The Dale Jr. Download - Reliving Our Most Embarrassing Key West Memories

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

Fresh off of their trip to Key West, Amy Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr. are back to recap everything from their Florida adventure. On today's Bless Your 'Hardt, Amy and Dale share stories of questioning the airplane landing gear, eating cupcake sushi, and their most embarrassing memories from Key West over the years. With National Hunting and Fishing Day right around the corner, the two share their favorite fishing experiences from their childhood, where Dale reveals his too good to be true fishing tale that made it all the way to the Statesville newspaper. Plus, in #AskAmy, they give the fans advice on being first-time parents, things they used to believe as kids, and much more. The two also team up in their own version of Family Feud that can't be missed.  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.

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Hey, everybody. Dale Jr. and I are back in the Dirtyymoin Media Studio for another round of Bless Your Heart. We have a good show for you today. We're going to talk about our little trip. Key West, our little doggy here who has joined us today, Junebug. He got another attack. But we have a good show.

Let's get started. The following is a production of Dirtymo Media. Oh, yeah, this is what it's going to be, girl. We're going to hang out. Open a bunch of jars. You've got big strong hands. Are you suffering from high crap? I'm working.

Working that mouth. Dale, what's our drink of the week? All right, we got the high rock drink of the week, and this one looks like it might be something familiar for me. I see orange and white, so I'm thinking cream sickle. But it is called the orange dream sickle. So, yeah, that's what it is. Two ounces of High Rock vodka, one ounce of triple sec, two ounces of orange juice, whipped cream, orange soda, two ounces. And there it is.

So everybody loves orange cream sickle, and this is kind of a spin off of that. Yeah, it's very nostalgic popsicle that they've turned into a cocktail. It's pretty amazing. All amazing. Yeah, delicious. It's really similar, honestly, to the Delia. Yes. That you can go and get at the Texas Roadhouse.

That's right. So we have a high vodka drink at the Texas Roadhouse called Delia. Doing really good. And that's kind of what the idea is behind the Delia. So the Orange Dream Sickle, man, you could make this any way you want. but the orange juice, whipped cream, orange soda, those are critical components to the triple sec. What is the triple sec? It's an orange liqueur.

Is it? So it's just kind of adds to the orange. But the whipped cream really just gives it that. You got any orange stuff? Put the orange stuff in. Orange stuff and whipped cream. Triple sec, orange juice, orange soda. Yeah.

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Me and Amy went to Key West for our friend Tim Dugger. Tim is having a birthday. asked us to go to Key West and meet him in town for a couple nights. And, of course, that was all right with me. And Tim's a ton of fun. And we've been friends for a long time. He knows that I hesitate to go to Key West. So that was leverage was his birthday.

He's like, all I want you guys to do is meet me in QS for my birthday. Amy's QS days are numbered. And I kind of still like going down there. But I'm starting to understand that my number, my days down there are numbered as well. We used to go 8, 10 times a year and just run really hard. And so we're realizing that

with everything going on in our lives, it's just harder to fit that kind of activity into the year. I feel like we just need a longer trip so we don't feel like we have to crunch everything, like crunch everything into such a short amount of time. Like we'll take a beach day instead of flip-flopping around the island,

just trying to drink at every bar. I was thinking we needed a shorter trip just one day. Well, it's either one night or one week. Fire down in there, get it done, and get out. That's why I always

let you go with your friends instead of taking me along because you guys can go do that. Well. And then I can help you return to existence when you come home. If both of us are knocked down

that far, it's just too hard. Most of the notes that we made for this show were made after multiple beers. So some of these things we're not even going to remember what the context is. I bet we can.

It's a good challenge, though. We'll do our best. Before we get going on our Key West trip, we had a little incident with Junebug. That's right. So it's Friday evening, 5 o'clock. Getting ready to, yeah. We're getting ready to, I'm getting ready to get the girls' bed and pack for the trip because we leave Saturday morning.

So I'm getting things out of my car. Gus is sound asleep by the steps by the back door to the garage. Like his room's real close to the garage. He's sound asleep. Junebug follows me outside, or I think he does. What he really did was take a hard. right right into Gus's room and just to go check out what he had in his food bowl. And Gus came out of his slumber and just attacked him.

So we've got a broken Pomeranian. He's got broken ribs. No punctures. But he like just launched on crunched him, basically. So he spent the weekend at the emergency care facility down in Charlotte. Yeah. Which I didn't even. He seems to be doing better today.

So we, you took him to the vet. I was not here. I was. You were in Bristol. I was in Bristol for the Xfinity race. And I had an, I had an autograph session at a hard rock casino, who's a new partner for us this year. But you said that Junebug, you took him to the vet, and...

I called our vet immediately. She said, bring him in. And so I took him. They did the x-rays, and they're like, you know, you can take him home. I'm like, well, I don't feel comfortable taking him home if he's got all these broken ribs. Like, what else do I need to do? And so they called the care facility and set it all up. And I had the girls with me, had the iPads, had like, a bunch of kids.

of road snacks. We rode all the way down to Charlotte and it was like a three hour event of just trying to make sure he was in the right care and he was going to be okay. Because he couldn't really tell from the x-rays if he had any internal punctures from Gus's teeth. So Junebug is how many years old? He's 14.

14. Yeah. Pomeranians, I guess we looked it up a while back. They, 16 to 18 years is what they get. Long little life. Yeah. And so he has been so much fun. While he does a couple things, that are absolutely

asinine really frustrating so he pees all over the floor does not have we've tried and tried he doesn't have the he's not trained right to go go to the door and wait

so we have to constantly be making sure he's taken outside and sometimes you know a couple hours ago by and you'll forget and there's a spot on the floor but he's gotten better he used to pee all over the rugs all over carpet all over cloth now at least he's peeing on the tile and hard floors yeah

Yeah. So it's a little bit easier to clean up. Yeah. But I step in it once or twice a little. Yeah, his favorite place is just pee right at the bottom of the staircase. So you come down the stairs and you hit a piece of, you know, cold slick T.T. And this is, with Amy's no shoe policy in the house, so much fun. Just just clean sock right into the pee.

Well, then you've got to clean your shoes. I mean, yeah. We're cleaning something anyway. But anyways, he's been a lot of fun. And in the past couple of years, it's a couple of years, it's a lot of. been, he's, I'm pulling for him to like, you know, battle through all these challenges because he had a stroke not long ago. Loss is hearing entirely. Can't hear a thing. And so, which has actually got some benefits. So he used to, at the sound of any kind of knock or a car driving by or

anything out the front door, he goes screaming, barking, raise in hell at the front door. And And that would draw Gus into that same bark and barking, barking. Yeah, we got like the mouth and the muscle. The big one just follows of noise. It's just Mitch mowing the grass. Yeah. And it was all day, every day. And I'm constantly sitting on the couch hollering at them to shut up.

So now we've got three things screaming. Yeah. So now Jimbug does none of that. Like all kinds of things are happening around the house. He has no idea. No, you can sneak right up on it. So that's actually kind of nice. Yeah.

We try hard to keep them apart or try to... Keep the food off the floor. We shut the doors to the food. For the last three... Preemptive things. For the last five years, every time we feed Gus, we shut him up in his room, let him meet, make sure he's ate, make sure Junebug's got done with his food, then we can let them back out into the house together.

But that was a pretty scary deal. Junebug's been real tender for the past couple of days, but he's looking really good today. Yeah. He popped all the way up the stairs this morning and tried to find me. I left him on the couch, so. that's a sign of progress. But he's with us anyway, just so. Yeah, that's why he's here.

Yeah. I'm not taking any chance. So Key West, we, again, we used to go to Key West all the time. We did. Raise all kinds of hell down there. And, you know, a day in Key West in my head, everybody does it a little differently. But you get up in the morning, you get some food, and you kind of cruise into a couple of beers around lunch or just a bit before lunch.

