The Dale Jr. Download - Nicks & Bert Earnhardt

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

Amy Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr. are ready for Halloween! On today’s episode of Bless Your ‘Hardt, Amy and Dale discuss how early is too early to start decorating for Halloween? They discuss their costume plans for this year, their favorite Halloween memories throughout the years, and why each decade that passes changes their opinion on the spooky holiday. Then, Dale shares a crazy story about the time he stole from Dale Sr. to go buy himself a Gameboy and egg houses. Finally, Amy and Dale play a game called “5 Funny Questions” and it went exactly as advertised! We close out the show with some #AskAmy, where we give an update on the swans, talk about why Gus hasn’t made an appearance on Bless Your ‘Hardt, and rank our top 3 holidays. 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. We are back in Dirty Mo Media Studios, and I have my husband back with me this week. Hey, Dale, how are you doing? Pretty good. How are you? We're here for another episode of Bless Your Heart. We've got a good show for you today. We're going to talk about food torture, some dumb things we did as teenagers, and Halloween. Because it's right around the corner. Let's get started. The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media. Oh, yeah, this is what it's going to be, girl. We're going to hang out.

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Yes. Laura Boyer on the show last week. She had a lot of fun. Yeah. I watched it. The YouTube version, you guys, seemed like you really enjoyed it. I'm glad she did it. Thank you, Laura.

And pretty cool. Yeah, so we've started the Bunko League. She and I spent a lot of time around each other when we were at the racetrack with you and Clint. and that, you know, we're kind of there during the same stint of time. And we had a lot of fun just getting know each other at the racetrack and going to do silly things as we traveled. But it's been good to kind of rekindle and get together with everybody again with Bunko.

Yeah. And just as time has gone on, it's been fun. Another thing coming up this weekend is the NFL starts tonight, actually. So this weekend's first weekend of the NFL season. Everybody's super excited. We got our fantasy teams drafted. You did a draft a couple weeks ago. We did.

I drafted, when I was in Texas, you drafted on Monday? I drafted two days ago. Tuesday. Tuesday? Tuesday. Yeah. Tuesday night. Whatever today is.

Tuesday. We both, you know, at the end of the draft, we use ESPN, at the end of the draft, it tells, it kind of grades everybody. And me and Amy got the best grades. I was the only A on my leaderboard, though. I was at the top of the leaderboard with the best score. You were in there with a couple other A's. Everybody will tell you that that doesn't really mean anything because anything can happen, you know, injuries and all that stuff.

Yeah, that's true. Anything can happen. But having, you know, I had a terrible year last year. Well, coming out of the gate with, like, a really good team, it's just helpful. It makes it fun. Yeah. So we're excited about that and some college football and some already put, so we have a fan duel partnership here at Dirdermode Media.

I put a little bit of money on the Eagles Dallas Cowboys game. Oh, you did? Yeah. Because there was a. So I don't like to bet my own money. I wait for the app to tell me that they'll like, let me bet some of their money. Yeah. Because they'll give you like a little, you know, little nugget here.

The house money. Yeah. And so I wait for those and I'll be like, all right. He bets like pennies also. I just like the fun of it. He'll take, if he wins and he wants to bet again, he'll take it back down to like the next dollar and a half. You know what I mean? So he's got like 33 extra cents.

He'll just bet 33 cents. I'm like, that's ridiculous. Just bet $2 or something. Got to get that 33 cents up to a dollar. It's way more fun to bet small amounts of money because you're not stressed out. I know just like a little... Yeah, that's true. I wouldn't want to lose my money either.

I'm trying to have a miserable time. I just find that funny. I feel like with our fantasy teams, since we're both supposed to be pretty neck and neck, we should do an outside bet since we're not really in the same league. Best finish? No, how about we do the best record? The best record. And what's the winner get?

Okay, I don't know. All right, if I win, me and you, a night, one night in Key West. Key West, okay. It's my win. How do I lose that? That's not really like a loss for me. You don't have to have that opinion either way, whatever. Okay.

That's what I want if I win. You get the best record. What do you want? Hmm, a day at the spa. That's it? I want a spa day. Together? No, by myself.

Really? Sorry. Damn. I mean, I can give you that now. I know. We can go to Key West now together. Yeah, but I usually need to... I need some kind of a leverage to force you into the Key West.

Yeah, you do. I mean, I can't really party very well. No. Yeah. All right, there you go. Okay. I love it. I should have went higher.

You should have to go first. Yeah. So the kids are back in school. Yes. We had our first. day of preschool for Nicole this week. And I know that sounds like a silly, not a big deal, but it's her first, is her last first day of preschool. She's going into kindergarten next year. And I didn't even think about it really until we got into the class. And one of the teachers

was like, oh my gosh, it's her last first day. And I was like, dang, you had to say that right now. I'm going to cry. I don't want to cry in front of her. But she could care less. She goes into school no problem. So like it makes it really easy. But they were just growing so fast. Yeah. They're both back in school. We got some free time on our hands. And it. It's been fun. I'm spent a little time in home goods and hobby-lobby getting Halloween decorations. Halloween. Yeah.

I mean, I went a little ham on Amazon last week. There's some boxes. There's some new stuff. All right. I know this is a touchy subject in our house, the decorations, but the kids are so excited. And who doesn't love Halloween decorations? Halloween is fun. Yeah.

They're like interactive. You can play with them. It's not like it's finicky, so it's more fun to decorate. I'm not bothered it. all by the amount of decorations however you want to do it you know it's where does this stuff go when it's over that's the problem because we don't have we do we don't have designated we do we absolutely do that's already full i threw a tantrum about not having space and you gave me a space i know but that's already full gorgeous racks no they're not okay no they're not it's like

two-thirds okay two-thirds so i've got plenty of space and it's got allocations for christmas and Easter and Halloween and kids clothes and just random stuff I'm trying to hide from you like for birthday or whatever. Now I have a space. That's good. And it's organized. So we're good. But I was getting some of it out yesterday since the boxes were piling up and I wanted to just start putting it out. But how early is too early to start decorating for Halloween? You can do it. I mean it's September what? Right now. It's like perfect. What's that? Right now is perfect. Right now it's perfect. It's getting cool outside. It feels like the right time. Yeah. Agreed. So just go for it. I got mixed reviews yesterday. on Instagram.

Some people said it's too early. Like, what about just enjoying fall? Why do we have to decorate for everything? You know? I think it's okay to do it because really our house is down in the woods and nobody really going to see it anyway. That's true. You know, we weren't, I'm just saying like if we lived in a neighborhood where we had neighbors

right next door and across the street, you might be a little more subtle. You might work up to it, right? You might put a couple things out and then add a little more into next week and just kind of build up and where it ain't so like, bam. Right, and everybody's face. You're driving down. Skeletons all over the place outside. Yeah.

