The Dale Jr. Download - Marriage Crime 101: Do NOT Watch OUR Show Without Me

Episode Date: November 5, 2025

It’s a Halloween recap episode this week, as Amy and Dale are back in studio for a special Wednesday edition of Bless Your ‘Hardt. Amy and Dale recap their Halloween costumes with the girls, trick-or-treating, and Nicole having to pay the Dad Tax. After a heartbreaking trip to Phoenix cut their planned spa and hiking day short, Dale reflects on this being his first year since 1996 not racing in NASCAR. Then, in the Fixins segment presented by Hellmann’s, Dale and Amy give advice to listeners about how not to keep score in a marriage and what to do when you're watching a TV show with your husband and he falls behind. 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.

The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media. Oh, yeah, this is the way 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, guys, Dale and I are in the Dirty Moe Media studio for our very last weekly episode of Bless Your Heart. It's been a fun year.

Oh, my gosh. Dale's already on one. I'm fine. I'm happy to be here. Happy to be here. You look amazing. Thank you. Showered today for you.

Don't say that. We're going to have a great show. We're going to talk about a lot of random things that Dale wants to talk about today. There's a couple things. Let's get started. Let's get started. We got the high rock vodka drink of the week. It is the apple cider martini.

This one looks deep. Yeah, but you're excited. Yours is rimmed with some sort of cinnamon and sugar because I didn't get that. It's so good. I mean, it is what it is. Two ounces of apple cider, one ounce of vodka, half an ounce of triple sec, half ounce of fresh lemon juice. I might just drink this whole thing.

One tablespoon pure maple syrup or simple syrup. A pinch of ground cinnamon, cinnamon stick, or apple slices. That tastes amazing. Sounds amazing. Perfect for the holiday season. We're getting ready to get fired up and dive right in. Feel free to double that. recipe.

Yeah. Mix a small drink. So first thing, I guess, is Ila was first this morning. I put that in the notes. I got to tell you, before we move on, visit high rock vodka.com to find a bottle near you and please drink responsibly. You've got to be 21 years or older. That's right.

Ila was first today. Ila was first today? First in line in school? Do we, would we agree that Isla in the shy, timid side? Not, not like when I talked to her about like going to try out for soccer with her friends. I don't do soccer. Yeah, she's a little nervous about trying new things.

All right. So we get to, we get in line, and today we were pretty early, seventh in line. So we're, the first nine cars, you can get out immediately if you're one of the first nine cars. So it's nine cars. Everybody gets out, then the next nine move up, and they get out, next nine moves up. And that's how the car line works. We're seventh.

So we're going to be one of the first kids out of the car. Isla looks at the clock every day, and she goes, for whatever reason, it, for whatever reason, And it's like at this specific time, that's when all the doors open the kids get out. So she looks at the clock and she goes, okay, it's this time and we have a few minutes left before all the doors will open, the kids will get out. And so we're sitting there

and I think we're going to wait for the time to happen on the clock and her to go, okay. And then she starts looking for her other kids to get out. And I was like, I don't want you to be first? She's like, what? No, no. Is anybody else open in her door yet? I was like, come on, I'll be first.

They'll follow you. Yeah, somebody has to be first. I was like, open that damn door and get out, be the first one, and watch everyone else. They're going to follow you. And she did. She did? Yeah. You said open that damn door?

Maybe I might have said damn. Open that door. Be the first one. And they'll all follow you, I promise. And she did it. Yeah. I bet she was really proud of herself. Yeah.

Yeah, you're right. She's not one to like stick herself out there, you know, and try something first. She got out of the truck. grab the handle on her book bag. It's got wheels. She wheels her bag and took off running toward the class. And I don't know what it is about that visual. It happens every day.

It is absolutely nothing unique. It's a kid getting out of a car and going into class. But I don't know what it is about it being your own kid and just watching her just run to school. Remember how hard. About being independent. That's what it is. It's such relief.

leaving you doing our own thing. Yeah. It's a relief. Like it's so, it's so nice. Yeah. It's cool. But she was a, she's like, I thought for sure she was going to go, no, no, no, no, no. I'm going to wait for someone else to open their door. And when the other kids do it, I'll do it. Yeah. But she just, just grabbed the handle, push the door open and took off.

Getting more confident. I love that. Yeah, I thought you would love that. So that's how I start the show with a positive highlight. A positive highlight. So we only can go down from here is what you're saying. We're up. Start high and go higher. We're going to start high and go higher?

Holy smokes. What are we going to do today? Well, shall we talk about Halloween? We can. So Dale did end up being the big bad wolf. He was more the big bad wolf versus like, what was the one that you wanted to be with the letter jacket,

which you did not pull out? The teen wolf. Yeah. So I found a mask at the Halloween store and it actually worked with his mouth. So every time he made a big roar, opened his mouth really big, it actually opens up. So we have some videos of him howling at the moon, which I didn't share. Why didn't you?

I don't know. I just kind of got lazy. I did that for you to share it with the social media. Well, there's still time, I guess. We're walking down the street, trick-treating, and then I would just sporadically just go, oh! I thought it was hilarious. It was funny.

Yeah, they were going to want to see it now. Well, I'll put it out there. We'll see. But it was fun. The girls had a great time. Everybody enjoyed our costumes. Even all the other little kids would come up to us. and then just take off running in a random direction.

He did do that too. We're like, wait, come back. Got to come back. The only thing I was missing was the furry back of the hands fur. Yeah, I couldn't. I wanted to have that because that really pulls it off. They have that. They just wasn't going to come in time.