And you just kind of steadily hang and go from bar to bar and just enjoy music. music and whatever and one, two in the morning, you go to bed. One two in the morning. Yeah. I went to bed at like nine o'clock every night with a nap in the middle of the afternoon. That was our thinking back to. I was like I need to get out of you. Yeah.

Thinking back to like years ago, that's kind of the process, right? And it was day after day after day of that. And obviously as we got older, we slowed down. And now when we go down there and try to try to at least, I mean, because it's kind of the only key West we know. So we go down there and that's what Tim and his wife like to do. they're kind of younger. They have a route to like they start at one place and they have a circuit that they take.

Yeah. And so we went down there and had fun, tried to hang out. It worked pretty good. We did fine. Yeah. Got home. Felt good. Yeah.

So flying in was an adventure because we're not going to talk about that. What happened? Well. Oh, yeah. So we're flying in and you go over the water. So for a while you lose your Wi-Fi. So you're forced to have to chat with your partner. So Dale and I are just sitting there like giggling, laughing, talking about what we're going to do, excited about our trip, hoping June Bugs okay, just talking about all the things.

And we're getting ready to land and like really close to landing. And I look over at Dale and I was like, you know what? I didn't hear the landing gear go down. Did you hear the landing gear go down? And that's usually a noise. It's pretty prevalent. Like you don't miss it. And he goes, actually I didn't.

And so I start to scramble in my mind like just spiraling very quickly. I'm like, should you go tell him? And he's like, no, I ain't going to tell him. I'm like, well, all right, giddy up. We were just swing this. Of course the landing gear was down. It's just we were chitchhating and didn't hear it. Yeah.

So we had a great flight. And then all of a sudden, I, in my nervousness and I panicked and made Dale panic. Yeah, with the crash we had a couple years ago, we're kind of a little anxious about flying still. But a couple a week ago, two weeks ago, I had the same. feeling. We were landing and I thought, I didn't hear the landing gear because you hear it. And I was like, I didn't hear the landing gear. Well, I'm sure they got it down. I mean, of course they got it down. And they had it down. I mean, you know, it's silly. But you can't help but have these like little thoughts creep into your head. And, you know, every time I'm in, you're like,

well, I didn't hear it. So I guess it's down. But you're surely not going to go up to the cockpit as they're descending, like literally there's the runway. Hey guys, landing gears down, right? As they're physically trying to... What kind of... What kind of... That, you know, I mean... And so...

I'm throwing my arms down, like, white knuckled, and he goes, and just straps himself in tighter. I just pull my belt tighter. That's what everybody... Like, TJ always told him, tightening them belts. So I'll just tighten the belts. Anytime I have any concern, I'll just tighten the belt. He just tightens his seat.

I'll do it. But our pilots already know that we have, you know, we're oversensitive. Yeah. A level of anxiety. They know it. You know, we talk about it. We talk to them about it.

We're pretty open about how we feel in terms of flying. And so, yeah, it was funny. They landed the plane and I feel so bad about this. Because Dale is also nervous and spiraling. but he wasn't talking about it like I was because I was stopped talking. So we get out of the plane and I'm just playing out. So the pilot that landed the plane is Jeff. All right.

Our lead pilot, Joey, was at a wedding for his family. Yes. And so we asked Jeff, our old pilot, who we love and trust 100% who was with us when we had the crash at Bristol. We asked him to fly us to join Alex. our other pilot to get this trip done. So he's actually at the controls in the left seat landing this plane. And he's a phenomenal pilot.

He's a phenomenal. Yeah, military experience, he's great. So he lands a plane, and we're just thrilled that we only see him like once a year when he comes in. Yeah, every time, then, right? When Joey needs him. He's always good to do us a favor. And so anyways, we get off the plane, and we're just having nervous energy, right?

Not thinking about what we're saying. And Jeff is also very excited to see us. And he's like, gosh, it's so cool to see you guys. I don't have been to Key West in forever. And it was like everybody's just over talking, right? Yeah. And I said, yeah, everybody's over talking, especially me. And I said, Jeff, I was like, we thought for a second.

We weren't sure. We heard the landing gear land. And I thought, man, we're going to land this thing and slide off the end of the runway. And that came out of my mouth to the guy who was on the plane with us when we slid off the end of the runway. In Bristol. And I was like, huh, really random choice. I went.

Jeff's like, come on, man. You know it's okay. Just like, oh, man, no. I know. And I'm thinking, man. Why is that what I wanted to say right now? What the hell was I thinking to say that to this guy? And so, but we love Jeff.

And I'm sure he's like, yeah, whatever. Yeah, he knows how awkward and silly we can be. That was, that's one of times when you say something. and you're like, as soon as it came out, I was like, that wasn't funny at all. So that's how we started the trip. Hey, this is Dale Jr. And for the latest, bless your heart gear,

go to shop.dirtymomedia.com. We've got plenty of options for everybody and adding new stuff every day. Go to shop.dirtymomedia.com. There's just some random notes here. So on the way from the airport to the hotel, Dale, we were talking about getting cupcake sushi for the girls. So if you haven't heard of cupcake sushi,

You absolutely will now. There is this wonderful lady in Lori that lives in QS, and she created this dessert called Cupcake Sushi, and it's literally like cakeball. It's like a cakeball center with a chocolate dip and, like, decorations on the top. It looks just like a piece of sushi, but it's dessert. It's dessert.

It's entirely dessert. I need to make that clear people. It just looks like. I know. I've told people about this, and they go, Ew! No, there's no fish. There's no.

Cupcakes and fish? No. It's all cake. They can't comprehend the idea that it just looks like. Yeah, it just looks like. Really a piece of cake. So it's like a really special treat you get when you go to Key West. She ships it.

So we've gotten some recently. She sent us a box. And the girls call it Cupcake Shushi. Well, Nicole does because she just thinks it's funny to do that. So we promised to bring them some more back. So we were talking about where we used to pick that up in the markets. And Dale reminded me that we used to get it at this place called Faustos, which is like the little local grocery store there that's really close to our old house.

And I was like, you remember, My memory of Foustos isn't the cupcake sushi. It's that bike ride I had where I had to like scream for help outside of Foustos. So I went to pick up, take out from one of the restaurants in the middle of the day. I'm riding back on my bike because what you do on Key West, there's a basket on the front. Like he used to ride in the basket or I'd put my food or whatever in the basket. So I've got peanut noodles in my basket. I'm wearing a maxi dress, which is a dumb move because as I'm halfway home, a maxi dress.

A maxi dress is something that goes down to your ankles. It's a longer dress. And I forgot to tie it up in a knot, which I usually did. So I'm riding home, and that stupid dress gets caught in the wheel of my back tire, like just gets caught up in the spoke or something. Like so tight, so quickly that it, like, cinched my legs tight. I couldn't move. So I'm standing there, like straddled on my bike.

In front of the faustos. In front of this grocery store just like hung up. In the road. In the road. And I was not even on the sidewalk. Oh, my God. I'm like, help. and so I'm yelling loud enough so that someone comes out and they had to come and cut my dress off and

it was like a whole thing so my memory is the embarrassment there's so many embarrassing memories that was the other thing we were talking about I get nervous going down there because of all the stupid things we've done and how foolish we acted that's so that's the thing like what people are going to remember what they what what they've seen us do is like on the lower scale of dumb in terms of QS I mean QS every day there's it's chaos yeah they're There's a lot of shenanigans happening. Yeah. And, like, I think they see us coming and they go, we're harmless.

