, I don't know. Maybe she left it there thinking, they were going to play together and that just never happened.

That is a doozy. You're not wrong. I don't know that there is a cure or fix for this one. I feel like you got to just stick to the story. I'm surprised there's no photo evidence of her opening it or anything. Well, yeah, I think you're just kind of got to stick to the story and... I mean, it's got the tags on it. Like, right?

I don't know. Yeah. So she's got to understand that nobody's been wearing that. Maybe it doesn't have the tags on it. Well, I mean, you can tell when something's fresh and it's been worn. Yeah. or it's been worn. I feel like she just needs to try it on and go with it.

Yeah. Man, that's a tough one. I think also next time he's just got to take photos when he gives gifts. He's got receipts. Yeah, you need receipts. This is a common challenge for men because there be all kinds of things that women forget happened or that they forget we did. What?

And you'll be like, I'm telling you, this is what happened. I don't know. That's not what happened. There's no way out of that. I beg to differ. There's no way out of this. I feel bad for this guy because he's got no root out. He's got no safety net. I wonder if he bought it and thought he gave it to her, but like never did. Why would it be hanging in his closet?

Oh, that could be. Well. Yeah, like why would she have left it there? Yeah. Yeah, because even if she didn't like it, most girls wouldn't just leave it. Yeah, they're going to take it so they can, then they make it feel like a, oh, I liked it. Yeah.

And it's a little more gracious. And even if they didn't like it, they'd take it home and make fun of it with their friends. Because, I mean, if I was him, if a lot of time had passed, regift it. Huh? Regifted it. I think it would have dawned on me that this actual problem would become a possibility.

You know what I mean? So like if this is only like surely some time has passed for her to forget, right? And so over. of the year. It's on him to have not went, you know, four months ago, hey, you know what, this could be problematic. You know, this being in here, she might not remember this or whatever. He could have saved himself some trouble, just getting rid of it. Yep. This next one, I have a feeling you two are going to be able to talk about this one in depth. Is it normal for couples to go to the bathroom with the door, with the door open?

I just moved in with my boyfriend, my apartment, and within hours of living together, He goes number one and number two with the door wide open. I've never lived with the man before. Tell me, is this normal? Am I stuck smelling his bowel movement forever? Or do I have to say something to make it stop? Okay, you can say something, but bottom line is he's going to do it anyway. That's what I have learned.

That too happened to me. The exact same thing happened to me. And I think just yesterday I was smelling some bowel movements. So I feel like don't matter what. We were in bed last night. And I got, I knew I had a. to to toot because I ate some grapes earlier. And I was like, all right.

So I got up, walked all the way. I mean, I walked a whole lap in the house to go toot. And I came back in there thinking, I'm good. She says, hey, do you fart? I'm like, yeah. She said, did you leave the room or leave the bedroom to go far? Yes, she said, you brought it back in here. Yeah.

I was like, damn it. It's like a dirt cloud still stuck at his britches and then he walks it back in the room. He doesn't walk as near as long as he thinks he does. Good intentions. Wait, how long is a person he's supposed to walk, Amy, like a half a mile? How long are you tooting? You're going to have to leave it in the other room. If you're still are still tooting while you're walking back in, like you're basically

done. You're like a crop duster, just crop dusting the entire house. And now there's nowhere to escape to. Like, now we just have to smell it and taste it in every room of the house. I'm about 30 feet away. So I walk 30 feet post-toot. So like there's only one way in and out of the bedroom, right? I can't get away from it.

30 feet. it ain't enough. And now it's back underneath the covers too. So, like, there's really no escape. I think what you need to do, Dale, is you need to change directions because if you are farting as you're walking back, you're just taking it with you. It's like a car. Like the air's just going. I'm telling

you guys. It's still stuck in your britches. Here's a play-by-play. I'm an expert to let me do this. You are not. That's the whole point of this. You're not actually as good as you think. Yes, give us play-by-play on this. He gets up out of the bedroom. He walks out of the bedroom, walks down the hall, into the spare bedroom, does a circle while tooting, gets his

toot done, leaves that bedroom, walks down the hall 30 feet back into his bedroom and lays down. Pull the covers over. Next time, just go outside. That's what I did. All right. What was the story we were talking about? So back to the story. All about movements.