Yeah. But the girls had fun. We all dressed up and the other little kids enjoyed our outfits. We had plenty of kids coming up to us asking us to sing the Saja Boy songs or the K-pop songs. Yeah, they did. As soon as we walked out of the house, hilarious. I don't know nothing about these cake pop

demon hunters or whatever they called. Yeah. I don't want to know. I don't care to watch it. I'm not going to watch that. And some cartoons with the kids, I'll watch them. But I'm not watching none of that.

But we walk out of the house and we're in a neighborhood just like you'd see in the movies. Sidewalk, perfect. House is aside, beside, and as we're coming out, other kids in the neighborhood are starting their journey through the, you know, the trick-of-treating experience. We walk out of the house, rode up the driveway to the sidewalk, and as soon as we

get to the sidewalk, this group of three kids run up and say, sing our favorite song. Like they were talking to our kids. They recognized immediately who they were and were like, we want you all to sing our, you know, they started interacting with them. It was hilarious. It was awesome. Yes. It was awesome. Honestly, wish that we had done a little practice. So we had at least like a five second bit, you know what I mean? Yeah. Most times, most times I guess, Amy, is like when you're walking around this neighborhood,

nobody, the parents might like interact, like, you're this and I'm this. Cool, you're King Tray. Here we go, running our kids around. But the kids don't, the kids like don't interact with nobody but their own group. They're focused on getting candy. They're focused on running and all that. They saw their, they saw the costumes. and they were like, oh, neat.

And they started talking to them. And it was different. It was just different this year. I know. It was freezing outside. It was cold. Cold enough to, like, have a coat on. And Isla's little arms were bare.

She refused to put a jacket on. And the sole purpose or the reason was because she was getting so much attention for her outfit and so much, like, accolade for having such a cool costume that she was like, no, I can't put that on. Everyone needs to see my outfit. So I was like, okay. Oh, yeah. She was really feeling herself.

But her arms, no sleeves, nothing. and not complaining, not one complaint about cold, not one. I was, yeah, I was surprised. Yeah, they did get a lot of candy though. Kids jump in swimming pools that are like 75 degrees and don't give it. Like, I ain't getting in a swimming pool now. I know, our kids won't. Our kids will complain because you keep it at 88 degrees.

Our kids will not get in a cold pool. Most children will. No, but like, there'll be days when the pool's not hot enough. and I'm like, yeah, it's too cold, guys, 82 degrees. And they're like, what? I'm swimming. It's supposed to be called. And they drive it.

They dive in there and they go. And I'm like, oh. But like, so they're, you know, it's kids will do that. Kids will run around in a, in the neighborhood cold and not care. Yeah. They'll be. They can put it out of mind. When did we get too sensitive?

Get too sensitive. When we stopped being so active. I got spoiled. If we were getting in a pool and playing, yeah. Marco Pol or whatever we used to play, we wouldn't care so much. I know. Because you've moving around.

Yeah, you didn't care. You fought through it to play. Yeah, we're just old and lazy. We just like to sit and lounge. Yeah, true. We're house cats. So the dad tax. Yeah, dad tax.

So the kids got tons of candy. And first thing they do is they, it's like those old pumpkins. I got purple ones, so they match their outfits. And they pour the candy out in the living room when they get home at Tamlin T.J.'s house. So they're kind of like seeing what they got organizing. Isla has a crap ton of candy. She took more than two. She took more than one.

We told her. We told her. Don't take more than one. She didn't listen. No, she did not listen. She'd go up there and grab as much she could. So rude. And so Nicole, too, because hers got heavy enough,

she decided to quit like halfway through. And she went back in the house with Madeline. So she's sitting out, she's happy as a lark with half the amount of candy that Ila had. But she is fully planning on eating every piece of it. And so I had learned this about her just two days before. I told you we had that play date and she ate every single piece of candy. So Dale's sitting at the bar where he had ordered pizza, he's eating food, and I'm like, hold Nicole's bucket.

I've let her have one piece. She can't have this whole thing. Well, I turn around and she's got the whole bucket on the floor again, and I walk over. I'm like, hey, she's got the whole bucket. He's like, yeah, I gave it to her. I'm like, she's going to eat the whole thing. And so I take the bucket from her. I said, listen, you can have one more piece.

That's it tonight. And then we'll have to put it away. And so she picks a full-size candy bar. It was the only one I think she had, but it was a full-sense. size chocolate bar. And Dale's like, you're going to let her have that? She's going to eat that? I'm like, you let her have the whole damn bucket.

She takes the thing out of the wrapper and her little tiny hand. She's got this gigantic, like, shack-sized chocolate bar and she's like, eating gigantic bites of her. I got told not to give her the whole bucket. Yeah, but she was going to eat it all. I'm like, wait a minute, she's getting like six servings of a chocolate bar here comparable to her size. He's, he's not listening.

She would have eaten that chocolate bar plus everything else. the bucket. And then got in the tummy ache and learned a good lesson. No, she wouldn't. Yeah. She would have gotten psycho-crazy and you would have learned a lesson. Not as bad as it would have. There was all kinds of stuff in there that she probably shouldn't eat, shouldn't eat. But anyway. Now we get back to the house. You don't really know this, but I took all of their candy and poured it into one single box. Well, I asked him yesterday. I said, he said, do you think we should throw the candy away? I want to throw it away. Because if not, I'm eating at all. And I don't want to eat it all.

Right. So I didn't know that you were having an issue. Yeah. Because that was days ago that we got the candy. I've been going out there and eating a little bit here and there and I want to get rid of it. But it's not his candy. He was trying to take it out of their buckets as they were trick or treating. And so I'm like, yeah, you just got to say dad tax every time you do it because he was getting swatted away, which is a total thing.