I was just raised to not do that kind of stuff out in public. You know what I mean? Like, we are all supposed to, like, have our manners. And so you kind of lose your manners down there because everything, like you said, is just so chaotic. And everybody's acting so silly. Yeah. But even our taxi driver, who we hadn't seen forever, goes, oh, man, you guys still jump out of the bushes and scare people. Yeah.

We used to do so many stupid things down there. We had these rubber masks one looked like a chicken. What else? A horse. A horse, like stupid big rubber masks. So I found these masks at this gas station or a general store. And we were, me and some buddies were really hungover trying to go get something to eat. And we were walking around this gentle store.

And one of the guys, they walk, they walk over wearing this rubber horse head. And I was like, oh, that's hilarious. Let's get the, they got a chicken. They got a chicken and all kinds of animals. I'm like, let's just get one. Everybody get one. And we brought them all back in the house. and we just threw them in a drawer and didn't worry about it.

And then one night, it's like 2 o'clock in the morning. We would sit on the front porch. And our house was on this main street that everybody, all the drunks walked home from, the bar. And so we'd get home, sometimes we'd get home earlier than most. And we'd sit on the bar and have a few drinks before we wanted to end the night, listen to some music, just watching people walk by. And they were, you know, talk and chat and hear your music and say, hey,

how's going, everybody in a good mood, everybody's happy. And we would, some nights, hide in the bushes and jump out and scare people. There's two giant planners in the front of the house. There's zero traffic, right? Flinging their walk. Yeah, it's just. And so we would hide in the bushes and jump out and scare people coming down the side of walk. With random horse masks and shit on.

And then we started doing it with the masks on. And we almost got our asses whooped one night. Oh, really? One guy fell in the street. Oh. Oh. Well, there was another one where this guy had. had his son with him and he was like 14, 15 years old, and that guy was really upset that

we did that. Well, he should have had his kid home earlier. 14, 15. It's QS. He learned his lesson too, right? Yeah. But it was, we just do goofy stuff. But those were the days.

Yeah, so people did remember some of that, which is always a little embarrassing. Not really. I think so. You can enjoy and lift it up if you want, but I'm embarrassed by it. I'm not lifting it up. I'm just saying I'm not ashamed of it. I think it was just part of, because. coming who I am. It's just part of my development.

Yeah, part of my growth and development. Speaking of being embarrassed, too, there's one other spot that we used to go to Q.S. It's called Bobby's Monkey Bar. Yeah. This place is like a super dive, and it's where all the locals go to sing karaoke, which is not my favorite thing to do because I feel super shameful when I wake up after I've gotten on a stage and, you know, squawked karaoke. Dale loves this place. And so we always go. And Tim also loves to sing because he's a singer.

So we go down to Bobby's on the last night that we were there. So, yeah, Bobby's is a karaoke bar, a lot of fun. We spent way too many nights in there. And it's kind of like... We've gotten run out of Bobby's. Yeah. Yeah. We were talking about earlier in a day, like, hey, Tim's like, hey, should we go to

Bobby's? We never plan to go to Bobby's. Bobby's just happens with it happens. We don't plan it because nobody ever gets. Up in the morning, it goes, Bobby's on the, Bobby's is on the list. On the docket, right? After, you know, this and this and this. This is the kind of place that's open to 4 a.m.

Yeah, okay. You just end up there because you're just needing of kicking the ass, right? And so, and you're kind of wondering whether you got the balls to get up on stage and sing a song, right? Yeah, of course. And so we go to Bobby's. We weren't planning on going. We ended up getting on a paddy cab. Amy had napped in the middle of the day.

I was over-stimulated at some point. I don't remember where we were. And I was barely getting through like four or five o'clock. I was this kind of motoring on thinking, well, I might be in for an early night. Let's talk about that. So I went to take a nap. Where were we when I left? Do you remember?

Okay. We're at a bar somewhere and there's people everywhere. I'm not feeling that great. I want to go take a nap. I'm like over-stimulating. Oh, it was right in front of Amigos right on the side. They were going into cat and tonies. Right in that square of town where it's like the most traffic.

I was like, hey, let's send Amigos and have a margarita. You're like, I'm tired. I'm ready to go back. I can't do this. I literally just turned around and walked off and went back to the hotel and after for a couple hours. I can track tail on my phone. So I wake up. I'm like, okay, I'm going to go back out.

I said it Amigos had a margarita. You did? Yep. Turned on my little speaker. I had my little clip on J.EL on my pocket and on my loop. And so I set my speaker there, had a margarita, watched people run around. and because it's a perfect place to sit and watch people. And I got up from there and went, I was headed back toward the house.

Okay, so you went to shots and giggles. Shots and giggles. Yeah, that's where I found him, shots and giggles. And I was sitting on the porch there. He was sitting on the porch. I come around the corner and he looks at me like, I can't believe she came back. I mean, and I almost didn't. But I come up to him and he's cross-eyed and he doesn't even have his shoes on.

I'm like, you wear your shoes. Why are you in Key West without your shoes? shoes on and I look down and his feet are so swollen. Oh my gosh. He's had so many cocktails and he's been sitting with his legs dangling on a bar stool all day. And he's made like 10 friends. There's new people everywhere. I'm like, oh my gosh, maybe I should just pivot and turn around and go back.

But it was too late because he saw me. I went from like, man, I'm probably just going to go on back to the room to full throttle. Oh, I got my second wave. Yeah. And we end up on a pedicab to Bobby's like an hour later. Yeah. But, so at Bobby's, check this out. So two things, two things happened at Bobby's that were, that were kind of like that, man, this is, you know, small world.

Yeah. Small world. So a long time ago, not a long time ago, probably several months ago, I went to get some blood work done. And there was a lady sitting next to me, an older lady. and she said she was getting her blood work done and she come out and she said hey it's cancer survivor day and I'm a survivor and I'm getting my blood work checked to make sure everything's good and I thought you know I'm glad she's a survivor that's awesome and then I was like wow you have to get your blood work checked and worry that it's always in like the back your mind always in the back

your mind I'm like man I feel you know it was just a great great moment where I really had some compassion for what she might be having to go through, but she had this, she had this happiness about her. Like, I'm sitting there thinking about her, her situation going, that must be crummy. And she had no crumbiness. She defeated death. And she was happy. She was like, she was like, would you do me a favor? Would you go, if you're on their broadcast this weekend, would you mention a cancer survivor week or day or whatever it was? And I was like, well, I don't know if I can I'm thinking in my head. I'm not sure I can, like, I can't just go on the podcast and just do whatever I want.

But I said, I can do something. So I went out and sat down to my truck and I typed it out a tweet. I said, man, just met this lady. This is a great story. She made me feel awesome. And her story is awesome. Cancer Survivor Day, this is for her. Well, we're in Bobby's having beers and this group comes in.

And the guy walks up to me and he says, hey, that was my mom. that you met in the hospital or the doctor's office that day, just wanted to say, hey. And I was like, oh, man, wow, you know, small world. Yeah, he said that really made her day that you said something about that. That's awesome. He was like, well, she really made my day. That was a really cool experience. So we had a great interaction with those folks, and they had a great time.

Guy comes in that's going to run the karaoke. Karaoke is going to fire her up, and a guy gets up on the stage. I recognize the guy. He's an older man. He's has struggles with his, like, he's got all of his equipment. this little wagon. So he's pulling the wagon through. Tara's trying to help him. He's like, no, no, no, I got it. I got it. It's okay. It's actually easier if I do it on myself. He just want to make sure that we didn't dump his wagon over. He probably could see how

intoxicated everybody was. But as he's, as she's having that interaction with him, Dale's like, I recognize that guy's face. Who is that? And he goes, he's an engineer. And then Terry goes, hey man, are you an engineer? And he turns around and he goes, I sure am. And then Dale and this man, who now is, we know is Bob. Not to be confused with Bobby. lock eyes and they like realize that they've known each other forever and and he was someone he worked with Bob lives in QS now and he's just kind of an he's just kind of a jack of all trades hey you need somebody to so he was filling in for another guy on the karaoke yeah and he's like you need somebody to fill in I'm you know make a couple bucks and do it no problem his wife works

is a is a at a restaurant down the road and I've known them my whole life and uh I knew he's me I knew he was in the Keys and I hadn't seen him in a long time. But Bob, the engineer, worked on my Legends car when I was 15. Wow. And so we went down to Daytona to race at Municipal Stadium.