But I, no, I think I like getting in the mood, getting, I love the holiday season. I love the, you know, when the, when the, when people start decorating for the holidays, it's the sign to me that Christmas is coming. Christmas is coming. That's right. Yeah. And Christmas is such a special time of year. So, just such a special time. time of year. So I am, I'm all about trying to go ahead and get in the spirit and do the,

do the Halloween. All right. Well, maybe while you're gone this week, I will put it out. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going on, I'm going on a little boy guy's trip. That's right. Shoo-wee. I'm fired up. So. I feel like you're going to need a day off when you come back. Would I, would I have such a, would I be granted such a, yeah, stay away. I'm not going to sit on the couch for you to lay in my lap for a whole day. So you just go sit in Elvis room by yourself. There's nothing better for a hangover. You know, everybody's got cures.

There's nothing better for a hangover than your wife's... Were you just about to call me an old lady? Your old lady's lap. God dang. Yeah. You're supposed to say that without me being present. That's how you talk to your buddies about your wife. We're kind of...

We're doing a show that kind of gets me into that vein. Now you're definitely staying in the elevator room by yourself. Or if you lay on a... chest. Yes. I was about to say chest is... If she's in a position where that's possible, then man, it cures, hangovers... Your face is down. If your face is up with

that old sour beer breath, I'm like, torture. That's torture right there. Amy's like, we were... I drank some beer the other day, and Amy's like... It was after your race. You came home. You had had to sleep and drive home and the whole thing. I went down to the beach. It was a full 24 hours almost. It felt like.

I'm like, God, it's coming out of your pores. You smell like... Yep. Wapton beer coming out of your nose. Yes, he was breathing it out of his nose like a fire-breathing dragon. I'm like, oh, man, go take a shower. Brush their whole face. Yeah, Halloween.

So back to that, we've got costumes order also. The girls have fallen in love with this movie called the K-pop Demon Hunters. If you have kids within the range of 5 to 18, I'm sure that they have watched this movie on Netflix. And it's just nothing but like singing. really but it's become like the only thing the kids think about so that's what they want to be for Halloween so I've already ordered the costumes and now I'm trying to be talked into being one of the boys from the boy band not you I wouldn't sign you up for that I mean we're talking like crazy wigs and like it's very anime like okay yeah so it's it's a lot but um I'm getting ad for

ads for masks and satsdale's thing yeah and I sent him one the other day I'm like you really need this. You and T.J. should just be these for Halloween. Do you want to tell them what it is? Yeah, you can. It's Beetlejuice. You know ever the part of Beetlejuice where they pull their faces open? Yeah. Like, wretched looking, very fun. She wants me to walk around.

We go to T.J.'s neighborhood, all the wives and dads, and then their kids, right? She wants me to walk around with a really pretty, pretty freaking scary looking back. It's pretty scary. It's Halloween. Like, I am, everybody on the block's going to go. Damn, really? That's what you choose? Last year he was that creepy old man and everybody was still kind of going like, who's this freaking old guy walking around with all these little kids?

It's still kind of creepy. It's still kind of creepy in a totally different way. I know, but I look like a real old man. So I feel like this way, at least the people that are our age will recognize what he is, and it's still scary, but you can see his eyes and everything. It should be fun. It's the thing where the mouth opens way up and it's like got a hundred teeth, like 70 molars. And the eyeballs are above his eyeballs.

Or in the tonsils. It's really weird. And then the other ones that like long stretched out. Yeah, TJ can do that one. Yeah. That is scary, though. That'd be fun. It's Halloween.

I'll totally do it. I'll totally do it. I'll totally do it. I bet Jonathan Davis would do it. He lives across the street. Yeah. I'm not, no, he's not getting to do that. I'm doing it.

Oh, now we're liking it. I'm doing. That's all you got to do is just make him a little jealous. He's all excited. When we were kids, what was your, out of all the Halloween costumes that you had when you were young when you were trick-or-treating. Yeah.

What was your favorite? So here's the thing about Halloween. And when we were kids, we didn't have all those, like, princess dresses, just dress up all the time. So Halloween was, like, really extra special. And we, a lot of the time when we were little, we just wore, like, our previous year's ballet outfits, like our recital outfits. And then one year my mom made me, you'll, you'll like this.

I was Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie. And she made the whole thing, the little crop, the little thing that my ponytail went through. I think I was probably about Ila's age. We don't still have it, but I know. She has, my mom has photos somewhere. But I think that whole lot of it got sold in a garage sale at some point. But it was absolutely my favorite.

I wanted to be a football player in real life. And so I had a, my mom got me the entire kit, like the shoulder pads, the pants with the pads in the pants. So I was a football player, the same pants, same jersey, same helmet, you know, plastic two bar for four years in a row. Oh, really? Yeah. And it fit you for four years? Yeah. I mean, I was... When I got my driver's license, I was 410.

5.3. 5'3. 5'3. 5'3 foot 3. That's sweet. That's how I am. I was short. I was the same size for a long period of time. I'll just say that. Yeah. Until I finally got my legs. Finally got my legs.

Literally. You got your legs. Okay. So that was your favorite? it just being a Washington football player? I wanted to be a football player so bad. Was that what it was? It was just red, had no number on it.

It was like an unidentifiable, no team. Totally generic. Totally generic white helmet. You didn't sticker enough or nothing? Nope. We didn't have stickers? You didn't have stickers? No, racing stickers.

I had a, it was a red jersey with blue and white stripes on the shoulders, no number. It was so cheap. But I loved it. wanted to be a football player and it was an excuse to be a football player all day. I was like, you know, if I could do this every day, I'd dress up like a football player. When did you stop trick-or-treating? I can't remember when I stopped trick-or-treating, you know, I think it was probably 12-13. I feel like I didn't have a neighbor.

We didn't have it organized like, you know, we're going to this neighborhood. We lived on this road and you would go to six houses. Oh, okay. You know, it was a lot more work. And it was really, you know, they didn't try that hard around there. So the shit you were getting, you're like, you know, So after a while, you just kind of quit doing it. Oh, we got gobs of candy.

I mean, you know my neighborhood growing up. It was like house, house, house, house. Yeah. It was covered with kids. I mean, people would come to our neighborhood to trick or treat. It was awesome. We had the exact opposite. We had to get in a car and go to like the six houses drop off, run inside, come back,

and then we were trying to get home and see what we got. Okay. We had so much candy. Dad took half of it to work. And there were all these like stories, these horror stories. And like riding on the school bus, other kids telling you about like, people putting razor blades in apples and all kinds of weird stuff. Dang.

You remember that, Dalton? Like, there was all these, like... That happened to you too, Dalton? It didn't happen, but the stories people, kids would tell, oh, did you hear about this guy, this kid, that kid, this bad thing? Is this like just people trying to get spooky and tell you things? The kids told your friends. Right, so it didn't really happen.

It wasn't like adults telling these stories. Right. It didn't really happen. Okay. But you were hearing these, you know, kids would always go, you know what I heard, and you'd be like, shoot and you're chomping into every piece of candy real slowly hoping you're not going to bite down on the razor blade. So somebody's uncle or grandfather said, hey, be careful with that. And then that spread through the school of us.