Have you ever heard about that? Anybody else? I believe, I mean, if you're telling me that I can make an excuse for grabbing candy out of my kids, Caloween bucket and call it dad. text and it's good. Yeah. I learned that from Billy and Kayla when we went Halloween to retreating with them in Dallas. Billy would just take what he wanted out of the buckets and be like, sorry, that's dad tax.

Yeah. And I think that it applies to other things. You just say it and don't give it any emotion. I like the whoppers and the nerds. Yeah. And the Reese's cups. I can just do the whoppers and nerds. Really?

Yeah, Risa cups are great. They are, but they're a little bit of work. Okay. Yeah. Why? How so? They come in those little wrappers. There's too many steps.

Yeah, there's too many steps. There's one extra step. So I just, they have now, you know, the little mini cups. Yeah. They have those in a pack, in a wrapper, like a bag, not the old traditional tinful. Yeah. Now they have them in a package. Yeah.

Single one thing. I tear that open and I'm going, surely it's just the cup, surely it's just a Reesey cup now. Nope. Still has that little thing on it. Yeah. Whatever that paper thing. That's how they make them. I mean, what are we doing here?

It's just too many steps. It's too much trash. You never cared about this before. Well, that's why I pass on them. I love Recy cups. Love Recy pieces. Rees. I call them Recy.

Why? Do we have to misrepresent? I like saying Recy. It's easier to say Recy than Rees says. It's like somebody's name. It's Rises. If I say Rises, it's got like an extra letter in there that I don't really want. You're adding an extra sound with the reese's.

See. Re-see is easier to say than res says. I'm just, this is just me. I get to choose. It's annoying. I know. I'm sorry. I change words if I don't like them. You just decide. Like the words sing, signal? You said it right the last time I heard you say it. Sometimes I'll slip up and get it right. Oh, shit. I forgot I was doing a thing. That should be on, I forgot I was doing a thing. That should be on my tombstone. Sometimes I'll slip up and get it right. Noted. I'll put that in my notes. Hey, this is Dale Jr. And for the latest Bless Your Heart Gear,

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This is the very first year since 1996 that I didn't run a NASCAR race. Oh, wow, yeah. How's it feel? Feels all right.

You feel all right? Yeah. You did run some races this year. I did. I ran some late mile races. I'm done racing this year, though. I'm not going to go run that South Carolina 400 that I usually run. So you've got me for the rest of the year. Sweet. I thought maybe you were going to spring it on me. I was getting myself mentally prepared. There was a race at Hickory called the Fall Brawl that I wanted to go run, but I just never got the guts to ask you if you felt all right about that. I mean, you don't want to ask anyway. I know. I know. I know. I just make everybody think that I really have this. like superpower over telling you yes or no you're going to race or not you don't no one's saying

that and that's been a thing i've gotten comments like that i like but i i feel like that i've i feel like that in the relationship it's like um the right thing to do say hey i want to go run this race we got that is the that would have been the one only off weekend of the i mean we've got something else going on every weekend. I know, but why it's running in that race and now we're going to come back and go to the race. So we're going to be there anyway. I want to see why race.

I do too, but we're going to be there anyway, is my point. Yeah. Well, yeah, it feels kind of weird to not be racing or not have raced in NASCAR, but I think, yeah, I feel pretty good about it. I feel, I didn't bother me. It didn't bother me. I didn't know if it would, but it's just a very new feeling, new feeling, I guess. Well, that's okay.

New feelings are good. Yeah. We went to Phoenix. I talked to you into going. Yes. We went there to try to win the Xenity Series championship, and we didn't. And we had packed our bags to stay through Tuesday or Wednesday morning. I had my tucks.

You had a gown. We were going to go to the spot. We were going to go hiking. Hiking. We had all this stuff planned. I took you all the way up there so you could see us fail. Listen, I went because I... My heart did break, but honestly, it wasn't because you guys didn't make it to the championship.

I know it's always very disappointing when you're planning to do that. My mind did not... My mind, we had three guys out of four in the chase for that championship. My mind was raptor on the fact that we were going to win. I didn't, like you, plan for anything else. You have more realistic or pessimistic. as you've said, vantage point on things like that. I was like, oh, there ain't no chance we're going to go home.

We're going to stay through the whole thing. And so when we didn't, it was like quite a bit of a shock. But I got super sad just watching how sad the guys were. Like all three of them were so sad. Justin is very emotional. I know him better than the other two. So I mean, I expected him to be, you know, teary-eyed and all that. And I walked up and gave him a hug.

but watching Connor cry like that truly broke my heart. Yeah. And we were walking towards him and I knew you were going to go talk to him and give him a hug. And I didn't follow you because I was figured I was just going to start ugly crying right there with him. I can't help it. So that just broke my heart. I hated that for him. He had such a good season.

Yeah, I was, I hated that you went, I hated that I took you all the way out there to experience all that, go down the way it did. But, you know, it was awesome that you went and awesome that we got to go have a day, even though we didn't get to stay and do all the fun things we wanted to do this week. Yeah, I know. It was fine. That's part of it. You know what I found to be very interesting, too, about Connor? So he and Jesse Love, I didn't know that were that close.

They are very good friends, and they had already planned to stay in a house together starting, what, Sunday through the rest of the week. So no matter what the circumstances were, like, like. likelihood one of them was going to win, you know, and one of them was going to be disappointed. They were going to just hang out together anyway. Yeah. And I don't know if that's like massive maturity or immaturity or not like thinking about through. Probably or lack of planning, yeah. Yeah, I don't know.