I think you should do it with the door shut, especially when you start having kids, they need to know that the door's supposed to be shut. Dale will still sit to do things with the door open. I'm like, these kids are too old. Now they're doing it too. We have to make sure the door shut. Of course you need to do that. But you're going to smell it for the rest of your life, yes. I wasn't the one.

I did not practice this, but I think, yeah, shutting the door. It's just like, you know, guys will walk into a bathroom and go, you know what, shutting the door is just wasting time. I'm going to get right to it. Shutting the door is not like a, it is inconsiderate. I can see it can be viewed as inconsiderate, but it's not intentional. You're just thinking, I'm just going to get this over with. It's going to take a few seconds to take a piss or whatever.

So I'm not shutting the door. So you'll try to, unless there's someone else in the house. Like if there's another person in the house, like cleaning lady or whatever, yeah, you've got to shut the door. I'm glad we've had stipulations here. Absolutely shut the door. Oh, my gosh. You're special. And this is what happens.

So I don't sometimes. Manners are not worried about manners at all. We're just worried about if the cleaning lady sees this with her pants. down, that's the threshold. I know, and that's what I was about to say. So, if you have kids in the house, you're teaching them that the same manners. So shutting the door, because my girls do that. They go in there and they pee with a door open, and I'm like, well, I wish they wouldn't do that.

He's on to Islay. He's like, why aren't you shutting the door? And she's like, you don't. I know. I'm like, I don't. Yeah, I'm like, all right, I get it. So I'm shutting the door now just so they see me shutting the door, so they'll shut the door.

Amy, is that true? Has he been shutting the door? Yes. Or so, yeah. Yes. Okay. Because, too, he'll go in there and sit down and they'll just come on in and bring their dolls or whatever. And they don't care.

I mean, small kids, they don't care about anything, really. So, yeah, now he shuts the door because he just wants his privacy because they've gotten obnoxious. But it's a good idea to do that. On to the next one. My wife recently has taken up cosmetology. So I offered to let her practice on me and my hair. I had long hair down my shoulders, so I let her cut it. Big mistake.

She's learning. So I told her it looked good. great the first time, but now we're six times in and I don't want to keep looking like I have a bull cut as a 40-year-old man. How do I tell her she sucks? Ooh. You don't tell her she sucks. Well, first of all, yeah. Yeah, you don't do that. You tell her that ask her which beetle you look like. No, no, no. Or was it the monkeys that had the bull cuts, all of them? Both at points.

Yeah, I think you've got to tell her you're going back to your original hairdresser. Just tell her you want to grow it back out. Yeah. Bingo. Yeah, to say, disavoid all the you, you suck. Let's critique her job. Let's just say, I want to just grow my hair back out. Hopefully over time she gets better. Maybe you can try out my buddy Travis, you know.

If she don't improve, then you're in a really bad spot. Well, we don't know also if normally her clients are women. Cutting men's hair and women's hair is completely different. It's not the same. So maybe she's just not cut out for cutting men's hair. Or being a barber. Well, she just started guys. If she doesn't improve,

you're in big trouble, but she's certainly going to get better at it. Yeah, you just got to say you want your hair long again, you miss it. Yeah, I feel like that. You just avoid the rest of it all together and say you want to go back out. Last one. I was on a company call, a company Zoom call. I muted myself to ran about the incompetence of others to a person two doors down. She, the person I was running to was not muted, and everybody heard me.

How do I fix this? I think you lean into it. I mean, once you've made your bed, you kind of got to own it. I mean, I do that. I do that sometimes. I get a little bit aggressive. Yeah, you did that other day. What?

Yeah, in the kitchen. He was ranting about something he got as a gift. Oh, my God, I did. And I want something he was. This is terrible. But there was someone else in the room that got him said saying, Oh, no. Not the exact same one, but.