Me and Dalton share the same level of anxiety. We just traumatized. We just live with this every day. So when I start talking about, he's like, holy, y'all, I hate that for y'all. He's like, yep. I think Alex and I live with the same level of give a shit. I mean, there might have been a razor blade in there. I was biting full force.

I was going forward to. I was going to be in touch. I was not going to take any chances. Nothing was getting in the middle of me and my racist peanut. Exactly. I'm like, if it's open, great. Unless I got to do. Exactly.

All right. Well, then there, but it's interesting because there's this period of time where you, you do the kid thing, right? And then you stop. Yeah.

You stop dressing up. You might go to parties. You might hang out with friends. But like, when did you quit dressing up? Probably around 10, 11. Really? Yeah.

And then, yeah, because I mean, like I said, very busy in our neighborhood. So at that point, I had two little sisters. And so somebody would take them trick-or-treating and I would pass out the candy. And that was a lot more fun, too, because you got to see, yeah, it was fun. Yeah, it was fun. You could eat some too while you're passing it out. You'd have to work so hard. You'd have to work so hard. What's that? If you left like a bowl of candy out and someone steals the bowl because you didn't want to

So we never, we never left it out because somebody would have dumped the whole thing. Yeah. A yearly thing at my house. Yeah. Did they ever steal the bowl? Oh, really? Yeah, my mom chased them down the street. They just wanted the bowl back. Yeah, right. It's probably a Halloween bowl back. Yeah. When your turn, when you get, you know, 16, 18, 20, 25, you start going to haunted trails, haunted houses.

Yeah, we did that. I did get to have a Halloween party once when I was, like, in middle school. And we did it in the garage. And it was kind of like a little dance. Yeah, a little tiny garage. Well, I mean, it was only like eight to ten of us kids in there, you know, like half girls, half boys. And we danced and we had. a little thing set up where you could put your hands through and they touch creepy things.

And so we had grapes for eyeballs and we had Grant, Popaw gave us cow parts. So we had a tongue. Damn it. Gross. It's real. Holy shit, Amy. Pawfell has cattle. So I'm like, hey, Popul, I need things.

I bet your friends were like, eh. It was pretty dark last night. Well, it was a cow tongue. Yeah. It was like dry eyes. Yeah. It was cool. It was cool.

It was a riot. You can't get away with doing stuff like that now. We dance. We danced. Yeah, then we did cow in Texas. The cow body parts to start showing up. Yeah. I ask him for eyeballs.

He's like, that's too far. I think we're going to have to just do some grapes. Holy shit. Yeah, I got to do that. How didn't you haunted trails, though, until I got to college? They didn't even have trails in Texas? Not really. It's too flat.

Yeah, there's no trees. Messing around in the brush in Texas. No. No. You get stuck. Yeah. We had trails. They were crazy.

Like some of the haunted trails, there's haunted houses too you'll hear about from time to time that people, you know, go these elaborate old, you know, abandoned homes and they'll turn them into haunted houses or something. I love that. They're like pop-ups. You know, every year, it might be like a, it'll, it'll come and go, you know. But the haunted trails were pretty consistent. We knew where they were and we would go to the same ones every year. Yeah. And literally, you drive up into somebody's yard and it's like a.

farm and the couple of neighbors got together and they're like, yeah, we'll have a haunted trail. They'll get some friends that just dress up like scary people and they'll take the chain off the chainsaw and chase you around. I know it. And they'll build these. It'd be interesting. I never saw like a haunted trail during the day. You know, you go there at night, it's pitch black.

And you're running through like this makeshift hall with trash bags. The walls are like trash bags. Yeah, the big bag. And you're like, if you were to see it during the day, like the next morning at 10 o'clock, you'd be like, holy shit, that was it. It's just a piece of plywood and a trash bag? It's just trash bags and some two-a-four. It's kind of embarrassing. It's embarrassing.

Yes. I was terrified. Yeah. I know. But Tont of trails are the best. And you go and the lines are super long and you're standing there. There's anticipation. Standing in the line was fun because, yeah, you're like, ah, you're hearing all the shit going on.

You're like, oh, shit. You hear the chainsaw guy, and you're like, oh, my God, what part is he is? I mean, it was kind of fun, you know? With your friends. You had some booze in your pocket. Oh, yeah. You know, drinking a little bit of whiskey. I got chased out of one in Kentucky once.

And I had never been through a trail where they had a chainsaw guy, and he was at the very end. And Kentucky is like North Carolina. It's very hilly. I've literally pulled one of my friends to hide. I've slipped down this hill. Both of us went rolling down this gigantic hill because of the chainsaw guy. I don't think that I had done another one. until we went to Missouri after that.

Did we do it in Missouri? We did the one with Carson Kennedy and Wyatt. I don't remember. You didn't go in. I think you stayed with the littles. No, no, no, no. The little hay maze thing. Yeah, I did that.

Well, I went in with the kids by myself again. It was so good. Yeah. They had lots of people like breathing and getting real into your face. It's a big Cedar Lodge. Big Cedar Lodge. Big Cedar Lodge. Yes, they had a really, really good one.

We had a little spam where we did the haunted trails and haunted houses, but then we started getting more aggressive. and shock are you shocked we had a we had a little span of about four years where we would throw eggs at cars oh yeah and play mailbox baseball a little bit well i did some eggs i never did mailbox baseball you did eggs yeah i was driving i did eggs a lot uh when i was younger and i was driving down the road one day i was coming from my late model shop down in monroe and driving home and i saw it in slow motion I'm driving my truck and this is the damn egg comes flying into the view, into the headlight. It was like at 9 o'clock at night or 10 o'clock at night.

It flew in and I went into the grill of my truck and I was like, hell yeah. Solid shot. You didn't even get mad? Hell no. I mean, as many people as I've hit with eggs and to have gotten out of their unscathed. You used to get like 18-packed cartons, plural and just go ham. One year, this wasn't on how. Halloween, but I'll tell this story.

And you may have heard this story, but Dad and Teresa moved me downstairs. And right across the hall from my room was the staircase. And in the staircase was a closet. And it was, the closet had a door. The door was waist high. Yeah, so it looked like a water heater closet. That's right. And the door wasn't to the floor.

It was at your belt line. And I would snoop around this house. Like, I was always curious as to what Dad and them were hiding and what they had. in the closets and everything. They must be hiding things in every closet. Well, I loved racing and a lot of the things that were stored away, maybe racing memorabilia or whatever, right? And I'm looking in this closet.

I know everything that's in there. I looked in there many times. And so I also was collecting racing cards. NASCAR was doing baseball cars and stuff around that time that was getting pretty big. I was still in high school driving my S-10 pickup truck. I was 16, 17 years old. So I'm looking in this. magazine and in this magazine it said this it showed a business card of dads and it said this is believed to be

Dale and hart's very first business card from 1976 and i said i know where a bunch of those are right out here in this little closet so i go out there and i grabbed a handful of them they're in brand new shape brand new still in the sleeve there must have been a thousand right i got about 40 or 50 of them out of there and I'm like, holy crap. I've, you know, I'm a... I'm rich. I hit the jackpot. I'm going to go. And so one weekend, Dad and Teresa are going to go to the race.