Like they figured it out and they seem surely they're fine. I called cars or I called Connor Sunday morning and just check in and take some emotional inventory. Yeah, right. And he was like, I get to hang. He's like, I'm not, I said, are you in the same house? house is is jesse right now i mean are you literally sulking and sorry feeling sorry for yourself while he's on the other side of the house like granted on top of the world yeah he's like no we don't we don't

get into that house till tonight so i've got a couple more hours of being by myself lonesome and sad feeling sorry for myself but yeah i i don't understand i don't pretend to understand the the friendship and i mean i get the friendship i get having buddies that you race with um and they grew up racing with each other, Brent Cruz. I mean, Connor knows a ton of these guys. He tutored them on the go-car tracks and stuff. So, you know, but yeah, I think tough lessons, you know. Yeah, I can't imagine you're doing that.

Well, he's 18, he's 19, I guess. Even at 19. Like, you guys, you were friends with your competitors, but, like, around the racetrack, you were not really that, but you're not friends. I think you are when you're, when you're 15, 15, 16, all the way up until them early 20s, everything as a boy or a teenager, as a young man, a lot of things are motivated by friendship.

And I want to do this. I want to do this, but I want my buddies. Yeah. Or I want to be with my pals. Or I want to be where they are doing what they're doing. I'm doing, I want everything I want to do. I want that buddy pack mentality. Pack mentality.

Yeah. And so I kind of, I guess that, Thinking back, you know, I was always like, I'm going to have a roommate. I need to have a roommate. I have a buddy. You know, when I'm sitting here at the house at 8 o'clock at night and nothing to do, having a roommate is better, you know? And so you just always thought that you needed.

And my dad would go, why you got a freaking roommate? What the hell? I'm like, cause is fun. We play video games and we hang out. All the things he didn't understand. Yeah, we just laugh and don't do shit. And he's like, why you want that? And so I kind of get it, you know, you always say I wanted to be.

around your buddies if you could. And, you know, but that'll change over time, I think. I just thought it was cool. I mean, surely they're having a good time. Yeah, I'm sure they are. I mean, it stings for, I mean, you walk through, I walked through the shop yesterday and walked through the, I was here Monday and walking through the shop today

and guys are still a bit in shock. Yeah, you know. But we've all run, all the guys that are in there, have done it for years, they know the deal. buck up and keep going keep going go to the next one all right oh wait wait wait wait what we got one more thing that we need to tell y'all it's hilarious we or you us i don't what the hell happened the very first note it's funny because we're bad parents we're bad parents so we were at home the other day i'm telling you what our girls were pissing us off we've talked about it they've been

on one i don't know why at the moon something they were pissing us off but it's thursday we're going to leave and go out of town i think it was Thursday We were leaving and go out of town on Saturday morning, so it was Friday night. I'm like, let's just take them out to eat. Let's not mess up the kitchen and all that. So, like, let's take him out and then you get out of the house. We took them to this Mexican restaurant that we love, right close by the house. Yep, it's where we had our first date.

And they were... Cute little place. It's an old church. Complete ass. They were such... Both of them. Even Ila. She's like slinking down in her seat almost falling underneath the booth.

She's sliding down in their seat. And they're like, I'm done. I haven't eaten a bite. I'm done. I don't want to do. And what they're going to do is they're going to get home. And in 30 minutes, they're going to get home and go. I'm thirsty and I'm hungry.

That's exactly how Nicole says it. I'm thirsty and I'm hungry. Okay, you probably should have eaten your dinner. But they're acting like complete jerks at this thing. Me and Amy are trying to have a good meal. And she's got a little margarita and I'm having a little diet cola. And this could be an awesome time. but they're making it so miserable.

Yeah, the steam is starting to come out of Dale's ears. He should have had a margarita too. We get home and we all sitting in the living room and they're not really paying attention. We got the TV on. And Amy asked me, she goes, what's your favorite old scary movie? And I was like, well, I don't know.

I think about that one. I guess Friday the 13th. I remember when Friday 13th came out. That was a big deal. Everybody was talking about it. We talked about Hellraiser too with Pennhead. Yeah. Hellraiser Friday at 13th.

Freddy Kruger. All of, we went through all of them. And I was like, maybe you got to fire up Friday 13th. I know, so we get on Amazon Prime, and there's a couple of them right there for us. We started playing one of them, and all of a sudden I got chickens. She did. I don't know. This is going to backfire.

I was like, these two deserved to have the shit scared out of them. I want them laying in the bed tonight with her eyes wide open, worried about Jason in Crystal Lake. Coming out from under the bed. Yeah. And then we thought better of it. And we're like, yeah, that's probably. You've gone too far. Terrible parenting.

Yeah. Well, man, we came so close. The intro was scary enough that we both were scared out of our dumbass decision. Andy started the movie and there's this girl running through the woods. And I'm like, we're doing this. All right. Any minute now, the kids are going to look at the TV and freak out. Yeah.

You know, Jason's going to get them. Well, as soon as it started, all the color and the thing is red. It's like really total red, like blood. And Nicole's eyes get really big, but not like she. she's scared like she's like been revived i'm like oh god maybe we were going to awaken the actual demon inside of this kid did you see her face no i did i was like oh gosh i saw them look at the screen and go this is weird you know they had that look like i don't know about this you know but it got their attention because the font and everything's kind of grueling and spooky yeah and then

then then the scene started playing and i'm like all right man we're kind of about about to get to the point and over turn i hit the button i'm like to scare the thing by the kids or we're going to bail. Yeah. And Amy bailed. I'm thankful she did. It would have been terrible parenting. Why would you subject your kids, you know, your five and your seven-year-old

and then they didn't say anything. They ran off and went upstairs to play. And Dale and I looked at each other and were like, that's what the fuck were we thinking. Like, you're terrible people. We were so mad at them. We just wanted to get back at them. Yeah. See, sometimes we need supervision too.