So Dale got beef jerky from someone. Y'all know I have my own beef jerky, jerky boys. And I'm telling everybody it's the greatest stuff in the world because it really is. So listen, if I had a dress company, it doesn't mean that somebody else can't give me a dress from another designer. Right? No, it's not the same thing because I'm not eating it. But Dale is very adamant that beef jerky is off limits now. The jerky poises it.

And that's fine. But I don't think that other people, especially people that don't live close by, truly know that. So he got some beef jerky for his birthday, and he was ranting about one specific, it wasn't the stuff the person in the room gave, but he was talking to Katie, my sister and I about it, going on and on and on. I'm at the dish, I'm at the sink, just doing the dishes. And I turned around because I'm like, oh, my gosh, he's talking about this. And he won't stop.

He's, like, going so hard. I'm like, man, I've got all, they gave me a bag of, they gave me a bag full of jerky. And I'm like, you know, I'm not probably going to eat it because it's more of a store brand. And I really, I'm loyal. to what we're doing with jerky boys. Yeah. And I don't know what the... Can you believe this?

They know I have jerky boys. Can you believe they gave me this bag of jerky? While I'm saying all of that? And I turn around and I look at him. I was like, I think you said enough. And I'm like, stop it. And I'm like, what? I'm just talking.

What is the problem? She's like, cut it out. Cut it out. Lock it up. Lock it up. I'm like, I don't think I'm doing anything wrong. And now he's... So he's also the type of guy, if you kick him under the table,

he's going to say, hey, man, why'd you kick me? Yes. He doesn't pick it up. He does not pick up that he's supposed to be a discreet. What I didn't understand and know was that her dad is sitting in the kitchen, and he too got me a bag of beef jerky. And he asked me what to get, Dale. I'm like, I don't know, maybe get him some of that dried sausage

or some things that, like, you like from home. And so he did, and he brought him local things. It was not anything store bought. I was so embarrassed. So he gets in the freezer. He's like, he bought me steak. So I was like, I don't think so. I think you need to look at it.

Anyway, he was going on and on and on and on. I'm like, dude, open mouth, insert foot. To someone who gave, someone in the room who gave me jerky. Like two days before. Two days before. Yeah. So we've done that. What an a s'-h.

I am an-did. Lean in. I want everybody to know that I am very imperfect and I have some ass-a-old tendencies. So just put that out there, so nobody's surprised when that flares up. Oh, my gosh. He felt bad afterwards. He sat on the couch. He was scared to go downstairs.

They were downstairs drinking beer. He just, like, hid from them. I did. Just go, go play. It's fine. They were fine. No, they didn't care. That's a tough one.

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because when life gets messy, Helmonds, the fix-in that makes it all better. All right, the Making Mo merch, the Bless Your Heart, Making Mo merch contest has ended. Thanks to everyone who submitted a design, we're going to go through them right now on the show. Travis has all of them teed up, and we'll pick our favorite tent.

They will be put on the shop. Dot dirtymo Media.com website available for purchase and the top three best-selling designs are going to win cash prizes. I believe it's $500 for first. So let's get to it. All right, so the first shirt here, Amy, that gal looks like she's one of them pin-up girls from the 50s. She does. Yeah, that would be painted on a B-17 bomber or something.

It's a cute shirt. It says boobies and buffalo shrimp, and she's holding up a tray of buffalo shrimp. She's serving some buffalo shrimp. She's got a nice... She's got a little curvy bod. Yeah, curvy bod. Underneath it says, they're spicy with love from the heart. Oh, nice.

Very cute. I'm a fan of this one. I think this one's good. This is better than the buffalo shrimp we had last time. Yeah. Oh, this one's super cute. So this is kind of a take on travel posters. So the back of it's got, how many is that, nine travel posters and different things that involve things we like.

I really do like that. That's super cute. I'm worried the shit out of that. It's got a pocket tee on the front too. So it's got a poster of Gus, Junebug, Key West. It says a little, she said no. She said no. House boat reference.