I'm going to go to Hank Parker Jr.'s house in Denver and hang out with him. He was my age. And I'm going to also hang out with Ben and Bill, who are the twin brothers of Hank Parker Jr. We're all going to hang out. Have fun. So I go to their house and I'm like, I'm like, let's get some eggs and stuff. Let's raise some hell. Really?

And Parker did this with you? Hank Parker did not. The Bill and Ben did. Oh. I'm like, let's hit some mailboxes. Let's go crazy. We've got the whole weekend. So I take this card.

Stealing cards. I take this card to a card shop in Canapolis. Yeah. And I sold it. So smart. Sold one of them for 100 bucks. And we went and bought candy and eggs and all kinds of stuff. We had a blast all weekend.

And we threw some eggs. and we didn't get in any trouble. We should have. We should have gotten a lot of trouble, but we didn't. And then I think everything's cool. I go home. About a couple weeks later, Dad comes into the room or calls me upstairs or whatever,

and he goes, you got in my closet, got some of them business cards out of there. I was like, oh, he knows, he must see, you know, must know how he's in there and just can tell some's missing or something. is one of his employees, a guy named Rick Boss, who was dad's very first employee, was a visitor of the card shop. And the guy that on the card shop that bought the card from, he told him.

But you went in there and sold it. But I went there and sold it. And I got big time punishment. I mean, you didn't even think through that circle of life, did you? I thought that was. No. Came a telephone. I was like, hey, I'm on some cash.

This guy's, this is a way for me to get some money. Get cash now. Yeah. This is the way I can get some money so we can go have some fun. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I'll never. You were quite the stinker.

I was. Well, they did send me to military school and all kinds of other things to try to fix me. Try to fix me. I think they just gave you more ranks. Oh, I still have about 20 or 30 of those cards. You do? The little business cards, yeah. You didn't have to give the rest back?

He didn't ask you for the rest of them back. He did. He asked me to give. He asked me to give him the rest of them back and I gave him about half of them back. Did he know? He just probably looked at you like, okay, kid. I didn't give him all.

I wanted some of them. I wanted to keep them. I gave one to Rick. Y'all didn't make a deal. Like, hey, can I just keep a couple? I gave one to Rick Hendrick probably 10 years ago. I gave one to Kenny Schrader. Mm-hmm.

I gave out a few to some friends of dads. Yeah. I thought they would. Might want them. Yeah. I was like, I never sold another one, but I tried to. They locked that closet too, didn't they?

They put a lock on every door that would, they put a lock on every single door in the house. That didn't already have one, yeah. Yeah. I stole out of his chain. He had this big water jug in his room that was a big, giant water jug. Yeah. And he would always come home with change in his pocket,

and he'd put it in there over and over and over. And I pulled about 80 bucks out of that thing in quarters one day. I got an antenna off the car outside. That takes a lot of time. I got, I got an antenna. I got, that didn't give us money. Like people think, I don't know what. I didn't get an allowance either, but I just ask if I wanted to go do something.

I would start stealing. I don't know what people think about our lives or what it must have been like. But he never was like, you know, here's 20 bucks or here's an allowance. We didn't have any of that. Yeah. And so I got an intent off the car, put duct tape on the end, fished out one quarter at a time for 80 bucks, went and bought me a game boy and some games. And then was playing it on the couch the next day. And they were like, where did you get that?

How did you get that? Like, what? Game Boy. No, not everybody has a Game Boy. And, yeah, that got me in big trouble. I bet it did. I got in real big trouble. But Dad, dude, when we were 16 and Kelly was 18, dad would order out to this place down the street all the time,

once or twice a week. And he would say, you know, me and Kelly were scrambling to be the one to go pick the order up. Only because he was going to give you $100. and you would go get the food. And you got to keep the change. And you didn't know. You might. He might not ask for it.

He might just. Most times he asked for the change. But sometimes he wouldn't. And you're like, free of, hey, $25 in my pocket. Oh, my gosh. The game of gambling and chess that y'all played just for some pocket change. Taking the money.

Taking the business cars, taking the money. They put a lock on every door in the house. Every door in the house had a lock on it. And they locked them. They kept their bedroom door locked. they um god why they were hiding in there they just don't want me going in there

snooping around I would go in there look around yeah I'm I did that too curious kid yeah I need nothing to hide

I mean come on yeah my dad wasn't hiding things like that in his closet but you're yeah but then you know

go back to Halloween so you have these sort of phases right of dressing up as a kid then you don't dress up for a while you hang out with your friends, whatever, and then you get a family, get married, and you have kids, and then you're back in this routine. Yeah, you're back in it.

Yeah. Almost more heavy than you ever before. I've never been, yeah, we, I wasn't doing it like this when I was a kid. Yeah. Like, you know, we are really doing it now, like the outfits, the thought that you put into things and the, it's fun. It's easy now. Like I said, Mom had to make my outfit, every little piece, and she put a lot of work into it.

I get that genetically. Like, she really went hard for stuff like that. fun most of the Halloween's. Like when we were League of their own Yeah, that was fun freaking awesome

That was so much fun. But now that kids are getting older And they have an opinion About what we are So being the old man That was fun Yeah Well you can pick your outfit

I was just giving you a suggestion I thought it would be easy Well sometimes you make me be part of the idea Well I know But being Jimmy Dugan was like No It wasn't a hard ask No that was great

But yeah I don't really know What else I could talk you into That would be Memorize Darth Vader one year Yeah Not a hard ask Except for the outfit

It was a little sketchy. It would have an outfit from Etsy. It ended up being fine. It was fine, but it was a little, what's the term? BDSM or whatever you call. What? Like dominatrix stuff? No, it wasn't.

Stop it. There were parts of it that were more sure than they were supposed to. I'm like, we're just going to put some layers over this. Oh, dang it. He's like, Amy, where did you get this? I was like, I've got money for that. That was custom size to your bond. We're going to need the picture of the.

the outfit for the YouTube. Photoshop. Oh, man. I'm going to get roasted. Yeah. The helmet was badass, so we did keep the helmet because it, like, made noises and everything. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah.

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. Dot dirtymobedia.com. I talked about the dumbest thing that I did as a teenager. Yeah. Did you have...

Dumbest things? The thing, yeah, the s... I mean, I just dumb things. I mean, I just dumb things. I did dumb things with my friends. You know, I snuck out of the house plenty. We could just walk out the front door. My parents slept hard.

Mom used to always keep slave bells on the front door, too. People, I saw somebody on the internet yesterday. There's kind of been this like the sort of the generation, the young generation today is going, wait a minute. Yeah. Did y'all really just go out and come back at dark? When was dinner? People can't. Yeah, whenever we came home.

I still, I mean. Spotlight. Like, neighborhood. Spotlight stuff like that. We would never let our kids do that now. I still have a hard time believing that it was really like that. I lived it. I know you're right. It was like we had a lot. We had real freedom. Yeah. We'd get on our bikes in the mornings on a Saturday, ride the neighborhood, go to the pool.