What would have been, what would have been something we could have done that would have been in the, you know, we would have. within reason. I don't know what my parents used to do when we acted like that. I'm sure we acted like that. There's just no way we didn't, right? We had a breakthrough yesterday. I was, uh, Nicole.

Ila wanted a corn dog. Nicole wanted a pizza. The pizza comes out. Nicole all of a sudden wants a corn dog. She won't stop saying corn dog. And I walk over there. I'm like, you say corn dog one more time. You're sitting on time.

You're sitting on the steps. That's time out. She goes. I don't want to eat this pizza. And so she puts his look on her face like, I'm not going to say corn dog but I really want to say but I'm not going to eat this

and I grabbed one of the pizzas of pizza and I eat I was like hey look at me she looks up and I went I eat it I was like this is good pizza and I know you like it and she she grabs this plate slides over and starts eating it she's like

it is good he told her he's like you're not getting up from this table until you finish it yeah I was like I think me taking the bite of it And saying, Getting right in her space, too. I was like, this is good pizza, and I know you like it. I've seen you eat it. And she's like, he's not wrong.

And she ate it and finished with a smile. Yeah, like seconds later. I gave him nuts. I was like, God, dang, I was about to lose my shit. And he fixed it, so good job. Parenting win. Okay, now it's time for some fixings. Fixings.

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Yeah. And it browns beautifully. Yeah. Give it a shot. All right. First fixing question is, so my husband and I finally picked a show to watch together. It took us forever to agree on one. So we made it our little thing.

We watched the first two episodes together one night. We went to bed and we literally said out loud. No one was watching another one without each other. We even shook on it. Well, here is where I might have messed up. He had to work late two nights ago and I could not sleep. So I told myself I would just rewatch a lot. last 10 minutes of episode two to refresh my memory, and then I accidentally watched the entire

third episode. Then episode four auto played, and I thought it'd be rude to stop in the middle. I tried to rewind and watch again with him, pretending I had not seen it, but he caught it, but he caught on because I was way too prepared for one of the jump scares. He paused the TV and looked at me and like I betrayed our vows. He says this is basically cheating in TV terms and that I broke our trust. I think he's being dramatic. I told him that if he really cared, he would have watched it faster. So who is right here?

Is it normal slip up or did I commit a marriage crime? And what is the fair punishment? Sounds like they're newlyweds. I would say that I would do something like this. So I would hopefully get some reprieve or some grace. Dale and I used to watch lots of shows together and now we really, we don't. I plow through a show and he won't even have a clue that I even watched it. I don't know if you shake on something

and you make a deal I feel like you have to honor the deal but at the same time you could catch up and then re you know go on together Dale's just looking at me like no don't care

I don't know I I think the way I feel about this is basically all right in this me and Amy say me and Amy start watching this show either one of us

are going to maybe find herself in that position where we had the chance to watch the next episode we want to, we're in this shit, we like it, we want to watch the next show but the other person's not there. You got to understand if you go forward and watch the show

you're breaking the vibe. You're breaking the pair. And now what more than likely will happen is is that you'll watch watch the rest of it by yourself. And the other person is not going,

you're probably more than likely not going to get that person to get back on board where you rejoin and finish the series. So like any time that, it just depends. I mean, like. If it's a series show, it's harder to jump back into, but you can catch up and you could rewatch it together.

It grinds my gears. Like if Amy's seen an episode of a, if we're in a series, like we watch, Bless Your Heart, I mean, sorry, we watch Southern Charm.

We'll sit down and we'll start. looking through our library and I'll be like oh cool new episode and she'll be like I've seen it when did you watch it when you were playing video games I probably watched it like I would have got up for my video games no you wouldn't have I can't believe this TJ said we had to have been and so now I can't watch it I can't now I can't watch it because I don't want to make her rewatch it and so now I've got to find a time another time maybe tomorrow whatever to find to catch up and now we got to figure out what what else we're going to watch you.

Oh my gosh. You worry about too much. First of all, you can rewatch episodes of Southern Charm over and over and over again. They're always entertaining. It's not like a serious show. So if it's a serious show,

it's totally different. I know, but it's like an agreement. And when the agreement gets busted, it's just not fun. Yeah. Handshake deals are meant to be kept. So even if it's over a TV show. If it's a series, a show,

like a season, And we watch two episodes together, and then she watches the third, and I don't. I'm usually getting off the train. Is it because you're annoyed with me or because you're like, I have lost interest in the show? It was something we did together, and you chose to move, you chose to do without me. So it's kind of like, it's like my feelings are hurt a little bit. Okay. Yeah.

It's like, wait a minute. I thought that was something you only liked to do with me, but you did it without me. Like everything in the world I do is better with you in it. Okay. And so I can't imagine like, I'll do this. Amy's not here. I'll still do it. I don't know if this stuff's real or if you just tell yourself that just to validate your feelings.

I don't either. I don't either. All right. What's our next one? All right. This is my last one for the fixing segment. This one says, hey, Dale, hey, Amy. I need y'all's advice because my husband and I are stuck in what feels like the never-ending married

People Olympics and the only event we compete in daily is who is more tired. I will say how exhausted I am from working, school drop off errands, laundry, and keeping the kids alive. Then he fires back with how tired he is from his job, his commute, mowing the lawn, and taking out the trash like he's auditioning for husband's survivor. We start listing tasks like we're building legal cases. It is like neither of us can be tired. We have to be the most tired. And the worst part is we are both basically zombies trying to one up each other while half asleep. So my question is, how do we stop keeping score? Just stop.