And then it's got our chairs, our lawn chairs. That's very cute. It is. All right, here's another shirt. It's white and just got like a little blueprint here. Got a problem that needs fixing. Dale and Amy got you covered. 1-800, bless your heart.

We're running. We're like caricatures. Yeah. We're running with our tools. With our tools to go fix something really quickly. That's pretty funny. I think it's funny. Man, your knees are up.

Yeah. This is more of an American. Americana, sort of red, white and blue theme. The heartbeat of America and got a white shirt, a little American flag emblem there. That's cute. Very simple. I love the hat. Yeah, the hat's great.

Yeah. I'd need it on a Richardson. That looks like a foam. I like the foamy. I don't like foam hats. I like the big foam hats. I like a little head, so I want a big hat. Oh, Lord.

So this is a take on the, on your dad wearing the Dame I'm Good shirt. So it's a drawing of him. And he's pulling his jacket open or his suit open and it says, bless your heart on it. That's pretty cute. Yeah. I mean, I like it. It's a black t-shirt too, which is nice.

Yeah. I even like it on the yellow on the bottom. There's like a yellow t-shirt option. I think that makes more sense. All right, this white and black. Blowing farts and blessing hearts. I love that it's in a script font. Like it's fancy.

I know. Blowing hearts. What's the emblem on the front? Is it a box? It's a fan. Around the pockets. Oh, Lord. I would wear that shirt.

You would? Yes. Did you design this in progress? No. Everybody here knows if you want me to design a shirt, it's not going to work out well. Oh. I think this one's pretty understated. Like, you wouldn't understand that it's about farts.

I like you wouldn't know what it is. Yeah. All right. Don't wash your chicken and it's a chicken in a bathtub. To me, I'd have a hard time wearing because it's. I don't know if people would try to guess what the reference is. They might think it's something, um,

uh, touchet or, uh, what do you call it? Yeah. Risque. Riskey. Triskey.

Don't wash your chicken. I don't know, man. I don't know. Do we call it a chicken? We talked about not washing your chicken. I know. What else would chicken be? I don't know.

I think it's funny. All right. Sign my boobs. Oh my God. Wow. And it's got your signature on the cleavage. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh. I feel like it needs to have a question mark on it. Like it's actually asking for someone to sign your boobs. I don't know, man. You might get... That might get people in trouble. You might get people coming at you. Some guys might come at you at the bar.

I feel like we just need to get rid of sign my boobs all together and keep the cleavage on the cleavage and right, bless your heart on the back or something. Like, you know, like the bikini teas that people are making now? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just do that and get rid of sign my boobs all together. So it's actually the boobs... The boobs are signed. In the right spot?

In the right spot. Yeah. Okay. Jugs hard seltzer. We've got a cute little truffle. In jugs, got two Gs. Seltzer can. No, just us girls.

Oh. In no format does Jugs have two Gets. I'm sorry, I can't remember. Official drink of the week tester, bless your heart. That's kind of cool. That's cute. Yeah. I like how simple that one is too.

Like it looks like a stamp of approval. Yep. Trash Day 5K. What? Oh, from you chasing the trash truck. Oh. That's hilarious. That is funny.

Oh, we should get one of those made. Trash Day 5K. And it's got me chasing. It's got a man chasing after the trash truck in the letters 5K. Is that man barefoot? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. That's funny.

That's really good. Bless your heart, garage door repair company. We'll see you again soon. I like that. That's funny. Yeah, we're going to back into it again. Yeah, that's pretty funny. And that's it.

Awesome. there are some good ones. Those are great. Thank you guys for all of your submissions. I've heard we've had quite a few and a lot to cipher through. So is that right? Yeah. Cipher.

Cipher. But those are great. So I can't wait to see which ones we narrow it down to. Yeah, we'll pick our favorite 10. They'll be put on shop, burgomomomedia.com, all 10. And the top three bestsellers, they'll win the cash prize. Are there any of that, like, stick out to you right now that you're like, that's probably, we shouldn't.