We would literally not come home until dinner time. Yep. And we didn't, we had a couple bucks. I don't know. I would go. I would go with dad to the shop at Mammal's house. I mean, he was there at 8 o'clock in the morning and not going to leave until 6, 7 o'clock at night. Yeah. And I would, we'd get there, I'd get out of the truck, I'd run down to my buddy Monroe's house. We had my buddy Walter boss, he's Rick's nephew, but his nickname was Monroe. What a cool nickname.

Yeah. Not Monroe, but Monroe. Monroe. Or Monroe, however you want to say it, but I call him Monroe. Because Monroe was, I don't know. Is a character? No, it's a shock, racing shock. Oh, gosh.

But back in the old days. But, man, we, I'd leave, I'd get out of the train. truck and I wouldn't see dad till I'd come back for lunch we'd have we'd have water burger and you know order of pickles and side order pickles and we'd eat water burger for lunch and then I'm back out again

and he never was like where you been well don't be going over there don't be going down there we were running up I was up at the four lane three blocks away in the dairy queen getting a nerds blizzard and all that money you stole yeah

with ten dollars I begged from daddy, please. I want to get a nurse blizzard. And, you know, we were all over. Yeah. All over. Same. It was awesome.

Man, I would never let my kid run around like that now. I get nervous. I'm running around the farm, and there's nobody to take them. There's nothing really that they could hurt themselves with. I mean, I don't know. Maybe we just need to chill out. I agree. We do.

We need to chill. Like this, the kid, so I think about this a lot. in in uh in reference to riding in a car so you know we we talked about this i rode in the back of mama 79 monte carlo sleeping all over the back of the seat climbing all over the place not buckled in no seatbelt or nothing and now we won't get in the car and pull out the damn garage unless everybody's got their five point harness on and you know what i'm saying sometimes with your driving i wish i had a five point arm and i will i'll get in the car and put it in reverse and hold break and even just put it in reverse Nicole go, I ain't buckled up yet, Dad.

And I'm like, I'm not going anywhere. We're still on the driveway. And, you know, so everybody's got this mindset of you can't move without being strapped in perfectly. And it bothers me because, like, I want to take, I am, I cannot wait to get in my old truck with Ila or my, you know, a bench seat. I want to take him in Al Camino, too. Yeah.

And like. I'm tired of these damn buckles. I know. You look, well, you, you. you look at the, you know, you look at the, you know, you Google like, hey, when is it safe for somebody to ride in the front seat? And they'll say, well, 13 years old. And I'm like, holy. What?

Yeah, they're almost driving by that point. Like, they have no experience even sitting in the front seat of the car. And I'm like, golly, man, why is it? Maybe there's a loophole in our old car. I would just love for her to be able to ride the front seat in my truck. Yeah. She has to get in the back and ride in the back. And I'm, you know, right, back here.

Not much conversation when we're sitting like this. It's kind of hard. You don't like being by yourself, so that probably adds to the anxiety. Yeah, but I mean, why can't she ride over here? Buckled up. I don't make the rules. But you should just take her for a few laps in your truck. I'd like to know everybody's opinion on when it's okay for the kid to ride in the front seat.

Give me some specifics. Age, weight, what is it? There's got to be a law. There's an age and weight situation for the car seat stuff. in the backseat even but I don't know I think it's like kind of a guideline kind of a law I don't know really

It's like it's like it's like airbag dependent too What's that? A bag's a big deal Yeah, but in his old cars Like since you don't have those Yeah You could probably take her for a lap All right

We got funny questions To ask your best friend It's a game we're going to play This was found on Instagram last week Amy you found this? I did I sent it to Alex Yes All right you're going to ask

you're going to ask me five questions that I have to answer. Yes. And do I have questions for you? Same ones. Oh, shit. Yeah, you could ask the same ones. And this segment of funny questions to ask your best friend is brought to you by Jerky Boys. Was it?

The best jerky in the entire world. Jerky boys. He's been practicing that in the mirror for everyone. Yeah. It's the best jerky in the world. Just ask Dale. Jerky boys. You're such a clown.

All right. You ready? Yeah. So these are questions about me. Great. All right. If I had a warning label, what would it say? What would your warning label say?

You shouldn't have to think this hard. Come on now. You're just trying to be careful? I want to be correct. Warning label. I would say the warning label is going to be... Did we lose you? There's a lot of things.

Oh my gosh. I would say, okay. Action packed with issues, maybe? No. I would say the warning label would be something like, don't tell her you're going to do something and not do it. Like that was one thing that took me a while to learn because I would, I'd be like, you know, hey, I'll be home by two and come home at four. And you'd be like, just tell me you're coming home at four. I mean, don't tell me you coming home to two and you're coming home with four.

Just say, I'm not mad. Just want to know when you're coming home. say four. If you're coming on four, say four. Don't say two. You know, and so like learning that process of just kind of just shooting it straight. Because I was always thinking I needed to tell you like, I'm going to be home as soon as possible. So

as soon as possible is probably two. And it did it in before. So that was one thing that really helped our relationship once I got that figured out. The other thing might be is we'll have a messy closet.

It comes with a messy closet Comes with messy closet I feel like yours would probably say Rilled with anxiety Handle with care Yeah Don't with care Next question

If I joined a cult What would it be about? I mean I don't know General Conspiracy Nothing I would have to join a cult I don't know

I mean what a cults do Like something that I'm mega into That you think that's it General conspiracies I don't know I mean you know you're You'll ask me questions about things you hear about, and I'll be like, yeah, it's not real.

Or there's two sides of every story, or there's some truth somewhere in between. I don't know. I guess, yeah, okay, let me think about this. Your colt would be working out. Working out? Yeah. Like you'd, like a Pilates or...

A Pilates cult? Yeah. I would think that you would join a boobie's colt. Boobies cult, do they exist? Probably. I'm with you, Dale. If there is one, that's where you're going. Like, what can send me straight to a cult?

I wonder if there is like a, you know, they have like Comic Con and all these different things, right, where people gather. Necky Becky. To celebrate like some. The Necky Becky Colt. They have like candy expos and all kinds. Like, if they have a booby expo? Or everybody that loves boobies gets together and just celebrates boobes. Probably.

If not, you could probably start it. I'm sure you've got one follower. Alex is going to show up. Yeah. As long as, I mean, it could be super sketchy weird. It's going to, everything gets a little weird when you're naked, you know? No, I mean, I don't know if they're naked needs to be evolved. I don't need people need to be naked doing this.

Oh, really? There aren't naked boobies. They're covered boobies. That's weird. That's weird. No, I just don't know. No. I mean, that's a strip club.

That's what that is. I're at the strip club. No, I don't want to go to the strip club. Is that a cult? I mean, it feels like it kind of could be a little group. Could be. If you had to give me a new first name, what would it be? Really?

Yeah. These are tough questions, Amy. It doesn't have to be meaningful, just a name that you like. Or you can make it meaningful. Oh, my gosh. Man, he's really thinking hard. Mm-hmm. I don't know.