One of you just got to stop. Just honestly, what I would do is just over-indulge in how tired he is and make him feel guilty about how much he's complaining about it. Like, Adelao kept telling me how tired he was. I'd be like, oh my God, does the baby need to sleep? Do you need a little nappy nap? Do we need to like, do you need a pillow? Like I like to make...

That sounds like Amy. Like light of the situation when he's complaining. If it's just like a silly thing he's complaining about or if I know that he's competing with me, then I'm damn sure going to like throw it back in his face a little bit. And then it just becomes a joke. So that's a thing. You have to always come back to like trying to figure out how to bring it back to light and laughing with each other about stuff because everybody's going to be tired. If you're parents and you've got jobs, everybody's going to be tired.

But you got to make it funny and break the cycle. Yeah. I think that the guy, if he's listening or any guys out there, never tell the woman you're tired. Never tell them you're tired. Never tell them how much fun you had. Never tell them. Yeah, if you go out on a trip, man, it's good. Don't ever tell them it was great.

Don't ever tell them you had a blast. Don't ever tell them, you know, don't, don't, if you come back from work and you're tired, don't tell them you're tired. Did you get this in a handbook? I don't understand this rationale. Well, I think so some of it's common, some of this is like, some of it, like, he's really searching for the right words. He's so nervous. It's back there.

No, like, so we, I go, I go, I went on a trip. I got a buddy with me. His wife's texting him. Hope you're having fun. And can't wait until you get home. I'm tagging out immediately. these, you got these kids, you know, just on and on and on. Oh, that sucks.

Yeah. And I'm like, I don't do that, by the way. Amy doesn't do that. Amy doesn't do that. I want you to have fun. Don't go away if you're not going to have fun. But on the very tail end of the trip, there have been times, like, on the day I'm coming back, you're like, I've had it. Yeah.

I'm at the end of my rope. And I know. It's like a preempt. It's like for reentry into your actual life. Like, hey, just want to let you know, this is the tone. Yeah. but I don't I think when you go if you're a guy and you go on a trip and you come back and you're like damn man I had a blast that's like telling your buddy about your fantasy football team he don't give a

about your fantasy football team and how good they are right he's got his own team he's got his own damn problems he's got you know he's got he's got he doesn't have a tight-in he don't have a good quarterback he don't want to hear about you right and so he's trying to salvage his season that's the way The wife is when you're coming off your guy trip. She's like, I don't want to hear about the, check your front at the door. I'm glad you had a good time, but I don't need to know about it.

I had a tough time, you know. I had this and this and this going on. I had to run these kids all around. And so. Yeah, Nicole colored her face purple the day. And so that's like, that's the, you know, don't come home and go on and on about how great it was. You had a good time.

Say you had a good time. Great trip. Thanks, you know, thanks for taking care of the kids while I was gone, whatever. I can say that's valid, especially if the mood at home is, yeah. It's gone hate where.

since you left. The tired part is don't tell them you're tired because like we get up in the morning, you get up, you make two breakfasts, you make two lunches, you feed two, you make two breakfasts, you feed two kids, you make two lunches, you pack their lunches, you pack their backpacks, you make sure they got their schoolwork, you make sure they're studying for their spelling test, you do like 15 tasks before I made it downstairs. Yeah. And I come downstairs and I feed the dog.

I don't walk out going, fed the dog. Yeah. Do I do good? Yeah. You know, I just walk out. I come down, feed a dog. I hug on the girls. I, you know, maybe clean, pull some dishes out of dishwasher, whatever I can see that might, could be done.

And then I go on down the road. Yeah. So like everybody has their role. When you're married, like you have to know that you're, like as a woman, you're going to have more load with kids in certain aspects. There are certain areas where Dale is going to have more load with the kids. He's the one that they want to play with. He's the one that needs to entertain them. He's the one that has to, like, show them how to ride their bike.

There's certain things that, like, moms do and certain things dads do. Men and women, too, if you don't have kids, like, everybody has their role. So appreciate your role and quit complaining about it. Yeah. You know what I mean? I think that, and I'm not saying this. Either one, like, I don't think being tired is unallowed. I just feel like if you're trying to one up your spouse, that's not healthy.

Also, your kids are watching that. Quit it. Just quit it. Well, I feel like that, like, like. y'all moms like i don't you know when in the end of this whole thing is the shit hits the fan we're all going to look at you they're not going to all look at me they're going to go what do what do we do now you know and you've got to have the plan and so like you're always doing those mental gymnastics in your mind all day long over do they have this has this been taken care of is this

been, have they signed up for this? Have I signed, have I taken care of this? You know, are they, the, is there, you know, we have plans for, where they, you know, gymnastics and dance and cheerleading and da-da-da-da. I know, yeah, spring break. I don't got to worry about any of that. I don't have to worry about any of that. And so, like, you, you're always, your mind's always got to be working and on, on a project.

And I get to sit back and just watch it all get. done. I think the tired isn't a physical thing. It's more than a mental thing. No, it's mental load for sure. And I don't come in, I don't come home and go, I'm so tired.

Because I really haven't done all the mental gymnastics that you've done. And I can say that with confidence. I don't give a shit what any guy says. I didn't call me what they want to call me about, you know, how I feel about this. But that's just the truth. I watched you get pregnant,

carry kids, kids feed them, go through that first year of childhood, all of the things that that encompasses for a woman. I'll never, I'll never walk in the house unless I know that you'll 100% agree and say, man, I'm tired. I'm, I just want you to know. I'm just tired. Yeah.

I hear you. Well, I appreciate all of that awareness. Yeah. Well, it took me a while to learn that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's part of life. All right, well, hopefully that helps.

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What do you have? All right. First question is a good one from Andy. What is the male equivalent to flowers? What is the male equivalent to flowers? Beer? I would say beer, yeah. Yeah?