We shouldn't sway. Yeah, we shouldn't sway. way. Okay. I've done that in the past in these kind of contest things and it ruins. Oh, because then if it makes it, then people are going to go, if I tell you that this one I like, that one's going to get a little leg up. There were a few standouts for me. There were. There were absolutely some. And something that I'm probably going to own. Yeah. Well, that's the other thing, too, is these shirts, you better go buy now when they're up there, the top 10 because it's like a limited selection. It's not going to be like they're up there forever.

So limited supplies are either by now or you're going to miss that on some cool shirts that aren't going to be available. Yeah, especially the top, those other seven. Hey, this is Dale Jr. And for the latest, bless your heart gear, go to shop.dirtymomedia.com. We've got plenty of options for everybody and adding new stuff every day. Go to shop.dirtymomedia.com. All right, time for some Ask Amy. All right, guys.

I think we're ready for Ask Amy. If you haven't already, please hit the subscribe button on the YouTube channel. And don't forget to check out shop.durtymomedia.com. Thank you guys again for all of your submissions for the merch competition that is going to be up this week, I believe. So let's get started with your ask Amy questions. So the first question is, have you been keeping up with dancing with the stars? What are your thoughts and who's going to win? I haven't really, the only thing I've seen is the Irwin son.

Yeah, I saw on TikTok. And then last night they had a dedication. So we got to dance with his mom. And I heard that was pretty emotional. But no, otherwise, I haven't been watching. I do follow Julianne Huff because I like watching her dance, but I haven't been watching the actual show. Yeah, I don't watch that show.

I don't really watch any shows that are on network television. He has, we even tried to watch Victoria's Secret Fashion Show last night and didn't do that. I didn't know they brought that back. They did. I think they brought it back last year. Maybe this was the first year, but I don't know. It just didn't have the vibe that it used to.

I used to watch, you know, network sitcoms. I mean, I had tons and tons that I, you know, watched every day or every week or whatever. Cheers and Nightcord and Squidbillies. Squid billies, yeah. But like, you know, Seinfeld and the office and all those. I mean, I was a big fan and watched them all. But I don't know when the, I guess, around the time that the office went off, air. I've never really picked up another sitcom since then.

That's really kind of been my like, oh man, I got to see this. Do you guys have a show that you guys watch together at all? Every now and then, every now and then we'll get, she watches a lot of shows. I watch shows because I don't play video games at night. So like I have TV time by myself and I'll watch whatever. What are you watching right now? I have been watching The Last of Us. It's the zombie show on.

Oh, yeah. You mentioned that last week. On HBO. Yeah. But I've watched, I'll kind of like dabble around if I have something else I want to pick up. And like all of the series that I want to catch up on, I'll just, depending on my mood, change what I'm watching. Like Southern Charms coming back out in November. And so we love that. And so we'll watch that together.

So that's part of it. Big fan of Southern Tram. Can't wait for it back on. Next question. How was the pumpkin patch on Sunday? The Pumpkin Patch was like. Slightly miserable, slightly fun. We didn't even get a damn pumpkin.

What? The kids were very tired and short-circuiting. We did this giant slides. They have some really cool slides at Patterson Farm. And we did all that stuff. We did the corn maze. That was fun. We had to, like, do clues to get out.

Yeah, the corn maze was great. The corn maze was fun. And then after that, we kind of just were biting our time. And then we cut it a little early. We cut it a little early. Dale had to go to the bathroom. So he took... I had to go to the bathroom.

So me and her dad left a bit earlier. But y'all only stayed in an hour. Yeah, the kids literally lost their minds. Weather wasn't all that great. It was misting. They had a pretty cool little kind of a general store shop, if you will, that I could have bought some stuff in there, but we got to moving around and checking everything out.

It's fun. It wasn't that bad. There's another one down here that's pretty amazing that we might try to hit up on Friday. We'll see. All right. Also, this past weekend was from Mooresville, the grand opening of Waterburger. Did you go?