Like, there's not an... It's tough because you look like an Amy. Do I? Yeah, I think you look like an Amy. Yeah. It's not one that would pop up for somebody that, like, oh. Yeah. What do you want to call somebody?

Like, I'm going to call you Bert. I like calling you Amos. I'm going to call you something silly. Like, I'm going to call you Bert. Amos? That's like a nickname, though. I know. That's all I can think of.

But, I mean, hold on. How about Diane? Diane might be one. How about Sherry? How about, I don't know. Tiffany. No, what's her face? Really not.

This is not a good name. These games are tough because I draw blanks when I really got. It's in there. I got the answer. I just can't find it. But. What is she on? She's, I'm so mad that I can't do this because she's my favorite singer.

Oh. Stevie. Stevie. You're going to help me Stevie? Sure. Okay. I can handle that. Or maybe Nix.

Nix and Burt. Nix and Burt. What's up, Nix? What's up, Burt? Nix is kind of cool for her first name. No? I don't know. It feels like a sound.

Kind of like, yeah. Now we're back to sound. Stevie. I don't know. Stevie doesn't, Stevie's not going to work as much as I want it to. If you had to bet money on me failing something, what would it be? Failing?

Mm-hmm. Probably your driver's license tests. Really? Quickest answer. Why do you say that? I mean, not that you're a bad driver. I just, what tests do you take these days that? Do you have to take a test?

to fail at something like an activity, things I do. What's the quickest response? I don't know. I mean, there's lots of things that I don't think you would succeed at. Like, stupid games, video games that I play or gambling? That's all you got? Yeah. Games?

What is a good answer here? I don't know. Finishing things. I like to start a project. and I don't actually finish it half the time. That's true, and that's something that you can say about yourself, but I'm not going to damn sure that is. That is the point.

I'm fucking saying that. You start a ton of stuff that you don't finish. Yes. That's exactly right. Or you do finish it, but it's when you're ready to finish it. That damn right, too. Sometimes I need a minute. Sometimes it derails and I have to regroup or I get distracted by my family.

Yeah. Yeah. If I had to bet money on you failing something, it would be Are we doing these questions now? Me? Well, we've kind of been doing it the whole time.

Have you not been paying attention? No. Really? We have? I gave you, yes. Wait. Okay, you said my warning. Hi Dale. I'm Amy.

Your warning label? Riddled with anxiety. Riddled with anxiety. Handle with care. Boobies. Okay. And if I get, you didn't do first name. Bert.

Bert. Okay. If I, what would I fail? What would you fail? You had to bet money, though, this. Admitting you're wrong. Okay.

Yeah. If I got... Like that chair you're sitting in and that's squeaking so bad. I can't hardly pay attention. If you got kicked out of a bar tonight, what would it be for? I mean, you know, probably the traditional thing, getting in the bouncer's face. Me? Yeah.

What? I've never in my life gotten in a bouncer's face. No. I've never seen you get kicked out of a bar either. I mean... But if I think I had to guess what would happen is probably because some of the... Something happened and somebody was rude and you got in the bouncer's face and told him to where to stick it?

Yeah, shove it up his ass and they asked you to leave. I know you make it sound like I've actually done that before though. Oh my God. All right, well, that's the end of the game. Nice. Fun game. Awesome. Let's do some ask Amy.

Let's do some ass gaming. Hello, everyone. Dale and I are back in the Dirty Mo Media Studios this week for another episode of Bless Your Heart. Dale has just opened his beef jerky. Yep. And now it smells like. A meat market in here.

Jerky boys. Back in stock. It's the best ever. So good. We are ready for your questions. All right. Well, a lot of people have been asking, when will Gus make an appearance on the show?

Because Junebug's been on a ton of times. Yeah. So Junebug is like pocket size, like Polly Pocket. He's really tiny and easy to tote around Gus. However, he pants a lot. He paces a lot. So he would probably be distracting. So we got Gus.

And we got him in 2008. no when was it i don't know he's going to be 12 he's going to be 11 this year so we got him and uh we brought him home he was 14 and um we got him home it was 14 i think we're riding in the car from the airport and we have gotten seven miles maybe and he throws up all over the back seat yeah he doesn't ride well on the car We're pulling over. We're like, what in the hell? I've never had a dog that did that either.

No, I mean, we're worried. And he's, like, looking, like, he's just not feeling so good. He's drooling heavily. Like, he's going to do it again. You know, is what we learned that about Gus is he doesn't like riding in cars, riding in anything that moves. So we don't fly with him. We don't, we take him in the car, but it's just only when we have to.

Yeah, down to the beach. So if you put him in the car, too, to even go. go to the vet. He's little teeth start to chatter. He doesn't want to get in the car. And he drools like he drools because he just starts to get just constantly. Right, getting the car sick, motion sick or whatever. Yeah. He didn't like it.

He too, like Dale is riddled with anxiety, especially about the car. I'd love to bring him, but he just, he's not into the process. That's thing. So if you go to the beach, it's like, you've got to like Yeah, we've got his bed in the back of the car and he lays down. Pretty comfortable. We've gotten in meds before and I did that once or twice. And then after that he started throwing it up because he's like, no,

you're not doing that. I don't want to feel like that either. Yeah. So he just deals with it. He's gotten better. Like he'll, he usually he wouldn't even want to get in the car. You take him around the suburban or whatever and he's like,

I don't want to get in. I'm not getting in. I think he knows where we're going to the beach. But now, tell him we're going to the beach. He sees all the stuff getting packed up in the car. He knows where we're going to go. And so I think he does know when we're going to the beach that we're going to

where the sand is and all the morning walks and all the things he's going to get to do. So he does get eager and excited about going down there. and he doesn't really seem to mind riding in that long ride there. But he does not fly. And, I mean, he would soak a beach towel drooling in an airplane. He's that much drool. Wow. Yeah, it's terrible.

That's crazy. And he's going to dehydrate it in all the things. He's just found a fun process. Meanwhile, Junebug's just happy to. Yeah. He don't care. Well, Gus is huge, too. He's a gigantic dog.

Yeah, they get that. Our next question is from Janice. The cast of Dancing with the Stars was just revealed. Oh, yeah. she wants to know which one of you would most likely go on and have the better chance of winning. Amy? I would love to do that. Really?

Yeah, I grew up dancing. And my family dances anyway, so like partner dancing would be fun. Yeah, I would never do it. Dale would die of fear. Yeah. I'd have a heart attack of anxiety before the show ever started. Yeah. Yeah.

That would be so fun. Yeah. I feel like he's been invited to do it or there's been speculation, like they were going to invite him to do it back in when he was still racing and he was like uh-uh can't i don't have i don't have time yeah michael waltz did there didn't he yeah he did it that makes sense yeah yeah uh people in the chat want to know what your favorite beer is amy do you drink beer well my favorite beers yeah miller light miller light i've always been a miller light fan my family's always had miller light in the fridge so i like the label i like beer i like cider beers like bud light we don't drink yeah i knew the light

beers but I did have Guinness when we went to Ireland. Yes. And that's a totally different ballgame, but it's not as near as heavy as I thought it would be either. Yeah, it's not as heavy. It looks heavy. It looks like chocolate. And they say it's not as good in the States as it is over there. Yeah. I'm not an expert on Guinness by no means, but they're right. It does taste different there. It's more like a dessert, though. It's just fresh. Yeah. But it's good. It's thinner than you think. Yeah. It's not as heavy. No. Yeah. Do you guys know about splitting the G? on your first season. Oh, yes, we did that.