Alcohol. Yeah. Especially like your favorite, like ice cold. A bag of jerky boys, beef jerky. Beer, pickles, and jerky. I think snacks does count too. Yeah. Some chocolate maybe.

A snack basket. We'll see if the check can fire up. It's fire up some options too. Our next one is from Riley. The New York City Marathon was this weekend. And there was a lot of signs on social media that were pretty funny as well. This one's one, would you ever run in a marathon? And what are your opinions on them overall?

I love that there are people that like to train for things like that. I am personally not one of those things. I work out for vanity and for health just to be healthy and feel good, mostly for vanity. And so, no, I'm not running in anything unless I'm running away from something. Yeah. Yeah. You don't realize how long a marathon is until they, like, they're there for like four hours straight running. That's a long.

I ain't running a 5K. No. I walk. If I go do a charity, like a walk for something local, I'm walking. I'm not running. Yeah. Yeah. I did a couple of those when I was young.

We had something in the March of Dimes. Sure. Remember that charity? Yeah. Yeah, we'd just do that for our church. And there was a big, like a 5K, I guess. So I remember doing those when I was a little little. Did you run?

We ran some walk most of the. But, yeah. It's like three miles. You get sponsors and stuff. Yeah. I ride a bike. I like riding. Ride a bike, yeah.

Writing a bike I could do, but like if you do. I'm the same way. I try to stay in my jeans and when they get tight, I get sad. I start working out. Yeah. And I don't eat. I start myself until I feel pretty good about my jeans fitting. And then he goes back to snacking.

It's a cycle. It's like a three-year cycle. of feeling sad and getting feeling better about it. People are going to think that you're just like moping around. For a little short period of time, I am. Oh my gosh. Well, no, to answer your question politely. No, thank you.

Okay. All right, good. We got a couple of advice questions coming up next. Marlina, I hope I said that right. Is it okay for a girl to DM a guy and tell him he's cute in the chance of getting a date for context. I'm in my late 20s. Yeah, sure.

Yeah. I am of the mindset, especially if you're going to be DMing, like we're in a modern stage of trying to date someone. Yeah, absolutely. I wouldn't have in my day not said, I think you're cute. I mean, you've got to put yourself out there if you want to have any return, you know. I think it's so crazy that how normalized dating apps and whether,

websites have become. Yeah. Like when, you know, 20, 25 years ago, you were a weirdo if you were on a website. Yes. That's true. Oh, man, you were. You were a freaking creep. And so, but now it's like that's how everyone like connects and meets people and goes out on blind dates or whatever is through websites and apps on their phone.

And it's like so regular and completely normal. Yeah. And if someone were to come up to you in person and say, give you a. compliment like that, would you be like taking it back? I think so. You'd be like like how do I respond? I think that now has a higher success rate though because who's coming up to you? It should and it should. And then, you know, that genuine response is important. I don't know. There is like a buffer when you're doing it on the internet. Like there's a space where you get to stuff and think about how you want to respond whereas you're doing that in person. You don't have that. I would say that for a guy to walk up to a woman and say,

that she's attractive, it's got to be well-delivered and smart. I think the environment is very important, right? Not yet. But a woman walking up to a man and saying that he's attractive or she finds him attractive, that that's like a most often going to be an automatic success. Because women never do that, right? They rarely, rarely do, right? So if a woman walked up to any of us and said,

Yeah, man, I think you're cute. Man, you're cute. You'd be like, first time I ever heard that. First time a woman's ever said that to me, you're, what do you need? Where should we go? Wow. Like, no, like, like. Yeah, where do you need?

Where should we go? Yeah, you're going to be like, what's his first date going to be like or whatever? You know what I mean. You tell me what we're doing. And I'm there. She's in charge. She's automatically got the floor. I just, and I don't know that women, I don't know how.

women feel about that. Like, do they, is it comfortable for a woman to walk up to a man and say that? Or do you, or is it like, is it sort of tradition gets in the way? And it's like, man, it's the guy's place. And if a guy, you know. I don't know. I feel like if a woman's going to do that, especially in person, it has to be, she is, her socks are off. Like, she has been blown away. You know what I mean? And maybe she noticed you and you're in a space where you didn't even see her. How does a woman let a guy know that she's interested? Listen, I don't know. I told you a lot of times, like, girls don't chase boys. And I just say that to you because I want you to flirt with me. Right.

But, I mean, if you are interested, how do you let a boy know? Because, like, we're, we're, it's got to be pretty, it can't be subtle. I don't know, just making eye contact and smiling and, like, engaging in like a very. We don't, we're like. Isn't that a good enough opener? No. No. We don't, we don't register.

Like, we see it and it's different. We're like, what is that? Is that me? Certainly, I mean, I'm not going to... She looked at me funny. I don't want to assume that she's attracted to me. That would be really, you know, pretty obnoxious. So there's no like, hey, she looked at me in a unique way.

She might be attracted to me. So I'm going to get a little closer to her. I'm going to offer to hold the door open. There's no, like, you just don't, you just avoid. It needs to be a bigger... She needs to make a bolder move for us to go, for us to recognize. it even for it to register. Okay, well then, so back to the question,

yes, absolutely, you should do it and do that bold thing. Right? I think so. Yeah. Let's save the pictures maybe for the second date. Yeah, maybe.

That's where it gets a little wishy-washy for me with the internet is all the that's great each other today, pictures, you know what I mean? Yeah. Let's grade each other. Like, send me a picture.

Oh. Because obviously if you're doing it on social media, you can see their profile. Yeah. You're getting judged straight off your looks automatically. But I guess you would do that in real life, too. You would. You do? Yeah, you're there so like an automatic, like I'm physically attracted to this person.