I can never say that right. And he was around, you know, my racing and D.I. and all that back in the mid-90s. But eventually at some point, he got out of NASCAR and went down to Florida to the Keys to, you know, live out the retirement age of his life. But I had not seen him in years. I knew, I figured he

might still be down there. But yeah, it was great to see him. And so now, yeah, we're really, now it's Bob running karaoke. It's different now. We're damn sure going to have a good time. Yeah. You got Bob here, the son of the lady I met. And it just was like, Dale has moments like that all the time where he's like, I'm supposed to be right here. And this moment. He went to Pine the Sky the other day and he walked in with his late model team and somebody had been there before that day. It had to have been because it looked like it was fresh. There was like a big chalk drawing that said this is the best pizza around. Thank you, Dale Jr. I'm like, that doesn't happen to anybody else.

Somebody wrote on the ground. Dale June was right. Best pizza in town or something. Yeah, that's cool. And I mean, it was in chalk. It wasn't going to be there for long. I happened to go to Pine the Sky that day. To see it. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah. His life's full of little moments like that. Yeah. Bobby's Monkey Bar for karaoke. You can sing whatever you want.

I sang John Conley, rose-colored glasses, fine young cannibals. She drives me crazy? Or a good thing? Good thing. And I might have sang another song. Those two I remember. The first one you sang with Tim.

That was it. John Conley. It was fun. Yeah, good times. Oh, I got one more Key West story. One more Key West. All right. So during our circuit on the first day, I'm pretty sure it was first day.

Tim and Tara wanted to go stop and get a slush. What's the place called? I can't remember. The flying monkey. The flying monkey. So they have like the wall of all of the frozen drinks. All the slushies, all the different flavors. Which I never get.

Never. But on this particular trip. And I ain't had a flying monkey drink in 10, 15 years. I got one. I don't know if it's been that long. It's been a long time. It's not been a long time. I don't drink them.

You were the one that introduced everybody to this place. I know back in the very early stages of QS. So that used to be what he liked. That was what he sought out. So that was his favorite bar. He would go sit at the bar bar bar on the corner at Flying Monkey because nobody else was in there. And now, with all of your growth and development, you want to be where it's crowded and people are singing karaoke. So we go to the Flying Monkey though to get a monkey drink because they are delicious.

And when you're tired of drinking beer, it's a good change. But it's hot and it's still hot in Key West. It feels like it's 90 degrees outside and it's swampy. So we go sit at this bar and drink our frozen drinks and there's this giant box fan at the end of the bar blowing into the bar. Well, Dale, coincidentally, just sits right in front of that damn box fan and rips the nastiest fart. And I'm like, oh my God. I mean, you literally choked. I'm like, who does that?

Sits with his friends in front of the freaking box fan and just rips it and lets the dead end. animal out of his ass and like ruins our moment. Oh my God. I'm like, that's now what I remember about the Flying Monkey Bar is that box fan. Dale's manners. Now, now, finally, nobody's going to want to go to flying monkeys. Not with you. Stalk the place out.

I mean, you can't take him anywhere. I can't help it. If he has to do that, he's doing it. And he doesn't go. There's a restroom real close. There's another bar with nobody sitting at it real close. Did you see the box fan and then remember, oh, My foot tall.

It wasn't like a little guy. It was as tall as me. It was just coincidence. I'm serious. There's no agenda of plan. God, y'all were making me want to go back to QS. I was totally ready to never go back for like months when I got home. And now I'm like, let's go.

You do you. Come on. It would be fun. Yeah. Well, we had a good time. I went and took the girls to dance the other day. And I had cat. What did I have going on?

on Tuesday. Catwalk. Was that catwalk? Yes, we went to catwalk for cause. So I took the girls to dance. Amy went to catwalk to support. There's multiple charities.

It's kind of transformed into this new thing. The Speedway Children's Cherry has taken it over. Sherry Pollack started that program years ago. So I'm taking the girls to dance. We're standing in the hallway and there's another dad there and he's talking about the girls, his girls walking on his back. And I thought, man, I've got, you know, great memories in my childhood. And there's a lot of memories in there, but some are hidden, you know.

And I was talking to somebody this other day. They were like, me and Tony Stewart were talking another day, and he's like, man, I got a ton of memories. But I need somebody to start telling the story for it to pop out. Oh, yeah. And so. You've logged it back too far. Yeah. And so they started talking about their, you know, his guy.

I was like, yes, she was walking on my back. They were trying to pop my back. And I was like, my gosh, that was something that dad used to ask Kelly and I to do all the time. Oh, really? Yes. Almost daily, dad would lay on the floor and have Kelly walk on his back when she was, you know, 12. Yeah. And so, you know, when she was young, and sometimes I would do it.

But I thought it was more of a game where he wanted it to, you know, he wanted his back. to get popped, right? He wanted her to, Kelly would step where he told her to step and do it like, you know, walk from the bottom to top up to the shoulders or whatever, right? And I'm just like, oh, I'm going to fall off, you know, I'm just being a kid. And so I thought, my gosh, why am I not taking advantage of that? Built in chiropractors. I would be scared to do it with our children. We have little, many chiropractors at home.

You think? Yeah. Like me, you both always having back. issues and yeah but I ain't letting them those crazy girls ain't jumping on my back they don't jump they would that's what I'm nervous about well that's what you that's why you use the old one because she follows direction she's a rule follower but she's so much bigger what if something goes awry I don't think it will then I'll be locked up on the floor no I'm doing it you should you do it you're big and you can handle it I just I don't remember doing that with my dad he never asked us to

walk on his back because he probably knew better too he's probably going to get like you know elbowed or something, you know. I just, you know, that, I don't know why that touched me, but it just made me think of that memory immediately. And I'm standing in the hallway of that, you know, that dance, whatever, studio. And I was like, wow, I remember doing that. It unlocked a file for you. It did.

I was like, crap. So that was, I don't know why I wanted to bring that up. But, uh. Do you ever walk around on your dad's feet? Like, did you ever let, you know, you let the girls do that. I do. I do. Not really my...

That's a hard. Not my favorite thing, yeah. Yeah, we used to love Dad doing that because he always had his work boots on. I do it. Well, speaking of stories, we're celebrating National Hunting and Fishing Day. Yeah. This is, you know, a partnership with Bass Pro Shops who works in a lot of different areas in this building with Dirtymo Media, the Dell Jr. Download, our race teams, obviously.

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And so I guess I can go first unless you got a story. I got a quick one. So my first fishing experience, Papa took me, which is my dad's dad. And I think it was like a fishing tournament or something

at the lake for kids. And so they had this like netted off area where the fish, where they dumped the fish in. So like everybody caught a fish. And Katie caught one. But I didn't. And we stood there all day fishing. I didn't catch a thing. And I feel like that that in that moment too, I felt like this is the type of, this is the tone of luck that I'm going to have in my life. If I can go to something like that where the fish are supposed to be like literally right there and I still didn't catch anything. Yeah. But so I didn't really care about fishing too much after that until I got older.

And then like going out on boats, when we take trips, we go out and like you caught that Marlin and Can't Cabo. That was amazing. So I feel like I like sea fishing. Yeah. Better than like fishing. I understand that. Yeah.