Is that big in Ireland? Yeah. Okay, good. It's my favorite part about drinking the Guinness. Yeah, I always got the half-fine's, though, because, like, this whole one is just way too much, but.

Yeah. That's fun. That's cool. This question's from Jasper. Kind of interesting. If you could be the best in the world that anything, what would it be? Like singing, play an instrument?

Oh, I think it would be singing. Our kids sing constantly. Really? And, yeah, singing would just be fun to be able to do it even by yourself. I probably wouldn't want to do it to, be on a stage. The best in the world?

Yeah. Yeah. And it's kind of subjective because people would just be like, oh, she's the best in the world at this. Yeah, that's true. But, yeah, like when you show up, people are like, oh, we got to see this, you know. I mean, singing is the easy answer, I guess. What would you want to be the best at? Well.

Come on, Dale. Tons of things. Tons of things. Big one. Racing, being a football player, being in a band, being in a band of. any kind, being in a band of any kind, being the best drummer, guitarist. Being a good drummer

would be really cool. Yeah, yeah. So, drummer would be awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Can you just give guest appearances on different, you know, stages like, oh, here's Dale. The best drummer in the world. There's drummer Dale. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Multiple people are also asking any

update on the swans yet. They've been relocated. Should we just tell them? Yeah. All right. We got some bad news on the swans. Oh, no. Did you? We had bad news about one of the swans.

Yeah. All right. So we got the swans from Cletus McFarland, and we loved them. We were very happy about it. We were going down there every day feeding them. We were excited about it. It was, they were the new pets, and they were great. Fun as hell.

And so we do have some coyotes and stuff around the property. The female Cleo got out of the pond. and up into an erosion ditch in a field, an old farm field that had kind of of grown up and had some pine trees and stuff in it. So she was in this sheltered area down in this erosion ditch. It wasn't too far away from the pond. It was about 40 feet from the bank, and she was nesting, I suppose, and the coyote got her. So we got up in there.

Yeah, it was feathers everywhere. It was ridiculous, honestly. So poor little George had to witness that. So George had to have heard it. Had to have heard it. It had to have been the loudest commotion. And he had to have instinctually knew what had happened. So we don't know what to do.

We contemplated spending tons of money to fence this pond in, six acres. It's not in a flat spot like he was saying. So fencing it in was a hard thing. Yeah, we contemplated putting a fence in. We were going to have to, it was going to be expensive. We had a guy that was like, hey, I'll take the swan, George. I got a place fenced in, three ponds. It's perfect for him.

He's got other birds. And he's got other birds and everything down there. And we've seen photos of this area. And it's perfect. And so we contemplated doing that. So we couldn't, we went into the pond to try to catch George. And you couldn't catch you. No, he was not having it.

But George would get out of the pond going to look. for Cleo. He would... He would walk... He would walk half a mile down the road. Yeah. One day, George is on the highway.

Like, literally, I would say, a quarter mile from the pond walking down the street. Yeah. Cars going around him. And so we got him into a pen in a neighbor's yard

so that he was contained and protected. And then we started thinking about, like, really sending him to this guy. Yeah. to live the rest of his life. Like we have to think fast.

Are we doing this fence thing or what are we going to do? And so the other options seemed more. Yeah. It just seemed better for the bird, to be honest. So he's going to, we are going to get him another mate. Yeah. And try to get him mated up. And then he'll be in this place that's more suited for, it sucked.

Because, man, I mean, we really wanted it to work. Yeah. They're really cool. It was awesome. They were really cool. And we were just getting them comfortable to where we would get down on the bank and they would come up and maybe eat out of your hand and stuff. He didn't like me much, but he really liked Dale.

He would hiss at me. We were dudes. Yeah, which was fine. But he would eat out of Dale's hand. So he's down to South Carolina and he's at a sanctuary. They were making sure he was okay. And he had 15 females there. So he was going to get to pick his own mate.

And they was going to pair off. So they were given that like a process of time and then he's going to his forever home. So maybe we'll get to go visit him. Yeah. Well, he's better off there. He is. He's going to be happy. And I hate what happened to Cleo, and I really am thankful that.

I know Cletus and those guys did that as sort of a fun little gimmick for their YouTube and all, but I was very thankful. It was a very nice gift. It was a very nice gift, and it was very thoughtful. And we had a lot of fun with them, and I wish it would have worked out. The girls are sad, especially I love. We talked about that last week. Now I'm ready to rock and go out there in some point in the near.

future and get this coyote. Oh, yeah. It's a motivation. Days are numbered. It's revenge. Days are numbered. I like that. A lot of people when we, a couple weeks ago, when you guys first broke the news that

there's a coyote problem, they were all very supportive of relocating George and Cleo. Yeah. That helps that. You just got to do the right thing for the bird. Yeah. Yeah. The high fence was just. It was so expensive.

It was ridiculous. It could make it make sense. Yeah. And it's less fun, I think. You know, you want more of that open pond. Yeah. Well, we were going to fit in. We're going to fencing in a large area.

We're going to fenced in about probably 12 acres, 8 or 10 years. Oh, okay. It was going to be a lot. It was just room to Rome. My dad, my dad high fenced 300 acres. Oh, wow. And so in my mind, I'm thinking, oh, I'm going to fence this in and shouldn't be too expensive. I was like, when I got the damn bill on it, I was like, you could have built a house.

Can't do this. It was insane. I was like, this is ridiculous. We cannot justify this. Can't do this. For two swans. Yeah, I agree. And hoping that that's going to be enough to keep them out, right?

Yeah. exactly. What about the donkeys? That's how I get it. The donkeys are great. The donkeys are thriving. Did you hear him last night or this morning? They don't like Gus. So Gus goes out the front door and you can see the barn from our front door. So we let the dogs out in the morning. Anytime that the dogs are out, the boys, he-hawning that they're alerting that there's a big dog in the plate. He's so loud. He's so loud. Dude. Yeah, Pumpkin. Well, there's two of them doing it now, so it's pretty loud. But yeah. I love it. I do too. And Gus doesn't care. Of course, Gus doesn't know that the donkeys are honking at him. So he walks right up to the fence and just really, Makes them mad. I forget they're out there and it'll be 6 o'clock in the morning and one of them would going eight feet up there and you're like, oh yeah. It's our rooster, basically, because I let the dog out and then the donkeys go, he-ho. It's loud.

It's really loud. That's so cool. Next question is from Todd and he wants to know if you could ban a phrase that people say too much, what would it be? I'm just saying. I'm just saying. I hate that phrase. Wow, really?

Quit, I'm just saying. What's your point? What are you trying to just say? Are you trying to start? What are you doing? Just saying. Yeah. Don't just say.