How was getting the taste of home? I didn't go. I haven't been there yet. I know. So Friday was Dale's birthday. So we had birthday things to do. Saturday, we had a birthday party for Nicole. Sunday, we were doing the pumpkin patch.

And then Monday we came down here, so I haven't had a chance to go yet. We went to pine the sky. I took everybody from Texas to the best place in Moorsville. Did you feel pressure? Did I feel pressure? Yeah, like if I recommend something that I'm like, I build up and I take friends like. I want to. No, because I didn't have, I think my confidence is at a thousand.

I'm like, man, this is going to hit a home run. I had some of their wings for the first time. They're pretty good. But what I've been thinking about with the water burger, I've been thinking about, like, getting one of each, you know, their basic cheeseburger and sitting down eating both and seeing. Oh, doing it side by side? Yeah, that'd be fun.

Let's do that. I went on Saturday. You did? So good. Yes. True. Having a Treesburger sitting outside watching college football, drinking beers, like, oh. Yeah.

Perfect Saturday afternoon. Yeah. We did get a sundrop bun cake at the pie in the sky. That was a surprise. Yes. They brought out a cake. So we sang the whole restaurant got some cake. We had too much cake, so we passed it around to everybody else in the restaurant.

There you go. One table said no thank you I would have probably said no thank you You would have? I'm not a huge cake person Yeah but this goes back to like the tennis outfit You just say yes and take it I don't want to throw it away

Well there were five people sitting at the table Somebody would have eaten it But there's just one stuck up dude that was like no thank you Oh I would just said no thank you for me Not for like No he spoke for the group Oh no no I'm not speaking for the group You get your cake

I should have just threw it down Yeah this next question rank these from favorite to least favorite bottle beer draft beer or can beer bottle beer or draft beer canned beer yeah favorite bottled favorite to least yeah you like bottle I would do bottle draft and then can yeah can of course he's going to be the exact opposite draft bottled see here here's I would do here's my reasoning um Too many times I've gotten bottled beer from a bar that isn't cold. And I don't know why.

Maybe there's some scientific evidence of this, but if you put a can beer and a bottled beer in a cooler, and for the same amount of time, I think that the beer in the can is going to have a lower temperature than the beer in the bottle. and when you go to these bars and they're stocking over, you know, consistently like restocking the beer, or they've gotten, you know, they've... They're busy.

They opened up and they've stocked beer and you get in there at one, two, three o'clock in afternoon. The beer you get out of their cooler is just, if it's bottled, it tends to be less, you know, not cold enough. Yeah. That I can appreciate. I'm not... I just would prefer to physically drink out of the bottle versus a can. Yeah. I don't mind drinking out of a can.

I think it's a, I don't mind that. I don't prefer one over the other, but I just feel like bottled I'm at a risk of getting a beer that's not quite as cold as I can get it. It's one of my one gripes, man. I don't bitch about too much. I'm not too high maintenance. But I can't, I, man, can't, can't do a beer that ain't cold, man.

Well, yeah, but, man, I love a good giraffe beer. Draft's great, yeah. It's my favorite. Yeah. It's the glass, right? right? And the ease of which you can get. Yeah. Yeah. Get a nice frosting mug. Yeah.

And you know what? I know that we're Bud folks and we got a Bud partnership and we'll always be Bud. But there's this pickle beer. Donna's. Donna's pickle beer. You got to give it a shot. Have you ever tried it? Yeah. I've never heard of it. I see it down here. I'm going to go over to the... We had some at Leon's. I'm going to go over to the Toto Wine and pick some up today. Story behind the Donna's pickle beer is that Donna was kissed by McJagger back in the day,

and she was eating pickles. Donna was backstage at a concert eating pickles. And he had a bunch of beer in his mouth. And they kissed, and she was like... Pickles and beer, why not? The flavor of the two. I know people that have put like a pickle in a bushlight. It says that on the can, on Donna's can.