We lived on Lake Norman, so we fishing dad and bass boats and all that stuff was a big part of our lives. Yeah. Growing up. My very first memory of fishing, was I just moved, I must have just recently moved in with Dad. So this is probably 1981, 1982. And there was a lake, not like Norman, but another lake, maybe an hour or two-hour drive away.

And we went and fished on this lake and we stayed in a camper truck. So we stayed in a camper that was in the bed of the pickup truck. And so imagine like that being in the, you know, dad, 1982 and hanging out with him and being in a camper truck and going out and fishing on the lake. That, I just, vague, vague memory of that, which is, I can't imagine him even using a camper truck. But he was a different person back then, I think. But then my favorite fishing story that I had. have is I used to go fishing with a man named Captain Malcolm. He was a highway state patrolman. And he was great friends with my dad, and he would eventually take over managing the security

at Dellenhart Incorporated in the early years of Dillenhart Incorporated once he retired from the highway patrol. But he and I would go out on Lake Norman and fish. And we're out there fishing one day, and I think we're fishing for crappy or nothing crazy. For what? Crappy fish. They're not crappy fish. That's just what they're called. Is that an actual type? It's a term of a, it's a real fish. But I never thought about it, but they probably don't appreciate that.

The fish don't care. So we're in the boat and he goes, look at there. There's a gar swimming beside us. And I look down and it's a garfish and he's about two foot long. And a garfish on the front has about a 10 to 12 inch nose snout, whatever you might want to call it and it's teeth all the way down. And you see, you can see the teeth. It's like a long needle snout and it's full of teeth.

Okay. And it's like 12, 10 inches long. It's a third of the fish. Okay. And it's a real slender fish, right? And so that thing's just swimming right along beside us. And it's unbothered. And I mean, for 10 minutes, I'm putting all kinds of lures on my line trying to get this

thing to that react. Nothing. And he's just hanging out. And so I ended up putting this big hook on the end of the line. He is literally about a couple inches below the water line. I dropped the hook beside him and quickly took the pole and went underneath him and wrapped the line around. You lassoed the fish? Pulled up and the hook goes into the fish and pull him into the boat.

Lassoed him. And we lassoed him and put him in the lab well. And so me and Captain Malcolm took and got this thing mounted. A two-foot fish? It's two and a half. Is that a good size scar? Whatever. It's a gar.

It's like this long. It's just a strange looking fish. Look, I'm 16 years old. Yeah, yeah. I'm just asking the questions. I'm naive over here. I got to know. Well, he goes to the Statesville paper and tells them the story.

and they write an article, a little blurb in the Statesville paper, how Dale Jr. Lassowed Garfish. My gosh. So where's the gar? It's somewhere in our stuff. It's upstairs? No, no.

Upstairs. Like in the storage. Yeah, it's in a storage somewhere. Just somewhere? We've got to find this thing. I don't know where it is, Amy. I haven't seen it in years. But this did happen, okay?

Yes. Pull of the article. At least you've got that to prevent it. Well, I know it might be on the wall in the dirty dome. I haven't. I can't remember. No, I've never seen a fish hanging anywhere. I don't know where it is.

But I had it mounted. Last time I saw this fish was when I lived across from DEI. It might be up in the attic of that shop I built behind that house. Oh. Man, the relics you have. Well, that's a fun story. So across the street from DEI, there's this house I used to live in. And behind that house is a swimming pool and a really big brick building.

And that brick building is where we started Junior Murgersports, the streetstock racing team. Yeah. And I kept my bus in there. there. And so when I moved out, you know, that, that building stayed there. I mean, did you just run, though? Did you not back up some of your guys? Most of everything out of there, but that's the last time I remember seeing the goal. Oh, so you probably were like, screw that. It might still be in the attic of that building for all I know.

Well, Ila's first time fishing was with you, was it two years ago? She, you took her to the old house and y'all fish off the pier. We were playing around on a boat or something. We had the pontoon. I took, did I, was it the pontoon or was that? that boat, old boat house we used to have. No, it was just a pontoon. And she was, it was just two years ago, so it wasn't that long ago.

You're right. She went over there in her little pink Barbie dress and caught a fish, and the look on her face in those photos was like priceless. Because she'll pick up worm, she'll pick up bugs. She's not scared of anything outside. And so she getting go fishing with Daddy was like one of our favorite things. We might go on the boat this weekend. And so I thought that might be a great opportunity to get to fish and pull back out and fish off the pier.

Let Nicole do that. first time fishing was when we went to a big cedar. So Nicole hasn't fished otherwise. So it's her turn to catch a fish. Well, that's an activity we need to include in this weekend. Maybe you can pull that gar trick back out. Well, keep celebrating National Hunting and Fishing Day every day with Bass Pro Shops. We really appreciate their partnership. They're in our family

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We've got a few more, I'm sure. So we're going to play a game called Family Feud. Oh, ooh. It's just like Family Feud too. Oh, yeah. I've got a bunch of questions surveyed from the online audience. Oh, is that right? And you guys are going to try to answer these as a team together.

Are we ready? Yep, I'm ready. You guys are a team, so you guys are trying to find for this first question the top seven answers on the board. Holy crap. What did you just say? Top seven answers, just like family feud. Just like family feud.

Name something in a bakery that a baker might call his wife. That a baker might call his wife? Yes. Honey bun? Number one answer. Number one answer, honey bun. Number one answer. Are you going to guess?

Biscuit. Does you call her a biscuit? Oh, man. I mean, Cupcake. Cupcake. Number four answer. Sweet cakes. Sweetie, I'll give you sweetie.

Sweetie? Sweetie. Oh, I get sweetie. Sweetcakes, all right. Don't give them points just for playing. How about this? Sugar britches. Sugar britches.

Do they sell that at a bakery? That's what I like to call Amy. I mean, this is stretched. When I need Amy to giggle. Sugar is a number six answers, so I'll give it to you. He goes deep for sugar bridges. I don't know why this is funny. Everybody in here is smiling now.

Look at that. The power of sugar bridges. Never heard of that. You got three answers left. Three answers left. How about, do we call her cookie? No cookie. Two strikes. Cinnamon roll, cinnamon something?

No, no. You start calling me cinnamon. I'm just trying to think of things that are in there. How about cream puff? Cream puff? All right. We've officially reached we don't know. Just tell us. All right. Number two answer was his oven. What?

Stop. Who says that? No one says that. That's bullshit. That's no way the number two answer. Tim, did you put that in there? Is that what you're calling your new girlfriend? Hey, Evan. No, no, definitely not.

Like bun in the oven? No, definitely not. Number five is muffin. Oh, muffin. Number seven was donut, which I don't know. You're not calling a girlfriend of donut. Or your wife. All right.

Next question. Top eight answers on the board. Wide range here. Name a place where if her husband took her there for her anniversary, a wife would be mad. Race track. Is it on there? Well, sporting event.

I'll give it to you. Oh, okay. We're going that broad. Yep. His mom's house. Number six answer, yes. On anniversary trip, don't take me here. The hospital?

The hospital's not on there. Not on there? Not on there. I don't know. Maybe you need some tuning up. That's actually a good answer now. What about a cruise? That should be mad?

I don't know. That's just me. That's the same. Maybe it would be disappointed. That's not on me. Don't take me on a big old vote. Let's see. God, but this is hard.

There's a big one on here. That's number two answer. I think you guys could get. Concert. Concert? Not on there, actually. An arcade? No.

Chuckie cheese. Kind of. Number one answer is a tacky themed restaurant. There you go. I think you got to give that to me. There you go. You got one. You want me to tell you the rest? Yeah.