Have a point. Okay. Or quit it. It can be condescending at times. It's usually condescending. Yeah. It's usually for that point. One of the things that I hate that I do is I start sentences with I'm just.

So like when you're and I try my heart. I do it in text message a lot and I'll see if I can make this make sense. But so you'll you'll reach out. to somebody about something and you're trying to explain. You're trying to be helpful or you're trying to explain something you chose to do or something you did or said or and you're, you'll start to sentence with, I'm just trying to blah, blah, blah, blah, like you're apologetic almost in a way. Yeah, you're trying to be polite for asking the questions, but you're trying to make them understand what your point is and asking the question. When somebody says, I'm just trying to be nice or I'm just trying to

fix it or I'm just trying to help. I'm like, man, I'm not sure whether I believe it. And so I try to take the word just out. That single word there gives me this feeling. Like I can, I don't need to say, I don't need to say, I'm just trying to do this. Yeah. Because me and you have that conversation too. Sometimes we'll be discussing something and you're like, I don't agree with that. Why did you choose that? Why did you do that? Have you done this? I'm just this. I'm just that. And I'm like, defending yourself. If you just take the word just out and just say it. Like, you know, I'm some, I don't know that's kind of silly and trivial and stupid,

but that's something that I do that bugs a shit to me. And I'm like, why am I so apologetic? Why am I being apologetic? I'm literally, I'm literally this. So just say this. Yeah. Don't have to be like softening it with, I'm just trying this or I'm just helping or I'm just.

I'm looking for an answer to this problem. Yeah. Let's just a habit. I think the same way, because I overuse the word like, especially when I'm describing something. And I'll hear it and I will hate it and I will derail my entire thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did that a lot when I was younger and I had to make a point to stop doing that so much.

Whenever I respond to text, I put the word yeah in there. Like if I'm in agreement, I don't know why I do that. But I started off with yeah, da da da da da da da. Yeah. I like, I wish the word Amel would be, would be. would catch on? I'm starting to use it more. Really?

Yeah. In text message, I'm trying to get my phone to learn it. To recognize it? So it'll just go Amel. How are you spelling it? I am apostrophe L. Amel. Amel.

Amel. That's tough to get the Apple, though, to figure that. They have no idea what I'm talking about. I think I got one more question for you. And it goes on the theme we talked about on the show that you'll hear later, Halloween. Carol wants you to rank the three big holidays. and she says the three big holidays are Halloween Thanksgiving Christmas. So rank those three.

Rank those three? Those three? Yeah. I don't agree with her big three. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween. I would, yeah. Really? Mine's Christmas, Halloween, then Thanksgiving's on the bottom.

Yeah. Honestly, I would put Christmas Easter than Halloween. Easter in there. Thanksgiving for me is like a, I know it's, I know it's like an important day, but it's not really as important as the other. Christmas, Thanksgiving Easter. Easter's big, you guys. Halloween fourth. Oh, okay. Yeah. Halloween to me is not, like I would put the biblical, you know, the, yeah, I would put them higher than Halloween.

I did too. Halloween's just like a damn party. You know, the world came up with. It's not really like a, what happened on Halloween in the Bible, well, nothing. Well, yeah. Well, I would put Fourth of July up there. Fourth of July is great. Which is like probably. Fourth of July is good. True, true. Yeah, New Year's is a holiday. I would slide fourth July over Halloween. I love Halloween. Like, I got nothing against it, but it's just kind of the bottom for me.

Thanksgiving, I get, like you said, the importance. I don't like, the holiday's stupid. I could take it or leave it. For real. Yeah. Maybe because I have to travel up north of Sea family. I guess, but Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving's not a biblical holiday either.

Thanksgiving is one of those holidays that we just decide to do whatever. We could travel. We've gone to Tennessee to hang out with the Sugarlands people. We've gone to Key West and we've eaten fish tacos on Halloween or Thanksgiving. So, I don't know. Yeah. I like that. Thanksgiving. Sorry. I made this random statement. He's on a soapbox. We do. We don't use the, we don't usually do the traditional things. We did last year for the first time in a while because we have the kids, but for a very long time, we absolutely did not. That's why it is so fun.

Because it's not a real holiday either. I know, but we will, we, when we had the house down in the Key West, we had this one place we'd always go to because they served the traditional Thanksgiving. Like in Key West, eating a traditional Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving dinner was like so out of the ordinary and it was fun. And then to Amy's point, we would like take trips. Like where we're going for Thanksgiving? Yeah. We're going to go visit this friend or go here or hang out. Well, the NASCAR season was always too just over. And now we're freedom weekend.

And now it's become a family gathering. Like we'll get Kelly and Kerry and everybody gets together and we have a thing at my house. No, that hasn't happened ever. What are we doing then? Last year we did it at, we were in Charleston. No, no, no. When Kelly and Carrie come over and we do it. That's Christmas, Ralph.

That's Christmas. See, they're close together. That's Christmas. It feels like the same thing. So Christmas is a big deal. Yes, everybody comes over. All the kids sit around, a tradition I started with Kelly's kids. I really don't have a clue what's going on.

Obviously, I don't know what that happens. He does zero planning, that's for sure. He just shows up. He's like, everybody's together. I love it. Meals are similar. I'm with. That's why I don't think.

Man, Thanksgiving's great. His ranking is just lost. value right there. I'll tell you the best Thanksgiving ever had, though. I was in a Hooters in Augusta, Georgia. Oh, yeah? They didn't go home. I was like, where we're going to do? Only place open. That place was packed. I bet. It was fun. Was it nothing but men or were the women in there? A lot of truckers. A lot of truckers. Alex and the truckers. But I was there all day. It was fun. Do you want to know, this reminds me of my favorite week of the year? Do you have a favorite week? Ah, maybe. My favorite week of the year is the one between Christmas and New Year's.

Oh, yeah. Oh, 100%. Because it feels like does it not feel like the one week where everything, yeah, the world turned off. And like nobody gives a crap what you're doing where you're at. You don't have to shower. You don't have to change your clothes all week. Everybody's in the same outfit. Yep. Nobody's calling and going, hey, where are you?

You're supposed to be here. Yeah. You're just, everybody's just like, let me let alone. Eat as much food as crap as you want. Whatever's left in the candy and the cookies. That week. Especially when you were, especially when I was a race car driver, the whole year was so chock full of.

deadlines, meetings, places you had to be, schedules and things that were planned for you. And that one week was where everybody, nobody called. Nobody had anything on the calendar. Everybody was somewhere else. And it just felt so nice, so quiet. It's also like you don't, when the 25th's over, the next day is just 31st. Like you don't, from the 26th to the 30th, you don't even know what day it is. Yeah, you don't.

You're just like, whatever. Until New Year's Eve, you don't even know. You play with all the toys, all the new things. things you got. Yep. Glorious. It's the best week. Oh, yeah.

And then, right at the end of it, it's a big party. Through your age. You're like, not only do I just get to fuck off for a week, then I'm going to party. Like, that's the best week ever. All right. Can't argue with that. Can't argue with that. No.

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