Yeah. But that's good advice. So that's okay. I feel like that's safe. DMing is perfectly fine nowadays. Yes. The next question is probably the next step, if it works out with this DM from Cleo, me and my boyfriend just moved in together, and we are arguing about this.

What's the correct number of pillows on the bed? Dailan, I don't agree. He only wants the pillows he's going to sleep on, and I, as an interior designer, like, wanted to decorate and make our bed look nice. He also doesn't even like the bed made up, so I don't know. Maybe I'll never agree on that. I obviously lost that battle.

What? Because he would just, like, take him and, like, kick him off onto the floor, and then all the pretty nice things are laid on to the floor for the dog to lay on or whatever. There is a pillow in our bedroom floor next to my side of the bed that's been there for four days. Yeah, so we go through this battle sometimes,

of and they're king-sized pillows you can't sleep on but we have too many and some of them are more firm than others and some of them are just super squishy so like I don't know which ones he wants and I have these so that yeah that we have this blanket and I'll climb I'm the last I don't know the last two weeks I've slept on top of the comforter yeah so I like sleeping under the feather blanket like as a normal human would the company yes the bedding the bedding and Dale will only sleep under this lola blanket everybody knows with these things are now these big fuzzy heavy. Yeah.

It's comfortable. Perfect. But he'll lay on top of the cover underneath the Lola blanket. So, like, I can't pull the covers because his 200 pound ass is like laying on it. 185. So much weight. I can't pull it. Well, with the blanket, it's 200.

He's mad now. Oh, my gosh. He's too heavy for me to pull my covers. So, yeah, we never really have agreed on that. Yeah. Good luck. No, I think the, the, the, I'm real weird about the weight of the blanket. And so I, if I'm sleeping on my back and my feet are up, I don't like the blanket to be heavy on my toes.

And I don't like the sheets so tucked into the bed that it's like my toes are like smashed up in there. You don't want to feel like you're in a womb. No. And so I get in, like you go into the hotel and the first thing I do when I'm, I get in bed in the hotel is get down in the bed and lay on the mattress and kick my feet and pull the sheet out from under the mattress to get my feet like free. Yeah. I was like, oh, geez.

Yeah, so they can do what they need. He does that at home too. Yeah. And on the bed, I want the, I want the bare minimum. I don't, I want to be warm and cuddle and all that bull shit, but I don't need, I don't need more blanket than I need. I want, if I need a sheet, good blanket. Nothing else. I don't like sheet blanket comforter, you know, and the comforter, I don't like it thick and fluffy and taking up all the room.

It's like it takes up the whole room. It does not. So I like a thin top comforter and a sheet. And I'm not going to go to that. So you're going to have your blanket. I'm going to have my blanket. I hate making the bed. So I'll either leave the bed unmade or never get in the bed and just sleep on top of the comforter in the, with the, with the, with the, with the bed.

the blanket. I don't like making. I don't like making a bed. So if I don't have to make it, I won't either make the bed, but now I'm married to you, so the bed has to get made. And so I won't un-make the bed. You don't make the bed. I know. You just get mad because I make it up? No. I just don't like a made bed. I don't understand that. If you went into a hotel room, the bed wasn't made, you'd be like, that's gross because somebody else slept in it. But it's my bed I slipped in. So it is, when I walk, it's like, all right, here's what it is. It's like I find you more attractive wearing a silly, a $10 t-shirt with no makeup.

That's your most attractive state, right? Okay. You would not agree with that. You like to get in makeup and getting a nice clothes and all that. But I find you most attractive in the most stripped down simple state. And so when I walk into the bedroom, the unmade bed looks way more comfortable to jump into than the maid bed. Oh, so I totally disagree.

I find a pleasure in like pulling back the crisp sheets and like crawling in and everything's like perfectly laid out and even. The maid bed is restricted. I know I'm going to pull the sheets back, but they're going to still be tucked under and my feet are going to be smashed all down in the bottom. And I have to just completely destroy the bed to get comfortable. Yeah, that's not something if I put three person has to worry about. And I don't need other pill.

I need a pillow for my head and another pillow to, throw my leg over or to kind of like cuddle with, I don't need a third pillow. You want three pillows? You asked me for the third pillow. Really? Yes. Why? Because you wanted to be able to sit up and look at your iPad and the other two weren't cutting it. Oh, my bad. That's my fault. So it just sits in the cubby just in case, I guess. I don't know. I don't, I don't, I, we have a, in our camper, you know, this tiny little, our little, what is that, a full bed, full mattress? Tiny, yeah. Yeah.

And I mean, you know, you got pillows everywhere in the comforter. This is all this big fluffy. Sounds amazing. Taking up the room. Sounds like a cloud. A complete, you, no. He's very particular, clearly. Yeah.

I would say it just. Yeah, we got into this one. Let it ride. The chat goes anywhere from two to four pillows. That go back to the original question. Two to four. Yeah, that's fine. Just the pillows you sleep on.

We go into Isla's room. It drives me crazy. Isla sleeps on her bed one way. She's got lots of knickknacks and lots of little things sitting everywhere. There's 51 stuffed animals to get out of the way before she can climb into bed. And then her bed gets made with the pillows on one end and she sleeps her with her head on the other. So every night we've got to move the pillows. We're recreating.

Yeah, we've got to recreate her bed for her to sleep in it. Oh, my God. It's a lot. Well, we can go on this for hours, it seems like. But we're out of time, so that's all. The cold is awesome. Hopes in her bed, jumps under the cover. Not dead.

That's awesome, actually. Love this. You're perfect. Okay, the one thing she does. All right. Thank you guys for your questions. We had a lot of fun this year. Thank you for tuning in.

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