Number two answer was strip club. Oh, shit. I mean, duh. Duh. Bar and club, which I disagree with, number four. Yeah, that's. That's what you end up doing. Yeah.

Number five was bowling alley. Seven was the movies and eight was a car show. A car show. Yeah. All right. You guys want to do one more? Yeah. All right.

Let's do top six answers on the board. Give me another word. say for rear end. Bottom. Ass. Bottom is correct. Number five answer. Ass is not on there, but there's a...

Arse. Arse. That is a correct. Number two answer. Bum. Bum. Bum. Bum. Bum. Bondonka. Donkey. Should be on there, but it's not on there. No donkey. No donkey. No donkey. What about caboose?

No caboose. is not on there. Boetetet is not on there. These are a little bit more. These are the answers. These are the answers. It's a little bit more mainstream, I think. You mean for the use?

We need to go into our. I think you got to go back a little bit. Oh, back. Yeah. Oh, I actually think you guys are too hip for this. Two hip for this. Yeah, two hip for this one. Where did you ask this question?

This is just straight online. The rest of them? Caboose would have been number one answer. That was great. Buns? Bun's not on there either. What the heck? Oh, wait.

You're missing a huge one that's just very simple, straightforward. Almost scientific. But. But, yes. No one answer. Rear end. Backside. Backside.

Number three answer. Oh, I got one. Heiney. Hiney. Number six answer. One more. Now you're cooking. Our heritage.

Got your grandma brain on. I'm graying even more just talking about this. So there's one more? One more. Yeah. Number four answers. Tush. Not Tush.

No. That's a good one. We could have made our own top. We should. Yeah. What is it? Dereeree. Dereyre.

We would have not got that. That was, yeah, that one, we should have gotten that one. Let's do number five. You wanted to number five? Okay. This was pretty fun. This is dicey. These are unlimited too.

All right. Six answers on the board. Name something that grows faster than you want it to. Nose hairs. All right. give you it. Number one, hair, unibrow. Yeah. Oh, hair, unibrow. I was going to say ear hairs also. I think that all kind of compasses in that. Weeds. Weeds, yep. Number two answer. Um, your kids. Yeah, I just say children. Number three answer.

Oh, we're just going down the list now. Now we're getting to the answer. Yeah. In that where we're getting. Fingernails. Finger nails. Number five. No strikes. We found. I'm scared to say anything. We found Tim. We found Tim calling. Yeah. Game Joe host. No wammies. Just am. Give us one.

I'll give you the number six answer. Debt and expenses. That's a boring one. Oh, debt and expenses. Yeah. Of course. I give up. Belly.

Your belly? Your belly. Yeah. Your belly. Yeah. Your buddy. Yeah. Your bud.

Number four. All right. That was fun. That was fun. Thanks, Tim. Good job. Hello, everybody. Dale and I are back in the Dirtyy Mo Media Studio for another round of bless your heart. We had a pretty fun show today, and we are excited for your questions.

What you got? All right. First question from Ethan. My girlfriend really wants to go to a haunted house, but I hate jump scares. How do I handle it without looking like a wimp? Listen, you just have to go and scream, and I think that jump scares, she's going to have fun watching that, and I don't think you should worry about it. That's going to be, like, part of the fun. Do you worry about looking like a, like, like you're scared in front of a girl?

No. No. Well, no. Is it, like, how long? of this, if they've been dating. I don't know how long they've been dating, but girlfriend is better than maybe first or second date. I could see a little, like you're established enough to throw it in there. I think so. She's probably seen you scared before. You just go. Maybe scream extra loud even more than you would. Play it off a little bit. To make it just, where are we going?

Ridiculous. Haunted house. Yeah. So, yeah. I mean, if you're going on an early date, you're very anxious. You're really nervous. You're going to be worried about what to say, how to, how to start the conversation. Are they easy to talk to? Going to someplace like that, really gives you tons of content. Yeah, it does. Right? So, I mean, you're never, you're going to be standing in line, right, waiting to go in, anticipation building.

Getting physically closer so that everybody's like not so scared. You're not going to be without things to discuss, which is really helpful, right? Yeah. Some places you go and some things you do, there's either no way to communicate, either allowed a concert or something like that. Or you're seeing somewhere. Like a quiet dinner and you have to create it all by yourself. think about what to talk about.

Yeah. So, I mean, I like those kind of activities that sort of assist you with that. Yeah. And you really do get to kind of, I think in those kind of places, too, you really do get to see the true individual a little bit more. You get a read on them better. You do. Like, it helps you let your guard down.

Yeah. I think that's a bonding thing. It's fun. Yeah. I don't think she's going to, she's not going to care about it as much as you. No. No. I mean, if you like that kind of stuff, too, they need to see you.

Div on in. Yeah. Go for it. Oh, yeah. A lot of make-out opportunities in the line, too. Just saying. Just saying. This question comes from the chat.

In glorious belchers, he's going to be a new dad. Any advice for the new dad? He's very nervous. Well, congratulations. Advice. Everyone always told me before we had our first baby, get your rest. And I never really understood what that meant. And there's no really a good way to prepare for that.

But like, when you first have the child, there's no rest. There's none. So just be prepared that you're going to be tired and just know that going in. Do everything you can to help your wife with like the laundry, food, feed her, keep feeding her. Even if she doesn't say she needs anything, make sure there's like a snack and a water beside the bed. Because like it's wild how all of a sudden you just get hungry because you're breastfeeding and all that. That just helps everything. Just those little tiny things.

I can't remember. Like also, it's one of those times that's like so short that you kind of black it out. You know what I mean? Maybe that's probably because it's sleep deprivation too. but it's a really amazing, like, awesome time. Yeah. Bringing a baby home. Yeah, there was, I'm trying to remember a lot of the specific details.

Because, I mean, even we had Ila, then two years later, we had Nicole, and a lot of stuff I'd forgotten already that you experienced. But thinking back, I really enjoyed, and it made me feel better about myself and about my role. so I think a lot of husbands kind of find a lot of husbands might feel a little bit unsure about what their role is or all the, you know, for the longest time in this relationship, it's been you and your wife and you, and it's, you know, all this attention. And now immediately the attention is divided among other people in the house. and so you're kind of wondering like where you know where you fit or what you need to do and you're kind of standing on the sideline because really the wife's the one doing everything feeding and she's the one that knows the intuition right on what to do so like just it's almost like you got to just jump in it's like a double dutch you just got to jump on in there and start skipping and like like Amy said like pick up the other things too like she always did like the laundry or whatever pick up pick up tidy up, just, just, you know, even simple things like just folding the blankets up that are laying on the couch. Just make the place look a little better. She's tired. She's wore out. She can't do this and this and this all anymore.

So like kind of just just pick up some of the slack. And I thought, you know, some guys are different, but I really enjoyed changing diapers. Really? Well, the mom, mom spends a ton of time with the baby. There's a lot of intuition there that we don't have as men. And so you get this sort of real one-on-one time to play and talk and laugh while they're laying down on this mat, either before or after the change, you know, you can just play and take a minute and give mom a break. And so, and if you're, depending on how you're feeding, you know, you can take over some of the nights. That is a big deal. Like, getting a good chunk of sleep is life changing. In the first several months or however long, you're getting up in the middle of the night multiple times.

And so pick a night where it's your night. You're going to do it all. Get the routine down, understand, get your clock ready and set. And so mom can just have a night where she doesn't have to worry about waking up. That seemed to be like the best thing for you. Yeah, it's like a reset almost when you get that good chunk of sleep. Right. So it's a, I always, I know it's the strangest thing.