It says that story. I've never had a pickle in a beer. I've had a pill on a bloody before, but not a beer. But why not? Well, I don't know if you're going to get a six-pack and take them all down, but having one is pretty good. It's probably like a good hangover beer because it's not quite so pungent. It's got a little of that pickle taste.

It's good. Donna's pickle beer. I'll check it out. This next question is for Amy specifically. Do you have a favorite fall wardrobe item that you always wear every year, like one of your go-toes? I just love it when it gets cold so I can wear a beanie. If even not really beanie weather, I like the way it feels. And I like the big slouchy ones.

So I mean, I'm not doing my hair all the time and love a beanie. Beanie and hoodies. Yeah. I got like two or three specific hoodies that are like softer than anything else. I always look shorts at hoodie weather like my favorite. It's a combo of shorts and a hoodie. Yeah. Yeah.

Like right now that like is like the perfect weather outside. It is. open the windows, it's crisp outside. Yeah. No, this is exactly the right time of year to be hanging out outside. Yeah. And our final question, speaking of the weather, how cold does it have to be for you guys to turn the heat on in the house? I don't know.

I mean, I have it on automatic. So I said it. We ran, we go from, so I'm very scientific about this. So, um. You can tell I don't touch the thermostat. We have a basement. All right. So if you have a basement and then a main floor, all right, heat rises.

So I always set the thermometer in the basement, the lower floor, one degree cooler, so that it isn't sending up air that needs to then be conditioned in the second floor or in the main floor. And so if the top floor is at 70, the bottom is 69 or 69, 68. So that's kind of the thing I do. But we range... I feel like if it's cold outside, is this a hot weather situation that you're doing? We range from 68 to 72 in our house, depending on what's going on. But it's on autos.

I mean, it does what it needs to do depending on what's going on. It does get cold fast on the main floor if it's cold outside because the basement's all concrete and it really does get cold down there. I don't turn the air conditioner only. It's on auto. we didn't answer your question we like it to be cold in the summer and hot in the winter we have no idea what the temperature number is I thought you would have a temperature Amy that you're like

that's where I kind of want the house to be at I do when I sleep like I want the bedroom to be like at 68 or even a little cooler is fine with me but in the middle of the day I'll say this too ma'am if you see a thermostat that I believe was set to a specific temperature and it is now changed, we're going to have to have a damn investigation. Who has touched this thing?

Who's changed this? So that's like what happens when you literally become a dad? I don't know if he ever looked at it before that. Oftentimes we learn that it was just a power outage that quickly reset it back to a default temperature. But I'll have all of everything. I'll have all the thermostats exactly like they're supposed to be. And then a couple weeks go by and I'll walk in.

to a room and I was like, hmm, this doesn't feel right. I'll walk over to the thermostat. Oh, it's four degrees higher than it's supposed to be. I wonder who did this. Could it be that it's not who did this, but just like it did itself with the temperatures and stuff? Oh, the thing's just changing its own temperature? What kind of thermostat is that?

I wouldn't buy that. Well, who's going around your house? I bet Nicole's really tinkered with it. So Ila has one in her bedroom and it works both of the girls' rooms, like that whole space in that side of the house. and so she'll play with it, or Nicole will, because they can reach it from the bed. Yeah.

I wish I could figure out how to lock them. You'd have to put a cage on the front, which would look terrible. When you were in high school, did they ever have cages over them? Yes. And then the teacher put like a cold cloth or something over it to try to make it. To trip it? Yeah, to trip it and make I think it's colder.

I don't know if the sensor's in the thermostat. I don't know. It might be. Yeah, it is. Suppose, yeah. See, we don't even know. how it works. We don't know how it works.

We don't. Oh, man. Yeah, see, I have to flip it because I just live in an apartment, so I have to turn it over to heat. We're not there. So the heat's running or the cool's running and that's it. And then you turn it on and off. That's not so bad.

Yeah. That's easier. So that's all we got for us, GAME me this week. All right. Thank you guys for your questions. Thanks for tuning in. And don't forget to check out the show. Please hit subscribe if you haven't already.

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