I miss laying, I miss sitting in the chair with that child on your, on your chest and reading a book or singing, we used to sing songs. What was it? You'd seen the mockingbird song. I'd seen mockingbird all the time. I couldn't tell you the lines of that song right now. He would make him up as he went and then he's promised I all kinds of things through his mockingbird song. I had the word, I had the song memorized at one point. but I couldn't tell you the lines of it now.

But yeah, those are fun, fun moments. And everybody tells you, better enjoy it. And they're right. And you try. It's hard to do in the moment, especially with the first one because you just don't know what to expect. And everything seems a little bit more ennerving than the second child. Like, no problem. No Cole came.

I wasn't nervous about any of it. So it was easier. But it's just all fun. Enjoy it. Don't worry. The baby's going to be fine. You're going to do just fine. Oh, man.

Because you're stressed and worried about all the things. We were worried about it all the time. You know, when it's laying in the bed trying to sleep and you're just worried about it, right? And you're just staring at the monitor and you're like, oh, is it alive? Yeah. Is it alive? Yeah. It's going to be fine.

It's going to be fine. That's some good advice. I think he'll take that and run with it. Next question is from Chloe. What's something you used to believe as a kid that makes you laugh now? And she gave a couple examples like it was illegal to turn the overhead light on in the car. or sneezing with your eyes open would make them pop out, which I thought was actually still true to this day.

Sleeping with your eyes open makes them pop out? Sneezing. I'm sorry, I might say sleeping. Sneezing. Can you even physically do that? I don't think so. I think that's actually true. Oh.

I used to think if you ate too many carrots, you'll turn orange. Well, so you can from beta carotene, but like it would take a lot. Yeah. I thought it would be like bright orange, bright. Like you'd just be a carrot. That's funny. So my dad's going to kill me, but I used to think that rice came from my dad's belly button.

Oh, man. Really? Rice. Well, he always wore a white t-shirt underneath like his splano or whatever. And we would pick the lint out of his belly button and it looked like a little piece of rice. And I wasn't a rice.

We were not a rice-eating family. We were a potato family. We really never ate rice. And so, yeah, he's going to kill me. You're brave for putting that out there. That's why I never heard of it. Well, there's been Rice and Dale's belly button too. So, I mean, I feel like that's fair.

in a belly button is just what guys deal with. Yeah, well, girls don't. And he had three little girls, so that's what he had to deal with. We would pull his shirt up and pull the rice out of his belly button. That's funny. What did we... What did you believe as a child? What did we believe as a child?

Yeah. The overhead light one was real. Like, you ever have that? Like, there was like that light in the middle of the car in the back seat. If you turned it on while, like, your parents were dropping, they would yell. You'd say, that's illegal and get arrested. I never heard that in my life. My parents never told us that.

They were like, we can't see. Yeah. And the battery's going to run down in the car or whatever. They would tell us all kinds of things. They would tell us like if you swallow the bubble gum is going to plug up your pipes. Oh, so, yeah, the seven years thing. And don't do, don't, you know, don't make that face. It'll get stuck that way.

Yes. Yes. I've been telling the kids that lately. Like, your face is going to get stuck like that. Yeah. I'm going to remember one after we end this show that I'm a wish I'd have remembered. Is there a song? that you saying that you change the words?

So I have, hold me closer, tiny dancer. I used to think said, Tony Danza. Hold me closer Tony Danza. Oh yeah. Yeah. I think a lot of people think that. Yeah.

It's a common mistake. And I'd sing the heck out of that. Yeah. That's funny. All right. Next question. A lot of people asking about Ila an earring update? We're still a pirate.

Yeah, still a pirate. Yes. There is no change in the earring. So Ila lost in ear. ring. The other one's still in there and she won't let nobody take it out. She's terrified that it's going to hurt. Okay. But I'm like, we're not going to yank it out with a barbie leg. We're just going to gently pull it out.

Y'all haven't even talked about it. Oh, we talk about it regularly. Really? Yes. Just about every time I put them in the bathtub, I'm asking her if I can take it out. How does that one come out? It just unclips and then just pulls out. It's really not that big of a deal. It's so weird. She goes to school. She goes everywhere with one earring. She's not ashamed. No, she doesn't care. Wow. That's interesting. That's funny. Um, next one. That was, that's a good one. Pamela is in the chat. So don't eat watermelon seeds. They'll grow. It'll grow watermelons in your belly. Yeah. A couple of people are saying pickle juice too. Don't drink the pickle juice. Yeah. I'd never heard of pickle juice. You know, don't drink lots of pickle juice because of the salt content, but I don't care. It's good for you. I think. I like the way it tastes. Yeah. Yeah. It actually is. It's good for your belly. Yeah. Yeah. Um, next question is from Brandy. Was something you swore you'd never do as a parent, but you actually do? I don't think I have anything on. I don't think I have anything on. list. I remember telling something that my sister, she let Adeline do. I was like, I would never. I think it was just toys all over the, like, I really, really, really like, especially the

common areas of the house to be tidy. And that's just basically impossible with kids. There's stuff everywhere. And I remember going to Katie and Kobe's house after they had Adeline, and there's like toys everywhere. Everywhere. I'm like, oh my gosh, I can't believe you live like this. And she reminds me that I said that because I don't remember saying it. I'm like, I would never. And, you know, here we are. We've got, I mean, there's stuff everywhere. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think it's stuff like that. So I would, I would always watch my sister Kelly how she talked or raised her kids or disciplined them. And I would comment from time to time, which I probably shouldn't have. And, you know, she's like, you're going to learn how hard it is, right, to hold them accountable and how hard it is to discipline them. And each one's

different. Yeah. Yeah. Use different tactics. And so she was right. So. I was like, oh, I'll never, I will hold them accountable. I'll be stern and mean. I'm going to be, er. Yeah. This is where it is. You're going to be in line. You're falling in line.

Yeah. That military school thing you thought was going to work for you. It's not working. It's not happening either. It doesn't exist. No. It's weird, though, when you have kids and you, speaking of logging things back, when you get really frustrated or there's a situation that you were in as a child,

things that come out of your mouth are just like what you heard as a child. Oh, yeah. Like you turn into your parents, whether you want to or not. And that's kind of frightening sometimes. You're like, where'd that come from? Yeah. Trauma. That's more for me, too.

I'm like, I hear my dad when I talk sometimes. Really? I'll say something that blows my mind. This isn't too, she won't be too mad about this. We were at the house last night and she's, I took the girls upstairs. Amy's not feeling too good. So I took the girls upstairs and washed in their hair and gave them a bath. And they come downstairs.

And I'm like, all right, girls, we're going to brush your hair now. That's like the next. Next step is going to get your hair brush. So they go upstairs to brush your hair. They come back down. Ila's hair is exactly, it's a mess. It's a hot mess. It's exactly like it was when she was downstairs a moment ago.

She has not touched it. And it's wet, so it's like going to dry and get knotted up like that. And I'm like, I asked you to brush your hair. I brushed it. And I mean, she's looking straight at me and Amy. I'm like, am I crazy? Is she stuck, does she put a brush at it at all? It's like, okay, do I need to get mad or did she actually try?

And he's like, she's not touched her hair. That is not a, no, not a strand. And she literally said to us like five times in a row, I brush my hair, I brush my hair. And I'm like, whoa. Yeah. What is with this? Yeah, like, I'm about to blow a gasket. How do I control myself and get her to do this?

Where is this coming from? Because we don't, we're not walking around in the house like telling little white lies. Like, what in the world? I just looked at her and I was like, Ila. go brush your hair. And when you try to tell them, like, the lies worse than the, you know, the act, right?

Whatever it is, you're trying to lie about. It just in one ear and out the other. And they just don't care. No, Ilet especially, she'll lie about all kinds of stupid. She does not care. I'm like, holy mackerel, I'm in trouble. Yeah. It makes me mad, but I don't want to overreact.

You know? Because then she's scared to tell the truth. Yeah, because I'm trying to figure out, like, what's the reaction to actually get her to stop lying and actually feel like she can be totally honest with us and go. Instead, go, you're right. I haven't done it. I'll go do that now. I got distracted, whatever. Nicole, on the other hand, well, she'll, she will brush her hair, and then when she doesn't do anything, when she doesn't do what you're supposed to do, she just doesn't care at all.

Like, she wants a chocolate chip muffin. You can't have a chocolate chip muffin. and I really want it. And she goes against it anyway. And you're like, now what do we do? Because she went and got the damn thing. So, like, you put her in time out. What do we?

Like, it's just a whole different ball of issues that you have to deal with. But yeah, the lying thing, I don't know. Please give us some advice. Yeah, Nicole, Nicole's funny because she, she doesn't stomp her foot. Like, I want it. I used to do that, physically stomp her foot.

But I want it. No, I want it. She doesn't get like that. She'll just stare at you, stare at you and say, well, I can't have it. Oh, man, that's tough. Why can't I have that? Yeah.

And you're like, well, just, it's no sugar right now or it's too late or, yeah, it's too late in the day for all that. You know, let's eat our dinner first or whatever. She's like, no, I just want, I want that first. Well, why can't we do it that way? You know, and she doesn't understand. And then she feels like you're, you're doing, she feels like you're punishing her. No.

But she didn't care about getting punished, though, really either. It's hard. And she's, she's tiny, but she's really able. So she'll go get at the stool and just get in the pantry and just go whatever she wants. Yeah. Yeah. And they're like bullshit,

McGiver. Yes. There's no way to keep stuff from. Ila would never go in the pantry and just climb up a ladder and start grabbing whatever. Ila won't do it. She knows not to do it. Nicole does not know not to do it.

Nicole just goes in there and gets what she won't. And I'll hear. I mean, obviously she, I'm like she slips off. And all of a sudden I'll hear some gummy bears. And, you know,

little papers. And I'm like, what the hell is going? oh, hey, who's in there? I'll go in there and she's in there up the ladder. I'm like, what are you doing? She's like, I just want some gummy bears. And I'm like, well, you got to ask.

Like, we're not going to eat gummy bears. But I want them. But I want them. But I want to have them. I know you want it, but you can't put it back. It's so funny. Yeah, it's a lot. Yeah. It's all day, every day.

Yeah, we got on a run there. Sorry. It's all right. I got one more question for you guys. A lot of people are asking if there's any more animals you'd like to acquire now that the swans or off at the other farm in South Carolina. No, I think that we need to just embrace what we have at the moment. We talked about this on the show,

but we just had another running with Junebug and Gus over food. And he's doing fine, but we got too much going on, I think, for acquiring any more animals at the moment. I mean, we had Carolina Carports is one of our partners here at Junior Motorsports. They came to us and said, we want to provide y'all a barn. if you want one. And I'm like, you know, we have a barn.

It's kind of modest and small. It came with the property when he bought it years ago. It was already there when I bought it. So I didn't really have any animals in it either. We were thinking about like kind of fixing that one to be better for what we have. Right now we're rescuing five. We have five donkeys. Five donkeys?

A horse. A horse. There's a lot. There's a lot of flipped animals that need a bigger space. So we rescue and it's kind of, we're just kind of like, a holding place. Yeah. And until the animals...

We're a retirement community. Yeah. That's awesome. Until they, until the end of their life or, or there's another home for them to go to or whatever. But we, so... Yeah, I know. It's fine. You're teasing yourself. I'm not teasing.

I have zero expectation. Okay. I'm just trying to share with the people. What's going on? And so we had this barn. It needs some updates. The animals can't really use it where they want to. But anyhow, this company's like, man, we'll give you a...

a barn if you want a barn you know just in case you want a barn and amy's like well we actually kind of could use a barn so maybe we'll do that so they're staking out this little spot and all i'm thinking while they're doing this like i'm okay with it i'm not like hurrah it's here in this own but all i'm thinking is is like as we get older and we're like where you'd like to travel right we'd like to go right we're going we're going to go see our family in texas we got family in texas we need to see multiple times a year. We got other things we want to do with the kids. We got a fifth wheel. We're going to travel and go do and see. And when I see that barn, I think about animals and I think about having things that are tethering us from doing the travel. I don't think any of those animals in the

barn like the donkeys are going to keep you from going anywhere. You travel pretty much pretty well now. New barn, new barn, new animals. No, new barn to fit the animals. You don't think, Do you think, I mean, our girls are going to probably want a horse one day. Yeah, I don't know about all that. Well, that's just, we'll have to see how that goes. I'm anxious. I like the idea of having the new barn where it's allocated for the spaces for, I mean, they need to be able to be inside to when it's freezing.

It's super hot. Like, they don't have a whole lot of shade right now. They don't really have a good spot. But if we have the spaces for them to be in their little stalls or whatever, the girls could now have a chore to help me do things with these hooked animals. And if they show interest in doing anything with animals, maybe. But I'm not doing it for that reason. I know.

But they need more chores. I feel like this is a good, really good opportunity. They do need chores. We've got to get them into the chore business. The barn is staked. So we're getting closer. We're waiting for power now. We're waiting for Duke Energy.

Hello, to come on out. Who? Duke. Oh, man. They have to come give us a new power. Goodness. All right. Well, yeah.

I love rescue in the animals. animals though I mean I know there's like there's a we have this really really big um mule mule and she came from from the Amish community yeah Amish community right and so and it's in good health but um and the girls love it they go out and there's all there's all these donkeys and they make all this racket in the morning like a they're like chickens in the morning yeah cockadoodle do and all that they're out there doing donkey noises and loud yeah and so it's kind of fun but yeah I'm kind of no more animals no more animals I mean I think

more animals is inevitable because we have two little girls that's just going to love animals but I have always wanted to have a chicken coop but I don't feel like so we are on the road too much with that and back to coyotes and snakes and all that too I don't know how we would keep that safe even just to feeding them I feel like there'd be snakes in it and I don't really want to deal with that but we do have neighbors that have chicken coops. Yeah, we got a lot of neighbors with chicken coops. They got eggs all over the counter in the house.

Wow. Yeah. We just go borrow some. Yeah. We just go borrow some. Yeah. We just go ahead. Yeah.

Well, I think it's a good place to stop asking you. What do you got a lot of merch and this is one of his hats. It's cool, hi? Yeah. There's also a question about all those folks The top four places to go to Key West, in Key West. What? There's a listener that's going to Key West,

who wants to know where your top three places are. Top three places to go in Key West. Well, so we always start at Schooner Wharf. It's right there in the marina. It's outside. It's one of those places you can sit and hang out all day. Or just, like, pop in for a beer. The ball bar for buffalo shrimp.

Yes, the half-shell raw bar. It's real close. Buffalo shrimp, oysters, all that. Mmm. Amigos for Margarita. Yeah, Amigos. They have good breakfast, too. Amigos.

They have tacos. They feel like breakfast tacos and that kind of thing. And right across street from Amigos is Captain Tones, which everybody knows that one. Hanks is a great place. Hank's bar. They have great food. They have a food truck that's won awards in the state of Florida that has Korean barbecue tacos pretty insane.

So, yeah. that's uh so hanks amigos cap and tony's um schooners schooners has a tuna taco appetizer that's out of this world the green parrot's kind of a relic too it's a fun place to stop in during the day um and then bobby's monkey bar if you want to sing some karaoke yeah oh yeah yeah late night yeah good times good times all right that's asking me for today thank you guys for all your questions. We appreciate you coming in again this week and don't forget to check out the show. Also, please hit the subscribe button if you haven't already and check out all the merch. Wait before you all go.

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